The Revolution Will Not Be Televised

You will not be able to stay home, brother.
You will not be able to plug in, turn on and cop out.
You will not be able to lose yourself on skag and skip,
Skip out for beer during commercials,
Because the revolution will not be televised.

The revolution will not be televised.
The revolution will not be brought to you by Xerox
In 4 parts without commercial interruptions.
The revolution will not show you pictures of Nixon
blowing a bugle and leading a charge by John
Mitchell, General Abrams and Spiro Agnew to eat
hog maws confiscated from a Harlem sanctuary.
The revolution will not be televised.

The revolution will not be brought to you by the
Schaefer Award Theatre and will not star Natalie
Woods and Steve McQueen or Bullwinkle and Julia.
The revolution will not give your mouth sex appeal.
The revolution will not get rid of the nubs.
The revolution will not make you look five pounds
thinner, because the revolution will not be televised, Brother.

There will be no pictures of you and Willie May
pushing that shopping cart down the block on the dead run,
or trying to slide that color television into a stolen ambulance.
NBC will not be able predict the winner at 8:32
or report from 29 districts.
The revolution will not be televised.

There will be no pictures of pigs shooting down
brothers in the instant replay.
There will be no pictures of pigs shooting down
brothers in the instant replay.
There will be no pictures of Whitney Young being
run out of Harlem on a rail with a brand new process.
There will be no slow motion or still life of Roy
Wilkens strolling through Watts in a Red, Black and
Green liberation jumpsuit that he had been saving
For just the proper occasion.

Green Acres, The Beverly Hillbillies, and Hooterville
Junction will no longer be so damned relevant, and
women will not care if Dick finally gets down with
Jane on Search for Tomorrow because Black people
will be in the street looking for a brighter day.
The revolution will not be televised.

There will be no highlights on the eleven o'clock
news and no pictures of hairy armed women
liberationists and Jackie Onassis blowing her nose.
The theme song will not be written by Jim Webb,
Francis Scott Key, nor sung by Glen Campbell, Tom
Jones, Johnny Cash, Englebert Humperdink, or the Rare Earth.
The revolution will not be televised.

The revolution will not be right back after a message
about a white tornado, white lightning, or white people.
You will not have to worry about a dove in your
bedroom, a tiger in your tank, or the giant in your toilet bowl.
The revolution will not go better with Coke.
The revolution will not fight the germs that may cause bad breath.
The revolution will put you in the driver's seat.

The revolution will not be televised, will not be televised,
will not be televised, will not be televised.
The revolution will be no re-run brothers;
The revolution will be live.

A Science of Living

If you were dreaming all the time & never woke up eventually you'd forget that you were dreaming... & the concept of dreaming would decay & turn into something else entirely. &, if we could live in our dreams we'd be far more capable of accomplishing a whole myriad of tasks that we find impossible to even fathom in our 3D plane of existence.

Now, let's say one day you stream some of your/this 'dreaming' inside of human bodies, a blade of grass, a sun, plasma, matter in the galaxy, etc - etc - ad infinitum - & introduce it to a myriad of stimulus.. This would be good, because you could accomplish tasks & have experiences on a 3D plane that you can't really have when you are limitless & multidimensional.. Then, you can not only be limitless, but you can also embody & experience what happens when helpful limitations are imposed on your limitlessness. & most importantly placing your 'dreaming' into evolving matter on a 3D plane prevents any unnecessary excess entropy that might occur when your 'hyper-dreaming' is a process of expansion in time & space. http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_liqksdLNGF1qc0s10o1_500.gif

THE 'CHICAGO ART SCENE'

A long over due letter to the (Chicago's) 'artistic ethersphere',

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"Postmodern irony, hip cynicism, a hatred that winks & nudges you & pretends it's just kidding." - David Foster Wallace


THOUGH I AM ALLIED WITH SOME TRULY BRILLIANT LOCAL- ARTISTS & WRITERS, I HAVE NOTHING TO DO- WITH 'THE CHICAGO ART SCENE' IT'S FAR TOO GOSSIPY-, SHOCKINGLY ABUSIVE (CRIMINAL..), HYPOCRITICAL-, SADISTIC, ELITIST, INSENSITIVE, SELF ABSORBED, IGNORANT, IRRITATING- "we can have critical discourse on Lady Gaga as performance art." COMPETITIVE, BACKSTABBING, IMMATURE, DISRESPECTFUL-, NAUSEATINGLY FULL OF USELESS FACTS (& non facts) & RHETORIC-

&, FAR TOO NIGHTMARISHLY TRENDY FOR ME TO STOMACH.

WITH THIS IN MIND- ANYONE FROM THE 'CHICAGO ART SCENE' WHO CLAIMS SOME KIND OF 'AWARENESS' OR 'SOME SORT OF ASSOCIATION WITH ME'- HAS LIKELY NEVER SPENT MORE THAN AN HOUR IN MY PRESENCE & THEREFORE IS PART OF THE 'ONE DIMENSIONAL- SCENE' (MARCUSE) OF VICIOUSLY SUCCESS OBSESSED SCENESTERS OR BULLYING MANIPULATORS & LIARS AS OUTLINED ABOVE-.

MOST IMPORTANTLY- THIS 'CHICAGO ART SCENE' IS SORROWFULLY ARTLESS, BUT THAT IS WHAT HAPPENS WHEN YOU'VE GOT HALF CONSCIOUS & VIOLENT ATTILLA'S CALLING THEMSELVES 'ARTISTS' AS THE 'STASI OFFICERS' OF THE 'CHICAGO ART ($$$) SCENE'.

