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November 26, 2005
I'm not coming home Today I saw Keven McAlester's brilliant and uniquely revealing documentary "You're Gonna Miss Me", the story of the rise and tragic fall of one of rock'n'roll's greatest voices, Roger Kynard "Roky" Erickson of Austin, Texas. Formerly of late 60's psychedelic band 13th Floor Elevators, Roky was arrested in 1969 for possession of a miniscule amount of marijuana. He declared himself insane and was locked up at Rusk State Hospital, along with killers and child rapists. Heavy Thorazine medication and shock treatment, along with prior extensive use of LSD didn't do Roky's mind any favours. He had a sanity trial 3 1/2 years later and they declared his sanity "restored". In reality, he has suffered from schizophrenia ever since.
The film depicts a struggle between Roky's mother Evelyn and Roky's youngest brother Sumner. Evelyn doesn't want Roky to use any medication, whereas Sumner wants Roky to benefit from medication and therapy so he can live independently, and possibly even start playing and making music again. In the film, Sumner is appointed as Roky's legal guardian instead of his mother, in a 2001 court case.
Recently, Roky seems to have benefited so much from his brother's new regime that he performed live at his birthday and two subsequent concerts. The concert at the ACL festival in september was Roky's first full concert in almost two decades. He was backed by his early 80's band The Explosives.
Official Roky Family Trust site: www.rokyerickson.net/roky.htm
Important Roky solo albums:
"The Evil One -- Plus One" (His best post-Elevators album, with bonus live CD)
"Never Say Goodbye" (Recorded at Rusk State Hospital)
"I Have Always Been Here Before: The Roky Erickson Anthology" (2 CD anthology covering Roky's whole career.)
"Gremlins Have Pictures" (Great '75-82 comp.)
"Don't Slander Me" (Great, hard-rockin' bunch of songs)
"All That May Do My Rhyme" (Roky's last studio album, from '95, laidback and country-flavoured.)
Other recent documentaries on artists struggling with their minds and outsider status:
"Jandek on Corwood" // "Wesley Willis: The Daddy of Rock'n'Roll" // "The Pink Floyd & Syd Barrett Story" // "The Devil and Daniel Johnston"
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November 25, 2005
Murder-Set-PiecesOne of the most relentless serial killer films ever made is now briefly available on a limited edition director's cut dvd. You can't get it at amazon, but try diabolik, which I shop from regularily and recommend. Nick Palumbo's "Murder-Set-Pieces" is about a german photographer of nazi breed, living and working in Las Vegas, a very transient city perfect for a serial killer.
 Be prepared for a film that takes no prisoners, serving up wall to wall sadistic violence and dismemberment, and highlighting an übermensch philosophy. This is reminiscent of Ian Brady, Ted Bundy and others. In that sense, many serial killers are nazis, because they have to believe that they're above the rest of humanity and if they kill someone, it's just the law of nature, the strong dominating the weak. If you enjoyed "Henry", "Maniac" and "Hillside Strangler", this is one to watch. Apart from some real life mondo violence and also surgery on eyes, genitalia and teeth, very few things on film would make me look away. But this movie is constantly working on the edge of what's bearable.
Gunnar "Leatherface" Hansen and Ed Neal (the hitchhiker in Texas Chainsaw) both have small parts.
Reviews at rottentomatoes.com
Palumbo's frightflix.com
Ultra Violent magazine tracked down 21 of the people involved with the movie. This extensive coverage is in their latest issue, #7.
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November 24, 2005
Kjettersk Kjeller: Underverdenens NemesisFra kjetter.com:
07.12.2005 • Feber, Pilestredet 9: Radioteaterlegenden Nils Nordberg snakker om Underverdenens Nemesis - Norgesvennen Sherlock Holmes og mysteriet med den norske oppdagelsesreisende
Gjeste-DJ: Deadswan(Iconoclastic)
 Kjettersk Kjeller har nå flyttet inn på Feber, og stortrives allerede. Og siden det begynner å bli en stund siden vår forrige ”true crime”-kveld (den om Jack the Ripper), er det på tide å med en kriminell kveld igjen. For å hjelpe oss med det har vi sikret oss ingen ringere enn Nils Nordberg.
