Recently, David Liebe Hart and his band were in NYC for a show, but I missed it due to work. I'm actually really heartbroken by that; it would have been nice to have gone and maybe even shake hands with DLH and meet him face-to-face. But I do have an amazing consolation price; "I Love David" premiered on [adult swim] by way of their Channel 5 lineup.
It's nice knowing more about David and his personal history through this beautifully crafted show. You can tell they all had a good time planning it together. It's really all of David's imagination, personal myth, and real life history on display. We get everything you'd expect from DLH and his team; animation, puppets, a bit of self-deprecating humor, blunt honest, and a few surprises to keep you on your toes.
Also, we get what might be the greatest sandwich in history! The David Liebe Hart Sandwich is really something to behold, like seriously, if I tried to consume it I would probably die.
If you haven't watched it on the [adult swim] website yet, the first episode has been uploaded on YouTube (and is also above). I hope everyone enjoys it as much as I did.
Through a mind-expanding lecture with the addition of song, David Liebe Hart presents to us his view of the universe, extraterrestrial life, and the secrets that The Conspiracy doesn't want us to know.
I was always pretty curious about the full scope of DLH's views on UFO's. It's pretty well known that he, as a member of Christian Science, does believe in the Holy Bible alongside his views on aliens, but it was never truly clear on how the mechanics of his beliefs functioned. I feel like this lecture shines a light almost exclusively on DLH's personal beliefs.
The Korendor/Korendian believers seem to be a particularly niche section of UFO contactee dating back to the sixties. There's a pretty comprehensive website called TerraKor which archives a great deal of information.
I've had some truly heavy emotions boiling up in my heart. I've been stressed with life, my current trajectory, and my interpersonal relationships. Through my meditations I have found some loose answers to how I feel, but I feel like my own vernacular comes up short to expressing exactly how I feel, so please pardon the nomenclature used in writing this relatively short blog post.
It is easier in this life to be hated rather than loved. That is of course s hyperbolic statement, but there's truth within it. When you people hate you it is pretty easy to ignore them. Haters will always be around, despite our best efforts., but you can choose to just sidestep them. It's more difficult to be loved though, since the burden is heavier.
With love comes responsibility. We live our lives hoping that the actions we take make the ones we love happy, and that we have gained some portion of respect from them. It's a nice feeling for sure, but maintaining the status quo is tiresome. I feel like people will always project their own hopes and dreams into a person who they love, respect, and even admire. They impose their own personal gauge of self-worth onto others, which causes friction for everyone.
But, the burden of love comes with lofty and beautiful rewards. Having any sort of companionship while surviving here on the plane of Adversaria, the harsh material world where survival of the fittest is key, is a treasure. Life is rough and our time is limited. We can float or swim towards goals, but why should we toil away at hating others while we have the joyous opportunity to toil for the ones we love.
Slack does not gravitate towards slackers! We are, buy our nature, seekers of harmony and balance. Our lives are quests meant to be lived in spontaneous action until we reach that wonderful balance of something for nothing!
But I guess what I'm trying to get at is, don't let the love of others dictate your life and who you want to be. Let people love you, but don't let them control you. You're always free.
Jimmm Presents, "Welcome to Dobbstown"
Just a bit of promotion for this album by Jimmm. I'm not really one for techno/trance music but I found myself enjoying this. A nice mixture of music from classic SubGenius albums mixed with some newer stuff (well, new to me anyhow).
I was shown this album via the Toot social media app, via the Dobbs(dot)Town group.
James Quall Album & David Liebe Hart Comic Book
I'm proud to announce that I am the owner of the very last copy of the amazing James Quall album, "The World Got Taken Over By Billionaire Scum". I ordered it along with a copy of the David Liebe Hart comic book, "David Liebe Hart is... Heartman". I was also given a few stickers and an autographed song-sheet with my purchase, which was a wonderful surprise. I may get the song-sheet framed.
Heartman is instantly one of my favorite superheroes. With his hyper-spiritual powers he says the universe from negative emotions, weird ladies, and goes up against his nemesis, Dr. Pain.
The Addams Family
So the new Addams Family movie looks fun but middle of the road, doesn't it? Like design-wise it seems fine, but what little of the dialouge that is shared in the trailer make it look a little too G-rated for it's own good. I'll probably give it a watch on Netflix or whatever; it doesn't seem really worth getting excited over.
It did remind me of "The New Addams Family" that used to run on The Family Channel back in the early 2000's I believe. It was a pretty good show. A nice continuation of the original 1960's television program. I remember it being especially well-cast. Everyone does such a good job on this show, but sadly, I don't think I've ever seen an official digital release of the series.
"Microwave Mssacre" (1983)
To me, "Microwave Massacre" feels like the final episode of a sitcom that never existed. It's such an odd film insofar as it is kind of tame even though there are some very gratuitous scenes in it. It was marketed as "the worst horror movie of all time" but I really enjoyed it. I saw it one day before bed and proceeded to obsess over it for like a week.
Donald, the main character, is a simply guy with a simple palate who just wants to eat simple foods, but his snooty wife wants to cook fancier foods using her brand new microwave. One drunk night, Donald kills his wife and accidentally stumbles into the role of a cannibal who has sex with the women he murders for his meals.
The whole thing feels like it needs a laugh track or commercial breaks. It's a short movie, but it also feels like a twisted hour long finale about a sitcom about a married couple who are always arguing. I guess that's the movie I made up in my mind while watching Donald eat Halloween store props. It's a fun movie! What can I say? Its charm won me over. It's full of quirky characters, a serious premise but leads with a comedic tone, and it's super cheap to look at.
