From Dangerous Minds: Quentin Dupieux, director of the killer tire movie Rubber, premiered the first chapter of his newest project at this year’s Cannes Film Festival. It’s called Wrong Cops, stars Marilyn Manson and Mark Burnham, and looks crazier than a bag full of rabid weasels. Manson plays a techno-loving street hustler named David Dolores Frank. Burnham [...]
Posts Tagged ‘movies’
One day I hope to make something as awesome as this
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged movies, music, philosophy on 05/29/2012 | Leave a Comment »
Why do they no longer make movies like this?
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged holy fool, movies on 03/26/2012 | 2 Comments »
My favorite movies
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged dionysos, holy fool, movies on 01/05/2012 | 13 Comments »
Over the last couple days I’ve seen a lot of people posting New Years resolutions (and even more posting about why they detest the custom.) One of the best that I saw was someone saying that they had resolved to see more movies during 2012. As a Dionysian I most heartily commend such an activity! [...]
Weekly roundup of interesting links
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged aphrodite, christianity, hekate, isis, magic, movies, paganism, politics on 10/17/2011 | 2 Comments »
Let’s dance! To begin with Sarenth has shared his thoughts on the DC40 over at Turtle Island Initiative: It would not be half so threatening if members of such movements, including this one, did not hold the ears of many prominent politicians. It would not be half so threatening if Christianity did not so often [...]
Operation: Endgame may be one of my favorite movies
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged gods, judaism, magic, movies, philosophy on 09/16/2011 | Leave a Comment »
It’s odd and difficult to describe, especially since there’s a lot more going on than is apparent at first. But if you watch it with even a bare understanding of Qabalistic principles I think you’ll get a lot out of it. But don’t take my word for it, judge for yourself.
Santa Sangre is my new favorite film
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged dionysos, holy fool, movies on 09/02/2011 | 4 Comments »
Wow. Even this description on Wikipedia doesn’t really do it justice. You can watch it on Netflix here.
Sharon Stone as Aphrodite?!?
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged aphrodite, ariadne, movies, persephone on 07/07/2011 | 27 Comments »
I think my mind intentionally edited that out when I first read it. What the hell were they thinking? I would cast Monica Bellucci for that part: Though I think she could also do a nice Persephone or Ariadne.
Badly behaving gods badly cast
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged dionysos, gods, hellenismos, movies on 07/07/2011 | 18 Comments »
Jason at The Wild Hunt has reported on an upcoming movie about the Greek gods: The novel “Gods Behaving Badly,” about a greatly diminished Greek pantheon sharing a flat in London, is being made into a movie, with an all-star (and somewhat bizarre) cast and a change of location to New York. Check out this [...]
Final reminder
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged creative writing pledge drive, dionysos, movies, mythology, oracles, persephone, religious practice, writing on 03/21/2011 | 7 Comments »
There’s less than two weeks left in the Creative Writing Pledge Drive, so if you wanted to commission a piece now’s your chance to do so! For $15 I will write a poem or hymn for you. For $25 I’ll write an essay on the topic of your choosing. For $30 you can get an [...]
The Persistence of Memory
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged christianity, demeter, dionysos, eugene, greece, haides, local focus polytheism, movies, mythology, nymphai, paganism, persephone, philosophy, politics, religious practice, writing, zeus on 03/21/2011 | 9 Comments »
Over the weekend we attended the premiere of A Story of Persephone, which was interesting both for its novel treatment of myth and the fact that a good deal of it was shot here in Eugene. (In fact, one of our friends was an extra, which is how we initially heard about the project.) I [...]
Lo
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged magic, movies on 01/08/2011 | Leave a Comment »
Watch it on Netflix Visit the website This is what magic and dealing with spirits is like.
Who would I cast in my ideal Dionysos movie?
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged ariadne, dionysos, hera, hermes, movies, zeus on 01/04/2011 | 22 Comments »
I was asked this wonderful question a while back and I think I can finally answer it. Zeus – Daniel Day-Lewis Kore-Persephone – Natalie Portman Hera – Polly Walker The Titans – Designed by Guillermo del Toro Semele – Irene Papas Hermes – Tim Roth Seilenos – John Rhys-Davies Satyr 1 – Jack Black Satyr [...]
I’m feeling generous this year
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged festivals, funny, movies, music on 12/21/2010 | 13 Comments »
So here are some Yuletide presents for you, my faithful readers. First up, a couple appropriate jingles: Clarence Carter’s smash hit Backdoor Santa and a little sumthin’ sumthin’ from Eazy-E. Also, Jingle Goats. Awwwww. Goats are the cutest thing ever, right? But this holiday isn’t just about jingles and goats. There’s also really scary shit [...]
This is what the Amimetobioi would look like today
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged alexandria, ariadne, dionysos, kleopatra, marcus antonius, movies, music on 12/17/2010 | 3 Comments »
Can’t you imagine Antony, Kleopatra and their friends doing something like this on the streets of Alexandria? It really is one of the most Dionysian clips I’ve seen since Manoushe, and that’s saying something. But the White Rabbit is so obviously him, especially when you consider what he does to the girl in the subway. [...]
The land of the free and the home of Dionysos
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged dionysos, local focus polytheism, movies, music, paganism, philosophy, politics on 11/25/2010 | Leave a Comment »
I agree with the flag-waving patriots that America is god’s own land – I just happen to believe that that god is Dionysos. This thought occurred to me a couple months back while the rest of the country was celebrating the birth of freedom in our land with fireworks and alcohol. We have always intuitively [...]
Reflections on what’s to come
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged aphrodite, dionysos, eugene, festivals, hermes, kleopatra, local focus polytheism, magic, marcus antonius, movies, music, nymphai, persephone, ptolemies, religious practice, spider on 10/18/2010 | 22 Comments »
This last week has been rich and wonderful and very, very busy. It has also put me in a deeply introspective mood, looking forward to the year ahead and all the changes in my life and spiritual practice. It started on Monday, with our celebration of the Hermaia Propulaia. This is a festival honoring Hermes [...]
I have found the perfect Dionysos movie
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged ariadne, bringing the sexy back to sextilis, dionysos, movies on 08/22/2010 | 13 Comments »
It’s a Brazilian film called Manoushe: A Gypsy Love Story. Here’s how Netflix describes it: At the funeral of a Gypsy (Breno Moroni), his widow (Drica Moraes) recalls their life together in this Felliniesque fantasy from Brazil. Packed with imagery reminiscent of the Brothers Grimm, medieval European forest legends, carnivals and peyote hallucinations, this tale [...]
Dionysos at the movies
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged bringing the sexy back to sextilis, dionysos, kleopatra, marcus antonius, movies on 08/12/2010 | 11 Comments »
I was going to spend the day in mourning for Kleopatra, but I don’t get the impression that that’s what she would have wanted. She and Antony lived life to the fullest, making it a grand Dionysian feast of the senses. And when she went out it was on her own terms, bold and defiant [...]
A relevant quote
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged movies, philosophy on 07/21/2010 | Leave a Comment »
And as an appropriate post-script to the last post I’d like the share a quote from one of my all-time favorite movies, Adaptation starring the incomparable Nicolas Cage as Charlie and Donald Kaufman. Charlie Kaufman: There was this time in high school. I was watching you out the library window. You were talking to Sarah [...]
A review of Agora
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged alexandria, christianity, greco-egyptian, hypatia, movies on 06/09/2010 | 18 Comments »
As I start to write this I have tears streaming down my cheeks. I have just been through a very intense experience and my thoughts are pretty disjointed. I may come back at a later time and write a more sober review, but I wanted to get this out there, share it with those of [...]
