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BLAST.famy
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volume 1 ish 4
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August 1994
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F _ A _ M _ Y
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A Private World E-zine.
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....check out the Online Shmooze http://www.io.org/~pwcasual
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Publisher = P. W. Casual, C.E.O, PWE; C.O.B, PWC pwcasual@io.org
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Herr Editor = markjr@io.org
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+------------------------------------+
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| Punish your audience |
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| ...they love it. |
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| - Ian Hunter |
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c o n t r i b u t o r s Brought To You By E X X O N ...(just kidding)
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!*@# Magazine exclaim@io.org
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WWW http://www.io.org/~pwcasual/exclaim.html
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Andrew Creighton Bone of Contention, Stay Calm
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Shawn Merril The Bollweevils, Stick Your Neck Out!
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Phil Saunders Kepone, Ugly Dance
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Bruce Labruce Blab #29
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Chris Wodskou Mark Burgess And The Sons of God, Zima Junction
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markjr@io.org LANDSLIDE guitarist (I've resisted the urge
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for a shameless plug for my band for 3 issues.
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So that's LANDSLIDE, from London [The Forest City]
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not Sour Landslide, not <something> landslide
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from N.Y.C, not the Landslide from California
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circa 1972, and definitely not Landslide, the
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upstart christian-rock band in Toronto whom
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has recently pilfered our name...)
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the cybercafe heath@cybercafe.org
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CONTENTS:
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!*@# Reviews - plagarized from the latest issue by way
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of a mutual content dissection pact.
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( In case you weren't aware: This zine is AnTI-coPYRight. If you use
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any of it, don't come running to us iff you get FLAMED OUT of CompPuSerVE.)
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editorial - what exactly do we mean by anti-copyright?
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Brace yourself, cause markjr@io.org is going
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to tell you.
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cybercafe announcement - On Aug/5/94 something bizarre will occur in
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the U.K.
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blab #29 - by Bruce Labruce
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!*@# !*@# !*@# !*@# !*@# !*@# !*@# !*@# !*@# !*@# !*@# !*@# !*@# !*@# !*@#
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E X C L A I M M A G A Z I N E R E V I E W S
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!*@# !*@# !*@# !*@# !*@# !*@# !*@# !*@# !*@# !*@# !*@# !*@# !*@# !*@# !*@#
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(ed note: the reviews that follow are but a mere drop on the bucket of
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what appears in !*@# magazine each month. email exclaim@io.org for info)
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The Bollweevils
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Stick Your Neck Out!
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(Dr. Strange, Box 7000-117, Alta Loma, CA 91701)
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After one listen you'll know that these punks hail from the Chicago
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school of melodic hardcore. Pegboy, Naked Raygun and Screeching
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Weasel will immediately come to mind. Daryl's vocals are a nasally
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cross between Ben Weasel and Dave Smalley. Although the material on
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this CD has all been done before, it's never been done this right.
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This CD is a very solid release - I've been listening to it every
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day since I obtained it, and in my mind, it surpasses this year's
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NO FX and Rancid releases. Their cover of Tommy Tutone's "Jenny"
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will have you slamming in no time!
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-Shawn Merrill
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Bone of Contention
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Stay Calm
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(Igor)
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This CD from the Pittsburgh foursome is a great recording with lots
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of depth and passion that will get the band absolutely nowhere
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financially. I earnestly hope that they can survive making good,
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fun music and don't have any yucky ambitions for Top 40 status.
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What first struck me about Stay Calm was the wondrous diversity.
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Sure it's all basically rock and roll, but they really put a spin
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on the norm. The lyrics in such tunes as "We'll Do Fine" are funny
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in a comedic, black way: "You bring the Prozac, I'll bring the
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wine." "Crawl" gits funky: "I wanna see you sweat, I wanna see your
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upper lip wet." Most of the songs are created in a tongue-in-cheek
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mood. Look at the song titles alone - "Like Richard Brautigan,
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Lonesome on a Saturday Night" and "All The Things You Could Be By
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Now If Henry Miller's Wife Was Your Mother." Are they
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intellectuals? Other bands that came to mind? They smack a little
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of Violent Femmes and even My Dad is Dead (the vocals anyway). I
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like Stay Calm, and I look forward to liking it even more in the
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future.
