This is a map of the wheel-ruts of modern English. Etymologies are not definitions; they’re explanations of what our words meant and how they sounded 600 or 2,000 years ago.
The dates beside a word indicate the earliest year for which there is a surviving written record of that word (in English, unless otherwise indicated). This should be taken as approximate, especially before about 1700, since a word may have been used in conversation for hundreds of years before it turns up in a manuscript that has had the good fortune to survive the centuries.
The basic sources of this work are Weekley’s “An Etymological Dictionary of Modern English,” Klein’s “A Comprehensive Etymological Dictionary of the English Language,” “Oxford English Dictionary” (second edition), “Barnhart Dictionary of Etymology,” Holthauzen’s “Etymologisches Wörterbuch der Englischen Sprache,” Ayto’s “20th Century Words,” and Chapman’s “Dictionary of American Slang.” A full list of sources used in this compilation can be found here.
Since this dictionary went up, it has benefited from the suggestions of dozens of people I have never met, from around the world. Tremendous thanks and appreciation to all of you.
edit: looks like you need to have veoh player installed to watch full length
if not you can only see a 5min clip
youtubed in segments below
Krautrock – The Rebirth Of Germany looks at how a radical generation of musicians created a new German musical identity out of the cultural ruins of war.
Between 1968 and 1977 bands like Neu!, Can, Faust and Kraftwerk would look beyond western rock and roll to create some of the most original and uncompromising music ever heard. They shared one common goal – a forward-looking desire to transcend Germany’s gruesome past – but that didn’t stop the music press in war-obsessed Britain from calling them Krautrock.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00nf10k
Based on Karen Armstrong’s book, this film examines the concept of God in the three major monotheistic religions from the days of Abraham to modern times. Through analysis of historic and holy texts and incorporation of ancient art and artifacts, the program explores the deity written about in the Bible and the Quran. The evolution and intertwining of various Christian, Jewish and Islamic interpretations of God are also addressed.
i’ll try to figure out how to enable fullscreen
Anita the duck buys a psychic device at a novelty store in an alternate universe and creates mayhem at a crazy party. By Sally Cruikshank, with music by Robt. Armstrong and Allan Dodge
Official video of the new Charlotte Gainsbourg’s single, in duo with Beck.
Directed by Keith Schofield.
The IRM album, produced by Beck, will be released by Because Music / Warner / Elektra on Dec 7, 2009 (France, Swiss, Belgium, Germany) and Jan 26, 2010 (Rest of the world)
http://vimeo.com/7703592
Director’s cut here
LaMonte Young: The Well-Tuned Piano 81 X 25, 6:17:50 – 11:18:59 PM NYC [LIVE] [BOX SET]
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Performed by La Monte Young in a setting of The Magenta Lights by Marian Zazeela. Recorded live at the last 6 Harrison Street Dream House concert of The Well Tuned Piano, New York City, October 1981, presented by DIA Foundation.
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there are actually 2 used copies of this on Amazon.com for $1,500ea
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The first 10 minutes of the more that 5 hours composition. The piano is re-tuned to in just intonation.
Divine Horsemen: the Voodoo Gods of Haiti
“Divine Horsemen: the Voodoo Gods of Haiti,” Lyrichord. Recorded in
1947 on a wire recorder with the microphone attachted to a post in
the middle of the ceremony by Maya Deren in the filming of her
documentary of the same name. No Hollywood silly business here, this
is the real deal: a trance/possession ceremony where participants are
actually possessed by the Rada Loa (the pantheon of voodoo gods, the
ancient gods of the East African Fon): Deren says, “There are moments
when the voices of the loa can be heard talking and singing on this
recording.” Astonishing and intricate drumming, powerful almost
beyond comprehension; you’ve never heard anything like it. Regards,
Face A
1. Legba
2. Damballah
3. Agwe
4. Erzulie
5. Ogoun
6. Litany
7. Ghede chant
Face B
1. Invocation to azacca
2. Azacca possession
3. Ghede
4. Azacca
5. Congo cult
6. Petro cult
7. Banda dance for ghede
8. Rara festival
9. Mardi gras carnival
all propers to nauma over at black star liners
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download the video: Maya Deren Divine Horsemen
or watch @guba.com
i couldn’t get sutostart turned off to embed
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Divine_Horsemen:_The_Living_Gods_of_Haiti_(film)
Divine Horsemen: The Living Gods of Haiti (1985) is a black and white documentary film about dance and possession in Haitian vodou that was shot by experimental filmmaker Maya Deren between 1947 and 1952 and edited and completed by Deren’s third husband Teiji Ito and his wife Cherel Winett Ito (1947-1999) in 1981, twenty years after Deren’s death. Most of the film consists of images of dancing and bodies in motion during rituals in Rada and Petro services.
