DEEP SCRATCH

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  • BETWEEN THE GROOVE

    BETWEEN THE GROOVE

    ON THE CUTS…

    Amsterdam, 2012. DJ-poet Plush, reeling from attacks that shattered his career, forms TRB with Max and Percy. Inspired by Robert Anton Wilson, they fuse turntablism, magick, and literature into the chaotic TribeTable Method, accidentally plugging into Wilson’s unfinished “Tale of the Tribe” and a brewing historical conspiracy centered on the 1936 Berlin Olympics.

    As they juggle invoked entities (“The Sixty”), time-traveling tardigrades, and messages channeled through experimental beats, they attract the attention of a ruthless cabal manipulating reality through AI, populism, and bizarre rituals involving peanut butter. From Amsterdam coffeeshops and secret bases beneath the Malvern Hills to the decks of a reality-bending DJ battle, TRB must decode the “Hologrammic Prose” of the universe, hijack the narrative, and fight the “Prick Populist” threat before the singularity hits endgame.Deep Scratch is Vanta Black science fiction comedy.

    It’s Burroughs cut-ups slammed into Pynchon paranoia, fueled by hip-hop aesthetics and occult theory. Expect prophetic visions, weaponized memes, sentient technology, talking books, exploding jellyfish, and the desperate search for the perfect beat in a deep fake universe. The tables are turning. Which side are you on, are you on, hello, check check…?

    What?

    BTG


    DS ONE – NEEDLE DROPS

  • My Trip to Chitchen Itza and Tulum 21st December 2012

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    The Great Ball Court, Chitchen Itza (South End) in Mexico Amsterdam-Madrid-Cancun-Chitchen Itza-Tulum-Cancun-Madrid-Amsterdam (19th-26th December 2012)

    Tuesday 18th December, 2012: AMSTERDAM

    Board plane-Amsterdam (11.00), exit plane
    Take off from Madrid, exit….
    ‘The hunger Games’ in flight movie
    babies crying all the way
    ….into Cancun (6012 Kilometers from Madrid)
    Met with nova ‘red’ apple travelling to Cancun city,
    A Hotel room for 660 pesos, split fair
    Good fan, smelly sheets.

    Hip convo’ with nova, including
    fire up of the CERN super collider
    on the 21st December
    A fascinating story of 23 yr old North Korean boy,
    who escaped the prison complex to tell
    his Orwellian tale.
    Monsanto death cultures…
    sound of oil rushing under the ground,
    Our mother planet degraded daily.

    And Permaculture, the mosaic of new tribes,
    those who disperse the seeds of solution
    An array of characters R>A>I>N>B>O>W
    coming together to
    start a new world word:
    I LOVE YOU.

    Visited British pub with live covers ,
    6 people in the bar. 160 pesos for 2 corona.
    a bit steep me thinks.

    Wednesday 19th December 2012 (Cancun)

    Up early with nova, packin’ bags, and board coach
    back to airport, meet the earthlings
    jamming at airport: Chris, Issac,
    Cappi, Ashley, Ra and Jonathon,
    bringing the musical magix

    Waiting hours for the synthesis coach,
    THE OTHERS FIND EACH OTHER
    Packed bus of the unhinged
    depart around 6 P.M
    to Piramide Hotel, the cues, chaos, trickets.

    I hope to get performer pass and
    sell my 500 dollar ticket to dude behind me

    Michael refuses to believe my truth
    about being the house band drummer
    for Synthesis2012!
    Ticket funk, and graphical wizards
    all around me. I concede and take the full
    experience pass.

    Cafe hang with the earthlings,
    Camping in KIM’s tent without KIM,
    who thankfully found a room
    donated her tent to the fly.

    I scored some Mexi’ weed, seed and stalk
    rolled and talked opposite cop shop
    with Jonathan and Justin
    showing off ‘starwalk’ Ipad App and
    Solstice Galactic alignment.
    Angry looking Cops buzzed
    the temporary camp ground.
    As it turned out i was lucky to get a tent
    and/or a room during the festival.

