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Wednesday, March 10, 2010
Tuesday, March 9, 2010
Take These For Your Randroids and Call Me In The Morning
Some more untimely news! An odd bit of gossip a friend shared about Tilda Swinton carrying on through life the past few years with two lovers, one, it seemed, for each of her different roles and aspects, for some reason arose in the old thought chamber recently and I remembered to look it up myself.
I know her best as Orlando, the title character in a film that was one of the first to blow my baby young mind. I've elaborated on an idea of hers that I find relevant about capitalism, and the response to loneliness with that of rampant consumption, used to embody, however artificially, relationships that are psychologically and phisiologically vital to our growth as healthy humans. This cycle of felt loss and reactionary consumption seems of course to help form dependencies on inanimate objects, obsessive, yet uninspired affinities to things or people hundreds of miles away, working to make us fat and repressed, dissociated and addicted, egomaniacal and stagnant. Here are "all [her] thoughts on love," (from a trash-box UK gossip column no less,) yes, I read it till the end:
"I live a soldier's life when I'm working. That's how it feels to me, except I've got a slightly greater chance of survival."
She also, now, has Sandro to keep her company while she is away. One associate said that his role was almost that of 'her personal assistant'.
Certainly, he would be unwise to expect a happy-ever-after scenario from this relationship, as Swinton does not believe in it.
"Loneliness is the deal," she said in a recent interview.
"Loneliness is the last great taboo.
"If we don't accept loneliness, then capitalism wins hands down. Because capitalism is all about trying to convince people that you can distract yourself, that you can make it better. And it ain't true."
Maybe she can say this because Byrne is always there for her when she returns. She relishes the split.
"The split is important," she says.
"I could call it a double life but actually it's really quite integrated," she says.
"It's just a working life - I go away and then I come back. John is always at home."
Byrne, it seems, does not try too hard to make sense of what is going on, but just holds on to the idea that they have always been "the best of chums" and will continue to be."
Maybe I'm idealizing their situation, but obviously the author of the article is portraying the interconnected relationships to be sapped of meaning or satisfaction for anyone besides Tilda Swinton. Personally (yech who cares blog narrative ahh creeping public diary therapy) I think polygamy (as opposed to bigamy) would give most women a social support for creative projects or family rearing (if that's their thing) and give them time to freely explore the whole of their life's work and relieve the pressure to fit the progressive version of their higher self strictly within an evolved aspect of femininity. This could potentially form (as amorphously as possible) a small, helpful, creative and not excessively emotional community, not exhibiting romanticism of human relationships of the Disney brand (those 'magic' moments are spontaneous yet surely hard worked-for, not necessarily for the other person's presumed satisfaction, but rather in doing the 'right work' (sorry to lay so much Gurdjieff-smoked in the slightly vague Eastern Philo-flavor, but its the word) on each individual's self. When these moments of spontaneous actualization occur (deals on spirituality/philosophy shopping at its best) , sure, that's pretty romantic. Go ahead and kiss under the mistletoe of NOT-MISSED-CONNECTIONS. But certainly an anxiety riddled existence (for most females I'm sure) of small, narrowly lived self-consciousness lays ahead of anyone expecting that flame to burn all the time. Love for all things can inform your everyday actions (but for ONE person?) yikes. Expand. Expand. And Simplify. The trick for this situation to be new and creep-free is to not have the shared goal for those involved in partnerships for mutual happiness be religiously cultish, or exclusively orbit around sexual congress with one 'shared' person.
The case of Swinton, where the woman has more than one lover, seems to be a living philosophy, an embodied experiment in civility, honesty, transparency but also discretion, respect, and adaptation to REALITY. If infidelities occur in most relationships, breaking them up, causing guilt, insecurity, needless self-esteem destruction and more- it just seems insane to continue teaching the youth that they should expect lives, rules and experienced relationships that will only lead to this sort of paradigm-blasting unhappiness. Commitment does seem key for living a life efficiently with long term goals in mind. It is also, of course, a unique situation to meet someone you can level with, whom you are attracted to, who has similar values and shared knowledge base (for some people, this of course isn't the issue, perhaps mine...) but not all needs can most likely be met with one other person. But why be rampantly promiscuous, for that matter? Certainly this way is not fulfilling or healthy, and seems time consuming (that is if you have labors of love, of the non-human variety to work on.) Having a few partners that bring out different essential qualities of your ideal self, etc. might in fact help humanity evolve to self love and loving others in a honest way, not exclusively teddy bear gift love, your thighs are cosmically exquisite love, or a burn-out Romeo and Juliet love, but the sort that makes us all move gracefully. With children involved the matter just seems to require upfront, open discussion about the needs and goals of each party, the time they wish to spend with the other person, and how they would like it to be spent. Its a partnership for life, or whatever amount of time/era you decide to spend together (not ruling out spontaneous durations- if thats part of each persons mutual goal) and not a thing to to have simply to sustain itself. This discourages lazy, plan-B coupling, obsessive, unreflecting hookups, and compulsive squashing or manipulating of something you love or respect for your own self esteem (aka short-term, artificial self actualization.) People used to go away to battles, markets on long stretches of time, to sea and the like. I'm not sure human couples were meant to spend every day together.
