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    'Is the act of producing sound alone sufficient to create music? Our assemblage of individually emitted sounds is abandoned before it has reached a state where it could be called music. This is different from an assemblage of sounds that are produced with a single purpose. I wonder how the audience (who had come to hear music) perceived these ambiguous sounds from an ambiguous group. Those who listened politely for three hours each constructed their own music, choosing sounds from their own individual experiences and memories. Still, they must have been left with some sense of uneasiness, a doubt that this was music. An uneasiness that i felt too, like the gap between myself and another. Music functions as a device for rapture or contemplation. Accordingly, this doubt distances our actions from music. But if the audience were able to forget their uneasiness for a moment during our lengthy action, perhaps its potential becomes clearer. Neither rapture nor contemplation, but an awakened experience of time. Not experiment but experience.' - Kazuo Imai
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    'Those were the days, when we were all at sea. It seems like yesterday to me. Species, sex, race, class: in those days none of this meant anything at all. No parents, no children, just ourselves, strings of inseparable sisters, warm and wet, indistinguishable one from the other, gloriously indiscriminate, promiscuous and fused. No generations. No future, no past. An endless geographic plane of micromeshing pulsing quanta, limitless webs of interacting blendings... running rings around each other, heedless, needless, aimless, careless, thoughtless, amok. Folds and foldings, plying and multiplying, plicating and replicating. We had no definition, no meaning, no way of telling each other apart. We were whatever we were up to at the time. Free exchanges, microprocesses finely tuned, polymorphous transfers without regard for borders and boundaries. There was nothing to hang onto, nothing to be grasped, nothing to protect or be protected from. Insides and outsides did not count. We gave no thought to any such things. We gave no thought to anything at all. Everything was there for the taking then. We paid no attention: it was all for free. It had been this way for tens, thousands, millions, billions of what were later defined as years. If we had thought about it, we would have said it would go on forever, this fluent, fluid world. And then something occurred to us. The climate changed. We couldn't breathe. It grew terribly cold. Far too cold for us. Everything we touched was poisonous. Noxious gases and thin toxic airs flooded our oceanic zone. Some said we had brought in on ourselves, that all our activity had backfired, that we had destroyed our environment by an accident we had provoked. There were rumors of betrayal and sabotage, whisperings of alien invasion and mutant beings from another ship. Only a few of us survived the break. Conditions were so terrible that many of those who did pull through wished they had died. We mutated to such an extent that we were unrecognizable to ourselves, banding together in units of a kind which, like everything, had been unthinkable before. We found ourselves working as slave components of systems whose scales and complexities we could not comprehend. Were we their parasites? Were they ours? Either way we became components of our own imprisonments. To all intents and purposes, we disappeared.' - Sadie Plant
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    'There was a time when you were not a slave, remember that. You walked alone, full of laughter, you bathed bare-bellied. You say you have lost all recollection of it, remember... You say there are no words to describe this time, you say it does not exist. But remember. Make an effort to remember. Or, failing that, invent.' - Monique Wittig
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    "No act of kindness,no matter how small, is ever wasted." -A stranger gave it to me for what he had seen; it was printed on a business card with nothing else on it. White paper with black letters. All four sides are worn and have been curled. The paper is creased throu- gh out. Treasure, to be sure. Sher'd Blessings a great topic for the holiday's. Share Blessings, great and small, one and all. LOVE is patient; love is kind, Love is not jealous or boastful; it is not arrogant or rude, Love does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable- or resentful; it does not rejoice at wrong but rejoices in the right, Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things, Love never ends. -The Good Book
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"We can easily forgive a childwho is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light." -Plato
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"My body is no older than my mind-and my mind is adolescent. It has never grown up. It never will, I hope. I'm as inquisitive as I was at eight." -Luther Burbank
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"I salute the Light within your eyes where thewhole Universe dwells. For when you are at the center within you, and I am in that place within me, we shall be One." -Oglala Sioux Chief Crazy Horse
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"It is only possible to live happilyever after on a day-to-day basis." - Margaret Bonnano
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"Humility has nothing to do with depreciating ourselves or our gifts in ways we know to be untrue. Even "humble" attitudes can be masks of pride. Humility is that freedom from our self that enables us to be in positions in which we have neither recognition nor importance, neither power nor visibility, and even experience deprivation, and yet have joy and delight. It is the freedom of knowing that we are not in the center of the universe, not even in the center of our own private universe". - David F. Wells, Losing Our Virtue
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"The young man knows the rules butthe old man knows the exceptions." -Oliver Wendell Holmes
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We shall never achieve harmony with land, any more than we shall achieve justice or liberty for people. In these higher aspirations the important thing is not to achieve, but to strive. - Aldo Leopold
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"Everyone speaks of peace; no one knows what peace is. We know at best a poisoned peace. No one has lived on earth without weapons, without war and the threat of war on a large and small scale." - Christina Thurmer-Rohr
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"The direct use of force is such a poor solution to any problem, it is generally employed only by small children and large nations." - David Friedman
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"Nothing stays the same. Everysecond in history occurred with out fail, as the future hath al- ready come and gone. My hair grows and my heart beats as I plead for them not to. It is then I am in amazement of control and my inability to possess it." Smoker Brain Candy "If you smoke... try to take 3 drags exactly the same; with face, lips, shoulder, arm, and hand in the same way." For Your Minds Only No Comments From Non-Smokers>>> please and thank you, xo! -sherbear