Nils Nordberg er en levende legende, selve inkarnasjonen av Radioteateret, en stemme mange forbinder med skremmende grøss og uhyggelig gru. Denne kvelden skal han snakke om kriminalhistoriens største detektiv, Sherlock Holmes: Den viktorianske underverdenens nemesis, som forviste mang en forherdet forbryter til fangehullenes mørke.
En vanlig misforståelse er at Holmes kun er en litterær skikkelse man finner i bøkene til en viss Arthur Conan Doyle. Men hvor sannsynlig er det egentlig at en tussete fyr som trodde på alver skulle ha skrevet fortellingene om mesterhjernen Holmes? Nordberg akter å vise oss at Holmes var en mann av kjøtt og blod, og at fortellingene om ham ble ført i pennen av hans assistant, Dr. Watson. Det er jo noe enhver som har lest fortellingene vet.
Nordberg ser også nærmere på hvor troverdige Watsons fortellinger er som kilder. Og han spør seg om hvorfor Holmes, i de tre årene har offisielt var død, i virkeligheten reiste rundt som Sigerson, norsk oppdagelsesreisende. Hvorfor valgte mesterdetektiven dette aliaset? Og hva var egentlig hans forbindelse til Norge?
Det er med andre ord fare for en litt dekadent aften. Og når vi først snakket om dekadanse, føltes det naturlig å ta en telefon til Reidar Engelsbak. Eller Deadswan, som han kaller seg når han snurrer skiver.
Deadswan har, i tillegg til å være medlem av undergrunnsinstitusjoner som Sadomaoistan og Genitalia, vært drivkraft for klubber med seriøse navn som Betty Ford Lounge, Eat My Handbag Bitch og Oh Pretentious? Up Yours. For tiden herjer han mest med sitt Iconoclastic på Naken. Her egger han dansegulvet med det han finner i sin platesamling, som ifølge ham selv er ”like variert som den mentale tilstanden hans…”
Men i kveld har han lovet å oppføre seg pent, og legge seg mer på Kjellerens litt mer tilbakelente linje. Svanen lover mye Anthony and the Johnsons, Marc Almond og annen vakker musikk med A’er i seg. Vi gleder oss!
Lokalet er som sagt annen etasje på Feber, Pilestredet 9, ved Tinghuset og Hansen & Dysvik, og dørene åpner kl. 19. Det er 18 års aldersgrense, og det koster 50 kroner å komme inn.
Velkommen!
www.feberoslo.no
(Første Kjeller-kveld på nyåret blir forresten onsdag 18. januar. Da skal vi se hvor gotiske det i det i det hele tatt går an å bli...)
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November 22, 2005
11-22-55: Joe Coleman at 50!It's 42 years since JFK was shot, and 50 years since the american painter Joe Coleman was born. Congratulations, Joe!
(Photo: JC & JR at the leper museum, Bergen, Norway, 2001)
Get Joe's reprint of his 1st comic book "The Mystery Of Woolverine Woo-Bait", his latest book of true crime tales, "Muzzlers, Guzzlers & Good Yeggs", and his latest book of new paintings "Book of Joe". And don't forget the excellent documentary "R.I.P. Rest In Pieces: A Portrait of Joe Coleman", also featuring the legendary one-man psychobilly band Hasil Adkins, who sadly passed away earlier this year.
Official site: www.joecoleman.com
HWEB's interview
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November 16, 2005
Joe Bob is back, counting the breastsThis just in from drive-in movie critic Joe Bob Briggs:
It has come to my attention that you may have not yet purchased a copy of my new book, "Profoundly Erotic: Sexy Movies That Changed History." WHAT'S WRONG WITH YOU? You don't like sex? You don't like movies? You don't like impoverished drive-in movie critics earning a few nickels on their centuries of forced labor? Do you want me to BEG? Don't answer that.
