Space Is the Place (1974)

[bunniefuu]

orchestral music

-[VO] It's after

the end of the world.

Don't you know that yet?

It's after the end of the world.

Don't you know that yet?

It's after the end of the world.

Don't you know that yet?

It's after the end of the world.

Don't you know that yet?

It's after the end of the world.

Don't you know that yet?

chaotic jazzy drums

experimental jazz

-[humming]

The music

is different here.

The vibrations are different.

Not like Planet Earth.

The planet is the

sound of g*ns, anger,

frustration.

There was no one to talk to

on Planet Earth who would

understand.

We set up a colony

of black people here.

See what they can do on a planet

of their own without any white

people there.

They could drink in the

beauty of this planet.

It would affect

their vibrations.

For the better, of course.

Another place in the universe.

Up on the different stars.

That would be where the

ultimate destiny would come in.

Equation wise, the first thing

to do is to consider time as

officially ended.

We work on the

other side of time.

We bring them here through

either isotope teleportation,

transport

liquidation, or better still,

teleport the whole

planet here through music.

jazzy piano music

[applause]

[crowd chatter]

-Say, you're off

to a good night.

-Yeah.

Another one like this

and I can quit this job.

-Who is he?

-Baby, you don't

know who that is?

-No.

-Baby, that's The Overseer.

He sees something he wants.

He gets it.

He'll be getting

around to you soon.

You can bet your t*ts on it.

-Well that's all right.

-Yes sir, what would you like?

-The piano player.

-Isn't he great?

I think he's about the

best I've ever heard.

-Best you've ever heard, huh?

-Well maybe not the best, but...

[chuckles]

-I think he sounds like sh*t.

Now get him out of

there, and start the show.

-Yes, sir.

-[laughs]

-All right, come on girls.

Let's all all act as there's a

man who wants to see the bras!

Hey you look nice, let's

get those costumes on.

[kiss] Hey you know

better than that,

I'll see about that later.

[chuckles] All right,

let's go everybody!

Come on, let's go.

-Ooh!

If I had t*ts like

that, I'd make a fortune.

Woo!

piano music plays

-Ladies and gentlemen, let's

hear it for the piano man,

Sonny Ray!

[quiet applause and cheering]

-Bring on the ladies!

-Thank you, thank

you, thank you.

Now ladies and gentlemen,

Byron's of Chicago proudly

presents for youse guys!

The Ebony Steppers!

On with th show!

man tinkles on piano

uptempo piano music

[glass shattering]

[shouting and screaming]

-Ahh!

Ahh!

-Ahh!

-Ahh!

[screaming]

[crash]

experimental jazz fusion

[screaming]

-I should've known you'd

pull some sh*t like this.

Sonny Ray.

Come on, what is this?

What about it?

You think you're ready for me?

-Are you ready to

alter your destiny?

-Let's not overdue it.

Name the game.

Craps, Conquian.

Whist.

7up.

-I say the end of the world.

-That's what I call

cooking with grease.

You think I can't handle it?

[laughs]

Okay.

You name the game.

My cut.

Looks like we need a

little transportation.

Nice.

Your pull.

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[diembodied voices yelling]

experimental jazz continues

-This is Jimmy Fey.

Channel 5 stone.

The all black station for all

black people with all the news

that grooves at noon.

Live from Oakland, California.

[chuckles] As you

are probably aware,

several local mystics have

predicted a landing from space

this afternoon here at this

spot opposite the sector five

government building, in the

present of a black musician and

thinker named Sun Ra.

-I haven't seen him yet.

He should be here anytime now.

-He's reported to have

disappeared while traveling in

Europe in June, 1969.

He's reputed to have been

traveling in outer space all

this time with his

intergalactic Solar Arkestra.

Upon landing here, he

will reveal to the world his

so-called plan for the

salvation of the black race.

-[man] Where the hell is he?

-It has now been a couple

minutes passed the time when Mr.

Ra is scheduled to appear so

apparently he's not quite as

efficient as our own

NASA program people.

[chuckles]

-That son of a b*tch!

Ain't that just like him.

Two minutes late.

-Hey there he is!

[wobbling laser sounds]

-This in incredible.

I can't believe it.

It's really happening.

[chuffing]

[sirens]

I can't believe it.

It's really happened.

Ra's ship has landed.

Ra's ship has landed!

Mobile units are being

dispatched to the area and we

should have reports momentarily.

