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Hang Your Halo
« on: March 11, 2017, 01:01:14 pm »
Here is a song I can sincerely say I can actually get into and listen to again and again.

My childhood buddy, Rich, is on drums (and lead vocals, in this song).

It's strange that this is the only song where he is singing lead vocals since this song is a perfect work of art.

Hang your Halo.

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« Reply #1 on: March 16, 2017, 09:00:37 pm »
I have to confess that I have not been into music too much lately, and with the advent of the string of "talent shows" where individuals get on stage and sing other people's song, where they compete, judged only on their "voices" ... oh, yeah, "The Voice", "American Idol", "X Factor", and the like ... these shows, when I overhear them in the background, make me feel like I really don't like music much.

And yet, when I listen to the following I recall getting evicted from an apartment for blaring this music so loud that the building literally shook.

So, here is another oddity that I really enjoyed back then.  Hell, even a couple of the local [Matawan, New Jersey] kids wanted copies of this next one.  The thing is, this too is an oddball.  This features the brother, Chris, who plays the bass, on lead vocals.  Holy Fuuck, I think he is even laying down the guitar tracks.

Normally, lead vocals are sung by the lead guitarist brother Joe, who is an extremely talented musician, by the way.

The band consists of brothers, yes, all siblings.  When I was just a child, I would sleep over their house and drink beer throughout the night.  The oldest brother is my age.  We were all just kids.  They have a German mother who did not have the "puritanical American view" towards youth drinking beer.  It was kind of cool, actually.   Ironically, all the kids had to read for a certain amount of time each day.  The father is a real brainiac.  He put up a reading schedule on the wall.   His library is immense!  So, when I was visiting, I had to also engage in reading during reading times.   

Anyway, here is Mojo.   I will be listing only a small handful of songs, only my very favorite ones that I remember really getting into when smoking some herb or pounding down the Molson Ice (beer from Canada).



Over the years, I have grown contemptous of the music industry, and I am not too impressed with the talent shows.  So, I am placing some Koncrete Kite songs here as a kind of middle finger to the clueless status quo and "popular taste".


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« Reply #2 on: March 16, 2017, 09:09:01 pm »
This one features Joe on guitar.  It's an instrumental dedicated to their mother, Crystal, who had lost over 90% of her vision years ago.  She had also suffered a stroke and has been bed-ridden for over two years, which is tragic, to say the least.   That is the inspiration for this song.  It was one of the first of their songs that really hit me hard.

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« Reply #3 on: March 16, 2017, 09:11:42 pm »
Another powerful instrumental, this time featuring Joe on piano ... He is a guitarist "by trade".

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« Reply #4 on: March 16, 2017, 09:18:51 pm »
Is this just a coincidence or does drummer brother Rich, the oldest sibling, insist that he sing lead on the masterpieces?   Here's another masterpiece you will never see or hear on American Idol or The Voice.   Pearls ... pay attention at around the 4 minute mark to hear classic Joe Bove guitar riffs.

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« Reply #5 on: March 16, 2017, 09:27:07 pm »
OK ... here's number six, the last I'll be posting for now.  This one features Joe on vocals.  I only posted the handful of songs that have gotten close to my bones.   These suit my tastes the best.   It's only my opinion, but, to me, when they came up with these, they must have been in their zone.



I am placing these here so I do not forget to listen to them every now and then, and to reflect on how ignored they have been by this world.   It makes me suspect that what happened to Schopenhauer, as far as being ignored by the universities, may be common practice in this world.

Maybe this is universal, and we ought to pay attention to the ramifications of what this implies about our own era.

To be ignored and unacknowledged by mass society may be a secret complement.
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Re: Hang Your Halo
« Reply #6 on: March 17, 2017, 10:55:36 pm »
Unfortunately none of these videos are can be played here.If we keep the title "The World as Will and Representation" in mins,would it be right to say that the representations which we see all around us,say,this laptop I am writing on,its inner  nature is "will". I mean that it's the representation of my will to access internet,write,watch videos and the like.

Perhaps one could also say that in cases of diseases like cancer or even common cold-different representations of the same "will" are getting violently entangled with each other. Cancer does not have intelligence ,only the will to spread and spread,even at the cost of other cells,similarly,all the common cold causing microbes want to do is to spread around as much as possible.

 
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Re: Hang Your Halo
« Reply #7 on: March 18, 2017, 09:49:46 am »
That's a shame that the videos are unavailable in India.

Oh well.

The Will to Live of the Cancer or Common Cold blindly strives to perpetuate itself.  It has no other goal or purpose.  It destroys its host in the same manner that human beings perpetuate themselves, destroying ecosystems which are their host. 

Kurt Vonnegut referred to human beings as "cancer with a conscience."

So, with human beings, are we to take it that the will is no longer blind?

What is our goal or purpose?

What was the goal or purpose of Koncrete Kite producing and recording their songs?  Rich tells me it is for posterity, something for his grandchildren.   

What is the goal or purpose of me continuing to study mathematics, even returning to introductory concepts in a more formal manner so as to rebuild my foundations? 

I see it as a spiritual exercise.   Maybe the creation of music is also a kind of spiritual exercise.

The way I see it, I wish I could just sleep through this life, but as long as I am alive, and I am living indoors and mentally "stable," I will focus on my education.

As can be seen from the video you linked to, each of us is at liberty to analyze and critique the words written by Kant, Schopenhauer, Nietzsche, Cioran, the authors of the Upanishads, etc.  At the end of the day, it doesn't really matter if we are even able to impart any of our understanding to others. 

Myself, I would not try to make a video of myself trying to explain anything.  I tend to clown around and play the baffoon.  Like you, I intend to study Schopenhauer's works again and again throughout my life, not so much so as to "master" anything in particular about his theories, but to come to realize that whatever he and the authors of the Upanishads were writing about is the self-same situation throughout the ages. 

It's not about being right or wrong.  For me, it is more about "getting a grip on the situation I find myself in."

We have looked around and looked within, and we recognize that we have all been born into a blind cosmic accident.  Alas, even as we ourselves love the works produced by Schopenhauer as he loved the works produced by Kant, we, each of us, are standing in the truth of our existential predicament. 

Maybe Wittgenstein was on to something when he wrote that there are certain things that simply refuse to yield to verbal descriptions. 

Perhaps your groans speak more about the nature of reality than a thousand pages of theory.
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Things They Will Never Tell YouArthur Schopenhauer has been the most radical and defiant of all troublemakers.

Gorticide @ Nothing that is so, is so DOT edu

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