Darby Crash September 26, 1958 – December 7, 1980

33 years ago today Darby Crash snuffed it. Suicide is a motherfucker... Glad I'm not there anymore. Today we celebrate life, celebrate struggle and celebrate punk rock. Fucken rage'r.

Richard D. Wolff : Economic Update November 2013

Awesome. As informative and engaging as ever and this one has been especially entertaining.
I would suggest showing it to everyone you know...

More info here...

Choose to Choose, Choose to Go.

It was in my 18^th or 19^th year, now further back in time than it actually feels. I was in the thick of an ever evolving process of self-isolating that  truly begun in earnest, just a few years prior. I’d picked up a Sunday evening shift at a local college radio station as a favor to a friend, who was a station manager there, to help fill out the summer hours. Each week for an hour or two, during dusk, I’d turn the station into my own version of a broadcasted mixtape to long lost friends and lovers. It was a perfect outlet to communicate everything I was feeling without having to actually interact with others or use my own words. Without any theme I let the songs speak for themselves and complement each other.  Releasing them into the atmosphere, with the possibility that somewhere, someone’s receiver would pull them in. Of course I also offered to take requests on the studio hotline. I only received one call the entire summer.

What was that song? The really soft one you just played, the really beautiful one?

I’m not sure do you remember anything else about it?

He was singing about someone’s eyes…

I noted the death of Lou Reed yesterday by not really processing it, I just let it roll off me. After all, older people tend to die and though the Velvet Underground had meant a lot to me at one point they now were just an occasional thought. The market for artistic influence in my life had expanded and as I met others I saw that in some ways the Velvet Underground had over saturated parts of it.  In many ways the beatification of the band had turned me off to them. So many folks who discovered them and then set their heart’s compass to their art and legacy just soured me on taking them too seriously anymore. They became a phase I grew out of. Then a friend commented on Lou’s passing yesterday “This hits hard. All I ever wanted to be in high school was Lou Reed.”

I first heard the Velvet Underground when I was 16 it was a greatest hits compilation CD of a friends. I recorded it onto a blank tape and listened to it non-stop until I could afford the box-set.  The song that made me sit up and pay attention was “Stephanie Says.” I was fascinated with the line in the chorus “She’s not afraid to die, the people all call her Alaska.” I still have no fucking clue what that means but I developed a thousand expansive theories that summer and over the following years. What I loved about that lyric was, it wasn’t just druggy gibberish to me (like a lot of the lyrics from many of the bands from that era tend to be) it was a thoughtful attempt by to convey a meaning that was too broad and intangible to fit into words or melody so it had to be reduced to koan snapshots. Let the listener wrestle for an external truth by exploring the internal. So much of their work was like that, a foggy window to a much broader undefined theme.

The message in other songs was more straightforward and possessed a narrative. All of the work of Lou Reed from this period and I’d say until his death held a spirit of being resigned to the darkness but appreciating the light. Similar to the work of Townes Van Zandt, the artist is holding on to a spirit of hope but more grappling with this truth of a darkness. In essence it’s all about struggling with control. Something happens to some of us, most of us, all of us, during that time between being a child and learning the truth of it all. I think with Lou (like Van Zandt) the ability to reconcile the two and allow them to coexist, is the main undercurrent in the work. Even in songs like “I’m Waiting for my man” there’s a jumpy, childlike excitement about journeying into the black neighborhoods of 60s era New York in order to score some heroin. The situation is very sketchy on so many levels but the energy of the song is a living energy, jumpy and driving, with a youthful mischievous tone. That great duality of humor and sorrow really appealed to a presence already within me. Besides being very dark, Lou Reed’s music was also a testament to how powerful humor and rock n roll can be as tools for beating back despair and keeping you inspired.

What was interesting at that time too was that, living in rural Vermont it’s like I got to develop a relationship with the music in a vacuum. Sure friends and others knew about or liked the band but it wasn’t the same as discovering them in college or Art School or working at a coffee house or record store. I didn’t ask for and no one really offered their opinions on the music, so I had the space to investigate it and embrace it on my own terms.

