At the Old Fountain of Blackness

Here's me trying my hand at imitating the professionals again. This might be overdue or a mistake or both.

Do you read Colin Wilson? (That's OK. I don't either.)

“And we came at last to those ivory hills that are named the Mountains of Madness, and I tried to struggle against the spirits of that frightful Emperor’s men, for I heard on the other side of the ivory hills the pittering of those beasts that prey on the mad, as they prowled up and down.” (Lord Dunsany, ‘The Hashish Man’)

pittering:

Making a rapid succession of light taps or similar sounds.

Late 16th century; earliest use found in 1st Part Raigne Selimus. Either from pitter + -ing, or from pitter + -ing, although in both cases the verb is apparently first attested later.

The definition and origin of the word "pittering" isn't for you. It's for this blog-publishing service trying to say that it's a misspelled word. Hey Blogger, read a book, why don't you?

words of MADNESS

"Martial law is declared as the vampire plague sweeps through the city, the victims seeking out other humans to absorb their life force and perpetuate the cycle." (Lifeforce, plot synopsis)

The writer of the Warner book would have warned you about seeing the movie

 Hooper's Lifeforce is largely a remake of Hammer's Quatermass and the Pit (US title: Five Million Years to Earth). Like in Lovecraft's novella At the Mountains of Madness, the plot of Quatermass and the Pit involves a race of aliens that have influenced human evolution and the development of human intelligence.

Lovecraaft's At the Mountains of Madness also deals with societal collapse written in stone...

Barakhenaten

Amenhotep Number 44

HTP

"Hotep" when added to a name means "is pleased." 

i.e., Amenhotep indicates that the person with the name is pleasing to the god Amun.
 Thus, the name Nyarlathotep in Egyptian would mean "Nyarlat is pleased."

The "rest, peace, satisfaction" of htp is the result of action in accord with maat. One resource translates Nyarlathotep as "there is no peace at the gate" - ni har rut hotep (no rest at the threshold).

Barackenhotep 

"Da'ath eVader"

 

Darthotep

 Nyarlat looks pleased

 "You'll see him in your nightmares
You'll see him in your dreams
He'll appear out of nowhere but
He ain't what he seems
You'll see him in your head
On the TV screen..."

-Nick Cave, "Red Right Hand"

This is not a dream.
Not a dream.
We are using your brain's electrical system as a receiver.
We are unable to transmit through conscious neural interference.
You are receiving this broadcast as a dream.
We are transmitting from the year one-nine-nine-nine.
You are receiving this broadcast in order to alter the events you are seeing.
Our technology has not developed a transmitter strong enough to reach your conscious state of awareness.
But this is not a dream.
You are seeing what is actually occurring for the purpose of causality violation.
This broadcast will be received by the perceptual centers as a dream.
But this is not a dream.

"Baby, your mind is a radio
Got a receiver inside my head
Baby I'm tuned to your wavelength
Lemme tell you what it says:

Transmitter!
Oh! Picking up something good
Hey, radio head!
The sound...of a brand-new world"

-Talking Heads, "Radio Head"

David Byrne right now is probably hoping people don't remember the blackface he did back in '85

effect and cause

an OLD Nick name

nothing new to see here. keep it moving under the sun

 Here lies BLACK

 the mother of All Lives materializing,
in with the newspeak made flesh.
IT is all there in B & W

I leave it to the good people at Reader's Digest to elucidate for me

"'Black Lives Matter’ simply refers to the notion that there’s a specific vulnerability for African-Americans that needs to be addressed. It’s not meant to suggest that other lives don’t matter. It’s to suggest that other folks aren’t experiencing this particular vulnerability..." - Barry Obama

Iniquity as old as chronos ITself

"Paradise is exactly like where you are right now only much much (It's a shipwreck) better. (It's a job) You know?

I don't believe there's such a thing as TV. I mean, they just keep showing you the same pictures over and over. And when they talk they just make sounds that more or less synch up with their lips. That's what I think! Language! It's a virus!
Language! It's a virus! Language! It's a virus! 

Well I dreamed there was an island that rose up from the sea. And everybody on the island was somebody from TV. And there was a beautiful view but nobody could see..."

- Laurie Anderson, "Language is a Virus from Outer Space"

Turning and turning in the widening gyre
The falcon cannot hear the falconer;
Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;
Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,
The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere
The ceremony of innocence is drowned;
The best lack all conviction, while the worst
Are full of passionate intensity.
Surely some revelation is at hand;
Surely the Second Coming is at hand.
The Second Coming! Hardly are those words out
When a vast image out of Spiritus Mundi
Troubles my sight: somewhere in sands of the desert
A shape with lion body and the head of a man,
A gaze blank and pitiless as the sun,
Is moving its slow thighs, while all about it
Reel shadows of the indignant desert birds.
The darkness drops again; but now I know
That twenty centuries of stony sleep
Were vexed to nightmare by a rocking cradle,
And what rough beast, its hour come round at last,
Slouches towards Bethlehem to be born?

