Transpondency

TransCanada Transpondency

Adam Gratrix continues on another 3 week adventure across Canada

A travelogue, of sorts.

Part 11: Podcasters Across Borders in Kingston, Ontario, June 19-21, 2009. Social media enthusiasts from Canada, United States, and around the world gather together to share their insights and knowledge while strengthening and growing the podcasting community with some old fashioned real life interaction.

How I became a Born Again Romantic

• The Love Language: "Lolita" & "Sparxxx"
• Howling Bells: "Into The Chaos" & "Treasure Hunt"
• Wilco: "Wilco The Song"
• Leonard Nemoy: "Desiderata"

• Podcasters Across Borders June 19-21, 2009 in Kingston, Ontario

Go placidly amid the noise and the haste, and remember what peace there may be in silence. As far as possible, without surrender, be on good terms with all persons. Speak your truth quietly and clearly; and listen to others, even to the dull and the ignorant; they too have their story. Avoid loud and aggressive persons; they are vexatious to the spirit. If you compare yourself with others, you may become vain or bitter, for always there will be greater and lesser persons than yourself. Enjoy your achievements as well as your plans. Keep interested in your own career, however humble; it is a real possession in the changing fortunes of time. Exercise caution in your business affairs, for the world is full of trickery. But let this not blind you to what virtue there is; many persons strive for high ideals, and everywhere life is full of heroism. Be yourself. Especially do not feign affection. Neither be cynical about love, for in the face of all aridity and disenchantment, it is as perennial as the grass. Take kindly the counsel of the years, gracefully surrendering the things of youth. Nurture strength of spirit to shield you in sudden misfortune. But do not distress yourself with dark imaginings. Many fears are born of fatigue and loneliness. Beyond a wholesome discipline, be gentle with yourself. You are a child of the universe no less than the trees and the stars; you have a right to be here. And whether or not it is clear to you, no doubt the universe is unfolding as it should. Therefore be at peace with God, whatever you conceive Him to be. And whatever your labors and aspirations, in the noisy confusion of life, keep peace in your soul. With all its sham, drudgery, and broken dreams, it is still a beautiful world. Be cheerful. Strive to be happy.

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Timothy Francis Leary (October 22, 1920 – May 31, 1996) was an American writer, psychologist, futurist, and advocate of psychedelic drug research and one of the first people whose remains have been sent into space. An icon of 1960s counterculture, Leary is most famous as a proponent of the therapeutic and spiritual and emotional benefits of LSD. He coined and popularized the catch phrase "Turn on, tune in, drop out."

Timothy Leary Video Archive & Audio

Excerpts from Newspaper Taxis: Drugs, Cult Authors & The Boho Zone

Melted Rubber Humans "Life Is But A Dream"

Beyond Life With Timothy Leary

A few Timothy Leary Quotes:

Think for yourself and question authority.

My advice to myself and to everyone else, particularly young people, is to TURN ON, TUNE IN, DROP OUT. By drop out, I mean to detach yourself from involvement in secular, external social games. But the dropping out has to occur internally before it can occur externally. I'm not telling kids just to quit school; I'm not telling people to quit their jobs. That is an inevitable development of the process of turning on and tuning in.

"Turn on" meant go within to activate your neural and genetic equipment. Become sensitive to the many and various levels of consciousness and the specific triggers that engage them. Drugs were one way to accomplish this end. "Tune in" meant interact harmoniously with the world around you — externalize, materialize, express your new internal perspectives. Drop out suggested an elective, selective, graceful process of detachment from involuntary or unconscious commitments. "Drop Out" meant self-reliance, a discovery of one's singularity, a commitment to mobility, choice, and change. Unhappily my explanations of this sequence of personal development were often misinterpreted to mean "Get stoned and abandon all constructive activity."

If you want to change the way people respond to you, change the way you respond to people.

If you don't like what you're doing, you can always pick up your needle and move to another groove.

In the information age, you don't teach philosophy as they did after feudalism. You perform it. If Aristotle were alive today he'd have a talk show.

The universe is an intelligence test.

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Musings on Lewis Carroll's Alice In Wonderland

"But I don't want to go among mad people," Alice remarked. "Oh, you can't help that," said the Cat: "we're all mad here. I'm mad. You're mad." "How do you know I'm mad?" said Alice. "You must be," said the Cat, "or you wouldn't have come here."

