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Rest in Peace, Brian Wilson

Posted on June 12, 2025June 12, 2025 by tundranaut

Rest in peace, Brian Wilson. Here’s Ted Gioia describing Wilson in a post called “My 12 Favorite Existential Songs.” Brian Wilson: “Caroline, No” Here’s another angst-ridden “how did I get here” kind of song. Brian Wilson lived in a persistent state of existential crisis when he composed “Caroline, No.” He was the young Kierkegaard of…

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LINKS: Psychedelic Espionage; Context-Bound Agents; and Art as the Axis of Meaningful Identity & Spiritual Transcendence

Posted on May 8, 2025May 8, 2025 by tundranaut

End of the World: “[Master of Kung Fu] is a completely bonkers series of psychedelic espionage stories, starring Shang-chi, the titular hero, who travels the world fighting diabolical villains on secret islands and in sinister HQs, while also meeting beautiful women and waxing philosophical about violence. The three issue run featuring Razorfist, above, is especially…

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DISASTROUS AMATEURISM

Posted on April 24, 2025April 24, 2025 by tundranaut

I had Grok collate my updated draft notes for a screenplay/novel hybrid that I’m creating called Disastrous Amateurism. And the Grok synthesis is really fascinating to me. It didn’t change the tone or direction of anything but helped to sharpen my conception of everything. I’ve shared it below, largely unedited save for the addition of…

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LINKS: Vital Hatred; the Open Road; Primal Despotism

Posted on March 25, 2025 by tundranaut

A Modest Defense of Hatred: “Where man is denied hatred, and he lacks any objective referent of meaning, he sinks into a lobotomized stupor. In such an age, the alternative to a vital hatred is the Last Man. It is in Nietzsche’s forecast of the logical consequences of nihilism where we see something remarkable—that the…

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LINKS: Killing Those Who Would Convict Them of Their Sins; Deep Heuristics; the Values of God

Posted on February 10, 2025February 10, 2025 by tundranaut

Against Christian Civilization: Paul Kingsnorth critiques the idea of using Christianity as a tool to defend Western culture, arguing that Christianity at its core is uncivilized. Christianity is impractical. Impractical, intolerable, and awful, in the original sense of that word. It is terrifying, and it is designed to kill you. This is because the values of…

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LINKS: Heat/Light/Deluge; Places of Peril; the Secular Ineradicability of Evil

Posted on January 27, 2025January 27, 2025 by tundranaut

Britain Must Go: “There is no justification for continuing to let this regime breathe. The United States has the means, and the duty, to end it, and a motive for doing so. The endpoint of the UK’s current trajectory is a nuclear-armed jihadi state in the heart of the American Atlantic lake. This outcome must…

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Twin Peaks: Trapped in an Incomplete Cosmos

Posted on January 25, 2025January 26, 2025 by tundranaut

cross-posted at Void Wandering My first awareness of David Lynch came via Dune and The Elephant Man in the early 80s, followed by random exposure to Blue Velvet on a premium cable channel sometime in 1987, when I was 14. By then, Altered States and other phantasmagoria had me primed to receive Lynchworld without too much shock. My true Lynchian flashpoint was Twin Peaks, which blew the…

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David Lynch: 1946-2025

Posted on January 18, 2025January 18, 2025 by tundranaut

There’s a treasure trove of David Lynch film reviews at Unz.com, most of which are written by Trevor Lynch (no relation to David that I’m aware of). Some excerpts below. Death My Bride: “Lynch ends [Lost Highway] as he begins it: rocketing down a nighttime highway to Bowie’s ‘I’m Deranged.’ But by ending and beginning…

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Remembering Michael Murray

Posted on January 10, 2025January 10, 2025 by tundranaut

Before we get too deep into 2025, I’d like to take a moment to remember a dear friend of this blog, Michael Murray, the publisher of the literature and art website Galaxy Brain. Michael passed away in 2024, which shocked me — I had no idea he was ill. I only knew him through Twitter,…

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2024 in Review

Posted on January 2, 2025January 4, 2025 by tundranaut

2024 IN REVIEW What a year — I bounced all around, from the base of the Bighorn Mountains in Wyoming to a village in the Andes to Houston, Texas to consort with falconers, Trumpists, Ecuadorian farmers, pilots, poets, and cowboys. January set the tone. As I set off for Wyoming, I watched an arc flash…

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LINKS: Safeguarding Oblivion; the Permission Structure Machine; Communion on the Moon

Posted on December 31, 2024December 31, 2024 by tundranaut

On the Grid — How Surveillance Became a Love Language: “…true privacy requires safeguarding oblivion, not secrets.” Rapid Onset Political Enlightenment: “The wizards of the permission structure machine had become captives of the machinery that they built. Bullying large numbers of people into faddish hyperconformity by controlling the machinery of social approval may require both…

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LINKS: the Heart of a Collapsed Star; Hurricanes in Human Form; Friends Who Turn Their Backs on the World

Posted on December 11, 2024December 11, 2024 by tundranaut

American Return: “Americans said they want a nation. And not just any nation—the one we’ve always had. The metanoic model for transformation—embodied by Obama’s ‘fundamental transformation’—was unmistakably relegated to the dustbin of history.” Building Freedom Cities: “Some potential locations for a Freedom City might include Presidio National Park, Lowry Range in Colorado, and Guantanamo Bay, Cuba….

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