Our Art, Our Streets, Piss Off

Terry “The Major” Hawkins and Jack “Pez” Walker

Public meeting/Debate

at the England Fish and Chip Club, 201 Hackney Way Vancouver

Our Art, Our Streets, Piss Off

Avant-garde art organizations and their supporters clubs

For the first time in a decade, two former members of the notorious ultra-violent firms the Dumb Fucks and the Dunbar Goon Squad face off, but this time on the stage, not the street. Jack “Pez” Walker (Dunbar Goon Squad) and Terry “The Major” Hawkins (the Dumb Fucks) will debate postmodern theory, magick and street violence.

Reg “The Professor” Johnson will kick off the evening with a short history of the firms, and explain how they were modelled on English football supporters club. He will also outline the role of these firms, through their violent support of their art organizations, in bringing avant-garde art to the streets.

Audience warning: There will be violence! Come prepared!

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Choose, and what you choose shall be yours.

A rif on D.A.F.

DBCCPG Instructional Graphic

This graphic is from a Psy Ontology instructional manual put out by the DB Cooper Church of Perpetual Grace (now on hiatus).

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Last Chapter as Simulation of Reality

I stayed over at a rooming house in Hackney where I hoped to finish Blood Rites of the Bourgeoisie. I was grooving to the story until page 94. That was where I saw my name in the book and my third eye opened and I understood. I was merely a very minor character in a story. Everything - my trip, my blog, my Self - all this, was a subplot in an extended narrative that existed beyond the book.

And now, I realize my role in this narrative is finished, and it is time for me to go. And I am gone.

Up Around Camden Town

Vacation Daze 11

In Camden Town

I bought a copy of The Seventh Song Of Maldoror at a boot sale in Camden Town. I chatted up the dolly bird who sold me the book and the conversation eventually turned to my travels around England.

She told me that the whole trip was just in my head. I took this to be a polite way to tell me to sod off.

Taking it to the beach

Vacation Daze 7

Here I am taking in the rave scene in Ibiza. Or is it Brighton? I really cannot tell the difference anymore.

Salisbury Stake Out

Vacation Daze 6

The B&B I'm staying at in Salisbury has a very lovely garden (see picture).

Road Trip Day 20

Lost in Wales

Vacation Daze 5

Relaxing on the train

I'm stuck on a train somewhere between Machynlleth and Caersws. Fortunately, this is giving me some time to read more of Blood Rites.

Right now, I'm 1/3 of the way through the book. I'll leave my thoughts on it until a future time as I will not discuss any book until I have read the whole thing. However, to date, I have yet to finish a single book ...

Road Trip Day 19

Paraphilia VIII

I got this message during my trek through the Black Mountain.

The new issue of Paraphilia Magazine, now available. Check it out at www.paraphiliamagazine.com.

Always filled with interesting and crazy sh*t!

York Time

Vacation Daze 4

Here I am taking a break at Bootham Bar after walking along city walls. I will find out later tonight whether York is in fact the most haunted city in England.

Road Trip Day 18

Wasn't E.K. just here?

Vacation Daze 3

Walking the ruins

Fresh off a hike at the Tor, I decide to have a relaxing tour of the ruins of Glastonbury Abbey. I plan to go to Northwick Hill as well, if I can find the bus to Blockley.

Road Trip Day 17

Rambling around Glasgow

Vacation Daze 2 *

Here I am on Sauchiehall Street in Glasgow. I'm on my way to the Necropolis for a picnic and to take in the lovely view.

*Road Trip Day 16

Vacation Time

Road Trip Day 15

I'm taking the scenic route back home. It will give me time to read Blood Rites. Here I am relaxing at the Avebury Stone Circle.

I've got it, now I'm off

Road Trip Day 14

I dropped by the Book Works office to pick up my copy of Blood Rites of the Bourgeoisie. Every one wished me well on the rest of my trip.

(Photo by Sage)(c)

FYI, you do not need to travel to England as I have to get Blood Rites of the Bourgeoisie. If you do not live in the UK, the easiest way to get a copy is to order directly from Book Works. As noted in an earlier post, bookstores should also be able to order from the North American supplier (for those who do not wish to order online).

A Tourist in Someone Else's Town

Road Trip Day 13

Today, I toured London in a taxi. I saw all of the sights - Granville Island, Stanley Park and the Sea Wall. With all of the sightseeing, I lost track of time. By the time I made it to Hackney, the office had closed. Here's a picture I took through the window. I can see my book sitting on a table inside.

Crude Awakening

Road Trip Day 12

I woke up to the noise of this flyer being stuffed under my door. I'm not sure if it's for a swinger's party, or a book launch , or a summer camp of some sort. Perhaps it's just the front page of the Telegraph or Guardian. I'll enquire at the front desk later.

London Found

Road Trip Day 11

Today, I arrived in London and settled into a rooming house on Gower. It seems like a nice place.

