paradox on the rocks

Freestyle Fellowship: Legal Alien

There is no dominant culture. There are nation-states with involved, controlling narratives. The U.S is not a culture. Modern England and France are inventions of those state's narratives. Anyone then, and no one, can "join" this modern culture. These nation-states have programs and agendas of dominance,  however, variable according to their intra-mural hierarchies. 

Excerpt: Legal Aliens, by Jimmie Durham. pp 75 The Hybrid State, Exit Art. 1992

The O'Jays: Give The People What They Want

trip takers

Wharf Rat- The Grateful Dead

Later the pits were fenced in. After forty years of inactivity the search for diamonds in the De Beers Mine was resumed; the Kimberley Mine was turned into a tourist attraction. An open-air museum was established nearby. Only on the outskirts of town did a few of the smaller mines remain unfenced and ungaurded. One of these was called Otto's Kopje. It had its own diminished version of an open pit and several vertical shafts at varying distances around it. The shafts did not have any broken ground near them to warn you of what was ahead. You just came upon them: perfectly square, black holes in the ground, each as big as a room, and apparently bottomless. At night, in bed, I would occasionally be racked out of sleep by a sudden involuntary step into that black space.

- Excerpt: Dan Jacobson, Arguing with the Dead. pp 175 Granta # 60 [Unbelievable].

Sun Ra- Discipline 27-II (3): Neptune

con(text)

-The implied question would always be, "Why did she change that object, and what does that have do with me?"  

Excerpt: pp.70 Jimmie Durham, A Certain Lack of Coherence; Creativity and the Social Process.

JMB/ GREY- DRUM MODE

BEASTIE BOYS- SOUNDS OF SCIENCE

songs to hum

Square Biz, Lady T

Never Too Much, L. Vandross

First there was the earth in my mouth. It was there like a running stream, the July fever sweating the delirium of August, and the green buckling under the sun. The taste of sick dust ran in the currents of saliva which I heaved up and tried to picture when all the people would curse their own stinking guts and die. No. I am not wishing that everyone should die. Nor am I wishing that everyone should be still. Only I am squeezing out the steam in me.

Kef 21 by Henry Dumas

splitting (GMC)

Kool and The Gang: Summer Madness

Adrian, we ourselves, render "innocent" photographs or films... the structures we build in the studios and almost everything that appears during the weeks that the construction process is taking place. These photographs and videos afford the internal structure of sculptural pieces the possibility of becoming something in-and-of themselves: they cease to be the skeleton of a future clay sculpture and become autonomous and independent "form." Furthermore, these photographs and film recordings of the structures and situations in the studios become the model and point of reference for a later split in the work: drawing and painting. What emerges then is and exercise of drawing and painting, that revolves around the structures of the construction processes rather than the sculptures themselves.

Excerpt: Innocence, Error, Pride. By Ariel Torti, editor: Sebastian Villar Rojas. Films Before Revolution. Museum Haus Konstructiv.

De La Soul: Cool Breeze on the Rocks

Black Merda: The Psych Funk Of Black Merda, Full Album

play the version:

Bobby Humphrey: Harlem River Drive

reel it back:

Aliotta, Haynes, and Jeremiah: Lake Shore Drive

bucky

Sun Ra, Space Is The Place. Film (1974)

Sun Ra: Where Pathways Meet

Sun Ra: Twin Stars of Thence

The Beta game is also important, because no game is launched before it goes through a test phase. When we control a character in a a beta game, what are the simulation processes we have? We are controlling a character that is not ready, in a setting that is not ready and which does not form part of our real world. Parallel worlds inside others. 

'Was Von Einem Uberlebenden Erwartet Wird'  (What is expected from a Survivor): Matheus Frey. excerpt: pp 139 'Films Before Revolution; Adrian Villar Rojas.' Musuem Haus Konstructiv. 

discipline

The mobilization of the land, the people and the means of production in order to realize the plan. Happiness is in the imperceptible inclination of the balancing pole towards active production. Equipment: the word of command, armaments, machines and circulation, discipline? 

EXACTLY THE SAME AS FOR THE WAGING OF WAR.