Deren had studied dance as well as photography and filmmaking. She originally went to Haiti with the funding from a Guggenheim fellowship and the stated intention of filming the dancing that forms a crucial part of the vodou ceremony.
The film that resulted, however, reflected Deren’s increasing personal engagement with vodou and its practitioners (Wilcken, 1986). While this ultimately resulted in Deren disregarding the guidelines of the fellowship, Deren was able to record scenes that probably would have been inaccessible to other filmmakers.
Deren’s original notes, film footage, and wire recordings are in the Maya Deren Collection at Boston University’s Howard Gotlieb Archive Research Center
http://thebeatlesneverbrokeup.com
The Beatles – Everyday Chemistry
The following is an actual account of my experiences as of recently. Because of the nature of what has happened I must remain anonymous until I feel it is safe to reveal my real name, but for now you can refer to me as James Richards.
On Sept. 9, 2009 I experienced something that I still am having trouble believing happened to me. I came into the possession of a cassette tape containing a Beatles album that was never released. In fact, not only was it never released but it was recorded many years after they broke up (and no I’m not talking about Klaatu).
Now this is where the story becomes slightly more unbelievable and it is almost embarrassing to attempt to explain the incident to you for fear of viewing me as completely absurd. I must assure you, I am not insane or on drugs, and hopefully the audio from this tape will be enough proof that there is more than we think out there…
I live in Livermore California but on Sept 9 I was driving home from Turlock after visiting a friend for a few days. I had my dog with me and I didn’t have any plans for the day so I decided to take a drive through a place called Del Puerto Canyon just west of Turlock. There is a scenic road that is a fun drive and actually goes through to Livermore. I hadn’t taken a cruise through it for a while so I thought i would take this way home. It was about 2pm.
A ways into the canyon my dog starting acting like she needed to use the restroom. So I pulled over to the first available parking area to the side of the road and let her out while I stretched. At first I didn’t notice, but then I heard the barking from 30 yards away…my dog was chasing a rabbit. Now my dog is a pretty good dog but if she is chasing something then there is no stopping her so the only thing I could do was become part of the chase.
They already had about a 40 yard head start so I had to really book it. The uneven ground and soft dirt patches made it difficult to run and it wasn’t very far into the chase I had stepped in a rabbit hole, fell and knocked myself unconscious.
When I woke up I was in a room with some furniture and electronics in it. I was taken care of with a bandage on my head but I still felt uneasy about the situation because where I fell and hit my head was in a very rural unpopulated area with no houses, and outside the window of the room I was in I could hear traffic.
I wasn’t near the window in the room, it was actually on the other side next to a unusual looking electronic machine that i didn’t recognize from anywhere I’ve seen before. The only reason this stood out was because it seemed out of place in a person’s home, which most of the room resembled. I decided to get up and look out the window but the door opened and in ran my dog, who was pretty excited to see me. When I looked up there was a man standing at the door. He was about 6 ft tall, had medium long black hair and was dressed casually nice but gave me a “greasy” vibe, if you know what I mean. He introduced himself as Jonas and asked me if I was ok, which I said yes. He said he found me unconscious in a field with my dog barking at me. So I thanked him for helping me and my dog out, and that I was surprised my dog even came back to me. I then asked him the question that would make me start wondering if I in fact had gone crazy… I asked him “where am I?”.
