No Reason

If you need a reason, imagine a pentagram or "endeles knot" (Gawain and the Green Knight, line 630) with the following songs at its points: Sunn O)))'s "It Took The Night To Believe," Xasthur's "The Eerie Bliss and Torture (Of Solitude)," High on Fire's "The Yeti," Ludicra's "Userpent," and Bolt Thrower's "This Time It's War."

Think Again

"The only thing I can really say with confidence at at is that I think we're on the verge -- and again, the timescale is very indefinite here -- but Western Civilization is on the verge of collectively realising that the number system is something very different from what it had previously thought it to be. I haven't got a particular theory about what it is, I just know it isn't what we think it is" (Matthew Watkins, "Prime Evolution: Interview with Matthew Watkins," Collapse: Philosophpical Research and Development 1(2007):188).

More inexplicability explained here.

A Cool Painting

Heather made this painting yesterday. It's called Being is Dying by Loving. I think it is very cool.

Conother Anundrum

What is there to do, except be?
What is there to be, except doing?

Heavy Metal Glossing

Here is my first attempt, "Black Sabbath's 'Black Sabbath': A Gloss on Heavy Metal's Originary Song." Listening to the song concurrently will aid comprehension.

Many thanks to Kenny G at WFMU for the good word!