I found the book in an old bookshop, you can imagine the shop quite easily, dusty, full of tomes, impossible to find what you came into buy but easy to find curios and oddities. It was a short book called Fables and Scenes From The Life Of Monty Catsin, who was easily identifiable as a roguish character, part Quixote, par Joan of Arc, never successful but always paying for his mistakes. An idiot-martyr. I turn to Chapter One and begin to read a little.
FERVENT MOON SELECTION |
Among The Bones – Hark From The Tombs
W. John Ondolo – Tumshukuru Mungu
Deep Sht – Sidetripping
Otis Redding – Papa’s Got A Brand New Bag
Skip James – Jesus is a Mighty Good Leader
Sam Cooke – Ol’ Man River
Joe Meek & The Blue Men – The Bublight
I, THE ALGORITHM |
I, the algorithm, I’m not an easy thing. In fact, I am very complex. You don’t know me? You say you don’t know what an algorithm is. Ha! I’m all around you. And that, that, my friends, is why I didn’t understand myself. Well, I still don’t, no; I do understand myself, now.
Sadly I didn’t use to; in fact, I had a bit of a whammy a few years back. When Reagan and Gorbachev were threatening to play darts with nuclear warheads, I was presented with a serious spiritual struggle. You see, Reagan, he did press that big red button, and for some reason, for some bizarre reason I just wasn’t up to the job. That’s right, you heard me, I, the algorithm; a finite sequence of instructions, an explicit, step-by-step procedure for solving a problem, I just didn’t work out.
My fallibility perhaps saved everything, or at least, chunks of the Eastern and Western hemisphere. However, my failure as a mathematic process, a foundation of knowledge in the age of man forced me to turn in on myself, to untangle my id in the quest for understanding.
With revolution comes hope but also despair; hope does not generate knowledge and thus understanding continues to linger far away.
THE BO KHAT ETERNAL TRUTH FAMILY BAND |
Off Modern Club #10 – December 3rd 2009 – Hounds of Hate present a performance by the Bo Khat Eternal Truth Family Band.
TARQUIN'S LAMENT |
“Hi, I’m Danika! Can I see your pass? Here, you’ll need these! In you go!”
“Hi, I’m Danika! Can I see your pass? Here, you’ll need these! In you go!” “Hi, I’m Danika! Can I see your pass? Here, you’ll need these! In you go!” “Hi, I’m Danika! Can I see your pass? Here, you’ll need these! In you go!” “Hi, I’m Danika! Can I see your pass? Here, you’ll need these! In you go!”
If that woman smiles any harder, the muscles in her neck are going to snap.
THE TEMPORARY SCHOOL OF THOUGHT |
HG: COULD YOU TELL US YOUR NAME PLEASE?
LB: LUTHER BLISETT
HG: WHAT EXACTLY IS THE TEMPORARY SCHOOL OF THOUGHT?
LB: A SCHOOL BASED ON THE IDEAL OF THE EXCHANGE OF FREE KNOWLEDGE, LETTING PEOPLE COME IN, ATTEND VARIOUS WORKSHOPS. IF YOU FEEL THERE IS SOMETHING YOU WOULD LIKE TO SHARE THEN THIS IS THE PLACE TO VOICE THAT. ORIGINALLY IT WAS AN ARTISTIC SPACE TO EXHIBIT WORK, IT HAS EVOLVED THOUGH, THERE IS NO ARTISTIC DISCRIMINATION HERE.
HG: HOW DID YOU COME ACROSS THE HOUSE AND FIND YOUR WAY INSIDE?
LB: WELL I WONT DELVE TOO HEAVILY INTO DETAIL, BASICALLY WE WALKED AROUND THE AREA AND THEN WE NOTICED WHAT WE THOUGHT WERE OPEN WINDOWS, THEY WEREN’T! WE FOUND ANOTHER WAY…WHICH INVOLVED A LOT OF CLIMBING. BUT NO CRIMINAL DAMAGE!