“About 20 feet away from where I found you” he replied. I told him that couldn’t be possible because there were no houses within at least 20 miles from where I last remember being. He then told me that what he was going to say next will be very shocking and unbelievable, and that if he didn’t actually experience it himself then he wouldn’t believe it. He took a look at the machine near the window and looked back at me and said he transported me into parallel Earth. He said he traveled to our Earth dimension and found me knocked out in the blazing heat with nobody around to help me out. Normally he said he doesn’t take outsiders through a portal but in my case he thought I needed urgent help.
I immediately started asking questions about traveling to parallel worlds, since all I knew about the topic was you tube videos of Michio Kaku. He told me to slow down and that he would explain himself. Apparently in his world a Parallel Travel machine can be purchased quite easily, while not cheap, its pretty popular even though the machine can be dangerous enough to cause death. In the 1950’s of his dimension, the government was faced with the decision to continue to fund a space program (I’m guessing NASA) or a parallel dimension program called ARP-D (i can’t remember what he said it stood for, I’m pretty sure the P-D is Parallel Dimensions, and i remember the acronym because I noticed it on a lot of the electronics in the room I was in.)
He then explained that the real danger of using one of the machines was exploring new dimensions. Since there are an infinite amount of Earths in other dimensions, only a small amount have been explored.The problem with exploring unknown dimensions is the chance you will die somehow once you walk through the portal doorway. He told me that people die from falling (if the ground isn’t close enough to where the portal opens), die from drowning (there are worlds covered in water, hard to reopen a portal underwater), die from fire, atmospheric issues…he said in order for people to avoid this they would have to know that there would be similar ground in the dimension they were traveling to. So his government began to research worlds that were “safe” to transport to, even creating public spots where people could choose a menu of worlds to go to that were all safe.
Many of these worlds were lush vegetation worlds that were never ruined by man, only to be invaded by the large overcrowded population of the travelers world. He said something about new industries that opened up because of this, one of them being something like dimensional life brokers, these people offered the chance to live as someone new in an already established similar world that doesn’t know of dimensional travel, nor that there are people crossing the dimensional border to. Jonas said he was an explorer for one of the dimensional travel agencies and was looking in new uncharted dimensions and came up my Earth.
We talked about a lot of things, it was interesting to see what similarities and differences we had between worlds. Foods, culture, TV, technology… we covered a lot. We also started talking about music, which was an interesting topic because there were many of the same bands between our worlds that existed, including The Beatles. When their name got brought up Jonas mentioned that his brother just got back from seeing them perform at a concert recently, which I gave a weird look to and said “you mean they are still together?”, and he said yea. I then told him about how they broke up in our world and that John & George passed away, apparently in his world they are all alive, healthy and on tour still.
Jonas then had me follow him into another room that had a bookshelf looking thing with some cassette tapes (yes the music ones, apparently CD’s never caught on in his world) and a tape player/radio/record player, though it didn’t quite look like the type of radio’s we have, the speakers looked more like crinkled cardboard but sounded pretty good. I didn’t get too good of a look at the speakers but they certainly weren’t round, they almost looked like a tall accordion.
The only Beatles album he had that was store bought and had real cover art was Sgt Peppers, which the cover looked slightly different then the one we have, but the songs were all the same. The other 6 Beatles tapes he had were all like somebody recorded them onto a blank cassette for him and wrote the song titles on a card slipped in the case. A couple of the album titles written on the tapes I recognized but there were about 4 that I had never heard of before. He played a few songs from one of them, which was totally surreal to hear Beatles music that was never made (at least in our world). We talked about it a little bit, he said a girl made the tapes for him while he was in upper school (what they call high school). She was a huge fan of them and wanted him to listen to them.
