yes i am a hermit and ecstasy's my game

this is "puce moment," an incredible short film by kenneth anger. not as faggy as the seminal "fireworks," but awesome nonetheless. especially great is the music, which, if this blog (http://rabbitscgi.blogspot.com/2009/04/music-of-kenneth-angers-puce-moment.html) is to be believed, was written by someone named jonathan halper, who possibly became a tibetan monk and/or played mental hospitals around edinburgh.

kenneth anger is legendary and bizarre, a devoted follower of aleister crowley's church of Thelema. my biggest regret: i was once in cefalu, italy, where crowley and his thelemites built its one temple, the Abbey of Thelema -- and i didn't visit it. the group was later forced to abandon the small, ramshackle building when they were run out of the country by mussolini's fascists.