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March 31, 2005
Peter Sotos rapes the blank page -- again The UK publisher Creation Books just launched a compendium of FIVE(!!) books by the notorious chronicler of sadism, Peter Sotos. "PROXY -- Peter Sotos Pornography 1991-2000" collects the hard to find titles TOOL, INDEX, SPECIAL, LAZY and TICK. A pricey, signed first edition comes with a rare 500 copies only CD by Sotos and Steve Albini.
Also, go to Void Books to get info on Sotos' latest book "Selfish, Little -- The Annotated Lesley Ann Downey".
(Sotos used to be a member of the extreme "power electronics" band Whitehouse. The band now consists of only Philip Best and founder William Bennett.)
 Another new title from Creation is ".45 Dangerous Minds" edited by George Petros and Steven Blush. This book collects 45 interviews with celebrities from the world of rock, art, literature and the counter-culture from Seconds Magazine, of which Petros was the editor-in-chief. Among the interviewees: Peter Sotos, Varg Vikernes, Tiny Tim, GG Allin, Joe Coleman, Mike Diana, Anton LaVey, Henry Lee Lucas, Marilyn Manson, Charles Manson, Bobby Beausoleil, Vincent Bugliosi, David Bowie, JG Ballard, Henry Rollins, KarlHeinz Stockhausen, Allen Ginsberg, Lee "Scratch" Perry, and John Waters.
13:53
March 30, 2005
Brush up on your ParanoiaThe conspiracy magazine Paranoia, out of Providence, Rhode Island, just published their 38th issue. The mag has always covered the whole spectrum of conspiracy theories, but in my opinion it too often veers into pure invention and religious and esoteric speculation.
 This issue is no exeption. Amongst the contents:
-- Conspiracy Inc. by Robert Guffey.
This is a compendium of various theories, from the ridiculous to the sublime. An above average article that takes a good look at the "theorizing" and the various conflicting beliefs within each theory, like the "Moongate - Did We Land on the Moon?" controversy.
-- Programmed to Kill: Al Hidell Interviews Author David McGowan.
In his book "Programmed to Kill", McGowan claims not only that the Son of Sam wasn't a lone nut killer (just like Maury Terry claimed in the book "The Ultimate Evil") but that almost every serial killer ever was a victim of CIA/FBI mind control. Far fetched? Maybe, but why did George W. Bush pardon Henry Lee Lucas from the death penalty, as the ONLY prisoner ever? He was convicted of numerous counts of first degree murder, and was credited with dozens, maybe hundreds more, some allegedly committed on behalf of a shadowy cult called "Hand of Death".
other articles:
-- The Thousand-Year Elven Holocaust by Nicholas de Vere
-- Planet X: "True Sun" of the Incas by Andy Lloyd
-- Planned Parenthood and The Negro Project by Tanya Green
-- History of MKULTRA by Phillip Fairbanks
-- Multimedia Symbiosis and the Evolution of Electronic Life by Dr. Steel
-- Vaccines and Human Animal Husbandry by Mark Owen
-- Sci-Fi Predictive Programming: The Semiotic Deception of 9-11 by Phillip Collins
Quote from "Conspiracy Inc.", by ecologist Bob Dobbs: "... in software/wetware conditions we just have to think about something collectively and it's done" R. Guffey comments: "If so, the more imaginative conspiracy theorists might be a bit more careful with the apocalyptic scenarios they tend to promote. Though some of these may be illusory today, our collective obsession with them might evoke them into being tomorrow.
WHAT IS COMING AT YOU IS COMING FROM YOU!"
18:10
March 25, 2005
Human MutantsArmand Marie Leroi's tv program "Human Mutants" is shown again on the Discovery Channel at 2300 CET Monday March 28th. I saw it last Monday, and I recommend it strongly. It has mind-boggling information on the variety of human mutations and great footage from the Mütter Museum and other collections of congenital disorders.