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-Andrew Creighton
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Mark Burgess And The Sons of God
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Zima Junction
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(Pivot/Cargo)
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And everyone thinks Bono has a messianic complex - here's Mark
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Burgess surrounding himself (or should that be Himself) with Sons
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of God and playing skiffling English and Scottish folk-derived
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songs abounding in Gaelic and Welsh epics and rustic visions of the
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apocalypse, Arcadia and Xanadu rolled into one. Could be a simple
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case of the former Chameleon changing his skin and envisioning
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himself as a bardic conscience of Britain, its history and cultural
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demise. Zima Junction is mostly valuable as a curiosity, a lightly
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tripping folk rendering of myth and prophecy that thankfully
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succumbs to none of the gaudily pretentious Marrilionesque idiocies
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of bands that have read too much Tolkien and Gaelic myth. But the
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real curiosity here are the two covers: a poem by "The Shetland
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Poet Vagabond" set to Philip Glass's "Facades" and a similarly
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hypnotic version of the old Bond theme, "You Only Live Twice,"
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which I would almost swear is not sung by Mark Burgess, but by Marc
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Almond, bathing in all the luminescence of pop melodrama. St.
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Etienne must be kicking themselves that they let this one get away.
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-Chris Wodskou
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Kepone
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Ugly Dance
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(1/4 Stick)
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I'd like to quote one of the three reviews that was used on the
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back of the bio for this band because it epitomises how I felt
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while listening to this album the second or third time; "Woah. Wow.
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Geez. Man. Golly. Shucks. Shesh. Whew. Damn..." Said reviewer went
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on to write the most aggressively positive review I've ever read.
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But, after listening to Kepone's newest and first full length, Ugly
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Dance, you'll concur. Kepone are from Richmond, Virginia and are a
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power trio made up of an ex-Honor Role dude, and an ex-Gwar dude
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(Go figure?). Ugly Dance is likely the record I'll listen to most
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until the next GVSB album comes out. Blending aggro vibes like Big
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Black with melodic tones lying somewhere between Minutemen and
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Volcano Suns, Kepone are worth your time and money. 1/4 Stick
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strikes again.
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-Phil Saunders
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===================================+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++????????
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oh oh I feel a rAnT!!! coming on...What do we mean by anti-copyright????????
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===================================+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++!!!!!!!!
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Exactly this: Now that your reading this, there is
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nothing we can do to stop you from making any number
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of copies of this, and giving it away to whoever you
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want. No amount of intellectual indignation can change
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this one iota. In fact, we kind of rely on that aspect of
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this kind of venture. So the last thing we'll be doing is
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spending millions on corporate lobbyists to lean on
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the crooks in Ottawa on behalf of our so-called copyrights.
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I was recently at the Stentor Corporations love-in with
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the "Canadian Music Industry" at the King Edward Hotel
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in Toronto. These are the guys who aim to wire Canada
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in 10 years and 8 billion dollars. The public relations
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wing of the conglomerate is on tour right now, meeting with
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"special interest groups" (of which we all belong to so
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many). In the morning they met with "the handicapped" to
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explain to them that they will be looked after in the
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new infoshere. That night they unrolled a cash bar, dumped
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a few kilos of shish-kabobs onto a serving table and let in
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"the music biz".
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There were a small number of people there,
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varying from CIRPA (who organized the event) to David
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Basskin from the CMRRA, some suit from EMI Publishing,
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college radio, CHART, the Record and what have you...
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Aside from a question of equal access, my techie-nerd
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questions, almost all the talk was of copyright protection.
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When I first asked a question I had to fight off the urge to
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to grab the microphone, leap atop the pedestal and scream: "you
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neo-corporate-fools!!! Can't you see it's futile? H a Ha Ha aH hA!!
