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Who Wants To Join My Wolf Pack?

New teenage subculture – Teen Wolves!

I want a wolf tail like… pronto.
This is seriously one of the coolest things I’ve ever seen –
I’m wondering if any of these feelings are expressed in a musical context?
There’s gotta be bands out there sporting this aesthetic and howling into a microphone on all fours!

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4 Responses to “Who Wants To Join My Wolf Pack?”

  1. Dr Philippe K Fenderson, KSC, ASL says:
    May 24, 2010 at 4:03 pm

    Something to look into:

    Movie – Visioneers with Zach Galifianakis
    Mysterious son who is never seen in the film disappears to join a pack of wild wolves. Stark, beautiful, hilarious movie

  2. Garrett Kelly says:
    May 24, 2010 at 4:12 pm

    Thanks! I will check that out. Weird: doesn’t Zach Galifinakis go into a whole “wolf pack” speech in that movie “The Hangover”?

    Have you seen these synchro-mystic movies by @Seallion?

    http://www.facebook.com/video/video.php?v=373140364612

  3. tim boucher says:
    June 1, 2010 at 2:28 pm

    This is only semi-related, but I’ve been meaning to send it your way. Found via Tahir Shah’s books about Morocco:

    “While adopting Islam, Gnawa continued to celebrate ritual possession during rituals where they are devoted to the practice of the dances of possession and fright. This rite of possession is called Jedba (Arabic: جدبة), and proceeds the night (laila, Arabic: ليلة) that is animated jointly by a master musician (maâlem, Arabic: معلم) accompanied by his troupe. Gnawa music mixes classical Islamic Sufism with pre-Islamic African traditions, whether local or sub-Saharan.”

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

    And:

    “The term Gnawa musicians generally refers to people who also practice healing rituals, with apparent ties to pre-Islamic African animism rites. In Moroccan popular culture, Gnawas, through their ceremonies, are considered to be experts in the magical treatment of scorpion stings and psychic disorders. They heal diseases by the use of colors, condensed cultural imagery, perfumes and fright.

    Gnawas play deeply hypnotic trance music, marked by low-toned, rhythmic sintir melodies, call-and-response singing, hand clapping and cymbals called krakeb (plural of karkaba). Gnawa ceremonies use music and dance to evoke ancestral saints who can drive out evil, cure psychological ills, or remedy scorpion stings.”

    Also: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gnawa_music

    See also: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aissawa,

    I believe it is the Aissawa in “The Caliph’s House” who appear almost as a band of mystical carnival minstrels to drive the jinn out of his house by way of musical ritual and animal sacrifice…

  4. tim boucher says:
    June 2, 2010 at 1:21 pm

    http://www.spirit-alembic.com/malkuth.html

    “Eventually, Kaballah recognizes that the greatest Totem of them all will come to call upon any Totemic Pathwalker (like the Totem Animals themselves, often in DREAMS;) Adonai Malakh.. in the form of a half-man/half-animal “diety” who blesses one as part of his OWN Kingdom, and bestows the authority of a ‘lesser King’ over Nature upon the faithful Friend Of All The World. Closely associated with Franciscianism, this Nature-God-contact is the final goal of all Animistic Paths.”

    St. Francis & the wolf http://www.catholicgarden.com/fwolf.html

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