You've heard of the Buddha Machines, now Throbbing Gristle puts out their own version, with as many as 13 loops to play.
From Gristleism.com: Thirteen original TG loops: a mix of experimental noise, industrial drone, classic melodies and rhythms.
Built-in 50mm speaker, volume control, pitch-shift control and loop selector switch *.
Features more loops and almost twice the frequency range of the original Buddha Machines.
Powered by two AA batteries. Palm-Sized: W 67mm x H 69mm x D 35mm Available in three colours: Black, Chrome and Red UK Retail Price: 19.99 GPB Designed by: Throbbing Gristle & Christiaan Virant Concept by: Christiaan Virant Manufactured by: Industrial Records Ltd Music by: Throbbing Gristle (www.throbbing-gristle.com)
Track List: 01 - Persuasion 02 - Hamburger Lady 03 - Twenty Jazz Funk Greats 04 - Thank You Brian 05 - Maggot Death 06 - Rabbit Snare 07 - Lyre Liar 08 - Wimpy bar 09 - Sex String Theory 10 - Heathen Earth 11 - Industrial Intro 12 - R & D 13 - After After Cease To Exist
Fra HOK.no: HØVIKODDEN LIVE 2009 OG OSLO POESIFESTIVAL PRESENTERER LYDPOESIDAG SØNDAG 25. OKTOBER KL 13.00:
FAMLENDE FORSØK: Famlende Forsøk fra Arendal/Eydehavn startet i 1981 og manifesterte seg med en lang rekke kassettutgivelser utover 80-tallet og kultplaten "Ars Transmutatoria" i 1990; et album som ofte blir nevnt som en viktig inspirasjonskilde for 90-tallsgenerasjon av norsk støy og eksperimentell musikk. Prosjektet består vokalist Brt og musikerne Lumpy Davy og ChrispH. Over langstrakte elektroniske og akustiske klangflater messer Brt sine særegne tekster på Arendals-dialekt, som gjenspeiler Burroughs cut-up teknikker og lydpoesiens estetikk. Etter "Ars Transmutatoria" brukte Famlende Forsøk 16 år på å fullføre sitt H.P. Lovecraft-prosjekt "One Night I Had A Frightful Dream". Konserten på Høvikodden blir deres første i Oslo-traktene på mange år.
Andre artister: Sten Hanson, Jordan Scott, Pär Thörn, Sarah Granskou.
Famlende Forsøk links: "Ars Transmutatoria" DL at Mutant Sounds // "Greatest SHiTs Vol. 2" DL // "Døve Munker"/"En Overraskende Måte ..." DL's // Ultrapop // Hommage Records // Crohinga // Tarkus // Luna Kafe // Crawling Chaos/SHiT Tapes Catalogue // MP3 DL of FF live at Munkehaugen Kultursenter 101009
Live at Månefisken 271009: Dog Age (20th Anniversary of debut album "Good Day").
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Kjettersk Kjeller er så heldig å ha Norges ledende (og muligens eneste) vampyrolog i styret. Denne vampyrologen heter Arnfinn Pettersen, og er forfatter av boken Vampyr! Blodsugende lik i litteratur og tradisjon (Humanist forlag).
Så når Pettersens bok foreligger i blodfersk paperbackutgave, er det klart vi må ha en liten vampyrkveld i kjelleren vår for å feire begivenheten. Og kanskje ta en liten tur tilbake til Kjettersk Kjellers gotiske røtter.
Vampyren er populær som aldri før, og gjennom filmatiseringer av bøker som La den rette komme inn og Twilight, og TV-serier som True Blood skjer det interessante ting på vampyrfeltet. Vampyren holder på å utvikle seg.
Arnfinn Pettersen skal derfor kaste et blikk på vampyrens evolusjon, og snakke om artens forskjellige utviklingsstadier. Fra liket som kom tilbake til de levende og spredte skrekk og pest, via de kule og dekadente vampyrene fra populærkulturens litteratur og filmer, og til dagens vampyrer, som er ofre for storsamfunnets fordommer og forfølgelse.
Og hva er det med vampyrer som glitrer i sola og kliner med fjortiser?
Ellers blir det mat, drikke, musikk og annet som hører til på en Kjellerkveld. Mulighet for å kjøpe bok - og få den signert - blir det også.
Som vanlig holder vi til på M3 Mat og bar i Maridalsveien 3. Inngangsprisen er 70 kroner, aldersgrensen er 18 år og vi henter fram hvitløken og stakene kl. 19.
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October 05, 2009
Nødutgang 2009 Free comp. CD DL
This just in from the Paranoia is Freedom blog:
"This is a free download album to promote this years NØDUTGANG festival. It will hit everyone brave enough to be there between October 22 and October 25. The concerts and performances will be held at several venues in Bodø (Norway). For more information about the program, dates, prices etc look at this link.
The album is the forth in a row that pick up several of the artists on the festival and let them present their music. The first two years (2006 and 2007) came out as CDs, but we thought that it might be better to let it be a free download album. So last year and this year we present to you a free download album in MP3 256 kbps. Free for everyone to download and distribute at their www or blog or whatever. NO ONE has any permission to take any kind off fee for downloading these tracks. OK enough words lets get into the real thing."
From Jupitter to Bodø - all artists now confirmed for Nødutgang Oct. 22nd thru 25th
Nødutgang-festivalen i Bodø er flyttet fra sommeren til 22.-25. oktober. De har tidligere booket artister som Faust, Famlende Forsøk og KK Null. I år har de fått tak i en amerikansk artist med veldig lang fartstid, nemlig GX Jupitter-Larsen a.k.a. "The Haters". Dette er hans første opptreden i Norge, på tross av norske aner.
Fra pressemelding:
"GX Jupitter-Larsen & the Haters
The Haters er en konseptuell kunst tropp fra USA som ble startet i Canada I 1979. The Haters er en av de tidligste gruppene innen sin sjanger og er nå en av de mest kjente i verden. Hovedpersonen bak The Haters er GX Jupitter-Larsen. Hans far var norsk, men har inntil opptreden på NØDUTGANG festival 23. oktober 2009 har ikke han vært i Norge før. Gruppen er hovedsakelig Jupitter-Larsen sitt da han er eneste faste medlem. Således er det nesten en konstant forandring i hvem som er The Haters og gjerne lokale artister i den byen The Haters opptrer.
The Haters har opptrådt over hele verden og nå står også Norge for første gang på turneplanen. NØDUTGANG har jobbet aktivt fra festivalen ble startet for å få nettopp GX Jupitter-Larsen & The Haters til vår festival fordi de er verdensledende innen noise sjangeren. At The Haters er populære tyder nok en utgivelsesliste som inkluderer over 300 CD og plateutgivelser i tillegg kommer en rekke kassett utgivelser. The Haters har tidligere bidratt på to utgivelser fra Bodø selskapet Requiem Productions på 1980-tallet.
GX Jupitter-Larsen har de seneste årene bodd i Hollywood, California hvor han har fortsatt sin kunstneriske aktivitet som musiker, komponist, filmmaker, forfatter og performance kunstner. Han startet sin kunstneriske karriere innen punk bevegelsen, som han snart videreutviklet på sin høyst personlige måte. Han har vært aktiv som multikunstner siden slutten av 1970-tallet og har utmerket seg bl.a. innen mail art, kassettkulturen på 1980-tallet, som kunstmaler og på fanzine fronten. Han har også hatt flere radioshow som tilsammen har vart i mer enn 3500 timer fordelt over 31 forskjellige radiostasjoner i 11 land. I løpet av 1990-årene var han lyddesigner for performance kunstneren Mark Pauline sitt robotkunstprosjekt Survival Research Laboratories.
Som en rød tråd i Jupitter-Larsen sitt kunstneriske virke ligger en miks av estetikk og konseptuel besettelse, spesielt mot forfall og finne nye veier å se verden på, i tillegg til profesjonell wrestling og hans egne oppfinnelser av forskjellige måleinstrumenter."
Blant CD-utgivelsene til GXJ-L kan vi nevne The Haters: "Death-Defying Sickness" (2002) og The Haters: "The Utitled Title Belt" (2002). En linjal med lav måleteknisk og noe høyere kunstnerisk verdi finner man her. Sjekk også "The Totimorphous" tegneserien og samlingene med historier og dikt, "34 Essays" (1978-2003) og "34 Tales" (1983-2003).
Free DL of Nødutgang comp. CD from 2008 [A][B]
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September 10, 2009
Kjettersk Kjeller 6,6,6-års jubileum
Fra kjetter.com: Denne kvelden feirer Kjettersk Kjeller jubileum. Og siden vi synes femårsjubileer er for streitinger, har vi ventet med å feire oss selv til vi hadde holdt på i seks år, seks måneder og seks dager. Slik fikk vi et tall som var verdt å vente på.
