Showing posts with label Amsterdam. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Amsterdam. Show all posts
Fly: Selected Poetry (Available To Order)
https://www.amazon.com/dp/1978105096
"Steve fly Pratt provokes the reader into a notorious intellectual ghetto, conspiracy theory. His methodology is susceptible to number of pitfalls. It is a daring genre. It is based on risks, like poetry or Bebop."--Christian Greer. The language of poetry requires a careful balance between spontaneous thought and various charging techniques, to pull down thought into alphabet and not stray too far from the laws. These words are shored from contaminated streams of consciousness, and deployed as snapshots. Brief excursions. Good poetry aims to charge language to a higher degree of meaning and i have no lesser aim to, power-up. Selected from writings started in America, Britain and for the most part, the Netherlands. These poems criss-cross between light hearted rhyming slang and exaggerated hyperbolic rap. Glossing everything from brexit to terrorism, facebook to John Coltrane, economics, psychedelics, anarchism, music and death. Sometimes hilarious, often cryptic and always rolling with rhyme, these scrawls bridge a decade or from the unique perspective of DJ, drummer and writer.
Felthead Animation Experiment
Feltheads (bumpkins) are felted heads by Threadonism - shuffled around under some lights and a camera, with audio by steve fly (warming up for a finnegans wake reading) and special thanks to janne.
With luck, more to come very soon.
Please let us know what you think, how to improve it?
Notes on seeing Slavoj Zizek in Amsterdam last night
AFTER THE COURAGE OF HOPELESSNESS
Slovoj Zizek spoke at the Westerkerk (Church) in Amsterdam, and I’m happy to report he kept up the reputation of a witty provocative intellectual giant. Forgive me as I mangle some of his thoughts together with my own.
These recollections are splintered and fragmented by the rather dull Q & A period that caught me off guard and distracted me. Zizek asked, “what happens on the days after the revolution” by using a clever analogy of the next day after the final scenes of V for Vendetta? This baffled some on the panel who had not heard of the graphic novel, or the movie, which in turn baffled me.
I would have answered Jerusalem by Alan Moore, provides an example of what happens after the revolution. It all happens again, and again, in a kind of eternal return, a past present future all-at-once. If you ask the question how does the revolutionary event change the day to day perception of the people, or how can the changes be sustained over time? The principle of eternal return, exhibited by Alan Moore in his book, makes a good start.
Zizek rapped hard on Ecology, and on catastrophe of the ecological variety, (Rene Thom) and relations with global capitalism. He seemed critical of the carry-on-regardless attitude of those who make token gestures to save the planet like recycling, buying organic food and biodiesel, without addressing deeper causes at root: consumerism and neoliberal attitudes. As you suspect, he communicated this in his unique terse, dynamic language.
He spoke on how the symptom of any problem, can often be misread as the cause, he constructively criticized the leftist political movements for these symptomatic solutions to problems. Interestingly to me, 'Simtome' is latin for Symtom, and was a phrase introduced by Lacan and used by Zizek which was borrowed from James Joyce.
“"the symptom can only be defined as the way in which each subject enjoys (jouit) the unconscious in so far as the unconscious determines the subject."--Jaques Lacan.
Zizek went on to describe how, paradoxically some far-right parties in Poland support workers union rights, something that traditionally you might associate with the left. Another example is how the European Union (who the leave campaign branded as those unelected officials in brussels) in reality helped to avert far worse humanitarian disasters than we currently see around us. Paradoxically, intervening with fully legitimate elections and parties such as the aforementioned in Poland, so as to avert openly racist, xenophobic and homophobic policy spreading. Totalitarianism, may at times result in a better outcome for the people than open democratic elections.
Zizek points out, to his horror, that the voting people, for the most part across Europe are against immigration and integration, preferring insular and right leaning political policy and strong right leaning leaders. The attacks upon the character of Jeremy Corbyn by the UK right wing press are all based on his inability to admit hes a serial killer.
The decision by Angela Merkel to go ahead and open the borders to the immigrants, going against the popular will of the German voting public, is another example of overpowering of the will of the people with a higher executive order, arguably for the good of humanity? In these examples, Zizek argues some leaders are in favour of progressive ideass to help refugees, or to curb xenophobia and racism, to do the right thing from a humanitarian point of view, that may mean going against the democratic will of the majority of the voting public. Man...this forced me to think in new ways.
