tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post4027367155647935135..comments2024-03-27T11:16:36.951-07:00Comments on One Cʘsmos: The Will to Deny Free Will and the Intelligence to Deny IntellectGagdad Bobhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14249005793605006679noreply@blogger.comBlogger41125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-89487557037791148652013-12-16T07:02:12.961-08:002013-12-16T07:02:12.961-08:00Reading this guy's cultural-critiquey talks on...Reading this guy's cultural-critiquey talks on Sloterdijk I came across his piece on <br /><a href="http://cinemadiscourse.com/cultural/?p=813" rel="nofollow">Ch. Whitman</a> <br />the starter of the lone psycho random innocents-killer motif [which shows no sign of abating, alas]gehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02015936407999495181noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-18835534243842851882013-12-15T18:17:52.725-08:002013-12-15T18:17:52.725-08:00Love all the music suggestions! @ge, Peter Sloterd...Love all the music suggestions! @ge, Peter Sloterdijk may be a philosopher to contend with in the post-secular age. Also, enjoying a recent blog post by <a href="http://www.ahalmaas.com/contemplations/which-of-the-ultimates-is-ultimate" rel="nofollow">Almaas on Which Ultimate is Ultimate</a>? Lastly, wondering what some of the occultists like <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Order-Ages-History-Universal-Cosmogony-ebook/dp/B005LCYQ1G/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1387160190&sr=8-1&keywords=order+of+the+ages+bolton" rel="nofollow">Robert Bolton</a> would say about predestination, as they posit that there are cycles laid out for us in the cosmos?tedhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07354048695798015131noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-13653754294725252282013-12-15T18:12:52.564-08:002013-12-15T18:12:52.564-08:00This comment has been removed by the author.tedhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07354048695798015131noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-13512678742950436552013-12-15T16:16:41.246-08:002013-12-15T16:16:41.246-08:001st cut of
PLEASURES OF THE HARBOR<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uSB5v0IGN_0" rel="nofollow">1st cut of<br />PLEASURES OF THE HARBOR</a>gehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02015936407999495181noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-39857048229835116272013-12-15T16:12:09.417-08:002013-12-15T16:12:09.417-08:00Phil Ochs' PLEASURES OF THE HARBOR & TAPE ...Phil Ochs' PLEASURES OF THE HARBOR & TAPE FROM CALIFORNIA ...DILLARD & CLARK- THRU THE MORNING THRU THE NIGHT<br />[all produced by Larry Marks] would be more good finds on that A&M vinyl<br />gehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02015936407999495181noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-60529513799260663492013-12-15T10:10:38.597-08:002013-12-15T10:10:38.597-08:00Only $24 on amazon. Damn, I may pick up the gold ...Only $24 on <a href="http://www.amazon.com/All-Time-Greatest-Hits-Orbison/dp/B001JQ4I8E/ref=sr_1_9?s=music&ie=UTF8&qid=1387130886&sr=1-9&keywords=all+time+greatest+hits+roy+orbison" rel="nofollow">amazon</a>. Damn, I may pick up the <a href="http://www.amazon.com/All-Time-Greatest-Hits-Orbison/dp/B0019VTKK0/ref=sr_1_2?s=music&ie=UTF8&qid=1387130886&sr=1-2&keywords=all+time+greatest+hits+roy+orbison" rel="nofollow">gold CD</a> version...Gagdad Bobhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14249005793605006679noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-66415015283374360522013-12-15T10:06:27.365-08:002013-12-15T10:06:27.365-08:00Okay, seriously, THIS would be heaven.Okay, seriously, <a href="http://www.musicdirect.com/p-4703-roy-orbison-the-all-time-greatest-hits-of-roy-orbison-numbered-limited-edition-180g-2lp.aspx" rel="nofollow">THIS</a> would be heaven.Gagdad Bobhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14249005793605006679noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-25137060538820558512013-12-15T10:00:56.585-08:002013-12-15T10:00:56.585-08:00Just flipping through my vinyl collection, and two...Just flipping through my vinyl collection, and two great ones are Guitar Town by Steve Earle and Lyle Lovett's first album. I don't think either one ever surpassed those two.Gagdad Bobhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14249005793605006679noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-84083254992296953712013-12-15T09:49:50.648-08:002013-12-15T09:49:50.648-08:00You guys are the best. This is a list for many mor...You guys are the best. This is a list for many more than just this Christmas. Sounds like a tradition!