Denne kvelden skal vi ta for oss et tema som virkelig er omspunnet av ubesvarte spørsmål: Frimureriet.
Hva driver frimurerne egentlig med bak fasadene på losjebygningene sine? Er frimurerne en sammenslutning av mektige og maktlystne menn, som blir redskaper for enda skumlere krefter? Hvorfor er ritualene deres hemmelige? Er det slik at det angivelig kristne frimureriet inneholder okkulte hemmeligheter når man kommer høyt nok i gradene? Kort sagt: Hvor bekymrede bør vi være for at Norge har nesten 20 000 frimurere, og at antallet bare vokser?
For å få svar på disse spørsmålene, har vi vendt oss til den skandinaven som sannsynligvis best kan svare på dem. Han heter Henrik Bogdan, er universitetslektor og underviser i religionsvitenskap ved Universitetet i Göteborg. Bogdan har doktorgrad i frimurerritualer, og har i tillegg arbeidet med hemmelige selskaper som The Golden Dawn og okkultister som Aleister Crowley.
Bogdan skal ikke bare kaste lys over frimurernes historie og avsløre hvordan frimureriet fungerer i dag, men også se på frimurerne betydning for moderne religiøsitet. Mange okkulte og nyreligiøse retninger står nemlig i mye større gjeld til frimurerne enn det de er klar over – eller liker å innrømme.
I anledning vårt kjetterske 666-jubileum, avholder vi også paneldebatt over det viktige og aktuelle spørsmålet "Bør kjettere brennes på bålet?" Her vil vi også spørre våre gjester, som tydeligvis er godt orienterte om kjetteri, til råds.
Ellers blir det som alltid mat, drikke, mørk musikk og annen moro, og som vanlig treffes vi på M3 Mat og bar i Maridalsveien 3. Inngangsprisen er 70 kroner, aldersgrensen er 18 år og vi drar på oss murerforklærne kl. 19.
Brand new documentary about WSB, the first one since his death in 1997.
From imdb: William S. Burroughs: featuring never before seen footage as well as exclusive interviews with his closest friends and colleagues. Born the heir of the Burroughs' adding machine estate, he struggled throughout his life with addiction, control systems, and self. He was forced to deal with the tragedy of killing his wife and the repercussions of neglecting his son.
His novel, Naked Lunch, was one of the last books to be banned by the U.S. government. Allen Ginsberg and Norman Mailer testified on behalf of the book. The courts eventually overturned their decision in 1966, ruling that the book had an important social value. It remains one of the most recognized literary works of the 20th century. William Burroughs was one of the first to cross the dangerous boundaries of queer and drug culture in the 1950s, and write about his experiences.
Eventually he was hailed the godfather of the beat generation and influenced artists for generations to come. However, his friends were left wondering, did William ever find happiness? This extremely personal documentary breaks the surface of the troubled and brilliant world of one of the greatest authors of all time. "William S. Burroughs: A Man Within" is the first and only posthumous documentary about this legendary figure.
Fortean researcher, journalist and author John Alva Keel died July 3rd at 79. He was best known for his supernatural study "The Mothman Prophecies" (1975), that was made into a film starring Richard Gere in 2002.
From Cryptomundo: John Alva Keel, 79, a friend, Fortean, fierce fighter for his theories, professionally a writer and journalist, has died. A fellow admirer of Mothman and the anomalies all around us, such as the “name game,” is gone.
Keel, who lived most of his life in New York City, passed away on Friday, July 3, 2009, at Mount Sinai Hospital in New York City, after some months in a nursing home near his Upper West Side apartment.
Born Alva John Kiehle in upstate New York on March 25, 1930, John Keel began writing at a young age. Indeed, Keel’s first published story was in a magician’s magazine at the age of 12.
Keel would go on to become a scriptwriter for radio and television, and a stringer for newspapers. He later moved to Greenwich Village and wrote for various men’s and speciality magazines.
Keel’s first published book was Jadoo in 1957, which was quickly serialized in a men’s adventure magazine. The paperback is his account of his journey of discovery to India to investigate the alleged activities of fakirs and holy men who perform the Indian rope trick and who survive being buried alive. In Jadoo, Keel also told of tracking a Yeti, an Abominable Snowman, in the jungles of Asia.
John A. Keel’s non-fiction look at the very real unplanned twists in life were recorded in his 1966 novel, The Fickle Finger of Fate. It is a rare book, and few realize that Keel wrote this book.
Keel was an early admirer of Charles Fort (1874-1932), and while still doing the mainstream writing, began authoring articles for England’s Flying Saucer Review (FSR) and a long series of columns for Saga.
Further influenced by Fortean Ivan T. Sanderson and ufologist Aimé Michel, in early 1966, John Keel commenced a full-time investigation of monster, aerial and paranormal phenomena. Over a four-year period, Keel interviewed thousands of people in over twenty U.S. states, especially in the Ohio River Valley of the United States. More than 2,000 books were reviewed in the course of his investigation, in addition to thousands of magazines, newsletters, and newspapers. Keel also subscribed to several newspaper-clipping services, which often generated up to 150 clippings for a single day during the 1966 and 1967 UFO “wave.” Besides FSR, Keel wrote for several magazines including Saga with one 1967 article “UFO Agents of Terror” referring to the Men in Black. He also wrote one of the first articles on Mothman in FSR, during this same time period.
Like other contemporary 1960s researchers such as J. Allen Hynek and Jacques Vallée, Keel was initially hopeful that he could somehow validate the prevailing nuts-and-bolts, extraterrestrial visitation hypothesis for UFOs. However, a year into his investigations, Keel realized that the extraterrestrial hypothesis was untenable and did not explain, for him, based within his personality and belief systems, all the answers.
Keel’s insights also included his view of cryptozoology.
I grew to know Keel after being introduced to him through mutual friends Brad Steiger and Ivan Sanderson. I worked closely with Keel on contributing as yet-unpublished material of mine for his book, Strange Creatures from Time and Space (1970), which would influence my and Jerome Clark’s first two books The Unidentified (1975) and Creatures from the Outer Edge (1978).
Keel’s impact is far-reaching. Keel’s book, Strange Creatures from Time and Space was the inspiration for Craig Woolheater’s interest in Bigfoot and eventually would stimulate the creation of Cryptomundo.
Love him or hate him, John Keel was popular and one of the most widely read and influential Fortean authors of the late 20th century. Although his own thoughts about aerial, monster, and associated anomalous phenomena gradually evolved during the 1960s, Keel remained one of ufology’s most original and controversial researchers.
It was Keel’s second book, UFOs: Operation Trojan Horse (1970), that alerted the general public that many aspects of contemporary UFO reports, including humanoid encounters, often paralleled certain ancient folklore and religious encounters. Keel also argued that there is a direct relationship between UFOs and elemental phenomena. Keel informed me often that he did not consider himself a “ufologist,” but a “demonologist.”
Sundazed is proud to release The Velvet Underground Singles 1966–69, a 7 x 7" single box set honoring the legendary New York combo's 7" vinyl output in their rare mono versions. The set features exact reproductions of Velvet Underground singles, two of them with their original picture sleeves. The singles are packaged in a distinctively designed box, along with rare vintage photos and new liner notes by Rolling Stone's David Fricke (who also penned the acclaimed notes for the historic 1995 Velvets CD box set Peel Slowly and See).
The Velvet Underground—whose membership included Lou Reed, John Cale, Sterling Morrison, Maureen Tucker, Doug Yule and Nico—introduced numerous sonic and thematic innovations that laid much of the groundwork for punk and alternative rock. Although they're now acknowledged as one of the most influential bands in rock history, during their existence the Velvets barely registered on mainstream radar, and were often reviled by mainstream observers as well as hippie-era arbiters of cool. But, as Fricke writes in the new set's liner notes, "Somewhere, in another rock & roll universe, the Velvet Underground are more than a legendary band. They are stars, with hit singles—the original seven-inch masterpieces inside this box."
Although they never came close to scoring a hit, the Velvet Underground was ideally suited to the 7" single format. "The Velvet Underground were a great singles band," David Fricke notes, adding that the Velvets "invented modern rock with searing guitar distortion, throbbing improvisation and brutally realistic tales of life on the wild side. But they did it all in these classic pop songs—compact miracles of raw drive, intimate beauty and Top 40 ecstasy, heard again in the original, thrilling mono single mixes."
The seven singles included in The Velvet Underground Singles 1966–69 comprise the four Velvets singles originally released in the U.S. on the Verve and MGM labels, plus an additional pair of singles that were prepared for release but never made it to the marketplace and a special radio-only promotional single. The singles feature alternate mono versions that differ in significant ways from the songs' better-known stereo album versions. For instance, the band's 1966 debut single "All Tomorrow's Parties" appears here in a special mono edit that amplifies the song's melodic beauty and sonic tension, and a mono mix of their sophomore single "Sunday Morning" emphasizes the song's haunting quality. Meanwhile, the mono single version of "White Light/White Heat" exemplifies the vintage Velvets' stark, distortion-laden fury, while a mono edit of "What Goes On" accentuates that song's inherent pop jangle.
