Reading Benjamin Peret Around the World, Ep.4: Nagano

The next episode of "Reading Benjamin Peret Around the World" is now online. - As a reminder: RBPATW is THE most pointless dada travelogue series on the internet. A chance to learn little to nought about foreign lands, or about European avant garde poetry. Embarrassing for the viewer AND the presenter. In other words: it's ESSENTIAL VIEWING. Enjoy!

Fat Little Bastard - Oskorei Jazz Cafe 4

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Written and recorded mostly during the 6 month long 2020 Melbourne Covid Lockdown, this is a tremendous sequel to Fat Little Bastard's 2004 experimental double album "Oskorei Jazz Cafe 1 & 2". That effort began with a question: "If the founders of Norwegian Black Metal were to hang out in a cafe - what music would they be listening to?" This follow-up may or may not be the answer, but it's definitely a valiant effort. Containing a fusion of multiple genres stapled onto bits of jazz - we get mindbendy tunes about your face and my face too - a meeting of friends to sing about chicken necks - sonic destruction at a ski lodge - smooth jazz guitars humming along to leaf-blowers - and have I mentioned the Enya cover? There's an Enya cover. (But don't forget there's also a part 3.) All these superdooper songs are (C) Xtian/KVEldritch, 2021 ("Caribbean Blue" by Nick Ryan / Eith Ni-bhraonain / Roma Shane Ryan). Thanks to everyone appearing on "Chicken Necks" (full list at above URL).

Fat Little Bastard - Oskorei Jazz Cafe 3

What do you do when all music is shit?

You make your own music, and you make it AMAZING!!!

BEHOLD!

#lovecrowcomic wk22

 

All religions are sprung from a misunderstanding (Edited)

Wanna get enlightened? Okay, follow me down the rabbit-hole...

At the heart of every religion we have sacrifice, that is offerings. Ppl offer food on altars: blood, animals, fruit, humans. God or the gods or the spirits "eat" these offerings. With christians, they drink the blood of their god and eat his body. It's a reversal (which brings me to say that the New Testament is really not about god forgiving us but vice versa, it's us rehabilitating Jehovah - but that's for another day), but i) in order to achieve it - Jesus had to be sacrificed, ie: fed to God; and ii) those who eat of him - will have life after death.

And that's the key here: life after death and dietary habits thereof.

But before we get to the point: vampires are dead and drink blood. Zombies are dead and eat people. Hungry ghosts drink blood/ eat people. Seems anything that comes back from the dead or is undead - wants to feed (on the living). Godzilla - neither god nor undead - just wants to break shit - go Godzilla!

Dead kings'/ queens' tombs are full of food for the afterlife. During the various Day of the Dead celebrations around the planet - ppl leave food and drink for the dearly departed.

You see where I'm going yet?

So primitive man thinks: "to live, I need food. When I'm in the afterlife (spirit-world), to live there - I will need food". God/ gods also live in the spirit-world - so therefore they must eat too - coz how can they live without food?

Thus the idea of sacrificial altars is born. Thus rituals begin. Thus rituals become ceremonies, festivals, masses.

All to feed imaginary spirit-world hungry-ghost space-vampires.

Because some guy out there once had a silly misunderstanding about eating.

(Because some guy thought seeing someone dead in a dream meant they were still alive - but in the spirit-world. Silly duffer.)

Edit: The more I think about it, the more it feels like some primitive cave-dweller had a dream of a recently deceased person they loved. Then they questioned the vividness of the dream, and how this person could still be communicating with them. "Coz they live in the afterlife." And what lives - needs food.

ignore this, i'm whineing or venting or whatever

 fuck me sideways there's not a single day that adobe doesn't fuck up on me.

i mean hats off to them, photoshop is 31 yrs old this year, and they've managed to create a perfectly human piece of software - it works super-dooper but is riddled with bugs. like a human designer - does a top job but is an alco or a coke-fiend.

every fucking day there's some bug in photoshop or premiere.

how on god's green earth do you make software 30 fucking plus years into the game that is riddled with some basic bullshit work-experience kid bugs?

like honestly, the frustration is real, lift your fucking game already, i'm paying for this fucking shit and that's what i get - fucking shit.

fuck you.

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