♾️🤳 "Mass Media Freakshow" is a quirky @bananasutra EP, mostly made of burlesque and jazz quacks, and a quirky folk finish... #diy lyrics inspired by #terrencemckenna a silly hot pink ducky and my pussy (lol):   "Not to know one's true identity is to be a mad, disensouled thing — a golem. And, indeed, this image, sickeningly Orwellian, applies to the mass of human beings now living in the high-tech industrial democracies. Their authenticity lies in their ability to obey and follow mass style changes that are conveyed through the media. Immersed in junk food, trash media, and cryp-tofascist politics, they are condemned to toxic lives of low awareness.Sedated by the prescripted daily television fix, they are a living dead, lost to all but the act of consuming." #meow #freakshow #inbed #onair

PS: errata : cover says EPx16 but(t) there's only 13 tracks--this is not bc I'm superstitious, only bc I'm a bit stupid, and definitely lazy too lol  ;)

[05] Mass Media Freakshow - chanson encore oh boy BURLESQUE

Duck Gone MarLoco is a bluesy tragicomedy kind of banjo song, perhaps even a perfect murder  about a mighty nasty felon fool fond of fake news and (real) plastic straw true story, ha... #ahem #nocomment ... 

PS: please shout out if you seen some lost American constitutional rights round tho, yeah? Gracias, amigos ;)

Happy to share lyrics if anyone cares, just ask, please (I'll be in a bleached Florida pool, orhiding behind a coconut palm tree on a gold course, investigating the new kind of FAsharks crime that literally can blow minds ;)

[01] Ego Ain't Your Amigo (Fasho at Marlago) - oh hi salty honey bluesy JAZZ tempo

Desperately looking for sanity and humor in a dystopian world outta control? Yeah, #metoo
And since I'm a nerd, I made a dystopian quiz, for fun, you kow 😏🤳 

This EPx15 starts with one song x4 in grand bananasutra Circus Jazz Burlesque style, and then goes steady for 11 more tracks, using 9 different songs lyrics inspired by the quiz intro, all riding an acoustic honey bluesy Trip Hop Banjo Circus Soul mood kinda soundwave... 

The Dystopian Quiz will answer the question “Which Dystopian Reality do you Live In?” and suggests the reality-fiction (previously called science-fiction) book you should (re)read next; it's an anonymous Google form with 10 questions, and you can take it here, if you're curious:  https://forms.gle/bpUcCwxxNJPDVDrM6 

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Hello, and welcome, dear slippery soul.

The world’s weird, wired, and weary, and here is the QOTD: Which Dystopia Are You Living In? Are you trapped by fear? Distracted by glitter? Numbed by tech? Devoured by bureaucracy? 

Welcome to the Pentagon of Dystopian Fears, where questions matter more than ever, and yet to be banned bibles (I mean, you know, stories, or books) hold valuable answers... Which dystopian reality visionary church do you go to? 

- Orwell, who feared that what we hate would control us—through surveillance, censorship, and oppression 
- Huxley, who feared that what we love would sedate us—through pleasure, distraction, and superficiality.
- Bradbury, who feared that we'd stop caring—becoming indifferent to knowledge, leading to self-imposed ignorance.
- Ballard, who feared that our own desires would lead to self-destruction—through the psychological impacts of technology and modernity.
- Kafka, who feared that we'd be crushed by absurd systems—trapped in incomprehensible bureaucracies, leading to alienation and helplessness.

Enjoy reflecting on these 10 absurdly serious BananaSutra Quiz questions and find out. I'll even suggest what book you may want to (re)read next! Hugs.

PS: This quiz is entirely anonymous, because I'm old school like that, and no, man, I don't do basic baiting--not asking for your email, and not planning on personally profiting from your answers, I promise. Can you believe it? It's all for the LOVE literature, and critical; thinking! To me, it's all poetry anyway... Go figure  :)


The Dystopian Quizz Song v3-2 ★ Blues Circus SOULsutra

As a young girl I once asked my staunch atheist daddy to attend catechism; he promptly enrolled me in Athleticism instead! True story. I'm not like my daddy tho... and when I say thank God for music (and I do, everyday:), I most definitely mean it! Just like I mean to create music that blends genres, and EPs that travel around; for example,  when I share an EPx4 tracks in 4 different genres or 100% distinct styles (in this instance, Burlesque, Folk, Rock, and Blues). 

Why care to fit in contrived boxes? Why constrain ourselves to "niches"? Did you know that in French, niche means the dog house? Ha. Yup. The point being, I strongly believe #diversity makes the world a kinder, smarter, richer place, for everyone–unlike anything an authoritarian felon may chose to do, at least so far so bad, fosho.
TL;DR

It's really hard to choose "a worst" when it comes to FOTUS (many) acts of contemptuous cruelty, and everything being relative, the matter of "Religious Freedom" being blatantly misused to justify yet another unconstitutional authoritarian Executive Order applying to State Employees is not "the worst" (God help minorities!). However, requesting State employees snitch on each other anonymously, to denounce yet to be clearly defined (!) "anti-christian bias", "now and retroactively, during the last presidential administration" (sic) sets a dire precedent, and effectively means State Employees now operate under "Christian Supremacy Surveillance"... Like Margaret Atwood told us it would happen. 

