Tuesday, December 7, 2010

The Invisibles by Grant Morrison

There was a long period in my life where I had given up on the comic book format yet still garnered a strong love for speculative/ultra-imaginative literature. A friend of mine, James, was working at Whole Foods as a cashier and James quickly became someone I knew I could talk to about great reading. He was shocked at my almost comic book illiterate lifestyle and quickly told me to read anything I can get my hands on by either Alan Moore or Grant Morrison. I will speak about Mr Moore in some other post but this one is about my first encounter with Mr Morrison's unique and untouchable series, The Invisibles. I proceeded to order the first volume published by DC's Vertigo and having been a little about it by James, knew that this was going to be up in my alley way, all the way!

There are hints and huge chunks of everything I love about life in this. Esoteric occult thinking, science fiction, beautiful artwork, fantasy. These books will sing to you they are so alive! I will not go into a synopsis but my main point is that after having devoured all of the volumes these wonderful BOOKS are compiled into, I was a firm believer again in the comic book medium and will remain with this stance. Here are some fucking LINKS!

if you have the money and the time, you will want to own these.....pure BRILLIANCE!
some art from the books:
and Mr Grant Morrison himself:
listen to what he has to say about reality:

Hope this will change your life for the better, or worse...



love,


Akkad the Orphic Priest

777

Wednesday, November 24, 2010

I love music, so I make it


There are some original pieces up and some music mixes that I have put together.


Love you all,


Akkad the Orphic Priest

777

Tuesday, November 23, 2010

Kubrick and 2001: A Space Odyssey

When people ask me what my favourite film is I have a conditioned response, which is 2001. I love many films but this one has indeed affected my life the greatest, in the ways I think, what I love about art and life. After having seen the film numerous times I decided to read the novelization of the script, which was written both by Kubrick and Clarke with the novel being written only by Arthur C Clarke, one of the most amazing writers and thinkers of my generation and the one before it. The novel explained the film in a way I don't think I would have ever understood if I had watched the film many more times over without reading the book. It made the film more alive for me. It explained the monolith and its role in the film. The ending which is a mystery to most but not as much so if you read the novel.

here is a quote from Stanley Kubrick on the deeper meaning within the film:

"The God concept is at the heart of this film. It's unavoidable that it would be, once you believe that the universe is seething with advanced forms of intelligent life. Just think about it for a moment. There are a hundred billion stars in the galaxy and a hundred billion galaxies in the visible universe. Each star is a sun, like our own, probably with planets around them. The evolution of life, it is widely believed, comes as an inevitable consequence of a certain amount of time on a planet in a stable orbit which is not too hot or too cold. First comes chemical evolution -- chance rearrangements of basic matter, then biological evolution.

Think of the kind of life that may have evolved on those planets over the millennia, and think, too, what relatively giant technological strides man has made on earth in the six thousand years of his recorded civilization -- a period that is less than a single grain of sand in the cosmic hourglass. At a time when man's distant evolutionary ancestors were just crawling out of the primordial ooze, there must have been civilizations in the universe sending out their starships to explore the farthest reaches of the cosmos and conquering all the secrets of nature. Such cosmic intelligences, growing in knowledge over the aeons, would be as far removed from man as we are from the ants. They could be in instantaneous telepathic communication throughout the universe; they might have achieved total mastery over matter so that they can telekinetically transport themselves instantly across billions of light years of space; in their ultimate form they might shed the corporeal shell entirely and exist as a disembodied immortal consciousness throughout the universe.

Once you begin discussing such possibilities, you realize that the religious implications are inevitable, because all the essential attributes of such extraterrestrial intelligences are the attributes we give to God. What we're really dealing with here is, in fact, a scientific definition of God. And if these beings of pure intelligence ever did intervene in the affairs of man, so far removed would their powers be from our own understanding. How would a sentient ant view the foot that crushes his anthill -- as the action of another being on a higher evolutionary scale than itself? Or as the divinely terrible intercession of God?"

So the monolith is essentially a calling card belonging to a highly evolved species that is just checkin in on the whole universe to see what is going on everywhere. Amazing film, wonderful story. 

Stanley Kubrick. 

Enough said. 


Not really but that is all I am saying for now.


777

Monday, November 22, 2010

Parasol Productions

an affiliate label of the awesome new essential electronic music machine, Karakasa Music http://karakasamusic.blogspot.com/ , Parasol Productions has been formed to be used for dj mixes has released one of mine as their first. I feel so honored. This mix is hot. CHECK IT! http://www.archive.org/details/AkkadTheOrphicPriestMusicToKeepTheRainOutYerEyesMix

Thanks to H. P. Sneakstep and the gang! 


