”Things are entirely what they appear to be and behind them… there is nothing.”

– Jean-Paul Sartre, La Nausée (1938)

“Am I dreaming? Am I real? Is this reality? Lalala…!”

– Holger Czukay, Trench Warfare (1982)

Q: What is reality?

A: Going soft & bleeding tears. This smoldering cowboy here had a bad night.

Q: Where is reality?

A: Flagging down the nowhere train. Release me & check the controls!

Q: When is reality?

A: From the a.m. till dawn. Throw the gold ring in the fifth round.

Q: Who is reality?

A: My bespoken flesh. Guilt tripping on my mother’s tears.

Q: Why is reality?

A: Let a million eyes freeze over. Read the guilty ones.

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   “Krysmopompas!” - Scenes from Wolfgang Gremm’s Kamikaze 1989 (1982) 

 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6_6m7808n5Y&noredirect=1

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Peter Bies © 2012

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  “Goal is not to have a goal!”                   

– John Cage 

                     

29 Jan 2099        

  

Far above, the wind was roaring -

doll mother did it with the blonde.

I knew all about their secret.

Must make it work the water.

I remember the furious wind

that changed the sea.

I jumped up & ran out.

Still they kept crying.

The bloody fools.

Been sitting there gawping.

Sit there.

And I had to wait there &

my brain woke up to the fact

& started yelling,

 

“Doll mother can’t leave now!”

 

I knew all about the secret.

Must make it work the water. 

 

“Must?”

 

Everyone gasped in surprise. 

Stone currents change.

I saw the mark of the blue jewel

with fire in its heart.

Far above, the wind was roaring.  

 

 

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Dies Irae - The Trip (1971) 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7B38OQ98Wu4&feature=related

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Peter Bies © 2012

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“Stör ma nich! Ick dichte.” 

 – Georg Heym

 

Part glandular hypertrophy & hospital nutrients,

part  identical synthetic twin table dancers,

mutant offspring of applied genetic string theory

monitor-optimize plastic sealed electric Eye of God - - - ! 

 

 

 

And the Mad Poet cried:    

 

Das Ende der Geschichte! Das Ende der Zeit!

Eins sind das Jetzt und die Ewigkeit!

Das Opium, Milchstraßen & the unruly sun!

As if it’s been painted while the color has run!

Metaphysical rhythm  - the umbilical froze!

Prodigious bullroarer & profound repose!

Ach! Ich erinnere meinen Traum!

Muss mich erinnern! Erinnern!

Gravity pulls me back down! 

Ich erinnere mich!

Ich erinnere…!

Ich…! 

… ! 

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Beauty and the beast… Serge Gainsbourg & France Gall - Les Sucettes (1967)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ts5c4l9IhqM&feature=related

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Peter Bies © 2012

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“What a strange illusion it is to suppose that beauty is goodness.”  

– Leo Tolstoy

 

I have no west! the clouds &                       

past joys point to brain bit

where the future is parked

twelve hours into yesterday -

 

 

And the Mad Poet cried: 

 

 

I saw the clouds turn black before the shuddering sun

& now the orange bones have come to play so pastel - - -

Historical nexus tied to the pineal gland!

Movie curriculums prove inconclusive 

in a line,

in a line,

in a line of thought!

 

 

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The Electric Prunes -  I Had Too Much To Dream Last Night (1967)

 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iO5OnlLJPI4&feature=related

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Peter Bies © 2012

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 ”I’ve always been crazy - but it kept me from going insane.“

– Waylon Jennings 

Circular pulsations & pastels playing

                 

back beautiful visions of true life,  

 

& I am the past & the present -

 

future like phenobarb movie -

 

& time went totally unbody - - -  

 

 

 

Outside of me life feels good, too.

 

Shorthand limbic maze transmission

 

will prove experience of all past joys,

 

& a bit of regurgitation of its totalness

 

motivate to talk to anyone, anytime.  

 

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Waylon Jennings - Mental Revenge (1966)

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JANcTGe2AXo&feature=related

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Peter Bies © 2012

 

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“I hate to advocate drugs, alcohol, violence, or insanity to anyone, but they’ve always worked for me.”

– Hunter S. Thompson  

 

 

Shuddering & a tight jawed blood-brain barrier,   

pastel color effects with clouds towards the west -

the Bit Thinker Oranges are coming to clear this up:

“No visual experience has ever been a line of thought,

thoughts cloud the meaning of personal history ties!”  

 

 

 

Now the Bit Thinker Oranges object that the first hours

 

were largely directed to “the unproductive dynamic”

 

(400 mg & the color has just changed, more arousing -

then depressing & extremely pastel) & now I’m feeling

just a little queasy & sick of the future - - - 

 

             

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Buffalo Springfield - Mr. Soul (1967) 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Y9aFr2GuuA

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Peter Bies © 2012

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Ô refrâichissantes ténèbres!                       

            – Charles Baudelaire 

 

 

Fly in the flesh computers!

Mainline the id-machines!

 

Daydream their crippled offspring into life!

Keep control of gestalt mutants steady & even! 

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Join now & save 28 %! Daily mutant updates!  

 

Fly in the flesh computers!

Mainline the id-machines! 

 

Amazing results!

 

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The Troggs - Maybe the Madman (1968)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CDuWtvYy5TU&feature=related

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Peter Bies © 2012

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“This is how one ought to see, how things really are.”

– Aldous Huxley, The Doors of Perception (1954)

  

listen -                         

the whisper

of fern & thistle!        

go whistle 

a tune in the dark!   

 

And the Mad Poet cried:

 

Taste brine & cold night shadows!

As bulging forest echoes ooze           

from stars & ancient pine trees -           

& stillborn moonlets light a yard 

of glazed & purple underbrush,

rustling, gnawing

on broken clockwork bone - - - - ! 

The moths have eaten all the padding         

under my armour!          

listen -       

the whisper

of fern & thistle!                

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Oskar Sala playing the ‘Mixture-Trautonium’ (1966) 

 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TQ8IiKIRP4A&feature=related

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Peter Bies © 2011

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 Variation on Monolith by Ted Berrigan (15 November 1934 - 4 July 1983).

“If I thought of God as another being like myself, outside myself, only infinitely more powerful, then I would regard it as my duty to defy him.”

– Ludwig Wittgenstein 

The fight call is STICKS.                    

The left wall is FAR OUT.  

The back wall is FICTION.   

I CAN SEE backwards.   

 

The FEELING is DRY. 

The Floor is QUICK. 

The ART is THIN. 

The LIMELIGHT is WHITE.    

 

The WARRANT is ECLECTIC. 

The POWER is ON.

The Subtext is SENT. 

She is POISED. 

  

She is Listening. 

This is IT. 

It is EAR. 

She has been WATCHING.   

 

She has Had To Think. 

It is Done.

It is CONTINGENT.

It is NOT REFLECTIVE, but   

 

It Damn Well Will Do.  

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Laurie Spiegel - Variations on a Concerto Generator (1977) 

 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fWKDsfARXMc&feature=related

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Peter Bies © 2011

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“Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.”

– André Gide

IX. For Jimi Hendrix                 

loop the double feedback                  

 

open your eyes:

 

crimson sounds

 

ooze from prayer capsule

 

 

X. For Luis Buñuel                    

stale water            

 

dripping softly 

 

             from the baptistry                     

black bugs flying about             

 

 

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Laurie Spiegel - Concerto for Self-Accompanying Digital Synthesizer (1977)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NChqEEz31eE&feature=related

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Peter Bies © 2011

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