    Thursday 20th December 2012 (Piste, Chitchen Itza)

    Visit Piramide hotel pool with Chris and Shawn Berry.
    Qucik Swim
    first pano photo of mini Kukulcan Piramide
    Meet with Fantuzzi.
    Practice drum parts in room.

    Opening ceremony at Hacienda
    Shabazz, Al Tourre,
    Fantuzzi wisdom and smiles,
    Panoramas at sun down.
    Divine feminine meme.

    (Synthesis coach did not make the long trip
    festival equipment was missing
    musicians and artists pull together to figure out
    what they have.

    I hear more than three rumors
    there IS a drum kit, and then four that
    there is NOT a drum kit!?!?
    I thankfully find a bed in a shared room with Jaris
    and his band, who i also jam with.

    informed by Synthesis2012
    organizers at dinner
    that we’ll be meeting at 5.00 A.M
    outside the piramide HOTEL to
    honor the moment of the Winter Solstice
    with a candle walk to Chitchen Itza
    and the Mayan ruins 10 minutes down the road.
    we were to wear white, and be of sober mind.

    Friday 21st Winter solstice. 2012. (Piste, Chitchen Itza)

    430 up. Flossed my teeth. Ate some words
    Candle walk and song, shuffle and smile. Minty fresh
    The Candle drip from the mouth of the man
    in the candle holders.

    The spooky wind blowing out candles
    My lighters maxed out!
    Hoooo naaaab kooooo.
    Hoooo naaaab kooooo.

    Ticket funk beyond the Kong sized wall
    gifted super bright green superfoods by Rainbow kids
    After 30 mins’ unconscious incompetence
    Synthesis tribe gain access to (time machine?)
    Panoramas dictate my first movements

    Sun ruh and Michael JaiDev criss crossing
    Sun, moon, stars all out.
    Panoramas. Video and audio phenomena
    Mayan Ceremony, the press gang
    My apple, my toothfloss minty FRESH.

    The Hawk and Condor fly above the Pyramid
    many pray, some dance, all gaze,
    many snap and click
    fiddle with zips and clicking
    wack pack snaps.

    Here we are, spacetime invaders,
    putting our bean-sprouts in the mix
    …aeons later, 10 panos or so,
    The ball court, temple of Tables
    Glyphs, Pictographix, Graphs, Maps,
    Cenotes, Tree’s, ants, sun beams
    Shadows tales and tales and tales

    Caroline Casey interviewing Kevin
    Whitesides. Wise words on Terence,
    The Trickster Redeemer, the play
    The timewave, the 2012 meme in the
    BIGGER picture.

    Sitting and rapping with Carol and Mark Stone,
    waiting for steve vermin (Swami Beyondananda)
    Re-connecting with Michael Stocker of
    Seaflow (whom I met in the early part of 2000’s
    when I lived in the Bay Area).

    Rapping about Michael New book
    some Lilly, some Thelonious Monk.
    Walk to hotel with Caroline Casey and Michael.
    Food at Hacienda with group, and orientation
    Beer and the thought of my Drum kit in the air?

    Meet Mayan scholar called Alphonso.
    Kevin W. and his sweet girlfriend.
    We discussed his new Raw book project!
    His proposed Terence Mckenna transcription Project.

    I go Jam with the earthlings
    in their room till early hours, then
     Retire back to bed
    and sleep pretty well really.

    Saturday 22nd December 2012 (Piste, Chitchen Itza)

    Dreams of a final Drum kit theory,
    Up at 8 for good fruits and veg. and juices. 
    I discover my Fantuzzi gig moved to 8 PM

    See Caroline, sit and enjoy the Luminaries hip hop
    Group dinner with thrive gambles, Swami beyondananda
    His loverly partner and Caroline.
    I draw the Konnokol pyramid for Mr. ‘Thrive’
    He gives support during my show without cymbals.

    Fantuzzi show at 8
    my sticks/brushes missing. I improvise
    buying two bottled beers and emptying them
    placing the bottles on the stands
    PIING PING

    Earthlings invite me to their jam
    Technical Hick-ups, not on behalf of the band
    a challenging set,
    made it through with impossible
    latency issues, Latency…. and
    managed to throw down hard
    for the last freestyle.

