OH GOD I'M NAUSEOUS

Child's skull with baby teeth and adult teeth, Hunterian Museum, London

2011-11-16T14:03:00.001-07:00

Watch those speakers

2011-09-30T08:34:00.002-07:00

2011-09-28T07:21:00.000-07:00

Past few months explained.

2011-06-26T20:33:00.001-07:00

2011-04-26T14:56:00.000-07:00

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2011-02-07T19:22:00.007-07:00

I am obviously depressed by the thought of having a a strictly non-meat eating diet that is high in carbohydrates. The first part of that sentence stems from the fact that I don't think anyone thinks of that as a good time, yet so many people do it, and therefore I think it is a sad condition. Much akin to smoking copious amounts of weed, playing human and animal killing video games, and eating Taco Bell, because "fuck it, fuck this day, that's what I'm going to do today."

Perhaps if I had filmed myself doing all those drugs, all those times, I wouldn't have done so many. How inane every conversation was in contrast to how fun they were at the time is astounding, and perhaps this would have had a meaningful impact on me, had I forced myself to edit that into some kind of watchable narrative.

Mostly I'm glad that I live far from and completely detached to the desperation of people that pervades the everyday. Personally, I don't think it's just me who is disgusted. The truth in this lies in the sorry state of people's shoes. And whether or not they tuck their shirt in at appropriate times. No, sorry, that's a bit callous and superficial. Really, what I mean to say is that people's sick desperation comes from how little confidence they have in themselves to be completely comfortable with who they are and want to be in life. Bam.

It does feel pretty good to be able to pretty accurately google image any conceivable situation.

Classic

2010-10-18T11:36:00.001-07:00

"Harry Didn't Want To Say Anything, But The Appearance of Jesus Was Ruining His Vacation," by John Lurie.

“Christians think it’s an affront on Jesus, but it’s really the opposite, it’s an affront on yuppies! It’s like – Jesus appears to you, but it’s going to ruin the luxury of your vacation? It’s like – ‘hello?’” I'd asked Lurie whose side he was on. “I’m right down the middle of that! I’m Jesus and I’m the boat – I’m both.”

Wish my knees didn't hurt so much...

2010-10-06T08:47:00.002-07:00

Mesmerizing after a while

2010-09-09T15:09:00.000-07:00

2010-09-02T09:50:00.008-07:00

I cannot reflect upon that which has not yet happened in my life. But I think that the tragedy of living is being forced to imagine something that will never happen. Of course, it is also a lie to think that things that we see are merely illusion. It surely did occur somewhere, and to someone of course.Of course, and I have said this before, that which matters more are the small details. The warm cup of tea and how it feels against your palm, finding the most comfortable contours of your bed, or even the sweet smell of a shirt worn after a warm breezy day. These are the things that seem most illusory to people. That they fade away so quickly seems cruel.

When I think about Killer of Sheep, I am reminded how people think of realist art as beautiful, and that this picture is exemplary of true urban expression. I have no such delusions about this film. It is full of anxiety, depression, and depravity. But it is such an incredible example of the depths of humanity intermixed with tragedy, that we forget that it did exist in some form, to someone, somewhere. It happened and it was not artistic, nor was it beautiful at the time.

The ins and outs of the day to day cake retirement parties are making me feel unsatisfied. If the careful planning of dinosaurs and elephants could not help them, how could I possibly circumvent the lame and inexcusable?

Once they had me think of a future that I would have always wanted. When I received that future, packaged and delivered, marked post haste, I thought, "Thank god that's over with now."

The Man

2010-08-30T09:50:00.001-07:00

2010-08-01T12:06:00.001-07:00

2010-07-21T07:36:00.003-07:00

Illness and Kafka

Elias Canetti, in his book on the twentieth century’s greatest writer, says that Kafka understood that the dice had been rolled, and that nothing could come between him and his writing, the day he spat blood for the first time. What do I mean when I say that nothing could come between him and his writing? To be honest, I don’t really know. I guess I mean that Kafka understood that travel, sex, and books are paths that lead nowhere except to the loss of the self, and yet they must be followed and the self must be lost, in order to find it again, or to find something, whatever it may be—a book, an expression, a misplaced object—in order to find anything at all, a method, perhaps, and, with a bit of luck, the new, which has been there all along.

-Roberto Bolaño

2010-07-16T15:07:00.002-07:00

When a Self can (through language, memory, research, and invention) project itself everywhere, and can empathize with anyone or anything, what exactly is a self?