That’s why it struck me when I heard that line from my friend about wanting to be Lou Reed. I realized I was shrugging it off, Lou Reed’s death; like it was a childish hobby that I could appreciate but had long since outgrown. He’s no messiah and a lot of the solo records were pretty bad, but he was always honest. The music of the Velvet Ground was so incredibly honest that it meant the world to me for that period when it was all I was listening to. It touched a place in me filled with simultaneous joy and sorrow and provided it with a voice I didn’t realize existed. Songs like Sunday Morning, All Tomorrow’s Parties, Jesus, and Pale Blue Eyes. That’s how heartbreak, loss, craving and fatigue sound and all of those experiences ultimately give you a deeper appreciation of the joy, love and beauty that you experience. In one of his later solo albums he has a line about hanging around in a relationship and feeling not wanted that states, “ I’m a New York City man, you just say ‘go’ and I’ll be gone.” I can’t even tell you how many times I thought that line in crumbling romantic and non-romantic situations. I’d feel unwanted and just split. You just say ‘go’ and I’ll be gone. No bullshit, just be honest. 

Lou was an astronaut to me. He had gone out there into the unknown and come back. His honesty gave him a quality of integrity that I saw disappearing from all around me as I grew up. So it hit me today, re-listening to those old albums and remembering the experience of that music and the world they described; how important it was for me to relate it to my own life and observations. How I wanted to aspire to those heights and depths. The passing of Lou Reed deserves a real, artistic reflection on my part; and it felt important for me to remember and pay tribute to the Lou Reed I knew and not the one defined for me by others. Life is gonna go fast, it’s important to take time to remember the words, the sounds and the spirit, to stand in the shadows and remember the light/ heat. 

the Fall

The Wonderful and Frightening World of Mark E. Smith (BBC)



Live in 1985.

"God Will See That You Die, Pig..."

Henry Rollins on John Macias.



Circle One - Highway Patrolman.

Mental illness is a motherfucker.

Here's a nice article about John that I found on the There's Something Hard In There blog (which is pretty killer in general...)
enjoy...

Fuck The TPP

drone warfare / TPP /"obamacare"


wow... I am really pissed right now...

Black Flag

on the news with police violence.



(1981) 1983 target video.

killer.

A History Of English Football Violence

2012



Early '80s.



1989



2002

The only stuff I know about Englad's football (futbol?) culture are things I learned from Oi! records... That said, here are a few interesting documentaries on hooliganism and violence... Add it to my growing mental encyclopedia of British youth culture... Interesting to see how the police tactics are theorized and later implemented throughout these documentaries... 

Richard D. Wolff economic update 10/13

Wealth inequality, the decline of the American left in the 20th century, explaining the debt ceiling...
Wolff killing it... enjoy.

Brother Orson Welles

A long documentary on the life of Orson Welles. Relax and enjoy.

The New Wave Of British Heavy Metal

Another reason why the late '70s and early '80s were thee best era for rock and roll... Punk rock, punks getting weird, synth music, nasty disco music, early rap,  hardcore, industrial, noise and fucking metal... All of the stuff I like the best for the most part being done the best it would be done or at least laying down the foundation for it...

NWOBHM to me at least; is when punk and metal crossed over... It's like crossing priest with motorhead or something... Shit is faster and cleaner than it used to be but not super fucking fast yet... just mid-tempo headbangers... and that is my fucking jam.
throw in some shit about satan and I'm there, dude...

this documentary/tv show kindof scratches the surface of it and probably the episode before and the one after would give it a more complete view, but it's a decent start anyway... when I think of the NWOBHM I pretty much think of diamond head. They are in here a bit, but mostly this is about iron maiden. Fucking killers, for sure- but we already know all about iron maiden... I'm surprised that they hated punk so much... I saw an interview with paul di'anno where he was talking about how much he loved punk rock... so... maybe that was part of the split...  



Maiden live in 81 (killers era with di'anno)

Anyway, here are a few more fucking ragers...




diamond head / motorhead / saxon / holocaust / grim reaper / judas priest / venom / mercyful fate (were danish, I know... this playlist isn't strict on anything but having sweet metal jams from that general era... whatever...)

ps. you should totally get that first diamond head record. it is killer.




