The film based on Allen Ginsberg's poem Howl.
Showing posts with label poetry. Show all posts
Showing posts with label poetry. Show all posts
Tuesday, May 17, 2011
Wednesday, May 11, 2011
Friday, December 3, 2010
Sole picks the West's five greatest myths
Read this...
And then read the things he is referencing...
and learn something....
Because Sole is not only intelligent, open minded, and on point...
He is DOPE! (and this guy knows his history, do you?)
Five Western Myths
by Tim Holland, a.k.a. Sole
1. Santa Claus
The modern Santa gets his roots from Sinter Klaas, the Dutch father of Christmas. Sinter Klass, with the help of his '"Zwarte Pieten," a.k.a. enslaved "black devils," brought gifts to children. He moved his residence to the North Pole, where he seemingly swapped out the Moors for Inuits. Today this myth lies at the center of our entire economy and arguably our way of life.
My biggest problem with Santa is that it teaches children that something comes out of nothing, and it gives them an early and tangible affirmation of the supernatural. Even during periods of relative prosperity, it's not uncommon for an American parent to take a second job around the holidays simply to perpetuate this myth. Maybe history laughs last, as yesterday's “Moors” are replaced the world over by today’s work force.
2. The Epic of Gilgamesh
The first epic poem ever written, there is something about the crudeness of the poetry, its repetition, and style that really floors me. This is where much of "Genesis" in the old testament draws its roots, most notably the tale of "The Great Deluge." In the Sumerian version, the "gods" decided to wipe out mankind simply because we were making too much noise, not because the city was corrupted and perverse.
The Epic of Gilgamesh is a story of a tyrant king created by the gods who seeks the leaf of immortality to be more like them. Although the leaf was stolen by a snake, Gilgamesh ironically attained immortality through the stone tablets that preserved this myth for 10,000 years. It is well known that Iraq/Babylon/Sumer is "the cradle of civilization," and this bizarrely written story speaks to the roots and motifs that pervade our "civilization."
3. Behold A Pale Horse by William Cooper
This is another story that has captured the imagination of conspiracy theorists, rappers, Tea Party members, and free thinkers alike. There are very powerful ideas in this book about how society is constructed. It explains how people are dumbed down, how information is organized, and how the world would be ruled. The basic premise of this “myth” is that secret societies control the world (on behalf of aliens), which wouldn’t be so annoying if so many people didn’t favor ready-made catch-all answers over researching history.
These stories were used for different ends by different groups in different times, but the result is always the same: “Do nothing; watch YouTube videos; you’re helpless.” I hate this myth the most, because it takes facts, twists them, and misleads the less educated. In the '80s, it was William Cooper. These ideas were then adapted by Alex Jones and are today being reworked by Glenn Beck on Fox News. Karl Marx said, “All that is solid melts into air”; in America, the reverse is also true.
4. The Matrix
Forget about the second and third Matrix movies. The original Matrix was inspired by the ideas of Jean Baudrillard, a French philosopher inspired by OG situationist Guy Debord. Baudrillard believed that “man had ceased to be man and the world had ended when the spectacle took over.” The basic idea here is that the "spectacle" has its own agenda; it is an abstraction of power, finance, and media that grinds the Earth and its inhabitants down as raw resource. We are here as spectators — numbers in a giant machine that is controlled by little more than market forces.
Like in The Matrix, the modern worker is completely alienated from his labor and his reality. Thanks to modern technology and social networking, mankind manages to bypass both physical and geographical limitations. Technically, our bodies are not hooked up to giant fields that harvest us for energy to feed the machine, but we might as well be.
5. Revelations
America is a Christian nation, and even reformed Christians hold on to a lot of Christian beliefs. One of the most pervasive is Armageddon. Atheists hedge bets on societal collapse. Evangelicals don’t mind carbon emissions as long as Christ makes it back in time to rescue the pious. New-Agers wait for Atlantis to rise or 2012, when Jon Cusack will save a handful of whites. In reality, Revelations was about the fall of the Roman Empire, and it still is.
And then read the things he is referencing...
and learn something....
Because Sole is not only intelligent, open minded, and on point...
He is DOPE! (and this guy knows his history, do you?)
