Subterranean Arts

Hylas and the Nymphs

2009-04-11T18:23:00.004-04:00

Hylas and the Nymphs (1896) by John William Waterhouse

Micah White - www.adbusters.org/blogs - writes:

Our collective mental environment is in a pitiful shape. Bombarded with advertisements, jolted by commercial breaks and distracted by multitasking, our spirit is under constant assault by capitalism. And at a time when we face the confluence of unparalleled global crises — climate change, financial collapse, war and widespread foreclosures — we do not have the mental clarity to act. We do, of course, respond and react but that is precisely the problem. In our reactions we betray our inability to propose a fundamentally different course of history. We still believe that there will be a technological solution to the problems we face and by accepting this basic premise we insure that the corporations will continue to dominate the horizon. What we need is a movement of spiritual rebirth that rejects the capitalist-materialist disenchantment of the world and instead proposes a vision in which mystery has a place.

All that is wild about the world has been systematically penetrated, catalogued and destroyed. The explicit intention of the scientific mindset, to pierce the mysteries of Being, has led to a world empty of excitement in which not even endless consumption can fill the void. We are both cut off from the natural environment, enclosed in sprawling concrete cities, and cut off from any previous philosophical or religious conception of the world that celebrated possibility, contingency and mystery. How would it change things if we rallied in support of nature not because of climate change (an abstraction identified by science and therefore conceivably able to be "fixed" by science) but instead because the nymphs Socrates felt at the river are no longer with us.

Run DMC elected to Rock and Roll Hall of Fame

2009-04-11T00:45:00.003-04:00

My first hip-hop record (cassette) ever was Run DMC's self titled debut album. I was nine years old. It marks the day I fell in love with hip-hop. I love hip-hop as much today as I did back when "Hard Times" first blasted through my walkman. I stayed up all night listening to the album over and over. Run DMC changed my life. Run DMC awoke in me a love of language, resistance, defiance, and drums that remains a guiding truth in my life today. Run DMC lives in my music, poetry, politics, photography, fashion, philosophy, spirituality and worldview. Thank you Run DMC. Rest in peace Jam Master Jay.

"Two years ago a friend of mine, asked me to say some MC rhymes" - Run DMC

Dialectics working on "Origins of Blast" LP

2009-04-06T01:46:00.005-04:00

With the production assistance of Logan Morford (The Sundown Service), The Dialectics are back in the studio working on their unfinished LP, "Origins of Blast." The track listings are still in flux but the LP will feature, at a minimum, the following songs:

Portrait of a Text Message
Mascara Culture
Summer Freelance
Spy Ops
Incognito
Modern Love
Niagara Falls
Exile
Koske Fukodome
Honiez with the accents

Portrait of a Text Message

2009-04-03T22:34:00.004-04:00

Facebook analysis stuck in this paralysis
bloggers are the lyricists some bloggers sucking phalluses
begging for a piece of that internet pie
the beats that amplify I rectify with my misses uh-I
stay fly sharper than the low-fi
indie rock kid that keeps trying to do or die
with the skinny neck tie and that gleam in his eye
downing pabst blue ribbon working hard to look fly
we get by on these eloquent status updates
I’ve been googled a hundred thousand times can you relate?
I was an excellent date until ya gone messed up
And text messaged everybody in the whole damn state
No longer hungry -- I ate, take that food off my plate
It wasn’t a minute too soon, it was ten messages late
So I escape to my den where no light will come in
To excavate some strange artifacts: paper and pen

My first Reiki treatment

2009-04-03T17:01:00.003-04:00

My first experience with Reiki, at the suggestion of friends, was powerful, intense and has left me in a more relaxed and grounded state. I know very little about Reiki treatment other than the Reiki master uses her (his) palms to move healing energy, ki, through the body. Both myself and the Reiki master noticed intense warm energy around my head -- I guess I am a hot head! Actually this appears to come from thinking or over thinking. It was so intense that I had to use mindfulness breathing practices so as not to be overwhelmed. I recommend Reiki to anyone interested in energy work.

"The secret method of inviting good fortune.
The marvelous medicine for all sickness
Just for today:

Do not be angry
Do not worry
Be grateful
Work with integrity
Be kind to others.

Every morning and every night, sit in the Gassho position [hands held palm-to-palm] and speak these words out loud in your heart.
For the evolution of body and soul, Usui Reiki Ryoho" — Mikao Usui, the founder.

The Dialectics Website

2009-04-03T02:28:00.002-04:00

Subterranean Arts

2009-04-03T01:06:00.000-04:00

A poet
Anti-corporate, anti-racist, feminist, global justice activist
Emcee for the Dialectics
A sentence on this page
A human being
Fragmented
Maze full of sunshine
Critical theorist
Lyricist
Archivist
A photograph
Rhythm that bends
The color red
The sound bleu
Berkeley Oakland San Francisco Harlem Paris
1968
Alienated audience
Zen
Meditation
A collection of emerging and disappearing selves
Discourse. Landscapes. Graffiti.

The architect

Dialect
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