Where is the cave where the wise woman went
And tell me where is all the money that I spent?
I propose a toast to my self-control
See it crawling helpless on the floor
Someday there'll be a cure for pain And that's the day I throw my drugs away
—Morphine, "Cure for Pain," 1993
Sunday afternoon, June 6. I am going to kill myself. No kidding. This time I mean it.
I'm sick. So sick. My last fix was 45 hours and, let's see, 20-odd
minutes ago. Ancient history. Not a wink of sleep last night. Jumping
out of my skin. No way to get comfortable. Every hour is a day. Every
minute an hour.
Marrow sucked from my bones. Ice water in there now. Aching legs
flailing. Why do you think it's called kicking? Snot streams from my
nose, tears from my eyes. Rancid sweat pours everywhere. Shivering.
Shaking. Every hair standing on end. Goose bumps on my goose bumps. Why
do you think it's called cold turkey?
Sick. So very sick. Something even sicker? One shot, one lousy shot
of dope would set me straight. OK, six hours later, I'd need another.
Then another. Then another. So the dope-fiend day goes. In Junktime,
though, six hours is a lifetime.
Label: Raffmond – RAFF 015-2 Format: CD, Compilation Country: Germany Released: 1995 Genre: Rock Style: Alternative Rock, Post-Punk
Tracklist: 1 In Purgatory 2 People Who Told Me 3 Another Year 4 Difficult Days 5 Walk In A Straight Line 6 You'll Never Know 7 No Problems Here 8 Moving Forward 9 Could It Be Increased? 10 Nerve Ends In Power Lines 11 Restoration 12 The Down Song 13 Alone In The Corner 14 Obsessions 15 Inmates In Images 16 Isn't That Strange (Another Year 12'') 17 Out of My Hands (Another Year 12'')
“The world of “magick” is, nine times out of ten
, a world where people can hide their deep-set insecurity and personal
damage behind illusion, constructed identities and claims to privileged
knowledge, power, or spiritual status. A gaudy carnival magic show,
conducted with props that have long since begun to disintegrate with
age, that seems to function only to distract people from the real magic
that is occurring all around them, in every facet of their lives, every
day of their lives. While the rituals and magical techniques of the
Temple seem overly simplistic in comparison with the loftier Qabalahs,
tables of correspondences and secret formulae of “high” magick, they
have one thing which high magick quite often forgets: a concrete
function.”
Label: Durtro – DURTROHOHO 019CD
Format: CD, Maxi-Single
Country: UK
Released: 1994
Genre: Electronic, Rock
Style: Industrial, Neofolk
Tracklist:
1 Lucifer Over London Parts I & II
2 Sad Go Round
3 The Seven Seals Are Revealed At The End Of Time As Seven Bows: The Bloodbow, The Pissbow, The Painbow, The Faminebow, The Deathbow, The Angerbow, The Hohohobow
Label: Durtro – DURTRO 040CD
Label: ArsNova – AN-20300
Format: CD, Album, Limited Edition, Unofficial Release
Country: Russia
Released: 2000
Genre: Electronic, Rock
Style: Experimental
Tracklist
1 Current Ninety Three - An Introduction To Suffering 1:41
2 Current Ninety Three - All The Pretty Little Horses 2:34
3 Current Ninety Three - Calling For Vanished Faces 4:03
4 Current Ninety Three - The Cat Is Dead 2:33
5 Michael Cashmore - Untitled I 1:26
6 Current Ninety Three - In An English Garden 1:07
7 Michael Cashmore - Untitled II 1:46
8 Current Ninety Three - The Flower Is RedRobed 3:46
9 Michael Cashmore - A Silence Song, Silent 5:23
10 Current Ninety Three - Et In Arcadia Est 0:52
11 Current Ninety Three - Moonlight, Or Other Dreams, Or Other Fields 2:58
12 Current Ninety Three - Judas As Black Moth 9:33
