New videos have been added to our youtube channel. See them now at www.youtube.com/supernormalrecords
Here is a sample. This first one is for your bad days. Enjoy.
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vXeQ_3oPidU[/youtube]
Tom, you are an entire choir.
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HDIJ0Yvpno4[/youtube]
The little kids at the end rule.
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o0FiCxZKuv8[/youtube]
My God! Buy this CD! There is 69 of them left for 7 bucks or less.
If you cant like this music then there is a big orange bridge in San Francisco that you can go and jump off!
It’s Just an old-timey jug-wine train party! You know, happens all the time!
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ek5kUOxP5CQ[/youtube]
Django Reinhardt was the originator of “Gypsy Swing”. Later in life he lost the use of all but his index and middle finger on his left hand. For a guitarist, this would most certainly spell doom, but, for Django it added a certain nuance to his already expressive playing. Not to mention, a kinda-creepy quality to his stage appearance.
Many artists cite Django Reinhardt as an influence. In fact, Jimi Hendrix named his band “the Band of Gypsy’s” in honor of Django.
Here’s a gift. put this next video on and clean your house. Holy crap! The videos not too interesting but a little Minor Swing will do wonders for your mop-boards.
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AEzsPGHsi90[/youtube]
Whoever is playing the violin on this track ‘went down to Georgia looking for a soul to steal.’ And there is no way it went like Chuck Daniels said!
This was posted on reddit today, Kurt Vonnegut on where ideas come from.
Ze Frank also has a nice little tune about ideas.
Supernormal Tyler – Carousel mp3
This is off the Ok Alone album for sale soon.
More about carousels
You don’t need to walk around in circles or carousels, but you do need to walk the lorenz attractor (butterfly). I present you the Universal balance kiddies, all chaotic systems eventually draw a lorenz butterfly, from lasers to electricity to …
The Lorenz attractor is a 3-dimensional structure corresponding to the long-term behavior of a chaotic flow, noted for its butterfly shape. The map shows how the state of a dynamical system (the three variables of a three-dimensional system) evolves over time in a complex, non-repeating pattern.
The attractor itself, and the equations from which it is derived, were introduced by Edward Lorenz in 1963, who derived it from the simplified equations of convection rolls arising in the equations of the atmosphere.
From a technical standpoint, the system is nonlinear, three-dimensional and deterministic. In 2001 it was proven by Warwick Tucker that for a certain set of parameters the system exhibits chaotic behavior and displays what is today called a strange attractor. The strange attractor in this case is a fractal of Hausdorff dimension between 2 and 3. Grassberger (1983) has estimated the Hausdorff dimension to be 2.06 ± 0.01 and the correlation dimension to be 2.05 ± 0.01.
The system arises in lasers, dynamos, and specific waterwheels [1].
The equations that govern the Lorenz attractor are:
Who knew it was a big carousel, who knew the universe was only three lines of code. We had to go in and add all this complexity. Looks a bit like a brain.
“Why is it so hard to do what you want?”
There is nothing more certain in this world than, the more you do something to elevate your station in life the more resistance you’ll feel. Why is it when one chases a dream, or tries to better their situation, something (or someone) comes along to smack the cookies out of your hand? The only answer that can be acceptable is that humans, by nature, long for destruction. Maybe not consciously, but think about it: Why do we slow down to look at car wreck? Why do we sometimes watch televised racing for the crashes? Why would we somehow secretly enjoy watching something burn to the ground? Is it because from destruction comes rebirth? The collision brings the repair?
Science or Saivism, there is value in destruction, and in this case destruction of those walls that keep us from realizing our potential. Sages and such would tell us to surrender our dreams and aspirations and stop fighting for what we want in our lives. If we surrender our will and just let what is going to happen happen, then our dreams will be realized. I don’t know if I agree with that or not. I think, that when we start a new project or chase a new idea, if it weren’t for some resistance wherever we are going wouldn’t be worth it anyway. “Oh that? That was easy.” Booorrrring!
I’ll take the tears, Thank You.
For a few weeks I have been outside my comfort zone. In the process of building this future “empire”. The dream is this: To have a place to catalogue my efforts in the music business. More succinctly, to build an independent record label called Supernormal Records. I have bumped my head on every step of the process and at times I’d like to put my fist through the computer monitor. But, just today I started thinking about this: Tears whether real or theoretical play some role in defining this dream.
Tears Distill the Dream.
The challenges and hardships found along the way in chasing your ambitions mold the ‘dream’ into a more perfect form. Creating is one of the most difficult things to do, but, also, it is one of the most rewarding things we can do. And sometimes that reward is never recognized because we let the ‘walls’ defeat the ‘dream’. In Taoism there is a concept called Wu Wei it is best described as akin to the action of water. Water is all pervasive, it can traverse any obstacle, but it may take more time to seep through a brick wall than a piece of cloth. I guess one could ask themselves: is my dream as big as a brick wall, or, as feeble as a piece of cloth. If you dream big brother it takes time to seep to the other side. I am the water man! I’ll get through these obstacles, and if they slow me down, then, well, that’s the speed of this dream I guess.
Please check back often for new developments on www.SupernormalRecords.com. As the walls fall you’ll get it all. Keep dreaming.
- Tyler Christensen
Hunter S. Thompson is always entertaining. Here is a list of Top 10 quotes from the man although these are just a few of all the great things he said in writing whether for entertainment or just to let some people know what is going on.
“If I’d written the truth I knew for the past ten years, about 600 people—including me—would be rotting in prison cells from Rio to Seattle today. Absolute truth is a very rare and dangerous commodity in the context of professional journalism.”
—Rolling Stone, February 15, 1973
