Studietijd

Het leren mixen en masteren gaat goed. Nu nog een stageplek vinden in een studio. Ik heb monitoring besteld bij String and Things. Heerlijk te zien dat er winkels zijn waar muziek leeft. Verder niks nieuws onder de zon. Wat opgenomen met Charles Jarvis en nu wachten op de monitoring om de sound perfect te leren krijgen. You tube is een geweldige studiehulp.

maandag 30 oktober 2017

woensdag 25 oktober 2017

Fake news in het informatietijdperk.

Er komt zoveel informatie op de mensheid af en er is zoveel 'fake news' dat het onderscheid maken tussen wat echt is en wat niet echt is voor vele mensen moeilijk is. Er zijn zovele belangengroepen die 'fake news' verspreiden dat het voor iedereen - ook voor mij - moeilijk blijft het ware van het onware te onderscheiden in dit informatietijdperk.

dinsdag 24 oktober 2017

Studio, monitoring

De opnames vlotten traag hier thuis. Ik heb nog wat monitoringhardware gevonden die betaalbaar is en ik zoek een stageplek. Er is nog tijd genoeg, de cursus is hoegenaamd niet moeilijk. Het meeste leer je al doende.

maandag 23 oktober 2017

zondag 22 oktober 2017

Muziekproducer

Ik ben de laatste dagen aan het leren producen. Mijn cursus schiet goed op. Wel stel ik vast dat al die hardware ontzettend veel geld kost. Misschien kan ik op termijn in bijberoep iets doen. Mijn attest bedrijfsbeheer heb ik althans op zak. Blijven studeren, Kristo!

zaterdag 21 oktober 2017

Muziek producen.

Ondertussen sla ik een nieuwe weg in in mijn leven en ga ik leren producen, een hoegenaamd opmonterende bezigheid. Mijn cursus is na lang wachten aangekomen en ik betrap mij erop dat ik er al een hele avond spontaan in aan het lezen ben. Verder baart het spierballengerol tussen Amerika en Noord-Korea me zorgen. Moge de Liefde onder de mensen groter zijn dan de angst. Wie George Orwell's 1984 gelezen heeft vraagt zich voortdurend af 'Is deze oorlog wel écht?'. Stemt tot nadenken.

Ik heb altijd al een hekel gehad aan teveel farmacie in de wereld, totdat ik dit tegenkwam.



Ik ga nog wat studeren. De wereld gaat aan me even voorbij wanneer ik met die studie bezig ben. En Vitalski, je wordt gemist. Ooit spreken we elkaar nog wel eens. Ergens ten velde. Doe maar dapper voort met al je activiteiten.

Ik heb nog een analoge mengtafel vanonder het stof gehaald met twee - eveneens analoge - microfoons. De komende maanden kan ik zowat experimenteren met geluidsopnames en zien hoe het opschiet.

Kristo



zondag 15 oktober 2017

Wisdom of today.



"Artists to my mind are the real architects of change, and not the political legislators who implement change after the fact."-  William S. Burroughs

"Most people don't see what's going on around them. That's my principal message to writers: 'For God's sake, keep your eyes open. Notice what's going on around you." -  William S. Burroughs


"A paranoid is someone who knows a little of what's going on." -  William S. Burroughs


"Sometimes paranoia's just having all the facts." - William S. Burroughs


"How I hate those who are dedicated to producing conformity." -  William S. Burroughs



"Desperation is the raw material of drastic change. Only those who can leave behind everything they have ever believed in can hope to escape." - William S. Burroughs

"Anything that can be done chemically can be done by other means." -  William S. Burroughs

"It is indeed difficult to make a living as a writer, and my advice to anyone contemplating a literary career is to have some other trade." - William S. Burroughs

"Your mind will answer most questions if you learn to relax and wait for the answer." -  William S. Burroughs








zaterdag 14 oktober 2017

Ken Wilber : Trump and a Post-Truth World.

A provocative and balanced examination of our current social and political situation -- by a cutting-edge philosopher of our times.

The world is in turmoil. As populist waves roil the Brexit-bound U.K., along with Europe, Turkey, Russia, Asia—and most visibly, the U.S. with the election of Donald Trump—nationalist and extremist political forces threaten the progress made over many decades. Democracies are reeling in the face of nihilism and narcissism. How did we get here? And how, with so much antagonism, cynicism, and discord, can we mend the ruptures in our societies?
 
