WILD, WILD WORLD OF WEIRD

On this page, you will find entries on strange topics, wacky findings, or just plain interesting tidbits.
Though this project is no longer updated with new entries, please enjoy all the hard work below (done from 2006 - 2010).

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George Junius Stinney Jr., born in October of 1929, in South Carolina.
In March of 1944, at the age of 14, he was arrested for the murders of two young girls, Betty June Binnicker and Mary Emma Thames (ages 11 and 8). He was tried, convicted and executed within three months.
Stinney is the youngest person ever executed in the 20th Century United States.

Thanks, South Carolina!

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On August 8th of 1988, Boyd Rice, Adam Parfrey, Nikolas Schreck and Zeena LaVey had a gathering at The Strand Theater in San Francisco.
The music was provided by Non, Radio Werewolf and Secret Chiefs.
The rally was to call an end to the 1980s, as well as celebrate the Manson murders 20 years before.
A few nights before, the folks at No Other Radio Network on KPFA 94.1 FM in Berkeley, California had a promotional show for the event, and here it is...

8-8-88 Prelude Radio Show (75 Mb @ 128kbps)

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Milan Knízák (1940 - ) is a Czechoslovakian artist, musician, theorist and all around avant-garde thorn in the side of Eastern European Communism and Fascism.

Knízák had organized Prauge's first Fluxus concert, supposedly had a hand in helping VW with their engines, befriended and worked with such varied underground figures as Allen Ginsberg and Vienna Aktionists' Wolf Vostell, as well as being labeled "Enemy of the State" by his home country - all by age 30.
As a fan of Christian Marclay, I thought I'd share for you some of his influences, such as the unbelieveably-ahead-of-its-time LP by Milan, Broken Music.
Recorded throughout the 70s, and released in 1979 by Berliner DAAD-Galerie for an exhibition entitled Broken Music, which was shown in Berlin. It was released as a limited, one-sided, flexi-disc, held in an artful 278 pages book, written in English, French and German, featuring essays by the curators Ursula Block and Michael Glasmeier, philosopher Theodor W. Adorno, audio and visual artists László Moholy-Nagy, Jean Dubuffet, Hans Rudolf Zeller and, of course, Milan.

Here are the alpha and omega of this magnum opus:

Composition No. 1 (17 Mb @ 128Kbps)

Composition No. 5 (13 Mb @ 128Kbps)

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Peter Sotos (April 1960 - ) was born in Chicago, and while attending the Art Institute of Chicago began working on his first, and most infamous work, Pure Magazine. He was arrested while working on issue three, in 1984, as the magazine was viewed as child pornography. The charges were later dropped, but Sotos was still charged (and is the first American to ever be charged) with possession of child pornography.
In 1992 he was asked to join the power electronics outfit Whitehouse, and made the United Kingdom home from then until 2002, when he returned to Chicago.
Sotos has released several books (Total Abuse, Tick, Lazy, Proxy, etc), which have drawn him equal acclaim and hatred.

The link below is to a file which contains both issue one and two of Pure.

Pure 1 & 2 (13 Mb PDF)

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In 1972, the piano-playing, spiritual medium Rosemary Brown recruited Peter Katin (another pianist) to release a record like no other.
They were to contact long dead composers, and play new pieces by them channeled through the recording duo.
The recording was released as A Musical Seance on Interfaith Library Project in 1974.

Here are a few tracks from that release:

Franz Liszt - Jesus at Prayer (2.2 Mb @ 128Kbps)

Frédéric Chopin - Longing (1.9 Mb @ 128Kbps)

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Which decade was worse?

The 70s?

This is 12" LP is the bright idea of Nathan Leichman, PhD, and Stanley Z. Daniels, MD, and was a split release between Event and Carapan Records in 1972. Sex Explained For Children is actually, a "volume one", as there are two others, which complete a sex trilogy, Sex Explained For Teens, and Sex Explained For Adults.
T he teen edition is understandable, the adult one is retarded, and this one is kinda creepy. Enjoy.

Side A (11 Mb @ 128Kbps)

Side B (10 Mb @ 128Kbps)

Or was it the 80s?

This cassette was for sale at Radio Shacks across America, and was made by their parent company, Tandy, in 1985.
On side one of the tape were corny answering machine messages in several, poorly played, musical genres, while the other side was just the music, so you could make your own terrible mistake.
Use the links below, and put 'em on your cellphone. Perfect for hipster douchebags!

Side A (4.6 Mb @ 128Kbps)

Side B (4.1 Mb @ 128Kbps)

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Iran... you're crazy.

Well, at least your cartoonists are.

Iranian Suicide Bomber Children's Cartoon [54 Mb AVI movie].

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Now, I don't want this site to turn into "that kind" of website, but this really needed to be posted here.

The link below is to a twenty-two minute, pornographic film from 1975, called Sexangle (released on Taboo Films), and it stars Industrial Music Culture's Queen and Godmother, Cosey Fanni Tutti. Enjoy, you pervs!

Sexangle [105 Mb AVI movie].

Ps AND Qs: YOU MUST BE 21 YEARS OF AGE, OR OLDER, TO VIEW, AND CLAIM SO BY CLICKING ON THE LINK.

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To many, myself included, Billy Joel is a keyboard-playing douchebag, but - at one time - the guy did know how to rock.
In 1969, Billy, and drummer, Jon Small, were members of The Hassles, but soon broke away to form their own heavy metal outfit called Attila. The duo released one album, self titled, in 1970 on Columbia Records (later reissued by CBS, Inc. in 1985).

Here are two tracks from Joel's first outfit, before he became the "Piano Man".

Wonder Woman (3.2 Mb @ 128Kbps)

Amplifier Fire (7 Mb @ 128Kbps)

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In Persia's Zoroastrian religion, decaying matter - such as your rotting corpse - is seen as the most corrupt substance on Earth. So what's a poor Zoroastrian to do with his dead mum's body?
If he buries it in the ground it will infect everything that grows, and possibly the water.
A funeral pyre? Fire is seen as most sacred, so that's out.
Well, then, why not section off a parcel of land, build a tower, and place all the bodies at the top so the vultures can dispose of them?

That's just what the Zoroastrians have been doing for a thousand years, or more.
They are known as the Towers of Silence.

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In the somewhat racist comic book linked below, titled Mickey Mouse and the Medicine Man, Goofy introduces Mickey to a new medicine called ‘Peppo’ that seems to be some kind of amphetamine. They like the product so much, both decide to become salesmen for the product in Africa.
The hand-sized comic book was released in 1951 by Disney.

Click on image to view entire comic.

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The photo above was taken on October 12th, 1960, only a second before Japanese Socialist Party leader Inejiro Asanuma was assassinated by 17-year-old, right wing student Otoya Yamaguchi, who plunged his wakizashi (a Japanese long knife) into Asanuma's chest.
Photographer Yasushi Nagao received a Pulitzer price for this photo, but later said that he was only at the right place, at the right time.

The link below is to a video of Asanuma's assassination, broadcast live on Japanese TV (plus a slow motion replay at the end).

Asanuma Assassination [8.3 Mb AVI movie].

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In 2007 I posted the text for Richard McBeef, the script to a play written by Virginia Tech mass murderer Cho Seung-Hui.

In case you don't remember, Cho walked throughout the Virginia Tech University campus in Blacksburg, VA, and killed 33 people (mostly fellow students).

The links below are to two videos...
First, a recreation of his play, Richard McBeef.

Richard McBeef [35 Mb AVI movie].

Next is a compilation of a few of his video-taped manifestos.

Cho Seung-Hui [3.8 Mb AVI movie].

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Last year I posted a few videos of artists shilling product as proof we're all whores.
This time around I'm posting a few more, but they're a hell of a lot weirder than the Warhol and Dali ones.

Here is actor James Mason trying to sell you on the "unique flavor" of Thunderbird Wine [2 Mb AVI movie].

This next one is a newer one, with - of all people - John Lydon (aka Johnny Rotten) promoting Country Life British Butter [4 Mb AVI movie].

