and more unsettling than anything I’d witnessed.
+..cold, dark ambient noise drone journey +..classical-drone loops +.. synth waltz Hibernation by The Owl + The Country Trodden by One Far West + synth waltzes and accordion laments by Yara Asmar Such is the C Street style, the most violent metaphors imaginable deployed as maxims for everyday living, from the prayer calendar on the wall that called on the house’s congressional tenants to devote a portion of each morning to spiritual war (combat by prayer) against “demonic strongholds” such as Buddhism and Hinduism, to Coe’s routine invocation of history’s worst villains as models for the muscle he’d rather see applied on Christ’s behalf. The first time I met Coe, he was in the midst of a spiritual mentoring session in which he cited “Hitler, Lenin, Ho Chi Minh [and] bin Laden” as models with which to understand the “total Jesus” worshipped by the Family. He sipped hot cocoa while he lectured. Sharlet, Jeff.