DJ Misc

R. Crumb

Tue, 07 Sep 2010 11:40:49 -0600

Chang'e, the bunny girl

Tue, 07 Sep 2010 09:00:58 -0600

“The moon goddess [Chang'e] was mentioned in the conversation between Houston Capcom and Apollo 11 crew just before the first moon landing:

Houston: ‘Among the large headlines concerning Apollo this morning there's one asking that you watch for a lovely girl with a big rabbit. An ancient legend says a beautiful Chinese girl called Chang-o has been living there for 4000 years. It seems she was banished to the moon because she stole the pill for immortality from her husband. You might also look for her companion, a large Chinese rabbit, who is easy to spot since he is only standing on his hind feet in the shade of a cinnamon tree. The name of the rabbit is not recorded.’

Collins: ‘Okay, we'll keep a close eye for the bunny girl.’ ”

—Wikipedia, Chang'e.

the moonlight lingers on

Tue, 07 Sep 2010 07:45:31 -0600

“The night seems to fade

But the moonlight lingers on

There are wonders for everyone

The stars shine so bright

But they’re fading in the dawn

There is magic In Kingston Town”

— Lord Creator, “KIngston Town”, 1970.

a home on the moon

Tue, 07 Sep 2010 07:40:31 -0600

“[W]e’ve moved, with everything we possess, to the moon . . . we’ve lost ourselves for the sake of having a home on the moon.”

—Franz Kafka, quoted in K: A Biography of Kafka, by Ronald Hayman, 1981.

a strain on the nerves

Sun, 05 Sep 2010 11:16:36 -0600

“Isn’t every word a strain on the nerves of both writer and reader?”

—Franz Kafka, quoted in K: A Biography of Kafka, by Ronald Hayman, 1981.

the prisoner

Sun, 05 Sep 2010 11:13:52 -0600

“The suicide is the prisoner who sees a gallows erected in the prison yard, mistakenly believes it is for him, breaks out of his cell during the night, goes down and hangs himself.”

—Franz Kafka, quoted in K: A Biography of Kafka, by Ronald Hayman, 1981.

Speech is silver, silence is golden

Sun, 05 Sep 2010 11:07:44 -0600

“During break the boys had to stay either in the classrooms or in the corridors, which were bedecked with such sayings as ‘Speech is silver, silence is golden’. ”

— Ronald Hayman, K: A Biography of Kafka, 1981.

heaven instead of hell

Fri, 03 Sep 2010 08:53:56 -0600

“The smoke from the death-plants in the Louisiana chemical corridor used to be black and sooty, just the way it came out, then one day they put something in it to make it white, to look like steam, to make you think that you’re in heaven instead of hell, where you really are.”

—Andrei Codrescu, quoted in “Lessons from The Poetry Lesson — Mark Spitzer interviews Andrei Codrescu about his new book”, August 31, 2010.

the paid educator

Wed, 01 Sep 2010 10:52:58 -0600

“Even the greatest parental love is, as an educational factor, more selfish than the slightest love of the paid educator. . . . Whereas parental love is animal, mindless and incapable of distinguishing between the child and the self, the teacher has concern for the child, and educationally that is incomparably more, even when no love is involved.”

—Franz Kafka, quoted in K: A Biography of Kafka, by Ronald Hayman, 1981.

Freedom Satellite

Tue, 31 Aug 2010 18:46:05 -0600

Astro Black (The Big Wow Mix)

Tue, 31 Aug 2010 18:45:02 -0600

Sun Ra

Tue, 31 Aug 2010 10:04:16 -0600

Astro Black

Tue, 31 Aug 2010 10:00:03 -0600

“Astro black mythology

Astro timeless immortality

Astro thought in mystic sound

Astro black of outer space . . .

The universe is in my voice

The universe speaks through this song

To those of Earth and other worlds

Listen while you have a chance”

—Sun Ra, “Astro Black”, 1973.

Abbey Lincoln

Mon, 30 Aug 2010 15:39:32 -0600

Afro Blue

Sun, 29 Aug 2010 21:01:29 -0600

“Shades of delight

Cocoa hue

Rich as the night

Afro blue”

—“Afro Blue”, Mongo Santamaria (music) & Oscar Brown Jr. (lyrics).