Monogamy seems to be about women in the confounding position of ego 'balance' in this world, playing a role that while often will be desired by many men, will still be physio-emotionally bound to a man that desires many women.
A relationship is not to have only in order to sustain the relationship, but to advance the freedom, consciousness, and health of each individual relating within it's agreements.
And like sitting on a tube while trying to blow it up, ruled by the excitement of the immanent ride, by smothering something you would like to grow, you could end up red faced on a popped piece of plastic.
"Marriage: 'An Experience everyone should go through and then live his own life' or 'living one's own life-an experience everyone should go through and then marry'?" Palinurus
I know her best as Orlando, the title character in a film that was one of the first to blow my baby young mind. I've elaborated on an idea of hers that I find relevant about capitalism, and the response to loneliness with that of rampant consumption, used to embody, however artificially, relationships that are psychologically and phisiologically vital to our growth as healthy humans. This cycle of felt loss and reactionary consumption seems of course to help form dependencies on inanimate objects, obsessive, yet uninspired affinities to things or people hundreds of miles away, working to make us fat and repressed, dissociated and addicted, egomaniacal and stagnant. Here are "all [her] thoughts on love," (from a trash-box UK gossip column no less,) yes, I read it till the end:
"I live a soldier's life when I'm working. That's how it feels to me, except I've got a slightly greater chance of survival."
She also, now, has Sandro to keep her company while she is away. One associate said that his role was almost that of 'her personal assistant'.
Certainly, he would be unwise to expect a happy-ever-after scenario from this relationship, as Swinton does not believe in it.
"Loneliness is the deal," she said in a recent interview.
"Loneliness is the last great taboo.
"If we don't accept loneliness, then capitalism wins hands down. Because capitalism is all about trying to convince people that you can distract yourself, that you can make it better. And it ain't true."
Maybe she can say this because Byrne is always there for her when she returns. She relishes the split.
"The split is important," she says.
"I could call it a double life but actually it's really quite integrated," she says.
"It's just a working life - I go away and then I come back. John is always at home."
Byrne, it seems, does not try too hard to make sense of what is going on, but just holds on to the idea that they have always been "the best of chums" and will continue to be."
Maybe I'm idealizing their situation, but obviously the author of the article is portraying the interconnected relationships to be sapped of meaning or satisfaction for anyone besides Tilda Swinton. Personally (yech who cares blog narrative ahh creeping public diary therapy) I think polygamy (as opposed to bigamy) would give most women a social support for creative projects or family rearing (if that's their thing) and give them time to freely explore the whole of their life's work and relieve the pressure to fit the progressive version of their higher self strictly within an evolved aspect of femininity. This could potentially form (as amorphously as possible) a small, helpful, creative and not excessively emotional community, not exhibiting romanticism of human relationships of the Disney brand (those 'magic' moments are spontaneous yet surely hard worked-for, not necessarily for the other person's presumed satisfaction, but rather in doing the 'right work' (sorry to lay so much Gurdjieff-smoked in the slightly vague Eastern Philo-flavor, but its the word) on each individual's self. When these moments of spontaneous actualization occur (deals on spirituality/philosophy shopping at its best) , sure, that's pretty romantic. Go ahead and kiss under the mistletoe of NOT-MISSED-CONNECTIONS. But certainly an anxiety riddled existence (for most females I'm sure) of small, narrowly lived self-consciousness lays ahead of anyone expecting that flame to burn all the time. Love for all things can inform your everyday actions (but for ONE person?) yikes. Expand. Expand. And Simplify. The trick for this situation to be new and creep-free is to not have the shared goal for those involved in partnerships for mutual happiness be religiously cultish, or exclusively orbit around sexual congress with one 'shared' person.
