The Knights Kishidan From Route 127 of Faeries.

Check out their website.

Albums and Fansites

I Love You

One Night Carnival

Too Fast to Live Too Young to Die

Six Senses

Boys Color

Single Collection 2001-2004

Kishidan Retto-Japanolomania-Nhk Su

Kishidan on MySpace

One Life Carnival

Kishidan LiveJournal Community

Kishidan Fan Exhange

The Crazy Music Videos

Kiss Kiss Kiss

Zoku

Oretachi ni wa Doyoubi Shikanai

Secret Love Story (Merry Christmas)

Swinging Nippon

Wedding March

Koibito (Lover)

Yatta

2003 Concert Intro Film

Kishidan Live

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This is a video of astronaut and Freemason Gordon Cooper describing the UFO experiences he had during his time as a test pilot.

More with Gordan Cooper here and here.

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Okay, this is cool. It’s a show called Radio8Ball, a mystical show which answers people’s questions by analyzing randomly selected songs as Tarot cards.

The show is hosted by Andras Jones from A Nightmare on Elm Street IV.* I first discovered the show in an article about Andras and fountain synchronicities written by Jake Kotze at The Blob. Jake Kotze’s synchromystic videos are now a regular part of the Radio8Ball series, and the latest show actually featured actress Rae Dawn Chong responding to a video Kotze made about her.

Rae Dawn then goes on to ask her own question of the Pop Oracle.

Rae Dawn Chong pt. 1

Rae Dawn Chong pt. 2

Radio8ball was once a radio show and podcast, but now is performed as a live stage show in Seattle. Upcoming celebrity guests include Jeffrey Combs, who played Weyoun on Star Trek Deep Space Nine, Seth Green, and John C. Reilly in a Dewey Cox themed show.

There was even an episode of the podcast featuring Bobby Hill from King of the Hill, who asks the Pop Oracle if ABC would pick up his canceled series.

I thought this Andy Dick episode was fascinating as well.

All the songs are independent and performed live by their musicians, making it a very cool place to find new bands. A lot of great bands have gone through there. Andras himself has done some songs on there too.

There is an internet application on the Radio8ball site that lets you commune with the Pop Oracle on your own. I asked, “How does the world peacefully free itself from corrupt rulers?” and it brought up a song called “Flashback BBQ.” The Tarot card associated with it was the ten of swords. The song’s relevance to the question I asked was surprisingly impressive, and a complete analysis of the answer might actually require a post of its own.

Briefly however, it would seem to imply that all our world leaders need to take hallucinogens.

*And speaking of Nightmare on Elm Street IV. . . What!? Are you kidding me!? The Fat Boys vs Freddy!?!? That is amazing! How can they even waste our time with a remake when they’ve already got something as classic as this out there? Check it out!

A little more of Rae Dawn Chong:

(Rae Dawn Chong in Quest for Fire)

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(Image by Dangerkoma)

This is a preview of the upcoming documentary, DMT: The Spirit Molecule, based on the book of the same name by Dr. Rick Strassman.

Click here to watch.

(Found via Douglass Rushkoff)

DMT is produced in humans and most vertebrates by the pineal gland, located deep withing the brain. It releases it when we dream.

Some see the pineal gland as a physical aspect of our spiritual third eye. In fact, the parietal eye, an evolutionary ancestor of the pineal gland present in certain animals, actually has a retina, lens, and cornea.

From wikipedia:

Pinealocytes in many non-mammalian vertebrates have a strong resemblance to the photoreceptor cells of the eye. Some evolutionary biologists believe that the vertebrate pineal cells share a common evolutionary ancestor with retinal cells.

In some vertebrates exposure to light can set off a chain reaction of enzymatic events within the pineal gland which regulate circadian rhythms. Some early vertebrate fossil skulls have a pineal foramen (opening). This correlates with the physiology of the modern “living fossils”, the lamprey and the tuatara, and some other vertebrates which have a parietal organ or “third eye” which, in some of them, is photosensitive. The third eye represents evolution’s earlier approach to photoreception. The structures of the third eye in the tuatara are homologous to the cornea, lens and retina, though the latter resembles that of an octopus rather than a vertebrate retina. The asymmetrical whole consists of the “eye” to the left and the pineal sac to the right. “In animals that have lost the parietal eye, including mammals, the pineal sac is retained and condensed into the form of the pineal gland.”

