| LA hip hop scene |
[Oct. 12th, 2004|09:49 pm] |
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It's not that Richard Terfry sells himself short — it's that he used to be a baseball pitcher whose high, hard heat left batters speechless. His opponents' batting average against him became his MC moniker, and, since then, Buck 65 has left many cursing his smoke, and the way his writerly joie de vivre permeates his tracks. If there's one thing you can say about the battle-weary, Canadian hip-hop existentialist, it's that his weirdo rap narratives (low on keepin'-it-real monologues and product placement) are the musings of an eccentric. Watch him work a room, and keep the legend of his heat alive. (PO)
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MUSIC: Hip-Hop
Del tha Funkee Homosapien w/ Aceyalone
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El Rey (5515 Wilshire Blvd, 323.936.6400) |
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These MCs represent the West Coast hip-hop continuum, a lineage of enlightened rappers — stretching from Oakland to LA — who don't follow fashion or succumb to conformity. For over ten years, Del, Acey, Abrude, Mikah, and the rest have been blowing up the underground, and remaining consistently on message: have fun but be yourself. Each is solid in his own right (Del was last seen working with Gorillaz, while Acey has been releasing solo since the demise of Freestyle Fellowship years back), but together, they're the hip-hop intelligentsia — saviors to those weary heads who're looking for a different, more genuine vibe. (TCR)
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| what are you afraid of? |
[Sep. 28th, 2004|11:06 pm] |
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~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Musings From The Hollow
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Fear is the cheapest room in the house. I would like to see you living in better conditions, for your mother and my mother were friends. --HAFIZ
Fear is also the oldest game in town--political and otherwise! At some point you have to choose if you're going to live a life of fear, or a life of love. It doesn't depend on who is elected in November--it depends on your willingness to choose how you are going to live out your life, moment by moment .
Please do come and spend some time with other people who are willing to make the long journey back home to love. As always, Joe
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| saul williams |
[Aug. 10th, 2004|10:35 pm] |
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Saul will be a special guest at Nas' show at New York's Central Park Summerstage
on Sunday, August 15th. Show begins at 3 and is free. Please arrive early.
Other tourdates:
September 1st York College, Toronto, Ontario
September 14th Cal Polytech, Pomona CA
Saul's new self titled in stores September 21.
For updates, http://www.saulwilliams.com
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| los angeles |
[Aug. 10th, 2004|05:48 pm] |
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| W's chief political strategist Karl Rove gets the documentary film treatment from directors Michael Paradies Shoob and Joseph Mealey, who based their work on James Moore and Wayne Slater's 2003 bestseller of the same name. Characterized as smarter-than-your-average-puppetmaster, Rove is shown leaving his fingerprints on every White House decree and organizing the media spin to help Americans swallow some shady dealings. Attend the discussion set to follow this sneak preview screening, and debate the directors about who really runs America. (AA) | |
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LA fans who couldn't see Derrick Carter and Mark Farina's storming session at San Francisco's Mezzanine club a few months back thought they'd have to console themselves with the live recording of the night — which, as consolation prizes go, isn't bad at all. Recently released on Om, the double-disc charts the top selectors' journeys through deep house and crackerjack jack tracks, slinking and crackling their way from the West Coast to Europe (with a lengthy layover in Chicago, of course). But tonight you can set your iPod down in its dock, because Carter and Farina are coming live and direct to the City of Angels for an encore performance. (PHS)
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| Modeled after Marvel Comics' Dr. Doom, "Metal Face Doom" — aka KMD member Zev Love X — hit the scene with 3rd Bass's "The Gas Face" and quickly fell off all but the bootleggers' map with 1994's Bl_ck B_st_rds, an angry, unsparing album that led label Elektra to drop him. After returning with 1999's Operation: Doomsday, Doom adopted another persona, Viktor Vaughn, to release Vaudeville Villain on New York indie label Sound Ink. A masterpiece of cryptic rhymes and glitched-up production, the album made many critics' best-of-2003 lists. Tonight's show provides a rare opportunity to meet the man behind the mask, supported by a stunning lineup of opening acts, including Mr. Lif, MC Akrobatik, DJ Scratch, Shagge Mark Luv, and a special d 'n b afterparty with Photek. (PHS) | |
ART
Coop: Parts with Appeal
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Sat 8.14 (7-10pm) |
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Sixspace Gallery (549 W 23rd St, 213.765.0248) |
