Conspiracy Theories

I discovered today MTV is airing the “Conspiracy Theories” video created by Evolving Media for Coheed & Cambria’s drummer’s rap side project, Weerd Science. (Enough adjectives there for ya?)

Full Key23 article

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Interview with Joseph Matheny about Grey Lodge.

We discuss our previous interview; The Incunabula Papers; Grey Lodge Occult Review; Gpod; the mysterious Dr. Grey; Pirate Bay; Brion Gysin and William S. Burroughs; the sTaRe Network; Bittorrent; becoming an UbuWeb affiliate; the sporadic nature of Gpod Radio; why Grey Lodge is so succesful; making his recordings of the Temporary Autonomous Zone radio show, videos of Robert Anton Wilson and projects with Psychick TV and Robert Anton Wilson and projects with Genesis P-Orrdige available on the internet; contributors Mark Pesce and James Curcio, author of Join My Cult; Curcio’s Bedtime Stories with the Anti-Christ podcast; Dave Szulborski’s Alternate Reality Gaming work; Big City Orchestra; writers Aldous Huxley and Futurism’s FT Marinetti; the Master Musicians of Joujouka; Aleister Crowley; what is magic; Generation Hex; Disinfo.com; Timothy Leary; conspiracy theories as modern superstition; the future of Grey Lodge; Gysin and Burroughs’ cut-up technique; Dada, Surrealism and Cubism; Salvador Dali; Henry Miller.

Listen.

233 Project

233 Project completed another EP. Here and Here are two of the tracks, which I did hand drums on (Sean of course tweaked the hell out of them, granulated etc.) More hand drums and some guitar Here.

Of course Sean (programming, synths) and Gaetan's (mixing, mastering) work on the project is kickass.

Check it out.

Notes From The Underground

For those that didn't catch it, the final PDF of the interview I did with P. Emerson Williams for Bright Young Things (probably to be re-syndicated a million other places) is up HERE.

GENERATION HEX: HIGH ROAD ANAMNESIS 2005

"As the Western world continues to accelerate towards information overload, a sort of crass lust for a non-offensive, non-distinct, all-inclusive "spirituality" has become more and more prevalent. Spirituality as a way to ignore the uglier aspects of life and focus on a highly bankable "eternal moment," a soothing white light to clutch like the Orgasmatron in Woody Allen's Sleeper.

In such a marketplace of belief, in which every world faith has been pureed into a homogenized feel-good power shake, it is often the options with a tad more grit to them that stick out. Voodoo, witchcraft, the abyss-transfixed "magick" of Aleister Crowley and Austin Osman Spare and, in the case of this recording, the solipsistic sorceries of a generation raised on late postmodernism, a fragmented mediasphere and the self-conscious posturing of "chaos magic."

While it is the most fevered belief of the "New Age seeker" that all paths lead to the same destination (and that, of course, it is never the destination that counts), one wonders if these strange children of the new millennium may well have eaten so much microwaved food that even such watered-down generalities as the "path" or the "destination" remain valid concepts to them. How does one teach patience, humility, quietude or mindfulness to a generation accustomed to terrorizing its elders with the unsettling speed of its "channel-surfing?"

The book release for Generation Hex, at Alex Grey's Chapel of Sacred Mirrors, was certainly a troubling sign that our children are willing to believe anything as long as it speaks in their "jive-talk." A throng of two hundred arrived to pay tribute to these "anarchs of the new paradigm"—James Curcio, the novelist and musician; Angelina Fabbro, the scientist; Micki Pellerano, the filmmaker; Atman, the academic; Rachel Haywire, the warrior; Shaun Frenté, the diva; and Jason Louv, the editor and circus ringleader, luring the children in. Jupiter, Mercury, Luna, Saturn, Mars, Venus, Sol. Seven seals.

And though the speakers did their best to calm the crowd from their murmurs of end-times, there was something undeniably Apocalyptic to the proceedings. Could God not only be dead, but have been so picked over by the banal "spiritual" masses that only the spears of Reason, Doubt and Humanism which killed him in the first place remain to prop up a new faith with?