The message on Brexit was a similar, the will of the voting public in Europe is right leaning, democracy has led to those with the most hatred and ignorance winning at the polls. The left are left shocked without an alternative strategy to capitalist democratic principles. Bernie Sanders in the U.S, and Jeremy Corbyn in the UK, both seem capable of making such a progressive strategy for an alternative. Currently the political leadership in the UK and USA, seems to me the worst political leadership in the history of both countries. A shambles, a disgrace, an example of what democracy and capitalism, combined with media coercion lead to: Donald Trump.
I think that the UKIP movement and the Leave campaign were both riding an old guard conservative Trojan horse, designed to bring back the old white classicist, racist, greedy guts, Tory principles back into number 10, with a new rule book of xenophobia. Hatred of the poor, the vulnerable, mentally and/or physically disabled, those on welfare, artists, and more or less anybody that is not them and not slaving away for some global capitalist monster or other. The shit stained threads are unravelling between the Nigel Farage, Richard Mercer, Steve Bannon, Julian Assange, Dominic Clements and Cambridge Analytica. A complex of forces are always at play, but how much can you blame the media for coercing people to leave the European Union? How insular and xenophobic where millions of brits before the leave campaign provided a bus to jump on? Hard questions, but necessary.
I am forced to reconsider ideology I have clung to for a while, that open source democracy and representative democracy are practically good and solutions to the current political economic system. I have to rethink the idea of a constitutional framework like a safe-guard against abuses at a transnational scale, a legally binding document which prevents the violation of basic human rights. To paraphrases to quotes: Never underestimate the stupidity of people in large groups, monarchy is rule by one imbecile, democracy by 500 imbeciles"
At one point Zizek said that if most white people were to hear how he talks with his black friends they would be appalled, and understand his lack of political correctness.
He touched on the subject of Zionism and right-wing conspiracy theories, putting forward another paradoxical reality by describing Zionist Anti-Semitism. He highlighted mass murderer Anders Brevic as an example of a violent terrorist holding right-wing, Zionist inspired paranoid fantasies about immigration and the arayan superior white races. He went on to point out that some conspiracy theorists propose that there is a Judeo Muslim conspiracy behind the turmoil in Europe and the near east, his point being that those wafting the flames can always find another conspiracy linking whatever bogeyman they have to the most recent world events. The imagination of the paranoid specializes in making links where there were previously none, inversely the imagination of the pronoid also makes links but to the betterment and wider understanding of a situation.
Over the past 12 months wild conspiracies are surfacing, for the first time, within the mainstream political sphere. Fully cracked and crazed far-right white supremacy, and Eugenics most toxic and devoutly blind. Other journalists have traced the rise of the American right and Trump, to 4chan message boards, Reddit, Pepe the frog, and the ranting fat mouth zealot Alex Jones, and the trajectory fantastical conspiracies about the global elite, the globalists and their attempt to create prison planet earth, usually with help from George Soros, Hillary Clinton. I think these are somewhat easy meat for a pop conspiracy theory, royals and bankers always turn something up. Zizek didn’t speak explicitly about Cambridge Analytica and Richard Mercer, and the relations to Nigel Farage, Dominic Clements and the well funded leave campaign. To me, this is the cutting edge of conspiracy research right now. There are thousands of slimy tentacles.
Some of the most stimulating parts of his talk for me, were where he quoted and improvised on Peter Sloterdijk, who should have been on the panel but had an unfortunate accident. Zizek riffed on the new anthropocene period, where humanity can no longer ignore its footprint all over the face of planet earth, and that these big boots are designed and paid for by capitalist expansion, commodification, and so a complete ignorance to the ecological threats noticeably now upon us. Melting glaciers, earthquakes, fires, floods, famine.
Furthermore, Zizek pointed out some cruel Hegelian reversals, a company capitalizing on newly uncovered, dry land, revealed due to the melting ice caps in Greenland. The company imply that this new green land, in Greenland, is, green land. To mean green, as in ecologically friendly. Such is the power of marketing and the endless tricks up their muddy sleeves.