—David Shields

(Commenting on Bernard Cooper's Essay Maps to Anywhere)

2010-07-13T19:51:00.005-07:00

9/11 + Iraqi/Afghan War = Huge Influx of Nostalgia For Pre-All That Shit

Nostalgia / Growing Middle Class = National Identity Crisis

Recession + Debt + National Identity Crisis = Your Life

The National Interest

2010-06-21T17:36:00.002-07:00

The fundamental problem with workers (to whom as much money as possible should be denied if commodities are to be affordable) is that they are also consumers (to whom as much money as possible should be supplied if they are to buy commodities). Marxists aren’t kidding when they talk about the contradictions of capitalism. In the end, as Marx wrote, “the ultimate reason for all real crises always remains the poverty and restricted consumption of the masses.” The result of declining or stagnant real wages since the ’80s has been global industrial overcapacity: too much plant turning out too much stuff for not enough buyers.

Klaus Kinski Quotes

2010-06-17T16:39:00.002-07:00

“Fun? There is no fun.”

“Put a bird cage near the window so that the bird can see the sky? It’s much better to look than not to, even if it hurts.”

“You don’t need a framework. You need a painting, not a frame.”

“I could be with a woman in a bed, for weeks even, and it would seem to me like three seconds. Or 300 years.”

“Through the years it became clearer and clearer, this thing. When I had to concentrate on a person I had to become, this thing became stronger and took more of me.”

“It is true what Rimbaud said; If you think a book is strong enough, try it at the ocean, in the wind, at the waves. If the book can resist the ocean, then it exists. Otherwise, throw it away.”

“It is like those vines called lianas, those tropical creepers that grow around you and strangle you. You cut off one branch, but there is another that grows.”

“People who do not see the terrible things therefore do not see the beautiful things, either.”

“I was walking through the streets of Paris. I started crying, because I could look at a man, a woman, a dog, anything, and receive it-there was no difference between physical and psychological.”

“In a way, everything concerning a movie leaves me cold.”

“They think you can dump all this and be an actor. Then they say, Good job. Do you say, Good job to an earthquake?”

“Those assholes! Do you ask a car crash for another take? Do you ask a volcano for another take? Do you ask the storm for another take?”

“I didn’t think anything. I just was Aguirre. You remember yourself in the 16th Century.”

“Why do I continue making movies? Making movies is better than cleaning toilets.”

“The ultimate acting is to destroy yourself.”

“There can be no word to express this secret. Because this secret is very simple, but it includes almost everything.”

“Don’t be sorry, OK?”

“You can call it my consciousness of using my talent like a whore uses her body: to pay the price.”

“Being conscious of all this means changing everything, like in nature; never-ending movement.”

“This is a consolation for cripples.”

10 Rules for Dealing with Police

2010-06-01T16:34:00.002-07:00

2010-05-27T04:46:00.003-07:00

A Portrait of Eliane Radigue (2009) from Maxime Guitton on Vimeo.

Happy Birthday Summer

2010-05-23T04:03:00.003-07:00

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Yellow Beard — 31.40 by ohgodnauseous

Be True to the Dreams of thy Youth

2010-05-11T13:45:00.006-07:00

INTERVIEWER You’re self-educated, aren’t you?

BRADBURY Yes, I am. I’m completely library educated. I’ve never been to college. I went down to the library when I was in grade school in Waukegan, and in high school in Los Angeles, and spent long days every summer in the library. I used to steal magazines from a store on Genesee Street, in Waukegan, and read them and then steal them back on the racks again. That way I took the print off with my eyeballs and stayed honest. I didn’t want to be a permanent thief, and I was very careful to wash my hands before I read them. But with the library, it’s like catnip, I suppose: you begin to run in circles because there’s so much to look at and read. And it’s far more fun than going to school, simply because you make up your own list and you don’t have to listen to anyone. When I would see some of the books my kids were forced to bring home and read by some of their teachers, and were graded on—well, what if you don’t like those books?
I am a librarian. I discovered me in the library. I went to find me in the library. Before I fell in love with libraries, I was just a six-year-old boy. The library fueled all of my curiosities, from dinosaurs to ancient Egypt. When I graduated from high school in 1938, I began going to the library three nights a week. I did this every week for almost ten years and finally, in 1947, around the time I got married, I figured I was done. So I graduated from the library when I was twenty-seven. I discovered that the library is the real school.

INTERVIEWER You have said that you don’t believe in going to college to learn to write. Why is that?

