143 NICE TIMES by Lun Chape
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Rhino – I’m on their e-mail list – five bucks for an MP3 of American Beauty, the Grateful Dead classic – first music this early morning was a bit from the 1978 Egypt performance – the standout track for me just now is probably the over-15 minute “Shakedown Street” – looking good also at Rhino is a four-disc Vanilla Fudge compilation, called “Box of Fudge” – they’re also promoting the new Doors documentary When You’re Strange – CD features pretty much the usual album tracks, featured well in the Tom DiCillo flick, which I just saw, but also Johnny Depp reading a lot of Jimbo Morrison poems, so that’d be worth the 15 bucks to me without a doubt.
Jordan Quintero – local artist – like his take on ancient Egyptian motifs, speaking of Egypt again – he’s showing at the Tweekin record store in the Lower Haight. Somehow got onto his mailing list…making it something of my business to be in touch with local artists of all kinds, including Jordan. More power to him!
Tarot of the Witches, by Fergus Hall – yet another variant on the ancient series of images – used, interestingly, in Live and Let Die, the James Bond Roger Moore flick – with Jane Seymour wielding the cards. As I recall, she has sex with Double-Oh-Seven and thereby loses her ability to divine the future, thereby rendering her useless to the crime lord voodoo guy who’s keeping her, portrayed by Geoffrey Holder, as I recall. (Well, doublechecked that in Wickedpedia – actually, it’s Yaphet Kotto as Kanaga, who uses the virgin tarot reader – but Holder’s in the mix as well as Baron Samedi, Kanaga’s henchman.) Anyway, like the witchy aspect of this deck of cards.
George Carlin – always up for a mention of the man…influential to my thought and humor for sure – something he said frequently pops into consciousness, as he intended. Go to “Funny Story Number 85” online and find the text of his great bit about “stuff”.
Demons of the Flesh: The Complete Guide to Left-Hand Path Sex Magic, by Nikolas Shreck – wanting a copy. Could be hard to find. Want the physical book, not the online version. Tho’ that would be okay to have also. But like “working” with the tangible object. Amazon selling them used for over 200 bucks, so that says something.
Expose Yourself to Art – the famous poster of guy in trenchcoat in front of a statue – see Michael Ryerson’s article about how it came about. I use the phrase every so often in conversation, so that shows it’s a very effective artifact of time-tested pop culture.
The Unknown God: W.T. Smith and the Thelemites, by Martin P. Starr – another book that caught my attention – featured in an online catalog put out by Dan Wininger – 45 bucks – about a Thirties Hollywood group – Crowley-related – called in Los Angeles papers of the time “the Purple Cult” – John Carradine, David’s father, involved in this – tho’ the auto-erotic strangulation death of Kwai Chang may be a warning sign to those interested in this sort of material and behavior – search on “unusual books koma” to find results about this text and others like it.
You Are What You Eat – ’68 movie I just heard about – “strange, psychedelic, and convoluted” says one site – hippie era. Not for everyone, but I’d be interested in taking a look. Compared to Zappa’s 200 Motels. Another or the same site says infamous acid dealer Super Spade was murdered a few days after this came out, whatever the connection between those two events is. All things are connected, I’ve heard it said.
The Infinity Project: The World of the Acid Dealer – interesting title – YouTube has a nine minute and change “song” – house/techno/trance, whatever it’s called – featured on the Distance to Goa 4, along with “Space Pussy”, a track by Hallucinogen, and “Science Fiction” by Psychaos, Technossomy’s “Androids”, Transwave’s “Land of Freedom”, and “People Can Fly” by Astral Projection. I’d buy this disc.
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Rhino – I’m on their e-mail list – five bucks for an MP3 of American Beauty, the Grateful Dead classic – first music this early morning was a bit from the 1978 Egypt performance – the standout track for me just now is probably the over-15 minute “Shakedown Street” – looking good also at Rhino is a four-disc Vanilla Fudge compilation, called “Box of Fudge” – they’re also promoting the new Doors documentary When You’re Strange – CD features pretty much the usual album tracks, featured well in the Tom DiCillo flick, which I just saw, but also Johnny Depp reading a lot of Jimbo Morrison poems, so that’d be worth the 15 bucks to me without a doubt.
Jordan Quintero – local artist – like his take on ancient Egyptian motifs, speaking of Egypt again – he’s showing at the Tweekin record store in the Lower Haight. Somehow got onto his mailing list…making it something of my business to be in touch with local artists of all kinds, including Jordan. More power to him!
Tarot of the Witches, by Fergus Hall – yet another variant on the ancient series of images – used, interestingly, in Live and Let Die, the James Bond Roger Moore flick – with Jane Seymour wielding the cards. As I recall, she has sex with Double-Oh-Seven and thereby loses her ability to divine the future, thereby rendering her useless to the crime lord voodoo guy who’s keeping her, portrayed by Geoffrey Holder, as I recall. (Well, doublechecked that in Wickedpedia – actually, it’s Yaphet Kotto as Kanaga, who uses the virgin tarot reader – but Holder’s in the mix as well as Baron Samedi, Kanaga’s henchman.) Anyway, like the witchy aspect of this deck of cards.
George Carlin – always up for a mention of the man…influential to my thought and humor for sure – something he said frequently pops into consciousness, as he intended. Go to “Funny Story Number 85” online and find the text of his great bit about “stuff”.
Demons of the Flesh: The Complete Guide to Left-Hand Path Sex Magic, by Nikolas Shreck – wanting a copy. Could be hard to find. Want the physical book, not the online version. Tho’ that would be okay to have also. But like “working” with the tangible object. Amazon selling them used for over 200 bucks, so that says something.
Expose Yourself to Art – the famous poster of guy in trenchcoat in front of a statue – see Michael Ryerson’s article about how it came about. I use the phrase every so often in conversation, so that shows it’s a very effective artifact of time-tested pop culture.
The Unknown God: W.T. Smith and the Thelemites, by Martin P. Starr – another book that caught my attention – featured in an online catalog put out by Dan Wininger – 45 bucks – about a Thirties Hollywood group – Crowley-related – called in Los Angeles papers of the time “the Purple Cult” – John Carradine, David’s father, involved in this – tho’ the auto-erotic strangulation death of Kwai Chang may be a warning sign to those interested in this sort of material and behavior – search on “unusual books koma” to find results about this text and others like it.
You Are What You Eat – ’68 movie I just heard about – “strange, psychedelic, and convoluted” says one site – hippie era. Not for everyone, but I’d be interested in taking a look. Compared to Zappa’s 200 Motels. Another or the same site says infamous acid dealer Super Spade was murdered a few days after this came out, whatever the connection between those two events is. All things are connected, I’ve heard it said.
The Infinity Project: The World of the Acid Dealer – interesting title – YouTube has a nine minute and change “song” – house/techno/trance, whatever it’s called – featured on the Distance to Goa 4, along with “Space Pussy”, a track by Hallucinogen, and “Science Fiction” by Psychaos, Technossomy’s “Androids”, Transwave’s “Land of Freedom”, and “People Can Fly” by Astral Projection. I’d buy this disc.
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