One asks oneself in disbelief, 'can it really be so easy?' A simple decision of the spirit... to decide to build instead of entering into destruction.

Le Corbusier 'La Guerre? Mieux vaux construire,' Plans, 6th Jan. 1931. pp 65-67

Excerpt: Le Corbusier, by Kenneth Frampton. Thames & Hudson, 'World of Art: Le Corbusier' pp 119.

DJ RASHAD: Let It Go

Kraftwerk: Man-Manchine- Full Album

heart of the ark

When Eero's wife, Aline, reviewed my photographs of columns in various stages of completion from re-bar forms to cast concrete, she said, "Great architecture makes Great Ruins."

pp.26 Saarinen's Quest, A Memoir. Richard Knight. 

Lee Perry- Elaine

Lee Perry- Don't Be Afraid

Lee Perry- No Run It Down + Version

you wear the crown

Soon after building the Chicago Tribune Tower, Hood is asked to do his first Skyscraper in New York, the American Radiator Building, on a lot facing Bryant Park.

In the standard "solution"- the direct multiplication of the site as often as the zoning envelope permits- the west face of such a Tower would have a blind wall, so that a similar structure could be built directly against it. By shrinking the area of the Tower, Hood is able to perforate the west facade with windows, and so designs the first example of his City of Towers. The operation makes pragmatic and financial sense; the quality of the office space increases, therefore the rents, and so on. But the exterior of the Tower presents different- i.e., artistic- issues to the architect. He has always been irritated by the boring window openings in the facades of Towers, a potential tedium that increases in direct proportion to their height- acres of meaningless black rectangles that threaten to reduce their soaring quality.

Hood decides to build the building in black brick, so that the holes- embarrassing reminder of the other reality inside- can be absorbed within the stem and thus become unnoticeable.

The top of the black building is gilded. Hood's down-to-earth alibi for the top briskly severs all connections between gold and any possible association with Ecstasy. "The incorporation of publicity or advertising features in a building is frequently an item for consideration. It stimulates public interest and admiration, is accepted as a genuine contribution to architecture, enhances the value of the property and is profitable to the owner in the same manner as other forms of legitimate advertising."

excerpt: pp.165, "Delirious New York." Rem Koolhaas. 1994. Monacelli.

Gil Scott Heron - Pieces of a Man, Full Album. 1971

uprock

rocksteady crew: 'uprock', live on german television

Other styles and/or Gothic Futurism include Dimensional map techniques, Bubble styles techniques that deal with elements of commercial calligraphy.
All-conceived Wild Stylisms in any plan of operations whether for military purposes or not will advance in drawing technique to a Panzerism style technique on the letters' structure, masterpieces, and pieces in and on any medium does not include scenery. Any masterpiece or piece that has a crack in its outlined structure techniques according to Panzerism technique has been red upon and hit, evidence is cracks a factual damage symbol in anything that deals with art.
Wild style: element techniques classified. (ism)
Graffiti is a title stupidly placed on this art as a definition " Wild Style has no rules " in itself to have no rules is to be ISM, the goal and the rule. Separations of unique interpretations of basic symbolic construction of emotions and nonemotional style construction, example: common sense says the only symbol for a missile is an arrow, shown by the Chinese, the ones who really started all recording verbal formation symbols, several thousand years ago. no government is allowed to adopt, borrow, or steal subconscious symbols, or create a phonetic science to prove them.

excerpt:ramellzee: gothic futurism treatise

wild style the movie complete soundtrack.

training

Kraftwerk: Trans Europe Express (Full Album)

Jimi Hendrix: Here My Train A Comin' (Acoustic Soundstage with Documentary Footage)

Wavering between the profit and the loss

In this brief transit where the dreams cross

T.S Eliot, Ash-Wednesday : Excerpt:    

