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[Lousymnassose]

Personally, I'd rather be referred to as an iconoclast instead of a mutated virus.

[airyace]

You are a mutated virus.

[Lousymnassose]

Well okay, but I'm a very iconoclastic mutated virus. And where's that chocolate milk in the drinking fountains???!!!

[airyace]

I'm not saying cus' I don't want infected with your iconoclastic mutated virus. It's hidden in a disguise. You walk by it every day though.
You'll have to beat it out of Airy.

[Lousymnassose]

I was talking about chocolate milk in the drinking fountains, not milking the dog on South Park.

[airyace]

Beat the Reaper, an Innergenerational Gathering of the Tribes. An event to be held on August 25th 2007, at the Jerry Garcia Amphitheater in San Francisco. It can be summed up as spiritual invigoration to inspire the entire nation. It is being put on by A.T.E (A.dvancement T.hrough E.volution Enterprises), with the help of myself and artist Jesse Mosher as a benefit for the Beat Museum in San Francisco California.
We are going to invoke and call to mind the spirits of the beats that so liberated the minds of humanity all those years ago. Find the wandering souls of Kerouac and Cassady letting them enter us for our fervent delight. Touch upon those distant, far behind miles with hopes of igniting new intrepid travels.
Being merely thirty years old myself I can only imagine the release of "On the Road" having been written in April 1951 by Jack Kerouac, and published in 1957. And the following thought invoking, fiery frenzy it created, I can only percieve it as. "Every word and expression sinks into the brain with the sensations of the first intimate touches of love upon a virgin. Quietly bemoaning new horizons of emotion. Resisting and excepting all at the same time. Timid and sincere"
What became the beat generation then spread throughout the country and the world. Like a virus, not exactly a virus but rather a contagious contagion. An antibody to the two-dimensional. Growing and spreading amongst many other viruses of various ideals and energies.
We are that contagion, in mutation, in evolution, growing and flowing in a world of spiritual and emotional death. Staring blindly into the herding and corraling of existing life. As cookie cutter as the fifties and as wanting change as the 60's, this generation needs liberation...
As that antibodies evolution, as that long distance lineage of those first radical wordplays and concepts. It's our duty and responsibilty to fuck this generation wildly but gently with care and tenderness. Not just fuck, but wake it up to ecstasy. If fucking is all this generation is brought up to understand, then we are going to fuck it until it understands glistening passion. Until it catches our infection. Making it understand every positioning and stance on life and love possible. Because we are the contagious antibody of the beats and that antibody is love, passion, hope, desirous of nothing and everything at the same time. Curious and playful, commanding with a gentle carress. Sympathetic to fellow humanity. As I write this I shared it with performance artist Elizabeth Newman of Living Folklore who will be participating in "Beat the Reaper", in the tradition of the unbridled freeform that influenced the life and art of the Beat generation, I'm going to share her response uncut:
"Flesh out the metaphor for fucking the generation. It is good, put some meat on it before you edit it down. Why fuck, instead of wake it up to ecstasy? HOw does the virus in mutation fit the sex metaphor-- is it a sexually transmitted disease? You could bring in Pro-noia possibly.

The generation that has been assaulted with images of distorted sex, anorexic women and men on steroids half naked and depressed, since they were toddlers is the same generation that is rightfully scared to death of sexually transmitted disease. It is both the most easily accessible imagery, sex is what sells everything from cars to coke, and the most denied and unloving subject. For our generation sex education was learning what you would get (herpes, bugs, AIDS) if you did the nasty-- well it is time for us to BECOME that virus....We have to become that virus in mutation, in evolution, growing into the pants of every American.

How do you scare someone as much as a STD, but wake them up to life-- to being genuine? real? not commercialized? freak them out of their pants/ give them a kudulini experience/ tearing their clothes off of their cultural entrancement /// gently allow them to open deeper and deeper as you fuck for hours and hours?"
I then in turn shared our thoughts with San Francisco artist and writer Jesse Mosher. Whom also is involved with Beat the Reaper. His response came back with the sincerity and positive invigoration of his art;
"I agree with elisabeth that the virus metaphore could use some reworking. the radical change, mutation idea seems to ring truer to me. words like flowering, evolution, etc. are good, aspects like the truest ideals, or most time proven ones coming to influience future generations. alll these people went for it and time has shown some not all ideas to be relevant to our generation. Artists create following a muse, its up to the next generation to decide which ideas resonate with them, which ideas have the most meaning to their times and struggles."

