Etheridge Knight (1931-1991) is an African-American prison poet who mastered the art of "telling toasts" which are long narrative poems coming from an oral tradition. They are performed from memory and with spirit. Arrested in Indianapolis for stealing a purse in 1960, Knight was imprisoned for eight years. He emerged as the voice of the black aesthetic movement with his first volume of verse Poems from Prison (1968). His poetry was a combination of "toasts" and a concern for freedom from oppression.

"Etheridge’s Knights “Feeling Fucked Up” shows him mastering both the tone and texture of anger. One could argue the title is the most beautifully direct and apt title of any poem besides displaying the most purposeful use of profanity written in the English language. 

But again, it is the narrative context that is crucial to how a poetic element, in this case repetition, works to establish the anger that is palpable. If you were to look at the poem without the word “fuck” you lose both the sonic repetition, and you lose the engine that drives the poem.  The disdain that it embodies is not just embedded in the word, but is also embedded in its repetition. Moreover, notice how what would be a chaotic list otherwise, gains cohesiveness through the expletive.  What relationship does trees, sky, birds and alligators have to do with Coltrane ? With Malcolm ?  However, here, in this poem, it builds into a rejection of everything. The list is sacrilegious; it is not something you expect to hear in the public. This list incriminates the self unabashedly.

Etheridge Knight’s “Feeling Fucked Up” is both apostrophe and reversed apology. A salient feature upon sight is the absence of punctuation making the timing and rhythm more dependent upon sound than usual. We pause, we slow down, we pick up our pace, we notice some lines more than others – not because of commas, exclamation marks and the like – but because of the way sound moves through each stanza. Knight controls syntax here, and uses enjambment and alliteration to guide the pacing of the poem.

Ultimately, the use of anger in a poem is a means to an end, an acknowledging of a subtle truth: If anger is not confronted, it turns into resentment and guilt. Etheridge Knight’s “Feeling Fucked Up” demonstrates how anger can be structured, and in the structuring help the poet move to a place where what we all find hidden in the mirrors we stare at revealed. Also offering a poetry that sought to acknowledge and translate, among other things, a fierce fierce loneliness." 
Reginald Dwayne Betts

Feelin Fucked Up (feat. Etheridge Knight)

In an interview clip from 1955, Dr.Ambedkar (Founding Father of India) exposes the hoax called MK Gandhi and his
downright racist and caste-based orthodox Hindu ideology which has kept India down. 

Dr.Ambedkar, and many amongst us, are absolutely sure that gandhi, the supposed father of the nation, was never a mahatma, not even from any moral point of view. He was a disgrace to the nation for  perpetuating inequality and bigotry, besides being a sexual weirdo who slept with his grand-nieces for whatever demented reasons. And India and the world seems to forgive and forget !!!  

For more on that and other revelations, read "The annhilation of caste " (Dr.Ambedkar) with a forward/essay by Ms. Roy that will leave you amazed at what disgusting things gandhi has done, said and written in his quest for pseudo-sainthood, swaraj and other such socio-political moves. 
Mr.gandhi was as corruptible and farcical as the
superficial image of a mahatma that he portrayed. 
Shameful !!

And here is the excerpt i sampled from Dr.Ambedkar's interview...

Dr.Ambedkar - "I always say that as I met Mr. Gandhi in the capacity of an opponent,
I have a feeling that I know him better than most other people because 
he had opened his real 'fangs' to me and I could see the inside of the man, 
you see, while others generally went there as devotees saw nothing of him,
except the external appearance which he had put up as a 'Mahatma'.
 
But I saw him in his human capacity, the bare man in him. 
So I say that I understand him better than most other people
who have associated themselves with him.

-How would you sum-up what you found?

Dr.Ambedkar - "Well, I must say at the outside, that I feel quite surprised at the interests of the outside world, western world particularly, seems to be taking in Mr. Gandhi; I cannot understand that. 
So far as India is concerned he was, in my judgment,
an episode  in the history of India, never any epoch maker. 
Gandhi has already vanished from the memory of the people 
in this country. His memory is kept because 
the congress party annually, you see, gives a holiday 
either on his birthday or some other day connected with 
some event in his life....

Mr.Gandhi was the most orthodox man.  
He has been supporting the caste system, 
the Varnashram dharma,
and all the orthodox dogmas 
which have kept India down, all through ages. 