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People who want to get their media out DON'T NEED YOU. Ha aH hha Ha.
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Go back to the mainstream, you've not the courage to venture into
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the internet!" But I didn't. I was talking to David Basskin after
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the talk and what he said was essentially this: The Music Industry
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is fueled by a.few.big.acts a year. These acts generate so.much.money
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they fuel the entire industry. This is all threatened with this
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entire internet thang. If the _big stars_ get ripped off so much
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there will be less money for the industry in general. My response
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was that he was absolutely correct up to a point. I think
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big.star.acts will dwindle in time. Rather than have 10 acts a
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year sell a million records, you'll have one or two thousand
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bands moving the equivalent of 20-30,000 units. Some more some
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less, but the result will be my long anticipated extinction of
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the Tyrannosaurus Majorlabellus and the Obsoletis Supergroupiccus.
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I for one, can't wait.
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cybercafe at kings X station, British Rail, United Kingdom
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During the day of Friday 5th August 1994 the telephone booth area behind
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the destination board at kings X British Rail station will be borrowed
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and used for a temporary cybercafe.
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It would be good to concentrate activity around 18:00 GMT, but play as you
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will.
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(ed. note: it's your dime, calling card, extender, whatever)
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TELEPHONE Nos.
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071 278 2207 ....................... 071 387 1736
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071 278 2208 ....................... 071 387 1756
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071 837 6028 ....................... 071 387 1823
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071 837 5193 ....................... 071 278 2179
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071 837 6417 ....................... 071 278 2163
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071 278 4290 ....................... 071 278 2083
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071 837 1034 ....................... 071 387 1362
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071 837 7959 ....................... 071 278 2017
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071 837 1644 ....................... 071 387 1569
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071 837 7234 ....................... 071 387 1526
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071 837 1481 ....................... 071 387 1587
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071 837 0867 ....................... 071 837 0298
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071 278 7259 ....................... 071 837 0399
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071 278 2502 ....................... 071 837 1768
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071 278 2501 ....................... 071 387 1398
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071 278 2275 ....................... 071 837 3758
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071 278 2217 ....................... 071 837 0933
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071 278 2260 ....................... 071 837 0499
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Please do any combination of the following:
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(1) call no./nos. and let the phone ring a short while and then hang up
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(2) call these nos. in some kind of pattern (the nos. are listed as a floor
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plan of the booth)
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(3) call and have a chat with an expectant or unexpectant person
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(4) go to Kings X station watch public reaction/answer the phones and chat
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(5) do something different
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This event will be publicised worldwide
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I will write a report stating that:
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(1) no body rang
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(2) a massive techno crowd assembled and danced to the sound of ringing
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telephones
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(3) something unexpected happened
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No refreshments will be provided/please bring pack lunch
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cybercafe aims to promote/create spaces/situations in which
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people can create/behave/express/experience
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in ways unavailable in currently existing places
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Domains of activity radio/tv/telephones/fax/
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mailart/flyposting/performance/computer.
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For further info please contact heath@cybercafe.org / TEL: 44 71 497 2916
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keywords: Interactive Subversive Detourment Play Gateway Action
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Intervention Advocacy
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Virtual Internet Viral
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Please distribute this message to people who may be interested
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heath
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(-------------------< BLAB n29 by Bruce Labruce >-----------------------)
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Miscellaneous Item #1. Trent Reznor, frontman for industrial
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act du moment Nine Inch Nails, is, apparently, in advanced style
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denial. Recently, at the all-too-trendy New York nightspot, Jackie
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60, I ran into up and coming fashion designer Walter Sessna, who
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doubles (who doesn't) as a stylist. Trent was, until recently, one
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of his clients. Walter had just returned from a disastrous two-day
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business trip to LA, where he had a major fight and final falling
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out with Trent. It seems the morbid musician (who had,
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incidentally, until a few months ago, been staying at one of the
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sites of the Manson Massacre, which he claimed, by the way, not to
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know had once been the former Tate-Polanski home. "Oh, that's why
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the rent is so cheap," he was heard to say disingenuously) accused
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Walter of leaking to the press that he was, indeed, employed as his
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stylist/image consultatnt. (Walter denies any indiscretion on his
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part.) Please, Mr. Reznor! There is no shame in having a stylist.
