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Subcultures
Burning Man 2008
Temples and Portals and Bloody MariesTemples and Portals and Bloody Maries
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Quotes
Quote 1
But what if the medium is the message?
But what if the medium is the message?
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Moving Pictures
Mock Up on Mu
Craig Baldwin's latestCraig Baldwin's latest
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Offline Archive
Algerian Proto-Rai
North Afro-pop from the 70sNorth Afro-pop from the 70s
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Music
Semper Dowland
The Mopey Pleasures of John DowlandThe Mopey Pleasures of John Dowland
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Art and Design
Escape into Real Life
How To Travel Back HomeHow To Travel Back Home
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Moving Pictures
FLicKeR
Dreaming the MachineDreaming the Machine
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Horses Brawl
Put that in yr cumhorn and smoke it!Put that in yr cumhorn and smoke it!
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Articles and Essays
The Hashish Eater
The witchery of wordsThe witchery of words
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Articles and Essays
Romantic Religion
Creative Imagination and the InklingsCreative Imagination and the Inklings
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Articles and Essays
Meta-Mughal
"The Shelter of the World""The Shelter of the World"
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Articles and Essays
Bill Hicks
Goat Boy returnsGoat Boy returns
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Quotes
Quote 4
It is too close, too far-out, its sacred transmissions too muddled with the scandalous grit of its concrete historical unfoldment
It is too close, too far-out, its sacred transmissions too muddled with the scandalous grit of its concrete historical unfoldment
This has been a media-centric holiday shopping season, meaning that I mostly stuck to gifting books, DVDs, and music. By far the most sparkling item I stumbled across during the hunt was Dan Nelson’s All Known Metal Bands, a smart, gorgeous, and exotic object that achieves the ideal of all metal discourse: a loving but ambivalent mixture of power and perversity, the heavy and the ridiculous, high brow and low. The concept is strong, and perfectly executed: Palmer collected the... -
Offline Archive
Patrik Ouředník’s Europeana
A Brief History of the Twentieth CenturyA Brief History of the Twentieth Century
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Esoterica
Voices Carry: Jack Spicer
My vocabulary did this to me: The Collected Poetry of Jack SpicerMy vocabulary did this to me: The Collected Poetry of Jack Spicer
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Stebmo
Groovy instrumental music from keyboardist Steve Moore
Groovy instrumental music from keyboardist Steve Moore
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Subcultures
Boom Festival 2008
Dancing on liminal groundDancing on liminal ground
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Subcultures
Trance Planet
The Analog Life, Arthur issue 31The Analog Life, Arthur issue 31
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Music
Northern Songs
Sequentia's Eddic MusicSequentia's Eddic Music
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Mind and Philosophy
Slow Down
Unfasttracking the futureUnfasttracking the future
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Articles and Essays
All Known Metal Bands
Howling MoreHowling More
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Quotes
Quote 2
There is a difference between psychedelic experiences and psychedelic people
There is a difference between psychedelic experiences and psychedelic people
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Articles and Essays
Bardo Frontier
Rudy Wurlitzer's Dharma WesternRudy Wurlitzer's Dharma Western
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Mind and Philosophy
Bicameral Now!
