Think a Thought by Ken Nordine

[n8tureboy]

Man, that's trippy! 

[robrowald]

I remember first hearing this on the OMNI Audio Experience II. It popped into my head today and I had to try and find it. Thanks!

[fujiblimp]

@robrowald Me too. It was a cassette tape that I lost like 15 years ago and I've been pissed ever since. Not any more. The Fibonacci one is good too. I'm going to listen to all of them on here.

[blurkzzz]

last month i swear i was contemplating the idea of nothing ever exsisting- beyond nothing though because it would have a polar opposit?? nothing ever happened or was manifest- no spirit, not god--- just nothing - not forever or eternity because that would indicate time-- i was overcome with such a sad-- immense feeling- yikes- and to hear doctor nordine express the idea so artfully-- YIKES!!

[kn9ioutom]

THINK THE THOUGHT ! NOBODY THOUGHT !

[Teflon65]

Ken, when I first heard you, I thought you were perhaps the most urbane cowboy in the world, because I was listening to the old 45 of "The Shifting, Whispering Sands".

[Coolbreeze431]

I really like your work Mr. Nordine...Sweet...I've been performing poetry for about 9 months now, and have a band backing me up sometime, and I've also been making abstract films with poetry and wondering if I was all alone...and now I have discovered you and Word Jazz, Awesome !

[bongojim420]

I think I am having a flashback! lol

[draven301]

Ken - are you able to get a hold of the Omni Audio Experience audio? I heard this when I was a kid on one of those tapes. They were brilliant... I loved and miss those tapes.

[kennordine]

Glad you like it.

Fun and games are a slippery slide into the time sink.

Now playing with circa 200 to 300 AD and 'dythrambics'...

lovers of Bacchus and wine who were marginalized by

their behavior problem, having to do with group dancing.

ken

[MoonbloomMusic]

Ken, this is another fave besides your 'fly bug' piece for similar reasons, especially the point-counterpoint you do...The parrot chiming in that maniacal 'echo' is hilarious. A combination of thought~ provoking and hilarious. I appreciate your "thinker"!

[kentishtown1]

Maybe the moment

is the high speed downloading

of the man from America

responsible for my head imploding

[kennordine]

@kentishtown1

thanks for the comment.

The brain inside each of us makes a haunting sound whenever it implodes, imagine the sound of a cricket's legs rubbing evening cries:

Poignent ebullience.

Ken

[younghippo]

inner monologue... more like inner dialogue

[abysimus]

Ken, the point-counterpoint that goes on in this piece is very _thought provoking_. Of course, one of my favorite aspects of your work is the thought provoking mesmerizing quality of it. Thank you so much for a lifetime of wonderful insights.

[kennordine]

maybe the moment

is 'abysimus'

unwinding lovely

not making a fuss

doing what fractals

will constantly do

reminding your mind

the truth is in you

ken nordine

[matambale]

A brother of mine introduced me to the things you say, sometime after words were invented and immediately before you read this. 1975? Maybe.

I often paraphrase the line (about fireflies), "the leader is in MY yard", when irksome rhetorical questions come flying at me, as an effective defense. I do adjust the actual individual words to fit the situation. Mostly.

Thank you for exposing humor and brilliance in the process of thought; these linger for decades. Keep pointing.

[gettingmygrooveback4]

This is my favorite so far - I'm yet so play all your videos

[unclemeat2u]

Ken,

I'm getting the feeling that you have had a tremendous influence on Joe Frank.

=)

Thank you

[kennordine]

a blur of years ago Joe Frank was in Washington, CD with NPR. He sent me a post card. Hearing his show back then I wrote to Joe and thanked him for doing what he does, thanked him also for the fact I wouldn't have to, he does his thing, I do mean. Thanks for the comment.

[kentishtown1]

hilariously ingenious

[BarreraMusic]

The first I heard you was on an album with Garcia and Grisman and Waits even stepped in for a moment. Love your work!

[docmontecristo]

I really really love what you do!

[multuminparvo]

Love your work! Thank you so much for being such a forward thinker. I hear you. : )

[CadillacL]

Ken, I've been a fan of your work since I first lisen online. Course I've heard you

in commercials growing up. Your "Colors' is a favorite. :)

[kennordine]

Thanks. "Maybe the Moment" is a follow up (or extension of) to 'the wow of now'....like maybe the moment the closer you get to what you don't know makes you make a bet that you will come back a circus trained flea walking a tightrope precariously 2009©kennordine

[BeauJames59]

Love your stuff..........the wow of now

[totheblackrider]

amazing

[nevesaj]

Love your albums!

[skok65]

This kinda' reminds me of the scene in Young Guns where Keefer Sutherland is on peyote talking about how the girl he's in love with is his butterfly. . . But maybe I'm missing the point. . .

[8intimation8]

Traction; for a fraction of this fanatical faction, forcing false positives, an unending level of interaction. distracted by infatuation-infuriated by indignation. standing up for a possibly progressive nation. athe top of my lungs screaming and calling on any distinction; lost, at the end of my rope, seeking and searching for hope, hanging by a thread, and i can't sleep but i keep tucking myself into bed.

[actron]

Just want to say how much I love your work.Always fun and inspiring.

[kennordine]

Glad you like what I've up to.

The fun and games of the big mystery everything is in

makes you wonder what causes writers block. Could be pontificating muffles up fancy free.

[jesusdetoledo]

yeah, you are kind of a hero of mine.

[actron]

You always have the best things to say!So cool.

[dannyboy5678]

A fan of Ken for decades. tx so much for posting. He's truely the master of the v/o.

