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capacity to see life as a series of incantations beginning w/ th name yr parents gave you: is this capacity genetic? My bruddah and him wife ended up naming their son Michael Eytan. Eytan is strength in Elf. When you call his name it's like a little prayer.
What cannot be disputed: Earvin Johnson changed th game of basketball--sped it up, made it more creative. What falls into th realm of superstition: of course he changed th game; he rechristened himself Magic Johnson. Johnson's colleague Isiah Thomas, himself owner of two championship rings, once said, "There's no way I'd want to be named Magic. Too much pressure."
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Kevin Shields: Hey
MZA: --
KS: HEY
MZA: What.
KS: How many Koreans does it take to screw in a lightbulb.
MZA: Cat, don't.
KS: Mmrrrr. OK.
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Of course we must admit that magick in and of itself, like poetry, is neither bad nor good, but only a way to getter done.[1] Every day I go to work and don't notice if I am working hard or hardly working, only that th day frequently starts @ 7:00 a.m. and ends @ 10:00 p.m., and I'm beat @ th end of it. And @ th end of two weeks I get a paycheque and bank most of it and take out enough to pay my operating expenses and den if there's anything left after that I buy comix. None of this is what anyone would call magick, but I call it magick anyhow because I love comix as much as life itself and it is weird and miraculous how easy it is to bring comix into my life.
I am working hard, and when I have time I love to come here and try my hand @ writing sentences because it's th closest I can get to drawing w/o knowing how to draw. It's like a magick because it's very boring, but there's nothing more fun than pretending to make comix. How it makes me FEEL: hyper, superpowered, deathless.
If you make make-believe comix and have make-believe superpowers and cast make-believe spells to protect you from make-believe monsters, that makes you something like a homeless guy who talks out loud to no one in particular OR a normal guy w/ a normal and healthy imagination and normal friends.
Grant Morrison writes (real) comix professionally and claims to be able to summon (real) demons. He has detailed a method for making incantations. First, write a sentence more or less explaining what you want to happen. It could be anything but works best if it's important and is along th lines of yr heart's desire and not just a dick-swinging baller fantasia (unless that is yr actual heart's desire), for instance,
I'd fancy a faded pink house surrounded by a vegetable garden for my family and a pack of happy, un-neurotic dogs.
That is yr incantation's first step. Next, take away all th vowels from yr sentence.
d fncy fdd pnk hs srrndd by vgtbl grdn fr my fmly nd pck f hppy nnrtc dgs
Now remove all duplicate consonants
d fncy pk hs r b vgtl m
and squeeze everything together
dfncypkhsrbvgtlm
into a word and say yr word aloud and den draw a picture based on yr word's shape
and refine yr drawing until you have what would amount to yr own personal corporate logo, if you were a corporation.
Keep saying th word and visualizing yr logo (what Grant M. calls yr "sigil") as you go about yr work day over a period of time, saving up enough money from each paycheque to buy a faded pink house, vegetable seeds, and eight or nine dogs. Be prepared, though: this house may be in New Mexico or somewhere else exotic and far. It couldn't hurt to add hand gestures if you're FEELING THEM.
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KS: HEY FF
MZA: What now?!
KS: What's th point of doing "magick" on a pink house if you still have to go to work and save up money and basically do everything th same as you normally do. Aren't you diminishing magickal expectations to a farcical degree? I don't know about you, fuckface, but I like my magick magickal. But you, you could go into a library and check out a book and go sit under a tree w/ it and den go, "Ohmygod I am holding in my hands A REAL BOOK. Where did this book come from? It's like a magick!" Let me refer you to some wisdom from one of America's top actual sorcerers:
Last week Secretary of Defense Robert Gates made this announcement: "I'm pleased to report that all active branches of the United States military exceeded their recruiting goals for the month of December." Eat it, peaceniks! Oh, that's right, you don't eat meat and this is Grade A American troop steak. That's right, the Army exceeded its December recruitment goals by 23%. And how did they do it? Simple: by lowering their monthly recruitment goals of 7,000 to 700. (Army of one-tenth)
By the old standards December's haul would have fallen 87% short but by the new standards we hit it out of the park. (By shrinking the park) That is good old-fashioned American ingenuity, and we can use this to win the war. (Semantically) I'm introducing, tonight, a bold new plan not only to surge troop levels upward but to surge expectations downward. ("The Online Dating Doctrine") The President's already doing his part; he told us this victory wouldn't look like the ones our fathers and grandfathers achieved. He said there won't be a surrender ceremony on a battleship, and he also changed what victory is. (Veni, Vidi, Changey) It used to be remaking the Middle East; now, victory is securing Baghdad. (Next, spelling "Baghdad")
But are we still biting off more than we can chew? Let me tell you a story about my dog Gipper. Used to be, I couldn't control him at all. Now I come home every night and say, "Gipper, ignore me and poop on the carpet." I gotta say since I've changed my expectations he has been such a good dog. As long as we're redefining our goals, Mr. President, let's just make our goals whatever is actually happening. (Redefinition accomplished) Then victory will truly be at hand. (Victory!)
And that's the Word.
MZA: Listen, I don't think you'll be complaining when we're living in a beautiful faded pink New Mexican house.
KS: No, you listen, I don't want to live in New Mexico or in a pink gay house.
MZA:
KS:
MZA: FUCKING HELL NEITHER DO I
KS: Or w/ gay dogs.
MZA: You know what's great about dogs? They don't sit right next to my computer and radiate negative energy 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.
KS: HOO HOO HAA how long did it take you to cast that spell anyhow.
MZA: I give up: how many Koreans.
