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First Attempt
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I have been spending hours upon hours making new images as I'm finishing the book part of "Panic Pandemic". I'm making some of them available, though the most out there and objectionable shall certainly be saved for the book. Now that "New World Chaos" is moving along and exciting me so much, it seems a bit like I'm overflowing constantly. The sound rituals are indeed reverberating in all directions. This is the kind of energy I remember from the days of death threats from fundamentalists and wiretaps on the phone. (I've started answering it again, as I found out I've lost out on some work with the Orlando Ballet through my being incommunicado). I have all paintings ready for the Dark arts festival, so it looks like I'll get them there in time. It's too bad I can't be there this year. To any of you who goes, I'd love to hear all about it. One of these days I'll start socializing again, but for now, my work is in the Foamin' Bunker.
The influence of fin de siecle decadence seems to be inescapable to me. I spent my early twenties in awe of the surrealists, but my technique and imagery are more opium-dreamlike than psychotic these days. But then, lik all good twenty-first century Americans, my work is all autobiographical. I just leave out the bits where I dig lint from my belly button. I have had moments of lack of outrage at humanity the last few years, but the healthy disdain returned about this time last year. I can't be bothered to observe them too close, as their self destruction is too slow to be constanly diverting, but it's hard to find the word for the way the masses have capitulated their souls to the marketplace. I'll try later.
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Several people I have on my watch-list have been expressing concern over current political trends and calling for the illumination and awakening of the public at large. I've been involved in a number of such efforts, and have observed many others. Before I lay out everything I've been brooding on I'll leave a couple of things I've found on the web, one frightening, the other diverting. First is the This American Life episode called "The Secret Government", the second is one of my favorite goofball late night AM radio programs, Coast To Coast. I have had periods of paranoia that were more comfortable than moments of insight, as the reality is far worse than we tend to speculate. I enjoyed a lovely seder on passover, at the same time I was listening to some Russian NSBM. It amuses me that these people who'd be among the first to be eliminated by a fascist government posture on its behalf. During the Soviet regime they'd rebel by adopting the Russian Orthodox faith. I always put in comments of how much I liked living in the midst of the Jewish community in Brookline in BM 'zines, and it was interesting how many time the references were removed from the article or jumbled beyond recognition. I go back to early interviews with Samoth, Dimmu Borgir and other greater and lesser lights of the Blackmetal scene, and I find it striking how their comments contrast with what we can expect from them in interviews these days. I wondered at the time if any of them meant the political rants and calls for anti-Christan warfare, but the talk of a Satanic world domination was a lovely thought, at least aesthetically. While the burning of churches and all the other unproductive shenanigans were wasted energy, they did express a manifest current that was trying to find a way to break through. I don't think any of them knew what had a hold of them. Sometimes the most powerful currents can be tapped into by the most ignorant. Rebellion has been commodified and co-opted by the dominant media. Nu-metal has made any expression of disenfranchisement and alienation laughable, topics that made the writings of Richard Wright so powerful and exhilarating in his artistry. Punk has been turned into bubblegum, Industrial into Disco. Movements like dada and existentialism are no longer possible, as art no longer matters, and the alienation expressed by Sartre and Richard Wright finds a similar reaction and audience as the whiny juvenalia of J. D. Salinger and Sylvia Plath; things to get maudlin about and wallow in while young, so as to slough it off and join society later on.
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