by Josie
“Hydrogen jukebox” comes from a line in Allen Ginsberg’s poem “Howl” (1955):
…who sank all night in submarine light of Bickford’s floated out and sat through the stale beer afternoon in desolate Fugazzi’s, listening to the crack of doom on the hydrogen jukebox…
Ginsberg explained that the hydrogen jukebox signifies a state of “hypertrophic high-tech, a psychological state in which people are at the limit of their sensory input with civilization’s military jukebox, a loud industrial roar, or a music that begins to shake the bones and penetrate the nervous system as a hydrogen bomb may do someday.”
“Ultimately the motif, the underpinning, the secret message, secret activity, is to relieve human suffering by communicating some kind of enlightened awareness of various themes, topics, obsessions, neuroses, difficulties, problems, perplexities that we encounter.”
That’s the Hydrogen Jukebox.
Turning the world upside down and shaking out all the pockets. Channeling curiosity, observation, adventure to explore truth and authenticity.
John Steinbeck wrote, “No man knows about other human beings. The best he can do is suppose they are like himself.”
I don’t know much about you. I don’t know your experience, your hopes, your dreams. I don’t know what scares you, or what lights you on fire.
But it is my hope that as I explore the world around me, and the world within, that what comes resonates with you.
This is for those who believe they are ordinary.
May they find that they, too, are mistaken.
Peace and Blessings,
Josie
Excellent post Jos! Looking forward to the next one!
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Hi Josie,
Not sure if it is deliberate to have no contact details on your site… Just wanted to say that I LOVED your 100 mile post. Well done, with the run, and with the writing!
Alastair
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Alastair,
Wow. I am sincerely grateful. Thank you for reading it, thank you for commenting! This I will save in my cookie jar for ever, you are someone I have looked up to as an explorer for quite an age.
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Hey excellent blog! Does running a blog similar to this require a massive amount
work? I’ve no understanding of computer programming but
I was hoping to start my own blog soon. Anyway, if you have any recommendations or
tips for new blog owners please share. I know this is off subject nevertheless I simply needed to ask.
Cheers!
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Shoot me an email at jrozell@g.emporia.edu. I’d love to answer any specific questions that you have!
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