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| Try to think of five recent concert posters that really caught your eye. Chances are, four were painted by Coop. A master of the more hormonal aspects of the twisted male brain, Coop specializes in cramming a harem of vices — in the forms of drinking, smoking, hot rodding, naked devil girls, and demonic monsters — into his compositions. It's almost surprising that he hails from the Los Angeles underground art scene and not Sin City, or Dante's Inferno. In Parts With Appeal, his first solo exhibition in almost five years, Coop presents his legendary icons in truncated segments lain on end for yards, recontextualizing a massive body (wink wink) of work. (JCF) | |
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| Listen up, this movie will change your life. Part documentary, part narrative, What the #$*! Do We Know!? explores and illustrates the relationship between quantum science and spiritual consciousness. Structured like a classical Greek drama, a central storyline starring the great Marlee Matlin is punctuated by the comments of a chorus of leading scientists and thinkers. Going straight to the questions at the core of life's mysteries, and gleefully challenging every assumption we make about the nature of reality, this movie educates, stimulates, and inspires. With wit, killer graphics, and accessible language, the film stresses that we create our own reality every single second, so we better make each one count. (SND) | |
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EZLN: Images of a Movement
Retrospective of the Zapatista Struggle
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Now through Sun 8.29 (Tue-Fri: 10am-4pm / Sun: 12-4pm) |
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Self-Help Graphics & Art (3802 Cesar E Chavez Ave, 323.881.6444) |
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Communist dictatorships and the '60s may have made "revolution" a dirty word inside the castles of Western Civ, but outside the NATO empire, the struggle continues. Self-Help Graphics' exhibition of more than 50 black-and-whites by photographers Paula Ramírez and Raymundo Reynoso documents revolution as a natural part of life in Chiapas, Mexico, where the Zapatista Army (EZLN) has conducted a 20-year struggle in support of Mexico's indigenous peoples against the oppressive Euro culture. Many of these pictures are everyday images the Western media probably can't afford to show you, photographs indicating that the course of history is far from settled. (PO)
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ECONOMY - RHETORIC VERSUS REALITY: This week, President Bush said, “When it comes to creating jobs for American workers, we are turning the corner and we're not going back.” It's not time to pop the champagne quite yet. According to today's report by the Bureau of Labor Statistics, U.S. employers added “just an eighth of the number [of jobs] forecast. The new figures bolster "evidence that a slowdown in economic growth may extend into the third quarter.” On top of that, job numbers for recent months weren't as positive as previously thought: “Job gains also were revised lower for the preceding two months, to 78,000 for June and 208,000 in May, or 61,000 less than originally stated.” Keep in mind, about 150,000 jobs need to be added just to keep up with growth in the labor force. This month, only 32,000 were added.
HALLIBURTON – MORE REASONS IT SHOULD GET NO-BID CONTRACTS: According to a new filing by four former Halliburton employees, Vice President Cheney's former company was guilty of inflating its financial results, overbilling for services, overstating its accounts receivable due from customers, and understating accounts payable owed to vendors. The employees “contend that a high-level and systemic accounting fraud occurred at the company from 1998 to 2001,” including during the two years when Cheney was Halliburton's chief executive. “The filing accuses the company of accounting improprieties that go far beyond those outlined by the Securities and Exchange Commission in its civil suit against Halliburton, which the company settled on Tuesday, paying $7.5 million.” It notes that one former employee in accounting said superiors told her to do “whatever it took” to make projects appear profitable and to meet Wall Street estimates for the company's earnings. According to a quarterly filing it also made on Tuesday, Halliburton is under investigation by the Justice Department for possibly overbilling on work done in the Balkans from 1996 through 2000.
VOTING – FLORIDA TOUCH SCREENS DRAW (MORE) SCRUTINY: Belated public scrutiny of a report on tens of thousands of ballots tossed out for irregularities in Florida's 2002 elections revealed that "the rate of so-called undervotes, or blank or incomplete ballots, in the 2002 gubernatorial election was nearly three times higher in counties using touch-screen machines as in those with optical scan systems.” The report shows “more than 44,000 votes weren't counted” in the governor's race won by the president's brother, Jeb Bush. Activist groups are calling on Gov. Bush to give voters in touch-screen counties the option of using paper ballots, but so far the governor has refused, even as his own party has been circulating fliers advising constituents to “Make sure your vote counts. Order your absentee ballot today.” The Miami Herald reports record numbers of voters may ask for absentee ballots because of suspicions about the touch screen machines.
