Friday July 03, 2009 at 17:16

Audio

[Flash 9 is required to listen to audio.]

meganmcisaac:

Au - RR vs. D

on monday i will be photographing luke and dana of the band Au. our concept is pretty epic and out there, it will definitely be a challenge on my part, but i am greatly looking forward to it as it will be something completely different. if you havent listened to them before, i highly recommend them to you. they will be releasing a new EP soon and will be on tour in oslo, bergen, stavanger, brighten, london, wiltshire, utrecht, tilburg, and dunkerque in september.

tell them to stop by minneapolis/st. paul on their way overseas.

This post was reblogged from hello, romantic..

Thursday July 02, 2009 at 22:28

Text

i believe everyone knows i have some serious man-love for terence mckenna. he may not have been the best looking guy in the world, but he was brilliant, and funny as well. these two videos are by far my favorite mckenna videos in existence.

“It’s clearly a crisis of two things: of consciousness and conditioning. These are the two things that the psychedelics attack. We have the technological power, the engineering skills to save our planet, to cure disease, to feed the hungry, to end war; But we lack the intellectual vision, the ability to change our minds. We must decondition ourselves from 10,000 years of bad behavior. And, it’s not easy.”

terence mckenna - the world and it’s double 1/2

terence mckenna - the world and it’s double 2/2

Thursday July 02, 2009 at 11:57

Video

i feel out of the loop. i wasn’t aware that peter joseph had released his sequel to zeitgeist already. it’s just as anger-inspiring as the first.

from wikipedia:

Zeitgeist: Addendum premiered at the 5th Annual Artivist Film Festival in Los Angeles, California on October 2, 2008, winning their highest award. It was released free online on October 4, 2008.[13] Director Peter Joseph stated: “The failure of our world to resolve the issues of war, poverty, and corruption, rests within a gross ignorance about what guides human behavior to begin with. It addresses the true source of the instability in our society, while offering the only fundamental, long-term solution.”[14]

Part I follows on from Part III from the original film, citing the specific process of fractional-reserve banking as detailed in Modern Money Mechanics, released by the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago. In detailing the process of money creation, the film suggests society is manipulated into economic slavery through debt-based monetary policies by requiring individuals to submit for employment in order to pay off their debt.

Part II is a documentary-style interview with The New York Times best-selling author and activist John Perkins based on his book, Confessions of an Economic Hit Man, in which he describes his role as a self-described economic hit man. In that capacity, he claims to have helped the CIA, as well as various corporate and political entities, to undermine or corrupt foreign regimes that put the interests of their populations before those of transnational corporations. Perkins denies the existence of a conspiracy, because he sees the U.S. as a corporatocracy, in which there is no need for a plot, as politicians like Dick Cheney (who first served as the head of a construction company Halliburton and afterwards became Vice President) are alleged of working under the same primary assumption as corporations: that maximisation of profits is first priority, regardless of any social or environmental cost.

Part III is a documentary-style interview with futurist Jacque Fresco. The film looks at Fresco’s proposal of a “resource-based economy”, which he claims would create abundance, is environmentally friendly and sustainable. He goes on to discuss technology which he sees as the primary driver of human advancement and he blames politics as being unable to solve any problems, because of what he claims is lack of “technical capabilities”. Fresco claims that his approach is not perfect, but that “it’s just much better than what we have. We can never achieve perfection”.

Part IV of the film suggests that the primary reason for what it sees as society’s social values (“warfare, corruption, oppressive laws, social stratification, irrelevant superstitions, environmental destruction, and a despotic, socially indifferent, profit oriented, ruling class”) is a collective ignorance of “the emergent and symbiotic aspects of natural law.” The film suggests several actions for “social change”, which include: boycotting banks who are claimed to make up the Federal Reserve System, such as JPMorgan Chase and Citibank, turning off TV news, not joining a military, refusing energy from energy companies in favour of making homes self-sustainable with clean energy and rejecting the political structure. The film closes by asking everyone to “eliminate the divisionary, materialistic noise, we have been conditioned to think is true … while discovering, amplifying and aligning with the signal coming from our true, empirical oneness.”

