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Go to: http://coreyanton... the Blog post called: Death and the Meaning ...
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Go to: http://coreyanton... the Blog post called: Death and the Meaning of Forgiveness. This is a brief reflection of death, god talk, and the meaning of life. It addresses some of the themes from my forthcoming book, Sources of Significance, in terms of the You Tube video "Children of a stupid god." http://www.youtub...less
This is a poem titled, Dogma Be Damned. It is from a growing collection...
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This is a poem titled, Dogma Be Damned. It is from a growing collection I have tentatively titled, "Prayers for Modern Atheists: A Book of Hope Against Dogma" (Click 'more info' for text of Poem)
"Dogma Be Damned"
Silent interlocutor, in whose name we speak give us the courage to speak despite your lack of response
forgoing all dogma, but feeling so clearly the mystery engulfing us, the mystery that we too are, I know that I am not alone
There is no aloneness
To speak is to dwell in the love of the unknown other a love beyond many generations
Give us strength mysterious ground Help us come to terms with your eternal silence Let our duty be to faithfully speak your will
Dogma be Damned I need no false miracles
Life itself is enough
No virgin births, No afterlife, No ultimate recompense
No figure in the sky, No doer of deeds, No granter of mercy And, no grand adjudicator
I need nothing more, Than what I already have,
Life itself
Life is the miracle, And the miracle is us Trees, rain, and wind Sun, moon, and sky These are our sacred texts,
Let us regain the ancient literacy Help us read the words Inscribed all around us
Harmony and order, Growth and change, Variety, variety, variety.
The mystery is all around us And we too are the mystery For we remain mysterious to ourselves
Oh silent interlocutor The relation of our self-relation, You are the only conscience The world can have Help me speak faithfully To the whole of who I am.
May my many prayers Of gratitude and forgiveness My prayers for strength and courage Be neither heard nor responded to May they instead resonate With the sacred majesty Of the self-aware cosmos
Earth you are my Mother I am your offspring And your care-taker Help me remember Who I really am.
Matteo delivers a monologue. I love the bit where Sensational clears his...
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Matteo delivers a monologue. I love the bit where Sensational clears his throat at one point. Some interesting philosophical questions are raised about real life vs. MySpace etc.
"Every night I hope and pray a Dream Lover will come my way..."
The title appears deliberately misspelled in gold letters against a pink backdrop: three K's replace C's.
Two boys are seen checking on a perfect engine, highlighted with stunning orangery pink, pastel colors. A dark Italian-looking boy is in black. Another boy (Sandy Trent), is wearing a wife-beater and jeans.
Kar's door opens revealing Hot Rod-insides with red vinyl seats and white piping. Sandy's muscular body rises between twin, dual cam-heads, slowly next to the silver engine. With his hands on his hips, the camera closes in on his crotch: the car's engine--ultimate importance to car, and the boys crotch--ultimate importance to boy.
While wiping down the car, boy is totally detached from film. Only his body is seen, not his face. As boy fetishizes the body of the car, Anger fetishizes boy.
KUSTOM KAR KOMMANDOS is not [not surprisingly] something to Drag about, at least, automotively speaking. Nor is it the fun-filled, Teensville-take on typical, mid-sixties, pompadoured, powder-puffed, and chromed-out Hot Rodders, for which Ford was bargaining.
"The All-Chrome Ruby Plush Dream Buggy" is the only filmed segment of a larger work that Anger abandoned Sandy Trent died in a drag race and funding dried up [this fragment would have formed the nucleus of the sixth of its eight parts].
The Paris Sisters' narcotic purring of "Dream Lover" reach the limit of treacly Top-40 Manna, like David Lynch on 'Julie Kruise-Kontrol.'
Through this vehicle, 'The Sisters' evoke their Dream Lover as Crowley may have, Thelema, during his Egyptian honeymoon: an Occult Charioteer with longing, illusory attainment of some unknown ideal.
In an hallucinatory shot, 'the Maker' [as Anger refers to Sandy Trent in his own notes] regards his reflection narcissistically while an auto-erotic shot compares Kar/Male/Female genitalia like a game of Doctor, or more aptly-- Mechanic.
Most notably and yet subtly, two chrome-plated engine cylinders literally reflect his groin as huge steel balls.
Anger's greased-gliding camerawork has the caressing delicacy of feathered down, commingled with giant, twice-brushed, white-powder-puffed, erotic gusts of incantatory, incarnated spirit!
The camera pans down to California license plate KBL-852. [The numbers in the license plate add up to 15...the Devil, from the tarot trump - more about magick significance later.]
A gust of wind gently flutters the powder puff as it rises up out of frame. The door opens and Sandy gets in, shoeless with sky-blue socks With his legs slightly raised, he pumps the pedals.
He revs the engine, loosens the clutch, and shifts gears. Seen mostly in profile, Sandy is a remnant of the Dick Dale surf era with his neat, oiled pompadour. He accomplishes the act of looking pristine without being prissy, rare for a grease monkey. He is also freshly bathed. The work has been done. He's ready to ride his baby. A human could never compete with the dead, impassive perfection of the car... He smirks a little and blinks a lot.
