None of this music is mine.5 Spot is just a recommendation series where we get an artist to evangelize for their favorite creators, a single track at a time. It will be running on Real Yeti Rap, but I’m kicking it off here Because I Can.
1. Godforbid - “Driveway”
Fresh storytelling from one of my all-time favorite rappers? Hell yes. This track is basically a short film and I’ve been playing it for every rapper I know. It’s so rare to hear a song that really takes advantage of the infinite horizon that “Words + Beats” has to offer us.
2. Sene - “exit,us.”
An extended instrumental & classical conceptual rap masterpiece from a rapper I’d never heard of? Hell yes. What an introduction this was. Sene is going to make noble noise in the future. In the meantime, give this cut your full attention.
3. Sulaiman - “As a Man Thinketh”
My favorite Chicago rapper over my favorite Chicago producer? Hell yes. Sulaiman is smart, funny and rolls with 10,000 flow patterns at least. Thelonious Martin is intensely fucking good, because there’s a thousand talented & consistent producers making great beats, but Martin is always a standout. Lush, loose and jazzy as hell. This cut is a flawless gem to me.
4. Witness - Yesterday’s Wake
Awesome & honest rappage with a freakishly talented live band? Hell yes. The Witness & The Family Secret project sounds like it’s going to be a big deal in 2012. Fuck if it “blows up” or not—it’s going to be great music.
5. Phillip Morris - “Why You Have To Go And Break Phillip Morris’ Heart?”
Breakup music from one of the most vivid & intricate rhyme writers around? Hell yes. This is one of the more compelling Phillip Morris tracks, the highlight of a very diverse & ambitious catalog. His balance of personal pain and detached cinema makes for an unsettling feeling I dig. Like a comedy routine you suspect could erupt into either an onstage breakdown or a mass shooting...that kind of feeling.
PEACE OUT EARTH HUMANS, THANKS FOR LISTENING
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Camped out in Boston at Vault 46, contemplating a long life coming full circle. 2012 will be my most prolific year to date, but it doesn’t even feel like I’m moving at all. I stumbled down bloody from the Blue Ridge Mountains, took a shower and got onto a Greyhound bus...I’ve been in Boston ever since, brainstorming with with the World Around team and writing raps for 18 hours a day.
That’s not entirely true. I’ve been in a very non-local frame of reference these days, so it’s appropriate I’d be making a lyrics video for something I wrote and released in 2007.
Thanks to the team at Radio Free Barbelith and the recent work of Emmy Noether, I’ve been thinking about my decades in a different light lately. Acid trips I had at 16 make a lot more sense now, mistakes I made at 20 still reverberate today, and my past 12 months are a microcosm of Pretty Much Everything.
With that in mind, stay tuned. We’re many sessions deep on unreleased material and as you’ve probably noticed, I’m through with announcing projects. No matter what album you’re curious about: it’s happening.
Thanks for reading, thanks for listening.
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Big thanks to the good people at Boing Boing for doing Robert Anton Wilson Week, which comes as I’ve been re-re-re-reading Quantum Psychology. Synchronicity accelerates. I found this gem in a lost interview that’s packed full of brilliant ideas and one-liners, as per. (For example: “Doubt lasts longer than faith and provokes thought rather than discouraging it.”)
I wanted to share this passage, though, where RAW details a book idea he never got around to…
Pope Bob’s Unfinished Guide to Human Sexuality
“I have a lot of ideas for books. One of them is The Truth About Sex. I probably will never do this one; that’s why I talk about it so much. I’d like somebody to rip the idea off, so I don’t have to do it. There was a book that was a bestseller, ten or 15 years ago, Everything You Always Wanted To Know About Sex But You Were Afraid To Ask Your Doctor, and it was in question and answer form. I thought the author was one of the stupidest people I’d ever read. I decided to do the book correctly. It’d be in question and answer form, but instead of one answer to each question there would be four or five, or maybe even a dozen, all from leading authorities, and all contradicting one another. The idea of the book was to show that the authorities don’t know what the hell they’re talking about. It’s an area full of prejudice.
There’s no real science of sexology yet; it’s all various people expressing their personal prejudices and disguising it as psychology or sociology. So I thought, take a question like, “What causes homosexuality?” and give twelve different answers just to show how much the scientific community really knows; they can’t even agree about a simple thing like that. “What causes heterosexuality,” for that matter? “What is the difference between vaginal and clitoral orgasm?” I’d get about 24 different opinions on that, in the literature.
The reason I’ll probably never do that book is getting the permissions from all these authors is a Herculean task, which publishers always dump on the writer. And once they found out what they had agreed to, the experts would all be furious because they’d all look like idiots, because they’re all overly dogmatic. They’d be very furious and god knows what they’d do about it. So I hope somebody else does that book and I don’t have to do it.”
#WHALAM
Thanks to the wonders of Teh Internets, this would be pretty easy to accomplish. Rather than being released as a book, it could simply be a website operating under basic “Fair Use” laws to spotlight the monumental ignorance of our species.
Of course, Human Sexuality for Filthy Apes has more than a few similarities to the concept that RAW outlines above, but the big difference is that I’m actively participating in the stupidity. Rather than point fingers and laugh, I am developing my own vast and contradictory Theory of Everything. I aim to demonstrate that science is far too much fun to be left to actual scientists, and furthermore, since we’re all engaged in the creation of fictional belief structures, we should aim considerably higher than mere “plausibility.”
As Klintron explained to me in a dream last night: “What you’re really doing is taking Salvador Dali’s concept of Critical Paranoia and applying it to the whole of modern science.”
Amen.
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