In this provocative work, philosopher Ken Wilber applies his Integral approach to explain how we arrived where we are and why there is cause for hope.  He lays much of the blame on a failure at the progressive, leading edge of society. This leading edge is characterized by the desire to be as just and inclusive as possible, and to it we owe the thrust toward women’s rights, the civil rights movement, the environmental movement, and the concern for oppression in all its forms. This is all evolutionarily healthy; what is unhealthy is a creeping postmodernism that is elitist, “politically correct,” insistent on an egalitarianism that is itself paradoxically hierarchical, and that looks down on “deplorables.” Combine this with the techno-economic demise of many traditional ways of making a living, and you get an explosive mixture. As Wilber says, for some Trump voters: “Everywhere you are told that you are fully equal and deserve immediate and complete empowerment, yet everywhere are denied the means to actually achieve it. You suffocate, you suffer, and you get very, very mad.”

It is only when members of society’s leading edge can heal themselves that a new, Integral evolutionary force can emerge to move us beyond the social and political turmoil of our current time to offer genuine leadership toward greater wholeness.


https://www.amazon.com/Trump-Post-Truth-World-Ken-Wilber-ebook/dp/B06ZZVPWTK

Harvard study, almost 80 years old, has proved that embracing community helps us live longer, and be happier.

Good genes are nice, but joy is better 

Harvard study, almost 80 years old, has proved that embracing community helps us live longer, and be happier

Close relationships, more than money or fame, are what keep people happy throughout their lives, the study revealed. Those ties protect people from life’s discontents, help to delay mental and physical decline, and are better predictors of long and happy lives than social class, IQ, or even genes. That finding proved true across the board among both the Harvard men and the inner-city participants.

https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2017/04/over-nearly-80-years-harvard-study-has-been-showing-how-to-live-a-healthy-and-happy-life/#_=_

Oproep van Jeroen Baeken.

Hallo, op 29/10 organiseren mijn vriendin Bo en ik een benefiet-festival t.v.v. een project in Marokko (regreen the desert), met o.a. een concert (waaraan we zelf ook deelnemen) en een authentiek Marokkaanse couscous maaltijd. Zie je het zitten om dit kenbaar te maken bij mensen die hiervoor interesse zouden kunnen hebben? Dit is de evenement-pagina: https://www.facebook.com/events/730337427158667/ Alvast bedankt! Groetjes, Jeroen.

Doctor Says We Now Share Our Planet With New Species Of Humans

A doctor claims she has found evidence of a new species of human beings living among us who have superior cognitive abilities due to their alien DNA. 
Dr. Mary Rodwell, a hypnotherapist and ufo expert, says she has spent years studying ‘Star Children’ – a race of hybrid beings who allegedly descend from aliens.
Hiddenfacts.net reports: According to her, there’s an increase in the number of young children who claim to be aliens, and this is independent of contact with the media. In fact, this new human race derives from abductions and alien experiments, something that Rodwell could indirectly witness through the regression therapy sessions she had held with many patients that had been abducted by aliens. The experiences they shared were good enough evidence for the researcher to believe that a new species of humans is living among us.
According to Rodwell, “They are upgraded. They have the ability to think and reason way above the curve. The children had a lot more conscious awareness of multi-dimensional experiences. While their parents were afraid of the experiences relayed by the children, the children spoke naturally of their experiences.”
One thing that distinguishes these people from the rest of us is the different perception they have of the world. Rodwell believes that a number of conditions including Asperger’s and ADHD these children are diagnosed with are in fact a sign of hidden abilities directly resulting from genetic manipulation by a technologically-advanced alien race.
Should this prove true, the so-called ‘junk DNA’ in our genome could provide a range of cognitive functions that have never been studied by science. Unlike past decades, today we have much more information relative to these syndromes. However, we have a lot more to learn as we still have no evidence how one gene influences another and how deep the roots go. Generally speaking, modern science hasn’t yet reached the level where it can fully understand and explain the subtle mechanism through which life constantly upgrades.
The Human Genome Project’s Prof. Sam Chang, one of the first specialists to promote the idea that junk DNA is of extraterrestrial origin, is of the same opinion.
According to him, “These alien sequences have their own systems and resist certain drugs.”
Although evolution largely depends on adaptation, these processes take thousands of years to become a standard. Taken that there is such a wide gap between two successive generations, the only reasonable explanation is that there must be an external factor accountable for this manipulation of the human genome.
What we are still wondering about is whether all of humanity will eventually become activated to a ‘higher intelligence’ when the aliens arrive. Or we’ll become museum exhibits alongside the Neanderthals we made extinct with our bigger brains and appetites. And most importantly, are we driving ourselves towards the end of us as a result of our desires?
The video below provides the answers to some of these questions.