Beat the Boots

Road Trip Day 10

World Exclusive!

I've managed to get my hands on an authentic Blood Rites of the Bourgeoisie bootleg. I was browsing in a used book and record shop in Wells when I came across this find behind the glass case at the front counter. The clerk was rather cagey when I asked how he had obtained this before the official on-street date, only saying that he knew people who knew other people. It was something I had to have!

Here's a scan of the cover. I might do excerpts as well in the next couple of days, depending on how my trip to London goes.

Down by the Lake

Road Trip Day 9

This is the main road running straight through town in the Lake District. I haven't seen any actual lakes yet but there is still tomorrow. It's gorgeous and walking along I am reminded of the poem by Woolworths - "I wondered lonely as a cloud..."

Come To Milton Keynes

Road Trip Day 8

While digital books have been getting all of the attention lately, I have found a wonderful new book format being sold in a quaint bookstore in Milton Keynes - shredded books. The book is sent through an industrial shredder and voila - the book has been transferred into this new shredded format.

While this store sells the shredded books for list price, some art galleries have been selling them as "artist editions", fetching upwards of $1000 per book. The clerk disapproved of this practice and felt, in the end, it may kill this format from being embraced by the populace. And this would really be a shame.

Here is a picture of the copy of Gravity's Rainbow I purchased.

Hopefully, I'll be able to pick up Infinite Jest tomorrow. Unfortunately, there were no Stewart Home books in stock, as they had all been bought up by local nuns.

A quick stop at a bookstore

Road Trip Day 7

As I strolled through Nottingham, I happened across one of the three remaining bookstores in England. I walked in to see if they had Stewart's latest book, Blood Rites of the Bourgeoisie. While my copy was waiting for me somewhere in London, I thought I'd take a quick peek at the work. I asked the clerk and she laughed.

"Oh, don't you know the joke? It's really an open secret in the industry. Stewart Home does not exist. "He" [air quotes] is actually a computer program that randomizes text and spits the results out as a novel. In any case, I heard that this latest work has been declared out of print. And this is before it has actually been printed! Which is quite an achievement."

She gave me directions to a bookstore in Milton Keynes, and suggested I try there. I thanked her, although I thought her theory about Mr. Home to be ludicrous. How could someone with a webpage not be real?

My webpage exists, therefore I am.

The map is not the territory

Road Trip Day 6

I am using a map of Vancouver Island to guide me around England. I felt that this would be the most logical way to navigate the English countryside. By my estimation, I should be in London at some point, eventually.

Wrong Train Again

Road Trip Day #5

I was on my way to Staines to meet up with the guys from Descending Light Explosion. I was to join them for their rave gig in the Tesco parking lot there. Unfortunately, I got on the wrong train and ended up in Stratford-upon-Avon.

Since I had some time to kill before the next train, I took in a performance of a recently discovered play by Shakespeare - The Brother Called Trouble. "Big Money, Big Pimpin', Big Knuckin' and Buckin' equals Big Trouble on the Thames!" Which, I might add, equals AWESOME! His best play so far.

Climbing The Tower

Road Trip Day 4

I made a little detour to Durham. I wanted to make my way to the top of the tower at the Cathedral. Here's some graffiti I found scrawled in the stairwell leading to the tower roof.

"A.O.S. was never here"

Third Train from Gloucester

Road Trip Day 3

The 8:13 South Eastern to London was late. While standing on the platform, a man stood beside me and said something to me I did not catch.

"Pardon me?" I said.

"That's your first mistake." He said.

"What?"

"You spoke to me. That was your first mistake."

"You know, I expect this sort of crazy shit back in Vancouver, not here in the Cotswolds!"

Fortunately, just then, the train rolled in.

My Train ticket

Road Trip

I’m setting out to pick up my copy of Blood Rites of the Bourgeoisie by Stewart Home. It should be waiting for me at 19 Holywell Row, second room on the left, bottom shelf of the book case beside the window. I think. I’ve lost the directions. However, I have a vague recollection that this is where the book is waiting for me.

No problem. I can work things out on the fly. Now, it’s time to head off. You know what they say – even a 1000 mile trip begins with a single tab of acid.

Blood Rites of the Bourgeoisie

Finally, a new book I'm really looking forward to reading. On June 14, 2010, Stewart Home's latest book, Blood Rites of the Bourgeoisie, hits the streets. For full details and samples, check out his website:

http://www.stewarthomesociety.org/luv/bloodrites.htm

You can buy the book directly from Book Works or from a number of bookstores in the UK. In North America, distribution is through R.A.M. Publications. Most bookstores should be able to order this for you. Amazon does not have Blood Rites listed yet, although other books from the Semina series are available through them. [correction - Amazon.com lists it as out of print! The book is available from the UK supplier for sure. I will confirm with the US supplier about availability.]

