Tuesday, 24 September 2024

REQUIEM 24 - temple redux autumn '24 edition









A  N E W  W O R L D  A L B U M
1 9 9 4  -  2 0 2 4


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Welcome to Temple Redux – Autumn 2024 edition.
A few nips & tucks – shorter/more streamlined.
In the 30 years this album has evolved
I think it's the best version. 

It should be noted that these are collaborations with others in other parts of the world.
All credited in the blog, website & YouTube. Thank you for watching and listening.




watch/listen to all 10 clips
on TEMPLE REDUX on one page
on my website






E Q U I E M  2 4
A R G E N T I N A . A N G O L A

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optimized for night vision
remixed & remastered 06.24


a jim lamarche remix
from the album TEMPLE REDUX
assembled in photoshop, logic audio & final cut

featuring the Roland System 8


source music w/pedro aznar


featuring: 
ron allen - EWI reed controller
alun davies - fretless bass
lia pas - oboe

















see the TEMPLE REDUX album/page here >>>




see the ONE LIFE album/page here >>>
http://www.jimlamarche.ca/onelife/




see the new TWO LIVES album/page here >>>
http://www.jimlamarche.ca/twolives/



see the new THREE LIVES album/page here >>>








read more of Jim's blog posts here 

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listen to the youtube album ONE LIFE  >>>  HERE
(play all)




a raglan manor production
june '24



special thanks to GRADO LABS in Brooklyn NY
for understanding how headphones
should be made











Z D Z
POLAND



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Monday, 16 September 2024

JIMMY JONES is - out in the night



I'm on your side. Time is on our side
All I want is you to see
There's a nuclear storm, raging over this land
and I am the only one who'll set you free.


watch/listen - Jimmy Jones video
below/bottom




JIMMY JONE
is out in the night



 






After 10 years researching our bi-polarity, 
I've come to a confident conclusion. 
The gap has widened.

I know, Captain Obvious strikes again.
All relevant.



The Suggestion

I mean, ok ... we humans are so very open to suggestion, providing it fits nicely in our comfort zone. The grifted gullibility. For instance, we like the idea of someone, preferably a man, to take control of all the shit we have to deal with, telling us what to do. Even better, if WE benefit more than others


Cruel to be kind. Tough love. Necessary.

I'll give you this, many Liberals come across as being precocious, even indignant at times, changing the rules and demanding they be followed and most Conservatives LOVE playing the victim card. Insecurity, resentment, blame & shame. Problems are ALWAYS someone else's fault. They don't care because it doesn't matter. You're either a winner or loser and when I win? You will most certainly lose and FREEDOM? Is conditional, depending on how I feel that day. Honestly? I don't see one as any worse than the other, just dangerously different.  

Stuck in the muck.


The Blinding Halo


I wrote a blog post in Feb. 2016 called THE SUICIDE COLLECTIVE shortly after the first Trump Presidency began. 
It was a sordid affair based on what I was seeing, not unlike the shit-storm we are entering into again ... only amplified this time. None of that really mattered, then. A tongue in cheek overview of humanity if you will; some restraint, with an option to take it seriously, if the reader wishes to. An elective.


Nothing permanent.








The Suicide Collective


I posted it shortly after writing it. A suggestion that millions of Americans (in particular) are/were in fact (at that time) committing suicide. I know. WHAT??  Ok figuratively. A stretch? Definitely. A Jimmy Jones/Jonestown narrative only expanded into a christian nationalist movement called MAGA. A faint whiff of desperation in a willingness to self destruct should it become necessary.

No one was interested in my gruelling diatribe. Maybe 10 views, no comments/feedback. The quintessential blog failure. Later thinking, maybe I’m just ahead of my time lol. The idea hangs on 9 years later, gaining traction, at least in my imagination. Since then we have regressed and the observation seems even more real. A tragic trajectory impairing most best case scenarios. Ok, it's getting harder to remain optimistic. That said? I am. It's all so perilously precarious and now it's very much Canadian too. Sad. Young men in particular. Wanting and needing revenge, retribution ... payback and almost willing to go down for it.

Why young men though? Is it a thirst for war? So let's create one? A pent up need to inflict? Succumbing to the role of the armchair warrior with fantasies of combat in a growling grunt?


Silently staring into the screen, seething at the possibility. It's just so much easier to become consoled in conjecture and wallow in anger & despair than try to remain positive, and so ... 

Let's bring it home (to Papa).









EPILOGUE

A new MO/modus operandi for those following their malicious master. If this all blows up then so be it. I'd rather die with dignity, than surrender to a weaker woke ideology. All quite sensible actually. Standing for what we believe in. Heroic yes? I mean, we deserve better right (ok some of us) AND it's all grounded in good scripture - a sure fire elixir for most ailments that promote immortality.


Now? A righteous entitlement, handed down. Granted by the powers that be. Ours! Permission to purge. Permission to punish. 
And so it must continue as such right? Should this end of times continue spiralling like we want it to, shall we honour it with grace and glory.


Seems suicidal to me. 








Read THE SUICIDE COLLECTIVE: link below.

https://jimlamarche.blogspot.com/2023/10/the-suicide-collective-23.html





JIMMY JONE
is out in the night





















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Thursday, 12 September 2024

INFANTILE




If you're a child, you are curious about your environment.
You're overturning rocks. You're plucking leaves off of trees 
and petals off of flowers, looking inside things  

and you're doing things that create disorder 
in the lives of the adults around you.


