On the end of the OUGHTS and Isaac Hayes' Walk on By

http://www.newstatesman.com/ideas/2009/12/past-decade-world-western
http://www.newstatesman.com/television/2009/12/business-culture-cultural
2 sides of the same coin. The vacuum pushed to its extreme, soon any movement will be radical.
Reminds me of the question that I asked of our renowned international relations theorist at OWU, Sean Kay, after reading that field's silly excuse for theory. I: "This seems to be saying the same one dimensional western ideas with huge arguments over slight variations/differences. Do the Chinese have their own theory? Because maybe we should read some of that.." and in reply I got a bemused expression- "Chinese international theory? I don't know, but I do know that Merscheimer's book is a bestseller in translated form." Haha the idea of Chinese international political theory built on a different set of assumptions had not even occurred to him, or even that they would have different assumptions. I mean why would they not build off the great literature our western university professors had written? They might have been taking us seriously before, but with the collapse of the "western consensus" they're gonna have to come to the conclusion that we in the west have no idea what we are talking about let alone what we are doing and what is happening in the world. Then maybe we might have a true global dialogue, not a one direction thing at the moment where we right fucking tons with minimal thought and the developing world either writes little, reads us, and goes hmmm interesting or writes variations on the text FUCK THEM THEY FUCKED US OVER. oh well...what is sure is the 00's will be symbolized by our fascination with staged reality (reality tv), melting-everything into formula blandness mainstream culture (Transformers 2, american idol, 2012 etc), socialpolitical problem denial (republicans, global warming deniers, bankers/business), the pseudo-social/the lowest common denominator (fav books on facebook-twilight, kanye west hating on taylor swift, etc) etetetetetec whatever.

Now for the good news. I have been listening to the Isaac Hayes song Walk on By off Hot buttered soul at work over and over again for the last week. Fucking incREDible. The sort of art that makes you reconsider the merits of Scientology because the artist is one (thought about it and no). It is genius of the sort that you just don't hear anymore...15 minutes long, orchestra sound, the everything thrown into one song- an ambition that no one has anymore....maybe a type of artistry beyond our ability even/or if we tried we would sound foolish (an idea for another day). And, in my recent memory, the horn section after the second verse is a musical moment without peer. Do yourself a favor and listen to this with surround sound and just lie there for a second and dont check your email, dont read the newspaper, dont do anything and just listen to it.
http://22tracks.nl/#/originals/2/

where to go on the web to listen to music at work

youtube is only good to an extent...you have to keep clicking on new songs. I guess they have playlists, but still, the videos tend to lag the computer and use valuable RAM. Plus there is the added distraction of being unable to help yourself sift through the comments section of ppl's crazy online speak.

Yo so check it I got this illsite I always count on it when doing my menial data entry work.
http://www.22tracks.nl/
Its called 22 tracks and its different djs and shit who put out a list of 22 tracks they really like for a certain style, of which there is like 10 or so including reggae disco, techno etc. Shit is hot and definetely tunes you will never have heard before, good place to find new artists etc.

Check out the Beats mix, Originals, Relax, and soul which are just fire

hyperdub the sickest

gotta get some good speakers

"...for it is the world, the globe itself, that resists globalization..."

Slow at work yo after a three day weekend
aint doing shit so on the computer just breathing

Classic essay by Phillip K. Dick here, read it if you got time like me-
http://deoxy.org/pkd_how2build.htm

"But another way to control the minds of people is to control their perceptions. If you can get them to see the world as you do, they will think as you do. Comprehension follows perception. How do you get them to see the reality you see? After all, it is only one reality out of many (reality differs by species, person to person/schizophrenic). Images are a basic constituent: pictures. This is why the power of TV to influence young minds is so staggeringly vast. Words and pictures are synchronized. The possibility of total control of the viewer exists, especially the young viewer. TV viewing is a kind of sleep-learning...Our memories are spurious...We have participated unknowingly in the creation of a spurious reality, and then we have obligingly fed it to ourselves."

Been trying to use the great box of wonder to help me learn Thai. Mostly I end up just watching images as the language fizzes by me.

Actually the rest of this essay takes this concept of reality to a more mystical extreme. What is this site anyways? Deoxy.org....definitely a zone of forced otherness. Phillip K. Dick talks about how the producers of these shows don't know "how much of their content is true". He then goes on to say the same thing about his writing, and leads into a long discussion on things that he'd written coming true, figuring out later that passages were exact replicas of scenes in Acts in the Bible etc. His own theory of reality...I think his attempts to understand reality help us in our own relationship to it, I remember Tom and I had a talk once on reality and I can't remember what we were arguing about exactly but I think Tom said reality is always the same, a view that seems opposed to Dick's to each his own reality- but is it? The dual are one, the yin and yang, the mind with nothing to think about without reality, thinker and thought, consciousness and world. Dick's idea that behind our world it is 50 AD right after Christ's death during the Book of Acts is somehow not so unbelievable.

Caught the beginning of food inc on youtube - just that much freaked me out. I thought I knew about the workings of the food industry but seeing it all and getting it all at once hits you hard- the power of the documentary. (saw one called Flow too on water very painful as well I'm sure its on youtube)The scale and tradition... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nDQnDSSpcLo

Have not been listening to much new music. I just got the new lil wayne mixtape no ceilings, which more and more is driving me up the wall with how technically good he is and how clever he is at saying NOTHING.

This Real Estate cd is hot though, for some chill summer laid back nostalgia vibes

Oh and I was thinking further about my dissatisfaction/the perceieved insufficiency of the English language. It's hegemony is beyond overwhelming here in Thailand (you should see the drama at my pharmaceutical company, another day), and I assume it is the same everywhere else (actually developing countries have it worse, and Thailand more so b/c she is so reliant on tourism). English is a language losing its meaning for at least 50 years now-
Note this hippy text that recognizes the problem but halfasses the answer, an occurence that happens on the regular with the left when faced against such a great totality http://deoxy.org/fuckgod.htm
The important part is the beginning

"Language prevents communication.

CARS LOVE SHELL How can I say "I love you" after hearing: "CARS LOVE SHELL."

Does anyone understand what I mean?"

Thus English takes with it its systemic bias and when placed all over the globe this virus infiltrates all minds (I guess the logic of capital/information overload/ambiguity has entered other languages too, but surely not to the same uncompromising extent that it has in English). I'm not trying to be arrogant when I say english is becoming unfulfilling, it literally IS- the great urge to be fluent in thai comes from this. The last thing we want is for English to become the one global language. There is no true other for Americans any longer- everyone can speak a little English and has seen American television (or is the other the contorted reflection of ourselves; culture existent in relationship to globalization, who are we?). A Thai person and a Brazilian meet, there is a true give and take. Yet America is present, cnn, hollywood- they are speaking in English. An American meets a Brazilian-"I know you" the brazilian says. "Everybody knows me.." I reply.

Pixies in the Palm of Your Hand

Yeah it's poppy. Yeah I heard it on TV. So what?

a crazy idea of paradise