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March 29, 2009

A/K/A Tommy Chong

I just watched the documentary A/K/A Tommy Chong and have to enthusiastically recommend it.   Often hilarious, sometimes infuriating, thoroughly poignant, A/K/A Tommy Chong is a documentary about the entrapment and imprisonment of counter-culture satirist Tommy Chong by the Federal Government for selling bongs.   With hordes of militant DEA agents with helicopters storming a completely open and legit glassware shop to keep post-911 America ‘safe,’ it is a surreal story that is absurd enough to fit right into a Cheech & Chong movie plot.

Far from being a cannabis-enhanced joke, however, Tommy Chong served 9 months in prison, paid $130,000 in fines and forfeitures and lost all the merchandise stolen in the raid.  To top it off, in 2008, the Federal Gov’t seized 10,000 copies of  A/k/a Tommy Chong from the distributor with no cause or legality whatsoever and has yet to return them or give a reason. Although that might also be seen as pretty good advertising:  The Federal Government does not want you to see this movie!

Here’s the 4 minute trailer:

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Website:  akatommychong.com

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December 18, 2008

Top 50 trips in movies

This post from Den of Geek  includes YouTube clips of almost every trip scene from said 50 best movie trips.  While the list doesn’t include Moebius’ genius portrayal of galactic ecstasy in Renegade (Blueberry) nor quite a few other pertinent works of cinemagraphic psy-art, it is a time-wasting tripper’s delight none-the-less.  :)

“I do not agree entirely. Which is to say I do not exactly disagree.” – Waking Life (deepest, trippiest movie evr.)

—->  Denofgeek.com

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November 23, 2008

A Day in the Afterlife

1994 Arena documentary on the life of Philip K. Dick.

pt 1:

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pt.s 2 – 6 on the sidebar: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jJehaCfnXHE

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October 25, 2008

Alien, Blade Runner director to make Huxley's Brave New World

by Evan 057 — Categories: literature, movies, science, society, technologyLeave a comment

Ridley Scott, director of Alien and Blade Runner, has confirmed that he is developing a movie version of Aldous Huxley’s prescient, dystopian novel, Brave New World.

link:  io9


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September 1, 2008

Rooms, cubes…

by Evan 057 — Categories: animation, architecture, fun/funny, movies, trippy, videoLeave a comment

In 1969 Jim Henson wrote and directed a great teleplay (live television movie) called The Cube, about a guy who finds himself in the most bizzare room in the universe, which can be viewed here.   The successful horror trilogy, Cube, Hypercube, and Cube Zero were inspired by Henson’s philosophical film (I recommend Hypercube for some amazing computer graphics).

The following is an interesting CG animated short film called The Room, also a carrier of the cube meme.

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August 19, 2008

Russell Crowe to Play the Late, Great Bill Hicks?

by Evan 057 — Categories: fun/funny, language, movies, psilocybin6 Comments

err…  I’m kinda hopin’ not.   Crowe seems to be one of the most tame, mainstream style actors out there.  He’s good but he’s always the same character, no?   If he really is taking on this role I hope he proves me wrong of course.

Doug Stanhope would be great in that role but maybe he’s already to similar?   Other people I could see playing Bill Hicks would be  Joe Rogan or Seth Rogen.

LINK TO ARTICLE—>    WIRED.COM

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July 13, 2008

Alejandro Jodorowsky on the Tarot

by Evan 057 — Categories: movies, shamanism, spiritual healing, synchronos, videoLeave a comment

This is an extra from the 2007 restored DVD of 1973 film The Holy Mountain (an insane must-see occult psychedelic masterpiece) in which Jodorowsky discusses his fascination with the Tarot.
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=5749941915545780052

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July 9, 2008

Alchemical Dreams

A film starring Terence McKenna as renaissance alchemist John Dee has finally been edited and completed. Here is the description from the Sacred Mysteries website followed by a trailer:

In the mid-1990′s Terence McKenna and Mystic Fire’s Sheldon Rocklin teamed up to make this rich and exciting film. Little did they know that this would be their last film. Filmed in Prague with Terence portraying his usual erudite rendition of the Irish Bard, this filmed classic takes us on a journey into the alchemical renaissance of King Frederick V and his wife Queen Elizabeth of Bohemia. Playing the role of John Dee, court magician for Queen Elizabeth of England, Terence McKenna shows us how the promise of a return to the tradition of alchemy was almost instituted in Europe. He also shows us that this early attempt at the creation of an alchemical kingdom actually lead to the European Renaissance and the institution of Cartesian science and the beginnings of rationalism within the western mindset. This incredible film is not only beautifully filmed but is Terence McKenna’s finest performance and a worthy eulogy to his genius.

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=8464224230199073141
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July 9, 2008

Short Film: The Orion Conspiracy

Really nice short film attempting to integrate various ET and historical conspiracies. Many facts and fictional speculation are blended with real photos and nifty photoshopped images.

Hi-def version available at the website.

Here is the YouTube version.
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July 6, 2008

Brainstorm

by Evan 057 — Categories: cognition, DMT, movies, spiritual healing, trippy, video1 Comment

These are the two scenes from the movie Brainstorm that Stanislav Grof consulted for. The movie is about a device that records and plays back human experience including all the senses, exactly like in the later film, Strange Days. In Brainstorm, however, the device captures a woman’s experience of death which is why Grof was consulted.
[SPOILER ALERT! Do not watch if you intend to see the movie in it's entirety.]
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