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A Tape Cassette

December 19th, 2011 · Comments Off on A Tape Cassette

A tape cassette of my songs, from 1991, in the days when people made tape cassettes.  This, of course, is the artwork; which was cut, folded, and inserted into the little plastic box.

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A Torok Painting

September 24th, 2011 · 2 Comments

Jim Torok paints remarkable miniature oil paintings; he did this portrait of me sometime back in the ’90s.

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To a Friend Whose Work Has Come to Nothing

July 22nd, 2011 · Comments Off on To a Friend Whose Work Has Come to Nothing

A round, on Yeats.

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This Honeycomb Matrix of Atoms Known as the Material World

July 7th, 2011 · Comments Off on This Honeycomb Matrix of Atoms Known as the Material World

André Breton once said that he wasn’t interested in music, because he couldn’t imagine representing the world with sound. I do disagree; and find diatonic cluster drones as good a symbol as any. This organ piece is one example; here’s how it begins.

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Tales of the Twilight Typist

June 24th, 2011 · Comments Off on Tales of the Twilight Typist

George Kuchar and John Keel visit my studio, in one of George’s inimitable videos. In other sections, George visits Mimi Gross and Whitley Strieber.

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Tiffany Thayer

June 23rd, 2011 · 2 Comments

Nobody had really done much research into Tiffany Thayer, the founder of the original Fortean Society, and an entertaining character in his own right. So, I did; and wrote an article on him for the special 200th issue of the Fortean Times, in 2005. I read Thayer’s books, dug up photos and reviews of him, […]

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Three Dreams: On the Transmutation of Metals

June 15th, 2011 · Comments Off on Three Dreams: On the Transmutation of Metals

Back in 1981, while touring in Florence, I picked up a facsimile copy of this peculiar alchemical work. I was fascinated, and started a translation. Then, many years and moves later, I found my notes, and realized that I should either discard it or finish it. So, I Googled Nazari; and found that the book […]

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