There's A Need For A Ritual And

If You Can Create A Reality That Is Entirely Fictitious, It Doesn't Owe Anything To This Stuff Out Here, But You Interact With It On Your Own Terms. I Mean, If You Took It To The Point Where Finally You Get, Say, Tactile Feedback, So You Were Wired In In Terms Of The Whole Nervous System. The Sensorium. You Would Have The Ultimate Art Form. I Mean, Any Painter Would Want It, Any Filmmaker Would Want Access To It You Know, Any Musician Would Want Access To It. It Would Eliminate The Need For The Divisions Between What We Describe As The Arts, Converting The Whole Thing To Experience.

You Have To Get Past The Idea That Music Has To Be One Thing. To Be Alive In America Is To Hear All Kinds Of Music Constantly: Radio, Records, Churches, Cats On The Street, Everywhere Music. And With Records, The Whole History Of Music Is Open To Everyone Who Wants To Hear It.

I'm Goin' Where The Wind Don't Blow So Strange, Maybe Off On Some High Cold Mountain Chain.

The Information Is There, You May Not Perceive It, But It Does Affect The Lower Orders. There Are Places Where It Just Peaks Out. It Is Like The Color Spectrum, It Just Simply Goes Beyond Where You Can Perceive It Any More But It Is Still Going On. If You Decide That The Invisible Continuation Of The Color Spectrum Is Important To Your Sense Of What Reality Is About, Then You Would Want To Extend It. Extend It As Far As You Could, As An Aesthetic.

If The Thunder Don't Get Ya Then The Lightning Will.