Love always,

93

Akkad the Orphic Priest

777

Sunday, November 21, 2010

IDM

A strange genre of music that seems to have a tagged name but has been one of the most difficult music genres to categorize. The acronym unofficially stands for Intelligent Dance Music. I have been supporting 'It Doesn't Matter' to be the words used in the acronym ever since my friend Calvin suggested it to me years ago. Seems more appropriate since most of the musicians don't play by any rules and all sound unique with few derivations, the good ones at least. They mostly make electronic music, use sound samples, sometimes making whole albums out of found sound. Ambient soundscapes permeate a lot of the music within the genre, as do intricate melodies. Perhaps most of all there are extremely well programmed/sequenced drum patterns that boggle the mind and sometimes flat out don't make sense to our Bach-influenced, Western music infused culture. And sometimes there are no drum patterns.

Classical Indian music and jazz come to mind as counter parts for this genre, but any rules for IDM musicians are usually made up by the creator of the piece. Usually no rules are followed, aligning it with some of the early experimental composers like Schoenberg http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arnold_Schoenberg, Xenakis, John Cage, Stockhausen http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/15/St._im_Garten_Mai_2005_RGB.jpg, and many other men and women making electronic/compositional music that didn't follow the same compositional rules like most of their predecessors did.

With the cultural changes that took place in the mid to late 1960's, came a new wave of music with long lasting tangible effects. Morton Subotnick, Terry Riley, Steve Reich, Delia Derbyshire, Stockhausen, Can, Cluster, Kraftwerk, Brian Eno, Mort Garson, and many more laid the ground work for what has become a world wide phenomenon that still seems to be underrated even after years of being talked about in magazines, on message boards, in blogs, and on phones/people speaking at each. I want everyone to share the love I have for this music and hope that the musicians working their asses off do get the recognition they deserve, after many years in a dull light, obscured by non-recognition within the pop music industry game, and the lack of patience in the modern city dwelling human. Here is to patience and the understanding of aesthetic value.

I didn't really even scratch the surface there so here is a list of some of my favourite musicians in this genre:
Aphex Twin
Autechre
Arovane
Squarepusher
Boards of Canada
µZiq
Jega
Freeform
Phoenecia
Proem
Two Lone Swordsmen
Plaid
Aleksi Perälä
Lackluster
Isan
Michael Fakesch
Team Doyobi

and many many more....

here is a list I made on youtube of great IDM tracks: http://www.youtube.com/user/Atop77#grid/user/94D8D8BC4737EC23

music is a large part of my life, I used to say it was my whole life but I was younger when I said that....thanks for reading.

As a hobby I make mixed sets of music, in many different genres and here is my mix of various IDM tunes that make me feel the tingles.........  http://soundcloud.com/atop/atop-idm-mix-set


777

Poetry 1


Totalitarian Thought Regime 

 

History has its mythos, 

Mystery has its pathos, 

Society has its ethos, 

We have gone..............

 

American Policy Leftovers 

Rome never held a flame to what the mighty eagle accomplishes,
The talons that rip, the atomic fire that burns, the birth of universes through techno-illogical devancements......
The humans live at no expense large enough...
No cost great enough.....
no Costco big enough.........
While the mother knows all, sees all, feels all and retaliates while most of the humans live blindly.......
frivolously.....
vicariously through a viral nature...
Babylon wasn't big enough, the oceans aren't dirty enough, the hydrogen bomb isn't devastating, ENOUGH!
So the armpit of the world will be flattened by the most beautiful shape known to the mind,
the spiral......
All of the armpit's rich elitist pig oil money, all of its industry and all of its poverty.....
is to be drowned by a spiral.....
The mother knows......
she is angry,
so sit back,
relax,
get fat,
watch the 18 wheelers go floating by.....
Like clouds is a cesspool sky........
The eagle has landed and broken its wing......
Now the archangels and demons together shall sing...........


Giant Faces in the Sun


The Time straightens a curve, taking on the visage of a naked snake, trans-versing time reality tunnels, we all look to the sun for answers and receive one reply, whilst begging for everything and taking nothing, learned travelers take time to stretch, pulling taffy time to a nil, stall, stop, energy equals matter speed of light squared, it can be neither created nor destroyed, is infinitude, circle beats the square...........