 Fortunately I've saved a few rare unopened copies of the first printing! They're sitting here on my desk. In fact, I can't see anything else on my desk because they're all sitting here.
And you–only you and the other people I'm begging–can have one for the rack rate plus shipping, and the erotic personalized inscription for your skanky Significant Other is FREE OF CHARGE.
The advantage of ordering it from my website, as opposed to Barnes & Noble or Amazon–well, there IS no advantage for you, but when I sell them direct, my esteemed European publisher, the non-Mafia-connected Rizzoli International, pays me a royalty of .075 cents per book, as opposed to my customary .025. I've recently hired a CPA, who IS Mafia-connected, to deal with this accounting.
Yes, I'll write anything in your book. For an extra charge, I will NOT autograph it.
You have no excuse now. I'm saving your copy. At any moment, if you sit on your hiney any longer, I could be spilling Cherry Coke on it. You owe it to yourself and your Viagra-prescribing Internet pharmacy to act quickly. Don't make me say this again.
By the way, I know you already have a copy of "Profoundly Disturbing: Shocking Movies That Changed History," but if your dog chewed on the "Blood Feast" chapter or something, I have some of those, too.
Go to www.joebobbriggs.com and click the little square, but just because it's a book about sex I do NOT want you sending me any of those studio "glamour photography" sets of your relatives and neighborhood ho's wearing cheap lingerie, because those
cellulite-encrusted Thunder Thighs are disgusting. I do have the phone number of the Postal Inspector.
Our friendship depends on this.
Joe Bob
Interview at www.genreonline.net
Interview at www.mrskin.com
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November 14, 2005
Storm Coming Down!20 år etter: White Lord Jesus live på Mono idag, mandag 14/11 kl. 2130. Releasekonsert for ny CD: "Amen!", remixet, remastret, delvis nyinnspilt og med 6 låter som ikke var på kassettversjonen i '84. Noen av disse stammer fra bandets siste, uutgitte demo fra '85.
http://www.whitelordjesus.com/
 From web site:
White Lord Jesus was originally formed in Oslo by Tristan Christ (Arvid Skancke-Knutsen) and Tognazzi (Thomas Robsahm) in the autumn of 1983. They had just left their bands Dynamo Forte (from Risør) and Brød & Sirkus (from Arendal).
White Lord Jesus became a part of the ”cassette movement” which started in Norway at the beginning of the eighties.
In 1984 White Lord Jesus made their live-debut and released the cassette Amen, which was very well received, and now seen as one of the best cassettes from the era.
In 1985 the band split.
Anm. i VG
Art. på panorama.no
Anm. i adresseavisa.
Anm. på lunakafe.com
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November 09, 2005
Kjetters Kjeller i Kveld: Looney Runes -- Where's Capt. Knirk?Melding fra kjetter.com: Kjettersk Kjeller er tilbake, denne gangen i nye lokaler: Feber i Pilestredet 9, over gaten fra Hansen & Dysvik. Ja, vi vet at Feber er i annen etasje og ikke er en kjeller. Vi kommer sikkert til å le av de første 50 som spøker med det, men de neste får ei lårhøne fra Kjellern’s egen Knehøne.
Kveldens gjest på mikrofonen er James E. Knirk, professor i runologi ved Universitetet i Oslo. Knirk er redaktør for fagbladet Nytt om runer, og bestyrer Runearkivet som samler så godt som alle bøker om runer som kommer ut. Han har også en lun humor og en sans for det bisarre i tråd med det vi setter pris på i Kjettersk Kjeller.
