NEWS 2012
08 NOV 2012
WORDS ON OKOK
Text that cites me & OKOK written by Simon Morris of the pro-psychotic Blackpool band the Ceramic Hobs, excerpted from The City Is Ablaze!: The Story of a Post-Punk Popzine 1984-1994 (Mittens On, October, 2012), which consists of the best material from the "notorious Ablaze! fanzine . . . published in Manchester and Leeds in the late eighties and early nineties by a young lady known as Karren Ablaze!" Read more here.
09 OCT 2012
TRACKBACK INFLUENCERS
Warping back to 1974 and the found Process Church of the Final Judgement article from an old OZ magazine, together with a suspected News of the World newspaper article that beefed up the "Mindbenders of Mayfair" angle. Here [3mb PDF]. Also obtained two rare William S. Burroughs pieces from the International Times, that contain mission. Here [1.16mb PDF].
16 SEP 2012
BONES RECORDS
During WWII there was a shortage of traditional manufacturing materials, so an unknown hand in the USSR invented one-sided 7-inch disks made from medical X-Ray plates, that were plentiful and could be bought cheaply or found discarded in hospital skips. In the 1950s, underground hipsters - employing a specially-converted phonograph - transmuted pirated tape-recordings of Western music into this (now illicitised) format, which came to be known as "Roentgenizdat" or "X-Ray Press" records (colloquially referred to as "Records on Ribs"):
These unintentional art-disks borne out of necessity spun regularly in the underground nightspots of the USSR and Eastern Europe, and it is said that to stop the demand for them, the Russian Government attempted to flood the market with specially adulterated roentgenizdats that after a few bars would cut to a berating voice: "You want rock-n-roll? Fuck you, anti-soviet slime", followed by some minutes of elaborate, flowery Russian cursing. Roentgenizdat sound-quality was poor and they quickly self-destructed from play, but they supplied the occult waves that empowered the rebellious youth, and the spooky depth-nature of these magic circle artefacts fountain to this day.
26 FEB 2012
THIS IS DIRCON
Have just been sent a new didactic collage work by Liam Olan, who recommends: "Don't look at this directly. Look at it unfocused. Raises 'interest' + suggestions."
05 FEB 2012
THE JIMA MYSTERY
As evidenced in the advert reproduced below, Will Jima was an obscure UFO researcher who in the mid-1970s released "two strange recordings": The UFO Message and Revelation 666, simultaneously on vinyl LP and 8-track cartridge cassette. They claimed to reveal a vast cosmic conspiracy perpetrated by the US Government, involving everything from Charles Manson to UFOs. A sparky interject for sure.
According to the American researcher, Adam Gorightly (from whose blog these images hail), the aforementioned two recordings feature "a surrealistic southern styled sermon speaker (Jima) accompanied by a creepy electronic music background," and Mr Jima "was also author of some equally obscure tomes, including Flying Saucers and Golden Ghettos and Elvis Presley Dead or Alive?" So far so good, but what's under the hood?
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Will Jima's Revelation
666 (LP version).
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Although I have no recollection of actually meeting Will Jima face-to-face, his name, these titles, and the style of music described all seem oddly familiar, and I suspect that his work may have been used in the teachings I obtained in the stone school I used to visit in 'dream', where we never saw the teachers and the instructional films on time and realities came out of the screen to interact with the audience.
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Will Jima's The
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To explore the Jima Mystery further I performed a full-band scanning session. The results were "I hear your voice, in the trees and the batteries outside... Alarm Alarm. I can smell dead bones hallucinating. Hitler rules physics. The queer community multiple meanings." A 1970s pastel golf-wear aesthetic CIA man with protuberant eyes in a sunny outside hill area near some kind of military base faced with blue engineering bricks, bending over reticent pre-abductees. "Listen baby, there's two ways you can have it - nice, or nice and rough..." The screens went up then, and I could only get "scanning - Beam me up First Voices" and "Orders of Magnitude." I'd be involved but not at this distance. Everything does play and good luck with the
01 FEB 2012
TIMEMAP
I have made this photomontage, that totally consists of recycled found analogue photo sources. It has a somewhat haunting air, pointing to worlds within worlds. The interaction of angles is the key here, but where is the door?