Intelligent Terrain


Growing by Day and Night,
Year after year,
Making a sound,
a collective sound,
a sound we
have known
for so very long ,
who of us can remember
when it all started,
a beautiful sound,
aurally unbound,
always changing,
not founded in
human logic,
no theory...........

we are numb to it,
will someday be deaf because of it,
as it washes over all of us,
a place from Isis' womb...........

the first beings made
a plan set by older ones,
her that we call mother,
regulate us..........

the ones with bodies..........
the slow inevitable
over-saturation of sound.
over many millennium,
changed to giants,

of the earth
eating the soil
slowly.........

now the only sound,
killing our ears,
making us all useless
as we have always been
to the cicada...........




Death Defiance



The ancient ones’ minions look over at us all from the hill,
their master had been alive for far too long now,
they dreamt of his death every night,
feeling as if they had always been on trial and lied to,
told that there is nothing here on earth for them
except death and violence and solitude, by this supposed,
according to him, creator of all that is terrifying and dark about reality...

His plan had always been:

the humans must die, and by their own hands,
as it would seem to them, being misled since humanity’s
first days by my followers, illusions bled onto the mind, that
we all share, by these beings of darkness, led to believe in nothing,
and that death is the last thing.......

His plans have been chiseled into the essence of all who have followed
him since his beginning, they die and more come to take their place,
to keep our minds from the thought of space, and all that could be,
but simply on all the finality, here and now is the time for their final gift
to bestow upon our seemingly small purposes .........

Thinking they are our friends, that they are helping us,
the evil one ushers in a new kind of death for us,
one he feels is more permanent than the natural illusion set before us,
By imprisoning or destroying our minds, we will forever be grateful,
for all this faith that they feel has been blinding us to the cold hard facts
will be eradicated for good, and no more silly thoughts on progression,
the after life, and all the great art we have created and all of the brilliant
books we have written be burnt black....

The big death, the end is here, and a pleased but still unhappy leader
sits upon his throne on the hill, thinking his plan will be the final blow to our
silly ideas, that threatening thought that this is not all there is,
that there is more, and that death is not final.....

He stands proud as he stares into the mushroom cloud,
as his followers melt away into the hill he stands on
and his wings spread out wide, He roars with laughter,
and then the immense joy fades from his thoughts......

now after all these years,
after all of the tears he had bathed in,
after having gathered as many followers on earth as he could,
he was truly alone now, and would be so for all eternity,
for the followers he killed were us as well,
now he was left to never know if he was right, if this was the end,
because for as long as he had been around,
which had been far too long by now,
he had never thought to ask and
had completely forgotten where he came from..........

and there was no one left to ask

and no one left to tell him........

and he dare not ask the earth because all it would do is lie to him.......

she always does.......

or so he believed......


Moon Flowers


The Moon Flowers are here,
Sirius' light making them grow,
The eye in my mind,
Showing me things never to be shown.......

Flying over the abyss,
wings spread out wide,
An immaculate rainbow bridge
taking me to the other side......

The time is near
for all time to disappear,
We walk run and fly,
holding on to what is dear.........

The hawk and dog gods converse,
about times' place in our lives,
they decide to alleviate us
of all that time implies........

Moving through the mist,
Living out a circular path,
The calling of the gods
will forever continue to exist........

As time dies, and the memory lives on,
We who have been chosen,
stay around for the new dawn.......

and always hear a new song.......


lifes' passionate suckle


the homeless shining, telling people the truth,
smiling trying lives of unattached happiness,
what is needed if you are being human?
give what you can and take what was never yours,
this is not new, nor is it news, we hit the snooze,
all the cell phones are dying,
white healing light of love comes through
your driver side window,
as your tie ties you up, chokes you to death,
and as your lies fly you down, to a bottomless depth,
with a side order of fire............


2011


sun-filled super-consciousness,
glass domes and men with no homes,
poisonous ants, faster growing trees,
the earth on fire with naught left but her stones,
ice creeping down, oceans turned to foam.......


the planets and stars effect us more while we see them
in the skies, shining brightly, their gravity affecting egos slightly,
digging the hole deeper, pulling the soil in over the sleeper,
eventually getting to the bottom and finding new ground,
standing firmly and giving into the sound
of the universes’ rhythmic beat and timbre,
spectral tones, a sky of amber.......


a disaster survived by few,
left to mutate and become anew,
with time-tunnel technology,
and gravitational control,
and eradicated diseases,
a deeper understanding of the soul,
a simpler existence for all species,
an opinion agreed upon by all,
sun-filled super-consciousness
feeding the abysmal sub-consciousness,
bleeding into self-consciousness,
and a return to ancient form...........

we all await a new kind of storm.........