    Chris and I went for beers in taxi
    trip to a backstreet hut, a Tarrantino set.
    4 GRANDE beers 160 pesos.
    minty fresh.

    Van parked up outside hacienda,
    We board with earthlings, rap de ruiz,
    Beatbox jam and rap to the
    campground Ascendance stage.

    Funkin shuffle all night till morning,
    till the following night in fact
    Locals in the dance, smiles, fire spinning,
    goddess patrol. In the trees!

    Goddess dance, fire, baby faces, sunrise,
    local maya, to them the mothership?
    Great Stage pyramid, Fantuzzi and Kat, Justin. Chris.
    Earthlings. Sun Ruh, Mr. Henson having a ball.

    Sunday 23rd December 2012 (Piste, Chitchen Itza)

    Taxi from camp with Chris Michael and Mr X.
    Cocoa share, chocolate shaman tale,
    breakfast with sunrise at Hacienda.

    the story of the solstice by Michael!
    The Litter, the flower gifts, (intersecting with news item)
    hands around pyramid,
    Condor and Hawk together.

    Drum kit is gone again?
    Now its back in the form of an
    An electronic kit. (with a broken bass drum)
    but better than nothing, which is what we had,
    so Aho to that.
    Schroedingers Drum Kit paradox?

    Trip to the pool briefly,
    Caroline arrives, we hear Patrick Flannagan,
    smoke a rollie and watch Swami Perform.
    My next live Show wth Jaris, Greg Pit, Oliver.
    The Peace tribe band perform

    I improvised a kick drum from
    an upright hand drum
    thanks RC.

    Carol delivered her
    exquisite work-shop
    play at heart.

    A special invite to Dinner
    at ik ilk with carol.
    John carlson, Mark Stone, zia zeff, Paul Carey,
    Kevin Whitesides and others.

    RAW talk with Kevin, Finnegans Wake and beyonda.
    Raps with John Carlson:
    The Mayan Letters by Charles Olson,
    which came to my attention by way of John Sinclair.

    I Described my interest in the principle of
    epic poetry as a medium for Mayan studies,
    pictoglyphix. Ezra Pound studies, Olson, Joyce.
    Kevin and FW, RAW, and Terence Mckenna.

    Lift back with Paul to Stardust Inn and a last night
    Earthlings Jam, but just closing up
    Ah, moments to late, but off to sleep,
    must catch bus to Tulum on the morn.

    Monday 24th December 2012 (Piste, Chitchen Itza)

    Up  at the 7 AM.
    Sun Ruh. Jaris, Greg and Oliver all trap too
    Coach to tulum. Panorama coach,
    seated new to AKI the Japanese poet (also in Pyramid Pano)
    I gave him my Basho book as a parting gift in Tulum

    Dinner with Chris and Indra.
    Head to beach hotel. Wow wow wow.
    Swimming with indra 2 miles out past breakers,
    Singing, wisdom tale, briefly thought we were
    being pushed out to sea.

    Good Meal after, with margaritta,
    Geopolitical raps with Chris,
    Cool beach hut hang, soft room jam,
    cello vibes with Indra.

    Tuesday 25th December 2012 (Tulum)

    Awake up in Tulum 7A.M
    Diamente hotel and the perfect cabin PARADISE
    Chris and i stroll beech to find web access
    success at the restaurant, good food.

    Christmas day on beach.
    See raw360 for the first time.
    Visit site of mini festival and try to hustle gig

    Take taxi to cenote encantado with Chris,
    arrive in dark, sit around fire, Jaris, Tuzzi, Zia, Greg Pitt
    Diego, Gizzele, Pedro, Kat, Sky,
    and synthesis folks, and others gather.

    Shroom choco splitt, play drums
    Fire pit drums, many more arrive from the blackness,
    Mayan elders, mexican shaman, all sitting in.

    Acoustic girl, jamming on occupy and my dnB tip.
    Sitting with loverly Zia. Amazement and tears
    at Pedro and his girlfriend singing.
    The Bambino tears. Oh Sleep on,
    the wooden floor in shack quite good for my back

    Wednesday 26th December, 2012 (Tulum)

    Up at 7 on wood,
    post shroom mind seeks to go swim in cenote
    and film underwater places, I go back in again
    with Zia and friends on a boat, diving,
    searching for the crocodile.

