somehow, we got onto the subject of kate bush. i think it had something to do with a nick cave song, but i can’t honestly remember. this is why it’s a good idea to write things immediately after they happen. anyway, she wanted to show me a swell, powerful kate bush video and she picked the swellest, most powerful one she could think of. turns out that the original lacks the swellness and the power that she remembered. more on that later. the thing that blew my mind when i saw it was that i immediately recognized the title. i couldn’t quite remember where i had heard or seen it, but i knew that somehow, it was important. then, a few minutes into the video, i recognized it for what it was.

this video is a fucking fantastic mini-musical drama about the fall of wilhelm reich. shit, yeah. no overdone choreography involving bad dance moves and pop-music love stories. this is the real fucking deal and it involves a god-damned hero of psychology. some folks might say parapsychology (or even pseudo-psychology) and those folks should be stoned to death for their false belief in the inerrancy of the AMA and APA. fuck established medicine. what really attracted me to the video, aside from becca’s infinitely superior taste in music, is the fact that i’ve been to orgonon. it’s in maine. yeah, that’s right. while “it’s in maine” isn’t a phrase that can be applied to many interesting things, this fucking crazy mad scientist’s estate, complete with a mad scientist’s laboratory actually does exist in the greatest, most northeastern state. nate and rory and i went there a few years ago and it was a fucking fantastic introduction ot all things orgone. and yes, we saw cloudbusters.

as it turns out, the version that becca remembered as being incredibly powerful was the organon mix version of the song. i’d embed it here, but youtube has apparently degenerated into absolute shit over the past few minutes and i’m unable to do anything useful with it.

swell facts:
1. it is, in fact, donald sutherland who plays reich in the video.
2. the video is based on kate bush’s understanding of peter reich’s memoirs of his father, rather than on her knowledge of wilhelm himself.
3. it is very hard to say wilhelm himself 5 times in a row.
4. organon is an incorrect spelling of orgonon.
5. terry gilliam worked on, but did not direct the video.
6. reich was the last scientist in the u.s. to have his books publicly burned.

a lot of cool info here

i think this one portrays it in a more exciting light. i hate the song, but sweet christ i find it works well with this video.

not one of mr hinn’s best moments

this one is definitely worth watching to see a slightly more cynical view of the good reverend.

i’ll let you make your mind up about whether or not this is creepy.

and my absolute favorite. so far.

i was looking up this movie and i had a flashback to the first time i had ever learned the word. i don’t remember exactly what i was reading (might have been asimov’s guide to the bible – yes, that asimov), but it was probably about 11 or 12 years ago when i was first getting into old testament history. i was reading genesis because it was, and is, my favorite book of the bible. genesis 11 begins with the tower of babel scene, one of the most mythologically epic stories in the entire hebrew bible. then it switches to a “begat” list of the descendants of shem (semites) ending with the line of abram (later abraham).

verse 31 says “..and they went out together from ur of the chaldeans to go into the land of canaan.” the problem was that the word chaldean refers to the new babylonian period (6th century bce) and not to either the period of abraham (traditionally the 19th century bce) or of the presumed writer, moses (traditionally the 15th century bce). the commentary i was reading pointed out that this reference was anachronistic and therefore showed that abrahamic origin story was written after moses. this kind of blew my mind at the time.
i’ve been a bible geek ever since.

he sells miracle water. fucking miracle water.

inside edition doesn’t think very highly of him.

kind of a tool. at least, apparently, he has chicken.

and…

Drifters of the deep from Eugenia Loli-Queru on Vimeo.