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On German TV there was a critical evening about Scientology tonight, which inspires me to say that:

Basically any psycho-cults can’t keep up with cheaper ways of learning what they offer. They basically all promise to teach conscious sovereignity – and they want some money for it. It’s just, if you research stuff on your own, a bit of Nietzsche, Jung, Crowley, Buddhism, Sartre, Spare etc. you learn the same. They cannot possibly offer more. And if you do it on your own, it’s so much cheaper.

You’re gonna laugh in their face when they try their methods. They can’t keep up with that. They are gonna make fools out of themselves. I’ve been in situations like that. It was hilarious. Idiots paying thousands to become super-idiots, that’s what it all is.

I watched this movie from BBC iplayer and it will be available until Friday this week. The drama shows the true face of the fast food industry and it is based on material from the non- fiction book of the same name written by Eric Schlosser . I recommend everyone to see it!!

The topics include contamination of meat and problem of illegal immigrants from Mexico and their work conditions. The film contains some very upsetting scenes but all together it is quite fun to watch. It has some interesting action twists and it shows the story from many different points of view, one of them being a marketing executive from the fast food company, who tries to investigate the quality of their meat and discovers the bitter truth…

I had begun this video last summer and in the meantime turned to many other things including temporal lazyness. But now I finally finished it. I did everything myself. Neither my guitar playing nor the video are technically perfect, but that can be seen as part of the statement. I am happy with the overall effect of the video. I hope you like it and let me know if you do.

There’s a new book by Peter Sloterdijk which should soon be available to you in English. This article tells you some basics about it:

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I was given the book as a present and have started to read it. As Sloterdijk tends to keep some things open and ambiguous I cannot tell you final judgments about the book until I have read it in full.

But I do recommend the book as a philosophy book which can possibly be very useful to occultists. I even find Sloterdijk’s style highly entertaining. The whole topic of the book is exercise and training and it opens a philosophical perspective, or even many perspectives on this topic. Matters of Esotericism, Mysticism and the Occult are not dealt with very explicitly but sometimes lightly touched upon, at least within the 200 pages I have read. However the ideas in this book can very easily be aplied by occultists in their practice I think.

Presently Sloterdijk gets criticised (once again) for political implications some people see in his present work. But once again the journalists prove at least selective perception. Some passages look politically weird to me as well, but I don’t have the final judgment, yet, as I said. It’s very much a matter of context. And there are clearly very humane concepts in this book, which get ignored by some journalists.

Some passages show a uniquely humane version of Nietzscheanism, which I am very fond of.

Sloterdijk often causes his own problems with sentences that selectively quoted look highly stupid in political matters. However I swear, in context it’s entirely different.

Maybe I’ll tell you more about this book when I have finished it.

I visited this great free music festival yesterday and here I wanna feature some favourites, might be something to discover for you among it.

I’ll post links instead of making too much of a fool out of myself trying to describe the music.

First band I saw was Black President. I watched the pogo from above sitting on a hill and had a great time with this perfect punk rock:

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Newcomers Baddies also kicked ass, incredible live band, cathartic, hysterical, making you dance:

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A surprise, great party band, great live show was She’s All That, this video is from another festival:

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Watch the whole video to get the spirit. Last year they were in the TV news cause they were suspected of having robbed a bank. Uhm, one could call it LHP.

Really great rock was presented by Black Stone Cherry, they fitted the sudden occurence of more chequered shirts again on the festival than you could see in such places in recent years:

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Video is also from another gig.

And then there was a comeback gig of Selig, the band that was like Germany’s U2 in the 90s with their kind of grunge pop. Uhm, I had other favourites in the 90s but in Germany Selig were definitely a band whose songs you had in your ear as one of those flanell shirt romantics. They were one of the bands that made our summers. So hearing this ballad live was really special:

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And this video is actually form that festival where I was.

And today I am home again and there’s the Schuetzenfest in our village. See my newly uploaded file for an impression:

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If you see a good acronym and wish to share them, do so in this thread so we can collect them for posterity. Some have already been posted on the wire, but they will drop off eventually, so I’ll reproduce them here. Also, feel free to make some up that you like… B)-

Zeitl0ch posted "Kamadeva Infected with Ayaba! ROFL!" on the wire (3 days ago)

Zeitl0ch posted "Ha! Komputer Imitated by Atum-Ra!" on the wire (7 days ago)

Count Anton posted "Killer Intercourse Aeons! rofl" on the wire (11 days ago)

Zeitl0ch posted "Wow! Khepri Information Agé!" on the wire (11 days ago)

Feather posted "ROFL! Kali Infernal Activists" on the wire (12 days ago)

Feather posted "LOL, I like the one for the wiki! Kaotic Information Aethers Yes!" on the wire (13 days ago)

Feather posted "Key to the Independent A.’.A.’. LOL!" on the wire (13 days ago)

Count Anton posted "Kingdom of Infected Agents, lol" on the wire (16 days ago)

OK, I start yet another media thread. I have just seen how many I started. But I hope some of my recommendations are good and that you find you like what I recommend. I currently watch many films again, and here’s another one that stood out.

I hope the title "Big Man Japan" is correct. It took me a little time to find out an English title.

You know the original Godzilla films and similar films with giant monsters, I guess. Interesting that the Japanese themselves come up with a parody of this genre. But it’s fascinating anyhow, how multi-faceted Japanese media are for the size of the country.

The film starts pretty much like a Jim Jarmush film, with traces of Wim Wenders thrown in – a fake documentary about some stoic, lonely weirdo in Japan with melancholic settings, slow, long scenes and dialogues with just a little bit of deadpan humour. It goes on like this for quite a while until the guy suddenly gets a phone call that he gets another mission, then another long scene where he rides his little motor bike to a power plant (funnily "Transformatorstation" in the German version) where he’s then changed into a silly-looking but muscular giant in a very monumental looking scene. Then comes his first fight against a monster. You couldn’t describe these monster fights, you gotta watch it, they look so rurreal and annoying it’s wonderful.

The film goes on with the documentary about the guy’s sad everyday life in turns with the annyoing monster fights, until near the ending the monster fights become more frequent and reach a rarely seen level of surreal humor.

It’s an absolutely wonderful and unique kind of film. I have rarely seen such rigorous irony in Western media. The film is ironic of everything related to it, from the country Japan to special effects. The irony of the film is so intense as if the film itself is just trying to throw itself away. Surprises for the eye and many very good laughs!

Just back from the cinema and watched this film, or rather back from the Chinese restaurant I went to after the film. Here in Germany the films are often out later than in the US and UK, so I don’t know in what form you could see the film presently.

I absolutely love it! This is a film magicians should definitely see. It’s a satire about paranormal research in the US Army and based on facts. The film has got the kind of absurd humour and is made with a sense of the absurd that makes it one of these films where you basically laugh afterwards. No one laughs out loud watching "Dr. Strangelove". Everyone laughs afterwards when you talk about the film. This one is in that tradition.

So you have these people mastering the paranormal in the film and see them fail entirely in certain situations. And that’s the kind of realism people need in relation to the paranormal. The realistic is absurd, the absurd is realistic concerning this topic and this film really got that.

I really wonder about this PSYOPS asshole in the film and others and what kind of people these might be in reality. The film is based on a non-fiction book, which I wanna read to find out.

The crowd of psi-soldiers in this film are really not that different from a group like KIA. These people introduce themselves as super-soldiers and then they are nothing but weirdos. And weirdos played by great famous actors. Super film!