Transpondency

TransCanada Transpondency an audio travelogue of sorts Adam, Ron, Christopher head east of Chilliwack, BC on a two week camping trip. They make a unsuccessful attempt at crossing a washout in the dirt road which forces them to back the trailer down the mountain. Once safely turned around, the boys find the right location along the creek to land the trailer and set up camp. With a fire blazing, they finally enjoy some relaxation in the great outdoors. Music: Jason Shaw "Autumn Sunset" & "Back To The Woods" also Sadies "Taller Than The Pines" View Larger Map

There Is Nothing To Understand... U.G. Krishnamurti “What I say is not born out of my thinking” No One Talking Environments Disc 7: "Innotation" & "Summer Cornfield" Dirty Projectors: "About To Die" U.G. Krishnamurticonversation with Barbara Schuler KAZU Radio (May 1989) My Brightest Diamond: "Reaching Through To The Other Side" Young Galaxy: "Peripheral Visionaries" David Byrne and St. Vincent: "Who" Tennis: "My Better Self" Limerick Woods: "Binaural forest soundscape"  Marconi Union: "Weightless" UG's Calamity Check out: This Dog Barking: The Strange Story of U. G. Krishnamurti "Whether you are interested in moksha, liberation, freedom, transformation, you name it, you are interested in happiness without one moment of unhappiness, pleasure without pain, it is the same thing. Whether one is here in India or Russia or in America or anywhere, what people want is to have one without the other. But there is no way you can have one without the other. This demand is not in the interest of the survival of t

Positive Attitude Meditation: Guided meditation to help develop and maintain a positive attitude Ben Folds Five: "Do It Anyway" Dinowalrus: "Happy (Rolling Stones cover)" Aldous Huxley: "The Ultimate Revolution" Coleman R. Brice: "Brave New World" Cadence Weapong: "Conditioning" Jim Rohn: "Philosophies to wealth and happiness" Podington Bear: "Happiness Is" Gorillaz: "Do Ya Thing (ft. Andre 3000, James Murphy) & "Feel Good Inc. (Professor Kliq Remix)" Sam Binkley: "Happiness as Enterprise: A Meditation on Governmentality and Neoliberal Life" Sleeping On Lotus Ashes: "Fiber Granulation" Michael Ferstenfeld: "Happiness is a Choice" Rimar: "R U Happy?" Barbara Ehrenreich: "Smile Or Die" Oblivian Substanshall: "Happy" "And it seems to me perfectly in the cards that there will be within the next generation or so a pharmacological method of making people love their servitude, and producing a kind of painless concentration camp for entire societies, so that people will in fact have their liberties taken away

"The suddenness of the leap from hardware to software cannot but produce a period of anarchy and collapse, especially in the developed countries." Marshall McLuhan Mr. Harper's BBQ, Pride Parade, Anarchists Stephen Malkmus & The Jicks: "Senator" Media Ecology, Internet Ecstasy, Global Carnival Lo-Fi-Fnk: "Shut The World Out (LFF Re-Fnk)" The Limousines: "Internet Killed The Video Star" Buttress O'Kneel: "The New Masters of the Universe" Das Racist x Talib Kweli: "The Actual (Prod. Amaze 88)" Azealia Banks: "Fantasea" iON & Bob Neveritt (aka Bob Dobbs): "The Basic Standard of Living" Rob Bentall: "Urca Twist" Laetitia Sadier: "There is a Price to Pay For Freedom (And it Isn't Security)" "...rant/probe by iON from 1 October 2009, goes further than Lord Buckley or Lenny Bruce by satirizing not so much the foibles, vices, and hypocrisies of your daily fivebodied, quadrophrenic “citizen” as to present a raucous inventory, in the style of Marshall McLuhan, of the effects of the present environmental sur

"The future is contained within the present, as the plant within the seed." ~ Percy Bysshe Shelley Cosmopolis, a Cronenburg Film,  A protest against the future DRC: "Artifice-Future 40 (DRC Remix)" Transcoindentalism: moving beyond the speed of the thought Parts & Labor: Constant Future Cloud Nothings: No Future/No Past William S. Burroughs: "We See The Future Through The Binoculars Of The People" Ah Pook is Here: "Death needs Time for what it kills to grow in, for Ah Pook's sweet sake" DJ Spooky Vs The Freight Elevator Quartet: "File Under Futurism (Grooveprotocol Mix)" Basement Skylights: "TimeBandits" Tim Morton, John Crossley, Bill Rose, Alex Zane: "We're From the Future" Bobby & Blumm: "In Future Present" Super Galactic Expansive: "Everpresent Future"  Sound Sculptor: "aeolian harp - berlin around 1987" Daedelus: "Let the Future Tell..." Percy Bysshe Shelley: "A Defence of Poetry" "...the future is contained within the present, as the plant within the seed...For he not only beholds intensel

