The BBC “Chain Reaction” interviews featuring Stewart Lee interviewing Alan Moore and Alan Moore interviewing Brian Eno have been transcribed.
Alan Moore interview at Comic Book Resources.
Brian Eno interview at Read Yourself Raw.
(via LVX23).
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Poet/alt-country genius David Berman (lead singer of the elusive Silver Jews), in an interview with Pitchfork attesting to the fact that his band’s latest album, Tanglewood Numbers, got a little help from the occult:
Joe Funderburk, the guy who mixed this album… is a white witch from Gulfport, Mississippi. During mixing he would have to take days off to go in the woods with the other witches and warlocks. One day he invited [Steve] West [the drummer] and I. I did not want to go, but we were just getting to know Joe and his wife, Rowena, and both of us wondered if we insulted them by not attending their rituals [whether] they would cast some curse on the record…. So I made West go. Apparently, he danced naked in the woods. He was gibbering and covered in blood when he returned. I made him promise never to tell me what happened that night.
A lovely mp3 blog: Boom Selection: blog of mashup, bootlegs, electro, breaks, glitch, grime and glamour.
Funny bit: “certain american blogger-cum-hipster-hop-intelligista seem to be getting into grime at the moment. typical – you wait years for the uk’s answer to hip-hop, then the yanks nick it back!”
Sorry about that. True story: last night I was here in my house in Wyoming drinking a 40, listening to grime and reading A Thousand Years of Non-Linear History and realized I *had* to be the only person in this state, nay this region, doing just that.
Speaking of Genesis P. Orridge, here’s a new interview with him:
I had an epiphany about the nature of the words themselves. Each word behaves in ways that attest to the idea that in a very particular way it, THE WORD is alive and can even have its own agenda as a result of repetition and transmission in ever more compressed layers over linear time whilst apparently serving the message of the being using the word. I believe words are alive then in a very literal sense, and because each word is alive it?s another hologram, another iceberg. Everyone who has ever said that particular word has invested it with their story and anyone who hears that word puts the context of their life around that word. So each word is a memory box and a prophecy box simultaneously. They’re very precious, powerful particles of thought and energy.
(via New World Disorder)
I can’t stop listening to reggae. Anyone who knows me knows this means there’s very clearly something the matter with me.
I want somebody to take me to the hospital.
This is all Richard Metzger’s fault. They don’t call him “wicked warlock” for nothing, I guess.
Great comment on on the magickal hip hop thread on Key 23 considering freestyling as channeling of the other:
this is where you don’t even realize you’re freestyling anymore. we?ve noticed that without fail, the best rhymes we’ve ever committed to minidisc, we have no memory of doing. this is where you?re channeling from the cosmos and really humping the Logos good.
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I think that language itself is beginning to communicate with us. I look forward to understanding what the hell it?s talking about.
Yesterday’s post on Shpongle and a random encounter with a bio of Danny Carey have me thinking about my other favorite “occult” related band: Tool.
Despite not becoming a Mason or aligning himself with any other school of religion, Danny has maintained his heritages interest in occult studies. Endeavors into this realm have manifested periodically, such as the time he achieved insight into a hidden aspect of the unicursal hexagram utilizing an astral journey initiated through meditation and DMT. Danny then set up his drums into proportions utilizing the circle and square of the New Jerusalem and uttered a short prayer relating to the principles of the ace of swords from the book of Thoth. He then performed a ritual utilizing his new found knowledge of the unicursal hexagram to generate a pattern of movement in space relating to Fuller’s vector equilibrium model. The resulting rhythm and gateway summoned a daemon he has contained within “the Lodge” that has been delivering short parables similar to passages within the Book of Lies. Danny recommends as a device of protection and containment a thorough study and utilization of the underlying geometry of the Temple of Solomon for anyone purchasing their next record.
I’ve been meaning to read the Tool newsletters for some time now.
Oh, and poke around for info on some of Carey’s other projects.
Idiot’s Guide to Dreaming — the most “technoccult” mp3 blog out there — has some Shpongle tracks up.
Shpongle is one of my top 5 favorite artists, I can’t guess how many hours I’ve spent laying around listening to these guys. I can’t believe I’ve never mentioned them here before. Their 3rd album is finished and I can’t wait. In the mean time:
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