Basilisk Stare - January 2011 BRR Mixtape Brigade

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When I started this blog I swore that I would never apologize for a “lack of updates”. While I am absolutely tickled that you take the time to read “Doctor Jones” I continually work under the mindset that I owe you exactly diddily squat. The ebb and flow of this blog will swell or abate at my whim, desire and motivation. So, with that, you will receive no apology or justification for my inactivity. In fact, you should be thanking me for this 5-month lull. My schedule this past season has been a strenuous exercise in self-discipline and time management. My efforts were simply placed everywhere but here.

But, just because little has been posted doesn’t mean that my wit and charm hasn’t been skillfully pressed to the face of the grindstone of this crazy thing called life. Indeed, dozens of ideas have been formed and are incubating to maturity, each at different stages of development. “Doctor Jones” is on the brink of a cathartic gushing. Like those egg batches in Aliens, each post and Mixtape is gonna burst forth and hug your face as if nobody’s lookin’. It’ll be good for the both of us. And the facehugging begins now, with this month’s Mixtape. Yes. I’ve had a great deal of mental potential energy building these past few months…“Basilisk Stare” is the release.

Because I'm struggling to use my own words...

"And let us not forget about elephantiasis, an infestation by microscopic worms that wriggle into the lymphatic system, causing an accumulation of lymph so massive it forces the victim to stumble about on legs the size of tree trunks, carrying his scrotum before him in a wheelbarrow.” - John Gambel

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Steve Martin: When I was 10 years-old I knew I wanted to make movies, but I knew NO ONE was going to give me that. So, I started putting away one dollar every week of my life. If I missed a week I made it up later - From age 10 on. And now, you're looking at enough to get us started: $2,184

Jamie Kennedy: But, movies cost millions of dollars to make.

Steve Martin: That's after gross-net-deduction-profit-percentage-deferment-10% of the NUT! CASH: Every movie costs $2,184!


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Bruce Dern: Me, I can barely get my family to eat together; but you - you've got your family dreaming together.

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"Art is just the last three letters of fart" - One of the guys from The Butthole Surfers, I think.

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"Mikey! Vulgar!" - Mrs. Roberto

Life Altering Conversation

Here's a short conversation I overheard several years ago. I'm still coming down from profundity of it:

Eric: ... komodo dragons.
Matt: Aren't they in the desert?
Eric: Nah, the jungle.
Matt: Oh. Well, if you put one in the desert, he'd be there.

All The Happy Accidents - September 2010 BRR Mixtape Brigade

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One of the more entertaining aspects of Mixtape creation is to witness how the sequence evolves and ends up in its final state. Normally, I have the authority and power to regulate this evolution and ultimately decide what makes the cut and what doesn't. But, not this month - this one got away from me. This one assembled itself on its own. I fought it at first, trying desperately to cling to the original sonic intent. And again and again, the music continued to take command. What you hear here sounds nothing like what I had set out to create, and, I suppose, everything is all the better for it. I was put in my place. Who would have thought creating a Mixtape could be a humbling experience.

Worthy Surrogate Videos

I tip my hat to those who were inspired enough by these awesome songs/bands to piece together their own videos. Good stuff, man. Good Stuff.

Grandpa Makes Noises - August 2010 BRR Mixtape Brigade

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A mix perfected with age - and with age, wisdom. It's a slow burner, so don't get too ahead of yourself.

Phaseplane Differential - July 2010 BRR Mixtape Brigade

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“What is the human brain?” Orphu asked rhetorically. “I mean, all of us morevecs have a piece of one. What is it like? How does it work? Like the binary or DNA computers we also carry around for thinking purposes?”

“No,” said Cho Li. “We know that the human brain is not like a computer neither is it a chemical memory machine the way the Lost Era human scientists believed. The human brain… the mind… is a quantum-state holistic standing wavefront.”

“Exactly!” cried Orphu. “The post-humans used this intimate understanding of the human mind to perfect their Brane Holes, time travel, and quantum teleportation.”

“I still don’t see how,” said Prime Integrator Asteague/Che

[Orphu]“If you assume an infinite or near-infinite set of alternate universes, then many of these have necessarily been imagined through the sheer force of human genius. Picture them as singularities of genius – Bell-state analyzers and editors of the pure quantum-foam of reality.”

- Quoted from the Dan Simmons novel Olympos