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Alexander, the intermittently great

Jun 28, 2008
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Gods walking with numb noses and cold sweat

Do the seratonin! wake up your endorphins!

say, how does a rock become a star?

how does a seer see that far?

Sniffle ah-sniffle, it just looks like a cold

Shuffle ah-shuffle, I did not know you could be so bold!

Crash, oh, but crash

its a horrible sight to see a god weeping, such shuddering

Its just a matter of time until we see you hurling sparks

from clouds, and urging beasts to do beastly things

if only to stay up long enough, to pull a move

much like alexander, reaping heads across continents

and how we praise him for the bold triumph

small communal armies stand no chance

all those heads! Hurry before you come down again!

Oh, no

Just rest in Babylon, maybe you will make it

further on

next time

but now i see that you are small

so I will leave you to a less than life

until money passes from your hand

to buy from a shaky man

We have quality, but we need quantity

'Rules for the Artist' by Johann Erstwhile

Jun 16, 2008
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Johann can be contacted through dream, but only if you fall asleep at the spot that he died. It happens to be at the bottom of the Thames, so one must be extra pre-cautious with the Scuba gear and have a monitor for when you fall asleep, one doesn't want the mouth piece coming off and begin swallowing the tea of seas.

not the writer, playwright, actor, painter, illustrator, poet or man of letter, but all trading in creation.

1. There is only synthesis of preexisting elements.

2. Old things are new things when recombined

3. "New" means "this current generation hasn't learned to identify with it yet"

4. Once the writing hand has writ, the writing hand moves on

5. Experienced writers/artists see a mass to carve down through diligence, the inexperienced artist must wait for inspiration. The artist must recognize both and simply pick up his tools.

6. One must create large amounts of material before recruiting with will's consistency. How will the seat of the mind know that you are an artist if the hand and eye and whatever senses combine to make your art doesnt have the nervous system in rapport?

7. One must constantly be saving ones current creation from a confused mess. Pull back, take away.

8. A style will mature even if one does not attempt it in will, but attempts it in doing. Faith with or without will serves that which is already in motion.

9. If one can embody these rules, one may die and say"yes, I indeed dropped several pebbles into the sea." Keep your objective humor, it is like footwork, one may move before a genre is exausted and not let it bury them while the masses cough when they think of the gone genre you represent so ardently. One may keep a genre with dignity, but it must be in ones temperament already to do so. Sometimes art is taken by culture, and it becomes an aspect of a tradition, which leads to and is cured by:

10. Know your genre

Back by popular demand: Machine Breath - 'Sasquatch'

Jun 13, 2008
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Sassy quach edit for oic

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Words By James Bryant

Narration by Travis

Music and mixing by Steve Dotson

From the upcoming Machine Breath album 'Delicious' from OIC Studios

This particular track has the type of lyrics I like: disconnection from the "umbilicus", the great teet of a skin we must shed. J Bryant is either instructing others or convincing himself to understand superstition as necessary, but then, necessary to remove and old skin that gave a slight carriage until we cold walk on our own.

Something to give hope to, or not even that, something might exist that might give us hope, as long as we do not actually find it.

This track, unlike the other tracks on the album, reminds me of a documentary peice, one can almost see the images form as the narrator explains our social opiates.

Plus, if anyone has listened to Stephen Kings voice, Travis sounds like him. Mr King at times narrates his own novels.

joke, true and new

Jun 11, 2008
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Joke: what is a drags queen's motto? "Eat, drink and be Mary!"

True: You havent seen anything risque until you've seen a drag queen do her act as a pregnant nun! Great idea, really.

New: Here is a sample of a collaborated spoken poetry effort: Jim Bryant wrote the poetry, and did the music, I did the narration. It is a little proect known as 'Machine Breath'.

