The fact of the matter is that sometimes I wish I had more ability. It seems as if other people are just.. ahead of me. I am an artist. I am a free man, my highest value is the utilization of liberty. Can there be any higher virtue? Surely not, for liberty is necessary for the exercise of any other virtue. All else is ethics and bullshit..
Today I learned that an e-book published on Amazon must not use the ‘tab’ indent. How odd. How befuddling. It seems that the tab indent exists for a purpose. Can you indent at all in e-books published through Amazon? I don’t know, and I don’t care to check, and yet I am concerned that modernization of the medium by which people read the most is going to cause the real physical presence of books on this planet, and the information's availability to the average common folks, to fall by the wayside. This is why I believe that Google’s book archiving project is very important (and whether that is it still being pursued is a questions I'd like answered!)
Books are the oldest form of robustly formatted information that serves as an example of ancient people’s recognition that man is born ignorant and thus needs books in order that further generations may not have to start from “zero” -- at least, not if they are given the gift of literacy. As for me, I was given literacy at a very young age. I showed exceptional gifts in the rate at which I picked up the english language. I presented whole sentences and integrated abstract ideas into my own thoughts as I explored the world of legos and tonka trucks. Me? Another homo sapiens sapiens and a first born, in the truest sense.
Now I wake up each day and look around. I see my peers, my elders, and now having reached a certain age -- 27 years old (a meaningful age, somehow) -- I see my younger brothers and sisters. I cry for them in my own ignorance knowing they too are coming into this world ignorant. But before I could cry for them I had to overcome many other things -- my own non-knowing, my own education that taught me wrong. And I see these youngsters being taught wrong. You see, there was a time when I thought I knew everything, too, just like modern education taught me I could, and I was wrong.
The squeaky wheel gets the grease. That’s one of the first maxims I was introduced to. Maxims are interesting. If you aren’t familiar with the term, a maxim is a statement who’s logic is supposed to be truth and thus you ought to live by it -- being that the maxim is true, and a reflection of truth. But I hated that maxim. My experience was that the squeaky wheel -- like in my younger self’s classroom -- was always asking questions that I already knew the answer to. Why should the squeaky wheel get the grease when I am so much more intelligent?
The Word is a funny thing. I don’t mean THE WORD as in The Bible, but the WORD. Word themselves. I know so many people who are at and beyond the age of maturity and yet don’t understand that words are just.. simply.. words. A sign is something that indicates a superficially identifiable fact. A symbol is something that represents a concept, something more than the snapshot picture of something. A given word is a sign and a symbol, statement is more often a symbol. And so many of my peers (even at my age) are walking through the world, forming opinions, and basing their viewpoints on nothing more than a deluge of signs.
I find myself to be pitiful. This is lucky, because until recently I did not view my self at all. I just thought of myself as another voice in the crowd (despite my explicit thought being that I was NOT *just* another voice in the crowd (cloud?)). Of course I have since realized that everything that you “Will” away from oneself becomes a bigger and bigger part of oneself.
I wonder.. can a man be an entertainer and a philosopher?
Hey guys, I am really bored, sippin' on some Jack with Ice and thought I ought to share something with ya'll.
I partially transcribed some lyrics for my freestyle hip-hop style epic poemk EP MEMORY GRIPPED. Here's a link and here are the partially transcribed lyrics
transcribing TER - MEMORY GRIPPED prod. Various Artists
6:20 we are here on top of everest except we are standing on our two feet and that’s how tall we is do you get it? two miles tall into the sky? kick skyscrapers over like bowling scene I know your downtown, its beautiful, but its way too small for me. I’m way up here in the sky. Becoming another piece of space junk. Inserting the funk
But today my albums so full of -- hot tracks from the hiphop age today may be the year 250,000 but I listen to old hip hop because I am vintage like that. listening to classic hip hop in my speakers rolling through the hood in the year 268,285
7:50 ah-ah-ah -ah-ah AWWWROOOOO (wolf) AH - AWWWROOOO No I’m not kidding around at the moment we’re here in this to be fiddling diddling and fucking do you understand I’m here for the do you see this I’m in it for the honey pot I’m getting in because I’m looking I’m seeking it and feeling it hahaha the next doe to meet eyes with I see her, I can take her down and attack her, its getting nasty in here so I’m going to take her down and turn this into something beautiful something more than you could be---- -----
your white knight it depends on what viewpoints you choose to see me through are you going to look left or right out of your eyeball I’m loking to stick Another thing that evolve and is expulcated from the fucking synthesizer the fucking verbalizer you didn’t expect I met God and I said do this to me, God and he said YES now I’m here one or two it who’s my God? It may be satan or is it God? And I know I got the ucking righteous hand to be protected under cuz I trained for my day of fitness and I head to the bar and I say to that girl I’m going to get in that honey pot don’t you know so you best be able to open them eyes and get them covered in my sticky icky icky gooey
10:30 still air got me feeling still air got me feeling something, somethin’ too much life of the party I step in and I’m bouncin off the beat even if it’s whack I don’t got a problem with that I can keep on my bounce here there and that hip hop and scotch I keep it legite with my pinky finger out as I peep out of the corner of my eye at your girlfriends ass the other eye down your girlfriends bra ya you’re the man with two girlfriends what can I say I’m here with my own self that’s just how hard I rock UUUUUUUUUUgh got strife with me I’ll tell you to sit on it and spin on it as I roll thorugh every hoe in the back booth of the party and I know I don’t gotta worry about STDs because its all imaginary how can it be though, got both eyes open with panorama view I can see at least 40 people in this party I see the people’s booty’s rocking no problem I got a ton of fun here in my cup rolling on some molly smoking dope with heroin rolling thorugh every vein of my body doing my bench press and leg squats in the gymnasium my size is up and my thighs thick as fuck I know you don’t want to lose all those teeth so you best back up and sit the fuck down, get ready for another hot beat to be spit upon. its a threatening mode. do you get the aggression? I’m threatening you. That’s how it works with language. It means things. It means things to some people.