The Velvet Underground Singles 1966–69 also includes two unissued singles, one with a never-released pairing of "White Light/White Heat" backed by "I Heard Her Call My Name," and the other with "Temptation Inside Your Heart" and "Stephanie Says," recorded in the waning days of the band's classic Reed/Cale/Morrison/Tucker lineup and unheard by the public for nearly two decades thereafter. The set's seventh single is a reproduction of a vintage promotional disc, a two-and-a-half minute radio spot promoting the band's eponymous third album and featuring legendary disc jockey Bill "Rosko" Mercer, with excerpts from "I’m Set Free," "What Goes On" and "Beginning to See the Light," as well as a picture sleeve with an un-airbrushed variation on the album's iconic cover art.
Shade Rupe, editor of the art journals "Funeral Party" 1 & 2, has a book of interviews coming out on Headpress this fall:
DARK STARS RISING - Conversations from the Outer Realms / Format: Paperback / 288 pp (tenative publ. date: Nov. 2009)
Ever wondered if Teller actually talks, tickled yourself over what Divine might do when not consuming inconsumables for film director John Waters, or perhaps even considered the truth about Girls and Corpses, DARK STARS RISING is the one book that demonstrates there is much more to the creative act than merely sitting down for an interview, or not being profiled on MTV.
DARK STARS RISING is a collection of twenty six interviews spanning twenty-three years with various creators of darker art, from America through to Austria and beyond. Working in different art forms and in many cases never meeting or being aware of each other, the main vortex is created here by interviewer and New York film writer Shade Rupe, known for his avant interests and the cultural sector he created with his Funeral Party series of books. Everyone in this collection (with the exception of the late Divine, whose last interview appears in this book, and Brother Theodore) is working today, continuing to produce artifacts that catch the heart, mind and soul.
Many rare photographs are used throughout, plus a resource section lists useful links for further information. A selection of choice reviews rounds out the book.
Interviewees includes: Richard Kern, Alejandro Jodorowksy, Buddy Giovinazzo, Udo Kier, Jim VanBebber, Tura Satana, Teller, Johannes Schonherr, Chas. Balun, Divine, Hermann Nitsch, Genesis P-Orridge, William Lustig, Johanna Went, Zamora, The Torture King, Dame Darcy a.o.
13:35
June 04, 2009
New books from Headpress
This week Headpress (UK) is publishing two new titles, Scott Stine's TRASHFIEND and BAD MAGS VOL. 2 by Tom Brinkmann.
TRASHFIEND is based around articles from Stine's magazine of the same name. From HP's info: From low budget horror films to grisly comic art, from lurid movie magazines to late-night creature features, from campy monster toys to exploitive poster art, TRASHFIEND takes a loving look at “disposable” horror culture from the 1960s and 1970s.
Over two glorious decades the horror film waged war on good taste, exploiting every taboo and bursting every envelope along the way. TRASHFIEND is the definitive guide to the chaotic, creative and endlessly entertaining golden age of horror cinema.
Scott Stine (author of The Gorehound’s Guide to Splatter Films series and founder of the Stigmata Press) shines a fond but satiric light on everything from low budget horror films to grisly comic art, lurid movie magazines to late-night creature features, campy monster toys to exploitive poster art.
Packed with reviews, trivia, interviews, anecdotes and rare illustrations, and written with witty and insightful flair, TRASHFIEND will fascinate aficianados, nostalgists and cinema lovers of every stripe. Scott Stine picks up where his legendary TRASHFIEND magazine left off for a fun, energetic and critical look at this beloved genre.
BAD MAGS 2 continues along the lines of vol. 1, showing and analyzing the contents and making of supermarket tabloids and weird magazines. Includes chapters on Ed Wood, outlaw bikers, Sharon Tate and many other subjects. From HP's info: Following the enormous success of the instant cult classic Bad Mags Vol 1, the hotly anticipated Bad Mags Vol 2 picks up where its predecessor left off, scraping the nasty depths of magazine and tabloid pop lit.
... Chapters are divided into subject categories for easy reference. ... Packed with even more RARE and INCREDIBLE IMAGES than BAD MAGS VOL 1, BAD MAGS VOL 2 is guaranteed to SHOCK, ASTOUND and EXCITE readers.
Author Tom Brinkmann has spoken with many of the individuals responsible for these magazines, some of whom are referenced here for the first time. BAD MAGS VOL 2 also provides comprehensive background details on the creators and often maverick publishers, along with plenty of anecdotal information, mind bending extracts and hundreds of rare photos and cover reproductions.
(Other recent titles from HP are The John Sinclair Reader, by the MC5/White Panthers manager, and HP28 - guest edited by Sinclair.)
Also, out now from FAB (UK) is the Cinema Sewer Vol. 2 book which includes my interview with Bo Arne Vibenius ("Thriller") and my multi-page review of Blue Underground's 8 disc Mondo film box set. The book will also have 90 pages of "new" bonus stuff not seen in the Cinema Sewer magazine. All contents are hand-lettered, and most illos are drawings in place of photos. In related trash cinema news, Vol. 4 of the 42nd St. Forever trailer dvd series is out.
12:13
May 20, 2009
The Munch Museum: Munch - Moments of Movement 2 x KZ 1992 - Free download
Munch formed in Kristiansand, Norway, in 1986, with the name taken from the famous Norwegian painter Edward Munch. They wanted to create a kind of music that made the same impressions as Munch's paintings... Of the five members only two knew how to play instruments, but this was just in the vein of what leader Ivar Mykland wanted: Start from scratch, then you'll have to concentrate on how your instruments sounds, have to concentrate to recognize sound patterns which highly skilled musicians will pass on as uninteresting. They started practicing in a sound proof room at Ivar's place, in Tordenskjoldsgt.23, N-4612 Kristiansand S. As time went on this rehearsal studio was transformed into a proper studio and eventually the location of their own label T23. Due to this very basic start the process of writing songs took lots of time, in five years they wrote something like 25 songs. But Ivar express satisfaction with the way Munch was formed and how they developed: Like Einstürzende Neubauten Munch could write a song based on random sounds or accidents - like when Ivar had caught a cold and was coughing or if one of them played a wrong sound. Munch split up after their concert at Rockefeller, in Oslo, on December 6 1991. Source: Discogs.com
All of Munch's releases were initially on vinyl OR cd OR cassette. This is probably their rarest and most difficult to find release. I think some or all of the live recordings from Bergen 89/91 are recorded by me on my old Sony cassette recorder. I may digitize the whole gigs and put the recordings here later on. Munch should re-release their stuff, or at least make a compilation or small box set. But until that happens, enjoy MOMENTS OF MOVEMENT! Source: JRB
From obituary at Re/Search by V. Vale: "J.G. Ballard R.I.P. (11/15/1930-4/19/2009) I particularly hate it when “rebels” die — there are already so few of them/us. Sometimes it seems like virtually everyone you meet these days in the world is a slave to the profit motive/capitalist imperative: “What’s the meaning of life?” “To make money!” J.G. Ballard, and another of my relatively recently deceased role models, W.S. Burroughs, both refused to prostitute their writing, and they both refused to shmooze and “network” merely to further their “careers.” Both had a hatred of bourgeois hypocrisy and phony politeness, while at the same time being deeply polite and courteous, almost to a fault …
But for now, let us think of ways to publicly mourn one of the greatest thinkers and poets of the past century. By some irony, “The Complete Short Stories of J.G. Ballard” is reportedly soon to be published in the United States, complete with two additional stories not included in the U.K. edition. Short stories, more than novels, may appropriately suit the trend of the increasingly shorter attention span of the human populace, who demand more flash ads, tiny videos and music quotations as they read their two-minute, two-page articles on the Internet. I suggest that for the next month (or year), readers shut out everything else and read ONLY J.G. Ballard novels, short stories, essays, interviews and reviews. Your mind, language, and outlook are guaranteed to be permanently altered ..." [Continued]
JGB's complete short stories has been published in the UK in 2 volumes. A one volume edition is planned in the US in September 2009, from W.W. Norton, according to PW.
11:58
Dårlig tidsånde: Zeitgeists hedenske Jesuser, sannheten om 11. september og den nye verdensorden. Ved Bjørn Are Davidsen.
Konspirasjonsteorier er i skuddet. Man kan knapt bevege seg ut på verdensveven uten å støte på den ene oppsiktsvekkende påstanden etter den andre.
Var Jesus egentlig en hedensk guddom? Var det Bush-administrasjonen som sto bak ødeleggelsen av World Trade Center? Forsøker mektige og hemmelige krefter å legge verden under seg?