Høsten 1898 ble det funnet en stein med noen merkelige innskrifter på en gård nær Kensington i Minnesota i USA. Runene (for det var det innskriftene var) på steinen forteller om en norsk-svensk ekspedisjon til Vinland – Amerika – i 1362, som møtte et blodig endelikt. Amerikahistorien måtte skrives om! I hvert fall hvis steinen var ekte...
Derfor er kanskje ikke rart at debatten om Kensingtonsteinen har rast helt siden den ble funnet. Så nylig som denne våren gikk en professor i arkeologi ved Universitetet i Oslo god for at steinens var ekte. Kan gåten løses?
Knirk skal også gi oss et overblikk over de litt mer – ehem – ”utradisjonelle” delene av sitt fagfelt. Hva har runer med yoga å gjøre? Er norske runesteiner ikke ristet av nordmenn, men av fallosdyrkere fra Midt-Østen, slik en forfatter gitt ut på et anerkjent norsk fagbokforlag hevder? Og ikke minst: Burde innholdet på disse steinene rammes av pornolovgivningen?
En Kjettersk Kjeller ville ikke være det samme uten en musikalsk gjest, og vi har nå begynt å invitere tilbake gjester vi har hatt det spesielt hyggelig sammen med. Så hvem kan passe bedre til å spille noen runologiske toner enn Nebelhexe?
Nebelhexe, eller Andrea Meyer Haugen som hun også heter, er en av Norges best bevarte musikalske hemmeligheter. Flere plater under navnet Hagalaz’ Runedance, med hennes unike blanding av darkwave og folketoner, har gitt henne kultstatus på kontinentet. Nebelhexe gjorde stor suksess sist hun gjestet Kjeller’n, og vi gleder oss til å høre alt fra Agnes Buen Garnås til Kate Bush og Dead Can Dance.
Velkommen til en kveld i runenes tegn!
09.11.2005 • Feber, Pilestredet 9 (ved Tinghuset) • Kl. 20 • Dørene åpner kl. 19. • 18 års aldersgrense, og det koster 50 kroner å komme inn.
Neste Kjettersk Kjeller er forresten 7. desember, da får vi besøk av Radioteater-legenden Nils Nordberg og DJ Deadswan for en ekte ”true crime”-kveld sammen med Sherlock Holmes...
www.khm.uio.no/samlinger/runearkiv
www.nebelhexe.com
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November 06, 2005
Swallow the sword!The relentless James Taylor (not the singer...) has us all astounded and bewildered, not to mention SHOCKED & AMAZED yet again, upon the publication of Vol. 8 in his book series, documenting the world of sideshows and so-called freaks of nature.
 This time around, one of the main features is a long talk with the legendary blockhead, all-round fakir and sword swallower "Red" Stuart. I had the pleasure of meeting him and seeing him perform at the first-ever Sideshow Gathering in Wilkes-Barre in 2002. When Red got into the biz in the late 1960's, the sideshow was already starting to fade away, and now it's almost completely gone from fairs and circus grounds, but has started to creep up again a little in nighclubs, rock venues and tv shows.
 This year, Red was one of 9 sword swallowers who set a new world record by swallowing a total of 52 swords simultaneously. Red swallowed 25(!!!) of them. This is a record both as a group and for Red, as one person swallowing the most swords at one time.
Other features in Shocked & Amazed #8 are: Human Torso Frieda Pushnik (as seen on the cover), RenFest creator Jeff Siegel, new installments of Walt Hudson's "Coney Island Baby" and an excerpt from the "Strand", an essay on geeks and how to eat you meals when they're alive and wigglin', flea circuses, the comic "Carnival of Love" and much, much more!
 If the world of sideshows interests you, this series is a good way to get an overview. Some volumes are sold out, so you should try to also get the best-of S&A book published by Lyon's Press in 2002.
Pics from 2005 Gathering: www.missioncreep.com
Sideshow World: www.sideshowworld.com
Coney Island Sideshow: www.coneyisland.com
Bindlestiff Family Cirkus: www.bindlestiff.org
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