Category Archives: Esoteric

Peace

Yoko Ono informed me today, via the internet, that it is/was international peace day.  I’m not really sure what that means, but she also mentioned the Imagine Peace Tower, which was dedicated to John Lennon in 2007 and is located on Viðey Island near Reykjavík.  It shines every year from October 9 (Lennon’s birthday) until December 8 [...]
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Sting

From the Schmidt Sting Pain Index: 1.0 Sweat bee: Light, ephemeral, almost fruity. A tiny spark has singed a single hair on your arm. 1.2 Fire ant: Sharp, sudden, mildly alarming. Like walking across a shag carpet & reaching for the light switch. 1.8 Bullhorn acacia ant: A rare, piercing, elevated sort of pain. Someone has fired a staple [...]
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shoegazer aesthetics

“Throughout the course of history, numerous works of art have stood at the forefront of their respective genres. British indie band My Bloody Valentine’s Loveless is one such work. Their unique sound on the album defined a sub-genre of indie rock known as shoegaze. This thesis is the first major academic study of [...]
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Summit of creation

“The dream of reason did not take power into account.  The dream was that reason, in the form of arts and sciences, would liberate humanity from scarcity and the caprices of nature, ignorance and superstition, tyranny, and not least of all, the diseases of the body and the spirit.  But reason is no abstract force [...]
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Buddhist chant

buddhist chant. Go here, click the arrow button (next to play) and then click play and listen to the loop. I love this site.
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Weirdo

And getting up here I say It is the best road trip in America Soaring through nature’s finest show. Denali, the great one, Soaring under the midnight sun. And then the extremes. In the winter time It’s the frozen road that is competing With the view of ice fogged frigid beauty The cold though, doesn’t it split The Cheechakos from the Sourdoughs? And then in the summertime Such [...]
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Inside the boundaries

Someone once told me that English critic John Ruskin suffered from horror vacui (the fear of empty spaces) and I initially thought that I finally had a name for my taste in interior design (though soon realized this was not the case).  In philosophy, the term originates with Aristotle, who theorized that nature “fears” empty space; therefore, [...]
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Word of the day.

“The word lethologica is the psychological disorder of not being able to remember the word you want.”- from Miles
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