Jaws t4

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elDorado

May 19, 2008
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"God, we do not pray to him,

for we have nothing to ask him for

my friends

we are all priests"

"but everywhere the weak loathe the powerful

before whom they crawl

and the powerful treat them like flocks

whose wool and flesh are for sale"

a post mortum promissary to god

and bloodlettings from physicians

have left in him a distaste for the current fashion

that cannot speak to god and cannot speak to human

extend not beyond your own boundaries,

but rely not on what you are given

20 acres is enough me

away with boredom, vice and need

the three evils keep us chasing the unquenchable

to arrive

in eldorado

it may take generations of your fold

to make it so

*quotations by Voltaire

'The NC Club'

May 19, 2008
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The convergence of

Misery and Fanta Se

slight pulling, but always

a drifting we forget

so we are pulled

and resistance is short lived

In Sea (3)

fight the current

If and when I might say

when exhausted, always

giving-in becomes -

a drifting we find pleasure in

so we are pulled

and resistance is short lived

In Sea (3)

chapter three of 'water', lyrical.

Apr 15, 2008
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A human can make it decently enough

by understanding

the concept of the building

cresting and crashing wave

After that hopefully,

one will go on understandably

the more subtle ripple again,

yes more linear than

the wave from impetus to fin

but subtle enough to take a message

with them.

Excerpt from the Eulogy of Captain Nigh

Apr 6, 2008
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Excerpt from the Eulogy of Captain Nigh

Written and read by The Bishop of Madagascar

at the the funeral of Captain Nigh.

"...Captain Nigh had been a sailor and gaurd in the Portugese royal fleet. Back then the Portugese and Spanish fleet could outnumber the fleets of the seas. England, an Island was isolated and no threat to their massive cells. Now with the defeat and subsequent economic downturn of their former land, not to mention the price that would be on the head of all former enemies to the English crown, Nigh sails the African coast transporting untaxed, therefore, illegal goods. Some would make him out to be a hero. All we know is that he was many things.
Around the campfires at night, mainly on small islands in between runs, Captain Nigh would release his tears and tell jokes like 'The English quever is loose', and 'fat english pig dogs were born out of Elizabeths escape hatch'. My personal favorite that I love hearing retold in the French theatre: 'We always knew that you were a splitter whose hand shakes are like milky toast'.
Although his memory is told as an Adventurer, it would be his comedic influence that set to work the minds of Keats when he said: "Nigh, a campfire legend and master of the English/anti English Satirical Monologue". Which would grow to influence such greats as 'Zoloft the Russian Eater of English Babies', or 'Inquisitor for district number 3'(district #3was the code name for England in early Roman Catholic circles).
Yes, Captian Nigh was a great influence, Nigh, he was much more than that - a complex of fiery men, one that attacked in battles of the past and one that lamented a downfall and therefore used the forked tongue and adept sword arm of wit to overpower the darkended moods of the defeated..."

Leonard Cohen

Apr 2, 2008
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I finally watched 'ladies and gentlemen: Leonard Cohen' It was all about his poetry stage in Montreal. His rate of speech is very even, oddly, but completely non threatening or begging for attention. Nice study. An interviewer asked him some questions about what he dislikes, etc... he said he tries to stay in a state of grace, and the interviewer knew not at all what that could mean, then Cohen said"if I am not in a state of grace I go to sleep".

he's a man who listens slow

and feels out his words

applied significance in the present

modern music, throwing evidence of the collective change

involved in the breaking forth of now

lightness

involved in the evidence

of the emerging

to inform

the minds in the past grasping

wholeheartedly

to what they can

of what they remember

to what is now

and soon forget

no mistakes

only arisings

in the now

When grace is fleeting

I prefer the state of sleeping

tibet situation

Mar 28, 2008
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The NC Club said:
this is a nice one to relisten to. read more
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The NC Club said:
this is really nice. i want more from machine breath! read more
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Zach said:
shit, you've done your homework. i haven't been on the net enough to keep up. very cool. i will visit... read more
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QK said:
Once I'll have time - I will study this table. read more
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Steven said:
no, not yet. Maybe never. Maybe solo, maybe NC Club will pick it up someday. read more
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