I'd like to thank The Chancellor of the Holy Order of the Sasquatch Office of Wild Hypothesis with presenting me with the opportunity to award myself the Certificate of Meta-Authenticity. I hope that my influence will continue to be felt by both figments and non-figments alike in 2019 and for many more years to come.
The winter solstice this year was a rainy and warm one. I don't know if I dislike that fact, but it just is. I enjoyed walking outside in just a hoodie, but I didn't like having to wear my waterproof boots. I prefer my Crocs, thank you. I don't want to walk anywhere unless I feel like I'm walking in bedroom slippers.
The semester is finally over, and the ending was so intense it felt like the end of a chapter of my life. I feel like the intensity of the semester was so powerful that it forced me to mutate into some sort of new creature. I had to actually. I had to change to deal with the high impact of change that occurred to my mind and super-consciousness. I'm exhausted. Like, really tired. Tired to the point where I hardly care about anything. I mean, even more so than usual.
The world could end tomorrow, and I may die, but I don't care. I no longer fear tomorrow. I really can't tell if that's a positive new way to think, or a negative one, but it'll keep me going and surviving for a bit more time.
I won't be returning to college for the Spring semester. I don't know if I'll ever return. That's how I feel right now. I've been in and out of college my whole life, and it was never really a fit for me. Call it ego, call it laziness, call it whatever, but I feel like I have better things to do with my time, but I kept sidelining those things to do this bullshit. It hardly matters to me, but, it does matter to those around me so I kept going along with it. Well, at least for the first half of next year I won't have to think about it. Maybe if my nihilism clears up I'll go back in the Fall, but we'll see.
The way I figure it is, 2019 must be some sort of mystical breaking point for me and my trajectory in life. I have to be able to do what I want to do so I can finally feel some sort of self worth. I live a relatively happy life. I have my hobbies and interests, but I'd like to return to who I was in the past and maybe do a bit more creating. Drawing, painting, editing, etc. Something that is a bit more fulfilling, you know?
So anyway...
Somewhere on Facebook I stumbled across someone's post about Luigi Cozzi's "Cozilla" film. It's just a strangely colorized and psychedelic version of the original "Godzilla". Cozzi apparently originally wanted to do this with the original "Gojira" but couldn't obtain the rights. I feel like I've heard of this version before but I never bothered to search for it. It might be interesting I guess; I look forward to watching it while """medicated"""".
My turtles, Junior and Mary, are still doing pretty well. I'm finally putting together some money to buy a second tank so I can separate them. They're usually very peaceful but every once in a while Junior gets aggressive and it makes me feel anxious. For Xmas I plan on getting them some nice fresh shrimp to munch on.
This little guy I got in Nevada two years ago. He's from an old line of dolls called Ghost Alley Attic Hangers, by Applause. It was love at first sight, and I bought him immediately and named him Lester. I recently dug him out of a box he was in and decided he'd would look best on my desk next to my computer; and you know what? I was right. I especially love how his eyes glow in the dark. Truly beautiful.
The universe really is a playful place when you get down to it. Through the lens of Slack, we can experience real and true culture. All questions can be answered, all mysteries solved, and joy and wonderment can flourish for infinitum if we were only able to attune ourselves to the significant densities and signals that the omniverse tries to send our way. Instead we mutate in a direction that leaves us pink and greyfaced, when we could be living an existence where we can control time and space. We have to live and breathe the chaos, riding the universe until it kicks us off. We don't have to live each day like it's our last, but like each day will last forever. Doing what we love, doing who we love, exploring, mutating, and savoring our existence. We live surrounded by treasure and yet we treat it all like trash. I suppose the best course of action we can have is to find some balance, some solace in it all, and try to live the best possible lives we can, free from as much unwanted and unneeded influence as possible. In the end, existence is a painful experience, but, any existence you can walk away from is a good one.
I'm not sure what the fandom is called, or how it came to be, but there's a bunch of folks on Twitter who're into it. They dress like cyclops and other monsters, put on cute outfits, and model for pictures or video themselves. I don't know what it is, but I love it.
Arachna of the Spider People hosts Beware Theater with her skeleton sidekick, Deadly. I've been watching her videos lately in the evening and I really enjoy her selection of movies. A good mixture of obscure, B, and cult films. This was my first time viewing "The Manster" and I had no idea it was a Japanese-American production. What a surprise.
I've also been watching Dr. Gangrene's Creature Feature. He's a lot more cartoony than Arachna and Mister Lobo, with his bright colorful sets and strange almost Acme funded technology. A Nashville based horror host, I'm happy he's uploaded so much onto to YouTube for me to enjoy.
Since I'm a proud supporter of OSI74, I've been watching more and more of their programming. Normally, since I'm a card carrying member of The Sleepless Knights of Insomnia, I just watch Cinema Insomnia, but recently I've also been watching Preacher Features, and now Monster Madhouse. If you've never seen "Pulgasari" before, this might be the best introduction to that movie and also Monster Madhouse. You're welcome.
Although I am quite poor, I had the sudden urge to rededicate my allegiance to THE DAVE LIEBE HART INTERPLANETARY FRIENDSHIP & FUN TIMES LEAGUE. The minimum is only $5, and you get all of David's amazing music via Bandcamp. Recently, I've been rocking out to the album "Space Ranger" nearly everyday.
I suppose that's all for now. I hope everyone has a beautiful holiday season no matter what holiday you celebrate, if any at all. I have a lot of thinking and planning on doing for the upcoming year.