I was fascinated to hear Zizek discuss his friends in America, and their research into the predictive ability of computers, versus humans, with particular focus on personal questions such as: will this marriage or relationship last. The computer program is fed a whole array of data sets stretching back in time, and calculates the approximate scenario. The punchline is that the computer program knows you better than you know you. Other artificially intelligent software has been disrupting the stock market too, according to Zizek, and produces more accurate stock predictions than a highly paid Wall Street human. (if you can call anybody who works on Wall Street fully human?)
I imagine this is due to the susceptible nature of humans, emotions, desires, complexes, delusions and amplifications, improvisations, which lead us to spur of the moment decisions. Quick to judge and impatient people, rarely representative of the long game perspective of intelligent machine learning.
Zizek joked that perhaps the way to get rid of the clown, Gert Wilders, is with help from computers like this which simply outsmart the dumb, or those playing dumb. I’m here reminded of an unanswered question “why are our politicians and world leaders not wired up to a simple lie detector, a polygraph, or some such device built sense bullshit, in real time?” Direct democracy connected to a hierarchy of values based on an verifiable, transparent system. Call it the Bushit detector, in Honor of the master of Bullshit George W. Bush. Catalogue name: Nightmare Bushit' Whirl.
Zizek said words to the effect that if you don't address the likes of Gert Wilders and Marie Le Pen, and Nigel Farage then what else are you standing for? This is the fight for Europe. To figure out our common ground and shared weirdness, and to basically agree to tolerate each others manias. Respect my atheism because of it, not in spite of it. Please respect my beliefs because...not, in spite, of them.
The phrase ‘spaceship earth’ leapt into my ear when i heard it in the context of Peter Sloterdijk. Due to its use by Buckminster Fuller in the title of his book : Operating Manual For Spaceship Earth. I have yet to look into Sloterdijk's recontextualization of the term, for Fuller it approximated all-around-the-world synergy and shared resources, doing more with less.
Zizek proposed that in the future, countries will need to figure out temporary land loans in the wake of ecological crisis, and of other unforeseen problematic relations between sovereign states in times of dire catastrophe. I can imagine solving the refugee crisis by giving a certain people, defined by their homelessness, land, perhaps only temporarily, but under a sovereign agreement. Ending the status of immigrant and native. If people are not living on the land (i.e the billions of square meters on earth currently not occupied by humans, but capable of sustaining a life of relative comfort) why not let them. Maybe add the stipulations of no guns, and no claim to land ownership. I can dream of a return to the sovereignty of our planetary biosphere, DNA-RNA systems, life, not the borders on a map defined by death, war and coercion.
The big man seemed kind and forgiving to me, and was open for lively debate, passionate and open to changing his mind based on new evidence. I found this to be refreshing, I hope he continues on his current trajectory.
--Steven Pratt
Amsterdam 25/03/2017.
Occupy by Dr Marshmallow Cubicle
http://www.rawillumination.net/2016/04/new-steve-fly-pratt-music-release-has.html
Did a little shopping this morning — just bought a digital copy of the new album Occupy by Dr Marshmallow Cubicle.
The band's drummer and one of its main songwriters is my friend Steve "Fly" Pratt who has a big group of RAW related websites and blogs, among them the extraordinary RAW360 site, which you really should go take a look at today, if you are not familiar with it.
The album was released on April 23 on Iron Man Records. Fly is based in Amsterdam and has been playing with the band for quite awhile now.
Fly says "The Track titled 'The Law Of Acceleration' features fly reading words by Robert Anton Wilson, from Cosmic Trigger I."
I listened to the track and noticed I enjoyed the drums. I asked Steve who his favorite drummers are. "Max Roach, Billy Martin, Alan Hertz, Owen Hart Jr., Mike Clark, Stevie Wonder, JoJo Mayer, Zakir Hussain," he replied.
Occupy is available from iTunes and the Amazon digital music store and probably lots of other places, too. More on the album here. There are lots of YouTube videos of the band.
