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ONE HUNDRED DOLLARS AMERICAN MEN; I beseech you gaze within your hearts and graft me an ear; for is the hour now, in which these words reach thee, not the most vital and potent of all hours hitherto knowable? Dost each of us not script his own destiny, endlessly, carving- through the minutiae of his choices- his own final end? posted by chauncey TANKERTOWN weekly web comicxks
posted by elvis Oakland record release show Saturday 6/16
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posted by cansafis "Burn your draft card, burn the flag, and burn the Pentagon, too!" posted by elvis SWIPE FILE dept. Coincidence? Homage? Ripoff? 'Intelligent' design? YOU DECIDE!
posted by elvis FO’ SHOW REPORT!! Oh man, SIGHTINGS!!! Dude they ruled it in Oakland last night. Props to the almighty lord of the Uptown!! I missed the opening LEMON BEAR but poop if BULBS didn't set the table for the evening. They served me up a steaming pot luck of tat-a-tangoing polyrhythm. Deep into a snifter of scotch and soda I was dancing with the babars, man, their tribal pulse making me pull out my elephant-trunk moves. My teeth bit furiously at the "better" priced bum whiskey, ye Olde Grandad (gulp gulp and a shot to the morning). Will and Jon (Bulbs) give me sushi truth (truth so righteous it’s fishy) or sushi tooth (teeth so rancid they’re itchy) or tushi sooth (a prophet biting your bottom)! Regard-less; the repetitions and overlapping melody of rhythm was the tightest and loosest most creative sound I have heard in a while. Get off of me evil bra...feel my tots...Magickal! On that note, a brief (or boxers, hmmm) digression: did you know that cursing is the mark of a limited vocabulary? Look it up *%@!*-cklehead! I learned that skeet-pearl of wisdom over an awesome meal at this joint: Pizza Plaza. Simple! Happy! Nummy! (just don't ask the friendly muslim lady behind the counter to hold yr beers while you run down the street to p i s s - that's bad form! -ed.) In fact the pizza was so yummy I had a dream I went back there last night after eating there. Support! Supper! Slurpee! Back at the show AXOLOTL delivered a bearded set of mellow drones of violin thoughtfulness. His set was a sturdy and focused meditation, like an action-less sci-fi novel offering continual description of a single moment in time and space. A praying Bradbury! A stand-still stand-up sit-down blast-off! (Note to the future: SPACESHIP is the new KEWL. Note to the past: JAMES EARL JONES is the old G’BYE. Shake hands.) With great volume and determination, the aforementioned touring “Yeti-Watch” rock band took the stage. Sightings opened with "Newports", currently spun on their MySpace page and drawn from an upcoming LP produced by fellow Jumping-Jacker AWK, and with an obvious titular nod to a certain editor's old Minneapolis shredding grounds (a fully mastered 'best of' collection is awaiting a willing publisher - inquire if interested -ed.). I can tell you this folks: whatever hiatus from “SONICULA” these “AMPIRES” took, they spent it devotionally expanding their already mighty chops. I pondered vomiting during the set for no other reason than to provide an “extreme reaction” to their “extremely re-adical” noize. Like Bulbs, they also spent plenty of time improvising to create massive poly-rhythms, but where Bulbs wants to take you to the real “jungle” on a boat, Sightings wants to take you to the industrial metal exoskeleton “jongle” hinted at in a painting of Axl Rose’s Giger-designed dreadlocks circa AD 2051. It was a heavy metal wooly mammoth dudes and dudettes! Anyone out there who likes industrial, punk, rock, free, tight or loud music needs to hear this band. I hear that their last LP Arrived In Gold was in constant rotation as the metal workers finished rebuilding the mazed and melted local OAKLAND highway overpass, and that’s how they finished it one month early (ride it tomorrow brah). Sightings is that hardcore. They filled the dark rectangular cavern that is the Uptown with much girth. I felt full. Beefy tones from Richard (the tenacity with which he molests his tele-bass inspires), pulpy shreds from mad man Mark Morgan’s guitar and voice (whatever pedal he is using to make that guitar extra swash-buckly deserves props, a shot, and a mustache), and the grainy wholesomeness of Jon’s hyper electric drum ponderings (focusing on his beat was some serious mental acrobatics, good combat for the stinkey of whiskey on my inner lip). Sightings illustrates a sincere and exciting partnership in expanding creativity. You are a fool if you pass on a chance to see them live. I’m done. Barf. ## When it was all said and done last night made me a better man. Thanks to all who made it happen. And thanks to you, dear reader. There is a silver lining for you as well my friend: The fiftieth person to send me an e-mail with my sign off phrase below in the subject line (all caps, excluding “Andy Capp”) will get a FREE copy of our new record Origin & Tectonics upon the date of release (6/15). One t-shirt too - your size. No fooling. Believe in believacuss and until next time… ADMIT ADMITOMNICON!
