jesus and james cameron

Jesus Family Tomb Believed Found

Feb. 25, 2007 — New scientific evidence, including DNA analysis conducted at one of the world's foremost molecular genetics laboratories, as well as studies by leading scholars, suggests a 2,000-year-old Jerusalem tomb could have once held the remains of Jesus of Nazareth and his family.
The findings also suggest that Jesus and Mary Magdalene might have produced a son named Judah.

The DNA findings, alongside statistical conclusions made about the artifacts — originally excavated in 1980 — open a potentially significant chapter in Biblical archaeological history.

A documentary presenting the evidence, "The Lost Tomb of Jesus," will premiere on the Discovery Channel on March 4 at 9 p.m. ET/PT. The documentary comes from executive producer James Cameron and director Simcha Jacobovici.

party vibes

i think aaron frankel has given me a super nickname for being such a downer on my own birthday. please welcome ZERO TOLERANCE PARTY VIBE.

townes van zandt

townes van zandt is one of the most amazing songwriters ever. check him out.


from wikipedia: Van Zandt was of MENSA intelligence and was diagnosed manic-depressive in his early twenties. He was treated with insulin shock therapy, which erased much of his long-term memory. His lack of memory and his mental condition contributed to both the passion and sense of isolation evident in his songs.
For much of the 1970s, he lived a reclusive life in a cabin in Tennessee, with no indoor plumbing or phone, appearing only occasionally to play shows.

hard candy

this film was pretty dissapointing. great concept, poorly executed. almost charming, but instead embarrassing.

caravan/soft machine

stumbled upon this caravan performance from the bbc archives.

soft machine performance for some german program with crazy psychedelics and psychedelic fans.

fever

i've been sick with the flu or something worse all week. who cares really. only things i can tell you from my hour of darkness.

1. half nelson is a pretty good film. ryan gosling smokes crack throughout the whole thing.

2. WORLD TRADE CENTER isn't as bad as you think it might be, but it's still pretty weak.

3. There is a bad ass 3 part BBC documentary on the Bermuda Triangle on Google Video. Haven't seen anything this cool since NOVA was rocking out.

BBC Bermuda Triangle

things to come in early 2007.....

skate spot report from someone who hasn't been on a skateboard in 10 years.....
goth topics from someone who's never been to a goth show or club....
resturant review from prince phillip...
immortality and vicodin....
castlevania whips....
bloodletting for reals...
overall sadness....

weekend update:
no access granted for the goth club.

"Heaven and earth are not humane, and regard the people as straw dogs."

Sam Peckinpah's Straw Dogs still stands strong 30 years later. I highly recommend seeing it to those who haven't.


The future of the film was put in jeopardy when director Sam Peckinpah caught pneumonia after an all-night drinking session with Ken Hutchison in the sea at Land's End. Having recuperated at a clinic in London, Peckinpah was only reinstated after promising that he would remain sober.

sound like anyone else you know?

Peckinpah lived life to its fullest. He drank hard and abused drugs, producers and collaborators. Being considered for the Stephen King-scripted "The Shotgunners", he died from heart failure in Mexico at age 59. At a gathering after wards, Coburn remembered the director as a man "who pushed me over the abyss and then jumped in after me. He took me on some great adventures".

mathers

you are controled

“A man who is master of himself can end a sorrow as easily as he can invent a pleasure. I don't want to be at the mercy of my emotions. I want to use them, to enjoy them, and to dominate them.” Oscar Wilde

“Themosticles said "The Athenians govern the Greeks; I govern the Athenians; you, my wife, govern me; your son governs you” - Plutarch

If you are in control, let it be. Forced power is weakness my friends.

leakin' out on v.d.

happy valentines day to women in love. an extra secial happy valentines day to the loveless.

if your bummed listen to:
hayden - home by saturday
sebadoh - worst thing
lou reed - perfect day
daniel johnston - true love will find you in the end
the carpenters - superstar

homeless people don't smoke leak, they smoke crack man. that's just the way it is, always was and forever will be.

for people who sit at home on valentines day like me, here is a funny article about shockers.
SHOCKER

new years 2006, fort bragg

champagne mike.




shea with his hair straight and leather jacket.