The case of Swinton, where the woman has more than one lover, seems to be a living philosophy, an embodied experiment in civility, honesty, transparency but also discretion, respect, and adaptation to REALITY. If infidelities occur in most relationships, breaking them up, causing guilt, insecurity, needless self-esteem destruction and more- it just seems insane to continue teaching the youth that they should expect lives, rules and experienced relationships that will only lead to this sort of paradigm-blasting unhappiness. Commitment does seem key for living a life efficiently with long term goals in mind. It is also, of course, a unique situation to meet someone you can level with, whom you are attracted to, who has similar values and shared knowledge base (for some people, this of course isn't the issue, perhaps mine...) but not all needs can most likely be met with one other person. But why be rampantly promiscuous, for that matter? Certainly this way is not fulfilling or healthy, and seems time consuming (that is if you have labors of love, of the non-human variety to work on.) Having a few partners that bring out different essential qualities of your ideal self, etc. might in fact help humanity evolve to self love and loving others in a honest way, not exclusively teddy bear gift love, your thighs are cosmically exquisite love, or a burn-out Romeo and Juliet love, but the sort that makes us all move gracefully. With children involved the matter just seems to require upfront, open discussion about the needs and goals of each party, the time they wish to spend with the other person, and how they would like it to be spent. Its a partnership for life, or whatever amount of time/era you decide to spend together (not ruling out spontaneous durations- if thats part of each persons mutual goal) and not a thing to to have simply to sustain itself. This discourages lazy, plan-B coupling, obsessive, unreflecting hookups, and compulsive squashing or manipulating of something you love or respect for your own self esteem (aka short-term, artificial self actualization.) People used to go away to battles, markets on long stretches of time, to sea and the like. I'm not sure human couples were meant to spend every day together.
Monogamy seems to be about women in the confounding position of ego 'balance' in this world, playing a role that while often will be desired by many men, will still be physio-emotionally bound to a man that desires many women.
A relationship is not to have only in order to sustain the relationship, but to advance the freedom, consciousness, and health of each individual relating within it's agreements.
And like sitting on a tube while trying to blow it up, ruled by the excitement of the immanent ride, by smothering something you would like to grow, you could end up red faced on a popped piece of plastic.
"Marriage: 'An Experience everyone should go through and then live his own life' or 'living one's own life-an experience everyone should go through and then marry'?" Palinurus
Monday, March 8, 2010
Chemical Class?
An article on Neuroanthropology.net from this past summer about The New Performance Enhancing Drugs weighs in on the pros and cons of general amphetamine use, especially for students. While widespread adderall popping encouraged of an entire population for progressive brain functioning to occur (And for what? SATs and College exams are the examples the authors give for the great potential need to take the things - I could agree with stuffing our young, malleable minds with foundational information for one's future, richer, heightened happiness- the linguistic and conceptual tools with which to interact with the world as well as, and for as long as one can, but this requires a pace and certain degree of health, and hopefully these little guys don't have too terrible long term effects on that aspect of things. And will these chemical compounds really strengthen synaptic connections and help us access ESSENTIAL information later? And could the beginning of absorbing facts under an uniform high be the end of poetry?) brings to mind visions of pills, hip-checking the grain's portion of the food pyramid base over for priority, and a transformation of the ''competitive edge' into an electrical fence, separating the cream of the crop (only a handful of prescribed, and perhaps run-ragged and neurotic achievers) from the watery milky stuff or whatever that idiom implies...
MC OCD says: yoyo yoyo yoyo y'all ready for a craven new world?
I don't really understand how the Law professor interviewed in the article could assert "that cognitive enhancers may potentially “level the playing field,” allowing disadvantaged students to overcome educational gaps. Take the example of standardized tests like the SAT, which many colleges like Notre Dame use in evaluating applicants. These tests have been shown to be statistically biased against African Americans, Hispanics and other ethnic minorities (Freedle, 2008)"
Is this professor really informed by Darwin-era racism that ethnic minorities are disadvantaged in a way that is cognitive? Would not the encouraged, widespread- for those who were aware of, or could afford- use of expensive amphetamines exacerbate the problem of overcoming the competition from wealthier, 'better' educated (for the SATS anyway) non-minority students, by adding to their pool of educational resources, whatever new form they have taken? The reason for the disparity in test taking scores is obvious and well documented, and it should go without saying that it is not the lack of potential ability to learn. The heightened competition by way of amphetamines of course, is already the problem.