________
1. Aleister Crowley: "Magick is the Science and Art of causing Change to occur in conformity with Will."
What cannot be disputed: Earvin Johnson changed th game of basketball--sped it up, made it more creative. What falls into th realm of superstition: of course he changed th game; he rechristened himself Magic Johnson. Johnson's colleague Isiah Thomas, himself owner of two championship rings, once said, "There's no way I'd want to be named Magic. Too much pressure."
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Kevin Shields: Hey
MZA: --
KS: HEY
MZA: What.
KS: How many Koreans does it take to screw in a lightbulb.
MZA: Cat, don't.
KS: Mmrrrr. OK.
+ + +
Of course we must admit that magick in and of itself, like poetry, is neither bad nor good, but only a way to getter done.[1] Every day I go to work and don't notice if I am working hard or hardly working, only that th day frequently starts @ 7:00 a.m. and ends @ 10:00 p.m., and I'm beat @ th end of it. And @ th end of two weeks I get a paycheque and bank most of it and take out enough to pay my operating expenses and den if there's anything left after that I buy comix. None of this is what anyone would call magick, but I call it magick anyhow because I love comix as much as life itself and it is weird and miraculous how easy it is to bring comix into my life.
I am working hard, and when I have time I love to come here and try my hand @ writing sentences because it's th closest I can get to drawing w/o knowing how to draw. It's like a magick because it's very boring, but there's nothing more fun than pretending to make comix. How it makes me FEEL: hyper, superpowered, deathless.
If you make make-believe comix and have make-believe superpowers and cast make-believe spells to protect you from make-believe monsters, that makes you something like a homeless guy who talks out loud to no one in particular OR a normal guy w/ a normal and healthy imagination and normal friends.
Grant Morrison writes (real) comix professionally and claims to be able to summon (real) demons. He has detailed a method for making incantations. First, write a sentence more or less explaining what you want to happen. It could be anything but works best if it's important and is along th lines of yr heart's desire and not just a dick-swinging baller fantasia (unless that is yr actual heart's desire), for instance,
I'd fancy a faded pink house surrounded by a vegetable garden for my family and a pack of happy, un-neurotic dogs.
That is yr incantation's first step. Next, take away all th vowels from yr sentence.
d fncy fdd pnk hs srrndd by vgtbl grdn fr my fmly nd pck f hppy nnrtc dgs
Now remove all duplicate consonants
d fncy pk hs r b vgtl m
and squeeze everything together
dfncypkhsrbvgtlm
into a word and say yr word aloud and den draw a picture based on yr word's shape
and refine yr drawing until you have what would amount to yr own personal corporate logo, if you were a corporation.
Keep saying th word and visualizing yr logo (what Grant M. calls yr "sigil") as you go about yr work day over a period of time, saving up enough money from each paycheque to buy a faded pink house, vegetable seeds, and eight or nine dogs. Be prepared, though: this house may be in New Mexico or somewhere else exotic and far. It couldn't hurt to add hand gestures if you're FEELING THEM.
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KS: HEY FF
MZA: What now?!
KS: What's th point of doing "magick" on a pink house if you still have to go to work and save up money and basically do everything th same as you normally do. Aren't you diminishing magickal expectations to a farcical degree? I don't know about you, fuckface, but I like my magick magickal. But you, you could go into a library and check out a book and go sit under a tree w/ it and den go, "Ohmygod I am holding in my hands A REAL BOOK. Where did this book come from? It's like a magick!" Let me refer you to some wisdom from one of America's top actual sorcerers:
Last week Secretary of Defense Robert Gates made this announcement: "I'm pleased to report that all active branches of the United States military exceeded their recruiting goals for the month of December." Eat it, peaceniks! Oh, that's right, you don't eat meat and this is Grade A American troop steak. That's right, the Army exceeded its December recruitment goals by 23%. And how did they do it? Simple: by lowering their monthly recruitment goals of 7,000 to 700. (Army of one-tenth)
By the old standards December's haul would have fallen 87% short but by the new standards we hit it out of the park. (By shrinking the park) That is good old-fashioned American ingenuity, and we can use this to win the war. (Semantically) I'm introducing, tonight, a bold new plan not only to surge troop levels upward but to surge expectations downward. ("The Online Dating Doctrine") The President's already doing his part; he told us this victory wouldn't look like the ones our fathers and grandfathers achieved. He said there won't be a surrender ceremony on a battleship, and he also changed what victory is. (Veni, Vidi, Changey) It used to be remaking the Middle East; now, victory is securing Baghdad. (Next, spelling "Baghdad")
But are we still biting off more than we can chew? Let me tell you a story about my dog Gipper. Used to be, I couldn't control him at all. Now I come home every night and say, "Gipper, ignore me and poop on the carpet." I gotta say since I've changed my expectations he has been such a good dog. As long as we're redefining our goals, Mr. President, let's just make our goals whatever is actually happening. (Redefinition accomplished) Then victory will truly be at hand. (Victory!)
And that's the Word.
MZA: Listen, I don't think you'll be complaining when we're living in a beautiful faded pink New Mexican house.
KS: No, you listen, I don't want to live in New Mexico or in a pink gay house.
MZA:
KS:
MZA: FUCKING HELL NEITHER DO I
KS: Or w/ gay dogs.
MZA: You know what's great about dogs? They don't sit right next to my computer and radiate negative energy 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.
KS: HOO HOO HAA how long did it take you to cast that spell anyhow.
MZA: I give up: how many Koreans.
________
1. Aleister Crowley: "Magick is the Science and Art of causing Change to occur in conformity with Will."