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After all, the entire entertainment industry complex is built on
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the backs of hard-working, stylewise, trendspotting homosexuals.
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Smells like an advanced case of style denial to me!
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Miscellaneous Item #2. During Fashion Week in New York, gorgeous
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Kim Gordon pulled a Monika Treut by showing her new Riot Grrrl
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Resort collection on the street between the locations of two major
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fashion shows, thereby snagging some of the attention from the
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fashionistas dashing from runway to runway, including Francis Ford
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Coppola and jetsetting daughter Sofia. Kudos to Miss Gordon, who,
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judging from her memorable Gap ad, certainly knows how to
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manipulate the media while coming out smelling like a rose: the
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savvy songstress got more attention for doing the ad than the ad
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itself generated. Good luck to Miss Gordon on both her new X-girl
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fashion line and her other new project - baby Coco. (The
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expression, "pulling a Monica Treut," by the way, means to sponge
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off other people's publicity, which is what Ms. Treut did at the
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press screening of one of my movies in New York. We shared the same
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publicist, who told her to get her German carcass over to the lobby
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to the theatre where my movie was showing to a full house of press
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to talk up her new movie. I happen to know this because she
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happened to rustle up as her date a certain famous gay novelist
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whom she pulled out of the theatre and made leave with her after
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only ten minutes, having already accomplished her self-serving
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task. Tsk, tsk.
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Miscellaneous Item #3. True Richard Kern stories. Recently, while
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I was over at Richard's in New York being photographed with a big,
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thick candle shoved up my ass for possible use in Future sex
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magazine - which I hate, but I felt like I owed Richard a favour
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after he appeared so gamely in my movie - he told me that he
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recently had a "model" over being photographed, and he had her hung
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upside down from her feet in bondage, and the rope broke, and she
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fell right on her head! She could've broken her neck! And try to
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explain that bondage gear to the cops! Fortunately, she was okay,
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and she didn't sue. By the way, Richard was afraid to come to my
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post-screening party with all those damn homosexuals there. He's so
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cute.
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Miscellaneous Item #4. True Glory Hole domination stories. Glory
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Hole was almost fired from Billy's Topless for a) flashing her
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pussy; b) licking her tits; and c) being intoxicated while working.
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The rumours about her drug use started when she showed up for work
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wearing the "DRUNK" hat I bought her, not removing it for her
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performances throughout the evening. Glory Hole lobs her purse
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unceremoniously onto the small stage before she mounts it, and that
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same evening, the purse flew open, spilling out the contents of a
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bottle of Tylenol with Codeine that I had also brought her from
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Canada (along with the DRUNK hat). The management and customer
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raised their eyebrows in unison as she tottered over in not much
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more than her stiletto heels and G-string and gathered up the
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pills, exclaiming, "My dolls, my dolls!" The perpetual smile
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plastered across her face as she does the burlesque also may have
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contributed to the drug rumours. Anyhow, so the owner of Billy's
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called her into his office to give her a severe reprimand. Glory
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Hole denied both the charges of drug use and pussy-flashing ("Why
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would want to?" she asked, wide-eyed.) As for the tit-licking
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question, she promised never, ever to do it again.
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Miscellaneous Item #5. Lucas Haas, child star of such Hollywood
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movies as Witness and Ramblin' Rose, was recently caught
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shoplifting a rap tape at Tower Records on Hollywood Boulevard in
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LA. The manager of the store, a queen, took several Polaroids of
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the poor boy as he sat locked up in the back room waiting for the
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cops to come, telling him it was standard procedure for
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shoplifters, but actually snapping the shots because he thought the
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young actor was so cute. Excuse me, but if he was that cute, why
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didn't you just let him go? After all, Lucas was just carrying on
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a long tradition of star shoplifting, pioneered by Hedy Lamaar in
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the 60s.
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