This is Jimmy Fey, Channel 5

Stone Jive saying follow me!

Follow me!

[sirens]

[sirens]

[loud whirring]

dramatic jazz music

chaotic music

-I am the alt of destiny.

I am the alt of destiny.

The presence of the living myth.

-What is the power

of your machine?

-Music.

[chaotic beeping]

This music is

all apart of another tomorrow.

Another kind of language.

Speaking things of

nature, naturalness,

the way it should be.

Speaking things of

blackness, about the void.

The endless void.

The bottomless pit

surrounding you.

-[singing] A

better day is breaking.

The galaxies are waiting

We sing this song

to a brave tomorrow.

We sing this song

to abolish sorrow.

We sing this song

to a brave tomorrow.

We sing this song to

abolish sorrow.

-Why doesn't Earth fall?

How can you walk upon it?

It's the music.

It's the music of the earth.

The music of the

sun and the stars.

The music of

yourself, vibrating.

Yes, you're music too.

You're all instruments.

Everyone's supposed to be

playing their part in this vast

orchestra of the cosmos.

-[woman] singing continues

-[woman on radio]

Today a part of negroes,

claiming to hold the

key to space travel,

and threatening to undermine

both the economy and the social

structure of the

strongest nation on earth,

deserves the Federal Bureau

of Investigations most acute

[inaudible]...

[sirens]

-Well, let's get it on.

-Extra!

Get your evening paper.

Get your evening paper.

Extra, extra!

-Hey kid.

-Get your evening paper!

-Well you were a couple of

minutes late getting there,

but this time I'll call it even.

One for you.

One for me.

musical chanting

-Hey, check this n*gga out.

Must admit.

Got some bad kicks.

-Sorry, n*gga.

musical chanting

[chatter]

-[inaudible]

-[inaudible]

freestyle singing

-Ah man, this man

gonna run hot on me.

-That's a trip still.

-It's not worth it at all.

[chatter]

singing

-Greetings, black

youth on planet Earth.

-What it is, what it is.

-I am Sun Ra, Ambassador from

the Intergalactic Regions of the

Counsel of Outer Space.

-Why are your shoes so big?

-Are those moon shoes?

-How do we know you're for real?

-Yeah how do we know you ain't

some old hippie or something?

[laughter]

-What are you?

-Is he for real?

-He might have

something going for him.

-What kind of shoes is

that there on your feet?

-Yeah, walking around with

all these funny clothes.

sh*t, I might take off running

if I see someone walking down

the street coming

talking all that mess to me,

talking about

going to outer space.

-[grumbling]

[chatter]

[laughter]

-How do you know I'm real?

-Yes.

-I'm not real.

I'm just like you.

You don't exist in this society.

If you did, your people wouldn't

be seeking equal rights.

You're not real.

If you were, you'd have status

among the nations of the world.

So we are both myths.

I do not come to

you as a reality.

I come to you as the myth,

because that's what black people

are.

Myths.

I came from a dream that the

black man dreamed long ago.

I'm actually a present sent

to you by your ancestors.

I'm gonna be here until I pick

out certain ones of you to take

back with me.

-What if we won't come?

You gonna make us come?

-Then I'm gonna have to do you

like they did you in Africa.

Chain you up and

take you with me.

-Are there any whities up there?

-They're walking there today.

-All right.

-They take frequent

trips to the Moon.

I notice none of you

have been invited.

-Yeah.

-How do you think

you're going to exist?

The year 2000 is

right around the corner.

-What's that thing in your hand?

drums

-[singing] We're

living in the space age.

We're living in the space age.

We're living in the space age.

No matter who you are.

No matter what you say.

No matter where you've been.

No matter who you be.

We're living in the space age!

We're living in the space age.

chaotic music

experimental jazz

-Oh, god damn.

Where my shoes at?

Who got my shoes?

Hey, n*gga, you

seen my shoes, man?

You got my damn shoes man.

-Ain't that a shame.

Look at that.

-What you mean shame, n*gga?

sh*t.

-Here you go my man.

-What's that?

sh*t.

100 percent.

Thank you, man.

Thank you.

You look clean.

I'm gonna go get another taste.

f*ck that...

-[laughs] That's

the way it goes.

-Come on Bernard, let's make it.

-Say, hey, wait a minute.

Ain't you gonna give me

a chance to win it back?

-You think you can

afford it, big man?

