May 31, 2005

Metaversal Forecast 5/30 - 6/5

Back with another timely report from Johannes Ayres...

THE METAVERSAL LIGHTCRAFT
HYPER-ABYSSIC ASTROLOGY FORECAST
AND LIGHT SPECIFIC YOGA PLATFORM

Metaversal 4th Quarter Moon Week In A Nutshell Report

MONDAY, MAY 30
The Big Dissolve. Last Quarter Moon at 10 Pisces occurs at 7:47 a.m. PDT. Pisces, the sign of big moist surrender, is perfect for a fourth quarter moon, which is signaling us to release something, and just keep the essentials as we let go of this Taurus cycle. Uranus is the dominant planet, and that chaotic disruptor will insist, in fact, on breaking things up, or at least shaking them up. The chaff will loosen now, to be blown in the wind. Perhaps the public will become more conscious of the huge U.S. involvement in torture, and insist on humane treatment of prisoners. No country that condones deliberate torture for any reason can ever be trusted. Taurus is losing its grip for now, and we are moving into a time of greater flexibility, and a focus on the human being.

Moon is moving ahead to occult Mars early tomorrow morning, visible only in the far southern parts of the globe. Mars rises in the east in the early morning. At the time of this eclipse, Mars (with Moon) is squaring the U.S. Mars and opposing the U.S. Neptune. This could be a very warlike moon for the U.S., and it may be that this interconnected, complex action of May has been the time for a war buildup. These Neocons are all traitors to not only their countries but to humanity in general, and should all be slammed and RICOed into Guantanamo immediately. And so should the government officials, media lackeys, and ordinary citizens who, by their complicity or their ignorance, support them. The main point in understanding these deliberate provocations to prevent peace is to understand how the American capitalist system, now hijacked by billionaires with no trace of conscience, thrives on war and profits from the misery of others. The neocon murder menace has been for months ratcheting up the hyperbole about why we need to invade Iran - which some predict will happen in June - and just this week, rumors of troop movements in the Caribbean and lockdowns at Florida military bases appear to augur an imminent invasion of oil-producing Venezuela.

Pluto, prominent all month, can mean violence. The month's four moon occultations can move us in a warlike direction. There are several other indications, but the major one is transiting Uranus. Major Uranus transits historically figure in U.S. wars. The U.S. horoscope has both Uranus in Gemini and Mars in Gemini in the arena of relationships. Furthermore, the U.S. Uranus is in the position of the fixed star, Aldebaran, which has a Martian character. And it is opposite the position of Antares, another Mars-vibe star. Assertive energy clusters around U.S. relationships. This opens the final quarter of the 84-year Uranus cycle which began with the conclusion of WWII, in 1944-45.That was when Pres. Roosevelt made the agreement with the Saudis that they would favor the U.S. in selling their oil in exchange for U.S. military protection.

TUESDAY, MAY 31
Looking toward the Eastern horizon 1 hour before sunrise this morning, Mars (22 Pisces) appears less than 2° above the Moon. which continues in Pisces this morning with strong, constructive aspects. Then the Moon enters Aries at 5:01 pm PDT and just afterwards Sun squares Uranus, to complete yesterday's Last Quarter Moon action. This may bring in new ideas and new information designed to shatter our current beliefs or assemblage point creating the space for innovative changes that may surprise even the most liberal minded. Yes, we are moving into the month of June on the explosive energys of Mars and Uranus. In two days Mars squares Pluto to really push power It is a day for stumbling across lawns with a pitchfork in your back. Nevertheless, you may wish to take advantage of a claustrophilic Scorpio colleague's invitation to lunch. Avoid decorative rugs at all costs, if you know what's good for you.

WEDNESDAY, JUNE 1
Mercury trines Jupiter at 8° 57' Libra and semi-squares Saturn at 24° 38' Cancer. The time flies. You can feel your thoughts like a stoked and banked breeze, waiting to erupt again into wind. The easy 120° aspect with generous Jupiter opens the mind to a wider vision and gives us the ability to articulate it with enthusiasm. Mercury is in adaptable Gemini, making it easier to switch mental gears from go to no and back again. Expansive informative insights are possible today especially when we are asking for them. Some questions worth considering are: Have I thought about the effect of those words on my dearly beloved or do I even care? Jupiter in Libra, almost stationary now, has given us much time to appreciate where our beliefs separate us from each other, perhaps also, how they bring us together.