The return of Julian JaynesThe return of Julian Jaynes
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Psychedelics
The Psychedelic Reader
A new introduction (2007)A new introduction (2007)
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Articles and Essays
John Giorno’s poetry
Subduing Demons in America: Selected Poems 1962-2007Subduing Demons in America: Selected Poems 1962-2007
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Music
Dennis Wilson
Pacific Ocean Blue and BambuPacific Ocean Blue and Bambu
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Offline Archive
The Lumerians
San Francisco psych-rockSan Francisco psych-rock
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Articles and Essays
The Circus of Dr. Lao
Charles Finney's masterpiece of American fantasyCharles Finney's masterpiece of American fantasy
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Digital Dharma
Steven Vedro's technomystic handbookSteven Vedro's technomystic handbook
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Music
Ronin on the Prowl
Funk and ArchitectureFunk and Architecture
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Technoculture
Archive Fever
The Analog LifeThe Analog Life
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The Invisible Forest
Antero Alli's latest filmAntero Alli's latest film
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Media
The Imagination is What We Are
Beneath the Teaching TreeBeneath the Teaching Tree
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Quotes
Quote 3
“Messages from beyond” are forms of information, and information is a trickster
“Messages from beyond” are forms of information, and information is a trickster
This has been a media-centric holiday shopping season, meaning that I mostly stuck to gifting books, DVDs, and music. By far the most sparkling item I stumbled across during the hunt was Dan Nelson’s All Known Metal Bands, a smart, gorgeous, and exotic object that achieves the ideal of all metal discourse: a loving but ambivalent mixture of power and perversity, the heavy and the ridiculous, high brow and low. The concept is strong, and perfectly executed: Palmer collected the... -
Music
Masaki Batoh and Helena Espvall
Neofolk improv from two psych innovators
Neofolk improv from two psych innovators
This has been a media-centric holiday shopping season, meaning that I mostly stuck to gifting books, DVDs, and music. By far the most sparkling item I stumbled across during the hunt was Dan Nelson’s All Known Metal Bands, a smart, gorgeous, and exotic object that achieves the ideal of all metal discourse: a loving but ambivalent mixture of power and perversity, the heavy and the ridiculous, high brow and low. The concept is strong, and perfectly executed: Palmer collected the... -
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Packing my Library
Bringing books to ParisBringing books to Paris
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Toward 2012
Perspectives on the Next AgePerspectives on the Next Age
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Offline Archive
Mahler on Gaia
MTT's "Das Lied von der Erde"MTT's "Das Lied von der Erde"
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Articles and Essays
The Dying Earth
Dungeons & DatabasesDungeons & Databases
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Art and Design
Terence McKenna’s Butterflies
Klea McKenna's The Butterfly HunterKlea McKenna's The Butterfly Hunter
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Esoterica
Lachman on Ouspensky
In Search of P.D. OuspenskyIn Search of P.D. Ouspensky
This has been a media-centric holiday shopping season, meaning that I mostly stuck to gifting books, DVDs, and music. By far the most sparkling item I stumbled across during the hunt was Dan Nelson’s All Known Metal Bands, a smart, gorgeous, and exotic object that achieves the ideal of all metal discourse: a loving but ambivalent mixture of power and perversity, the heavy and the ridiculous, high brow and low. The concept is strong, and perfectly executed: Palmer collected the... -
Religions and Spirits
Captain Jack’s Stronghold
Ghost DancingGhost Dancing
This has been a media-centric holiday shopping season, meaning that I mostly stuck to gifting books, DVDs, and music. By far the most sparkling item I stumbled across during the hunt was Dan Nelson’s All Known Metal Bands, a smart, gorgeous, and exotic object that achieves the ideal of all metal discourse: a loving but ambivalent mixture of power and perversity, the heavy and the ridiculous, high brow and low. The concept is strong, and perfectly executed: Palmer collected the... -
Articles and Essays
Maurice Nicoll’s Gurdjieffean Gospels
The New Man and the MarkThe New Man and the Mark
