Looking for a rap that people can use with friends to introduce the idea “you are asleep”? I know you’d like to tell someone, but … how to say that to a friend? Continue reading
El Camino Real
Sound Off!!!
If we strip away both the mystical claims and the medical-salesmanship claims, music/sound/vibration really does have a remarkable collection of agencies for changing the human organism. Some are well established; some are plausible but still being investigated; and some belong more to subjective or spiritual practice than to demonstrated medicine.
I’d divide the actual agencies something like this:
Is There a There There?
A Clinical Application of Norton Street
What happens if we stop treating Norton Street as entertainment for a moment and treat it as an instrument?
Not a medical instrument. We’re not proposing to cure arthritis, remove your gallstones or straighten your teeth with a three-hour performance of Norton Street. We’re talking about an instrument for the observation of attention, automatic behavior and momentary waking. Continue reading
spiritual payoffs???
Forget enlightenment as a grand spiritual trophy. Suppose somebody asks:
Okay, I wake up. I evolve. I become more conscious. What do I get?
The first answer we already stumbled onto is extremely practical:
You get a chance to make less of a mess of your life.
But I think there are several deeper payoffs. Continue reading
No Mail-In Ballots? Screw You!
no mail ballots? Screw you
There appears to be a great deal of excitement these days about the government to deny the people their customary mail-in ballots. Apparently somebody has had the brilliant idea that if you make it difficult enough for the ballot to get through the mail, you have somehow solved the problem of the voter, which is they might vote Democrat this time. Continue reading
it boggles the mind
Spent the entire night remastering old videos, which I’ll show today at zoom. Continue reading
Jack Mallory, Private Eye
Thirty bucks for a box of .45s. I had nineteen dollars, an overdue electric bill, and a client who had promised to call Tuesday. It was Thursday.
The nineteen dollars was actually eighteen seventy-five. I’d forgotten about the coffee.
The coffee wasn’t worth a quarter, but neither was I before I’d had it. Continue reading
fast times at ridgemont high
Once again i have spent the entire night on a project — in this case, i found some long-lost footage that i was able to locate in the earliest form, the actual video footage.
working
been working all night to get up some videos for experiments. will demo this at today’s zoom meeting. see you at 6:30 am sharp.
gorby
kool aid acid test?
How to Listen to the Whole Thing
Today we’re doing something a little unusual.
We’re going to listen to an entire Norton Street play in one sitting. Continue reading