Oh working class coffee.
Is this professor really informed by Darwin-era racism that ethnic minorities are disadvantaged in a way that is cognitive? Would not the encouraged, widespread- for those who were aware of, or could afford- use of expensive amphetamines exacerbate the problem of overcoming the competition from wealthier, 'better' educated (for the SATS anyway) non-minority students, by adding to their pool of educational resources, whatever new form they have taken? The reason for the disparity in test taking scores is obvious and well documented, and it should go without saying that it is not the lack of potential ability to learn. The heightened competition by way of amphetamines of course, is already the problem.
Oh working class coffee.
MC OCD says: yoyo yoyo yoyo y'all ready for a craven new world?
Wednesday, March 3, 2010
The Cat's Out of The Bag
Horses Can Addict Themselves To Air
More Ways To Hook Your Hawse:
"On the American desert are horses which eat the loco-weed and some are driven mad by it; their vision is affected, they take enormous leaps to cross a tuft of grass or tumble blindly into rivers. The horses which have become thus addicted are shunned by the others and will never rejoin the herd. So it is with human beings: those who are conscious of another world, the world of the spirit, acquire an outlook which distorts the values of ordinary life; they are consumed by the weed of non-attachment. Curiosity is their one excess and therefore they are recognized not by what they do, but by what they refrain from doing, like those Araphants or disciples of Buddha who were pledged to the 'Nine Incapabilities'-. Thus they do not take life, they do not compete, they do not boast ,they do not join groups of more than six, they do not condemn others; they are 'abandoners of revels, mute, contemplative' who are depressed by gossip gaiety and equals, who wait to be telephoned to, who neither speak in public, nor keep up with their friends, nor take revenge on their enemies. Self-knowledge has taught them to abandon hate and blame and envy in their lives, and they look sadder than they are. They seldom make positive assertions because they see, OUTLINED AGAINST ANY STATEMENT, AS A PAINTER SEES A COMPLIMENTRY COLOUR, THE IMAGE OF ITS OPPOSITE. Most psychological questionnaires are designed to search out these moonlings and to secure their non-employment. They divine each other by a warm indifference for they know they are not intended to forgather, but, like stumps of phosphorus in the world's wood, each give forth his misleading radiance."
'Palinurus'
MC OCD wants to know if ya'll get paralyzed in speech by automatically seeing the layers of possibilities 2?
More Ways To Hook Your Hawse:
"On the American desert are horses which eat the loco-weed and some are driven mad by it; their vision is affected, they take enormous leaps to cross a tuft of grass or tumble blindly into rivers. The horses which have become thus addicted are shunned by the others and will never rejoin the herd. So it is with human beings: those who are conscious of another world, the world of the spirit, acquire an outlook which distorts the values of ordinary life; they are consumed by the weed of non-attachment. Curiosity is their one excess and therefore they are recognized not by what they do, but by what they refrain from doing, like those Araphants or disciples of Buddha who were pledged to the 'Nine Incapabilities'-. Thus they do not take life, they do not compete, they do not boast ,they do not join groups of more than six, they do not condemn others; they are 'abandoners of revels, mute, contemplative' who are depressed by gossip gaiety and equals, who wait to be telephoned to, who neither speak in public, nor keep up with their friends, nor take revenge on their enemies. Self-knowledge has taught them to abandon hate and blame and envy in their lives, and they look sadder than they are. They seldom make positive assertions because they see, OUTLINED AGAINST ANY STATEMENT, AS A PAINTER SEES A COMPLIMENTRY COLOUR, THE IMAGE OF ITS OPPOSITE. Most psychological questionnaires are designed to search out these moonlings and to secure their non-employment. They divine each other by a warm indifference for they know they are not intended to forgather, but, like stumps of phosphorus in the world's wood, each give forth his misleading radiance."
'Palinurus'
MC OCD wants to know if ya'll get paralyzed in speech by automatically seeing the layers of possibilities 2?
