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Post by ZeroCorpse on Jul 30, 2008 20:35:55 GMT -5
I haven't jumped ship. I'm just belowdecks waiting for someone to yell "LAND HO!" because I feel the need to vomit.
Really. Another briefcase? Another scavenger hunt? Is that the best IAAP can do? Is this just some silly Internet game? I want some answers and some action, and I just don't want to hang around on this ship going around in circles in the middle of the fucking ocean without any clue which direction to go.
I'm always interested in PID. It's IAAP that is making me feel a little worn out and tired of playing guessing games. I'm still popping in to Mike's, GFA's, and other PID folks' videos on YouTube, and even say something now and again, but I'm wondering if IAAP's big reveal was really just a big nothing. How many months has it been now?!?!
So I'm sitting back and doing a lot of lurking. I don't do it to be antisocial. I do it because between work and my personal time, I don't really have a lot of energy left to spend working out every single one of IAAP little brain-teasers. I'll contribute when something comes to me and it's worth saying.
It's just lately, nothing has come to me, and I've felt like sitting it out and just reading the discussions.
I'm around. If you want my input, holler.
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1966
May 23, 2008 23:32:08 GMT -5
Post by ZeroCorpse on May 23, 2008 23:32:08 GMT -5
1966 - David Jones changes his stage name to "David Bowie" and begins work on his first record, to be released in 1967.
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Post by ZeroCorpse on May 13, 2008 20:43:32 GMT -5
Medicine has good albums and bad albums. The stuff I consider "bad" is when they do more "noise rock" and less stuff with actual melodies. My favorite stuff is actually sung by a female vocalist (Beth) who wasn't with them very long.
Anyway, at least this explains why I was immediately drawn to IAAP's work-- The music is a big part of it for me. There's deep stuff in it, but there's also a great individual style that is quite pleasant to the ear, and quite unique.
Either way, I'll take the opportunity to say I really dig the vocalist on the IAAP tracks. I'm not usually partial toward male vocalists, but his voice is quite compelling, and curiously, blends well with the Beatles' voices.
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Post by ZeroCorpse on May 13, 2008 19:36:20 GMT -5
So I was working a bit on my computer today, listening to my music library when I heard something that was a bit more familiar than it had been previously. First, listen to this - www.mediafire.com/?zto5bjywdxjAnd now, listen to this (the whole song, please) - www.mediafire.com/?cdfxz0t9udwAm I crazy, or does my musically-trained ear deceive me? These sound like they could possibly be the same composer, and with some vocal tweaking, the same singer as well. The first is, of course, IAAP performing " He Was My Brother". The second is a band called Medicine, playing " Farther Down" off of the album " Her Highness". Here are the lyrics: It's a farther down, something I never found. If you let me see I'll be quiet and try to hide that you're killing me. You aren't far away, but i'll break it. Up your back besides why face it. If it doesn't matter underside. The earth is soft and brown, If you let me see I'll be quiet and try to hide that you're killing me. you'll always be my clown. Something in the way it's broken. A simple underside bespoke its mortal fear of falling out above. It's a farther down, something I never found. If you let me see I'll be quiet and try to hide that you're killing me. If you let me see I'll be quiet and try to hide that you're killing me.
Medicine is the brainchild of a fellow named Brad Laner. I propose that the part of IAAP that composes the music is at least in touch with Brad Laner, if not actually the man himself. The band hasn't been heard from since 2003... Or have they? I'm probably way off, but I definitely hear some influence, if not the signatures that made Medicine such a unique band. Some background: I've been a musician most of my life. I went to college for a short time as a music major (didn't graduate, though) and have been performing in front of audiences since I was about 12 years old. I published a few CDs of my own compositions, and have bummed around the scene here and there. While I have long-since forgotten how to read sheet music well, I have an excellent ear, and I can pick out chord patterns and play just about anything by ear on the keyboard or woodwinds once I've heard it a couple times (I was never as proficient at guitar, though). I have been in numerous bands, composed hundreds of songs, and was even played for a brief time in some nightclub in the U.K. when my first album was released. In the early 21st century, one of my tunes actually ranked higher than Madonna's single for a few days in the MP3.com top 50 (she eventually overtook me again). So when I say, "I hear a similarity" I'm speaking from the experience of having been able to track artists as they went from project to project because of my own talents and training. And while I admit I could be wrong (I'm getting older, you know!) I swear I hear some of the same style and signatures in that Medicine album as I do in IAAP's work. If there isn't a common person involved in the production of those two pieces of music, then there's a person involved with the latter piece (IAAP's work) that is heavily influenced or coincidentally similar in their artistic values to Brad Laner. What say you, peanut gallery?
