observing ones mind

one: place your focus on the intervals.

second technique: before desire and before knowledge, how can i say "i am"?
consider it.
melt into beauty.

before desire and before knowledge how can i say "i am".
desire surges: with this desire, the sensation of "i am" arrises.
thought arrises: with each thought the sensation of "i am" comes forth...
before desire and before knowledge, there is no ego.

sit in silence.
a thought surges: you can identify yourself with this thought.
desire surges: you can identify with this desire.
during the process of identity, you become your ego.
so think, in these intervals, there is neither desire, nor knowledge, nor thought, suddenly identity turns into nihilism.
ego can´t surface.

buda used this technique and asked his followers to do one thing: when a thought arrises, perceive it. buda used to say that when thoughts come to our mind, we should just observe the awakening and process of this thought.

book of secrets num. 83
osho.

so of course there´s desire, and of course there´re millons of thoughts that pass every single millisecond through our head, all this means is that "ideas and thoughts are like clouds passing through the sky", and the spaces between the clouds are what should be real, or better said, what is real:

the substance that remains when we take the hazy mist away.

we are what we are, neither our matter nor our being was constructed by what we think, but what we will become.

absence of light

maximum balloon, new project by tvotr´s dave sitek with collaborations with david byrne, kyp malone, karen o, theophilus london, little dragon, etc. is this just a forshadowing of times to come when full albums will indicate feat. some small/big/medium band to show us -the audience- a bit of the creators musical taste? (this of course is my naïveté writing) it also may be expand on the bands said creator produces (yeah yeah yeahs, holly miranda, telepathe, liars, and the list goes on). and/or, i don´t think it really matters, because what he does he does, he does it oh so well.

BLOC PARTY (Dj set) Feat: MATT TONG

VIERNES 24 DE SEPTIEMBRE 2010
EL IMPERIAL
Alvaro Obregon 293 Col Roma
$180

Estas invitado a esta noche de Rockafellas “LadoB” con un invitado especial: Matt Tong de BLOC PARTY

Quien es MATT TONG?

Después de de haberse graduado en Londres en Tecnología Musical en la Thames Valley University conoce a Kele Okereke quien le preguntó a Matt si quería hacer una prueba para la banda (Kele, Gordy y Russell fueron muy específicos en lo que estaban buscando), 8 bateristas habían pasado ya por el arduo proceso de completar la alineación) Matt se sentó en la bateria, y lo que los otros tres hombres escucharon fue mágia: era el sonido que nunca pensaron que podría existir… de ahi surgió una química sólida.

Durante espectáculos en vivo, Matt es conocido por su precisión, habilidad y sus solos en la bateria. Un ventilador eléctrico a menudo proporciona algo de alivio para que no arda de forma espontánea como los numerosos bateristas del falso documental “This Is Spinal Tap”. Fuera del escenario puede que por su estatura alta tenga una presencia imponente, pero es conocido por su actitud alegre y sus bromas, socialmente así como musicalmente, Matt era la pieza que faltaba y que ahora fusiona firmemente los elementos de Bloc Party… no te lo pierdas esta noche selecta con este gran invitado que viene a compartirnos parte de su egoteca musical en los decks de El Imperial.

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Rockets Team + Anna Stephens & Guests

holy other

WE OVER from HOLY OTHER on Vimeo.

my musical tastes seem to be looping lately, i´ve analyzed that my attraction to non-guitar music seems to come from a childhood of listening to classical and jazz, something i didn´t seem to be the least bit interested in, now i see it might have done me some sort of "good". love love love.

Amaryllis

to say, Yes, I lied, but consider my position, send three spiders in a matchbox. Rubies and juniper are apologies. Sign your name with blue ink if you want another chance, green for ambivalence, red if you´ve torn your mouth from its hinges. A bird´s nest warns that desire obeys only itself. Twine says shame. You love her, but you love yourself more? Wrap a magnet in newspaper. Abalone means We must resign ourselves to fate; paintbrushes There is much I cannot Understand. Cotton is astonishment. And if you know you must speak, but not how or where to begin? Amaryllis.