He popped out the first tape and was putting in the second one when I told him he should record me a copy of one so I could take it back with me, thinking it wouldn’t be a big deal. Well the look Jonas gave me when I said this is part of the reason I am remaining anonymous. Not only did it sort of scare me but it had a very serious almost creepy look to it followed by the phrase (not word for word, i can’t remember what he exactly said) “No, you are not to take anything with you back to your world. No pictures, no souvenirs, no tapes, NOTHING.” I asked him why and he wouldn’t really say except that for my safety I wasn’t to take anything back.
Of course I am not the type of person to go through all of this parallel world stuff and not grab something to prove the outrageous story of my experience. So for the moment I told him I wouldn’t take anything and changed the subject. About an hour later after some more talking I heard a doorbell ring and he left the room to check the door. I knew that I may not have another chance to take something so I grabbed one of the tapes and put it in my pocket, and then shuffled the tapes around to make it look less obvious that something was missing.
When he came back inside I said I was kind of hungry (to just get us out of the room, i mixed the tapes up a little so it was hard to tell one was missing but I didn’t want to be there when he found out), so he then took me in the other room and fed me. For the most part the food tasted like ours but was different product names and colors. The purple ketchup was the strangest. We talked a little bit more and then I expressed the notion that I should be going because it was getting late (the time of day was identical to ours, as is all worlds).
We went back in the room with the machines in it, I grabbed my dog and shook Jonas’ hand for taking care of me after I was knocked out. I thanked him again and stepped through the portal (which felt like getting wet but staying dry the entire time, really weird… when i put my dog on the ground she even shook herself like she thought she was wet).
Back in our world I could see my car on the road still and there was straight line burn mark on the ground from where the portal had shown up. It was dark outside and the only reason I noticed the burn was because it was still smoking from the heat. I walked back to my car (didn’t run this time) and drove home. The worst part was I couldn’t even listen to the tape on the way home because I didn’t have a tape player in my car. I actually wasn’t even able to listen to it at home either for the same reason and had to go to Wal-mart to buy a tape player just to listen to it.
Unfortunately I don’t have any information about the tape other than what is written on the card sleeve. The track names were written, as well as the album title “Everyday Chemistry” . Everything else about it is as mysterious to you as it is to me. It also wasn’t like I could have asked the guy anything about it, especially after taking it from him.
I’ll post some more about my experience in the coming days, but I have to go to work right now and this post is already long enough. If anyone has any questions they want to ask me about this incident then I’ve set up an email address that you can contact me at:
thebeatlesneverbrokeup@yahoo.com
I’ll try and answer every one’s questions as best as possible.
Lastly, if there is ANYONE out there that has experienced anything like this then please contact me, some of the things this guy said to me almost make me wonder if this isn’t the first time dimensional travelers have been here.
- James Richards
“a man is somebody that pisses against the wall”
“god’s the one that wrote the bible, my friend”
Video for “Ready, Able,” from Grizzly Bear’s ‘Veckatimest.’ Directed by Allison Schulnik.
Technology anthropologist Stefana Broadbent analyzes how we text, IM and talk. Today, she says these new methods of communication are helping us break out of old institutions and bringing us closer together than ever before. She’s speaking with a backdrop of constantly refreshing, beautiful black and white portraits, always of two people seated together. She explains that in each picture is someone she interviewed and the person the communicate with most in the world, whether it be their significant other, parent, grandparent or sibling, along with the communication tools they use — by and large, these are cell phones.
She says that although we may have many people on our Facebook friend lists (120 on average) and in our cell phone directories, we typically use these technologies to interact with a small core group of people. The typical cell phone user makes 80 percent of their calls to just four people, and the average Facebook user exchanges most of their messages with only five or six friends. So these technologies are not networking us with more people, but reinforcing our communication with our inner circle.