13 Christoph Heemann - Lazy Moon Part I - Hurdy Gurdy – David Tibet; Violin, Electronics, Organ – Christoph Heemann 12:37
14 Christoph Heemann - Lazy Moon Part II - Hurdy Gurdy – David Tibet; Violin, Electronics, Organ – Christoph Heemann 5:50
1 Thee Temple Beat - The Sound Of The Crowd In Thee Temple (Terminal Act Mix) 2 Thee Temple Beat - Hide & Seek 3 Catherine For Sale - No More Heroes 4 Catherine For Sale - I Wanna Be Your Dog 5 After The Dusk - You Perfect Machine 6 After The Dusk - E.C.T. 7 Dead City Radio - Headcleaners 8 Dead City Radio - Headcleaned 9 X4U - The Human Fall 10 L.I.N. - Ball Of Confusion 11 L.I.N. - States (Live)
Telepathicks Side
1 Zero As Limit - Cosmic Youth 2 DB System - Jesus Dive 3 DB System - Sound Window 4 Triplo Malto - Christmas Tree 5 Network 23 - Alpha Gear Drive 6 Officina Magnetika Antonbrega - Percorso Spinale Interzonale 7 Abra Had Abra - Faust/So Far
Label: Old Europa Cafe – OEC 011 Format: Cassette, C46 Country: Italy Released: 1990 Genre: Electronic Style: Industrial
Tracklist A1 Tenvitas Animi A2 Damnatio Memoriae (C.P.) A3 Havd A4 Oranismvs I / Incitatio B1 Oranismvs II / Labor Orgasmatkvs B2 Res Sacra Miser B3 Ex Nihilo Nihil B4 Via Trvcis IV
There are very few current musicians from Australia that excite me. Sure the country is rich in 'underground' music history but in the many years that I lived in Australia there were only a handful of musicians that really made me sit up and take notice. So it is with great delight that I came across Dirt Hand, a wonderful talent from Brisbane. There is something unique and memorable about the sound; with brooding vocals and slow blues, rock, country, swamp and even ritual overtones. The whole EP draws you in from the start with its laid back simplicity (at times almost cabaret-like in its reach). Yes, I'll just come out and say it, I am in love with this EP.
The sound of Dirt Hand has an almost Matt Elliott feel with a Bain Wolfkind noir appeal and yet it manages to remain completely original. It's dark and yet uplifting. It's sorrowful and yet you find yourself tapping along to its distinct clapping percussion. Hard to pick a favorite song but since Little Bird just keeps coming out from my speakers over and over, I guess you could say that I have a bit of a thing for it. If you are looking for music that will take you in and have you gasping with interest then you really owe it to yourself to get this EP now.
1-1 Amethyst Deceivers
1-2 The Lost Rivers Of London
1-3 Are You Shivering?
1-4 Ostia (The Death Of Pasolini)
1-5 Where Are You?
1-6 At The Heart Of It All
1-7 A Cold Cell
1-8 Batwings (A Limnal Hymn)
1-9 Who'll Fall?
1-10 The Dreamer Is Still Asleep
A Guide For Finishers - A Hair Of Gold
2-1 Panic
2-2 First Dark Ride
2-3 Further Back And Faster
2-4 The Anal Staircase
2-5 Red Skeletons
2-6 Scope
2-7 Solar Lodge
2-8 Blue Rats
2-9 A.Y.O.R
2-10 The First Five Minutes After Violent Death
From Hubert Montague Crackanthorpe's Vignettes (1896):
I have sat there and seen the winter days finish their short-spanned
lives; and all the globes of light — crimson, emerald, and pallid yellow
— start, one by one, out of the russet fog that creeps up the river.
But I like the place best on these hot summer nights, when the sky hangs
thick with stifled colour, and the stars shine small and shyly. Then
the pulse of the city is hushed, and the scales of the water flicker
golden and oily under the watching regiment of lamps.
The bridge clasps its gaunt arms tight from bank to bank, and the
shuffle of a retreating figure sounds loud and alone in the quiet.