TransCanada Transpondency an audio travelogue of sorts Adam talks with podcasters at PAB2012 conference in Ottawa. As twilight sets on his final PAB expedition, Adam reflects on his own personal growth and possible future gatherings. Before flying home, there is one more get together for drinks on a patio in Toronto. Music: Road Regrets (Live @ KEXP) by Dan Mangan

A fourth installment in the Finnegans Wake series -- show me how. Fourth power to her illpogue ! Happy Bloomsday June 16, 1904 Other episodes in the series: First (#125), Second (#146), Third (#169) Readings by Jim Norton, and Marcella Riordan Robert Anton Wilson on Finnegans Wake The Tallest Man on Earth: "1904" Robert Anton Wilson on FW, the Prankquean & psycho-archaeology  Tom Waits: "Books of Moses" Bob Dobbs on FW & the Stages of Human Apprehension Warm Ghost: "Myths On Rotting Ships" Target Market: "At the Point of Singularity" Marshall McLuhan on FW as a drama of media The Black Brothers: "Zoological Gardens" The Blarney Lads: "Muirsheen Durkin" Del The Funky Homosapien: "Bioscientist" (Ben Watson) Late Lunch With Out To Lunch "Dobelina's Wake Or Love Thine Enemy" Andrew Bird: "Masterfade" Audra Mae: "The River" Ani DiFranco: "Origami" DJ Furio: Michael Finnegan To all's much relief one's half hypothesis of that jabberjaw ape amok the showering jestnuts of Bruisanose was hotly dropped and

TransCanada Transpondency an audio travelogue of sorts On the road to the final PAB conference, Adam contemplates on creativity and where he fits in across the nebulous expanse of media. Music: Road Regrets (Live @ KEXP) by Dan Mangan

"Sleep, passivity, rest — these are all things which are neglected due to a fear of Nothingness. " ~ Alan Watts Sound therapy - chakra crystal singing bowls with affirmations Sonic Youth: "The Empty Page" Alan Watts: "The State of Nothing" Nine Inch Nails: "Into The Void" Chromatics: "Into The Black" Alain Presencer: "The Singing Bowls of Tibet" Ghastly City Sleep: "Being; Or, What You Will" The Simple Carnival: "Nothing Will Ever Be As Good" Oblivian Substanshall: "A Little Of Nothing"  Φ Ălan Щatts - We Are Basically Nothing | Love/ Evol/Hate/Emotions all = 2 Nothing Φ Timothy Morton: "Fear of Nothing: Heidegger's Buddhism" also listen to Romanticism 11: Kant and the Sublime (nothingness) Nothingness is really like the nothingness of space, which contains the whole universe. All the sun and the stars and mountains, and rivers, and goodmen and bad men, and the animals, and insects, and the whole bit. All are contained in void. So out of this void comes everything and you it. What else could you

"All over the place, from the popular culture to the propaganda system, there is constant pressure to make people feel that they are helpless, that the only role they can have is to ratify decisions and to consume." ~ Noam Chomsky  Edward Hunter on Brainwashing Pilachu: "MW Radio Tuning" Minlus: "Brainwash" Robert Anton Wilson on Operation Mindfuck Noam Chomsky on Propaganda and the Public Mind klmsound: "23brainwash" Jerry Coyle and the Nelsonics:  "America...Land of Free Enterprise - The Fairbanks, Morse Song" Egoistorms mashup: Pretty Lights "Who Loves Me?" vs. Marshall McLuhan on Advertising Post Cool Cognitive Upgrade [echollage] ☥Amun Ra☥ "Mind Control ft. Roy G." Michael Zoleski: "Propaganda" Kill The Flowers Mr Cagney: "So they say...with a Billionaries smirk....you are free" Immortal Technique: "Rich Man's World" Phil Celia and the Silver Tones: "Keep on Smiling! Pay Your Taxes!" Yasiin Bey (formerly known as Mos Def): Niggas In Poorest T.D. Skatchit & Company, Tom Nunn, David Michalak: "Ska

