Say what you will about the conspiracy theory inherit in the Zeitgeist movement, but you cannot deny the intelligence and sincerity of Jacque Frescoe and his vision of a possible utopia.  Here’s a fascinating interview (first part) with Larry King from 1974.

The Venus Project clearly separates the Zeitgeist movement from other conspiracy theorizing from the [...]

Powerful, effective.  If the issue of 9-11 truth gives you jitters, you might be put off by part 2, but you should at least investigate it before dismissing it out of hand.  But part one makes an enormously compelling case for the cross-pollination of world myths and how Jesus’s death and resurrection is nothing more [...]

This song by Jim O’Rourke is everything I want to do musically and thematically with my soundtrack.

Original here:

Jim O’Rourke on the song:
Q: What about Eureka’s first track? That’s a loaded line you’re singing there ["Women of the world, take over. [...]

I excised this from the introduction to The American Book of the Dead because I thought it was a little too on-topic.  Reads more like a blog entry than fiction, so I’m posting it here.  Read and download the introduction, as well as the rest of the novel, here.
Call it paranoia, obsession, or revelation, [...]

Here’s Stephen Fry’s extraordinary speech about the Catholic Church. To summarize, the Catholic Church is to sex what anorexics are to food – i.e. dangerously obsessed and unhealthy.

I’ve spent the last week feeling paranoid, and moreso sad, about Sarah Palin’s reemergence and her triumph of ignorance.  The media could so easily be complicit in [...]

Alert: The American Book of the Dead won Best Fiction at the DIY Book Festival.

Finally done with this song. Pleased with it – please listen. The story in the novel – World War III is over and the residence of the house in the L.A. hills finally decide to take a trip down south of Sunset Boulevard to see what remains. They’re mortified, of course, and [...]