There, if you wait long enough, you will hear the long wail of the
siren, that seems to tell of the anguish of London till a train hurries
to throttle its dying note, roaring and rushing, thundering and blazing
through the night, tossing its white crests of smoke, charging across
the bridge into the dark country beyond.
In the wan, lingering light of the winter afternoon, the parks stood all
deserted, sluggishly drowsing, so it seemed, with their spacious
distances muffled in greyness: colourless, fabulous, blurred. One by
one, through the damp misty air, looked the tall, stark, lifeless elms.
Overhead there lowered a turbid sky, heavy-charged with an unclean
yellow, and amid their ugly patches of dank and rotting bracken, a
little mare picked her way noiselessly. The rumour of life seemed
hushed. There was only the vague listless rhythm of the creaking saddle.
The daylight faded. A shroud of ghostly mist enveloped the earth, and up
from the vaporous distance crept slowly the evening darkness. A sullen
glow throbs overhead: golden will-o'-the-wisps are threading their
shadowy ribbons above golden trees, and the dull, distant rumour of
feverish London waits on the still night air. The lights of Hyde Park
Corner blaze like some monster, gilded constellation, shaming the dingy
stars. And across the east, there flares a sky-sign, a gaudy crimson
arabesque. And all the air hangs draped in the mysterious sumptuous
splendour of a murky London night.
I'm gonna drown myself in the lost rivers of London
I am gonna drown myself in the lost rivers of London
Label: Factory – FACT 10
Format: Vinyl, LP, Album, Textured Sleeve
Country: UK
Released: Jun 1979
Genre: Electronic, Rock
Style: New Wave, Post-Punk
Tracklist:
01. Disorder
02. Day of the Lords
03. Candidate
04. Insight
05. New Dawn Fades
06. She's Lost Control
07. Shadowplay
08. Wilderness
09. Interzone
10. I Remember Nothing
Label: Statik Records – STAT LP 17
Format: Vinyl, LP, Album, Textured Sleeve
Country: UK
Released: 08 Aug 1983
Genre: Rock
Style: Alternative Rock, Post-Punk
Tracklist:
01 Don't Fall
02 Here Today
03 Monkeyland
04 Second Skin
05 Up The Down Escalator
06 Less Than Human
07 Pleasure And Pain
08 Thursday's Child
09 As High As You Can Go
10 A Person Isn't Safe Anywhere These Days
11 Paper Tigers
12 View From A Hill
Some people would call David Icke controversial. I would call him a brilliant psychotic.
His ability to speak for hours on an incomprehensible doctrine is stunning. But listen carefully and the methods of his madness become apparent.
He has a brilliant talent for the subtle interweaving of plausible with crazy, and packaging the in-between gray areas as thought-terminating clichés like “secret societies”, “brotherhood”, “free masons” and other slogans and catchphrases popular with modern conspiracy thinking.
The magic is in his ability to dispense seemingly innocuous tidbits of (allegedly true) earth history one moment, then slipping in talk of aliens crossbreeding with humans the next moment. Talk sane, touch on some crazy, go back to the safety of sane. Rinse and repeat until the listener can swallow the crazy with the sane.
This ability to subtly slide in and out of the realm of plausible is the same potent cocktail used by science fiction writers to blur the lines between the possible and the impossible to keep viewers coming back for more.
This 25 minute video has been distilled from a 217 minute video. I’ve removed the plausible to expose the rest. Enjoy the madness.
The
Left is dangerous for a number of reasons with its disregard for truth
being high on the list. For the Left it is the 'narrative' that counts,
the 'script,' the 'story,' whether true of false, that supports their
agenda. An agenda is a list of things to do, and for an activist,
Lenin's question, What is to be done? trumps the question, What is the
case? Paraphrasing Karl Marx's 11th Thesis on Feuerbach, the point for a
leftist is to change the world, not understand it. See here: "Die Philosophen haben die Welt nur verschieden interpretiert, es kömmt drauf an, sie zu verändern." "The philosophers have only variously interpreted the world; the point, however, is to change it." (my trans.)