Joel Brouwer.

i stole this poem from a wall, and it appeared yesterday inside my bag. seemed adecuate.

sight, blindness & purpose

man is not by any means of fixed and enduring form (this, in spite of suspicions to the contrary on the part of their wise men, was the ideal of the ancients). he is much more an experiment and a transition. he is nothing else than the narrow and perilous bridge between nature and spirit. his innermost destiny drives him on to the spirit and to God. his innermost longing draws him back to nature, the mother. between the two forces his life hangs tremulous and irresolute. "man," whatever people think of him, is never anything more than a temporary bourgeois compromise.

that man is not yet a finished creation but rather a challenge of spirit; a distant possibility dreaded as much as it is desired.

as for the way of true manhood, the way to the immortals, he has, it is true, an inkling of it and starts upon it now and then for a few hesitating steps and pays for them with much suffering and many pangs of loneliness. but as for striving with assurance, in response to that supreme demand, towards the genuine manhood of the spirit, and going the one narrow way to immortality, he is deeply afraid of it. he knows too well that it leads to still greater sufferings, to proscription, to the last renunciation, perhaps to the scaffold, and even though the enticement of immortality lies at the journey´s end, he is still unwilling to suffer all these sufferings and to die all these deaths. though the goal of manhood is better known to him than to the bourgeois, still he shuts his eyes.

herman hesse.

i don´t

new one from balam acab, they´re hitting it perfectly.

liquid love

shy child returns to mexico city to present their new album liquid love. this band has a special place in my memory because they were one of the first bands i met. i think this was back in 2007, first time they played d.f., we were invited backstage, ended up having an afterparty, and becoming friends. there´re a bunch of good, weird, amusing and somewhat comical stories attached to their shows.
can´t wait.



holy shit, THIS is embarassing but check it out. ahh the clueless days, i bet i´ll come back to these posts in a couple of years and say the same thing.

shy child & she´s a tease
se estarán regalando invitaciones a través de twitter en:
@RedBullTourMX
campo marte
24 agosto 2010

lo-something

jdg sent this song over a year ago, i´d heard the original, but hadn´t heard of toro & moi. since exploring what seemed to be a new branch of lo-fi, jdg called it "glo-fi" (that description is a bit more pictoric), i was drawn into the whole movement, from chillwave, new-out, or hypnagogic pop, witch house, drag, and etc... even though these subgenres evidently come hand in hand with "sucky" recordings, it fascinated me because it had new texture, echoes, and hidden layers. no more polished anythings, but some dreamy reminisce of an etheric landscape.

i discovered how to dress well a couple of months back, and as he´s put out more releases, i can easily say it´s part of my 2010 favorites. (debut LP out in september.)
"ready for the world" is a perfect example why i like them so much, twin sister, another 2010 favorite, remixes this song, but it´s not on youtube.. i´ll leave another in the meantime.





awesome mj sample, if i knew how to remix i´d make this a dance song.

guerrero

diversiónnnn.
gary pimiento co-creator with matías aguayo of BumBumBox parties and record label Cómeme, arrives in mexico for a night with los cocos, pairing with rebolledo for a more than excellent auditve experience.
mezcal spiked coconuts and umbrellas themed the party.

refreshing to see a dj actually play vinyls, pre-party we were with one of the djs that was also going to play. three out of ten in the room were djs, one actually made his living out of it (and i still consider him one of the best in mexico), there was also a producer (he was the most pissed off) and told the story of how when he lived in london he´d met the guy who had composed, written, whatever (i really don´t know how that works in dj land) the song that made paul van dyk explode, he was like, "fuck all these hipsters that want to make a living out of djing", "playing an ipod isn´t djing", then the dj came in and said, "well carrying vinyls is a mess sometimes and 90% of the times, places aren´t even equipped to play vinyls", objective point of view d.r.. then producer responded "it´s ok just as long as you actually know how to mix a vinyl", fair enough i thought. d.r. went on commenting, how this 16 year old boy came up to him and asked, "where can i go to dj school". awesome... i bet at the rate we´re going, in 20 years (even 10) it will be a legitimate career, just like fashion.

fashion and music i thought, i told d.r. we should open a fashion and djing school together, we´d make millions.

mares

i´ve been meaning to share this for a while, today it came back. better with headphones, always.