-Have a little mercy.

-Okay n*gga, pitch.

-Nose job.

-Say little brother,

you heard of this Sun Ra?

-Yeah.

Dude's got a tight rap.

-He's got a jive a*s, you know.

-That's what you say.

-sh*t.

Haha!

-You mean to tell me that a

smart little brother like you

believes in that sh*t?

I mean here comes this

dude from outer space,

wearing clothes

you've never seen before,

laying down a rap

you've never heard.

I mean, that you

can't even relate to.

Come on.

You're smarter than that.

-But he hasn't yet betrayed

his black brethren to the

exploitative racially and

culturally coopted caucasian

power structure.

-Right on Bubbles, you got it.

-The dude wants you

to buy his records,

you dig?

He's not dealing in

black magic soul power.

He deals in cold cash.

You understand?

-Maybe.

-Later.

-[laughing]

-[woman on PA] Doctor Overseer.

Doctor Overseer

to intensive care.

Doctor Overseer.

Doctor Overseer.

-He's been in a

coma for three days,

doctor.

-Well looks like we've got

another dead n*gg*r on our

hands.

Hold up his hands.

Palms up.

Steady now.

-What's up!

What's happening?

Wha...

wha...

-[Overseer] It's cool.

-I can dig it.

I can dig it.

-You're no doctor!

-I'm your doctor baby.

Don't just stand there.

Go find a friend, because

we're gonna party tonight.

-What are you up to?

-You've got it, baby.

-Now look here Jimmy.

Get on the phone with Sun Ra.

I'll tell you what to say.

[beeping]

-[whispering] Come on.

-You mean to tell me we're gonna

do it right there in the room?

-Yeah, why not?

I do it all the time.

After all, he's

Jimmy Fey's boss.

-Oh, no!

-Come on!

-Mhm.

Yeah, yeah.

Fine, Ra.

Fine.

I think we can make the

right connections for you.

Let's say we meet

you at your spaceship,

uh...

tomorrow?

Eh?

Opening up an employment agency?

-[Sun Ra] Something

has to be done at once.

Isotope teleportation.

Transport liquidation.

I could play a song.

Teleportate the whole planet.

Then we'll have the multiplicity

of other types of destinies.

That's the only way.

-Okay, fine Ra, fine.

You take care of business.

Yeah.

See you then.

That's right.

See you then.

-Here comes hot lunch.

piano music

plays from radio

-Hey, can't you get

those things off?

Don't just stand there gappin.

Come on there, baby.

-What did he say

about doing business?

-He just said something about

a cosmic employment agency.

That's all.

-[Overseer] Okay.

What about doing

business with you?

-Uh.

He just said we'd meet at

his spaceship tomorrow.

-I see.

You know I always

liked that tune.

-g*dd*mn.

-How do you feel now?

-Mighty fine, boss.

Mighty fine, boss.

Mighty fine.

-Good.

Then wait for me outside.

-Now come you want to

do something like that?

Two of them-- nothing

you could do with two--

-Hey big man, why don't

you let him come on back in?

He wasn't so bad.

-Who?

Who?

-Punk.

You punk a*s mother fu-- Mother.

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jazzy piano music

-Good morning, Mr. Ra.

Let me introduce myself.

My name is Curtis Rockwell.

I work for NASA

designing guidance systems.

I designed the

M4O2 system for them.

For NASA, that is.

[sighs] Let me be blunt, Mr. Ra.

I've got a wife and seven kids

and if I don't get a job pretty

soon I'm afraid we're all

gonna be out on the street.

Or what's worse...

on welfare.

-You can get a job on

our distant planes,

but being the

particular race that you are...

-I-- I'd consider

a cut in salary.

-We don't really have

salaries in our dimension.

We creators never

receive anything for our work.

-I could learn your methods.

-Multiplicity adjustment,

readjustment synthesis,

isotope teleportation,

transport liquidation,

frequency polarization,

intergalactic realm of eternal

darkness, intergalactic

realm of eternal black darkness,

white darkness,

infinity incorporated.

-Oh, I see, Mr. Ra.

Well thank you very much.

It's been nice.

I've got to be going now.

I really have

another appointment.

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-My man, what's happening?

-Everything is happening.

-What is this...

I mean, where am I?

Who is you?

-I am everything and nothing.

-Nothing?

Well you better tell me about

this nothing stuff because I

need a job and I

don't know what to do.

