Category Archives: Middletown^

… will probably head to Ashville/Middletown again. My thought is to revisited Dead Center Hill, perhaps making a crude map, even. Yes, that sounds like a good idea. Visit island below hill in Wilson River. Go to WW College and look for signs of Toy King. Also want to go to Richmond Hill mentioned in a recent blog post on the subject. Don’t think I need to head to Alexfin or Bentmore again. Save some surprises until later. The new Walter Russell- Swanna-nowhere tie in is a surprise. Another possibility is visiting the controversial land near Bill Creek, the one that may be developed. See what’s there; take pics. Go through or across TILE Falls.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Middletown_studies

“Bunk”, har har.

Click to access l200104.pdf

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http://www.svpvril.com/Cosmology/cos8.html

Figure 8.7- Colors Represent Relative Frequencies
Red = C = Thermal Rays
Yellow = E = Light Rays
Blue = G = Chemical Rays

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8.5 – Dynaspheric Shells – This faster vortex will be the inner most envelope which will be enclosed by the second spinning vortex and the third vortex will enclose the first two. Imagine an orange with three peels each one covering a band or width of the equator sealing the area not covered by another enclosed band. The poles of each spinning equator will be open. In Figure 26 the black areas of each shell are the spinning sealing areas of motion. The colored areas are the open polar zones. The three concentric peels will effectively seal the entire surface area of the orange according to its velocity of rotation which translates directly into force of compression and density. The end result is a highly compressed “solid” sphere of matter. These dynaspheric shells correspond to Russell’s “caps” that seal and hold an atom together. See “Atomic Suicide?” for more details.

Figure 8.9 – Dynaspheric Shells and Attractive Poles

“It’s easy to see that the *Orange* River drew the much, much, much younger The Way and Interstate 30 to Center County. It has a much more powerful influence that the last 2. Actually it doesn’t, because *all 3 are 1*. It is the 4th that again holds the key. Does it travel at zero time? Or does it travel the speed of light?”

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At any rate, it’s the Orange again.

Hucka D.:

Right.

http://tmbw.net/wiki/asheville

Trivia/Info

Also known as The Orange Peel (in the original concert setlist).
The Orange Peel is in Asheville, NC and somewhat close to the French Broad River mentioned in the song.
Besides the venue (and the fruit), a possible source of inspiration for the theme of the song could be playwright Arthur Miller’s Death of a Salesman, in which Willy Loman pleads with his boss, “You can’t eat the orange and throw the peel away—a man is not a piece of fruit!”
Twenty days prior to the TMBG show at the Orange Peel where this song premiered, the French Broad River flooded horrifically, doing terrible damage to the city’s art district.
Unlike all of the other regularly performed venue songs, this track doesn’t have a studio version. The rendition on the DVD/CD is from the soundcheck.
Colourmovie designed and animated the video for this song.

See also here:

https://bakerbloch.wordpress.com/2014/12/19/21412/

All of the 3 seem significant. Obviously the first (near Middletown in NC), 1/2 of the source of the name Otanoa, home of Woodrow Wilson College and Future Home (western edge).

The 2nd (NJ) is near Newfoundland, where acclaimed movie Station Agent was primarily filmed. Swannanoa NC sometimes nicknamed Swanna Nowhere, and in film Newfoundland was similarly described as being in the middle of nowhere. Resonance.

Station Agent is a primary movie in Carrcass+6.

And then the only other one, in VA, was home to coupled mystics Walter and Lao Russell during the last half of the 20th Century. This is where they lived and worked.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swannanoa_%28mansion%29

W. Russell’s periodic table of octaves

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I just stumbled upon mention of the band They Might Be Giants this morning when looking up the etymology of the phrase “here there be giants”, used in a previous post. Now I find, through research into the French Broad, that they wrote a song about Ashville. Hmmm…

Asheville
By: They Might Be Giants
Year: 2004

Please allow me to introduce myself I’m the orange peel You don’t remember But I was once part of your orange

I’m the peel that you left on the floor You took the good part and walked out the door And I hate you for that I hate you for that I’m the orange peel

When the flood waters reach where I lay French Broad River will float me away And I hate you for that I hate you for that I’m the orange peel I’m the orange peel I’m the orange peel

One of a number of interesting rocks along the riverside road leading to the old dump site. This one appears to have hieroglyphic patterns on its underside (seen clearer in the enlargement), but close up they turn into “mere” spider webs of a circular design.

At this island location the road veers away from the river and starts uphill to the old dump plateau. In reviewing early 90’s notebooks, I see I call this place Dumpport, because this was where I was planning to carry junk from the landfill and create a kind of art happening, perhaps even including “ships” or floating devices that can move (up and?) down the river. I only very vaguely recalled the island when I saw it, however. I didn’t appreciate what I had at the time, obviously, since the same kind of vagueness shrouded my memories of the Woodrow Wilson trails revisited this fall. When we return to A-ville I’ll not make the same mistake, hopefully. I’ll appreciate.

Beyond the end of the road and Dumpport lies these rocks that I recall a bit better. You can also see them on GoogleEarth, I’ve found out, and this is just a segment of them. At some point I’d definitely like to hike the whole central Alexfin penninsula beyond this to where a main road rejoins the river. That’s perhaps the defining aspect of the peninsula — no road along the river except for, in part, basically unused and overgrown ones.

More details from the Dumpport island. It’s maybe 15 yards by 5 yards.

A fallen, ivy colored tree trunk creates a kind of bridge to the mainland.

The dump road follows a brook up the hill to the old landfill site. This is one of the places where it runs under this road. Nice ice effects. You can also see that the stream is still discolored from dump leachate. More on this type of drainage here:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leachate#Landfill_leachate

Back on the river: footprint effect in a rock; bigger than an ordinary man’s. Here there be giants?

The river raging below a rock outcropping.

I called this Fist Rock. Right on!