And last is one by H. R. Giger, where he doesn't act, but writes and directs an odd commercial for Pioneer Electronics [3 Mb AVI movie].

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The UK band Black Widow began in 1966 as Pesky Gee! (releasing 1969's Exclamation Mark), but after their female lead singer, Kay Garrett, left, they changed their name. The band continued their psychedelic hard rock sound, but added witchcraft and occult themes (after consulting the British "King of the Witches" Alex Sanders for advice) to their lyrics and imagery, as well as to their stage theatrics, including holding black masses and mock sacrifices.
In 1970 they released their first album on CBS / Sony Music, Sacrifice, which reached #32 on the UK Albums Chart. In '72 they released their second, self-titled LP, followed by 1973's Black Widow III, and recorded Black Widow IV in 1974 without a record contract, but it wasn't released until 1997 (on Mystic Records).
While the band members went their separate ways in early 1975, they continue to be an inspiration to many Goth bands, as well as highly collectible to seekers of psychedelia.
In 2008, Mystic Records released the band's only known filmed concert as the Demons of the Night Gather To See Black Widow - Live DVD.

Here are two tracks off their debut LP:

Come to the Sabbat (3.8 Mb @ 128Kbps)

Sacrifice (9.9 Mb @ 128Kbps)

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In the UK, over the past few months, David Harrison donated some toys and board games - all in mint condition - to a local museum.
Among the offerings was a quite obscure and hard-to-find boardgame called, BP Offshore Oil Strike.
Made by a Scottish company, Printabox Ltd, in collaboration with British Petroleum Company (BP) the boardgame was released in the early 1970s. Strangely, the play-money in the game is in dollars. There are playing cards marked "hazards", "blow out!", and "rig damaged". Landing on "oil slick clean-up" will cost the player one million dollars.
The museum's curator, Mr. Goldsmith said,"The picture on the front of the box is so reminiscent to the disaster, with the stormy seas, the oil rig, and an overall sense of doom. I was so knocked over by how relevant this game is, made some 35 years ago, to BP’s current crisis today."
Goldsmith is also releasing a price guide on collectable board games, and will now be including this rare find in his first edition.

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John Duncan was a Los Angeles musician and performance artist.

He played with The Los Angeles Free Music Society (LAFMS), and some of his performance work consisted of shooting blanks at underground artists and film makers Tom Recchion and Paul McCarthy (Scare), molesting unsuspecting passengers on a city bus (Bus Ride), as well as letting only a few folks watch a movie, burning it, and letting none of them speak about it (The Secret Film).
In 1980, he performed a piece that made the U.S. art scene turn their collective backs on him, causing him to move to Japan.
The piece was titled Blind Date, and it was about self-torture. For Blind Date John wanted to have a vasectomy, while using his last potent seed on something extraordinary, and highly symbolic. He succeeded!
Before getting snipped, he met up with a Mexican coroner, and they set it up so John could have sex with a female corpse. Ugh.
In 1984, Duncan released the Japanese cassette tape Pleasure-Escape, and on side one of that tape was the audio of Blind Date.

Enjoy...

Blind Date (30 Mb @ 128Kbps)

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Joseph E. Aufricht is someone many an internet junkie might know of. If you're into trading tapes of the weird, then you definitely know Joe, or - at least - his work.
In 1990, Joe founded a Satanic organization called The Order of Dionysus Sabazios. He would hand out pamphlets for his group when he rode Cleveland area public transit, or just shoot the Satanic shit with anyone on the street who would listen.
Around the same time, Joe began a fanzine called Rejuvenation, which was a cut-n-paste collection of "...helpful hints for successful, happy living for all ages, including teenagers! Strategic rebellion tips and criticism against Christianity & other spirituality."
Soon after, Mr. Aufricht began to make cassette tapes. His collection of cassettes were nothing more than what we all did art around age eight, which was make a radio show with a hand held tape recorder. The only problem is that Joe was 30 years old when he created his wonderful slices of magnetic nuttiness. In 1993 he released Youthful Satanic Ecstacy [sic], followed by Evil Phone Prankster in 1994, and killing off the trio of tapes the next year with Mockery + Perversion.
In 1999, he - under the name Xaphan - formed a black metal outfit called Satanicon, but it doesn't compare to the sheer brutality of the old tapes.
Sadly, though Satanicon created their MySpace page three and a half years ago, and they are still just 10 souls away from every black metal band's dream of having 666 friends.

Below are mp3s of two sides of two releases by J.A.

Youthful Satanic Ecstacy Side One (42 Mb @ 128Kbps)

Mockery + Perversion Side Two (42 Mb @ 128Kbps)

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Many know that Aldous Huxley wrote Brave New World (1932), but very few know that it was also released in a narrated version, where the author himself tells his fictional tale of a futuristic world gone mad thanks to technology.
Originally recorded for CBS's Theater of the Mind radio series, it was soon released on 12" LP in 1956 by Él Records, and later by Pelican Records in 1979.

Click on image for larger view

Below are links to files containing both side of this lost classic:

Side A (27 Mb mp3 @ 128Kbps)

Side B (27 Mb mp3 @ 128Kbps)

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Bob Larson is an Arizona-based Christian preacher who currently performs exorcisms. He has authored over 20 books, and also hosted an evangelist talk show, called Talk Back, from 1982 - 2002, which returned in 2004.
Throughout the early 1990's brought on guests to the show so as to debate (more like belittle) their religion, philosophy and artistic projects, some of whom included GG Allin, Glen Benton of Deicide, Trey Azagthoth of Morbid Angel, and Boyd Rice.

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In the links below Bob challenges musician Boyd Rice and writer Tracy Twyman.
They mostly cover the topic of the "Grail Bloodline", as well as a bit of geopolitics and the occult.

Boyd and Tracy vs. Bob (30 Mb mp3 @ 96 Kbps)

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Mad Society was an early 80s southern California hardcore band, who released a 5 song 7" in 1981.
All the band members were under 11 years old at the time of recording.

Here are mp3s of all the tracks from the record:

Riot Squad (3.7 Mb mp3 @ 320Kbps)

Skits (4.8 Mb mp3 @ 320Kbps)

Napalm (2.4 Mb mp3 @ 320Kbps)

Terminally (2.6 Mb mp3 @ 320Kbps)

Little Devil (3.2 Mb mp3 @ 320Kbps)

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The Japanese love Jesus Christ!
So much so, Keita Asari remade the 1971 musical by Tim Rice and Andrew Lloyd Webber, Jesus Christ Superstar.

Here are some samples:

Overture (5.5 Mb mp3 @ 192 Kbps)

The Last Supper (9.8 Mb mp3 @ 192 Kbps)

Pilate and Christ (3.5 Mb mp3 @ 192 Kbps)

Crucifixion (5.8 Mb mp3 @ 192 Kbps)

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Many thought the West African posters were rather neat, so I thought I'd post some from Thailand.

Click on images for larger view.

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Where do you stand on the Sexual Deviancy Map?

Click on image for larger view.

Me? I should probably just lay on it...

and hump it.

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After the breakup of the Beatles in 1970, Paul McCartney began teaching his wife, Linda McCartney (September 1941 - April 1998), to play keyboards, and added her to the lineup for his new band, Wings. Paul was ridiculed by music critics for her poor singing and playing skills,

LINDA McCARTNEY SINGS "HEY JUDE" (2.8 Mb mp3 @ 64Kbps)

The link above is supposedly of a bootleg recording originating from isolating Linda McCartney's microphone at a Wings concert taken by a sound engineer, but whether it is genuine has not been definitively established. The track is taken off the first disc of the two disc set Celebrities at their Worst, Volume Two.

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World's First Photograph

In 1826 Joseph Niépce set up a camera obscura pointing out his second floor window and produced a one-of-a-kind photograph on pewter.

World's First Daguerreotype

In 1837 this technique of dauerreotyping was developed by French chemist Louis Daguerre in collaboration with Joseph Niépce.