13:45 Central park New York and I’m on my grind looking out for haters dicking in and out of shrubbery I’m loooking for them gays and cruising, don’t know you I’m a fucking officer of the state. Police deputy yeah that’s so it doesn’t feel so bad when they order me to go sniff some farts in the bathroom looking to bust some gays doing their thing in the bathroom stall but I don’t actually think about thoughts like that cuz I’m a modern day police officer and I don’t have any scruples so I bow my back to the police chief under the command of Obama all of the tall buildings all in a row, rich motherfuckers I’m seeing, Tiffany’s Glassware and more Jewelry store if I look down even once it might be all over for me at any moment it may be anyhow so why am I scared? I’m just climbing up a skyscraper with a couple of suction cups and I’m feeling like.. it ain’t so tough. I’m lovin’ this its like a giant square, I never realized how you could take a city and turn it into geometry so easily. I’m looking at all of the shapes of our traffics, intersections, why does it happen that way? Traffic why doesn’t it seem to gather in these corners I see some kind of flag girls friend high schools with hoola hoops they’re turning me on but I have to say I’m here for the physics. I’m looking at how the curves are angled to create the perfect ratio -- pi Taxi cabs hailed from every direction I don’t know but it seems that girl and that man, well I’ll say she’s fixing to get nailed. As we go through the city I’m passing central avenue Cuz I live in Jersey.
17:37 have a nat--- have a dot an imaginary dot that shows where you are not supposed to be a magic spot where you are never to be but in th enext moment you could be there the panacea all of your fucking mysteries become lost its like a black whole that swirling with nothing but another universe once you transport beyong th ehorizon beyond out cognition you can’t imagine how this magic works, step in and out of the horizon be able to speak to the people to get your money. you got one single DOT and that’s your not so you best find out what the next step to be if you’re going to be a hero of the universe or even of your own tiny world you better start movin’ you better start doin’ just one tiny dot that’s what I represent hot or not I nkow I can look into that and see there is no fear to be recognized in this world I’m spreading the spue like string theory because everyday I knit new patterns the cosmos is my play thing I’m uust here looking at my dot, staring at the snot dripping down your nose cuz you’re so entrance by the fuckin’ flows leave it to the dot leave it to the dot
20:25 to me the whole thing is the smell of fear I’m seeing it behind my eyes maybe the structure isn’t as secure as I anticipated but I know I’m ready to goto sleep but what about the demons who gonna assault my consciousness in the evening at night in my dreams I’m seeing spirits and nightmares that I can’t control with my A. I. do you know that I’ve got the 1’s and 2 digits I’ve been focusing all of my efforts on creating an organization that is territorial and completely encompassing of the world so as I obscure these 4 corners of providence from your sight its like an enemy opens a tear in space and time if only I could turn on the light all day and night maybe I wouldn’t have to see the evil spirits and shit that float before my vision somehow I fear I may be falling away from glory and honor I know in my dreams. Its the only place I know in my dreams. I am turned about, turn about is fair play in Love and War so you best know if you be turned out. I know I’m another homie, another G on my griend seeing people noticing my style flashing every angle you know I’m fucking polished I’m in this full time drinking margaritas but did you know that a single fucking lime cost a dollar? Its an economy that being managed from the top-down and its going to blow up from the bottom-up that’s just another lesson you learn from a burning man. so you best be out there partying at every opportunity that you got before its taken from you. because there are people.. people who don’t want to see you partying.
23:55 King me.. hahahahaha King me. Staring you down. Got my elbows on the table and I’m staring you down I’m looking at this checker piece bounce across the table and King me cuz I’m able to cross the board in one go. And now yo ucan’t stop me jus cuz you sat across the table from me. Yeah right. I been in this game for years. Been at it for so long I got calouses on my calouses on the bottom of my feet its like I’m walking on platforms. Got no fear, got no fear of th ehot coals Cuz I been standing here for years Everyone who opposes me I just stare at ‘em Then in one move I skip across to the board and I say KING Me I keep it up in my dome, all the mannas energy’s focused on one DOT I can’t be stopped by no obtuse dude or be obstructed by the track the whole reason that I’m breathin’ is to prove to myself that I got another to deliver a rhyme, a lyrics that’s going to spin heads off fuckin’ necks like a turbine of a hydroelectric plant do you get it? there’s hundreds of gallons rushing through this fuckin’ pipe
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