You-Dope-iaYou-Dope-iaI think of myself as the antithesis to Thomas Hobbes. What keeps Youdopia from evolving into Utopia? You do, you dope. Me too. You'll find a strong dose of fnord, nondualist thought, theology, ontology, music, fun, and generally cool, smart, well wri
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A Sane Squire Is Worth More Than Ten Mad Earls
2007-10-05 14:10:00 "Golf is long and life is fleeting: Only one bogey is worth beating." - Aleister CrowleyThe older I get, the more wisdom I find in old Uncle Al. He really was a genius of manifold relevance. There seem to be so many layers in life, like a spectrum, that one may find it difficult to find fulfillment on each wavelength. Think of an old analog radio dial, with the turny knob that brought your grandparents the news from London or Tokyo. That radio is an apparatus with the native ability to focus on any of a number of different frequencies. So too the human nervous system. We can be sexual, primal beasts in rut. We can be caring, selfless Samaritans, grumpy, self centered assholes, or even cold blooded killers who revel in the hunt. All those channels can exist in one person, but those aren't the only ones. There are an infinity of slices one can make of that pie. Mixed metaphors? Yes thank you. I believe I shall.You can ride the wheel but you can only be one spoke at a time, un... More About: Worth , Earl , Wort
A Little bit of You-D'oh-pia
2007-10-04 19:25:00 You might want to get high before watching this. Just a suggestion. More About: Litt
The Interview Game - From Arthur Staaz
2007-09-27 13:17:00 Arthur Staaz is one of my favorite bloggers. I love his writing. He had been interviewed by Dark Neuro, and is passing on the experience. If you want to play, leave a comment saying interview me, and I'll do it. I'll come up with five different questions, and you can post the whole shebang on your blog. Just link to me, Arthur, and Dark Neuro, por favor. Danke.1. Do you fold or crinkle your toilet paper when wiping?I crinkle. Folding just seems so laborious and Victorian. Why try to class up simple squatting and grunting?2. Why are men so fascinated with lesbian sex? It's like seeing a picture of Earth taken from the Moon. During sex, we're involved. We're smelling, tasting, touching, sucking, fucking, kissing. It's a different gig w/ two women. It's (generally speaking) a different kind of sex. The interesting bit for me, is watching women who are bi, be together. Women who get off just fine with (competent) men, and also enjoy women, are the best.3. What is the second ... More About: Interview , Arthur , Game
Robert Anton Wilson's Message to the Meme-orial
2007-09-26 14:24:00 Here's just a little clip from Robe rt Anton Wilson 's Meme -orial Service. We miss you, Bob. fnord. More About: Message
Lolcthulu. The Elder Ones Are Silly!
2007-09-24 14:13:00 You all know about the lolcat phenomenon. You probably know about the million offshoots and copycats. Ok. But... did you know about lolcthulu? You did? Ah, well. Fuck it. Now you know again. I just found out about it from Darkneuro's House Of Musings blog, and I said, "Ha ha, and ha again!"Good stuff.Blog Directory More About: Silly , Hulu
Led Zeppelin Is Reuniting - And They're Doing It Right
2007-09-22 16:51:00 Yay, yay, yay! My all time favorite, still love 'em, band is getting back together. Led Zeppelin . I know this is old news, but I tried to hold out. No dice. The fanboy in me took over, so... w00t! Now every time Zeppelin has reunited it's been shitty. At Live Aid, they had horrible sound, Plant was hoarse and off key, Jimmy's guitar was out of tune, and had a goddamn chorus pedal, and... Phil fucking Collins fucked up the drums. Strike One.At the 40th Anniversary of Atlantic Records show, the boys were again plagued with poor sound (Jonesy's keyboard's were absent completely, and Plant's voice was a dry mix, with no reverb or eq. Oh yeah, Jimmy Page was tipsy and Jason Bonham's drums sounded like my two year old daughter's Fisher Price tom tom. Strike Two.The boys got together a couple years later for Jason Bonham's wedding. It was rumored to be low key and fun. I don't know because I have never heard or seen anything of this, except for a still photo. Ball One.In ... More About: Nitin , Doing , Unit
Tempus Fugit
2007-09-19 13:52:00 Modernity can suck. The rat race sucks. Life can suck. One thing that doesn't suck is love. Oh, it can suck, like when it sours, or is betrayed, or unrequited... but love itself is fan-beedle-tastic. I'm lucky in love, because I am married to my soulmate, as lame as that word is. We have a John and Yoko kind of thing going on, connection-wise. You may see that as something good, something bad, or something meaningless. That's all good. I love her. After seven years and only one big fight, I love her. Tantra is real, in my experience. There is more to heaven and earth than mere philosophy... in my experience. This girl is my talisman.Blog Directory More About: Tempus , Temp
Just A Couple Of Funny Comics, No Big Whoop
2007-09-13 13:53:00 Blog Directory More About: Funny , Comics , Couple
Democracy Dodders
2007-09-12 13:27:00 I turn again to simplicity.Modern American life is masochistic. The Fifties may look like lockstep, whitey conformity a la Donna Reed, or Leave It To Beaver, like Pompeii, there was a lot of tension and fire under all that crust. Those hair gelled squares with their slacks and their pipes ran the roost, but never used their power for fun. Pedantic Patriarch Prophets solving all the world's problems while sitting in the den. Den. Even the word suggests a menace barely restrained. It also suggests a place to slumber. The Problem of Evil, that Gordian Knot which has baffled scholars and theologians (Western, that is. The East never had a problem with evil, because their systems tend to be non dual.) for millennia. Just ask old Dad while he's reading the paper, and puffing on his Meerschaum... in his Den. Dad's answer to the question of evil? Easy. Don't do it. Denial and restraint. Just Don't Do It. Of course an affair is tempting. You need to find someone with whom to do all ... More About: Democracy
The Song Remains The Same, Just Better.
