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August 31, 2007
American Gothic i kjelleren Nytt fra kjetter.com:
13/9/07: Religionsviter Jan Ingar Thon: American Gothic: Dommedag, giftslanger og det første 11. september
Musikk ved Kjellerens faste snurrere
Etter en lengre sommerferie er det på tide med en ny Kjettersk Kjeller igjen. Denne gangen har vi invitert den foredragsholderen som kanskje mer enn noen annen har satt sitt preg på Kjeller’n: Vår egen ekspert på Aleister Crowley og Dyret i Åpenbaringen, Jan Ingar Thon.
Selv om terrorangrepet på World Trade Center den 11. september 2001 har vært skjellsettende for amerikansk selvforståelse, er terrorhandlinger på denne dagen ingen ny foreteeelse i USAs historie. Den 11. september i år markerte 150-årsdagen for massakren på 120 ubevæpnende nybyggere ved Mountain Meadows i 1857. Akkurat som i New York i 2001 ble uskyldige menn, kvinner og barn ofre for terror i ideologiens navn. Men gjerningsmennene for 150 år siden var hverken utenlandske terrorister eller fiendtlige indianere.
Fortsatt er massakren ved Mountain Meadows en av de mest kontroversielle episodene i USAs historie. Og de mange forsøkene på få klarhet i hva som skjedde den gangen er som hentet fra CSI eller X-files, med uhyggelige knokkelfunn, skumle konspirasjoner og modige rettsmedisinere.
Hvem var det som sto bak denne ugjerningen?
Med Mountain Meadows-massakren som utgangspunkt skal vi bevege oss inn i Amerikas mørke underskog av underlig og tidvis livsfarlig religion, der man sjonglerer med giftslanger og drikker stryknin og bilbatterisyre.
Som vanlig finner du oss i kjelleren under Den Gode Cafe i Fredensborgveien 13. Men bemerk at denne kjelleren finner sted på en torsdag. Ellers er alt ved det vanlige, som attenårsgrensen og at det koster 50 kroner å komme inn når dørene åpner kl. 19.
JR: Et annet arrangement verdt å merke seg er at Holy Toy med Andrej Nebb og Lars Pedersen den 1/9 spiller sammen for første gang på over 15 år. Høvikodden live-program // A. Nebb/Holy Toy // Støylegendene Whitehouse returnerer til Oslo og spiller på Ny Musikks arrangement Oslo Marathon 10. november. Deres nyeste plate heter ikke overraskende "Racket". Susan Lawly Records.
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August 30, 2007
Bold as Boognish Gene and Dean WEEN just released the EP "Friends", and they have a new album "La Cucaracha" coming out in the fall. Meanwhile, check out their ultra-obscure and impossible-to-find early cassettes, as posted on Bruunski Beats. All four tapes are posted, "The Crucial Squeegie Lip" ('86), "Axis: Bold As Boognish" ('87), "Erica Peterson's Flaming Crib Death" ('88) and "The Live Brain Wedgie/WAD" ('88). Their fifth tape, "Prime 5" ('89), was just a compilation of tracks from the first four.
Also posted are the out of print triple live album "Live at Stubbs" and the hard to find live album "All Requests Live".
From Wikipedia: "Ween is an alternative rock group formed in 1984 in New Hope, Pennsylvania when Aaron Freeman and Mickey Melchiondo met in an eighth grade typing class. The pair became known as Gene and Dean Ween, respectively. Thousands of home recordings later, Ween collected a large underground fanbase despite being generally unknown in pop music."
After the five tapes Ween released their "real" debut album "GodWeensatan: The Oneness" in 1990, thru Twin/Tone Records, with nine more studio albums to follow, incl. the mp3-online-only collection "Craters of the Sac" ('99).
Ween at Wiki // Ween official site, good source for CD's and merchandise.
Other music blogs I visit a lot: Wassonii // dualtrack // The Thing On The Doorstep // Because God Told Me To Do It
12:47
August 23, 2007
The Shah sleeps in Lee Harvey's Grave The latest issue of PARANOIA magazine (#45) has the archetypal conspiracy mag cover: The mug of Lee Harvey Oswald. His Fortean non- or double- existance as a secret agent of military intelligence or the CIA is examined in some detail. His defection to the USSR may well have been part of an elaborate US spy program.
Other contents includes:
-- The Kennedy Assassination and the Current Political Moment, by Joan Mellen.
-- Cancer, Sex and the HPV Vaccine, by Alan Cantwell, M.D.
-- The Poe Conspiracy, by Steve Ahlquist.
-- Geophysical Weapons of the Secret Government, by Jerry E. Smith.
-- Directed Energy Weapons and the World Trade Center, by Len Bracken.
-- Astronuts!: NASA is for Lovers, Psychos and Homicidal Maniacs, by Joseph Richard Gutheinz, Jr., J.D.
-- The Gilgamesh Project: Forbidden Science and the Secret of Eternal Life, by Andrew Sokar.
-- The Poussin Code: Tale of Trigonometry and Treasure, by Mary Alice Bennett.
-- Ray Santilli's Alien Autopsy Video - Interview by Philip Mantle.
-- A Semi-Detached Ayatollah: The (Rather Odd) Face of Radical Islam in the Pre-9/11 World, by Jon Ronson.
Ronson is the author of the books "THEM" and "The Men Who Stare At Goats", and maker of the Ch4 tv series "The Secret Rulers of the World" and "The Crazy Rulers of the World". A central character in several of these projects is Major General Albert Stubblebine III, who experimented with parapsychology, trying to become invisible, walk thru walls et.c. He was also a strong supporter of the Stargate Project, a US government-sponsored remote viewing program.