Even more interesting, she says that we are now seeing the democratization of intimacy. As more communication technologies are written, and can therefore fly under the radar more easily in a workplace, the boss is not the only one that can keep in touch with their family and friends during working hours. She finds companies’ restrictions on Facebook and schools’ restrictions on texting appalling. We always lived with work and family together, she explains, this compartmentalization of our lives only began 150 or so years ago with the Industrial Revolution. Broadbent is glad to see that cleavage ending.
i’ve been gettin back into dr sample & SP culture/work a teeny bit as of late
really diggin on this lo-fi meditative metal jam
one take live on a SP-404
it has a muddled…
maybe muddy
diffused sort of vibe
not ephemeral
or ethereal
it’s earthy
i’m reminded of light through waves
and the sea foam mud of said waves break
but in slow-mo
the name of the piece is lost seagull
and i thought this pic work well for me imaginin it playin out in slo-mo
it needs a sunset in the background though
so beachy proper
not just in that post person pitch pop sound thats been so prevalent this past year
werdz
(not official album art)
sleeps numb – lost seagull mixjam
14 minute live set one take enjoy…
Silver Futures – From the Swamp Rot Rises My Babies Dreams
Collaboration between Mark McGuire of Emeralds and Etienne Duguay of Predator Vision. Bonding on their love of Popol Vuh two friends record some jams. Guitar, Synth, Drums, etc. recorded live in nyc.
http://www.myspace.com/etiennepierreduguay
http://www.last.fm/music/Mark+McGuire
The No. 1 ranked heavyweight fighter Fedor Emelianenko of Russia and undefeated American Brett Rogers of Minnesota will square off in the main event of one of the most important events in the history of MMA. The event, airing live on CBS, marks the return of MMA to broadcast television with a stacked fight card featuring world-class matchups from leading MMA promoter STRIKEFORCE.
Simply referred to as “Fedor” by fans around the world, the 6-foot, 235-pound Russian is one of the most dominant fighters in the sport. He is a master of the Russian military combat system Sambo and boasts a record of 30 wins, one loss, no draws with 16 wins by submission, seven knockouts and seven decisions. The 28-year-old Rogers (10-0) is a massive physical specimen standing 6-feet, 5-inches tall and weighing 265 pounds. He possesses two of the heaviest hands in the sport of MMA, an attribute that has helped him knock out all 10 of his professional foes.
Also fighting on the card and one of four primetime matchups is Jake Shields (23-4-1) vs. Jason “Mayhem” Miller (22-6) for the STRIKEFORCE Middleweight title. Shields is widely considered one of the best fighters in the world. His opponent is a fellow submission expert and one of MMA’s most entertaining fighters. Miller, a Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu and Muay Thai specialist, is the host of MTV’s hit show Bully Beatdown and trains with two of the sport’s most recognizable fighters, Randy “The Natural” Couture and Quinton “Rampage” Jackson.
Other fights scheduled for the CBS broadcast include Gegard “The Dreamcatcher” Mousasi vs. Rameau Thierry “The African Assassin” Sokoudjo and Fabricio “Vai Cavalo” Werdum vs. Antonio “Big Foot” Silva.
http://artsytime.com/west-africa-costumes
Inseparable from ceremony, ritual, rhythm, and music, traditional African dance styles are as much a cornerstone of Sub-Saharan and West African cultures as they are a powerful and unique facet of the dance world. Not only is African dance a powerful experience for the spectator, but it is also a symbol of solidarity and an important means of communication for the performers and their community. While its influence in the West can be seen mostly through contemporary and hip-hop dance forms, it is fortunate for researchers and dancers alike that African dance still exists internationally in its purest forms.
somebody get me a dance floor!
the old homie has some nice remixes up on his space
http://www.myspace.com/brenmarsomeday
my son wanted to be a super hero this year for halloween
but wanted to make up his own “guy”
he decided he would be “moth man”
moths being “drawn to light” and all
he has a thing for puns
he selected the death’s head hawk moth to be modeled after
his super power was a “cosmic photon laser” that would shoot form his eyes at super villains and “bad guys in general”
this laser would blind them in a darkness to everything but the truth
placing them in a state of reckoning and understanding
he would have no need to fight them
and no need to “call the cops” since the villains would “right themselves”
moth man is also a freestyle rapper…
which you would really just have to hear
quotes above are his words
all his ideas
i just did the work to manifest as best i could
this is a 10 min music mix he and worked on together that basically serve as theme song and fight scene score
he picked out the songs and i mixed them http://www.mediafire.com/?yjmyd2gjn3z
i see the traffic comin thru
hope all is well
sd&tat
-j
these are not my mixes
i wanted to share them proper here
and i want all praise due to Lilian De Munno of mstambourine.org
do check all the great musical content on her site out
a worthwhile bookmark!