2007-09-08 15:16:00 Led Zeppelin broke up in 1980, with the occasional one-off reunion (usually a disaster) and/or collaborative project since. The Song Remains The Same is Zeppelin's one live document they had released during their career. TSRTS is a concert movie interspersed with fantasy sequences that represent the individual personae of the band members. It is one of the highest grossing concert films, and it was a staple of midnight movies for decades. Remember those? You would go to a theater, usually an older independent theater that was in its decline, at midnight, and see a nice stoner movie like The Wall, or Rocky Horror. You'd get drunk and/or high with your friends, then just lay back and watch the movie, enjoying your buzz.Well, The Song Remains The Same is a train wreck of a movie. First of all it was put together literally at the last minute... on a whim. This was the heyday of the Rock Gods, and Zeppelin were at the top of the heap. This was the era of half hour drum solos, and... More About: Mains
I Grow Old: Chapter Three: Part 2 (Work In Progress)
2007-09-07 00:16:00 I Grow Old: Chapter Three - Part 2. (This is my unfinished work in progress. You can start at the them beginning by clicking here.)We were middle class, but that just meant we had nicer furniture, and better shoes. Hold on now, we also went to Doctor Reed when we were sick. The poor folk went to Dr. Bilodeau, and he was a mean drunk who loved to inflict pain. I learned that firsthand. I know because when I was eleven I was playing in the woods with Timmy Kafejelis. Playing in the woods is defined as raising holy hell. I think that was the summer we set fires. We would swipe some kitchen matches and go out walking, and flick lit matches into the underbrush for kicks, and keep walking. Whoever cracked first would go back and frantically stomp out the spreading blaze. This person would then be called Pussy for the rest of the day, or until blows were thrown. I don't think much has changed, except that boys shoot each other instead of slugging it out. Even then, in my neck... More About: Work , Progress , Work In Progress
Bob Dylan - Isis (My Life As Art)
2007-09-03 00:29:00 This is arguably my favorite song, of all time. The first time I heard this song, on my parent's vinyl copy of Desire, I was elated. It was a mystical experience, a song that spoke in Myths, right in my inner ear. I can't tell you what it means, only that it has Meaning, great Meaning to me still. Watch this unreleased video of Herr Dylan singing his best Epic. See if any of it resonates. More About: Life , My Life , Bob Dylan , Isis
Loaves and Fishes
2007-08-31 14:03:00 I need to make a post. I am a very busy boy at the moment, and I must devote more time to ... lots of things. I will make a meaningful post tomorrow. After all, I can't let down my tens of readers! :)I have been under the Aegis of Rudra lately, with a generous dollop of Lakshmi and Saraswati. I need to make more money, that's the long and short of it. Almost everyone's in the same boat, swimming in ill considered debt, and not enough income. I've been pulling the loaves and fishes bit for so long, I have lost track of which is which. I have someone who wants me to teach them guitar. I could do that again, I guess. It's not a bad gig, except in terms of time. But... time is free and food is not.The neat thing is that the Universe seems to be moving to accommodate our need for prosperity. My job is great. I'm in a better position, with a real possibility for growth... in the future. My Beautiful Redheaded Wife is looking for a new career, with more money/less restriction and ... More About: Aves
In The Pines A Starfish Beckons
2007-08-29 01:49:00 Don't lie to me.Tell me where did you sleep last night?Leadbelly's refrain resonates still, almost a century later. From Kurt Cobain to Robert Plant to Alison Krauss, Where Did You Sleep Last Night touches a nerve so raw it sends shrieks through Aethyr. It's Kinetic, and entropic. Leadbelly was no saint, in fact he was a convicted murderer. Cobain was a walking genius/deathwish. Robert Plant lost his voice in 1972, his son in 1977, and his best friend in 1980, followed shortly by his band. THE BEST BAND EVER, btw. The blues is the Icarus of music. It elevates, but it can take you too high too fast, and you burn on the way up, or on the Long Way Down, even if you're Going Down Slow.Antony pours himself like a river, selflessly and effortlessly. The bliss of Union vs. the Pain of Separation. Expansion/Contraction. There are always tears. Some things are too big to sneak through a smile. Tears are nature's prisms, the not only reflect, they refract. Think about it.St. Francis ...
