Tag Archives: Joni Mitchell

cosmic thinking: playing havoc with known principles

Posted on November 25, 2012 by Dave

Shattering the mechanistic universe and making room among the black holes for ESP, PK, mindons, psitrons, and ghosts… …Parapsychological research can be divided- though arbitrarily and not at all neatly- into four basic areas. For convenience they are lumped together … Continue reading →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion | Tagged Dr. J.B. Rhine, Dr. Louisa Rhine, Edgar Cayce, Emanuel Swedenborg, Joni Mitchell, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, margaret mead, Mrs. Lucille Kahn, Paranormal psychology, Telepathy, William A. Tiller | Leave a comment

if you meet a shaman on the road…

Posted on November 10, 2011 by Dave

“From the cavern, man does not like to stir” – W. Benjamin. Where is the scariest place to live. It may just be inside of us. But we love to project…..Antonin Artaud studied the Tarahumara indians in Mexico in 1936,who … Continue reading →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion | Tagged Antonin Artaud, Joni Mitchell, Michel Foucault, pranormal psychology, Roland Barthes, shamanism, tarahumara indians mexico, the paranormal view, Walter Benjamin | Leave a comment

one of the boys: men in long black coats

Posted on May 29, 2011 by Dave

John Lennon was once quoted as saying that Bob Dylan was intentionally opaque in his lyrics so as to position himself as “secure in his hipness”. It is often taken that Dylan provided the Beatles with the understanding of depth, … Continue reading →

Posted in Cinema/Visual/Audio, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Literature/poetry/spoken word, Marketing/Advertising/Media, Music/Composition/Performance | Tagged andy greene, anthony scaduto, art blog, Arthur Rimbaud, Bob Dylan, Camille Paglia, Charles Baudelaire, Constance Rourke, elliot mintz, Greil Marcus, Heinrich Heine, henry timrod, james damiano, jann s. wenner, jann wenner, John Lennon, johnny cash, Jonathan Rosenbaum, Joni Mitchell, joseph heath, Larry Charles, robert shelton, scott warmuth, Steve Jobs, Susan Sontag, Theodor Adorno, Thomas Frank, thomas frank the baffler, William Burroughs | Leave a comment

collector geeks: crying over the whole shebang

Posted on April 20, 2011 by Dave

Obsessive completist collector geeks…. Art Chantry (Art@artchantry.com): While collecting records over the years,I began to become fascinated by a certain weird ‘category’ of record collecting. There are so many odd little nooks and crannies of record collecting that you never … Continue reading →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Marketing/Advertising/Media, Modern Arts/Craft | Tagged Alfred Hitchcock, art chantry, bettie page, big black, Bryan Ferry, butthole surfers, Captain Beefheart, Don Van Vliet, Frank Sinatra, fred sanford, Gibby Hayes, Ivy Rorschach, Joni Mitchell, Lux Interior, mary tyler moore, redd foxx, ron wood, sanford and son, Steve Albini, The Cramps, xavier cugat | Leave a comment

dangerous dabbling: buckaroo artwork

Posted on March 26, 2011 by Art

Many recording artists can’t seem to resist a little dabbling in the graphic arts, sometimes even doing their group’s cover design and artwork. Most should stay away…. (ed.) Art Chantry: One of the banes of graphic designers everywhere is the … Continue reading →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Marketing/Advertising/Media, Miscellaneous, Modern Arts/Craft | Tagged art chantry, Bob Dylan, Bryan Ferry, Buck Owens, Captain Beefheart, Don Van Vliet, Frank Sinatra, Gibby Hayes, Ivy Rorschach, John Berg, Joni Mitchell, Steve Albini, Tom Huck | Leave a comment

ROUSSEAU & THE COUCH IN THE JUNGLE: Landscape of Hallucination

Posted on October 20, 2010 by Dave

It’s been said, oversimplistically but sympathetically, that “he didn’t know the rules well enough to break them”. But of course there are no rules in the kingdom of the imagination.He knew he was a babe in the woods of high … Continue reading →