-What have you

been doing lately?

-Uh, nothing really.

Nothing.

-How long have you

been doing nothing?

-Quite some time.

Quite some time.

-You must be an expert at it.

-Got my B.A.

-We'll hire you to do that.

-How much money

do I get paid man?

-Nothing.

-Nothing?

Nothing?

I gotta have something so I

can get me another bottle.

Can't go for that sh*t.

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-Far out.

Far out, baby.

Hey, can I get a job with you?

Just think of it man.

Just think of it.

You and me in

outer space together.

-Our realm is not

based upon highness.

Space is not only high.

It's low.

It's the bottomless pit.

There is no end to it.

-Man, I...

I don't think I

can handle that, uh.

Maybe you'd like to

find me sometime.

experimental jazz music

-Everything you desire from this

planet and never have received

will be yours in outer space.

-Let's move out.

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-Look Ra, I've got my fingers

on the impulse of the entire

communications

network in this country.

Every TV, radio,

movie house, newspapers,

magazines, you name it.

Now look.

We've set it up so you've got a

nice percentage coming off the

top of it.

I'll have a nice percentage

coming off the top of it.

Everybody will have

everything going for them.

What do you say about that?

experimental jazz music

-Why are you

talking to ghetto blacks?

Why shouldn't you

be talking to, say,

white nuclear physicists?

-My kingdom is the kingdom of

darkness and blackness and none

can enter it except those

who are of the black spirit.

Physicists are feared upon the

food of discipline and precision

and research.

The black man,

particularly in this country,

has been feared upon the food of

freedom and peace and liberty.

-Why are black men

generally on the bottom,

as they say, of the

totem pole on this planet?

-They're on the bottom because

they're in an inverted position.

They ought to be on top.

-Tell me Sun Ra.

What do you think about

all these people down here?

They seem so depressed.

-The people have no music that

is in coordination with their

spirits.

Because of this, they're out

of tune with the universe.

Since they don't have

money, they don't have anything.

-[Jimmy Fey] Is there

any hope for them here?

-[Sun Ra] Well, if the

planet takes hold of an altered

destiny, there is

hope for everyone.

But otherwise, the death

sentence upon this planet still

stands.

Everyone must die.

-[Jimmy Fey] Well, here

we are in downtown Oakland.

Sirens going from time to time.

Perhaps there is an

altered destiny somewhere.

Perhaps Sun Ra has

the answer to it.

Who knows.

-[Jimmy Fey on radio] You can

find out for yourself right now

at your local record store.

Sun Ra's latest album is coming

out this week on the Blue Thumb

Label.

This is Jimmy Fey,

channel five's Stone Jive,

and here is Ra's new big winner!

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-Sold out.

-Sun Ra ain't

never gonna sell out.

-Then what's all this

sh*t about a record album?

-He ain't sold out.

He's gotta have a

reason for doing that.

-Yeah.

He's trying to get rich.

-No man.

He's gotta have another reason.

-sh*t.

-Not bad so far, Ra.

You know by now

you're gonna lose,

don't you?

-Sometimes when

you lose, you win.

-Yeah, yeah, right on Ra, but

let's see about keeping the game

interesting.

I'm not having much fun

with you losing so bad.

-That's what the

game is all about.

-Sure, Ra, sure.

Anything you say.

But what do you say

about a little side bet?

-Double or nothing.

-On a side bet?

Why not.

I do it because I'm

wiping him out anyway.

-Who cuts?

-Hell, I can't

give you everything.

I mean, I love you baby.

But I cut.

bugle playing to start

horse race

Excuse me, Ra.

Just a minute.

I've got a little side

bet of my own going.

[horses racing]

-Hey, that's mine!

Hey baby, go cash

these for me, please.

Say, Ra.

Looks like this is my lucky day.

You can cut.

-[announcer] Hold

your tickets please.

Just a moment.

The judges have

announced a disqualification.

Apparently the Lights was

drugged and the winner is

Altered Destiny!

-My cut.

-I'm a son of a b*tch!

-g*dd*mn.

Anyway man, like I

was trying to tell you,

I could come down

on the strip, man,

and the b*tch ain't there.

So I wait 20

minutes for the b*tch,

man.

I'm sitting there, and I know it

don't take no 20 minutes for no

b*tch to turn no trick, I don't

care who he is or who he want,

you understand

where I'm coming from?