SPRING/2009
#1
springly mixed (mix de primavera #1)
Tracklist:
01. Washed Out – Belong
02. Coconot – Te Tenía en Cinta
03. Emilio José – Antigua
04. Thomas Mapfumo & Acid Band – Hokoyo
05. Fluffy Lumbers – Cruisers
06. Nurses – Technicolor
07. The Babies – Meet Me in The City
08. Diamond Rings – All Yr Songs
09. Henry Pedro – Midnight Sun
10. Glass Ghost - The Same
11. Pillow Talk – What Does It Take?
12. Staff Benda Bilili – Sala Keba
#2
Flowered Tones (Mix de Primavera #2)
Tracklist:
01. Sunnybrook – Waving Hands (Water Me Glow EP, 2009)
02. Bibio – Lovers’ Carvings (Ambivalence Avenue album, 2009)
03. Norse Horse – Needle Beach (Secret Geographies album, 2009)
04. {{{Sunset}}} – 24 Karat Soul (The Glowing City album, 2008)
05. Divisible – Everybody (Less Than Lion album, 2009)
06. Ariel Pink’s Haunted Graffiti – Can’t Hear My Eyes (Can’t Hear My Eyes 7″ single, 2009)
07. Terry Callier – You Goin’ To Miss Your Candyman (What Color Is Love, 1973)
08. Toro y Moi – Talamak (Unreleased)
09. Kurt Vile – Overnite Religion (Constant Hitmaker album, 2008)
10. The Parasails – Skylife 9 (Skylife album, 2009)
11. Matt Fishbeck – You Made My Dreams Come True (VA – The Human Ear, Volume 1 compilation, 2007)
12. Pearl Harbour – Lost @ Sea (Calistonia Dream CD-R, 2009)
13. Julian Lynch – Nen Vole (VA – Wild Animal Kingdom Vol. 2 cassete, 2009)
#3
Delight Meadows (Mix de Primavera #3)
01. Rainbow Arabia – Holiday in Congo (Kabukimono mini-album, 2009)
02. Weed Diamond – Walk Away (Mastered Demo, 2009)
03. Cat Killer – Tree Limbs Together (Words to Remember ep, 2009)
04. A Classic Education – We Can Always Run to Hawaii (unrealeased)
05. Yarn Owl – Yarn Blues (Tiny Dots cassete, 2009)
06. Lentil Famine – Liberation of the Naked Heart (La Casa de Nuestra Edad cdr, 2009)
07. The Drums – Best Friends (Summertime EP, 2009)
08. The Love Language – Sparxxx (The Love Language album, 2009)
09. Wild Nothing – Summer Holiday (Unreleased)
10. Pastels & Tenniscoats – About You (Two Sunsets album, 2009)
11. Desolation Wilderness – Slow Fade (New Universe album, 2009)
12. Buffy Sainte-Marie – Adam (Richie Havens cover) (Illuminations album, 1969)
#4
I’m in Love With the Sun (Mix de Primavera #4)
Tracklist:
01. The Very Most – You’re in Love With the Sun (Summer EP, 2009)
02. Arms – Kids Aflame (Kids Aflame album, 2007)
03. Julian Lynch – Human Nature (MJ cover) (Chum Onah – BxF celebrates de music of M. Jackson online comp, 2009)
04. Caballo Trípode – Sweet Oh Mine (Horror Vacui album, 2009)
05. Woods – The Hold (Songs of Shame album, 2009)
06. Here We Go Magic – Fangela (Here We Go Magic album, 2009)
07. Navajo Bixby – Moonlighting (Demo, 2009)
08. Paulette Williams – My Island (Trojan Reggae Sisters box set, 2003)
09. Drum’n’Zez – Dunav (Dunava Ukus album, 2008)
10. The Ornament Birds – Paper Clams (Demo, 2009)
11. Sin Fang Bous – Sunken Ship (Clangour album, 2008/2009)
12. Young Buffalo – Catapilah (Demo, 2009)
13. The Fair Ohs – Summer Lake (upcoming 7″ on Sex is Digusting)
#5
Sweet October (Mix de Primavera #5)
Tracklist:
01. Julian Lynch – Ears (unreleased, 2009)
02. Church – Happiness (Gold EP, 2008)
03. Ariel Pink’s Haunted Graffiti – Every Night I Die at Miyagis (House Arrest album, 2006)
04. Princeton – Down Where The Valleys Are Low (Crayon Angel: A Tribute to the Music of Judee Sill, 2009)
05. Pearl Harbor – Luv Goon (Something About the Chaparrals EP, 2009)
06. Espers – Caroline (III album, 2009)
07. Bark Cat Bark – Ézerville (Mathilde album, 2009)
08. Miles Benjamin Anthony Robinson – Buriedfed (self-titled album, 2008)
09. Anthony da Costa – Back of My Mind (Typical American Tragedy album, 2008)
