"When you read music, there is a part of your creativity that shuts down. It's like learning to paint with coloring books. It's like coloring within the lines - you don't take off. When you think about it, what music notes or a coloring book does is stifles creativity."

- David Lynch

David Lynch's new film, Inland Empire, opens very soon. It is a three hour dream-ramble complete with evil and rabbits in suits, and all shot on Digital Video.
"It's about a film within a film. There's nothing to see, there's no script," one top international buyer said.
Needless to say, I am very excited. His work is pure talent, pure vision. Mulholland Drive is one of my favorite movie experiences. Call me if you need to know what happened (I looked it up on the interweb).
Click here to see the Theatrical Trailer.

From the past... Sesame Street's "Subway"

Robert Anton Wilson is free!

“Belief is the death of intelligence. As soon as one believes a doctrine of any sort, or assumes certitude, one stops thinking about that aspect of existence.”

“Of course I'm crazy, but that doesn't mean I'm wrong.”

“Nothing of any importance can be taught. It can only be learned, and with blood and sweat.”

-- Robert Anton Wilson (1932-NEVER)


his effect on me cannot be understated.
-H

"Robert Anton Wilson Defies Medical Experts and leaves his body @4:50 AM on binary date 01/11."
-- taken from his website, http://hostgator.rawilson.com/main.shtml



Here is a PDF of his amazing work, Prometheus Rising (click on book)


"what the Thinker thinks, the Prover proves"

fnord

This justifies my entire day...

The Poet's Hovel (I)

Today I looked inside a book
So I could hide my hands
Which shook for reasons I refuse to see
For things I wish unknown to me
For indiscretions past and near
For old repressions milky-clear
The acts I saw another do
Who had no soul and spoke not true
I shrink from all those days and nights
Rent rooms in words that others write
And keep the shades drawn from the light.

HM 2007

Photo Series: Kings Park Psychiatric Center

This is a series of photographs I took at The Kings Park Psychiatric Center.

History:
Originally known as The Kings Park Lunatic Asylum. It was established in 1885 on more than 800 acres. Fifty-five patients were moved into three wooden houses. However, as more buildings were constructed, patients came to fill them. Eventually, the staggering size of the chronic patient population coupled with ever-growing admission rates filled the dormitories beyond capacity. Manual labor and relaxation gave way to more drastic techniques for treatment, including insulin shock therapy, electric shock therapy, and prefrontal lobotomies.
The Center completely closed in 1996.


See the series at:
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Hunter S Thompson

Call on God, but row away from the rocks.
Hunter S. Thompson

I hate to advocate drugs, alcohol, violence, or insanity to anyone, but they've always worked for me.
Hunter S. Thompson

The Edge... there is no honest way to explain it because the only people who really know where it is are the ones who have gone over.
Hunter S. Thompson

America... just a nation of two hundred million used car salesmen with all the money we need to buy guns and no qualms about killing anybody else in the world who tries to make us uncomfortable.
Hunter S. Thompson

The Heaviest Burden

Can you handle this? I'm not sure you can - H

What if a demon crept up to you one day and said to you, "This life as you live it now and have lived it, you will have to live again and again, times without number, and there will be nothing new in it, but every pain and every joy and every thought and sigh and all the unspeakably small and great in your life must return to you and everything in the same series and sequence - and in the same way this spider and this moonlight among the trees, and this same way this moment and I myself. The eternal hour glass of existence will be turned again and again - and you with it, you dust of dust!" - Would you not throw yourself down and gnash your teeth and curse the demon who thus spoke? Or have you experienced a tremendous moment in which you would have answered him, "You are a God and never have I heard anything more divine!" If this thought gained power over you it would, as you are now, transform and perhaps crush you, the question in all and everything: "do you want this again and again, times without number?" would lie as the heaviest burden upon all your actions. Or how well would you have to be disposed towards yourself and towards life would you have to become to have no greater desire than this eternal sanction and seal?

Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900)

The Nietzsche Channel: http://thenietzschechannel.fws1.com/popular.htm

New Year's Haunted Photo Series

Here is the "trapped in a copper pan" series of photos, taken 12/30/06.
The story behind these is that the copper pans were purchased at a
yard sale. What the buyer did not know was that the souls of the
damned were trapped in these copper pans by a witch.

It happens.

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A Hearty Welcome

You. Yes, you.
Look behind you.

Alright, that was just an old trick.

I'm pleased you're here. Please enjoy my first foray into
blogging.

I'm hiding in your closet with a laptop and a WIFI system.