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Post by ZeroCorpse on May 10, 2008 21:20:21 GMT -5
People believe what the media gods tell them. If it's on TV, the radio, or a big publisher's "reputable" magazine, people don't doubt what they are told. If you put a good soundtrack behind it, they're brainwashed.
Manson knew this. So did Crowley. So did whoever was behind the post-1966 Beatles.
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Post by ZeroCorpse on May 10, 2008 21:07:05 GMT -5
There are more of us than you'd believe, I think. Some work for the role-playing/card game industry, no doubt!
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Post by ZeroCorpse on May 10, 2008 21:05:13 GMT -5
Flip4Mac -- Yay!
Just wanted to greet the new girl, and let her know I'm rather fond of her videos. Nice work. "Gratitude" was pretty damning to Bill, although I wonder these days if it's subconscious (as some reverse-speech studies would indicate) or intentional on Bill's part.
Either way, welcome, nice to see you, thanks for your efforts!
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Post by ZeroCorpse on May 5, 2008 0:29:30 GMT -5
When the flip side makes sense, the rest of the world stops making sense.
Welcome to my world.
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Post by ZeroCorpse on May 5, 2008 0:24:53 GMT -5
I was once very close to a woman who, along with her brother, was trained for psyops in a now-cancelled government-funded program. I obviously cannot be specific about her, but I can say that there's some very strange stuff going on within the government. If you think our government doesn't officially believe in the occult or psychics, you're wrong.
Incidentally, this woman and her more-famous (now estranged) brother have had strong ties to the OTO and other occult organizations. I do believe the government was fully aware of this when they trained them.
I always kept myself at arms' length from the "professional" side of her life, after her involvement with the government had ended, but I was still invited to join her if I so desired. Considering my own background, I was of some use in these sorts of things before I backed away from that whole world. Of course, one never loses the "bug" for being involved in the flip-side, and once you've seen that side of life (and death) you don't quite "fit in" with the rest of the daywalking world.
She's still out there, and even though we drifted apart, it wasn't due to any problems or animosity. Our bond is still strong; The circumstances are what makes it impossible for me to get back into her world. Besides-- I find some of the things she does to be slightly against my personal ethical code and belief system. I find her brother's activities even more worrying.
However, I have my ear to the ground, and a little bird tells me that there's something brewing in the United States in terms of using some of the more interesting minds to reach some desired conclusion to some major upcoming event. Sources are hazy, but what it really boils down to is that the people who do this sort of thing for a living are-- for lack of a better word-- nervous.
That worries me. When the people who develop psyops are teaming up with the dirty tricks brigade because of something they perceive as a "common enemy", that means the people of the world are about the get fucked-with, royally.
Indeed, my interest in IAAP's stuff is because I see a pattern in it that is all-too-familiar to me. It's mental manipulation of a sort, and it's not an amateur effort-- or if it is, it's a damned good one. The use of music, the flashing images, the way the work infects the viewer; It's eerily similar to some things I was exposed to years ago.
IAAP's work reminds me of some the cats I used to know when I was a player in that world. I'm just hoping that when the dust clears it turns out that IAAP are working for the good guys, and not doing one of those "for the greater good" things.
...I hate how those turn out.
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Post by ZeroCorpse on May 3, 2008 3:28:40 GMT -5
So it's been Monkees day for me. I've had a bunch of Monkees references for some reason, a few of them here at NIR. A couple at YouTube.
