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couldnt edit 4 div another theme are the Mummers, had an ex once whose folks were from Philadelphia and they always used to mention the Mummers parades in Philly on (i think) new year's day. Kinda past it over for a year or so and then caught parade photos/videos courtesy of said ex's granny who showed me what it was all about. Blam. Had to politely mention "these look awfully like certain folks traditions across Britain at various 'feast' days/nights" without pushing the pagan elements too fully to be dismissed. from the city which produced Eagles fans and the atmospheres behind Eraserhead, this was another layer of wtf again
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prob already linked this oop, but Ossian Brown of Cyclobe/ex-Coil did a mint book of photo collections of American Halloween costumes & traditions, prob overlooked as so much of the focus here is on stuff from the British Isles......foreword by none other than David Lynch....helloooooo its one of the strangest books i've experienced because of the moods invoked by the imagery, not southern Gothic, but from across the US in the late 1800's and early 1900's, utterly spellbinding pun intended & will seep its eerie claws into your mind, this figure in particular lingers: "weird" how olde world traditions collide with psychology during this period in the new-world, these days it seems to be more about a suppressed sexual eroticism that manifests in openly worn suspenders and large amounts of alcohol https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=haunted+air&safe=off&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwior5rFuY3UAhWCKsAKHRk9C94Q_AUIBigB&biw=1366&bih=634&dpr=1#imgrc=_ https://www.google.co.uk/#safe=off&q=haunted+air
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the thing about the Anglo-Saxon concept of "Weird/Wyrd" is that A) its lost part of its original meaning (fate/destiny....) & B) it replaced the olde indigenous pagan belief-systems across parts of Britain that had already been partially appropriated within an early christian framework. Its never a surprise that if you dig metaphorically around a specific locational landmark across Britain & Eire, you inadvertently unlock the buried pagan/animist giants lurking underneath, Cornwall is a v good regional example with saints, deities & Neolithic/Bronze age monuments having retained a record in the collective memory of how people understood & re-interpreted these sites over many thousands of years scuse the archaeotossology, thats why landscapes seem to be a key feature in a lot of this material, the folklore of a place & any degree of perceived dislocation from it all historic constructs & Wicca's yoghurt weaving hasnt helped, but Alan Moore's Voice of the Fire is an immense creation.... plunges through all these horizons w/out the reliance on concept reference points stylized beyond the point of allusion tipping into inadvertent self-parody, thats what seems to emerge from a lot of Hauntology music & out-there freaky folklore tags in the current climate more critically, the 70's tv sample range can only extend so far b4 it self-annihilates, compounded by the innate drive in language/journalism to try to encircle & define key cultural signifier(s) scuse the waffle, vape done fry tie-dyed my hide edit for the above, to show this isnt an anti-English tirade, can not recommend Robert MacFarlane's Landmarks book highly enough & worth every shekel: https://www.google.co.uk/#safe=off&q=landmarks+robert+macfarlane
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weirdest America is in outstanding health, thank the gods it hasnt pandered to its own nostalgia either, seething into some truly malevolent directions hail praise Lynch
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ta very much, Buxton is a funny cunt, with plenty of brevity too
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Scary in the way I would have totally been into in high school Yesh! I think Ellen Burstyn gives maybe the best performance I've ever seen in any film. Made my friend cry the first time he saw it. check Scorsese's "Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore", she fkn rocks that too
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hahaaa
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an immense film, blending the droll & the utterly surreal.....loved the sales blokes, their lost causes and bickering but underpinned by the true meaning of long term companionship, the colour scheme interiors especially & the icing on the cake was the way the cavalry regiment struttted through town that metaphorically blew my mind, even more so during the impact of their failed venture & return it blended contemporary malaise with an incredible historical element to the extent that after watching it i spent a few hours reading around Swedish territorial histories across the region, which revealed so much and made the film even more poignant, not many directors can force you to want to explore certain cities but Andersson succeeded here and i hope to complete a mini tour in the not too distant future its my favourite Andersson filem after Du Levande, another genius critique of culture, personalities and those pastel colours that seep out of the screen into the viewer's psyche he's v similar to Kaurismäki, but much more nuanced at integrating the inconceivable into audio/visual feasts, i just hope he gets 1 or 2 more releases out given his age and the likelihood this could possibly be his last production