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posted by cansafis San Francisco record release show Friday 6/15
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posted by cansafis BIG TIME RECORD ANNOUNCEMENT TIME dept. Alright, before the New York Times scoops me, I will hereby confirm the semi-circulating rumours: The cover for our forthcoming third LP That means all you noise nerds will have to compete with the comicxks nerds to snatch up the ultra-limited press run on 180 gram vinyl (CD included). Official release date is June 15, more details to follow here as the date draws closer. You know the drill, watch this space, etc. posted by elvis SAVE TH' DATE dept. We will be performing live for the first time in six months at two record release shows in San Francisco & Oakland: Friday 6/15 at the Elbo Room Saturday 6/16 at the Uptown
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posted by cansafis THE DRINKY CROW SHOW Pilot This Sunday
The excellent cartoonist and comrade Tony Millionaire has a pilot on the Cartoon Network this Sunday. You can go see a one minute preview at the Adult Swim website. Not only does it look great, but if this show gets picked up it will be good for humanity and also No Doctors. Take a look! posted by elvis CANSAFIS FOOTE'S DAILY REMINDER:
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posted by elvis Elvis's Konspiracy Korner 5 May 0007 1140 CST On January 18 1984 Seung-Hui Cho fell into this world, presumably making the usual racket, and for the next 23 years (we are told) he had very little to say. The week of April 16 2007, he suddenly had quite a bit to share with those around him, and some rather effective methods of securing the collective ear. What happened during the intervening 23 years will most likely never be fully understood, but some wide-ranging speculation into the possibilities is worthwhile for reasons other than simply tickling the voyeuristic impulse so profitably & cynically exploited by the usual korp media outlets over the past several weeks. I find it useful to examine such profound and violent ruptures in the collective psyche in both their immediate materialist realms, and in a broader narrative sense; the construction of the official mythology by the federal government and their korporate media organs should of course never be taken at face value, and if examined with the proper approach, they can end up showing us things that we weren't even searching for. The official narrative of Cho and the shootings at Virginia Tech is quite minimal - almost insultingly so. He is a lone nut / we should have seen this coming / let's talk about guns / chorus / bridge / chorus. That's about it. Well, on the materialist angle there are much more significant matters that should enter into the discussion, and Mark Ames does an excellent job of doing so in this piece, an expanded excerpt from his recent book on the subject of contemporary American mass murder. Similarly, Alexander Cockburn properly re-focuses the gun discussion in this piece. The argument that more, not fewer, guns would help reduce the body counts in incidents such as this is equally, if not more, sensible as its anti-constitutional counterpart. It is interesting that each such example of mass murder immediately provokes the pre-scripted "debate" regarding gun rights, but guns aren't the only element shared by nearly all contemporary "spree killers": they are almost inevitably under the influence of prescribed psychotropic drugs, most typically the SSRI dope which psychiatrists & their pharmaceutical masters enjoy prescribing even more than the also very popular methamphetamines. Although both families of drugs are widely recommended to adults, like any good dope a large portion of their market consists of the adolescent set (if not younger). Cockburn offers a tidy laundry list in the above piece, but an abbreviated rogues' gallery of relevant "users" includes Eric Harris (Columbine), Kip Kinkle (Oregon), Michael Carneal (Kentucky), Ted Kaczinski ("Unabomber"), John Hinckley, Jr. (Reagan), Mark David Chapman (Lennon), Jeff Weise (Red Lake Reservation), etc. Would they be willing or able to pry the Paxil from the proverbial cold, dead hands? Of course not; removing drugs, legal or prohibited, from the American economy would be a death wish, and the relevant parties understand this better than you or I do. In any such incident that has massive psychic impact and does not easily fit into readymade explanations, it is always useful to ask: cui bono? If I were to pull for a worst-case kneejerk scenario, it would be something