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“Command Performance” No. 161
The Arthur Magazine Email Bulletin
September 4, 2009

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Hiya,

1. HMMM….
New possibility for revived, giant-sized print version of Arthur Magazine: mail order, subscription-only. “Free” has been costing us more than we’ve been taking in, and we can’t go on like that. So. Hmm. Would you buy what you once got for free? Let us know…

2. TOTALLY THEURGIC
In mere minutes, Arthur’s Fishtown squad leaves for Baltimore to attend tonight’s “closing ceremony” for White Magic frontlady Mira Billotte’s “KOSMOS: Music of the Spheres” installation at the Creative Alliance at the Patterson featuring performances by White Magic, Daniel Higgs and Zomes. Totally theurgic. More info: http://www.arthurmag.com/2009/08/31/mira-billotte

3. LOST TERENCE MCKENNA FILM ON ALCHEMY COMPLETED, NOW AVAILABLE
“In the mid-1990’s Terence McKenna and Mystic Fire’s Sheldon Rochlin teamed up to make this rich and exciting film. Little did they know that this would be their last film. Originally titled Coincidencia Oppositorum: The Unity of Opposites and filmed in Prague with Terence portraying his usual erudite rendition of the Irish Bard, this filmed classic takes us on a journey into the alchemical renaissance of King Frederick V and his wife Queen Elizabeth of Bohemia. Playing the role of John Dee, court magician for Queen Elizabeth of England, Terence McKenna shows us how the promise of a return to the tradition of alchemy was almost instituted in Europe. He also shows us that this early attempt at the creation of an alchemical kingdom actually lead to the European Renaissance and the institution of Cartesian science and the beginnings of rationalism within the western mindset. This incredible film is not only beautifully filmed but is Terence McKenna’s finest performance and a worthy eulogy to his genius.”

More info, excerpt, dvd purchase link and, well shoot, you can just go ahead watch the whole thing online right now, here: http://bit.ly/hbFsq

4. WE HAVE SEEN THE FUTURE…ER, THE PRESENT…ER, WHAT IS THAT????
Mitch Altman made a device called Trip Glasses—sunglasses with embedded red lights that flash in preprogrammed patterns, in time with sound coming in through headphones. You close your eyes and you get hallucinatory visions. It’s like a 14-minute trailer for an actual psilocybin or LSD trip, or for what you may experience in deeper meditation. And it has its own battery. Info: http://www.arthurmag.com/2009/08/27/mitch-altmans-trip-glasses-a-demonstration

5. MEANWHILE, BACK AT THE RANCH

6. OF TOMATOES AND CANNING
Dear Weedeater: Help! I went crazy this year and started a tomato garden in the backyard! I dunno what it was, the sight of Michele Obama pulling up lawn grass and planting a garden at the White House or the cutie at the nursery who helped me pick out some heirlooms and beefsteak starters, but one thing led to another, somehow my little backyard thing went crazy, I didn’t get hit by the East Coast blight thing yet (perhaps I speak too soon?), and now I’ve got way way WAY too many ripening tomatoes. I’d give them away except all my neighbors’ gardens are overflowing with tomatoes too. Somebody mentioned canning my extras, but that seems…um, hard and… I dunno, Nance. Is it worth the trouble? Signed, Newbie in New Jersey

Arthur Magazine “Weedeater” columnist Nance Klehm says:
No need to mince words on this one, the answer is totally ‘yes.’ There is no such thing as too many ‘love apples’! Unless you have loads, the gift outweighs your total energy out: $20 of canning jars plus two hours or less of your time (or even much less if you have a friend helping), plus some good music to chop and simmer to = the best sauce, tomato juice, salsa, whatever. Your tomatoes will speak to you for all the dead of winter…

Comments or questions for Nance Klehm? Go here: http://www.arthurmag.com/2009/09/03/dear-weedeater-is-canning-worth-the-hassle

Oh yeah, one more thing from Nance: Forget crazily expensive vertical farm schemes. We can make all the soil we need from our own poop. Read on at an article on Nance’s “Humble Pile Chicago” project at the “In These Times” website:
http://www.inthesetimes.com/article/4561/your_crap_our_compost/

7. ENERGY JUSTICE
One from the Arthur archives: “Siphon Your Way to Financial Freedom” by Dave Reeves – http://www.arthurmag.com/2007/02/20/dave-reeves-in-arthur-magazine-no-17

8. HOT TONES, LICKS, RIPS AND TUMBLES
Sweet new 38-minute trance flow from WHITE RAINBOW, exclusive for Arthur – mp3, stream, etc: http://bit.ly/77I6M

Music from another sphere: new AXOLOTL mp3, stream, etc: http://bit.ly/zKgFk

CHRIS CORSANO and MICK FLOWER (Vibracathedral Orchestra) will be touring the East Coast of the USA later this year as a power duo force. video: http://bit.ly/13Sjh6

New SIX ORGANS OF ADMITTANCE “Anesthesia” video directed by Cam Archer: http://bit.ly/a97r8

9. MAP OF HUMANITY
Be sure to zoom in!: http://bit.ly/2PydvP

10. NEW ARTHUR COMIX
‘MILD HASSLECOP’ by Chris Cilla: http://www.arthurmag.com/2009/08/25/mild-hasslecop-by-chris-cilla
‘PASSAGEWAYS’ by Matthew Lock: http://www.arthurmag.com/2009/09/01/passageways-by-matthew-lock

11. TRAILER FOR NEW WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS DOC
“A Man Within” looks pretty good, unfortunate typography aside. Check out the trailer here:
http://bit.ly/iXCoO

12. THE WELL-CURATED STORE
First in an occasional series, as part of a general Arthur effort to combat the ongoing, escalating de-bookshopping of our planet by bringing attention to particular exquisite stores’ existence and reason for being: a look at HERMITAGE BEACON of Brooklyn’s mission statement. And their motto. Go here: http://bit.ly/5vGEj

13. ALWAYS REMEMBER
“Marijuana is not a medicine. It is a drug that makes people think they feel better.”—lobbyist for the Committee on Moral Concerns
(from the back cover to Paul Krassner’s Pot Stories for the Soul)

Now merging,

Arthur Magazine Theurgians
Fishtown * Little Village * Baltimore * Marfa * wherever you are