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those daft elf things were enough the first time around, my kid brothers enjoyed it, but hormonal influxes & thrash metal meant that gear looked a bit Jim Henson for a jaded teenager like meself at the time.... you cant do filems like that after discovering Slayer next it'll be The Neverending Story & summat like the Caravan of Courage, re-dissected into yet more guff
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a blend of Sun Ra, Alice & John Coltrane, Donny Hathaway, Thelonius Monk, Gerry Mulligan & Ben Webster tunes from my late Father's record collection, blended with more esoteric 4/4 gear of personal preferences like David Toop, Eryka Baduh & Peaking Lights, to move up through the tempos intro from a Gardeners' Question Time segment, to celebrate the olde man's love of green fingered past-times...... https://soundcloud.com/cwmbran-city/circuit-of-souls-beltaine-restitch
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theres a Marine Le Pen joke in there somewhere
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Sources: The P&P Records Soul/Disco Anthology Box set ideal for the warming weather plus the distilled genius of Pete Brown, prob not the first name to list on a forum that focuses on more recent music, but fk me its moody, crackling, thumptastic, 4/4 heaven for Trumptastic times disco is such a strange beast when lurking on its own margins, sneered @ for not "being on the 1" by soul heads, but like the post-punk realms show, if you dig deeper some incredible sounds can be experienced never cheesy transcendental 4x4/10
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thats maybe 1 area where Europe has an advantage due to regional arts councils, language preservation societies & a lot of cross-collaborations most frequently seen in smaller budget cinema creations piracy means eking out a living as a music maker is now a victim of the law of diminishing returns, even if you gig regularly its fuckin hard you have to give your life to art if yer the creative type, 150% agree with that, but labels are increasingly false prophets as the high standard of releases garnered from Bandcamp and S'cloud proves, plus an incredibly high standard of music exists that labels dont seem to have the A&R apparatus to scout for or the financial impetus to release as vinyl records due to production costs you see it most in House music, where there are still thousands upon thousands of digitally formatted duds made week in week out, but where you also find genuine authentic gems in small runs of 500-1000 released batches which can also unintentionally bump up the price if owt specific slips below yer radar first time around using other people's art for longer music mixes only ever really gets stressful if i phoget to hit record or cock a mix up and have to start again, but the same thing was true using tapes 20-25yrs ago
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4 episodes into the Handmaids Tale & its a class act Elizabeth Moss is superb & the tone is as nuanced as anything else lauded over from the last couple of decade's worth of US telly Ann Dowd also shines as the uber-cunt midwife come gestapo-type, a face that beams love but that can switch to psychopathic in a heartbeat
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Is marijuana use an unspoken rule for posting on WATMM?
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new-ish info on ibuprofen & heart attacks https://www.theguardian.com/society/2017/may/09/common-painkillers-ibuprofen-nsaids-raise-risk-heart-attack-study -
Is marijuana use an unspoken rule for posting on WATMM?
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he pretty much always plays modern soul records, even if he's a dubby/tracky house producer the inactive stoner is a stereotype, maybe relevant if yer under 30 or younger at specific life stages, but exercise makes you feel better for all kinds of reasons, its just when that pathway is made problematic or obstructed entirely due to titanium infrastructures maintaining any kind of orthopedic structural integrity, a few vapes can push you through & past the variety of pain thresh-hold barriers present exercising and chronic pain are huge issues, hence adapting a non-opiate pain-killer route that also increases your capacity to withstand pain, is fkn priceless a steep escarpment & having the confidence to push further up it would be infinitely harder if using opiates, plus all motivation to even attempt it would be lost in a fug of morphine.....thats the main area of personal concern anway - increasing fitness & stamina, limb/joint movement range, pain tolerance when it fkn explodes after exercise & avoiding dependence on sketchy as but legal as fk Dr-sanctioned medication prescriptions would it inspire someone who didnt have that problem to go for a run or try a testing peak? prob not -
in interviews Lynch claimed that the atmosphere was inspired by his apt window open at night while living in Philadelphia clearly not a cheese-steak or Eagles fan
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Horizon, possibly the BBC's last vestige of nuanced programming along with Panorama, although the latter is fading fast Lost Tribes of Humanity gave an updated appraisal of human origins, of all the other hominid varietals that have lived during the time of our own species. Puts all the pieces in an understandable chronological jigsaw. A strong Fast Show jazz-club "noice"/10 Why Did i Go Mad? A stunning, stark exploration of abuse, psychosis, schizophrenia, art coping mechanisms & new non-pharmacological therapies. Sometimes the strength of the human spirit takes your breath away & could not recommend watching this Horizon episode highly enough. Words fail/10