ANY- IN DEPTH, RATIONAL & FACTUAL INFORMATION ABOUT MY INTERACTIONS WITH OTHERS & OTHER ARTISTS/FRIENDS WHO I RESPECT & ADMIRE (PEOPLE WHO ACTUALLY KNOW WHO- I AM, PRESENT & FUTURE CONTEXT_
) CAN BE FOUND AT http://artvolume1.wordpress.com/.

I POST THIS BLOG/INFORMATION BECAUSE IT'S THE TRUTH, & BECAUSE ENOUGH OF A DECADE HAS PASSED FOR THE MAJORITY OF 'CHICAGO ART SCENE PEOPLE' TO KN0W THAT WHAT I SAY IS UNFORTUNATELY, A WELL KNOWN FACT- & BECAUSE IT NEEDS TO BE SAID, EVEN IN A RESPECTFULLY VAGUE SENSE.

IS ED PASCHKE TURNING IN HIS GRAVE?

IT'S LIKELY.


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"I am not one of those weak-spirited, sappy people who want to be liked by all the people around them.

I don’t care if people hate my guts; I assume most of them do. The important question is whether they are in a position to do anything about it.

My affections, being concentrated over a few people, are not spread all over Hell in a vile attempt to placate sulky, worthless shits."

- William Seward Burroughs

The Culture of Disbelieving

How can one create from the complexity of human experience & the unique bonds that necessitate such in such a one dimensional world? STRUGGLE?
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We often fail what we believe in, to manage our insecurities, agendas, to get our way. As well as helping in perpetuating consumer culture.
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Freedom of ideas, speech & expression has everything- to do with the evolution of critical thought.
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We are too commercialized, pornographied, dumbed down, & blindly sexist towards both- genders & we misunderstand & abuse our thinkers & artists.
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We take communication for granted & sometimes it's actually an incredibly hard interaction & process for anyone to mutually achieve.
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Indifference is humanity's scourge & terror.
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"'self' as taboo-.."
"what kind of hell is that..?"

"There is nothing worse, than self as taboo..."

Self as Taboo - Marcuse
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"En effet vol ma foi, j'ai eu la bonne, rare foi, la foi tres utile, mais je n'ai pas foi gauche. Bled loin."
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All excerpts from work & 'Our Culture of Disbelieving'- by, Amy Marina Denes

“The web of domination has become the web of Reason itself, and this society is fatally entangled in it.” - Marcuse

Humanity is the manifestation of an insatiable hunger for a variety of assimilations - you are only dangerous, simply, because you are real. - A.M.D

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NOTHING

An excerpt from a short story by A.M.D.



☎ "What is her film about??"

"It's a 3 hour- time lapse film which is filmed from the roof of a building, a mosque actually- in Baghdad, in the center of war torn Iraq..."

( NOTE: "General David Petraeus, is said to be a “big supporter” of bringing Disneyland to Baghdad." )

"What happens??"

"There is no sound- except for when something violent occurs the film returns to a normal speed, for example a boy got shot in the head riding his bike into spontaneous cross fire, then you had sound.. When soldiers die the film slows to normal speed as well.. But then after the violence quells, it speeds up again.."

"Who shot the boy??"

"U.S soldiers... & it's a bit shocking how quickly the 'situations', or injuries & deaths, get 'cleaned up' with the film returning to its rapid fast forward pace.. I saw two people die in exactly the same spot & I don't think anyone would have realized this if it were not for her film.."

"What is it called??"

"Nothing."

"??? What a title.."

"In her interview, what did she say it was about??"

"Nothing.."

"Who did she say was in the film??"

"Nobody.."

"??? - Did you watch the entire film??"

"Parts of it.. For some reason, right now at least- it can't be a full screening.."

"- h u hm -"

"Does it have an ending, did you get a sense of the ending??"

"I've heard from others that at the end of the film all there is- is a long written message to the Iraqi people, it glows on the screen for about 10 minutes & in complete silence.."

"What does it say do you know?? "

"I've got it partially written down on notes at home, taken from the interview- funny thing about memory, anyhow- something along the lines of "we never should have been there - or attacked your country, invade you for oil", blah, blah to the world & more horrible facts & so on....."

"What did you think of the film, the parts of it that you watched??"

"It scared the shit out of me- .."

"Why??"

"I don't know - why do you think, perhaps the surprising number of innocent people on 'both sides' whatever than means- who die right in front of your eyes??"

"How was she able to film it??"

"She robotically controlled a camera from the top of a mosque - & it was filmed over a four year period leading up to now.."

"Must have been hell to edit!"

"She says that nothing is cut out.. It's fast forward- time lapse - it gets blurred & frantic, in its moments of slowing down you get an increasingly nauseating inkling that soon it will stop.. The majority of the film is when it stops & that is too many times to count.."

"What is too many times to count.."

"I told you... - All the people that get murdered in front of your eyes.."


( 5 - 17 - 2010 )

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Once Again for The Possible Worlds

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“The web of domination has become the web of Reason itself, and this society is fatally entangled in it.”

“Obscenity is a moral concept in the verbal arsenal of the establishment, which abuses the term by applying it, not to expressions of its own morality but to those of another.”

Herbert Marcuse