René Descartes described the pineal gland as the “seat of the soul.”

In Discordianism, the pineal gland is a sacred organ used for communion with the goddess Eris.

See also:

I’m Seeing Giraffes

Terrence McKenna Audio Online

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The divine language from one of the all time great sci-fi movies, The Fifth Element, has been deciphered by a fan and is now available online as a dictionary for your translating pleasure.

Like other such fantasy epics as Avatar, Star Trek, and The Lord of The Rings, The Fifth Element has it’s own unique fictional language, developed specifically for the film. The Divinian language is spoken in the movie by Leeloo and the mysterious Mondoshawan, and it is said that both Luc Besson and Milla Jovovich were fluent in it by the time they had completed production.

Cheers to T. Leah Fehr-Thompson for her fantastic work on the website and the guide. She’s even been using her Divinian skills to write poetry.

ven helén man mina pan y’am klaata tokemata
hammasa isperoberatné’met ilo lacta ania
me bankité dindoskal veno ilo asountimon veno oum maata’patou
ouacran oum itoumalena gé assin’omekta
man asountimon veno oum maata’patou ilo achan’chinou veno lacto
vano dado perod’jun din azip’oum tokematné
me bankité dindoskal veno lacta ania
ashna veno helén man mina din toten achan’chinoutz assin’omekta’gé

Link (more here and here)

This is the Book of the Divinian Language, and this is the Divinian Dictionary, both of which are available from her site along with two Divinian translation programs.

I am a huge fan of this language.

Fifth Element Links

The Divine Language

English to Divinian

Divinian to English

Leeloominaï Lekatariba Lamina-Tchaï Ekbat De Sebat

The Alchemical Romance of The Fifth Element

The Fifth Element at The Stygian Port

Mondoshawans – Life Guardians

The Fifth Element Video Game

The Fifth Element Trivia

The Fifth Element: New York Race

The Fifth Element at Rifftrax

The Fifth Element: A Novel

The Story of “Fifth Element” by Luc Besson

Fifth Element Fan Fiction

Fifth Element Crossover Fan Fiction

Fifth Element Cosplay – “I Am Become Leeloo” or “Leeloo Walks Among Us”

Leeloo is a character people love to transform themselves into. It is not uncommon to see her popping about amongst the other gods and aliens at sci-fi and comic book conventions around the world. . . At the crossroads of reality. . .

Leeloo

Leeloo

Leeloo

Leeloo

Leeloo at a Party

Leeloo

Supreme Being

Leeloo

Leeloo

Leeloo

Leeloo

Two Leeloos

Cyber Leeloo Cosplay Costumes

Leeloo

Leeloo

Leeloo

Leeloo

The Fifth Element Leeloo Costume

Leeloo

Leeloo

Leeloo

Kelly from The Office as Leeloo

Leeloo and Cammy

Leeloo

Leeloo

Leeloo

Tattooed Leeloo

Leeloo

Leeloo

5th Element

Fhloston Paradise

Leeloo

Hila lacta’ligunaï on lacta achan’chinou!

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One of the coolest stops Hillary and I made on our recent trip to Texas was at the Austin Museum of the Weird. The museum is on 6th Street and it’s open until 11 PM, so it’s easy to stroll in during a night out on the town.

It’s a tripped out collection. The museum itself is pretty small, but the eclectic display they’ve packed into it is very impressive.

Classic movie monster props combine with an arcane mix of occult artifacts and sideshow curiosities. Featuring the Fiji Mermaid, a two-headed sheep, and a fish with a human face.

There is a fairy fossil displayed on a wall. . .

A voodoo guardian stands in one corner. . .

And for all those fans of The Invisibles out there, there is even a Hand of Glory.

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(Link via Wired)

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I can’t believe the last episode is this Friday. There are rallies being held all over the country.

