DECADE+2001-2011

=DECADE 2001-2011=

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INTRODUCTION
So it goes, friends and readers...whoever and wherever you are, which events from your life experience seem important to you today? Which would you choose to define any given period of time? How do you order and make sense of them?

If we are to make sense and meaning of history, and share a spot of sanity--a risky slippery endeavour in the age of global Internet but nontheless one which any poet worth that title might pursue--a //'poem including history//' of the last decade seems to me a good place to start, to get a good first footing.

The launch of Wikipedia in February of 2001 impacted my writing greatly due in part to the simple list of historical events deemed worthy of inclusion by the Wikipedia commons group, freely available to make sense of at your own risk. The risk may be reduced when sufficient attention falls upon the subjective, self-reflective perceptual process. Some methods and principles--such as ‘//operational language// used by some-but-not-all scientists and ‘//E-prime//’ and variants used by some-but-not-all linguists--act as harm reduction buffers and crash helmets to protect the head. I recommend them, but often go speeding without a helmet, license or clue 'where' I am heading.

When history and things devolve into chronological order I find difficulty in NOT drawing conclusions based on the ordering, one thing leads to another, the connection is right there! or so it seems, to a linear oriented mind set. However the questions linger like old trout, which ‘events’ were pivotal, which shall be relegated to the footnotes or deleted? How did the author or protagonist choose the events? based on which values and principles? what ordering system, what right knowledge? How many appear justified by later historical events and how many need revision today? (i.e Wikileaks exposures from the period 2007-2010, the News Corp. phone hacking racket etc.)

Why don't you have a crack at putting the last ten years (or any period of time) into textual form outside of facebook. Use music, painting, dance, sculpture, textiles and other art based activities to add colour to the information.

In mixing my private events with those events deemed as Historical in the broader sense, I hope to take the edge off of history a little bit--a dash of lemon--to //balance//d the flavor for what one may perceive as ‘historical’ with our own infinite flux of perceptions, at the moment these events are perceived to be taking place.

The questions: //where were you, what were you doing and why were you doing it//, help introduce ‘//subjective context//’ into the thinking process encircling the questions of History, and to my mind history seems a multiverse of possibilities with no single pathway through but many interweaving rivers of time spread across its surface. I repeat, I have injected my own value system upon the last ten years so please forgive my ego-centric perception and decadence here and there, keep in touch, love--steve.

(Shortly after writing 'decade' I learned that Mark Zukenburg and facebook will release a ‘facebook timeline' app' that allows for a similar chronological study of historical events. However, to repeat...History also moves in cycles--ricorso--and non-chronological spirals spiral I think.)

2001
Jan 1st: Over Golden Gate bridge to S.F early new yrs day, in deep love

Jan 20th: Dumb G. W Bush succeeds Wild Bill Clinton after [|Flor. Re-count].

Feb 24th: [|Claude Shannon] dies: Information theory creeps Doctor Wilson shares [|TSOG].

DJ with Garaj Mahal at the [|last day saloon] San Francisco

July 23rd: [|G8 Protest Italy] Carlo Giuliani shot dead by police

Sept 11th: [|Surprise Attack?] in U.S.A Sep 12th: Israel op’ in Jericho Oct 7th: [|Afghan war game]

Oct 26th: [|U.S Patriot Act] passed by Bush. I Fly to S.F to [|DJ.]

2002
Jan 29th: Antarctic [|Larson ice] shelf crumbles, my RAW Entview

March 1st. [|Invasion of Afghanistan] begins with Op’ Anaconda: a large snake

High [|Sierra Music] Fest. w/ [|Garaj] and 7/7 [|No Parking] jams.

[|Burningman Fest] DJ slot, fresh fruit piss clear leave no trace, gift culture

Sep 10th: [|RAW intview S. Cruz] muffin coffee M. Logic kind wise teacher [|Bob]

July 21st: [|Worldcom] file for Chap. 11 Bankruptcy.

Oct 25th: [|Paul Wellstone] his family and most of his staff killed in plane crash.

Nov 18th: [|Hans Blix] arrives in Iraq looking for [|weapons of] [|mass distraction]

Nov 25th: GWB passes The United states [|Homeland] [|Security Act.]

[|GM] [|at DNA lounge] with Mahavishnu's Jerry Goodman

2003
Feb 15th: Mass [|worldwide protests] against war in Iraq. shouting ‘what WMD’s?

Release of ‘As if true’ in a collection of [|shroom’ tales] by Paul Krassner.

April 14th: [|Human Genome Project] complete, over 99% sequenced.

May 1st: GWB sez... ‘mission accomplished’ from Aircraft carrier

[|New Orleans Jazz Fest'] Mama’s Blues DJ Crescent city life

Pharmageddon Arkestra formed in New Orleans Chris, Quinn, fly and friends

July 23rd: [|Maybe Logic] Movie premiere S. Cruz, the last time I saw Bob.

Sep 4th: [|Bullring] shopping centre open’s in Birmingham UK.

Alan [|Hertz and Friends] [|tour] West coast California

Oct 31st: Halloween launch Mondo [|Garaj album] [|Avalon Ballroom] fly

2004
Feb 4: [|Facebook] founded Feb 12th: [|Mardi Gras] New Orleans. March 25th: [|Tony Blair] meets [|Col. Gaddafi]

April: Ideogrammic Method and Illuminatus classes [|with RAW]

June 16th: [|911 commission] report release on Bloomsday

July 1st: [|Cassini-huygens] craft meets Saturn Vatican joins the U.N. ship.

July 28th: [|Rocks off Cruise] NYC, my poem skirts Hudson from pier 23

Aug 29th: RNC, [|GWB and Dick] [|Chenney] renominated

[|I carry a coffin] up sixth av', Illuminatus! in hand.