along the lines of facilitating an expanded discussion on gun control that could set the stage (along with subsequent 'events') for further reinforcement of 2001's USA PATRIOT ACT with specific aims toward treating the Second Amendment like it already treats the First and Fourth. That said, I do find it hard to envision either of the two korporate political parties advocating for significant further infringement on gun rights without additional events creating a much more sympathetic climate among the majority of voters. That could certainly happen, perhaps even before the next presidential election, but it doesn't quite 'fit' for me. I think there is much more reason to see Cho as a likely example of one that got away: a subject of mind control tactics at the hands of masters who couldn't quite keep their thumb on him. Just as we have seen the bloody consequences of successful mind controlled assassins in the past, in Cho's case we see the equally foul outcome when things don't proceed quite according to design. The sheer professionalism and accuracy displayed by Cho in the classroom shootings is itself enough to cause a serious disconnect to those not inclined to swallow the shallow-water hooks provided by the korp media. While most previous school shootings followed the "Columbine" model of heavy firepower and true assault weaponry, Cho was armed only with two semi-automatic handguns: a .22 and a 9mm (as well as enough ammo to take down an elephant). These are not the most efficient weapons for such a task, and the .22 in particular is well-designed for cracking at tin cans and does not easily lend itself to murder. Nonetheless, Cho discharged 170 rounds in nine minutes, resulting in 30 fatalities and a 60% kill ratio. Consider that for a moment; do the maths of how something like this would actually play out in a mid-sized undergraduate lecture hall. That is some John Woo shit, not the work of an average 23 year old lone nut who spent some time at the shooting range and behind a video game console. In fact, the entire narrative around the actual classroom shootings stinks, and has since the reporting began that morning. As was the case in Columbine, when, as Cockburn points out, the police boldly charged into the school library a full two hours after Harris & Klebold had suicided, there is reason to suspect a federal stand-down order of some sort as the police essentially waited until everything was neatly wrapped up with a bullet in Cho's head before entering the barricaded classrooms. This, of course, was all well after the initial two murders that morning in the dorm, after which the police chose not to post a campus-wide bulletin, despite the fact that there had been several bomb threats in the preceding weeks (presumably originated by Cho to test the security apparatus) and, one would imagine, alert levels would already be running rather high on a relatively quiet campus. Add in the initial reports of a second shooter, as well as confirmation that the authorities were questioning a second "person of interest", both of which evaporated after the dust settled. The initial suspect was reported to be a specific Chinese national who had arrived in San Francisco from Shanghai last August, and there is actually a photo of police handcuffing an unidentified Asian man that morning; these too apparently warrant no further explanation or investigations by "journalists" such as NBC's Brian Williams or the staff of the New York Times. The police struggled unsuccessfully to identify or link the gunman (who was later confirmed as Cho) to the initial two victims, and days later had to settle on a single ballistic match of one of his guns, with no other forensic or eyewitness evidence to place him at the dorm that morning. Thanks in part to his peculiar decision to file off the serial numbers on his two handguns only after purchasing them with his credit card and neatly saving the receipts in his backpack, Cho himself was identified posthumously via "forensics and ballistics" after he was found dead in the classroom, six feet tall with part of his face missing. What really went on in those classrooms? And what really goes on at Virginia Tech? Well, they receive quite a bit of funding from the Department of Defense and are actually located right next door to a rather sophisticated DARPA facility. As Nimmo points out, this facility includes ARDA/DTO projects, suspected by some to be carrying out work initiated under the star-crossed Total Information Awareness project. DARPA, you also may note, is currently working on a project that aims to integrate