Wednesday July 01, 2009 at 22:49

Audio

[Flash 9 is required to listen to audio.]

sleepy sun - new age

Sleepy Sun is an apt title for this young San Francisco sextet, as their debut record, “Embrace”, is one of those rare slabs of rock and roll that will wake you up in the morning, and send you off to sleep at night. After honing their craft in the occult influenced creative community of Santa Cruz, the band has continued to grow, both creatively and in their loyal following, since their relocation to the city by the bay. With their throbbing rhythm section, swirling sea of guitars, and dreamy, haunting duet vocals, the word dynamic is a severe understatement.

Though the press is quick to rifle off a laundry list of rock’s greatest ghosts to describe their sound, one live show is all you need to know Sleepy Sun have stumbled upon something very much their own. Having performed their raw, high-energy show on stages shared with acts such as Howlin’ Rain, Earth, Sleep, Fleet Foxes, Dead Meadow, and Citay, they are quickly establishing themselves as a very tough act to follow. Fans at shows are known for shouting the band’s battle cry, “Let’s get weird”. If the group continues down their rapid road to success, things are about to get very weird indeed.

Wednesday July 01, 2009 at 10:09

Text

first, michael jackson’s death had absolutely no influence on me at all. i was never a fan of his music. i was never a fan of his dancing. i never found him inspiring in anyway. i could care less about the thriller video. i could care less that he was a pedophile, allegedly.

second, i basically have no morals. clarification, i don’t subscribe to some moral code defined by any judaeo-christian teachings or any other religious or philosophical school of thought. i have my own definitions for what is right and wrong. the death or birth of some random person in the world means absolutely nothing to me. by no means would the death of, for example, the members of animal collective have any impact on me. it would suck because i like their music, but someone else would come along and take their spot. by no means would it have influence on anything that i do in or with my life. i must say though, that the death of a family member or the birth of a new family member, would have an impact.

to the point. this, and this, actually made me kind of happy.

so i’m insensitive, fuck off.

Monday June 29, 2009 at 23:41

Audio

[Flash 9 is required to listen to audio.]

ganglians - hair

It’s a chorus of voices, a lot of echo, some electronics of the messed up cheap variety, or toy pianos. It’s far away…a little underwater. A lot of noise and yelling, a garage a thon, sounds recorded live in that way that most live stuff doesn’t come close to

Monday June 29, 2009 at 22:14

Photo

Dreaming of a Huck Finn-style adventure on the Mississippi, a young couple are instead afoul of the law. - Star Tribune Claire Boucher and William Gratz had their sights set on the southern reaches of the Mississippi River when they packed their chickens, a sewing machine and 20 pounds of potatoes into a houseboat they crafted from scratch. part of me wants to get a few people together and build them a new houseboat so they can start on their journey. the minnesota park police can go fuck themselves and should maybe worry about the large amount of crack users that are sitting near the lake street bridge every night instead of some river travelers.

Dreaming of a Huck Finn-style adventure on the Mississippi, a young couple are instead afoul of the law. - Star Tribune

Claire Boucher and William Gratz had their sights set on the southern reaches of the Mississippi River when they packed their chickens, a sewing machine and 20 pounds of potatoes into a houseboat they crafted from scratch.

part of me wants to get a few people together and build them a new houseboat so they can start on their journey. the minnesota park police can go fuck themselves and should maybe worry about the large amount of crack users that are sitting near the lake street bridge every night instead of some river travelers.

Sunday June 28, 2009 at 12:00

Photo

i think this has become my favorite album cover of all time.
i think this has become my favorite album cover of all time.

Friday June 26, 2009 at 12:26

Text

i feel like unleashing my inner-white.

i figured changing this to all white, rather than dressing in all white, was the easiest way.

i’m looking for people that want to move and build houses and share and be human with me. here is the google maps link. below is a cropped version of the google map to help you see where the land is.

craigs property

here and here are some examples of the type of dwellings that are desired on the property.

Thursday June 25, 2009 at 18:49

Video

last friday. the trail forming expedition. this was one of only two injuries from the weekend. craig was fine after a trip to the emergency room and some stitches. also, if you didn’t know, cooper farted.

*note to self: captain, weed, four-wheelers, and trees don’t go well together.

Page 1 of 26