Bill Burroughs’ Recurring Dream, David Wojnarowicz, 1978
Image: Burroughs
Category: weirdness
There’s a story here
Image: Returning after a successful hunt
Person of interest: Lafcadio Hearn
Two articles by authors who I really admire and respect on a topic that sounds very fascinating.
Lafcadio Hearn.
Hearn’s ultra-realist exposés were drenched in the wounded sensibility of a writer with a merciless eye who had Greek myths and Celtic fairy tales in his blood.
The second is by Bruce Sterling.
–Hearn was your basic congenital SF saint-perv, but in a nineteenth century environment. Hearn was, in brief, a rootless oddball with severe personality problems and a pronounced gloating taste for the horrific and bizarre.
From SCIENCE FICTION EYE #6 CATSCAN 6 “Shinkansen”
Image: I have no idea…
Image: Heralds of the Yellow King
Sarasota Half In Dream
Sarasota Half in Dream from Mitchell Zemil on Vimeo.
A film by Derek Murphy and Mitchell Zemil
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SARASOTA HALF IN DREAM is an experimental documentary about dead turtles, crab swarms, decaying tennis courts, and microscopic histories. The filmmakers shot their explorations into the abandoned golf courses, factories, and resorts of Sarasota, Florida and spoke to local youths who are using them for new and strange purposes.
What would the Surrealists and Situationists think of a suburban, subtropical tourist town? What goes on in a storage unit in the dead of night? What is the afterlife of a decommissioned train car? What ghosts haunt a ruined hotel? What is the life cycle of a city? When will waters wash it all away?
NSA and psychic powers
Ran across this today.
Life imitates Akira: the NSA’s fear of psychic nukes
The section concluded with a note that there had supposedly been a successful demonstration of “telekinetic power” in a Soviet military sponsored research lab, and the alleged discovery of a new type of energy “perhaps even more important than that of Atomic energy.”
An article dissecting a 1977 NSA memo speculating about psychic powers. With the above quote, please notice the words “supposedly” and “alleged” and “perhaps”.
 | Also, for instance, one of the sources cited in the NSA memo was a scientist who’d worked with Uri Geller. For more on Geller and the fringes of the intelligence/military world, I recommend the book, The Men Who Stare At Goats by Jon Ronson, which is a great non-fiction book on some of the weirdness of the late 70s American military. Suffice it to say, that Geller is/was a very talented fake/grifter. |