a spell

this is a spell i wrote awhile back...

anti-anxiety spell...
even though jung is often discredited in psych community because of his association with the analysts, as well as his more esoteric ideas on the collective unconscious, he is still considered one of the more brilliant individuals to have ever lived and many of his ideas are integral to modern theory, culture, and critique... he had a lot to say on the importance of dreams, art and mysticism and their value in combination with logical positivism...
dreams, art and mythology are some of many good means of confrontation and alleviation of anxiety built up through schemas of thought and role conflict...
i personally find that anything that involves ritualism, chanting, repetition, confrontation, and a lack of overall seriousness helps me quite measurably.
its kind of about immersion... so it's best to watch it close up, full screen, with the volume up... whenever you watch it, watch it all the way through to the end, it gets less overwhelming as it goes along... and try and watch it in a dark room at least once a day for a week or two.
...so, i hope this helps you in some way...
(it's made up of several audio and video sources i mixed together... some of them produced by me, some of them appropriated and highly processed and distorted... fire, zombies, children, chanting, rhythm... )

keyword: magic

excessively generous, randomly generated mixtape monday... it should be noted that track 2, magic sequence, is actually a mixtape put together by memory tapes awhile back... don't thank me, thank i-tunes' search engine.
1. Dawn Of Magic / Twink 1:45
2. Magic Sequence / Memory Tapes 29:34
3. Magic Colors / Lesley Gore 2:40
4. 10.Magic / Nagamatzu 4:22
5. computer games (photonz edit) / Yello... 7:20
6. Energy Fools The Magician / Brian Eno 2:08
7. The Magic Touch / The Platters 2:43
8. Magic Mountain / Blonde Redhead 3:03
9. The Magic Yard / Lubos Fiser 5:47
10. Magic Aum Gigi - Love Potion 26 / Aci... 2:18
11. Merlin The Magician / Rick Wakeman 8:55
12. Magic Nights / the Pastels 1:16
13. The Magic Number / De La Soul 3:17
14. I Was Made To Love Magic / Nick Drake 3:28
15. The Magician / Clinic 2:41
16. magic hours / explosions in the sky 8:29
17. Billy The Kid's Dream Of The Magic Shoes/ The Mountain Goats 2:06
18. Magical Mystery Tour / The Beatles 2:52


on the theme of magic and mixtapes here is a link to an amazing artist i used to know.



Hoodoo Your Love
2010
dimensions variable
"Who Do You Love" 45 RPM record by Bo Diddley, beeswax, wick, jar, honey, binding spell, orris root, rose petals, coriander seed, witch grass & cumin seed.
and a mixtape of hers...
"you can take it with you" harmonic spheres: work and mixtape by anne jordan regan




01. billie holiday...strange fruit
02. st. james infirmary...james booker
03. robert johnson...love in vain
04. howlin' wolf...moanin' for my baby
05. bo diddley...who do you love
06. lightnin' hopkins...mojo hand
07. willie dixon...the seventh son
08. charley patton...screamin' & hollerin' the blues
09. son house...john the revelator
10. blind willie johnson...lord i just can't keep from crying
11. lead belly...take this hammer
12. blind willie mctell...southern can mama
13. the reverend j.m. gates...baptize me

me and the devil

it's been a moment or two since i've payed attention.
so here we are, catching up on payments...
here's gil scott's new digs... me and the devil


...and a bunch of (17) songs pulled at random via a word search on my computer.

"devil"
Jeroen Van Veen-Solodevilsdance IV (S.t. Holt)
Misfits-Devilock
High On Fire-Devilution
Antony & The Johnsons-Shake That Devil
bruce haack-Mean Old Devil
Texas Gladden-The Devil & the Farmer's Wife
The Dramatics-The Devil Is Dope
PJ Harvey-The Devil
Scary Sounds - Sound Effects and Music-devils ride
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds-Up Jumped The Devil
Charles Manson-Devil man
Holly Golightly & The Brokeoffs-Devil do
Sufjan Stevens-In The Devil's Territory
Daniel Johnston-Devil town
INXS-devil inside
Brownie McGhee-Dealing With The Devil
Electric Wizard-Devil's Bride
Cowboy Junkies-Me And The Devil Blues

with jaded eyes and features... you think they really care?

