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2011 YEAR IN REVIEW

@ Molly-Rose. @Hitch Fan. @ Raccoon Society,
Hey Hitch Fan & Raccoon Society, Hey Molly-Rose :)
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I perused a quote about reason and faith, here, so just wanted to leave a quick insight. Times still ticking. So, get ready, like the countdown goes, remember get your dose of Caffeine and ample supply ready, time is here and now, handy keys to the DeLorean, ready, count it down .... 4,3... is seven,2,1... twenty-one go!
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Bringing in “reason” as a debatable perspective is an arbitrary moot inception of hanging on over a cliff after getting caught in suspended animation. In earnest, I’d rather crony up with a like-minded anarchist that befuddles the imposition-ers of faith is somehow equatable to ever be torn asunder by absence of reason as a supposed and dull exploitive of why not to have faith or presumes faith constraints reason. How tired and bored is that perspective, faith is sans reason, etcetera, as how tired and uninspired the word medley of “how tired and uninspired” is in a sentence. Truly, think, open-mindedly, if you are going to stand to incept reason into the mixture.
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Faith is not constraint of reason. Human expectations are the constraint of reason. When you expect an outcome, expecting defies the natural progression of reason and the possibilities of reason, cause and natural common-sense by reason. Esp if an expectation is only geared or rendered for a specific outcome that is meant to propagate a furnished idea – that is what constraints reason and undermines reason. Faith itself is not a constraint in and of itself.

Faith scrutinizes reason in the same manner that reason scrutinizes faith. Even if you are construing my comments in a sense of Biblical faith, (my own affections on Faith is, faith is faith, regardless of own individual’s personal sentiments) it should be applied to bare it as a pertinent truth of your conscience, if it is in tune with your own accordance of Faith. The insight is similar of a notion and passage Mat Devine shared in a previous entry, from the Bible in 1 Thessalonians “"Test all things and cling to that which is good." 1 Thes. 5:2
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The insight is, by mere contemplative states of the least of reality that is truly, utterly, ever known or knowable is dependent upon the realization those that follow the limited intelligence of humanity are no different or variable than those who believe in an infinite power or being. Except, that, the latter ones are not contained w/ limits of other people’s interpretations as to what the individual(s) believe or have faith in believing. In other words, of course, there is an open defiance of censorship. As the effect of censorship in many formulations is non-productive or progressive, plus attempts to suppress individuality and environmental compatibility and functionality. Individuals have an innate right and will, to believe / have faith in what sets their own life in accord with how they truly feel and be able to live according to a sound in-tact own conscience. The utopic is it ought to be a morally/ethically approach that is not projecting undue negative renderances into another person’s life. Give and take , choose battles, our world is further everyday from a utopia considering the majority has shunned itself to ignoring the dystopic qualties that are here right now and that media at large has veiled in elaborate dunce cap shrouding that dystopic societies are in the future although the dystopic future written about as Fiction is actually happening now. If you need hot lead dead giveaway tell-tale, read the Hunger Games. Reality shows and a corresponding match like Survivor and the way our governments handle it citizens and slowly revolve into revolutions is starkly illuminating in contrast to what science and governments would sooner have you believing recently. Citric awakening happens, just like heads up 7-up, goes round by round like kisses on the forehead of what you’re willing to fight for and go to battle.
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Morning tune ready for the day: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vSkb0kDacjs
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Personally, I think, plus, prefer, to be limitless w/ willingly choosing to have faith in an infinite that harkens possibilities that exuberate all realities and endless potential for the greater good and bless those who are willing with talents that incorporate into their environments rather than something that devoids humanity of its own existence and destroying itself within by the contraptions of limiting itself like is so often seen and has already been duly established by the acts of science and people having a follow mentality to the state of science and scientists own propulsions of ideas and constructed basis’s that are feasibly assembled for mass production to the herd mentality that those of lower I.Q’s or sheer follow mentality will gobble up without having to test and proof it and prove that the theory itself or basis of scientific belief is sketchy. Esp taking into vantage perspective, equal opportunity intelligent licensures that can compute the information readily on-hand and disseminated to be shredded apart by the citizens sans academic luxury degrees handling inspecting statistics, quantities and exacts, in other words, the scientific misnomers blatantly compiled as derivations alleged to be fact sans exact intricate intra-acted ways of actually testing and provable.
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Thus this ///.... “"Faith is the surrender of the mind; it's the surrender of reason, it's the surrender of the only thing that makes us different from other mammals. It's our need to believe, and to surrender our skepticism and our reason, our yearning to discard that and put all our trust or faith in someone or something, that is the sinister thing to me." ~ Christopher Hitchen ...////
The quoted sentiment is also a mentality that ought be evenly distributed and thus applied to science in the same rigor of scrutiny; otherwise, science in a whole would be an easily reasonable standing on reason sham completely. People whom fully put their faith (be earnest and real, that that’s what is happening) into science, as a bunch of atheists often do blindly, are, again, as I wrote briefly to “Fellow Heathen” no different than the people they claim they are different from whom have faith including certain atheists that are attempting to devalue those individuals whom believe faith in God or deity/deities, et al. So, let’s prevent the ostracization by some ethos that eludes incorporating the fragility of the argument done towards only shunning the hypocrisy of its actions in statement, as is clear with the ///....“Of all the supposed virtues, faith must be the most overrated.”...//// bit of the quote. Anyone with a brain embedded permeating reason plus own foresight is able to tear it tinker tape red, pulling apart the fallibility of the application of exclusion. So, well, let’s say it for what it is, for those who may get a bit riled or bewildered by the notion that that Hitchens quote has to be able to stand soundly to its own accord and then some to win over anything in such a debatable topic of query. Which whoever posted it aka the person behind “Hitch Fan” left it to, what is surmised as an attempted permissive gainer for something it isn’t rather than be seen for what it is. It is what it is; so let it stand to be, and let it be what it is.