 Susan Howe, 'Sorting Facts; or, Nineteen ways of Looking at Marker pp 50

jack straw

excerpt: Sherman Alexie, Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven

the grateful dead: dick's picks vol. 10, complete: 12.29.77

quotodian query at the quary

• High roller, low roller, lower roller.
• 
  
• I need a box of biscuits, a box of mixed biscuits, and a biscuit mixer.
• 
  
• He thrusts his fists against the posts and still insists he sees the ghosts.
• 
  
• Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.
• 
  
• The Leith police dismisseth us.
• 
  
• Twixt this and six thick thistle sticks.
• 
  
• The sixth Sikh Sheik's sixth sheep's sick.
• 
  
• The free thugs set three thugs free.
• 
  
• She stood on the balcony inexplicably mimicking him hiccupping and amicably welcoming him in.
• 
  
• Round and round the rugged rock the ragged rascal ran.
• 
  
• Six Scottish soldiers shot in their shoulders.
• 
  
• Richard's and Robert's revolting rottweiler retched rancid rabbits.

DANGERDOOM / The Mouse & The Mask (Full Album) 2005

WHAT IS A HOUSE

ANARCHITECTURE WORKING IN SEVERAL DIMENTIONS (sic) 

MAKING THE DISCUSSIONS THE SHOW AND THE WORK. KEEPING IT AN ONGOING PROCESS. 
NOT FINISHING JUST KEEPING GOING AND STARTING OVER AND OVER 
- GORDON MATTA CLARK
FINGERS INC / JACK HAD A GROOVE ACAPELLA 
CAJMERE / DERRICK CARTER / DREAMING EP

PHUTURE / ACID TRACKS
CAJMERE AND GENE FARRIS / LET'S WORK
NIGHTLIFE UNLIMITED / PEACHES & PRUNES (RON HARDY)
FINGERS INC / A PATH (CLUB MIX)
CHEZ AND TRENT / THE CHOICE (WITCH DOCTOR)
CAJMERE / PERCOLATOR (ORIGINAL MIX)
THE STRIKERS / INCH BY INCH (RADIO EDIT)
HOT MIX FIVE 15 YEAR REUNION TAPE / 1996

everything / nothing

text:

John Cage, Lecture on Nothing

film:

Sound? John Cage and Rahsaan Roland Kirk

i'll stay

The bad thing about going to Spain in the spring to see bullfights is the rain. 

It may rain everywhere you go, especially in May and June, and that is why I prefer the summer months. 

It rains then too, sometimes, but never yet have I seen it snow in Spain in July and August 

although it snowed in August of 1929 in some of the mountain summer resorts of Aragon and in 

Madrid it snowed one year on May 15th and was so cold they called off the bullfights. 

I remember having gone down that year to Spain thinking spring would be well along, 

and all day on the train we rode through country as bare and cold as the badlands in November. 

I could hardly recognize the country as the same I knew in the summer and when I got off the train at night 

in Madrid snow was blowing outside the station. 

I had no overcoat and stayed in my room writing in bed or in the nearest caf'e drinking coffee and Domecq brandy. 

It was too cold to go out for three days and then came lovely spring weather. 

Madrid is a mountain city with a mountain climate. 

It has the high cloudless Spanish sky that makes the Italian sky seem sentimental and it has air that is actively pleasurable to breathe. 

The heat and the cold come and go quickly there. 

I have watched, on a July night when I could not sleep, the beggars burning newspapers in the street and crouching around the fire to keep warm. 

Two nights later it was too hot to sleep until the coolness that comes just before morning

CH.5/DEATH/IN/THE/AFTERNOON/HEMINGWAY

     parliament / i'll stay

     the rh factor feat. d'angelo / i'll stay

         left and right / harmonimix

turnup_tuesday

PUBLIC ENEMY / FIGHT THE POWER (FULL VIDEO)

Radio Raheem stops in front of the group, looks at them, and
turns down the volume.  It's quiet again.

     RADIO RAHEEM
    Peace, y'all.

     ELLA
    Peace, Radio Raheem.

     CEE
    Peace.

               10.


     PUNCHY
    You the man, Radio Raheem.

     AHMAD
    It's your world.

     CEE
    In a big way.

Radio Raheem nods and turns up the volume.  Way up.

PARLIAMENT / GIVE UP THE FUNK/ TEAR THE ROOF OFF THE SUCKER

slow rise

Rahsan Roland Kirk/ Slow Blues

Color light, or direct color, is probably most familiar 

through its practical application in theater and advertising.

