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We are being
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and we are beating. These are the important things. here and now, brown cow.
Floating rhythms, unlatched melodies, broken into by moments of tonal clarity. What is this? This, my friends, is shitty writing. But one must wade through shit to get to water, and I'm sorry but I must place my pondscum here to butterfly stroke my way through.
ROBOT HUMAN
I am lost until the music begins and then I feel my mind adjust to a more linear state, and I can function and formulate thoughts in a systematic manner that makes some sort of logical sense. I take intelligence for granted. My brain is a machine. An instrument. I can play it.
it is hard to remember, for me at least, that one cannot master something until one practices at it. Practice doesn't make perfect, practice wafts the scent of perfection underneath our noses so that we may follow it wherever it may lead.
When a baseball player is at his best, he is not thinking. HE falls into a streak, ten games long, cranking out ribbys and belting longballs back behind the bleachers, and you ask him what he's done to turn up his game and he'll tell you that he's done nothing, he's just being. A confident laziness. Stepping up to the plate not over-thinking, simply being, and by being, connecting.
I try too often to cut out the middleman, hope that the desire to create will descend upon me suddenly, divinely. God will spill from my fingertips, and it wil all become clear.
But work is necessary. Work has to be done.
These are ramblings. Hello.
-------------------- Acid doesn't give you truths; it builds machines that push the envelope of perception. Whatever revelations came to me then have dissolved like skywriting. All I really know is that those few years saddled me with a faith in the redemptive potential of the imagination which, however flat, stale and unprofitable the world seems to me now, I cannot for the life of me shake. -Erik Davis
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Sounds like those Benzos are working pretty good for ya.
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Float like a butterfly, zone like a bee...
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it is moments like these that make me really critical of myself and my every-day.
I spend so long in a passive, uncreative mindset. Of course, thoughts are occurring, endless processes of dynamic cross-references and correlations drawn and relevations found and subsequently destroyed by logical counter-suppositions.
While laying on a couch patterned in blue and white, staring aimlessly at a shoddily assorted brickface wall, thirty fourty seventy minute passing before I finally get up again and wonder what the fuck I am doing.
Then, there's this.
-------------------- Acid doesn't give you truths; it builds machines that push the envelope of perception. Whatever revelations came to me then have dissolved like skywriting. All I really know is that those few years saddled me with a faith in the redemptive potential of the imagination which, however flat, stale and unprofitable the world seems to me now, I cannot for the life of me shake. -Erik Davis
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Quote:
OneMoreRobot3021 said: Of course, thoughts are occurring, endless processes of dynamic cross-references and correlations drawn and relevations found and subsequently destroyed by logical counter-suppositions.
You ever read the book "The Sublime Object of Ideology "?
That reminded me of it a bit.
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The days seem to last forever but the weeks fly by in a blink of an eye.
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Re: We are being [Re: domite]
#5713073 - 06/04/06 10:16 PM (17 years, 7 months ago) |
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I have not read that particular piece of literature, no. I haven't been ereading much really, lately, and I'm trying to break out of that and settle into a reading groove. The last three books I picked up and tried to read all puttered out on me after a few chapters: The master and Margarita, The Teachings of Don Juan, Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience, none really gripped me.
So now I'm reading Stephen King's The Shining and though it's boring to me and I find lots of flaws in King's writing style, it's doing a really great job of getting me into a reading rhythm.
-------------------- Acid doesn't give you truths; it builds machines that push the envelope of perception. Whatever revelations came to me then have dissolved like skywriting. All I really know is that those few years saddled me with a faith in the redemptive potential of the imagination which, however flat, stale and unprofitable the world seems to me now, I cannot for the life of me shake. -Erik Davis
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Re: We are being [Re: Noetical]
#5713074 - 06/04/06 10:17 PM (17 years, 7 months ago) |
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Noetical said: The days seem to last forever but the weeks fly by in a blink of an eye.
Sometimes, I look back at a day, and think of how much could have been accomplished, and I gasp.
-------------------- Acid doesn't give you truths; it builds machines that push the envelope of perception. Whatever revelations came to me then have dissolved like skywriting. All I really know is that those few years saddled me with a faith in the redemptive potential of the imagination which, however flat, stale and unprofitable the world seems to me now, I cannot for the life of me shake. -Erik Davis
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Its dense as hell, I dont really reccomend it. Unless you know alot about Lacan. Which I don't.