This has been a media-centric holiday shopping season, meaning that I mostly stuck to gifting books, DVDs, and music. By far the most sparkling item I stumbled across during the hunt was Dan Nelson’s All Known Metal Bands, a smart, gorgeous, and exotic object that achieves the ideal of all metal discourse: a loving but ambivalent mixture of power and perversity, the heavy and the ridiculous, high brow and low. The concept is strong, and perfectly executed: Palmer collected the... -
Music
Where it Starts Getting Sweepy
Talking with Pat Gubler about improv and cherry treesTalking with Pat Gubler about improv and cherry trees
This has been a media-centric holiday shopping season, meaning that I mostly stuck to gifting books, DVDs, and music. By far the most sparkling item I stumbled across during the hunt was Dan Nelson’s All Known Metal Bands, a smart, gorgeous, and exotic object that achieves the ideal of all metal discourse: a loving but ambivalent mixture of power and perversity, the heavy and the ridiculous, high brow and low. The concept is strong, and perfectly executed: Palmer collected the... -
Mind and Philosophy
The Omega Network
A Teilhard Techgnosis remixA Teilhard Techgnosis remix
This has been a media-centric holiday shopping season, meaning that I mostly stuck to gifting books, DVDs, and music. By far the most sparkling item I stumbled across during the hunt was Dan Nelson’s All Known Metal Bands, a smart, gorgeous, and exotic object that achieves the ideal of all metal discourse: a loving but ambivalent mixture of power and perversity, the heavy and the ridiculous, high brow and low. The concept is strong, and perfectly executed: Palmer collected the... -
Diary
Brittany, Stoned
Breton Megaliths and parish closesBreton Megaliths and parish closes
This has been a media-centric holiday shopping season, meaning that I mostly stuck to gifting books, DVDs, and music. By far the most sparkling item I stumbled across during the hunt was Dan Nelson’s All Known Metal Bands, a smart, gorgeous, and exotic object that achieves the ideal of all metal discourse: a loving but ambivalent mixture of power and perversity, the heavy and the ridiculous, high brow and low. The concept is strong, and perfectly executed: Palmer collected the... -
Diary
Lava Beds
Tubes and SignsTubes and Signs
This has been a media-centric holiday shopping season, meaning that I mostly stuck to gifting books, DVDs, and music. By far the most sparkling item I stumbled across during the hunt was Dan Nelson’s All Known Metal Bands, a smart, gorgeous, and exotic object that achieves the ideal of all metal discourse: a loving but ambivalent mixture of power and perversity, the heavy and the ridiculous, high brow and low. The concept is strong, and perfectly executed: Palmer collected the... -
Diary5 min
Liking It, As Is
Catching Shakespeare at the cuspCatching Shakespeare at the cusp
This has been a media-centric holiday shopping season, meaning that I mostly stuck to gifting books, DVDs, and music. By far the most sparkling item I stumbled across during the hunt was Dan Nelson’s All Known Metal Bands, a smart, gorgeous, and exotic object that achieves the ideal of all metal discourse: a loving but ambivalent mixture of power and perversity, the heavy and the ridiculous, high brow and low. The concept is strong, and perfectly executed: Palmer collected the... -
Offline Archive
The Power of Nightmares
Wef's Scary List from BeebWef's Scary List from Beeb
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Articles and Essays, Esoterica
Jodorowsky’s Spiritual Memoir
On koans and rotting dogsOn koans and rotting dogs
This has been a media-centric holiday shopping season, meaning that I mostly stuck to gifting books, DVDs, and music. By far the most sparkling item I stumbled across during the hunt was Dan Nelson’s All Known Metal Bands, a smart, gorgeous, and exotic object that achieves the ideal of all metal discourse: a loving but ambivalent mixture of power and perversity, the heavy and the ridiculous, high brow and low. The concept is strong, and perfectly executed: Palmer collected the... -
Moving Pictures
Phase IV
You are looking at the hive mindYou are looking at the hive mind
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Diary
Catacombs
Paris By Eternal NightParis By Eternal Night
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Articles and Essays
Why Mrs. Blake Cried
Tantric visionaries in Georgian LondonTantric visionaries in Georgian London
This has been a media-centric holiday shopping season, meaning that I mostly stuck to gifting books, DVDs, and music. By far the most sparkling item I stumbled across during the hunt was Dan Nelson’s All Known Metal Bands, a smart, gorgeous, and exotic object that achieves the ideal of all metal discourse: a loving but ambivalent mixture of power and perversity, the heavy and the ridiculous, high brow and low. The concept is strong, and perfectly executed: Palmer collected the... -
Offline Archive
Visionary Hollywood tour
Reflections of a bus tour leader