Waywords and Meansigns: Recreating Finnegans Wake [in its whole wholume]
Published May 4, 1939
Topics Waywords and Meansigns, James Joyce, Finnegans Wake, Audiobook, Music,Roratorio, Anna Livia Plurabelle, Dublin, Ireland, Irish literature
Track listing:
Finnegans Wake is organized into four books. Roman numerals indicate the book, Indo-Arabic numerals indicate the chapter within that book. Chapter names are italicized, followed by the names of musicians. Finnegans Wake is circular, so you can start listening wherever. Mariana Lanari and Sjoerd Leijten suggest beginning with Book IV. To locate a particular passages of the text, use http://www.trentu.ca/faculty/jjoyce/ and http://fweet.org/
I.1 - Fall, pp. 3-29 - Mariana Lanari & Sjoerd Leijten, with Erik Bindervoet
I.2 - The Humphriad I: His Agnomen and Reputation, pp. 30-47 - Robert Amos; Chelidon Frame; Alan Ó Raghallaigh
I.3 - The Humphriad II: His Trial and Incarceration, pp 48-74 - Greg Nahabedian
I.4 - The Humphriad III - His Demise and Resurrection, pp. 75-103 - Un monton, torero; with Charlie Driker-Ohren & Walker Storz
I.5 - The Mamafesta, pp. 104-25 - Tim Carbone
I.6 - Riddles: The Personages of the Manifesto, pp. 126-68 - Kevin Spenst
I.7 - Shem the Penman, pp. 169-216 - Belorusia
I.8 - Anna Livia, pp. 196-59 - Dérive
II.1 - The Children's Hour, pp. 216-59 - Street Kids Named Desire; with Derek Pyle, Parker McQueeney, Zach Leavitt & Samuel Nordli
II.2 - The Studies, pp. 260-308 - Liz Longo & Izzy Longo, with Leo Traversa
II.3 - The Stories: Tavernry in Feast, pp. 309-82 - Hayden Chisholm
II.4 - Mamalujo, pp. 383-99 - Ryan Mihaly
III.1 - Shaun before the People, pp. 403-28 - Gareth Flowers
III.2 - Jaun before St. Bride's, pp. 428-73 - Steve Fly, with William Sutton
III.3 - Yawn under Inquest, pp. 474-554 - Peter Quadrino, Jake Reading & Evan James
III.4 - Humphrey Chimpden Earwicker and Anna Livia Plurabelle: Their Bed of Trial, pp. 555-590 - Graziano Galati
IV.1 - Dawn: Return to the Beginning, pp. 593-628 - Mariana Lanari & Sjoerd Leijten; with EloÃsa Ejarque, Grace Kyne-Lilley, & Erik Bindervoet.
Additional track credits:
Track 1: Produced and performed by Mariana Lanari and Sjoerd Leijten, with special thanks to guests reader Erik Bindervoet (pp.13-18, pp. 21-24).
Track 2: Robert Amos recorded by Robert Martin.
Track 3: Keyboards, Voice, Guitar, Bass, and Drums by Greg Nahabedian. Recorded and mixed by Greg Nahabedian and Paul Schmelz.
Track 5: Tim Carbone (fiddle, guitar, drone, tan, keyboards, samples), Andy Goessling (zither), Phil Ferlino (piano). Recorded by Tim Carbone and mixed by Don Sternaker and Tim Carbone.
Track 6: Background arrangement by Josh Pitre, featuring a Stravinsky circus polka and two ragtime pieces
Track 8: Dérive is Greg Nahabedian (keyboard, voice), Paul Schmelz (guitar, voice, keyboard), Noah Jacques (bass, voice), Paul DeGrandpre (drums, voice). Recorded by Paul Schmelz. Mixed by Dérive and Paul Schmelz.
Track 9: Recorded by Derek Pyle and Zach Leavitt. Sound collage by Derek Pyle, featuring many of the musical allusions found in Joyce's text. With Derek Pyle (bass, voice), Parker McQueeney (piano, voice), Samuel Nordli (mandolin, violin, and viola) and Zach Leavitt (guitar, bass, voice).
Track 10: Leo Traversa on bass. Recording by Taylor Roig.
