Karl Hyde - Edgeland

A gorgeous 45 RPM double vinyl disc, the first solo album by Underworld's vocalist I recently found at Ivan's.

It was blinking to me from a shelf with its gimmicks cover, suddenly.

Karl is Third Millenium Thomas Dolby, some Bjork and, at a distance, some King Crimson with Greg Lake... all this GREATLY supported and magnified by a truly AMAZING, AWESOME recording and pressing: I shot the four sides under The Peak arm with Lumiere DST and... WOW, cannot sincerely think of a better sound.

A nice, NICE find, something which only happens in real world... at your trusty local records shop, as... also if the disc blinked in its gorgeously elegant, cool cover, Ivan - asked about the disc content - friendly and righteously simply said: "Yes, it's something you'll like."

... and Ivan is very seldom wrong.

Nuff said.

David Tibet's World(s)

He's one of my heroes... David Tibet is unworried to mix worlds and influences (see below...)

INFLUENCES

Wikipedia has been used as a default source of information where no sensible main link can be found.
A [?] next to an entry represents a potiential misinterpretation on my part of the subject matter...

Artists

• Edmund Monsiel
• Louis Wain
• Sebastian Horsley

Authors and Author/Books

• Alighieri, Dante
• Anderson, Hans Christian
  • The Emperor's New Clothes
• Benson, Robert Hugh
• Blyton, Enid
  • Noddy
• Browne, Sir Thomas
• Dostoyevsky, Fyodor
• Housman, Alfred Edward
• Irving, John
  • A Prayer for Owen Meany
• James, Montague Rhodes
• Judd, Alan
• Kierkegaard, Søren
• Lautréamont, Comte de
  • Les Chants De Maldoror
• Lee, Stan
• Lewis, Clive Staples
  • Chronicles of Narnia
• Ligotti, Thomas
• Lindsay, David
• Martin, Malachi
• Milton, John
• Monsiel, Edmund
• Nabokov, Vladimir
• Pascal, Blaise
  • Pensées
• Ros, Amanda McKittrick
• Steiner, Rudolf
• Stenbock, Count Eric Stanislaus
• Tolkein, J. R. R.
• Urquhart, Sir Thomas
• Vickers,Sally
• Wain, Louis
• Waugh, Evelyn
• Wheatley, Dennis
• Yockey, Francis Parker
  • Imperium

Books / Literary Works

• Aquaman
• Bible, The
  • The World English Bible
• Biblical Prophecy
• The Eddas
• Fairy tales
• Genesis
• The Cloud of Unknowing
• The Devil's Own Work
• The Gospel of Thomas
• the Latin Mass
• the Seven Trumpets
• The Signs In The Stars
• Tibetan rNying.ma texts

Film / TV

• Curb Your Enthusiasm
• Hammer horror films
• Japanese, Korean, Thai and Chinese supernatural and fantasy films
• Looney Tunes cartoons

Musicians (Singers / Composers) / Bands

• AC and Blind Mamie Forehand
• Almond, Marc
• Baby Dee
• Balance, Jhonn
• Basinski, William
• Bee Gees, The
• Black Sabbath
• Blinko, Nick and Rudimentary Peni
• Blue Cheer
• Blue Öyster Cult, The
• Bolan, Marc and Tyrannosaurus Rex and T. Rex
• Bonnie 'Prince' Billy
• Bradshaw-Leather, Don
• Briggs, Anne
• Budgie
• Cashmore, Michael
• Chasny, Ben
• Clapton, Eric
• Comus
• Cooper, Alice
• Crass
• Cream
• Csihar, Attila
• Doyle, Arthur
• Electric Wizard
• ELP (Emerson, Lake and Palmer)
• Eno, Brian
• Fay, Bill
• Finn, Simon
• Galas, Diamanda
• GladHead
• Groundhogs, The
• Hawkwind
• Hush Arbors
• Jethro Tull
• Jobriath
• Johannsson, Johann
• Johnson, Blind Willie
• Judas Priest
• Keyrouz, Sister Marie
• King Crimson
• Larsen
• Lauper, Cyndi
• Lawes, William
• Leafhound
• Led Zeppelin
• Figueras, Montserrat
• Newsom, Joanna
• Nomi, Klaus
• O'Malley, Stephen
• Obouhov, Nikolai
• Nice, The
• Nurse With Wound
• Om (Al Cisneros and Chris Hakius)
• Patton, Charlie
• Pavlov's Dog
• Pérès, Marcel and Ensemble Organum
• Queen
• Ramases, Ram and Sel, Ram and Seleka, Ram and Selket
• Rush
• Posey, Sandy
• Collins, Shirley
• Silberbart
• Six Organs of Admittance
• Spector, Ronnie
• Stanchinsky, Alexei
• Stapleton, Steven
• Surkamp, David
• Trees Community, The
• Phillips, Washington
• Wilkes-Krier, Andrew Fetterly (Andrew W. K. )
• Wishbone Ash
• Yes
• Young, Neil

Music Styles

• Aeolian Harps
• Early Gospel / Guitar evangelists
• Massed guitar charge
• Plainchant
• Playground chants
• Russian Chant
• Sacred Harp singing
• Vulvaic Song

