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Art of Punk Rock: Crass, DKs, Black Flag

(Bullet Train Productions) By Any Means: A Brief History of Black Flag (Part 1: 1976-1980)

Hi, I'm Sydney Vicious. I do it my way!

Why do punk rockers feel drawn to Buddhism? It might be the anti-authority (as suggested by LA's Wasted Youth in their anthem "F Authority") stance of the Buddha who stood up to the religions of his day or the no heroes Zen ethos they imagine. Both modern punk and the ancient Dhamma were rebellious movements. Maybe they've read the Kalama Sutra and like the F.U. attitude they imagine it embodies.

I did it my way, claims Sex Pistol Sid Vicious as if he were Frank Sin'

Never mind those bullocks. Clear the mind.

Buddhism (the Awakened One's Dharma) doesn't really say "F.U.," but it does give license to free inquiry and questioning rather than blind faith or devotion to idols and authoritative sources. In the end, it's a kind of shamanism (direct experience) over temple-bound priests (intermediaries).

What is real rebellion and freedom?

The Buddha did not ask people to "believe" or worship him but to come see the Truth for themselves. Enlightenment (bodhi, awakening) is open to any person willing to embark on a quest to directly know-and-see. This is a personally verifiable path. There is no waiting until we die to see if what we placed faith in panned out. No.

This path-of-practice (not belief) is about the here and now; it is of immediate benefit, demonstrable: With this, that is; when this is not, that is not. What? Everything. Why? Because everything is Dependently Originated. So if we know-and-see become full of knowledge and wise on the path to Freedom, it is because we have practiced this and left that behind. If suffering (things sucking and disappointing) is a problem (as it is for most living beings), there is a solution right NOW in this moment.

(She Rocks Punk) Eve Libertine's first song with Crass was "Asylum," a

shocking anti-Christian, anti-patriarchal screed of vile and vulgar oopsies

The Art of Punk - Crass - The Art of Dave King and Gee Vaucher - Art + Music - MOCAtv

(The Museum of Contemporary Art) MOCA is a pretty arthouse in ugly Los Angeles. Talk about crass, this is talk about the British anarcho-punk pioneers Crass, the musical collective who back the amazing Eve Libertine, Joy De Vivre, and Steve Ignorant.

The Art of Punk - Dead Kennedys - The Art of Winston Smith - Art + Music - MOCAtv

(The Museum of Contemporary Art) June 25, 2013: In this episode, The Art of Punk hits head on with the art behind the legendary Dead Kennedys. From the chaotic, surreal, madness of collage mixed with political folly that blazed their LPs and gig flyers to the razor edge ultra simplistic four simple line DK symbol.

DKs: 1986 Interview with Jello Biafra (SPIN)

In San Francisco, MOCAtv corners founding Dead Kennedys member Jello Biafra (vocalist and frontman), who discusses his own warped inspiration for the many album sleeves and band posters created in the early days of the group.

Back in Los Angeles, MOCAtv talks with pop surrealist artist Tim Biskup about how the DKs affected and twisted his own young mind, and Steve Olson graces the show with a few words of wisdom.

Remember our Holiday in Buddhist Cambodia after the US turned it to hell?

10 best Dead Kennedys songs (Singers Room)

Finally, it's time to meet up with master collage artist and designer of the DK symbol, Winston Smith, in his North Beach art studio and talk about how he was drawn into the early Bay Area punk scene -- and his long and creative artistic relationship with the Dead Kennedys and their smart frontman and clever vocalist Jello Biafra.

The Art of Punk - Black Flag - Art + Music - MOCAtv

Created, directed, and executive produced by writer/author of Fucked Up + Photocopied Bryan Ray Turcotte (Kill Your Idols), and Bo Bushnell (The Western Empire), The Art of Punk traces the roots of the punk movement and the artists behind the iconic logos of punk bands such as Black Flag (Raymond Pettibon), The Dead Kennedys (Winston Smith), and Crass (Dave King).

In addition to profiling artists, the series includes intimate interviews with former band members, notable artists, and celebrities who have been heavily influenced by the art of punk rock including Jello Biafra, Tim Biskup, Scott Campbell, Chuck Dukowski, bassist Flea (FEAR, RHCP), Steve Olson, Penny Rimbaud, Henry Rollins, Owen Thornton, and Gee Vaucher.

