Gibby Haynes & Daniel Johnston

The acid interview...was Daniel Johnston mad or was his world just maddening?

This is an extra from "The Devil and Daniel Johnston". If you haven't seen it, go and buy it today.

Goodbye Dennis Hopper

Dennis Hopper died today. For me it started with Easy Rider, which I saw in 1989. I followed from there; back and forward. Read of his life and struggles, his ideas. "Learning to use the accident".


Gorillaz: Fire Coming Out of the Monkey's Head (Narrated by Dennis Hopper)

Postgenderism: The Genetic Singularity

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Hedwig and the Angry Inch - Origin of Love

Changing genetics is not enough, creating the ultimate postgender human requires changing the brain itself. The gendered human brain could be rewired to fit a postgender blueprint.

"but only the blurring and erosion of biological sex, of the gendering of the brain, and of binary social roles by emerging technologies will enable individuals to access all human potentials and experiences regardless of their born sex or assumed gender."

Yes, the technological means to these bizarre ends are being developed. They have been in the works for a long time, and we are now confronted with material like this which illustrates the postgender goals which have fueled research from the very beginning. Transhumanism has taken old postgender ideas and built upon them with the description of far more advanced technologies.

"trans- or post-humans would at least be able to transcend the limitations of biological sex and would eventually be able to transcend the biological altogether into cybernetic or virtual form."

The fact that we already depend highly on virtual worlds, especially in terms of satisfying sexual desires is also mentioned. Virtual sex is touted as being safer, easier, and more customizable than traditional human relationships. The gender binary is slowly eroding as people blend their sexual identity with avatars of a different gender and often a different species. The ultimate revolution in virtual sex would occur when artificial intelligence could simulate the erotic response of a human, making virtual sex indistinguishable from the real thing.

"But the final liberation from dyadic, gendered, heteronormative relationships will likely come about through use of drugs that suppress pair-bonding impulses."

Why would anyone actually put such bold remarks down in writing? Why is the erosion of dualistic gender being sincerely explored by the scientific establishment? Is there a collective subconscious desire to merge the two sexes into one?

Urga / Close to Eden (1991)

Urga / Close to Eden is a 1991 film by Russian director Nikita Mikhalkov. It is released in North America as Close to Eden. It depicts the friendship between a Russian truck driver and a Mongolian shepherd in Inner Mongolia. The film was an international co-production between companies based in Russia and France. Click on the image above to watch the entire film.

The Mongolian shepherd Gombo lives in a yurt in Inner Mongolia with his wife, three children, and mother. They are content with their uncomplicated rural lives but Gombo wants to go on having sex with his wife, while she refuses herself in fear of bearing a fourth child, which is against the Chinese law. A Russian truck driver named Sergei is stranded nearby, and finds his way to their house, where he and Gombo become friends despite their language and cultural differences.

Gombo and Sergei go into the nearest city together, where Gombo is supposed to buy contraceptives (condoms). Instead he buys a television set and other such goods, then attempts to buy contraceptives, but decides not to when he realizes everyone at the drugstore is a woman. Sergei, a former army bandsman, sings "Hills of Manchuria" in a nightclub, as the band plays from the sheet music tattooed on his back. He is arrested and then bailed out of jail by Gombo.

Gombo returns home, and along the way stops and takes a nap. He has a strange dream featuring his drunken, horse riding relative as Genghis Khan and his wife as Ghenghis Khan's wife. In the dream both he and Sergei are captured and killed. Gombo wakes and arrives home, with the television, and he and his family watch alternately the President of America speaking and a badly sung variety show. Gombo and his wife go into the fields, bringing the Urga (a long stick with a lasso on the end used to capture animals) which is then stuck into the ground far away in the prairie, a signal that a couple is being intimate. A voice over from Gombo's fourth son concludes the film with the image of a chimney belching smoke into the air in the place where Gombo's Urga was once placed.

Joel-Peter Witkin - Vile Bodies

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The Most Beautiful Game

Rez: developed under the codename K-Project, Project Eden, and Vibes, is a rail shooter video game released by Sega in Japan in 2001 for the Dreamcast and PlayStation 2, with a European Dreamcast release and United States PlayStation 2 release in 2002. The game was developed by Sega's United Game Artists division, which contained several former members of the disbanded Team Andromeda, the Sega development team behind the Panzer Dragoon series. It was conceptualized and produced by Tetsuya Mizuguchi. His company, Q Entertainment released a high definition version, Rez HD to the Xbox Live Arcade in 2008

Tim Burton's Secret Formula

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NICO ICON

ICON from J. Sprig on Vimeo.

NICO ICON
Susan Ofteringer, Germany, 1995

A captivating portrait of this iconic and self-destructive figure, from her childhood in post-war Germany, to her heroin-ravaged death.

Beijing Punk - Full Theatrical Trailer - Newground Films

Burroughs Shoots Shakespeare

William Burroughs shooting session. Video by Andrea Di Castro. Lawrence, Kansas,1995.