Conspiracy NYC Update: Delicious Synchronicity

A few days ago I posted about a photo I took of a gentleman who runs around Wall Street dressed like a priest holding signs with crazed anti-Semitic slogans:

It has been brought to my attention by Adam Holland that this man is actually Brother Nathanael Kapner, and that he was once Mickey Kapner, guitarist and organist for a psychedelic band known as Rebecca and the Sunnybrook Farmers. I was merely posting my "Conspiracy NYC" segment of the week, and I had no idea of its synchronicitous connection to psychedelic rock. Don't believe me? Check out the man's Livejournal! Oh yeah, and the guy was originally Jewish.

Arcana Obscura Review (1/26/08)

Playlist and Archive for Saturday (1/26/08)

Highlights:

I hoped to get some videos of songs played but the pickings were scarce. I played the soundtrack to the Kenneth Anger film Lucifer Rising, composed and performed by Jimmy Page. Jimmy Page and Anger had a fight so Page wouldn't let him use it. What to do? Get Manson Family member Bobby Beausoleil to make a new one from prison! I couldn't find a satisfactory trailer of the film but I instead found this video of two metal dudes in a Barnes & Noble being more metal than you'll ever be:

I also played the excellent "Hymn 43" by Jethro Tull. Here is a video of some guy playing the bongos along to the song, with a special surprise at the end:

And finally, another highlight was "Shine On Brightly" by psychedelic mainstay, Procol Harum. Unfortunately, the only thing I could find was a man who believes lava lamps and darkness are acceptable music video fodder. So just consider this audio:

The day ain't fucking over.

Conspiracy Watch NYC: Salvation à la Mode and a Cup of Tea

I was walking on Wall Street when I noticed a old priest prowling about, brandishing a crucifix and a sign, getting Bronx cheers from all the traders and tourists. I quickly pursued and yelled "Hey!" He suddenly turned around with a jaunty ghoulish grin and I snapped this photo:
His sign read "ACLU JEWS ARE ANTI-CHRIST." I was confused as to whether these aforementioned Jews were simply anti-christ or whether they were all simultaneously, the Anti-Christ. We may never know.

For Your Future's Sake, I'm The Candidate

For Today For Tomorrow Forever!
He's Bringing Dandy Back... For America

A Letter From Jinx Dawson

A little while back I wrote to Jinx Dawson of Coven regarding the short article I wrote earlier in this blog. This was her response:

My Dearest A...

I thank thee for thy most kind comments...The blood in my veins warmeth...I was so intriqued by thy blog site I put a section at my pages for my cherished friends to get to thee...And I thank Thee Most Humbly....Thy Friend...J

Seriously, I think she must have bathed in Ayesha's flaming pools beneath the ruins of Kor. She still looks as good she did when she recorded Blood on the Snow.

Plastic Tales Review (1/21/08)

Playlist and Archive for Monday (1/21/07)

Highlights:

Here is Arthur Brown performing Eternal Messenger at the first Glastonbury Festival in 1971 (note the KISS makeup way before KISS thought of it):

Here is a most ridiculous video by the Wallace Collection:

And here are the Amboy Dukes performing "Journey to the Center of the Mind" featuring a very young gun enthusiast Ted Nugent:


And of course, there was Sam Gopal fronted by Lemmy Kilmister.

I host next on 2/4/08!

Update: I just noticed that guy at the beginning of the Arthur Brown video might as well be Hyde from That 70s Show. And Charlie Manson shows up at 1:43. And Jesus, could white people ever dance?

Is There Life On Mars?

Sailors fighting in the dance hall

Oh man, look at those cavemen go

It's the freakiest show

Pepto-Bismol Monster

Colleague and student of my alma mater, Sean Traynor, directed the following video in accordance with the heartfelt desire of a madman to make his own Pepto-Bismol commercial. Observe:

Conspiracy Watch NYC - Calling Occupants of Interplanetary Peapods

New York City has always been a place for foul smelling prophets to take their message of fractured logic to the streets. Unfortunately, for every high rise condominium that goes up, a wild-eyed Cassandra is put down. It was in this fashion that the Daoine Sidh were banished from the gentle shores of Albion.

I sometimes run into these messengers, most recently on the subway (D Train). A strange old woman came into the car and stood there motionlessly with her sign on a sandwichboard:
"White demons couldn't succeed to destroy the natural human race using war, Mendell & Hitler. Will they succeed using clones to replace plants, human, animals slowly but surely? Will demons use nuclear to expediate (speed) the process?"

Yes, her story pretty much checks out. But one question, if I may. Who or what is Mendell? A jive-talking barber from the Bronx? Apocalyptic comedian (and voice of Gizmo) Howie Mandel? The only candidate I can think of is scientist cleric Gregor Mendel, who studied inherited traits of peapods. His work laid the groundwork for early genetic science. If this woman was so concerned with plants being cloned, why wouldn't she equate Gregor Mendel with Hitler?