Fighting for the survival of Art and Religion.

In "A Brave New World" van Aldous Huxley worden mensen die geen soma willen nemen niet begrepen (misschien zijn dàt wel de wakkere en gelukkige burgers onder ons, als je op lange termijn denkt). Een maatschappij zonder kunst en godsdienst pleegt zelfmoord.

https://www.bol.com/nl/f/god-is-een-vluchteling/9200000052040306/

Trump Takes Down Two Dozen Pedophiles In Hollywood And Washington.

Over two dozen pedophiles, including politicians, government officials and Hollywood celebrities, have been arrested thanks to President Donald Trump. 
Since Trump’s election victory last November elite pedophiles such as Harvey Weinstein, Jeff Epstein, Anthony Weiner, Mark Salling and eleven Democratic mayors have been arrested or are currently embroiled in major pedophilia scandals.
Lizcrokin.com reports: The powerful peers of these sexual predators and pedophiles have vigorously protected them for decades; however, now they’re no longer safe. Trump is fully committed to exposing and stopping the sexual criminality and child sex trafficking that’s run rampant in DC and Hollywood for far too long.
On Feb. 23, during a listening session at the White House on human trafficking Trump said: “Dedicated men and women across the federal government have focused on this for some time — as you know it’s been much more focused over the last four weeks.” Trump meant what he said and wasted no time going after child sexual predators. During Trump’s first month in office alone, authorities arrested over 1500 individuals for charges related to pedophilia. The mainstream media not only has refused to cover child sex trafficking among the elites, they’ve actively covered up for pedophiles because many in the media are involved. However, I wrote in February that this story would eventually get so big that the mainstream media will be forced to cover this epidemic. We’ve finally reached that boiling point.
On Thursday The New York Times released a bombshell report revealing that movie mogul Harvey Weinstein of the Weinstein Company has paid off at least eight women who claimed he sexually assaulted them. He made sexual advances toward Ashley Judd, told an employee on her first day that he’d boost her career if she accepted his sexual advances and forced another employee to give him a massage, according to the report. Although there are no public reports of Weinstein sexually assaulting children or downloading child pornography, he has aggressively defended Roman Polanski who was convicted of raping a 13-year-old girl. Not only did Weinstein stick up for the pedophile, he campaigned for the courts to commute his sentence by starting a petition and wrote an entire op-ed on his behalf titled Polanski Has Served His Time & Must Be Freed. Meryl Streep gave Roman Polanksi a standing ovation at the Oscars after he was convicted of child rape and Whoopi Goldberg insisted the sexual assault of the child not a real rape. “I know it wasn’t rape-rape,” Goldberg said.
Not only does Weinstein have slew of close A-list friends such as Streep and Jay-Z, he’s also close with both former President Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton. The disgraced mogul is so tight with these Democratic leaders that he visited the White House 13 times while Obama was in office and held a fundraiser for Clinton at his private Manhattan home last June. Disturbingly, Obama’s daughter, Malia, interned for Weinstein’s company in New York during a break before college.
On Tuesday former Glee star Mark Salling plead guilty to one possession of child pornography stemming from an indictment filed last year. He admitted to downloading over 50,000 images and videos of child pornography. Multiple women have accused Salling of sexual assault.
Former “Sons of Guns” star Will Hayden was sentenced to life in prison in May for raping two children. Hayden was found guilty of repeatedly raping two female victims for years between the age of 11 and 13-years-old. Hayden’s daughter, Stephanie, who also starred on the show, was arrested in 2014 on allegations of child abuse. She allegedly allowed her son to be physically abused by her husband. She said her father preyed on her as a child, and that her father raped one of the alleged victims “almost daily” for a year.
Earlier this week news broke that Clinton close ally and convicted pedophile Jeffrey Epstein has paid $5.5 million to settle lawsuits filed by three of the more than two dozen teens who sued him. Epstein was accused of recruiting dozens of underage girls as sex slaves and for his wealthy friends. He reportedly trafficked many of the minors on his private island that was visited by Bill Clinton about two dozen times according to flight logs. A source claims Hillary went to the island several times as well. On September 25, a judged sentenced Anthony Weiner, another close ally of the Clintons, to 21 months in jail for sexting with a minor. Weiner’s wife, Huma Abedin, has worked as Clinton’s top aide while she was Secretary of State and during both of her presidential campaigns.