10. Andy Shauf – Your Heart (Darker Days album, 2009)
11. Nicky Bomba – Rocksteady Woman (Planet Juice album, 2009)
12. Dead Man’s Bones – In The Room Where You Sleep (self-titled album, 2009)
#6
Sunny Dreams – Mix de Primavera #6
Tracklist:
01. No.9 – Flower Shop (9-9-9-9-9.com album, 2009)
02. Fantastic Something – If She Doesn’t Smile (Sunshine Pop 99 compilation, 1999)
03. Greg Fine – Come Back Again (Always Time album, 2009)
04. The Silent Years – Forest Fine (Let Go album, 2009)
05. Ducktails – Wishes (Landscapes album, 2009)
06. Best Coast – Something in The Way (unreleased, 2009)
07. Real Estate – Old Folks (7″, 2008)
08. Lake – Madagascar (Let’s Build A Roof album, 2009)
09. Tony, Caro & John – Eclipse of the Moon (All on the First Day album, 1972)
10. Woods – Death Rattles (Daytrotter Session, 2009)
11. Cass McCombs – Dream Come True Girl (Catacombs album, 2009)
12. BLK JKS – Lakeside (After Robots album, 2009)
#7
Dance Wid’ Me – Mix de Primavera #7
Tracklist:
01. Pascal Comelade – Two Maniaco Depressive Beatnicks Squabbling Over A Jane Russell Mozarella’s Stereokini
02. Quantic & His Combo Bárbaro – Un Canto a Mi Terra
03. Rita Indiana y Los Misterios – La Hora de Volver
04. CSC Funk Band – Bad Banana Bread
05. Big Boi – Shine Blockas (ft. Gucci Mane)
06. Stevie Wonder – Don’t You Worry ’bout a Thing
07. Gold Teeth – Everybody
08. El Guincho – Kalise (Tanlines remix)
09. Divisible – Everybody
10. Luciano – Los Niños de Fuera
11. Palov and Mishkin – Et de Clarinete
12. Konono No. 1 – Paradiso
#8
Allowed to Chill Out – Mix de Primavera #8
Tracklist:
01. Ducktails – Spring
02. Misophone – Run Run Run
03. Local Natives – Airplanes
04. Devendra Barhart – Forget About Him (Kath Boom cover)
05. Gross Ghost – Lurker
06. Crayon Fields – All The Pleasures of The World
07. MV & EE with The Bummer Road – East Mountain Joint
08. Toro Y Moi – 109
09. Hollows – Johnny Appleseed
10. Migala – El Caballo Del Malo
11. Les Anarchistes – Tammuriata Delle Mondine
12. Lucky Dragons – wooden Cave Loop
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In the history of science, Laplace’s demon is a thought experiment described by Pierre-Simon Laplace in a paper published in 1814 involving a hypothetical entity envisioned such that if it knew the precise location and momentum of every atom in the universe then it could use deterministic principles to reveal the entire course of cosmic events, past and future.[1]
Laplace strongly believed in causal determinism, which is expressed in the following quotation from the introduction to the Essai:
| “ | We may regard the present state of the universe as the effect of its past and the cause of its future. An intellect which at a certain moment would know all forces that set nature in motion, and all positions of all items of which nature is composed, if this intellect were also vast enough to submit these data to analysis, it would embrace in a single formula the movements of the greatest bodies of the universe and those of the tiniest atom; for such an intellect nothing would be uncertain and the future just like the past would be present before its eyes. | ” |
This intellect is often referred to as Laplace’s demon. Note, however, that the description of the hypothetical intellect described above by Laplace as a demon does not come from Laplace, but from later biographers: Laplace saw himself as a scientist; and while hoping that humanity would progress to a better scientific understanding of the world, he recognized that such a complete level of understanding would always be beyond the grasp of human knowledge, as a tremendous calculating power would be needed to take into account every precondition in a given instant. While Laplace considered this to be a mere practical problem, later interpretations of quantum mechanics, which were adopted by philosophers defending the existence of free will, also leave the theoretical possibility of such an “intellect” contested.