The occult teachers of the past carefully coded and obfuscated their teachings. I hazard a guess that it was so that neophytes such as these couldn’t get their pudgy, pink fingers on them. Yet they have indeed, and their peers are, chillingly, taking them seriously. When Ezra Pound spoke in fear of the "sturdy, unkillable infants of the very poor," he might well have been speaking of this spiritually bankrupt "magickal" generation, raised by equally spiritually bankrupt, "permissive" and liberal parents.

If this is truly the grubby face of the "end of linear history" that de Chardin and McKenna predicted, then I can not so much give a positive review to this release as I can a negative review to the last several thousand years of linear history for having let it come to this."

-- Dr. Marvin K. Moloch, Associate Professor of Religious Studies, University of California at Bohemian Grove

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On October 27, 2005, these infamous "children of the new millenium," authors of the hit Disinformation anthology Generation Hex descended on Alex Grey’s Chapel of Sacred Mirrors in New York City. Speaking to a full house, the group's discussion and debate as to the nature of magick and its place in youth culture at the beginning of the Twenty-First Century is contained herein. If you couldn't be there in the flesh, this 74 minute recording of the proceedings is the next best thing.

Bedtime Stories With the ANtichrist Ep #2

"Where in the world is Agent 156?"

An hour of free underground media, interviews with musicians, artists, drug addicts, occultists, and of course the requisite insanity that ensues.

This will be launched on Greylodge shortly, but in the meantime feel free to listen, and spread it around.

233 project update

I've also been laying down guitar and percussion tracks for 233 Project's upcoming album. Possible show dates will be posted for the summer, should they happen.

CTW update

Chasing The Wish Book one now on Indyplanet.

Next up... interviews, stores.

Another Joins the Blogosphere.

My good friend Jason Stackhouse has finally entered the 21st century and is keeping a blog.

We've worked together on a number of projects you may have already enjoyed (such as Join My Cult!, Fas Ferox, and Chasing The Wish. I get the sense he has more brewing too that he's not yet let on to. He's also whooped my ass in chess more times than I'd care to think about.

I suggest you keep tabs on it.

Jesus Kundalini Commercial

Excerpted from longer Infomercial (mp4 format.)

Mind Driver 2 Update

Most people’s first question is generally, “how does it work?”

The simple answer is that the MD2 sends specifically timed, alternating light and sound signals to the brain which trigger a corresponding effect there. This effect is often referred to as “entrainment.” Technically this is the process whereby two connected oscillating systems with similar periods fall into synchronicity. The system with the greater frequency slows down, and the other accelerates. Similar synchronization can be witnessed when a tuning fork that has been struck and is oscillating at a particular frequency is brought into the vicinity of a second tuning fork. The second tuning fork, although not struck, will begin to oscillate at precisely the same frequency as the first.

This isn’t “science fiction”—think about. All your brain does all day and night is respond to patterns of light and sound. Have you ever taken a train somewhere, and found that you slipped into a deep, almost sleep-like trance? A combination of the frequency of the sound, rocking motion of the cabin, and the regular, knocking noise of the tracks below are some of the environmental effects which create this state of mind. You witness a similar effect while staring at a fire… or even a television.

These are very simple, every-day examples of some of the principles that make the MD2 work, except the MD2 provides far greater control over those variables. The possibilities are only truly limited by your imagination, and receptivity.

Listen to my conversation with Joseph Matheny about Join My Cult!, and the use of this device in its creation.

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Chasing The Wish

Preorders for book one have now begun.

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Chasing The Wish: Book One.

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Fas Ferox: World Walkthrough

Full promotion of this is pending the next version of the site going up, but for those of you who have been itching for this...



An in-depth introduction to Fas Ferox, a multimedia graphic novel with a mythological, sci-fi, cyber theme. In a post-apocalyptic near future, explore the five realms of the universe: Divinity, Spirit, the Physical, Underworld and Dream, while meeting modern manifestations of demigods who walk among us. This cutting-edge epic is a riveting wake-up call to the archetypes in each and every one of us. Introduction by Neil Gaiman.

Creative Consultant: Neil Gaiman; Author: Jason Stackhouse; Co-Author/Creative Director: James Curcio; Creator/Producer: Anna Young; Associate Producer/Muse: Kal Masunari; various Artists including: Edson Campos.