BRADBURYYou can’t learn to write in college. It’s a very bad place for writers because the teachers always think they know more than you do—and they don’t. They have prejudices. They may like Henry James, but what if you don’t want to write like Henry James? They may like John Irving, for instance, who’s the bore of all time. A lot of the people whose work they’ve taught in the schools for the last thirty years, I can’t understand why people read them and why they are taught. The library, on the other hand, has no biases. The information is all there for you to interpret. You don’t have someone telling you what to think. You discover it for yourself.

INTERVIEWER But your books are taught widely in schools.

BRADBURYDo you know why teachers use me? Because I speak in tongues. I write metaphors. Every one of my stories is a metaphor you can remember. The great religions are all metaphor. We appreciate things like Daniel and the lion’s den, and the Tower of Babel. People remember these metaphors because they are so vivid you can’t get free of them and that’s what kids like in school. They read about rocket ships and encounters in space, tales of dinosaurs. All my life I’ve been running through the fields and picking up bright objects. I turn one over and say, Yeah, there’s a story. And that’s what kids like. Today, my stories are in a thousand anthologies. And I’m in good company. The other writers are quite often dead people who wrote in metaphors: Edgar Allan Poe, Herman Melville, Washington Irving, Nathaniel Hawthorne. All these people wrote for children. They may have pretended not to, but they did.

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2010-04-20T04:20:00.000-07:00

Jean Michel Basquiat: The Radiant Child (Animated Trailer) from Salim Adam Soobhany on Vimeo.

Free Gift!

2010-04-19T14:10:00.017-07:00

Gonna Be Jacking You On The Station by ohgodnauseous

Love Songs '02-'10 by ohgodnauseous
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Most of these songs were written in Fall 2009 and Jan 2010 and I kept promising myself I would do the right thing and remaster them, or at least re-record some of the tracks. However since I've totally moved on from them and have no interest in rehashing such old material I've just decided to release them. Be forewarned, this is the result of listening to Stevie Wonder, dream pop, 90's detroit house, watching a lot of Werner Herzog, and partaking in a few clips late into the night. Enjoy.

p.s. Photo credits to Hammer Pants Kimbo for the cover to Love Songs '02-'10. You rule Kim.

CAN ONLY BE PURCHASED IN SWEDEN??!

2010-02-18T04:10:00.001-07:00

Balls to the walls

2009-12-17T14:48:00.004-07:00

A real life goal should be to take a trip to another continent and just tear through it like Endless Summer

Ending for a film

2009-11-18T14:56:00.007-07:00

EXT.GRIFFITH PARK, LOS ANGELES,CA NEAR A CLIFFSIDE - DAY

A young girl kicks a large, pink rubber ball off of a steep cliff-side.

A nuclear explosion occurs in the background.

Erik Satie's Gymnopedie No.1 begins playing.

Richard Pryor runs screaming past the young girl in slow motion with his hair on fire.

SCENE FADE

FIN. CREDITS ROLL.

Satie: Gymnopédie No. 1 from Brian Hanke on Vimeo.

Credit Due: J.W. and L.G.

2009-11-04T23:15:00.003-07:00

Almost 2010

2009-10-19T19:43:00.002-07:00

So far so good...

J.D. Arthur and I take mushrooms and hunt the great bear — Coup d'œil

2009-08-04T22:10:00.002-07:00

J.D. Arthur and I take mushrooms and hunt the great bear by ohgodnauseous

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Reset your life, incorporated...

2009-08-04T11:15:00.010-07:00

Fantastic dialogue between two writers over at The Design Observers Group. Simply fantastic.

Having taken a few courses in economics, I am always reminded how poorly economics are taught when I read a solid piece of writing. One class, in particular stands out in memory—philosophy of decision making. The teacher, whose course content drunkenly veered between game theory, Stanley Milgram, and free market theory worship, was always more apt to talk about himself and his ideas rather than expose the class to other concepts and issues. While taking his class, I knew more about his time as a mailman and his trips to foreign countries as a decision theory/economics consultant than I did his peers' work.

I also remember when he slid into the open seat next to the young(er) assistant professor who was auditing his class and asked her out to dinner. When she subsequently rejected his offer, I remember thinking that he shouldn't ask someone out while wearing one of those hideous cotton sweaters that were always two sizes too big for him that he was so fond of but made him look like a 10 year old girl. They fit like this:

And consistently looked like this:

But these observations directly speak to my anxieties about our societal institutions and cultural mores. While being highly distinguished and well educated, my teacher could not really relate to me on the level about the intricacies of economics or what the free market means for Americans. And he wore the most hideous awkward sweaters. How could I respect his decision making. An excerpt from the article sums up my contention rather nicely:

“I do worry that Americans lack the patience to do the long, hard work of reinventing (and readjusting) institutions.” —K.A.

