slipstream spinning

i have not had internet for a while and there are no convenient cafés offering wi-fi in the woods 

i do prefer fall, what little we have of it anymore. i always feel more like myself. 

though really i have not much to say at this moment. it is tiresome professing opinions and very trying hearing them. 

silence can be a very dear friend. 

but i will listen to the wind when she is speaking. that opinion i do not mind for it is truth untainted. 

“kaze yo watashi wa tachimukau
yukou kurushimi no umi e to
kizuna kono mune ni kizande
kudakeru nami wa hatenaku tomo . . .
kaze yo watashi wa tachimukau
yokou kagayaki wo mezashite
inori kono mune ni dakishime
samayou yami no you na mirai . . .
kaze yo watashi wa osorenai
ai koso mitsukedashite kiseki yo
kimi wo shinjite’ru yorokobi
arashi wa ai ni kizuku tame ni fuite’ru”  

--"Kiseki No Umi" / Maaya Sakamoto, from the anime series Record of Lodoss War  

and the water too. i will hear her. 

“well the lush separation unfolds you
and the products of wealth
push you along on the bow wave
of the spiritless undying selves.
and you press on god’s waiter your last dime
as he hands you the bill.
and you spin in the slipstream
tideless – unreasoning -
paddle right out of the mess.
and you paddle right out of the mess” 

--"Slipstream" / Jethro Tull, from the album Aqualung

furthering the electronic revolution

though i do not recommend all of william s. burroughs writings, i do suggest you peruse “the electronic revolution” (currently available as a pdf here and online in parts here: part 1 & part 2) ……something i’ve pondered over myself a few times.

ignoring his obsession with sex, you'll find he describes a quite interesting experiment. basically using the cut-up technique with video/audio/photos to affect other people’s moods & actions. a form of brainwashing perhaps? covert warfare of a sorts? or just plain revenge? maybe some fun too. if his experiments went as he said they did…..well, don’t you wonder what technology is capable of all these decades later? we are affected by every wave that passes through us–electrical, micro, radio, etc–what do each of these & the combination of these waveforms do to our mind-computer & body-machine? hmmmmmmmm? it’s certainly not nothing. just because you can’t see them doesn’t mean they’re not there. you do turn on your radio & hear music. you do talk on your cell phone.

admitting what we don’t know

or, this is not inevitable!

one giant (perhaps staggering?) thought/theory that should be kept in mind is that life as we know it doesn’t have to be life as we know it. perhaps it could all be different. perhaps it could all change. even easily if we all agreed upon it. it wouldn’t be this anymore. it could be that. maybe we would like that better. maybe we wouldn’t. swirl it around a bit. what does the magic 8 ball have in store for us this time?

try again later.

ok then. if we aren’t prepared to acknowledge the idea that life can be different and can actually change, then let’s try admitting that we really don’t know everything. in fact there is a lot out there we claim to know or we present as cold hard facts, when in reality so much of it is merely theoretical. hypothetical. and when new ideas, new theories that contradict or leave in the dust an older tenet of science or medicine or __________ (fill in the blank), how can we say for certain that the new is wrong? or that the old is wrong? why can’t we simply admit their equal possibility until we can prove them utterly useless? we do not need a parental force to suppress or annihilate ideas & information in order to “protect” us from an upset of the status quo. if we cannot choose wisely for ourselves, then perhaps we should not be thinking so much at all.

what we must always remember, however, is how much our political, scientific, religious, medical, economic, etc. institutions have vested in us–the masses–completely bowing our heads to their tenets. if one day we all said “no more!”…..well, what then?

they say that those who wield the power write the histories and those that control the money control our lives. perhaps then we should start being more serious about alternatives to money, to histories, to power in a few “royal and divinely mandated” hands.

again these are just a few thoughts to tumble around in your mind. their possibilities are up to the many and not to the few for once.

for once.

something to be taken advantage of then?

de ja vu (minus accents)

i watched this movie “katherine” with sissy spacek (1975) last night. i’ve actually been watching a lot of movies from the 60s & 70s lately. (when they had no clue that you could play with lighting in such a way that it would still look like night AND you could see the actors.) here’s the thing though. quite a few (like “katherine”) are protest films, thought-provoking films whatever you want to call those wild & wonderful times. but if it wasn’t for the quality of the film, the dress, and the hairstyles i could swear it was now. for the most part they’re saying the same thing “crazy alternatives” (viewpoints/lifestyle not music) are saying now. it’s as if everything paused & 30 years later we’re pressing play, except now the problems that were around then are so exacerbated, and so many new ones are falling on us everyday that, well, fixing anything is a long long way from here. and maybe we really didn’t press play. maybe we’re just on that spiral time travels in & we’re merely revisiting everything on a new loop. it’s kind of weird & creepy, those echoes from past ages, past decades. like when you read the book of your life written by someone else. makes you feel pretty small. also makes you wonder if change is really possible or if we’re just swimming upstream as they say. time to ditch time. scribble on a piece of paper….that should be how time is directed if it must be. but wouldn’t it be crazy having everything around at once? might already be that way. who knows. could be fun though–a dash or two of chaos certainly enlivens one’s day.