The scientific analysis of the physical qualities (wave length, etc.)

is not the problem of the colorist; it is the concern of the physicist.

When he mixes his colors, he projects them on a screen,

1 on top of or overlapping the other.

In any such mixture where there is overlapping, 

it will be obvious that every one of these mixtures

is lighter than any of the mixture parents.

By means of the prismatic lens, the physicist easily demonstrates

that the color spectrum of the rainbow is a dispersion of the white sunlight.

With this he proves also that the sum of all colors in light is white.

This demonstrates an additive mixture.

Josef Albers, Interaction of Color.

Led Zeppelin / The Dancing Avocado

rebelrebel

 Jimi Hendrix, Live at Rainbo Bridge Film. Full Concert 

All mankind is of one author, and is one volume; when one man dies, one chapter is not torn of the book, but translated into a better language; and every chapter must be so translated. ...

John Donne

...

In1941, on his front porch, Muddy Waters recorded a song for the folklorist Alan Lomax. After singing the song, which he told Lomax was entitled "Country Blues," Waters described how he came to write it. "I made it on about the eighth of of October '38," Waters said. "I was fixin' a tire puncture on a car. I had been mistreated by a girl. I just felt blue, and the song fell into my mind and it come to me just like that and I started singing." Then Lomax, who knew of the Robert Johnson recording called "Walkin' Blues," asked Waters if there were any other songs that used the same tune. "There's been some blues played like that," Waters replied. "This song comes from the cotton field and a boy once put a record out- Robert Johnson. He put it out as named 'Walkin' Blues.' I heard the tune before I heard it on the record. I learned it from Son House." In nearly one breath, Waters offers five accounts: his own active authorship: he "made it" on a specific date. Then the "passive" explanation: "it come to me just like that." After Lomax raises the question of influence, Waters, without shame, misgivings, or trepidation, says that he heard a version by Johnson, but that his mentor, Son House, taught it to him. In the middle of that complex genealogy, Waters declares that "this song comes from the cotton field."

pp. 532, Richard Prince, American Prayer. Excerpt: The Ecstasy of Influence: A Plagiarism. By Jonathan Lethem. From Harper's Magazine (February 2007) pp. 59-71. 

 JImi Hendrix, The Star Spangled Banner. Live at Woodstock, 1969.

heat

The Rolling Stones: Paint It Black

With these reflections, and several others, I had finished a first draft of my column when the August 

sun exploded among the almond trees in the park, and the riverboat that carried the mail, a week late because of the drought, came bellowing into the port canal. I thought: My ninetieth birthday is arriving. I'll never know why, and don't pretend to, but it was under the magical effect of that devastating evocation that I decided to call Rosa Cabarcas for help in celebrating my birthday with a libertine night. I'd spent years at holy peace with my body, devoting my time to the erratic rereading of my classics and to my private programs of concert music, but my desire that day was so urgent it seemed like a message from God. After the call I couldn't go on writing. I hung the hammock in a corner of the library where the sun doesn't shine in the morning, and I lay down in it, my chest 

heavy with the anxiety of waiting. 

Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Memories of My Melancholy Whores

ESG: Erase You

walking

Freddie Hubbard, The Intrepid Fox

Take a fox walk down the along a trail without looking down at your feet. Gaze up at the horizon and move as slowly as necessary in order to maintain form and balance. Imagine you have a bowling ball between your legs; that will get you walking on the outsoles of your feet. Carefully lift and plant each foot, coming down gently on the outside and rolling inward before you take each step. Keep a narrow stance, placing the feet almost directly in front of one another. 

If you ever feel insecure about taking the next step, or if you hit an obstacle with your foot, "feel" your way ahead without looking down. Even though your gaze is fixed on the horizon, you should be picking up an impression of the trail ahead. As your walk improves your body will "remember" these impressions and move in response to the changing landscape. Do this exercise until you are confident you can maintain the fox walk on almost any trail without looking down. 

pp. 94: Tom Brown's Field Guide: Nature Observation and Tracking. Tom Brown Jr and Brandt Morgan. 1983. Berkeley Books, NY. 