"Yeah. That's what keeps me up at night, too. (And then I worry about the fungus killing all the bats, the whatever-it-is killing all the bees and the way Michael Jackson wiped Iran off Twitter.)"—D.R.

In short, if a professor of economics can't get his shit together, put on a decent shirt, and successfully ask a woman out to dinner, what does that entail for the rest of those yahoos trying to get our economy revitalized?

Other Highlights:

I do worry that Americans lack the patience to do the long, hard work of reinventing (and readjusting) institutions. The digital revolution has, for worse as well as better, reinforced our national weakness for instant solutions. On the other hand, the era just ended was so exceptionally long — a quarter century — that it seems reasonable to imagine that the chastened, more prudent era now getting underway will last long enough to let us fix the things we need to fix. "Fugitive national values and convictions" is a great phrase, but my point is that those values and convictions and temperaments have always co-existed. What we need to do is integrate them with a little more finesse, learn to embrace the paradox — as F. Scott Fitzgerald said, to hold two opposing ideas in mind at the same time and retain the ability to function.
—Kurt Andersen

What we can do is promote the development of complementary economic mechanisms. New ways (and old ways) of doing commerce. Things as simple as Community Supported Agriculture, where people subscribe to a local farm instead of just buying Big Agra produce from the supermarket. It's not that local farming is genuinely less efficient; it's that it has been rendered less efficient by a marketplace developed by and for agricultural conglomerates. No conspiracy required. Just another one of those biases built in to an economy based on centralized currency and centralized banking, or where corporate lobbies can argue for the interests of large entities more effectively than local constituencies can argue for their own.
—Doug Rushkoff

This is really about Ta-Nehisi Coates, but I digress...

2009-07-09T11:05:00.005-07:00

New favorite journalist: Ta-Nehisi Coates. Why? Probably it's a line that publicly admits that he is half lefty and half race-man. Maybe also because he can reveal that he secretly has a boner for Condi Rice--in his words:

That smile is the reason Rice can work for a president who got the lowest percentage of the black vote since Barry Goldwater, and yet still pick up a President's Award from the NAACP. Think Clarence Thomas could do that? It's also why Democrats—who are utterly tied to the black vote—should pray she never runs for office. And lastly, it's the reason why, when Rice is on TV, butterflies catch in my throat like it's a summer net. When she smiles, a special light descends on men like me who detest Rice's morals but still understand her story. Then a voice flashes in our heads, saying, "Condi Rice is not to be fucked with."

He follows this up with:

Once I had that knowledge, the calculus of passion began working on me. You mean to tell me this honey spars with Tim Russert, curses out white folks, could initiate a nuclear holocaust, and dreams of being Pete Rozell? Um, tell me again why I hate her guts. Then the math of my heart, so beyond logic, took control of my brain. I could no longer deny the sum, quotient, and dividend: Condi Rice was my goddess.

Beyond politics, it's an interesting confession dealing with race, culture, and stereotypes. I personally never had it for Condi, however, I did find this video hilarious and frustrating:

Obviously she's lying at certain points and her facts aren't exactly empirical evidence. However, she isn't going to back down to some random middle class white kid going to Stanford who decides to step to her. I'm loathe to respect someone who came out of the Bush administration (even Colin Powell) but I can't help but crack a smile and recognize the fact that

"Condi Rice is not to be fucked with."

EVOLVING PINK DEBUT

2009-07-08T23:22:00.009-07:00

Having been in development for years, Evolving Pink's debut album on flight9, Structure of a Minimalist Earth, proves the master has been hard at work crafting one of the most beautiful albums we have had the pleasure to share with you. Combining organic methods of music making with the mental processes of a scientist, Evolving Pink does not dissapoint.

Evolving Pink - Structure of a Minimalist Earth by ohgodnauseous

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More Music On The Way

2009-06-25T20:26:00.007-07:00

Consistent with most fears, I think the male to female to male to female revue has taken its toll on our feet. If I were to film a landscape of desire, I feel it would take on a casual ambiance. Those sauntering towards the coffee. Some nibbling on turkey sandwiches.