Inspiration is what we need. Something to make us wonder, to think, to believe. After a run about the country and creative spree. I sat devoid of thought or passion for previous efforts. The portal opened by the beats seemed to be closing. Color evaporating between the thin lines of black and white. While young in my mind had grown older in thought from absorbing every thought and vibe Ken Babbs could throw at me. I became out of touch with the here and now. Which really isn’t all that far from yesterday anyhow. My muse for my prolific resurgence, a girl named K.D., long red hair and sweet as can be. But with a inner spirit of a Kurt Cobain primal scream. Very much a victim of modern day society entrapments and very much questioning for more. It was five words that opened the door to the dormant spark of my brain. She said one day, “This is not being alive.” Very much a 4 dimensional girl, living in a two dimensional world.
That is our job, to let the other four dimensional beings know that it’s time for us to tear down the walls of this two dimensional world. To set it free of the restraints, set free from a world of fabricated thoughts and realities set by less evolved individuals with the only concerns of self. Show a world discovered long ago that is made up of the true America. Not the one created by MTV, Disney, and other corporate throngs. Creating what's forced upon our youth as art and music. Hopefull of creating generations of gold tooth plated crack dealers and girls only conscious of their flesh with the fabricated role models presented to our youth. Corporations have sucked the very life from creative expression.
Maybe that in itself is the best example of the difference between beat culture influence and corporate culture influence. The beats inspired the Grateful Dead culture that up until just recently with Jerry Garcias death had major impacts upon American culture. I myself heavily influenced by the Grateful Dead. We weren't bombarded with fanatasy's of driving around the block, slingin' rock all day. Seeking out big bootie hoes.
We were influenced by the beautiful poetry of Robert Hunter set to life by the interweaving marvel of music and sound known as the Grateful Dead. We were concerned with driving around the whole damn country if not the world. Concerned with real love, and friendship, with adventure and freedom. We were concerned with the betterment of mankind.
Elizabeth Newman and I were both heavily influenced by the Merry Pranksters, whom were in direct lineage of the Beat Generation, who in turn influenced the Grateful Dead that continues it's influence until this very day.
Corporate culture is selfish and dull, Beat culture is selfless and alive. It's as Neal Cassady said, "We are not here for self, we are here for service. Here to multiply. To make like three dimensional chess. Subdue ye' the Earth and all that."
What better way to make like three dimensional chess then to spread like a virus. A mutation of past influences, all stemming from the same desirous passions. As it was observed and put to me by Brooke Jenkins, "
"In genetics, mutations can eventually accumulate to create evolutionary change..."

great stuff. particularly the short paragraphs at the end. I agree with Elisabeth that the virus metaphore could use some reworking. the radical change, mutation idea seems to ring truer to me. words like flowering, evolution, etc. are good, aspects like the truest ideals, or most time proven ones coming to influience future generations. alll these people went for it and time has shown some not all ideas to be relevant to our generation. Artists create following a muse, its up to the next generation to decide which ideas resonate with them, which ideas have the most meaning to their times and struggles
But a future is coming where if we love our influences so much. If we love this contagion that is vibrating within our bodies. Then we must do what it takes to ensure it's perpetual existence.
It's time to find that rhythm again, to put our ears to the highway and eyes to lodestone. Listen for the beat still pulsating but lost in the static of fear safety that is so resonate across the land.
I’m going to close this article interviewing Dominic of Evolve 2 Advance asking a few questions about Beat the Reaper and his other projects.
How did you begin evolve 2 advance and what were your intentions....

Evolve 2 Advance in a sense, began the day I was born... and evolved as the universe and I have grown. I didn't actually consciously envision the concept as a business until 2000 or so, I was going through a major life transition and some heavy soul searching and became aware that with the coming of my daughter I was to create a business model that as closely resembles the free spirited life I had been fortunate to spend some years living while also embodying a true stewardship of our resources including that which some believe to be our most powerful and corruptible resource, the human mind. And so came A.dvancement T.hrough E.volution Enterprises. An enterprise of all human expression, with the goal of simply living with joy and freedom of the mind, body, and spirit. A convergence of independent artist who believe that through waves of color, light, sound, and thought we can manifest a brighter tomorrow and coexist with all that is. Humans hold the key to a as well as the detonator. We at A.T.E. are here to help us all make the right choice...
How did you come up with the concept of posing the question "What is Hip" for your
series of shows....

I was curious to find a root of the true American culture and seek a source of what kept us together as well as what divided us. We here have a unique situation because all this "melting pot" of cultures has formed this echo chamber where we emulate and modify each culture, then a new amalgamation is created and this is precisely where we find hip. That frontal lobe of culture, is usually perceived as a counter culture, however as even some historians are beginning to postulate today, perhaps the counterculture is actually the ether from which creative evolution begins and the "crazy" hippies and hipsters, and hip-hoppers and all things hip are actually the driving force of our nation and its redeeming values. The counterculture is typically a youth movement and the young see the world of tomorrow. The generations that have sprung from the Beats- today are intertwined and distorted and seemingly opposing forces. Yet all of these subcultures have common roots. Through my quest for hip I have found the sources to include the existentialists Thoreau, Emerson, the founding fathers, all true ideals of free thought born here... and this is American way, the Union of the Hip.
What do you hope to get out of this show in San Francisco

I really desire that there will be an understanding of what our attempt is here, we hope to gather the young and old of all types and creeds can gather as one to proclaim that we are free and each individual and unique while at the same time we show respect for the great oneness and our tiny role in the whole. Let's step forward from the hatred and separation of the negative people surrounding us, let's enjoy each other no matter what we believe, because we all, each and every one believe that that is our true inherent right to be and to be free. I hope to see smiles on every face in the crowd...
What do you see as the importance of understanding what sprung from Beat Culture and
where it leaves us today.... and also where it should go in the future..

Anyone in this country that hit the road is rooted in the Beat Movement, it is a branch of an ancient tree, one that has always been and will always be. Anyone who has made any decision based on the voices within the heart rather that just following the norm is a pupil of the Beat Culture. And only until I understood that did I realize the importance of the Beat Generation and the Psychedelic movement and what impact it had on the evolutionary consciousness of the entire planet and very likely beyond... Today the world is a million times more open and free than it was 10 year go, and I don't just mean all that democracy mumbo jumbo. True democracy lies with the mind, body, and spirit. Where to go we all decide. Even though we have more "freedom" the dark forces have gained and we must not be suppressed, oppressed or made complacent by mainstream, watered down psuedo-culture, instead let us ride the rising tide and climb the resonating wave of consciousness to global utopia.

[airyace]

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[airyace]

[TheBigDan]

Good luck Blake! You know you posted the poster on Friday the thirteenth?

[airyace]

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