World's First Human Portrait

In 1839, Robert Cornelius, a Dutch chemist, took a daguerreotype portrait of himself and made the world’s first human photograph.

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I stumbled across a rather infamous Bill Hicks show from Chicago in 1989 most often referred to as the "Bill Loses It Show", and later released as the bootleg I'm Sorry, Folks.

These are some of the classic moments from that show:

Bill 1 (290 Kb mp3 @ 24 Kbps)

Bill 2 (338 Kb mp3 @ 24 Kbps)

Bill 3 (277 Kb mp3 @ 24 Kbps)

Bill 4 (273 Kb mp3 @ 24 Kbps)

Bill 5 (410 Kb mp3 @ 24 Kbps)

Comedian Bill Hicks (Dec 1961 - Feb 1994), though appearing many times on Letterman and in Rolling Stone magazine, is mostly an underground legend. His dark humor, satire, controversial subject matter, wit and social criticisms brought him many deserved fans, as well as praise from the bands Tool and Radiohead to comedians David Cross, Jon Stewart and Joe Rogan.

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Anyone see the new Mexican stamps considered racist by many?

The five-stamp series features Memín Pinguín, a character from a comic book Pepín created in 1940 by Alberto Cabrera, which later became Memín in 1943.
A spokesman for the Mexican Embassy described the depiction as a cultural image that has no meaning and is not intended to offend, but folks like Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton didn't agree.

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Backmasking is the intentional or unintentional placing of messages either regularly so when played backwards they say something different, or backwards so the are unintelligible when heard regularly. For years the Christian right has used supposed instances of backmasking to rail against popular music, calling it "Satanic". The links below are believed to be coincidences of unintentional messages when a song is played backwards.

Metallica - Am I Evil? [Diamondhead cover on 1998's Garage Inc. LP]

FORWARD (198 Kb mp3 @ 128Kbps) and BACKWARD (198 Kb mp3 @ 128Kbps)

backmask line: "I am Satan. Yes, I am. Oh Yeah, I am. I am Satan. Oh Yeah, I am."

Judas Priest - Beyond the Realms of Death [1978's Stained Class LP]

FORWARD (97 Kb mp3 @ 128Kbps) and BACKWARD (97 Kb mp3 @ 128Kbps)

backmask line "I took my life."

Quiet Riot - Mental Health [1983's Mental Health LP]

FORWARD (118 Kb mp3 @ 128Kbps) and BACKWARD (118 Kb mp3 @ 128Kbps)

backmask line "Serve the Beast for money. There's lots of money."

Queen - Another One Bites the Dust [1980's The Game LP]

FORWARD (104 Kb mp3 @ 128Kbps) and BACKWARD (104 Kb mp3 @ 128Kbps)

backmask line "It's fun to smoke marijuana."

Led Zeppelin - Stairway to Heaven [1971's IV aka Zoso LP]

FORWARD (170 Kb mp3 @ 128Kbps) and BACKWARD (170 Kb mp3 @ 128Kbps)

backmask line "Glory glory to my sweet Satan. There was a little child born, it makes me sad, whose power is Satan."

Britney Spears - Baby, One More Time [1999's ...Baby One More Time LP]

FORWARD (98 Kb mp3 @ 128Kbps) and BACKWARD (98 Kb mp3 @ 128Kbps)

backmask line "Sleep with me, I'm not too young."

Blondie - Do the Dark [1980's Autoamericana LP]

FORWARD (130 Kb mp3 @ 128Kbps) and BACKWARD (130 Kb mp3 @ 128Kbps)

backmask line "Help, help, help, help me. Satan is moving in me."

Eagles - Hotel California [1976's Hotel California LP]

FORWARD (240 Kb mp3 @ 128Kbps) and BACKWARD (240 Kb mp3 @ 128Kbps)

backmask line "Yeah Satan, oh he came, and organized his own religion. Yeah, when he knows he shouldn't."

The Baha Men - Who Let the Dogs Out? [2000's Who Let the Dogs Out? LP]

FORWARD (43 Kb mp3 @ 128Kbps) and BACKWARD (43 Kb mp3 @ 128Kbps)

backmask line "You fucked up, you fucked up nigger."

The Pokémon theme song [ordinal anime TV series 1998 - 2003]

FORWARD (133 Kb mp3 @ 128Kbps) and BACKWARD (133 Kb mp3 @ 128Kbps)

backmask line "I love Satan, love Satan. I love Satan, love Satan!"

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As you may have seen on many a screen, almost all TV shows are "closed captioned" for the hearing impaired, but did you know that with a DVS box (Descriptive Video Service) the visually impaired can enjoy TV as an audio feed which describes the action going on.
This system attaches to a television and will then pick up an audio feed run by the television program that we cannot hear, as it is on a specific audio channel that only the box can receive.

The Simpsons - DVS episode "Rapture" (May 08, 2005) (4Mb mp3 @ 24Kbps)

The above link is to an episode where Homer rents a Christian movie called Left Below (based on the LaHaye Left Behind series) and begins to predict the end of times and becomes a prophet to many of the Springfield townsfolk.
You may notice that while they are trying to be descriptive, they are also omitting scenes, such as when Homer tells the news crew that hippies may want to smoke marijuana (by pretending to smoke a joint) to view the apocalypse - the announcer just says, "Homer pretends to smoke," and when Homer and Marge make love, they don't say a word about it.

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This is an mp3 of the original radio broadcast from July of 1947 following the crash of an alleged UFO in Roswell, New Mexico.

ROSWELL BROADCAST (1.7 Mb mp3 @ 64Kbps)

And below are copies of the newspapers which ran the stories.

Click on image for larger view.

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Volcanology researchers were growing bored of looking at numbers and graphs when charting volcanic activity, so they turned seismographic patterns into musical scores and then played them using a MIDI interpreter on a computer.

Here are two volcanoes whose activity you can compare "musically":

MT. ETNA in Italy (1.3 Mb mp3 @ 192Kbps)

TUNGURAHUA in Ecuador (1.3 Mb mp3 @ 192Kbps)

The researcher responsible for this synthpunk weirdness is Domenico Vicinanza of Italy.

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This LP is from an era Walt Disney would rather forget...

The links below are mp3s of both sides from this 1963 LP:

Side 1 (8 Mb mp3 @ 128Kbps)

Sibe 2 (10 Mb mp3 @ 128Kbps)

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Most people who know the work of Icelandic singer Björk believe her musical debut was in 1986 with The Sugarcubes, and later with her first solo album, Debut, in 1993. What few know is that she was in an Icelandic punk band before this, called KUKL, whose name means "sorcery". They release a few singles and LPs, so that's info which isn't very hard to track down. What even less know is that before KUKL she formed Iceland's first all-female punk band, Spit & Snot. They never recorded, so that information is a little more obscure. What hardly anyone knows is that before all of this, at only 11 years old, she appeared on RÚV, at the time, Iceland's only radio station. When the owner of Fálkinn Records heard the broadcast he offered her a record deal. In 1977 they released her actual debut, a 10 song self-titled album, which Björk herself would rather forget.

It wasn't until I actually heard the album that I understood why she pretends it doesn't exist.

Here, for your listening unease, are two songs off that LP.

Búkolla (Your Kiss is Sweet) (3.2 Mb @ 128Kbps)

Fúsi Hreindÿr (3.4 Mb @ 128Kbps)

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Ruth White, born in 1925, is an electronic music pioneer, especially due to her work on the Moog synthesizer. Though having several degrees from Pennsylvania universities, and being trained in piano, she taught herself to use synthesizers and electronic music equipment.
Her first two albums are quite popular with the neo-folk crowd, as they are somber compositions dealing with the occult.
In 1968, she released her first LP, 7 Trumps From The Tarot Cards (on Limelight Records). It contained an all-electronic score, and lyrics dealing with her impressions of the tarot. The following year, she released her most popular record, The Flowers of Evil (also on Limelight), which - again - was entirely composed and played electronically, though all the lyrics were taken from poems by the French Romantic Charles Baudelaire (1821 - 1867). In the 1970s she founded (with Paul Beaver) The Electronic Music Association. Mrs. White continued to release LPs, but none of her discs are as prized as her debut and sophomore releases, though 1971's Short Circuits (on Angel Records), which was filled with electronic versions of classical compositions is still enjoyed by many. Her last album was Animals Are Wonderful, and was released by Tom Thumb Records in 1981.