So I go up to the crib, and

there the b*tch is laying on her

f*cking a*s listening to some

spaced out music and eating some

barbecue.

I was like, b*tch,

where my money at?

b*tch says, oh daddy, I went

down to the strip and there

wasn't no tricks out thre so I

came up here so I could listen

to some music to

get my soul touched.

I say, yo, soul touched?

b*tch!

And I hit that b*tch

and beat her so bad,

man, I felt kinda sorry, man.

Because the b*tch had

to go to the hospital,

and that's why I'm out

here hustling some stick,

you know?

But anyway man, if

the b*tch had a soul,

how's some music gonna touch it?

-[laughing] Well that's

what we have to work with.

This is one side

bet I'm going to win.

You want to continue this game?

I can let you off easy now.

Later, maybe not.

-Just play.

-I like your style Ra.

That damn wild joker!

You must have something going

for you I don't know nothing

about.

Well, what do you want?

Might as well make it big.

-Why not a concert?

-A concert?

Whatever you say.

Looks like we will

both be busy, Ra.

-You know honey, this

whole thing seems funny.

This isn't what I want...

I don't like this.

-What are you talking about?

It's just like your

junior cotillion,

only this time you're

getting paid for it.

-Besides, do what

your big daddy wants,

and he'll keep you happy.

You gotta admit this is better

than sh**ting up on the stoop.

-Don't worry baby.

I'm gonna be right there.

-That don't mean sh*t.

-Oh, come on, you don't

have to pull that stuff on me.

[laughs]

-It's party time!

Bertha, baby.

I brought you some company.

-Oh, you always

know just what I need.

You know it's just

so hard to find good,

decent available

help these days.

-Look, I've got

two big men coming.

The girls are for them.

-Oh, okay.

But right now I have

something here for you.

-Hey little chili pepper.

Later mama.

-Mhm.

jazzy music plays

-Mm.

-How do you feel, Fey?

-I'm ready.

What do you say?

-Wait for me outside.

I said wait for me outside.

-Why does he go and pull

some sh*t like that for?

He didn't have to do that.

There's nothing he

could do with two of them.

You know, they-- they...

He's got two...

punk a*s mother--

Look, I want to.

But if he come

out here, you know.

Imma-- Imma come back.

Aw, sh*t.

g*dd*mn.

There's nothin' he

could do with two of 'em!

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-Thank you.

Hi, it's, uh...

-I've got some

new stuff for you.

-I can see that.

[chuckles]

-You take real good

care of these gentlemen.

They are aerospace

tacticians from NASA.

They've been working hard with

those rockets and stuff all day.

They need a little R&R.

So you take them

upstairs and F-U-C-K 'em good.

-Well isn't that...

-Ooh, mama!

[laughter]

-Well Mr. So and So.

I was always given the

impression that you folks down

the space service program just

didn't have any use for black

talent.

-Oh, it's not true.

That's exactly the kind of

reverse racism which is making

it difficult for us

people to work together.

As a matter of fact we've got

a program right now to put a,

put a co*n on the moon by June!

[laughs] Only thing holding

us up is we can't have anyone

running in saying,

"The jig is up!"

[laughs]

-Ooh!

Oohoo!

[laughter]

-You mean to tell me

you're a rocket expert?

And you can't get it up?

Aw.

I always thought

these guys were punks.

-I don't understand.

A thing like this never

happened to me before.

I don't get it!

-Well honey, looks like

we don't get it either.

-The jig is up!

[laughter]

[laughter]

-Hey baby.

-Hey baby.

[laughter]

-Well, who the hell

were those guys?

-Punks.

-And I just didn't

know what to do.

I tried Ms. Scarlett, I tried.

[laughs]

-Oh sh*t!

[laughter]

-Punks.

-Ahh!

[screaming]

Ahh!

Ahh!

-Ahh!

Ahh!

-Bye, n*gg*r.

-Bye, n*gg*r.

-[gasps]

drumming

-Hey man, I

can't take it anymore.

We've been at it for

four days and nights.

When's he gonna let up?

-Yeah.

I can dig it...

Say uh, Ra.

Shouldn't you take a break?

It would do us good, you know.

-Well perhaps forces

have been set in motion.

Forces that none

of us can control.

experimental jazz

-Goddamnit man.

Look at her.

She's so pretty.

Why would anyone do

something like that?

-Cut that sh*t n*gg*r.

You been around long

enough to know better.

Look man.

