Taking a break from music tonight, I put some hours into my Jitter backdrop. I'm building for live shows this year, and will be running backing video from a second PowerBook.

When your brain parses an unattached phrase, it doesn't really know the difference between external and internal origin. This is why we identify strongly with protagonists in fiction, why we replay conversations in our heads, why we have internal critics. First person statements absolutely destroy the wall.

In keeping with my general view of media as extension of self, I'm working some extremely fast subliminal messages into the video stream. Big Media uses the fuzzy mechanisms of mind to keep us all off-center and spending money. When marketers speak of impressions and how many times a person has to see a logo before they remember it, what they're really talking about is how many times you must think of what they present to you before your brain absorbs and acts upon it as if it came from within.

We can work against them. Here's a small sampling of my counteractive video phrases:

I'll steal my life back one hour at a time
A pirate's life for me
Fear is the mind-killer
I will learn to merge
War is just a children's game
I will be the creating
Sex is good
Safe sex is better
Love is good
Violence creates more violence
Relax, don't do it
Marriage is for everyone
Capitalism is not the answer
Evolution is a fact
I want more knowledge
I can do anything
Bicycles beat cars
I am not my fucking khakis

Email if you have suggestions.