1. |
Information
04:09
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The Waymo car that ran on logic alone
Couldn’t find its way back home
Got stuck behind an obstacle
Turned out that was the least of its troubles
Once information was hard to find
Grab a fact and fill the gap with your mind
Now we zero in on spoonfed sites
It’s all laid out so there’s no need to analyze
Wait a minute
Is this really information
Don’t get bamboozled
Bemused bewildered or befuddled
Stay open
New information is coming in
We narrowcast till kingdom come
It’s good to know our sources match our assumptions
But are we missing anything
To start with the conclusion then seek out confirmation?
Life is filled with constant surprise
But beware of dead ends posing as a light
It’s a dirty complex world
Sometimes Occam’s razor cuts you to the chase
Wait a minute
Is this really information
Don’t get bamboozled
Bemused bewildered or befuddled
Stay open
New information is coming in
Don’t be too sure you know it all
New facts emerge to shift your paradigm
I sift it in my judgement seat
You might be correct to say it’s incomplete
Checking references all day
Who’s saying what and what do they say
Look for proof and trace it back
Clean your glasses before you go on the attack
I’m not trying to cause some kind of situation
I’m just talkin bout in-in-information
Stay open
New information is coming in
Is this the age of information?
Or is it just the age of disinformation?
Got to use your critical thinking
When you take a jump into the data dump
(Yeah, yeah, yeah)
I don't think I know anything
I know everything
At least I know something?
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2. |
The Conversation
06:07
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Hey baby, talk to me
Subject, verb, object, sentence
You can do it.
I need your feedback
Time to have a conversation
Grow up and heal the nation
Get a brain and have a heart
Syncopate or sink apart
Don’t stop your education
You can rise above your station
We need a conversation
To address the situation
Going backwards, sitting still
Watching all the poison spill
Out of date mythology
Will be the death of you and me
Oh Jesus, Jesus Christ!
In the land of the hurricane
God’s children have gone insane
Worms of hate chewing on their brains
While they circle the cosmic drain
Dictators pop up like mushrooms
Spewing spores in all directions
That Goddamn Drumpf! Put him in jail already!
Guy needs to be prosecuted.
But let me tell ya,
Empathy is not a crime
Ignorance is not sublime
Waking up is not a virus
You’re not the boss and you can’t fire us
Oh, you can pass your legislation
But you can’t ban conversation
Come on baby, talk to me.
I need your input.
Now talk. Now listen.
I wanna listen!
I wanna hear what you gotta say!
We need to have a conversation
A conversation goes both ways
A conversation needs a feedback loop
Otherwise no one is listening
It’s not a conversation
Until it goes back and forth
Here and there, anywhere
The subject may change
But the substance is a flow.
Slow, yeah that’s how I like it!
Now talk!
I’m talking to you, I’m finally talking to you
And I just adore the you-know-what…
My turn to listen (yes, listen listen!)
Your turn to talk!
I need you! Sometimes I need you so badly!
I really, really want you to touch me
Intelligence!
Yeah, with your brains!
You have a beautiful 3.98 GPA give it to me baby yeah!
Give it, give it, give it, give it…
Speak to me, I’ll speak to you
Subject, verb, object
I’m learning how
Sentences, feelings! Thinking, feeling, believing, mysterious!
But let me tell ya, I was born in the land of the hurricane
Where all God’s children have gone insane (Unconscious!)
Alligators they roam the streets
You’d lock keep your dog inside, he isn’t meat!
Oooh, and get your cats in there too!
You gotta come evolve with the rest of us
We are evolving!
We can’t be alone, not an island
Truth! Truth! Truth! Truth! Acceptance! Participation!
Right now, join us in a real conversation
Experience! Realization leads to life experience!
What’s going on?
Time to have a conversation (Right here right now right here right now)
A knowledgeable conversation
Time to have a conversation
An educated conversation
(Nyam myoho renge kyo)
Critique me!