En masse av disse spekulasjonene samles i filmen Zeitgeist, en dokumentarfilm som en stund lå på toppen av nedlastninger fra Google Video. Zeitgeist har til og med avfødt en hel bevegelse (The Zeigeist Movement), noe som er litt pussig når man tenker over hvor ulidelig kjedelig filmen er. Men Zeitgeist skal få lov til å fungere som en knagg for denne kvelden, siden den leverer et så representativt utvalg av vår tids mest moteriktige konspirasjonsteorier. Og for at vi kjellermenneskene og våre gjester skal slippe å lide oss gjennom langdryge dokumentarfilmer og tøvete bøker, har vi bedt selveste Bjørn Are Davidsen om å gjøre jobben for oss.
Bjørn Are Davidsen er en av Kjettersk Kjellers faste foredragsholdere, og en av Norges ledende eksperter på merkelige konspirasjonsteorier (særlig slike som vi finner i Da Vinci-koden). De som har hørt ham før, vet hvor morsomt dette blir. De som ikke har hørt ham før, bør ikke gå glipp av dette.
Vi satser ellers, etter en temmelig intens kveld i februar, på en litt roligere kveld denne gangen. Men som vanlig blir det musikk fra vår faste stab av platesnurrere, mat og drikke.
Som vanlig går kvelden av stabelen på M3 i Maridalsveien 3. Tidspunktet er 22. april kl. 19. Det koster 70 kroner, og du må være fylt 18 år for å komme inn.
Velkommen!
11:53
April 07, 2009
All sewn up
The label Crispin Glover Records sent HWEBLOG a review copy of their latest release, the masterful tribute to punk poet Patrik Fitzgerald. While we work our way thru it, norwegian language capable readers can read NXP's review at Musikk Fra Norge, and HWEB's review will be up here in a few days.
Release date was March 30th. Available on 2xCD and ltd. ed. 2xLP.
Disc 1: 1: Motorpsycho (NO) feat. Jello Biafra (US) - Punch 2: Terry Lee Hale (US) - Laughter Far Away 3: Max Lorentz (SWE) - Live Out My Stars 4: Milk Kan (UK) - Ragged Generation 5: Israelvis (NO) - Safety Pin Stuck In My Heart 6: Betong Hysteria (NO) - Banging & Shouting 7: Seven (NO) - Trendy 8: Jim Jasmine (UK) - Little Fishes 9: All Trouble (NO) - How the Fuck? 10: Sister Rain (NO) - Animal Mentality 11: Lez Marwick (UK) - Tonight 12: Benjamin Zephaniah (UK) Work. Rest. Play Reggae 13: Attila the Stockbrocker (UK) - BackStreet Boys 14: POG (UK) - One Little Soldier 15: The Reilly Express (NO) - Island Of Lost Souls 16: Bladed (NO) - Set We Free 17: The Legend! (Everet True) - When I Get Famous
Disc 2: 1: Dog & Sky (NO) - One By One 2: Jackie Leven & Michael Cosgrave. (UK) - Shadow Of A Man 3: BC (NO) - Unaware 4: Geoff Berner (CAN) - All The Years Of Trying 5: The School (No) - Bingo Crowd 6: Try Love & The Taxis of Evil (NO) - As Ugly As You 7: Kevin Hewick (UK) - Personal Loss 8: Hook Line & Sinker (NO) – Optimism / Reject 9: Liliedugg (NO) - No Fun Football 10: The 3rd & the Mortal (NO) feat. Attila the Stockbroker (UK) – Paranoid Ward / All My Friends Are Dead 11: Thomas Robsahm (NO) feat Vera & Jara (ICL) - Improve Myself 12: Monolithic (NO) - All Sewn Up 13: Max Lorentz (SWE) - Cruellest Crime 14: Motor Incubator (NO & UK) - Same Coin, Different Madness
12:24
March 10, 2009
The Art of Jack T. Chick
Ever seen those tiny christian comic books, often left at bus stations or telephone booths, urging you to repent, or forever burn in hell? They're called Chick Tracts and over 200 titles have been published by the now 84 year old Jack T. Chick since the start in 1970. He claims to have sold over 750 million copies in over 100 languages, thus making him probably the most read author in the world.
The comics put forward a highly conspiratorial world view, blaming the Vatican, satanists and freemasons for promoting blasphemous and satanic teachings that will send all their followers straight to hell. These radical views have created problems having the tracts and a series of full-size, full colour comic books distributed, even in protestant book stores. Many copies are sold thru direct mail order and passed around by various churches, priests, missionaries and individuals.
Many atheists also collect Chick Tracts for their entertainment value, kitchy artwork and far out ideas. Kurt Kuersteiner is one such collector and in 2004 he had a huge book published thru Schiffer Publications. The book is illustrated in full colour, has over 220 big pages, and analyzes Chick and his many publications in extreme detail. It's an extraordinary and highly interesting book that tells the story of this independent publishing empire in as much detail as possible. The reclusive Chick has not been photographed since 1948, and does not give interviews. But Kuersteiner was granted a visit to the Chick printing plant, offices and storage facility, where he did meet Chick and some of the people working for him. The tracts only costs 19 cents each directly from the publisher, so this is a field of collecting anyone can get into, and this book is the best starting point you could possibly get.
In a new dvd, "God's Cartoonist - The Comic Crusade of Jack Chick", he also gets to interview Chick's main comic book artist besides JTC himself, the elusive Fred Carter. Although the dvd is mostly "talking heads" it is highly intriguing and strongly recommended. Kuersteiner also talks to various experts and collectors, including Ivan Stang from the Church of the SubGenius, who says that Chick's tracts are the publications that have influenced him the most.
You can buy the book and dvd together, signed by the author, and with two free special tracts here. Watch dvd [trailer].
An embedded tract for your reading pleasure, THE BEAST, courtesy of Chick Publications:
11:36
March 07, 2009
Bløffologen i bokform
Tore Sørensen, tidl. medlem av The Tables og redaktør og utgiver av bladet Kuriositetskabinettet, kommer snart med bok om bløff og humbum opp gjennom historien. Boka utgis selvsagt 1. april. Fra forlagets omtale:
Bløffer og bløffmakere - Episoder i bedrageriets kulturhistorie
Denne boken tar for seg smarte bløffmakere som har satt leg og lærd på prøve innen områder som vitenskap, litteratur, underholdning og media. For eksempel fikk en bløffmaker i 1867 flere medlemmer av Det franske vitenskapsakademiet til å tro at det eksisterte historiske brev fra den kjente filosofen Blaise Pascal, som beviste at franskmannen Pascal hadde oppdaget gravitasjonsloven før Newton. En annen, kjemikeren Franz Tausend, klarte i 1925 å lure den tyske general Ludendorff og mange investorer til å tro at Tysklands krigsgjeld etter første verdenskrig kunne nedbetales i gull laget med moderne alkymi. Andre bløffmakere har fått folk til å tro på oppdagelsen av havfruer, fossile sjøormer, forvokste mammuter, nedgravde steinkjemper, arkeologiske skatter eller skrifter som satte ”verdenshistorien i nytt perspektiv”. Hvorfor lar vi oss fascinere av bløffmakerne? Vi har lett for å fryde oss over deres frekkhet og oppfinnsomhet, og kanskje særlig over å se autoritetspersoner bli gjort til latter. I denne boken kan du lese om noen av historiens mest utspekulerte bløffmakere, og hvordan – og hvorfor -- de klarte å ta folk ved nesen.
ISBN13: 9788276941951 / Status: Kommer 1.april / Pris: 349,-
OM FORFATTEREN: Tore Sørensen (f. 1959) er oversetter av yrke, og har tidligere virket som musikkjournalist og vært vokalist og låtskriver i popgruppa The Tables. Han er i dag utgiver av bladet Kuriositetskabinettet, og kaller seg bløffolog og kurator for Humbugoteket i Oslo (HuiO), trolig landets største samling av bøker om bløffer og bløffmakere.
(Kontakt TS på E-post: tosoer(at)gmail.com for bestilling av bladet Kuriositetskabinettet)
09:56
February 21, 2009
Norsk synth i boks, bejublet og utsolgt, men 2. opplag kommer!
Hommage Records' imponerende innsats for å samle tidligere udokumenterte innspillinger fra 1980-88 har blitt belønnet med en rekke veldig begeistrede anmeldelser, og et utsolgt 1. opplag omtrent før utgivelsesdato. Et 2. opplag på 1000 ex til er bestilt, og ankommer ca. 11. mars. Bestill direkte fra Hommage eller fra Platekompaniet. Noen av låtene fins bare på obskur og utgått vinyl, noen er bare utgitt på kassett i svært små opplag, og en rekke låter er tidl. uutgitte.
"For en presentasjon! Jeg er totalt overveldet og rørt. Maskindans er en dobbelsamling som tar for seg norsk synthmusikk fra 80-tallet, med hovedvekt på de fem første årene.