The filmmakers Bryan Ray Turcotte and Bo Bushnell take a unique approach to exploring the rich histories of these three seminal punk legends by focusing on the influential imagery and seeking out stories that have not been told yet through the artwork, which is integral to the importance and influence of each band.

On June 11, 2013, The Art of Punk debuts on MOCAtv with an episode on Raymond Pettibon and the artwork of Black Flag. The stories behind the art of the Dead Kennedys will debut on June 18, and June 25 will see the release of the Crass episode, all of which will be available at: mocatv.

Created by: Bryan Ray Turcotte (bryanraymond) KillYourIdols.com and Bo Bushnell (bobushnell) Instagram.com/BoBushnell bobushnell.com. Directed by: Bryan Ray Turcotte, Bo Bushnell. Executive producers: Emma Reevers, John Toba. Executive producers: Bryan Ray Turcotte, Bo Bushnell. Starring: Raymond Pettibon, Keith Morris, Chuck Dukowski, Henry Rollins, Flea. Camera: Josh Webber, Bo Bushnell, Jason Baker. Edited by: Tim Brooks, Beast. Editorial Assistant editor: Paul Jarolimekproner, Beast. Editorial location sound: Alexander Charles Eastmond. Motion graphic design: Brent Stangel. Music supervision: Beta Petrol. Music by: Raw Nerve. Theme music: Son the Father by Fucked Up Courtesy Beggars Group. Additional music by: C.R.A.S.H. Scanning by: Jesse Spears. Sound mixing: Phil Lantz M Squared Productions. Colorist: Tim Brooks. Photo stills provided by: Brian Tucker, Ed Colver, Ryan Richardson. Like MOCA on Facebook: bit.ly/MOCAFacebook, Twitter: bit.ly/MOCATwitter +1 MOCA on Google+: bit.ly/MOCAGooglePlus.

• Eve Libertine, Crass, Dead Kennedys, Black Flag artists via MOCAtv; Sydney, Seth Auberon, Dhr. Seven, Ashley Wells, Pfc. Sandoval (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly

Led Zeppelin and the Occult

Led Zeppelin and the Occult: An Analysis

(The Eleusinian Society) Today we look into the strange style and imagery behind the British hard rock band Led Zeppelin and their ties to occultism, Aleister Crowley, Egypt, and maybe the devil. MTD Media LLC., 2023.

Spiritualism and the Occult

Om system in Thai Forest Tradition

While Buddhism does not encourage preoccupation with such matters, it does not deny the existence of various classes of "discarnate" beings (spirits).

They dwell in various realms and on various planes of existence, some higher and happier than this world, others, such as so-called "hungry ghosts" (petas), more miserable.

They are relatively real — tha is, no less "real" than we ourselves in this [illusory] world. They all, without exception, are in samsara or "birth-and-death." Therefore, their stay in any of the many realms within the 31 Planes of Existence they may inhabit is temporary, though in some cases it may be unbelievably long-lasting by human standards, feeling like an eternity.

There is in line with the idea of rebirth on earth, since what realm one is reborn in depends on one's karma (deeds), the human condition being only one of the various possibilities (though a specifically important one, since enlightenment and liberation from any other realm is held to be virtually impossible).

• [While this would seem to be true, devas in various realms seemed to have a greater success rate than humans in achieving knowledge-and-vision of what the Buddha was teaching humans. The Buddha was a "teacher of gods (devas) and men (humans)." The percentage of devas who took an interest is unknown, nor is it known how many devas there are (or how many "humans" there are existence since this world is not the only human world. Humans occupy a plane of existence not a singular planet. And there are countless such worlds. Every world-system or cakkavala has a human plane. (Human beings in Buddhism). Regardless of how many there are, more devas attained liberation through wisdom than humans. The Buddha devoted a portion of his daily schedule to teaching devas to ensure their success. Humans got the rest of his time. The full range and influence of the Buddha is imponderable.]

"Stairway to Heaven" is diabolically occult?

Therefore, a human rebirth is considered as desirable as it is rare — a precious opportunity that would be a folly to waste. It is also stated in the texts that humans have a "mind-made [subtle] body, complete in all its parts," which would seem to correspond to the "astral" or "etheric" body referred to by occultists.

Responsible occultists — of whom there are many — are, of course, aware of the dangers of incautious involvement with these matters, which they often stress. The inhabitants of the various realms are not enlightened beings. While some are undoubtedly much wiser and more advanced than the average human, others are not and can exert a malevolent power.

