~C4Chaos

Super Colossal: Redshift Riders

(Crossposted from zBlog:~C4Chaos)

People say that instrumental music is good for you. I agree. I like listening to instrumental music once in a while to relax and pump up my mood. It's cold and rainy here in the Emerald City right now, so it would be overkill for me to listen to slow music. What I need is something to pump up my mood. Good thing I've got Joe Satriani to keep me company.

For those of you who like to listen to rock guitar instrumental I highly recommend checking out Satriani's latest album, Super Colossal. I've purchased the album a year ago (see my review) and I'm still enjoying it. I even went to the concert to experience the guitar god first-hand. I was blown away, literally.

Case in point: Check out this video of Satriani playing Redshift Riders. Trivia: Joe Satriani is a sci-fi geek and a trekkie. Redshift are “light waves that come from the nebula.” Redshift Riders is "...based on the idea that in the future, when people can travel throughout space, they will theoretically take advantage of the cosmological redshift effect so they can be swung around large planetary objects and get across [the] universe a lot faster than normal."  So yeah, try imagining yourself riding a light wave and surfing your way around the Kosmos while listening to this music. The experience is exhilarating :)

Here are some more music from the Super Colossal album performed live by one of my guitar heroes: http://videos.zaadz.com/tagged/super+colossal/

See Brondu~ Dancing

Brondu~ dancing while sober…chicks dig this kind of thing :)

1,662 posts = Three Years in the Rabbit Hole

This is my 1,662nd post. Three years of this-bodymind-consciousness floating within the vast realm of the blogosphere. To my recollection Year 2006 is the best year of my life so far. I'm glad that I've captured snippets of it on this cryptic blog. Here's a look at some of them as I glance back into the temporal log of this and that.

- had a meeting with destiny  when I met ~myDakini. she continues to inspire me, literally, every day...

- encountered a social networking site called Zaadz, met a lot of fluffy people in the community, and even had an interview with the CEO+Philosopher

- picked as Best Integral Buddhist blog even if this blog is neither explicitly buddhist nor integral

- experienced some kind of transformative blogging flow 

- flowed with Kosmic Blogging 101 manifesto 

- Coolmel is dead, ~C4Chaos lives! yet both still exist in ~Ubiquitous Nirvana

- interview with Rebecca Blood (aka Kosmic Blogging Goddess)

- Ken Wilber finally starts blogging, blogged at KDub's rabbit hole 

- Kosmic Aperture got funds! w00t!

- found my passionate and compassionate calling: anointed as a Zaadz Wizard   

- so long Windows! switched to Mac Book Pro

- another meeting with destiny in Ireland 

- recorded a song with ~myDakini in just one take!

- back to long distance sucking... 

- finally started moving in to my new crib!

- fortune cookie  tells me that the best is yet to come in this lifetime :)

Thank you for your precious time and attention. And this bodymind's stream of consciousness continues...

~C (for Consciousness *is* the rabbit hole)

P.S. Serendipitously, it's also ~Matthew's birthday. Happy birthday bro! I'm still your biatch! :)

Five Questions, Five Answers

Uploaded by Craig-Photography on 22 Aug '06, 9.17am PDT.

John of Craig Photography blog asked me five questions. Here are my answers:

5 Question Interview Series With ~C4Chaos

Thanks John! Btw, John takes rockin' photos too!

~Blogging in Duality

~C4Chaos : ~C4無秩序

Red ~C Diary: Let the Chaos Begin!

Ok that’s it. I’m now hooked on online videos. Not having a TV is actually a bane since I’ve got no choice but to watch stuff online. But of course, the advantage of watching online videos is that I have 100% control on what I would like to watch. It’s interactive too. And now that online video services, like YouTube.com and Google Video, are all the rage, gone are the days that you sit in front of an idiot box forced to watch stupid brainwashing commercials; gone are the days where only people in the broadcasting business have the right and power to broadcast. Thanks to Architecture of Participation of Web 2.0 and the collective denizens of cyberspace, broadcasting is now a two-way stream.

