Fans of philosopher, astrologer and theaterical visionary Antero Alli—author of New Age classics like The Akashic Record Player and AngelTech—will want to check out Alli’s new film, an occult-flavored feature film called To Dream of Falling Upwards:
The elder Magus of the Thelemic Temple of Horus just passed away. Jack Mason, a promising young sex magickian cultivated to advance the lineage, loses it all when the elder Magus’ biological son unexpectedly inherits everything with plans to commercialize the Temple. Jack plots deadly revenge and falls into a dizzying maze of underworld encounters with professional psychopaths, desert brujas, and a twist of fate he never saw coming. Meanwhile, Jack Mason’s hot-headed apprentices offer cryptic narrative via their hilarious performances of the classic fairy tale, Jack and The Beanstalk.
To Dream of Falling Upwards will be screened this Friday April 8th, 8pm at The Suberranean Arthouse, 2179 Bancroft Way in Berkeley, CA with Antero Alli in person.
Instead of worrying about things like, oh, the state’s economy, the battered tax base, the elderly, state roads or ANYTHING THAT MATTERS, dimwitted LaPage took it upon himself, nay made it his business—after what he described as “complaints” about the supposed “anti-business” atmosphere (which later he admitted consisted of one single anonymous letter!!!) —to remove an eleven-panel mural from Maine’s Department of Labor building depicting actual events in American labor history! He also directed conference rooms be renamed so they won’t honor labor leaders, including one named for Frances Perkins, the Secretary of Labor under FDR who helped established the first minimum wage laws (and the first woman at a cabinet level in US history).
Incredible.
Judy Taylor, the artist of the piece who was selected by the Maine Arts Commission, remarked of the mural’s removal: “There was never any intention to be pro-labor or anti-labor. It was a pure depiction of the facts.”
Aside from proving to his constituents that he’s a blustering buffoon—as if there was ever a reason to doubt it—now Tea party-inspired foolishness might cost Maine taxpayers more than $38,000.”>the Department of Labor who granted most of the money for the mural are going to send LePage a bill for violating the terms of the grant. This Tea party-inspired foolishness might cost Maine taxpayers more than $38,000.
Ultimately, this mural business, as annoying as it is, is a small matter because when LePage is defeated in the next election cycle—if he runs, he surely will be challenged by a fellow Republican—his Democratic successor in the governor’s mansion is just going to undo everything damned thing this buffoon ever did, including hanging the mural back up and restoring the names of the conference rooms.
In the meantime, temporary Gov. LePage, was bitch-slapped the other day by a guerrilla artist who projected Judy Taylor’s labor history mural onto the exterior of Maine’s Capitol building. Here’s a statement about the video:
We put this video up to remind our peers that you have a voice, as soon as you choose to use it. If your government takes a symbol away and tries to hide history, you can make the truth resonate a thousand times stronger with your own 2 hands.
This is a lesson the labor unions taught us all, though some have chosen to forget it. We will remind you.
The maker of the art is unimportant. What matters is that you see it, and you have the freedom to speak about it.
There’s nothing like a good old-fashioned picnic with hamburgers, hot dogs, lovely music AND… random gunfire. Apparently, bullet proof vests are de rigueur at Albanian picnics.
Ian McKellen recites a Shakespeare sonnet while The Fleshtones zone out in the background at Warhol’s Factory in 1987.
This is one of those things that language can’t encapsulate. Not so much because it’s something wondrous or epic, it’s not. But because it is just so inexplicably Zen… as most inexplicable things are.
Broadcast on MTV as part of the last episode of “Andy Warhol’s Fifteen Minutes” TV program.
I realize that this is another one of those, “This smells like shit, smell this” kind of posts, but bear with me, this one is pretty… “good”:
“The Young Cons” are a Dartmouth College “conservative Christian” rap duo comprised of Joshua “Stiltz” Riddle and David “Serious C” Rufful. “The Young Cons” rap about Ayn Rand, Ronald Reagan and Jesus and appear at Tea party rallies and on Fox News. Clearly these rich-kid goofballs, have no sense whatsoever of how they must appear to others outside of their white-bread, er, posse. They must have also completely given up on the idea of ever getting laid again…
“Stilz” and “Serious C” make even James O’Keefe look like… less of a Republican dweeb by comparison (That’s hard to do). These guys totally suck! You might think this is a joke—and it surely is—but it’s not an intentional joke (or at least I don’t think it is?)
Local Los Angeles Christian radio idiot, Frank Pastore said of them:
“They’re Christian. They’re conservative. And, of course, liberals are going crazy over this. Some of their lyrics are really a hoot.”
A “hoot” huh, Frank? I doubt very much “The Young Cons” are driving many liberals (or anybody else) “crazy.” Most liberals would probably just think they’re fucking idiots, point and laugh at them and then say snarky things about them on their Facebook wall. About all they’re worth…
Hey there Los Angeles DM readers ! My good friends in the band Bell Gardens have conspired to get me to leave my comfy valley hovel next Monday night and come play some records with them at their ongoing residency at a joint called Footsies. Come have a drinky and listen to some cool old school noise rock dudes, Kennneth James Gibson (Furry Things and tons of techno projects), Brian McBride (Stars of the Lid) and I, your humble blogger play a bunch of wonderful records. Below are a few of my solo Dangerous Minds Radio Hour episodes to give you an idea of my kinda randomness.
