VINDICATION! Adria Lang agrees with Pat Kennedy! LOST. Smokey = Nyarlathotep
Apr 1, 2010 Cool Stuff, Friends of Bellmojo
I was extremely pleased to find my name tagged in a Facebook note written by my friend Adria Lang. She is really a brilliant woman and a beautiful writer (and vicey-versey, there too!) and wholeheartedly agrees with me that the Man in Black, Jacob’s Nemesis or (as Adria likes to refer to him/it/what) Mocke is actually Nyarlethotep! H.P. Lovecraft’s harbinger of the Great Old Ones’ return! Check it out!
Pat Kennedy, you knew it all along.
LOST fans, if you are wondering who the Smoke Monster is, look no further then H.P. Lovecraft and his ancient demon Nyarlathotep.
Nyarlathotep, aka “the crawling chaos” is so Smokey it hurts.
“And it was then that Nyarlathotep came out of Egypt. Who he was, none could tell, but he was of the old native blood and looked like a Pharaoh.”
We know Tawaret, the statue, is Egyptian in origin. It has been assumed that Jacob and MIB are of the era too, even though they have shockingly modern accents. Also, whack a little eyeliner on Locke and he would totally look like a God of Ancient Egypt.
“The fellahin knelt when they saw him, yet could not say why. He said he had risen up out of the blackness of twenty-seven centuries, and that he had heard messages from places not on this planet.”
Tikatikatika…
“Into the lands of civilisation came Nyarlathotep, swarthy, slender, and sinister, always buying strange instruments of glass and metal and combining them into instruments yet stranger. He spoke much of the sciences of electricity and psychology and gave exhibitions of power which sent his spectators away speechless, yet which swelled his fame to exceeding magnitude. Men advised one another to see Nyarlathotep, and shuddered. And where Nyarlathotep went, rest vanished, for the small hours were rent with the screams of nightmare.”
This plays to both original Locke, Mocke, and The Smoke Monster. There’s more!!
“Screamingly sentient, dumbly delirious, only the gods that were can tell. A sickened, sensitive shadow writhing in hands that are not hands, and whirled blindly past ghastly midnights of rotting creation, corpses of dead worlds with sores that were cities, charnel winds that brush the pallid stars and make them flicker low. Beyond the worlds vague ghosts of monstrous things; half-seen columns of unsanctifled temples that rest on nameless rocks beneath space and reach up to dizzy vacua above the spheres of light and darkness. And through this revolting graveyard of the universe the muffled, maddening beating of drums, and thin, monotonous whine of blasphemous flutes from inconceivable, unlighted chambers beyond Time; the detestable pounding and piping whereunto dance slowly, awkwardly, and absurdly the gigantic, tenebrous ultimate gods the blind, voiceless, mindless gargoyles whose soul is Nyarlathotep.”
Wikipedia says this about him:
In his first appearance in “Nyarlathotep”, he is described as a “tall, swarthy man” who resembles an ancient Egyptian pharaoh. In this story he wanders the earth, seemingly gathering legions of followers, the narrator of the story among them, through his demonstrations of strange and seemingly magical instruments. These followers lose awareness of the world around them, and through the narrator’s increasingly unreliable accounts the reader gets an impression of the world’s collapse. The story ends with the narrator as part of an army of servants for Nyarlathotep.
Mocke is gathering followers, and in some cases driving them to “lose awareness of the world around them”.
Read the whole short story here.
Halloween Trivia from our sistah at She Never Slept!
Oct 22, 2009 Cool Stuff, Friends of Bellmojo
Hey, folks, just wanted to remind everyone to visit She Never Slept everyday till Halloween for the 13 DAYS OF HALLOWEEN trivia contest that Sarah L. Gerhardt has put together, as of this post it will day 4. Yeah, I know, I been busy! But check it out, Sarah is giving away some really cool prizes. Today’s winner will be awarded a Cthulhu Fish emblem and Yellow Sign sticker from Dagon Industries! For those of you that don’t know, I am writing reviews for Ms. Gerhardt, and I better get cracking on my next or my gray matter is going to end up in a Mi-Go Brain Cylinder!
Tags: Cthulhu, Dagon, Free Stuff, Halloween, Prizes, Sarah L. Gerhardt, She Never Slept, Yellow Sign
Royal Flush Festival hits NYC!
Oct 15, 2009 Cool Stuff, Friends of Bellmojo, News
Folks, if you are in the NYC area this weekend and you don’t make it to the Royal Flush Festival, you are doing yourself a great disservice! 13 NY Premier Indie Film Screenings, 3 Art Exhibits, 6 Live Concerts, 2 Days of Panels and 5 Nights of Killer Parties!
Hey, there hipster-kids, got nothing to do, hanging out on a street corner in the East Village, pissed off that Chanchi hasn’t gotten back from copping over on Ave D and because the Tranny turned out to be a real girl? Well, get your emaciated, faux-hawked, skinny-jean wearing ass over to The Royal Flush Festival! 13 NY Premier Indie Film Screenings, 3 Art Exhibits, 6 Live Concerts, 2 Days of Panels and 5 Nights of Killer Parties! Oh, and by the way, wearing a t-shirt with Che Guevera’s face branded across it is exactly what the old man would have wanted. This little piece of beligerence was brought to you by Patrick J. Kennedy, and the opinions therein are in no way endorsed by The Royal Flush Festival. My feet are still cold and I am cranky. Tomorrow, my report from the Big Apple Comic Con!
Tags: Art, Independent film, Music, NYC, Royal Flush magazine
Independent Filmmaker Jim Muscarella’s Collaborations With BellMojo
Jul 14, 2009 Friends of Bellmojo
Our friend, Jim Muscarella, is one of the driving forces behind The Royal Flush Film Festival, www.royalflushfestival.com.
Jim has produced a couple of videos for Mindless Self Indulgence; the first featured BellMojo founder Patrick J. Kennedy as Officer Dillagaf and is titled STRAIGHT TO VIDEO:
The second video, NEVER WANTED TO DANCE, was cast by BellMojo and features our Technical Director, Sean Bade as Dillagaf’s Colleague, Officer Waylamf :
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UR0UkTiKxmc
If you know anybody that has a short, feature, documentary or video they are looking to submit, visit royalflushfestival.com.
