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It is called "The Order of Kish."

I founded it.

I’ll post this here again and not just on the wire, cause I want it to last. So last night me and a friend went to a little cheap rock gig of local bands. And though this band was technically the support they rocked much more for us than the main act. Sometimes the music scene here is brilliant. They got much more power live than in the video. And the singer seems to be really nice and funny. Ah, this Danzig-/Maiden-influenced Garage sound has got something I love. Here’s a vid. If I remember it right, the singer said something about a Europe tour!? Turn this up a little loud.

"Last Days" is a film inspired by the last days of Kurt Cobain. First, I admit that I watched it because Asia Argento is in it. She’s kind of my actress crush. But it’s hard to get films with/by her around here. This one was in the local library so I picked it up. What do i get? Asia’s butt and not much acting from her! OK, but then I grew up with Grunge and so the topic of the film was a topic of my teenage times.

So first we get something very grungy on film and then also things which are completely not like Grunge, just projected into the era. The whole nature part of it, that’s much of what the time was like for me, and the pictures resemble where I grew up and still live. I really love that. And it’s definitely not Kurt Cobain we see there. In his media presence he was completely different from this person in the film, yet looked almost exactly like that person.

The film doesn’t give us any reasons for why he died. Researching facts gives us much more reasons (the Rohypnol affair). It gives us the atmosphere of the place where he lived and died.

And I am an Absurdist. I see the Absurd in this film very much. And with knowledge of this topic, the film might give me something to contemplate. For in the music of Kurt Cobain, there was a sense of the Absurd. But for those who know the philosophy of the Absurd, the Absurd is usually regarded as a reason to live, not a reason to die. However in the film, the protagonist’s reasons to die seem absurd.

I don’t know if you can follow. Just read "Myth of Sisyphus" by Albert Camus if you haven’t. Everyone should do that anyway. It’s not a thick book, it just demands some contemplation and experience, which will almost automatically happen after reading it.

So, for Asia Argento, I think I’ll have to buy films to see more of her, which is a matter of time, then. And here she is, juxtaposing "Last days":

Here’s a rather (un?)patriotic number hot off the press, I’m curious what all of you have to say about it! BTW, in case you didn’t know, the New Colossus AKA Statue of Liberty is made of copper, and verdigris (VER-deh-gree) is green copper rust (why she’s green). Enjoy!

Verdigris

The New Colossus brazen stands

Her torch shines for united lands

From hilltops to the pulsing shore

She stands beside the golden door

She shines for life and liberty

To set the huddled masses free

But freedom isn’t free for all

Our ears are deafened to her call

The promise on her silent lips

Is just beyond our fingertips

The promise that was made to last

Is now a relic of the past

For free and fawning are confused

And backward minds are mass produced

We eat our crows and humble pie

And turn our backs while freedom dies

The patriots among us stand

Like dogs beneath their master’s hand

The hand that feeds and sows the seeds

Rears up a microcosmic breed

Of petty little drama queens

And slaves of the almighty green

A nauseous green upon her face

She looks out on a craven race

Diplomacy to dull the sting

Castrated songs we eunuchs sing

The Will to Power reaps its doom

Aborted from its wistful womb

We always want what we have not

When we should use what we have got

So Liberty, forsaken, rusts

The story’s moral reads as thus:

‘Till we unmask our eyes and see

Our future rots with verdigris

So I just watched "Push". It’s about people with supernatural abilites being hunted by a government agency for the supernatural ablilities. The rest is action. But the action is absolutely over-aesthetic.

So what you, fellow magicians, get is like your best results in a film plus a lot of action, plus super-aesthetics. I really wouldn’t say more about the film, but for that it could be worth watching it for you. It was for me. Thumbs up! It’s definite eye-candy plus Magick on film. Think about it!

I said I would research this and give you info, but I didn’t find English resources, so much is it a Germanic lore. Briefly, the nights from Christmas Eve to January 6th are said to be magical, that knowledge of the future is possible then, that other wolrds are near, that spirits roam freely.

