Meditation score of the day: Angus Maclise's ASTRAL COLLAPSE

"6th Face of the Angel" off of this particular collection of Maclise's work has long been my favorite piece to sit cross-legged and cross-eyed to. Give it a shot. "Dracula"'s real scary, and everything else (by him, though quite out of print) is worth tracking down. He even out-arted John cale when he quit as drummer for The Velvet Underground well before their first album because the band was getting to be too commercial an outfit (or else, was he fired for forgetting to show up too often to concerts...stories vary). Went on to create the killer music for Ira Cohen's INVASION OF THUNDERBOLT PAGODA, one of my all-time favorite movies.