<br /><br />The boy does not know how loved is he by the CoonSquad.<br /><br />Thanks!Rickhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13720790978632771716noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-17990231886717908072013-12-15T09:31:46.062-08:002013-12-15T09:31:46.062-08:00That's especially true of Cat Stevens -- his f...That's especially true of Cat Stevens -- his first three in particular are impeccably recorded. Lots of ambience. Speaking of which, I'll bet Nick Drake sounds great on vinyl. Gagdad Bobhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14249005793605006679noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-5001434923714310052013-12-15T09:18:07.800-08:002013-12-15T09:18:07.800-08:00Rick to refer yr ? to the decade of vinyl's he...Rick to refer yr ? to the decade of vinyl's heyday ['60-70S], i'll always recall the A&M releases for a stretch there beating all others in sonics---they seem MASTERED 'hotter'/ better compression/limiting equipment/ears of engin-ears, who knows? [well the Ear knows/nose :)]<br /><br />Most of these I'm sure were on that kinda dirty yellow A&M label, good luck at garage sales!: Cat Stevens MONA BONE JAKON...Procol Harum A SALTY DOG...FAIRPORT CONVENTION'S 1ST...JOE Cocker W/ A LITTLE HELP...Flying Burrito Bros GILDED PALACEgehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02015936407999495181noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-8433486138429747882013-12-15T09:08:44.421-08:002013-12-15T09:08:44.421-08:00Of course I spoonerized yr somatic Skydog metaphor...Of course I spoonerized yr somatic Skydog metaphor & envision a 6-body/1 head model also working well!gehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02015936407999495181noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-72295427754900280492013-12-15T08:30:23.887-08:002013-12-15T08:30:23.887-08:00Still flipping.... Oh my: Raspberries Best. This...Still flipping.... Oh my: Raspberries Best. This is a fantastic album, although I don't know whether vinyl would enhance the experience.... Every Picture Tells a Story is -- been all downhill since then for Rod.... Dead Can Dance Into the Labyrinth must sound incredible, but it does on CD as well.... Nirvana Never Mind.... Hendrix Axis Bold as Love....<br /><br />Still flipping...<br /><br />Van Morrison Moondance....I have Graceland on vinyl, and it sounds great....<br /><br />You know what is one of the greatest sounding records of all time? Muddy Waters Folk Singer. Really breathtaking. Allman Brothers Live at the Fillmore East, greatest live album ever -- six heads, one body. London Calling by the Clash?<br /><br />IMPOSSIBLE REQUESTGagdad Bobhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14249005793605006679noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-90148452451617196892013-12-15T08:18:51.462-08:002013-12-15T08:18:51.462-08:00Wow, that is a tough question. To be honest, I al...Wow, that is a tough question. To be honest, I almost never listen to vinyl anymore, because of the convenience and length of CDs, plus new vinyl is so expensive. <br /><br />Like right now I'm looking at this mail catalog from MusicDirect, which seems to have EVERYTHING. (website is <a href="http://www.musicdirect.com/c-506-vinyl.aspx" rel="nofollow">here</a>).<br /><br />Let's see... I've heard the Sinatra's on Mobile Fidelity are breathtaking, but they haven't yet issued the two best ones, Swingin' Affair and Songs for Swingin' Lovers. As it so happens, that is how I was introduced to Frank, back in 1985, I think it was. They were practically giving away vinyl back than, so I started collecting audiophile editions of his Capitol albums of the 1950s, and was completely blown away. <br /><br />Just flipping through the pages... Oooohhhh, Pet Sounds. Hard to beat that, especially at the Boy's age, in that the whole album is about a young man' search for his identity in the world.