Portable Shrines

This saturday 3/13 at the Josephine 9pm all-ages: a solid night of swirling sounds.
Audiwasska Travelers (former Treetarantula peops)
This Blinding Light
Pink Snowflakes (PDX)
Tiny Light (with horn section??)

The above image of Stacia of Hawkwind is from the I Want You blog, which always seems to be overflowing with retinal damaging delights. Watch for the 3rd issue of the print version coming soon…

Hey folks, many happenings in the works for the near future in shrineland-

DJing at Grey Gallery 3/14,  doing projections at the Comet 4/1 , Jackie-O MF at Chop Suey 5/1, and tons of other cool shows and junk real soon. A big Portable Shrines compilation album is in the works as well as Escalator Fest 2010. More info soon.

STAY WEIRD,  STAAYYY TUUUNNNED…………………

Apparently a feeling of being in touch with nature, plants, trees and animals is one of the worst things Mark Driscoll can conceive of. “I own two entertainment centers and three Tivos…” So blinded by his own worldliness, he seems to identify more strongly with the napalm happy planet-rapers of Avatar. I guess that might be what you’d expect from a religion that confuses the god of nature with the devil. Still the circular logic is utterly incomprehensible. Let’s see- Satan wants you to connect with a lie and humans having a connection to the divine is Satanic… oh, nevermind.  I guess the dull saps who attend Mars Hill church become so confused all they can do is throw money. Dude is getting rich off a bunch of suckers who aren’t old enough to remember Jim and Tammy and the televangelist scams of the 80’s. This stuff still works??
Mark Driscoll you are a sad, ugly little man…

Ferroflake experiment #1 from gush on Vimeo.

Over at Reality Sandwich activist Charles Shaw has been posting his novel Exile Nation, which I have been rabidly following and highly suggest if you are interested in the nightmare that is our penal system. He has uploaded The Secret History of the War on Drugs, a 14 part video that ties into the novel. Check it out…

Moon Duo are currently on the road to celebrate their Woodsist release "Escape" on Feb 16.
Check 'em out tonight on DJ Rick's KDVS show on Feb 15, 10PM PST (http://www.kdvs.org/). 

FEBRUARY 2010 WEST COAST TOUR DATES
2/11 • Hemlock Tavern, San Francisco, CA (w/ Nothing People, Epikurs Euforie)
2/12 • Synchronicity Space, Los Angeles, CA (w/ Pocahaunted, Psychic Handbook)
2/13 • Showcave, Los Angeles, CA (w/ Psychic Handbook, Former Ghosts, Popdrone)
2/15 • KDVS Radio, Davis, CA
2/16 • Brookedale Lodge, Santa Cruz, CA (w/ The Entrance Band, Lights)
2/18 • Rendezvous, Seattle, WA (w/ Du Hexen Hase, Midday Veil)
2/19 • ANZA Club, Vancouver, BC (w/ Stellar OM Source, Pacific City Nightlife Vision Band)
2/20 • East End, Portland, OR (w/ The Urinals, Leaders, Eat Skull)

They'll be in Seattle this thursday in the Jewelbox Theater at the Rendezvous 2322 2nd ave.
along with the terrifying sounds of Du Hexen Hase and ethereal vibes of Midday Veil.

Du Hexen Hase photo by Ms.Michelle B

dark ashy psych folk at Neumos 2.17.10…

Blood Red Dancers

See Me River

Curious Mystery

Constant Lovers

Experimental music fans take note: The Unsound Music Festival kicks off tonight in NYC and continues through 2.14.10.  Originally (and currently) based in Krakow, Poland, this is the first time New York gets a hit with a little help from Wordless Music, the Bunker, Issue Project Room and the Goethe-Institut New York. The art and noise will commence 8:30 p.m. at the David Rubenstein Atrium at Lincoln Center and it’s free.

Lillevan's reconfigured version of Andy Warhol’s ‘Screen Tests’ live projections

This month we are excited to feature Moon Duo- a new project from Ripley of the Wooden Shjips.

The fine folks at Arthur recently posted a killer tune by Moon Duo- Check it.

Here’s the latest installment of Extra Dimensional. Check out the last installment HERE.

“The soul is not in the body, the body is in the soul. Do you understand? Look…..we….. are……..you. Try to remember.

The above is something that seemingly omnipotent alien beings tell Jack Frost in Grant Morrison’s brilliant series The Invisibles, right before he learns to bend reality to his own will for a brief period. Despite being one of my favorite pieces of art in any medium, I still don’t own the series in its entirety due to my inability to commit to buying things like graphic novels when I can get them for free at the library (you actually have to get The Invisibles through inter library loan as the SPL doesn’t have it). But in this case I’ve made an exception and decided to buy a volume every six months or so to slowly run through it all again for a second time. About a month after reading that particular passage, I woke up from a deep lucid dream state where I felt as if I’d been submerged in a rich and luminous reassuring energy that was hell bent on imparting a distinct message to me.

When I found myself returning to semi-normal consciousness I struggled to grasp onto this particular nugget of wisdom due to its strange and otherworldly nature. It was becoming rapidly lost in translation between realms. But then it was as if a visible translation program emerged in my mind’s eye and quickly codified the intent of the message into terms I could easily comprehend. “The soul is not in the body, the body is inside the soul, try to remember.” It didn’t get through with optimum efficiency, but it couldn’t have come across any more clearly. I briefly basked in a feeling of existential bliss and slowly drifted back to sleep. In attempting to pursue a more shamanic or magickal life path, as I’ve been doing for the last four years or so, events start to happen that seem impossible and yet, if you think of the world as rooted in a more expansive cosmology, they all begin to make sense. Accepting that differentiated world view is a fundamental tenet to truly pursuing a life of sorcery

Of course, The Invisibles was largely written as a means to help Mr. Morrison (who has a documentary coming out later this year called Talking with Gods) explain an alien encounter he had in Katmandu, where sentient beings invaded his life and took him outside of the time stream. He was shown that we are eternal energy sources being grown inside of time as a means of creation, but aren’t even fully aware of ourselves as of yet; still infantile in our development – which further explores the idea that higher forces are manipulating us as a means to expand reality or “increase novelty” as Terence Mckenna would have referred to it. To quote the man himself, they showed him that:

“the universe was, was a larval form of what they are, which is fifth-dimensional entities. And the only way to grow a fifth-dimensional entity is to plant it in time, henceforth our universe.”

Read more…

At the Rendezvous.

Also- 7PM Thursday 1/28 at Cairo 507 E. Mercer: Big Spider’s Back, Tiny Light and White Buffalo Black Madonna

We are all visible interference patterns in pulsating wave fields, dig?  The song is you…

Another synchromystical mini-epic by Soundlessdawn from the Labyrinth of the Psychonaut.