Here I made a Google Translation of the German Wiki page about it. So it’s in bad English of course now. But maybe you can make sense of it:

Rauhnächte

In recent years these nights always had a weird quality to me. For practice: Just open up to it from Christmas Eve on, pay attention to what comes from the darkness. Go outside in the dark. It doesn’t have to be the wilderness. The spirits like the bright places where people go about. If you have spirit contacts you might just recognize ‘em on the street somewhere. The phase should usually wear off about January 6th. However it is said that some spirits tend to stay longer and have to be cast out with later exorcisms. So a little banishing around January 6th can be appropriate. I guess you’ll mostly see the spirits who like you, so no problem. You don’t need to forget the indulgence of the festivities however.

"Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic." said Arthur C. Clarke.

I had not been to the local library for longer, just went there this afternoon, first time after they had remodeled the whole system from human to machine.

I picked up some DVDs and then I went to one of these machines. There was a little wooden table in front of the machine. What I was supposed to do was put my DVDs in a pile on that table, then scan my library card at a laser scanner at the machine, and whooop: on the screen of the machine were listed the films I picked up. Hmm, I had just put them on the table! WTF? I left the library a bit mystified.

At home I looked at the DVD packages more closely and I noticed a flat white sticker without writing on it inside. And then I googled and – as these times are – ended up demystified, because this can be nothing other than the highly controversial RFID technology.

OK, on the one hand it’s nice if you go to the library with your Harry Potter-obsessed kids. You can just tell them, yeah this is part of Hogwarts here, probably having no idea what is going on yourself.

But, well it is RFID, which is controversial for a reason. You don’t notice that transponder and the receiver can be hidden in any device. This application in a library is no big deal, but who knows what "they" (I mean like "them" from the X-Files) are gonna do with it.

Whatever, you’ll get some film reviews from me too soon, I guess.

Visioning and Review is, in my opinion, one of the most useful habit structures you could make for yourself. It takes ideas from what is called Well-Formed Outcomes in NLP and from The Law of Attraction. The idea is to habitually create a vision of what you want out of life situations and to review [...]

Buy a copy of Liber Malorum before the end of January for £10. Price includes postage: Destination UK a tenner!

£10

Yeah, until the end of January, we will be shifting copies of Liber Malorum to anwhere in the UK for £10 (RRP is £14.99 plus postage…)

I struggle with Postmodernism. In my writings and artistic creations I have taken a multitude of perspectives, have insisted on not so easily settling on one. One perspective is in my new book which is not yet published. But that book concentrates on that one perspective which provides a meta-perspective for many perspectives, although it contains the claim, it is probably not THE ONE truth.

And I admit, I have thoroughly enjoyed books which as single books seemed to explain everything, contained one tale of truth. Even if you later realize the tale wasn’t really about everything, the feeling I get when I have read one such book that seemingly explained me everything is just pleasure.

So have I settled on Existentialism, the one finished tale with its openness to different directions like natural science, art and the surreal/supernatural, and concentrated on what could be added to Existentialism since. It is one finished claim of truth, although its predecessors Nietzsche and Kierkegaard were clearly early Perspectivists.

I do not appreciate totalitarian violence, but have a deep understanding for the quest for THE ONE truth. On the other hand, however convinced one can always be wrong with any plausible theory.

It was a superstition driving me to write my new book. I cannot even say what it will be good for. But there were tales of truth helping me out, several told from different perspectives.

And if Multiperspectiveness is one tale of truth in itself? I even feel it is a sacred one, no blasphemy allowed.

Shame on me, I am not a good Postmodernist! But maybe a better one than the guru next door, the one I compete without asking for as much money or devotion.

I don’t see a solution to my dilemma other than maybe not taking it too seriously. For violent Postmodernism wouldn’t be better than Totalitarian violence! But maybe there are perspectives to be added?