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Taxidermia, Magic Realism and Hypersigils

June 26, 2007 / Stephen Baxendale

Taxidermia is a magic realist story spanning across three generations of a Hungarian family, focusing on the three male primal urges: sex, food and bodily prowess. It’s weird, off beat and you should definitely check it out if you’re into high weirdness .

Magic realism is a fusion of the external factors of human existence and the internal ones to more accurately depict human reality. Using obscurities, magick, symbolism and myths the fiction is able to incorporate aspects of human existence such as thoughts, emotions, dreams and imagination.

Now I know the concept of a hypersigil can be a bit clich?, but the idea’s and techniques used in magical realism could be very usefull if you were so inclined to create said device .

I found these pages on the subject of magic realism quite helpfull:
Magic Realism- Wikipedia
Sarah Orne Jewett
The Bible as Magical Realism

esoZone tickets available – early bird discount, plus special bonus!

March 15, 2007 / Klint Finley

esozone 2007

Portland, OR. August 10-12, 2007.

Paul Laffoley. Foolish People. Viking Youth. Freeman. Many more.

esoZone tickets are now available! The sooner you buy your ticket, the less expensive it will be. So act now!

The web site has been updated with more information about the event.

As a special bonus for anyone who buys a weekend pass, we will include an exclusive reprint of the Akashic Record of the Astral Convention zine edited by Hakim Bey. In 1987 Hakim Bey invited several friends and allies to astrally project to Antarctica for a convention. Afterwords, visitors sent their accounts to Bey and he compiled them into this zine. This collection was originally sent only to the contributors and has never before been reprinted. It features lost works by:

Coil
Hakim Bey
Shirley MacLaine
James Koehnline
Ivan Stang
Feral Faun (aka Apio)
Reverand Crowbar (aka Susan Poe)
Trevor Blake

Ticket Prices:
3/15 – 4/15

Friday – $14.95
Saturday – $24.95
Sunday – $24.95

Weekend Package – $49.95

4/16 – 6/15

Friday – $14.95
Saturday – $34.95
Sunday- $34.95

Weekend Package – $74.95

6/16/ – 7/31

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Saturday – $59.95
Sunday – $59.95

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At the door:

Friday – $15
Saturday – $70
Sunday – $70

Weekend Package – $150

Door-to-door atheists bother Mormons

November 23, 2006 / Fell

Australian filmmaker John Safran is so fed up with mormons ringing his doorbell early in the morning that he flies to Salt Lake City, Utah and tries to convert Mormons to atheism. Needless to say, the locals were not pleased.

Trailer for The Number 23

November 6, 2006 / Fell

Yup, it’s coming. 23 has manifested in Hollyshitwood. Will it be good? Hard to say.

Statistically, what is the ratio of “good” that comes out of there? It’s a Joel Schumacher film. He has Falling Down to his credit (more of Michael Douglas’s doing, me thinks), and some fans of Flatliners, Tigerland (which I enjoyed), and The Lost Boys. Giving him a half-point for the last three, we’ll call that two and a half decent full films out of the 24 listed directorial entries (to date) on IMDb, which gives him an 10.4% chance to make another decent film. Take into account that the screenwriter attached to The Number 23 hasn’t done anything prior to it… and we’re looking at a winner. Yay.

More scientificalistically, taking all the IMDb rankings for his 24 films wields us an overall average of 6.18 for Schumacher films. More yay.

Jim Carrey in The Number 23 movie

October 7, 2005 / Klint Finley

Wow, this is crazy:

In the movie, Carrey will play a man obsessed with a book he’s read that seems to be about his life. The problem is that the book ends with a murder. The number 23 figures prominently in the book’s plot.

Full Story: Empire Movies: Jim Carrey in The Number 23

(via LVX23).

J.G. Ballard pocket quote book

February 28, 2005 / Klintron

This sounds pretty cool: a pocket sized book of J.G. Ballard quotes.

Link (via Boing Boing).

Scanner Darkly preview

February 22, 2005 / Klintron

Looks great.

Link (via Sauceruney )

Official English Haruki Murakami site

February 14, 2005 / Klintron

Holy damn! One of my favorite authors finally has an official English web site.

Link.

And here’s the awesome old un-official web site.

DJ Spooky talks about remixing Birth of a Nation, and more

February 4, 2005 / Klintron

That Subliminal Kid says:

Basically the whole vibe of the film is to think about why America still has the kind of amnesia that would let a an election like the last two happen. “Birth of a Nation” is the first film to show a corrupt American election. Plus, its got the added bonus of being crazy racist. Combine the two, and it makes for a sad reflection of contemporary America. Dj-ing breaks these things down, and that’s what I do to the film. Kind of highlight the fact that there’s multiple situations going on. That’s why I’m “Dj-ing the film.”

Link (via Disinfo).

Hope the dude comes to Denver soon…

Borges stories in Spanish

February 4, 2005 / Klintron

I can’t read ’em, but hopefully someone out there will enjoy this.

Link.

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