natalie straightening my hair.

potheart

Rome

Sitting in a color timing bay. "Calm" is looking great. It's been a long two years and we are finally crossing the threshold into completion. Rome wasn't built in a day.
Sent from my Verizon Wireless BlackBerry

whitechapel/true believer

Whitechapel just released their EP True Believer. Tom Mahoney from Jan Michael Vincent Car Crash, and also toured with American Nightmare if I recall, he's the mastermind behind the project. I will be playing bass with them this summer on their westcoast shows. Post-Punk, gothy, heavy at times. I really enjoy, maybe you will.

get the album here
TRADEMARK RECORDINGS

doomsday vault

'Doomsday vault' to resist global warming effects

An Arctic "doomsday vault" aimed at providing mankind with food in case of a global catastrophe will be designed to sustain the effects of climate change, the project's builders said as they unveiled the architectural plans.
The top-security repository, carved into the permafrost of a mountain in the remote Svalbard archipelago near the North Pole, will preserve some three million batches of seeds from all known varieties of the planet's crops.

The hope is that the vault will make it possible to re-establish crops obliterated by major disasters.

"We have taken into consideration the (outside) temperature rising and have located the facility so far inside the rock that it will be in permafrost and won't be affected" by the outside temperature, Magnus Bredeli Tveiten, project manager at Norway's Directorate of Public Construction and Property, told AFP.

Construction on the seed bank, also dubbed the "Noah's Ark of food", will begin in March.

The seed samples, such as wheat and potatoes, will be stored in two chambers located deep inside a mountain, accessed by a 120-meter (395-foot) tunnel. The tunnel and vaults will be excavated by boring and blasting techniques and the rock walls sprayed with concrete.

The seeds will be maintained at a temperature of minus 18 degrees Celsius (minus 0.4 Fahrenheit).

The vault is situated about 130 meters (426 feet) above current sea level. It would not flood if Greenland's ice sheet melts, which some estimate would increase sea levels by seven meters (23 feet).

It is also expected to be safe if the ices of Antarctica completely melt, which experts say could increase sea levels by 61 meters (200 feet).

The entry to the vault, which will shoot out of the mountainside, will be a narrow triangular portal made of cement and steel, illuminated with artwork that changes according to the Arctic light.

In summer, "in the midnight sun, it will look like a large diamond," said Tveiten. In winter, when the sun does not rise above the horizon, "it will glow into the darkness," he added.

Behind the airlock door, each chamber will measure 375 square meters (4,036 square feet). Corrugated plastic boxes the size of moving boxes will sit on rows of metal shelves.

Each box will contain about 400 samples in envelopes made of polyethelene, and each sample will contain around 500 seeds.

The samples will be stored in watertight foil packages to act as a barrier against moisture should a power failure disable refrigeration systems.

Construction on the three-million-dollar (2.3-million-euro) vault is due to finish in September. It will officially open in late winter 2008.

The design of the structure is "simple, it's functional, it runs by itself. We can't have a better design," Cary Fowler, executive director of the Global Crop Diversity Trust and the brains behind the vault, told AFP.

"It makes use of the natural cold. It's planned with the climate change factor taken into consideration and it will be frozen 200 years from now. And even in the worst case scenario, if the temperature rises it will still be safe," he said.

paths of glory

revisited PATHS OF GLORY by ol stanley kubrick. still one of my favorite films of all time.