I Grow Old: Chapter Three (Work In Progress)
2007-08-25 16:29:00 If I only could, I'd make a deal with God,and I'd get him to swap our places.-Kate Bush- Cloudbusting (about Wilhelm Reich)Chapter Three: People are always talking about the good old days. How they were happier, richer, freer, etc. Well, I am probably the oldest person you've met, with their wits intact, and I tell you that in all my time on this azure orb, the human condition has remained essentially unchanged. People don't seem, to me, to be any happier as a whole, than the people of my childhood a century ago. They have more things, gadgets mostly, and they do live longer; but they seem no happier. My father was gone from five in the morning, until seven at night, every day except Sunday. He worked at the mills on the Merrimack river. They were about twenty-five miles from our home in Salem, and he commuted by horse, carriage, sled, train, and finally, in his last years, by automobile. In winter he'd often stay at the mill until the snow cleared. Sometimes we woul... More About: Work , Progress , Work In Progress , Grow
Tea For One: Page & Plant In Japan 1996
2007-08-24 14:08:00 This video was shot by the legendary Third Eye in Japan in February 1996. The Japanese tour was, in my opinion, the best tour P/P ever did. Every show is well documented in both video and audio, and Jimmy was on fire, and Robert wasn't much of a dick. They played songs they played nowhere else, Tea For One (never played live by Zeppelin) being one of them. Ten Years Gone being another. Yeah, and let me mention that Jimmy Page is even more God Like on this tour, than on the 1995 tour, or the 1994 No Quarter DVD. Just watch, listen, and learn why guitar gods once walked the earth like Giants and Titans. More About: Plant
Orson Welles pwns a Commercial Director
2007-08-22 17:53:00 This is a legendary outtake of Orson Well es recording a commercial. He, being the greatest filmmaker of the 20th Century, takes his commercial director to task, for ridiculous direction."Show me jury who would say that you can start an English sentence, where you emphasize "In" at the beginning... and I'll GO DOWN ON YOU." Imagine. You have made the "best" movie ever, your first time out. You made Touch of Evil, The Lady From Shanghai, Maginificent Ambersons, The Third Man, and let's not forget the voodoo MacBeth, or the Nazi Richard III. The War of the Worlds is a given. The man was a genius without question. He banged Billie Holiday, and married Rita Hayworth. Unfortunately, he pissed all over William Randolph Hearst, in Citizen Kane. Did you know that Rosebud was what Hearst called his mistress' vajayjay? Yeah, that would piss me off too. So... Orson was slowly gutted by a system that valued content over quality. He routinely had his movies taken away and edited by others.... More About: Commercial , Orson Welles , Director
I Grow Old: Chapter Two (Work In Progress)
2007-08-22 01:43:00 Come here baby, and sit on bended knee. -Howlin' Wolf Chapter Two: I was born the night of December 31, 1899 in my parents' Shaker bed in Salem, New Hampshire. I was twelve minutes shy of being the first baby born in the 1900's, but I was the last born in the 1800's. I'm sure I wasn't the last baby of the 1800's, but I'm speaking regionally, not globally. Global thinking wasn't yet, well, global. At that time only a few German geopoliticians were thinking on a global scale. Remember, on my birthday, there wasn't even a telephone in the White House. Although electric light, telephone, motion picture, and phonograph all existed, they hadn't yet become universal. In honor of my auspicious birth I wore the moniker Baby New Year until I was old enough to clobber Rene Rouseau so hard his nose had a bend for as long as he lived, which was only until he went to Europe in the Great War. Still, it worked. From that day I was called by my given name, C... More About: Work , Progress , Work In Progress , Grow
ROLLING STONES Shine A Light Movie Trailer
More articles from this author:2007-08-21 17:25:00 The Stones, let us not forget, are a real band. They get onstage, and they each play music. No lip syncing, no tape loops, no guys walking around pumping their fists, and saying "What?" sporadically. I haven't thought of the Stones as a contemporary band, in years. Well, Martin Scorsese has filmed a series of small concerts, with just the Stones and some special guests. Shine A Light looks promising. Marty did a great job with the Last Waltz, and the Blues series on PBS, so I think he'll deliver on this. It's nice to be reminded that there's a reason that the Stones still tour, and it's not (all) about money. They can still rock. That's refreshing in this day and age. The Stones are honest in their music. Take it or leave it, is their attitude, still, five decades later... and they can still pull it off. More About: Movie , Rolling Stones , Trailer 1, 2 |
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