http://www.justinhampton-thebookloft.com Undermining The Consensus, One Promotional Post at a Time Wed, 25 Nov 2009 00:33:43 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en XD86FHW7V844 http://www.justinhampton-thebookloft.com/xd86fhw7v844/ Recently, the Jack Rabbit Speaks (that's the Burning Man listserv, for those of you who don't know) linked to a blog post by a photographer named Scott Sporleder, who came up with the ingenious idea of assembling a reading list from random people he met on the playa. If anyone ... http://www.justinhampton-thebookloft.com/the-burner-reading-list/ So it appears that a few of you on the Internets have sailed in looking for a copy of Carl Jung's Red Book, aka Liber Novus. Well, I've spoken to Eric at the bookloft, and he tells me that the first edition is sold out. But he does expect to ... http://www.justinhampton-thebookloft.com/a-red-letter-day-for-jung/ So how many of you remember the good old days, back when Spirtualists held seances and published newspapers in every major US city and an enterprising individual could make a few million out of some rehashed mystery religion teachings through direct mail? Okay, not too many of you. And yes, it's ... http://www.justinhampton-thebookloft.com/lost-in-occult-america/ We should have seen it coming. Not all of it, mind you. Just the phenomenon I'm writing about today. For back in the days when a pierced nose was considered radical, punk artistes like Henry Rollins, Jello Biafra and Lydia Lunch would occasionally release these albums with no music at all ... http://www.justinhampton-thebookloft.com/punks-not-read-a-peek-into-sfs-literate-punk-scene/ I'm not very good at recording my dreams, but the very fact that I do from time to time owes a lot to Carl Jung, a man who needs no introduction to the intellectual mavericks to the world. Known to all of Jung's most ardent disciples as little more than ... http://www.justinhampton-thebookloft.com/jungs-not-so-little-red-book/ I didn't come right out and say it in the last post, but implicit in my final statement regarding BM was a realization I made back in '99 that sadly and ironically enough, words would not be enough to reach a modern audience looking for something new. What drew me ... http://www.justinhampton-thebookloft.com/make-it-happen-waiting-for-interactivity/ [caption id="attachment_85" align="aligncenter" width="222" caption="Missive from an anonymous playa bard, swiped from the Playa Info Bulletin Board"][/caption] So! Before I begin this, I suppose I should address those of you who showed up a while ago expecting a little bit more information about Adrian Roberts and RE/Search than you ended up ... http://www.justinhampton-thebookloft.com/burning-books-geeking-out-at-burning-man-pt-2/ Now a few of you just may have noted in the Nick Cave review I posted a few weeks ago that I was rushing off to an event called Burning Man. I have learned over the years that when one mentions this week-long countercultural extravaganza to people there are usually ... http://www.justinhampton-thebookloft.com/burning-books-geeking-out-at-burning-man-pt-1/ Well, I've been waiting to get the all-clear from the Powers That Be to talk to you about my Burning Man Experience and some of the unique things I've learned from it. But I couldn't let the day pass without acknowledging Jim Carroll's passing. Died while he was on the ... http://www.justinhampton-thebookloft.com/a-person-who-died-jim-carroll-1949-2009/