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sherbear, so being an ex-cigarette smoker (the worst kind, I know, and by the way, Smokers Brain Candy = nicotine = nasty commercial spray-on pesticide. There, I said it; I'm done.) I tried this "3 drag" experiment with a "Hawaiian" cigarette Experimental notes: ...............I love scientific experiments of this sort ...............damn! one of these days I'm going to invent a rolling paper for old people ...............finally! ...............wait a minute ...............was that the 3rd drag or the 4th ...............can't remember...what did she say to do? ...............crappers! ...............do-over ...............perseverance ...............gotta love it :))))))))))) Words to live by: Enjoy cannabis while you still cannabis. (of course, only if you live where it's legalized). - {%}; ))))))))))
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Nice...slo, xo! Could you do it was the question; -take 3 drags of anything lit... exactly the same each time. "The Sun actually touches your body and It brings to you a part of the Universe; that will be forever beyond your control. Once that happens it becomes an un-changable part of you. The green grass rejoices and bathing together isn't bathing together but, indeed bathing across a thousand miles." "How lovely is the thought of that-that is so incredible; I kissed the Moon and the Stars and I hugged the Sun... yesterday." -sherbear
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'The discovery that music is the fundamental atmospheric art has solved an old, annoying and yet inescapable problem of music theory, i.e. the question: of what does music's so-called emotional effect actually consist? In opposition to the helpless association theories and the theories that called upon fantasy to mediate, the Aesthetics of Atmospheres gives a simple answer to the question: music as such is a modification of space as it is experienced by the body. Music forms and informs the listener's sense of self (das Sichbefinden) in a space; it reaches directly into his or her corporeal economy.' - Gernot Böhme
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"May the spirit of peacebring gladness to you heart today and everyday." -LEANIN' TREE
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'All this twaddle, the existence of God, atheism, determinism, liberation, societies, death, etc., are pieces of a chess game called language, and they are amusing only if one does not preoccupy oneself with "winning or losing this game of chess".' - Marcel Duchamp
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"Now, it's willingnesspersonally possessed willingness, to have more life in a state of lifelessness."
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"When you speak the "TRUTH", it enlightens and helps a few, but hurts and angers many...!!!"
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"In this digital age, to arrive at a truth,we must only look at the fingertips of a person...indeed anyone, anywhere, that is or has been on a keyboard; you can know a person by what they would say or what they would do. Fingerprints on a keyboard, yes, fingerprints on a keyboard...ahh what else could be so personally intricate as the self -exposed- by themselves neigh by another. It is only self...you and your keys and what you are because You have brought them together. Run, run and see who everyone really is and what they think as the keys make the page." Mmmmmmmm Before this time of now... "Some Artists use brush strokes to create beauty others use ink." Real ink forever. Signatures in ink.
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'The house was silent, but somewhere in the garden was a swimming pool filled with unsettled water.' - J.G. Ballard
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en·cap·su·late verb \in-ˈkap-sə-ˌlāt, en-\ : to show or express the main idea or quality of (something) in a brief way : to completely cover (something) especially so that it will not touch anything else en·cap·su·lat·ed en·cap·su·lat·ing Merriam-Webster w-m.com
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'(if you would see the stars clearly,look hard at the surrounding darkness).' - Ooka Makoto
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'Perhaps we should be happier in our cities were we to respond to them as nature or dreams; as objects of exploration, investigation and interpretation, settings for voyages of discovery. The "discourse" that has shaped our cities - the utilitarian plans of experts whose goal was social engineering - has limited our vision and almost destroyed our cities. It is time for a new vision, a new ideal of life in the city - and a new, "feminine" voice in praise of cities.' - Elizabeth Wilson
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"a sativa-dominant hybrid with a very strong effect, and it is said to be so strong that the jaw drops leaving the smoker shit faced." - Humboldt..... "pays good money, five dollars a day" :))))))))) (Actual description from the seed breeder of the strain Trainwreck)
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'What one person sees as degrading and disgusting and bad for women might make some women feel empowered and beautiful and strong.' - Sasha Grey
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"the cruelest trick of all came from the Taliban, who allowed plenty of drugs and then banned music." - Unknown
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Aerodynamically, the bumble bee shouldn't be able to fly, but the bumble bee doesn't know it so it goes on flying anyway. Mary Kay Ash
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I am entirely non-religious.I am anti-war, anti-military. I am anti-capital punishment. I am anti-corporal punishment. I am anti-racism/xenophobia. I am anti-nationalist/anti-colonialist. I am pro-internationalist. I am pro-animal rights/welfare. I am pro-gay/lesbian. I am pro-choice (re. abortion). I am anti-censorship, pro-freedom of artistic expression. - William Bennett
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"In order to discover who you arefirst learn who everybody else is. You're what's left." -Fortune Cookie Lucky Numbers 20, 32, 37, 16, 15, 53
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'I think everyone's bisexual to some degree or another; it's just a question of whether or not you choose to recognize it and embrace it. Personally, I think choosing between men and women is like choosing between cake and ice cream. You'd be daft not to try both when there are so many different flavors.' - Björk
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"Your Imagination, should never serve you... stale bread and flat beer." -sherbear
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'Our bodies are surrounded by air. Air fills space completely. But we are not clearly conscious of the existence of air in our daily lives. We notice air's existence somehow by the actions of vibration, heat and light. Air appears as a medium in our observation. Air spreads physical vibration into a space like a spring. Next, a time difference appears in the sound depending on the form of the space. Movement of this medium is greatly concerned with space and time. Moreover, it is also concerned with movement from past to present and from far to near. It is interesting to observe movement of this medium by physical vibration even without discovering its cause. We can find beautiful order there.' - Toshiya Tsunoda