Don't sleep on this, just go with the flow and enjoy Klara's great voice and presence.

I wouldn't say that the writers of this episode of X-Files predicted 9-11, but rather that they possibly inspired the event.




I'm not saying that the episode shouldn't have aired. Hell no. Ofcourse responsibility lies with the perpetrators, and some parents obviously didn't do their job.
But if you have artistic freedom and power - please do recognize there's a b-side: Responsibility.

Guess where I'm going with this.

rrrrrRRRRRRRWWWOOOAAARRGHH!! I barely want to be associated with hiphop because of the idiots that represent it. I mean, KRS-One, the Shreck of hiphop, is considered one of the clever ones! I appreciate him for all the great he's done. But for fucks sake! Now, with his help, should we expect consequences for his freudian projections with Alex Jones? On every damn board I get to read about illuminati. These big, elaborate evil conspiracies.

Real life events are banal. Ignorance is banal. Evil is banal.

In American pop culture the evil doers are intelligent (read: "the evil genius") and the heros are complete idiots. Look at any damn hero flick. Now a lot of americans reason that if evil has happened - there must be some really smart guys behind it (Even complete societies of evil dating back thousands of years, WOW! Just like in a flick!)

There are consequences. Stupid people may inspire stupid people. Smart people may inspire stupid people. And if you're inspired by nonsense, you're not very smart. Figure out your place in this.

To families with children, bankruptcy is more common even than divorce!

This world is quickly becoming a very scary place indeed... It will have implications internationally, ofcourse. Shit won't just automatically be cool again. There won't be a sunny revolution with people coming to their senses. Reality is dystopic.

And this clip was before the banks went down. haha wow

More V.S. Ramachandran.

Neurology and the Passion for Art

"Perception means active interpretation by the observer. Every act of perception involves judgment, it involves an oppinion on the state of affairs in the world, not a passive reaction to what is coming in."

...

"You know that half the human race is in denial about their stupidity? I tell you why, because if you do polls, you find that 95 % of the population think that their iq is about average. It's not mathematically possible. This means that 45 % of the people are stupid and denying it."

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And I end this session off with this year's best way to get chicks:

Today I discovered V.S. Ramachandran's "Phantoms in the brain" which is perfectly watchable on Youtube. Friends of Oliver Sack's will find this fresssshhh.

I have spent my last year being increasingly interested in brain damage. But not just that. I think about how thought and language and emotions go together (maybe it is my duty as a rapper / writer / poet).

In this clip I found Ramachandran saying:

"The lack of the autonomic gut reaction, this emotional response, leads him to an absurd conclusion - overriding what his intellect is telling him! This tells you how closely linked your intellectual view of the world is to your basic emotional reactions to the world."





And then at the end of the last you tube clip he says:

"Someone has calculated that the number of plausible permutations and combinations of brain activity exceeds the number of elementary particles in the universe."


Let that sink in a minute...


Reminds me of the first lines in my favorite verse:
"The world's infinite if you think about it
but if you think about it - ofcourse it's limited by resources!"

Phonetic is just sitting on it, it's a damn shame. Oh well..

A south-korean man is overlooking the boarder to North-korea.
- Look, over there is a village, he says. They know we're here that's why they blast the music.
And now I can hear it, there's a song so loud that it would be impossible to enjoy it from where it is played.
- They play it to us to make the life over there appear less burdensome.

            - Reflections while watching Han, the price of freedom

When Kurious dropped "A constipated monkey" I was DOOOWN. And I still listen to "Uptown shit" like it's new. Once, my mom came in my boy room and said: "Oh, this is the kind of hiphop I like!" and started dancing. I tried to say a lot of things very loud then, so as to prevent her from hearing any of the lyrics.

Now Kurious is back with a boom! teaming up with legends MC Serch and MF Doom.
Though the beat is so-so, you've got to love what they do with it.

Leo Lindberg is making major moves in the jazz world at age 15!

Here's what the New York Times had to say about it:

http://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/04/16/an-unlikely-duo-bound-byjazz/

I have questioned Promoe's motives before on this here blog. And now I'm in a position where all I can do is say "I told you so, motherfuckers!"
Which I will do now. I TOLD YOU SO MOTHERFUCKERS!

Promoe has released the worse song I've heard in a long time. The "moral" of the song is to shit on others, namely Promoe's perception of "average swedes," but the music is so commercialized that it can only appeal to said customers.

Promoe has always claimed moral high ground. So I guess he will be happy now that he can look down on those "idiots" and laugh at them buying the shit and paying his bills.

A large amount of Promoe's success can be ascribed to his way of taking shit and escapnig. As with Yoghurts at 7-Eleven, so with hiphop. There has always been a semi-moral and political excuse for it. Now there are no excuses left.

Promoe is the biggest whore on earth.

Terry Jones in his new series said:
"Could you name one famous roman mathematician? No? Well that's because there weren't any. The romans didn't want new inventions and discoveries. New ideas were a threat to the system.
I was brought up to believe that the romans were the great innovators of the ancient world, that they brought civilization and progress to the dark world of the barbarians. But it doesn't seem to have been like that at all. In their paranoid grab for world domination, Rome crushed and destroyed other cultures. And in destroying them it destroyed knowledge."

How much things stay the same...

It takes a certain amount of irony to approach the innards of reality.
But it is too common among intellectuals to be too serious about their thoughts, and reversely, to be too ironic to the next man.

"We escape into dream to avoid a deadlock in our real life. But then what we encounter in the dream is even more horrible, so at the end we literally escape from the dream back into reality. It starts with: dreaming are for those who are not strong enough for reality, it ends with: reality is for those who are not strong enough to endure their dreams."

Slavoj Zizek analyzes David Lynch's Blue Velvet.

According to Zizek Lynch is maaad freudian.