There's lot more

where she came from.

So just take care

of business, okay?

Bertha.

Get your fatass over

there and clean them up.

g*dd*mn n*gg*r*s ain't sh*t.

I oughta whoop asses myself.

b*tches need it.

-b*tches need it.

-[man] Wake up Sun Ra.

Wake up Sun Ra.

Look, we're as

ready as we'll ever be.

There's still time for

you to get some sleep.

Go home, and we'll pick you

up in time for the concert.

-I think that this whole big

concert business is a byproduct

of the Eurasian

Occidental conspiracy.

He's been coopted,

coauthored, and coelated.

Right on, Amen brother!

-Wait a minute.

He ain't sold out yet.

-All right.

Let's put it to him up front.

Look, there he is now.

[tire screeching]

-Hey!

What's this sh*t?

-We better get some help!

-Nah man, we ain't got time!

drumming

[engine revving]

-Hey, what's going on here?

-Yeah.

He doesn't look so

dangerous to me.

-Right, we're gonna settle down.

Have a little talk.

drumming

-Where the hell is he?

-Look, relax now.

I sent some

people out to get him.

He gonna be here, so

be cool, you hear?

Relax.

-All right, all right.

He better be here.

-[sighs]

-You know it'd be a lot easier

if you'd just come across.

-What is the

source of your talent?

-Now don't threaten him.

It's not necessary.

Mr. Ra will tell us, I'm sure.

-Come on, Ra.

How do you convert your

harmonic progressions to energy?

-There's an African

Space Program, isn't there?

Now, why haven't

we heard about it?

-Please, Mr. Ra, just tell us.

I don't want to

see you get hurt,

but sometimes I

can't control him.

-Now what does

transmolecularism mean?

-Hold it.

He needs time to think about it.

[chuckles] We're gonna

go get something to eat,

and when we come back,

you'll be ready to talk.

Right Mr. Ra?

marching band music

plays on headphones

-You'll see, it's for the best.

Besides, I really want to

catch your consciousness.

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-Come on, brothers!

Let's haul a*s!

-Come on Tiny.

Help us man.

The revolution

doesn't half step.

[groaning]

-Come on Tiny, come on!

-What's going on man?

-Come on!

-Come on, get in there man!

I'll try to pick the lock.

-Come on brother.

Soul power!

-Whoa!

marching band

music on headphones

-g*dd*mn!

You see how they try

to demean our people.

This is what I've

been telling you about,

man.

This dude is heavy or they

wouldn't be doing this to him.

You all right man?

Righteous brother.

This dude has the answers and

I'm gonna find out what they

are.

sh*t.

Jive, mothers...

[honking]

-Son of a b*tch!

[crashing]

[engine revving]

-It's time.

What do we do?

-I knew it.

Just like him.

Blew it again because he

couldn't get here on time.

-What's that boss?

-Everything's all right, my man.

Just do your job.

Send the people home.

-I can't just walk out there

and-- and tell the people...

-Just do it!

[laughs]

[crowd chatter]

-[chuckling] How are you

doing ladies and gentlemen?

It's awfully good to

see you out here tonight.

You know, a funny thing happened

to me on the way to the theater.

You see, I was coming off this

curb and this car was coming

around the corner and barreling

down on me so I reach out and

I-- I grab by the rib and I

get this...

[speaking quickly

and incoherently]

[laughing] Seriously folks, uh.

Hey slick that's a nice hair cut

there you go out you get two of

those and you put them together

and it'll look just like my...

[inaudible]

Yeah uh...

back in this ranch.

[inaudible yelling]

I say you damn

right I stay there!

And I'm like is

this a dude ranch?

[crowd booing]

-[crowd] We want Sun Ra!

We want Sun Ra!

-Excuse me folks!

-[crowd] We want Ra!

We want Ra!

We want Ra!

-Get out there!

-[Fey] [chuckling]

Now seriously folks...

-[crowd cheering] We want Ra!

We want Ra!

-Ladies and gentlemen, it looks

like the time has finally come

for me to...

Ladies and gentlemen, the

time has come for me to proudly

present the most influential

musician of this and 30 million

galaxies.

Give it up ladies and

gentlemen for Sun Ra!

[cheering]

-I'm still ahead

in points, baby.

I'll accept your

concession anytime it suits you.

[cheering]

experimental free jazz

-[Ra] We are

another order of being.

-[woman] We are

another order of being.

