The mirror said I appear
Less stupid Than I am
It’s this hidden asymmetry
That keeps me in line
The air is so crazy
The era is so crazy
An hour is too crazy
To waste on other crimes
Or nature to menece
Each creature to alarm
Of cataclysmic collision
Of forces near and far
Will we be proud later
Knowing we all were scarred
August 25 2026
A brief and sentimental view of what the appearence and early works of Bob Dylan was maybe like to some. I definitely had good exposure to that group of contemporary artists who were on the threshold of new dangers and hope that American society was facing in those days, during and between wars and racial unrest. As a newly liberated teenager of the late sixties I was exploring relationships, ideas and trying to avoid a hail of bullets being offered to me for the possible esteem my serving or dead brothers cousins and uncles were barely achieving. So the voices of folk music crying with the stolid but tradition bound soul of people eventually embracing the power of electric instrumentation to raise a voice above the bombs falling on foreign cities and the truncheon beating down upon our brothers at home. Dylan was one of those feeling and freeing the shift. For the love of Bob, this is a well done and somewhat understated movie.
Old feedback on a work I did decades ago
Brainbelly
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Le Grand Post Industrial Orchestra
Tuesday, May 29, 2007 at 8:16 PM
Ok…. some may get the humor in the title but whether or not, here be my recent endeavor to release the gist of my demon
(((stereofect)))
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Location: Ontario, Canada
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RE: Le Grand Post Industrial Orchestra
Wednesday, May 30, 2007 at 5:53 AM
Wow… this track is a perfect interpretation of what the fog in my head and my overall vision was like last Sunday morning after a night of too much Vodka.
Nicely done…..
nokalypse
Joined: 06/11/02
Location: Athens, Greece
Posts: 73
RE: Le Grand Post Industrial Orchestra
Wednesday, June 20, 2007 at 6:01 PM
I really like this one. It has so much sonic fantasy in it.
Future becomes todays with such a piece. Great one!!
Brainbelly (aka Harry J Maurer)
I like that description. I have worked to have many options available, to choose among tone and texture, to be one person yet many performers. I was in a good space when I tracked this, free for a moment of pain and mental fog and just really “playing” for once without a conscious goal. This is influenced by many “New Music” composers and groups I listened to in the 1980s.
I have minimalistic Tactics Too! So There!
The Sun God is surrounded by darkness
streaming out rivers of the irradiant!
Let us be Visionaries (visitors) of a greater reality,
securely adjusting the dynamics of a greater cosmos
((Where we are gifted to see))
Such as we are, such as will be
Do you See me Janus?
May you be struck by the thongs of Lupercalia.

there are forces always looking
for the next messiah and the next
events along the ring of fire
miracles and revelations
no realistic sin (they say)
just human error
tom the drum
the day to come will
sure to show peril
of cursing your self
for not seeing
reality has grinding edges
there for shredding
hiding the real injury
oppression …was spiritual
and conviction and adherence to dirty words
while drafty castles glisten with the rain
coming in. the ending
crude and stupidly cool
it’s all just a party to him
with his cranes and
his cameras and microphones
to capture hints of plots
to take all his toys and fake money
and fake news away
until tomorrow so we can
start again
god, are we in a war?
are we out of one yet?
I thought adults were better at this.
HJM 5/21/19
In contemplating all the things going on in our lives how do we ever make fair and sensible choices? How many things do we just do with no choice?
When one makes a bad choice or bad choices are made for us, how do we take responsibility? What equips us for the future? How do people working and doing most of the labor in the country have much of an understanding as to what affects their life and what powers of change they might have?
Unemployment has given many more time to think. Are they more happy or more concerned. Are they better informed? I have more time these days to think about everything but at some point I have to just shut down and try to digest it all and make some sort of reasonable plan. How the heck do we do all this stuff? What do you do first? Where do you go for advice? Who do you trust? Who cares about you? Who do you care about?
what binds us close together?
our perfects
or our mistakes?
the chance of you being
as good as you are
are amongst the odds
to be complete is to dance
to be happy is to walk with angels
to die is incomplete
the nature of light surrounds us
we are light passing through
glasses filled with filters
exchanging atoms and photons
we build an image to the past
our prismatic systems
charge the impulse of our perception,
up looping a glorious
sensitivity to alive!
Bunch of people want to change things when we can hardly see how the mechanism works. Most of the needed things get done anyway, at least in this country it seems. Protecting all our rights and allowing for our differences, mostly our society seems to work. Didn’t someone say ‘you can’t please all the people all the time’? There is still a lot of ‘help one another’ going on. If you feel something is broken and needs to be fixed you have to know the parts and how it operates. If you have to replace a part you either have to go to the original manufacturer or find a proper and reliable substitute. If you take it apart and reassemble it with faulty parts its going to break down again.Then, in some cases, the bubble gum and bailing wire holds it together just long enough to get the mechanism to the place where someone who understands it all can say with all knowledge and conviction “you’re going to have to get a new one, this is broken and can’t be fixed”.
HJM 11/15/2015
The flakes of time are tumbling
through the halls of Hadron
to collide in concepts parallel
and divine
Meanwhile axions demand action and
inform you through pixels light
take thy medication
HJM circa 2015
Out Thursday Window
the clouds wander
aimlessly brushing
the hills bumping the mountains
dropping frozen dust into
resolute streams persuading
intercontinental drift
licking ages of stone
surrendering gold and rainbow
trout
fingerlings of trees
break the cold gray
reach
relentless for sun and breeze
hawks scour the grounds
feasting
meals on reels
lifted upon updrafts
with little sound as the
the clacking black ravens
heckle…
its all too serious
HJM circa 2013