Det nyetablerte plateselskapet Hommage Records legger lista langt over to meter med denne utgivelsen. For dette har blitt et helt fantastiskt produkt. I en nydelig liten boks er det plassert to digipack CDer og en medfølgende 52-siders booklet. I innledningen, forfattet av initativtager Øystein Moe, beskrives det norske musikkmiljøet og hvordan det egentlig var rundt 1980. Første linje lyder "Sprøtt som tidene forandrer seg", og det jo helt vanvittig hvordan tiden egentlig har forandret seg. I dag kan du kjøpe en billig PC, surfe litt på nettet og lage "god musikk". Uansett mangel på PC, software, internett etc. så var første halvdel av 80-tallet helt fantastisk – unge musikere var nysgjerrige på å utforske de mulighetene som fantes, og heldigvis har nå Øystein Moe og Hommage fanget opp mye av det som skjedde på denne tiden.
I bookleten presenteres for øvrig hver enkelt artist/gruppe som deltar med blant annet informasjon om medlemmer, når utgivelsene/innspilling fant sted og litt annet, samt med et flott bilde av artisten/bandet. Coveret er også innbydende, hentet fra Svart Klovns singel som kom ut i 1983 av en ung herremann kledd i svart og med lang lugg – en ekte synther.
Totalt inneholder utgivelsen 41 spor der hele 16 tidligere kun er utgitt på kassett, 14 på vinyl og 11 ikke tidligere er utgitt. Med andre ord har kassettutgivelsene spilt en viktig rolle for å spre norsk synthmusikk og post-punk."
Extra links: Underground tape of "rhytmical" industrial incl. ultra obscure norwegian artist ZBZ, at No Longer Forgotten Music // Free Famlende Forsøk DL's at Mutant Sounds // V/A: The Greatest SHiTs Vol. 2: Angst Und Freundschaft (SHiT Tapes) at Mutant Sounds // Free PLX15 DL at Requiem // White Lord Jesus at MySpace
10:53
February 05, 2009
Lights out for Lux - R.I.P.
It's been a sad season, as the rock'n'roll community recently had to see Ron Asheton go, and Feb. 4th The Cramps' frontman Lux Interior sadly passed away, at 62, although some reports say only 60, in true Hollywood mystery style. From The Guardian:
"Lux Interior, the founding member of garage punk band the Cramps, has died aged 62. Interior, whose real name was Erick Lee Purkhiser, passed away on 4 February at Glendale Memorial Hospital in California. He had suffered from a previously existing heart condition.
Interior was the theatrical, macabre frontman of cult punk-rock group the Cramps. He founded the band in 1973 with his wife, Poison Ivy, whose real name is Kristy Wallace, and quickly became a staple of the New York punk scene. The band's music fused their love of horror B-movies with rockabilly and surf rock, and their influence can be heard in bands such as the White Stripes, My Bloody Valentine and the Horrors.
The Cramps recorded their debut EP, Gravest Hits, in 1979 and continued touring and recording, albeit with a revolving lineup, until 2004. Interior and Poison Ivy were the only constant members of the group. They were notorious for their flamboyant, fetishistic live shows, and once infamously played a show for patients at Napa State Mental Hospital in Sacramento."
The Cramps played in Oslo at the Øya Festival in the summer of 2006. Their last album of new material was "Fiends of Dope Island", released in 2003.
Nytt fra Kjettersk Kjeller: 26. februar: "Vikinger og runer og hva vi egentlig vet om dem" - ved Nanna Løkka
"Vikingfilmens teitest hits" - ved John McNicol
Minikonsert: Kim Larsen (:Of the Wand and the Moon:)
Vikingtiden: En mørk tid preget av brå død. Berserker med horn på hjelmen gumlet fluesopp til de frådet om kjeften. Deretter hoppet de i drageskipene sine for å dra i vesterled og voldta nonner. Mens her hjemme kunne Odin-prester, innviet i runenes mystiske hemmeligheter, preke den norrøne gudelæras hellige kanon.
Eller var det virkelig slik? Hva kan vi egentlig vite om vikingtiden? Kan det være at det vi har lært av Hårek den Hardbaldne ikke er helt på nivå med moderne forskning? Og hvor godt passer det norrønne egentlig med nazistisk og rasistisk tankegods?
For å få svar på noen av disse spørsmålene har vi slått kloa i Nanna Løkka. Løkka er doktorgradsttipendiat i religionshistorie ved Universitetet i Oslo, der hun spesialiserer seg på norrøn mytologi og verdensbildet i norrøn tid. Og siden Løkka i tillegg til god studieprogresjon besitter en utmerket samling Black metal-plater, setter vi ekstra lit til hennes faglige kompetanse.
Løkka vil nok ta livet av en og annen misforståelse, men vi ser ingen grunn til å ikke påføre våre gjester litt ekstra forvirring. Til det har vi fått hjelp av John McNicol, leder for The Viking and Medieval Academic Film Club. En klubb som nok kan høres seriøs ut, men mest er en unnskyldning til å hygge seg med pizza, øl og ufrivillig morsomme filmer om vikingtiden.
Odin skal vite at det har kommet mange filmer gjennom årene som har tatt seg visse - la oss være diplomatiske og kalle det "kunstneriske friheter" - med vikingtiden. Etter Løkkas foredrag skal McNicol skal vise oss et lite knippe høydepunkter (eller lavmål) fra vikingfilmer fra Island til Tyrkia. Og hva MENER du med at du ikke visste at vikingene tilba blekkspruter?!
For å runde av denne kvelden trenger vi selvfølgelig musikk som passer til tematikken. Det fant vi Bornholm, der frontfigur i det danske bandet :Of the Wand and the Moon:, Kim Larsen, holder til.
Etter å ha lagt sin tid i metalbandet Saturnus bak seg, har Larsen i løpet av et tiår gjort :Of the Wand and the Moon: ikke bare til Skandinavias ubestridt største neofolk-band, men ett av genrens ledende navn overhodet. Denne kvelden gjester han Kjettersk Kjeller for å gjøre en akustisk minikonsert, og dette blir en anledning av de sjeldne for hans norske fans.
I tillegg vil vår faste stab av platesnurrere levere vårt vanlige utbud av mørk og morsom musikk, mens M3 leverer skummende dråper (mjød er mat!) og husmannskost.
Før vi kan ønske velkommen til en kraftnordisk helaften, føler vi oss nødt til å gjøre det vi alltid gjør når vi tar opp temaer som kan være av interesse for ymse ekstremister og rasister: Nemlig å gjøre oppmerksom på at sånt folk ikke er ønsket som gjester hos oss.
Alle andre, som måtte ha 70 kroner å avse og har fylt 18 år, er derimot hjertelig velkomne til nok en Kjettersk Kjeller på M3 Mat og bar i Maridalsveien 3, torsdag 26. februar kl. 19.
Infamous B-movie and Drive-In director/producer/actor Ray Dennis Steckler [wiki] sadly died on January 7th, at 70. Movies like "The Incredibly Strange Creatures Who Stopped Living and Became Mixed-up Zombies" and "Rat Pfink A Boo Boo" were legendary just by their titles alone. Then try watching them ... Steckler's popularity grew enourmously for a while, after the 1986 publication of the book Incredibly Strange Films [Re/Search], in which he was profiled along with other obscure B- thru Z-grade low-budget backwoods auteurs.
From Dreadcentral: Psychotronic filmmaker Ray Dennis Steckler lost his battle with heart disease on January 7, 2009 in Las Vegas, Nevada; he was 70 years old. With his passing so goes Cash Flagg, his hoodlum alter ego and star of Incredibly Strange Creatures Who Stopped Living and Became Mixed-Up Zombies, The Thrill Killers, Lemon Grove Kids Meet the Monsters and Wild Guitar. We also say farewell to Sven Christian, Wolfgang Schmidt, and Cindy Lou Sutters; other Steckler pseudonyms; there were 12 of them at last count and I am sure we will miss them all.
Steckler started his film career by finishing principal photography on Timothy Carey’s World’s Greatest Sinner. He then went on to capture Arch Hall Jr.’s delinquent delight in 1962's Wild Guitar, and after that he was off and running, shooting films without ever a finished screenplay in hand.
Steckler always did the best he could with what he had, which was sometimes practically nothing but his passion. When he got a hold of some Las Vegas showgirl garb, he decided to throw together what would be one of the first horror musicals, 1964's Incredibly Strange Creatures Who Stopped Living and Became Mixed-Up Zombies, a complete non-sequester of a film, complete with dance numbers, feathers, glitz and the undead. To enhance Incredibly Strange Creatures... cinematic experience, "monsters" would run into the audience during key sequences, terrorizing the audience. Monsters 1, Audience 0.
He died in Los Angeles after a short illness, his film producer son-in-law Cleve Landsberg told Associated Press.
McGoohan played the character Six in the surreal 1960s show, filmed in the north Wales village of Portmeirion.
