Sunday, May 31, 2009

ROBERT ANTON WILSON eBAY AUCTION



http://www.rawilson.com/auction.html

RAW E-Bay Auction

I currently have the highest bid on the RAW/Harvey drawing I gave Mr. Wilson when I was 23. Please feel free to outbid me or even just jack up the price, its all for a great cause!

"This is a wonderful original drawing on cardboard stock of Bob and the "Pooka." It was drawn by a friend, and was much loved and hung in various places on the livingroom wall. There is scotch tape on the edges (Bob's favorite method of hanging...) which could be removed carefully. Or, by putting a frame with a matte to cover the tape, you would have a really remarkable "one of a kind" RAW Artifact. it measures 17 inches high and 11 inches wide."

Wednesday, May 13, 2009

All new RAW site - completely refurbished...

We just got the great news that the RAW website has had a complete makeover.

Bob's daughter Christina invites you to visit, maybe take part in the auction of Bob's 'stuff', read some excerpts, contribute to the blog, check out an awesome set of links.

http://www.rawilson.com/



And if that intrigues you enough, as ever, we recommend you go check out the best resource we know of for obscure RAW material
- all kinds of hard-to-find articles, audio samples, links and other goodies, over at RAWilson Fans.

Keep the lasagna flying!

Sunday, May 10, 2009

THE SINGULARITY MINUS MAYBELOGIC



i GOOGLED Douglas Hofstadter today and found some video from THE SINGULARITY SUMMIT held at Stanford University. His introduction and his sceptical questioning had an echo of RAW's concerns at times - sceptical investigations into REALITY and the gutters and valleys between science fiction and technological scientific progress were just begging, i thought, for BOB to clear up with a sprinkle of poetic humanitas, hilaritas and maybelogic.

I think that a sharp definition would help us understand Ray Kurtzweil and many around the A.I crowd by introducing what Bucky Fuller called livingry and killingry to compare and evaluate, from an added humanitarian point of view. The mixing of humanitarian shared values with those different greedy values often related to military-industrial-corporate techno-pharma-nano so & so... seems to me to be a global problum to be tackled at these debates. NOW! (Nice toys boys, but who's allowed to play and who makes the rules?) It may be enough to say simply that we can all live forever and ever, or blow ourselves to tiny pieces for ever and ever. All men. Have none of these speakers read COSMIC TRIGGER I? And what of applying the Hindu/Leary/Wilson 8 circuit model to these questions? Smart folks at Stanford, but something's missing for me when i watch these high brow video's, sex, drugs and pirate utopias?

Listening to Douglas Hofstadter i wished he would have invoked Dr. Robert Anton Wilson, who seems to me to have thousands of helpful suggestions and new questions for the emerging age of faith-based spiritual robots, angels and demons and Palmer Eldridge gone wild...?

Meanwhile, a Dr. Harrison suggests that we may have to abandon Aristotelian logic, i.e. give up classifying things into only the two categories of "true and real" and "untrue and unreal." In between, in Aristotle's excluded middle, we may have the "maybe" proposed by von Neumann in 1933, the probabilistic logics (percentages/gambles) suggested by Korzybski, the four-valued logic of Rapoport (true, false, indeterminate and meaningless) or some system the non-Hibernian world hasn't found yet. The Kerry farmer would handle all of this better than the typical graduate of any university outside Ireland. - http://www.rawilsonfans.com/articles/CelticRoots.htm









"Fuller also invented the word "livingry," as opposed to weaponry (or "killingry"), to mean that which is in support of all human, plant, and Earth life. " -- R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER.

Saturday, May 02, 2009

51 DEGREES.





22ND APRIL 2009. WILD BUILDING. DIGBETH. BIRMINGHAM UK. 8.00 PM.

CHU has a full exhibition of various new ART work of his in Birmingham, UK. CHU on various new mediums: canvas, aluminium, paper prints, stickers, and THE impossible "CHU" CUBE. I was kindly asked by CHU to DJ for the launch and had many epiphany-experiences with the precise aerosol art worlds crafted by CHU. A reminder of how GRAFFITI art and culture reflects IDEOGRAMIC culture, and how STREET art and artists seem to be reaching beyond limits.