THURSDAY, JUNE 2
The essential ingredients for a powerful catharsis are available today with Mercury in Gemini squaring Uranus in Pisces and Mars in Pisces squaring Pluto in Sagittarius. The first aspect, at 2:17 a.m. PDT, may activate an unsettling night with odd dreams. Everything seems so out of control we may want to exert force as Mars squares Pluto at 12:26 p.m. PDT. The underside of everything is in short supply. The internal organs are going to have to step outside until this passes. Where are those beliefs of ours taking us now? Today could bring a break-through in understanding if given enough perspective. The Violet Consuming Flame is a helpful tool for dealing with emotionally charged situations. The idea is to flood the situation and all those associated with violet fire, transmuting all negativity through the power of forgiveness. Mercury's square to electric Uranus (10° 42' Gemini-Pisces) can turn our thoughts upside down, pushing us past the ordinary realities of Jupiter and Saturn and illuminating a totally new world of possibilities. Yet, its not easy to translate such visions into language that others can understand. Everything seems out of control and we may want to exert force as Mars squares Pluto at 12:26 p.m. PDT. A positive picture is one where concentrated efforts (Mars-Pluto) turn original ideas (Mercury-Uranus) into reality. The Moon's move from combative Aries to tranquil Taurus at 11:20 p.m. today can provide a calming effect.

FRIDAY, JUNE 3
An early-morning conjunction of Mercury and the Sun aligns the intellect and the will in communicative Gemini. Following aspects with Jupiter, Saturn, and Uranus, Mercury's connection with the Sun can focus the mind.. To understand the beauty of an idea it must be seen in focus. In focus, the Metaverse is a continual orgy of intense feeling, intellection, & activity, a society of lovers & wild enthusiasts. When the social life of Earth is harmonized, our planet will re-join the Metaverse of Passion & undergo vast transformations, affecting human form, weather, animals, & plants, even the oceans. Passion draws humanity into association just as gravity draws celestial bodies into orbital systems. Once just the flypaper scaffold of a vision - now a glorious reality. Once just sandgrains in a molecular hourglass - now miles of golden beaches. This morning, the phalanstery is a wet little solar system revolving around the central fire of Venus' entry into Cancer at 8:18 a.m., another unifying force that, along with the Moon in Taurus, helps us to slow down and assimilate recent events.

SATURDAY, JUNE 4
Å Mars-Saturn trine (24° 57' Pisces-Cancer) increases productivity and efficiency. When the impulse to act (Mars) flows easily with the planet of outcomes (Saturn), we are often able to achieve immediate results. Jupiter's station (at 8° 56' Libra) late tonight isn't likely to be noticeable. It represents, however, a significant shift of energetic tides that can begin the process of transforming inner wisdom (Jupiter retro) into intelligent action, fueling our desire to accomplish what we have set out to do and providing the dynamic energy that easily accomplishes the tasks at hand. Paraluminary incantations wafting, nipped at by polluted dogs who knew not what they did.

SUNDAY, JUNE 5
Mercury makes its fifth significant aspect of the week, a trine with Neptune (17° 32' Gemini-Aquarius). This creative connection between facts and faith, the objective and the mystical, gives us words to describe our dreams and the language to express our experience of the divine. Compassionate communication is another result of this happy union. At 7:36 a.m., the Moon enters Mercury's home sign of Gemini, beginning 2+ days of greater objectivity and emotional flexibility. Mobile Gemini favors freedom over commitment, so it may be more difficult to stick to your plans now. A challenging sesquiquadrate (135° ) between Venus and Neptune (2° 32' Cancer - 17° 32' Aquarius) can engender romantic feelings based more on hope than reality.

The Mercury-Neptune trine should help us to distinguish between the two, but there is still a chance for misjudgment if we project our fantasies onto others. One positive use of Venus-Neptune is the creative application of imagination - especially involving love, beauty, art, or pleasure. Another way of distracting the Venus-Neptune Mind is to push cucumbers through the eye sockets of dead grizzlies while dressed as a test pattern and singing the lyrics to 'Skating With Willie'. Fringe benefit of this experimental behaviour: you'll be the secret envy of anyone who ever professed to know what you were going to do next. Iao.

The Big Fat TRUTH

Three cheers to the BLF! This is frellin' beautiful...



From the BLF website:

Mankind is ready to serve, and McDonalds' is the corporation to do the serving. After 50 years of eating more and more Big Macs, French fries, and McNuggets designed to enhance our serve-ability, we are finally ready! Untold billions of meals consumed by billions of people throughout the world, have sufficiently enlarged the average girth and tenderness of McDonalds' patrons (i.e. you) to reveal the True Meaning of life on Earth! Keep your eyes to the skies and watch for the big, shiny saucers with the gold-arched logos that are going to whisk us away to our inevitable and glorious destiny among the stars. Soon McDonalds will truly fulfill its mission To Serve Man.

this good news via EBC

Koji Morimoto video archive

Not all of the links work but this is a nice selection of clips, trailers, promos and pilots showcasing Morimoto's unique style.

Check through these, they're worth the large file downloads even though the quality on some is not wonderfully clear like some of the DivX stuff around, but hey, I won't complain. I haven't even heard of some of these titles but hopefully one day stuff like this will make it around the dvd rental circuit for us all to enjoy. Some of you might remember Morimoto's work in the recent Animatrix series (his style is unmistakeable).

