( via / "will you survive the vibe shift?" via nightcafe )
"...everything possible has been done to ensure that no individual death be processed ritualistically at all, that death be euphemized beyond recognition so that it appears as mere procedure, that there be no thought of that archaic and unfashionable category of sacrifice, with the result that death, or certain kinds of death, are rationalized within a mass-scale, streamlined, and barely perceptible system that feels so contemporary, so built into the landscape of modernity, that we have trouble cognizing it in any other way than as morally neutral."
"I want to close this terminal window now - cyberspace, corporate space, corporate helix - and move on to another planet, you children. Heaven is a planetary scaffolding, a transport scheme for the smoothly migrating minds of herds of martian automatons" --@GptMicrofic
"...for some reason I felt strongly that the motorcycle fairies were no longer on my side."
"i wandered lonely as a sitar"
labyrinth
rant abets wyvern argyle
sitars in stasis
where argot lapses into ctenoid halftime
oboe wen italicized psalm swarms
hydraulic oven versts creep inly
gargoyle brink
agate hyaline glister yet is pinwheel
stangury palpable groan
as fifth indigo
osier stalk rancid
tsar did assemble sworn therapy peptides
brash fester
halt arch Ogpu bogus stirious
slan lamp apart is leasing
ashen wilt and stow · forage
icily at let
angle forge bismuth adorn whose fail
slow of stern
filch image jest to able cost decibel
swoop cell angrily lit · itch passport sling pinch
scop filling azure nest · oddly spoon
issues lank sluice amp asp swat
Covers better than the original. (Asked by Mark Ridlen on Fb). Besides seconding: Vanilla Fudge "You Keep Me Hanging On"; the Sundays "Wild Horses"; Leon Russell "A Hard Rain's Gonna Fall"; & (obviously) Jimi Hendrix "All Along the Watchtower"; i added: Dolly Parton "Stairway to Heaven"; Diamanda Galas "Gloomy Sunday"; Tori Amos "Real Men"; Willie Nelson & Calexico "Senor (tales of yankee power)"; dean martin "king of the road"; frijid pink "house of the rising sun"; 12 girls band "el condor pasa"; ventures "love is blue"; tom jones & rhiannon giddens "st james infirmary blues"; pete fountain "those were the days"; count basie "come together"; trio "after the gold rush"; norah jones "cold cold heart"; tulia "nothing else matters" (listen to this if nothing else!); brass against "immigrant song"; the dresden dolls "war pigs"; & this; tell me this one doesn't WALLOP the original...
Abandoned Temple of Book Learning.