[kj] Semi-OT: Time Wave, 2012 and stuff

[Mark Kolmar]

Certainly a bit of embarrassment and awkward nods. I think most of
this is better processed as poetry and mythology. What is "true", what
has base resonance, or even useful information albeit not supportable
by facts and reason. You never saw a man with a bull's head inside a
giant maze, but you know what it is like to be disoriented and vaguely
threatened. You never pushed a rock up a hill every day forever, but
as a person you know how that can be.

It seems that Jaz has had a great opportunity to indulge, absorb,
and/or start trapped inside a world of images and associations.

My professional life over the last 10 years has not allowed, for
example, a week of vacation on short notice to get caught up in a Dada
video-soundtrack composition project. I am not completely convinced
about the direction I have taken at a personal level, and the effect
on my creative output. I had to make some choices, because my ability
to relate to the real world was not necessarily compatible with a
cycle of short naps and A/V compulsion over a period of 5 days. Still
I have a nifty piece of music to show for it. I have had to take a
more scheduled approach, trying to learn to work around the on-call
Very Responsible Person lifestyle. But enough about that.

My neighborhood in Milwaukee, WI, USA, "Riverwest" is like HBO's
Carnivale and the Comedy Central animated program Ugly Americans. My
neighbor mentions the "Deliverance" house in a joke, and quite frankly
that could be so many.

So a neighbor down the street - let's call him Chaz since most people
call him that. It's about 3am at a party. He has gone on about some
series of topics. No idea where this started, by this point, or where
it goes. I whisper to someone else next to me. "Better if you listen
like it's a guy singing scat."

--Mark


On Wed, Sep 22, 2010 at 11:10 AM, nicholas fitzpatrick
<gasw30 at hotmail.com> wrote:

> Is Jaz embarrassing, just like the majority of dicks cited in the article by

> that bloke from Blondie?

>

> I listened to the Courtauld Talk the other day as I was driving up the

> motorway. Back in the 1980s Jaz believed that nuclear war was an inevitable

> event. But, as well as a catastrophic global occurrence, there was also to

> be a spiritual side to the war.

>

> He believed nuclear war was the vehicle for a mass initiation of humanity

> into a new age of existence that would be marked by the tyranny of the

> Forgotten Ones, or Elder Gods.

>

> In preparation for this event it was necessary for humans (or at least

> magicians) to unite their lower selves with their higher selves. This is not

> the same as tying your shoelaces behind your head for a blow job, though

> admittedly I'm not sure exactly what the idea of this magical ritual was.

> Maybe it was a salvation-type thing for those that could do it. Or perhaps

> it would diffuse the violence of the Forgotten Ones.  Anyway, this was all

> explained in the Courtauld Talk.

>

> In the months prior to the Courtauld Talk, Jaz and Geordie had been working

> on numerologically devised time signatures. This activity of theirs had

> resulted from a ritual Jaz had performed in which, it seems, the number 103

> had been somehow relevant. He did not elaborate on the ritual or what it was

> about, but said it had something to do with sinister forces emanating from

> the Iran area.

>

> Strangely, on another occasion after the ritual, Jaz had spontaneously

> hummed a tune which his sound engineer had managed to pin-point as being of

> a 103 bpm time signature. Oh my word, that's two occasions of 103s, it must

> be something serious.

>

> It turned out that in said numerology, 103 is the number of the Prophets.

> Crikey! And then guess what happened: the flight number of the aeroplane

> that was blown up over Lockerbie was.... you've got it, Flight 103. Jesus H

> Fucking Christ, let's do a lecture with Geordie on acoustic.

>

> But nuclear war didn't happen and Iran never did anything particularly

> interesting, so it was another postponed Apocalypse, along with the others

> that have been expected variously by the Jehova's Witnesses and other cults

> over the centuries.

>

> So this begs the question: If Jaz is serious about all this, what's the

> difference between him and a moron fundie Christian trying to convince

> everyone that the Endtimes have begun? To put it another way, would you find

> it deeply embarrassing if Jaz were to sit next to you on a bus?

>

> It's interesting how in one of the recent interviews, Jaz said he did not

> flee to Iceland in 1982 owing to fears of an immanent nuclear war, but

> instead he went there to perform the 'Conversation with the Holy Guardian

> Angel' ritual instead. As I understand it, this ritual is the pinnacle of a

> magician's career - it's the spiritual equivalent of finally being able to

> perform the shoe-laces trick, where lower self is raised to higher self,

> after years of practice.

>

> But isn't this just another sad bit of revisionist history from a would-be

> cultist after an apocalypse that didn't manifest?

>

> It doesn't really matter, I'm still buying the album.