Here are three tracks taken from her two best known releases:

The Magician (2.3 Mb @ 128Kbps)

The Hanged Man (3.1 Mb @ 128Kbps)

The Litanies of Satan (6.3 Mb @ 128Kbps)

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In order to stay relevant, I guess, Charles Manson (born "No Name" Maddox in 1934) has supposedly sent people pictures of a clip from victim Sharon Tate's last movie, 13 Chairs, from a recently confiscated cellphone. In the pic, the words "The End" appear over a Manson-looking character.

Chuck has also been releasing some new tunes. It's to be a collection of four records dedicated to Manson's idea of ATWA: Air, Trees, Water, Animals. The Air LP was recently released (on Magic Bullet Records), and a slew of material has been pouring from the Manson Camp, I mean, Family.
No, wait, I did mean camp.

The Moon (5.1 Mb @ 192Kbps)

Brother Gun (7.6 Mb @ 192Kbps)

Bird (7.6 Mb @ 192Kbps)

Gas Chamber (5.6 Mb @ 192Kbps)

World Perspectives (3.8 Mb @ 192Kbps)

East Bound Train (2.8 Mb @ 192Kbps)

Air Is the King (4.5 Mb @ 192Kbps)

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In what is commonly seen as the first known use of modern psychological warfare, the German Lt. Von Hidessen dropped thousands of French leaflets over Paris in 1914.

The translated leaflet reads:
"The GERMAN army is at the Gates of PARIS: the only option now is to surrender. - Lieutenant VON HIDESSEN"

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In 1984, Canada's Pezzaz Productions (owned by PezAmerica Resources Corp.) release a line of cassette tapes titled Greetings from the Stars. The line's subtitle was "Humorous Recorded Greetings Just for You," though anyone could buy them.
There were several series, such as Happy Anniversary, Cheer Up, Getting Married, plus the strangely out-of-place What Is Love?, and each series contained three 70s celebrity has-beens rambling on about said topic.
Side B of the tape was left blank, so one could record their own rant. The cardboard was then to be folded inward and taped, as it had a space on the backside of the packaging for an address label. Afterwards, it could be mailed out to any friends, family, or enemies you wanted to cheer up, send birthday wishes to, or just mildly annoy.

Here are some choice cuts from this wacky bunch of jokesters.

Dom DeLuise (168 Kb @ 24Kbps)

Don Adams (116 Kb @ 24Kbps)

Don Adams (119 Kb @ 24Kbps)

Ed McMahon (110 Kb @ 24Kbps)

Ed McMahon (117 Kb @ 24Kbps)

Henny Youngman (135 Kb @ 24Kbps)

Jonathan Winters (146 Kb @ 24Kbps)

Phyllis Diller (133 Kb @ 24Kbps)

Phyllis Diller (137 Kb @ 24Kbps)

Shari Lewis and Lambchop (221 Kb @ 24Kbps)

Sid Caesar (168 Kb @ 24Kbps)

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Joshua Abraham Norton (1819 - 1880), was a London-born businessman, who in 1849 moved to San Francisco, CA, and soon lost his fortune investing in Peruvian rice. This setback severely damaged Norton's mental capacity and he soon lost his mind. Upon returning to San Francisco in 1859, from what he termed an "exile" (though self-imposed), he sent letters to every newspaper he could, proclaiming himself "Norton I, Emperor of the United States". He would later add the title, "Protector of Mexico".
Whether it was due to his good nature or public pity, the locals humored him. He sent proclamations to the local paper (which they would print), and could often be seen inspecting the streets of San Francisco in his blue and gold uniform. He was so loved that he was fed, gratis, at most restaurants, printed his own money, which was accepted in all local stores, and in 1867, when arrested so as to commit him to a mental asylum, the public protested and held rallies for his release - even having newspapers run pro-Norton pieces. Upon his release he granted the arresting officer a pardon, and, from that moment on, all city police officers saluted him.
On January 8, 1880, Norton collapsed and died on his way to a lecture. Upon his death the San Francisco Chronicle published a long and somber obituary on the front page, with the headline "Le Roi est Mort" ("The King is Dead").
Today, most everyone is unfamiliar with Emperor Norton, though many see his face often, as it is used by Wells Fargo in their logo.

These are images of his royal bank notes (strangely enough, collected by, and housed in the Wells Fargo History Museum):

Click on images for larger view.

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In May of 1978, Little Roger and the Goosebumps, a band from San Francisco, released a single on Splash Records, both being the brainchild of cultural anthropologist Roger Clark. The A side of said single was a spoof on "Stairway to Heaven" with the lyrics from the TV show Gilligan's Island replacing the original's.
In a little over a month, lawyers representing the band Led Zeppelin threatened to sue the hell out of Mr. Clark, asking that all copies be destroyed.
Except for a few 7"es that were already distributed, the band complied by nixing the single, as well as the song from their set list.

In 1980, they recorded another single, "Kennedy Girl", which was based on Neil Young's "Cinnamon Girl". Young did not sue.
After years of internet infamy, and eBay sales of the single going for $1000 or more, Roger Clark reformed the band and produced their debut album They Hate Us Cuz We're Beautiful, with 14 new recordings of songs from three decades of original material.

Here is a music file of the song that started it all:

Little Roger and the Goosebumps - Gilligan's Island (Stairway) (3 Mb mp3 @ 128Kbps)

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In Ghana, as well as some other African countries, movie theaters usually play bootleg copies of a film because they cannot afford the rights to play such fair.
If they can't afford to pay a distribution company for a movie, how do you think they'll promote the playing of a film, seeing as they can't ask for movie posters for a movie they didn't order, right?

Enter, the African movie poster bootleg trade:

More often than not, the movie posters are a hell of a lot cooler than the actual movies being played.

Click on image for larger view.

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The Shemp Meditation Tape was release in 1993 by the freeform New Jersey radio station WFMU, and was created by Dave the Spazz, who was one of their DJs at that time.
It soon became the biggest seller in what was their short-lived mail-order catalog, Catalog of Curiosities (1993 - 1997).

Dave the Spazz wrote about his creation:
"Recommended for new age nitwits and chucklefucks alike, scientifically mixed in Shemp-A-Rama for your enlightened casaba-banging pleasure. Soar the Horwitz heavens and become one with Shemp's karma on the Heee Beee Beee Beee side. Transhempify your mind and cook your chakras on the life-infirming Ahh Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha side."
Below are links to both sides of this incredible, soul-expanding cassette tape.

Side 1 - Heee Beee Beee Beee (28 Mb mp3 @ 128Kbps)

Side 2 - Ahh Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha (29 Mb mp3 @ 128Kbps)

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Hara Kiri: Journal Bête et Méchant (Hara Kiri: Stupid and Evil Magazine) was a satiric periodical founded by Georges Bernier, Cavanna and Fred Aristidès in 1960. An attempt by the French government to ban it occurred in 1961 and 1966, only to have it officially banned in 1970 (by the minister of the interior Raymond Marcellin) after a cover blurb about the death of general Charles de Gaulle.

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In the links below Robert Anton Wilson (1932 - 2007) self described "agnostic mystic", American novelist, philosopher, futurist, and all around libertarian, discusses with Eugene Jeffrey Gold (1941 - ) American artist, author, jazz musician and spiritual teacher in the tradition of Gurdjieff, discuss a wide range of topis, including drugs, religion, society and mystical awareness on the 1980 double cassette release, Conversation on the Secrets of the Illuminati.

