'Becuz' (Because of You) Sonic Youth

Wish I could change the way that you feel

Standing with him you feel more real

Looking so sweet with all your might

Trusting in him to fully ignite

Holding his hand like a brand new kite

Blue eyes sparkle, open, alright

Wish I could see the girl who'd fight

Playing and laughing and trying to show it

Running and falling and dying to know it

Staring you down with her gaze hold it

Wish I could free you

but I can't don't blow it

Angel, gonna show it

Lord

The Devil, go on, hold it

Angel, gonna show it

Lord

Blow it

Because of you, because of you, because of you, because of you

Because of you, because of you, because of you, because of you

Because of you, because of you, because of you, because of you

Because of you, because of you, because of you, because of you

Wish I could free you, but I can't, don't blow it

Wish I could free you, but I can't, don't know it

• Sonic Youth, "Becuz" (live and studio); Em Beihold, "Numb Little Bug"; Chappell Roan, "Good Luck Babe"; Eds., Wisdom Quarterly

DisclosureFest live stream (May 24)

DisclosureFest.org; Ananda (Dharma Buddhist Meditation), Ashley Wells, Wisdom Quarterly

DisclosureFest is Aug. 8, OCT. 10, 2020. Get FREE tickets now. Today is the final episode ramping up to the big live event. Live stream via YouTube.

Dharma Buddhist Meditation, Los Angeles (meetup.com/zen-07)

Metallica to open for Muse in Buddha Land

Seth Auberon, Wisdom Quarterly; Summer Sonic 2013; KROQ.cbslocal.com

Summer Sonic 2013 comes to Tokyo and Osaka with Muse, Imagine Dragons, Fall Out Boy, Linkin Park, M.I.A., Smashing Pumpkins, Cyndi Lauper, Carly Rae Jepsen, and Cheap Trick.

 

Metallica's opening for Muse in Buddha Land. What's Metallica? You should know, dumb@$$; you wear their t-shirt. Oh yeah, heh-heh-heh; that's cool! But like, Butthead, where's Buddha Land?

It's Japan. Where? That place that blew up. Oh yeah, you mean Fuk-U-shima? Huh-huh-huh, huh-huh-huh, you said -shima! No I didn't, oh yeah, heh-heh-heh.

OMG, I love yōkai! (Andre Durao/AFP)

Why does Buddha Land get all the best concerts -- like Live at Budokan, remember? Yeah, Beavis, I remember. But this is Muse, so pay attention!

Ever since the war that ended all wars (for Japan), the Nichiren and Zen Buddhists there really like Western influences, music in particular. The Japanese get the best shows, the scariest monsters (yōkai), and more nuclear fallout than any other nation in the world. Why should 2013 be any different?

You, too, can travel to the international crossroads of the second greatest economy in the world, Tokyo, and its second-city, Osaka, to witness Muse and some pretty good opening bands like punks Palma Violets. And do it for FREE if you're lucky enough to win tickets from KROQ FM: KROQ.cbslocal.com/kroq-festival-flyaway-destination-1-Summer-Sonic-in-Tokyo-Japan.

"Knights of Cydonia," Muse, Wembley Arena, England

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(N.W.O.R.) This information runs counter to tax-supported religion and very profitable

scientific evolution. But it aligns with scriptures from around the world. What goes

against our indoctrination is buried. But truth is stranger than fiction.

AH! Buddhist opera no-opera (Los Angeles)

A Counterpoint of Tolerance: AH!
Interactive Opera No-Opera

“Arouse the mind without resting it on anything”

- Diamond Sutra

REDCAT transforms its flexible performance space into an immersive visual and sonic environment for the world premiere of this inventive international collaboration. Composed and performed by creators from around the globe, this pioneering collective work draws inspiration from the classic Buddhist text, the Diamond Sutra.

With composer-performer David Rosenboom and award-winning poet Martine Bellen, the creative team has developed AH! as a celebratory passage across musical cultures and times: a polyglot clarion call for understanding and unity in today’s globalized, ever-more interconnected world.

Spinning off a mandala of 13 extraordinary and ordinary modern-life stories, this spellbinding opera brings together an array of robotic and interactive musical technologies, ingenious stagecraft, and flights of phenomenal musicianship. In the theatrically heightened environment of AH!, everyday life is placed flush against esoteric and transcendent realities.

Performing live, Rosenboom and 10 composer-performers from across the Americas, Europe, and East Asia are joined by an additional cast of musicians, theatermakers, and interactive artists under the direction of Travis Preston, who stages this exceptional music event with production designer Christopher Barreca, choreographer Mira Kingsley, and video designer Jeremiah Thies.

• Interact with and contribute to AH! via the Web at ah-opera.org

The audience is invited to engage with and contribute to AH! before, during and after performances, via the website http://www.ah-opera.org/, mobile media, and a magical multitouch screen at the theater. Arrive early and participate!

DETAILS

A Counterpoint of Tolerance is a project commissioned by the Transatlantic Arts Consortium (TAC). This production of AH! is made possible with generous support from TAC, The Evelyn Sharp Foundation, Judith O. and Robert E. Rubin, and Abby Sher. World premiere: A co-production of the The Herb Alpert School of Music at CalArts and the CalArts Center for New Performance, in cooperation with Idyllwild Arts.

Date & Time: September 16, 17, 18 at 8:30 PM.
General Admission: $12-$25
TICKETS (online, or call REDCAT's box office at 213-237-2800).

AH! Buddhist Opera in Los Angeles

A Counterpoint of Tolerance: AH!
(Sept. 16, 17, 18, 2009) Bringing together an array of robotic and interactive musical technologies, ingenious stagecraft, and flights of phenomenal musicianship, REDCAT is transformed into an immersive visual and sonic environment for the world premiere of this inventive international collaboration, composed and performed by creators from around the globe and inspired by the classic Buddhist text, the Diamond Sutra.

• Collaborate with artists, contribute to music: ah-opera.org

Ahopera mandala (CLICK HERE)

The Earliest dated printed Book
The Buddhist text known around the world as the Diamond Sutra (or Vajra Cutter Sutra) is a short Mahayana discourse of the Perfection of Wisdom (prajna-paramita) genre.

It teaches the practice of the avoidance of abiding in extremes of mental attachment. A copy of the sutra, found early in the 20th century among the Dunhuang manuscripts, is in the words of the British Library, "the earliest complete survival of a dated printed book."

It is inscribed, "Reverently made for universal free distribution by Wang Jie on behalf of his two parents on the 15th of the 4th moon of the 9th year of Xiantong [11 May 868]." This is about 587 years before the Gutenberg Bible. More>>