the ceremonial pynchonian dance.

i've been plowing through ufo and crop circle sights again, as many people seem to consistently. This recent interest in the 'black world' as it deems itself (as well as the white world, which i will get into) was sparked by Trevor Paglen

(excerpt from I Could Tell You but Then You Would Have to Be Destroyed by Me) these patches are all secret operations patches for people working on black bases.
I subsequently began looking at a crop circle site that refreshes when newly formed crop circles appear (Crop Circle Research) and began to correlate some crop circles with military involvement, like the infamous alien crop circle of 2007, which explains on the disc in ASCII computer code: Beware the bearers of FALSE gifts & their BROKEN PROMISES. Much PAIN but still time. (Damaged Word). There is GOOD out there.We OPpose DECEPTION. Conduit CLOSING (BELL SOUND)

or this one from the first of august, 2007, which has numerical significance
This diverted me to the crop circle ship theory, that crop circles are diagrams to construct a ship on a nano level, which was suggested by crop circle ship on a video with really awful music and effects, my main level of concern with 'new agey' anything. I know people's voices are important and not everyone agrees with every design, but let's get better type faces and layouts! it's unfortunate that those following such beautiful spectacle have generally such retro seeming html. i digress. they're otherwise performing a wonderful service. some people can put up really plain sites, and they are ethereal, but i guess content over form. like 'isaac caret', the pseudonym of a former department of defense covert laboratory that was reverse engineering extra-terrestrial technology. his work and access seems quite phenomenal, and i feel he is being truthful, whoever he is. of particular note is the idea of a language that by its meer composure yields action. it's sort of like sanskrit, the first sacred language, but sanskrit yielded its power from intonation. this seems to by existing. read his letter for further information, but here are a few images.
the first is the language you may find on the underside of many 'drone' crafts, mostly captured on film and digital image during 2007 in california



i know, i know, it looks a lot like a björk video, but anything is possible, and i think people seeking disclosure should be met with some faith, especially via humility.

thinking on this meta-linked me to itzhak bentov, and some images from his 'stalking the wild pendulum' which i will share below. they display his theory of the universal egg as a continuous big bang into reverse big bang, or rather, white hole to black hole (or vice versa)


i will comment more on this in the future, but my head is spinning with unattended to obligations. just dome out on these ideas for a bit, and post a comment! let's get a discourse flowing. i know there are many correlations that can be suggested...people!

ascribing a victor and a vanquished type relationship to any social scenario requires a value set that especially embraces the world for its polarities. we do, after all, live on what could be construed as an enormous magnet. our bodies exhibit magnetism and the molecules that compose them also react magnetically. well, sort of. we entrust our memories to magnets (vhs), as well as our safety (airports). molecules are a mix of positive and negative charges, often in balance. then there are all of those other aspects of molecules, like neutrons and neutrinos and quarks et al. that comprise atoms, completely shattering the linear notion of exact opposition. and what about dark matter?





ok, ok. my argument. things are complex. but also simple. like, say, us.
we are complex. we are also simple. through deductive logic, we are able to 'understand' 'reality'. we deduce what exists through sensory (and extra sensory) perception, and we attempt to confine that reality to a definition of what 'is'. in one corner we have land, or rather, the potential for prosperity as we (as capitalist society) have begun to recognize it as. in the other corner we have the power of action and cloaked hope. we will act in order to make the land as profitable as it could be.


we take on a similar relationship with our bodies, where we (our egos) decide to make our bodies as satisfying (to the ego) as possible. our egos are hungry, and they convince us that they need more food, in the form of personal feats. many take this to mean defeating others, whether it be by irrigating a lawn or slashing your neighbors tires.



do i even need to make a segue into sub prime mortgages? i mean, kanye is at the top sort of (though there's a really good immortal technique lyric that goes 'if you go platinum, it's got nothing to do with luck,
it just means that a million people are stupid as fuck') but mike tyson has scary facial tattoos and ol dirty first went to jail, then got fat, and then died.

i work and live in los angeles, a vicinity certainly not overlooked by inflation (read a good new york times article here. land has a greater value here than the desert 150 miles away (obviously to us gangster thug capitalists). the society reinforces this (or at least the spectacle of media within society) with conflated egos and lindsay lohan.

she has declared engagement to samantha ronson. does she plummet? does she rise? do we care? will this influence the economy? perhaps this has all been orchestrated at a meta-economic level, and alan greenspan is involved, and the sinking american ship of identity will resurface, but i doubt it.

and what do kate moss/pete doherty britney spears/k-fed unions reveal society's tendency towards? are we all bi-polar? or is this just the name given to the prevalent societal value structure in extreme? eros-thanatos desires strike again. beauty lusts after death, death lusts after beauty. they need each other, in theory.





back to sub-prime mortgages, our conflated egos are paralleled in massive credit card debt and abhorrent concrete resolutions to destroy the landscape of character and beauty. our image is revealed in the architecture that we create, the footprint we amass. los angeles is especially representative here again, being the paramount of americanism that it is (if you don't believe me, read where i was from by joan didion). or just view this image.


we've gotten in over our collective heads. we aspire to a lifestyle that continuously lurches slightly ahead of our abilities. we also live in a society that devalues people, and castigates them as objects. um. guantanmo? definitely not guantamera.


ok. so we watched larry clark's 'wassup rockers' last night, and realized that larry clark is and will continue to be a hack. i was attempting desperately to frame his vision larger or smaller, pin it on any source of meaning outside of viewing the world as a 14 year old boy, or a lecherous older man viewing a 14 year old's culture.
too much soundtrack, bad acting, awful transitions, inconsistent editing and color balancing. did this reinforce the american aesthetic a la david lachapelle?

Clark made Wassup Rockers look like one of those public service videos that desperately tries to be hip, while unwittingly mocking its own message, rendering it moot through misplaced style. sigh.
oh well. fuck it. who wants a pizza?

I just discovered James Whitney, a formerly LA based film maker.. His films are exquisite, and mostly I can't imagine making them, but can imagine how they were made. Talk about tedium! Computers revolutionize most everything, but I still prefer the analog human ingenuity and simple mechanics that aid works like his.