I care not for the prongs of the boulevards, but rather the symmetry of a room. No, I take that back, I care more for the openness of dirt. That is to say, I care not to get dirty but to feel/smell the dirt.

Perhaps at one time or another there was more openness to my character, but that is a farce now—having stepped on my share of ants. More accurately, I believe that anyone's true grit is not in how many experiences you can draw upon, but more so how many times you can remember the eggs that you ate for breakfast. The warm egg fresh from the boiling pot. The greasy eggs dripping with butter and singed from the pan. These are the things I care to remember more than I do the failures and trappings of day to day planning.

Running four miles a day rules.

LIVING THE DREAMED

2009-06-20T19:37:00.007-07:00

Preludes

2009-06-19T14:14:00.000-07:00

Coup d'œil

2009-06-08T22:15:00.003-07:00

Deprived of Rest by ohgodnauseous

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New Single

2009-05-24T20:18:00.009-07:00

New single from Yellow Beard, "Côte d'Ivoire" off of forthcoming Beach Tapes: '67-'72.

Côte d'Ivoire by ohgodnauseous

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2009-05-20T04:00:00.003-07:00

Swine Flu is ruining my Mexico Getaway by ohgodnauseous

Tenori-On

2009-05-11T12:43:00.004-07:00

TENORI-ON ONLINE CLONE!$$$$$$$$$$@!@! PLAY NOW.

Lay it down

2009-05-05T21:10:00.007-07:00

Recallibrate it!

I'm not sure I like yogurt

2009-05-05T14:05:00.007-07:00

Lux Coffee Bar

Stinkweeds Record Exchange

Tracks in Wax Rare Records

Lo-Lo's Chicken and Waffles

Caramba Fresh Mexican Food

The Clarendon Hotel and Rooftop Bar

Shady's Bar

The Roosevelt Bar

The Lost Leaf Bar

P.S.: DO NOT go to The Clarendon on the weekends (tankinis and bras abound)

P.P.S.: DO NOT go to Lo-Lo's near closing time because you will not be served well (deservedly) because people need to get home.

COPYRIGHT IS FOR LOSERS

2009-05-03T22:43:00.002-07:00

David Thomas of Pere Ubu on the creation of music...and it's kind of a bummer

2009-05-03T22:21:00.011-07:00

Pere Ubu is not now nor has it ever been a viable commercial venture. We won't sleep on floors, we won't tour endlessly and we're embarrassed by self-promotion. Add to that a laissez-faire attitude to the mechanics of career advancement and a demanding artistic agenda and you've got a recipe for real failure. That has been our one significant success to this date: we are the longest-lasting, most disastrous commercial outfit to ever appear in rock 'n' roll. No one can come close to matching our loss to longevity ratio.

– David Thomas

I Put A Spell On You...

2009-05-03T18:20:00.004-07:00

...Because You're Mine

NOT ABOUT THE DIRTY DICK CHEESE

2009-05-03T17:15:00.003-07:00

It's been released!

2009-05-03T14:18:00.008-07:00

Found!: Lost recordings of Yellow Beard entitled, "The Yellow Beard Classics Album." We're proud to issue these recordings that were almost lost to the sands of time. Each song encompasses a forgotten era in music that is rarely captured in modern recording and especially within one studio session. Track list:

1. Old Men Die
2. I Should Go To Bed
3. Brand New Trilogy

Possible reissue in the future. We hope you enjoy these rare audio gems.

Yellow Beard — The Yellow Beard Classics Album by ohgodnauseous

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2009-05-03T13:40:00.006-07:00

"This is soo touching...maybe I cry all over your tits later?"

"Facebook me"

Proudly Presenting

2009-05-03T12:29:00.011-07:00

Today we proudly present to you the first Yellow Beard recording on flight9. Entitled, "Some Real High-Brow Shit," and it is exactly just that. There are instructions you must follow in order to truly take in the audio. They are as follows:

1. Play each track (Part A & B) on two separate stereo listening devices simultaneously.

2. Place the four speakers so that they comfortably surround you (preferably at ear level).

3. Play Part B at 3/4 the volume of Part A.

4. Remember to align the speakers so that Part A does not phase out the sound in Part B. We suggest placing Part B speakers directly in front of you, while placing Part A speakers slightly adjacent to you at a forty-five degree angle. Notice the diagram to the right.

5. Please toggle the equalization so that it utilizes the bass frequencies. Those using itunes can confidently switch the equalizer to electronic or jazz and achieve the intended results. Be careful to not damage your speakers.