He won two Emmy awards for his work on TV detective series Columbo, playing different characters.
The first came for an episode of the series in 1974, with another 16 years later.
The screen star also won a Bafta award for best television actor in 1959 for his role in The Greatest Man In The World, a one-off drama in ITV's Armchair Theatre series.
In more recent years, McGoohan played King Edward Longshanks in the 1995 Mel Gibson film Braveheart. The actor also starred in ITV series Danger Man, which began in 1960.
The actor, who was born in New York and raised in England and Ireland, came to screen prominence in TV series Danger Man, in which he played a secret service agent. The programme later aired as Secret Agent in the US.
He was later considered for the role of James Bond for the movie Dr No.
But McGoohan was chiefly associated with cult ITV drama The Prisoner, writing some of the episodes himself under a different name. His character spent the entire time attempting to escape from The Village and finding out the identity of his captor, the elusive Number One. He repeatedly declared: "I am not a number - I am a free man!"
In 2000, McGoohan reprised his most famous role in an episode of The Simpsons.
The new norwegian label Hommage Records is ready any day now with their 2CD package of norwegian synth bands of the 80's. The compilations' impressive list of 41 tracks (all are used with permission from the artists, this is NOT a bootleg!) includes both obscure underground tape classics, and more commercial attempts released as singles or LP tracks. Some versions are rare or unreleased.
From the label's info:
"Hommage Records are happy to present to you the track list for our First Release: Maskindans - a double CD exploring the electronic post punk of Norway in the 1980s.
Tracks from Tromsø up North to Arendal in the South, tracks recorded as early as 1980 and up to 1988, tracks shorter than two minutes and longer than six, spanning dark wave, avant garde, synth pop and most genres in between; songs that were hits on Norwegian radio and songs that have been totally obscure for 20 years or more. Maskindans is an impressively broad and thorough presentation of the finest Norwegian '80s electronics.
Scheduled for release in February 2009, the compilation MASKINDANS will hold the following tracks:
Disc One
01 Kito: Dildo Drumbop 02 Cirkus Modern: Besettelse 03 Clockwork Orange: Sensation Boys 04 Det Gylne Triangel: Maskindans 05 Beranek: Pictures And Paintings 06 Johnny Yen: Bodies In Motion 07 The Cut: Dance On Glass (7" version) 08 E-Man: Jeg Er Moderne 09 Bern Balders: The Alter-Ego Effect 10 Adrian Cox: Aegina (part 1) 11 Ole I'Dole: Space, Action, Sex og Blod 12 Krim U: Fra Min Drøm I Går 13 Ym:Stammen: Menneskene På Broene 14 Holy Toy: Down In Japan (12" version) 15 Boxbury Beat: Thunder And Lightning 16 Famlende Forsøk: (Tror Nok) Jeg Levde (Engang) 17 ExLex: Kast, Lek, Eventyr 18 Grå: Plastic (live 16/04/83) 19 Bel Canto: Flowerbeds 20 Svart Klovn: Knust Knekt 21 Bearburger: With Two Mouths Biting
Disc Two
01 Ulf Knudsen: Høstland 02 Thorbjørn Grønning: Europa 03 Vidar & Gærne: Pleide Å Våkne 04 Jørgen Knudsen: Between Staying And Going 05 Brød & Sirkus: Hvite Skygger 06 Downers: December Rain 07 Head Set Junta: Siste Tango 08 Den Tredje Generasjon: Sterk Som 09 Fra Lippo Lippi: Tap Dance For Scientists 10 Headcleaners: When Love Just Walks Away 11 Blue Mathue: Perfect Pictures 12 Jeg Falt: Safe Ground 13 White Lord Jesus: Showtime (live 14/07/84) 14 Mørkelagt Bevegelse: A Loss Of Memories 15 Horsemen: Mr. Sunrise 16 El: Visshet 17 3rd Man: Oral Pleasure 18 Guttene Fra Gokkohjørnet: Ikke Vær Redd 19 Im Nebel: Blind Ekstase 20 PLX 15 (pictured): Cellolåta
Packaging: Furthermore, the CDs will be presented in a deluxe package with outsize booklet, two separate digipaks and outer slipcase. Hommage Records are currently (December) working on gathering pictures and information for this release, and collecting the last remaining original masters before taking these to Norway's finest remastering studio."
Releaseparty: JR & NXP legger til: Til å markere denne historiske utgivelsen kommer fire av de medvirkende bandene (artistene) til å opptre (samt at man håper at et band til kommer med etterhvert) i form av; Boxbury Beat, Adrian Cox, Det Gylne Triangel og Horsemen. Dette skjer på Indigo, fredag den 13nde februar, ved siden av Blå, i Oslo. Ta med penger da de ikke har kortleser!!! og inngang koster 100,- kr. [facebook] Plata skal selges til spesialpris på dette evenementet, og burde være et absolutt must minst på linje med de to "Anarki & Kaos" [1][2]-samlerne for alle som er det minste interessert i norsk (u)populær musikks historie.
Extra links: Download of "En Overraskende Måte ...", "Døve Munker ..." and "Ars Transmutatoria" by Famlende Forsøk at Mutant Sounds. // DL of PLX15: "Kort Prosess" at Requiem.
11:27
January 07, 2009
Ron Asheton dies at 60
Sadly, the legendary guitarist and founder member of The Stooges, Ron Asheton, died a few days ago.
From The Guardian:
The Stooges guitarist Ron Asheton has been found dead at his home in Michigan. He was 60.
Police told Ann Arbor News that the musician may have been dead for several days before he was found. Although unconfirmed, initial signs indicate that Asheton died of a heart attack.
Asheton was one of the founding members of the Stooges, along with his brother Scott, bassist Dave Alexander and their charismatic frontman Iggy Pop. With Pop, Asheton helped write songs that would set the template for punk rock, including No Fun and I Wanna Be Your Dog. As befits a band from Ann Arbor, their music distilled the experience of being a bored suburban teen and bottled it as a furious and snarling sonic assault. Their feral take on rock'n'roll, full of feedback and clatter, was the perfect backdrop for Pop's wild stage antics, another big influence for punk performers.
Some of the talented, creative, memorable individuals we lost in 2008 (taken from list by Robin Bougie):
Vampira (the original glamour ghoul, January 10th 2008) Brad Renfro (Ghost World, January 15th, 2008) Suzanne Pleshette (star of "The Birds", January 19, 2008) Heath Ledger (Actor, January 22nd, 2008) Dorothy Podber (shot Warhol’s “Marilyns” with a pistol; February 9, 2008) Roy Scheider (Jaws, 52 Pick-Up) Feburary 10th, 2008) James E. “Jim” Jones (Pere Ubu; February 18, 2008) Larry David Norman (father of Christian rock; February 24, 2008) Ola Brunkert (Drummer for ABBA; March 16, 2008) Arthur C. Clarke (Writer, March 19th 2008) Klaus Dinger (Neu!, Kraftwerk; March 21, 2008) [wiki] Jason Rae (Cinematic Orchestra, Nightmares on Wax; March 22, 2008) Richard Widmark (Actor, March 24th, 2008) Jules Dassin (Film Noir director, March 31st, 2008) Frosty Freeze (born Wayne Frost, B-Boy of The Rock Steady Crew; April 3, 2008) Charlton Heston ("From my cold dead HAND!", April 5th, 2008) Clifford Davies (Ted Nugent, Grand Funk Railroad; April 13, 2008) Julie Ege (Actress, April 29th, 2008) [wiki] John Phillip Law (Star of Danger: Diabolik, May 13th, 2008) (pictured) Sandy Howard (Producer, May 16th, 2008) Sydney Pollack (Director, actor, May 26th, 2008) Kermit Scott (Puppeteer, inspiration for Kermit the Frog, May 26th, 2008) Harvey Korman (Comedian, May 29th 2008) Bo Diddley (Guitarist; June 2, 2008) [wiki] Stan Winston (FX Wizard, June 15th, 2008) Kermit Love (Created Big Bird and Mr. Snuffleupagus, June 21st, 2008) George Carlin (Comedian, June 22nd, 2008) Isaac Hayes, Jr. (Truck Turner, sang "Shaft", August 10, 2008) [wiki] Johnny “Dizzy” Moore (The Skatalites; August 16, 2008) Anita Page (Actress, September 6th, 2008) Rick Wright (keyboardist, founding member of Pink Floyd, September 15th, 2008) Cirio H. Santiago (Director of many Post Apocalypse and WIP movies, Sept. 26, 2008) Paul Newman (Actor, Sept. 26th, 2008) Levi Stubbs (of The Four Tops; October 17, 2008) Rudy Ray Moore (Comedian, Blaxploitation actor, October 19, 2008) Frank “Mack Heat” Navetta (The Descendents; October 31, 2008) Studs Turkel (Writer, October 31st, 2008) Jimmy Carl Black (The Mothers of Invention; November 1, 2008) "The Indian of the group!" John Mitchell (The Jimi Hendrix Experience; November 12, 2008) Richard Edwards (Manic Street Preachers; November 23, 2008 - declared dead, he disappeared 10 years ago) Forest J Ackerman (publisher, Dec. 4th, 2008) Beverly Garland (Actress, Dec. 5th, 2008) Bettie Page (Model, December, 11th 2008) Bill Landis (Sleazoid Express publisher/author, December 22nd 2008) Eartha Kitt (Actress, Singer; December 25, 2008)
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09:53
January 05, 2009
Sign Of The 3 Eyed Men
The Houston, Texas label International Artists thru Charly in the UK is opening for pre-orders on their forthcoming 10 CD box set of almost any and all recordings by the legendary inventors of psychedelic rock, The 13th Floor Elevators.
