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The 10 Most Addictive Sounds in the World
Top 10 Non-branded sounds:
1. Baby giggle
2. Vibrating phone
3. ATM / cash register
4. “Star Spangled Banner”
5. Sizzling steak
6. ‘Hail to the Chief‘
7. Cigarette light and inhale
8. “Wedding March”
9. “Wish Upon a Star”
10. Late Night with David Letterman Theme
via The 10 Most Addictive Sounds in the World | Fast Company.
Give someone a fish, and they’ll eat that day. Teach them how to catch a fish and they’ll never go hungry. Proverbs like these remind us how learning skills help us to move towards self-reliance. This is never more true than critical thinking. Memorize the solution to a problem, and you may master that particular problem. Improve your critical thinking and you’ll give yourself the tools to create your own effective solutions to a multitude of unfamiliar problems. Critical thinking refers to a diverse range of intellectual skills and activities concern with evaluating information as well as on our thought in a disciplined way. When we are willing enable to examine our capabilities thinkers acknowledging problems and weaknesses, this can help us refine our thought processes, so we learn to think and assess information in more comprehensive way that increases our ability to identify and reject false ideas and ideologies.
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SoundTransit is a collaborative, online community dedicated to field recording and phonography. On the “Book” section of the site, you can plan a sonic journey through various locations recorded around the world.
Click to hear: Hamburg – Anuradhapura
Departure: Hamburg, Germany with Lasse-Marc Riek “recordings from “the hamburger dom” / “fair of hamburg”, listen to many various sounds. the sounds are together like in an soundscape-composition.recorded in may 2002, hamburg/germany”
via London, United Kingdom with Matthias Kispert “A cavernous space with walls covered in graffiti, the skate park at the South Bank Centre is somewhat reminscent of the sites of prehistoric rituals. In this place, youngsters daily worship the cult of the four wheels attached to a wooden board. Recorded for the D-Fuse project Undercurrent.”
Arrival: Anuradhapura, Sri Lanka with Andreas Bick “Young monks chanting in a monastery in Anuradhapura.”
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)
Iggy Pop: I’ll tell you about punk rock: punk rock is a word used by dilettantes and, uh… and, uh… heartless manipulators, about music… that takes up the energies, and the bodies, and the hearts and the souls and the time and the minds, of young men, who give what they have to it, and give everything they have to it. And it’s a… it’s a term that’s based on contempt; it’s a term that’s based on fashion, style, elitism, satanism, and, everything that’s rotten about rock ‘n’ roll. I don’t know Johnny Rotten.. but I’m sure, I’m sure he puts as much blood and sweat into what he does as Sigmund Freud did. You see, what, what sounds to you like a big load of trashy old noise… is in fact… the brilliant music of a genius… myself. And that music is so powerful, that it’s quite beyond my control. And, ah… when I’m in the grips of it, I don’t feel pleasure and I don’t feel pain, either physically or emotionally. Do you understand what I’m talking about? Have you ever, have you ever felt like that? When you just, when you just, you couldn’t feel anything, and you didn’t want to either. You know, like that? Do you understand what I’m saying, sir?
Bad Brains released a new album with the title “Build a Nation”. One Track was played at the Harmony in my Head radioshow (Henry Rollins), and it sounded great. Hopefully it is soon available in the Itunes store.
At Wikipedia: Bad Brains
At Amazon: Bad Brains
In Tibetan Buddhism Samsara is uncontrollably recurring rebirth, filled with suffering and problems.
And that does not sound like a lot of fun.
Several weeks ago I digged into Dharma-Punk, the book from Noah Levine . And what sounds like and is a great idea for a book and also for an educated mindtrip appears an ego ridden book.
Mister Levine should load the script in a texteditor and do a word count for the word “I” or “My”. Or do a “cat /home/noah/documents/mybook | grep “I” | wc -l ” when he is using some kind of unix.
(Excerpt from an interview with Noah Levine) “Over the years I’ve come to see the intention or foundation of both punk rock and Buddhism as so similar, as being this energy of dissatisfaction. The Buddha was dissatisfied with the ordinary suffering of life and wanted to find freedom from that suffering. I think that the punk movement is founded on that same dissatisfaction—that all of this oppression and inequality and political corruption sucks!
So the first part of my life was focused on rebelling outwardly. As I’ve gotten involved in spiritual principles it feels very much like this inner rebellion—that outward dissatisfaction is a core dissatisfaction that’s in me—is turning that energy inward, to purifying the greed and hatred and delusion within myself, and doing what I can to alleviate it in the world and help others…”.
Buddhism is more then calling the yourself an “spiritual revolutionary,” Sure he has “wisdom” and “compassion” tattooed on his hands and images of Buddha and Krishna on his arms, but is that what counts ?
They sell the book at Amazon: Noah Levine – Dharma-Punk
