Enemies of Dissensus
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I met Terence McKenna a couple of times and he was really engaging. Interviewed him at the ICA when he was part of a thing there.
The Rollercoaster of Transcendence: An interview with Terence McKenna
Gyrus: Firstly, have you seen Independence Day, and what did you make of it? Terence: I didn’t see it, because I saw enough of it in shorts to realize it’s The Day The Earth Stood Still with worse actors and more money. Gyrus: Fair enough. Now, do you see a contradiction in the desire to […]dreamflesh.com
His ideas were mainly a load of tosh, but he was a fun guy. (one for Mr Tea there).
I agree with @poetix that this thread needs more focus. McKenna is just a source of beef between luka’s psychedelic poetry faction on here and third’s psychedelic communist faction on here.
Well this always comes back to my main contension that the most psychedelic music is unintentionally so. 70s Miles, free improv, Umm Kulthum, '92 ardkore, early gabba/hard acid, Mobb Deep, Keith Hudson (the dentist!) Whereas music that consciously tries to evoke those states can be good but can never truly go out. Spaceman III, 60s twea pop, beatles, and can often come across as embarrassing - psytrance/ethnodub, Ozric Tentacles and so on. I exclude japanese psychedelic rock from this because whilst they consciously make psychedelic music it is definitively much more (psycho)delic.
luka
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this was the quote
“The syntactical nature of reality, the real secret of magic, is that the world is made of words. And if you know the words that the world is made of, you can make of it whatever you wish.”
www.erpinghamhouse.com
“The syntactical nature of reality, the real secret of magic, is that the world is made of words. And if you know the words that the world is made of, you can make of it whatever you wish.”
Erpingham House - Vegan restaurant in Norwich
Erpingham House is a ground floor cafe, 1st floor restaurant & second floor bar within a beautiful grade 2 listed building in the heart of Norwich, open 7 days a week from early mornings to late nights.
www.erpinghamhouse.com
woops
is not like other people
Worlds are made from wordsthis was the quote
“The syntactical nature of reality, the real secret of magic, is that the world is made of words. And if you know the words that the world is made of, you can make of it whatever you wish.”
Erpingham House - Vegan restaurant in Norwich
Erpingham House is a ground floor cafe, 1st floor restaurant & second floor bar within a beautiful grade 2 listed building in the heart of Norwich, open 7 days a week from early mornings to late nights.
luka
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luka
Well-known member
third is notorious for orientalism.
woops
is not like other people
Yuck
Corpsey is the opposite of a semen retention guy.
luka
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iconic, foundational and pivotal sets of 93/93 retro sets
the question is when those two diametric tendancies collide. the underground and the pop minded. too much in the underground and you get heads jumping to hard techno and hard acid in 1992 (tbh i would have probably done this at the time as well.) yet reading it too much from the perspective of...
www.dissensus.com
"that's your orientalism speaking. you're envisioning magical people from these magical far away places with their magical instruments attaining this unattainable music. in reality they're normal blokes playing drums just like anyone else. i could play the stuff from the videos you posted with my eyes closed."
Mr. Tea
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That's probably most restaurants in Brighton, though.
It's not orientalism when an oriental does it. That would be like you not being allowed to listen to any rap.