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The haze of nostalgia covers their days…making those days into something different than they were. That’s the way today changes history. All contemporaries do not inhabit the same time. The past is always changing, but few realize it.

– The Stolen Journals of Leto II


transcript:

Last American Hero

1. F-150 as energy drink worship temple / F-150 NIGHT EROS AT THE HIGHWAYS END

On a lost highway underneath the desert skies, where the roar of her voice is heard. The energy enhanced gladiator wishes to merge as one with his girl. His tongue ring glows underneath the Reno moon. Her silver silence begs for his pleasure. He can hear her call deep within his being, as the desert clouds roll on over his metal slave. She submits to be parked and the shadow of love is among them, piercing through the second guesses that call. In a world no other could so touch him as the love between the gladiator and his girl. That Mojave sun came riding over them and the night’s binge as one at the highway’s end.

2. BLACKTOP TUMBLE WEED: EMPTY MONSTER ENERGY DRINK CAN

A blacktop tumble weed rolls around the dried tar only a dream of it’s master blowing in the wind. From the hand of the gladiator who now hunts for a dream, a flat screen dream, galvanized by a stucco psychochemical absorbed ego master slavery, he breathes. Dr. OXidizes the memory. He will never forget. Crafted by the green juice he is reborn the alpha hunter, psychosomatic pedal distortion sounds in his head. A warp of thirty screams before God Head is fully shocked into being. He is naked on the asphalt earth, owning reality. In his desert of adrenaline the nomadic mind continues forever repenting in a mantra program, “I am Halo”

3. HEADLINES (ACESS HOLLYWOOD)

COSTCO NOMADS
A group of humans presumed lost for the last decade and a half were found alive camping out in the back recesses of a Costco Super Market. After being lost deep inside of the Costco building for weeks without any outside contact, they finally started the settlement of “No Fear”. Those with cell phones said they had no reception inside of the building cutting them off from any communication with the outside world and gave up hope when their batteries finally lost all of their charge. They hunted for food samples to survive. Children born within the settlement had no conception of a world beyond the Costco building having their own developed language and significant biological alterations. The survivors have expressed to the media a type of spiritual respect for the Costco Center as a sustaining mother nature type provider bio-dome.

HUNTER FOLLIES
National public executions of MLB steroid warriors.

T.V. LAW
Judge Judy’s guilt fetish simulation.

NEO ROMAN PLASTIC SURGICAL TREATMENT
Dr. Aulus Cornelius Celsus opens new treatment center in Beverly Hills


worlds of adrenaline infused reality…

the front cover (JUDGE JUDYITE IN SODOM AND GOMORRAH) represents the programmed citizen and the process of it’s logical sequence as visible from the working creative inner ego of the program (the living human host’s perspective) in a snapshot form in the empty world created by the MODERN Gomorrah temple BEST BUY™ plaza center.
the back cover represents the same idea but this one exhibits the inner head perspective of the “LIQUID ENERGY ENHANCED GLADIATOR IN THE DIGITAL COLOSSEUM A.G.*
* After Google

Liars

A widespread, secret religion, whose followers believe that there is no God, no afterlife and no inherent meaning to existence. However, they also believe that life should be treasured and happiness is a good that should be pursued. Because the depressing truth of existence is counterproductive to achieving this goal, Liars endeavor to cultivate beautiful fabrications instead; among these fabrications are faiths, political movements, and high ideals, which are designed to improve upon history and mythology in order to increase the beauty of the world.

– from George R.R. Martin’s Thousand Worlds

…this chaos is generated out of a certain water that is not common, not out of Dew, nor Ayre condensed in the caverns of the Earth, or artificially in the Receiver; not out of water drawn out of the Sea, Fountains, Pitts, or Rivers, but out of a certain tortured water, that hath suffered some alteration, obvious it is to All, but known to very few. This water hath all in it that is necessarie to the perfection of the work, without any Extrinsecall Addition.

-Thomas Vaughan, Magica Adamica

In the Westernlands

One line — a road
Two lines —  a cross
Three lines —  post and lintel
In five lines the basis of civilization
Five lines — a star 
The tallow candle
Dripping in the darkness
Shines through the eons
Shines in the sky
Shines onto humanity
Shines onto me
A bundle of lines
Imbued with shining life
Breaking down lines
Creating circles
Putting out the candle
Putting out itself