JUDICIAL – INFORMATION WITHHELD ON JUDGES: The Washington Post reports that “Nearly 600 times in recent years, a judicial committee acting in private has stripped information from reports intended to alert the public to conflicts of interest involving federal judges.” A study by the Government Accountability Office (GAO) found that “In 55 instances, the committee withheld all information on the disclosure reports -- including details about outside income, gifts, business contracts, debts, stocks and the value of holdings.” Judicial ethics specialists said they were “startled at the breadth of the excisions -- and particularly that the material cut included financial information that appeared to present little safety risk.” Legal ethicist Jeffrey Shaman said, “It makes one wonder if the real reason for a judge to request the redaction is to prevent the public from learning embarrassing information.”
MEDIA – MCCAIN CONDEMNS BUSH CAMPAIGN AD: Sen. John McCain (R-AZ), a former prisoner of war in Vietnam, has sharply condemned an ad criticizing John Kerry's military service and urged the White House on Thursday to condemn it as well. “The White House declined.” The 60-second ad features Vietnam veterans accusing Kerry of lying about his decorated Vietnam War record, even though none of the veterans who criticize Kerry served with him on his swift boat. “I deplore this kind of politics,” McCain said. “I think the ad is dishonest and dishonorable. As it is, none of these individuals served on the boat [Kerry] commanded. Many of his crew have testified to his courage under fire. I think John Kerry served honorably in Vietnam.” Three veterans who were on Kerry's boat -- Jim Rassmann, Gene Thorson and Del Sandusky, called the ad “pure fabrication.” |
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| this weekend in los angeles |
[Aug. 4th, 2004|09:13 am] |
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| What happens when two legendary hip-hop producers become pen pals? You get Jaylib, the musical alliance between Detroit's Jay Dee (of Pharcyde and Common production fame) and Cali's Madlib (who boasts Dilated Peoples and Beastie Boys credits). Fueled by mutual admiration and a FedEx account, Jay Dee and Madlib began trading tracks and MC duties on the tapes and CD-Rs that became the dusty, lo-fi bling of Jaylib's Champion Sound album. Given the obvious location issues, and their ever-increasing production schedules and side-projects, this may be one of the few opportunities to catch these two on stage together. (MS) | |
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| For anyone who thought the soundtrack to last week's DNC lacked punch (U2? Stevie Wonder?), may we suggest the DMC. Suspense won't be lacking at tonight's Technics/DMC DJ finals, as the champs from 21 regional cut-up competitions throw down for the right to represent the US of A on the decks at the world championships in London in September. Once known as the Disco Mix Club, in 1988 the DMC dropped the boogie and brought in the scratch, making it the true arena for all gladiators of the crossfader. Watch these contenders go head-to-head for the turntablist crown worn by such greats as DJ Craze, Cash Money, Q-Bert, Mixmaster Mike, P-Trix, and Roc Raida of the X-Ecutioners. (TW) | | |
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| The Woman Chaser |
[Jul. 30th, 2004|01:26 pm] |
"Do you remember what I said about money and about the men who seek to reverse the law of cause and effect? The men who try to replace the mind by seizing the products of the mind? Well, the man who despises himself tries to gain self esteem from sexual adventures-which can't be done, because sex is not the cause, but an effect and an expression of a man's sense of his own value."
"You'd better explain that."