The
leftist's aim is the realization of 'progressive' ideals, and if the
truth stands in the way, then so much the worse for it. Inconvenient
truths are not confronted and subjected to examination; their messengers
are attacked and denounced.
For concrete instances I refer you to Jason Richwine, Can We talk About IQ? Excerpt:
So
when Larry Summers, then the president of Harvard University,
speculated in 2005 that women might be naturally less gifted in math
and science, the intense backlash contributed to his ouster.
Two years later, when famed scientist James Watson noted the low average IQ scores of sub-Saharan Africans, he was forced to resign from his lab, taking his Nobel Prize with him.
When a Harvard law student was discovered in 2010 to have suggestedin a private email
that the black-white IQ gap might have a genetic component, the dean
publicly condemned her amid a campus-wide outcry. Only profuse
apologies seem to have saved her career.
When
a leftist looks at the world, he does not see it as it is, but as he
wants it to be. He sees it through the distorting lenses of his
ideals. A central ideal for leftists is equality. And not in any such
merely formal sense as equality under the law or equality of
opportunity. The leftist aims at material equality: equality of outcome both socially and economically, equality in point of power and pelf.
But the leftist goes beyond even this. He thinks that no inequalities
are natural, and therefore that any inequalities that manifest
themselves must be due to some form of oppression or 'racism.' But
because this is demonstrably false, the leftist must demonize the
messengers of such politically incorrect messages or even suggestions as
that the black-white IQ gap might have a genetic component.
This truth-indifferent and reality-denying attitude of the leftist leaves the conservative dumbfounded. For he stands on the terra firma
of a reality logically and ontologically and epistemologically
antecedent to anyone's wishes and hopes and dreams. For the
conservative, it is self-evident that first we have to get the world
right, understand it, before any truly ameliorative praxis can
commence. It is not that the conservative lacks ideals; it is rather
that he believes, rightly, that they must be grounded in what is
possible, where the really possible, in turn, is grounded in what is
actual. And so the conservative might reply to the activist, parodying Marx, as follows:
You lefties have only
variously screwed up the world; the point, however, is to understand it
so that you don't screw it up any further.
There
is a paradox at the heart of the radically egalitarian position of the
leftist. He wants equality, and will do anything to enforce it,
including denying the truth (and in consequence reality) and violating
the liberties of individuals. But to enforce equality he must possess
and retain power vastly unequal to the power of those he would
'equalize.' He must go totalitarian. But then the quest for liberation
ends in enslavement.
Label: Deep Lake Records – DLR076
Format: 9 × File, Album, MP3, 320 kbps
Country: Italy
Released: 04 Oct 2013
Genre: Electronic, Rock
Style: Darkwave, Industrial
Tracklist:
1 Distant Thunder 4:11
2 2 Minutes Agony 1:55
3 Axiom (The Ending Hour) 3:17
4 Something New 3:19
5 Often Or Never 3:48
6 Dissolved 4:10
7 Krasnojarsk 3:42
8 Absurd Film 3:57
9 Specchio 3:59
Label: These Silences – TST5 Format: Cassette Country: UK Released: 1990 Genre: Electronic Style: Industrial, Experimental
Tracklist A1 Never Go Back A2 Separate Torsos A3 Night A4 The Last Summer A5 Dial Me B1 Blood Of Martyrs (Apocalypse Mix) B2 23 B3 Shepherd Of Fire B4 Automatic Love B5 Dark Age
Label: Hyperium Records – 3910029241 Format: CD, Compilation Country: Germany Released: 1992 Genre: Electronic, Rock Style: New Wave, Post-Punk
Tracklist 1 Liberty 2 Warrior Creed 3 Hear The Children 4 Reunion 5 Alone 6 Heartless 7 Last Fine Day 8 Robbed While We Slept 9 Dead Flowers 10 Another Dream 11 Missing Presumed Dead 12 Standing 13 Sense Of Freedom 14 Ecstasy 15 Letter And A Photograph 16 Dear Linn 17 Heartless Remix
