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29 poetry, music, performance art, strange films & slides projected on the wall, acid, booze & weed . . . an event nearer to the freewheeling Jellicle Guild than any other I’d been to in Cambridge. I signed up there to be a DJ at their radio station, Radio Free Cambridge, 106.1 FM & on 1/30/99 began hosting a show I call “The Within’s Within: Scenes from the Psychedelic Revolution with Soulard” on Saturdays noon-2. This show features psychedelic music new & old by the likes of Phish, Grateful Dead, Beatles, Pink Floyd, Yes, & the younger “jambands” like Moe., Uncle Sammy, and Percy Hill; readings from psychedelic literature by the likes of Aldous Huxley, Alan Watts, Albert Hofmann, & Timothy Leary; new poetry, prose, & music performed by longtime friends such as Jim Burke III, Joe Ciccone, Barbara Brannon, & Ric Amante; & news about relevant current events such as Burning Man & efforts as legalization of marijuana, LSD & similar psychoactive substances. I often trip when doing this show; I often rant about the beauty & perfection of every day in the universe; I put on as good a show as I know how for whoever is within WRFC’s 100-watt range. In August & September, when I was on the road to Burning Man in Nevada, I sent back reports of travelling to & from the event & what happened at it as well. In February 1999 I went down to New York City to the Wetlands Preserve nightclub to see Percy Hill, Uncle Sammy, Miracle Orchestra, & Mishap all perform. Jambands one & all with growing followings but little commercial airplay because their songs are long & complex & defy commercial format definitions. But flourishing nonetheless & often coming together during summertime for huge Woodstock ‘69-style festivals that attract audiences often over 100,000. Not a single hit among them. In March 1999 I applied for the BookBuilders of Boston scholarship. My essay read in part: I believe that men and women who elect to make a career of publishing are directly participating in creating the future of humankind. Creating the future meaning inventing it, showing the billions who inhabit this planet what good things the future offers as well as the possible consequences of our sometime tendencies toward greed, prejudice, selfishness, and undirected fear. The decisions we who discover our need to participate in publishing will not allow itself to go unheeded make every day affect every individual we will ever know and every individual we will never know. The Cenacle / 50 / December 2003
30 I didn’t receive any money; it went to an individual whose interests were more exclusively in book publishing. While I wish that person good luck, I foresee that the coming world will be much more about pursuing many different forms of communication as horizontal hierarchy replaces vertical. Also in March 1999 Cenacle 32-33 Winter 1999 appeared, featuring a new contributor, longtime friend John Barton, his notes on the Millennium, a prose piece that gestated from a series of emails he & I exchanged about that topic. He writes: It is not a coincidence that civilization goes through fin-de-siècle madness times time every thousand years. Human beings are responsible for all these great changes and syntheses coalescing as the Millennium arrives. Human beings devised the calendar designating which year will be the “Millennium.” It is entirely manmade, like our gods. It is not the will of Revelations or the Qabbalah, nor that of the Koran nor the Bhagavad-Gita, that things of import come to pass every thousand years. It is the will of the men who wrote those works, holy though they may be, and the men who every thousand years still believe in them. Two of my contributions were lengthy poems of recent vintage. “Millennial Artist’s Survival Guide” from 11/98 which opens: There is a secret joy amongst these times, a within’s within, a known and speckled spectral thing, an exploding blare & swoop from between our dreams, a series of coded midnight shadows, glyphs taut with our best laughter, all cosmos, we are all cosmos, without & within. We are all cosmos. We are careening. We need to begin now, trade into ecstasy, we are beginning now. Always beginning now. & “Beauty, Afflictus” from 2/99 which opens: If someone were to fall into intimate slumber, sleep of the golden eyes, sleep of the murmuring grey fields, & slept deeply with Things, shiny pinkcheeked Things, Things of whisper & wet, Things both the cup & its holder, Things elusive like worthy cathedrals, how easily he would come to a different day, a longer day, a day that will not melt with the passing hours, how easily he would come to a different day, out of mutual depth, how deeply eternity badges us, out of mutual depth, The Cenacle / 50 / December 2003
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