Track 11: Recorded by Robert Nacken at Nucamusic Studios in Cologne and by Hayden Chisholm in the Moers Residence house, and at Sant Vicenc beach in Mallorca
Track 14: William Sutton reads pp. 429-42 469-73; Steven 'Fly' Pratt reads pp. 443-68. Drums, turntables, guitar, arrangement, production, recording in Amsterdam by Steve Fly. Mastered by Tim Egmond at Ei-Complex Studios, Amsterdam.
Track 15: Produced by Jake Reading & Peter Quadrino. Executive producer: Evan James. Recorded and mixed by Jake Reading at Casa de Feelgood. Additional vocals by Evan James and Melba Martinez.
Track 17: Produced and performed by Mariana Lanari and Sjoerd Leijten, with special thanks to guests readers EloÃsa Ejarque (pp. 610-612), Grace Kyne-Lilley (pp. 613-615), and Erik Bindervoet (pp. 13-18, pp. 21-24).
Derek's acknowledgments:
Waywords and Meansigns would not be possible without the support of many people. Like the Joycean maxim says: Here Comes Everybody. Thanks to the fwread listserv, especially Peter Quadrino, Peter Chrisp, Roman Tsivkin, as well as Adam Harvey and Mariana Lanari; your collective knowledge of Joyce is astounding. Marie Broadway, Jake Tozer, Sam Nordli, and Emma Pampanin co-hosted the Finnegans Wake parties that inspired this project. Zach Leavitt and Chelsea Westra co-hosted the parties of the future. Elaine Thomas, Dylan Muhlberg, the Amherst Irish Association, Jacqui Wise, Krzysztof Bartnicki, Mike Moran, Mike Medeiros, Jason Gross, Rebecca Hanssens-Reed, Billy Mills, and the James Joyce Gazette played pivotal roles spreading the word about this project, through press coverage and otherwise. Thanks to Mackenzie Libbey, and Michael Robbins, for their support throughout. Thanks to L. Brown Kennedy and Annie G. Rogers for first introducing me to Joyce. Special thanks to Mark Traynor and the James Joyce Centre in Dublin, and to Robert Berry.
Infinite thanks to the project contributors, and all who channel the spirit of James Joyce.
Finnegans Wake is organized into four books. Roman numerals indicate the book, Indo-Arabic numerals indicate the chapter within that book. Chapter names are italicized, followed by the names of musicians. Finnegans Wake is circular, so you can start listening wherever. Mariana Lanari and Sjoerd Leijten suggest beginning with Book IV. To locate a particular passages of the text, use http://www.trentu.ca/faculty/jjoyce/ and http://fweet.org/
I.1 - Fall, pp. 3-29 - Mariana Lanari & Sjoerd Leijten, with Erik Bindervoet
I.2 - The Humphriad I: His Agnomen and Reputation, pp. 30-47 - Robert Amos; Chelidon Frame; Alan Ó Raghallaigh
I.3 - The Humphriad II: His Trial and Incarceration, pp 48-74 - Greg Nahabedian
I.4 - The Humphriad III - His Demise and Resurrection, pp. 75-103 - Un monton, torero; with Charlie Driker-Ohren & Walker Storz
I.5 - The Mamafesta, pp. 104-25 - Tim Carbone
I.6 - Riddles: The Personages of the Manifesto, pp. 126-68 - Kevin Spenst
I.7 - Shem the Penman, pp. 169-216 - Belorusia
I.8 - Anna Livia, pp. 196-59 - Dérive
II.1 - The Children's Hour, pp. 216-59 - Street Kids Named Desire; with Derek Pyle, Parker McQueeney, Zach Leavitt & Samuel Nordli
II.2 - The Studies, pp. 260-308 - Liz Longo & Izzy Longo, with Leo Traversa
II.3 - The Stories: Tavernry in Feast, pp. 309-82 - Hayden Chisholm
II.4 - Mamalujo, pp. 383-99 - Ryan Mihaly
III.1 - Shaun before the People, pp. 403-28 - Gareth Flowers
III.2 - Jaun before St. Bride's, pp. 428-73 - Steve Fly, with William Sutton
III.3 - Yawn under Inquest, pp. 474-554 - Peter Quadrino, Jake Reading & Evan James
III.4 - Humphrey Chimpden Earwicker and Anna Livia Plurabelle: Their Bed of Trial, pp. 555-590 - Graziano Galati
IV.1 - Dawn: Return to the Beginning, pp. 593-628 - Mariana Lanari & Sjoerd Leijten; with EloÃsa Ejarque, Grace Kyne-Lilley, & Erik Bindervoet.
