11.27.2010

INVOCATION OF A DEMON HARVEST





















This is a still from Kenneth Anger's lost film "Invocation of the Demon Harvest"  Anger himself described the film as "a death mirror held up to American culture..."  Filmed entirely using Skype, the film was designed to be a symbolic analogy of the coming apocalypse.  Anger managed to get the actress Imaad Wasif to appear in it, and convinced his friend Lou Barlow to play the part of Lucifer in the film.

11.20.2010

WAKING DREAM

There is a dreamlife that is taking place all around us, at every moment. I am mostly closed off to it, though on occasion I have fallen prey to the visions that move back and forth across dimensions. The other night I awoke in a near fit of screaming, a paroxysm brought about by an oncoming nightmare. In the dream, a woman was encircling me in a small dimly lit room. I couldn’t make out her face and I couldn't tell if she was trying to kill me or seduce me, though I was equally fearful of both manifestations, as death and sex are one in the same in my mind. I was looking for a way to escape from her. I opened a cabinet to crawl inside and hide and came face-to-face with myself, as a baby, staring lifelessly back at me. The shock of recognizing those two glistening black irises was enough to break the plane. I awoke and lay fragmented in the twilight until my body came back into one. The sinister feeling did not leave me until later that morning when I started to write and re-entered the dream. Songs have always been the medium for revelation. The images within my dreams, along with most of my memories, are obscured. I am convinced, now more than ever, that I am living in a waking dream, and that my experience of reality comes from the delayed imaging of that dream, a flickering afterworld burned into a present conscious realm. Dreams have no true life until they are viewed in the context of our lives. The dream is conceived in a trance, but not perceived, shaped or colored until we believe that we are awake. We create the dream at the moment of our remembrance. And the dream in turn guides us, albeit mysteriously. There is no separation and no real understanding, only a clear way to stay suspended in the beauty of illusions.

11.11.2010

USTAD BISMILLAH KHAN

Shehnai, everything that rises must converge.

Raag Malkauns
Superstitious musicians believe this raga has supernatural powers.
Some believe that it can attract evil spirits.
Time: Late night

 
Raag Gunkali
Pathos, Introspective 
Time: Early Morning

11.08.2010

WOZ IV


THE LATE GREAT
TBA
TBD
POSTHUMOUS
FORTHCOMING
?
SACRILEGE

LADIES
AND GENTLEMEN,

WOZ IV?





Face A
Phases of a Cardinal Cross 
Skyward Rose
Constellation Kingdoms
Murmur

Face B
Origins
Holograms
Demonized
Threes

Face C
Mantis
Rain Down
The Spiral
She Don't Burn Out

Face D
The I.n.i.t.i.a.t.
Ourobourus
Time (Become Transparent)
Long Live, Death To

11.04.2010

THE BIRTH OF WOZ