MAGIC THEATRE/FOR MADMEN ONLY.
I'd be very curious to see this forgotten 1974 film-adaption of Herman Hesse's proto-psychedelic classic Steppenwolf. The movie's producer Melvin Abner Fishman was an avid enthusiast of LSD, Jung, and...
View ArticleAn Invention for Radio 1: Private Dreams and Public Nightmares (1957) by...
Wonderful pre-Radiophonic Workshop experiment:
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An Invention for Radio 2: The Dreams (1964) by Barry Bermange and Delia...
The first of the eerie, cult classic Inventions for Radio produced by dramatist Barry Bermange and the brilliant and beguiling Delia Derbyshire:
View ArticleAn Invention for Radio 3: Amor Dei (1964) by Barry Bermange and Delia...
From the second of the Bermange/Derbyshire Inventions:Other parts: Conceptions of God and There is a God!
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Funny How Secrets Travel: Revisiting David Lynch's Lost Highway (1997) Part 1...
"Coop, tell me, the idea for all this really came from a dream?"There are, needless to say, many ways to approach a David Lynch film - particularly the more complex and illusive works characteristic of...
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Funny How Secrets Travel: Revisiting David Lynch's Lost Highway (1997)...
A crucial component of the cinema's magic is that it allows us to identity with other people to the point that we almost become them, if only for a brief interval in the dark. The people that we...
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Far Out 70s Science Text Book Illustrations by Phil Kirtland.
A fantastic post (with more examples) at Prism of Threads
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Alejandro Jodorowsky on The Tarot.
Images of Le Tarot des Imagiers du Moyen Age from Eno's Tarots.
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The Market, and the Room of Coveted Objects.
(This is a short poem of vaguely Sufi or Buddhistic character. The image above is of Paul Bowles in Morocco.) There is a rumour in the squaresOf upheaval, of some great changeUndermining all the old...
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Primitive London: British Beatniks, Rockers, and Assorted Scallywags.
Arnold R. Miller's Primitive London (1965) falls roughly into the same category of film as the witchploitation documentaries we looked at in earlier posts - mild titillation masquerading as stern...
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Folksangere - A Danish Look at the London Folk Scene in 1967.
John Renbourne and Bert JanschFollowing up the last Mod London post, here's a Danish documentary from 1967 focusing on the then glamorous and even illicit lifestyle of the London folk-musician. This...
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THE OCCULT - Revival of Evil (1980).
You just can't beat this kind of vintage Christan Right anti-New Age propaganda schlock for laughs. Imdb synopsis: "Revival of Evil investigates the growth of the occult in the United States from New...
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Akashic Record: HP Lovecraft, Psychedelia, Ancient Astronauts, and Occult...
(Parts 1 and 2 here and here. This conclusion is a tad long but I decided to post it in one go rather than breaking it up.)This is the conclusion of a series of essays about HP Lovecraft. In the...
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Barbara O'Brien's Operators and Things: A Remarkable Account of Schizophrenia...
How very odd, I mused, that my unconscious mind should call itself an Operator and call my conscious mind a Thing. Barbara O'Brien, Operators and Things.First published in 1958, Barbara O’Brien’s...
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Jonathan Glazer's Under the Skin and Sci Fi/Genre Art Cinema.
The premise of Jonathan Glazer's Under the Skin is as old and familiar as the hills: a seductive, supernatural predator leading men to their destruction. The idea is as old as the siren of mythology...
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The Bird Out of Space and Time. (Part 1).
1. The Bird Out of Space and Time. It was boredom pure and simple that drew Malcolm Jeffrey into the fortune teller’s booth in the narrow, copper-coloured arcade in the centre of that...
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