There's a new trailer for a series out called Eikyu Kazoku (Eternal Family) that looks pretty bizarro.

Trailer is here (download file, then play in RealPlayer).

Plot Summary: It started as a sociological experiment. 6 different people were brainwashed to think that they were a family and then put in arbitrary situations to see how they would react. However, when a taping of the families conducts is sold in a desperate attempt to make a little capital it instantly becomes a success. Now the family is a first rated show and their every move is broadcasted around the world without them knowing it. But when a clogged toilet sets off a chain of events that ultimately frees the family from the room they are confined in the broadcasters, not willing to lose their source of income, set out to hunt down and recapture every member of the Eternal family.

 May 30, 2005

YumiYumi

Two girls from Kumamoto City in Japan were
in London on an extended holiday.
Fortunately for us they decided to bring their guitars...
YumiYumi's unique style of electro punk pop rock starts here...



Go listen.

There are no male groupies

Ruth Padel on writing I'm A Man

(Published in The Guardian, May 2000)

The sound men most want to hear, says the Marquis de Sade, is a woman's cry when you're inside her. It tells the world you have this shattering power to make her feel. When Duke Ellington was twelve, he and his mates took girls to the reservoir-banks, in hearing distance of each other, to see "who did the greater job as a man". The marker was girl noise. "If the girl's reaction was loud, he was a great fucker because the chick was hollering 'Baby I'm coming', all that shit." Competition was hot: "some cats pinched the chicks to make them holler. One slipped his chick quarters."

For centuries, men turned that cry into music by writing love-songs women sang. Across the board - pop, rock, opera, blues, folk, from "ma man don't love me and he treats me oh so mean" to Mozart's Countess in Figaro lamenting her husband's faithlessness - men have written, produced, and directed songs that defined the female voice as vulnerable. Hurt by a man, longing for him. Abandoned. "The problem with operas", the Glyndebourne director Graham Vick told me, "is they're written by men full of notions that women can't live without them." Bessie Smith, Billie Holiday and Piaff did write songs, but till the Seventies (give or take trailblazers like Janis Joplin), women mostly sang men's songs, and sounded how men wanted. The difference between women's lovesong and men's was that women's was by the people it was about. (continue reading...)

Dub Selector

Well, I'm not really that much into dub, but heck, this is fun
(especially after a few tokes off the bong...)

Click the other icons below to try different ones-- some of them are like little games, too.

Aren't I putting this blob of mine to such good use lately? Blob blob blob...

 May 29, 2005

Cockettes in Berkeley (photos)

Last night I headed out to Berkeley to the Long Haul, which is an interesting place I've seen for years but have never actually been to, which turns out to be a really hip sort of lending library and meeting place for peaceniks for the past 20 years or so. The Cockettes and friends put together yet another memorable evening last night, featuring Sweet Pam reading from her book Midnight at the Palace (My Life As A Fabulous Cockette) along with a few performances from their entourage. Toward the end of the evening, we were treated to a very rare showing of one of the Cockettes' short feature films called Elevator Girls In Bondage, which really defies explanation.



I tried to snap a few stills of it just for the weirdness factor but they really don't quite sum up how utterly bizarro this film really is. Rumi is working on releasing his website soon, and Fayette Hauser (one of the original Cockettes) was also there and let me know she too will have a book coming out soon-- stay tuned!

You can view all of the photos here.

Captain Satan

and the continuing adventures of Babies Under Glass!



This is what happens when the everyday household objects on my kitchen windowsill develop a life of their own. (Don't ask me what that beer tasted like-- we never opened it, sorta scared to...)

 May 27, 2005

Blob, blog, blop, blorb...

Ok, I'm done trying to come up with a new word for BLOG.

Otis sez I'm silly for even wanting to and now I agree. Ok, so we're stuck with it and I won't complain anymore and you can all just kick me for being a nutjob and letting a stoopid word get in the way of my fun.

But personally, I'm going to be using the word BLOB instead because it's what dAS has called BLOGs since I first started creating them and besides that, it makes me laugh. BLOG doesn't do that for me.

So, everyone, welcome to my BLOB.

As you were...

 May 24, 2005

Challenge

Someone needs to come up with a better word to use instead of BLOG. To quote my friend John, "blogspot???"...sounds like a shitestain!" Maybe it's time for a change then.

This word BLOG has always bothered me personally, but for the past couple of years now I've heard many others bitching and kvetching about it, so it's not just me. We need a newer and better word to describe what these things are. What is it we're doing? It's a whole lot better than the sound you make by calling it BLOGGING. Blog, clog, flog. Sounds so plodding.

One word might not be enough but I bet it's out there.

I'm still rolling over a few ideas of my own but if any of you feel like chiming in, place your little chits in the comment box below.