I was really on a tear Friday nite, buzzed before I left the house, though responsibly not driving to the bar (walking is quality time to get down a few more beers), ended up kissing some strange girl in an alley, by which I mean someone I didn’t really know more than she was so strange, but anyway, not my standard behavior. Had one of those conversations with a friend: mostly wasted nonsense but touching on deeper topics, some of which might return to haunt one later. For example, marveling at the way some seemingly obvious things didn’t arise in human history sooner than they did: balloon travel, focusing intense beams of light through giant lenses - and somewhere in the midst of imagining epic, very slow battles waged on sunny days by a balloonist aerophorce, burning their enemie’s wooden villages with giant dangling lenses they could manipulate, it struck me… Why didn’t the Xians use the stars to map out and re-enforce their mythos? There’s Mary, there’s the twelve apostles, Judas rises in the east, etc.
It’s come back to me tonight. And my best guess is it had to do with monotheism battling with the pantheists. All those panthesitic heathens babbled in starchatter, perhaps the ‘one God squad’ were out to set some new standard. Allegory and parables OK, using a clover to illustrate the trinity was one one thing, but no imaginary pictures in space - lines you could pretend to draw between objects of similar luminosity that where actually nowhere near one another, only appeared so from our vantage. Pictures to go with the stories told round the fire. But then, Chosen waiting on their messiah weren’t into constellations either, at least not that I was aware of, maybe in kabbalah. Maybe there was some Christan constellation set that got squelshed at a later date, once The Organization really got rolling, the same dudes who decided which books were going in the big collection and which once were left out.
It’s weird to think how long alchemy got to sit at the ’science table’ as well, as astrology is very much part of that vocabulary. Knowledge has always been sort of a jumbled mess, one system saying what’s in vogue and ‘true’ suppressing another.
But back to the original tangent: it’s funny how three wise men, kings from exotic lands and astrologers go on a long voyage to see the arrival of a savior - or so the story goes, but this is the last time a star is used to signify anything in the beef of ‘the story’. I don’t even think stars are mentioned during various testimonies of ascension, which I guess took place during daylight hours. No more use for the stars in christian mythology.

“Where are you going, risen son of god?”
“To the moon, mortal fuckwit”

… seems like it might have been good copy.

There are also specific mentions of stars, and falling stars, in ‘The Book of Revelation’ as well, but I’m not even gonna touch that hornet’s nest… Revelation my ass, I’ll take Crom vs. Cthulhu anyday-

drummer, criminal, traveler

 

 23. Dylan Fuscillo [1:04:25m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

The discovery of Rochom P’ngieng has me thinking: what would it be like to live in societal isolation for 19 years? In this era of connectivity, we tend to forget those who are not plugged in, which is still most of the people on earth. But then you consider going the step further, those who aren’t plugged into much of anything, without peers, roaming in remaining isolated territories, dwelling in the zone of ‘homo sapien instinct’. Or those who live among us but go ignored - the brilliant Henry Darger comes to mind, people who live in a world of their own neurosis and memories, creating elaborate fantasy realms either for profit or simply their own sake.
What more can you say? Though I hope somehow her story can further be told, either by her own hand, after she relearns to communicate, or via some biographer. It is interesting that an individual after being reassimilated, would decide ‘fuck ya’ll, I’m heading back out into the jungle on my own…’

So this guy Rikki Kasso is a photographer and artist, and is also working on a film, I believe called Somewhere in the Middle. Here is a trailer, wow. Another site affiliated is called Tokyo Undressed. Lots of links through the provided, WARNING: much sexy weirdness throughout.

and say what you will about Ann Coulter, but this shit really cracked me up…



I don’t completely swear by Rollins’ Film Corner on IFC, but often find myself tuning in. At times he really comes to life in rants such as these.

Sound designer, musician, actor, traveler - and Chi Li gets called out on his hippy past

 

 22. Jason Wells [1:01:58m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

I took statistics to try and swipe my math requirement back in my incompleted UGA days, and admit I didn’t do very well. Perhaps that is the reason I don’t understand sensational headlines such as this. Part of me wishes I’d stuck out the math tedium to have a sold appreciation for astronomy. Ah, the stars - romance and science all in one…

P.S. might look into the ‘researcher’ who came up with the ‘45 notes’ used in the ’study’…just a thought.

ed. note (2/9/07)- this headline changed! It used to say, or perhaps the link that took me to it said, “Cocaine contaminates 100% of Irish notes”. Weird that it’s different, but my other statements don’t make as much sense without knowing this-

I saw this in action on Japanese television on the way over to SE Asia in the fall of last year.

It’s eyes alert the subconscious that something is off, and the hands have a way to go (in their color at least), but it’s an amazing andriod. The Koreans have developed one too, supposedly the facial interface is better. The future is exciting and will be very weird…