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As part of the promotion cycle for In[tune]ition, as well as some spring cleaning, I’m releasing tons of music that should have come out awhile ago, as well as the rejected tracks from the album.  So stay tuned, and get ready for lots of free downloads, videos, and the album - coming soon!  (if you stumble on this, and listen, please share it - this new record , i think, is important for all of us and i want as many people as possible to hear it)

patchdrury:

I was looking at this picture hanging in my office today and realized, I’d never really posted anything about it, other than an Instagram picture or something a couple years ago.

Let me tell you about it.

Local was a comic book mini-series written by Brian Wood and drawn by Ryan Kelly….

lawsofmodernman:

Laws of Modern Man number 123.

“I’ve been sitting on this track for too long. It’s part of an album that I was working on and then abandoned called Thigh Party - which I may drop a few tracks off of here pretty soon for free download. This one is probably the centerpiece of the record, featuring samples chopped from TUNEYARDS - Gangsta. Enjoy”

This is all wrong.  I know you feel it.  I’ve felt it for years.  But because we can’t make sense of it - we can’t put our fingers on the who, what, and why - it remains a dull feeling in the back of our heads.  It’s crippling.  I think we can all agree that people are stagnant and complacent these days.  I believe that is why.

We belong outside.  The structure of our bodies and the call from within speaks to this.  We are designed for direct connection to the things that we need - to conquer our hunger and thirst with our minds and to find shelter for ourselves.  It’s so important to understand - nothing ever decided that we belong indoors and separated.  Right angles and temperature controlled environments, paved roads and carpeted floors, packaged food and bottled drinks - there is nothing that says that’s how it’s supposed to be.  Nothing about our physical, biological, or even spiritual and metaphysical position in the Universe indicates that convenience should be a priority.  

On top of that, it’s proven that the most “successful” people on this planet suffer from a form of psychosis.  They are psychopaths.  They are CRAZY.  They lack empathy and sympathy for others, they are egomaniacs, and they have an almost sexual obsession with material gain - watching numbers grow.  They are incredibly cunning, and specialize in manipulation.  These are not superior qualities - in fact, if you look at them individually, they are quite damaging to our community.  But they also lend themselves to power gains - largely because these are the only people that really care about having power.  

We live in a world that they designed.  And now we are frustrated, because nothing seems to make any sense, but we can’t articulate the argument against it, and we are devastatingly “too far gone”.  In a world of identical civilizations, marked by subdivisions, strip malls, and sky scrapers, do we suddenly discover that we’ve been wrong this whole time?  As if tearing these structures down is an option.  We aren’t even willing to get up to change the channel on the picture box.  And so, they’ve won.

And yet, why not go back?  The first thing we need to do is realize and accept that we don’t have to be what they say anymore.  We don’t have to accept anything.  We don’t have to go back and forth about changing 1% of a system that is 100% flawed.  

My contention is that no one would be unhappy around a fire among friends.  If you love to dance, just dance.  If you love to sing, just sing.  Sing for your friends around the fire.  Beat the drum.  Move your body.  One of the greatest tragedies of our generation is that once someone decides they love to do _____ , the next concern is how do they make money with it.  How do I take _____ and turn it into a plan that allows me to retire at 65? How do I pay my mortgage with ____?  Quite effectively, ______ is destroyed.

For all our development, it’s like the only thing we care about is separating ourselves from nature.  Pumping up our ego.  “We aren’t animals at all!”.  No we’re not.  We’re way worse than animals - because we use every one of our gifts to sanitize, civilize, and pacify ourselves.  We deny our own nature, and suppress every wild urge in exchange for the life of a house pet.  Almost all of my friends have panic attacks from time to time, and I don’t wonder why at all.  Because they’re smart enough to feel, if not see, that the life they could’ve lived has been stripped from them - I’m sure cattle feel something similar living in a slaughterhouse.  We’ve domesticated ourselves, and then hold our heads high as if we’ve accomplished something.