Tape 1 - Side 1 (21 Mb mp3 @ 96Kbps)

Tape 1 - Side 2 (21 Mb mp3 @ 96Kbps)

Tape 2 - Side 1 (21 Mb mp3 @ 96Kbps)

Tape 2 - Side 2 (20 Mb mp3 @ 96Kbps)

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The link below is an audio-tour from a show held at the Metropolitan Museum of Art from May 3 - Sept 4 of 2006 called, AngloMania: Tradition and Transgression in British Fashion. Your tour guide is none other than Johnny Rotten of The Sex Pistols aka John Lydon of Public Image Limited.

AUDIO TOUR GUIDE (1.4 Mb mp3 @ 24Kbps)

In the commentary he reads the lyrics to The Sex Pistols' "God Save the Queen", explains the use of safety pins in fashion, quotes Shakespeare, rants on class war, and kisses the listener.

No future? Maybe not for you, because he sure is living very well.

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Who would have thought that a shitty musical stage show about transvestites from space would lead to so much?
Written by Richard O'Brien and opening in London, June of 1973, it spawned a movie (The Rocky Horror Picture Show, 1975) and a slew of countries staging their own performances and releasing album after album, from the UK, the US and Germany to Iceland, Korea and Mexico.

This is the Norwegian version of "Sweet Transvestite" called "En Hip Transvestitt". (2.1 Mb mp3 @ 96Kbps)

This is the Mexican version of "Sweet Transvestite" called "Dulce Travestista". (2.3 Mb mp3 @ 96Kbps)

This is the Icelandic version of "Sweet Transvestite" called "Taumlaus Transi". (2.4 Mb mp3 @ 96Kbps)

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In 1972, Anne Kilmer (professor of Assyriology, University of California, and a curator at the Lowie Museum of Anthropology at Berkeley) transcribed one of the oldest known pieces of music notation, and is the "Hymn to Nikal".
The clay music tablets are in the cuneiform script of the Hurrian language, and were excavated in the early 1950s at ancient city of Ugarit (in Syria).

The tablets date back to approximately 1400 B.C. and is a song for the moon god's wife, Nikal. Remarkably, the tablets also contain detailed performance instructions for a singer accompanied by a harpist as well as instructions on how to tune the harp.

"HYMN TO NIKAL" (17 kilobyte MIDI sequence)

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In a Party City advertising flier circulated to thousands of North Texas residents, a message above the word Hanukkah read: "C.C. hates the Jews." The flier was to announce items the Party City store was selling for the Jewish holiday.

The advertising company, ADVO, which produced the ad, says a graphic artist at their Pittsburgh shop left his desk and a coworker altered the words as a prank, thinking it would be caught before going to print.

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The Surrealists speak...

Marcel Duchamp (1887 - 1968) on the creative act, in a speech presented to the American Federation of Arts (Houston, TX) in April of 1957.

The Creative Act (3.4 Mb mp3 @ 64Kbps)

Salvador Dalí (1904 - 1989) is interviewed by David Bryson in 1963.

Interview (3.6 Mb mp3 @ 64Kbps)

Antonin Artaud (1896 - 1948) final work, Pour En Finir Avec le Judgement de Dieu [To Have Done with the Judgment of God], was recorded for a Radio France broadcast in 1947. It was to air in Feburary of 1948, but was pulled for its anti-American, anti-Catholic and scatalogical rants (he died the following month).

Pour En Finir Avec le Judgement de Dieu [excerpt] (1.8 Mb mp3 @ 64Kbps)

Translation: Lunatic asylums are dumpsites for black magic, conscious and premeditated. Not only do doctors encourage the magic through their irascible and stupid therapies, but they produce it. If there were no doctors, there would be no patients because it is through doctors and not patients that society began. Those who live, live through the dead. Death must also live. There is nothing like a lunatic asylum to gently brood death and keep the dead incubated. It began 4000 years ago before Christ, a therapeutic technique of slow death. Modren medicine, as an accomplice to the most sinister and dishonest magic, submits the dead to electric shock, to insulin therapy, in order each day to empty men of their Selves, and present them as empty and fantastically available for the obscene anatomic and atomic solicitations of the so-called bardo state. In electroshock therapy there is also a limp state through which each traumatized victim must go through, leaving him fearfully ignorant of who he was when he was himself. This is a state I once knew, and will not forget it. The bribed medicine lies each time it presents a patient as cured. As far as I'm concerned, by this method I've seen only terrorized people, unable to retrieve their Self. All who go through the electroshock bardo never come back from its darkness, and life is debased. I say it once more: the bardo is death, and death is only a black magic state that until recently did not exist. Artificially creating death in this way, as medicine now does, is to favor the return of an obscurity that never benefited anyone, and from which certain profiteers of mankind have fed themselves since a certain point in time. Which one? The time when one had to chose between renouncing being a man or becoming an evident lunatic. But, what guarantee is there that the evident lunatics of this world can be cured?

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Here's proof that all artists are whores...

Surrealist artist Salvador Dalí (May 1904 - January 1989), does a commercial for Lavin Chocolate [2 Mb AVI movie],
and a commercial for Alka-Seltzer [2 Mb AVI movie].

While Pop artist Andy Warhol (August 1928 - February 1987) does a commercial for Braniff Airlines. [3 Mb AVI movie]

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Jim Roche, a performance artist from Dallas, and part of a group of artists called the "Oak Cliff Four", made his way onto the New York art scene in the 1970s and began performance pieces in galleries where he would go into a trance-like state and channel redneck characters from his old neighborhood. He later became a professor at Florida State University.
Many of these channels were released on a double LP, Learning to Count, 1982 by a museum in Kansas, and the album tracks below are some the most racist and sexist audio rants to ever be put on vinyl.

You have been warned!

Hippies are Living Proof - 1971 (1.6 Mb mp3 @ 64Kbps)

Every Man, Woman and Child - 1972 (3.6 Mb mp3 @ 64Kbps)

Cadillac - 1973 (2.7 Mb mp3 @ 64Kbps)

Watcha Doing Down There Boy? - 1975 (3.4 Mb mp3 @ 64Kbps)

Whatsda Matter Wit Jew? - 1977 (2.5 Mb mp3 @ 64Kbps)

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In November 1978, Congressman Leo Ryan led a mission to Jim Jones' settlement in Guyana called Jonestown after relatives of Jones' Peoples Temple complained of abuses. The delegation arrived in Jonestown on November 15 and spent three days interviewing residents. They tried to leave the morning of November 18, taking with them over a dozen Peoples Temple members who wanted to leave. As they were boarding planes, a truck with a few of Jones' armed guards began to shoot at them. Six people were killed: Representative Ryan, Don Humphrey (a reporter from NBC), a cameraman from NBC, a newspaper photographer, and one defector from the Peoples Temple.
Later, 910+ of the remaining cult members of Jonestown (276 of them children), died in a mass suicide (though many were found to be murdered). Some obeyed Jones' instructions to commit "revolutionary suicide" by drinking cyanide-laced grape flavored Flavor Aid (often misconstrued as Kool-aid), others died by forced cyanide injection or by shooting. Jones was found dead sitting in a deck chair with a gunshot wound to the head, although it is unknown if he had been murdered or committed suicide. Under his "throne" was found a tape recorder, which had caught the suicides.
The link below is a clip of what was on that tape:

JONESTOWN SUICIDE (2 Mb mp3 @ 128Kbps)

For a full transcript of what was on the tape, go here.

Jones' Peoples Temple Choir also released a gospel record, He's Able (1974). The link below is a track off that album.

"Something's Got A Hold of Me" (596 Kb mp3 @ 24Kbps)

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The World's oldest condom...

This is a pic of a reusable condom which dates back to 1640, and came with a users' manual, written in Latin. The manual suggests that users immerse the condom in warm milk prior to its use to avoid diseases. In case you're wondering, it is made of pig intestine.

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What happens when someone straps himself with microphines and walks into a room full of speakers?

THE MAN WITH THE MICROPHONES (7 Mb AVI movie)

Just watch the above linked video of performance artist Luke Larsener to find out.