Adam describes the Beat Generation to John  What if Jack Kerouac walked into a modern underground Jazz scene? Youpidou: "Crisis generation game feat J. Kerouac" Hakim Bey: "Poetic Terrorism" Parrhesia Sound System: "Stealing Electricity (Lawrence Ferlinghetti)" Mega Toothpaste Mammals: "Kerouac" Hakim Bey: "The Power of Art" Parrhesia Sound System: "Sweets For Junky Seventeen (William S Burroughs)" Is a new Beat Generation possible? "All human beings are also dream beings. Dreaming ties all mankind together." ~ Jack Kerouac “The Beat Generation, that was a vision that we had, John Clellon Holmes and I, and Allen Ginsberg in an even wilder way, in the late forties, of a generation of crazy, illuminated hipsters suddenly rising and roaming America, serious, bumming and hitchhiking everywhere, ragged, beatific, beautiful in an ugly graceful new way--a vision gleaned from the way we had heard the word 'beat' spoken on streetcorners on Times Square and in the Village, in other cities in the downtown city night

“Don't just survive while waiting for someone's revolution to clear your head.” ― Hakim Bey, TAZ: The Temporary Autonomous Zone A conversation with Ron & John about propaganda in society Blue Chandelier: "Join The Club" & "Off The Grid" Hakim Bey: "T.A.Z.: The Temporary Autonomous Zone" Si Matta: "Dreams Within Dreams" King Khan And The Shrines: "Bite My Tongue" “Those who understand history are condemned to watch other idiots repeat it.”  ~ Peter Lamborn Wilson     Subscribe to YouTube: transpondency Extra videos at transpondency.blip.tv Follow me on Twitter: @transpondency Email: suburban@transpondency.com

Is nostalgic sentimentality the condition of a self which in its distance has grown indifferent to things & is therefore only capable of the most superficial kind of emotion, only capable of being moved in the instant, only capable of cheap, theatrical sentimentality? ~ from Technology as symptom and dream by Robert Donald Romanyshyn New Year 2012, Nostalgic for Past Fantasies of the 19A0s Blouse: "Time Travel" & "Videotapes" Grimes: "Oblivion", "Vanessa", "Fragments of the Future" SLEEP ∞ OVER: "World is Night" & "Romantic Streams" Puro Instinct: "Stilyagi (Feat. Ariel Pink)" & "Silky Eyes" Public Transport: "Strangely Free"  McLuhan on Nostalgia, Rearview Mirror Fran Lebowitz on Artists and Nostalgia Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti: "Round and Round" “Every age creates as an Utopian image a nostalgic rear-view mirror image of itself, which puts it thoroughly out of touch with the present. The present is the enemy. The present is the—and this will delight you Norman—the present is only fa

A Xmas Special Mashup Ecollage Special Ed: "The Story of the Naivete" People Like Us and Ergo Phizmiz Xmas Special Eddie Lawrence: The Merry Old Philosopher Jonathan Mitchell presents Kurt Andersen’s Human Intelligence  "The night of December 25, to which date the Nativity of Christ was ultimately assigned, was exactly that of the birth of the Persian savior Mithra, who, as an incarnation of eternal light, was born the night of the winter solstice (then dated December 25) at midnight, the instant of the turn of the year from increasing darkness to light." ~ Joseph Campbell Subscribe to YouTube: transpondency Extra videos at transpondency.blip.tv Follow me on Twitter: @transpondency Email: suburban@transpondency.com

"If you bring forth what is within you, what you bring forth will save you. If you do not bring forth what is within you, what you do not bring forth will destroy you." Marcelo Ohara: "Travessia" David Lynch: "Pinky's Dream (ft. Karen O) Alfred Hitchcock Interview Shigeto: "Self-Compassion" Dr. Dog: "That Old Black Hole" Da Zool: "Letronew" An Evening with Quentin Crisp Of Montreal: "Wintered Debts" Abraham Hicks on Hilter Blind Physics: "Harp listenmix" & "practice+drumloop" Philip K Dick on his inspiration for Valis Dr. Stephan A. Hoeller: "C.G. Jung's Prophecy of the New Aeon" The Skull Defekts: "Fragrant Nimbus" "In all chaos there is a cosmos, in all disorder a secret order." ~ Carl Jung Subscribe to YouTube: transpondency Extra videos at transpondency.blip.tv Follow me on Twitter: @transpondency Email: suburban@transpondency.com

