ULTRAHALLOWEEN

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 ...

 59 DAYS UNTIL HALLOWEEN Once upon a time once upon a motherflippin time dude yo witchcraft and sorcery served up fucking rock out rock out man fucking space out space out man cool out the whole damn planet the dismembered bones of a melodic motif which implied something carnal and vengeful and AWESOME WHAT THE FUCK IS IT ABOUT HALLOWEEN MAN IT GETS ME archangelic from the left a famously delicious  and deliciously famous aperitif sorry i meant digestif and i do know the difference A time bent at the knee, long ago, twisting in purgatorial flames fingers trembling at the knees and you, my audience, gathering at each hem of my rended garment whistling, zooming with ancestry components, singular compulsion,  this is the name of the game and  my cat. compelled, by this lack of  free blossoms draculacrucifixed at the back of the neck into a  lack of free will into spasmodic  pulsations blood for dracula  for this fear has legs this fear is 3d surviv...