THE QUASAR (QUASI-STELLAR OR STAR-LIKE) EMITTED RADIO WAVES REACHED OUR GALAXY AFTER 13 BILLION LIGHT YEARS AND SUN RA, WHOSE MIND-WAVES ARE SYN-CHRONISED TO NATURE WITH COORDINATED INTUITION, PRISMED THE VOICE OF THE QUASAR ON A COSMIC TONE PIANO AND THIS THUNDER IS LIKE SHOCK WAVES SHAKING AWAY THE STAGNATION OF LIFE IN THE MIND, WHEN YOU CAN MOVE IN A DIMENSION FASTER THAN LIGHT YOU SOLVE THE RIDDLE OF TIME AND YOUR MIND’S COSMOSIS COMPLETES THE EQUATION: LIFE EQUALS DEATH, FOR IN THE EXPANDING UNIVERSE THE INFINITE DESTROYS THE ILLUSION OF LIMITATIONS WHICH TRAP MAN TO THE PLANET EARTH. THE INFINITY OF CONTINUOUS AND ACCELERATING MOTION CHASES THE FLEEING GALAXY ANDROMEDA . . . THE MUSIC OF THIS FLIGHT ENERGIZES THE QUASAR AND SUN RA RECEIVES TONES FROM THAT QUASAR WHICH HAS BECOME PREGNANT WITH RADIATION AND THIS COMPLETES THE EQUATION: DEATH EQUALS LIFE IN A DYING UNIVERSE WHERE GALAXIES COLLIDE AND WHERE DEATH WEARS A MYSTERIOUS CROWN OF CONSTELLATIONS CALLED CREATION. TO HEAR THIS MUSIC IS TO HEAR THE SOLAR BAND OF REVE-LATION. THE TONES REVERBERATING HERE PASS THROUGH THE TIME SPECTRUM OF THE ARKESTRA’S MIND AND YOU SEE WITH EAR AND WITH EYE AND YOU BECOME THE METAGENESIS OF COSMIC ATOMS.

– Henry Dumas

[[[From Soundworld Disposition Settings (2022)

Each Disposition Setting can be played with any sounding equipment/material, necessitating only that electronic (including electroacoustic) sound sources are always utilized during performance of the material. Each Disposition Setting is otherwise an open invitation for a set of players (at least 2, excluding Derive Interity which should be done alone ) to explore a text’s tonal inclination as filtered through their own apparatus for noisemaking. Each composition acts as a sonopoetic nudging towards that should be followed from top to bottom in its performance.]]]




Derive Interity (Dipolar Acquisition of Extended Bodily Consciousness Through Ambient Biological Monitoring)

Set-up:

This score is for a single player only. In many places of varying terrains (at least 10), over an extended time (at least 3 months), follow these instructions:

“Go for a walk,
and breathe musically.”

Pay special attention to the differing percentages of your ability to focus on the sound taken up by your breath as you move through these different spaces, and make a list ordered by the varying levels. Once you have done as instructed in all chosen locations and your psychogeographical research is compiled, pick out the two places (which we will now refer to as Space 1 and Space 2) where your perception/consciousness of your breathing was the most and least prominent. 

Re-visit the general areas of Space 1 and 2 (do not have to follow the exact same route as during your first visit) with a recording device and record 10-40 minutes of yourself following instruction #1, and 10-40 minutes of sitting neutrally not performing any action somewhere along your route. Once again keep track of the percentage of total aural perception your breath takes up in Space 1 and 2 while following instruction #1.

Sounding:

The performance of this score will be broken into two separate pieces, divided into information from Space 1 and Space 2. During the performance of each piece, do the following:

  1. Layer and play the set of two field recordings taken first at Space 1 (and later at Space 2) and allow them to take up a percentage of the total loudness of the soundfield equal to the halfway point between the percentages of aural perception of the breath during the first and the second visits to the space. 
  2. The other part of the soundfield will be created via a ratio (expressed via percentage of time performing the two actions) of unsounded physical gestures (what gestures left at discretion of performer) in relation to the the performer sounding electronic sonic material (can be anything as long as it is not generated with an acoustic sound source) equal to the percentage of total aural perception taken up by the breath to one minus the percentage of total aural perception.
    • So say that at Space 1, Visit 1, your total aural perception of your breath took up 30% of your aural soundfield. In this case, you would perform unsounded physical gestures for 30% of the performance time, and perform a sounding of electronic sonic material for 70% of the performance time. Performance time should be broken into minutes when accounting for this ratio to allow for 3b) to be followed correctly. The unsounded physical gestures and electronic sonic material can be interspersed as long as they do not overlap.
  3. Over the course of the length of the field recordings, transition this percentage of total aural perception (from which you are performing according to) from the one observed during visit one to that observed during visit two.
  4. When you arrive at about the halfway point between ratios of total aural perception during visit one and visit two (in above case, 50%), one should change style of both gestures and sounding.
  5. Piece should always end on at least 15 seconds of unsounded physical gesture (along with field recordings which have been playing the whole performance and whose end determines the end of the performance), no matter the performance ratio being used during the last minute of the performance.
    • Allow a period of rest of at least thirty seconds before following the above Sounding instructions for Space 2.

“Early printing was long associated with devilry…

…One popular theory is linked to the fanciful belief among printers that a special demon, Titivillus (also referred to as “the original printer’s devil”), haunted every print shop, performing mischief such as inverting type, misspelling words, and removing entire lines of completed type. Titivillus was said to execute his pranks by influencing the young apprentices – or “printer’s devils” – as they set up type, or by causing errors to occur during the actual casting of metal type. High-profile printing errors “blamed” on Titivillus included the omission of the word not in the 1631 Authorized Version of the Bible, which resulted in Exodus 20:14 appearing as “Thou shalt commit adultery.”

Often depicted as a creature with claw-like feet and horns on his head, the origins of the Titivillus legend date back to the Middle Ages, when he was said to collect “fragments of words” that were dropped or misspoken by the clergy or laiety in a sack to deliver to Satan daily, and later, to record poorly recited prayers and gossip overheard in church with a pen on parchment, for use on Judgement Day.”