I came across this today while trolling the Fortean Times for anomalies. You have to click on the pic to read the captions, but the gist is this. The picture on the left is a mouse neuron. The pic on the right is the universe. Thrice Great Hermes (Adam Kadmon to his cronies) may have been right.
Jay Guru Deva, Om.
Nothing’s gonna change my world.
OR
I Married Isis On The Fifth Day Of May (But I Could Not Hold On To Her Very Long!)
I’m working on some old old stuff. The elephant in the room. God Is With Us, but he isn’t. My bonne lies over the ocean. I’m on an Odyssey of sorts, but I’m looking for Telemachus, my prodigal. It’s a long way down, for sure, and the room, although much larger is all the darker. Wish me luck. Here there be Dragons.
I look out the window but I can’t see the sky.
It’s a good thing. Needed to happen ages ago. I should have gone solar instead of postal. I chose poorly. Time to stop running.
I’ll be your Tarzan, You’ll be my Jane
I’ll keep you warm, and you’ll keep me sane.
This little piece about Jimmy Page’s collection and passion for Pre-Rafaelite Art was found while researching the article about the Templar Tomb. It is an interesting aside that Mr. Page is quite the Magus. 
Anyway, check it out. It’s from The Earthy Paradise.
It turns out that gifted Led Zeppelin guitarist Jimmy Page has a thing for Pre-Raphaelite art! I read the news on Pre-Raphaelite Sisterhood yesterday and decided to do some more research into Jimmy Page’s art collection.
I can’t say that I’m that surprised…if you’ve ever listened to Led Zeppelin’s music, you’ve probably noticed that the band was heavily inspired by Medieval/fantasy themes. Lead singer Robert Plant’s favorite book was the Lord of the Rings and it’s evident in their music. A number of their songs reference material from Lord of the Rings, including “Over the Hills and Far Away,” “Misty Mountain Hop,” “Battle of Evermore,” and “Ramble On”, with “Ramble On” being the most explicit.
Jimmy Page has stepped beyond admiration for the medieval and has become an avid collector of Pre-Raphaelite art (including at least one painting by Dante Gabriel Rossetti). All of this has come into the news in the last couple of days as Page plans to auction one of the tapestries in his collection at Sothebys–the final scene from Edward Burne Jones’ Holy Grail Tapestry (pictured above).
The piece is expected to fetch around $2 million at auction. It was originally designed by Sir Edward Burne-Jones and woven by Morris and Company’s tapestry weavers. It took three weavers a full two years to complete. **edit**I guess it depends on who you ask. The New York Times reports that the 24 foot wide tapestry actually took eight men two years.
According to Page’s art dealer-to-the-stars, Paul Reeves, (who has many hats, it appears–he also designed clothing for the Rolling Stones and Beatles, but has been a full time art dealer since 1976) Page is forced to sell because the wood panels on his Thames Mansion are too weak to support the tapestry. It seems more likely that he is in financial trouble, since he also plans to sell a gigantic set of Arthurian round table and chairs, and two sideboards at the same auction.
Well, everyone has an Achilles Heel, and mine is the stupid Rennes le Chateau, Templar, Magdeline bullshit. It wasn’t the tepid, Nescafé DaVinci Code that piqued my interest. Thank God I can say I was a good fifteen years before that. ‘Twas Robert Anton Wilson, how I miss him. He mentioned the Priory Of Sion (the inspiration for Robert Plant’s off duty cover band, the Priory Of Brion), and the Magdalene angle, and the whole bloodline deal. It would be super cool neato, but… come on. Does that mean that there isn’t something else super cool in the ground? Nope. I think it’s cool, and if I were a rich old coot, I’d sink all my money in an expedition to dig dig dig. Click the link to see the coolness.
There are cool things everywhere, and I must say that holograms are one of those cool things (at least to me). I’m not talking about the holograms on your VISA card, or license. I’m talking about free standing, volume occupying, “Help me Obi-Wan Kenobi. You’re my only hope.” holographic projections. Now… it goes one step further. Holograms that respond to your gestures. The makers of this tech freely admit that did it totally for the fuck of it (proof of concept in tech speak). It’s cool.
Interactive Real Size Hologram from Nicolas Loeillot on Vimeo.
You probably know by now that I have a fondness for the Zep. I also have an extreme fascination with bootlegs, and illicit recordings, of any nature. I love it that almost every show performed by my favorite band has at least some sort of document it. This little gem is great, because it consists of two separate media, and recorders, spliced into a seamless whole. Apparently the band themselves oversaw/approved this little video. It is from LA 3/25/75, and it is a super 8mm film of the boys performing Over The Hills And Far Away. The film was shot from the front row, or even the security pit, and since Peter Grant is shown grinding the filmer into a fine powder, one must assume that the filmer had the ok of the band. Thus, the footage is of excellent quality, with Jimmy in frame throughout. Yay.
The audio is from the excellent stealth recording made by the legendary Mike “The Mic” Millard. He was a taper who used a wheelchair to get moved up to the front and center of almost every LA show, in the 70’s. He built high end microphones into the chair, and had a battery pack, and a top end Nakamichi tape deck built under the seat. There wasn’t handicapped seating back then, so all the gimps got slid up front and center, just like at a Benny Hinn revival. His work is so good, it’s Zep used it as the menu music for their DVD set. It’s the Song Remains The Same. That song is from Mike, and was taped on (if memory serves it was 6/21/77). Legitimacy.
So, Mike the Mic was able to get stunning quality with his rig. Great stereo separation, and a clarity unrivaled in the non Grateful Dead taping world. The guy’s a legend. So, the Zep camp used this great silent footage and great audio (all low generation or master) to make this wonderful little video of a song from 33 years ago (also known as one Jesus). The song is great, the performance is great (ignore Robert Plant. I have for 20 years), and the fact that it’s reconstructed from two different illicit sources… is priceless. The underground is so alive. As Tom Waits sang, “There’s a world going on underground.”
I really like OK Computer, and Kid A, but so does everyone. I have quite a few lives shows of theirs, and … I like the OK Computer and Kid A stuff. I try, but… I guess I’m just too white. It’s like liking CSI, LOST or any other piece of shit mind leech show (unlike the shows I like)….
I guess I have to admit defeat. I always want to appear current w/ the stupid noise the kids call “music” these days, but… I hate it. I like what I like, and getting me to give something new a try is like blowing up the Death Star. You need skill, grace, and the help of the enlightened dead.
“We aren’t just businessmen, but guardians of the human spirit.”
Watch the video here.
I am listening to an “unreleased” audiophile copy of Abbey Road as I type this. It’s different enough to bring out things I’ve never heard, and I’m a man who knows his Abbey Road. Why’s it unreleased? I don’t know, t’was Dr. Ebbett told me so. How do I know Dr. Ebbet was right? I’m a afraid you are a wicked girl. Good Night.
Dr. King’s passing saddens me, as it usually does this time of year. Bobby Kennedy (who had ok’d the FBI’s surveillance of King’s more… secular pastimes) was knocked out of his shoes two months later. Now we have another charismatic young Hero who speaks of hope… without fear. I hope he wins, and I hope he lives. Odds aren’t great for the latter.
Take a gander at the account of Dr. King’s death from the mouth of one of the guys with him when he died.
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