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“Apocalypse of Cassandra” (or: The Acts of Mary and the Sophians)

30 Jul 202219 Jan 2023
This is a story I wrote to expound on the tenets of Aquarian Gnosticism, aka Sophianity. Remember that this is the ultimate text in the Sophian Bible project I’ve described…
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Theoretical Canon For a Gnostic Bible

27 Jul 202130 Apr 2022
Obviously this blog entry is a follow-up to my earlier essay on the Gnostics as well as my "Aquarian Bible" project. In case you need a refresher, I invented my…
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The 2nd Child: Poetry Cycle About Asuka Langley Soryu

26 Jun 202126 Jun 2021
This poetry cycle is a companion piece to an earlier collection I wrote about Blue (aka Green in the US), a character from the Pokémon Adventures manga. I chose to…
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Feminine Sexuality in Cinema (3/4) Scacco alla Regina (1969) aka The Slave

9 Jun 202110 Jun 2021
Last time in this series, I examined Pasquale Festa Campanile's La Matriarca. His follow up, Scacco alla Regina ("Check to the Queen" released in English-speaking territories as The Slave) was…
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Full Text of Soul Calibur II’s Story (Weapon Master Mode)

6 Jun 20219 Jun 2021
As a public service, here is the entire text for Soul Calibur II's Weapon Master Mode. (Essentially this game's version of a story mode.) Until now, the only places this…
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The Libertine (1968) Follow Up: Novelization & Blu-Ray Thoughts

11 Feb 20214 Mar 2021
Please excuse the long delay in updates, the last month has been pretty hectic. I'm hoping to post more frequently in the next few weeks, because I have a lot…
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Yet Another Lost Media Rabbit Hole [UPDATE & A Defense of Sex]

16 Dec 20204 Mar 2021
I found another compelling lost media rabbit hole. So, I love most of the Radley Metzger films I've seen, and the amazing European erotic films his company distributed to the…
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Personal Tragedy & Peanuts

23 Nov 20204 Mar 2021
Not to appear as though I'm fishing for sympathy or anything, but my grandfather recently passed away. It's been pretty difficult for me considering I haven't seen him in four…
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Miscellaneous Stuff I Wrote For College: 5 Poems & 2 Dialogues

23 Oct 2020
I was cleaning up my hard drive and stumbled on some old stuff I had to do for a college writing class. So I figured "why not? I'll share these…
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Beautiful Halloween Fantasy

22 Oct 20204 Mar 2021
This post is part of a series of tongue-in-cheek streams of consciousness inspired by the holidays. The featured image for this post is me in my favorite Halloween costume, after…
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A New Milestone Has Been Reached! (What’s Next For theCarbonFreeze?)

18 Oct 20204 Mar 2021
As of the publication of this entry, if you include all prospective blog posts that are in the editing process or already finished and scheduled to launch at a future…
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Something a Little Less Serious (Random Art)

8 Oct 20204 Mar 2021
After all that bleakness contained in my last batch of uploads, let's relax for a second now and enjoy something less depressing. Here are some aesthetically pleasing images I've found…
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Lost Media (3/3) My “Holy Grails” (Literature)

1 Jul 20204 Mar 2021
My list of Lost Media "Holy Grails" ended up being longer than I anticipated, so I spun off the last few entries into this standalone post. It probably goes without…
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Lost Media (2/3) My “Holy Grails” (Audio-Visual)

25 Jun 20204 Mar 2021
So, in the last section, I discussed what lost media means to me, how I came to be acquainted with the topic and works which I've helped save or at…
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Lost Media (1/3) Intro & Searches I’ve Taken Part In

13 Jun 20204 Mar 2021
I have been fascinated by the concept of lost media since I was 16. I was a film buff for years even up to that point, had just gotten around…
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Poems About Loneliness

26 Mar 20204 Mar 2021
These are some poems I wrote years ago for college and recently rediscovered while doing some cleanup on my computer's hard drive. I thought they might be worth sharing even…
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My Favorite Works of Art Across Multiple Forms of Media

19 Mar 20204 Mar 2021
It was one year ago today that I registered the domain name for "theCarbonFreeze.com" and started posting! It's been a lot of fun uploading some of my old essays which…
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Femina Ridens (1969) Addendum: Novelization & Alternate Cuts of the Film

18 Mar 202018 Mar 2020
So this post will be like an unofficial "sequel" to my earlier analysis of Femina Ridens (aka The Laughing Woman). I hadn't originally intended to do a follow-up but by…
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The Redemption of Jeb Bush as Witnessed by 2 Neo-Flower Children

29 Dec 201929 Dec 2019
In ‘16, I had a creative writing class but I couldn’t think of anything creative to write about. My every thought was consumed by Trump and his fascinating (not praise-worthy,…
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The Godfather Part II is the Most Profound Story Ever Told (2/2)

29 Dec 2019
[You'll have to forgive all the shuffling around and editing in real time that's happened to this post. It grew so large to where I needed to divide it in…
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The Godfather Part II is the Most Profound Story Ever Told (1/2)

29 Dec 201929 Dec 2019
[You'll have to forgive all the shuffling around and editing in real time that's happened to this post. It grew so large to where I needed to divide it in…
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Post-Modern Religion (2/3) An Aquarian Testament

15 Dec 20194 Mar 2021
In the previous entry, I shared my thoughts on different theological structures and their implications for both society and individuality. The idea was to explore which of the 4 "-theisms"…
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Post-Modern Religion (1/3) Examining Poly-, Mono-, A- & Pantheism

14 Dec 201922 Dec 2019
This series will delve into my thoughts on religion and its continuing relationship to our lives in a changing world. I'm sure this will lead to a very well-tempered and…
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SMiLE (Appendix) Sources for Further Reading

24 Nov 20198 Dec 2019
I hope you enjoyed my "thesis" on SMiLE, 4 years in the making if we start from '15 when the first essays which would go on to become part of…
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SMiLE (12/14) The Gospels of Siegal & Hutton

23 Nov 201923 Nov 2019
Jules Siegal's Account ("Goodbye Surfing, Hello God") 1) So...did Brian actually destroy the master of Fire? Vosse, Anderle, and now Siegal all agree on that. So if that's the case, how…
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SMiLE (11/14) The Gospel of Anderle

23 Nov 201923 Nov 2019
These are my musings on Part I of the interview that David Anderle had given to Crawdaddy magazine. The "up arrows" indicate a related piece of evidence which appeared later…
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SMiLE (10/14) The Gospel of Vosse

23 Nov 201923 Nov 2019
In these next four essays, I'm going to analyze what the members of the so-called Vosse Posse have said about the album in editorials or interviews. Initially, these commentaries were…
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SMiLE (2/14) The Men Behind the Music

11 Jun 201923 Nov 2019
This multi-part essay is my attempt to thoroughly examine various aspects of Brian Wilson’s unfinished masterpiece, SMiLE. This essay is written with the assumption that readers already have a basic understanding of the album’s goals…
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Vertigo (8/10) The Story (& Differences from Script)

1 Jun 201926 Oct 2019
The plot of Vertigo is in many ways an implausible mess. The script has elements of paranormal, film noir, psychological thriller and romantic melodrama, but somehow it all comes together…
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Scattered Thoughts on Alice in Wonderland

19 May 201929 Dec 2019
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass are such beloved and timeless stories that there's really not much for me to say that hasn't been discussed already. Not…

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