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Alan Watts - Time and the More It Changes


Charismatic philosopher and mystic Alan Watts muses on the meaning of time and change, causality and the significance of being driven, and how in reality, the past is a result of the present.

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V. I. Lenin

In honor of the 92nd anniversary of the Russian Revolution, we present the first in a three part series, beginning with Ian Birchall’s talk, “The Rebel’s Guide to Lenin” from Marxism 2005 and available, along with many other informative talks, at Resistance MP3. For a collection of Ian Birchall’s articles for the IS, check here. Next week, we’ll devote to a talk on another significant participant in those momentous events, Leon Trotsky.

Music: 
Linton Kwesi Johnson – Time Come 
Leroy Smart & Friends – Sufferation in the Ghetto 
Pete Seeger – Eyes on the Prize 
Linval Thompson – Mr. Bossman 
Rage Against the Machine – Year of Tha Boomerang 
Mark Blitzstein & the New Singers – The Internationale

Original version broadcast on Thursday, October 15th, 2009 8 PM EST on WXOJ-LP 103.3 FM Valley Free Radio Northampton, MA

Program Length – 1:04:13


David Lynch: Consciousness, Creativity and the Brain

The inside story on transcending the brain, with David Lynch, Award-winning film director of Blue Velvet, Twin Peaks, Mullholland Drive, Inland Empire (filming); John Hagelin, Ph.D., Quantum physicist featured in “What the bleep do we know?;” and Fred Travis, Ph.D., Director, Center for Brain, Consciousness and Cognition Maharishi University of Management.

Lawrence Krauss: Life, The Universe, and Nothing on Huffduffer

Lawrence Krauss: Life, The Universe, and Nothing on Huffduffer

Lawrence Krauss is a professor in the Department of Physics at Arizona State University. His lecture entitled Life, the Universe and Nothing was recorded at the Isabel Bader Theatre in Toronto on March 27th, 2009.

William S. Burroughs “Photography is like Zen Buddhism” Film Clips | The Beat Hotel

The Beat Hotel, a new film by Documentary Arts, goes deep into the legacy of the American Beats in Paris during the heady years between 1957 and 1963, when Allen Ginsberg, Peter Orlovsky and Gregory Corso fled the obscenity trials in the United States surrounding the publication of Ginsberg’s poem Howl. They took refuge in a cheap no-name hotel they had heard about at 9, Rue Git le Coeur and were soon joined by William Burroughs, Ian Somerville, Brion Gysin, and others from England and elsewhere in Europe, seeking out the “freedom” that the Latin Quarter of Paris might provide.

The Beat Hotel, as it came to be called, was a sanctuary of creativity, but was also, as British photographer Harold Chapman recalls, “an entire community of complete oddballs, bizarre, strange people, poets, writers, artists, musicians, pimps, prostitutes, policemen, and everybody you could imagine.” And in this environment, Burroughs finished his controversial book Naked Lunch; Ian Somerville and Brion Gysin invented the Dream Machine; Corso wrote some of his greatest poems; and Harold Norse, in his own cut-up experiments, wrote the novella, aptly called The Beat Hotel.

The film tracks down Harold Chapman in the small seaside town of Deal in Kent England. Chapman’s photographs are iconic of a time and place when Ginsberg, Orlovsky, Corso, Burroughs, Gysin, Somerville and Norse were just beginning to establish themselves on the international scene. Chapman lived in the attic of the hotel, and according to Ginsberg “didn’t say a word for two years” because he wanted to be “invisible” and to document the scene as it actually happened.

In the film, Chapman’s photographs and stylized dramatic recreations of his stories meld with the recollections of Elliot Rudie, a Scottish artist, whose drawings of his time in the hotel offer a poignant and sometimes humorous counterpoint. The memories of Chapman and Rudie interweave with the insights of French artist Jean-Jacques Lebel, author Barry Miles, Danish filmmaker Lars Movin, and the first hand accounts of Oliver Harris, Regina Weinrich, Patrick Amie, Eddie Woods, and 95 year old George Whitman, among others, to evoke a portrait of Ginsberg, Burroughs, Corso and the oddities of the Beat Hotel that is at once unexpected and revealing.

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[poem] The Scrabble Day Trippers, 06.18.04

You hate to lose at Scrabble; especially the

way it loosens your resistance to loving me.

The interlaying of words is almost sexual: a

double letter French kiss, a triple word orgasm.

In the meantime of turns, you romanticize

the future through the context of our ocean

view: photography on Prince Edward Island

in a shack by a lighthouse. I, on the other

hand, am sentimental for the occasions of

strolling the promenade on wispy October

mornings or of shore side meditations and

midnight make out sessions.

There’s a vulgar sense of indulgence as we

play on the restaurant patio. As if our apparent

sophistication is somehow inappropriate for

the beach scene. Our tightly buttoned sweaters

must seem eccentric among these scantly clad

hipsters. Even our sleek SLR cameras, loaded

with B&W film, defy the typical tourist profile.

Chewing knuckle hairs, I struggle with my

limited vernacular. And you are all vowels

clicking the pieces with rhythmic impatience.

Finally, in a triumphant uproar, I plunk down

my letters ceremoniously. You tongue your

cheek then slap your forehead, as Q-U-A-Z-A-R

defeats you.

The victory kiss is reluctant but sweet. The

rematch as certain as heartache.