Terry Riley and La Monte Young in a documentary about their teacher, Pandit Pran Nath
Poster by Marian Zazeela for a raga cycle performance at St. John the Divine, 1991 (via The Hum) William Farley’s In Between the Notes profiles…
Belief
Meet the priest who was Oscar Wilde’s lover and partly the basis for ‘Dorian Gray’
The writer Max Frisch once wrote that an author does nothing worse than betray himself. In that, a work of fiction reveals more of a…
‘The Good Morty’: Pitch-perfect ‘Rick and Morty’-themed Chick tract parody
I’ve been a big Rick and Morty fan ever since the show debuted on Adult Swim in late 2013. (For the big Science March last…
The Victorian woman who drew pictures of ghosts
Georgiana Houghton (1862). Georgiana Houghton (1814–1884) claimed her artistic talent came from the dead. Houghton was a spiritualist, a medium and (apparently) a self-taught artist…
Elvis Presley’s adventures in yoga and Eastern mysticism
Col. Tom Parker, Elvis Presley and Larry Geller on the set of ‘Spinout’ (via Bodhi Tree.com) In the spring of 1964, Elvis’ hairdresser, Larry Geller,…
Naughty Nuns: Vintage nun porn from the classic tale ‘The Nun’ & more (NSFW or church)
Denis Diderot might sound like the name of some superstar French soccer player but it is in fact the name of a famous Enlightenment writer,…
The Doors’ last charting single, ‘The Mosquito,’ as marketed by Presbyterians on Christian radio
One hears a lot of contrary opinions, spending year after year in the orbit of musicians, record collectors, and resentful nerds. That the Beatles “sucked”…
Read Aleister Crowley’s dirty, dirty 666-word sex poem ‘Leah Sublime’
Aleister Crowley published his poem Leah Sublime in June of 1920. The poem has been called one of the most obscene pieces of literature ever…
Dead at 17: ‘The Fatal Consequences of Masturbation’–a handy guide from 1830
‘He was young and handsome…his mother’s hope.’ He was young and handsome, his mother’s pride and joy–but he died in torment, blind, sick and paralyzed–at…
The unhappiest place on Earth: Grisly images from Thailand’s ‘Hell Garden’
Statues in the ‘Wang Saen Suk Hell Garden’ in Thailand. Photo by Darmon Richter. Located about 60 miles outside of Bangkok there is a massive…