Tag: occult
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Dead Men Naked, Book Review
Dead Men Naked, a novel by Dario Cannizzaro Review by Bill Ectric Dead Men Naked is the best novel I’ve read in while, satisfying to the end. All too often, books with supernatural overtones veer into preposterous territory, but not this one. Author Dario Cannizzaro achieves a near-perfect balance of realism and phantasm, humor and…
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Dark Glories and Edge Zones
This is from a blog called A Year in the Country: “Recent years have seen a ‘rural turn’ in British cultural studies. Artists have wandered into an interior exile and a re-engagement with the countryside – its secret histories, occult possibilities. Psychogeographers are drawn to its edgezones and leylines, fringe bibliophiles are rediscovering the dark…
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Robert Anton Wilson on Jack Parsons
Steve Aylett posted this video on Facebook recently. I’ve only watched part 1 of this program, but Robert Anton Wilson’s comment that Jack Parsons was both an engineer and an occultist corresponds with my unofficial “mission statement” of erasing the line between science and mysticism.
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Joe Meek: Vintage Vinyl and Vice
The fascinating saga of record producer Joe Meek is described by Jan Reetze on her Joe Meek Page, as, “a short life somewhere on the fine line between vision and lunacy . . . oversped, funny, sad, euphoric, depressed; a rollercoaster trip with a dramatic showdown.” The True Vine Record Shop quotes Kate Hodges of Bizarre Magazine: Joe…