Also out: LOBSTER #53, Summer 2007 issue.
09:16
August 21, 2007
Are you ready to Rumble?Amazingly, the German orchestra Zeitkratzer came upon the truly bizarre idea of scoring and performing Lou Reed's intense ear-shattering electronic/guitar-feedback noise album METAL MACHINE MUSIC.
The live album is released Sept. 4th, and comes with a dvd that also includes a 25 min. interview with Lou Reed. Reed plays guitar on the 3rd of the 3 parts of this current incarnation of the noise-cycle, which originally were 4 sixteen minute parts on 4 LP-sides, with a loop groove ending the 4th side, so the record could keep playing into eternity.
From the press release:
 Lou Reed's 'Metal Machine Music' may be the most misunderstood work ever created by a popular musician. The original double vinyl set, released in 1975, was mostly noise: feedback squalls, amplifier hums and the tortured screech of electronic gadgets. The consensus at the time was that it was not music, but a protest by Reed to his then - record label, RCA.
People may not know that avant-garde musicians like John Cage, LaMonte Young, Iannis Xenakis and Reed's Velvet Underground partner John Cale had a considerable influence on the way he approached composition, even his more accessible rock and roll songs.
Metal Machine Music was in some way a logical extension of atonal romps like "Heroin" and "Sister Ray."
Today, 'Metal Machine Music' has become accepted by the avant-garde and highly regarded for its contribution to the "noise" movement in popular culture. Directed by Reinhold Friedl, the 11-member ZEITKRATZER ensemble from Berlin gave Reed's album a thorough listen.
Ulrich Kreiger, the group's saxophone player, transcribed the sounds to create an acoustic music score for their ensemble to play live. Those familiar with the often-criticized 2-disc album might wonder how they pulled this off. Zeitkratzer has the will and the musical ability to give the music the attention it deserves, having already produced minimalist reworkings/collaborations with artists including Keith Rowe, Sonic Youth's Lee Renaldo, Carsten Nicolai and Elliott Sharp.
"Let me give you a little background," says Lou Reed. "Metal Machine Music was made 32 years ago. It was taken off the market three weeks after it was released. Still, time goes by and people get more used to what you call loops and electronics and noise and feedback. Zeitkratzer gets in touch with me, 'Can we play Metal Machine Music live?' I said, 'It can't be done.' They said, 'We transcribed it. Let us send you a few minutes of it and you tell us.' They sent it, I listened to it, and the results were unbelievable. I said, 'My God! Okay, go do it.' They said, 'Will you play guitar on the third part of it?' So Metal Machine Music finally got performed live at the Berlin Opera House. It's extraordinary, because all those years ago it was considered a career ender."
Press release // Lou Reed's official site /// MMM at Wiki // Lester Bangs on MMM
09:10
August 04, 2007
Dreamachines and congenital disorders Now you can find these interviews at HWEB:
"Dreamachines, Wishing Machines or Feraliminal Lycanthropizers, Anyone? An Interview With David Woodard". Previously printed in the book-sized magazine Headpress #25: Flicker Machine Edition (Critical Vision 2003, ed. David Kerekes), and published on the web zine New World Disorder. The latter's content has been deleted, but the article has been re-published several other places, like here at brainwashed.com
"Dead on the Inside! The Mütter Museum - Interview with Gretchen Worden". Previously printed in the book-sized magazine Headpress #26: Red Light Zones (Critical Vision 2005, ed. David Kerekes). Link: The College of Physicians of Philadelphia
 New, upcoming book of historic photographs of the incredible Mütter collection, at amazon. From the blurb: "The first book on the Mütter Museum contain artful images of the museum's fascinating exhibits shot by contemporary fine art photographers. Here, the focus is on the museum’s archive of rare historic photographs, most of which have never been seen by the public. Featured are poignant, aesthetically accomplished works ranging from Civil War photographs showing injury and recovery, to the ravages of diseases not yet conquered in the 19th century, to pathological anomalies, to psychological disorders. Many were taken by talented photographers between the 1860s and the 1940s as records for physicians to share among colleagues and to track patients’ conditions, and demonstrate various techniques used in medical photography including the daguerreotype, micrography, X ray, and traditional portrait-style photography. As visual documents of what humans endured in the face of limited medical knowledge, these extraordinary and haunting photographs demonstrate how far medicine has advanced." Published by Blast Books in September 2007, with an introduction by the late Gretchen Worden.
18:35
August 03, 2007
The Interpreter, where is he now? Miraculously, the almighty Rock God Roky Erickson is currently touring both the US and, for the first time ever, Europe. A couple weeks back the amazing and very touching, uplifting documentary "You're Gonna Miss Me" was released on dvd. It's very strongly recommended. The film traces Roky's slow return to humankind and to his music through patient and determined efforts by his youngest brother Sumner. Sumner had to go to court to wrestle guardianship of Roky away from his slightly unstable mother. For a while Roky took mind stabilizing drugs again, but from xmas '06 he is drug free and guardianship of his affairs has been returned to himself thru a court decision, as shown on an extra 2007 clip added to the dvd.
Other extras on the dvd are many solo performances by Roky, some from the video Demon Angel, one performance with the Explosives, a bunch of outtakes from the docu. and the triumphant reunion with The Explosives at the Austin City Limits Festival in '05, introduced by Kinky Friedman.
Roky official site // Roky at Wiki // Great Roky solo albums: I Have Always Been Here Before: The Roky Erickson Anthology - Don't Slander Me - Gremlins Have Pictures - All That May Do My Rhyme The Evil One // Paradise Found - 13th Floor Elevators comp. of mono tracks and single versions.
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