08 JAN 2012
SS.MM - RAYS OF ORIENT
Amidst my ongoing obsession with the 'doom-organ'
sound of The Stranglers and their psychedelic forebears The Seeds
and The Doors, this morning I went into the depths of the local
one-stop shop and on taking my purchases to the counter and the
lovely new blond-haired blue-eyed assistant girl, I was pleased and
intrigued to find that they came to the total of £6.66, perhaps for
the first time. Later in the bus shelter someone had written "PUBLIC
TRANSPORT IS GASH" on the back of the seat in front of me. So I knew
it was a weird day.
Later, as I stood in the plastic room a pink '80s Mercedes flashed past that told the startled children I was disgusted with the ineptly-fashioned dummy they were wheeling past in a pram. I gave them no penny for the guy, and instead explained how the annual burning of Guy Fawkes in effigy was a magical ceremony instigated by the powers-that-be, his flaming body a subliminal warning to the dreaming mind of the people that they had better submit and conform without protest. Other, more skilfully-made guys are ritually burnt in secret chambers on the night of November 5th by those of vested interest.
On the bus home I thought of CCTV and Muzak fetishists and the 1980s East German Cold War chic: grimy, oppressive bullet-proof screens with threatening, blunt-faced party members ensconced behind. Propaganda decor, Us-&-Them Codes. Then a Special Brew Machine started projecting warped monologues that may not have been the insane gibberings of an incoherent madman, but the inevitable result of one who has learned things no mortal was ever meant to know...
The letters speak, text tells, language spells. The known world word WISDOM contains its hidden, central, inner key: IS DO, bordered by WM, two letters of symmetry formed by VV the Double Victory sign made by both hands. Together mirrored vertically to each other WM forms:
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Or by summing with Roman numerals: 20. By Correct DOING, one can escape the snares: Duality to VOID: 2 = 0: the Central Gem. |
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When uprighted, the device forms the ING Rune of the Northern European Tradition. ING is a symbol of light; firebrand or beacon; a potentially limitless transmission of energy, reflected in the geometrical form of the rune itself. |
After a while my name was called, and I was led around the bolted-down desks for the actual interview. The woman sitting on the other side of the formica seemed hypnotised, just like the others I realised, who all had the very same blank zombie stare, dulled mannerisms and sanded-down intellect as the hardcore culty types I've encountered in the past. They are all immersed in commerce or some other aspect of The Pit. I began to wonder if something was put in the proverbial water there, their behaviour being so strange. A few minutes later I glanced behind me and saw stacked up in the corner many four gallon blue plastic drums of bottled water...
07 JAN 2012
AND INDEED FLYOVER
What's valuable and what isn't. I've got to get back to my room, seen with glasses of rainwater and grain alcohol, mains switch off. Men on the moon masturbating.
06 JAN 2012
EARLY ART
Heavily influenced by the ideas and works of Austin Osman Spare, I was making a lot of
'automatic' drawings back in the 1990s, such as the one reproduced
left. Some were more automatic than others, but all were pleasing
and goads. I never did a large drawing totally automatically, or
near to this, probably because I never reached a deep and extended
enough trance, and never tried to. This would be a fascinating
project to get really into though, and is drawing me to it.
05 JAN 2012
THE SUN SHONE ONLY YESTERDAY
Suppose one can get there; that it is actually there. Also suppose getting there is easier than one thinks. As in have a single simple thought of it then don't think of any impediments.
01 JAN 2012
ALLMERGED MONSTERS
Look how they shine, with steadfast enthusiasm, on behalf of the half. Frankenstein Jones still has his hand in, readying the world for the next step. There are imposters in the clouds.