Book details: Blood Rites Of The Bourgeoisie by Stewart Home. Book Works £8.00. 14 June 2010. ISBN 978-1-906012-23-6

Blood Rites is part of the Semina series put out by Book Works and edited by Stewart Home. Check out the links above for more info on other titles in this series.

Really people I'm gone

I deleted my Facebook and MySpace pages two weeks ago. I did this for a variety of reasons, one being that a few mentally-ill acquaintances from my past had tracked me down. While the underlying reasons for deleting the accounts had been percolating for some time, it was essentially an impulsive act.

In any case, I did not anticipate what happened next - nobody noticed. Not a single one of my friends, so called, noticed that I was missing.

And then I had a vision. I had seen my future and it's not pretty. As an old man, I will die alone in my apartment to be discovered weeks later (by accident) among the filth, half-eaten by my dog. This is great. I have so much to look forward to now.

Paraphilia VI now available

Head on over to the Paraphilia website to grab the latest edition of Paraphilia Magazine. Lots of strangeness from Jim Lopez, Christopher Nosnibor, Richard Meade, Claudia Bellocq and Chris Madoch, to name a few. Ready, Set, Mutate.

Gun

Here's a micro-fiction piece that I've recently reworked :

One morning, Johnny brought his father’s shotgun to school for show and tell. The gun accidentally discharged, blowing off Billy's head as he sat in his desk at the front of the class. The laughter of the children quickly turned to screams of excitement or horror. This accident foreshadowed events thirty years later when he walked into his office and shot eight coworkers with a rifle. Afterwards, he sat at his desk, tidied his papers, and then shot himself in the temple with a .38 special. But this time, it was not an accident.

McKenna at the Psychedelic Salon

I've been grooving to a lot of Terence McKenna's talks lately, graciously provided by the Psychedelic Salon podcast. While I have some problems with McKenna's books, he really hits his stride in these lectures where the depth/breadth of his knowledge becomes apparent. (And I should add that there really is a whole mushroon load of McKenna there!) The archive also has audio files from other mind-benders, such as Timothy Leary, Robert Anton Wilson and Erik Davis.

Subscribing via iTunes is the easiest method to get the whole catalogue, although there are a number of subscription options. You can also get show notes from the website.

I've been listening to this podcast for a few years and each one is a real treat. Mutate now!

The Swine Flu: The Old Doctor's Prescription.

My old friend, a Doctor, of sorts, and hustler by trade had the opportunity to study the Swine Flu first hand. Here are his observations. Make of them what you will. I, myself, have no opinion. I am just happy that he is paying me in script to post his preliminary findings. In times of recession, Rx can be hard to come by and expensive.

The Swine Flu: What You Need to Know. The Old Doctor's Prescription.

The Old Doctor has a lot of patients/marks these days, so he'll give you the short version. Currently, Control Mechanisms within the humanoid population are in a panic about the swine flu. This panic seems a bit curious, given that the swine flu actually has a shorter duration and a lower mortality rate than the average flu bug. So, why the panic? Apparently, a significant part of this panic stems from the flu's apparent ability to rapidly mutate.
Well, The Old Doctor had the opportunity to experience the swine flu first-hand. Here's what he discovered. On day 2.5 of the peak flu experience, The Old Doctor woke up at 2 in the morning staring at a wall of what looked like human tissue. It was put to him that this was one visual representation of his meta-programming panel. It was further put to him that he here and now had the opportunity to reprogram or erase some deeply wired Circuit I-IV tape loops, something he proceeded to do. The Old Doctor got rid of or modified loops that were in place in him by as far back as the age of five, loops that he had never been able to dispense with even with the aid of LSD or psilocybin, loops which are very amenable with and indeed tie one into the mechanisms of Control. Ah, so that's what they really mean by mutation, and why it makes them nervous.

One of the commonly reported psychological symptoms of the swine flu is a feeling of emotional panic due to a sense of being under personal attack. If the mark, ahem, patient, deeply identifies his or her self, as many do, with robot programs locked in place by mid-adolescence, then such panic is no surprise when these programs come under potential threat. Certain aspects of Control have figured out the social threat that this virus poses and have induced this panic on a mass scale. Interestingly, most people who've actually had the swine flu can't see what the big deal is. Well, the real big deal is that it's an opportunity to reprogram oneself, one that is accessible to the entire humanoid population. It's a global brain change agent. The best damn bug experience The Old Doctor's had since he learned from the measles to time travel.
The Old Doctor's prescription? 1) GET THIS FLU. 2) FORWARD THIS TO AS MANY PEOPLE AS POSSIBLE.

Thank you for your time.

T.O.D.

Welcome all, now move along ...

Meet the new year, same as the old year.

But no worries, as these are some fun times. In this coming year, I'll be (hopefully) updating this blog at least weekly as well as developing a few other projects on the OI website. So hope to see y'all at the freak show.

Stay gold.