Five Western Myths
by Tim Holland, a.k.a. Sole
1. Santa Claus
The modern Santa gets his roots from Sinter Klaas, the Dutch father of Christmas. Sinter Klass, with the help of his '"Zwarte Pieten," a.k.a. enslaved "black devils," brought gifts to children. He moved his residence to the North Pole, where he seemingly swapped out the Moors for Inuits. Today this myth lies at the center of our entire economy and arguably our way of life.
My biggest problem with Santa is that it teaches children that something comes out of nothing, and it gives them an early and tangible affirmation of the supernatural. Even during periods of relative prosperity, it's not uncommon for an American parent to take a second job around the holidays simply to perpetuate this myth. Maybe history laughs last, as yesterday's “Moors” are replaced the world over by today’s work force.
2. The Epic of Gilgamesh
The first epic poem ever written, there is something about the crudeness of the poetry, its repetition, and style that really floors me. This is where much of "Genesis" in the old testament draws its roots, most notably the tale of "The Great Deluge." In the Sumerian version, the "gods" decided to wipe out mankind simply because we were making too much noise, not because the city was corrupted and perverse.
The Epic of Gilgamesh is a story of a tyrant king created by the gods who seeks the leaf of immortality to be more like them. Although the leaf was stolen by a snake, Gilgamesh ironically attained immortality through the stone tablets that preserved this myth for 10,000 years. It is well known that Iraq/Babylon/Sumer is "the cradle of civilization," and this bizarrely written story speaks to the roots and motifs that pervade our "civilization."
3. Behold A Pale Horse by William Cooper
This is another story that has captured the imagination of conspiracy theorists, rappers, Tea Party members, and free thinkers alike. There are very powerful ideas in this book about how society is constructed. It explains how people are dumbed down, how information is organized, and how the world would be ruled. The basic premise of this “myth” is that secret societies control the world (on behalf of aliens), which wouldn’t be so annoying if so many people didn’t favor ready-made catch-all answers over researching history.
These stories were used for different ends by different groups in different times, but the result is always the same: “Do nothing; watch YouTube videos; you’re helpless.” I hate this myth the most, because it takes facts, twists them, and misleads the less educated. In the '80s, it was William Cooper. These ideas were then adapted by Alex Jones and are today being reworked by Glenn Beck on Fox News. Karl Marx said, “All that is solid melts into air”; in America, the reverse is also true.
4. The Matrix
Forget about the second and third Matrix movies. The original Matrix was inspired by the ideas of Jean Baudrillard, a French philosopher inspired by OG situationist Guy Debord. Baudrillard believed that “man had ceased to be man and the world had ended when the spectacle took over.” The basic idea here is that the "spectacle" has its own agenda; it is an abstraction of power, finance, and media that grinds the Earth and its inhabitants down as raw resource. We are here as spectators — numbers in a giant machine that is controlled by little more than market forces.
Like in The Matrix, the modern worker is completely alienated from his labor and his reality. Thanks to modern technology and social networking, mankind manages to bypass both physical and geographical limitations. Technically, our bodies are not hooked up to giant fields that harvest us for energy to feed the machine, but we might as well be.
5. Revelations
America is a Christian nation, and even reformed Christians hold on to a lot of Christian beliefs. One of the most pervasive is Armageddon. Atheists hedge bets on societal collapse. Evangelicals don’t mind carbon emissions as long as Christ makes it back in time to rescue the pious. New-Agers wait for Atlantis to rise or 2012, when Jon Cusack will save a handful of whites. In reality, Revelations was about the fall of the Roman Empire, and it still is.
Saturday, September 18, 2010
The Pyre
Ravi Zupa's series of silk screen posters featuring images from "The Pyre"
the atheist prayer flags
merch table
pedestrian / evangelist j.b. best
projection of videos on the wall
Sole spitting poems from his new book The Pyre
Unconventional Science and K-the-I back there
The book is so dope and i have a beautiful bound copy, Tim said it was the last one. Im lucky and happy i went, it was close to home, and i went early bcuz the bf wanted to partake in the free beers. I bought a couple of the posters and now i really want to get a few of the linoleum prints, they are all amazing and i cant decide.
