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Found out today.. R.L. Burnside is dead…
(for a while now, November 1, 2005, but news doesn’t seem to catch up on me fast or anything..) but I am truly very, very sad..
R.L. played the blues like no other (well maybe Junior Kimbrough along side next to him).. in very basic maybe naive way.. but he was cool doing so, he was about no bullshit!! his co-operations with the blues explosion are still very dear to me.. But most of all the life of R.L. himself is the life of a postmodern bluesman.
I understand he was playing in the sixties, I remember some obscure folk recording, but he didn’t got a proper audience untill the 90′ies. It’s so bad, you know?, that Junior died during a fire in his juke joint. Mississippi life is truly harsh.. People die in strange manors..
What is the attraction of R.L.? This old guy? playing dusty blues?.. Maybe it’s because he’s the total package of being the blues… Is it maybe because he adopted a white kid? Is it because he is mean? Is it because he his total musical appearance is so basically attractive?? Well I dunno but I for one am truly fascinated by the guy….
Other producers (like Eric Empire) took on his tracks, overdubbed and reproduced some delicate beats.. so nice to see these girls groovin’ on good ol’ R.L. ‘gonna put my foot in ya ass’ Burnside..
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so what’s up with anthropomorphism?
I’ve learned to believe, that not a few, but loads of people like, well love to dress up like “furries”. It seems that sexy foxes are the hottest thing.
Actually when come to think about it.. it goes back even to Ovid’s Metamorphes.. there something very mystical about a metamorphose. According wikipedia its about the perception of adding furry power combined with human intelligence, facial expressions, speech en bipedalism.
I think its quite interesting.. people seemed to have this natural desire to change the vorm/ the vessel with maintaining the same essence of spirit/ soul.. the body is the vessel, so probably the mind cant cope with the fact the same body is restricted (we cant fly for instance..)
‘when i shuffle off this mortal coil…’
I do wonder why we as a origen, Homo Sapiens, have the strong desire to divide our being into body and soul anyways..
will come back at this in due time… 
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it happens sometimes, i can imagine, somebody is watching a concert on television, a concert which this person actually attended, like 10 years ago.. and all of a sudden this person sees himself amongst the crowd..
today i encountered the first real self pending and existential experience within this digital era.. i found moving images of myself while dreaming….
let me explain: somewhat over 10 years ago some friends asked me to join them for a illegal acidparty somewhere in Amsterdam. I went, followed the never changing rules of party going and altered my perception. We partied hard until sunset.. For me it was a experience i could never quite forget..
some people (MononoM) just spotted a landingsite in the middle of nowwhere, put up a soundsystem, truly a wall of sound and pumped acid beats all night.. no charge of entry, beers were like 50 cents and just go!!..
To be so totally out of order, not to follow rules and regulations of expensive regular bars, to make use of old factories or deserted harbours. A community lasting for at least one night. This night and this night only it all came together for me…
the strange thing is… somebody was taping it 10 years ago and put it on youtube…….. so after 10 years i see myself (on 3/4 of the video) gazing towards the wall of sound..
and while we’re on the matter… some 3 years ago me and some friends travelled through Serbia to attend a Gypsy festival.. a little mountain village is being transformed to rough gypspy party for like 3 days and nights.. quite strong…
and well yes.. somebody was making photo’s!!!!! and probably the same guy made a videoclip for the hitsong Mesecina (moonlight) by Goran Bregovic … so again i see myself wearing a big strawhat enjoying the music into the night…
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so yes well whats is jmdkmBlog about?
well lets be honest about it… it aint gonna be pretty……
but dont be afraid.. there lots of fun and loads of stuff te be learned at jmdkm side of perceiving a natural enviroment like the one YOU are surrounded by…
for instance i would like to utter some inlfuences i’ve been lately undergoing myself..
in organising and checking out some action at the cultblender flickr group I stummbled on a artist called Steven Laurie
the question is not why the burning of rubber and the thick layers of smoke should satisfy my willingness to explore the boundaries of ‘the rough and the though’ but why this artist stripped the context down to core. To the nitty gritty I should say…he built an object, a machine just to do that voodoo that it should do, and it does it very well…
my first glimpse on the pages with pictures of this happening, reminded me of some specific kind of metal concert where adrenaline and sweat could fill up buckets.. only but for the smell of asphalt (and of course the actual burning rubber) pointed out the context of rural car admiration en social use, like for instance speed and racing…
I would like to make a connection with the work of Tijmen Smit.. at first I couldnt grap it quite, it took me some time but to be able to see more artists working on such a specific theme and material at the same time.. I believe im getting more understanding with this way of making and presenting art…
the intensity and clarity of stunning loud and overwhelming performances..
‘i’m going the distance, i’m going for speed..’
