Author: James J. O'Meara

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Francis Ford Coppola
Megalopolis: A Fable
Adam Driver, Giancarlo Esposito, Nathalie Emmanuel, Shia LaBeouf, Aubrey Plaza, Dustin Hoffman, Jon Voight, Laurence Fishburne
Produced, written and directed by Francis Ford Coppola

“This is typical of new directors, too many good ideas. Or, in this case, no ideas.” –Mystery Science Theater.[1]

“It was like watching a train wreck unfold day after day, week after week, and knowing that everybody there had tried their hardest to help the train wreck be avoided…. This sounds crazy to say, but there were times when we were all standing around going: ‘Has this guy ever made a movie before?’” – Crew member quoted in The Guardian (more…)

4,817 words

David J. Goodwin
Midnight Rambles: H. P. Lovecraft In Gotham
Fordham University Press, 2023

Part 4 (Read Part 1 here. Read Part 2 here. Read Part 3 here.)

Awakened Cthulhu, Woke Lovecraft?

There are several places where Lovecraft seems to step out of character, or at least displays views that conflict with his image as a man of the Right. (more…)

3,079 words

David J. Goodwin
Midnight Rambles: H. P. Lovecraft In Gotham
Fordham University Press, 2023

Part 3 (Read Part 1 here. Read Part 2 here.) (more…)

3,166 words

David J. Goodwin
Midnight Rambles: H. P. Lovecraft In Gotham
Fordham University Press, 2023

Part 2 (Read Part 1 here)

So this is the first angle to Goodwin’s book: Lovecraft’s abhorrent views crop up not only in conversations and private letters, but in his published fiction. (more…)

4,122 words

David J. Goodwin
Midnight Rambles: H. P. Lovecraft In Gotham
Fordham University Press, 2023

Part 1

“Come on ramblers, let’s ramble.” – Joe, Reservoir Dogs

 “So if you ever meet the midnight rambler/Coming down your marble hall
Well he’s pouncing like a proud black panther/Well, you can say I, I told you so”
– “Midnight Rambler”

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Francis Parker Yockey (right). Date, location, & friend unknown.

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IT will be seen that this mere painstaking burrower and grub-worm of a poor devil of a Sub-Sub appears to have gone through the long Vaticans and street-stalls of the earth, picking up whatever random allusions to whales he could anyways find in any book whatsoever, sacred or profane. . . . — Herman Melville, “Extracts (SUPPLIED BY A SUB-SUB-LIBRARIAN),” Moby Dick

The intimate revelations of young men, or at least the terms in which they express them, are usually plagiaristic and marred by obvious suppressions. – F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby (more…)

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Part 3 of 3 (Part 1 here, Part 2 here)

Chapter Nine, “Europe and the Indo-Europeans,” addresses another required subject: the origins and development of the white race and its civilizations. These discussions, mixing science (genomes), soft science (anthropology), and “esoteric” science (Evola, again), usually make me want to lie down and take a nap — wake me when the Funnelbeaker Farmers annihilate the Corded Ware culture — but I think I now have the hang of this Indo-European business — the various ways the genetics of three peoples and the resulting cultures (male initiation, warrior bands, and caste systems) have intertwined in our history — thanks to The Golden One! (more…)

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Part 2 of 3 (Part 1 here, Part 3 here)

We’ve already mentioned Nietzsche’s concept of ressentiment,[1] and The Golden One unpacks this as someone who “blames the misfortunes of himself on someone else.” (more…)

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Part 1 of 3 (Part 2 here)

Marcus Follin (The Golden One)
Demigod Mentality
Legio Gloria, 2023

If someone truly believes himself to be blessed by the Gods, it eventually becomes true — this is the power of faith. — The Golden One (more…)

1,408 words

Rainbow Albrecht
Space Vixen Trek Episode XIII: The Final Falafel
Smashwords, 2015

“Must you overly-nostalgic Judeans revive every old custom around here?”

Tired and depressed by what’s happening — again — in the Middle East? Wish someone would Make the Holy Land Fun Again?[1] Counter-Currents’ own Beau Albrecht has what you need! Are you going to take it? Are you man enough to take it? (more…)

3,901 words

Gordon Peter Wilson
The Prophets of Gentilly Terrace: A New Orleans Novel
Austin, Tex.: Greenleaf Publishing Group, 2023

The idea was a selfish one, and it felt a lot like blackmail, but it was an opportunity to solve everyone’s problems. Such a sensitive matter required all of the diplomatic skills he had honed over the years as Burton Clayton’s bagman.

I greeted Gordon Peter Wilson’s first, previous, novel with enthusiasm, and that enthusiasm continues with this latest one. (more…)

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Alexander Adams
Masters of Art: Dalí
Munich: Prestel, 2023

Take me. I am the drug; take me, I am the hallucinogenic. — Salvador Domingo Felipe Jacinto Dalí i Domènech, 1st Marqués de Dalí de Pubol (more…)

Mitch Horowitz

5,244 words

Part 2 of 2 (Part 1 here)

In his characteristic participant/observer fashion, Horowitz narrates his own encounters with the gods. He has “an attachment to the history of Rome,” and “a series of propitious events” has led him to “venture a prayer to Minerva” as a “figure of deific exploration and possibility”: (more…)