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Learn about MuslimgauzeThe percussive/ambient/industrial music project Muslimgauze has puzzled many people following obscure music in the last 22 years. Who were they? Only one person, in fact, and he wasn't a muslim and held no islamic beliefs. Bryn Jones put out nearly 200 albums (quite a few of them after his death in '99) and more is on the way.
Excerpt from article:
The late Bryn Jones, best known for his Muslimgauze project, released music under his controversial moniker since 1983, and continues to do so, long after his untimely death in 1999: a back-catalogue of never-before heard material is still slated for release as of this writing.
Muslimgauze was best known for pro-Muslim CD covers, liner notes, song titles, a staggering number of releases, and ethnic-themed music married to innovative western styles. For many, Muslimgauze music ended at the packaging, as his CD covers sometimes depicted the more dramatic elements of the Muslim world. Cases in point are albums like Salaam Alekum, Bastard which depicts a groups of hooded men with a copy of the Quran in one hand and knives in the other; Betrayal features a photo of the late Yasser Arafat shaking hands with Yitzhak Rabin the album title squarely in the middle; and Hamas Arc, which features Muslim women engaged in target practice with hand guns.
Politics and music were inextricably linked for Bryn, and unless one had an in-depth knowledge of the conflicts throughout the Muslim world – especially between Israel and Palestine – Bryn was likely to alienate. Those curious enough to look beyond the record sleeves would encounter beautifully haunting instrumental music; emotionally rich, variedly exotic and entirely unique.
Bryn Jones was born to a Christian middle class family in Manchester, in 1961n and as surviving Mancunian relatives and acquaintances reveal, he had no Muslim or Arab relatives. Nor had Bryn ever subscribed to the Islamic faith at any point in his life.
Read more at www.perfectsoundforever.com/v/2005034/features/149
14:33
March 18, 2005
Holocaust-revisjonismens fallgruberPå Oseania, Prinsens gate 22, torsdag 31. mars kl. 18:00:
Gjester er professor i filosofi Nils Roll-Hansen, professor i historie Øystein Sørensen og seniorforsker Rolf Hobson.
Det er mange fallgruver når man driver med forskning, enten man skriver en skolestil eller en doktorgradsavhandling. En av de verste forskerfellene er å bestemme seg for konklusjonen på forhånd, og deretter lete etter data som underbygge det man allerede ”vet”. Mange vanlige forskere har nok havnet i denne fella, men ikke noe sted er dette problemet illustrert bedre enn i historiens aller verste ”vitenskap” – Holocaust-benektelse.
”Holocaust-revisjonismen”, som den ynder å kalle seg selv, er en hel liten industri (med forgreninger i Norge) som gir ut fotnotetunge tidsskrifter, tykke bøker, spiller inn dokumentarfilmer, arrangerer seminarer og lager profesjonelt utseende nettsider. Alt med samme formål: Å overbevise oss om at naziregimets industrielle folkemord på jøder og andre minoriteter ikke fant sted.
Det som gjør Holocaustbenektelse verre enn tvilsomme mirakelkurer eller ville påstander om at jorda er flat (eller skapt for 10 000 år siden), er benekternes politiske agenda. For du kan jo selv tenke deg hvor mennesker som forsøker å fjerne nazismens mest groteske utslag fra historiebøkene, står politisk.
Noen ganger ser man tingene klarest når man tar dem til sin ytterste konsekvens, og Holocaustbenektelse er dårlig vitenskap i sin ytterste konsekvens. Så hva kan dette eksempelet på hvordan man IKKE skal drive forskning, lære oss om hvordan forskning BØR drives?
Nils Roll-Hansen er professor i filosofi og spesialist på vitenskapsteori. Han skal lære oss hvordan vi kan plukke fra hverandre Holocaustbenektelse, og samtidig lære oss hvordan vi skal plukke fra hverandre andre påstander og ”vitenskapelige” tenkemåter som ikke holder vann.
Øystein Sørensen er professor i historie. Sørensen skal lære oss litt om hvordan vi i det hele tatt kan vite at noe har skjedd.