Not only are most of the elite politicians and celebrities arrested tied to the Clintons, many of them are Democrats. There’s a staggering 11 liberal mayors accused of child sex-related crimessince 2016. Also, authorities arrested Mayor Bill de Blasio staffer and CNN guest Jacob Schwartzfor child porn in New York on May 25. Schwartz had 3,000 images of child porn including the rape of a 6-month-old baby. Schwartz’s father, Arthur Schwartz, is a labor lawyer and a prominent Democratic insider. Even though Schwartz appeared on CNN, the network has refused to cover this story to this day. I confronted Jake Tapper on video over the summer at Politicon and asked him why CNN has refused to cover the arrest of Schwartz and other elite pedophiles. Tapper was unable to offer me an explanation. Senator Bob Menendez is accused of sleeping with multiple prostitutes in the Dominican Republic including a minor. The Democratic senator from New Jersey is currently on trial for bribery and corruption charges.
Although most of the elite pedophiles who have been arrested are registered Democrats, there are some big name Republicans involved in pedophilia-related scandals too. Former Oklahoma State Senator Ralph Shortey was charged with child sex trafficking, production of child pornography and two counts of transportation of child pornography involving a prepubescent girl and young boys in March. The former Republican senator attempted to solicit sex from a 17-year-old boy. Shortey was elected to the Oklahoma Senate in 2010 and served till he resigned after his arrest earlier this year. A new accuser filed a lawsuit against Dennis Hastert in May alleging the former Speaker of the House sodomized him decades ago. Hastert was indicted in 2015 for paying hush money to victims he admitted to molesting when they were children as he served as their wrestling coach from 1965 to 1981.
Shockingly, many of the pedophile-related arrests under Trump’s Department of Justice have included law enforcement and judicial elites who are in positions that require them to protect children from pedophiles. For example, former Virginia sex crimes detective Bruce Arlie Harvey pleaded guilty in August to multiple charges of sex crimes against children. Harvey, who also worked as a karate instructor, sexually abused multiple female students who were approximately 13-years-old. The abuse of the children last several years. Former Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department psychologist Michael Dane Ward was convicted in August of multiple sexual assaults of two young children. He faces a possible life sentence for the crimes, which involved oral copulation, sodomy and lewd acts on children under the age of 10.
Palm Beach County sheriff’s deputy Adam W. Godbey is facing child pornography charges after more than 30 images and videos were found on a cellphone and laptop at his home. Authorities arrested Godbey after a tip was sent to the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children about child porn being uploaded to a website. Godbey was hired by the sheriff’s office in 2013. Former well-respected Massachusetts cop Richard Woodhead plead guilty to child pornography charges in April. The 54-year-old was placed on administrative leave and has since retired.
New York Sheriff’s Deputy Peter Farnum was arrested on child porn charges in July. The Saratoga County officer is accused of using a home computer to download and store more than 14,000 files of child pornography. Former DC police officer Chukwuemeka Ekwonna was indicted in August on charges of sex trafficking of minors and enticement of minors to engage in prostitution. Prosecutors say that in June of 2012 Ekwonna exchanged messages with minors – including a 14 and 15-year-old girl – offering to pay them to engage in sex acts with him. Ekwonna met up with the 15-year-old in January and allegedly pointed a handgun at the victim in the back seat of his car and demanded she give him back the money he had just paid her.
Former Secret Service agent Lee Robert Moore was sentenced to 20 years in prison on Thursday for sending sexually explicit messages to minors while on duty at the White House. Moore plead guilty in March to enticement of a minor to engage in sexual activity and attempting to transfer obscene materials to a minor. He was fired after his arrest in 2015. Authorities charged California’s former deputy attorney general Raymond Joseph Liddy, 53, with possession of child porn in July after they found images of children engaging in sexual conduct on a computer and a thumb drive in his home. Liddy is the son of former FBI agent and lawyer G. Gordon Liddy. G directed the burglary of the Democratic National Committee headquarters in June of 1972 in the Watergate scandal.
These elite pedophile arrests are just the tip of the iceberg. Weinstein was the first big domino to fall in Hollywood. However, you can rest assured that many more elite child sexual predators – particularly big names in DC and in the entertainment business – will be arrested. When the full truth comes out about how rampant child sex trafficking is in this country, particularly among the elites, the public will remember who had the courage to address this horrendous issue and who chose to turn a blind eye to the rape and torture of infants and kids. As Navy Seal and founder of Veterans for Child Rescue Craig Sawyer has stated, Trump is dedicated to stopping this evil that’s plagued our great nation for far too long. “We’ve got a President now who’s not OK with children being raped and tortured to death so thank God,” Sawyer said.