publishing why (inri010)

audio permanently closed for inri010.

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here's the biting, satirical, misanthropic anarchist jessica that you know and love! finally...

this is the first thing that shows up that's explicitly political in more than a social sense. the lyrics are clear, obvious and mixed very much to the front. here's the story on that: i'm emulating a beat-box situation. i'm a politician, tongue-in-cheek, with a sound system in the back. the paper crumpling sound in the middle is meant to represent me spoiling a ballot.

in hindsight, i suppose that the idea that i'm trying to get across is largely gramscian. in the language of modern memes, the track simply tells us to keep calm and vote for the status quo. but, you'll note that i'm focusing a lot on the deficit of discourse. this could be interpreted a few ways. you could think about how the function of advertising is to suppress thought, for example. however, what i was thinking at the time intersects most cleanly with the idea of the state functioning as the modern church. in this system, which does not only exist on the right, the politician is also a priest and enforces the same role of thought suppression that the church did in the middle ages. the politician herds the sheep into the polls to uphold the status quo; democracy consequently leads to stasis, and prevents any kind of real change. what i had actually read at this age was not gramsci or chomsky but orwell. yet, what's actually driving me is something closer to what we would today associate with dawkins - largely through asimov.

you'll note that i'm not particularly hopeful about the process, either - i don't have a lot of faith in humans to transcend this process of control. it's a deep form of misanthropy, with little way out. yet, my idea of human nature is that we are very malleable, not that we are fixed in perpetual assholery. even at this age, i realize that we are not doomed....

....we're just very poorly equipped to get our shit together.

initially written in 1996. recreated in april, 1998. a failed rescue was attempted in 2013. reclaimed july 12, 2015. vocals added july 15, 2015. sequenced, released and finalized on july 22, 2016. as always, please use headphones.

credits:
j - guitars, effects, bass, drum programming, drum kit, synthesizers, found sound (paper crumpling), pick scrapes, tapes, noise generators, cool edit synthesis, sampling, vocals, digital wave editing, production

released april 19, 1998

https://jasonparent.bandcamp.com/album/why


1) when i reclaimed this track in the summer of 2015, i output a vocal version for the fun of it and then left it to sit for several months. no single was constructed on the initial run through in early 2016 because i had made the decision to not release vocal mixes. however, with the creation of the epic "on sexual confusion in adolescence", i have reversed that decision and decided to release select vocal tracks as singles. this track makes the cut. initially written in 1996. recreated in april, 1998. a failed rescue was attempted in 2013. reclaimed july 12, 2015. vocals added july 15, 2015.
https://jasonparent.bandcamp.com/track/why-3


2) this version has been edited and sequenced for inclusion on my second record, inriched (inri021). initially written in 1996. recreated in april, 1998. a failed rescue was attempted in 2013. reclaimed july 12, 2015. sequenced and finalized on july 22, 2016.
https://jasonparent.bandcamp.com/track/why-album-version


3) version reconstructed in 2015 from tape. initially written in 1996. recreated in april, 1998. a failed rescue was attempted in 2013. reclaimed july 12, 2015.
https://jasonparent.bandcamp.com/track/why-2015-reconstruction-from-1998-source-tapes


4) this is a glitchy, instrumental remix of the track that i only vaguely recall putting together. initially written in 1996. recreated in april, 1998. converted to stereo on sept 24, 2014.
https://jasonparent.bandcamp.com/track/why-wtf-mix-2


5) from inricycled. initially written in 1996. remastered in 2013. dated dec 11, 2013.
https://jasonparent.bandcamp.com/track/phased-out-a-robots-lament-2


6) deleted 2013 remaster of the 1998 demo, which would later appear on my second record, inriched (inri021). initially written in 1996. recreated in april, 1998. a failed rescue was attempted in 2013. dated dec 24, 2013.
https://jasonparent.bandcamp.com/track/why-2013-remaster-of-1998-demo


7) deleted 1998 edit, which would later appear on my second record, inriched (inri021). initially written in 1996. recreated and edited in april, 1998.
https://jasonparent.bandcamp.com/track/why-original-1999-album-edit


8) 2013 remaster of 1996 demo cassette. initially written in 1996. remastered in 2013. dated oct 12, 2013.
https://jasonparent.bandcamp.com/track/why-2013-remaster-of-1996-demo-mix-2

9) deleted 1998 original, unsequenced mix. initially written in 1996. recreated in april, 1998. dated april 19, 1998.
https://jasonparent.bandcamp.com/track/why-full-1998-mix-2