• Alice in Wonderland: Eva Le Gallienne and Original Cast
• Selections from artists Ultre and Jimmy Behan
• Music from Pogo's four track album "Wonderland"
• St. Vincent: "The Strangers"
• Emiliana Torrini: "White Rabbit (cover)"
• Alan Davis-Drake reads Lewis Carroll's "Jaberwocky"

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This might serve as sum sort of introduction to James Joyce Finnegans Wake

Passages from James Joyce's Finnegans Wake

• Field recordings from Tynehead Park in Surrey, BC
• Clancy Brothers: "Finnegan's Wake"
• John Cage:"Writing for the Second Time Through Finnegans Wake"
• Robert Anton Wilson: "On Finnegans Wake and Joseph Campbell"
• Terrence McKenna: "Surfing Finnegans Wake & Range Riding with Marshall Mcluhan"
• Joseph Campbell: "A Skeleton Key to Finnegans Wake"
• Castledoor: "Burn The Maps"
• Ani DiFranco: "The Atom"
• Franz Nicolay: "Do We Not Live In Dreams?"
• Takka Takka: "You and Universe"
• Joseph Arthur and The Lonely Astronauts: "This Is Still Your World"
• Deer Tick: "Art Isn't Real (City of Sin)"
• Marshall McLuhan: "Finnegans Wakes McLuhan" & McLuhan's Wake (film)"
• The Black Lips (ft. GZA): "The Drop I Hold"
• Traditional ballad: "Michael Finnegan"

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Commuting home from work on a beautiful April morning. Technically, it was two mornings. Langley to Fraser Heights via Fraser Highway 1A and Pacific Highway 15, British Columbia. The music track is a cover of Radiohead's Subterranean Homesick Alien by Mobius. http://www.myspace.com/mobiusband

• John Carpenter's Dark Star (1974)
• Dr. Steel: "Planet X Marks The Spot"
• Deastro: "Parallelogram" & "Light Powered"
• Kit Ream: "Introuniversal Jam"
• Eureka Birds: "Goodbye Space and Time"
• Stash Casket: "Radiation" & "Lucien"
• Papercuts: "Future Primitive"
• Bomb #20 Learns a Little Phenomonology
• Jack Kerouac: "Friday Afternoon in The Universe
• Terrible Lizards: "City of God"
• Air: "Surfing On A Rocket"

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Adam and Paul at the Media Club in Vancouver

• Guidance Counselor: "Creature"
• Starfucker: "Medicine" & "Florida"
• 10:32 "Blue Little"
• The Crocodiles: "Neon Jesus" & "I Wanna Kill"
• The Revolutionary Ensemble: "Collegno"
• Alan Watts: "Jesus and His Religion"

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International Pillow Fight Day 2009

Saturday, April 4, 2009 3:00pm - 3:15pm Vancouver Art Gallery on Robson Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

• Seekret Socyetee: "For Whom the Bell Tolls"
• Mon-o-Phone: "Everything You Are"
• The Pains Of Being Pure At Heart: "Everything With You" & "Young Adult Friction"
• Crystal Stilts: "Love Is A Wave"
• St. Vincent: "Actor Out Of Work"
• The 6ths: "Pillow Fight"

Rules: 1. "Don't talk about [Pillow] Fight Club!" (especially to news media and civic authories) 2. Don't be in location until the exact minute. (set your watches) 3. Hide your pillows. 4. Rush in screaming "PILLOW FIIIIIIGHT!!!!!" 5. After 15mins of excruciating fun, leave. 6. Stay off the road and sidewalk. (don't make this a police issue) 7. Do NOT hit anyone with out a pillow! (this includes but is not limited to people with cameras, bystanders, civic authorities, cars, use common sense!!) 8. "If this is your first [time] at [Pillow] Fight Club, you have to fight."

No one knows why or for whom but only that it "just happens". The message goes to all the good vibe people you know.

Creative Commons Photos: http://www.flickr.com/photos/rebelcan/sets/72157616276371813/

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Adam and Paul's adventures at Juno Fest 2009 in Vancouver, Canada

• Juno Fest (March 26-28) showcases Canadian music talent leading into theJuno Awards on March 29

• The Dudes: "Dropkick Queen of the Weekend"
• Hey Rosetta! "Yes! Yes! Yes!"
• Matt Mays & El Torepedo: "Tall Trees"
• Tokyo Police Club: "Juno"
• Beast: "Mr. Hurricane"
• Sex With Strangers: "The Lovers Will Rise Tonight"

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