Laurel Canyon

[IanEye]

well, the Ventures are clean

I have actually felt for a long time that The Ventures might have been Government Agents. From the mid-60's into the 70's, while the U.S. was in Viet Nam, The Ventures would tour Asia extensively.
They would perform at an Army base, then at a private club, then on a Naval battleship, then another private club. It seems like the ideal cover to gather intelligence, then debrief, gather more intelligence....

[Laodicean]

I am the Lizard King
I can do anything

Paging Mr. Icke....

[justdrew]

well, the Ventures are clean

I have actually felt for a long time that The Ventures might have been Government Agents. From the mid-60's into the 70's, while the U.S. was in Viet Nam, The Ventures would tour Asia extensively.
They would perform at an Army base, then at a private club, then on a Naval battleship, then another private club. It seems like the ideal cover to gather intelligence, then debrief, gather more intelligence....

raindrops keep falling on my head...

bands can make good cover I guess. at least in the cold war era. that's the explicit theme of "Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kids" - they're secret agents who work for a giant US computer. but they're also a band, which is their cover. Here's the best intro I can find atm...




fairly good motion animation in the musical performances, almost looks rotoscoped.

and here's one I had forgotten about...
an early venture for a working class dog...
meet Miss Tickle...

[IanEye]

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there's something in the air there


makes you go insane


brings you back to me

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sand in the mouth


sun in the eye

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we're gonna kill


the California girls



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i had a dream


and it split the scene


but eye gotta hunch

it's coming back to me

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[flockofdgulls]

Are you implying that Sonic Youth are covert agents? I might be able to buy that from the Ventures (at my most paranoid) but from Sonic Youth that's way more than a stretch.

[IanEye]

Are you implying that Sonic Youth are covert agents? I might be able to buy that from the Ventures (at my most paranoid) but from Sonic Youth that's way more than a stretch.

sorry, dgull. i sort of switched channels there, i was already working on that Sonic Youth collage when i started to riff on the Ventures. sorry for the mixed media message....

it’s not the make-up
it’s not the way that you dance
it’s not the evening sky



it’s more the way your eyes
are laughing as they glance
across the great divide...

[American Dream]

Monkees brainwashed by Julie Driscoll and Brian Auger




In this mad clip from "33 1/3 Revolutions Per Monkee" (1969), psych pop sensations Julie Driscoll and Brian Auger brainwash Mickey, Mike, Peter, and Davey for their own evil purposes:

"We'll take the means of mass communication and use them for commercial exploitation, create a new four part phenomena, four simple lads of talent little or none, and through the latest fad of rock and roll, conduct experiments in mind control on an unsuspecting public!"

[IanEye]

Monkees brainwashed by Julie Driscoll and Brian Auger




In this mad clip from "33 1/3 Revolutions Per Monkee" (1969), psych pop sensations Julie Driscoll and Brian Auger brainwash Mickey, Mike, Peter, and Davey for their own evil purposes:

right back at ya, AD!

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A meditation on synchronicity

Ok, originally I was going to post this on one of the sync threads but by the time I had finished, I realized it was pretty long and rambled beyond the scope of synchronicity, so I figured I would just post it as it’s own thread.

I had been perusing the “Heath Ledger – Occult/Synchronicity” thread and came across some links there regarding his role as the Joker, and the meta aspects of the Joker in general:

http://insidethecosmiccube.blogspot.com/2008/01/this-joke-is-not-funny.html

http://secretsun.blogspot.com/2008/01/killing-joker.html

It was on the Secret Sun Site that I saw another post titled, “The Siren: Swim To Me”. I knew that phrase was a Tim Buckley lyric, intrigued I clicked on it.

http://secretsun.blogspot.com/2008/01/siren-part-1-swim-to-me.html

What follows is a three part post detailing odd synchronicities between Jeff Buckley and Cocteau Twins singer Elizabeth Fraser. It is a good read, one I imagine most RI readers would enjoy.

Mentioned is the final episode of the old “Monkees” TV show where Tim Buckley (Jeff’s father) makes a cameo singing “Song To The Siren”. The name of the episode is “Mijacogeo” (a.k.a. “The Frodis Caper”). I had a vague recollection of the episode, so I did some research:

6:00am - The sun rises one morning, causing a suspended rope to burn and trigger a phonograph which plays The Beatles’ song “Good Morning," waking Michael, Micky and David who all drop their alarm clocks on the floor to shut them off(6-6-6). But when Peter’s alarm clock continues to ring they all jump out of bed and realize he’s missing. They soon head downstairs and search frantically around the pad, even going so far as to visit Michael as The Lost and Found Man but it seems hopeless until David finally finds Peter in a trance, frozen in his easy chair in front of the TV set, showing a huge eye (disguised as a test pattern) planted with subliminal triggers, pulsing to strange music. The Monkees nearly fall into a similar trance themselves until Michael quickly turns off the TV. Then they head outside as Michael explains what’s going to happen after the commercial.

