so, i've been listening to this constantly. alice has a way of explaining that is subtle, but beautiful and impactful like slow motion footage of a building collapse. Turiya and Ramakrishna is my favorite, i was able to rankle this album off of ebay for an amazing $6, and it's now one of my best friends. especially underneath the tranquil yet constant freeway noise of my nook in echo park, and the radio headlines pertaining to the fall of the bankosphere (and western capitalism?). i overheard bush today refer to 'democratic capitalism' as 'the best system ever devised'.


so, my bank just collapsed.

i don't really know what that means, as my assetts are under $100,000, and they're FDIC insured. regardless, the money needs to come out and go somewhere else. i've been saturating myself with reports of this collapse, and it seems so preventable.. our greed got the best of us, and stock trading became more dada than dada. trading the idea of money that doesn't exactly exist is pretty stupendous stuff, but the house of cards does not stand for long.. it's all marcel duchamp's fault!



in all of the economic doom gloom talk, i see parallels in various prophecies, from mayan to hopi to nostradamus, 2008 has been cataclysmic and all signs have seemed to point to that from, well, hundreds to thousands of years ago. i even found in another spot on the internet that sarah palin's name in hebrew added up to 666. i was reminded by alan watts that there have been scathes of anti-christs and that she may just be the most recent, but her sudden stature is disgraceful. for someone to regard one's self as a christian and hold ideas so dissimilar with the christ is appalling. america has laid out its stereotype on the ground and is sticking to it. intense, misguided, hero-fools with a pre-disposition towards random bursts of violence (at a distance, of course).



in seeking alternatives to this deluge of lies, i have also been seeking podcasts (as i'm working non-stop..) from more uplifting/intelligent sources. as you may know, 'electropeasant', or rather 'electropeasantry' is a term coined by william irwin-thompson, an american whom should be greatly respected throughout our culture but is predominately unknown. here he is, speaking somewhere. wit in this talk (i believe it was this one) declared that religion existed between the sumerians and 1945, and that when any structure is on it's way out, it gets especially violent and forceful, see any reference to what religious fundamentalists want to do to the world.



that leaves me with alice coltrane and the sound of the freeway, solace in these sodden times.