anybody who's anybody is a busybody everybody. as evidenced in the plethora of mediums Maximilla Lukacs' work shows up in. good stuff all around, but i'm particularly taken by these two videos at present... the first because it reminds me of the intro to the wonder years via my childhood (read as: small town punk rocker with nothing to do)... the second (done for her boyfriend Guy Blakesle's Entrance Band) because it feels like a psyched out Maya Daren treatment of sorts...

most of what she does are shot for shot remakes of well known experimental awesomeness... but she grabs from good places, and if Tarentino can make a career of it, why not someone more attractive?
pajo-where eagles dare mp3
the entrance band-grim reaper blues mp3

wisconsin death trip has a flikr.

seriously amazing.




Wisconsin Death Trip is a non-fiction book by Michael Lesy, first published in 1973. It has been adapted into a film.
The book is based on a collection of late 19th century photographs by Jackson County, Wisconsin photographer Charles Van Schaick, mostly in the city of Black River Falls, and local news reports from the same period. It emphasizes the harsh aspects of Midwestern rural life under the pressures of crime, disease, mental illness, and urbanization.

the film is currently available streaming on netflix... so you might want to get on that...

and here are some reading's from Lesy's book... this was put out on CDR some years back... (link to mp3's)

"Hillbilly noir from Butchertown Allstars; i.e. - 10 musicians reincarnate Wisconsin Death Trip. 46 tracks range from 20 to 90 seconds, comprised of male and female spoken stories accompanied by sounds spliced of vast scope ranging from old-timey dust bowl blues to free jazz to alien forcep electronics (all performed by the Butchertown Allstars). The result is timeless, sounding as if it was recorded anytime over the last 100 years. Highly reccomended for suicidial introverts! Based on Michael Lesy's classic book "Wisconsin Death Trip", an intimate, shocking and sometimes hilarious account of the disasters that befell one small town in Wisconsin during the final decade of the 19th century. Lesy discovered a striking archive of black and white photographs in the town of Black River Falls dating from the 1890's and married a selection of these images to extracts from the town's newspaper from the same decade. It is from these extracts that Butchertown Allstars bring back to life the tropes of hidden lives, suicide, familial disaster, cross-dressing, acute paranoia, drug addiction, schizophrenia, 'crazy socialists' and myriad tales of ordinary madness."

side b... still have a fever. thought i'd try DayQuil.

side b... still feverish... dayquil, so a bit less of a mess. (mp3)

air:suicides underground.
acid mothers temple:universe of romance.
tamaryn:mild confusion.
suede: asphalt world.
john cage:radio music (edit).
goblin:suspiria.
bauhaus:the three shadows part 2.
silver mt. zion:13 angels standing guard 'round the side of your bed.
allen ginsberg:america.
cranes:in the night.
mum:the land between solar systems.
low:words.
caretaker:reflection

like i said... it's on a cassette... so if you want it... you got it.

i have the flu.

sippin' on sizzurp: NyQuil mix side a (mp3)

coil:original chaostrophy.
butchertown allstars:9 (readings from wisconsin death trip).
zola jesus:sinfonia and the shrew.
songs of green pheasant:fires P.G.R.
transient waves:paradise.
animal collective/beachboys: i'm waiting for my banshee.
animal collective:loch raven.
death in vegas:girls.
coil-light shining darkly.
the caretaker:it's all forgotten now.
daniel knox:ghostsong.
paavoharju:ikuisuuden maailma.
fever ray:stranger than kindness.
black dice:roll up.
death in june:fields of rape.
the caretaker:cloudy, since you went away.
stevie nicks:rhiannon (piano demo).
salem:frost.
coldcave:our tears help the flowers grow.

too much cough medicine does some fucked up shit... as in way too much... i could barely stand by the end.
...and it shows.

(if you want a copy of this on cassette, just send me your address)