- (snip)

Then they head for the KXIE-TV station to find out what’s wrong. When they get there, they find the stage hand is also in a trance from a nearby television showing the exact same eye, and they all wonder what kind of warped maniacal mind is plotting such a conspiracy when suddenly the scene is intercut with Glick, a mad wizard giving an evil laugh, which answers their question.

- (snip)

Glick then sends in his squad of TV repairmen with portable TVs tuned to the eye to capture our heroes, but each of their attempts to hypnotize The Monkees are unsuccessful. Then Michael, mentioning that it’s time for The Monkees, wonders if anyone has a television set, and as if on cue they are all set upon by the TV repairmen with the TVs. Soon, Micky, Michael and David are tied up in Glick’s warehouse, and in order to contact Peter for help, Micky suggests they use the latest psycho-jello mental telepathy which every group is using, which Micky learned when he sent in a cereal boxtop. They all chant “nam myoho renge kyo” and it appears to be working as Peter slowly rises from the chair and heads for the studio. However, he is spotted on the monitor by Glick, who readies for his most cunning trickery; he greets Peter at the front door and captures him as well.




http://monkeestv3.tripod.com/season2/mijacogeo.html

and so on…

So, there were all sorts of things/triggers in that for me so I Netflixed the disc that episode appears on. The disc contained the last two Monkee’s episodes ever made: episode 57; “the Monkees Blow Their Minds”, episode 58; “Mijacogeo” as well as the 1969 TV special “33 1/3 Revolutions Per Monkee”.

Watching this disc certainly blew my mind.




All three episodes deal with mind control. If the viewer is at all familiar with the Process Church of the Final Judgement, there are visual cues for this topic as well.




Mike Nesmith and Frank Zappa are doppelgangers.

All of this mind control madness is sponsored by Kellog’s.

The “nam myoho renge kyo” chant is specifically referenced by Mike Nesmith as Transcendental Meditation, even though TM is silent. Indeed, Mickey insists he did not learn this mantra from the Maharishi, but in fact was illuminated by a “cereal box top”. TM is referenced a few more times in the episode. What is also odd is that the “nam myoho renge kyo” chant is what Gary Hinman, a Manson family victim chanted as he lay dying.

“Two John Lennon/Paul McCartney-penned Beatles tunes are heard in “Mijacogeo”: the aforementioned “Good Morning” (which, ironically, hails from the very album which bumped The Monkees' Headquarters from the top spot in 1967: Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band!) and "Hello, Goodbye," which is sung briefly by David Jones. Shockingly, it is "Hello Goodbye" which knocked John Stewart's "Daydream Believer" out of the #1 spot on the Billboard charts!!”

Does it strike me as odd that Brian Auger and Julie Driscoll (looking for all the world like Robert and Mary Anne De Grimston) invoke the following chant to open “33 1/3 RPM” and hype their group, The Trinity?

We have the knowledge--evil though it be--
To twist the mind to any lunacy we wish.
Through this Electro-Thought Machine, I'll demonstrate exactly what I mean.
We'll take the means of mass communication, use them for commercial exploitation,
Create the new 4-part phenomena: 4 simple minds with talent (little or none),
And through the latest fad of rock and roll, conduct experiments in mind control!
On an unsuspecting public they'll be turned!
I'll brainwash them, and they'll brainwash the world!!!!



Their minds are “for rent”, get it?

Yes, it does strike me odd (Trinity = Jehovah Lucifer Satan). Having said that, it could be nothing more than the heavy times they were a changin’ in which the Monkees appeared on Saturday Morning cartoons. No stranger than the Mystery Machine or the Groovy Ghoulies or Lidsville. But man, Is there a lot of strangeness in this Monkee business.

For me personally, I was struck by the fact that these last two episodes of the Monkees aired between the date of my birth. I turned the TV off and started to ponder the late ‘60s, - early ‘70s, trying to recall a bit of TM – Beatles – Manson trivia, I turn on my laptop, only to have Google News tell me that Maharishi Mahesh Yogi has passed away. The yogi I had given a flower to in the Houston Airport many years before…

Did I dream you dreamed about me?
Were you hare when I was fox?
Now my foolish boat is leaning
Broken lovelorn on your rocks
For you sing, "Touch me not, touch me not, come back tomorrow:
O my heart, O my heart shies from the sorrow"

[Twyla LaSarc]

Monkees brainwashed by Julie Driscoll and Brian Auger




In this mad clip from "33 1/3 Revolutions Per Monkee" (1969), psych pop sensations Julie Driscoll and Brian Auger brainwash Mickey, Mike, Peter, and Davey for their own evil purposes:

"We'll take the means of mass communication and use them for commercial exploitation, create a new four part phenomena, four simple lads of talent little or none, and through the latest fad of rock and roll, conduct experiments in mind control on an unsuspecting public!"