Billy Butter


Nighttime figures sweeping through and around the exterior of my mind, taking charge, and burning batteries, everlasting street fighter returning the favor by bleeding red, hold your head up high to see the blinding light beaming down on you from the entrance of the rabbit hole, digging deep to see oh how they run, leopards eating your young, winded old people running marathons, changing diapers, chocolate filled bananaz, look at your friend's faces, the light comes down, the light is a ball, Lucy finds her way through the quagmire of thoughts and disillusionment, but her eyes are still filled with diamonds, battered french fries taste better than battered wife syndrome, fear tastes like vanilla, words are something that people think are meaningful when they are really rainbows molested by gods, all of them, fill your heart with joy, time is the beast, use him wisely, and eat less or you will become what you fear the most, a fat ass, in leotards, love yourself but don't give a shit about your apples, you took the time, you took the chance, now it's time to dance, fleece licker!

my funny feral child


the patterns that lie beneath the skin of our world(perception, life, material things), changes and grows and wilts at the beat of a master's clock, this master being the one who created the human mind, making us just like him, BLIND! BUT the patterns that do exist, just underneath the surface of our existence, can be felt, seen, understood, and even manipulated(or as it seems to us, some would say hallucinations, others more accurately name it psychic abilities)...............

I make music, this has been my religion, dogma, way of life for a long while now and I consider it to be what I am and why I am alive, to create it, to be sublime in it, and to let it change my mind into one that is more in alignment with the path that has been chosen for me......

by letting go of all of our attachments, just for an hour or two, we can see what our path is, but to let go, oh how hard that can be! Music has allowed me to open up opportunities for higher states of consciousness, in myself, due to it's unique qualities.................

7 octaves......

7 different frequencies of vibrating whatever(strings, air, people)....

me playing and practicing for hours without a teacher, just all by  my lonesome, recording, playing with other people who would become my most cherished of friends and others..........

the key is through that state at which you are not thinking and just acting, playing the music without really thinking about it(free jazz, any sort of improvised music), changes a person, makes them a little more connected to the source beyond the blind one IHVH(Ialdaboath, Samael, Yahweh).......

because we do have other beings that help us and are a part of us, helped in the creation of us, we were mutts in the beginning......

then became pure breeds, and now we are mutts again....

the noontide has risen........

the god View


there is a god who goes by the name of View, as all of you must know,
he is about as old as we are and his plan when we were made was

to see all and everything we do...............

we were also to be his eyes, mankind is what he now sees through, so he can
experience the beauty in every single emotion ever felt by you...............

this all could be false, which you are inclined to believe, but who's to say,
if it is or isn't true, that there exists a god named View.....................


chamber of light and secret orchestral favorites


the details enslave you, walking into the darkness,
blind leaps through and into woods so deep,
freedom fails and you're left with dead ideals, stacked oh so high, as far as the eye can see, irrelevant catastrophe, disaster, what does your life seem to be, while kneeling and preying for an answer to come while believing it to be already there, take all your irrational dogmatics and cut them away, go out and enjoy all of this life, a gift with which to mold like clay,
into anything you could ever imagine, visions of voices, coming from within and without, a life filled with magic it is, of this, I have no doubt...............


view interior shadow of Wiltshire pastures


the light, oh the light, bleeding through,
onto our body, as they are wielded like
antennae held by more than one can study,
life leading you as you want to lead it,
with devastating scars from moving against
the current you have been assigned to travel,
the sword shone within the skull, splitting sight,
touch, taste, and smell, while all you have
and all you feared, are cut and destroyed,
without tears................


all written by Akkad the Orphic Priest

Saturday, November 20, 2010

My brother is a photographer and a damn good one at that!


Here is his work.

I am very proud of him for choosing such a field to make a living in. We all need to look within ourselves and photography helps to do this by us looking at ourselves and at our amazing world. Sometimes we even need to look at some crazy abstract nonsense we find to be appealing and can't put words to. The picture says what needs to be said.

I love him and his family very much.

Such a noble art form shall provide a positive and true foundation for their future.


Creativity shall always prevail.

Nietzsche and Creativity


"In 'On Truth and Lies', when Nietzsche writes that the fundamental human drive is to create metaphors, this means that the drive is an artistic one. This drive is so strong that people will write on walls to fulfill an inherent need to create something."

quoted from a good friend and philosopher....


