| It's About Time |
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| 08:24am 25/07/2006 |
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Somehow I find it comforting that I'm not the only one receiving these strange yet familiar communications. For an idea of just what I mean, see this page, for someone experiencing similar things: http//crystalinks.com/piphipathptah.html |
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| Merely readers |
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| 03:11pm 23/04/2006 |
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Said about Harold Bloom, but it can be applied to most intellectuals:
In assuming that the divine... has no existence apart from the text, Bloom evinces a curious inability to conceive of non-textual religious encounters. In the end, he turns out to be a reader par excellence, but also perhaps merely a reader.
http://www.claremont.org/writings/crb/spring2006/balint.html
When will these silly academics learn: "life everlasting--based on a misprint!" to quote Nabokov. Mountains and fountains. Such folly. |
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| Paul is dead? |
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| 12:09am 17/04/2006 |
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I've never really bought the Faul conspiracy theory, but certain things, like the following quote from Thomas Dolby, do make me wonder:
"I told Paul I saw him play live in 1963 (aged 5) at the Beatles’ Christmas Concert at Hammersmith Odean in London. ‘It’s quite possible’, he said–as if he had no recollection of the gig ever happening. How curious, I thought. Almost any serious Beatles fan knows about that gig, as the poster is so famous–Freddie and the Dreamers, the Dave Clark 5, etc. Yet Paul doesn’t remember." |
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| This is funny |
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| 11:28pm 07/04/2006 |
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music: Tommy Flanagan-Milestones
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Kevin Federline's new anti-media track, "America's Most Hated," is indeed harvesting hatred, but not from who you might expect.
New-wave trailblazer Thomas Dolby is considering taking legal action against K-Fed for violating copyright law by using his 1983 smash, "She Blinded Me With Science," in the song.
"You can't just take a very well-known piece of music and add your own vitriolic rap over the top of it and get away with it," Dolby told MTV News on Wednesday (April 5). "If anybody's going to sing nasty lyrics over my music, it's going to be me."
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"I considered turning a blind eye to it other than, as I mentioned on my site, asking him politely to take it down," Dolby said. "But I found out today that it aired on VH1 last week. So it's more than just an MP3 download. It's airing on TV, and there's no question it's taken from the Mobb Deep record. It's like what Vanilla Ice did with 'Ice Ice Baby' [illegally sampling Queen and David Bowie's 'Under Pressure'], although I think Vanilla Ice is a superstar compared to this guy."
Read the rest of the story here |
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| Regarding Israel |
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| 09:38pm 05/04/2006 |
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I really get pissed when people recommend me an author to read and it turns out to be kitschy garbage. Israel Regardie, supposed scholar & consciousness-raiser, is another case in point.
This guy is like Dr. Phil for mystics. Arrogant, hypocritical, and dealing almost exclusively in platitudes. Plus he promotes many ideas & practices that, to my thinking, are diabolical-- something the person who recommended him failed to tell me. Yuck.
He can take his magick and "you are God" and choke on it. Oh, the modest claims of the man who says he's transcended ego! Sneaky, sneaky rhetoric abounds. His slick salesmanship makes it easy to fall into the trap the devil has laid through the person of Mr. Regardie. |
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| Revelation |
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| 10:43pm 26/03/2006 |
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I just noticed something: it wouldn't be a Sondre Lerche record without an end times prophecy song. The debut had Dead Passengers, the second record had Wet Ground, and the newest one has Dead End Mystery. Not that many of his other songs don't have specifically end times-related lyrics, but these ones seem to deal fully with Revelation.
Sample lyrics from Dead End Mystery:
"Did we get too tight or let the mystery puzzle reveal itself?"
"When the late last caustic days approach somebody so immaculate / Rain will pour and violins may sound from rooftops that touch the sky".
EDIT: A wee bit of Biblical context would help.
Romans 16:25:
"Now to him that is of power
to stablish you
according to my gospel, and the preaching of Jesus Christ,
according to the revelation of the mystery,
which was kept secret since the world began."
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"But in the days of the voice of the seventh angel, when he shall begin to sound, the mystery of God should be finished, as he hath declared to his servants the prophets" (Rev. 10). |
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| Sinisterism |
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| 09:15pm 24/03/2006 |
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This article is worth linking to, just on the strength of its title:
Hitler Was A Liberal
lol. I'll give him a break, though, he's only 19 (the guy who wrote the article, that is, not Der Fuhrer).
I don't know if his friend could be said to have invented the word sinisterism as a term to describe man-gods lusting after power, but it is a fitting name. Nabokov's Bend Sinister tells the same story, and uses the same word. |
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| 9/11: Jest the facts |
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| 08:00pm 24/03/2006 |
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I think it's hilarious that it's taken someone as unlikely as Charlie Sheen (Charlie Sheen! lol, I love it) to get the mainstream media discussing things that the crazy, paranoid conspiracy theorists (of which I'm one) have been trying to tell people for years. Seeing or hearing Charlie Sheen question the 9/11 official story is a joke that never gets old. |
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| I've been duped, but hasn't everyone? |
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| 01:15am 24/03/2006 |
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Sondre Lerche is underrated as a lyricist. He's quite a witty, literate chap, but he rarely gets complimented on his words. For instance, this song from Duper Sessions (his latest) is a playful little slice of love, life & talking to your S.O. on a telephone made of coal, iron and plastic (or death-- either works, and duplicity is the fun of it):
Across The Land
Across the land
where I know I'm not within your field
On coal and iron
I am delicate like plastic
And I can't help but to tell you
I can't sleep if I can't wake you
Just to say I've nothing more to say
I just had to hear you once again
The days go by
getting there and as I do
I know your days go on
while I'm living for a set of six songs
The night makes me feel so young
That's a routine I think you mean we've become
But that's all distant drops now
Would it be so wrong to tell you
How I've missed you since I left you
What I say will come with a delay
And the rest I'll show you when I get home |
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| No such thing as coincidence |
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| 05:25pm 23/03/2006 |
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No way. Harmony, or being in tune, is a rare thing--which is maybe why people dismiss things as being "only a coincidence", i.e. without meaning, "just so happening to...". I'm getting to know when I am and when I'm not in harmony, and when I am all sorts of things, which many dismiss as coincidence, seem to, uh, coincide. Just now I wanted to hear a song I hadn't heard in a while so I went over to my CD wallets, grabbed one at random, opened it, and the very first CD I laid my eyes upon was the CD I was looking for. Now I honestly had no idea where I'd put the CD, and was just going on instinct. What are the odds of that happening? Coincidence? Oh please. |
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