"Did it ever occur to you that it's the same issue? The men who think that wealth comes from material resources and has no intellectual root or meaning, are the men who think-for the same reason- that sex is a physical capacity which functions independently of one's mind, choice or code of values. They think that your body creates a desire and makes a choice for you just about in some such way as if iron ore transformed itself into railroad rails of its own volition. Love is blind, they say; sex is impervious to reason and mocks the power of all philosophers. But, in fact, a man's sexual choice is the result and the sum of his fundamental convictions. Tell me what a man finds sexually attractive and I will tell you his entire philosophy of life Show me the woman he sleeps with and I will tell you Ins valuation of himself. No matter what corruption he's taught about the virtue of selflessness, sex is the most profoundly selfish of all acts, an act which he cannot perform for any motive but his own enjoyment just try to think of performing it in a spirit of selfless charity an act which is not possible in self-abasement, only in self- exaltation only in the confidence of being desired and being worthy of desire It is an act that forces him to stand naked in spirit, as well as in body and to accept his real, ego as his standard of value. He will always be attracted to the woman who reflects his deepest vision of himself, the woman whose surrender permits him to experience- or to fake-a sense of self-esteem. The man who is proudly certain of his own value, will want the highest type of woman he can find, the woman he admires, the strongest, the hardest to conquer- because only the possession of a heroine will give him the sense of an achievement, not the possession of a brainless slut. He does not seek to. . . What's the matter?" he asked, seeing the look on Rearden's face, a look of intensity much beyond mere interest in an abstract discussion.
"Go on," said Rearden tensely.
"He does not seek to gain his value, he seeks to express it. There is no conflict between the standards of his mind and the desires of his body. But the man who is convinced of his own worthlessness will be drawn to a woman he despises-because she will reflect his own secret self, she will release him from that objective reality in which he is a fraud, she will give him a momentary illusion of his own value and a momentary escape from the moral code that damns him. Observe the ugly mess which most men make of their sex lives-and observe the mess of contradictions which they hold as their moral philosophy. One proceeds from the other. Love is our response to our highest values-and can be nothing else. Let a mail corrupt his values and his view of existence, let him profess that love is not self-enjoyment but self-denial, that virtue consists, not of pride, but of pity or pain or weakness or sacrifice, that the noblest love is born, not of admiration, but of charity, not in response to values, but in response to flaws-and he will have cut himself in two, His body will not obey him, it will not respond, it will make him impotent toward the woman he professes- to love and draw him to the lowest type of whore he can find. His body will always follow the ultimate logic of his deepest convictions; if he believes that flaws are values he has damned existence as evil and only the evil will attract him He has damned himself and he will feel that depravity is all he is worthy of enjoying. He has equated virtue with pain and he will feel that vice is the only realm of pleasure. Then he will scream that his body has vicious desires of its own which his mind cannot conquer, that sex is sin, that true love is a pure emotion of the spirit. And then he will wonder why love brings him nothing but boredom, and sex-nothing but shame."
Rearden said slowly, looking off, not realizing that he was thinking aloud, "At least . . . I've never accepted- that other tenet . . . I've never felt guilty about making money."
Francisco missed the significance of the first two words; he smiled and said eagerly, "You do see that it's the same issue? No, you'd never accept any part of their vicious creed. You wouldn't be able to force it upon yourself. If you tried to damn sex as evil, you'd still find yourself, against your will, acting on the proper moral premise. You'd be attracted to the highest woman you met. You'd always want a heroine. You'd be incapable of self-contempt. You'd be unable to believe that existence is evil and that you're a helpless creature caught in an impossible universe. You're the man who's spent his life shaping matter to the purpose- of his mind. You're the man who would know that just-as an idea unexpressed in physical action is contemptible hypocrisy, so is platonic love-and just as physical action unguided by an idea is a- fool's self-fraud, so is sex when cut off from one's code of values. It's the same issue, and you would know it. Your inviolate sense of self-esteem would know it. You; would be incapable of desire for a woman you despised. Only the man who extols the purity of a love devoid of desire, is capable of the depravity of a desire devoid of love. -But observe that most people are creatures cut in half who keep swinging desperately to one side or to the other. One kind of half is the man who despises money, factories, skyscrapers and his own body. He holds undefined emotions about non-conceivable subjects as the meaning of life and as his -claim to virtue. And he cries with despair, because he can feel nothing for the woman he respect8, but finds himself in bondage to an irresistible- passion for a slut from the gutter. He is the man whom people- call an idealist. The other kind of half is the man whom people call practical, the man who despises principles, abstractions, art, philosophy and his own mind. He regards the acquisition of material objects as the only goal of existence-and he laughs at the need to consider their purpose or their source. He expects them to give him pleasure-and he wonders why the more he gets, the less he feels. He is the man who spends his time chasing women. Observe the triple fraud which he perpetrates upon himself. He will not acknowledge his need of self-esteem, since he scoffs at such. a concept as moral values; yet he feels the profound self-contempt which comes from believing that he is a piece of meat. He will not acknowledge but he knows that sex is the physical expression of a tribute to personal values. So he tries, by going through the motions of the effect, to acquire that which should have been the cause. He tries to gain a sense of his own value from the women who surrender to him-and he forgets that the women he picks have neither character nor judgment nor standard of value. He tells himself that all he's after is physical pleasure-but observe that he tires of his women in a week or a night, that he despises professional whores and that he loves to imagine he is seducing virtuous girls who make a great exception for his sake. It is the feeling of achievement that he seeks and never finds. What glory can there be in the conquest of a mind- less body? Now that is your woman-chaser. Does the description fit me?"