This is a very important topic for myself. My life has ultimately consisted of one creative  venture after another, seeking to find what I think is my art form, to do for the rest of my life and never tire of. After reading 'Thus Spoke Zarathustra' by Nietzsche my answer was no nearer to being found but one huge idea was formed in my mind from the massive amount of inferences and inspiration that can come from this work: that all humans are here to create. Either creating more of ourselves through sex or carving our names into a wooden desk, this seems to be our purpose as a species. 

Recently I was watching Style Wars, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Style_Wars for the first time and not the last and thought about how the artists in this film were so hungry to create that they resorted to painting and drawing and scrawling their names anywhere they could. That in a city where there is so much built up flat surfaces and other objects to create pieces of art on, how could a person not be expected to fill in these blank 'canvasses' with something they think to be beautiful and necessary? Instead of it being vandalism, I see it as a purely human non-violent endeavour. One that we should all be expected to explore in our lives, no  matter what kind of artistic medium we choose.

Be it graffiti  or sewing, the creative spirit within the human race seems to trump all other activity and the future of our species depends on how this creativity is explored. Will it be for the greater good? Or the destruction of the earth? Or both? Time will tell. I am going to keep on looking, experimenting, trying to find what I love most to manifest with my hands, mind, and never ending lust for what sounds, looks, and/or tastes the best to me. And then share it with all of you to  see if I was right.


here are some people and things that I really think are super cool

Horus Nuit Ra-Hoor-Khuit Hadit Maat Cthulu Afx Björk Squarepusher John Cage Sun Ra Boards of Canada Cevin Key Pthalocyanine Wendy Carlos Mogwai Aleister Crowley Madame Blavatsky Gurdjieff Steiner Thoth Mastadon Tim Exile Richard Devine Proem Loess Cygnus Loafeye Venetian Snares Brian Ellis wordsalad Nautilis Funkstorung Pole µZiq Luke Vibert Plaid Pan Last Step Arthur Russell Moondog Hellboy The Invisibles Alan Moore OM High On Fire Nile Robert Anton Wilson Frank Zappa The Residents Arovane DJ Sexidillionaire Metamatics Matthewmatics Jake Mandell Seely Stereolab The Cure Brian Eno King Crimson NWA Malcom Kipe Helios Proswell Freeform Team Doyobi Autechre North Manchester Bedroom Allstars Tatamax Quinoline Yellow Another Electronic Musician Xyn Subtractivlad Springintgut William S Burroughs Brion Gysin Max Ernst Matta Yves Tanguy Eliphas Levi Israel Regardie George MacDonald H P Lovecraft James Branch Cabell Arthur Machen Algernon Blackwood David Lynch Stanley Kubrick Andrei Tarkovsky Hayao Miyazaki Guillermo Del Toro Chris Cunningham Alex Rutterford Lord Dunsany Philip K Dick William Blake David Lindsay James Stephens James Joyce George William Russell (AE) Nine Inch Nails Primus Tool Skream Benga Loefah Mala Coki Toasty Mordant Music Shackleton Cluekid Vex'd Distance Pinch Milanese Clark Kromestar Omen Random Trio Scorn Burial Boxcutter Breakage Equinox Kieran Hebden Black Moth Super Rainbow Mundo Parson Michael Fakesch Ravi Shankar Orpheus

more to come....


Akkad the Orphic Priest

P.A.R.A.

Great music from a true magician!

thanks  to Matthew for showing me her work.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3BcHwQMq4os

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5bVSiSvHz-c

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8jOqKwpk-Ak

here is her youtube page: http://www.youtube.com/user/labannably#p/a


93ENJOY777









NEON

A way of life, a picture within a frame that is broken, your face plastered on billboards, lights streaking passed your mind frame, the rhythmic city, creative impulses pulsating, I give you Travel Through Tourist.

http://percussionlab.com/sets/atop/travel_through_tourist_neon_set

WHY IS THERE A SEAL ON THIS???

Friday, November 19, 2010

New film by Duncan Jones of 'Moon'/being David Bowie's son fame


Looks interesting.

SOURCECODE!

Of Matters Renewed

Hello. This should prove to be the first of many posts by myself and I hope that all of the things about this world that I love so much, can be some of the same subjects as yours.

Now here are three archetypal manifestations that I love......

film
Witchery samples of the film Stigmata starring Patricia Arquette. She is pretty. That film was not until Mater Suspiria Vision got a hold of it
music
A new dj set of mine featuring music that I have helped to create
art
A. Beardsley

with love and compassion,


93


Akkad the Orphic Priest


777