next-generation binoculars with soldiers' eyes, exploiting neurological progress to essentially allow them to "neutralize" threats prior to conscious recognition or perception. Virginia Tech, like many campuses, is also a prominent recruiting ground for the CIA, which is entirely sensible when you take into account its proximity to the CIA base of operations as well as the fact that it is a rather prestigious engineering school. At which point one may ask, why was Cho paying hard-earned dollars to pursue an English B.A. at such an institution? Perhaps it had something to do with an influential meeting or two during his high school days in Chantilly, VA, where, incidentally, he shared a campus with another rather inexplicably violent ax-grinder by the name of Michael Kennedy, who in May 2006 chose a significantly harder target in the local Sully police station and was killed after murdering two cops with heavy weaponry in tow. Or perhaps it had something to do with Cho's sister's current employer, McNeil Technologies, a private firm that handles, among other things, human intelligence, information & language services for the Defense Intelligence Agency among "other government agencies". She is currently "assisting reconstruction" in Baghdad, another slaughterhouse far from Virginia where a body count like Cho's is generally what's on the menu for breakfast. Perhaps something else went on in those 23 off-the-record years that would shed some light on the events of April 16. And with our speculation spidey senses thus warmed up, let's turn to the actual materials that we are told Cho dropped right into the lap of another, respectably incorporated gun nut, NBC News (owned by GE, an arms dealer with a moral history that one could say makes a killer like Cho look rather boy-scoutly). Although it should be obvious, it is still worth pointing out that NBC is utterly repugnant in its attempt to "have it both ways" here: deciding to air a decent amount of Cho's multimedia press kit, but stopping short of releasing the entire body of material into the public domain. Instead, we get the swinish Brian Williams lamely mediating the materials to protect our delicate sensibilities, carefully parsing the "strong anti-rich people theme" in the unreleased "dense text", "laced with profanity" for us. Williams smugly thumbs through the text while smacking his chops and assures us that "no two or three sentences really make sense when viewed together". I am highly suspicious of what in Cho's press kit is being kept from the public record. Indeed, the little that has been released is itself quite interesting. One common theme found in victims of brainwashing and mind control tactics is that of ritualized abuse, often sexual abuse, as children. The little we see of Cho's work - both in the video statements and in the two plays - focus significantly on paedophilia and punishing sexual predators. His plays deal with these themes bluntly and explicitly, the video clips that we've been shown are more elliptical, discussing apparently esoteric and ritualized abuse, but not specifically mentioning sexual abuse (again, I strongly suspect that the unreleased material tells a much more complicated story). Cho specifically cites recent paedophiliac celebrities John Mark Karr and Debra Lafave. The korp media has made considerable noise regarding the perceived similarities between an handful of Cho's poses in the videos and the film "Old Boy" (remember, they stick to the straight materialist beat, I'm the one grasping at straws here!). What is less discussed are the themes of forced drugging, psychological torture, and split personality contained in the same film. What else might he reference in those clips that we aren't seeing? (and under cover of pointing out the less than straight-shooting konsp angles that do regularly show up in "mainstream" coverage of heavy events, I will take the opportunity to throw out a few potential synchronicities of interest: 23 year old murderer, 33 total victims, during a month that is becoming increasingly notorious for such anomalous events, on the anniversary of Hoffmann's discovery of LSD, on the birthday of the Some of the notable phrases contained in the video clips point to apocryphal Masonic rites, including having one's throat slashed "from ear to ear", being "humiliated and impaled on a cross", and digging one's own grave. From the clips we are permitted to view, Cho also makes it clear that the "blood" is on the hands of his tormenters who "decided to spill [his] blood". Although MC Brian Williams describes Cho's materials as "railing against