An Online Pop-Cultural Grimoire
“Our world is filled with codes, subliminal messages from Silver Lake to the Hollywood Hills.”
–Comic Man, “Under The Silver Lake”
Quite simply, 2018’s Under The Silver Lake is one of the most self-consciously meta love-letters to Conspiracy Culture of all time.
Spoiler alert!
The 2017 Netflix teen drama 13 Reasons Why has one of the most disturbing energies I’ve ever picked up from a TV series.
Continue reading “An Esoteric Analysis Of “13 Reasons Why” Season One”
“I’ve seen things you people wouldn’t believe. Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion. I watched C-beams glitter in the dark near the Tannhauser gate. All those moments will be lost in time… like tears in rain… Time to die.”
–Roy Batty, “Blade Runner”
As you may or may not have heard, legendary cult actor Rutger Hauer recently passed away. The same year as the fictional character he is most famous for portraying.
Continue reading “Rutger Hauer Dies The Same Year As Roy Batty (a.k.a. Hypersigils Revisited)”
Even as late as 2007, the synchronicity still haunted me.
In 2014 a phrase suddenly popped into my head; two words, actually. “Messenger Shiva.” I didn’t know what that meant, exactly, but I put it in my back pocket in case I ever needed a snappy cryptic title for something.
And here we are!
But I’m not sure if what I’m writing here will really be something….bigger. I just want to talk about something that is still a rather “raw” period of my life. A sad period. A weird period. A period from like a few minutes after 9/11 through fall of 2016.
And it starts with the rather odd little synchronicity that I think kind of changed my life…
My reaction to the new Joker movie trailer, plus observations on *other* people’s reactions. Is this Joker “problematic?” I also go into what I call the real-life “Joker copycat crimes,” how I became an amateur Jokerologist, and the Jason Todd/Joker theory. Lastly: I talk about the big “trade” I made to uncancel James Gunn in exchange for Quentin Tarantino.