- W.B. Yeats, "The Second Coming"

Gyre:

a spiral or vortex

- late Middle English (in the sense ‘whirl someone or something round’): from late Latin gyrare, from Latin gyrus ‘a ring’, from Greek guros . The noun is from Latin gyrus .

Blogger, you have got to be kidding me. How do you not know "gyre"? Usage of the word has only gone up since the days it was put down on paper.



Lovecraft said of W.B.Y.:
"Yeats, undoubtedly the greatest figure of the Irish revival if not the greatest of all living poets, has accomplished notable things both in original work and in the codification of old legends."

Scratch and Nick


Got a light?

It was for the 1903 stage adaptation of the first Oz book that L. Frank Baum had originally given the Tin Woodman the name "Niccolo".

the most famous Niccolo in the world

...of Darkness

 David 'NIKola Tesla' Bowie

Tin-ruling Jupiter ()'s weapon of choice: the lightning bolt

"Where ugliness reaches the height of its luxuriance, in the dense misery of the place, where one imagines the builder saying, "Here I culminate. Let us give thanks to Satan," there is a bridge of yellow brick..." Lord Dunsany, The Field (1910)

"A very flourishing, though till recently quite hidden, branch of weird literature is that of the Jews, kept alive and nourished in obscurity by the sombre heritage of early Eastern magic, apocalyptic literature, and cabbalism. The Semitic mind, like the Celtic and Teutonic, seems to possess marked mystical inclinations; and the wealth of underground horror-lore surviving in ghettoes and synagogues must be much more considerable than is generally imagined. Cabbalism itself, so prominent during the Middle Ages, is a system of philosophy explaining the universe as emanations of the Deity, and involving the existence of strange spiritual realms and beings apart from the visible world, of which dark glimpses may be obtained through certain secret incantations. Its ritual is bound up with mystical interpretations of the Old Testament, and attributes an esoteric significance to each letter of the Hebrew alphabet—a circumstance which has imparted to Hebrew letters a sort of spectral glamour and potency in the popular literature of magic. Jewish folklore has preserved much of the terror and mystery of the past, and when more thoroughly studied is likely to exert considerable influence on weird fiction.
The best examples of its literary use so far are the German novel The Golem, by Gustav Meyrink, and the drama The Dybbuk, by the Jewish writer using the pseudonym “Ansky”. The former, with its haunting shadowy suggestions of marvels and horrors just beyond reach, is laid in Prague, and describes with singular mastery that city’s ancient ghetto with its spectral, peaked gables. The name is derived from a fabulous artificial giant supposed to be made and animated by mediaeval rabbis according to a certain cryptic formula.

"I lately read Gustav Meyrink’s “The Golem”—lent me by little Ar-E’chBei. The most magnificent weird thing I’ve come across in aeons! The cinema of the same title which I saw in 1921 was a mere substitute using the name—with nothing of the novel in it. What a study in subtle fear, brooding hints of elder magic, & vague driftings to & fro across the borderline betwixt dream & waking! There are no overt monsters or miracles—just symbols & suggestions.

 "As a study in lurking, insidious regional horror it has scarcely a peer. It does for the ancient, crumbling Prague ghetto what I vainly sought to do for rotting Newburyport in 'The Shadow over Innsmouth.'"
- H.P. Lovecraft

"...a tale of assimilation."

Frankenstein (1931) was banned in Kansas, because its content was that of “cruelty and tended to debase morals.”

              "Do you want to know the problem with places like this?

              With religion in general?

              It's never known how to convey the anatomy of horror.

              Religion seeks discipline through fear...

              yet doesn't understand the true nature of creation.

              No one's ever believed it enough to make it real.

              The same cannot be said of my world." - S. Cane

Book of Kells

 

Predlocks, two roads before you...

Ol' One BAD Ugly MOTHER F*CKER

 Jackson vs the King of the Apes

fresh kings of the concrete jungle

(I'll be) "Black"eNegger

 Mr. Black Mask

Ewan 'Black Mask' McGregor

KING Willie

KING James

King James Earl Jones (of the jungle) x 2

the latest Ole King Tut

 "THIS IS CNN"

 THIS IS CoNaN (the Barbarian)

Thulsa DOOM

 (Mask Face) DOOM

some rhymes from MF Doom's "That's That", which samples and gets its title from the King of Pop

"That's That" also samples audio of the character Judge Doom from Who Framed Roger Rabbit

"What was that? A rubber mask?"

the mask of Judge DOOM

"November Has Come" by Gorillaz (ft. MF DOOM)

Gorillaz

...and their new KONG Studio

meet the "New Black King", same as the Old Black Kong...

Lieutenant Lothar Zogg : "Hey, where'd Major KONG go?"


Kong’s famous howl was the combination of both a lion and tiger roaring, at the same time. However, the sound effect was played backwards, and more slowly, to achieve King Kong’s unique noise.