Dec 21st: [|Maybelogic Quarterly] Issue 1 Winter Solstice 2004

Dec 25th: Record ‘[|Bicycling in Bombay]’ for Garaj Mahal's Blueberry Cave

Dec 26th: The [|Indonesian earthquake] 2004 claims 230’000 victims.

2005
Jan 14th: Huygens robot [|lands on Titan] one of Saturn's moon, near Xanadu

Jan 20th: GWB inaugarated for second term. [|Garaj Mahal tour.]

July 2nd: High Sierra Music Festival ft. [|Garaj] [|Mahal] & [|No-Parking]

July 6th: Olympic Games Handed to London in IOC

July 7th: [|London attacks] and security analysis failure

Aug 29th: 1900 killed [|Hurricane Katrina] New Orleans flood

Oct 8th: [|Kashmir earthquake] kills over 80’000

Oct 30th: [|Chet Helms] tribute concert Golden Gate park.

Dec. 23rd: MaybeLogic UK Premier at Birch Tree Pub [|Amblecote]

Dec 31st: Brierley Hill Baths protest, steel fence, police pulled the plug, no [|news story]

2006
April: Week trip to [|Amsterdam] start collected writings [|World Piss.]

June: Audio Remixing: [|RAW] [|meets Garaj Mahal] Bar work at Windmill Pub in lye town.

MLA meet in Milton Keynes, Mushrooms Temples, swimming and good friends

[|Howordz Way] poem for MQ

I discovered [|‘Stourbridge’ in Cantos] [| LXVI] by Ezra Pound

Sep 11th: Stourbridge busking to raise money for Pope [|Bob and his medical] bills

Pulled Shop' trolley from [|River Stour] Captured by S’bridge news fisherman

Dec 6th: Refused entry to [|USA] at Atlanta airport

Dec 24th: Dressed as Santa ‘Shroom ‘Claus I roamed the streets of Stourbridge

2007
[|11/1] [|Robert Anton Wilson] passes on 12th and [|Alice Coltrane] joins him

February 17th: [|RAW tribute] [|Stourbridge] Skate Park shut down

March 18th: [|Coldcut RAW tribute] Alan Moore, Ken Campbell VJ DJ dream wake

March 21st: [|‘Jam in The Dam’] festival. I arrive and setlle in Amsterdam Dish washing

[|MLA in Belgium] and Ams’ [|Lasagna catapult] in Dutch Lake

Life in Amsterdam audio remixing and writing: Coffee-shop

Meet [|John Sinclair], Be-bop Jazz, blues and New Orleans tales shared

2008
Feb: Western Esoterica vinyl sigil, step-sign word turntable

July 23rd: [|MLA in Paris:] The great Gherkin experiment special friends

Oct 3rd: Global Market crash crisis of imagination strikes bankers

Nov. 1st: I start my ‘first Novel: [|Open Source History:] a tale of the tribe

Dec 24th: arrested for Graffiti on bank “in banks we trust” DNA cells

2009
Jan. 4th: John Sinclair, Vicente Pino Fly [|record]: Amsterdam blues scholars

[|Crazy Wisdom of PKD] with Erik Davis [|MAYBELOGIC ACADEMY]

after a strange dream I met Dutch Royal Family outside the Trope Museum.

July 26th: [|Longest solar eclipse] of 21c: 6 min 38 sec. MLA in Berlin

The Birth of Doctor [|Marshmallow Cubicle] siblings: Pino and Pratt

Treaty of Lisbon becomes law I Visit Norway shrooms trees and teas

14th Aug: John Sinclair performs [|poetry at Bonded Warehouse] Stourbridge UK

High life in Amsterdam Oost with sweet [|Janne] [|John Sinclair] and John Coltrane

Evolver Dream Spore [|Save Coseley Baths] campaign

Nov 20th: LHC restarted at CERN

2010
Wikileaks release Collateral Murder

April 20th: fly at Café Belgique 420 [|Deepwater] [|Horizon Oil Spill]

July 23rd: [|MLA go to Oxford] James Brown on Organ ghost tour, inception. [|Stour clean up]

July 25th: Wikileaks release [|Afghan war diaries]

[|Sun Ra: Essays and] [|Interviews] released. Started new novel: [|‘Sixty’]

Album:[| Let’s Go] [|Get Em’]Sinclair’s blues scholars Art by Frenchy n; Chu

Sep 23rd: Out of East Hangai in Park, Dogon and Francis Huxley in my book.

Sep 28th: [|Email to The Tribe]: Fly's web class: RAW, Bruno, Vico, Joyce, Pound Shannon

Nov. 26th: John Sinclair and [|Amsterdam blues scholars] at the 420 cafe

Nov. 28th: More [|Wikileaks] [|cables] push for no more secrets

[|John Sinclair and the] [|Beatnik Youth] ensemble & i record in big smoke

[|Global Media Village] MLA class with Bobby Campbell

First full lunar eclipse on Winter Solstice

2011
Jan 25th: [|Arab spring] couch Surfing, blog [|fatter]

March 11th: [|Japan Earthquake] and Giant Tsunami And Fukushima crisis

May 1st: [|Marshy Chu Queegsday] Pacific Park Amsterdam

June 12th: Mirror in the Buurvrouw Amsterdam lush [|aerosol by CHU]

July 23rd: [|Barcelantis] underwater test [|video] in BCN Spain

Aug 8th: London Riots [|Sod the rich,] [|phone hack] scandel Marshy album

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--Steven James Pratt (fly agaric 23-Acrillic) September-October 2011.

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