Hamilton Bohannon Jr.- Foot Stompin' Music

the curve

Beat Bop: Rammellzee, K-Rob, Basquiat.

I've seen a lot of paintings by Albers, often singly, over half the world. They are always amazingly beautiful. This is especially true of Rothko too, although the nature of his work is different. There is a certain nice quality in some art and literature that is calm and friendly, even light, and absolutely realistic about the nature of humanity and life. It's not cold at all or somber and certainly not nostalgic; it's very much about being alive/ In literature this can be seen in Tugenev, Tolstoy, and Chekhov and in most of the Russians. And in Hardy. In art, some ancient Greek sculpture is like this, like the light itself which moves across the surface, especially metopes, for example those in Palermo from Selinunte. especially the of of Apollo behind his four horses from Temple C.

Except from "Joseph Albers," By Donald Judd, 1991

Black Flag: Nervous Breakdown 

afternoons

"Rick and I were inseparable. When anyone saw one of us, the were sure the other was around somewhere, and nine times out of ten they would be right. Even when one of us went somewhere alone, the other got a report of it as son as we got back together again. We shared everything."

 pp134, The Tracker, by Tom Brown Jr. Berkeley Books, NY. 1979.

La Bamba (original) 1939

Nirvana, Nevermind. Full Album. 1991.

Is it still glass?

"Cubism does not want a banal description of the psychological meaning of bodies and events from a specific external standpoint, rather it wants life itself! The cubist artist is in the middle of things, they surround him, their abundance brings him happiness, their never-resting, ever-moving, puzzling, autonomous life is like an intoxication. No positivistic result, no explanation, no moral and no application or lesson- rather glorification, admiration, adoration."

Adolf Behne, 'Biologie and Kubismus', Der Sturm 6:11-12 Sept. 1915.

Excerpted from 'Anything But Literal: Sigfried Gideon and the reception of Cubism in Germany', Detlef Mertins, compiled in 'Modernity Unbound: Other Histories of Architectural Modernity', 2011. 

Wild Geese Descending on The Sandbank (GuQin)

Remember (Walking in the Sand)

Let's Go Swimming (W.G Coastal Dub)

reflex reflection

We find all the no-life-support-wealth-producing people going to their 1980s jobs in their cars and buses, spending trillions of dollars' worth of petroleum daily to get to their no-wealth-producing jobs. It doesn't take a computer to tell you that it will save both Universe and humanity trillions of dollars a day to pay them handsomely to stay at home.

- R.Buckminster Fuller, Critical Path. 1980

Lovin' Spoonful / Summer in The City

I left New York in May. I had a penknife, a ball of cord, an ax, and $40, which I had saved from selling magazine subscriptions. I also had some flint and steel which I had bought at a Chinese store in the city. The man in the store had showed me how to use it. He had also given me a little purse to put it in, and some tinder to catch the sparks. He had told me that if I ran out of tinder, I should burn cloth, and use the charred ashes.

- Jean Craighead George, My Side of The Mountain, 1959

Marcia Griffiths / Feel Like Jumping

we walk the streets at night

WHEN I STEPPED OUT into the bright sunlight from the darkness of the movie house, I had only two things on my mind: Paul Newman and a ride home. I was wishing I looked like Paul Newman--- he looks tough and I don't--- but I guess my own looks aren't so bad. I have light-brown, almost-red hair and greenish-gray eyes. I wish they were more gray, because I hate most guys that have green eyes, but I have to be content with what I have. My hair is longer than a lot of boys wear theirs, squared off in back and long at the front and sides, but I am a greaser and most of my neighborhood rarely bothers to get a haircut. Besides, I look better with long hair.

Chapter 1, Page 3. "The Outsiders", S.E. Hinton.1967.

Buddy Miles, Runaway Child. Live in Finland, 1970.

Bassism

'It is not necessary to create a world, but the possibility of a world.'

Jean Luc Godard- 1985

J Dilla (Didn't Cha Know) Soulquarian Remix

The Sequence / Funk You Up (Extended)