-[Ra] We bring to you the

mathematics of

an altered destiny.

-[woman] We bring to you

the mathematics of an altered

destiny.

-Look up.

See the greater universe!

-Look up!

See the greater universe!

-Everything is in place.

Every star.

Every planet.

-Everything is in place.

Every star.

Every planet.

-[Ra] Everything is in

place except you planet earth!

-Everything is in place

but you planet earth!

-Everything is in place

except you planet earth.

-Everything is in place

except you planet earth.

-You are just like you always

were in your improper place.

-You are just like you always

were in your improper place.

-Living your improper lives

and dying your improper deaths.

-Living your improper lives

and dying your improper deaths.

-Change your time for

the unknown factor.

-Change your time for

the unknown factor.

-Time passes away but the

unknown is unmeasurable and

never passes away.

-Time passes away but the

unknown is unmeasurable and

never passes away.

-The unknown is the eternal

because you will never know what

it is all about.

-The unknown is the eternal

because you will never know what

it is all about.

-Your wisdom will be

when you say I do not know.

-Your wisdom will be

when you say I do not know.

-Your ignorance will

be your salvation.

-Your ignorance will

be your salvation.

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-I am the brother of the wind.

I come from the earth and

hold it like a ball in my hands.

-I come from the earth and

hold it like a ball in my hands.

-I can take it in

seconds to another galaxy!

-I can take it in

seconds to another galaxy!

experimental free jazz

-I will take you to a new world.

-I will take you to a new world.

-I will take you to

outer unseen world!

-I will take you to

outer unseen world!

-They are expendable to

anything that earth represents.

-They are expendable to

anything that earth represents.

-If you are fearful you

will die in your fear.

-If you are fearful you

will die in your fear.

-If you are fearful, you

have the fearful persuasions.

-If you are fearful, you

have the fearful persuasions.

-[Ra] We have the

pattern for the spirit of man.

If the spirit of man is strong

it will be and do as I and my

brother.

Only fools seek

to harm the wind!

Only fools seek to harm

the brother of the wind.

I, the wind, come

and go as I choose.

And none can stop me.

I, the wind, come

and go as I choose.

And none can stop me.

I hate your reality.

-[woman] I hate your reality.

-[Ra] I hate your

cognizant, absolute reality.

-[woman] I hate your

cognizant, absolute reality.

-[Ra] We refeuse to be a--

-No man, no!

[g*nsh*t]

Ahh!

[chaotic crowd noise]

experimental free jazz

[groaning]

[beeping]

[chaotic beeping]

-What's going on man?

[beeping continues]

-There's no way he

can beat me this time.

Hey, pretty little girls.

Let's get ready to party.

[beeping]

What the

hell is going on here?

These b*tches is mine.

Hell with it.

Hey baby.

I don't need her anyway.

I mean, screw her.

Chili pepper, you're all I need.

[beeps]

What is this sh*t?!

[beeping]

Ra!

That damn side bet.

I knew I shouldn't have done it.

Fey!

[beeping]

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-I finally understand man why

I'd been throwing my life away

sh**ting dope.

It was because I felt like I

didn't feel like I was apart of

anything, man.

But you've got to let me go!

-Look Ra, why don't

you just hang here?

I'll get my attorney.

I think we can still

work this thing out.

-I will measure you by the

disciplines of your black

anscestors.

Your acceptance may

not be what you expect.

-Well, I'll take my chances.

-Wait.

You cannot take the

black part of you with you.

I'll take the

black part with me.

[dialing]

-Fey.

Fey!

Where is that n*gg*r?!

-[laughs]

-Hey Fey, where you been, boy?

-Boy?

You colored people

never learn, do you.

-[laughs]

-Don't touch me, n*gg*r.

-I think it would be

best if you came with me.

-Fey!

Ra!

You son of a b*tch!

-Now, well, earthlings.

You just want to

speak of realities.

No myths.

Well, I'm the

myth talking to you.

So it's farewell.

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-[woman] In some far off place,

it feels like years in space.

We'll wait for you!

Where human beings

have never drawn.

Human eyes have never seen.

We'll build a

world, that's the dream!

And wait for you!

In tomorrow's realm, we'll

take the helm of a new ship.

Like the leash of a whip, a

safe journey to another world!

Another world!

Another world, world!

[chaotic noise]

[expl*si*n]

experimental jazz

-[woman singing]

Space is the place...