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3. |
277 Words
05:59
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Jump/Start/Teeth/Hip/Lemon/Milk/Money/Jeans/
Savory/Rope/Rhododendron/Foremost/Clock/Teapot/Hillary/Stinkeye
Autobus/Mastery/Action/Hipster/Civilized/Salve/Trailer/Voting
Commode/See-Saw/Loudmouth/Aspirin/Cellphone/Badasses/Guilty/Lightbulb
Reason/Insect/Transmission/Generation/News/Rocket/Picklehead/Privilege
Glassware/Seventh/Fire/Musket/Tissue/Tiger/Automat/Mockingbird
Woke/Turkey/Rotisserie/Trap/Socket/Durian/Flux/Purple
Treasury/Pancreas/Purse/Sewing/Doctor/Canteloupe/Typewriter/Flakes
Trouble/Cellulite/Rattle/Doggie/Species/Clowns/Robin/Negligence
Wind/Burger/Almonds/Cactus/Tower/Smoke/Flies/Aardvark
Mine/Box/Danger/Fictitious/Organ/Flute/Experience/Flicker
Magic/Proof/Canyon/Steeple/Roll/Object/China/Month
Record/Vest/Bonds/Planet/Pluto/Neverland/Mixer/Hippo
First/Bleak/Guitar/Abstract/Maple/Riot/Petunias/Whale
Cupcake/Fish/Plump/River/Mesh/Eucalyptus/Suitcase/Einstein/
Holler/Cardboard/Relativity/Hum/Candle/Dog/Pylon/Toaster
Speech/Blender/Daily/Strong/Oven/Popcorn/Grow/Spiral
Bluejay/Professional/Lamp/Bongo/Wholesome/Jackfruit/Apple/Ethics
Marmite/Giraffe/Toasted/Curtains/Needle/Friends/Flashlight/Hammer
Good/Celery/Painting/Portfolio/Joint/Ceiling/Eggs/Pluck
Shovel/Trees/Smart/Steam/Language/Plaque/Native/Dad
Liver/Mustard/Turnover/Truffles/Rabbit/Software/Wax/Sorry
Adobe/Sour/Acid/GAAP/Yam/Scarecrow/Fort/Jam
Funky/Rice/Dyslexic/Shoe/Leftist/Hat/Keyhole/Maestro
Museum/Cave/Dreams/Female/Convict/Scorpion/Carpet/Paprika
Gram/Bubbles/Lilac/Rose/Molé/Sepia/Modulate/Trinket
Kidney/Margarine/Plastic/Metal/Arbitrate/Fingers/Poodle/Render
Ponder/Bronze/Capitulate/Bridge/Lotus/Passive/Dogpile/Shine
Aluminum/Law/Stare/Lead/Broiled/Popsicle/Shimmer/Wasabi
Crow/Solicit/Knees/Urine/Frozen/Radon/Cocoa/Sushi
Clover/Radar/Treason/Pirate/Film/Peppermint/Incensed/Hire
Sediment/Plectrum/Cloud/Fracture/Equation/Audit/Subcontract/Quarter
Barn/Tirade/Flash/Flood/Muscular/Handle/Sumac/Defense
Gift/Spaniel/Tea/Plunger/Stuffing /Flax/Cords/Luggage
Self-esteem/President/Self-esteem/Ceiling
Self-esteem/Father/Self-esteem/Dada/Self-esteem
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4. |
Koeeoaddi There
05:02
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the natural cards revolve ever changing
seeded elsewhere planted in the garden fair grow trees, grow trees
tongues of the sheer wind
setting your foot where the sand is untrodden,
the ocean that only begins
listen a woman with a bulldozer built this house of now
carving away the mountain whose name is your childhood home
we were trying to buy it buy it buy it
someone was found killed there all bones bones dry bones
earth water fire and air
met together in a garden fair
put in a basket bound with skin
if you answer this riddle
you'll never begin
born in a house where the doors shut tight
shadowy fingers on the curtains at night
cherry tree blossom head high snow
a busy main road where I wasn't to go
I used to sit on the garden wall
say hello to people going by so tall
hallo to the postman's stubbly skin
hallo to the baker's stubbly grin
mrs thompson gave me a bear
brigitte and some people lived upstairs
skating on happy valley pond
various ministers and guards stood around
the ice was nice hallo the invisible brethren
and there was a tent you played cards with the
soldiers in, don't worry we won't send anyone
after you they screamed
but me and licorice saw the last of them one
misty twisty day
across the mournful morning moor motoring away
singing ladybird, ladybird what is your wish
your wish is not granted unless it's a fish
your wish is not granted unless it's a dish
a fish on a dish is that what you wish
earth water fire and air
met together in a garden fair
put in a basket bound with skin
if you answer this riddle
you'll never begin
(And the opposite is also true!)
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5. |
Let That Sink In
04:42
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He is rich but not a gentleman
He is rich but not a gentleman
Civility can be learned
With some effort and struggle, effort and struggle
But rich people don’t understand
The power nor beauty of language that causes
Civilization to occur
That causes civilization to occur
It will occur without his knowing
With or without him
If he makes no effort
He risks losing attention too
Because he’s too miserly
He lacks empathy
He is miserly
He lacks empathy
(Left)
Insulated from reality
Insulated from reality
You can never serve humanity, society
You can never serve humanity, society
(Right)
With great power comes great responsibility
With great power comes great responsibility
With great power comes great responsibility
Great responsibility, ahhhh
Great responsibility, great responsibility
Learn about it!
