You’d have thought what with all the attention over the years, the surrealists would have pretty much hit the bottom in terms of “enlargements” for certain films. Surely Edna Romney’s 1948 cacklefest The Corridor of Mirrors has been done to death? And yet, it just happens that, while giving it a go on a cold [...]
INTRODUCTION The marvelous here reveals itself in light of a surrounding aura of fertile life-and-death excess, brought on by an alchemy of merciless heat and humidity, storms, past military rule and cultural ruin. - Davey Williams, Arsenal #4 The American south is a weird place, filled to the brim with weird people. Yes, it’s a [...]
Technical possibility, if appropriately misinterpreted, is also an opening for the spectral imagination. My new favourite piece of speculative "Halloween Tech" (that is, perhaps, technology specifically engineered to facilitate haunting) is the Computer Witch. I discovered the Computer Witch, appropriately enough, while randomly watching a low resolution internet upload of the 1977 cartoon Halloween special [...]
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On Apple Podcasts (https://podcasts.apple.com/…/mubling…/id1644539305), Spotify (https://open.spotify.com/show/3mdmnoe6fXDoa101FpL9eT), and other major podcast platforms. Episode 1: This, the inaugural episode of the surrealist podcast Mumbling Planet, includes FOUR marvels for your listening P L E A S U R E… A three-way cosmic interlocution, a glimpse through chthonic doors, a group juggling of sound and intestines, and a [...]
October 20-23 Atlanta, Georgia No Tomorrow Gallery (50 Upper Alabama Street) Event Schedule To Be Announced Shortly Surrealist exhibition, objects, games and events; Rituals, séances and magic! Communications beyond the ordinary channels! Readings and guided tours of the underground object museum, its wonders and its dangers! Musical entertainment for the benefit of soothing the unhinged [...]
“To have only a few years left on earth as a man is really no cause for alarm. Already I have begun considering the virtues of frogdom, and my only complaint is that I may not be able to report the last stages of my transformation. On the other hand, the oscillatory nature of the [...]
To Loiter: To delay an activity with aimless idle stop and pauses; Dawdle, to remain in an area for no obvious reason: hang around, to lag behind. Loiterer... Loitering is a crime, prosecutable and enforceable in many cases. It is most associated with private property rights along with soliciting and trespassing, but often, it is [...]
Times are desperate. We often hear talk of the “end of the world” as a moment, or an event, that occurs dramatically—the terminal point of humanity, life, the planet, the solar system etc. Yet both myths and cartoons teach us that the end of the world is not so much an event as it is [...]
by Steven Cline The words in this book are spells. Spells. Yes, I mean this most sincerely. They leave little trace on Upthere Overmind. Ha, they swim right past that old tyrant. And they head straightaway down, on towards that treasured Undermind, towards Undermind’s longest left ear. It is here that they then lay all [...]
