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Monday, February 25, 2013

A fifth grader finds punk rock...

I saw this a while ago on dangerous minds and have been meaning to put it up here.

fucking awesome.
via cherrybombed

Monday, February 18, 2013

Burroughs Called the Law

My basic life's religion is a mix of things I got from punk, acid, burroughs, tolkien, norse mythology and total basement hesher satanic death worship... and of all the manners of occult business I've looked into over the years in some kindof quest for context and power this magic is what makes the most sense to me... and it really is magic, dude. it turns the void in on itself, like a big mirror on the power structure... a spell against control and cosmic oppression... a celebration of not being beaten yet, you fuckers... we're on to you... William Burroughs had a way of venomously illustrating the worst and most destructive aspects of human nature and the dangers and excesses of control; both as a concept and as the reality and context we presently exist in. He was also really fucking funny. dude was way ahead of his time, which just becomes more and more evident as you delve further into his work... he was and is doing the good work for our species as a whole. of this I am sure. Anyway, I give this stuff a lot of lip service, and I do spend a good deal of my time listening to these recordings, so I figured it might be cool to share it with my friends or people who might not hear it through the floor late at night at 134 or hear me quoting from it all of the time for seemingly no good reason... For this, I've comprised a mix of some of my favorite bits of Burroughs' spoken voice. There's a lot from place of dead roads and the western lands, a few cut ups, some random stuff and a few nova express era spells and curses... there are a ton of great interviews and other pieces that are way longer and not so easily cut and put into a mixtape, but maybe I'll start in on those at some point... I dunno... I figured this would be a good starter at least, and while certainly not for everyone, I've gotten a lot out of it and I feel a kindof responsibility to pass it on in hope that you might gain from it or do something valuable with it as well.

enjoy.

Monday, January 14, 2013

Per The Conversation

Per our conversation the other night. I've been grappling with really atheist type feelings the past 3-4 years, which is interesting since most people go the other route when they have kids. But anyway, I would shift back and forth. Basically intellectually I wanted to believe that there was something, more some force at work. I created a lot of logical arguments and also looked to a lot of the sources and teachers I respected but I still had this feeling of you're on your own in this. At the same time I saw evidence everywhere that you can't just be on your own, too many coincidences, miracle type things.

Anyway the other day I was thinking about this probably after hearing something on the radio or addressing the numerous theological questions that the kids love to bring to me. And I thought it might not be that I'm dealing so much with a lack of faith as I am a lack of connection. The past few years have really required that I focus a lot on day to day problems, the numerous issues of the moment. When I was younger I had the time to be in the woods, to sit in the woods, to be with nature, and to flesh these things out with like minded folks (Jim, you, David, Alexs).

It was interesting how the shift in thought changed my perception. There's also something to be said for all the buddhist/taoist wisdom of not thinking so much/trying so hard. I think its just that when your challenges shift from being more existential to more human daily issue based you look for something different from a spritual force and that caused me to lose my understanding and instead look for some classical, outward being that would help me address whatever challenge I was dealing with. Like new problems pulled me out of my comfort zone and disrupted that connection, so now perhaps the path is returning to that connection without creating a comfort zone.

Anyway, food for thought.