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6. |
Magic
03:40
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With your skin pierced like a jewel
By the sun
An immense power of ambiguity
Fades my distant vision
For a dark and brooding tryst
With emptiness—soaked memories
In a nutshell, cracked to pieces.
If I budge from here
All magic disappears
A wingless flight of truth
Riddled with holes
An infinite denial
Set loose upon
What holds out a hand
Of relevance, our lost years
Spinning away
Our lost years, spinning away
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In life, all things are true and false at the same time
If you don’t know this and don’t embrace paradox
This can become a Catch 22
Which can in a world of logic make you insane, because logic
Says a thing cannot be true and false at the same time
Which is true…if you are in an argument
So watch your mind dart all over the place
Trying to make logical sense of it…or relax, because
Once you embrace paradox, you start to rely on meaning-making
That is sourced inside of one relationship at a time
Joe likes A,
But Jane likes B, yet Arnie insists on C. No problem, because
All three have a right to their own preferences
And even their own belief systems.
Most important is to recognize that consciousness begins
And travels toward mastery of knowledge
Starting at unconsciousness, and splits at the point wherein
You are either at the effect of something, or cause of something.
Effect side: Unconsciousness, Mystery, Belief Systems,
Thinking About, Feeling About…
Unresolved issues are recycled ad infinitum when…
At the effect until you develop an attitude
Of being a cause of the issue which is at the moment of Truth
Or where you recognize that what is so is so what
Here you stop worrying about or being at the effect of it.
You start being the cause of it.
This is a much more powerful and productive way to be
The causal path is: Acceptance of the matter,
Participation, Experience, Realization,
Mastery of Knowledge,
(The mastery of knowledge is love)
Doo-doo-doo-doot-doot-doo-doo-doo
Doo-doo-doo-doot-doot-doo-doo-doo
Ahhhh, ahhhh, ahhhh, ahhhh,
Ahhhh, ahhhh, ahhhh, ahhhh, ahhhh, ahhhh
Bop bop bahh, ba dop bop ba da
Bop bop bahh, ba dop bop ba da
Bop bop bahh, ba dop bop ba da
Ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah,
So being responsible is always your best way
Out of anything, to start healing. You do not have to say this to others,
You just have to be in your own process and sort it out for your own mind.
Where this lands you is your reward.
You come first, then the “Other”. Self-love is the first love.
Or you really cannot love anyone cause you don’t have
Any experience of it, any experience of it
And the mastery of knowledge is love.
(Chuckling) That's lovely!
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8. |
Uncanny Valley
03:38
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In Düsseldorf they had a dream
To find the heart in the machine
Technology with a human face
Brautigan bestowed it with loving grace
But now the bros have bigger plans
Do what they will because they can
HAL writes your songs and drives your cars
Draws you cartoons and tears your world apart
Deep fakes are ringing in the new
It won’t be long till they’re more real than you
We’ll have an AI President
Inventing new techniques of punishment
Boiling frogs trapped in our own device
All our Zoom backgrounds look like paradise
Each to our own reality
Uncanny Valley, RFD
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9. |
Intermission!
01:47
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10. |
Use Your Head
04:27
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Most assets depreciate over time
Assets are things, nouns, physical units
Depreciation is an expense on a profit and loss
Depreciation is accumulated
To lower the value of an asset
Over its projected life expectancy
Things wear out without maintenance
Maintenance of an asset increases its life
Investments in Assets decrease cash or liabilities
Investments in Assets increase value and equity
Every accounting transaction
Includes a debit and a credit
Every accounting transaction
Requires a journal entry and a description
Every accounting transaction
Includes a paradox or two
Every accounting transaction
Increase or decreases net worth
Every evidence-based rebuttal negates existence
Everyone who learns accounting will never go insane
Insanity is the result of refusing to understand
That all things are true and false at the same time
Darwin supports superior/inferior duality knowledge
Einstein supports connection of possibilities
Use your head
Learn Math, English, Humanities, Science
Use your head
Completion of goals builds self-esteem
Use your head
Self-esteem brings confidence
Use your head
Confidence feels great yet does not boast
Confidence relies on using your head
Builds assets, accounts for liabilities, and builds net worth.