Neil deGrasse Tyson




I N F A N T I L E
India/USA


volume up . 1080p















a jim lamarche remix
from the album TEMPLE REDUX
assembled in photoshop, logic audio & final cut

featuring the roland system 8

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source music w/dido & a.r. rahman




additional voices & synths
jim lamarche









'the most dystopian vids I've ever seen'
Carolynn Mathisen - YouTube



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see the ONE LIFE album/page here >>>
http://www.jimlamarche.ca/onelife/


see the new TWO LIVES album/page here >>>
see the new THREE LIVES album/page here >>>



see the TEMPLE REDUX album/page here >>>




















I N F A N T I L E
volume up . 1080p


a raglan manor production '24
SEPTEMBER 2024




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Wednesday, 11 September 2024

Visionary



change your heart - look around you


"the only language men ever speak perfectly
is the one they learn to speak in babyhood
when no one can teach them anything"

Maria Montessori



I S I O N A R Y








algebra?  why?
there's gotta be a reason
to learn this shit
because this whole 'reward' vs 'punishment' crap
just isn't working and

I'm not a numbers guy


chaos and confusion envelopes us early on
and we are filled with 'ideas' that throw us off course
ensconced in the world's insipid ideologies
handed down first by our parents
then our teachers/schools 
employers and so on
and on we go 











quarter century later
gravitating to the big city
because that's where we need to be
to be "in the loop"
a place where we can BE
someone 


today's special
flavour of the week
employee of the month
pushing forward because
that's what you're supposed
to do


it's no wonder why 
we need to 'medicate' 
in a jar


ah - all those precious memories


back to the days when young students - boys mostly
were strapped for misbehaving (boner, I mean bonus)
for their unwillingness to 
be compliant













I need your lovin' ... like the sunshine


in an abstract absence of empathy and humility
deliriously distracted denizens

 harassing those who are independent thinkers
for being unwilling to learn 
how to play the game
properly

it is a simple message
play by the rules and you'll be rewarded
question them and you'll be punished
plain and simple











truth is

we learn to 'adapt' to our surroundings
at an early age - reprimanded for rebelling
when in fact challenging the system 
is what all great thinkers did/do
to this day

only all too often many (most) of us are convinced 
early on that what we ultimately want
is something not possible

fear is instilled, then 
the waiting game begins

waiting for something better to come along
and release us from the cage
only it never does

accepting our fate, our chosen destiny
chosen by others - quietly coming to terms
with the crappy hand of cards we've been dealt because

that's just what you do
go ahead, have your way with me

I surrender



change your heart - look around you



I'm in heaven - I mean
ok, maybe I'll get lucky some day
maybe God will come down and give me a lap-dance
but only if I stick to the plan
and never question
the truth 

creature comforts
in the pleasure dome
glued to our sacred sacraments
in HD on our soiled screens

waiting
 











it's just a theory
that makes a lot more sense
to me 




I S I O N A R Y




as an artist/composer looking back
my favourite musical compositions are always
those created and conceived (and recorded) 
in a very short time-frame (minutes/hours)

thinking about it too much
just made it more elusive, distant
it's like it just arrives 
out of nowhere
 

with a simple invitation 














visionaries 
are those who see light in the darkness and quickly harness it
instead of ignoring the signs and signals

embracing them
turning nothing into something


change your heart
it will astound you 


if you care for your children
keep their environment uncluttered
free of useless gadgets and distractions
keep your conversation honest and straight-forward
free of control and manipulation
free of hidden agendas
free of fear
breathe












keeping one's decisions fair and generous
free of punishment and shame

and (most importantly) - free of blame

because fundamentally
we are all guilty 

of nothing





dedicated to Maria Montessori (1870-1952) 







Tuesday, 10 September 2024

ME TAKE




GREED is a bottomless pit which exhausts the person 
in an endless effort to satisfy the NEED 
without ever reaching SATISFACTION


Erich Fromm



M E  T A K E
w e l c o m e   t o   t h e   c o n


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Wake & bake,
Need a hit.


LOL. Laughing out loud, right kids?
Hand me your phone, I need to get this out there.
BAM. Nailed it. Bend over, yer gonna like.


The take-down will just be a few more minutes.
Out of the frying pan & into the fire I'm afraid.
You're in luck tho! Punishment? Does indeed appear
to be on the menu.

Both sides rotten 
both compromised
not surprised - terminal.
Crony capitalism has run its course
BUT c'mon, THE most corrupt administration
in U.S. history? Your vote?? Jesus man.
One last 'fuck you asshole' right?
Let's blow it up real good.
THAT'S the ticket
(how it's done).

Good job! YOU ROCK!
short term gain, long term pain
Can I be your friend?
Pass the bong,
need a hit.
FML KMN
SMD

Trumpism is kind of like smoking. Feels good.
A slow suicide in a life that doesn't
really matter anyway.











That said, 
This new populist conservatism
is just a flash in the pan
once everyone sees it
for what it is

A con.



optimized for night vision



a jim lamarche remix
assembled in photoshop, logic audio & final cut

featuring the Roland System 8


source music w/johannes hedberg & daniel vadestrid




















see the ONE LIFE album/page here >>>
http://www.jimlamarche.ca/onelife/


see the new TWO LIVES album/page here >>>
see the new THREE LIVES album/page here >>>



see the TEMPLE REDUX album/page here >>>



see the SPEARMINT LAKE album/page here >>>
http://www.jimlamarche.ca/spearmintlake/














read more of Jim's blog posts here 




E  T A K E
w e l c o m e   t o   t h e   c o n




volume up . 1080p




special thanks to GRADO LABS in Brooklyn NY
for understanding how headphones
should be made


























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