Monday, July 7, 2014
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Friday, July 4, 2014
Epitaph for Jim Morrissey
"My name is Jim Morrissey, lead singer of The Doorsmiths:
Groove on my songs, ye Mighty, and despair!"
Groove on my songs, ye Mighty, and despair!"
Sunday, October 7, 2012
Raw Footage
The thing unspooled
distinctly like an id
Escaped from
penitential realms of pain;
I gasped in horror at
its simple spire
And doodled tracings
on a distant bag.
Revengers looked upon
us from on high,
Astounded by the
tapping all around,
As forty naked
virgins surfed the clouds
And haystacks danced
upon the raging tide.
As quickly as a
smokescreen fades to grey
You synced the times
at angles often missed
By trackers hidden in
genetic jails
With crystal locks
still rented by the day.
Back on our balcony
just after sunrise,
Drinking Proustinis
and playing at nothing.
Friday, September 28, 2012
The Hermetic Library Anthology Album - Magick, Music and Ritual 3
I am happy to report that Jersey Petroleum's "As The Vessel Burns" has been released on The Hermetic Library Anthology Album -- Magick Music and Ritual 3.
Jersey Petroleum consists of Ron Bass (me) and John Stanford.
You can listen to "As The Vessel Burns" at this url:
bandcamp.hrmtc.com/track/as-the-vessel-burns
Jersey Petroleum consists of Ron Bass (me) and John Stanford.
You can listen to "As The Vessel Burns" at this url:
bandcamp.hrmtc.com/track/as-the-vessel-burns
Saturday, September 8, 2012
Cruel Women, Stupid Men
I applauded when I finished reading Cruel Women, Stupid
Men. Dan Roentsch’s novel made me laugh out
loud and think profound thoughts. If I happened to be Desmond Cork, one of the
novel’s three group-blog writers, I would no doubt have prefaced the preceding
sentence with a hipster-y: “Hey cats.” Des is a rock scholar at Belverton
University (BelvU), who I’m guessing wrote his seminal work on Jethro Tull’s Thick
As A Brick; a more dimwitted (yet loveable)
academic is yet to be created. His fellow stupid-man blogger is Barry Fest, the
director of the BelvU Press group blog. Fest is a condescending snob and sissy
man par excellence who is kept literally under the thigh of his wife, the
dreaded psychiatrist Dr. Victoria Wharton-Stone, who is trying to keep him away
from the insidious BelvU techie Moliere, a winsome goth chick whose “female
musk” aroma has Fest getting more and more progressively aroused. The third
member of the BelvU group blog is cruel-woman Nefertiti Snorkjutt, an
emotionally unstable dominatrix who uses her perch as Professor of Human
Chattel Studies at BelvU to gratify her lust to punish and humiliate every
representative of the male of the species without regard to whether or not
there is consent on his part. Out of these three strands of narrative Roentsch
weaves a hilarious and formally innovative whirlwind of a plot that involves:
Congressman Slappy Goering, the presidential candidate of the Reformed Misogyny
Party (which seems to have replaced the Democratic Party), who vows not to get
an erection until after election day; the Babecat, Des’s erstwhile girlfriend,
who is wooed away by the studly Bruce, who previously had topped Nefertiti
Snokjutt, much to Snorkjutt’s own disgust; Moo Ridley, a notorious older woman
of Belverton known far and wide for trapping young boys under her skirt, and
with whom Barry Fest had an unfortunate encounter in his youth; and Mickey
Snaketail, a legendary private eye who isn’t quite what he appears to be. As
Desmond Cork might say: “Hey cats. Good News!! Material from the second volume
of the BelvU group blog can still be grokked online at lumpenblog.com.”
Saturday, August 11, 2012
Mysterium Coniunctionis
This drawing, which I did on New Years Day of 2007, was influenced by my reading of the Bollingen edition of the Collected Works of Carl Jung. following brief description is taken from the Carl Jung Exegesis Wiki:
"The Mysterium Coniunctionis, or Mystery of the Conjunction, is considered by many to be Jung's master work.
In this book Jung reviews the vast literature of Medieval, Renaissance, and post-Renaissance alchemy from a psychological perspective. Jung contends, and convincingly demonstrates, that alchemy at this time was not, as many mistakenly believe, mainly concerned with the transmutation of lead into gold. Rather, the aim was more spiritual and mental transformation of the alchemist him/her-self. In this sense, alchemy was a kind of precursor to modern depth psychology.
Particularly because it developed prior to the excessive rationalization of culture which has occurred in recent centuries, the ideas and, in Jung's view, especially the symbology, of alchemy has much to offer modern psychology.
The "conjunction" referred to in the title refers to an alignment, joining, or resolution of conflict between poles dualities that define human beings. The poles of one duality of special importance can be variously interpreted as Solar/Lunar, Male/Female, Spirit/Matter, Yang/Yin or various other antinomies."
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