Oh man, this check-in with ATA warms the heart so much—especially your impression of its analog heart in what I assume is a pretty chilly post-boom Valencia. And this: “…the world that one has known — in this case the world of the analog underground — disappears at about the same rate that the actual people you have known and loved disappear, whether they drift away, go nuts, give up, or die.” Oof. Vital work here.
Thanks Chris. I find myself increasingly writing, often spontaneously, from a heart space "behind" the writer guy, and its fascinating when stuff like this comes out. Thanks as always for reading and responding!
Today is Jack Parsons' Lesser Feast, i.e. his birthday. Please note I produced a documentary on Jack Parsons in 1998, which we would play at the LA record store called Your Devil's Hole. Primary interviews included Robert Anton Wilson, John Bluth of JPL and Bill Heidrick. The producers of the current doc took snips from that and used it in their finished product without permission or attribution. Not many people mention that Sara Betty and Jack began their affair when she was 13 (according to Martin P. Star in his definitive work 'The Unkown God: W.T. Smith & the Thelemites'), which makes Jack a pedophile.
Great piece Erik! Loved the break down of Snyder and have just been put onto Peter Coyote thanks to this piece! Also excited to skirt down the Jack Parsons rabbit hole a little more.
This was such a great night. Thanks for showing me ATA -- nothing beats weird SF on a full blood moon. And you're right -- best part was the tinkly overlay of Craig's laughter floating down from up the stairs.
Can't wait to rep the vintage MUD FLAP tee from Craig's collection back in Vienna. Never not knocking on the golden door...
“One thing I did not anticipate about growing older is that the world that one has known — in this case the world of the analog underground — disappears at about the same rate that the actual people you have known and loved disappear”
Yeah, ain’t it the truth? That’s the feeling—the world you knew is passing away, replaced, too often, by things you don’t particularly love or understand. For members of the last analog generation, who lived through the transition to digital, it hits home in a very physical way, with all these forgotten pre-digital cultural artifacts that basically doesn’t exist to younger generations if it isn’t in the cloud. Great post Erik.
Thanks for this. In a future post I want to write on this general theme of Gen X as the last analog generation, and what it feels like today, entering what I like to call "the analog sunset."
Craig Baldwin! I remember first seeing one of his movies being projected behind Hank III’s third solo sludge metal set at the Grand Regency Ballroom in 2014 (?). Mock Up on Mu? What amuses me now is that I didn’t realize the story (Parsons, Crowley, Hubbard) was grounded in “reality”.
Baldwin, Belson, Snyder & Sills = Best Burning Shore yet!
Doug your fandoms are showing, and its beautiful!
Oh man, this check-in with ATA warms the heart so much—especially your impression of its analog heart in what I assume is a pretty chilly post-boom Valencia. And this: “…the world that one has known — in this case the world of the analog underground — disappears at about the same rate that the actual people you have known and loved disappear, whether they drift away, go nuts, give up, or die.” Oof. Vital work here.
Thanks Chris. I find myself increasingly writing, often spontaneously, from a heart space "behind" the writer guy, and its fascinating when stuff like this comes out. Thanks as always for reading and responding!
Today is Jack Parsons' Lesser Feast, i.e. his birthday. Please note I produced a documentary on Jack Parsons in 1998, which we would play at the LA record store called Your Devil's Hole. Primary interviews included Robert Anton Wilson, John Bluth of JPL and Bill Heidrick. The producers of the current doc took snips from that and used it in their finished product without permission or attribution. Not many people mention that Sara Betty and Jack began their affair when she was 13 (according to Martin P. Star in his definitive work 'The Unkown God: W.T. Smith & the Thelemites'), which makes Jack a pedophile.
Here is the link to a part of my original doc.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SkvQvtO882E
Changing Times
https://gorhall1.substack.com/p/changing-times?r=4uede&utm_medium=ios&triedRedirect=true
Great piece Erik! Loved the break down of Snyder and have just been put onto Peter Coyote thanks to this piece! Also excited to skirt down the Jack Parsons rabbit hole a little more.
Wow , no
Uh maybe yeah?
This was such a great night. Thanks for showing me ATA -- nothing beats weird SF on a full blood moon. And you're right -- best part was the tinkly overlay of Craig's laughter floating down from up the stairs.
Can't wait to rep the vintage MUD FLAP tee from Craig's collection back in Vienna. Never not knocking on the golden door...
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I shouldnt have had the Goat Family guy sign the T I auctioned for. It kinda messed it up.
“One thing I did not anticipate about growing older is that the world that one has known — in this case the world of the analog underground — disappears at about the same rate that the actual people you have known and loved disappear”
Yeah, ain’t it the truth? That’s the feeling—the world you knew is passing away, replaced, too often, by things you don’t particularly love or understand. For members of the last analog generation, who lived through the transition to digital, it hits home in a very physical way, with all these forgotten pre-digital cultural artifacts that basically doesn’t exist to younger generations if it isn’t in the cloud. Great post Erik.
Thanks for this. In a future post I want to write on this general theme of Gen X as the last analog generation, and what it feels like today, entering what I like to call "the analog sunset."
Craig Baldwin! I remember first seeing one of his movies being projected behind Hank III’s third solo sludge metal set at the Grand Regency Ballroom in 2014 (?). Mock Up on Mu? What amuses me now is that I didn’t realize the story (Parsons, Crowley, Hubbard) was grounded in “reality”.
At least "reality" as we construct it in Caleeforni-ay.
There are other "realities"?!?
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ERIK ... you brought inside my mind a new and more interesting David Lynch, Craig Baldwin ...made my day ... thank you very much.
Craig is deep and always fun, with a very sophisticated and wacky sense of how esoteric weirdness plays a role in highly political media situations.