Dj Gnosis

photo by Steve Rucker 

May 23, 2003- In the Madcap Studio
Part Two:

Lisa King: Talk about Slow Fear.

Dj Gnosis: Slow fear sounds like dread. Slow fear. Something that someone would suggest to you, and then you would at first be defensive about, and then slowly it would build in you. Maybe like a small anxiety that would come up, and would incubate and it would marinate for a little while. Slowly it would seem legitimate to you. Dread. Level Orange of the government’s terrorist alert level.

LK: Blue Screen.

DjG: I think about CGI, and it’s various effectiveness throughout cinematic history. Blue Screen came around in what, the mid eighties? It’s the idea of an actor or actress performing with some CGI or animated background and they don’t know what’s going on. They’re being coached by a director to deal with it. To communicate. Could be very effective or not effective at all.

LK: Pink Fuzz.

DjG: That could be some arcane audiophile tweaking level. It has some sexual connotations. Pink Fuzz. Could be Pink Noise, some tone beyond the human range of hearing, audio acoustic register that some audiophile would feel a room out for. Or it could be, like, shit, some young girl you met, you know?

LK: White Vinyl.

DjG: White Vinyl? Colored vinyl looks cool, and people put out colored vinyl. Often you’ll see a CD that has come out, and they’ll have the limited edition colored vinyl version, that seems to be Dj friendly, but it’s actually not Dj friendly. If you have something that’s colored vinyl, and you have the light on the Technics 1200 up, and you can see the groove on the other side, it doesn’t really help.

LK: Black Feather Limbo.

DjG: Have you ever seen “Black Lizard?” A Japanese transvestite exploitation movie from the sixties. There is a very famous cross-dressing man, in the film, who is still a TV. talent that will show up on talk shows. I think about him. I can’t think of his name.

LK: Impatience.

DjG: I try to strive against impatience. I try to be patient. Understanding people. Letting them get around being inarticulate. If they are able to be articulate at some point, seeing through that is worth it when communicating.

LK: Pen Lines.

DjG: Pen lines, I think of all the many graphic artists I know that are just able to off the cuff, improvisationally make some beautiful art on a napkin. Or random pieces of sketch paper. And I’m jealous of it.

LK: Vibrating Dreamscape.

DjG: Dreamscapes are always vibrating. I’ve had so many crazy dreams recently. Like really bad nightmares. That just says something about the inability to control dreams. Also, what you can learn from them. Mostly I have really menial dreams, that are basic anxiety dreams. Like about work, or how people feel about me. It’s so strong when I am sleeping. But then when I wake up, I can deconstruct it very easily.

LK: Porch light.

DjG: Oh, Atl. Porches are a big part of Southern culture. If you’ve got the porch light on, it’s obviously an archetype of being homey. Welcoming. Also, there is literal porches in Atlanta, and if you walk down the street of any ghetto, say on the outskirts of Atlanta, with these two story houses, you can see people hanging out with the porch light on. They are observing people walking down the sidewalk, and people driving by. And in the deep South, if you’ve got the porch light on, and it’s a very rural place, you can drive by and it’s like, “Hey! How are you!” Sitting on porches makes a lot of sense in the southern humidity. I can understand that as a lifestyle.

LK: Modern Orange Sky.

DjG: That sounds like industrial pollution to me. It affects how sunsets look. The more pollution there is in the city, the more beautiful the sunsets are. People get fooled by that. In L.A. and Atlanta, which has much worse air pollution than L.A., although Houston probably has the most air pollution from what I’ve read recently. Modern Orange Sky is something that you take as being really beautiful, but it’s actually a post-industrial phenomenon.

LK: One more. White Glitter Notebook.

DjG: Sounds like some Jr. High shit. “Yo, I’ll get some white glitter. I’ll spread it on my notebook.” That shit is fresh! Notebook is just Jr. High to me, and if you have some white glitter on it, then it’s me in Jr. High trying to have something beyond what everybody else in their bubble world has. If you can represent that, if you have some white glitter on your notebook, as opposed to a normal notebook, then you have something that is tantalizing to the people that just live in normalcy.