And finally, here are the Brats who would later became Mercyful Fate. It's as perfect a mix of punk and metal as one can find in the world and it's cool to hear how some of these riffs later became mercyful fate parts. fucking killer. If you like this you should look for "1980" because it slays. The lost tapes and the 1981 demos are great too...
enjoy...

Negative Approach live on public access

slayerrrrrrrrrrrrs...

fuzz

A documentary about guitar pedals and the people who build them.

For those of you who know me; posting this will be of no surprise... For those of you who don't- I am a huge fucking guitar nerd. If you are into that type of stuff you will probably enjoy this video...
Dunno what to say about it other than that.
enjoy...

rat party 10 / 4 / 2013

rageit.

Psychic TV - on television in the 80s

A message...



 gen/sleazy



gen/paula

David Foster Wallace on American life.

Some real shit from a German TV interview in 2003.
 

R2C video mix september 13

dead boys / stranglers / pop group / who / telefones / the fall / rollins band / nirvana

yarp.

On "net neutrality"...

In the past few days I've been seeing all of these articles about ISPs and governments trying to get more control over the information on the internet. Verizon is going to court with the FCC to try and make a two tiered internet where certain sites will have traffic priority over others which will mean big money for the people who have and control it and take options away from the people who don't.

In England the proposed legislation is that there will be national filters on the internet; one of which for "esoteric" content, which really could be anything... It seems like they are getting more and more afraid of new ideas... The internet already has ads, shopping and useless, trash entertainment- I'm hoping that there will still be information and tools of actual worth on here as well... These are the things that make this whole computer business worth all of the money, time and social anxiety... The kindof fable about the internet being the next step toward human/cultural evolution.

We've all bought into the idea that the internet is the safest, easiest tool to get all of our business done- we've moved our banking, bill paying, our shopping and communication to the computer because it's been the easiest option and everyone else is doing it; and what bothers me about that aside from the obvious tracking / data mining is that now that everyone's become dependent on this thing which at least to my generation has become a resource or utility that's almost inescapable; and now the people in power want to make sure that it's only used for what they want you to use it for... Strictly a platform for selling you garbage- propaganda and otherwise...

Having a free internet where people are able to share new ideas and strategies was the sugar to help the medicine go down... This is why we pay upwards of $60 a month to these conglomerates instead of going out to the bar, the club, the local movie theater... Tangible goods and experiences are not in our budgets anymore; this alternative works because we have more of a choice in what's available to see/read/listen to. This relative freedom to seek out different ideas, art and to connect with like-minded people is what the whole tradeoff was for...

All of this "austerity" in the western world; in America they're talking about cutting the post office, 1 in 5 people on public assistance and all of these people getting up in arms about it... Libraries are closing, schools are underfunded and people are finally starting to see just how broken the system is... Is it any wonder why they would want to restrict the choices of information the general populace may be privy to?

Everything is on the internet or through it now... It's all just data- "We've closed the library and moved it over to the internet for your convenience..." OK... "but you can't have access without a special pass..."
To hell with that...

I'm sure people will find a way to subvert it or figure out some new or forgotten way of communication to get around it, but it still sucks and it gives even more light to how desperate these people are to remain in control. They are out of ideas and terrified by them.

Here are a few articles on the Verizon / FCC case...

http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2013-09-09/net-neutrality-goes-on-trial-a-guide-to-verizon-v-dot-fcc

http://www.forbes.com/sites/waynecrews/2013/09/08/net-neutrality-fcc-and-verizon-finally-head-to-court/

 Original graphic published at www.reachinglight.com.

 

Burroughs and Cronenberg on making the movie adaptation of Naked Lunch

A few cool interviews with Burroughs that I hadn't seen... Always welcome...

enjoy.

Stanley Kubrick

an interesting documentary on the life of Stanley Kubrick. A great filmmaker and an interesting dude.



A documentary about making the shining.

psst... also... another documentary about the shining...
probably not true, but imagine if it is? that's kindof fantastic...