Christianity and the affluent", very little in the actual published materials corroborate this. Cho mentions an ax to grind against sippers of "vodka & cognac" and although I am a few years out of my undergraduate career this strikes me as an odd way to characterize the typical undergraduate population in Blacksburg, VA. It is more likely that the unpublished materials that Williams is so reductively describing point to a more complex target, perhaps the ritualized secret society games that affluent minority power structures are wont to play. The strange symbolism and numerology displayed by these two drawings similarly evokes such occult methods at hand. Again, NBC and their federal masters have managed to scrape a new rock bottom in their hypocritical selective publication of such a small amount of Cho's press kit. They, along with the whole korp media apparatus, protest too much. The very fact that Cho sent these materials to a single corporate news source doesn't quite add up. One would assume that a 23 year old bent on such celebrity would understand the celebrity mechanisms to an sufficient extent that he would carbon-copy multiple "competing" corporate parties, as well as prominent sub-professional internet chattering classes to ensure true posterity. Yet he instead chose to overnight a single comprehensive copy of his manifesto to a single tightly-controlled media outlet as he ran very rapidly around campus while his guns cooled between the first and second shifts of murder that day. One meme that made the rounds of both the aforementioned media classes was the inscription of "ismael ax" on Cho's forearm, and the return address "A. Ismiel" he used on the press kit mailing. Although I googled slightly harder than the korp media stooges who were content to throw up their collective hands and leave dangling subtle implications of Islamic shades (that would be an additional six minutes, by my estimation) the only decent angle I could find outside of some strange Melville-fixation was an old konspiracy chestnut well-propagated by none other than the late masters R.A. Wilson & W.S. Burroughs: the Hashshashin, Hassan-i Sabbah's crew of hashish-fueled assassins who play a role in many self-respecting konspiracy narratives since the eleventh century, were an Ismaeli sect splitting from the Shi'ia end of the Shi'ia-Sunni split in Islam. Now that is getting pretty rich. That is one way to wrap the whole bloody mess up into a pretty interesting literary & magickal package. Perhaps, if the official narrative is indeed the beginning and end of it, Cho was a promising English major, and that unfulfilled potential can be tacked atop the 32 needless deaths at his entirely autonomous hands. Right. And to quote the aforementioned M. Ames quoting an lesser author, "maybe I'm a Chinese jet pilot". 'leven' (special tips o' th' konsp to all the sources linked above, particularly this clearinghouse of odd bits from the korp media that includes the purported photo of Cho in US Marine gear that I decided not to touch, the diligent Kurt Nimmo, newly discovered righteous 'head Kevin Cryptogon, the oft-besmirched P.J. Watson, the always inspirational Jeff Wells, and Karl once agin for knowing way too much) posted by elvis LOCAL SCENE Bereft of all burden and free to be frank, To Live and Shave in LA dominated the Oakland noise scene last night. Michelle and I decided to hike it over to Oaktown (with Elvis in tow), as we’ll be sunning our selves in greener pastures come Friday eve, finding ourselves unable to witness the wonder at the Hemlock with Kreamy ‘Lectric Santa. We dodged the BART (could they close it any earlier?) and instead opted to drive our way, of course getting retardedly lost “detouring” our way around the gaping wound in that city’s beloved “MacArthur Maize” (white man call it "corn" - ed.) while listening to the Warriors brilliantly put Dallas to bed on AM radio. Has anyone else thought about the fact that there is just one guy who ‘done did it?’ What will happen when his name and face make it to the internet and he’s ready to get back to biz? Could he be aware of the wrath of the Collective Commuter scorned? If I were him, I’d grow some beguiling facial hair and hightail it for a red state, pronto. Elvis's Konspiracy Korner Live Saturday 5 May 0007 1145 CST Live tomorrow morning. No hangover, whatever! I will be attempting a modestly 'comprehensive' survey of the recent VA Tech massacre on this week's modestly tasteful 'fresh wounds' edition. Full web entry to follow over the weekend. posted by elvis
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