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So, what to do, what to do…carry a smile, just smile at all times, esp. smitten. :) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tKrbAUjBbvU&ob=av2e
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Charles Kingsley, said, ///....“And we shall be made truly wise if we be made content; content, too, not only with what we can understand, but content with what we do not understand—the habit of mind which theologians call—and rightly—faith in God.”...////
If you consider the application of – ///....“we shall be made truly wise if we be made content; content, too, not only with what we can understand, but content with what we do not understand”...//// – you would sooner or later come to deriving the conclusion, if you apply it to theologians that it would then need fairly be dispersed to be applied to scientists and science’s schematics, as well.
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Since, yes, a bunch did catch the flip-syde subtleties and am no longer so-so much M.I.A on-the-grid stats as prior (except at a backwards C//S, let those bones right ;) and sticking true and loyal to odes n’ codes Patrick Henry stylistic lovers “Give me Liberty or Give me death” stance of a prose writer and a bit of an unconventionalist, by art and its unconfined nature, I’d rather par up with movers and doers and standers, with the following quotes. As, this vantage scope of the playing field is where and why art comes into play and tests the grounds. Art endures. Art offers the companionship of the formidable connections of now, urgency and longevity. Legacy – such a regale atoning attenuation intonation inflection to the word while delivering an infliction to naysayers. Cruxly, appropos, regardless, if all there is, is this, every day, every time, I’d rather know within all is aligned in my soul anytime death knocks. Just, must gotta have something to share and faith upon for all those marvelous and wonder-filled death feats after-all. Nil sin Numine.
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Maybe humanities’ expectations need to be readjusted? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HO1OV5B_JDw
“Skepticism Is The Beginning Of Faith.” ~ Oscar Wilde
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///....“In faith there is enough light for those who want to believe and enough shadows to blind those who don't.”...//// ~ Blaise Pascal
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///....“I heard once of an American who so defined faith, "that faculty which enables us to believe things which we know to be untrue." For one, I follow that man. He meant that WE SHALL HAVE AN OPEN MIND, AND NOT LET A LITTLE BIT OF TRUTH CHECK THE RUSH OF THE BIG TRUTH, like a small rock does a railway truck. WE GET THE SMALL TRUTH first. Good! We keep him, and we value him, BUT ALL THE SAME WE MUST NOT LET HIM THINK HIMSELF ALL THE TRUTH IN THE UNIVERSE.”...//// ~ Bram Stoker, Dracula
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///....“We fall from womb to tomb, from one blackness and toward another, remembering little of the one and knowing nothing of the other...except through faith.”...////~ Stephen King
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///....“That in such righteousness /// To them by faith imputed they may find ///
Justification towards God, and peace /// Of conscience.”...//// ~ John Milton
Ciao.
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NL7, hi-5alive! on January 25, 2012 at 04:11 PM
2011 YEAR IN REVIEW

