12.29.2002
12.28.2002
12.27.2002
Helter Stupid - The Complete Radio Show
(Dec. '89) - In its entirety, one of the creepiest Edge shows ever done, broadcast the same day Negativland's Helter Stupid cd was released. (This cd transfer of the show includes the prologue and title track of that release taken from the original 'Helter Stupid' cd). The cd in part chronicled the media prank involving axe murderer David Brom. At the time, Negativland was planning a tour they found they couldn't afford, and issued a press release stating, quite falsely, that they had been told by the FBI not to go on tour because a connection had been found between the murders and their song Christianity is Stupid. The media RAN with it. The group found itself in the middle of a full blown news event that they had created. The 'monstrous joke' wasn't without a point though, it vividly demonstrated the tabloid nature of news organizations and how they fail to verify 'facts' before reporting them. Helter Stupid (the cd piece) was about the fallout of their prank and about Satanism hysteria in general. Helter Stupid (the show) gets more detailed offering extensive material on backmasking, Satanism, junk food journalism, porn rock, and more, exploring further the link between 'murder and music'. entire show 289 min. (on four disks)
(Dec. '89) - In its entirety, one of the creepiest Edge shows ever done, broadcast the same day Negativland's Helter Stupid cd was released. (This cd transfer of the show includes the prologue and title track of that release taken from the original 'Helter Stupid' cd). The cd in part chronicled the media prank involving axe murderer David Brom. At the time, Negativland was planning a tour they found they couldn't afford, and issued a press release stating, quite falsely, that they had been told by the FBI not to go on tour because a connection had been found between the murders and their song Christianity is Stupid. The media RAN with it. The group found itself in the middle of a full blown news event that they had created. The 'monstrous joke' wasn't without a point though, it vividly demonstrated the tabloid nature of news organizations and how they fail to verify 'facts' before reporting them. Helter Stupid (the cd piece) was about the fallout of their prank and about Satanism hysteria in general. Helter Stupid (the show) gets more detailed offering extensive material on backmasking, Satanism, junk food journalism, porn rock, and more, exploring further the link between 'murder and music'. entire show 289 min. (on four disks)
12.24.2002
12.23.2002
Parece que vai começar o espectáculo da guerra para a televisão. Chacinas e destruição sob o pretexto do terrorismo (que só vão contribuir para fomentar mais terrorismo, logo mais guerra, e por aí fora...). Será mesmo impossivel fazer frente ao poder que nos E.U.A. tem esta forma de agir ? Há tantas vozes de Americanos que a contestam mas não a conseguem evitar. Nunca foi tão claro que a lei do mais forte se sobrepõe a todas as boas intenções, declarações de direitos, estatutos, etc...
Tudo cheira mal nesta história desde a duvidosa eleição do Bush filho como presidente dos E.U.A. Será que não começa a ser contra producente esta aparência de legitimidade que as Nações Unidas (?) dão a este tipo de actuação ? Não se terá tornado este planeta numa espécie de Planeta Mongo com o seu ditador Ming ? A diferença é que não se vislumbra Flash Gordon nenhum que venha salvar a Dale Arden (ou seja, os civis e os recursos vitais do planeta). Em vez disso quem sobressai são aspirantes a Ming, tão ou mais assustadores que ele. Tempos interessantes estes em que vivemos e isso é uma maldição.
Tudo cheira mal nesta história desde a duvidosa eleição do Bush filho como presidente dos E.U.A. Será que não começa a ser contra producente esta aparência de legitimidade que as Nações Unidas (?) dão a este tipo de actuação ? Não se terá tornado este planeta numa espécie de Planeta Mongo com o seu ditador Ming ? A diferença é que não se vislumbra Flash Gordon nenhum que venha salvar a Dale Arden (ou seja, os civis e os recursos vitais do planeta). Em vez disso quem sobressai são aspirantes a Ming, tão ou mais assustadores que ele. Tempos interessantes estes em que vivemos e isso é uma maldição.
12.20.2002
Franz Kafka fartava-se de rir durante as leituras que fazia das suas peças para os amigos.
12.19.2002
12.12.2002
"As minhas intenções eram boas, mas enganei-me na maneira de alcançá-las. Fui um estúpido.
O conhecimento chegou-me tarde demais...
Muito tarde me chegou a certeza de nada saber..." Ezra Pound
O conhecimento chegou-me tarde demais...
Muito tarde me chegou a certeza de nada saber..." Ezra Pound
12.11.2002
Há textos assim, que parecem escritos para nós.