n a quantum mechanical world, Laplace’s demon becomes a clear impossibility. Chance is an essential part of the world’s unfolding, and the Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle forbids exact measurements of positions and velocities simultaneously. But even within a hypothetical classical universe, there are reasons to doubt that Laplace’s Demon is a meaningful concept.
John Polkinghorne argues that nature is cloud-like rather than clock-like and points out that, apart from any other problems, uncertainty about the exact position of an electron on the other side of the universe would be sufficient to invalidate a calculation about the position of an O2 molecule in air after 50 collisions with its neighbours (i.e. in about 0.1 ns), even if they were solely influenced by Newton’s laws.[2]
According to chemical engineer Robert Ulanowicz, in his 1986 book Growth and Development, Laplace’s demon met its end with early 19th century developments of the concepts of irreversibility, entropy, and the second law of thermodynamics. In other words, Laplace’s demon was based on the premise of reversibility and classical mechanics; thermodynamics, i.e. real processes, however, are, under current theory, thought to be irreversible.
Additionally, the existence of Laplace’s demon is impossible because such an algorithm could predict the future state of a billiard-ball computer and effectively solve the halting problem.
In 2008, David Wolpert used Cantor diagonalization to disprove Laplace’s demon. He did this by assuming that the demon is a computational device and showing that no two such devices can completely predict each other.[3]
There has recently been proposed a limit on the computational power of the universe, i.e. the ability of Laplace’s Demon to process an infinite amount of information. The limit is based on the maximum entropy of the universe, the speed of light, and the minimum amount of time taken to move information across the Planck length, and the figure was shown to be about 10120 bits[4]. Accordingly, anything that requires more than this amount of data cannot be computed in the amount of time that has elapsed so far in the universe.
Another theory suggests that if Laplace’s demon were to occupy a parallel universe or alternate dimension from which it could determine the implied data and do the necessary calculations on an alternate and greater time line the aforementioned time limitation would not apply. This is, in fact, mandatory since if a Laplace’s demon was in the reality that we occupy it would have to account for itself in addition to every other aspect of matter and energy, and the grand total cannot exceed the smaller portion.
Disc 1 – Trance Speech and Direct Voice, Precognition
Disc 2 – Xenoglossy, Glossolalia
Disc 3 – Paranormal Music, Raps and Haunting Phenomena, Electric Voice Phenomena
3 disc box set of paranormal phenomena including “trance speech, direct voices, clairvoyance, xenoglossy, glossolalia including ethnological material, paranormal music, ‘rappings’ and other poltergeist manifestations as well as so-called ‘Electronic voice phenomena’” dating from 1905-2007
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| Klunk Garden |
| Tomio Koyama Gallery, Tokyo, Japan |
| 2009 |
| soloshow |
photos: Kei Okano
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