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Think about your mind, and look upon your hands. Hold a wiffle ball bat in your hands and think about the symbiosis of body and mind. Tell your hand to squeeze the bat, the other one to twist around. What is the reasoning behind these actions? if I send neural messengers down the length of my body to my fingertips and tell them to tap along with a Daft Punk rhythm on the very base of the wiffle ball bat, what does that mean and what purpose does it server.
You see, it's all just
Stop Making Sense.
Art does not make sense. Performance does not make sense. The nonsensical things will be our saviors.
-------------------- Acid doesn't give you truths; it builds machines that push the envelope of perception. Whatever revelations came to me then have dissolved like skywriting. All I really know is that those few years saddled me with a faith in the redemptive potential of the imagination which, however flat, stale and unprofitable the world seems to me now, I cannot for the life of me shake. -Erik Davis
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Same here.
It makes me sick sometimes when I realize how much time I've lost do to apathy.
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Re: We are being [Re: Noetical]
#5713094 - 06/04/06 10:22 PM (17 years, 7 months ago) |
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That subconscious nag, that's the worst part. So much worse that I train myself to ignore it.
Shit that right there is the biography of entire handfuls of human civilization.
You and I my friend must slip between the knuckles of the Passive Fist's grasp. Join me. Escapist Creative League of Cyberpsychedelic Heroes.
-------------------- Acid doesn't give you truths; it builds machines that push the envelope of perception. Whatever revelations came to me then have dissolved like skywriting. All I really know is that those few years saddled me with a faith in the redemptive potential of the imagination which, however flat, stale and unprofitable the world seems to me now, I cannot for the life of me shake. -Erik Davis
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All right I'm in. But I need a green cape.
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For a second, your avitar's humping motion was exatly in sync with the song I was listening to.
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Re: We are being [Re: Noetical]
#5713118 - 06/04/06 10:27 PM (17 years, 7 months ago) |
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my colors are green and purple. I'll forgo the cape so you can have that, but you must simply accept the fact that my costume will have green in it as well. I'll be like the Joker, green and purple, pointless acts of insanity.
Have you ever read a story by Harlan Ellison (have you ever read him at all? Amazing short story collection called Slippage, really stellar) where a world is run completely on clocks and a court jester figure flies around dropping jelly beans on the world to disrupt it all? Fabulous.
-------------------- Acid doesn't give you truths; it builds machines that push the envelope of perception. Whatever revelations came to me then have dissolved like skywriting. All I really know is that those few years saddled me with a faith in the redemptive potential of the imagination which, however flat, stale and unprofitable the world seems to me now, I cannot for the life of me shake. -Erik Davis
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Sounds like The Invisibles.
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Re: We are being [Re: domite]
#5713143 - 06/04/06 10:31 PM (17 years, 7 months ago) |
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I am so out of a writing groove. My thoughts seem so multidimensional. I really see the challenge right now of taking intelligent, introspective thought and transforming it, through one's fingertips on a keyboard, into a fair translation and reinvention of the complication of a thing such a thought. I mean a "thought" if we call it that it sounds so similar, just a thought. Oh, just a thought. What is a thought? A thought is more than you or I.
-------------------- Acid doesn't give you truths; it builds machines that push the envelope of perception. Whatever revelations came to me then have dissolved like skywriting. All I really know is that those few years saddled me with a faith in the redemptive potential of the imagination which, however flat, stale and unprofitable the world seems to me now, I cannot for the life of me shake. -Erik Davis
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Re: We are being [Re: domite]
#5713147 - 06/04/06 10:32 PM (17 years, 7 months ago) |
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Looks like tomorrow's mission name is Harlan Ellison.
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This thread is entertaining! 
Between reading this thread, and tangentially hypertext-linking my way through Wikipedia, I'm not getting any work done...
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Re: We are being [Re: Noetical]
#5713152 - 06/04/06 10:34 PM (17 years, 7 months ago) |
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You know, Noetical, this here is an important post. I want to express how gratefully I am to you for being what I think we should all strive to be - prisms. You soak in information, and then you really refract it out all from your own unqiue vantage point. It's definitely a thing of awe to witness each and every day, here in cyberspace.
I feel I can really believe you when you say you'll look into things you hear myself an others mention. Myself, I am guilty, very guilty, of saying I will and never doing.
-------------------- Acid doesn't give you truths; it builds machines that push the envelope of perception. Whatever revelations came to me then have dissolved like skywriting. All I really know is that those few years saddled me with a faith in the redemptive potential of the imagination which, however flat, stale and unprofitable the world seems to me now, I cannot for the life of me shake. -Erik Davis
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