Conan Blasts NBC Over Tonight Show Shake Up

Leno Announces Cancellation, Slams NBC

Conan the Ho

Conan: If NBC Doesn’t Want People to See Me, Just Leave Me on NBC

Conan and Leno Joke About Each Other in Monologues

Letterman on the NBC Debacle

Jimmy Fallon Weighs in on Conan and Leno

Conan Puts The Tonight Show on Craigslist

Letterman Slams NBC Executives

Conan Ponders Career in Porn

Seth Meyers: NBC is Killing Conan

David Letterman: Leno Victims Unit

Saturday Night Live on the Leno/Conan Shuffle

Conan Puts Himself on Craigslist

Letterman Rips Leno

Leno Rips Letterman

Jimmy Kimmel as Leno

Conan Trashes NBC Execs in Monologue

Kenneth the Page Interrupts the Tonight Show

Jimmy Kimmel Goes After Leno on His Own Show

Howard Stern Warned Conan Three Years Ago

Conan/Leno Animated in Hong Kong

Conan Blasts NBC’s “Incompetent Morons” in Song

Ed Helms Sings Farewell Song to Conan

Letterman on Leno: “A Look Back”

Jay Leno: “I Told NBC That Prime Time ‘Will Never Work’”

Conan Spends 1.5 Million Dollars in One Sketch as Revenge Against NBC

Adam Sandler Sings to Conan

Hundreds Arrive at Conan Rally, Conan Appears with Free Pizzas

Obama Supports Conan

The Return of The Masterbating Bear

This article from Vanity Fair adds some very interesting background to the story.

Is Conan the Victim of Harvard’s Crimson/Lampoon Rivalry?

As O’Brien once told Business Week, “My first meeting with Jeff Zucker was in handcuffs, with a Cambridge police officer reading me my rights.”

One very positive aspect of the I’m With Coco movement is that, self-aware of how ultimately silly it is, it has doubled as a fundraising effort for Haitian relief. Click here, here, and here for a few different ways that you can help.

I’m With Coco on Facebook

The Tonight Show with Conan O’Brien

Late Night with Conan O’Brien

Late Night With Conan O’Brien: 10th Anniversary Special/The Best of Triumph the Insult Comic Dog

The Max Weinberg 7

If They Mated

Andy Richter Controls the Universe

All hail Conan.

Norm MacDonald Declares Conan the King of Late Night

See also:

Andy Richter is Back on Conan

Andy Barker, P.I.

Comic Con Coverage Part 4: Robin Vs. Triumph The Insult Comic Dog

UPDATE: NBC has scrubbed all of it’s Conan footage from the net. If you’re looking for Conan videos, I would suggest going to The Pirate Bay to download them illegally.

UPDATE: Conan O’Brien is now on Twitter.

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“God Helmet” Inventor, Dr. Michael Persinger Discovers Telepathy Link in Lab Experiments

In the 1980’s Persinger made headlines with his “God Helmet”, a device that stimulates temporal lobes with a weak magnetic field in order to produce religious states.

Now, Persinger has discovered the same type of brain stimulation can create metal states conducive to human telepathy. “What we have found is that if you place two different people at a distance and put a circular magnetic field around both, and you make sure they are connected to the same computer so they get the same stimulation, then if you flash a light in one person’s eye the person in the other room receiving just the magnetic field will show changes in their brain as if they saw the flash of light. We think that’s tremendous because it may be the first macro demonstration of a quantum connection, or so-called quantum entanglement. If true, then there’s another way of potential communication that may have physical applications, for example, in space travel.”

(Found via Prefessor Hex)

The God Helmet on Wikipedia

The leading researcher in this area is Michael Persinger. Persinger uses a modified snowmobile helmet (the “Koren Helmet”) that contains solenoids placed over the temporal lobes, or a device nicknamed the Octopus that uses solenoids, both of which output “weak but complex” magnetic fields. The Octopus uses solenoids around the whole brain, in a circle just above subject’s ears, eyes and the bony ridge at the back of the skull, a region that includes the temporal lobes. Persinger reports that at least 80 percent of his participants (working with the Koren Helmet) experience a presence beside them in the room, which ranges from a simple ’sensed presence’ to God. About one percent experienced God, while many more had less evocative, but still significant experiences of ‘another being’.

You can purchase your own god helmet here from Shakti Technology.

It’s called the Shiva Neural Stimulation System.

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(via The Daily Superman)

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