Damn straight. Run-D.M.C, N.W.A., Eric B and Rakim, Jay-Z, Ahmad, Psy, and the Eminem. And Natalie P.
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Directed by the great Stanley Kubrick, this mighty film features memorable performances by Kirk Douglas, Peter Ustinov, Charles Laughton, Tony Curtis, and, of course: Laurence Olivier.
Miles D.
The Rolling Stone Encyclopedia of Rock & Roll noted “Miles Davis played a crucial and inevitably controversial role in every major development in jazz since the mid-’40s, and no other jazz musician has had so profound an effect on rock. Miles Davis was the most widely recognized jazz musician of his era, an outspoken social critic and an arbiter of style β in attitude and fashion β as well as music”.
Anecdote of note: Nancy Reagan turned to him and asked what he’d done with his life to merit an invitation. Straight-faced, Davis replied: “Well, I’ve changed the course of music five or six times. What have you done except f**k the president?”
Γber-magical moments featuring Dave Loggins, The Guess Who, Terry Jacks, Paper Lace, Rick Derringer, The Hues Corporation, Redbone, William DeVaughn, David Essex, Golden Earring, and Blue Magic.
“I term the Immortal One a plasmate, because it is a form of energy; it is living information. It replicates itself β not through information or in information β but as information. The plasmate can crossbond with a human, creating what I call a homoplasmate. This annexes the mortal human permanently to the plasmate.”
“Pascal said, ‘All history is one immortal man who continually learns.’ This is the Immortal One whom we worship without knowing his name. ‘He lived a long time ago, but he is still alive,’ and, ‘The Head Apollo is about to return.’ The name changes.”
“The changing information which we experience as world is an unfolding narrative. It tells about the death of a woman. This woman, who died long ago, was one of the primordial twins. She was half of the divine syzygy. The purpose of the narrative is the recollection of her and of her death. The Mind does not wish to forget her. Thus the ratiocination of the Brain consists of a permanent record of her existence, and, if read, will be understood this way. All the information processed by the Brain β experienced by us as the arranging and rearranging of physical objects β is an attempt at this preservation of her; stones and rocks and sticks and amoebae are traces of her. The record of her existence and passing is ordered onto the meanest level of reality by the suffering Mind which is now alone.”
“Out of itself the Brain has constructed a physician to heal it. This subform of the Macro-Brain is not deranged; it moves through the Brain, as a phagocyte moves through the cardiovascular system of an animal, healing the derangement of the Brain in section after section.”
“βSalvationβ through gnosis β more properly anamnesis (the loss of amnesia) β although it has individual significance for each of us β a quantum leap in perception, identity, cognition, understanding, world- and self-experience, including immortality β it has greater and further importance for the system as a whole, inasmuch as these memories are data needed by it and valuable to it, to its overall functioning.”
“But we cannot read the patterns of arrangement; we cannot extract the information in it β i.e. it as information, which is what it is. The linking and re-linking of objects by the Brain is actually a language, but not a language like ours (since it is addressing itself and not someone or something outside itself).”
from Valis, 1981, by PKD.
“Dick claimed that Valis used “disinhibiting stimuli” to communicate, using symbols to trigger recollection of intrinsic knowledge through the loss of amnesia, achieving gnosis.
Drawing directly from Platonism and Gnosticism, Dick wrote in his Exegesis: “We appear to be memory coils (DNA carriers capable of experience) in a computer-like thinking system which, although we have correctly recorded and stored thousands of years of experiential information, and each of us possesses somewhat different deposits from all the other life forms, there is a malfunctionβa failureβof memory retrieval.”
—-per Wikipedia.
1991’s The Silence of the Lambs, directed by Jonathan Demme, still unquestionably stands as a landmark of psychological terror. Jodi Foster, Anthony Hopkins, and Ted Levine all turn in remarkable, iconic performances. This immortal film features some of the most intense, memorable dialogue ever committed to the medium.
This English supergroup, consisting of the great Paul Rodgers (vocals), Mick Ralphs (lead guitar), Simon Kirke (drums), and bassist Boz Burrell, attained world domination in the 1970s. Managed by Peter Grant (also of Led Zep fame), Rodgers and the lads not only enjoyed massive hit after massive hit, but also enthralled millions with their live shows. The godlike Rodgers had few peers as a rock vocalist.
These apparently ill-tempered creatures are not known to willingly or peacefully return phones once they have managed to obtain them. In fact, any attempt to retrieve the desired object is not looked upon favourably, at all. One might do well to consider one’s erstwhile mobile device a lost cause, really, rather than face the frightful wrath of these fearsome, aggressive amphibians.
ECS—or Escaped Cow Syndrome—and the ennui-inducing NW (Now What-ism) associated with it—is something we all face; it is by no means limited to bovines/ungulates. But take heart, I say, from these proud, purposeful individuals. Nothing less than a clarion call has been sounded: We need not fear freedom; we must embrace it!!!! Or……..or, Something!!!!
Published earlier in sister-site ArgotSpeak.
A remote island in The Bahamas is home to these mighty aquatic feral pigs.
“The clever pigs have also worked out that the crews of passing yachts regularly dump excess food into the sea. Today the beach is a popular tourist attraction and whether or not they remember to bring their swimming gear, the tourist will always bring food. The hungry pigs eagerly plunge into the waves when they see a yacht and will swim a few hundred feet up to the vessel in the hope of a free meal.” (per Amusing Planet)