10) deleted original 1996 mix. initially written in 1996. dated oct 20, 1996.
https://jasonparent.bandcamp.com/track/end-sequence-of-side-a-of-the-1996-demo-tape-2

j reacts to the kaine pick being official

announcing on a friday night...

i think this took exactly twelve seconds to get published, but i've said my bit on this. yes: it will piss off the left. but, this election is going to be fought on the center-right, which in the united states means the solid right just about everywhere else.

http://www.vox.com/2016/7/22/12244762/tim-kaine-hillary-clinton-vice-president-running-mate-announcement

i'm not the only person wondering this.

http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2016/07/donald-trump-working-for-russia.html

it gets complex because it intersects with what the clinton campaign is pushing. but, there's a real question, here, that requires some real research and a real answer.

why (album mix)

this version has been edited and sequenced for inclusion on my second record, inriched (inri021).  initially written in 1996. recreated in april, 1998. a failed rescue was attempted in 2013. reclaimed july 12, 2015. sequenced and finalized on july 22, 2016.

https://jasonparent.bandcamp.com/track/why-album-version

21-07-2016: fixing inri007, closing inri009, working through april/98 and defining inri010

tracks worked on in this vlog:
https://jasonparent.bandcamp.com/album/i-did-your-mom-2
https://jasonparent.bandcamp.com/album/i-think-i-feel-much-better-now
https://jasonparent.bandcamp.com/track/convoy
https://jasonparent.bandcamp.com/track/wish
https://jasonparent.bandcamp.com/album/why
https://jasonparent.bandcamp.com/album/period-1

you know, i get the feeling that mother jones would have been the first person to point out that america was never great to start off with. i mean, where was it's initial point of greatness? the slave trade or the indigenous genocide?

i'd be happier with "let's repair the harm america has done to the world".

i can do this the long way or the short way, but i'm going to do it the short way: i'm actually convinced (and have been since "climategate") that alex jones is actually working for the russians. i watch a ton of russian media designed for english audiences, and you can pick out a lot of overlap. his core message is john birch society, which says 'koch brothers'. and, he has admitted to taking money and influence from them. but, there was some kind of break at some point during the bush administration with a lot of these jbs-type conservatives turning against the party, accusing it of being in league with the united nations and taking this pro-putin perspective, instead. the idea is that the russians are a serious counterweight to the nwo. newt gingrich is another person that seems to have fractured along these lines. and, it maybe strains credulity to suggest that the fact that these groups are all aligning around trump is some kind of coincidence.

i've quietly pointed towards this for a few months now, actually. it's silly to suggest trump is working for the clintons. but, the idea that he may have some kind of agreement with the russians? my intuition - all circumstantial - suggests that there's something very real to this, although it's unclear what that actually means.

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Zach Pileggi
Turk is mad because he got OWNED last night. Watching Alex Jones troll you brought joy to my heart. You said that we are against the Suadi Arabians but Hillary is accepting donations from their government for her foundation.

jessica
what i find really ironic is that supporters of a so-called independent media personality can't get out of the two-party system. you know that cenk has spent the last ten years attacking hillary clinton from just about every angle you could imagine, right? but, the only thing these people can understand is 7(trump) = clinton.

life experiences can be defining. i've seen this kind of out of character reaction before: that's not the first bully that cenk's had to stand up to.

cenk's always leaned right. and, the truth is that his audience does, too. it's really about time that he came out of the closet.

it's been pretty obvious the whole time that what the young turks does is seek out an alternative and then try and corner the market. up until now, that's broadly been on the left. the market appears to be evaporating, so he's shifting. it's very easy to understand and very predictable if you can see between the lines.

some of the other hosts here are a little more principled. but, cenk is just following the dollar signs. there's a bigger market for johnson than there is for stein. and, he sees a vacuum to take advantage of. so, that's what the coverage is going to swing to.

if you're disappointed, you weren't really paying attention.

greenmeister18
Does Cenk understand that Gary Johnson is a libertarian. Cenk doesn't have a libertarian bone in his body, and there's a lot of body.

jessica
see, it's funny that you say that, because i'd classify cenk as a classical liberal rather than a modern one.

i think he'd have rather supported gary johnson over bernie sanders in the first place.

but, i also think he's suffering from the same lack of careful thinking that libertarians everywhere suffer from. gary johnson's policies are not how you get money out of politics, they're how you reduce politics to nothing except money.