Side A
Artist	Song
The Big Bang	"A year and a half ago I was standing on my balcony at the Shangri-La Hotel in Santa Monica. And I was starring at the ocean, sands, the trees, the mountains, the stars"
The Big Bang cont'd	All of a sudden it occurred to me:
The Big Bang cont'd	I understood. I knew how it all started." "How what started?" "The Cosmos." "The Universe?" "Yeah, with the orgasmic explosion of God. And that's the basis for this movie that I want to make and that I want you to put the money up for." "'Orgasmic
David Byrne / Catherine Wheel	The Red House
The Big Bang	I mean, I'm not saying that God's wearing a stetson hat in Dallas, Texas this afternoon, but , uh, uh, wherever there's light, there's God, wherever there's elcectricity there's God I would think."
Joan Osbourne	One of Us
The Verdict	"Mr. Galvin...Mr. Galvin? Summation?" (sighs, crumples evidentiary paper made inadmissible by Defense counsel) "You know so much of the time we're just lost. We say, "Please, God, tell us what is right, tell us what is true. When there is no justice.
Laurie Anderson	O Superman (live)
The Big Bang	"I knew from the age of ten that I would leave and never go back. I came from a family that was, and is extremely religious. Southern Baptist Fundamental Christians, hit you in the head in the morning, make you pray at night. It was a lot of fun
Eno/Byrne Bush of Ghosts	Help Me Somebody
The Big Bang	"I've always, always been able to kind of teeter on the precipice. And a sense of whatever, self-survival, drive, desire - and desire is an interesting one - survival, something like a celestial cord pulls me back, that reels me back in."
The Big Bang cont'd	"We you hospitalized?" "Oh, yes, once." "Whay for?" "Dissolution of the self." "And uh, how did you put yourself back together again?" "Like Humpty-Dumpty. I never really put myself together again: I put something different back together again. The
The Big Bang cont'd	Those people who have a very strong sense of 'I,' strong egos, a strong sense of direction and focus are essentially aware that underneath the belief structures and the philosophies and the wants and desires is basically a fucking void."
Killing Joke	Requiem
Side B
Artist	Song	Buy
The Big Bang	"Some of what you describe as the touch with non-reality or with non-existence, maybe, I see more as, or I experience more as a reaching for the Communal Self, or for the larger or for the broader sense of human identity."
Glenn Gould	Goldberg Variations Aria
Love and Death	"Sonja, what if there is no God?" "Boris Dimitrovich, are you joking?" "What if we're just a bunch of absurd people who are running around with no rhyme or reason?" "But if there is no God then life has no meaning. Why go on living, why not commit suici
Jocelyn Pook	Masked Ball
The Big Bang	"Do you believe in a Heaven and in a Hell?" " "I don't spend a lot of time on that one. If they're not there, um, I'd guess I'd go sort of
The Big Bang cont'd	the Pascalian-Jamesian wager. You, know, you make the most of what you have here and.." "Find out later on."
Jocelyn Pook & The Jocelyn Pook Orchestra	Migrations
The Cruise	"I wrote John a letter about the Lamed Vovniks, from the ancient Kabbalah. Thirty-six, uh, in Hebrew 'Lamed Vovniks' I believe means 36 and, essentially, it discusses how
The Cruise cont'd	there are 36 human beings on the planet at all times, Only thirty-six,
The Cruise cont'd	who uphold the and create the equilibrium for all of our suffering. They take the malaise and the maelstrom of persecutions
The Cruise cont'd	and the disasters of the world onto their own shoulders. Past, present and future, throughout their flesh, physical, incarnated lives.
The Cruise cont'd	And, without these thirty-six people the infrastructure of the world would fall apart, and there would be armageddon, and perhaps the final judgement, but not a pretty judgement by any means:
"	Final, but not pretty. Most of the Vovniks do not know they are Vovniks: They suffer in an incomprehensible hell, and they
"	swim in an entire whirlpool of humility without the knowledge of themselves or who they are
"	... "'That one was healthy amongst the sick, and I did not see him.'"
Erik Satie	Gymnopedies

Comment:

Well, Here it is, 'Ham-Handed Segue Volume II: God.' After many failed
attempts I had to heavily truncate the film dialogue. (Thanks Mr. Pretzel!) If you would like a
complete transcript including all/(most) of the dialogue please let me know
and I will send it promptly. As with the first one I used the 'Artist'
category for the film and the 'Song' category to include the dialogue. As
you can tell I borrowed heavily from 'The Big Bang,' a James Toback talking
head documentary from 1989.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0096923/

It's definitely a favorite. I liked how Toback wove all the interview
footage and how the topics seemed to flow effortlessly from one to the
next. Definitely worth seeing. I also used Timothy Levitch from
another favorite documentary, `The Cruise.'

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0150230/

I included the obligatory 'One of Us' by Joan Osbourne: The song made
its debut in a climax on `Homicide: Life on the Street' shortly before
the tape was made. "What, you got a problem with that?" (No,
seriously, though, do you have a problem with that? If so, please let
me know what you might put in its place. I'm sure you have some much
better ideas).

Cheers

Matt

PS: I found a good place to have the mixes transfered to CD. This will mean I can listen to them safely in the car. (Current car cassette player overheats and sometimes melts the poor tapes. Some yearn to find God: I yearn to find a car audio system that doesn't suck).

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