Disco Book news: Out and Hypnotic
Bob Collacello has released a collection of Studio 54 photographs in the predictable black and white color so to speak in "OUT". I'm asking myself, how many black and white pics of disco era Studio 54 do we need to see, apparently, some can't get enough. Personally, as a child, remember the 70s in vivid colors, laser lights and neons. Can't connect or relate with black and white depiction of the 70s and 80s. Recommended for its stunning photos though, if you dig B&W ... 
Another book with the word disco used in the title is "Disco Hypnotic", a book sold only through the Chicago Poetry website, a book about the power of the mind in reference to sound and the dancefloor. No disco history or facts there.
Bob Collacello "Out" at Amazon
Disco Hypnotic the book
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At 16.12.07,
vaporacle said…
Hi,
thanks so much for mentioning my book, Disco Hypnotic, which is many things at once, one of them being a book on alternative psychology that uses Disco nostalgia as its primary theme. To give you a better idea about the book, here is an excerpt (From Cut Six, Section Three of the book) that has appeared nowhere before on the internet.
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GET YOUR GROOVE ON
You may be too young to remember vinyl phonograph albums, but if you do, can you remember trying to play one that is damaged? The needle runs across the groove and the data is amplified, until the needle reaches the damaged spot, and then it starts skipping or it jumps to some later data. Right in the middle of Stairway to Heaven, perhaps, the needle either gets stuck where it is and can't move forward (repeating the same data over and over) or it jumps forward and you completely lose the data of the big drum solo. This is precisely what is happening to your Mental Needle. It is either stuck on your Groove, repeating the same Jive over and over (sex is fused to Pain, sex is fused to Pain, sex is fused to Pain) or it is jumping off your Groove and missing huge chunks of data (Dad doesn't slam the refrigerator door on my hand because I can't remember it happening).
During every moment of your waking life your DJ is surfing your Web of Chains for information, in order for your Discothèque to solve problems and determine conclusions. As a purely hypothetical example, when you are at a carnival and you see an injured bee your DJ scans back forty years to the time when you are five years old, when you are playing with an injured bee and your father slaps your hand and says, "Don't play with that bee!" When your DJ returns to the Now to warn you not to touch the bee, your Mental Needle does not lift off your Groove and plop down forty years later; it scans all the data on your "bee" Memory Chain, from present time to the time when you are five years old and back to present time again, in about a second of Now Time. This is why the sight of the bee inspires another, seemingly random memory to surface. You see the injured bee and you suddenly recall your sister's wedding. Why? Actually, there is a bee flying around at your sister's wedding (which links the memory to your "bee" Chain), but this fact is Obscure, because there is so much more going on at the wedding. You don't recall the bee; you recall the Groovy times had by all. You see the injured bee in the Now, your DJ Hustles back on your "bee" Memory Chain to when you are five years old, it collects data about bees, and on its return to the Now your DJ Samples a Dusty Memory on your "bee" Memory Chain and the Good Vibes surface. For the moment you are in a spontaneous state of Immersion, enjoying your own personal Stage Show in your Discothèque: the sound of the wedding march; the smell of the champagne; the beauty of the wedding dress; your sense of internal joy. You will find that pesky bee too, if you look for it. You grin in the Now the same way you grin when your brother-in-law kisses the bride. Recalling the Good Vibes makes your day and your spirits are lifted.
There are also Blank Spaces on your Groove that contain Bad Vibes. A blank space is like a hole in your Groove that leads to your B-Side, that your Mental Needle can get stuck in. The largest of these holes contain Irrationality; they are caused by Heavy Memories recorded during Unconsciousness. Your DJ may accidentally Sample Irrationality on its way back to present time. When you see the injured bee in the Now, perhaps you are exhausted from a long, troubling day at work, and this Anguish brings your level of Consciousness down and makes you susceptible to your B-Side. Your DJ follows your "bee" Memory Chain back to when you are five years old to collect data about bees. On its way back to the Now, before it can reach the memory of your sister's wedding, your Mental Needle hits a big hole on your "bee" Chain and it gets stuck there. Your DJ hears the word bee coming from your Irrational Dive. Your Discothèque does not understand the poop of this "bee" memory because in this memory the word "bee" is fused to a bunch of bunk. Instead of a vivid recall surfacing, confusion surfaces.
