“Always the eyes watching you and the voice enveloping you. Asleep or awake, working or eating, indoors or out of doors, in the bath or in bed — no escape. Nothing was your own except the few cubic centimetres inside your skull.” — George Orwell. 1984
NOTHING IS ORIGINAL. STEAL FROM ANYWHERE THAT RESONATE WITH INSPIRATION OR FUELS YOUR IMAGINATION. DEVOUR OLD FILMS, NEW FILMS, MUSIC, BOOKS, PAINTINGS, PHOTOGRAPHS, POEMS, DREAMS, RANDOM CONVERSATIONS, ARCHITECTURE, BRIDGES, STREET SIGNS, TREES, CLOUDS, BODIES OF WATER, LIGHT AND SHADOWS. SELECT ONLY THINGS TO STEAL FROM THAT SPEAK DIRECTLY TO YOUR SOUL. IF YOU DO THIS YOUR WORK (AND THEFT) WILL BE AUTHENTIC.
AUTHENTICITY IS INVALUABLE; ORIGINALITY IS NON-EXISTENT. AND DON’T BOTHER CONCEALING YOUR THIEVERY – CELEBRATE IT IF YOU FEEL LIKE IT. IN ANY CASE, ALWAYS REMEMBER WHAT JEAN-LUC GODARD SAID: “IT’S NOT WHERE YOU TAKE THINGS FROM – IT’S WHERE YOU TAKE THEM TO.”
“Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone elses opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.” – Oscar Wilde
“I don’t play with my fingers, I play with my ears.” – Jimi Hendrix
“I quit playing guitar for a few years because I did not want to be part of the guitar gymnastics.” – Frank Zappa
“Good composers borrow, great composers steal.” – Igor Stravinsky
“I don’t know the secret of success, but the secret of failure is to try to please everybody.” – Bill Cosby
“The large print giveth and the small print taketh away.” – Tom Waits
“No listener gives a damn what microphone preamp you used.” – Craig Anderton
“Everyone understands and accepts that the placebo effect is real, but for some reason audiophiles think it never happens to them.” – Unknown
“The most important component in the whole musical spectrum is to be able to transcend and escape your own cliches while holding on to all the things you’ve learned and continue to love about creating music and sharing it.” – Prefuse 73
“Everyone has a plan, untill they get punched in the mouth.” – Mike Tyson
“Men are made stronger on realization that the helping hand they need is at the end of their own arm.” – Sidney J. Phillips
Bokassà è una band di amici baresi che ultimamente mi hanno invitato a partecipare (con uno scratch freestyle) ad un brano del loro nuovo album Summit uscito per la free net label Lepers Produtcions.
Bokassà – Inimigo Publico (featuring THX at the turntables)
qui di seguito la descrizione dell’album tratta dal loro sito:
Mangiare carne umana, questa è l’ultima stravagante moda che si sta diffondendo in tutti i posti più ‘in’ del Sud del mondo. Solquest, alexander de large e Superfreak, rinomati amanti di tutte le ultime tendenze, non potevano resistere al fascino dell’ultima follia e riuniti nella squadra d’attacco denominata Bokassà si danno ad un afropunk scatenato divorandosi l’un l’altro fino all’inevitabile silenzio.
Zampana ci ha messo un po’ di rumori percussivi, THX un super assolo di scratch, ma questo non è stato sufficiente a salvargli la vita.
26 minuti in cui Mandela e il Ku Klux Klan si riuniscono in un gaio banchetto a base di carne umana
To eat human flesh: the latest fancy trend spreading in the hippest of places in the South of the world. Solquest, alexander de large, and Superfreak, renowned lovers of the latest fads whatsoever, couldn’t resist the appeal of this latest frenzy and, gathered in the attack squad named Bokassà, took up playing a hog-wild afro-punk, devouring each other till the inevitable silence.
Zampana putted some percussive noise, THX is the grandmaster of a super scratch solo, but this things weren’t enough for saving their lives
26 minutes in which Mandela and the Ku Klux Klan gather together in a gay feast of human meatflesh.