[Levoy1]

You can't reach into in...your arms are too long!

How are things in your town?

[kennordine]

hi Levoy1...

two tag lines from two of my favorites,

ken

[4DRY4N]

great vid and words, 5* A.D. :)) thanks for sharing tommiji

[Jackvrij]

very nice vid

[kennordine]

thanks for your kind praise.

ken nordine

[tommiji]

Thanks for keeping me up late Sunday nights, Ken, lol!

*waves to ken*

:D

-t

[LocoMole]

Hi Mr.N!

belated St. Patrick's Day greetings from a thought generator in Ireland!

[baw3xloser]

down with their system of bureuacracy and the assinine things they do. WRITTEN by BLAKE WEAVER D.O.C NUMBER 56528 DEDICATED TO ALL THOSE WHO ARE SOLID AND TRUE AND LOCKED DOWN PEACE OUT I HOPE YOU LIKED MY POEM KEN I HAD TO GET IT OFF MY CHEST PLEASE FORGIVE ME FOR BLATHERING

[baw3xloser]

or perhaps a recollection of what freedom really means i feel as if my mind will snap and i will go insane from the concrete and the steel the heartache and the pain i saw a fence wrapped around my heart and a pig was in the tower to remind us all while in the yard its them who have the power the fence divides and decides whats best for the other side but the pigs wont stop their manipulating its a complex matter of pride they cannot seem to understand that we are human w/ feelings to

[baw3xloser]

i am but a number and a product of the state the people on the outside world know nothing of its hate in your world we couldnt function and society could give a shit was labled anti social a term for those unfit the trolls in blue they creep through halls and try so hard to break our balls i think its time to take a pause lets strive to make the struggle lets merge in unity reverse the roles and overthrow to save our dignity many times as evening falls i have peculiar dreams

[baw3xloser]

lady death and the reaper is its groom a marriage you might say or a twisted symphony with maddening memories and dispair oh constant misery and if you see me smile well its just a passing phase to hide within from the walls without as i contemplate the days yes i'll sit by my window perhaps on a rainy day to contemplate god who didnt exist when i'd kneel and fervrently pray yes i'll sit by my window close my eyes and still see bars think about the yester years and ever lasting scars

[baw3xloser]

as i stare at the walls that haunt me at night i cry when i think of this place where the concrete and steel encompasses my soul with a greedy and remorseless embrace oh if these walls could tell the story of a hundred years of pain i do believe these walls would bleed the sorrow of its stain this palace is a kindom and facsist in its control it will rob you of your identity snatch your heart and steal your soul this place exudes an atmosphere a facsimile of a tomb where the living dance with

[baw3xloser]

ken i was in prison and your word jazz took me out of all that is nasty to somewhere else much more pleasent in a odd way love your poetry enjoy life!

[kennordine]

thanks for your kind words. funny thing about the thinking we do. it's free to wander in wonder. glad you can get YouTube

ken

[baw3xloser]

hello ken this is blake again the reason i am contacting you is to share with you a poem i wrote i call cocrete and steel but don't have room here to post but i would like your critical assessment of my poem would you be so kind?

[kennordine]

I've never been to critic school. I sent a poem once to Poetry Magazine, they didn't accept it, it wasn't double spaced. Many laws are passed against the artist, most of them by the artist himself. As Pop Eye used to say "I am what I am and that's all I am."

ken

[LocoMole]

flibberty jib on the bibbitty bop?

[kennordine]

I never went to critic school. I only criticize my stuff. I prefer not playing the critic of someone else's art...there are many laws passed against the artist, most of them by the artist himself.

ken

ken

[CadillacL]

its 3:00 A.M. & i'm wide awake, thought i'd co me to youtube to find some of your stuff.

Thanks Ken for the mood. Love to find stuff on CD

[kennordine]

thanks for the applause. my imaginary friend Charlie Zen claps with one hand.

have a good one

ken

[mellowloaf]

Ken I've always loved "It looks like it's going to rain", but this is just as captivating.

Steve Leon

[b1llgbg]

I think you're the guy responsible for me buying all those Levis in the seventies!

In spite of that, tonight I came to Youtube just because I wanted your talent to accompany my chilly evening, San Franscican nights-feeling for which your voice is the soundtrack.

[TucumcariTimmy]

the words of Sal Paradise come to mind, my mind...

"People who are mad. Mad to live..."

[Stephenalways909]

Ken, I remember "Word Jazz" that NPR ran years back. Pure magic! Timeless! Your voice, your meditations/poetry is just as awesome of an instrument as the music that you use! You are the verbal John Cage and Brian Eno! (I can't believe I'm writing to you!!) It's almost as if the physical plane is too crude to accommodate your astral-like art. A million thanks!!!

[kennordine]

thanks for the kind words. Word Jazz is my sanity, keeps me off the street, except for an occasional visit to the imaginary hermits convention in Las Vegas.

ken nordine

[b1llgbg]

This guy should be the voice of our current generation of Boomers, just like Rod Serling was the voice for the GI generation, (along with Vic Perrin and Mel Blanc).

[alexcc2]

I was late to a job interview. However, I had "Yellow" stuck in my head from beginning to end. Everything did work out fine. Thanks.

[volvoxburger]

Thank you profusely for years of audio stimulation of the highest order.

[kennordine]

and thanks back for your kind words. I persist in what I do for sanity's sake, mine.

ken

[iamadamsusername]

Dude, you rule!

[gdavew63]

Hey Ken, "I think is a thought I've often thunk!" I used to listen to Word Jazz on WBEZ in Chicago back in the 80's. Glad to know you're still around!

Dave