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Notes from afar, what I did last January
Tuesday, Mar. 01, 2005
These notes following this entry might not mean the same thing to you that they do to me. Everyone of them has a least a medium degree of heavyness to me and a handful contain an ultimate heaviness.
Today, I wondered what role Dr. Benedek may play in the world of Lawrence and Lorne Blair. It's funny how when you are really searching for something and start to find it out of your own effort, even more bits of it will start to come in from the surf like a gift from a gelatinous cube. Maybe Gelatinous Cube should have an album called Ankh or vice versa. Vice Versa is also a decent name for a band. Their first album could be called Kudos.
These notes are from January from the end part of the results of an online quiz and my notes on library books. I tagged up almost all of the Captain Beefheart book and then gave up transcribed all the quotes. It was way too much work. But that made me feel some kindrance with the Captain Beefheart situation. Maybe if I had grown up in that time. But this is now.

"taking back control is the song that tells you most about YOUR mind.
and masterpeaceful is the song telling you how you feel about life."

Books to re-check out/buy one day

Mosaic Knitting
Barbara G. Walker
page 219: perfect record cover, 3 sweaters, learn how to do also

Lawrence Ferlinghetti
page 19.
"I saw a girl with dirndl hoop and her communion dress all white when we ran round the corner with our baseball hats to play the Parkway Road Pirates and all of them still alive someplace now but still all pushed into the crypts of time to sleep so soundly with the dead that one same shadow blankets both confusing both...."

earring

Catholicism

"Suzuki Roshi... who did not believe in the canonization of his teachings and resisted attempts at popularizing them. He emphasized each individual's opportunity to leanr from one's own experience...."

"[Rexroth] was involved in a nonstop commentary on American culture which always emphasized the unity of the arts and the importance of total involvement...."

"...Dog and Underwear...."

"Interested in developing chants with American English words as opposed to singing Sanskrit or other unknown tongues, I at one time or another sang or spoke or chanted these verses in varying versions, sometimes with much spontaneous repetitions not herein noted, often with autoharp accompaniment."

Captain Beefheart

sculpted all animals, vacuumed cat hair off floor for sculptures.

"school makes you focus so sharp that if somebody came up and threw something your eyes would shatter"

The Blackouts, The Omens
hit factory

surf guitar spray

"Record Your Band"

conviction

"He would wash his hair and keep it wet to get a cold. He used to stay sick with a cold so that he'd get that voice and sing like Howlin' Wolf.

American Pioneers:
Ives to Cage and Beyond

Edgar Varese
Hyperprism added a siren to the basic instrumental ensemble

no fewer than 17 percussion players

Paracelsus' The Hermetic Philosophy

"One star exists higher than the rest."

sound laboratory

Henry Towell "tone clusters"

Conlon Nancarrow
He composes for player piano, puncing the paper piano rolls by hand and this achieving an amazing complexity of rhythm and counterpoint.

Henry Cowell
invited composers to meet students
prepared piano

John Cage
"Then I'll spend the rest of my life knocking my head against that wall"
no feeling for harmony

"Not a day goes by without my making use of that piece in my life and work. I always think about it before I write my next piece."

on 4'33"

"I began hitting, rubbing everything, listening and then creating percussion music, and playing it with friends."
"At Cowell's suggestion, Cage took to exploring junkyards, acquiring a trove of discarded brake drums, tram-car springs and metal sheets, each piece a source of splendid percussion sounds."

"...that music is meant to quiet the mind, making it susceptible to divine influences

Magnetic tape

sell silence to Muzak

pour water

"to affirm this life, not to bring order out of chaos... but simply to wake up to the very life we're living, which is so excellent once one lets it... act of its own accord"

Harrison
"tack-piano"

La Monte Young

Partch

large glass bowls

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