Was there some cosmic event that made the Monkees important today?!?!
Anyway, on a non-Monkees subject, I found this. I'm sure you've all seen it, but I thought it was nice to have it around:
Old school
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Post by ZeroCorpse on May 3, 2008 3:10:56 GMT -5
This is very interesting when you listen to some of the tracks on a surround system. The files say they're encoded in standard stereo, but they seem to play in dual stereo on my system, just like LOVE and several tracks on The White Album. Stuff is flying all around my head, man! It's crazy! Anyway, this was a nice find. Where did whoever did this get the raw tracks to mix like this? These aren't just lifted from commercial releases, or they don't seem like it, anyway. Oh, and did anyone click the Apple on the bottom of the page? There's more music in there. Like this: www.ruddart.com/RezBeatles.mp3
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Post by ZeroCorpse on May 2, 2008 18:51:59 GMT -5
"do you think that maybe the beatles were an invention..?" I've often wondered this. Not unlike the reality programs where they have singers/band manufactured. There are a lot of bands that were actually. Maybe the answer is that the band was manufactured from the beginning, for numerous reasons (money etc), and something happened so they replaced paul? Entirely within reason When you think of it in this light, it makes the Monkees seem like a conscious, knowing, "wink-wink" stab at the Beatles, rather than just a marketing gimmick whipped up by record executives trying to cash in on Beatlemania. I mean, the Monkees were sold as a manufactured group of actor/musicians (most of them, anyway), each given a particular character to play, songs to sing, and very little to do besides play their roles exactly as told (at least until they staged their revolt and insisted on writing and performing their own music). If we see the Monkees in a world where 'someone' knew that the Beatles were a manufactured phenomenon, and so they answered that with an American parody of what the Beatles really were, we get some interesting fodder for conspiracies and the like. This doesn't discount the talents of the lads, but it does make one think.
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Post by ZeroCorpse on May 2, 2008 18:37:28 GMT -5
Harmless Game in red say half of them who wakes them now. hurry, cause it's going fast [/color] i stopped with the come and get it lyrics because i can't keep up with it. lol'd![/quote] I always hear: "Say half of them makes this out."
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Post by ZeroCorpse on Apr 30, 2008 15:06:14 GMT -5
Well, to be fair, Faul has been singing for 40 years, while Paul only left us about a decade of music.
Faul's been Paul longer than Paul was Paul.
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Post by ZeroCorpse on Apr 28, 2008 22:13:02 GMT -5
Ah. Symbolism. Too bad. I was hoping that Faul was The Master.
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Post by ZeroCorpse on Apr 28, 2008 22:08:58 GMT -5
Yeah, even if they don't turn out to be anything else, the RA videos are great entertainment.
Personally, I LOVE watching them alone at night. I don't get scared easily (I've personally seen stuff that sort of makes campfire stories tame by comparison) but IAAP is also using music to manipulate the audience, and it's an excellent job of setting the view on edge.
I admire someone who knows how to use music that way.
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Post by ZeroCorpse on Apr 28, 2008 22:04:13 GMT -5
Perfect example, ramone.
Now imagine what sound and music are doing to people. You don't even need to listen to be affected.
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Post by ZeroCorpse on Apr 28, 2008 21:56:11 GMT -5
Oh. Duhhh... My mistake.
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Post by ZeroCorpse on Apr 28, 2008 2:03:06 GMT -5
Sun King?
Sun King is Italian, right?
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Post by ZeroCorpse on Apr 28, 2008 1:33:50 GMT -5
All music is magickal, in some way. It all goes back to how we as humans relate to rhythm, melody, and the subconscious reactions we have to music in general. Everyone who has ever professed to be a magickian, pastor, preacher, minister, or leader of men has used music in some way, shape, or form to influence and control his followers.
Sometimes, it was "non musical music" in that it couldn't be recognized as what we'd call music today. A good public speaker has a "musical" quality to the way he delivers his speeches. He has a cadence and meter that makes whatever he says come out as poetry.