Where does this hole in your Groove come from? If you Pump Up your Volume, you will find it is when you are seven years old and you are sick from food poisoning; your parents are having an argument. Your mother blames your father for not cleaning out the refrigerator. Your father yells (stressing the word "be"): "Go ahead, be angry! Be upset. Be! I don't care!" This data is stored on your B-Side as a Heavy Memory, because you record it while you are Unconscious. Thirty-eight years later, you are looking at an injured bee at a carnival, and your DJ does its job and scans your Groove and finds your father saying, "Don't play with that bee" as he slaps your hand. Your DJ Hustles toward present time through your "bee" Memory Chain in order to warn you not to touch the bee. On its return your DJ gets stuck on the Jive "Go ahead, be angry! Be upset. Be! I don't care!" and it is even in your father's voice. The word "be" sounds like the word "bee" and therefore the words "be" and "bee" are the same to your Irrational Dive. This authoritative subconscious voice tells your DJ to "Be angry." Your DJ obeys the Jive and scans your Emotional Track for the feeling of anger and you feel angry in the Now. Your Heavy Memory is now Cocked. The poop within this Cocked Heavy Memory says: the Pain of your poisoned stomach is fused to the sound of the word "be" which is fused to the command "Be angry" which is fused to the apathy of "I don't care" which is now also fused to the image of the bee in the Now which is fused to all the sensory data in this Trigger Moment (the moment of Anguish when you see the injured bee), perhaps to the sound of a carnival barker barking. Whew! How do you stand a chance?
Your Discothèque goes freaky-deaky trying to make heads or tales of this nonsense. Your Disco Pack Discos in loops and your Line Dance becomes a complicated knot. Your Discothèque is in the business of entertaining, and it is too vain to admit when it can't balance its boogie. It makes a noble attempt to rationalize the irrational. Having no entertained data at its disposal, your Discothèque Justifies your anger by finding a likely source for your anger. It blames someone, perhaps your husband, especially if your husband's voice sounds at all like your father's voice. You think you are angry with your husband. In reality, you are angry because a subconscious pundit from an Archived Memory is literally telling you "Go ahead, be angry." The combination of your Pop Hit Trigger Memory (partial Unconsciousness caused by Anguish) and the injured bee (the Irritator that subconsciously reminds you of your Heavy Memory) has Cocked your Heavy Memory (has activated it by linking its Chain to the Now, making its data susceptible to Irritation). At some time in your future (perhaps years later), your Heavy Memory will be Irritated again, maybe by the sight of another bee, maybe by your father's voice (or a voice that sounds like your father's), or maybe by hearing words in the Now that also exist in your Heavy Memory (or in your Trigger Memory). You get Irritated when you experience sensory data in the Now that subconsciously reminds you of your Trigger Memory and/or the Heavy Memory your Trigger is Cocking. Once your Heavy Memory gets extremely Irritated, you may reach the Point of No Return; then you will Snap. You will dramatize your Heavy Memory and obey the commands of its Jive. You will most likely have an angry, irrational fight with your husband (perhaps he doesn't want to go out), during which your stomach hurts. Like a Jive Poser, you will obey the words "I don't care" and you will become apathetic. You will even shout at your poor unsuspecting husband, "Go ahead, be a stick in the mud. Be! Be a party pooper. I don't care."
Of course, this example is purely hypothetical to give you an understanding of the complex nature in which Archived Memories cause Irrational Behavior. The actual behavior that manifests varies depending on many factors, including your level of Consciousness, your susceptibility to Jive, the content of your Heavy Memory, the content of your Trigger Memory, the nature of your Irritator, and most unpredictably (in this example) the response of your husband (especially if he also dramatizes Archived Memories during arguments and/or if he is aware of your Irritators and Pushes your Button). All this makes your behavior near impossible to predict. However, if a fight is irrational, you can be one hundred percent certain that it originates with a Heavy Memory, because your B-Side is the source of all your irrationality. Such are the zappy workings of your Discothèque when there are blank spaces on your Groove. Fill in the blank spaces with entertained data, and you will avoid this fight, because an injured bee will be nothing more than an injured bee.
--CJ Laity
Author, Disco Hypnotic
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