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MP3 sucks way harder than vinyl. Am I glad I just got a new record-player! Vinyl has never gone anywhere, just out of the immediate perception of the general record-buyer. It is indeed a very ballsy move on MP’s part to do this, all hail to them I say!
Greets,
Thomas ‘not an old hippie – okay: a 35-year old hippie’ vdR
@ mark: Bad luck you have such unpleasant connotations with this book. I can imagine that you look at it that way. I am no stranger to fear and to coming apart at the seams myself sometimes, but that book never points me back to that. I do not interpret it as an answer to life’s questions though, and I abhor the fact that they lump this book in with all the New Age claptrap, since this book is founded on ancient Greek rational philosophy, not ancient Greek auguring of birds or reading a cow’s intestines to see into the future. It took me five years to finish it, yes, but I read a lot of books in between. I just started with it, couldn’t read it through, put it away and started again months later. I got it for my 16th birthday (my teacher in Dutch Literature recommended it to me) and finally finished it weeks after my 21st. The only book that takes me longer is Joyce’s ‘Ulysses’, started reading it for the first time somehwere in my twenties, now ten years ago. But then again, to paraphrase Joyce, it took him twenty years to complete this book, so people might as well take twenty years to read it. Oh well, I’m at the halfway point of the time period, only one third through the book and people tell me the hardest part is the last chapter…
“Nothing comes from judgement… The soul is always free.”
Motorpsycho ‘Bonny Lee’
Greets,
Thomas
@ Mark: “Zen and the art of motorcycle maintenance”! Yippee! One of the most difficult but also most cathartic reads I’ve ever had! Took me five years to read it from beginning to end (maybe a comment on my dimwittedness, but hey…) Contact me if you want to talk about it (you still have my e-mail-address?). Also, I have a guidebook to “Zen…” which might be helpful.
Greetings,
Thomas
Great choice for the song of the month. My hopes were up after “Black Hole/Blank Canvas”, but after that monolith hit, my faith in Motorpsycho being truly the only band that matters for me, was completely restored.
The song for me stands for getting bogged down in old ways, breaking free of the strains of tradition and, ultimately reinvention end reinvigoration. It starts the whole segue of the album, right up to “And finally it’s coming together!” in ‘The Alchemyst’.
Metaphysical connotations? Not for me. Not with this one, anyway. Now ‘Plan #1’ for instance… “And He made you for a purpose, right?” “Yeah.” “And He has a plan for you, right?” “Uhuh.” “Plan #1…”
Greets,
Thomas
The first one I ever heard was through a house-mate from my best friend (Thank you Pim Hawinkels, wherever you are!): Angels And Daemons At Play. That was around the time Trust Us came out, so something like ’98 or ’99. AADAP was also my first owned MP-record, on glorious vinyl. The rest followed within a year or two.
Greets,
Thomas