    Listening to the flute, diving and
    pulling up rocks from bottom. Swimming,
    laughing with love. So clear waters.
    Barely dry off and take taxi back to diamente for bags

    Fortunately they are there , I pack bags,
    head to Tulum town center, chris kindly
    lends me 100 Dollar!

    I take taxi back to cenote, catch Tuzzi just leaving,
    with Kat, and Jeff and Zia. (by seconds)
    Big kiss and a hug.

    Journey back to town to eat lasagna.
    Buy some gifts. Head back to cancun,
    Time is tight for tuzzi and kat.
    I say goodbyes. I check in, drink bad coffee,
    board plane, exit-Madrid.
    board plane, exit-Amsterdam.

    –Steven ‘fly agaric 23’ Pratt (31st December, 2012)
    http://www.raw360.net

    Steven James Pratt

  • 4 days until December 21st 2012

     “Conspiracy theory, in my humble opinion, is a kind of epistemological cartoon about reality.—Terence Mckenna, Dreaming Awake at the End of Time.

    I must remember to remember the 21st of December. Who else will remind me? I must have my room in order and my personal space hoovered and clean, ready for any visitors who might stop by. (little did he know that fly would be playing drums at Chitchen Itza and the birthplace of the Mayan Long Count calendar)

    Flyting: Selected Writings

    by Steven James Pratt

    Link: http://a.co/f5pSkqP

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  • Fly Agaric 23 to play Synthesis2012 Festival, Chitchen Itza

     I’ll be heading out to play drums with Fantuzzi and others at Synthesis2012, and enjoy all the celebrations and activities in and around Chitchen Itza. I’ll be writing and recording my experiences, so expect some feedback before the new year.

    I look forward to seeing you out there. Love, steve fly

    http://synthesis2012.com/

    Synthesis 2012 Festival- A Mayan Calendar Celebration in Chichen Itza and Piste Pueblo

    Welcome to the Synthesis 2012 festival, A global gathering, world music festival and spiritual celebration in Piste pueblo and Chichen Itza in the Yucatan. This 2012 festival will occur at the end of the Mayan Calendar on Dec 20th to 23rd this year. We will arrive on the 20th and participate in the global gathering on the Winter Solstice on the 21st. The Synthesis 2012 festival team is working directly with the local Mayan people, event producers in Mexico to produce this historical event.
    Synthesis 2012 is also collaborating with “New Beginnings 12-21 Concert” and Mindpix Corp (www.mindpix.com).
    Imagine yourself here at Chichen Itza in the Yucatan with the Mayans and thousands of others at the dawn of the new age and cycle this December.

    Mayan Calendar Celebration

    Contrary to media sensationalism, the end of the Mayan Calendar does not mean the end of the world. When we listen to the words of the Mayan Elders, we learn that the end of the Mayan Calendar is comparable to watching your car’s odometer roll over to all zeroes. The Mayan prophecies foretell of a transition to the age of the 5th Sun, a new time when consciousness, prosperity and the Divine Feminine prevail.

    Mayan Calendar Dates

    Although scholars may debate whether or not December 21st, 2012 is the exact ending date for the Mayan Calendar, we choose to celebrate this time of transition at Chichen Itza on this date because it is also the Winter Solstice and the Galactic Alignment. We invite you to come celebrate and co-create with us for 3 days of music, dance, ceremony and intention-setting for this bridge of transition to the golden age of the 5th Sun at our 2012 festival.

    Synthesis 2012 Festival Attractions

    We are currently offering international entertainment including Reggae, West African Drum & Dance, Steel Drums, Flamenco Fusion,  Afro-Funk Fusion, Cuban,  Mayan Music & Dance, Prehispanic Music and Mexican Dance as well as name bands such as Scott Huckabay, Chris Berry & Pangea, Human, Freedom, Diane Patterson, Al Torre, Mirabai & Ceiba. There will also be a variety of presentations by keynote speakers, a tour of the Mayan temples and access to special places known only to locals and regular visitors. Synthesis 2012 festival participants will also receive a copy of Transforming Through 2012, an in-depth compendium of experts on the meaning of 2012.

    http://synthesis2012.com/

    Steven James Pratt

  • 21/12/2012: The end of capitalism starting with Coca Cola

    The recent news from Bolivia, concerning their decisions to kick out the coca cola company due to violence, corruption and unrestricted finance capitalism, makes me sit up and listen and engage once again with the 2012 phenomena.