Thank you a million times for the gift of Julie Driscoll.

I'd heard a lot of Brian Auger, esp. Oblivion Express, but had never heard her.

[Twyla LaSarc]

Anyone interested in McGowan's LC piece might want to take note that "Angel, Angel, Down We Go" is currently available on Netflix streaming under the title "Cult of the Damned." I just watched it and am planning on watching it again. It is not the LSD romp ala "The Trip" or "The Party" that some people expect. It is much darker.

Information seems to be limited on this movie (thru usual google sources, but I will probably rely on my son's master movie-fu and see if anything else turns up), there is not even a wiki on it. The first I heard of it was a a credit on a still in REsearch's '86 release, 'Incredibly Strange Films' . I have only anecdotal evidence that it was released about a week or so after the Tate/LaBianca killings. The story revolves around 'the richest girl in the world'. Her father is a closet homosexual who happens to own an MIC empire, her mother is an actress who started in stag films. She is a spoiled yet isolated and overweight character, raised by maids who is cutting herself and binge-eating in what is probably one of the first portrayals of those behaviors in film. She hooks up with a charismatic rock singer who leads a cult of spaced-out synchophants and winds up hallucinating her way to murder...

Blame Mc Gowan perhaps, but my first viewing of that film came from different eyes than I would have had previously. The cast is mostly comprised of singers from the scene of the day (Jordan Christopher-the first to record 'Wild Thing', Holly Near, and Lou Rawls) and two former child stars (Roddy McDowell and Davey Davison), Robert Thom penned and directed, he is best known for 'Bloody Mama', and 'Wild in the Street'. The world they portray seems to be an over-the-top black satire of hollywood at the time- especially Christopher's character of Bogart Stuyvesant. It soon becomes apparent that Bogart is no ordinary philandering guitar-playing hippie musician, he keeps talking about about violence and killing and war, especially race war... no offense, Lou Rawls, but...

This fucker gobsmacked me and I highly recommend people who have Netflix streaming see it while it's available. WARNING: I'm not sure exactly what will trigger people, but the film is highly surreal, cutting to hallucinogenic 'collages' that put me in mind of some psy-op survivor's artworks I've seen. The scene with Holly Near quite convincingly sitting on the ceilng is mind-bending (and not in a good way). It is funny in places, but (IMO) not the trash-film laugh fest some expected (as per reviews). The film is as dark as the rest of 1969 and I'm pretty sure Bogart was at least in part a satire of Charlie Manson- back when he seemed like a harmless crank hanging around the houses of the rich and famous. I'd love to find out who the other characters were based on.

If You're Over 30 This Is A Horror Story!

Why should Bogart Peter Stuyvesant go to war and kill strangers, when the pickings are better in his own bedroom?

Drugs, thugs and freaked-out starlets, ritual murder and cannibalism, dedicated to the proposition that all men are created evil.

Dunno about cannibalism, but the rest is there.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gMSYYBMljQU


PS- there are things in the trailer that are not in the movie. I have no idea if they are cut from this version of the film, or were only used in the trailer. There is not that much info available on the movie to discern, FWIW, the stills I've seen don't match up to the film either...

[82_28]

[norton ash]

Amazing posts and leads. Thanks so much!

[IanEye]

Anyone interested in McGowan's LC piece might want to take note that "Angel, Angel, Down We Go" is currently available on Netflix streaming under the title "Cult of the Damned." I just watched it and am planning on watching it again. It is not the LSD romp ala "The Trip" or "The Party" that some people expect. It is much darker.

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This fucker gobsmacked me and I highly recommend people who have Netflix streaming see it while it's available.

Twyla, thank you so much for turning me on to this film.

i love all of the collages that appear throughout the film. shades of Skeleton Ridpath....

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[Twyla LaSarc]

shades of Skeleton Ridpath....

Crap.

I had to go google.

Now I gotta read 'Shadowlands', see what you did there?

PS: The whole 'Fat America' thing...wow. Yeah, I gotta watch it again- with headphones. The first thirty minutes were a stop and go excersise with the family trodding through. I think I missed a few details...or glossed them over, I didn't know what to expect from the movie. I was simply being pleased that it wasn't awful, and by the time I hit the dialogue that made me take notice, I was about half-in.

Thanks

[jingofever]

Home owned by Jack Nicholson badly damaged in fire. I don't know if that house is in Laurel Canyon though.