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11. |
Laniakea
04:14
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Laniakea
Filaments in the darkness
Immeasurable heaven
Wispy branches of light
Vastness that stretches
To the South Pole Wall
Shifting supercluster
Mother of us all
One insignificant rock
Circles a mundane star
And on that piece of matter
Is everything we are
Space time and energy
Everything we know and see
It’s all up to you and me
Responsibility
It’s a long hot summer
On the world we call home
Space is all around us
But we’re all alone
Robust and fragile
The speck we crawl upon
We burn it up like garbage
Until the winds blow wrong
Expelled from the garden
That’s what we like to believe
But we live in the garden
We can die but we can’t leave
Responsibility
It’s up to you and up to me
We’re nothing and we’re everything
We’re space, time, and energy
Black holes and dark matter
Do their inscrutable work
Light, motion, and physics
Fast forward, reverse
Take comfort in knowing
We are small and huge
It means nothing that it means nothing
We make meaning every moment we choose
Responsibility
It’s up to you and up to me
We’re nothing and we’re everything
We’re space, time, and energy
Space, time, and energy
Laniakea smile down on you
Laniakea smile down on me
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12. |
Leslie's Dream Redux
05:22
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We took our David Bowie knives and slit the Putin throat
The Donald we left gurgling in his Mar-a-Lago moat
Coming, can’t you feel it in the wind?
Rumsfeld and his Cheney men, the buzzards left their bones
Assad is drawn and quartered, the world watches on their phones
Coming for you, can’t you feel it in the…
The Clintons couldn’t shake us, they will never carp again
His member’s in a private box, we know he feels our pain
Everyone named Reagan undergoes a gender change
Coming for you, can’t you feel it in the air?
Luminol is all that’s left of Asia’s new Pol Pots
MBS is disappeared except a couple spots.
Coming for you, can’t you feel it in the…
Everyone named Rogan undergoes a gender SHOCK!
Shock…shock…shock..
Coming…air…coming for you…
Can you feel it in the air?
Everyone named Rogan…
Can’t you feel it in the air?
SCREEEEEEEEEE…
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Hauling stones for Khufu
Under the Egyptian sun
So he can live forever
And keep the peasants busy
Onions, radishes, and garlic
Castor oil for our skin
We build a shrine for future thieves
To sell off to the Rosicrucians
We lived and died in 3050 BC
The sun sails across the sky in a boat
Every month a pig eats the moon
You know the king’s name but you don’t know ours.
The “greatest man the human race produced”
Graduated from his lessons in Ethics
And began a campaign of extermination
Spreading culture to the survivors
Proclaimed the brotherhood of man
With an army and a sword in hand
Died at 32 of ennui
His empire fell apart instantly
We lived and died in 330 BC
F.A. Wright didn’t tell our story
The pretty boss of a massive crime wave
In his wake they built a cool library.
From barbarian Europe
There did emerge a king
Who created French culture
With German discipline
54 holy wars
Unity, morals, and order
Baptized the heathen Saxons
And pocketed their treasure
We lived and died in 800 AD
Negotiating tricky loyalties
Put our finger up to measure the wind
Hope we picked the right god so we can live again…
What is a king for?
What is his purpose?
What are his duties?
How did he get this job?
Who does this history serve?
Who blows the whistle when he goes too far?
What is the meaning of good and evil?
What questions should we keep to ourselves?
This is the story of borders and walls
The global sweep of history
A long epic of slapstick murders
All the vaudeville power and glory
Who cracked the code of cultivation?
Who catalogued all the herbs and mushrooms?
Who invented the written word?
Who built and played the first trumpet?
Kings, warriors, and thugs
Get their names in the schoolbooks
Raise a glass for the unsung
Who invented civilization.
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14. |
Let's Get Along
02:42
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(When I see you, everything is better)
Life is chaos, life is complex
Life can be too confusing
Life can get frustrating
Sometimes it’s so amusing
Let’s get along
Life is too short
To spend on anything
That is not part of
The perfect pattern of our lives
Let’s get along
Let’s not fuss, let’s not fight
Move beyond wrong and right
Cut ourselves a little slack
Cultivate understanding
Let’s get along
Walk in the sun
You are wonderful
You are phenomenal
You are glorious
You are amazing
Let’s get along
You matter, I matter
High time to realize
We can communicate
We are civilized!
Let’s get along
I am just like you
I get triggered too
Kindness, empathy
Feel the tension just dissipate
And defuse
Let’s get along
Let’s walk in the sun (In the fog)
Let’s walk in the sun (In the clean)
In our beautiful sun (Beautiful, cool)
Let’s walk in the sun (Refreshing fog)
Let’s get along!
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Civilization
Civilization
Civilization is…
Civilization
Civilization
Civilization is…
Civilization
Civilization
Civilization is…
Civilization
Civilization
Civilization is…
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Civilization San Francisco, California
Civilization is a musical environment where Ear Candle Productions opens its doors to various friends and neighbors to create new songs that delve into language, philosophy, existentialism, and the meaning of civilization itself. The music is eclectic with unexpected twists and turns, and promotes goodwill and paradox. ... more
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