Listening to Music - the Seventh Movement

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[tattuchu]

Listening to Paul and Linda McCartney's Ram. Greatest album ever made. Fuck you if you don't agree. No, seriously. Fuck you.

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[Sean Hayden]

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[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OmKuTlD9h2U#t=158[/youtube]

[Hermit]

^^^ Beautiful.



Databases are the new gods. They provide what you want and they know everything you do and think. You tell them about yourself every time you google something, post on facebook, use your loyalty card for discounts at grocery stores and so on, and you love it - and them. Better than soma. Of course these gods also tell you what you want and what you don't. They own you.

Here is Vienna Teng mediating what one such god - Acxiom - says. It's a song of comfort and beauty from the point of view of the database.



Somebody hears you. you know that. you know that.
Somebody hears you. you know that inside.
Someone is learning the colors of all your moods, to
(say just the right thing and) show that you’re understood.
Here you’re known.

Leave your life open. you don’t have. you don’t have.
Leave your life open. you don’t have to hide.
Someone is gathering every crumb you drop, these
(mindless decisions and) moments you long forgot.
Keep them all.

Let our formulas find your soul.
We’ll divine your artesian source (in your mind),
Marshal feed and force (our machines will)
To design you a perfect love—
Or (better still) a perfect lust.
O how glorious, glorious: a brand new need is born.

Now we possess you. you’ll own that. you’ll own that.
Now we possess you. you’ll own that in time.
Now we will build you an endlessly upward world,
(reach in your pocket) embrace you for all you’re worth.

Is that wrong?
Isn’t this what you want?
Amen.

[Tero]

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[Sean Hayden]

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