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| essay by genpo roshi |
[Jul. 29th, 2004|08:45 am] |
“No matter who you are, or where you are on the globe, when you go to the sea and scoop up a handful of seawater, it will taste the same.”
What would you say if someone asked, “Do you exist?” Most of us would answer immediately, “Of course!” We take this so-called I for granted. But do you really exist? It’s a good question. The only problem is, we turn the question into a problem. First, we are stuck, deluded: we assume that we are what we think we are and that we exist in the way we think we exist. Then, we begin to question: “Is it so? Is there something more, something to be realized?” Somewhere along the way, we hear or read, “Yes! There is something to be realized, something to be tasted.” What does the mind do next? The small mind wants to figure out exactly what was experienced, precisely what was realized. Before we know it, we’ve started on a journey to the Sea. If we could have just one taste, then we could relax, right? No! The small mind is insatiable: we always want more, a bigger and better taste. One doughnut is never enough, we want the whole doughnut shop! Our grasping mind keeps us in the loop, always seeking more. Nobody is doing this to me, and nobody is doing this to you. We do it to ourselves.
Zen practice put our grasping mind to work. We have an itch, so we’re encouraged to right ahead and scratch. Don’t you really want to know, to finally discover and grasp the Truth? Tempting, isn’t it? Paradoxically, we have to try and we have to search, in order to discover that it can’t be grasped. Simply hearing about the experience is never enough. We have to go to the Sea, scoop up the water, and taste it for ourselves. So in Zen, we are encouraged to take the journey. We use fire to burn down the fuel and put out the fire.
Zen practice gives us a framework in which to do what is absolutely insane to do in the first place. I’m not talking about becoming even more insane, but admitting our insanity and becoming more sane in the process. All of us ask impossible questions: Am I a good person or a bad person? Is my life a success? Am I on the right path? Zen says: Go for it! Burn it out! |
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[Jul. 12th, 2004|10:33 pm] |
VOTING
Postponing the Election?
In a major exclusive, Newsweek reports the Bush administration is exploring legal justifications for postponing the November 2004 election in the event of a terrorist attack close to the election. In pushing for the authority to suspend democracy for the first time in America's history, the White House is seizing on the right-wing myth that the Spanish election was won by al Qaeda, instead of being lost by a government that lied to its people. And while the administration has trumpeted the prospect that al Qaeda might seek to disrupt the U.S. election, "counterterrorism officials concede they have no intelligence about any specific plots." ( more bush insanity ) |
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| from "the path of the human being" |
[Jul. 9th, 2004|10:20 pm] |
"Why are we so dissatisfied? Do you ever ask yourself that question? On the surface we may think our unhappiness stems from some need or desire that hasn’t yet been fulfilled. If we look no deeper, we will never stop running, trying t satisfy our endless desires. When we really look at what we think we need in order to be content, we will notice a pattern: we create a very narrow path for ourselves between what we judge as good and acceptable and what we judge as bad and intolerable. We imagine that somewhere between loving and hating the way things are, there is a nice place of satisfaction and contentment. So we aim for that ideal, even though it is a razor-thin line. Every once in a while we can feel satisfied when we manage to touch that ideal, but the experience is rare and it never lasts very long. Most of the time we feel dissatisfied, and we hope and believe that things could be better.