<br /><br />Ahhh, REM's first full album, Murmur, sounds amazing on vinyl... Wo: Aretha's Gold. That must be epic. Any of Stevie Ray Vaughan's first four.... Bill Withers Live -- never heard the vinyl, but must be great... Pixies Doolittle, if he really wants to be sonically assaulted....Marvin Gaye What's Going On, for a long time was my favorite album...Gagdad Bobhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14249005793605006679noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-42503742289100746292013-12-15T07:50:21.381-08:002013-12-15T07:50:21.381-08:00Bob, thanks for that CD recommendation. Got 'e...Bob, thanks for that CD recommendation. Got 'em.<br /><br />Here's a toughie, we're getting the boy his first turntable (nothing fancy) and what seems like to me a pretty great sounding (for the price) wireless speaker system/amp to connect to it. About the size of a breadbox. Samsung is making some great products these days. Wood cabinet interior with vacuum tubes (that you can see glowing from a little Jules Verne-ish glass porthole in the top). Sounds great and rich and warm (for the price).<br /><br />Here's the Q: He has a few Beatles album hand-me-downs from an aunt. I'm guessing they're well worn. That's it for the collection of vinyl. Can you recommend a personal favorite LP you love to listen to just for that quality that only vinyl can deliver of a fantastic recording? Any artist past or present. Maybe a new vinyl press of an original recording?Rickhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13720790978632771716noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-48120758751732199432013-12-15T07:47:43.488-08:002013-12-15T07:47:43.488-08:00Weekends! are for discovering new unpronouncible E...Weekends! are for discovering new unpronouncible European philosophers who may offer food for thought or abominations to purge<br />....Ready for a post-Nietzschean, Habermas-duelling onetime Rajneesh visitor described thus: "Peter Sloterdijk finds in Diogenes what many of his contemporaries found in Norman O. Brown, or in Zen, or for that matter in drugs and music: permission to turn off reason, objectivity, “logocentric” thinking, the head."<br />http://www.newrepublic.com/article/113387/peter-sloterdijks-philosophy-gives-reasons-living<br /><br /><i><br />Faced with its demise, philosophy ... confesses: The great themes, they were evasions and half-truths. Those futile, beautiful, soaring flights—God, Universe, Theory, Praxis, Subject, Object, Body, Spirit, Meaning, Nothingness—all that is nothing. ....<br />The last philosophy, willing to confess, treats such things under a historical rubric—together with the sins of youth. Their time has come. In our thinking there is no longer any spark of the uplifting flight of concepts or of the ecstasies of understanding. We are enlightened, we are apathetic. No one talks anymore of a love of wisdom. There is no longer any knowledge whose friend (philos) one could be. It does not occur to us to love the kind of knowledge we have; rather we ask ourselves how we might contrive to live with it without becoming ossified. ...<br />“Knowledge is power.” This is the sentence that dug the grave of philosophy in the nineteenth century. ... This sentence brings to an end the tradition of a knowledge that, as its name indicates, was an erotic theory—the love of truth and the truth through love ... Those who utter the sentence reveal the truth. However, with the utterance they want to achieve more than truth: They want to intervene in the game of power. ... </i><br /><br />http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Peter_Sloterdijk<br /><br />http://www.amazon.com/Bubbles-Spheres-Microspherology-Semiotext-Foreign/dp/1584351047/ref=pd_cp_b_1gehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02015936407999495181noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-10899754411968017982013-12-14T17:22:33.384-08:002013-12-14T17:22:33.384-08:00I think what distinguishes Christianity and elevat...I think what distinguishes Christianity and elevates it above the pagans is that <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_EZCG2Ex8Q0" rel="nofollow">nothing is written</a> until we write it.Gagdad Bobhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14249005793605006679noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-89596282725832517562013-12-14T16:58:38.318-08:002013-12-14T16:58:38.318-08:00I didn't pick on Romans 8 specifically because...I didn't pick on Romans 8 specifically because it mixes foreknowledge and predestination -- which makes it almost too easy. God knew that some would accept the offer of grace (foreknew). Those who will accept are then predestined. Predestined to what? To be conformed to the image of Christ. Those who were predestined were then called, and so on. <br /><br />Once I make the choice, the Holy Spirit begins to work in my life. After that, as Rick noted, it does seem like a setup.mushroomhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07651027035577798096noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-58495879730777322142013-12-14T12:19:07.760-08:002013-12-14T12:19:07.760-08:00Iran sends second monkey into space, president sa...