Change The Filter Change Reality

Tao, pinch me please, let me know this isn´t just a beautiful lucid dream. I remember many years ago when still working for the man, up early one morning frantically forcing my breakfast cursing the time, loathing the thought of having to go to (to quote Bill) "a job which did not inspire me creatively in any way shape or form" when I could have spent that valuable 10 hours creating music. The TV was on as the days mass media corporate sponsored and approved messages were being regurgitated and suddenly after a flick to Channel 4 a voice grabbed my attention and Jinny´s.

I looked at the TV increasingly mesmerised by the words, who was this guy? He was rapping accapella stylee but this was no East or West coast shit. This was spiritual, trippy, far out, positive uplifting and English. But the guy had such a voice, like liquid chocolate. And yeah his rap wasn´t rap like Biggie, Snoop etc it was more of a Terrence McKenna rap. But the voice, the words, the message;, hit home like a thunderbolt on steroids. Then after a far too brief a time we were back to News Land and Jin & I stared at each other and I´m sure the words "What the fu*k" were uttered incredulously by one or both of us.

"Who was that?"

"Barefoot Doctor.... " frantic search for words.

"Unbelievable"

Who would have thought that a few short years and a move to the most amazing island and a million coincidences later he´d be our good friend and I´d be producing music with him? I remember thinking I´d love to sample that guy and yet today there we were. No sampling required. Live & Direct. Is it a coincidence that the length of audio fit perfectly with an instrumental track I´ve had ready just waiting for a killer vocal. I´ve stopped believing in coincidences, all is now. Quantum physics and all that.

It´s sounding fine, the track that is, a couple more hours work should finish it then off to Ibiza Global Radio we go. Produced and Mastered in Ableton Live 8 so far, usually Logic handles the main work but not in this case. I´m really liking Live 8 so far, the midi editor is a hell of an improvement and it runs as slick and processor un-intensive as ever.

Still can´t believe it.

Thanks Tao.
Love to all
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Computing Power

Ah, technology. Intel Teraflop Chip less than the size of a human fingernail, that 11 years ago would have required a machine with 10,000 chips inside it taking up a total of 2,000 square feet. The Chip has 80 Cores delivering performance of more than a Trillion calculations a second (Teraflop). As the late, great Terence McKenna used to say "Faster and Faster and Faster"

Possible uses include artificial intelligence, instant video communications, photo-realistic games and real-time speech recognition, said the firm.

Coming soon "Civilzation 2012" a game so real you're unaware you're playing it. Coincidently also the title of a Novel and an Album by a fella called Miguel Ramirez.

Peace & Love

Migz

Great Start

An amazing start to the Year, first of all huge thanks to the Old One for providing more coincidences than mortal man could wish for. Like your style, oh yes.. Love it :)

We've had the Double S Monday (a week ago today) which coincided with the reddest skies we've ever seen. Walking down Talamanca Beach just after 5.30PM having first met up with our amigo and numero uno hombre Pedro we were treated to the most amazing skies, so red, so beautiful. As that fella Einstein said "He who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead; his eyes are closed." Amen to that. We met another friend Miguel at the end of the beach and while we stood there in awe he told us that the skies here are very very red in January and February. Where's my Digi Cam when I need it? Some things just aren't meant to be captured digitally I suppose.....

Which leads me on to



95% of our Universe is made from Dark Stuff....

"Now that we have begun to map out where dark matter is, the next challenge is to determine what it is, and specifically its relationship to normal matter," Dr Massey said (Source - Independent Online Article)

We know where it is we just need to find out WHAT it is? Como? Que?

"Try and penetrate with our limited means the secrets of nature and you will find that, behind all the discernible concatenations, there remains something subtle, intangible and inexplicable. Veneration for this force beyond anything that we can comprehend is my religion. To that extent I am, in point of fact, religious." - Einstein

"Coincidence is God's way of remaining anonymous" -A. Einstein

One of my favourite words / subjects / rants / illusions / events / acausal principles. I seriously believe and have done for many years (it all started one Thursday night which is one of the reasons Thursday playlists are SO very important) that there is no such thing as coincidence. It's a word we've all heard, all used and more than likely all experienced. Many great philosophers and thinkers have devoted a huge amount of time to the subject and hopefully you will also. The official version or OV as I like to call it goes like this..

"Coincidence literally describes two or more events or entities occupying the same point in space or time, but colloquially means two or more events or entities possessing unexpected parallels, such as thinking about someone and then receiving an unexpected phone call from that person, when it is clear that there is no ordinary causal connection.

The index of coincidence can be used to analyse whether two events are related. A coincidence does not prove a relationship, but related events may be expected to have a higher index of coincidence. From a statistical perspective, coincidences are inevitable and often less remarkable than they may appear intuitively. The odds that two people share a birthday, for example, reaches 50% with a group of just 22 [1] (see the Birthday paradox)."

We (the Jinster & I) watched a film a couple of months ago (we'll be repeating the viewing on November 5th) that we'd been looking forward to seeing for quite a while. The Wachowski Brothers are responsible for probably my favourite film(s) of all time - the (IMHO) breathtakingly brilliant Matrix trilogy. So when I saw their names on the cover of the DVD for a film I'd heard of, but with all the excitement of emigrating to our favourite place in the world, hadn't had time to catch, we rented it for that evening's visual entertainment - no questions asked.

We were not disappointed. The reviews of this film have varied considerably. In fact some would say they have polarised quite dramatically - all depends on your point of view (as with anything). We loved it. Having seen quite a few documentaries recently on the "War on Terror" the film really resonated. As the old saying goes "One man's Terrorist is another man's Freedom Fighter."

But it was the script that got me, the "obsession" with coincidences and the fact that when I "wiki'd" the word "coincidence" the film was one of the two external references that was listed - this has now changed unfortunately (you've gotta love wiki updates) but it still blew me away, especially as we'd been discussing the amazing string of coincidences that has led us to our current position. It really is quite simple I suppose - when you spell it out in black & white - is there a point to life? A purpose?

Or is it just chance?

A purpose to your / my existence?

Or just a bunch of atoms and chemicals that after billions of years of randomly mutating finally manage to come together in a structure that can actually contemplate their own existence?

Again it's one of the things that really fascinates me. A lot of people (and quite a lot of people I know) don't give this question a seconds thought. Literally - not one second is even allocated to this most pertinent of questions. It's the reason I titled track one of my forthcoming album "What is The Question?" To me - and obviously this is only my point of view - it's the most important question we could possibly ask. I mean after all, if just for arguments sake the Big Bang and life suddenly starting for no apparent reason is not an accident. The Universe is fine tuned for our existence ( "That is not a reasonable idea, that something is tuned to 120 decimal places just by accident" - Professor Leonard Susskind)

Richard "Dick" Dawkins recently appeared on Newsnight and was interviewed by Paxman - Dick ended the interview with the classic slip up of all slip ups "I don't believe we are put here to be comfortable.." He's got a new book out and was basically whoring it and misrepresenting Einstein to justify his own narrow minded beliefs. I love scientists that will basically ignore any facts that do not support their own point of view - defiantly defending the paradigm against an overwhelming weight of evidence to the contrary. That's not Science Dick - that's "belief" - "faith" if you like - a word you have problems with. Makes you realise what Copernicus was up against when he valiantly tried to tell the "scientists" of many a year ago they were wrong.

If something has odds of 120 decimal places to 1 against - would you bet on it? Is it "Science" to believe it is the most probable outcome. The Buddhists had it right all along - "The World is an Illusion"

Much, much, much more on this later - for now Hasta Luego

Cue Track 2 "Vurt"

Peace & Love
Migz