In the Gothic horror novel Dracula by Abraham Stoker, Count Dracula is depicted as the "King Vampire"

  "Dracula sucks blood, loses his power in sunlight, cowers at the sight of the cross, and is incapable of reflection..."

a replica of the medallion Dracula wears in the 1931 film

Let's Rock
Let's Dance
Let's look into the Jungian side of it

Joker: The duality of man; The Jungian thing, sir.

Colonel: Whose side are you on, son?

“Be silent and listen: have you recognized your madness and do you admit it? Have you noticed that all your foundations are completely mired in madness? Do you not want to recognize your madness and welcome it in a friendly manner? You wanted to accept everything. So accept madness too. Let the light of your madness shine, and it will suddenly dawn on you. Madness is not to be despised and not to be feared, but instead you should give it life...If you want to find paths, you should also not spurn madness, since it makes up such a great part of your nature...Be glad that you can recognize it, for you will thus avoid becoming its victim. Madness is a special form of the spirit and clings to all teachings and philosophies, but even more to daily life, since life itself is full of craziness and at bottom utterly illogical. Man strives toward reason only so that he can make rules for himself. Life itself has no rules. That is its mystery and its unknown law. What you call knowledge is an attempt to impose something comprehensible on life.”  - Carl jung 

  "The Jungian THING"

Black Hole, Black Mass, Black Cube, Black Cat, Black Death, Black Flag, Black Arts, Black Hat, Black Star...

 KISS KISS

BANG BANG

Containing an Account of the Misfortunes and Disasters Which Befell The Man Who Fell to Earth

put on your red shoes, dancing clown

 "There's an unnamable, unimaginable thing in my basement and I want it punted. A few months ago, I complained about the noise next door. A maddening, chanting in an unspeakable eldritch tongue that would drive you insane just to hear it, but that's done with ever since the neighbors were taken to the moon by cats. But this thing in my basement is a sort of unnamable creeping monstrosity. It's kind of hard to tell the size of the thing in the basement with all the non-Euclidean geometry and all. I'd say it's probably... Cyclopean in scale. Immeasurably huge such that it would blacken your very eyes with madness.
An unnameable eldritch horror beyond the mind's comprehension. This thing is inconceivable. "
- Burnistoun

Never explain...

"Shhh" - IT

 

IT Came FROM BEYOND the Wall of Sleep

 Welly, welly, Welles... a star of noir

the shadow of a doubt knows

 More like the Shadow NOSE, amiright?

 ...an INNER WORLD

The Old In-out of Space

"Quatermass saw a vision of hordes of insect creatures under an alien sky..."

Al Azif:

"the nocturnal sound (made by insects) supposed to be the howling of demons"

Al Azif

"...the most dangerous Black Book known to the Western World."

"Jorge Luis Borges, in his story 'Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius,' first published in 1940, tells of a fictional, Tlön, created by a group of intellectuals who disseminate bits of information about it in various books, magazines, encyclopedias and dictionaries throughout the world so that as people begin to learn about it, it gradually imprints itself on the real world, re-writing reality with its own paradigm. What began as a minor entry in an obscure encyclopedia becomes more and more ubiquitous, the more that people read and learn about it. The fictional world of Tlön spreads over the earth like a virus... ...a virus composed of information, mutating reality (Borges 3-18). David Cronenberg has been exploring similar themes in his films since the lates 1970s, beginning briefly with The Brood (1979), and then fully with Videodrome (1983), his adaptation of William Burroughs' novel Naked Lunch (1991) and eXistenZ (1999). Cronenberg's films show a fascination with media, information, and their power over the human body and mind.
Cronenberg began making films in the late 1960s in his hometown of Toronto, Canada. Toronto did not have much at all in the way of a film industry, so he and other filmmakers had to create everything from scratch."
- David Faust, Hyperreality with Tentacles: David Cronenberg Memes and Mutations

 “[m]emes are to ahuman's behavior what genes are to our bodies: internal representations of knowledge that result inoutward effects on the world” (Brodie)
information as an agent of mutation
“themonologue is his preferred method of discourse.”
That it exists is all that is important
Videodrome is not a show, but rather it is asubliminal signal, “the Videodrome signal, transmitted subliminally through any televisionbroadcast begins to alter the brain of anyone from the first moment they see it.”
William Burroughs' conception of an electronic virus, “in the electronic revolution avirus is a very small unit of word and image...such units can be biologically activated to act ascommunicable virus strains”
SpectacularOptical seeks to use Videodrome to kill off a certain segment of the population of North America,specifically the segment who enjoys the kind of sex and violence programming Max broadcaststhrough his network. It is Harlan, Max's friend, technician, secret agent for spectacular Optical, andthe man who introduced Max to the Videodrome meme who explains it, saying “North America isgetting soft, patron. And the rest of the world is getting tough...we're entering savage new times,and we're gonna have to be pure and direct and strong if we're going to survive them."