Rolf Hobson er seniorforsker ved Institutt for forsvarsstudier, og sannsynligvis den nordmann som kan mest om Holocaustbenektelse. Hobson er også tilknyttet Senter for studier av Holocaust og livssynsminoriteters stilling i Norge.
Dette blir en spennende kveld, og som vanlig er den gratis. Men hvis du er en av våre mange faste gjester, bør du legge merke til at den er på en torsdag.
Velkommen!
www.vitenskapskafeen.no
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New Sideshow and Variety databaseThis just in from James Taylor, editor of "Shocked & Amazed":
It's been years in the making, but we've waited a bit to make this announcement because, well, we wanted it to be truly ready, not just for the fans and contributors to SHOCKED AND AMAZED!, but for the legion of folks - you're one! - who are either truly "with it" or "for it" or both. And here it is:
www.showhistory.com
 In one site, www.showhistory.com is an attempt to compile snippets, full-length bios, pictures and assorted anecdotal information on EVERY novelty & variety performer and attraction in the history of such exhibition. From the 1850's to the 1950's, from the heyday of Barnum's freakshows to the dying embers of vaudeville, from the carnival midways of the 1930's to the backend grind shows of today, www.showhistory.com will take you there. It's all about acrobats, albinos, animal acts, anatomical museums, armless wonders, "AT" shows, bearded ladies, black-tent cinema, burlesque & girl shows, circus & carnivals & fairs, circassian beauties, Coney Island, conjoined twins, contortionists, crazy craftsmen and crime shows. It's about daredevils, dime museums, diving horses, dope shows, dwarves and midgets, eccentrics and cranks, equilibrists, ethnic curiosities, fakirs, fat men and women, fire eaters, flea circuses, freak animals, gaffs & hoaxes & fakes and frauds. It's geeks, giants, dog boys & monkey girls, half & half acts, human pincushions, human skeletons, knife throwers & hatchet hurlers, jugglers, half people, lobster boys, long-hairs and long-distance travelers. It's marionettes, men turning to stone, minstrels, musical novelty acts, mummies, panoramas, punk shows, piebald people, pinheads, Punch & Judy and shadowography. It's snake charmers, strong men, swordswallowers, tattooed men & women, thrill & torture shows. It's vaudville and ventriloquists, wax shows and wild folk and Wild West shows. Oh, and did I say it was about so much, much more?
Ok, so none of us at www.showhistory.com is crazy enough to believe that getting everything about the show business - every performer, act, show and showman - will ever be accomplished in total. (Hey, it's a big, big business which has never prided itself on its historical memory; besides, new performers and facts come along every day). However, we ARE crazy enough (well, not so crazy, we think) to believe that those of you with facts and stories to tell will want to add to this bottomless encyclopedia of the show business.
And we've tried to make that as easy as possible. Roam around www.showhistory.com, get a feel for it, see what's been put out there. And if you have something to add - especially if you're a performer yourself and want to add your biographical information - go directly to the Bulletin Board at http://www.showhistory.com/phpBB/ and let us know what you have. (We've provided templates for the type of information the site needs.) Eventually, we'd like to see the site become a quick and reliable resource for those seeking information on the business' history, information that heretofore has been spread across a wide range of books, archives and private collections, not to ignore individual memories!
 We're already getting regular input from Elizabeth "Rattgirl" Anderson and access to the collection of the elusive collector D.B. Doghouse and, of course, there's the voluminous SHOCKED AND AMAZED! archive which will form a large portion of the on-line viewing material as well. And coming in the near future are promised articles/contributions from showman Lee Kolozsy, showman/collector Ken Harck, artist/collectors Joe Coleman and Joe Petro, to name just a few. And we're looking for writers/contributors who have knowledge or specialties particular to the needs of www.showhistory.com, the future repository for everything on the show business.
So let us hear from you. Of course, www.showhistory.com is a work in progress and always will be. With help from all you fans and showfolk, though, that progress will benefit us all. See ya on the midway.