Remystifying McLuhan CBC's Demystifying McLuhan Mashup Contest McLuhan and Parker At The Vanishing Point  Damien Jurado: "Nothing Is The News" DATAcloud: "The Future Leaks Out" Pictureplane: "Real Is A Feeling" micehal: "Marshall McRemix" Pictureplane: "Post-Physical" Jordan Mandel: "Buzz-Saw" Matt.ch4: "Nude descending a staircase Op.2" [Video] McLuhan - commercial vs public media  Subscribe to YouTube: transpondency Extra videos at transpondency.blip.tv Follow me on Twitter: @transpondency Email: suburban@transpondency.com

“Deep into that darkness peering, long I stood there, wondering, fearing, doubting, dreaming dreams no mortal ever dared to dream before.” -- Edgar Allan Poe Nevermore Eleanor: "Invitation" Decomentarium: "Dementia" treeface0905: "Caffeine" Boris Karloff: "Mirror of Death" Navid: "Physical Modelling" Sonic Youth: "Halloween" Mr Shadowchaser: "dunwich mash" Viraeson: "The Birds... Scream the... Birds Scream" The Fugs: "Exorcising The Evil Spirits From The Pentagon" The Secret Music of China: "Ghosts of the Great Wall" Percy Bysshe Shelly vs. Vincent Price: "Ode To The West Wind" Epoxia: "Soberbia Espiritual (Remix)" Glass Prism: "The Raven" James Mason: "The Tell-Tale Heart" DJ Pad: "Magical Nights" Lou Reed: "Edgar Allan Poe" mARKYbOY: "The Killing Mash" Subscribe to YouTube: transpondency Extra videos at transpondency.blip.tv Follow me on Twitter: @transpondency Email: suburban@transpondency.com

The point is to make something new, something that doesn’t even remotely remind you of culture. Allan Kaprow: "How To Make A Happening" Zapnspark: "Quiet City" Maren Parusel: "Don't Take Your Eyes Away"  Einzelganger: "West End Collected" Mattt: "Thunderstorm, Rain, Wind" Broken Poets: "Singularity" Mark Ty-Wharton: "Spoken Speakers Corner Hyde Park" iscape: "Wake Up!" Forget all the standard art forms—don’t paint pictures, don’t make poetry, don’t build architecture, don’t arrange dances, don’t write plays, don’t compose music, don’t make movies, and above all don’t think you’ll get a happening by putting all these together. Subscribe to YouTube: transpondency Extra videos at transpondency.blip.tv Follow me on Twitter: @transpondency Email: suburban@transpondency.com

“I have realized that the past and future are real illusions, that they exist in the present, which is what there is and all there is.” -- Alan Watts DanQ: "sur le toit de la cité industriel de la Jarry" & "à la Villette Sonique" St. LaRok: "Time/Leap" PHYZX: "Paradoxical Conspiracies" Bertrand Russell: "The Velocity of Light" [from ABC of Relativity: Understanding Einstein] Epstein Y El Conjunto (feat Matt Crum): "Timeless Form, Formless Time" Michael Kimaid: "Toward a Resistance of Commodified Time and Space" Alan Watts: "Time in the Future" The Beets: "Time Brought Age" Marshall McLuhan discusses Harold Innis's idea of time and space... "Industrialism implies technology and the cutting of time into precise fragments suited to the needs of the engineer and the accountant." -- Harold Innis "To the philosophers of India, however, Relativity is no new discovery, just as the concept of light years is no matter for astonishment to people used to thinking of time in millions of kalpas, (A kalpa is abou

R.E.M. call it quits Reflecting on my favourite band Awkward teenage moments Influencing & inspiring my creativity R.E.M.'s "It happened today" (Khmer Linga mix) revisioned by Ethnomite Pux R.E.M.'s "It Happened Today" (Lucid Dreamer Remix) by J.D. Casten Reading short story, "Chronic Town" written in high school A weird blend of poetry & prose, fragments of real life & song lyrics L'OraStrana: "Le città sottili" & "Via Pisana Minidub" You Say Party! We Say Die! covering R.E.M.'s “Nightswimming” R.E.M. playing "Living Well Is The Best Revenge" while driving around Athens, GA Subscribe to YouTube: transpondency Extra videos at transpondency.blip.tv Follow me on Twitter: @transpondency Email: suburban@transpondency.com