Music for Architecture No. 2 (A Canopy Of Grey)

Soundtrack:
Gymnopédies No.1-3 and Gnossiennes No.1-6
-Erik Satie

Riding the train through this tranquil air, the sky grey above, drops of rain sporadically grace the moment. The weather controls people’s emotions, just as a grey clouded day such as this puts its participants in a subtle drear, not of depression, but rather a calm peacefulness. i listen to Erik Satie and ponder its effect on my heartbeat; a calm peacefulness. This music, this weather, this mood, this atmosphere all seem to create a temporary structure, the city becoming merely one part within it. The allies and streets become hallways. A patch of grass becomes a bedroom. The grey sky becomes a canopy above; ever-changing bringing new visions, new experiences, like Freemont Street in Vegas, but the moment reigning over the spectacle. The sounds of the city seem to synchronize with Satie’s minimalist melodies, becoming part of the composition, creating a connection between the city, the weather, and my heartbeat.

The Picture of Dorian Gray

1. If you were Dorian Gray, you wouldn't have to fight for your victories.

2. Does Art imitate Life or Does Life Imitate Art?

3. Is it better to Live Art or to create it?

4. Live a perfectly useless life.

5. Making Mistakes is Beauty. Beauty is Youth. Youth is Making Mistakes.

6. Everyman has heaven and hell in them.

7. The search for new emotions ====>Decadence.

8. Human beings want Pleasure, not Happiness.

9. Can we never escape ourselves? We are constantly attempting to escape suffering. Playing Video Games, Going Shopping, Taking Drugs, Watching TV, Reading Books, Taking Pictures, Praying, Gambling, Fucking. Aren't they all trying to get us to look away from ourselves? Yet our souls are always hiding around the corner waitng to shock us into horror. Eachof us has heaven and hell inside of us. There are Preachers who are Pedaphiles, and there are Drunks who are Priests. The Devil was an Angel. God shows no mercy quite often in the bible. We are all capable of creating Beauty and Terror. Often if we Hate something too much there's a Chance we will become it.

10. Without Religion, there is no purpose, but a man without purpose is sure to go mad.

11. Be Empty===>Be Bored===>Keep Cool===>Don't get excited by storms or feasts.

12. Be weary of the so called artist, for they probably just want all eyes on them, begging to be looked at like a drueling dog.

13. Love Art because Creativity gives us purpose.

14. Who gives a fuck whether you make art or not. We are all gonna die someday.

15. Stop looking inside of yourself. Take the Mirror away for a moment.

16. You are no longer a child anymore. And no one is going to forgive you so easily anymore.

17. If you are beautiful you don't have to fight for your victories.

18. Leaky Jars.

19. A man wants to be famous, so he gets everyone's attention. But when the time comes to go on stage. He fails miserably.

20. Words are slippery tile floors.

Good Things

Check out this video by the group Justice "D.A.N.C.E". Its an upbeat danceliking tune. The video is a series of constantly changing T-Shirts, most of which I'd buy if possible. Hopefully in the future this will all be possible.

http://www.dailymotion.com/featured/video/x1upou_justice-dance

And you must read this Interview with Lee Perry, The reggae and dub pioneer. The Disco Devil. His words will blow your mind. He believes he is Christ reborn. He listens to the words of the interview and flips them into coded poetry from the first humans till the astronauts of times future. If you dig the interview, also look through the videos on you tube. You will not be disappointed.

http://www.thewire.co.uk/archive/interviews/lee_perry.html

Lastly, go to wikipedia and type in any band or artist and you well get a decent introduction to their history. I think the Internet is absolutely a monsterous god with an overload of information which is impossible for any human to compute. Human beings have been rendered obsolete in terms of communication, the human being is being overthrown by data. Science and Information are using human beings for some yet to be known purpose. Anyway its pretty cool.

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