80's punk in Australia

word.

Bobby Soxx and the Teenage Queers Live at Raul's 1980

fucking killer texas punk blowing my mind, baby. The sound is killer as well. enjoy.

20 years ago today...

 

I was starting the 9th grade, fresh from a long, hot summer at my grandparents' house. I had spent all summer listening to college radio and jacking off to 2 playboys my cousin scored for me in between daily trips to the record store to look at tapes I couldn't afford...
That summer I heard Fugazi for the first time on MRR radio which was syndicated at like midnight saturday on the station that I dug the most (which I want to say was out of Bates college...) Amazingly enough they had just released in on the kill taker and were going to play vermont a few days after I got back home. I don't know if I had realized what was happening to me and how I was changing, but that was the start of it... My true gateway to punk and I guess to the rest of my life... Perfect timing. thanks.
Here's a recording of that show from the Fugazi live archives.
awesome.

Fugazi Burlington, VT USA, 9/13/93

Hood Movie Thirsday : Baller Blockin

For this installment of the r2c hood movie thursday, I bring to you "Baller Blockin'" starring the fucking Ca$h Money Millionaires. Totally owned this DVD back in the day...


SPECIAL BONUS VIDEO!!!!!!



the intro to the album because it fucking rules. Mannie Fresh? That dude fucking owns.
killer.

An evening with Quentin Crisp

Quentin Crisp was a very well mannered British queen who lived from 1908-1999. This is a video of a one man show he did in Los Angeles in 1980 where he shares a few of his viewpoints on style and being oneself before taking questions from the audience and giving a bit of advice. Enjoy.

Husker Du 1981

husker du_live twintone sessions_1981 from Ivan Prgomet Selak on Vimeo.

Henry Rollins : 50 (live in DC)

Always fun to listen to.
enjoy.

Amanda Lear : disco on heavy sedatives

I stumbled across the music of Amanda Lear while watching bad German disco videos on youtube which is something I suppose I'm prone to do every now and again. The videos above might blow your mind with their sheer 1970's european disco extravagance- but be warned, fair comrades; It gets even better.

I slowed a bunch of her songs and made a mix which you can download HERE.

Guaranteed to fucking rule your stereo on those late nights when you might be indulging in substance in some dimly lit penthouse somewhere; living decadent and lavish in the ghetto of the mind...
Delicious, yes?

Amanda Lear - Now I'm A Woman

Her backstory is amazing- not only was she a singer and famous model (check the cover of "for your pleasure",) she was also Dali's muse for several years and could be the first trans person to have been on the cover of playboy... Jury's still out on that one, but the idea of it is interesting...  

Anyway, enjoy.

Robert Anton Wilson and Karl Hess

Here's a weird little video I happened upon the other day... It's a discussion between Robert Anton Wilson and prominent libertarian anarchist Karl Hess (click that, it's interesting...). They talk about all sorts of things and detail their experiences in life, politics and philosophy. enjoy...

Resort To Cannibalism video mix August 2013

THOR / Rush / Stickmen With Ray Guns / Really Red / Legionaire's Disease Band / AC/DC / Eddy Current Suppression Ring / Parquet Courts

Citizen Fish live in 1992

Citizen Fish - Live @ Störtebeker, Hamburg, 8.10.1992 from Mister Poof on Vimeo.

Propaganda : A total North Korean Buzzkill...

"Presented by an anonymous North Korean professor, this anti-Western propaganda film attacks the moral attenuation, political manipulation and hyper-consumerism that characterize the Western world. In chapters with titles like “Rewriting History,” “Advertising” and “The Cult of Celebrity,” we are treated to a lineup of the most embarrassing occidental excesses and globalization, the “psychological warfare” at the hands of multinationals, shopping-obsessed consumers and the failure of democracy. Then there’s time for the “Grab it!” culture of the one percent and additional moral deterioration in the form of Paris Hilton, unethical TV shows and violent movies and games. Toward the end of this propaganda piece, the role of North Korea in all of this becomes clear: the country would like to offer itself as headquarters for the mounting fight against consumer slavery and greed worldwide."

orrrrrr is it?