You point to the scientific proof that domestication has any value whatsoever.  Let me know when you find it - I’m dying to see it.  Do you honestly think house cats live a proper life?  Do you think they are better off in your house than in the wild?  If you do you’re deluded, but I’m counting on you being better than that.  Now - what makes you different than your cat?  I’ll wait.  

The fact is - the only rules are the laws of nature.  Everything else is bullshit - written by man - which is more than a little like a child making up his own rules to Shoots and Ladders.  Sure you can do it, if you want - but the game probably isn’t going to go so well.  Somewhere down the line, you’re going to run into a wall - because you didn’t pay attention to the facts.

We should be having a conversation everyday, all across the world, about how we can rid ourselves of government, or any other position of authority.  No man should have power over another.  Each man should be able to govern himself, and interact freely with others.  One of the great fallacies of man is the idea that someone who is involved in something you disagree with is different than you.  We separate ourselves from those who make us uncomfortable, and form groups with those we deem safe and similar.  But why are you uncomfortable?  Whether it’s sexual orientation, race, lifestyle, or something dangerous like murderers and rapists - why do these things make you uncomfortable?  Because you’re not separate from them.  You are them.  They are you.  We are HUMAN.  And humans do all kinds of things.  We are a body - and a body should not attempt to cut off an appendage because it is different - even diseased.  It must be salvaged, or accepted.  We are in this together, and always will be - and it’s about time we stopped pretending that we’re something we’re not.  When another person makes you uncomfortable - that’s because you’re afraid, and fear is the opposite of understanding.  It’s also pathetic.  This isn’t new stuff, get with the fucking program.

We could be one.  We could feel unconditional love from all directions every day, and experience the greater joy of giving it too.  We could be connected through peace and power to every living soul on this planet, and we could finally turn our eyes toward the problems we all face and towards our frontiers - whether outward in space, or inward in our minds.  We could find and embrace a place in society for each person that is specifically tailored to their unique abilities and characteristics - embrace our differences as the great gifts they are.  We could progress in ways that actually matter - I hate to break it to you, but the iPhone 5 will do nothing to make this world a better place.  We are mindlessly, and numbly, stumbling forward in the areas we are comfortable - namely technology - and at this point, our progress is more like a smokers progress toward cancer.  

I believe humans have an amazing future - of total connectedness and currents of energy and telekinesis and all kinds of shit.  Freedom from ego, reading thoughts, manipulating the Universe with our will through the physical power of consciousness (there’s scientific evidence for that).  I believe the Universe is trying to know itself through life and through consciousness.  We have a role - we are the reflection of the universe - we’re the other side of the mirror - we are the ones that look back.  We marvel at it’s beauty.  We fall before it.  We rise to our occasion.  We are BIGGER than the life we’ve made for ourselves.  We are BETTER than this.  

Do you think I’m crazy?  Am I an idealist?  Am I not being realistic?  Well, your way has gotten us a multi-nation nuclear stranglehold.  Your way has gotten us a severe climate problem.  Your way has lead to a world run by paper currency, and controlled by banks.  Your way has genocides in poor countries, and suicide epidemics in rich ones.  Your way is filling our prisons, crushing our lower class, breaking our children’s spirits, impoverishing the world, depleting our resources, broken even the most remote balance of goods, and corrupted or assassinated all of the most influential people on the planet.  Your way has people saying one thing and doing another pathologically and gratuitously.  Your way rewards lying, cheating, and stealing.  Your way has failed us all - and fuck us anyway, we’re all complicit.  But all of life as we know it lives on the planet that your way is destroying.  Your way might state that we are somehow better than animals, but on your shoulders rests the burden of proof - and your way will rob them of their existence, as well as your own.  You know what that is?  That’s bullshit.  Do you understand that?  This shit is not okay - and if you’re alive, you are FUCKING UP if you’re not doing something about this.  

You don’t have to be out on a street corner waving a sign and chanting - but you shouldn’t allow yourself to be part of the problem.  You should try at the very least to be aware of yourself and the things you do - the things you support with your money and your time - the direction you’re pushing.  This world is going to change, one way or another.