A Midrash of the Jews of Yemen dating from the 13th century provides the following explanation for the mystery of the four-branched shin. There is one “head” for each of the following facets: cogitation, imagination, memory, and estimation.[ref]paraphrasing Midrash haBeur, translated in Yemenite Midrash: Philosophical Commentaries on the Torah, edited by Y. Tzvi Langermann, p. 242.[/ref] Additionally, the midrash provides the following astrological explanation for the three and the four branched shin appearing together on the tefillin shel rosh: together their seven heads make up the seven visible wandering stars (i.e., the planets), whose celestial powers in Jewish cosmology must have one root in the mind of G!d. . . . → Continue reading: All Streams, One Source: Shesha and the Mystery of the Four-headed Shin
Endreal — where the explicit message of a film is the antithesis of its implicit message. Perhaps even an unintended subversion. e.g., Ducky’s rejection in John Hughes’ PRETTY IN PRINK; Trinity’s perfect eyebrows outside of the perfect world of the Matrix. And really, endreal doesn’t just describe film: it applies to numerous populist political campaigns and revolutionary movements. Can you think of other examples? (My friend Holly Johnson invented this useful term in the late 1990s.) . . . → Continue reading: Endreal
In October 2008, my friend Will posted on his blog, A Journey Around My Skull, his discovery of a Japanese illustrator, Rokuro Taniuchi. The image of a looming figure on the horizon by Taniuchi reminded me very much of the cover art for a book I read in 5th grade titled Creatures . . . → Continue reading: To Stand on One Foot
In the film Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory (1971), after Willy Wonka (Gene Wilder) proudly describes that in his lickable wallpaper “The snozberries taste like snozberries!”, an exasperated Veruca Salt snidely objects, “Snozberries? Who ever heard of a snozberry?” Willy Wonka grabs her mouth and explains “We are the music makers, and We are . . . → Continue reading: We are the music makers
credit: George Steinmetz
Amplified Harmonic Resonance, Playlist for Monday morning, 2009-01-26, programmer: dj Magical Adventures of Duffy Moon, Mondays 7am-10:00am EST Year Artist Album Track Title 1979 Kitaro Oasis 7 Shimmering Horizon (Hikari To Kage) 1979 Kitaro Oasis 8 Fragrance Of Nature (Shizen No Kaori) 1979 Kitaro Oasis 9 Innocent People (Mujaki) 1979 . . . → Continue reading: Amplified Harmonic Resonance: Playlist for Monday morning, 2009-01-26
Amplified Harmonic Resonance, Playlist for Monday morning, 2009-01-19, programmer: dj Magical Adventures of Duffy Moon, 7am-10:30pm EST Year Artist Album Track Title 1993 Deeper than Space Earthrise 3 Earthrise 1957 Marcel Duchamp The Creative Act 1 The Creative Act (Houston, TX, April 1957) 1975 Franco Falsini Naso Fredo (Cold Nose) 1 Naso Fredo (Cold . . . → Continue reading: Amplified Harmonic Resonance: Playlist for Monday morning, 2009-01-19
Amplified Harmonic Resonance, Playlist for Monday morning, 2009-01-12, programmer: dj Magical Adventures of Duffy Moon, 7am-1pm EST Year Artist Album Track No. Title 1989 Philip Glass 1000 Airplanes on the Roof 1 1000 Airplanes on the Roof 1989 Philip Glass 1000 Airplanes on the Roof 2 City Walk 2007 Christopher DeLaurenti Favorite Intermissions 2 . . . → Continue reading: Amplified Harmonic Resonance: Playlist for Monday morning, 2009-01-12
Just a few notes on the film Defiance. My housemate and I caught a free screening courtesy of gofobo.com and the Ritz East. The film is based on the 1993 book by Nechama Tec, Defiance: The Bielski Partisans, and it is an excellent story told well. Had it been a fantasy written by Tolkien it . . . → Continue reading: Hobbits, Jews, and Romantics in the Woods
Amplified Harmonic Resonance, Playlist for Monday morning, 2009-01-05, programmer: dj Magical Adventures of Duffy Moon Year Artist Album Track No.
Title 1970 John Cale & Terry Riley Church Of Anthrax 1 Church of Anthrax 1970 John Cale & Terry Riley Church Of Anthrax 2 The Hall of Mirrors in the Palace at Versailles . . . → Continue reading: Amplified Harmonic Resonance: Playlist for Monday morning, 2009-01-05
Tune your legacy radio sets and etherwave monitors to 91.7 on the FM spectrum Monday mornings 7am-10am EST for the next few months and you will once again hear dj Magical Adventures of Duffy Moon (alter ego of dj spaceling) presenting your breakfast and commuting audioscape in typical wonderful entheogenic fashion.
(Also available via streamin’ . . . → Continue reading: Amplified Harmonic Resonance on WKDU 91.7FM
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