From: Ajna-Luxi Lucidus-a-um (email suppressed)
Date: Sat Feb 21 2004 - 07:09:29 PST
or so he says and so it goes and its kind of like 6 degrees to Kevin Bacon, but with SATAN instead, so its like, 6 Degrees to SATAN, in any direction
Anton LaVey (demon brother)-----Roman Polanski/Sharon Tate(devil in Rosemary's Baby)
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Anger-------------Marjorie Cameron
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Manson--------------Hubbard------------DeGrimston/Process Church
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Robert Heilein Esalen Institute Aldous Huxley, etc.
One can also play on the Kenneth Anger/Jimmy Page/Boleskine House/Crowley/Loch Ness and also Mick Jagger to Alamout show with Hell's Angels sympathy for the devil debacle and other satanic pineal glad munchers who live in the desert.
prajna annulus ganges
Pip Chodorov <email suppressed> wrote:
"Bobby Beausoleil is a talented musician, and he composed the original score for me for Lucifer Rising.
I had a quarrel with Bobby Beausoleil over the misappropriation of some funds I gave him, to buy some music equipment, and then he ended up buying a big key of marijuana instead, and I said forget it, you know, take your marijuana and leave. Because he put it in my house, if I'd been busted with that in my house, this interview would be in jail I suppose, according to California law.
And then that's how Bobby got mixed up with the Manson gang, because he stole my van, and then with the marijuana drove to Southern California from San Francisco, the van broke down in San Fernando valley right in front of the Spahn ranch where Manson was living with all these girls. And so there he was with his broken car trying to get it working and the girls came out and said "well move in with us" and so he moved into this murderous hippy family.
When I was out at dinner, he came back, he sort of knew how to get in my place, and took all the cans of film where it said "Bobby," that were of him that were on my cutting bin, where I had it divided, because he was my original Lucifer.
Then he gave it to Manson, Manson buried it in Death Valley, which of course would ruin it, the high temperatures there would destroy the film, even though, so I never went looking for it. But I had left over the scraps in my cutting bin which were unwound and just hanging and it's from these, these left-over scraps that I made Invocation of My Demon Brother, 11 minutes.
And then of course he did kill one person, Gary Hinman, a musician, over some botched drug deal. So I didn't know at the time when I was living with him that he was a murderer - he wasn't a murderer at that time - you never know, huh? - but he was a talented musician.
And after he got in prison I began corresponding with him again and then I visited him and then it worked out that I got permission to film it in prison, California prison, with 12 other criminals who were talented musicians, who are basically in there for things like serious drug busts and so forth. And it was arranged by the head psychiatrist for the prison system at that time, a wonderful woman named Dr. Minerva Bertholt, and she said it's better that they be playing music than rioting, so she arranged it. And he's still there, incidentally,"
- Kenneth Anger, interviewed by Pip Chodorov, July 2003
My point wasn't about where Bobby Beausoleil is today, but where
Kenneth Anger was when he put the score on Lucifer Rising. And the
issue I was trying to raise isn't about giving a human being a break,
but how artists position themselves, what consequences accrue to the
symbols they invoke, and less when they step over society's line,
than when they step outside the circle of confusion that may define
their art. That is, all I'm saying is that my appreciation of Anger
depends on the notion that he is being at least somewhat playful with
the line between camp Magick and more serious dark shit. The semiotic
invocation of a Manson connection just freaks me out, it ain't
playful anymore. Unless your idea of play is sticking a fork in a
pregnant woman's stomach. Mine isn't, and I don't want to be reminded
of that in any context that doesn't take it very, very seriously.
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