    Here we have the kind of tipping point that could begin a new era of corporate responsibility and humanity waking up to the horrors of unrestricted finance capitalism and discovering ways to say no, and kick out the culprits from theor community and/or country, protecting the citizens from any nefarious impact and damage, such as that damage Coca-Cola have, to South America in particular, but the entire world and it’s citizens generally.

    Fly Agaric 23 retains a special symbiotic relationship with coca-cola and the coca-cola company, and a special symbiotic relationship with Father Christmas. Both of these mysterious western capitalist phenomena employ the ‘red and white’ color scheme, as does the ‘fly agaric: Amanita Muscaria mushroom. Take note. Fly Agaric grows without charge in the wilderness of natural abundance. Father Christmas and Coca-Cola require a multi Billion Dollar all-around-the-world system of propaganda, lies, deciet and promotional campaigning to keep up their mythological capitalist show.

    I represent this news from Bolivia, and hope to help volley the message far and wide. I have added a description of Belching out the Devil by Mark Thomas, for some further insight into the coca-cola curse. Peace, steve fly agaric 23 (acrillic)

    Amsterdam, Sensi Empire (2/8/12)

    “Bolivia Set To Banish Coca-Cola To Mark Mayan End Of Capitalism

    For most Americans, Bolivia is a third world South American country last robbed by Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid. However this impoverished nation is making headlines due to its Minister of External Affairs recent announcement that the Coca-Cola Company, one of the world’s largest corporations, is to be booted out of there by year’s end.

    David Choquehuanca, the minister in question, explained that Coca-Cola will be expelled from Bolivia on the same day that the Mayan calendar enters a new cycle–December 21. According to Choquehuanca, the date marks the end of capitalism and the start of a culture of life in community-based societies. In order to celebrate that, Bolivia’s government is already planning a series of events that will take place at the Southern Hemisphere’s Summer Solstice on La Isla del Sol, one of the largest islands in Lake Titicaca.

    “The twenty-first of December 2012 is the end of selfishness, of division. The twenty-first of December has to be the end of Coca-Cola and the beginning of mocochinche (a local peach-flavored soft drink),” Choquehuanca told reporters at a political rally for Bolivia’s president, Evo Morales. “The planets will line up after 26,000 years. It is the end of capitalism and the beginning of communitarianism,” he added.

    It’s already been rumored that Venezuela’s president, Hugo Chavez, will follow suit, encouraging his country to ditch the American beverage for soft drinks produced locally.

    It’s curious that Bolivia decided to forbid Coca-Cola in its territory, considering that one of the soft drink’s main ingredients is said to be coca extract (Coca-Cola refuses to confirm that, saying that this is part of their secret formula.) — http://www.forbes.com/sites/andersonantunes/2012/08/01/bolivia-set-to-banish-coca-cola-to-mark-mayan-end-of-capitalism/

    “But it’ll make zero difference to Mark Thomas’s tireless campaigning. Stand-up comic turned agent provocateur and writer, in his latest book Belching Out The Devil, Thomas travels the world to expose the flaws of the Coca-Cola business system: a bottling plant in Colombia where trade unionists are routinely murdered by paramilitary death squads, child labour in fields surrounding a sugar mill in El Salvador and the unfathomable decision of opening a plant heavily reliant on water in an area of India already prone to drought.

    The Coca-Cola Company absolves itself of any blame because on paper it doesn’t actually own any of these franchise plants or the independently owned sugar mill. All it does is manufacture the syrup ingredient to make the fizzy pop. “All of this stuff is about Coke’s tentacles and the way it works,” says Thomas. “It draws these lines of demarcation between responsibility.” —http://thequietus.com/articles/00687-coca-colonisation-mark-thomas-on-coke

    Steven James Pratt