Finally in 2006 E.V. Google Video and You Tube provide the web surfing mass(age) with a means to program our own
television viewing with a run-of-the-mill home computer. Whoopie! No more crap adverts, biased moralist commentary or corporate brain taxing. If you are fortunate to have a sufficient connection
you
can enjoy all the pleasures of moving pictures at your leisure, FREE. (well not totally free - connection fees, hardware, food, housing and various state taxes need consideration).
A whole new world of communication is opening up. I therefore send a sincere Thankyou
to all the critters who made this mix possible by uploading their programs. Also an extra special thankyou to the artists, scholars and wild mystics who have enriched our modern culture but appear annexed by
private media vaults or
locked-off
into some museum, library or archive somewhere. Maybe they were performing long before video recording or photographs even existed and
thats
why we have little or no footage of them? Many artists have had the burning passion to communicate with the world throughout history and more recently this dream has become technologically enabled, potentially, for the entire planet. The roads are now laid. But, to be more realistic, based upon my own experiences many artists still alive are
still
starving, often homeless, underpaid, culturally neglected, branded, labeled and shelved like tinned fruit. Treated as entertainment machines. Music venues turned into strip/wine bars for the robotic social insects to interbreed with each other, artists dropped by greedy record corporations, writers dropped by greedy publishers when the next BIG THING arrives pre-packaged. Let us help sustain creative artists better they need YOU. Support your local artists, they are equally important members of a healthy society and require to be treated as such. My thoughts are with you as i enjoy
these
free digital time-capsules.
"We got another take out on it now. Did you know that? - John Coltrane (September 23 1926: 17 July 1967)
"Art at its most significant is a Distant Early Warning System that can always be relied on to tell the old culture what is beginning to happen to it. -
Marshall McLuhan Marshal Mcluhan and Norman Mailer
"Festivals shouldn't worry about getting so many people. It's a big ego trip now. They didn't do all that kind of mess with Monterey. -
Jimi Hendrix
"I just invent, then wait until man comes around to needing what I've invented. - R.
Buckminster Fuller
"I believe that the moment is near when by a procedure of active paranoiacthought, it will be possible to systematize confusion and contribute to thetotal discrediting of the world of reality. -
Salvador Dali
"I'll play it and then tell you what it is later. -
Miles Davis
"We are so much the victims of abstraction that with the Earth in flames we can barely rouse ourselves to wander across the room and look at the thermostat." -
Terence Mckenna
"That's why I want to bring up one last topic today. One last weird, science-fictional idea. I call it Deep Archiving. It's possibly the most uncommercial act possible for the institutions we call libraries. I'd like to see stuff archived for the long term. The very long term. For the successors of our civilization. Possibly for the successors of the human race." Bruce Sterling
"You've got to have something to eat and a little love in your life before you can hold still for any damn body's sermon on how to behave. -Billie Holiday
"Moe: (with Larry snoring) Hey! Hey!
Larry: Wha' happened?
Moe: Wake up and go to sleep. - From the
Stooges
At a single blow, all the floodgates opened for me! How this happened I'll tell you one day! -
Gustav Mahler
"The music business is a cruel and shallow money trench, a long plastic hallway where thieves and pimps run free, and good men die like dogs. There's also a negative side. -
Hunter S. Thompson
"Coming from Britain, I was terrified of meeting all these other artists, because artists over there tend to fight with each other a lot, the premise being that there's not enough room for everybody. -
Thom Yorke
A man is never the same for long. He is continually changing. He seldom remains the same even for half an hour. - George Gurdjieff
"Think for yourself and question authority -
Timothy Leary Dr. Timothy Leary
"Our society is run by insane people for insane objectives. I think we're being run by maniacs for maniacal ends and I think I'm liable to be put away as insane for expressing that. That's what's insane about it. -
John Lennon
"I've never written a political song. Songs can't save the world. I've gone through all that." -
Bob Dylan
Hey mister music, sure sounds good to me I can't refuse it what to be got to be -
Bob Marley
"All this happened, more or less. The war parts, anyway, are pretty much true. -Kurt Vonnegut
"war has become outdated" -
Tenzin Gyatso, 14th Dali Lama of Tibet
"Suppose we were able to share meanings freely without a compulsive urge to impose our view or conform to those of others and without distortion and self-deception. Would this not constitute a real revolution in culture. - David Bohm
"Nothing exists until or unless it is observed. An artist is making something exist by observing it. And his hope for other people is that they will also make it exist by observing it. I call it "creative observation." Creative viewing. -
William S. Burroughs
"They'll talk to ya and talk to ya and talk to ya about individual freedom. But they see a free individual, it's gonna scare 'em.
-from
Easy Rider
"If you have to ask what jazz is, you'll never know. -
Louis Armstrong
"Our wish, our salvation, and our only hope is to end the historical crisis by becoming the alien - Terence Mckenna
"I never even thought about whether or not they understand what I'm doing . . . the emotional reaction is all that matters as long as there's some feeling of communication, it isn't necessary that it be understood. -
John Coltrane
Modern Jazz Quartet
absolutely knocked me over. I just loved them. They were polite and sitting up straight and I felt a little bit more comfortable. - Carla Bley
"Music is your own experience, your own thoughts, your wisdom. If you don't live it, it won't come out of your horn. They teach you there's a boundary line to music. But, man, there's no boundary line to art. -
Charlie 'Bird" Parker
"Choose to be optimistic, it feels better." -
Tenzin Gyatso, 14th Dali Lama of Tibet
This mix was partially based upon characters from the Maybelogic course "Tale of the tribe"
thanks to all the contributors and good luck to all the lurkers.
Dj Fly Agaric 23
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