Thursday, January 29, 2015

"The Luminous Hyper-World That Shimmers Beyond The Great Nocturnal Barrier."


It's a continuing source of amazement how many of the themes I followed on the blog over the years have re-entered the newsstream since I began blogging again, especially so in the past month. 

Wednesday, January 21, 2015

Telling Tales Out of School: Wavelength Revisited



In June of 2013 I wrote about Wavelength, a very strange and disturbing low-budget sci-fi feature, written and directed by China Syndrome screenwriter and longtime political activist Mike Gray and financed by Maurice Rosenfeld, the pioneer of the class-action lawsuit.


Monday, January 12, 2015

Comics Are Magick: Intruders in the Skies


As you get older, it's all too easy to get lost in routine, to anesthetize yourself with ritual and television. It's why creative work is so often the province of the young. 


It's also why David Lynch is such a firebrand for Transcendental Meditation; he knows how easy it is to lose that spark and how hard you have to work to keep hold of it.