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Gary Lachman (aka Valentine), the keyboardist from Blondie, is a deeply cool guy. He's written about the Gurdjieff work in a very astute yet personal way, and here he unearths all the juicy occult stuff from the little corners it's hidden itself in in 1960's culture, all clearly well researched and referenced.
Some of my weird and mind-bending favorites from the book:
"At a seminar "On Cannibalism and Human Sacrifice, LaVey served the amputated thigh of a young woman, donated by a Berkeley physician, perpared by his second wife Diane following a Fiji islander recipe for puaka balava, 'long pig'. The most satanic of his audience in the early days was the film-maker Kenneth Anger, who introduced Marjorie Cameron, Jack Parsons' widow, to LaVey ... Susan Atkins, who stabbed the pregnant Sharon Tate to death, was for a time a dancer in LaVey's tawdry Topless Witches Revue that played in some of San Francisco's seedy venues. She would later claim it was LaVey who put her on the road to murder. And as we will see, Bobby Beausoleil, another member of the Family convicted of murder, starred in an early version of Anger's Lucifer Rising. Tate's husband, Roman Polanski, was the director of Rosemary's Baby, which features LaVey as the Devil."
So really that last part is a myth, which is weird because I really thought I remembered seeing LaVey as the Devil but it never actually happens. Zizek would have something to say about it, I'm sure. But the occasional misstep is worth it for such a journey through the hidden underbelly of 1960's stardom.
Later Anger falls in with the Stones through the witch Anita Pallenberg, but I don't want to spoil any more of it. It's like Anger's own Hollywood Babylon, but for Rock 'n Roll.
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