Hitler was particularly good at this. His speeches had a meter and built up in power, to a roaring crescendo that kept his audience under control. He was a master at manipulation through vocal techniques-- this was a form of musical control.
Most major religions have "hymns" or "chants" or some sort of musical mantra that the faithful must recite.
Some music is "more magickal" than other kinds. Some is made with the intention of controlling people or achieving a specific goal. Some music is made to evoke a particular effect (and this gets into the quantum physics and actual mechanics of magick, which I'll spare you here). All that's needed is to understand what music is.
Music is vibration. It is an actual, physical thing. People think of it as being intangible and ethereal, but it isn't. Music is very real, very solid, and very potent. It is the actual air (and everything else) that surrounds us being manipulated in a very specific way. Specific frequencies. Specific vibrations that resonate around you and through you. . .
Actually, if you think about it (and it's a silly, layman's way of saying it, so bear with me), music is much like The Force the way Obi Wan described it: "The Force is. . . an energy field created by all living things. It surrounds us and penetrates us. It binds the galaxy together."
Yoda's description was pretty close, too: "Life creates it, makes it grow. It's energy surrounds us and binds us. Luminous beings are we...(Yoda pinches Luke's shoulder)...not this crude matter. You must feel the Force around you. Here, between you...me...the tree...the rock...everywhere!"
Sorry to geek out there, but I'm illustrating a point: If sound is The Force, then music is the shaping of The Force to make things happen. Music penetrates us, with its vibrations. It sways us in ways we never realise.
People can be moved to do ANYTHING with the right music. They can be made to believe anything, see anything, and feel anything. Music can alter your mind, and you never realize it's happening.
That's all magick is: Manipulation of the world around you through non-manual means.
IAAP is quite skilled at using music (or should I say musick?) to control and influence the audience. The only question is: To what end?
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Post by ZeroCorpse on Apr 28, 2008 1:12:16 GMT -5
I just want to point out that in L. Frank Baum's books, there were no ruby slippers. They were, in fact, silver slippers. They were made into ruby slippers for the classic movie because ruby looked better on color film. However, with that exception, there is a pretty good argument for L. Frank Baum (a Theosophist) being somehow tied into the whole Freemasonry and/or Thelemic world. There's an interesting article about Oz's importance to the Illuminati: farshores.org/ct02.htmI don't claim to believe every word of it, but it's an interesting read.
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Post by ZeroCorpse on Apr 28, 2008 0:53:44 GMT -5
Just watch: At the end of all this, they're going to say "Thanks for playing! Buy Mountain Dew!" or something. I dunno. It could be an ARG. It could be a viral campaign. It just doesn't FEEL like one at this point--- Plus this is an AWFUL long time for a viral campaign or ARG to go on, dontchathink? I'm holding out hope for some reality here.
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Post by ZeroCorpse on Apr 28, 2008 0:24:27 GMT -5
Hey guys! Sorry I'm late! Did I miss anything? Oh. . . Nevermind. I have some questions for IAAP, in case anyone is still interested in that. Q: Is Heather Mills one of your sources, involved in any way, or in contact in any way? Q: Was ANYTHING in the 60IF/Sun King/TKIN stories anywhere near the truth? (aside from the basic point of Paul having died, of course) Or was TKIN just a den of utter craziness? Q: Is Don Knotts still alive? If so, who is he masquerading as now? (yes, the last one is a joke)
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Post by ZeroCorpse on Apr 28, 2008 0:06:45 GMT -5
I have wondered why he keeps throwing the TARDIS into his videos. I love Doctor Who (and yay! Sontarans are back and Mike TheCoolPerson played one) but I fail to see a connection between Doctor Who and PID.
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Post by ZeroCorpse on Apr 28, 2008 0:02:29 GMT -5
This is probably a dumb question, but whats the difference between the older and the newer version of the RA Tunes CD? Wait-- Looking at it, the difference is that "Now and Then" was removed?
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