It is outside the province of Buddhist monastics to practice any of the occult arts. It is in fact forbidden that they do so, although it is not infrequently found being done in the East.

Western Buddhists should not concern themselves with such matters. If they nevertheless do so (as many will, whatever is said to the contrary), they should at least be extremely careful to consult only responsible and conscientious practitioners of a high moral standard.

Such people are not hard to find and are often very fine characters. But it should always be borne in mind that even genuine messages from the dead and departed can be misleading, since they are still, in varying degrees, ignorant. For this reason, the well-known triviality of many "spirit" messages proves nothing about their genuineness.

Beings in higher worlds are known in Buddhism as devas, and it seems certain that many of them are truly concerned to help humankind as far as is possible with their power. It might even be suggested that there is no essential difference between the higher devas and the bodhisattvas of Mahayana Buddhism.

Some people are naturally psychic, and some even develop psychic powers as a result, or byproduct, of (jhanic, samadhi) meditation. Such powers are real, but it is unwise to seek after or cling to them if attained. If they are gained with insufficient insight or moral purification, they can be disastrous.

It is another of the many illusions of the modern liberal humanist that such things as "witchcraft" do not exist. Righteous indignation at the cruel treatment of real or alleged witches in the past should not lead us to imagine that the whole thing was completely mythical. So we should be very wary of seeking contact with the psychic planes, not because they do not exist, but because they do. (If they did not exist, comparatively little harm would be done by seeking them out). Source

• The Eleusinian Society (video), Sept. 13, 2023; Maurice O'Connell Walshe, Buddhism and Death (2005); Seth Auberon, Dhr. Seven (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly

Rapper Lil Jon's "Total Meditation" (NPR)

Sensei Rap Guru Lil Jon; Usher, ft. Ludacris; CC Liu, Seth Auberon (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly

Just a few years ago Lil Jon was producing booze-promoting trashy rap hits like "Yeah!"

WARNING: Filth, "Yeah!" by Usher song featuring Lil Jon (who also produced the song) and Ludacris is a crass, vulgar sexual exploitation pop-rap hit song that got so big it catapulted Usher to the 2024 Super Bowl Halftime Show with Taylor Swift dancing in the bleachers to it and amping up footballer Travis Kelcey to win and go party on the Vegas strip with strippers and alcohol after the game.

Rap artist Lil Jon's latest album is a guided meditation

Ayesha Rascoe, NPR, March 3, 2024 (7:59 am ET) Weekend Edition Sunday (8-min listen)

A moment of Zen from NPR's Ayesha Rascoe (pronounced \eye-eesh-uh ross-koh\): She talks to rapper DJ producer Lil Jon who's all turnt up about his new guided spoken word album, Total Meditation, finding peace while being the life of the party. [He got uh kol'ina'skuppy at fiddy, so maybe he koming dahn? It's a Southern thang (Rascoe's accent) y'all woodent git it.]

Lil Jon "Deep Relaxation" (official audio)

If you shake your bottle rocket and hold it in your crotch, it'll pop off and shoot everywhere.

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(LIL JON) Feb. 16, 2024: Now let's see if we understand this. The vulgar featured rapper who produced and sang on "Yeah!" with King of R&B Usher and Ludacris has had a change of heart and started practicing meditation?

(LMAFO ft. Lil Jon) "Shots" about binge drinking in social situations

Rapper/meditator Lil Jon

Moreover, he likes it so much, he's teaching meditation and laying down relaxation tracks on his latest album instead of the mindless rap and hip-hop songs fans expected?

Sadhu, sadhu, sadhu! (aka Hallelujah!) We're incredulous, but NPR's Blackest voice ever, Ayesha Rascoe from the Deep South (Durham, N.C.), assures us it's true on NPR radio ads.

She will be featuring the gangsta-rapper-cum-meditation-guide on tomorrow's episode of Weekend Edition Sunday (3/3/24).

Tune in to NPR at 8:00 am (Eastern), or at 2:00 pm (Pacific) as it repeats on scpr.org.

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"Post Traumatic Blues" (Corey Taylor)

Corey Taylor; Loudwire; Genius lyrics; Seth Auberon, CC Liu (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly

Don't yell at me, Mom, or I might grow up to be a famous nu-metal vocalist.

Suddenly stoned and sour Corey Taylor remembered he was also in Slipknot. Here in his new solo project song where he combines the sound of both bands. Eh, Slipknot's Corey is better.

White metal-rapper, angry poet, who can know what Corey's thinking?