Additional track credits:
Track 1: Produced and performed by Mariana Lanari and Sjoerd Leijten, with special thanks to guests reader Erik Bindervoet (pp.13-18, pp. 21-24).
Track 2: Robert Amos recorded by Robert Martin.
Track 3: Keyboards, Voice, Guitar, Bass, and Drums by Greg Nahabedian. Recorded and mixed by Greg Nahabedian and Paul Schmelz.
Track 5: Tim Carbone (fiddle, guitar, drone, tan, keyboards, samples), Andy Goessling (zither), Phil Ferlino (piano). Recorded by Tim Carbone and mixed by Don Sternaker and Tim Carbone.
Track 6: Background arrangement by Josh Pitre, featuring a Stravinsky circus polka and two ragtime pieces
Track 8: Dérive is Greg Nahabedian (keyboard, voice), Paul Schmelz (guitar, voice, keyboard), Noah Jacques (bass, voice), Paul DeGrandpre (drums, voice). Recorded by Paul Schmelz. Mixed by Dérive and Paul Schmelz.
Track 9: Recorded by Derek Pyle and Zach Leavitt. Sound collage by Derek Pyle, featuring many of the musical allusions found in Joyce's text. With Derek Pyle (bass, voice), Parker McQueeney (piano, voice), Samuel Nordli (mandolin, violin, and viola) and Zach Leavitt (guitar, bass, voice).
Track 10: Leo Traversa on bass. Recording by Taylor Roig.
Track 11: Recorded by Robert Nacken at Nucamusic Studios in Cologne and by Hayden Chisholm in the Moers Residence house, and at Sant Vicenc beach in Mallorca
Track 14: William Sutton reads pp. 429-42 469-73; Steven 'Fly' Pratt reads pp. 443-68. Drums, turntables, guitar, arrangement, production, recording in Amsterdam by Steve Fly. Mastered by Tim Egmond at Ei-Complex Studios, Amsterdam.
Track 15: Produced by Jake Reading & Peter Quadrino. Executive producer: Evan James. Recorded and mixed by Jake Reading at Casa de Feelgood. Additional vocals by Evan James and Melba Martinez.
Track 17: Produced and performed by Mariana Lanari and Sjoerd Leijten, with special thanks to guests readers EloÃsa Ejarque (pp. 610-612), Grace Kyne-Lilley (pp. 613-615), and Erik Bindervoet (pp. 13-18, pp. 21-24).
Derek's acknowledgments:
Waywords and Meansigns would not be possible without the support of many people. Like the Joycean maxim says: Here Comes Everybody. Thanks to the fwread listserv, especially Peter Quadrino, Peter Chrisp, Roman Tsivkin, as well as Adam Harvey and Mariana Lanari; your collective knowledge of Joyce is astounding. Marie Broadway, Jake Tozer, Sam Nordli, and Emma Pampanin co-hosted the Finnegans Wake parties that inspired this project. Zach Leavitt and Chelsea Westra co-hosted the parties of the future. Elaine Thomas, Dylan Muhlberg, the Amherst Irish Association, Jacqui Wise, Krzysztof Bartnicki, Mike Moran, Mike Medeiros, Jason Gross, Rebecca Hanssens-Reed, Billy Mills, and the James Joyce Gazette played pivotal roles spreading the word about this project, through press coverage and otherwise. Thanks to Mackenzie Libbey, and Michael Robbins, for their support throughout. Thanks to L. Brown Kennedy and Annie G. Rogers for first introducing me to Joyce. Special thanks to Mark Traynor and the James Joyce Centre in Dublin, and to Robert Berry.
Infinite thanks to the project contributors, and all who channel the spirit of James Joyce.
