ULTRAHALLOWEEN

  Sal took the bus home to their non-binary partner (both had gotten mastectomies and took T, their gender was, in some sense, connected to their art, for both of them), Zeke. They kissed and started to prepare their vegan dinner. Everything in the apartment was just so, Zeke burned some incense, sensing that Sal had had a hard day, Zeke could see the tremors in Sal's body from the anxiety. As they ate dinner, they talked about their goals and aspirations. They referred to this as "G+A talk", and it was one of the items on the checklist that sat to their left on a dry erase board. They always tried to make time for "Goals and Aspirations" talk, which was separate from "Day to Day Necessaries" ("D2D talk") which included repairs, grocery shopping, clean-up, and so on. They were extremely organized, as a couple, and a lot of people really admired them for that. When Heidegger wrote about "care" in Being and Time he could have been d...

 Knives' other play, "Bambi vs Hamlet", written via Ouija Board by spirit-medium Slavoj Ganja who deferred all the credit to Knives and it was such a hit in the underground, this "written from beyond the grave" gimmick was such an attention-getter that it had not just a cult following but a cult religion based on it, like some kind of codex. Bambi and Hamlet were the Jungian archetypes governing the engendering of the master-slave dialectic in society, and its molecular proliferation like weeds or like urban sprawl, and Bambi's submission to Hamlet is the basic dynamic of this sexuality of the architectonic within society, this apparatus of capture and the drama queen antics of the ruling classes. This dialectic of sex subverted the irony of stupidity and made everyone cheer for an encore, they wanted more, oh boy did they want Bambi vs Hamlet 2! Cecilia was going to play Bambi in the new sequel production which was in collaboration with Ye Wretches, an enti...

I see Christ as subtracted from "Christianity". But this means that he is a "vanishing mediator". He is precisely not expressed in religious art, but remains a complete mystery. The more futile Christianity becomes (as a set of practices), the more I feel myself liberated from it, and in that sense perhaps catching a whiff of Jesus' divine afflatus. Particularly when I find myself giving up and undoing the knots of the obsessive prohibitions I have erroneously sutured to my conception of Christianity. CS Lewis tapes listened til the audio would degrade if they weren't digital. Lewis' world is that of Christianity. But Christ I insist is subtracted from all of that. For what is Christ but another emanation of that powerful bit of weather conjured up by some Jews on the run from slavery, who in their desperation, discovered some mysterious thing which is often described as unnameable. For me this same mystery attaches to Christ, so I refuse to imagine hi...

Nietzschean laughter inverts values with a hilarity directly proportional to the indeterminacy of interpretation. It bucks off "the spirit of heaviness" and finds itself, like the wings of a butterfly, flashing an iridescent back and forth between the accepted meaning of something and the interpretation, which is what requires humor and donates valuation.

 54 to Halloween Album Review: Aesop Rock "Spirit World Field Guide" "step up to the spirit world / zero man pit crew" -Aesop Rock, "Spirit World Field Guide" This record performs, if you will, as advertised. It is a portal. "Not for the faint of heart or weak of stomach," as Aesop puts it in the intro. And indeed the tracks function as "plateaux", as levels of altered consciousness or multidimensional mind-chess. Duchamp saw chess as a metaphor for life, and in the world of this record, Aesop's unusual use of syntax makes grammar itself into a metaphor. As AR has gotten more confident over the years (his style has aged better than that of most rappers) in his use of unhinged vocabulary (earning him the rating of rapper with the highest vocabulary according to some computer nerd), one gets an almost Finnegan's Wake or Gravity's Rainbow effect, ingesting in a drug like state his peculiar phonological strata. This record has...

58 Days Until Halloween "Booth died blind and still by faith he trod / Eyes still dazzled by the ways of God" -Vachel Lindsay, "General William Booth Enters into Heaven" (T)R(ICK)EPENT!!! OR (T)R(EAT)EPENT!!! HALLOWEENELUIAH!!! Crashing cymbals and jangling harps spout from the loudspeakers like gushing blood from a Halloween prop. Fr ZBRNL5 clutches his beads and begins to sing: "Oh praise him, praise him, praise him, for he hath saved us, saved us, saved us. When he came back to life / back to life / back to life // We knew that he was Jesus the Christ / the Christ / the Christ" He succumbs to a coughing fit and crosses himself while frowning up at the livestream webcam ready to shadowbox the uninvited infilitrators. What sinister people are watching this video eucharist. The congretation repeats after him, onethronged voice babbling garbling, reveling. Zombie metamorphoses and demonic soul-evacuations swirl in the videogame atmosphere of the megachurch ...