LYRICS: "Post Traumatic Blues"

I don't wanna be buried in a hole when I die

I wanna be carried in a jar with the ashes and lies

And when I break my stained-glass-media heart

I'll smile as I tear it apart

So don't panic, the pillar is here

Another in a line of heroes with nothing to fear

And a taste for the hardcore that comes with the common sense

Oh my gosh, we're in trouble again

We're in trouble again

We're in trouble again

One last stand

[CHORUS:] I'm warning you right now

I'm feelin' like a Sunday, I'll never get away

No one knows

Who's afraid of a king in a castle?

Another dirty face on a hundred dollar bill

I'll take what I thought I could never impossibly get

I'm living like I'm losing a bet

So don't worry, the future is here

Another contemplation to ration for over the years

I'm crossing your lines, pushing my way, deliberate

Borrow your time, take me away,

Did you borrow your time?

One last time

[CHORUS]

[Guitar Solo 1: Zach Throne]

[Guitar Solo 2: Christian Martucci]

Reciprocity

For all the ones to leave

Are you ready for one last war?

[CHORUS]

[Outro] One last time

Millennial hysteria: NEW Olivia Rodrigo (video)

I hate Olivia Rodrigo. She sucks and is not good. Don't buy her music. Buy mine instead!

Listening to SOUR by Olivia Rodrigo as a 26-year-old fanboy

I used to be a Swiftie.

(HTHAZE) Premiered May 24, 2021. So, yeah, pretty good LOL. Stream Olivia Rodrigo's previous album. Y'all...that was a freaking rollercoaster, OMG. If you stuck around for the whole thing, you are a legend! Definitely comment! Getting as emotional as I did and reading some of wild tweets, I just want to say that no matter what age you are, if the music moves you, you gotta move with it, baby! If 16, 26, or 76, just rock out, man! Send me some ideas for what to listen to next with y'all. I'm so excited to get the studio up and running again, too, for more original music-related stuff. I've been posting a bit more on it recently, so peep that if you haven't. But as always...stay happy healthy and strong.

Olivia teases (background music by Supergrass)

Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/hthaze. Instagram: http://www.instagram.com/hthaze twitch: http://twitch.tv/hthaze twitter: http://www.twitter.com/hthaze #oliviarodrigo #sour #sourreaction

Don't call me "Barbie"! I'm a Nazi!

SONGS: 0:00-1:23 Intro 1:24-4:10 Brutal 4:11-7:40 Traitor 7:41-9:57 Driver's License 9:58-12:52 1 Step Forward, 3 Steps Back 12:53-15:55 Deja vu 15:56-19:02 Good 4 U 19:03-21:42 Enough for You 21:43-24:01 Happier 24:02-25:47 Jealousy, Jealousy 25:48-28:04 Favorite Crime 28:05-30:47 Hope Ur OK 30:48-33:05 Outro

Hatred for Taylor "Nazi Barbie" Swift?

Top 100 metal songs, girlfriends, Babymetal

BABYMETAL (an artificially assembled pop-metal band according to the "Punk Rock MBA" Finn Mckenty) has got to be the hardest, coolest, most talented band with a female-singer in history, eclipsing the late-great symphonic black metal of Eternal Conspiracy with baby-voice Kirsten.

5 things rock about being a female metalhead

(JJ Metalhead) Where are the metal babes? Let me know you exist.

(JJ Metalhead) March 24, 2021. Things that suck about being a female metalhead. It's a boys club. Mosh pits are nice. Where are the metal babes? Let me know you exist! What other struggles have you encountered as a metal girl? SIGN UP FOR NEWSLETTER. FB, IG, Twitter, Website: kimmorist.com.

Rolling Stone names best metal songs of all time

Revolver Staff, March 13, 2023 edited by Wisdom Quarterly

Hard Heavy Happy (Nico Rose)

Nu-metal fans will be displeased. Back in 2021, Rolling Stone magazine shafted metal as a genre by only including six metal tracks on their supposedly comprehensive list of the 500 greatest songs of all time.

Motörhead's "Ace of Spades," Metallica's "Enter Sandman" and "Master of Puppets," Black Sabbath's "Iron Man" and "Paranoid," and Rage Against the Machine's "Killing in the Name" — earning the highest-ranking spot of all metal songs, at No. 207 — were, by the measure of voters, deemed the six best metal songs ever.

