There is no authority but yourself.
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Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes. Don’t resist them – that only creates sorrow. Let reality be reality. Let things flow naturally forward in whatever way they like.
- Lao-Tzu
Flow with whatever is happening and let your mind be free. Stay centered by accepting whatever you are doing. This is the ultimate.
- Chuang Tzu
Music: Download.This compilation serve up funk, jazz, and lite-psych porno muzak, interspersed with some gloriously kitschy spoken word interludes of period dialogue and the verité sounds of “action.” Packed with the requisite wah-wah and chicken-scratch guitar sounds, fuzzed-out basslines, and lazy flute and piano soloing which are the defining clichés of porn soundtrack music… Have fun.
(Yes the text is stolen)
by Henry David Thoreau Walden (also known as Life in the Woods) by Henry David Thoreau is one of the best-known non-fiction books written by an American. Published in 1854, it details Thoreau’s life for two years and two months in second-growth forest around the shores of Walden Pond, not far from his friends and family in Concord, Massachusetts. Walden was written so that the stay appears to be a year, with expressed seasonal divisions. Thoreau called it an experiment in simple living.
http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Walden
Alban Berg (1885-1935) – 3 Orchesterstücke op. 6
Anton Webern (1883-1945) – 6 Stücke für Orchester op. 6
Arnold Schoenberg (1874-1951) – 5 Orchesterstücke op. 16
Alban Berg, Anton Webern & Arnold Schoenberg were the principle members of the Second Viennese School. Their music was initially characterized by post-romantic expanded tonality and later, following Schoenberg’s own evolution, a totally-chromatic expressionism without firm tonal centre (often referred to as atonality) and later still Schoenberg’s serial twelve-note technique.
Membership of the ‘School’ is not generally extended to Schoenberg’s many pupils in the USA from 1933, such as John Cage, Leon Kirchner and Gerald Strang, nor to many other composers who, at a greater remove, wrote compositions evocative of the ‘Second Viennese’ style, such as the celebrated Canadian pianist Glenn Gould. By extension, however, certain pupils of Schoenberg’s pupils (such as Berg’s pupil Hans Erich Apostel and Webern’s pupils René Leibowitz, Leopold Spinner and Ludwig Zenk) are usually included in the roll-call.
The existence of a ‘First Viennese School‘ is debatable. The term is often assumed to connote the great Vienna-based masters of the Classical style working in the late 18th and early 19th century, particularly Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Joseph Haydn, Ludwig van Beethoven and Franz Schubert.
A selection of front covers of books by William S. Burroughs: Interesting