The problem is our perception, the way we look at our discontentment. As long as we think that discontentment exists because something is lacking, then of course, we will keep searching for a way to fill ourselves up. We will keep seeking and acquiring the next thing and the next thing and the next thing that we hope will bring us to that ideal state of contentment. But there is another way to approach this predicament: we don’t need to create such a thin line to begin with. Instead of thinking that in order for things to be OK they have to be this way or that, what if we accepted the way things are? What if we embraced it all?
If we could learn to be at peace with whatever is, then every day would be a good day. Yet doesn’t something inside rebel when we hear that? The rational mind argues, for every day to be a good day, every day would have to be all good and no bad. That’s impossible! It’s natural for life to have ups and downs, and we should expect to have good moments and bad moments. If we could simply accept that, we wouldn’t end up causing more problems for ourselves. Instead, we judge the moments and form preferences. We create a very narrow path, our own razor’s edge of contentment.
Buddha called this insanity. He saw that our basic problem is the way we view life. Somehow we see things inside out. Instead of seeing the big picture, we see things from a self-centered perspective. By putting the ego aside, the Buddha was able to look at life from the perspective of Big Mind, which sees the oneness of all things. Now, that doesn’t mean that the Buddha was some sort of god. He was just someone who was able to quiet his mind enough to perceive the nature of the disease and its cure. To be able to see what Buddha saw is not really that difficult. Discipline is all that is required to put the ego aside – even if only for a moment – so that life can be glimpsed form the perspective of Big Mind." - Genpo Roshi |
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[Jul. 5th, 2004|02:32 am] |
The Three Stages of Intimacy
By understanding you current style of intimate relationship, you can understand the next step you need to take. Which of the three styles is most like your current or recent relationship: Dependence, 50/50 or Intimate Communion? Each of these three styles is also a stage that you can grow through, if you are willing to be lovingly humorous about your own patterns in intimacy.
1. Dependence Relationship
In a Dependence Relationship, sex and power are often painfully mixed up. They are often engaged in some kind of power play. One partner often needs to feel in control, while the other partner often gives up his or her authentic power in order to feel loved and accepted.
A Dependence Relationship involves partners who become dependent on each other for money, emotional support, parenting or sex. Partners often end up feeling limited by old-style gender roles or by an imbalance of financial or physical power.
2. 50/50 Relationship
The 50/50 Relationship is the "modern" style of relationship that is based on two independent people coming together and working out an equitable partnership.
However, as many of us have discovered, there is a potential problem with this ideal of a 50/50 relationship. We begin to lose our aliveness. Sexuality loses its passion. We feel an incompleteness at our center.
A side-effect of this effort toward 50/50 is the suppression or starvation of our naturally more Masculine or Feminine sexual essence.
3. Intimate Communion
You learn that love is something you do, not something you 'fall into' or 'out of'. Love is something that you practice. Love is an action that you do - when you do it, you feel it. When you are loving, others find you lovable. Love is an action you can practice.
Intimate Communion is where we learn to practice loving even when we feel hurt, rejected or resistant. First we practice love, and then our native sexual essence blooms, naturally, inevitably, because we are learning to give from our core essence. |
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[Jun. 17th, 2004|08:59 pm] |
a news blip from [http://www.gamasutra.com] sent by rusuden...aka http://www.justinmorgan.com
"Research Volunteers Control Game With Mind"
Without using any bodily motion, four volunteers with epilepsy were able to play a simple videogame using only brainpower in a health and science experiment. A grid of electrodes was placed on the patients' brains, and after about a half hour of training and practice, they were able to move an object on a screen up or down toward a target by
thinking the word "move" or by imaging movement.
The research aims to innovate how paraplegics and other physically disabled people interact with the world, possibly one day helping to create machines that can be operated via non-invasive electrodes.
"After a brief training session, the patients could play the game by using signals that come off the surface of the brain. They achieved between 74 and 100 percent accuracy, with one patient hitting 33 out of 33 targets correctly in a row," said researcher Daniel Moran, Ph.D., assistant professor of biomedical engineering.
also from ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) plitzkin
shahram wanted to tell you about something really cool. It's called 8 Bit D&D and it's at:
http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/90046
Check it out! |
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| from centerforamericanprogress.org |
[Jun. 8th, 2004|08:22 pm] |
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The prison scandal was merely the product of "disgraceful conduct by a few American troops."