Regardless, it's a pretty great idea...

Germs at the Whiskey 1979

hell yes.

Stephen O'Malley on music and art

Lecture: Stephen O'Malley (New York, 2013) from Red Bull Music Academy on Vimeo.

I'm not nescessarily the biggest fan of his music, but it was a nice interview and he seems like a good dude... Wish the interviewer was a bit more severe and got into some of this stuff a bit deeper... but... what can you do? I guess aside from interview people yourself...

Ray Parker Jr.

A pretty entertaining interview with Ray Parker Jr. Yup... the dude what brung you "ghostbusters"... Also Stevie Wonder's guitarist and old school motown dude...
enjoy...



Of course I put "ghostbusters" on here... that shit is fucken classic...

more fucking bobby soxx / stickmen with ray guns

bobby soxx on the news in dallas...



scavenger of deaaaaaaaath.

The Pig Was Cool...

My friend Kyle had this 7" back in the day... I'm glad to know the song still holds up...

Unwound live in 1995

Fenriz' Black Metal University

This is the drummer of Darkthrone going over the history of black metal as he sees it. Something new? not really, but entertaining all the same. I just like seeing people who love music talk about music... Certainly interesting to metal fans and to people who may be curious about the trve black metal...

(a little bit of overlap with the videos, but whatever...)

Rory Gallagher

a documentary.



live on the beat club in germany.

amazing.

John Robb interviews Steve Ignorant.

Incubate DIY Conference #4: Steve Ignorant interviewed by John Robb from Incubate Festival on Vimeo.

R2C Video Mix 2

The Screamers / The Damned / Budgie / The Slits / The Lambrettas / Really Red / FEAR

oh yes, dearest...

fucken priest ruling in 1978.

hell yeah.

TG at Oundle School 1980

Ordinary Madness

Charles Bukowski

electrocute your cock.

that's an order...

Ghetto Stories: The Movie

For our second installment of Resort To Cannibalism's "Hood Movie Thursday" I bring to you a little gem called "Ghetto Stories: The Movie"
This is one of those classic somebody's come up on drug loot and decides to make a movie about it. At first I thought it was going to be pretty bad but it turned out to be really entertaining and probably one of the best drug loot rapper movies I've ever seen... I watched it at some point earlier this year and was telling my roomate about it but ended up recounting the whole movie to him which kindof illustrates how good a movie it really is. fucking enjoy this shit...

Sex Pistols in Texas

in all of it's ramshackle, out of tune glory...
viva, motherfuckers...

You're The Killers... Your Whole Sick SO-CIETY...

Quincey - Next Stop Nowhere from John J Doe on Vimeo.

"get a job working for the man / blow his brains out as fast as you can / tell the judge you didn't like his face / no garbage like the human race..."

William Burroughs interviewed by Kathy Acker

Support Force

It's crazy how sometimes we don't recognize how good the bands around us in our hometowns really are. Support Force are one of those bands for me. My friends Mike and Mady were all about these guys in the late aughts and whenever I would hear them playing the demos I would always be blown away and think it was like old sonic youth or something... some other classic band... They played a show in my livingroom once and it was awesome and also played a show at rotture with me and prescription pills in 2010 that ended up being one of my best solo shows ever and I still didn't really recognize exactly how good they were.
and that's a shame... because now they're broken up, the singer's living in turkey and all we have to remember them by are a few good records.
That said, I think that's a pretty good legacy in the first place and what most of us aim for anyway... so... good job...
anyway, here are the tunes... you should download them.



this is the one that I tend to listen to the most...



the entire record (which you can download for free)



A collection of demos.

enjoy.

Alan Watts Interviews Bertrand Russell

The Incredible Drum Programming of DJ Mannie Fresh

I found this hour long interview with Mannie Fresh. fuck yeah. He talks about producing beats, the history of cash money and rap in new orleans and about the people he's worked with and met... Fucking awesome.



jesus, mystikal still fucking kills it...









I could post all of 400 degreez up here, but... I'm sure you get the picture...
nasty...