Marjorie Cameron Parsons Kimmel Exhibition

Nicole Klagsbrun Gallery is pleased to present an exhibition of work by Cameron (1922-1995), curated by Michael Duncan, George Herms, and Nicole Klagsbrun. The exhibition runs from January 12 until February 10, 2007. An opening reception will be held on Friday, January 12, from 6-8 pm. This survey is the first solo gallery exhibition of artist, performer, poet, and occult practitioner, Cameron (Marjorie Cameron Parsons Kimmel). A maverick follower of the esoteric mysticism of Aleister Crowley and his philosophical group, the O.T.O. (Ordo Templi Orientis), Cameron was also an accomplished painter and draftsman and mentor to younger artists and poets such as Wallace Berman, George Herms, and David Meltzer. While enlisted in the Navy, she was assigned the tasks of drawing maps and working in a photographic unit, which led to attendance at art classes after being discharged. In Los Angeles, she became the wife and spiritual avatar of scientist and mystical thinker Jack Parsons (1914-1952), one of the founders of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory and an influential leader of the OTO. In the early 1950s, Cameron met the fellow LA artist and jazz enthusiast Wallace Berman who was fascinated by her artwork, poetry, and mystical aura. In 1955 Berman used his photograph of Cameron as the cover of his literary and artistic journal Semina 1 and included in the issue a drawing she had made the previous year. The drawing became renowned when the police cited it as “lewd” and shut down Berman’s 1957 exhibition at Ferus Gallery. After this experience, Cameron, like Berman, refused to show her art in commercial galleries. She remained, however, a crucial figure in the Berman circle. Cameron’s romantic aesthetic and commanding persona prompted filmmaker Curtis Harrington to commemorate her output as a visual artist in The Wormwood Star (1955), a lyrical short film recording the art and atmosphere of her candlelit studio. Filmmaker Kenneth Anger cast her in a leading role opposite Anais Nin in his film Inauguration of the Pleasure Dome (1956). Despite the grim fatality of much of her writings, Cameron’s artworks portray a fanciful, even wistful lyricism. In the early 1960s she corresponded with Joseph Campbell, citing her interest in his book The Hero with a Thousand Faces, as well as in the fiction of Hermann Hesse and Isak Dinesin. Consumed by myth and the idea of protean growth, Cameron depicted the process of metamorphosis and transforma-tion in hundreds of line drawings where ominous figures and landscapes emerge from uniformly striated, passionately articulated ink marks. Other gouache drawings and paintings depict mythic figures of her own creation engaged in ritualistic, symbolic acts. Cameron’s sensitive drawings and paintings delineate a magical realm of metamorphosis and protean transformation. Featuring symbolic creatures in imaginary landscapes, her delicately articulated artworks rival those by fellow surrealists such as Leonora Carrington and Leonor Fini. They also seem fascinat-ingly prescient of fantastical works by contemporary artists such as Kiki Smith, Amy Cutler, Karen Kilimnick, and Hernan Bas. In 1989 Cameron co-edited with O.T.O. leader Hymenaeus Beta an edition of the occult writings of Parsons. Also that year, Cameron’s artworks were surveyed in an exhibition, titled The Pearl of Reprisal, at the Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery curated by Edward Leffingwell. Cameron died of cancer in Pasadena in 1995. A selection of her work was included in the Whitney Museum of American Art exhibi- tion, Beat Culture and the New America 1950-1965 and in the 2005-2007 traveling exhibition Semina Culture: Wallace Berman and His Circle, organized by the Santa Monica Museum of Art.

Michael Duncan

NICOLE KLAGSBRUN GALLERY

thelema coast to coast

anyone interested in aleister crowley, thelema, oto, etc.... check out this site with monthly podcasts.
THELEMA COAST TO COAST

inconvenient truth/save the planet, kill yourself.

I wonder how many blogs have a review or debate on "an inconvenient truth"? I finally saw it. I'm not going to review it. For people who don't believe, or weren't aware of GLOBAL WARMING, well I guess this film could be informative. I personally read the news every day, and I know where we’re headed. HELL. for you people who believe that the earth is fine, and don't care about happy feet tap dancing penguins, well fuck you for being an idiot. you're going to HELL. one thing that I did find interesting about "an inconvenient truth" is the fact that Al Gore used to work on a tobacco farm. That's pretty cool. Al Gore doesn't bother me. He's very serious, but he seems genuine, I voted for him once upon a time. He was the first president I ever voted for, and I would vote for him again probably, although that doesn't seem to be an option. i thought the movie was boring, but if you don't know anything about global warming or you are some crazy holocaust denying, loch ness monster denying, dinosaur denying dick weed, then you should probably see "an inconvenient truth". I will leave you with a messsage on global warming from our president.

calm color correction

going to watch the first pass of color correction on "calm". can't fucking wait.

not good at much

working with zak forrest on some droney discordian music.. something different. ZF & Black Lodge is the name we came up with for the project. that's about it. i need to make money. anyone want to help with that?