Mat I recently started my GCSEs and I'm stressing out so much. I've only had two exams so far and they were Maths and History. I have to resit my maths because I didn't get a C and I think I have failed my history exam.
I learned today that you have to get at least a C in Maths, English and Science to be able to get into sixth form and I started crying because I don't think I'll be able to get into sixth form now. But to be able to do what I want when I'm older I'll need to go.

Becky on January 24, 2012 at 03:59 PM
2011 YEAR IN REVIEW

Hey Mat! I think you might find this interesting.. Especially the lack of information we've gotten about ACTA.

http://anonops.blogspot.com/2012/01/things-you-need-to-know-about-acta.html

hanners on January 24, 2012 at 10:18 AM
20 QUESTIONS- Lightning Round PART II: My Breakup with Snooki, Marriage, Music, Public Puking and more...

Mat, what do you think a cure for shyness and when you can't say things right around people you like is ?

Valerie on January 21, 2012 at 01:15 AM
2011 YEAR IN REVIEW

Dear Mat,
I am 16 and I've been invited to my mum's best friend's birthday do in April. She's having it in a posh Hotel and Lodge in the countryside and it sounds great! It's strictly 18+ but I've been told I'm allowed to go which is great!
The catch? I have no idea what to wear. It's advised that girls wear address and, after prom, there is no chance in hell that I will be caught wearing a dress! It made me feel so uncomfortable. So, I need your advice. What should I wear? I don't exactly have a lot of money to spend and I don't want to go looking like someone I'm not. Have you any ideas? Oh, I forgot to mention, it's a masquerade so any thoughts on what type of mask I should go for? Thanks Mat, see you in March.

Hannah

Hannah on January 20, 2012 at 04:27 PM

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Final Studio Days

Posted on May 26, 2009 at 12:04 AM

Listening to: daisy chainsaw- hope your dreams come true

Drinking: hoegaarden, throat coat tea

Eating: Cabo shrimp borritos

Thank Allah for urban dictionary.com. Just realized I’ve been referring to loose women as ‘dumpster chickens’ all this time, when in actuality they are simply ‘chicken heads.’

I was in the studio lost-and-found looking for a charger, and grabbed this gigantic shirt left behind by a member of Kanye’s posse. Been wearing it when I sing for good luck.

We are in the final days of recording in Chicago, while simultaneously sending songs off to David Bottrill to mix in Toronto. The pace is furious, and whatever margin for error may have existed 2 weeks ago, is gone. 12-hour days of constant multi-tasking. in addition to album title, legal, artwork, photo and vid plans. Yesterday felt beyond burned out. –like, you know what? I’m just gona take a couple Russian brides and go live on a fucking yak farm for the rest of my life. that’s what. –but then I heard the final mix of Acid Rain and my adventurer's spirit was fully renewed.

The Chicago Children’s Choir came in to sing on two songs last week, and it just melted me. Working for a few hours with the conductor and over 20 trained and soulful vocalists, then hearing the lush angelic harmonies- it was like nothing i'd ever heard, and by far one of the most fulfilling and artistically rewarding experiences of my life.

Just bought a Bluetooth headset for my Blackberry--so funny when things are designed specifically to look futuristic, as if all people in the future somehow look like extras from Judge Dredd or professional Laser Tag players. For my own entertainment tho I’ve begun to confuse the assistant engineer, Jeff, by locking eye contact with him for the full duration of my Bluetooth conversations with other people. Try it, it's messed up.

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Studio Update ; lyrics

Posted on May 18, 2009 at 02:58 AM

Eating: V 2410’s, 50-day dry-aged bone-in rib eye rare + (oscar style)

Drinking: green tea, vino nobile di montepulciano

Listening to: smashing pumpkins machina, new KH rough mixes

Netflix: Taken

Reading: Papa Hemingway

I don’t actually remember chewing and swallowing a cup full of razorblades, but judging from soreness of my throat, I must have. To stay the course on this album, I’ve had to record vocals for about 4 hours every day. Funny how “the right take” always seems to occur on the verge of total collapse.

