Best known for his editing role on Monty Python's 'The Life of Brian' and special effects man on Terry Gilliam's 'Brazil', Julian Doyle returns with his B-Movie take on Aleister Crowley in this years 'Chemical Wedding'. Deciding not to take the biographical role, and instead envisioning Crowley in a modern setting, the film took a panning by critics, and Crowley fans alike. We sent in our man, Adrian Dobbie, to find out what Doyles motives and reactions were behind the film... Resurrecting the Beast I've only been in the company of ex-Monty Python collaborator Julian Doyle for half an hour or so but already the conversation has been surprisingly brisk. So far we've discussed the Osirian symbolism behind the story of Abelard and Eloise, the influence of early Christian Britain on the Roman Empire before Constantine and the idea that giants built many of the Neolithic stone circles in the British Isles.  Oh and we've touched on quantum theory too. Just a little.   I'm at Doyle's North London home to interview him about the movie Chemical Wedding, which alongside Iron Maiden frontman Bruce Dickinson, Doyle co-wrote, directed, edited and produced. To date, Chemical Wedding is by far the most ambitious and commercially successful ...

Taking the Path of Least Resistance in Magic If there is one challenge that magicians face when it comes to determining the effectiveness of magic, it is figuring out if the magic you performed aligned with your internal values. Sometimes, even if we think we want a particular result, we actually don’t want that result. Speaking from personal experience, I always found it odd when I would do a successful act of magic and get the result I desired, but then have the impact of that result not really count for handling my situation. It was only much later that I would recognize that the magic I did at that time was going counter to my internal values. I’ve also noted this type of occurrence with other magicians: they would get results, but when those results were not in alignment with their internal values an essential part of them rejected the results.   Recently I read a passage that I would like to share, which speaks to this issue, “Magick defines suffering as the result of straying from one’s natural path of ‘least resistance’” (Schueler 1988, p. 222). Suffering arises from straying from one’s natural path of least resistance. This is an interesting ...

Fantastic new addition to the SittingNow writing-crew, Adrian Dobbie, gets down and dirty with the recent Julian Doyle (Monty Python)/Bruce Dickinson (Iron Maiden) written, Chemical Wedding. Is this release finally what acolytes of Aleister Crowley have been waiting for? or another Magickly-huge disapointment?...   Carry-On Crowley?   Among occultists and Thelemites specifically there has long been a certain desire to see their hero Crowley immortalised on film. The exploits of the Master Therion would seem to offer pre-packaged prime subject matter for an industry that thrives on titillation and sensationalism, but while general interest in Crowley does seem to be on the rise, the definitive Crowley film remains to be made. In the last few years we've seen a number of documentaries of varying quality and lately the internet has been awash with teasers and half-baked trailers promising more dramatized takes on the life and times of the Beast 666. Yet none of these have seemed more likely to come to fruition than Bruce Dickinson's project ‘Chemical Wedding'. For those who may not know who Dickinson is, he is the yodelling, spandex-sporting front man of legendary UK metal band Iron Maiden. I have to admit that when I first heard about the Brit-rock legend touting his ...

This is no joke! The benches have apparently been installed to celebrate the city of 'Stavanger', which is apparently Norway's cultural capital. As ridiculous as this may look, however, the music offered includes tracks from the amazing John Kaada, who happens to come from the apparently culturally-rich city, and this lady seems to dig him, so she's ok with me! Hmmm, well, I'm just trying to figure out if the dog has some special dog-orientated ear buds down there? source www.dagbladet.no/

This gig had a slightly surreal quality for me because I have been a devout Pavement / Stephen Malkmus fan for a decade now but this was my first opportunity to see the great man live. I couldn’t really believe that he was going to actually appear for some reason.   Thankfully, openers “Maths Class” didn’t give me a chance to get any pre-date nerves because they were very, very loud. In fact my girlfriend had to stick her fingers in her ears and screw her face up and look at me in a funny way they were so loud. This is a mark of success in my book. I have to admit I’d never heard of “Maths Class” so was slightly surprised to find they have had hundreds of thousands of hits on MySpace. But this increasing success is not just down to the volume at which they can play…no. And it’s not entirely down to the fact that they cut their own hair either. I suspect it’s mainly because they do a very professional line in Liars / Biffy Clyro style screamo. They wouldn’t describe it as screamo, because it’s not the Nineties anymore but that, to all intents ...

Master of music Sir Milliard Mulch, a.k.a. Dr Zoltan has really thrown down and giving you simple humans a treat here. You, yes YOU can learn to play Faith No Mores 1995 opus Digging the Grave on the keyboard: I really don't know how he does it, every note spot on! For those of you that don't have a clue what tune the Dr is trying to teach you (for shame), here's a little reminder: Thank you Dr Zoltan!

It's V mask time again, as the kids and oldfags alike take to the streets to continue their protest against the Church of Scientology tomorrow. If you're London based and want to go along for some lulz, check here for details of how to get involved. The theme of this months protest is 'Cult-Fiction': On Saturday, August 16th, the collective known as Anonymous will again stage a protest against the Church of Scientology's corruption, and its abuse of its members and critics. This will be Anonymous' seventh global protest since the inception of its campaign in January. From 11am (local time) onwards, Anonymous will take to the streets in peaceful protest at over 130 Church of Scientology centres around the globe You never know, some of the RWYASN staff might be there as well...just for the lulz! Checkout Wirah.com, Enturbulation.org and londonlulz.com for 'MOAR' info!

re: previous post (just re-edited this from my enturbulation post) A few hours after I posted the previous entry, I get an email from my host (1&1 Internet) stating the following: Dear *******, (Customer ID: ******) Thank you for continuing to use 1&1 Internet. We sincerely apologize for contacting you regarding this matter, but multiple complaints have been directed to us regarding a recent entry on your site Right Where You Are Sitting Now! - Exploring the Underground and Counterculture...so you don\'t have to! Please call us re: at your earliest convieniance (lol they can't spell) quoting your customer reference number ********. In the meantime, if you would consider temporarily removing the entry, we would appreciate it. so I call them, and low and behold, the 'recent entry' is my coverage of the ENG court summons. I then asked them if they could name the the complainer's and what their beef was. Apparantly the complaints all came in in the period of an hour (alarm bells, amirite?) and only two of complainer's left their names, one was a 'Mark Bunker' the other was the name of my Mother!!!! I told them that a.) I doubted that Mark Bunker would have ...

Hey, so I just interviewed the Rev. Ivan Stang of the Church of the Subgenius and even though 'the conspiracy' tried its best to stop us (by interfering with our connection at key moments), the interview went really well! SO! as mentioned in episode 3, the next show WILL be an interview with Rev. Stang and will be available on wednesday via the site, iTunes and all good podcatchers. We have secured an interview with the amazing Douglas Rushkoff, but we are holding that one back until August for various reasons, the main one being a new book that we'll hopefully get to discuss with him.  Now some of you have emailed us demanding some Aleister Crowley/occult-centric episodes, and don't worry we are listening! We are readying our experts and episode 5 should be riddled with hidden history and Crowleyanity, so keep listening!  Anyway, thanks for all your emails and offers of help, we'll be rolling out the new Myspace profile which is being put together by our "agent in the field" Paul 'StuntCock', noise-master and social networking insurgent. Paul will also hopefully be providing us with some of the coolest new crazy noise bands in his own segment in the show. 

bear with us :)