Run time 31 hours, 8 minutes, 11 seconds
Language und
Make a NEW mountain by Steve Fly
sweet mountain
sprawling giant
big enough to move
sprawling giant
big enough to move
hearts to
top to peak the top story
elegant
mountain top
from which views to the
four corners are processed
clear sight
for every
eye
brave bulge
of sheer rock
spurting out from
the ground
towards the sun
upwards, higher
reaching outword
released spells
snow capped
cloud
banked
hugged
mount' of marvelous
awesomeness
the world hq
of snowdon
national
parks
open source
whistle-blowing
activity weekend
family research centre
mount Snowdon
is our vision
our headquarters
shamanic entities gather
about these rocks and trees
we rain psychic acid on
the
NSAGCHQ
curse to cripple
our ecosystem
snow what
everything comes out
NOW
we make it NEW
you cling to the
OLD
we make it NEW.
you cling to the OLD
we
make it
NEW
--Steve Fly
top to peak the top story
elegant
mountain top
from which views to the
four corners are processed
clear sight
for every
eye
brave bulge
of sheer rock
spurting out from
the ground
towards the sun
upwards, higher
reaching outword
released spells
snow capped
cloud
banked
hugged
mount' of marvelous
awesomeness
the world hq
of snowdon
national
parks
open source
whistle-blowing
activity weekend
family research centre
mount Snowdon
is our vision
our headquarters
shamanic entities gather
about these rocks and trees
we rain psychic acid on
the
NSAGCHQ
curse to cripple
our ecosystem
snow what
everything comes out
NOW
we make it NEW
you cling to the
OLD
we make it NEW.
you cling to the OLD
we
make it
NEW
--Steve Fly
Police Horse Blues
Police Horse Blues by Steve Fly
I woke up one morning
with a horse in my bed
after a hard nights work
this is what she said:
-
I woke up one morning
with a horse in my bed
after a hard nights work
this is what she said:
-
I don't wanna work for those police no more
Oh no, i just don't wanna do it
I wanna roam in the lush fileds and grass
not bust up unions for Norman Tebbit
-
So i brushed up my horse
and took her round' the course
she ran like the wind
and then she said at the end
-
I don't wanna work for the Police no more
they just treat me like a pig
i don't belong in the city at all anymore baby
like a bear don't belong in a wig
_
Then the cops came and got her
carted her off with their trotter
now she's back on the beat
stompin' heads with shoes on her feet
-
Oh lord, that horse don't wanna work for the police no more
that horse just wants to run free
if it was up to me honey
I'd free dogs from the clutches too,
let em' all be.
--Steve fly
Amsterdam. Wednesday 15th May.
Inspired by seeing two police horses foaming at mouth while on my way home from work today. Poor bastards, i thought.
What if John Adams came back to Amsterdam?
What if John Adams came back to Amsterdam?
"Novelty of scene, the inexperience of the actors
against paying for things we haven't ordered" J.Adams (Canto LXVIII)
Over ocean wave and round bend of bay
John Adams with his wooden stump,
missing eye, parrot and hat
arrived at Amsterdam Central Station.
From the land of Mars rovers
Google and the CIA
John Adams changed the game
together with George Washington
buying cannabis retail outlets
and hemp factory unions.
Bringing it all to Europe,
hemp seed, oil mills, guns
and the wah-wah pedal
'we must agree on something'
he said.
And new loans from Holland
to buy guns and dope
and give em to the people
some truffles are a valuable
currency here'
he said.
John Adams bought a house
on Princengracht and opened
a foundation 'Unistat
cannabis culture' along with west
coast sexmagic and free jazz.
Necklaces bore the motto
JOHN ADAMS FOR PEACE
bongs and rolling tins donned more
slogans: KEEP OUT OF EUROPE, and
IGNORANCE OF COIN, CREDIT
AND CIRCULATION!
John Adams cycled along the Gracht
like Albert Hoffmann, a stranger in a
strange new land, pipe ablaze with the
finest East Indian charas and Haze.
"and the Farben works still intact"
he said to the polite officer who stopped
John and issued an 'on-the-spot' fine
due to insufficient illumnated seers
or simply (no bicycle lights)
J.A came to Amsterdam and unified bankers
in support for CANNABIS
the British and French found this to be
a bitter ball to swallow, at first
"J.A will provide" said Washington, sweating.
"I have been in the most curious country among the most incomprehensible people and under the most singular constitution of government in the world" J.A
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