My regular schedule continues noon til midnight, but some of the team are even pulling all-nighters. i could not possibly be more pleased although my fucking cab this morning smelled like creamed corn and Lou Ferrigno’s dick. Attended the opening of the modern wing at the Art Inst of Chicago. So desperate was I for a drink that I nearly tried Absolut Peppar.

Had an incredible day with the talented benji maddon, who generously came in to slay backups and harmonies on four songs.

Tomorrow the Chicago Children’s Choir is coming in to the studio to sing on a ballad entitled Living In Misery:

“You and I, we are the sons and daughters of kings

and I want to live for centuries

Joan of Arc and Josephine

Now you’re one of us

so this is your new symphony

This is the tempo and the key

This is the song we have to sing

We are living in misery

but we have to hold on

Yes we have to hold on”

as always, a couple random pics from my blackberry:

irony.

‘Taken’ is a dazzling revenge film in the same vein as Bourne, and Man On Fire. However, hands down, the absolute worst ‘special features’ menu in history: just a trailer for Notorious. Wow. Thanks.

my new painting by Wirrow -restretched and framed.

Recent gift: a Napoleanic coin from 1811.

My arm.

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Vital Sounds Part VIII: The Cure Featuring Milla Jovovich

Posted on May 11, 2009 at 07:31 PM

I can trace the origins of my taste for darker music back to early childhood when the only vinyl in the entire house was The Carpenters The Singles 1969-1973. Commonly misperceived as wholesome and disposable saccharine pop, in truth much of that album is unbelievably deep and sad. Looking back I think my mom may have unknowingly raised me with sort of musical training wheels for the goth stuff that I’d be drawn to in 8th grade.

Cut to present day, the Notorious M.A.T. is 4’ taller but still staring at bedroom ceilings, still connecting on a deep level to strange emotive songs.

Case in point: Underneath The Stars by The Cure. This remix for the Underworld soundtrack features haunting vocals by milla jovovich and is guaranteed to melt your cold little raccoon heart the way it did mine

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OP ED: Same Sex Marriage.

Posted on May 8, 2009 at 10:06 AM

Believe it or not, Miss California is STILL KINDA the subject of controversy for her conservative answer to Perez Hilton’s loaded question on the subject of same sex marriage.

Under that much pressure, it must be difficult to improvise an articulate answer to any question, let alone one with so much gravity and consequence. -but in the seclusion and comfort of the studio here, I’d like to think I could do better job…

Perez Hilton: “Mat, Vermont recently became the fourth state to legalize same sex marriage. Do you think every state should follow suit? Why or why not?"

Mat Devine: “Perez, let me answer that question with another question. Do you know any married couples? Do they seem really happy to you? Does it look like something 'sacred' that’s worth fighting for? I don’t know… -to me, fighting for the right to get married is like fighting for the right to give blood.

I kid. I kid. The answer is simple.

I think that for all of our modernity and progress, we as Americans still sometimes cling to principles that are outdated and obsolete. While I understand the importance of preserving one’s heritage and maintaining certain traditional values, there comes a point at which common sense must prevail. It wasn’t long ago that women were prohibited from voting, and African Americans were prohibited from owning land. In hindsight these things seem silly and even barbaric, though at the time they were debated with great intensity. Likewise, I HOPE there will be a day in the near future when we as a country look back on the year 2009 with a sense of embarrassment and shame, that the subject of same sex marriage was ever “controversial” to begin with.. -because some of us were still too mired in an antiquated moral code to see the simple truth: that discrimination in any way whatsoever for sexual orientation is so fucking passé its disturbing, and that love and happiness are all that actually matters.”

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Raccoon in Overdrive. 3 Weeks left to Deliver the Album of Our Lives.

Posted on May 7, 2009 at 11:12 AM

This recording schedule is giving me swine flu.

