Xylonets

Studio - West Coast

Jason King — Fri, 24 Aug 2007 15:32:38 +0000

There’s something definitely old school about this offering. I’d compare it to early Cure, New Order/Joy Division, even I hate to say Duran Duran. Don’t shoot, it’s only me.

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Daedalus - Denies the Day’s Demise

Jason King — Fri, 24 Aug 2007 15:26:15 +0000

I’ve always been a fan of the kind of music that defies simple classification. In Denies the Day’s Demise, Daedalus cooks to perfection a rarebit mix of jazzy samples from day’s gone by with a decidedly contemporary electo trip-hop collection of beats and sounds.

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Harakiri

Jason King — Fri, 24 Aug 2007 15:19:50 +0000

Tatsuya Nakadai stars in this austere 17th century samurai drama directed by Masaki Kobayashi. A period of peace reigns in the early Tokugawa Shogunate. Many established samurai houses are eradicated leaving thousands of unemployed samurai roaming the cities looking for work with surviving clans. Some ronin looking to gain either position or a quick handout start showing up at the noble houses asking for permission to commit harakiri on the houses’s premises. What follows is literally gut-wrenching as Kobayashi and Nakadai move the dismal narrative along one frame at a time. I highly recommend this film.

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You Can Tell Who Holds the Camera in the Family

Jason King — Mon, 06 Aug 2007 05:24:53 +0000

At the airport in Orlando in July.

A Funny Thought

Jason King — Sat, 04 Aug 2007 16:50:10 +0000

A somewhat comical vision/thought entered my noggin the other day. “Trying to escape the dark barnyard of the soul.” What does the barnyard signify and why is it dark and why is it related to the soul and where does one go when and if one does indeed escape it? These are the questions that plague me.

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Bhagavad Gita - Tr. Eknath Easwaran

Jason King — Thu, 02 Aug 2007 18:01:43 +0000

Love the Gita. Easwaran brings an excellent introduction and commentary to this essential piece of global heritage and enlightement.

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Ulysses - James Joyce

Jason King — Thu, 02 Aug 2007 17:56:39 +0000

Cracked Ulysses open again recently. I find it an excellent meditational aid. Just relax, concentrate, and forget your everyday for a little slice of time.

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Boris - Amplifier Worship

Jason King — Thu, 02 Aug 2007 17:49:36 +0000

Boris is droning japanese guitar instrumentation. Sort of like sonic acupuncture with knitting needles.

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Naked Lunch

Jason King — Thu, 02 Aug 2007 17:41:42 +0000

Peter Weller is an all too believable William Burroughs in this ridiculously cool interpretation by David Cronenberg. Anyone for a taste of the true black meat; the flesh of the giant, aquatic, Brazilian centipede?
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Dove = Holy Ghost = Sophia?

Jason King — Wed, 01 Aug 2007 04:40:44 +0000

Reading one of Jung’s essays on the unconscious, I came across a peculiar reference to the effect that in very early Christian mythos the dove was a symbol of the holy ghost and also at times called Sophia. Was Sophia the Holy Ghost or what?