- President Bush, 5/24/04
VERSUS
"A Pentagon report set the framework for the use of torture" in Iraq. "A military lawyer who helped prepare the report said that political appointees heading the working group sought to assign to the president virtually unlimited authority on matters of torture."
- WSJ, 6/7/04
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[Jun. 8th, 2004|08:19 pm] |
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In these heady times of digital media, interactivity is the buzzword du jour. But the artists involved in Interchange take that idea far beyond the mere pushing of buttons or simple video feedback, challenging the idea of the passive audience. The group of multimedia, performance, and installation artists assembled by curator D. Jean Hester for this one-night event has been charged with incorporating the audience into the content of the works, with all of the unpredictability and controlled chaos that implies. As either voluntary performers or the source of improvised soundtracks, no one gets out without becoming art. (SND)
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This 1996 anime classic from Mamoru Oshii feels more prescient and influential than ever: The Matrix bogarted mightily from Oshii's head-tripping techno-dystopian odyssey. Building on the speculative worlds explored in sci-fi classics like Blade Runner, Ghost creates a nightmare that could soon be all too real: a homeland security force deals with armies of cyborgs and hackers who can break into people's minds and "burglarize" their thoughts, dreams, and memories. Obsessed with the ethical and social ramifications of artificial intelligence and uber-surveillance, Ghost asks whether the soul can exist in a society whose heart may be wired for destruction. (MD)
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In mid-March on a packed NYC stage, Brownsville's classic gangsta crew breathed new life into their acronym (which stands for Mash Out Posse) by teaming with local rockers Shiner Massive for 30 minutes of the most incendiary live hip-hop we have ever heard. The rhymes of "How About Some Hardcore" met the riffs of "Bulls on Parade" on equal ground, then exploded. If this appearance on the Weapons of Mic Destruction tour, co-starring the equally fierce and skillful Pharoahe Monch (he of "Simon Says" and Organized Konfusion fame), has half the energy and fervor of the Big Apple gig, bring your armor. (PO)
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ART
Unseen Messages
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Sat 6.12 - Sun 7.25 (Thur-Sat: 12-5pm) |
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Transport Gallery (1308 Factory Pl, 213.623.4099) |
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FREE |
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| NYC graffiti artists the Barnstormers reached legendary status by recreating their urban landscapes on the faces of deteriorating barns in rural North Carolina. Recent works from members of the collective form the basis of Unseen Messages, an east-side response to the Lab's Streetwise exhibition in Santa Monica. Doze Green blends primitive human forms into a futuristic, hip-hop-inspired world; Kenji Hirata's murals colorfully depict the five elements of ancient China; and Barnstormers founding member Dave "Skwerm" Ellis asserts a continuing affinity for the Tar Heel state with his twisting delineations on cured tobacco paper. (JSS) | | |
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| holotrip |
[Jun. 6th, 2004|08:59 pm] |
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| | mediocrates - invisible college | ] |
this coming weekend...holotrophic breathing with dr. stan grof...and the sixteenth international transpersonal conference...
at the riviera spa & resort in palm springs, california... http://www.itaconferences.org/
more about stan grof and holotropic breathing:
http://www.holotropic.com/
Holotropic Breathwork is a powerful approach to self-exploration and healing that integrates insights from modern consciousness research, anthropology, various depth psychologies, transpersonal psychology, Eastern spiritual practices, and mystical traditions of the world. The name Holotropic means literally "moving toward wholeness" (from the Greek "holos"=whole and "trepein"=moving in the direction of something).
The process itself uses very simple means: it combines accelerated breathing with evocative music in a special set and setting. With the eyes closed and lying on a mat, each person uses their own breath and the music in the room to enter a non-ordinary state of consciousness. This state activates the natural inner healing process of the individual's psyche, bringing him or her a particular set of internal experiences. With the inner healing intelligence guiding the process, the quality and content brought forth is unique to each person and for that particular time and place. While recurring themes are common, no two sessions are ever alike.
Additional elements of the process include focused energy release work and mandala drawing. Holotropic Breathwork is usually done in groups, although individual sessions are also possible. Within the groups, people work in pairs and alternate in the roles of experiencer and "sitter". The sitter's role is simply to be available to assist the breather, not to interfere or interrupt the process. The same is true for trained facilitators, who are available as helpers if necessary. |
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