Thursday, April 24, 2008
Friday, October 26, 2007
introducing Sole and the Skyrider band
I have been following Sole since I was in my early twenties and now we are getting into our 30s. Scary. He has a new song that says "you cant be 30 and still making hip hop". He is a founding member of Anticon and has now merged with skyrider to form Sole and the Skyrider band.
Their first official show last nite was great! (However there was that bizaar Palm Springs show)
Telephone Jim Jesus was flippin awsome.
Then Sole and Skyrider tore it up.
The band consists of 4 members:
Front man/lead vocals/dope raps - Sole aka Tim Holland
drums - John Wagner
mpc/electronic drums/guitar/recorder piano/sickle- Bud Berning
guitar/upright bass/voilin/keyboard/anything and everything- William Ryan Fritch
Tim chipped his tooth during one of the first songs. Im tellin ya, its that intense.
I love it when Bud plays the sickle.
Their first official show last nite was great! (However there was that bizaar Palm Springs show)
Telephone Jim Jesus was flippin awsome.
Then Sole and Skyrider tore it up.The band consists of 4 members:
Front man/lead vocals/dope raps - Sole aka Tim Holland
drums - John Wagner
mpc/electronic drums/guitar/recorder piano/sickle- Bud Berning
guitar/upright bass/voilin/keyboard/anything and everything- William Ryan Fritch
Tim chipped his tooth during one of the first songs. Im tellin ya, its that intense.
I love it when Bud plays the sickle.
Monday, May 21, 2007
Anticon Art Show
....Was on Saturday the 12th at Unitard in Downtown. Anticon is a collectivly owned record label of D.I.Y. musicians and artists. Here is the flier...
Upon entering i was delighted to see so many familiar faces...Doseone, Why?, Bomar Monk, Passage, Pedestrian, Jel, and many more.
Here is some of the featured artist's work...
My favorite was a group of Garfield pencil drawings by Dose. These were really funny and I love them cuz I used to collect Garfield as a kid - Comics, books, plush toys. I definately owe my dry sarcastic humor to that cat. Also the 2 paintings above...
Live performances began with Doseone aka Adam Drucker reading poetry. He did this one poem about losing his fiance, which he did preface as being a "little heavy", and by the end i had a little tear in my eye but thats OK (for those of us who know exactly what thats like). He has a great poetry book that I recommend. I picked up this tiny little zine which turned out to be amazing.
Then the Pedestrian aka James Brandon Best did a slide show set to music. The story goes that he found this bunch of slides in the street in Oakland about 6 years ago. The slides are of a young boy and his mother circa 1960.
This really spoke to me. I especially liked how there were a few slides that were double exposed and he would focus one part of the slide and then (on beat) he would alter the focus to the other image in the slide. Mezmerizing if you have a love for the simple things. I loved this.
Next i guess batrays played(I didnt stay). It seemed like alot of people came for that only because they were yapping all thru dose's poetry set. He had to shut them up to continue. Hullo? How rude is that?
Im so glad they did another show in LA after the SF show a few months ago.
Upon entering i was delighted to see so many familiar faces...Doseone, Why?, Bomar Monk, Passage, Pedestrian, Jel, and many more.
Here is some of the featured artist's work...
My favorite was a group of Garfield pencil drawings by Dose. These were really funny and I love them cuz I used to collect Garfield as a kid - Comics, books, plush toys. I definately owe my dry sarcastic humor to that cat. Also the 2 paintings above...
Live performances began with Doseone aka Adam Drucker reading poetry. He did this one poem about losing his fiance, which he did preface as being a "little heavy", and by the end i had a little tear in my eye but thats OK (for those of us who know exactly what thats like). He has a great poetry book that I recommend. I picked up this tiny little zine which turned out to be amazing.
Then the Pedestrian aka James Brandon Best did a slide show set to music. The story goes that he found this bunch of slides in the street in Oakland about 6 years ago. The slides are of a young boy and his mother circa 1960.
This really spoke to me. I especially liked how there were a few slides that were double exposed and he would focus one part of the slide and then (on beat) he would alter the focus to the other image in the slide. Mezmerizing if you have a love for the simple things. I loved this.
Next i guess batrays played(I didnt stay). It seemed like alot of people came for that only because they were yapping all thru dose's poetry set. He had to shut them up to continue. Hullo? How rude is that?
Im so glad they did another show in LA after the SF show a few months ago.
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