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Possibly one of the few sensible articles on the Illuminati yet written

http://darklore.dailygrail.com/samples/D2-Jay.pdf

Of course he misses out a lot.

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I just watched "The Number 23" by Joel Schumacher. I think this group stands in the tradition of Discordianism and so has a relation to the 23 mystery, so you might think or might have thought: Let’s watch this movie! If you don’t have anything better to do, you can do it, but I don’t really recommend it.
OK, the film is directed by Joel Schumacher, Jim Carrey has got the leading role and there are beatish aesthetics. These could be good ingredients to me, but it’s as if the meal wasn’t in the oven long enough.
The main character is an Aquarius like me, his birthday is February 3rd, mine is February 13th, I had the same haircut last year, he reads a book that seems to be about his own life. Very funny Mr. Schumacher!
I really liked Schumacher’ s "Flatliners" and also "Falling Down", liked Carrey’s "Truman Show" and "Bruce Almighty". But this is really not good. The 23 mystery is rather a mystery of too much order, of everything fitting too well, than it is of something not making sense at all because it doesn’t relate.
Dont wanna give a decent review, the film just doesn’t make enough sense anyway. Maybe just want to say
that in the film "the number 23 kills!!!".
I suggest you rather see if you can get a copy of the German movie with the title "23", that’s already a few years old. It’s a true and legendary story from the chaos (computer) scene, has a cameo appearance of Robert Anton Wilson in it, is a more realistic account of a 23-paranoia-experience and is just damn brilliant anyway as it always was since it came out.
The Hollywood one is not a remake but still certain sequences resemble "23" just too much.
Do people in Hollywood still believe that if they try something somebody somewhere else has done already, it’s automatically gonna get better?
I think this case dramatically proves that’s not the case.

"Palermo Shooting", the new Wim Wenders movie is out for a few days in Germany. I watched it today in a small cinema in Düsseldorf’s Altstadt. I wish I had been there on saturday already, today I was told Wim Wenders was at this same cinema then. Well, Wim Wenders is from Düsseldorf (or at least has a past there, not sure) and so is Campino, singer of "Die Toten Hosen" (the whole band is from Düsseldorf) who plays the protagonist in this film. I lived in Düsseldorf for some years, still hang out there a lot, studied there and live in Neuss which is just on the other side of the river, very near. The first part of the film was shot in Düsseldorf and Neuss. For me all that was a reason to watch it. For some old school guys who I know it might be a reason to avoid watching the movie as they avoid anything that becomes too famous. Another reason for watching it is of course that I always liked Wim Wenders movies, I guess they even influenced the way I dress. The last one I saw was "Don’t Come Knocking" which I didn’t find that good. But "Palermo Shooting" is just a great Wim Wenders movie, I think.
On the other hand, that’s the problem. Some people just don’t like Wim Wenders, don’t find an approach to his movies and of course they are always different from mainstream cinema and usual viewing habits.
OK, of course I just loved to see places I know so well on the big screen. And nobody films cities as beautiful as Wenders does. So that was special to me. What could be special to you, could be having a movie that works with a depiction of mythical Death (played by Dennis Hopper) some way the same way Peter Carroll, Carlos Castaneda and Terry Pratchett deal with him (or her, even? a question brought up in the movie).
I’ll try to tell you the story: There’s a stylish photographer from Düsseldorf (Campino) who is restless in many ways. One night he almost has a car accident, almost gets killed. He becomes even more restless and starts an oddyssey through what is Neuss and Düsseldorf, has a vision of Lou Reed, decides to go to Palermo for a while, is being shot at several times with bow and arrow by a person in a grey robe (Dennis Hopper), meets a nice woman in Palermo and finally gets to know who that person with the grey robe is – it’s Death himself.
Well, yes, that’s what happens. You gotta like the style of Wim Wenders to like it. The almost two hours are stuffed with amazing (often morbid) pictures of the cities the film is set in with a wonderful rock, wave and indie soundtrack.
I had the bonus of thinking "That’s our boy!" when seeing the protagonist, of course, as I have some connections to the old punk scene, though I don’t know "Die Toten Hosen" personally.
The film has some nice surreal or psychedelic scenes to offer as well.
Don’t forget if you want to research "Death" you should watch this film.
It’s one of the really good Wenders films, I think.

