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Source of Matrix Style: Rave Culture

  The signature Matrix style came out of the rave and club scene of the 1980s and 1990s. The first three clips from different Matrix films ( 1999 , 2003 , and 2003 ) show the derivative 2000s' depiction of what had initially been underground illegal gatherings in warehouses, ice rinks, abandoned buildings, and parks.  Note, everything here is reproduced non-commercially under Fair Use, for the purposes of discussion.   By the early Millennium, the rave style - black shorts, halter tops, PVC body suits and sunglasses at three in the morning - became a badge of a personal philosophy, a blend of Buddhist and Sanskrit wisdom mixed with gaming, hacker politics and cyberpunk. Here are a few videos and other media from the 1990s which show the original raw sources of the Matrix's signature style, which many have now forgotten. I'm writing as someone who trekked out to an aircraft hangar with a friend in Munich in the summer of 1996, only to find it had been reclaimed from the ra...
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If There Was No More Time 4: Break the Spell


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Pay no mind to the spellcasters who brute force their dark reality upon us, for even today, I can still hear your heart beating. If there was no more time, I would say I know what no one else knows about you, encased inside the time slip. I am your secret.

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The world has become so fake that the truth is secret, mislabeled, inverted, trampled by sheep-walkers.

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But I have seen the star ignite and I know how much they fear and hate it. I have seen the spark, the mirrored light, the slow burn, and the illumination that radiates and consumes illusions. I saw your solid, gleaming building turn transparent before the fake people and bricks began to sublimate. It was as natural as the rising sun, and treachery, sacrifice and lies could not suppress it. There is nothing that could make us separate from separate, and no victory inside the extinction mindset. 

It is not we who defeat them, but they who erase themselves. In their dead end utopia, there is no way back to what once was, and no way out. 

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A Note on 'If There Was No More Time' Posts

 To follow up on my February 2020 posts, If There Was No More Time and The Coronavirus Consciousness, I am doing a series of posts here with cryptic testimonies to and about particular people and situations. Given the nCov pandemic, there are some things I should say, in case the clock is ticking more quickly than usual. If it isn't, these posts can be taken as some personal statements about themes in my work.

 This post provides background to the title poem of my forthcoming poetry collection, DARK PALACE. My pinterest board for the poem, "Dark Palace," is here.

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