In the instance, Once again, FOTUS is acting in blasphemous contempt of the law, by violating NOT ONE constitutional right, BUT THREE, at once–namely:
1. First Amendment: Establishment Clause (i.e. Government can’t favor or establish a religion.) If only “anti-Christian” bias is policed, it favors Christianity over other faiths (or lack thereof).
2. First Amendment: Free Speech & Association: (i.e. People have a right to express views, including criticism of religion.): Encouraging anonymous snitching chills speech and punishes non-Christian views.
3. Article VI: No Religious Test (i.e. No religious test shall ever be required as a qualification to office.): Retrospectively targeting people based on perceived religious “bias” could amount to a test of loyalty to Christianity.

My apologies for the long winded rant, but I feel it is important everyone be as informed and aware... Murica elected a multi-recidivist con on a vengeance, who has beyond proven to have ZERO principles of Christian faith, much to the contrary! For example, as everyone witnessed in January, FOTUS dared NOT put his hand on the presidential bible during his inauguration (while also crashing MLK Day), which is probably a first in U.S. presidential history, and oh so shady, ew! I can't even think of a more obvious, public "anti-Christian bias" than that (lol). Can you? If so, please share! (Just don't get me started on the "grabbing their pussy, bc they let you" (sic) issue, ha ha). 

Anyway, so yeah... all that to say, for the public records: I'm no Christian 🏴‍☠️

[1] I Ain't No Christian (No Holy Fool) • Jazzy Piano BURLESQUE

An ol' fav I never released... D-pressYin? Oui It Is.
#daydream LO-FI woof meow purrs (elephants in the sky) #hums

“Okey Dokey (No It's Not)”
bananasutra ©️ lyrics + #aivoice on #sunomusic

…

Woke up this mornin' felt so strange
World's on fire somethin's changed
Looked out the window, sky’s all red
Is this a nightmare, or are we all dead

People runnin' around pants on fire
Dogs running wild who’s not a liar
Cats on the roof singin' like they’re angels
And ‘em Monkeys in crowns no, not stable

Okey dokey no it's not
Turns out life's just a mad plot
True crime LIVE it's not all fine
Damn the world is outta line

Went to the store they sold no bread
Only fake mustaches instead
Raining popcorn  fell from the sky
Guess it's time for me to say goodbye

Walls are melting colors whirl
In this upside-down twisted world
Spinning round can't find my feet
Oh well ain't life so sweet

Okey dokey no it's not
Turns out life's just a mad plot
True crime LIVE it's not all fine
Damn the world is outta line

[01] Okey Dokey, No It's Not • Banger BANJOsutra

[04] Okey Dokey, No It's Not • Jazzy LOFIsutra

EM 4.0 Set

[01] Question Di Kingdom - Dub's the Path (Truth is the riddim) - Ragga DUBsutra

[04] Reason over Reverence - They said bow down but we rise 2 - DUBsutra

"Queer Almighty" is a seminal (not bollocks) bananasutra question... Got answers? Please do share! Blessed be the brave, blessed be the kind (like Francis). Ordo Amoris matters 🙏

[06] Queer Almighty - Queer Enough to Cabaret - BANJOsutra

@bananasutra lyrics inspired by Naomi Shab Nye poem

Kindness (single) VOL. 04

… because life on earth is a Psychedelic Cabaret, and “music is the only religion that delivers the goods” (like Frank said). 

To be clear, all I really know is I dunno shit about fck (like Socrates said:)—music and songwriting included. But(t) I feel it, the music, so damn deeep in my soul! I’m just a humble existential fool, a silly banana who likes to play and share, to question and learn. Words are my oldest best friends, hearing myself sing is a freaking miracle (trust me on that lol), and I believe curiosity and #gratitude are the keys to happiness… So voilà, there’s that.

Also, (if you’re curious) BananaSutra is not just a made up BS brand kinda word, it’s actually the name of my DIY Bible—a collection of songs telling true stories of faith, to help me (and perhaps you) make sense of a world gone wild, like bananas gone foul in shallow ignorance and deadly malevolence… Think of it as an agnostic testament of sorts, an audio book of songs with quirky lyrics about things that matter, like the definition of right and wrong, and the meaning of truth, joy, justice, peace, grace, and awe 🕊️

Some call it Artificial Intelligence, but(t) I call Authentic Imagination, Alternative Ideas, Augmented Innuendos, Abstract Illogisms… hopefully, you get the gist? The point being, life is the story we tell ourselves and LYRICS matter—each @bananasutra song has a wondering root and a loving purpose, guided by one of (my) 7 (bananas) sutras: 
- KNOWsutra : is it fair?
- BLOWsutra : is it foul?
- SHOWsutra : is it fun?
- GROWsutra : is it fear?
- FLOWsutra : is it free?
- GLOWsutra : is it fab?
- BOWsutra : is it awe?

[1] I Ain't No Christian (No Holy Fool) • Jazzy Piano BURLESQUE

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