<i>Iran sends <a href="http://www.thedailyrash.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/ahmadinejadpeace.jpg" rel="nofollow">second monkey</a> into space, president says</i>gehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02015936407999495181noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-42292911437090801992013-12-14T08:49:51.001-08:002013-12-14T08:49:51.001-08:00This is a great deal if you need a gift for that o...This is a <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00068X53U?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creativeASIN=B00068X53U&linkCode=xm2&tag=onecos-20" rel="nofollow">great deal</a> if you need a gift for that obsessive Beatles fan in your life: only $10.99 and free shipping for their first four American albums, which are quite different from their British counterparts, both in content and sound. It's also a Japanese import, which makes it more rare, and therefore imbued with more Beatles juju. <br /><br />These albums are considered "controversial," since a faceless executive at Capitol records in America decided that the Brits didn't know how to record rock & roll properly -- that it sounded too dry and clinical. Therefore, he decided to pump them up with reverb and other effects in order to make them jump out of an AM radio and grab you by the throat. In this they succeed. An unsurpassed lesson in how to properly Rock. <br /><br /> Gagdad Bobhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14249005793605006679noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-4798841846033160012013-12-13T17:14:21.275-08:002013-12-13T17:14:21.275-08:00In my opinion this falls under the heading of taki...<i>In my opinion this falls under the heading of taking the name of the lord in vain, which is a quite serious offense. After all, it blocks the path to salvation.</i><br /><br />I've been thinking about the Second/Third Commandment, and realizing that I often take the Lord's Name in vain; not the occasional GD (or GB?), but the common platitudes like "God has a reason for it." Or worse, "God made me this way." Just thinking.Peytonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12270784303736251238noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-10267980038521462922013-12-13T16:37:23.132-08:002013-12-13T16:37:23.132-08:00This Just In: Jay Carney To Exit as WH Press Secre...This Just In: Jay Carney To Exit as WH Press Secretary, to be replaced by the hallucinating 'signer' from S Africa. Obama felt he did a great job: "If I had a son who was an aspiring signer on acid, he might look just like Thamsanqa..."<br /><br />Apparently there were some deaf people who saw the sign language of Obama's eulogy and felt for the first time he sounded genuine and sensible.<br /><br />gehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02015936407999495181noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-35250155981303521412013-12-13T15:33:17.880-08:002013-12-13T15:33:17.880-08:00A footnote to the Orthodox Study Bible suggests th...A footnote to the Orthodox Study Bible suggests that John 3:16 is a kind of fractal, in that "this single verse expresses the whole of the message of John's Gospel, and indeed, of salvation history."Gagdad Bobhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14249005793605006679noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-44210851653835919472013-12-13T15:21:56.794-08:002013-12-13T15:21:56.794-08:00I never met a Calvinist who could pole-vault over ...I never met a Calvinist who could pole-vault over John 3:16...the operative words being WORLD and WHOSOEVER!Kurthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01750808052006968358noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-26104152471347254852013-12-13T15:18:56.274-08:002013-12-13T15:18:56.274-08:00Yes, exactly. Even Mary had the choice to say &quo...Yes, exactly. Even Mary had the choice to say "No." That's why her "Yes!" matters.juliehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15975754287030568726noreply@blogger.com