Comments | aethyrflux: like a battering ram through the doors of perception...

aethyrflux

like a battering ram through the doors of perception...

Mar 20, 2007 10:54

This Thursday evening, March 22 @ 7pm, please join us for:
The Holy Mountain @ The Alamo Drafthouse Downtown
(please let me know if you are coming, 'cause I'll be there around 6pm to reserve seats!)

Jodorowsky talks about the re-releases of Fando y Lis, El Topo, & the Holy Mountain:
For over thirty years, El Topo & The Holy Mountain have only ( Read more... )

Comments 17

silverize March 20 2007, 18:27:03 UTC

Oh man... I was gonna do something else Thursday... but I gotta hit this. Damn you Temptor!!

Cinephiliacs R Us. aethyrflux March 20 2007, 21:03:16 UTC

Hold it now... hit it!

Choose your Allusion! silverize March 20 2007, 21:58:53 UTC

When I read that, I think of Beastie Boys...

exactamundo! aethyrflux March 21 2007, 04:18:41 UTC

hey, i resemble that remark...

Thread 6

zonkism March 21 2007, 02:24:31 UTC

OMG.. I need to go to this :)

come on down! aethyrflux March 21 2007, 04:17:34 UTC

you're there in spirit, already...

Re: come on down! zonkism March 21 2007, 17:59:26 UTC

Ok, I bought a ticket to this!

Re: come on down! deeptape March 21 2007, 17:59:50 UTC

And that's me up there. : )

Thread 8

mrfang March 27 2007, 02:51:29 UTC

It was great to see these new prints of El Topo and The Holy Mountain, but the screenings were marred by incessant laughter from audience members who were unable or unwilling to see these films as more than mere comedic spectacle.

aethyrflux April 3 2007, 22:45:28 UTC

Laughter is a strange beast ( ... )

aethyrflux April 3 2007, 22:45:39 UTC

There was a somewhat spurious example in a recent cult film (which I satirized @ Flipside last year as "What the *BLOOP* Do We Know?" Project) of something similar... that the conquistadors' ships were invisible to the native americans, because they had no 'frame of reference' for such unknown events.

A recent development that I find more compelling is the fact that modern physicists were unable to account for the vast majority of the mass in the univers, until the idea of Dark Matter was introduced. As I have a tendency to seek out similarities, I have noted that the entities known as Loa, or Orisha, or Angels among the African Diaspora are said to inhabit the dark spaces between the stars & planets. The Veve are "ritual drawings through which Vodou practicioners summon the powers of the Loa. Veves describe the paths that Loa & particioners take through the spiritual realm, and although there are traditional forms, they may also change throughout time, as most magickal sigils do." Tony Smith's Vodou Physics describes how systems ( ... )