Sitting here half frog eyed just trying to collect my thoughts. As my crusty laptop slowly reboots I try to do the same. Vision. Check. Memory. Check. Vocabulary. Uh. Beep. Voice. Shredded. There was a time back in college when my food stipend ran out, so all I ate was cough drops for 3 days. Cherry Ludens. That’s kinda how lightheaded I feel right now.

In order to deliver the album on time, we’re tracking, comping, editing, programming and mixing at 4 different studios at the same time.

Tuesday, I worked with elias tracking drums at Groovemaster studios for 8 hours (he killed it) went over guitar and bass parts with dan and greg at our rehearsal space, set up and worked til the early morning with our programmer john bourke in my home studio, sleep for 4 hours.

Startled awake at 7am to the terrifying sound of a man outside my window. Did I mention that I live on the 14^th floor?

-swallow handful of Life Extension vitamins with a beer. take cab to Full Motion to listen to edits and transfer session files, learn also that Sting has outbid us for the additional space we needed, another cab to Chicago Recording Company to track vocals, chug tea and tweak lyrics to Escape Artistry, back to my studio to supervise programming on New York City Speed, back to Full Motion to advise on the drum comps for Mouth To Mouth, Living in Misery and Vultures (working titles), back to my studio to track down the MIDI for T.O.K.Y.O, create Protools session for The Promise, work on album cover concept, arrange for children's choir to sing on 3 songs, open mail to learn that there is a warrant for my arrest in Los Angeles and… that’s basically the pace.

As I was recording vocals, the engineer said, “there’s a real desperation in your voice that works well with the song.” Dude, if you only knew.

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Message to the King of Pop: Please Get Weirder.

Posted on May 4, 2009 at 04:55 AM

Listening to: U2: Breathe, Magnificent. Fever Ray: When I Grow Up. Ministry, Stigmata.

Netflix: Immortal Beloved, King of New York

Eating: Tilapia sliders, Life Extension pills

Drinking: 2006 Barossa Valley Fetish Playmates Shiraz

YouTube searches: U2 Letterman, moray eel attacks, bizarre foods vietnam

(pic from Christian Siriano fash show)

Michael Jackson just sold out 50 nights at Wembly Arena in 6 hours. six. fucking. hours. That’s literally like a million tickets. In one place! In the midst of a global recession! what a bold message to send to whoever may have judged him unkindly over the last several years.

To anyone that thinks he’s a bit eccentric for owning a chimpanzee, drinking wine with boys and having a carousel in his yard… Are you kidding me?? Just for a second, try to imagine being that obscenely huge. If i had that power for one day, I’d show you the true meaning of the word eccentric. When you can sell out 50 nights at Wembley in 6 hours, you ARE the law.

It should be carved into the Constitution that MJ be granted the title of 'Emperor' and the name of some ferocious Aztec deity. If the guy wants to live like Nero, he’s earned it. -A goddamn carousel? SO WHAT. Only ONE monkey? Fuck that, he should have an army of silverback apes all dressed like Napoleon, riding on ostriches. -train them to dance in unison and juggle and do cool shit. He should have smaller monkeys with little motorcycle helmets riding pink flamingos and jousting one another. He should have jewel-encrusted crocodiles wandering in his kitchen eating the monkeys and fucking each other. He should have weekly beheadings and gladiator events. He should build a vomitorium and a golden sex palace for boys at the center of the earth.

You think it’s strange that he dresses his children in veils? Just wait til the time comes when His Majesty fully realizes his potential and actually starts thinking ‘outside the box’ for a change. Believe me, you’ll be nostalgic for these simpler days when all he was doing was chopping his nose off and riding roller coasters.

One has to wonder tho, what’s the next level of success AFTER this? Why not just buy Rhode Island, chop down every tree and house in the entire state, kill every person, build a 20’ electric fence around the border and perform on a giant pavilion in the ocean. Or maybe LiveNation can buy the fucking Moon, and MJ can play a show there, and charge fans for special telescopes to watch the show and a Miracle Ear to point into space and jam out. Or maybe the scientists that work on his face can engineer special rats and billions of bumblebees with tiny speakers built into their backs to overtake the planet and then simply transmit the audio and PROJECT the concert on the to surface of the full moon. Either way, whatever’s next I just hope he doesn’t steal my nuclear sub tour idea.

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