From the official site:
The ultimate package the band has long deserved. Strictly limited to 3000 numbered copies worldwide and shipping in Spring 2009.
With excellent sound quality from newly discovered sources with rare previously unavailable recordings and including unique reproductions of original band memorabilia.
Produced and compiled by Paul Drummond. The definitive 10 CD anthology of the pioneers of pre-punk US garage rock and psychedelia.
The box set, endorsed by the band and graced and named by Tommy Hall, includes:
-- The band’s three landmark albums The Psychedelic Sounds Of The Thirteenth Floor Elevators, Easter Everywhere and Bull Of The Woods including rare mono versions, outtakes and alternate versions. -- Two ‘lost’ albums featuring previously unreleased material -- Rare and previously unreleased live recordings -- A 72 page hardback book written by the band’s biographer Paul Drummond, enhanced with posters, ephemera, discographies and many rare and previously unseen photos -- A selection of reproduction memorabilia including photographic prints, reproduction posters, stickers and handbills.
Bill Landis, editor of Sleazoid Express and author of the book of the same title, died of a heart attack just before christmas. I interviewed Landis and his co-writer/editor wife Michelle Clifford for the UK book "Creeping Flesh" a few years ago. His paper "Sleazoid Express" was revived as a 70-80 page zine, and he put out 6 excellent issues, plus one special issue on "Bloodsucking Freaks" director Joel M. Reed, and a "monograph" called "30 Years on the Deuce: The Wicked Die Slow". His Sleazoid book is also a very unique piece of film history. Also, his very unauthorized biography of Kenneth Anger, "ANGER", is strongly recommended.
Landis worked in and around the grindhouse theaters and the fringes of the film business for years, and presented a detailed insider's view of New York's 42nd street area. He was often imitated but never duplicated. He will be missed by film fans all over the world.
The Norwegian tape label Hypertonia World Enterprises put together their first compilation in 1988. It was an underground xmas comp. with contributions from many artists from Europe and the US. To celebrate the 20th anniversary of this release the label is offering a free download of the hour long tape.
Artists included: Nicole Campau, Laurent Fauconnet, X-omatic (aka Skjit-Lars), Sack, Joe Menichetti & Beverly Slade, George Galvas & The Helmets, F:A.R., Injuryen (Juryen, with Brt from Famlende Forsøk), Leisure Sisters, To Trøtte Typer, Trio Zuter, X Ray Pop, James Hill & Mickey Stein, No Unauthorized, Åreknuteknyterne, Walter Ulbricht Experience, Phantom Limb & The 3 Wise Men and Costes.
Reviews: «Quite a few of these xmas tunes are those we've come to know & love, some are perhaps traditional in other countries, & some have definately been specially written for this compilation...», Stick It In Your Ear zine «This is an especially good tape for those of you who have relatives who insist on playing those old Bing Crosby records throughout December. Pop this baby in - there's enough "seriousness" mixed in to pull it off! A definite MUST!!!», But a Twist of the Lip... zine
(Gratis julemusikk! Det er 20 års jubileum for den første samlekz'n på labelen Hypertonia World Enterprises. Det var en julekassett med "hjemme"-innspilt musikk fra en lang rekke europeiske og amerikanske artister og band. Du kan laste ned hele utgivelsen her.)
Gearing up to mailing out my own xmas comp. to family & friends for the 7th time, news pour in that BIZARRE magazine in the UK is giving away a xmas comp. for free. Check it out here. Includes downloadable cover art. You do have to register to download, but not to listen to streaming audio.
Easy listening xmas music champions of the world are found at FALALALALA.
Also, check out seven free xmas comp's at Suburban Sprawl. These are not thrift store finds, but original material by current bands from Michigan and beyond. The 2008 edition is 2 CD's, 44 tracks!
Maybe I got this news a bit later than Judy Tomaini-Rock wanted to get it to me, but the news is the saddest I’ve gotten in a long time regardless. Showman William "Billy" Rodgers, owner of show supply shop The Pirates Treasure Cove in Gibsonton [2], FL, died Nov.24 at the age of 74. If you want more details, you can go to [Tampa Bay obits], though I’ve been told there are a number of errors in the piece.
Despite those errors, I can tell you accurately that Billy was a huge friend to SHOCKED AND AMAZED! over the years, one of the best. I met him on my first visit to Gibtown at the start of my work on S&A!, and from moment one he was a major source of material and contacts on the show business, putting in many a good word with the showfolk, recommendations he needn’t have given except, well, that was the kind of guy he was. At the end of my very first visit to Gibtown, disappointed that I had not achieved one of my major goals for the week (though with Billy’s help I’d accomplished much, much more than planned), I told him my regret: that I’d not met "Lady Sandra" Reed, photographic subject of renowned photographer Diane Arbus.
Sandy Reed’s image – head thrown back, arms thrown out, cruciform, multiple swords down her throat – had been an iconic inspiration to me from the first time I’d seen it. And now, at the end of that initial journey, I’d come no closer to her than the picture I’d seen years and years before. Billy looked at me across that dining table there in the showmen’s club, put on that huge grin he was famous for, and told me, "Why, Sandy’s one of my best friends." And the rest was history. Thanks for that, Billy, and much, much else.
Disinformation Editor Russ Kick has been named one of Utne Reader's "50 Visionaries Who Are Changing Your World":
Russ Kick – Architect of Memory:
"I don't foresee a day when there is true government transparency," says Russ Kick, editor of TheMemoryHole.org. "It's just not in the nature of government." So, in lieu of the end of secrecy, Kick tenaciously ticks off small victories, such as finding an IRS guide to prosecuting money laundering, buried in the Federal Depository Library, and using the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) to unearth photographs of U.S. military prisons.
Since 2002, Kick has preserved hundreds of cultural artifacts, including that five-minute clip of President Bush reading to schoolchildren on 9/11 after an aide whispered to him that the nation was under siege. Kick edits a series of anthologies for Disinformation, a radical media organization. [This year] look for an updated edition of 2001's You Are Being Lied To, called (appropriately) You Are STILL Being Lied To.
The best you hope for, Kick says, is that an inspired citizen files an FOIA request of his or her own.
Russ Kick is the author of 50 Things You're Not Supposed To Know, Volumes 1 and 2, and The Disinformation Book of Lists. He is the editor of Everything You Know Is Wrong and Abuse Your Illusions.
His next anthology You Are STILL Being Lied To will be available in December 2008.
Russ Kick assembles an unprecedented group of researchers — investigative reporters, political dissidents, academics, media watchdogs, scientist-philosophers, social critics, and rogue scholars — to paint a picture of a world where crucial stories are ignored or actively suppressed and the official version of events has more holes in it than Swiss cheese.
Featuring essays from Howard Zinn, Noam Chomsky, Howard Bloom, Sydney Schanberg, Michael Parenti, Riane Eisler, Jim Marrs, and many others!
YOU ARE STILL BEING LIED TO: The NEW Disinformation Guide to Media Distortion, Historical Whitewashes and Cultural Myth. Edited by Russ Kick. Published by The Disinformation Company Ltd. December 2008 * ISBN: 978-1934708-07-1 -- Oversized Softcover * US$24.95 * 448 pages
About The Disinformation Company Ltd:
The Disinformation Company was founded in 1997 on the strength of the ever-popular Disinformation website. The company is active in television and film production, book publishing, theatrical releasing, home entertainment, and is currently developing its first video game.
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November 18, 2008
Down down Downard
After his comprehensive and detailed tomes on the Manson myths and legends and on Kerry Thornley (founder of Discordianism), "crackpot historian" Adam Gorightly is ready with his biography on the legendary James Shelby Downard and his life long self-imposed struggle against masonic "sorcery":
Mind Control, occult scenarios, conspiracy and ritual crimes ... In “James Shelby Downard’s Mystical War,” author Adam Gorightly chronicles the famed conspiracy researcher’s life long battles against Masonic Sorcery as an investigator and exposer of the Science of Symbolism, Onomatology (Science of Names) and Mystical Toponomy (Science of Places). “James Shelby Downard’s Mystical War” picks up where Downard left off and follows the bread crumbs down a rabbit hole where only the brave (or crazy!) dare follow.