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The subatomic particles scientists were looking for (and actually succeed in creating using the Large Hadron Collider on the border of Switzerland and France) are dubbed "god particles" as they are believed to be the first particles to exist, and are - currently - the smallest known particles which make up the atom. Their scientific name is Higgs Boson Particles, and a group led by Dr. Lily Asquith is using an instrument called a calorimeter to give them more insight into these particles. The calorimeter measures energy in seven layers, and each layer is represented by a musical note.
Below are links to the sonification of the energy produced by these "god particles".

Higgs Boson Particle emerging (566 Kb @ 128Kbps)

Higgs Boson Particle in natural state (438 Kb @ 128Kbps)

Three different harmonics of the Higgs Boson Particle (901 Kb @ 128Kbps)

Higgs Boson Particle decaying (894 Kb @ 128Kbps)

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The type of person who reads this website regularly should be familiar with Cathy O'Brien (and Mark Phillips).
In 1995, Ms. O'Brien wrote TranceFormation of America, where she alleges that, as a teen, she was kidnapped by the C.I.A. in a top secret government project called Project Monarch. This project consisted of creating mindless sex slaves to be used by Presidents, Congressmen, Senators and other top government employees. After several years she had a daughter who O'Brien claims was also used in Project Monarch.
Mark Phillips is the co-author of the aforementioned book, as well as the man supposedly responsible for helping break the C.I.A.'s hold on Cathy, and free her from her captor and so-called handler Alex Houston.

Now, if you have read the book, you know a little on Alex Houston, but not much, I'm sure. The book mentions that he was a performer, as well as a ventriloquist. Not much is known about Alex, whether through the book, or on the internet. He is a shadowy figure indeed, as I cannot find birth info, or anything substantial, besides a few career notes.
What is known is that Alex Houston wanted to be a ventriloquist since the age of five. In High Point, North Carolina he bought his ventriloquist dummy, Elmer, for $50 from a local sheriff. He got his first break on Jimmy Dean's TV show in 1954, and was a regular there for five years. Later he moved to Nashville and worked as an opening act to country stars like Loretta Lynn, Dolly Parton, and Conway Twitty. Houston has released several records under Alex Houston and Elmer, ranging from country and holiday music to children's and comedy records.

Anyhow, here's the track from the ad above. Enjoy, and try not to get molested.

Burn Your Bra Baby (1.8 Mb @ 128Kbps)

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Here are some of the most controversial magazine covers of all time...

Time Magazine's Man of the Year: Hitler Esquire's Muhammad Ali as St. SebastianPlayboy's First Black Cover Girl

National Lampoon Threatens A DogRolling Stone's Naked LennonVanity Fair's Naked and Pregnant Moore

Time Magazine Makes O.J. Too Black Esquire: Monica's View of Clinton Rolling Stone's Kanye as Christ

Baby Talk Shows Us All Some Titty Texas Monthly Gives Cheney Another Shot The New Yorker's Obamas as Terrorists

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In what is probably the world's ballsiest prank, Porky Bickar decided it would be a laugh-riot if, on April Fool's Day, 1974, he made the town of Sitka, Alaska think they were all going to be killed by dormant volcano, Mount Edgecumbe.

He got an okay from the FAA and local police, went up to the mountain and lit tires and rags on fire to produce smoke. With logs he had written "April Fools", but from the distance of town, it could not be read, so mass panic ensued.

You know... sometimes the fool is the prankster, not the other way around.

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You think the Christian church was the only one who pulled scams on their parishioners?
There are enough "pieces of the cross" out there to make a cross several times over (unless Jesus was a giant). Quite a few Churches contain the bones of saints, but some have doubles (such as the four churches who claim to have the original skull of John the Baptist). There is actually so much of Christ's foreskin out there, one could make a duffle bag.
Well, no one religion can lay claim to pulling the sacred wool over people's eyes so as to help build faith.
In Japan there are Buddhist temples that hold mummified remains of supposed demons (or oni). The pictures below are mostly from the Zuiryuji, Zengyoji, and Rakanji Temples.
Enjoy your gawking...

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The First International Sex Opera Band's only LP, Anita, was released in 1970, and sold exclusively in Amsterdam sex shops, during the very early 70s.
While there is not all that much information about the band or this release, it has been rumored that this was recorded by members of a once-popular Dutch rock band called Sandy Coast.
The links below are to both sides of this 12" vinyl.

Side A: Anita's First Appearance Part One (15 Mb mp3 @ 128Kbps)

Side B: Anita's First Appearance Part Two (13 Mb mp3 @ 128Kbps)

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In 1995 President Barack Obama wrote a book during his stint in the Senate which was titled, Dreams from My Father.

Luckily for the listener he also did an audio version of the book himself.
His friend Ray, who he grew up with, has the best lines in the book, but when taken out of context Obama finally sounds like my kind of guy.

That guy! (34 Kb mp3 @ 154 Kbps)

Ignorant (24 Kb mp3 @ 154 Kbps)

Fries (21 Kb mp3 @ 154 Kbps)

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Coven was a band which started in 1968, and was formed by vocalist Jinx Dawson, bassist Oz Osborne (though not Ozzy Osbourne of Black Sabbath), guitarist Chris Neilsen, and drummer Steve Ross.
They had a top 10 hit in 1972 on Warner Brothers titled "One Tin Soldier".
The little ditty below is the last track off their first LP from 1969, Witchcraft Destroys Minds And Reaps Souls.

Satanic Mass (15.3 Mb mp3 @ 128 Kbps)

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Here are links to some old adult movie posters ranging from 1965 to 1978.

I seriously never knew they were out there. Well, enjoy, chicken chokers!

All Men Are Apes! - 1965

Assignment Female - 1966

Bang Bang - 1967

Casting Couch - 1972

Come One Come All - 1970

Debbie Does Dallas - 1978

Divorcee - 1974

Girls That Do - 1967

Hot Lunch - 1978

Hot Shots - 1974

I Feel It Coming - 1971

I Want You - 1967

Love and Kisses - 1970

Male Service - 1966

School of Hard Knocks - 1970

Starlet - 1969

Slip of the Tongue - 1970

Spread Eagles - 1968

The Erotic Adventures of Zorro - 1972

The Love Merchant - 1965

The Marriage Manual - 1970

The Pleasure Machines - 1977

The Swap - 1969

Trader Hornee - 1970

Wall Street Walker - 1970

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Creepy...

This is an image of the first missing child to appear on the side of a milk carton.

Etan Patz, 6 years old. Last seen in 1979.

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In one of the most hilarious 911 phone calls I have ever heard, Michigan police officer Colonel Edward Sanchez explains he has just eaten from a batch of brownies he had baked with his wife, which contained about a quarter ounce of weed.

He thinks he is dying, yet wants to know the score of a Red Wings game?

Prepare to laugh at a very stupid piggy...

Send help, I think I'm dead (842 Kb mp3 @ 24Kbps)

The police officer was allowed to quit the force without being charged even though he admitted to obtaining the marijuana by stealing it from a suspect.

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I love my friends... but, when I'm late to a wedding, they can sure enough hate me.

Listen to 60's funk and parody artist Blowfly put a curse on me for my tardiness: Blowfly chews out webmaster (600 Kb wav file).

If you are unaware as to who Blowfly is, you are so very uncool. You dig?

Okay, Blowfly is Miami's original, and world's first, dirty rapper. Sexist, racist, offensive... but you'll love every word of it.
Blowfly was born Clarence Reid in Cochran, Georgia and later moved to Miami, Florida and soon got his act solid when a relative scolded one of his dirty rhymes with, "You is nastier than a blowfly."
He released his first record in 1965, and "Rap Dirty" was to be the first of the dirty-dance numbers, let alone the first rap album. He followed that sucker up with close to forty more releases and even a documentary film, The Twisted World of Blowfly.
His tracks have been sampled by Puff Daddy, Ice Cube and Jurassic 5.
Blowfly has also written clean numbers for the likes of Betty Wright and KC and the Sunshine Band.
He was almost forgotten and chances are you would have never heard of him if it wasn't for local journalist Tom Bowker (who set up Blowfly's new band, and was the wedding I was late to).
His newest album featuring filthy remakes of punk rock classics is available via ex-Dead Kennedys singer Jello Biafra's label Alternative Tentacles Records.