CHU EXHIBITION from Trav on Vimeo.


GRAFFITI BLUES – BLUE MITCHELL
IF ITS GOOD TO YOU – EDDIE BO
TAKE IT ALL OFF – BO DIDDLEY
SILLY SAVAGE – GOLDEN TOADSTOOLS
SOUL POWER – JAMES BROWN
BUMPIN’ BUS STOP – THUNDER AND LIGHTNING
LOOK-KA PY PY – THE INVADERS
HEY BO – EDDIE BO
BO DIDDLEY-ITIS – BO DIDDLEY
THERE IT IS – JAMES BROWN
STREET PARADE – EARL KING
BO DIDDLEY – ART NEVILLE
JUST KISSED MY BABY – THE METERS.
LIGHT MY FIRE – SHIRLEY BASSEY
LIGHT MY FIRE – MASSIVE ATTACK.
BACK HOME – YUSEF LATEEF
PEOPLE SAY – THE METERS.
LONDON – DAVID AXELROD
SHOO FLY MARCHES ON – DR. JOHN
FEAKS FOR THE FESTIVAL - RASHEED ROLAND KIRK
THERE WAS A TIME – JAMES BROWN
DIRTY HARRY – LALO SCHIFRIN
FATTENING FROGS FOR SNAKES – SONNY BOY WILLIAMSON.
SOME MOTHERS SON – SANDRA PHILIPS.
LOVER AND A FRIEND – EDDIE BO & INEZ CHEATHAM
DOIN’ THE POPCORN – KIM MELVIN
I’M A GREEDY MAN – JAMES BROWN
MIRROR – CHARLIE MARIANO.
AFRICA – THE METERS.
BRING DOWN THE BIRDS – HERBIE HANCOCK
LICKING STICK – JAMES BROWN
LOOK AT GRANDMA – BO DIDDLEY
CRISS-CROSS – THEOLONIOUS SPHERE MONK
TAKE THE ‘A’ TRAIN – DUKE ELLINGTON
COSMIC SEA – MYSTIC MOODS
NIGHT TRAIN – JAMES BROWN
BULLIT – LALO SCHIFRIN
HEY JOYCE – LOU COUTNEY
AT THE SOUL IN – COUNT YATES AND THE RHYTHM CRUSADERS.
MAKE IT FUNKY – JAMES BROWN
QUALIFIED – DR. JOHN
GROOVY BABY – KIM TAMANGA
CHICKEN STRUT – THE METERS
HOWLING FOR JUDY – JEREMY STEIG
ARE YOU TOGETHER FOR THE NEW DAY – THE LOVE EXPERIENCE.
I’VE HAD IT HARD – BO DIDDLEY
I NEED HELP – JAMES BROWN
WHO STOLE MY COOKIE – THE PHILIPS BROTHERS.
TAKE CARE OF YOUR OWN BUSINESS – DAVE HAMILTON.
SWEET POTATO GRAVY – MAURICE SIMON AND THE PIE MEN.
WALK TALL – CANNONBALL ADDERLEY
PUBLIC ENEMY NUMBER 1 – JAMES BROWN
SISSY WALK – BILLY BALL AND THE UPSETTERS
CISSY POPCORN – PRESTON LOVE.
CISSY STRUT – TRINADAD TRIPOLI STREET BAND
ZA ZU – WALLY COX AND THE NATE BRANCH
FOUR CORNERS – LEE DORSEY
THE RUBBER BAND – EDDIE BO AND THE SOULFINDERS
SPONTANEOUS SIMPLICITY – SUN RA
JAZZ CATS - MADLIB
RHYTHM-A-NING – THEOLONIOUS SPHERE MONK
DISTANT STARS – THE HELIOCENTRICS
LIFE – DR. JOHN


MANUAL BY CHU


MECHANICAL BY CHU.


ELECTRICAL BY CHU

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