Sun Ra on life, space and mythology as liberation...

Ulysses Black on Magick and Art

An interesting conversation about art, magick and personal evolution and how the lines between them tend to blur... You're pretty much guaranteed a smile by the end...
enjoy.

r2c video mix june

motorhead / zeros / victims / radio birdman / scientists / B-52's / no trend

yeahhhhhhhhh.

AC/DC - live in 1977

you fucking know it.

Cornel West @ Dartmouth 4/13

I love this fucken guy...
Bookmark this it and watch it soon because they're going to take it down on august 31st...
enjoy...

DJ Screw : June 27

The Jam and Joy Division on BBC

oh hell yeah...

Eno on Music...

Lecture: Brian Eno (New York, 2013) from Red Bull Music Academy on Vimeo.

Stickmen With Ray Guns live in 1988

Lawrence Lessig on Bill Moyers talking about technology and Government Corruption.

Big Brother’s Prying Eyes from BillMoyers.com on Vimeo.

The first half of the conversation is about the NSA/PRISM and though his point makes sense and is more realistic than most of our solutions to the problem; The second half of the interview is what got me excited.

At about 31 minutes the conversation moves on to congress and there are a few ideas about campaign finance and making superpacs to get corrupt motherfuckers out of office and begin to kindof straighten out the system instead of just accepting the way it is as the way it is... It's funny that these people all say they're going to fix the problems of the world and then when they don't they're just like "it's part of the game..." or whatever... How are you supposed to change the country or the world for the better if you can't even change the way shit goes down in your own daily life and business? Good ideas though... You should check it out, it doesn't seem too far fetched and if there is indeed a political solution that could be it right there...
enjoy... and hey, drop something in the comments somewhere... I'm putting all of this stuff out into the void because I don't have anything better to do, but if you hear it I'd like to hear what you people think about it...

Robert Fripp on music and life.

 

A short documentary.



A long Interview.





King Crimson 1974







With Daryl Hall 1975/1977





King Crimson 1982





Frippertronics.

Something for the musicians and nerds...

Minor Threat @ the 930 Club

MINOR THREAT - Live at the 930 Club (1983) from hardcorepunkarg2 on Vimeo.

fucking classic.

My Insane Childhood...

This video scared the shit out of me as a child. Seeing it again, of course I think it's fantastic and beautiful and not without a hint of power or magic... but I remember seeing this as a very young child and really losing my shit... and years later recalling the memory every so often and wondering if it was real or something I made up... Well... I found the video...
It was a trip to watch it as an adult and realize that I didn't make it up and that I'm not insane...
well...
regarding the video anyway...
I mean... it does exist...
anyway, enjoy...
; )





Wind in the Willows : the piper at the gates of dawn

the Woolen Men

You'll dig it.





Check out their lp on woodsist as well...

Graham Hancock on personal freedom.

Sex Pistols in Manchester 1976

audio only, unfortunately...
but yes, this is the famous one where all of the dudes we know and love had their minds blown by rock and fucking roll. awesome.

Celebrating Flag Day

Hood Movie Thursday: Three 6 Mafia's "choices"

enjoy.

prrrrrrisssssssssmmmmmmmm...

fuck...

It's interesting that more people are starting to hear about some of this stuff and are starting to wonder what this whole thing is about and what the ends are or might be... Fucking paranoid future for sure...

NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden: 'I do not expect to see home again' | World news | The Guardian
 


A short interview with Glenn Greenwald about the story.



Obama's statement about the situation...

FBI wants "wiretap ready" websites NOW.

NSA Prism: Why I'm boycotting US cloud tech - and you should too • The Register

Bertrand Russell interviewed on the BBC in 1959

Perc DJ set @ the Boiler Room

Robert Anton Wilson interviewed by Genesis P. Orridge and Richard Metzger

The History of Chicago House and Juke Music

From Jack to Juke: 25 Years of Ghetto House from Sonali Aggarwal on Vimeo.

awesome.

Wesley (fucking) Willis

what a sweet hearted dude.
rock over london, rock on chicago.
rock and roll will never die.

Learning To Hate In The '80s...