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In the 1950s many underground Russian nightclubs couldn't get a hold of actual black market vinyl to spin for their dance floors, so they had to make due with what they had.
A group of DJs would gather dough and buy a single record, which they would then record and repress on a wax-disc cutter. The vinyl used for these presses being hard to get a hold of, as well as expensive, they - again - had to make due.
What many a disc jockey used was old X-rays films. Easily obtained from medical trash, or sometimes stolen from doctor's labs, they were actually pretty abundant at the time.
This technique then spread to Hungary, Czechoslovakia, Yugoslavia and even Poland.
It also shows the enterprising technical skills of the young lads who just want to dance

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A few weeks ago I posted files showing artists like Salvador Dali and Andy Warhol shilling for Alka-Seltzer, TDK audio tapes and Braniff Airlines.
It got a cyberbuddy and I discussing whoredom, and it turns out we are all whores, even some of my favorite people...
Freshly posted for your viewing pleasure I uploaded German commercials from Blixa Bargeld of Einstürzende Neubauten discussing some of his favorite paints, power tools and home products - or at least the ones he was paid to talk about.

The commercials are from a German do-it-yourself hardware store called Hornbach and he covers the subjects of:

INSECT ZAPPER (2 Mb AVI movie)

STEPPING STONES (2 Mb AVI movie)

POWER DRILL (2 Mb AVI movie)

SILICONE PAINT (3 Mb AVI movie)

Well, at least they are some of the greatest (and funniest) commercials ever.

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For fans of ambient music... and Dr. Who:

Delia Derbyshire was born in 1937 in Coventry, England. She spent her late teens schooling in Cambridge's Girton College, and received a degree in music and mathematics.
In 1959 she applied at Decca Records and was informed that they did not hire women to work in the recording studio, and then told she could get a job working at their front desk or as a secretary. She gave them the finger, applied at the BBC, and later got a job as a studio manager in the Radiophonic Workshop.
Delia felt she had found a private paradise where she could flirt with her interests in music theory and sound perception, using modes and tunings, as well as communicating moods using purely electronic sources.
Her first public work was a remix of Ron Grainer's original Doctor Who theme, which soon became one of the most famous and recognizable TV theme songs ever. She also created, and helped create, many of the sound effects later used throughout the show's history.
For the next several years she composed dozens of award winning scores and theme songs for British documentaries and TV shows.
She is known as "the unsung heroine of British electronic music" and credited as an influence by Aphex Twin, The Chemical Brothers and Pink Floyd.

The following link is an edited version of a track from a 1966 documentary on Tuareg tribesmen. The only non-electronic source on this recording is her voice, though she used a cut-up / re-edit style.

Delia Derbyshire - Blue Veils & Golden Sands (edit) [4 Mb mp3 @ 160 Kbps]

Also, for fans of Dr. Who, this link is to a BBC website which has a "Dr. Who Theme Generator" which is a load of fun, and quite addictive. Try to hit the loops in the center first to create a backdrop, and then hit the sound effects in the outer-circle to create your own theme. Have fun!

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The hydrocephalic-looking preacher Bob Larson began to exorcise "demons" out of people after his ministry failed.
Instead of people realizing what loonies both Bob and his "patients" are, it has helped him make a huge comeback.

Here are some clips of Bob's work...

Exorcism 1 (1.3 Mb mp3 @ 128Kbps)

Exorcism 2 (624 Kb mp3 @ 128Kbps)

Exorcism 3 (818 Kb mp3 @ 128Kbps)

Exorcism 4 (240 Kb mp3 @ 128Kbps)

Scientists and psychologists say that "demonic possession" is probably a mental compartmentalization of past traumas manifesting itself as multiple personality disorder, but try explaining that to Larson's bank account.

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The Chinese apparently don't translate English properly, but this takes the cake...

The above pic comes from the Chinese DVD of Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith.

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Public Service Announcements (PSAs) are ads run by television stations, usually for free, to show that they are committed to...
well, public service.

Some of them, though, can be just downright pretty creepy.

Anti-Speeding PSA from Denmark (6 Mb AVI movie)

Anti-Suicide Bomber PSA from Jordan (5 Mb AVI movie)

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Kids say the darndest things, and teenagers say the dumbest.
Sometimes it even gets caught on tape.
First, some history:
The year was 1987. I was 17 years old, and freshly kicked to the curb by my folks onto the streets of Miami.
I moved in with a friend whose mom had gotten him his own apartment.
With no rent to pay, without work, and missing class almost daily (I was still in high school at the time), I spent my time dropping LSD and fooling around till the break of dawn.
On one occasion, I dropped a hit of acid around midnight, walked the neighborhood, and then decided to do laundry. At 4:50am, and almost done with cleaning clothes, I picked up a tape recorder and began talking nonsense. I unwittingly recorded myself on the wrong speed, and thus produced a memory of an acid trip almost as bad as a flashback. My girlfriend, ex-girlfriend and my best friend, of that time, all copied it, and it was soon traded around their schools (American Patriot Sr / South Miami Sr) and mine (Hialeah Miami Lakes Sr).
Out of all of this silliness was born a 15 minute slice of Miami underground history that found its way to being bootlegged all around the Magic City, where censored edits even aired on WVUM (90.5 FM) in the early 1990s, and are still used today as drop-ins and air checks on the station.
While there are true moments of hilarity, I am also extremely crude, totally rude, and downright stupid throughout.
You have been warned NOT to listen to...

The Michael Incense Hour (7.8 Mb mp3 @ 48 Kbps)

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It was Jerry Lewis' forty-first film, and it turned out to be one of the biggest mistakes in cinematic history. Unreleased, and said by the few who've seen it to be totally unwatchable, The Day the Clown Cried (1972) is a film about an unhappy German circus clown, Helmut Doork, who is sent to a concentration camp for drunkenly acting like Hitler, and is then forced to become a sort of Pied-Piper, entertaining Jewish children as he leads them to the gas chambers.
It was supposed to be Jerry Lewis' first serious role as both an actor and a director, though he was skeptical when he first read the script, though not necessarily about the material itself. He later quoted himself when speaking on being asked to play the part, "You're asking me if I'm prepared to deliver helpless kids into a gas chamber. Ho-ho. Some laugh -- how do I pull it off? What a horror ... It must be told."
The script had actually been written in 1961 by Joan O'Brien and Charles Denton, and it attracted the attention of Milton Berle, Dick Van Dyke, and Bobby Darin -- any one of whom would have been able to play the title role, but it was around Lewis that the financing for filming coalesced.
Upon filming the shooting went to hell, backers fled, Jerry finished it with his own money, and then it turned out that no one bought the rights to the story from O'Brien and Denton. Only a rough-cut of it was finished, and it was placed on a single videotape of which only Jerry Lewis has a copy of. He reportedly keeps it in his office, protected from bootleggers in an unmarked briefcase. Over the years, he
had screened it - or pieces of it - for a number of colleagues and only one journalist.

If you have time on your hands, and want to read the final script (written by Joan O'Brien, Charles Denton, with added material from Jerry Lewis), click here.

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This map is designed to show the population of citizens per land mass ratio:

Click on image for larger view.

Kind of scary, isn't it?

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Virtuoso jazz bassist (and pianist) Charles Mingus wrote a pamphlet in 1964 on toilet training your kitty.

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First, you must train your cat to use a homemade cardboard litter box, if you have not already done so. (If your box does not have a one-piece bottom, add a cardboard that fits inside, so you have a false bottom that is smooth and strong. This way the box will not become soggy and fall out at the bottom. The grocery store will have extra flat cardboards which you can cut down to fit exactly inside your box.)
Be sure to use torn up newspaper, not kitty litter. Stop using kitty litter. (When the time comes you cannot put sand in a toilet.)
Once your cat is trained to use a cardboard box, start moving the box around the room, towards the bathroom. If the box is in a corner, move it a few feet from the corner, but not very noticeably. If you move it too far, he may go to the bathroom in the original corner. Do it gradually. You've got to get him thinking. Then he will gradually follow the box as you move it to the bathroom. (Important: if you already have it there, move it out of the bathroom, around, and then back. He has to learn to follow it. If it is too close to the toilet, to begin with, he will not follow it up onto the toilet seat when you move it there.) A cat will look for his box. He smells it.