Reflections of a bus tour leader
This has been a media-centric holiday shopping season, meaning that I mostly stuck to gifting books, DVDs, and music. By far the most sparkling item I stumbled across during the hunt was Dan Nelson’s All Known Metal Bands, a smart, gorgeous, and exotic object that achieves the ideal of all metal discourse: a loving but ambivalent mixture of power and perversity, the heavy and the ridiculous, high brow and low. The concept is strong, and perfectly executed: Palmer collected the... -
Moving Pictures
Cocksucker Blues
Robert Frank's Rolling Stones slop-docRobert Frank's Rolling Stones slop-doc
This has been a media-centric holiday shopping season, meaning that I mostly stuck to gifting books, DVDs, and music. By far the most sparkling item I stumbled across during the hunt was Dan Nelson’s All Known Metal Bands, a smart, gorgeous, and exotic object that achieves the ideal of all metal discourse: a loving but ambivalent mixture of power and perversity, the heavy and the ridiculous, high brow and low. The concept is strong, and perfectly executed: Palmer collected the... -
Articles and Essays
Marsupial
Our Mother for the Time BeingOur Mother for the Time Being
This has been a media-centric holiday shopping season, meaning that I mostly stuck to gifting books, DVDs, and music. By far the most sparkling item I stumbled across during the hunt was Dan Nelson’s All Known Metal Bands, a smart, gorgeous, and exotic object that achieves the ideal of all metal discourse: a loving but ambivalent mixture of power and perversity, the heavy and the ridiculous, high brow and low. The concept is strong, and perfectly executed: Palmer collected the... -
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The Imaginal Earth
The Nature of the ImaginationThe Nature of the Imagination
This has been a media-centric holiday shopping season, meaning that I mostly stuck to gifting books, DVDs, and music. By far the most sparkling item I stumbled across during the hunt was Dan Nelson’s All Known Metal Bands, a smart, gorgeous, and exotic object that achieves the ideal of all metal discourse: a loving but ambivalent mixture of power and perversity, the heavy and the ridiculous, high brow and low. The concept is strong, and perfectly executed: Palmer collected the... -
Articles and Essays
G.K. Chesterton
Anarchists, beer, and the man in the moonAnarchists, beer, and the man in the moon
This has been a media-centric holiday shopping season, meaning that I mostly stuck to gifting books, DVDs, and music. By far the most sparkling item I stumbled across during the hunt was Dan Nelson’s All Known Metal Bands, a smart, gorgeous, and exotic object that achieves the ideal of all metal discourse: a loving but ambivalent mixture of power and perversity, the heavy and the ridiculous, high brow and low. The concept is strong, and perfectly executed: Palmer collected the... -
Articles and Essays
Blade Runner Scarecrows
Zizek meets HawthorneZizek meets Hawthorne
This has been a media-centric holiday shopping season, meaning that I mostly stuck to gifting books, DVDs, and music. By far the most sparkling item I stumbled across during the hunt was Dan Nelson’s All Known Metal Bands, a smart, gorgeous, and exotic object that achieves the ideal of all metal discourse: a loving but ambivalent mixture of power and perversity, the heavy and the ridiculous, high brow and low. The concept is strong, and perfectly executed: Palmer collected the... -
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Zachary Lazar’s Sway
Anger, the Stones, and CharlieAnger, the Stones, and Charlie
This has been a media-centric holiday shopping season, meaning that I mostly stuck to gifting books, DVDs, and music. By far the most sparkling item I stumbled across during the hunt was Dan Nelson’s All Known Metal Bands, a smart, gorgeous, and exotic object that achieves the ideal of all metal discourse: a loving but ambivalent mixture of power and perversity, the heavy and the ridiculous, high brow and low. The concept is strong, and perfectly executed: Palmer collected the... -
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Wake Up and Dream
A talk at Burning Man 2008A talk at Burning Man 2008
This has been a media-centric holiday shopping season, meaning that I mostly stuck to gifting books, DVDs, and music. By far the most sparkling item I stumbled across during the hunt was Dan Nelson’s All Known Metal Bands, a smart, gorgeous, and exotic object that achieves the ideal of all metal discourse: a loving but ambivalent mixture of power and perversity, the heavy and the ridiculous, high brow and low. The concept is strong, and perfectly executed: Palmer collected the... -
Esoterica
Astral Organics
A Cow Jumped Over the MoonA Cow Jumped Over the Moon
