September 2009
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“I am interested in anything about revolt, disorder, chaos-especially activity...”
– Jim Morrison
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Jimi Hendrix - Like A Rolling Stone (Monterey...
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“I am engulfed, and drown deliciously… Soft music like a perfume, and sweet...”
– Louis Campbell-Tipton (1877-1921) , “The opium-smoker”, 1907. [voice and piano]
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WatchGeorge Harrison performing While My Guitar Gently Weeps at The Concert for Bangladesh in 1971.
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Worldwide Moment-simultaneous photography project... →
With less than 48 hours remaining until Worldwide Moment, 84 countries have representatives pledged to take a simultaneous photograph in celebration of international peace, human rights awareness, and artistic collaboration.
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Design for Dying, Timothy Leary
Design for Dying was published in the United States in 1997, a year after Timothy Leary died. Although most of the book is written from Leary’s point of view, R. U. Sirius played a major part in editing it, shaping various essays and notes of Leary’s into a coherent text. Sirius’s voice is as prominent as Leary’s. The book resembles a casebook in form, with three major sections labeled ‘‘Living,’’...
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Cleansing of the Doors of Perception
World religion scholar Huston Smith was turned on by Timothy Leary after the two were introduced to one another by Aldous Huxley in the early 1960s. The experience was interpreted as deeply religious by Smith, and is captured in detailed religious terms in Smith’s later work Cleansing of the Doors of Perception. This was Smith’s one and only entheogenic experience, at the end of which...
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Turn on
“Turn on” meant go within to activate your neural and genetic equipment. Become sensitive to the many and various levels of consciousness and the specific triggers that engage them. Drugs were one way to accomplish this end. “Tune in” meant interact harmoniously with the world around you — externalize, materialize, express your new internal perspectives. Drop out suggested...
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August 2009
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Picasso's signature
Pablo Picasso famously told people who interviewed him that people didn’t buy his paintings. What they were actually buying was his signature. This was true: What would the same piece of art be worth had Picasso not signed it? It’s not like he had a great signature or anything, but when he affixed it to one of his paintings, it validated the piece, authenticated it. So prized was...
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Bohémiens en voyage
La tribu prophétique aux prunelles ardentes Hier s’est mise en route, emportant ses petits Sur son dos, ou livrant à leurs fiers appétits Le trésor toujours prêt des mamelles pendantes. Les hommes vont à pied sous leurs armes luisantes Le long des chariots où les leurs sont blottis, Promenant sur le ciel des yeux appesantis Par le morne regret des chimères absentes. Du fond de son réduit...
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“So strong is the belief in life, in what is most fragile in life—real life, I...”
– André Breton, from Manifesto of Surrealism 1924.
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MacPhisto speech
The MacPhisto speech at the Sydney 1993 concert was one of irony, blurring the question of whether MacPhisto is meant to be a corrupted rock star or a representation of the actual Devil: My time among you is nearly over…Before I go, I have some messages for the world. People of America, I gave you Bill Clinton - I put him on CNN, NBC, C-Span. Too tall to be a despot, but watch him closely....
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“Having money is rather like being a blond. It is more fun but not vital.”
– Mary Quant
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“DADA remains within the framework of European weaknesses, it’s still shit,...”
– Tristan Tzara, from ‘Monsieur Antipyrine’s Manifesto’, 1916.
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Matsuo Basho
-Se va la primavera quejas de pájaros lágrimas en los ojos de los peces. -Quietud: los cantos de la cigarra penetran en las rocas. -Toda la noche amotina las olas el viento en cólera y los pinos chorrean húmeda luz de luna. -A la intemperie, se va infiltrando el viento hasta mi alma. -Visión en sombras. Llora una anciana sola,la luna como amiga.
-Matsuo Bashō (松尾 芭蕉, Matsuo Bashō Ueno, 1644 -...
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“I suppose some people are born with a natural talent for it. I am not one of...”
– How To Talk Dirty (via The Frisky)
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‘Psychotically depressed’
“The so-called ‘psychotically depressed’ person who tries to kill herself doesn’t do so out of quote ‘hopelessness’ or any abstract conviction that life’s assets and debits do not square. And surely not because death seems suddenly appealing. The person in whom Its invisible agony reaches a certain unendurable level will kill herself the same way a trapped person will eventually jump from...