People

• Alexander, Edward
• Baker Eddy, Mary
• Boxer, Henry
• Bradburne, Blessed John
• Breeze, William
• Cox-Dorée, Geoff
• Crowley, Aleister
• d'Arch Smith, Timothy
• Degens, Andria
• Duvall, Clea
• Eccles, Lance
• Emmel, Professor Barbara
• Emmel, Professor Stephen
• Father and Mother
• Fatima
• Gilgamesh
• Hendry, Hamish
• His Holiness Chi.med Rig.'dzin Lama Rinpoche
• Hymenæus Beta
• Julian of Norwich
• Komitas
• Layton, Bentley
• Logan, Mark
• Newman, Cardinal
• Palumbo, Fabrizio Modonese
• Panin, Ivan
• Pope, The
• Queen of England
• (r)
• Schwester Benedicta Wallace OSB
• Scriabin, Alexander
• Shenoute/Shenouda
• Sister Benedicta
• Sri K. Pattabhi Jois
• Sri Subramaniam (Murugan) and his brother Vinayagar
• St. Eustace
• St. Paul
• St. Rita
• the Blessed Virgin Mary and Lord Jesus Christ GOD Her Son
• The Wandering Jew
• Wise, Anna
• Witherspoon, Reese

Language

• Anglo-Saxon
• Coptic (Sahidic especially)
• Koine Greek
• Middle English
• Shibboleths
• Tamil

Organizations

• Ashtanga Yoga
• Dr Strange
• Roman Catholicism

Belief

• Angels and Archangels
• Apocalypses
• Patripassianism
• Rapture, The

Places

• Batu Ferringhi
• England
• Malaysia

Animal, Vegetable or Mineral

• Animal
  • Cats
  • Deep-sea fish
  • Howling
  • Moon jellyfish
  • Moths
  • Seahorses
  • Slugs
  • Tortoises and turtles
• Vegetable
  • Ferns and lichens and moss
  • Trees
  • trees and forests
• Mineral
  • Constellations in all dimensions
  • High Tide
  • Moonstones and opals and jade
  • Mountain
  • The Sea
• Food
  • All organic foods
  • Nasi Lemak
  • Organic (green, jasmine and breakfast) tea
  • Organic shortbread biscuits
  • Pasta with garlic and olives

Miscellaneous

• Colour Me Rubber
• Face Ha! Lake
• Grendel
• Grrr and Warrr
• Hypnagogic imagery
• Killer Flower Coil
• Matrix and Matrices
• Muldrun Leafen
• Peachface
• PinkFace
• DeathFace
• Polar Sodom
• Shooting BLACK SHIPS out of the SKY with children's voices
• The Crack of the World
• Young Frug

David's music is also seldom heard... and a truly infinite source of inspiration.

I invite everyone to be not afraid to browse is his site and (almost) endless links.

Dead Live!

... NOT meaning literally, but... The Grateful Dead lives, indeed... and they're also playing and recorded live in Veneta, Oregon, on August 27th, 1972!

The Deads at their VERY best.

A Deadhead in my deepest and an avid Deads collector and scholar, owning whole discography and all  "Dick's Picks" and... and...

After my friend Reinhard's hint, I yesterday purchased the 4-discs (vinyls) on Rhino and... Holy Garcia!

It's amazing this group, almost a religion, I'd say;-) kept for its whole life, a variety and a never, ever boring character...

The classic tunes are always brand-new to the ears...

When this very morning I listened to side 6 "Dark Star", listened to so many, countless times... well, it was like an unheard tune, indeed... and Jerry Garcia's lead guitar is - sort-of - speaking with the voice of an humble pagan god, after some instrumental intro, his voice arrives, well...  I had a spontaneous ejaculation (...)

It's a gorgeous disc, pals.

Buy it... it's a limited-edition of 5.000 copies and... well, grab it before it's too late!

Ivy League Charity Naked Yoga...

... only for charity (sic!), or the best way to reach an higher respect for human body and the "other" sex?

Whenever I go naked, swimming or walking, while in Formentera or Stromboli's islands, I feel SO fine that it's almost painful being at the seaside in other places/beaches with swimming shorties, again!

That's what was said in the USA on the matter:

“It’s been incredible to learn that being naked is just fun!" Pacheco-Fores told the Daily Herald in September 2012. "Penises, vaginas, boobs, butts -- body parts that used to make me feel awkward and uncomfortable before now I just see as another part of another beautiful body."

Organizers told HuffPost in an email that last year's attendees were "extremely respectful, and we haven't had to worry much about our fellow students acting immature at these events."

Yes, folks... it's life school, it's not men peeping girls or viceversa, a machist approach, but affirming the "holy beauty" in ALL bodies, in Creation... it's learning from scratch, blaming over Church(es) dogmas of shyness and fear of sex, and enjoying life, sometimes naked - i.e. more sincere and unmasked... unfearful of the other sex... this newly reached confidence would avoid rapes and all related and a Renassance of better relationship between Men and Women!