This has been a media-centric holiday shopping season, meaning that I mostly stuck to gifting books, DVDs, and music. By far the most sparkling item I stumbled across during the hunt was Dan Nelson’s All Known Metal Bands, a smart, gorgeous, and exotic object that achieves the ideal of all metal discourse: a loving but ambivalent mixture of power and perversity, the heavy and the ridiculous, high brow and low. The concept is strong, and perfectly executed: Palmer collected the... -
Art and Design, Esoterica
Managing Superstition
The Shroud versus the CodeThe Shroud versus the Code
This has been a media-centric holiday shopping season, meaning that I mostly stuck to gifting books, DVDs, and music. By far the most sparkling item I stumbled across during the hunt was Dan Nelson’s All Known Metal Bands, a smart, gorgeous, and exotic object that achieves the ideal of all metal discourse: a loving but ambivalent mixture of power and perversity, the heavy and the ridiculous, high brow and low. The concept is strong, and perfectly executed: Palmer collected the... -
Music
Halflife iPod
Zombie radioZombie radio
This has been a media-centric holiday shopping season, meaning that I mostly stuck to gifting books, DVDs, and music. By far the most sparkling item I stumbled across during the hunt was Dan Nelson’s All Known Metal Bands, a smart, gorgeous, and exotic object that achieves the ideal of all metal discourse: a loving but ambivalent mixture of power and perversity, the heavy and the ridiculous, high brow and low. The concept is strong, and perfectly executed: Palmer collected the... -
Moving Pictures
Occult LA
Watching SoCal's Mind ExpandWatching SoCal's Mind Expand
This has been a media-centric holiday shopping season, meaning that I mostly stuck to gifting books, DVDs, and music. By far the most sparkling item I stumbled across during the hunt was Dan Nelson’s All Known Metal Bands, a smart, gorgeous, and exotic object that achieves the ideal of all metal discourse: a loving but ambivalent mixture of power and perversity, the heavy and the ridiculous, high brow and low. The concept is strong, and perfectly executed: Palmer collected the... -
Quotes
Quote 5
Terminal. What other journey, you might ask, begins at the end?
Terminal. What other journey, you might ask, begins at the end?
This has been a media-centric holiday shopping season, meaning that I mostly stuck to gifting books, DVDs, and music. By far the most sparkling item I stumbled across during the hunt was Dan Nelson’s All Known Metal Bands, a smart, gorgeous, and exotic object that achieves the ideal of all metal discourse: a loving but ambivalent mixture of power and perversity, the heavy and the ridiculous, high brow and low. The concept is strong, and perfectly executed: Palmer collected the... -
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The Entrance Band
Ferocious psych trioFerocious psych trio
This has been a media-centric holiday shopping season, meaning that I mostly stuck to gifting books, DVDs, and music. By far the most sparkling item I stumbled across during the hunt was Dan Nelson’s All Known Metal Bands, a smart, gorgeous, and exotic object that achieves the ideal of all metal discourse: a loving but ambivalent mixture of power and perversity, the heavy and the ridiculous, high brow and low. The concept is strong, and perfectly executed: Palmer collected the... -
Moving Pictures
Tube Toss
Digital vs Analog TVDigital vs Analog TV
This has been a media-centric holiday shopping season, meaning that I mostly stuck to gifting books, DVDs, and music. By far the most sparkling item I stumbled across during the hunt was Dan Nelson’s All Known Metal Bands, a smart, gorgeous, and exotic object that achieves the ideal of all metal discourse: a loving but ambivalent mixture of power and perversity, the heavy and the ridiculous, high brow and low. The concept is strong, and perfectly executed: Palmer collected the... -
Diary
Lotusland
Ganna Walska's fantastic gardenGanna Walska's fantastic garden
This has been a media-centric holiday shopping season, meaning that I mostly stuck to gifting books, DVDs, and music. By far the most sparkling item I stumbled across during the hunt was Dan Nelson’s All Known Metal Bands, a smart, gorgeous, and exotic object that achieves the ideal of all metal discourse: a loving but ambivalent mixture of power and perversity, the heavy and the ridiculous, high brow and low. The concept is strong, and perfectly executed: Palmer collected the... -
Music
The Blithe Sons
A Memory in a Dark RoomA Memory in a Dark Room
This has been a media-centric holiday shopping season, meaning that I mostly stuck to gifting books, DVDs, and music. By far the most sparkling item I stumbled across during the hunt was Dan Nelson’s All Known Metal Bands, a smart, gorgeous, and exotic object that achieves the ideal of all metal discourse: a loving but ambivalent mixture of power and perversity, the heavy and the ridiculous, high brow and low. The concept is strong, and perfectly executed: Palmer collected the...