However, Rolling Stone have now corrected their own record by publishing a list dedicated to the 100 greatest metal songs ever, and the list's top 10 differs significantly from the top six that landed in the publication's all-genre list.

In this metal-focused ranking, Rolling Stone have placed Black Sabbath's "Black Sabbath" dirge at the No. 1 spot, which makes a helluva lot of sense" It essentially birthed the metal genre.

Rotting Ways To Misery (dBBooks)

However, the track wasn't included at all in the publication's list of the 500 greatest songs, and one of the Sabbath tracks that was included in that 500 list ("Paranoid"), didn't even crack the Top 10 of their new ranking of metal tracks.

Moreover, Rage Against the Machine's "Killing in the Name" — which some fans consider hard rock rather than metal, though we disagree — only made it to No. 38 on the metal songs list.

Contradictions aside, the songs that comprise Rolling Stone's Top 10 metal songs ever are gems:

1. Black Sabbath "Black Sabbath"
2. Metallica "Master of Puppets"
3. Motorhead "Ace of Spades"
4. Judas Priest "Breaking the Law"
5. Black Sabbath "War Pigs"
6. Ozzy Osbourne's "Crazy Train"
7. Black Sabbath "Iron Man"
8. Slayer "Raining Blood"
9. Dio "Holy Diver"
10. Iron Maiden's "Run to the Hills"

Hard to argue with any of those picks, though if you're under the age of 50 and you feel like those selections are skewing old-school, your suspicions are right.

The list makes a point of nodding to most metal sub-genres (death metal, black metal, grindcore, metalcore, prog metal, etc.), nu-metal giants like Korn, Slipknot, and Deftones were only granted one song each ["Blind," "People = Shit," and "My Own Summer (Shove It)," respectively], and the same went for alt-metal titans like System of a Down ("Chop Suey!") and TOOL ("Forty Six & 2").

Of course, lists like these are ultimately just fodder for people to argue, so in that sense, Rolling Stone surely succeeded. See the whole list. More

Billie Eilish new music: Cloud Forest (video)

Finneas and Billie Eilish; Sheldon S., Crystal Q., CC Liu, Seth Auberon (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly

Who's this hot has-been impostor trying to look like Billie with makeup and lips? (Paris Hilton)

Billie Eilish (live from Cloud Forest, Singapore)

(Billie Eilish) Sept. 21, 2022. Listen to Guitar Songs, the new album by Billie "Pirate" Eilish and producer-brother Finneas, out now (BillieEilish.lnk.to/GuitarSongs). Here are "The 30th" and "TV," both of which were released today.

Sex sells, but who's buying? Wonder why the world loves Billie. Great lungs or is it Finneas?

Don't judge me on my looks. I have body image issues. Karma's a bitch...and a blessing, too.

Dalai Lama to drop new album 7/6 (video)

14th Dalai Lama (dalailama.com, June 8, 2020); Ashley Wells, CC Liu (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly

Dalai Lama: Inner World, "Compassion"

The Dalai Lama jumps on Zoom, June 7, 2020

Coming soon, a sacred offering from the current Dalai Lama (Tenzin Gyatso) of mantras and teachings set to music. Listen to “Compassion” (innerworld.lnk.to/Compassion), which is taken from the album Inner World that drops July 6th, coinciding with the Dalai Lama’s 85th birthday. Newsletter available at fanlink.to/InnerWorld_Newsletter.

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• fanlink.to/InnerWorld_Twitter
• fanlink.to/InnerWorld_YouTube...
• fanlink.to/InnerWorld_Website

What u think, Adam? - Interesting, your holiness

Dalai Lama recorded by Junelle Kunin with music by Abraham Kunin. Executive produced by Junelle Kunin and Charles Goldstuck. Produced by Abraham Kunin. Mixed by Aaron Nevezie at The Bunker Studio. Mastered by Randy Merrill at Sterling Sound.

Artwork by Ella Brewer and Tiffany Singh. Animation by Kajsa Råsten.

Correction: the Tibetan text in the video should read འཕགས་པ་སྤྱན་རས་གཟིགས། but was incorrect due to unfortunate issues with software to present it accurately. Music in this video licensed to YouTube by Create Music Group, Inc. (on behalf of Gaden Phodrang Foundation of the Dalai Lama and Khandro Limited).

Potala Palace: If Buddhism has a pope, which it does not, this is his "Vatican." Tibet's capital, Lhasa, now occupied by Han Chinese, would be his Holy See. Like Rome, it was the center of an empire.