The campily saturated images and pinky backdrop-glow complete the womb-like sexual imagery by enveloping 'Maker' and 'Kar'. To extend the birthing metaphor, the film ends with revved car and "Maker" appearing in an implosion of pink, azure, and red.
The final sequence shows 'Maker''s face, serene and impassive [as if directed by unconscious forces], revving the engine and driving off, engine roaring. *Dreamed,Written,Directed,Produced,Photographed,Edited: Kenneth Anger: "Kustom Kar Kommandos" — The All-Chrome Ruby Plush Dream Buggy as itself; Sandy Trent as "the Maker"— Music by The Paris Sisters; Camera assistant: Arnold Baskin; Filmed: San Bernadino, CA
*[As for KKK...it may signify KAOS KERAUNOS KYBERNETOS from 'Liber KKK': the first, complete, systematic magickal training programme--a definitive replacement for the Sacred Magic Abramelin: the Mage, become obsolete due to monotheist transcendentalism and dependency on repressive, inhibitory gnosis, considered inappropriate...We'll leave it there.]
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"Every night I hope and pray a Dream Lover will come my way..."
The title appears deliberately misspelled in gold letters against a pink backdrop: three K's replace C's.
Two boys are seen checking on a perfect engine, highlighted with stunning orangery pink, pastel colors. A dark Italian-looking boy is in black. Another boy (Sandy Trent), is wearing a wife-beater and jeans.
Kar's door opens revealing Hot Rod-insides with red vinyl seats and white piping. Sandy's muscular body rises between twin, dual cam-heads, slowly next to the silver engine. With his hands on his hips, the camera closes in on his crotch: the car's engine--ultimate importance to car, and the boys crotch--ultimate importance to boy.
While wiping down the car, boy is totally detached from film. Only his body is seen, not his face. As boy fetishizes the body of the car, Anger fetishizes boy.
KUSTOM KAR KOMMANDOS is not [not surprisingly] something to Drag about, at least, automotively speaking. Nor is it the fun-filled, Teensville-take on typical, mid-sixties, pompadoured, powder-puffed, and chromed-out Hot Rodders, for which Ford was bargaining.
"The All-Chrome Ruby Plush Dream Buggy" is the only filmed segment of a larger work that Anger abandoned Sandy Trent died in a drag race and funding dried up [this fragment would have formed the nucleus of the sixth of its eight parts].
The Paris Sisters' narcotic purring of "Dream Lover" reach the limit of treacly Top-40 Manna, like David Lynch on 'Julie Kruise-Kontrol.'
Through this vehicle, 'The Sisters' evoke their Dream Lover as Crowley may have, Thelema, during his Egyptian honeymoon: an Occult Charioteer with longing, illusory attainment of some unknown ideal.
In an hallucinatory shot, 'the Maker' [as Anger refers to Sandy Trent in his own notes] regards his reflection narcissistically while an auto-erotic shot compares Kar/Male/Female genitalia like a game of Doctor, or more aptly-- Mechanic.
Most notably and yet subtly, two chrome-plated engine cylinders literally reflect his groin as huge steel balls.
Anger's greased-gliding camerawork has the caressing delicacy of feathered down, commingled with giant, twice-brushed, white-powder-puffed, erotic gusts of incantatory, incarnated spirit!
The camera pans down to California license plate KBL-852. [The numbers in the license plate add up to 15...the Devil, from the tarot trump - more about magick significance later.]
A gust of wind gently flutters the powder puff as it rises up out of frame. The door opens and Sandy gets in, shoeless with sky-blue socks With his legs slightly raised, he pumps the pedals.
He revs the engine, loosens the clutch, and shifts gears. Seen mostly in profile, Sandy is a remnant of the Dick Dale surf era with his neat, oiled pompadour. He accomplishes the act of looking pristine without being prissy, rare for a grease monkey. He is also freshly bathed. The work has been done. He's ready to ride his baby. A human could never compete with the dead, impassive perfection of the car... He smirks a little and blinks a lot.
The campily saturated images and pinky backdrop-glow complete the womb-like sexual imagery by enveloping 'Maker' and 'Kar'. To extend the birthing metaphor, the film ends with revved car and "Maker" appearing in an implosion of pink, azure, and red.
The final sequence shows 'Maker''s face, serene and impassive [as if directed by unconscious forces], revving the engine and driving off, engine roaring. *Dreamed,Written,Directed,Produced,Photographed,Edited: Kenneth Anger: "Kustom Kar Kommandos" — The All-Chrome Ruby Plush Dream Buggy as itself; Sandy Trent as "the Maker"— Music by The Paris Sisters; Camera assistant: Arnold Baskin; Filmed: San Bernadino, CA
*[As for KKK...it may signify KAOS KERAUNOS KYBERNETOS from 'Liber KKK': the first, complete, systematic magickal training programme--a definitive replacement for the Sacred Magic Abramelin: the Mage, become obsolete due to monotheist transcendentalism and dependency on repressive, inhibitory gnosis, considered inappropriate...We'll leave it there.]
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