Spectral Display - It Takes A Muscle.

Mmmmmm...uncluttered pop.

Who needs a band when you've got 4 FM synthesizers and a sliver sports coat. These guys are from Holland.... isn't that weird?

Here's the mp3 Spectral Display - It Takes A Muscle.

helping people move along

Mass Transit by Ruby Starr.

Ata Kak - Daa Nyinaa

Daa Nyinaa by Ata Kak is Ghanaian house music at it's best. Courtesy of Awesome Tapes From Africa.

Happy Australia Day

S I G H T S O U N D

SIGHT|SOUND from High Seas Films on Vimeo.

Play. Stop. Do it all again.

A-d-d-i-c-t-i-v-e

Erik Omen In Atlantis - Cassette (Siberia Records)

$5.00

Debut Erik Omen In Atlantis release (Siberia Records)
Limited edition 50 copy cassette

AM LANE
GRADE E
NEAR AN END
AIR
MARIA DE LA MER

PRE ORDER FOR FEB 18TH RELEASE

Frog River Ecstasy

Aleke Kanonu - N'Gwode

Taken from the extremely rare and equally fantastic LP 'Aleke', 1980, this is Afrobeat at it's finest. The creator, Aleke Kanonu, is an unknown Nigerian singer / musician, although appeared on Stanley Cowell's album ‘Regeneration’, Strata-East, 1976. Enjoy.

Downtown Calling

Definitely a documentary worth checking out!

Silver Bullets

Sludgy blues? coned-out drone? From Italy?

Silver Bullets - Ascent

Full Album

SIBERIAN NIGHTS

Mr. Motherfuckinglegend

This is a splendid piece of film. A+

Ball & Chain

The sum of human epistemology ...

… can be reduced to this sentence without causing reductive damage to the epistemological efforts therein:

Bullshit vs. Bullshit Detector.

In terms of social epistemology … A common-sense extension of this sentence is to enjoy the company of those (a) that call one's own bullshit and in turn (b) enjoy getting their own bullshit getting called too. Its "arguable" that the core of philosophy takes place at this point (haha re the arguable nature of this position).

But just beware of Thrasymachus types:

"Several times in the course of discussion Thrasymachus had made an attempt to get the argument into his own hands, and had been put down by the rest of the company , who wanted to hear the end. But when Polemarchus and I had done speaking there was a pause and Thrasymachus could no longer hold the peace; gathering himself up, he came like a wild beast seeking to devour us.

He roared out to the whole company: What folly Socrates! What has taken possession of you all? And why this absurd politeness and deference to one another?

…

S: If we were looking for a piece of gold you would not imagine that we were 'deferring to one another', and lose our chance of finding it like that would you? So why, when we are looking for justice, a thing more precious than gold, do you say that we are weakly yielding to one another and not doing our utmost to get at the truth of it? Believe me, my good pal, we totally want to, but the fact is, we can't. Perhaps we deserve your pity more than your bullshit?"

~ (Plato, Republic, 336b)

If friendship between 'enemies' were more common, perhaps, as freddy neats would say, the earth could yet become 'a hotbed of learning'...

(and a note re: Republic passage: The most critical point where 'Socrates got real' above is where he tacitly places justice higher than gold. Keep in mind that the peeps he was speaking in the company of were basically the richest dudes in Athens.)

~~~

Aphorism of the day:

There are those that try to win arguments and there are those that try to win. They are never the same person.

~ N.N. Taleb, The Bed of Procrustes

Poetry exrt of the day:

Something which never rests will not endure.

Rest repairs the limbs and renews strength.

If the bow is never relaxed it will lose

the tension that makes it a bow; you

would do well to imitate the weapons of

Diana while you follow her lead.

~ Ovid, Heroides, 'Phaedra to Hippolytus'

And a note from the little cauldron:

Quests for meaning (in semantics; in literature; 'why did he play that song?'; otherwise) have become even more passe than those that toute 'meaninglessness'.

Easter-egg (If you ain't one, read with your actuary buddies, but philosophy is strictly BYO)

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