Tuesday, February 16, 2010
Monday, January 18, 2010
Safe in the deep end and not too close to shore
Thinking today how nice the sounds of pearl harbor are, especially:
luv goon
California shakedown
slivers of you
http://www.myspace.com/pearlescentharbour
I mean they know what they're doing. Their fotos have the lo-fi, washed-out beach aesthetic that every other album on gorilla v bear's got this year and they're "influenced" by this Dharma Connection video, shot of raging new agers doing yoga around buddha statues and is rife with "visionary art" and Is really good. "Has your guru showed you how to move." This sort of open-your-chakras-brother-eagle-crystal-keeper music/scene totally compliments in my mind the house scene that has continually shaken the vibes and minds of the psychedelically inclined kids of the underground for more than twenty years. Whether it's dancing your body into trance states, churning up your kundalini flow or OMing out after vaporizing some weed, the lyrics of house music and new age tunes similarly, however cheesily articulate those blood flowing(to retire the "warm fuzzies")feelings these experiences induce.
The other video under their site's influences, about Jamaican Rum sum up much of the earnestness and indulgence in having a good time, apparent in the band's(Ted Mulry's Gang)version of cliched Caribbean pop. Truly silly, goofy times on a tropical beach, smoking weed with kids who've grown up reading a lot of alan watts, ram dass and camus,listening to roxy music and dick dale. But back to album.
Wish We Were Here!? I mean pretty perfect. Most of us half halfheartedly wish the same. High achievers in artistic endeavors give a good name to seemingly star-gazing, spaced out girls. I mean no one is present all the time. Why should it be assumed that these personalities are off nowhere, or thinking about ditzy things. I mean fairies and personal dramas factor is some of the time, certainly. But so do metaphysics and the history of the school building I'm sure.
I love almost entirely their weed-loving-lady aesthetic and without trying to use the words lo-fi, fuzzwave or chillwave too much, they've done pretty well rounding up some hypnogogic beach-boys pop hits. I'm not too sure yet why surf guitar has impregnated new wave/no wave so much these last few years but its romantic and dreamy. Maybe until these nice young ladies have more songs out it is best that they leave the precariously cool idea of their vibe playing through the ears, ever changing from listen to listen, allowing for more mutable mellow emotions, an idea its seems that is what a lot of this is all about (please see Genesis P-Orridge's ideas on constant progression of self toward no fixed point), instead of letting those sweet beach waves stagnate in the tide pool of too much rigid visual exposure.
luv goon
California shakedown
slivers of you
http://www.myspace.com/pearlescentharbour
I mean they know what they're doing. Their fotos have the lo-fi, washed-out beach aesthetic that every other album on gorilla v bear's got this year and they're "influenced" by this Dharma Connection video, shot of raging new agers doing yoga around buddha statues and is rife with "visionary art" and Is really good. "Has your guru showed you how to move." This sort of open-your-chakras-brother-eagle-crystal-keeper music/scene totally compliments in my mind the house scene that has continually shaken the vibes and minds of the psychedelically inclined kids of the underground for more than twenty years. Whether it's dancing your body into trance states, churning up your kundalini flow or OMing out after vaporizing some weed, the lyrics of house music and new age tunes similarly, however cheesily articulate those blood flowing(to retire the "warm fuzzies")feelings these experiences induce.
The other video under their site's influences, about Jamaican Rum sum up much of the earnestness and indulgence in having a good time, apparent in the band's(Ted Mulry's Gang)version of cliched Caribbean pop. Truly silly, goofy times on a tropical beach, smoking weed with kids who've grown up reading a lot of alan watts, ram dass and camus,listening to roxy music and dick dale. But back to album.
Wish We Were Here!? I mean pretty perfect. Most of us half halfheartedly wish the same. High achievers in artistic endeavors give a good name to seemingly star-gazing, spaced out girls. I mean no one is present all the time. Why should it be assumed that these personalities are off nowhere, or thinking about ditzy things. I mean fairies and personal dramas factor is some of the time, certainly. But so do metaphysics and the history of the school building I'm sure.
I love almost entirely their weed-loving-lady aesthetic and without trying to use the words lo-fi, fuzzwave or chillwave too much, they've done pretty well rounding up some hypnogogic beach-boys pop hits. I'm not too sure yet why surf guitar has impregnated new wave/no wave so much these last few years but its romantic and dreamy. Maybe until these nice young ladies have more songs out it is best that they leave the precariously cool idea of their vibe playing through the ears, ever changing from listen to listen, allowing for more mutable mellow emotions, an idea its seems that is what a lot of this is all about (please see Genesis P-Orridge's ideas on constant progression of self toward no fixed point), instead of letting those sweet beach waves stagnate in the tide pool of too much rigid visual exposure.
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