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a blessing rather than a curse, perhaps i miss their sausage, egg & biscuit breakfast thingy, essentially distilled saturated fats designed in Pentagon labs to directly clog the heart, merkin black-magic of the finest variety On Moonlight Bay & By the Light of the Silvery Moon.....the result of bank holiday family compromises, the epitome of valium soaked 50's saccharine visions of healthy functioning family life projected back on itself earlier in the 20th century Doris Day had all the physical traits of a v v fuckable lass, but in these filems her character seemed so so happy & outside of real world problems it was almost unintentionally tipping over into something much darker the whole time, but try articulating that to your Ma while she offers you another cup of tea and biscuits
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this fuckin guy......^^^^^^^^^^ you're talking about David Lynch its all about the subconscious, not conspiracy-themed bollix, but i guess you already understood that and dismissed it in advance as the ramblings of an elderly auteur seeing those clips, i'm already moist
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The Handmaid's Tale & the Supervet first has started well & seeing folks drop thousands on their pets is a mix of sentimental surrealism liking the latter might be the first sign of dementia, considering, oh dear
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would highly recommend Colquhoun's "The Living Stones" plus her Irish focused "The Crying of the Wind" she captures the subjective experience of landscapes, places slowly being eroded by technology, tourism & the encroachment of modern life on ancient sites, plus the whole spectrum of "vibe" diaries she recorded at certain stone circles, dolmens and the pagan heritage underpinning the Christianized places of special virtue they're part travelog, part picaresque, part archaeology, part philosophy & part occult art exploration (the Cornish edition being particularly "out there") with Stewart Lee having done the new edition forewords too, which is nice couple of other texts that are at the intersection of these themes are by Robert Graves, The White Goddess which is chronologically wonky archaeologically today but thematically staggering, on the fight for survival of indigenous British bardic, ovate & druidic traditions battling the forces of Anglo-Saxon invasions language enchantment is focused on as their last hope/key to possibly unlocking the traps........The Battle of the Trees extrapolated is so eloquently interpreted, it just needs a 2nd edition revision print to update the dating, plus "Welsh Incident" which seems to lurk & breath a life of its own and echoes in Coil tracks like Sick Mirrors & Something/Higher Beings Command
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Comus were a massive influence on Steven Stapleton
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fkn edit fail, sorry marf your post popped up mid-edit, will give the track a listen promptly Ghost Box seemed to have been a gateway label for a lot of people & its this kinda model which seems so prevalent currently, rightly or wrongly, with multiple copied adaptations if you see Hauntology as looking back at futures that didnt materialize, then christ, even Infinite Jest touches on themes of the idealized American life morphing into something deeply skewiff, similarly with Cities of the Red Night by William Burroughs Werent Throbbing Gristle focused on certain elements along these boundaries? A track like Hamburger Lady, with its trapped, traumatized burn victim decaying while the nursing staff plod around her, reeks of a personal future now lost and un-realizble due to the extent of her injuries. It personalized, contextualized through hospital ins so Hauntology might not be a music genre, but it can still be music and Andrew Liles is better than most at channeling these kind of emotional fields, so buy the track rather than slsk it ;) https://andrewliles.bandcamp.com/track/anhedonia
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as a landscape archaeologist, it can be slightly awkward witnessing musicians tap into vague folklore reference points, as these are often historical constructs & quarter-truths masking much older pagan traditions blended with Jungian archetypes/myths of place/location its this kinda model which seems so prevalent currently, rightly or wrongly if you see Hauntology as looking back at futures that didnt materialize, then literature offers so many dystopian visions, from the perspective of someone like Philip K Dick who appeared almost as a seer prefiguring such trends it grows in complexity. Equally Ithell Colquhoun's books on Cornwall and Ireland are genius at capturing the atmosphere of places where the past and past hope for better todays dissolves in unfathomable wonder at the experience of landscape atmospheres and the threats of technology hovering around the margins slowly devouring the past, present & future. theres been a huge trend in musical reference points on something 'lore tapes, which is along way from Lovecraft, Aickman or Arthur Machen i'd lob in Andrew Liles - Anhendonia as a more expansively sounding (ie better produced), more nuanced example of lost futures echoing from what may or may not be voices from the past....takes about 2/3rds of the tune for the lyrical content to bring it to fruition. but that tonal atmosphere escalating the juxtaposition of harmonics and suggested dread...........maaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaan.........