He was very much afraid that the scheduled caste would
become as independent a body as the sikhs and muslims
were, and that the hindus would be left alone to fight a battle against the combination of these three sects.
That was what was at the back of his mind.
And he did not want the hindus to be left without any allies.

HE WAS NEVER A "MAHATMA" .
I REFUSE TO CALL HIM A MAHATMA.
I HAVE NEVER IN MY LIFE CALLED HIM MAHATAMA.
HE DOES NOT DESERVE THAT TITLE.
NOT EVEN FROM THE POINT OF VIEW OF HIS MORALITY.

Yes, he was absolutely an orthodox hindu.
He was never a reformer, you see.
And he has NO DYNAMICS in him.

All this talk about untouchability was just for the purpose of making the untouchables drawn into the congress; 
that was one thing! 
And secondly, he wanted that the untouchables should not oppose his movement of 'Swaraj'. 
I don’t think beyond that he had any real motive of uplift ! 

See, there are two things about the schedule caste. 
We want untouchability to be abolished.
But we also want that we must be given equal opportunity
so that we may rise to the level of the other classes.
Mere washing off of untouchability is of no consequence.
We have been carrying on with untouchability for the last two thousand years!
Nobody has bothered about it.

Yes, there are some disabilities which are very harmful.
For instance, people can't take water, 
people can't own land to cultivate and earn their livelihood.
But the other things which are far more important, namely,
that they should have the same status in the country
and they should have the opportunity to hold high offices
so that not only their dignity will rise, but they will
also get, what i call, strategic positions, from which
they could protect their own people.

MR.GANDHI WAS TOTALLY OPPOSED !
Totally opposed.

"Temple entry" - that was all that gandhi wanted to do.
Nobody cares for hindu temples anymore.
The untouchables have become so conscious of the fact
that temple-going is of no consequence at all.
You lived in the untouchable quarters, just the same !
Whether you went into the temple or did not go into the temple. 

People, for instance, did not allow the untouchables to travel by railways because of pollution. 
But now they don't mind.
Because the railways would not make any separate arrangements.
But because they travel together by train, it does not follow
that their lives in the villages, vis-a-vis the Hindus, 
has in any sense changed.
Whenever the Hindu and the Untouchable alight at a railway station, they assume their old roles."
 
-So you would say that gandhi was an orthodox hindu..

Dr.Ambedkar - "Yes, he was absolutely an orthodox hindu.
He was never a reformer.
And he has no dynamics in him.." 

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No Mahatma In Gandhi (feat. Dr.B.R Ambedkar)

120 years ago, a spirit called Jiddu Krishnamurti appeared in the material world to speak some gentle truths....
Here is my 'wob wob" style tribute to him.

"We all want to be told what to do.
Marx tells you what to do,
Christ tells you what to do,
the psychologists tell you what to do,
the politicians tell you what to do.
We're always looking for leaders - better political leader than the present one... and the better political leader is always not good enough but next one will be better... and so we keep this idea. 
Please let's be clear on this point.
 There is no leader as far as I am concerned.
You can, create the speaker into a leader, which will be an utter folly, but the speaker is not a leader. We are together co-operating to discover, the cause of all this... misery of man.
You have had thousand leaders. They've all failed."

Jiddu Krishnamurti (1895-1986)


We're Always Looking For Leaders (feat. J.Krishnamurti)

Burn Bollywood Burn

Sample taken from Anurag Kashyap's Gangs of Wasseypur
Punch Dialogue by Tigmanshu Dhulia

BOLLYWOOD=BakwaasObsceneLauraLassanYouWatchOver&Over&Die

" There was no one to know who i am
   Till i created this world
    At my Pleasure
    With one word

    OM

Techno Vedic Shit

LSD Burman hit no.1 (Award Nahi mila usay)

once upon a time,a bagula discovered a RAAG and decided to soak it in NARCOTICA....while the bagula knew it was classic dhrupad track, he chased the speed of the swar and took some electronic taal and applied the modulator of his soul on to the software of his imagination and wreaked havoc on the traditional indian style of music and had a ball.....
Moral: Dhrupad Ki Maa Aur Behen Ek karna bahut simple hai.... 