However, like other technology, the ubiquity of online videos has some potential disadvantages (e.g. increase in shortened attention span, video addiction, rampant pornography, etc…), but still, the advantages outweigh the cons. As The Wired Guide to the Online Video Explosion has eloquently said, "Some people look at the sheer amount of material and see a mess. But we see, amid the flood of content and competing delivery services, a new medium emerging, one with fewer gatekeepers, more producers, and somewhere – something for everyone. And that’s the point: the mess is the message."

The mess is the message. Exactly! This is the wisdom of crowds at its best!

As for me, one of the obvious advantages of online videos is access to stuff that interests me, thus speeding up my learning process, in hyperspeed. Allow me to illustrate by examples using YouTube.com.

When I’m not watching crazy people lip-synching to My Humps, snorting wasabi, non-nude lap dancing in front of a giant teddy bear (lucky bastard bear), or making an ass of themselves, I watch guitar videos so I can learn different playing styles from my guitar gods and even from unknown people who just love showing off their guitar skills. Check out these videos and you’ll understand what I mean:

Joe Satriani guitar tapping the uber-cool tune Midnight
– Man! Joe Satriani really is a god!

Kaki King guitar tapping Pink Noise
– Damn! I’m her new biggest fan. Sorry Jewel, you too Bonnie Raitt. Kaki King is now the hottest female guitar player in my book! Drooool!

And of course, here’s my uber-guitar idol:

Stevie Ray Vaughan ripping it Crossfire style!
– I’m not worthy! I’m not worthy!

See my point now? Those are just some of the videos that inspire me to no end. In fact, I decided to make an ass of myself too and broadcast my crap so I can keep track of my progress while showing off. Too bad I only have a webcam with a crappy microphone but this will do for now. Here’s my YouTube.com URL:

http://www.youtube.com/user/c4chaos

I’ll use it to video blog (vlog) my practice sessions and times of spontaneous luminous (and not-so luminous) inspirations. So, pardon my guitar-playing imperfections, coz whether you like it or not, I say, let the Chaos begin!

~C (for Chaos has just begun)

Dreaming in Kanji

(Targeted)Serendipity + RETICULUM REX = KICK @$$. Check out these out.

Japanese Translation in old-style Kanji of Buddhist++ Floetry (which is a remix of this). See?

buddhist++ floetry
Originally uploaded by coolmel.

Japanese Kanji for Chaos (disorder). Watch this blogger-body-mind make this into a household tattoo....

~C4Chaos Kanji (in red)
Originally uploaded by coolmel.

Thank you Ayako!

That is all (for now).

~C (for Culture Remix)

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Buddhist++ Parable for the Day (BP4D)

"At the time of Buddha, there lived an old beggar woman called Relying on Joy. She used to watch the kings, princes, and people making offerings to Buddha and his disciples, and there was nothing she would have liked more than to be able to do the same. But she could only beg enough oil to fill a single lamp. However, as she placed it before Buddha she made this wish: 'I have nothing to offer but this tiny lamp. But through this offering, in the future may I be blessed with the lamp of wisdom. May I free all beings from their darkness. May I purify all their obscurations, and lead them to enlightenment.'

"That night, the oil in all the other lamps went out. But the beggar woman’s lamp was still burning at dawn, when Buddha’s great disciple Maudgalyayana came to collect the lamps. He saw no reason why one lamp was still alight and tried to snuff it out. But whatever he did, the lamp kept burning.

"Buddha had been watching all along, and said: 'Maudgalyayana, do you want to put out that lamp? You cannot. You could not even move it, let alone put it out. If you were to pour the water from all the oceans over this lamp, it still wouldn’t go out. The water in all the rivers and lakes of the world could not extinguish it. Why not? Because this lamp was offered with devotion, and with purity of heart and mind. And that motivation has made it of tremendous benefit.'"

-- via Glimpse @ Rigpa

You say Relying on Joy, I say Blogging on Joy. This blogger-body-mind is following the example of that old beggar woman. This blog site is a tiny lamp offering to the Wisdom that is inherent in (all(us(you))).