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Now, as you move the box, also start cutting the brim of the box down, so the sides get lower. Do this gradually.
Finally, you reach the bathroom and, eventually, the toilet itself. Then, one day, prepare to put the box on top of the toilet. At each corner of the box, cut a little slash. You can run string around the box, through these slashes, and tie the box down to the toilet so it will not fall off. Your cat will see it there and jump up to the box, which is now sitting on top of the toilet (with the sides cut down to only an inch or so.)
Don't bug the cat now, don't rush him, because you might throw him off. Just let him relax and go there for awhile-maybe a week or two. Meanwhile, put less and less newspaper inside the box.

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One day, cut a small hole in the very center of his box, less than an apple-about the size of a plum-and leave some paper in the box around the hole. Right away he will start aiming for the hole and possibly even try to make it bigger. Leave the paper for awhile to absorb the waste. When he jumps up he will not be afraid of the hole because he expects it. At this point you will realize that you have won. The most difficult part is over.
From now on, it is just a matter of time. In fact, once when I was cleaning the box and had removed it from the toilet, my cat jumped up anyway and almost fell in. To avoid this, have a temporary flat cardboard ready with a little hole, and slide it under the toilet lid so he can use it while you are cleaning, in case he wants to come and go, and so he will not fall in and be scared off completely. You might add some newspaper up there too, while you are cleaning, in case your cat is not as smart as Nightlife was.

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Now cut the box down completely until there is no brim left. Put the flat cardboard, which is left, under the lid of the toilet seat, and pray. Leave a little newspaper, still. He will rake it into the hole anyway, after he goes to the bathroom. Eventually, you can simply get rid of the cardboard altogether. You will see when he has got his balance properly.
Don't be surprised if you hear the toilet flush in the middle of the night. A cat can learn how to do it, spurred on by his instinct to cover up. His main thing is to cover up. If he hits the flush knob accidentally and sees that it cleans the bowl inside, he may remember and do it intentionally.
Also, be sure to turn the toilet paper roll around so that it won't roll down easily if the cat paws it. The cat is apt to roll it into the toilet, again with the intention of covering up- the way he would if there were still kitty litter.
It took me about three or four weeks to toilet train my cat, Nightlife. Most of the time is spent moving the box very gradually to the bathroom. Do it very slowly and don't confuse him. And, remember, once the box is on the toilet, leave it a week or even two. The main thing to remember is not to rush or confuse him.

Good luck.

(signed) Charles Mingus

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In 1974 avant-garde composer Max Neuhaus was working the night shift on National Public Radio.
In a flash of brilliance, he decided to run a few of the phone lines in sync.
Now, back then each station affiliate individually received the signal from the main broadcast headquarters stationed in New York City via NPR's Round Robin Network.
Neuhaus hooked up an extra signal to one station, and asked that station to hook up a signal to another, and then that station to another, and on to another, to lastly to one in Chicago, which broadcast the signal back through the previous three stations and onto the NYC headquarters.
He then requested callers to call in and whistle...

The following link is an edit of the one-hour sound experiment he broadcast titled "Radio Net" [3 Mb mp3 @ 128Kbps].

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If Ian Curtis (July 1956 - May 1980) of postpunk band Joy Division hadn't already killed himself... he would surely want to now.

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One of my favorite planets is Saturn. Though I don't believe in astrology, it could be its connection to death and destruction, or the celebration of the Saturnalia (Winter Solstice) for Dionysus (Bacchus).

So when the Cassini Radio and Plasma Wave Receptor picked up sounds from Saturn, I was mystified.

In this link provided, the CRPWR has picked up lightning inside of Saturn's atmosphere. The lightning-related radio emissions cover a broad range of frequencies, and last only about one-thirtieth of a second. The CRPWR recorded a strong thunderstorm beginning on January 23, 2006, the radio emissions appear as speckles at random frequencies above about 2 MHz.

Saturn's lightning (220 Kb wav file)

Next, we find that Saturn is a source of intense radio emissions of electrostatic discharges, with rising and falling tones is very similar to Earth's auroral radio emissions. The radio waves are closely related to the auroras near Saturn's poles, and are similar to Earth's northern and southern lights. The Cassini spacecraft began detecting the following radio emissions in April of 2002.

Saturn's polar radio emissions (720 Kb wav file)

In this last file we can hear another clip of the electrostatic discharges from April 2002 recording where we find a very complicated interaction between waves in Saturn's radio source region, though it is an interaction which has also been observed on Earth.

Saturn's polar radio emissions (130 Kb wav file)

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Morning radio talk host Don Imus was fired for his "nappy headed hos" remark, but what did people really expect out of someone who makes a living of being called a "Shock Jock"?
Especially after this...

Below is a clip of the record, This Honky's Nuts, which was originally released in 1974.

"Swear With Flair" [excerpt] (2.4 Mb mp3 @ 64Kbps)

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Cho Seung-Hui, a 23-year-old English major, was the college student responsible for the Virginia Tech slaughter (32 killed) on April 16, 2007. He was referred to counseling the previous year when teachers became aware of extreme violence in his writings, as evidenced in this one-act play. The play, Richard McBeef, was submitted as part of a writing class, and features a 13 years-old boy who gets revenge on his father for molesting him.

Click on image to go to cover sheet, onward to page one, and so on through to page ten.

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In 1926, this article appeared in The Washington Post...

The two baseball teams, The Hebrew All-Stars and The Klansmen faced off in Arlington, Virgina.
Must have been a fun game.
I wonder who won?

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Bob Larson is an Arizona-based Christian preacher who currently performs exorcisms. He has authored over 20 books, and also hosted an evangelist talk show, called Talk Back, from 1982 - 2002, which returned in 2004.
Throughout the early 1990's brought on guests to the show so as to debate (more like belittle) their religion, philosophy and artistic projects, some of whom included GG Allin, Glen Benton of Deicide, Trey Azagthoth of Morbid Angel, and Boyd Rice.

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In the links below Bob challenges musician, writer and Church of Satan priest Boyd Rice.
They begin by cutting down one another's beliefs, but as the show progresses the two actually wind up becoming near-friends (click here for Boyd's interview on his dinner with Bob), and Boyd is invited back onto the show a number of times after.

Boyd vs. Bob Pt 1 (36 Mb mp3 @ 96 Kbps)

Boyd vs. Bob Pt 2 (35 Mb mp3 @ 96 Kbps)

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I was just recently (thanks to a cyberpal) turned on to Scopitones.
France's Scopitones (and its Italian cousin Cinebox) were music video jukeboxes.

Twenty years before Mtv and with way better material.

They had sexy... James Darren's "Because You're Mine" (20 Mb AVI movie)

They had weird... The Martin Circus' "Je M'eclate Au Senegal" plus Arabic videos like Oukil Amar's "Tizi Ouzou" and Noura's "Ammi Belcacem"

They had classics... Herb Alpert's "Tijuana Taxi" (18 Mb AVI movie)

They had garage... Les 5 Gentlemen's "Cara-Lin" and The Legendaries' "Good For Nothing Bill"

And they even had S&M… George De Giafferi's "Sado Maso" (27 Mb AVI movie)

By the way, the first few lines of that last song go as follows:

Opening line: Owwww! That's good.
Man: Eat this spider!
Woman: Ok, but that's the last one.
Man: It's time for you to get whipped!
Woman: Oh great, I love that!
Man: Now burn my chest!
Woman: With what my love?
Man: Use your cigarette!
Woman: It's smells like grilled pork!

For more Scopitones, check out this website. Happy viewing.

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Bootleg DVDs aren't just cheap... they're often very funny too.

Click on image for larger view.

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