Raag Narcotica (Dhrupad ki Maa aur Behen ek hai)

" And even if our roots die …oh comrades
  We will sacrifice our lives in the fire ..."

 Big-up to Bant Singh as his guerrilla vibes resonate through the kid as a prophecy...
 
Da Word n Da Power of Sound 
lives on

 http://wordsoundpower.bandcamp.com/album/the-bant-singh-project/



Into the fire (bagula's 'Guerrilla kid prophecy' remix)

Terence McKenna (1946-2000), mystic, ethno-botanist, psychonaut, renegade guru and shamanic inquisitor shares some psychedelic experience.

Extract from Linear Societies and Non Linear Drugs.

“The title of tonight’s talk is Linear Societies and Non-Linear Drugs, More and more for me, especially with this group these things have become sort of summations and, I guess I hope, convivial examinations of just where we are, we each and every one of us and then this enterprise, whatever we mean by that, in the context of everything else that’s happening in the world, in other words the psychedelic experience, the entheogenic experience, contextualized. And as I try to think about what, if anything, I can bring to the party ! 

What I’m interested in is psychedelics as a philosophical tool, and when I concretize that for myself I realized there’s no claims on that part of discourse; no one wants to do this. Academic Philosophy is done in a very formal manner, and the most exciting is incredibly stuffy, and yet I like most of you I assume have taken on board in my life this thing called the psychedelic experience, which is then as large a portion of my being as my sexuality, my politics, my education, it shapes everything. And yet, nowhere in the world of philosophical discourse is there any genuflection at least overtly made to this, maybe not since Plato talked about shadows on the walls on the cave, and so forth and so on.

What can psychedelics and the psychedelic experience bring to philosophy, and what do I mean by philosophy? By philosophy I mean, the enterprise of discursive thinking; trying to understand what the world is and who’s asking the question. Where did the world come from? Where is it bound and who’s along for the ride?

THE PSYCHEDELIC EXPERIENCE SHOWS YOU MORE ART IN AN HOUR AND A HALF THAN THE HUMAN SPECIES HAS PRODUCED IN FIFTEEN OR TWENTY THOUSAND YEARS. 

Full Transcript :
https://willmushiamroom.wordpress.com/2009/06/03/linear-societies-and-nonlinear-drugs/

The Psychedelic Experience (feat. Terence McKenna)

This sample is of George Carlin, the freaky free thinker and perhaps the greatest comedian to have maintained his edge till the end. he was 69 when he recorded 'A modern man' and he completed 50 years in showbiz in 2006.  Sadly, he died a few years later in 2008 aged 71.
Respect.
Enjoy the brilliance of his genius. 

The track is from my upcoming private album which is sexily acronymed T.I.T.
All songs will be freely downloadable at a website near you soon.
Unless Columbia Records signs me up, that is.

Will keep you posted here and there.
 
 

A Modern Man (feat. G.Carlin)

" These people (RSS, BJP, et al)are not against intellectuals, 
they are against every form of intelligence " A.Roy

A stripped down minimal tantra-sonic dubscape to 
SAY NO to NRC NPR CAB CAA....
SAY Fuck you to right wingers/fascists/communal bigots/(hyper)nationalists.

Jai Bhim ! Inquilaab Zindabad !

Regards : Ranga, Billa, Kung Fu Kutta
RSVP - Bagula Bhagat

Ranga, Billa, Kung-Fu Kutta (feat. Arundhati Roy)

PG-RATED / EXPLICIT LYRICS 

Ghabbar Singh gets some serious Holi Greetings from Thakur and other legendary retro big-wigs....Its vulgur, hardcore,  full-on and to-the-point. In fact, its so sick that even Ghabbar Singh likes it in the end..

(Bura na Maano) HOLI HAI.....






Gabbar Singh vs. Thakur (Happy Holi Maa-Kay-Lo-Day Mix !!!)

Once, the bagula was impressively listening to arundhati roy speaking of democracy becoming the free world's whore and that we need alternative information...and in a stoned epipahanic moment, bhagat realized that alternative information is a whore too, like everything and everyone... and in a hysterical frenzy, bagula bhagat began to put the words in arundhati roy' s mouth... "we need a whore."..we need.. a whore..." 
But you know what...? She is right...DEMOCRACY IS A WHORE...

Bagula Bhagat

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