6. Please be aware that although we recommend that you listen at the highest possible volume that you find comfortable, we in no way suggest you damage your hearing. Please also be warned that the recording includes high frequency feedback and ear splitting distortion.

7. Enjoy with your favorite beverage.

Part A by ohgodnauseous

Part B by ohgodnauseous

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Artifacts From The Box

2009-05-03T11:15:00.007-07:00

(original by R. Kern)

It's Your Thing, Do What You Wanna Do

2009-05-03T10:33:00.006-07:00

Not Dead.

Dead.

Half Dead.

Dead?

Ornette Coleman Freejazz Tribute

2009-05-02T23:59:00.003-07:00

First Catalog Release For flight9 Label Artist: Coup d'œil

2009-05-02T22:31:00.011-07:00

01flight9

2009

Benadryl Opera

02flight9

2009

Pianotongue

03flight9

2004

Love and Cannabalism

What is your earliest memory of sound?

2009-05-02T16:25:00.003-07:00

The sound of my large basketball shoes as I dropped them on the linoleum floor of the kitchen as I entered that morning. Age:5.

The strange recurring dream I would have that involved a man talking very slowly and incoherently as though he were speaking backwards. Age:5-7.

Pinknoises Interview

2009-05-02T16:16:00.002-07:00

Excerpts from an interview with composer/musician/human rights advocate Pauline Oliveros:

There's a book that's been published recently called The Audible Past that's worth taking a look at - it's a history of recording. The first interest was in recording what sound looked like. There was an instrument called a phonautograph, made with a human ear, a tympanum connected to a mechanical graph, so when the sounds vibrated, it would write the sound. That was the interest, to make sound visible. Then there was the phonograph; the record was also a writing of sound, with the stylus used to make it audible. The whole history of recording and reproduction of sound is something that has a huge trajectory, and I've experienced that for 71 years now. I remember having a phonograph, a Victrola that you'd wind up. The thing about that, that was interesting to me, was that it wound down, so the sound would wind down. I used to like to listen to the sound winding down!

...The most recent version of [the expanded instrument system] uses Max/MSP as the interface. I have a program running which can improvise with me so when I play, whatever I play gets taken up, but then it's treated algorithmically, and I don't know what's gonna come back. So not only am I doing what I said with the expansion of time, but also the expansion of the material. It's transformed, and I have to be open to that as it comes back. The algorithms are based on my own ideas of what could happen to the material, but it's really unpredictable. I enjoy that situation of just listening and taking it in and responding. And the thing is, there's a half-second delay in the brain, so if you're going to do something, the brain knows before you know consciously, so there are evoked potentials already a half-second before you do things, but the brain remembers it as the present, which is a very interesting phenomenon. What it tells me is that the body knows what to do without the conscious mind intervening. Things get messed up when we think we have to control by our consciousness, or what we call consciousness...

Q: I've done some workshops for women and girls different places around the country, teaching the basics of recording, and there never seems to be a shortage of interest, it's more that they haven't been encouraged to work with the tools.

A: They haven't been encouraged. They haven't been supported to do it. And that just continues, that boys are much more supported to do tech-y stuff than girls. And girls quickly learn to restrain themselves from being interested in things like that. So, it's a problem which I've grappled with and banged heads around trying to raise consciousness and try to change things, but it's not easy. Because you run up against the canon of Bach, Beethoven, Mozart, Brahms. How can you not recognize this masterful music? (Laughs) Millions of people are educated to that. So there's a very strong force field. In the orchestra repertoire they play that stuff over and over again. So being a composer in this time is not easy, no matter what the gender. Because there's not a place for composers, really, to be nurtured and developed and to have the excitement of creative music being as interesting as traditional music. The art market is a big market and a lot of money is put into that; some artists can make a lot of money that way. But profit being the driver in the culture, when you come up with some nice weird something - juicy, especially new - but it doesn't sell, then you're not part of the game. These are big issues, and they're there. The main hope is that people need to be nourished spiritually so that there's the understanding that creative work is of the spirit. If you don't nourish that creative part of the human being then you get what you've got in Iraq right now, and Israel and Palestine. You have death and destruction instead of creative energy. The energy's gone amok.

So you've got to just keep on keepin' on. Be subversive, very subversive.

Follow Up!

AWW HONEY...

2008-05-23T02:21:00.001-07:00

DEAD.

SO I SAYS TO MAUDE, I SAYS...

2008-05-21T18:15:00.005-07:00

DEAD

DEAD

NOT DEAD

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