"Adam Gorightly is one of the great divers into the mnemonic deep. If his readers come away with less than the definitive answers about the arcane creatures that populate these waters–from Kerry Thornley to Charlie Manson to James Shelby Downard–it will be only because they have become exhausted by the swim." - Kenn Thomas, Steamshovel Press
"Adam offers a unique take on virtually every conspiracy of our time. There are few answers to Adam’s rants, but they pose questions only the brave or seriously warped would dare ponder." –Erskine Payton, "Erskine Overnight"
"Adam Gorightly is a ‘crackpot historian’ of the highest order!" - Victor Thorn, wingtv.net
While on the subjects of delusions, apocalyptic visions and superstition, the latest "Paranoia" (#49) has these articles:
-- The Protocols of Zion: Fact or Fiction by Jack Grimes
-- The End of History and the Clash of Civilizations by Robert Guffey
-- The Ugly Truth About Petroleum Politics, Alternative Energy and Islamic Terror by David Grossack
-- WWII “New World Order” Plan Revealed, Intro by Al Hidell
-- Just Say Know to Your Neo-Controllers by Iona Miller
-- “I Feel Like a Spring Lamb” What Clay Shaw’s Literary Life Reveals, by Michael Snyder
-- The Lie is Different at Every Level - an Interview with Mike Bara by Joan d’Arc
-- Extraordinary Times, Intentional Collapse and the Takedown of the U.S.A by Richard C. Cook
-- James Shelby Downard’s Mystical War by Adam Gorightly
-- Memoirs of Stephanie Caruana on the Gemstone File - an Interview with Stephanie Caruana by Joan d’Arc
-- Jumping Jack Flash: Springheel Jack’s Latin Cousin by Scott Corrales
10:21
November 10, 2008
Hold Brillan!
25 år etter første Ch. Nielsen-hefte ("Fedme", 1983) og 28 år etter sin første publiserte serie (i Gateavisa, 1980), er det nå tid for en egen "Hold Brillan!"-bok fra Christopher Nielsen. Boka heter "Bygdegutar", kommer ut på No Comprendo Press i dag, og er på 192 sider i FARGER. Tegneseriefans generelt, og gamle Ch. Nielsen-fans i særdeleshet vil kjenne sin besøkelsestid. To episke bøker til skal komme innen år 2019 ...
Den temperamentsfulle trønderen, kjent fra tegnefilmen om Jimmy og flere tidligere tegneserier, har fått sin egen publikasjon - på hele to hundre sider.
Og hele greia er blitt et eventyr i god, gammel serietradisjon. Influert av amerikansk undergrunn, fransk-belgiske eventyrserier og norsk samtid:
- Den er litt lysere enn ting jeg tidligere har lagd, selv om det er mange av de samme ingrediensene. (...) Den er litt mer folkelig, sier serieskaperen til Dagbladet.no.
HEADPRESS #28: "THIS EDITION OF HEADPRESS HAS BEEN APPROPRIATED BY THE HEADPRESS PANTHERS!"
Edited by John Sinclair, HEADPRESS 28 marks the fortieth anniversary of the original White Panthers movement and heralds the launch of the "HEADPRESS PANTHERS", which celebrates the union with historical counterculture figure, social reformer and living legend, John Sinclair, to spread "THE GOSPEL ACCORDING TO UNPOPULAR CULTURE", thus promoting free speech through independent writing and art without boundaries.
BAD MAGS VOL 1: The flip side of popular culture as seen through magazines and tabloids. BAD MAGS collects the colourful and sometimes shocking news-stand publications of the 1960s through to the 1980s. Chapters are divided into subject categories for easy reference, such as sexploitation, Ed Wood Jr, and outlaw bikers.
KEEP IT TOGETHER! - Cosmic boogie with the Deviants and Pink Fairies. This is the remarkable story of London’s communal bands of the 1960s and 1970s, from the perspective of two of its most crucial exponents.
Coming Soon:
IT'S ALL GOOD - A John Sinclair Reader + CD: IT’S ALL GOOD illuminates John Sinclair’s legendary period as a cultural revolutionary and political prisoner, manager of the MC5, Chairman of the White Panther Party, producer of the Ann Arbor Blues & Jazz Festival and director of the Detroit Jazz Center. There’s evidence too of Sinclair’s years at WWOZ Radio in New Orleans, where he was voted the city’s favorite DJ. IT'S ALL GOOD includes an exclusive thirteen track CD, which features music performances by John Sinclair, Wayne Kramer (MC5) and others.
Short article in this month's UK music mag Uncut // Headpress at wiki
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You've heard of the Buddha Machines, now Throbbing Gristle puts out their own version, with as many as 13 loops to play.
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This just in from the Paranoia is Freedom blog: 
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Brand new documentary about WSB, the first one since his death in 1997.
Fortean researcher, journalist and author John Alva Keel died July 3rd at 79. He was best known for his supernatural study 
News from Sundazed Records, who put out 2008's most acclaimed reissue, the triple vinyl/dbl. CD Dennis Wilson: Pacific Ocean Blue/Bambu album:
Shade Rupe, editor of the art journals "Funeral Party" 1 & 2, has a book of interviews coming out on Headpress this fall: 
Munch formed in Kristiansand, Norway, in 1986, with the name taken from the famous Norwegian painter Edward Munch. They wanted to create a kind of music that made the same impressions as Munch's paintings... 
From obituary at Re/Search by V. Vale: "J.G. Ballard R.I.P. (11/15/1930-4/19/2009) I particularly hate it when “rebels” die — there are already so few of them/us. Sometimes it seems like virtually everyone you meet these days in the world is a slave to the profit motive/capitalist imperative: “What’s the meaning of life?” “To make money!” J.G. Ballard, and another of my relatively recently deceased role models, W.S. Burroughs, both refused to prostitute their writing, and they both refused to shmooze and “network” merely to further their “careers.” Both had a hatred of bourgeois hypocrisy and phony politeness, while at the same time being deeply polite and courteous, almost to a fault …
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Ever seen those tiny christian comic books, often left at bus stations or telephone booths, urging you to repent, or forever burn in hell? They're called Chick Tracts and over 200 titles have been published by the now 84 year old Jack T. Chick since the start in 1970. He claims to have sold over 750 million copies in over 100 languages, thus making him probably the most read author in the world.
Hommage Records' imponerende innsats for å samle tidligere udokumenterte innspillinger fra 1980-88 har blitt belønnet med en rekke veldig begeistrede anmeldelser, og et utsolgt 1. opplag omtrent før utgivelsesdato. Et 2. opplag på 1000 ex til er bestilt, og ankommer ca. 11. mars. Bestill direkte fra 
It's been a sad season, as the rock'n'roll community recently had to see Ron Asheton go, and Feb. 4th The Cramps' frontman Lux Interior sadly passed away, at 62, although some reports say only 60, in true Hollywood mystery style. From 
The rocketship has just left the empty lot at Coney Island.
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Infamous B-movie and Drive-In director/producer/actor Ray Dennis Steckler [
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The new norwegian label 
Sadly, the legendary guitarist and founder member of The Stooges, Ron Asheton, died a few days ago.
The Houston, Texas label 
Bill Landis, editor of Sleazoid Express and author of the book of the same title, died of a heart attack just before christmas. I interviewed Landis and his co-writer/editor wife Michelle Clifford for the UK book 
The Norwegian tape label Hypertonia World Enterprises put together their first compilation in 1988. It was an underground xmas comp. with contributions from many artists from Europe and the US. To celebrate the 20th anniversary of this release the label is offering a free download of the hour long tape.
Gearing up to mailing out my own xmas comp. to family & friends for the 7th time, news pour in that BIZARRE magazine in the UK is giving away a xmas comp. for free. Check it out 
Maybe I got this news a bit later than Judy Tomaini-Rock wanted to get it to me, but the news is the saddest I’ve gotten in a long time regardless. Showman William "Billy" Rodgers, owner of show supply shop 
Russ Kick – Architect of Memory: 
After his comprehensive and detailed tomes on the Manson myths and legends and on Kerry Thornley (founder of Discordianism), "crackpot historian" Adam Gorightly is ready with his biography on the legendary James Shelby Downard and his life long self-imposed struggle against masonic "sorcery":
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25 år etter første Ch. Nielsen-hefte ("Fedme", 1983) og 28 år etter sin første publiserte serie (i Gateavisa, 1980), er det nå tid for en egen "Hold Brillan!"-bok fra Christopher Nielsen. Boka heter "Bygdegutar", kommer ut på No Comprendo Press i dag, og er på 192 sider i FARGER. Tegneseriefans generelt, og gamle Ch. Nielsen-fans i særdeleshet vil kjenne sin besøkelsestid. To episke bøker til skal komme innen år 2019 ...
New titles out now from 