 




killerrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr.

Zizek at Powell's in Portland...

rrrrrrrrrrrat party

Discharge live 1983

Discharge - Live Stoke '83 from hardcorepunkarg8 on Vimeo.

not too too...

Dj Rashad and DJ Spinn Mix

make sure your bass is turned way the fuck up...

J.G. Ballard - future now

Sun Ra and astral navigation...

Here's a BBC doc on Sun Ra.




And here's Space Is The Place. his movie from 1974.
enjoy.

Legionaire's Disease Band

texassssssssssss punk.

An interview with Mark E. Smith...

what can one say about this?

nothing that shouldn't have been said louder long ago.
fuck...

An evening with Werner Herzog...

I fucking love this guy...

slayerrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr

An old mini documentary about slayer.
R.I.P.

Grant Morrison on Magick and art.

Lecture at disinfo.con (which was the first I'd ever heard of him...)

"The Invisibles is a comic book series that was published by the Vertigo imprint of DC Comics from 1994 to 2000. It was created and scripted by Scottish writer Grant Morrison, and drawn by various artists throughout its publication.^[1]
The plot follows (more or less) a single cell of The Invisible College, a secret organization battling against physical and psychic oppression using time travel, magic, meditation, and physical violence.^[2]
For most of the series, the team includes leader King Mob; Lord Fanny, a Brazilian shaman; Boy, a former member of the NYPD; Ragged Robin, a telepath with a mysterious past; and Jack Frost, a young hooligan from Liverpool who may be the next Buddha. Their enemies are the Archons of Outer Church, interdimensional alien gods who have already enslaved most of the human race without their knowledge."



A documentary about the man's life.

Aldous Huxley on life, freedom and control.

"Aldous Leonard Huxley (26 July 1894 – 22 November 1963) was an English writer and one of the most prominent members of the famous Huxley family. Best known for his novels including Brave New World and a wide-ranging output of essays, Huxley also edited the magazine Oxford Poetry, and published short stories, poetry, travel writing, film stories and scripts. He spent the later part of his life in the United States, living in Los Angeles from 1937 until his death.

Huxley was a humanist, pacifist, and satirist. He later became interested in spiritual subjects such as parapsychology and philosophical mysticism,^[1][2] in particular Vivekanda's Neo-Vedanta and Universalism.^[3] He is also well known for his advocacy and consumption of psychedelic drugs.
By the end of his life Huxley was widely acknowledged as one of the pre-eminent intellectuals of his time."

the Ultimate Revenge...

the ultimate revenge is a video of Exodus, Slayer and Venom in 1985.
of course it's fucking awesome...

Chris Hedges on the death of the left, corporations and modern society.

From Wikipedia: Christopher Lynn "Chris" Hedges (born September 18, 1956) is an American journalist specializing in American politics and society. Hedges is also known as the best-selling author of several books including War Is a Force That Gives Us Meaning (2002)—a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award for Nonfiction—Empire of Illusion: The End of Literacy and the Triumph of Spectacle (2009), Death of the Liberal Class (2010) and his most recent New York Times best seller, written with the cartoonist Joe Sacco, "Days of Destruction, Days of Revolt" (2012).
Chris Hedges is currently a senior fellow at The Nation Institute in New York City.^[1] He spent nearly two decades as a foreign correspondent in Central America, the Middle East, Africa and the Balkans. He has reported from more than fifty countries, and has worked for The Christian Science Monitor, National Public Radio, The Dallas Morning News, and The New York Times,^[2] where he was a foreign correspondent for fifteen years (1990–2005).
In 2002, Hedges was part of the team of reporters at The New York Times awarded the Pulitzer Prize for the paper's coverage of global terrorism. He also received in 2002 the Amnesty International Global Award for Human Rights Journalism. He has taught at Columbia University, New York University, Princeton University^[2] and The University of Toronto. He writes a weekly column on Mondays for Truthdig and authored what The New York Times described as "a call to arms" for the first issue of The Occupied Wall Street Journal, the newspaper giving voice to the Occupy Wall Street protests in Zuccotti Park, New York City.