Obrigado, Agnieszka e Clara. Desculpem lá o abuso.
.................................
garlic press is more trouble than its worth
.................................
i lived in a coop house once
with a bunch of aging new agers and hippies
and they put the damn stuff in every damn dish
black beans and garlic
lentils and garlic
i think we had these things about 6 nights a week
damn birdfood! i got tired of it
but the thing that i never fully accepted was
the use of this gadget called a 'garlic press'
they were always squeezing the little cloves thru
this stupid press
damn technology!
what good is a device which
ends up leaving all the garlic gunk
mushed up in the press?
ya lose half the damn garlic!
and what's more
these presses are an absolute bitch to clean
the garlic gunk always stickin' around
my italian granny never had any of this.
she did her garlic the old fashioned way:
she chopped it, minced it
and i seem to recall her garlic tasting
much better than that of any of these
new age hippy techno geeks who always were
puttin' the damn garlic through a damn press.
.................................
Clara Sylph
.................................
Copyright © Clara Sylph
March 1996
Obrigado, Agnieszka e Clara. Desculpem lá o abuso.
.................................
garlic press is more trouble than its worth
.................................
i lived in a coop house once
with a bunch of aging new agers and hippies
and they put the damn stuff in every damn dish
black beans and garlic
lentils and garlic
i think we had these things about 6 nights a week
damn birdfood! i got tired of it
but the thing that i never fully accepted was
the use of this gadget called a 'garlic press'
they were always squeezing the little cloves thru
this stupid press
damn technology!
what good is a device which
ends up leaving all the garlic gunk
mushed up in the press?
ya lose half the damn garlic!
and what's more
these presses are an absolute bitch to clean
the garlic gunk always stickin' around
my italian granny never had any of this.
she did her garlic the old fashioned way:
she chopped it, minced it
and i seem to recall her garlic tasting
much better than that of any of these
new age hippy techno geeks who always were
puttin' the damn garlic through a damn press.
.................................
Clara Sylph
.................................
Copyright © Clara Sylph
March 1996
12.06.2002
The File That Wouldn't Leave I'm Ippolito Bevilacqua Ariosti. I'm fifty; I work in farming and estate trading. I'm a practicing Catholic. A girl whom I have never known accuses me of having raped minors, pushed drugs and taken part in satanic rituals with one Marco Dimitri, whom I only saw on tv [...] The girl also says that we made human sacrifices, stabbing 21 times a non-European in the basement of my country residence, Palazzo de' Rossi. I came to know this the other day, reading Il Resto del Carlino, which cites me as indicted for homicide . It is not true [...] When I read that I'm suspected on the basis of those ignoble statements, I was astonished... I think I have the right to have the press inform without slandering my name, and to have the justices investigate, verifying the facts and not allowing absurd calumnies. [P.Cascella, "The Marquis' rage: 'I'm not a satanist,'" La Repubblica, Bologna, January 24th, 1997.]
This is interesting: according to Bryan Talbot, the adventures of the 'Dark Knight' are imaginary, they just take place in Bruce Wayne's head. Wayne suffers from hysteric dissociation syndrome. In a Talbot's subversive Batman story titled "Masks", a psychiatrist tells Wayne:
'Your attachment to the identity of "Batman" is an expedient by which you rule your world [...] To you the world is too chaotic and you need to IMPOSE an order on it. It's a typical FASCIST impulse, many people suffer from it. However, as soon as you wear a mask, there emerges your second personality. MIGHTY. POWERFUL. Able to FACE any trouble. But, unfortunately, you've gone too far. You 've stitched on yourself a totalitarian MYTHOLOGY, a deep-rooted hallucinatory neurosis.'
in "The file that wouldn't leave" - by Luther Blissett
'Your attachment to the identity of "Batman" is an expedient by which you rule your world [...] To you the world is too chaotic and you need to IMPOSE an order on it. It's a typical FASCIST impulse, many people suffer from it. However, as soon as you wear a mask, there emerges your second personality. MIGHTY. POWERFUL. Able to FACE any trouble. But, unfortunately, you've gone too far. You 've stitched on yourself a totalitarian MYTHOLOGY, a deep-rooted hallucinatory neurosis.'
in "The file that wouldn't leave" - by Luther Blissett
"But I don't want to go among mad people," said Alice.
"Oh you can't help that," replied the Cat. "We're all mad here."
"Oh you can't help that," replied the Cat. "We're all mad here."
12.04.2002
Godspeed You ! Black Emperor