OK, I watched a second movie tonight. This one is called The Fountain and is somewhat more magic related than Them. Well, at least it has got nice psychedelic scenes and seems inspired by Jane Roberts and/or Michael Moorcock or is at least close to their ideas.
We see Hugh Jackman in three roles. In the main plot he is a doctor whose wife has got cancer and he’s searching for a remedy, is on his way to find one from a tropical tree. But his wife also wrote a book which he reads. We also see that story in which a Spanish conquistador (Jackman, too) searches for a tree of life which is said to make immortal in the jungle. And then we also see Jackman as a mysterious bald guy floating through space in a transparent bubble with a tree he loves very much. It’s a matter of interpretation who this bald guy is. It can be seen as the doctor’s future self but if you pay attention to certain details it’s more plausible to assume it’s his higher self. That’s the interpretation I prefer and it’s the first time I saw a higher self on film. Particularly the floating bald guy is what I like about the film.
It’s an element that’s like what I like about some 70s sci-fi movies.
OK, many things could have been better about this movie. But all in all it’s definitely my taste. This kind of psychedelic, esoteric, sci-fi-like stuff is definitely something I appreciate about certain movies.
And the movie is a nice meditation about immortality (and also mortality) I would say, all in all about several aspects of the topic.
I don’t get stoned any more but if some of you occasionally do you might like to watch this movie doing it.
On the other hand psychedelic art works without drugs, too (a substitute even?).
I recommend The Fountain if you have taste for stuff like that. Otherwise it might not be special to you.

As a teenager and a bit later I was really very much of a film freak. Partly for psychological reasons and partly because I thought movies generally became much worse in recent years I watched much less films until now. Now the freak has really woke up again and I presently like to see as many movies as I can. I might watch one or two more films tonight but can already recommend the one I just saw.
It’s called either Ils or Them. A very aesthetic suspense horror piece which is perfect in its simlicity. Regarding the simplicity it can be compared to Blair Witch Project which I think is the most effective shocker in film history (or of the ones I have seen). In Them the whole thing also starts off with the protagonists hearing strange sounds at night which is the perfect start for horror because everybody knows this situation and you can easily imagine that this and the rest could happen to yourself. I would really kill the suspense for all of you who will want to watch it if I gave away too much. Interesting that we are told it’s based on a true story. I would find it all too (morally) absurd to find the plot credible if it was made up. The ending really brought up the question to me which of the involved parties was really the stupid one. An artistic horror shocker with a political dimension. And the house it is set in is just my dream house which means a bonus.
So maybe I’ll have more to recommend later. We’ll see.

Funny things happen! Yesterday I sat at a table with some magazines on it. I shortly stood up and turned my back to the table to look at something else. I turned around again, sat down and one magazine was suddenly opened at a certain page which I had not looked into. I could swear the magazine was closed before and I didn’t notice anyone in the room. (It was a waiting room.) Today I shortly left a room here at home and when I came back the window was open and I had not opened it. Again I didn’t notice anybody.
Causes? I don’t know. I did some sigil work lately, do the Five Tibetans daily and watched a TV show with Uri Geller on saturday (which was cheesy as hell, among the guests were Erich von Däniken and Nina Hagen ). Well, things like that are allegedly typical for Uri Geller shows. Maybe it’s that. There’s no feeling of meaning or sense accompanying these events like in a typical synchronicity structure. Maybe Geller really hacked reality. You could get that idea when you read Cosmic Trigger.
Just shortly wanted to tell you that. I want to watch a movie now.
See you!

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