James Taylor
For showhistory.com
Shocked & Amazed website
16:42
March 16, 2005
Mutated! A history of De-evolution I recently attended a lecture by biologist Armand Marie Leroi, author of the book "Mutants : On Genetic Variety and the Human Body". His book won the prestigious Guardian First Book Award, and he's a recipient of a Scientist for the New Century medal from the Royal Institution of Great Britain. He lectures at the Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine in London.
Leroi claims that every child born has 100 to 300 mutations that their parents don't have. Only genetic engineering at fertilization and in the womb can save humanity from degenerating back into neanderthals, it seems. By studying the extremes of mutations one can learn a whole lot about genes and what it means to be a human being.
Also: A french nun who changed her sex during puberty, cyclop children and a hairy family who was kept at the Burmese royal court for four generations.
Check out: www.armandleroi.com
Read more about the book at amazon.com
11:03
March 15, 2005
Holder legendene om Atlantis vann?Kjettersk Kjeller 16/3:
Bjørn Are Davidsen snakker om Visdom fra det sunkne kontinent: Holder legendene om Atlantis vann? Kl. 20
Siden Kjettersk Kjeller gjerne bruker rundt en time på foredragene våre, kan vi sikkert oppfattes som litt overfladiske. Så for å unngå slike beskyldninger skal vi denne gangen gå skikkelig i dybden – helt ned til Atlantis!
 Det sunkne kontinent har vært skildret av diktere fra Platon til Donovan, og stemningsrapporter har blitt levert av åndsmennesker som Rudolf Steiner (han med skolene, vet du). Men det er også mange arkeologer som har spekulert på om hvorvidt historiene om det sunkne kontinentet ikke bare er legender, men historiske fakta som har fått litt legendarisk preg med årene.
Var Atlantis sivilisasjonens vugge? Eller var det derfra svenskene kom, for å sitere den svenske vitenskapsmannen og arkeologen Olaf Rudbeck? Var det atlantidene som oppdaget krystallenes helbredende egenskaper, slik den synske Edgar Cayce, og hvordan var trafikksituasjonen på øya? Hva med de nyeste teoriene om hvor Atlantis skal ha ligget?
For å hjelpe oss til å skille det sannsynlige fra det usannsynlige (og det helt tøvete) har vi fått hjelp fra Bjørn-Are Davidsen. Han er sannsynligvis Norges ledende ekspert på merkelig historieskriving (og er forresten gjest på Bokbadet uken før Kjettersk Kjeller). Davidsen har holdt flere foredrag på Kjettersk Kjeller før, og hvis du vil vite hvor flink han er trenger du bare å spørre noen av våre faste gjester.
Kjettersk Kjeller ville selvsagt ikke vært Kjeller’n uten musikk. De av dere som leser musikkstoff (Ballade.no) har kanskje fått med dere at Maniac har sluttet i jobben som frontfigur i et av Norges viktigste (og beste) band noensinne, Mayhem.
Det er kanskje ikke så lett å få seg ny jobb når man har spesialisert seg på å skrike om Satan, og det er kanskje derfor Maniac for første gang har sagt ja til et DJ-oppdrag.
Vi har forklart Maniac at han ikke får lov til å spille svartmetall og punk hele kvelden, og han satser derfor på en meny av det han kaller ”stram gammel kristen-country”, folk, lettere industrimusikk og andre lyder vi kjellermennesker setter pris på.
Velkommen!
Som vanlig holder vi hus under Oseania i Prinsens gate 22 og åpner dørene kl. 19. Du må ha fylt 18 år og ha 50 kroner for å slippe forbi vår dørvokter.
09:55
March 14, 2005
David Woodard goes back to Nuevo GermaniaCalifornian composer and dreamachine maker David Woodard is going back to Nuevo Germania in Paraguay to try to rebuild the colony first started by Friedrich Nietzsche's sister in the 1880's.
Read this article from the San Francisco Chronicle.
Other pertinent links:
www.davidwoodard.com
http://juniperhills.net/nuevagermania
www.newworlddisorder.ca/issuethree
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