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alkemical · 11-29-2006, 06:02 PM

I want to post a spot where people can point out something, people, etc that have allowed their lantern to be lit.

alkemical · 11-29-2006, 06:03 PM

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brion_Gysin

Brion Gysin
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Brion Gysin (January 19, 1916 - July 13, 1986) was a writer and painter.

He is best known for his rediscovery of Tristan Tzara's cut-up technique while cutting through a newspaper upon which he was trimming some mats. He did many experiments with cut-ups while living in Tangiers (where incidentally, he established with the Moroccan painter Mohamed Hamri a cafe called the 1001 Nights in order to employ members of the Master Musicians of Joujouka so that he could hear them as frequently as possible). He shared his discovery with his friend William S. Burroughs, who subsequently put the cut-up technique to good use and dramatically changed the landscape of American literature. Hamri subsequently organised, with Brian Jones from The Rolling Stones, the international exposure of the music of Joujouka.

Gysin helped Burroughs with the editing of several of his novels, and wrote a script for a film version of Naked Lunch which was never produced. The pair collaborated on a large manuscript for Grove Press titled The Third Mind but it was determined that it would be impractical to publish it as originally envisioned. The book later published under that title incorporates little of this material.

As a joke, he contributed a recipe for marijuana fudge to a cookbook by Alice B. Toklas; it was unintentionally included for publication, becoming famous under the name Alice B. Toklas brownies.

A consummate innovator, Gysin altered the cut-up technique to produce what he called permutation poems in which a single phrase was repeated several times, with the words rearranged in a different order with each reiteration. A memorable example of this is "I don't dig work, man" (try it!)

Many of these permutations were derived using a random sequence generator in an early computer program written by Ian Sommerville.

He also experimented with permutation on recording tape, and in 1960 was asked by the BBC to produce material for broadcast. The results included "Pistol Poem", which was created by splicing together the sounds of a gun firing recorded at different distances. That year, the piece was subsequently used as a theme for the performance in Paris of Le Domaine Poetique, a showcase for experimental works by people like Gysin, Françoise Dufrêne, Bernard Heidsieck, and Henri Chopin.

He worked extensively with the noted jazz soprano saxophonist Steve Lacy.

In the early '60, together with Ian Sommerville, he built what is called the Dreamachine, a device meant to be viewed with the eyes closed. He is the subject of a critically-acclaimed biography, Nothing Is True Everything Is Permitted: The Life of Brion Gysin, by John Geiger, and features in Geiger's book "Chapel of Extreme Experience: A short history of stroboscopic light and the Dream Machine". A monograph on Gysin was also published by Thames and Hudson. Also of interest is a collection of hommages, Man From Nowhere by Joe Ambrose, Frank Rynne, and Terry Wilson. In addition to substantial texts by the authors, Man from Nowhere contains tributes to Gysin by Marianne Faithfull, John Cale, William Burroughs, and Paul Bowles.

alkemical · 11-29-2006, 06:04 PM

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Anton_Wilson

Robert Anton Wilson or RAW (b. January 18, 1932) is an American novelist, essayist, philosopher, psychologist, futurologist, anarchist, and conspiracy theory researcher.

Wilson was born in Methodist Hospital, downtown Brooklyn, New York, and spent his first years in Flatbush, moving with his family to Gerritsen Beach around the age of 4 or 5, where they stayed until he turned 13.

On June 22, 2006, Huffington Post blogger Paul Krassner reported that Robert A. Wilson is currently under hospice care at home with friends and family. [1] On 2 October 2006 Douglas Rushkoff reported that Wilson was in severe financial trouble.[2] As of 3 October the front page of rawilson.com contains an appeal for funds. Slashdot, Boing Boing, and the Church of the Subgenius also picked up on the story, linking to Rushkoff's appeal. [3] [4] As his homepage reports on 10 October these efforts succeeded beyond expectation and raised a sum which will support him for at least 6 months.

alkemical · 11-29-2006, 06:04 PM

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Metzger

Richard Metzger
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Richard Metzger (born October 25, 1965 in Wheeling, West Virginia) is the creative director of The Disinformation Company and host of their TV show '"Disinformation" which was aired for two seasons on Channel 4 in the UK as part of their late night "4Later" programming block. Called a "punk rock '60 Minutes' and 'wilder than 'Jackass' by the Los Angeles Times and Wired magazine repectively, the sixteen 30-minute episodes produced for C4 (and several segments never aired in the UK) were then cut down to four one-hour "specials" intended for the Sci-Fi Channel in America, but never aired due to the controversial nature of what was portrayed onscreen. According to interviews Metzger was told just twelve days prior to the first specials' air-date that he would have to cut 50% of the material from the show in order to pass the USA Network's corporate lawyers' scrutiny. Those four shows have subsequently been released on a DVD with a second bonus disc presenting highlights of The DisinfoCon, a 12 event featuring shock rocker Marilyn Manson, underground filmmaker Kenneth Anger, painter Joe Coleman, Douglas Rushkoff, Mark Pesce, Grant Morrison, Robert Anton Wilson and others.

Metzger created the Disinformation website in 1996 and infamously was able to regain control of the intellectual property rights and a $1.2 million dollar investment by the site's original backer, cable giant TCI (now AT&T Broadband) when TCI CEO John Malone demanded funds be cut off when news of Metzger's "anarchist bullsh*t" reached him. Later Metzger hooked up with Avenue A/Razorfish and the site became part of the RSUB Network.

For several years prior to the Channel 4 series, Metzger produced an Internet and cable TV (New York City only) talkshow, "The Infinity Factory," that was similar in tone and appeal to Art Bell or George Noory's paranormal "Coast to Coast A.M." radio show, on which Metzger has also been a guest.

He is the author of two books, "Disinformation: The Interviews" which feature unedited interviews with several of the characters and thinkers who were guests on the series such as Douglas Rushkoff, Joe Coleman, Paul Laffoley, Grant Morrison, Duncan Laurie, Peter Russell, Kembra Pfahler, Genesis P-Orridge and Howard Bloom and "Disinformation's Book of Lies" an anthology of occult essays.

According to a footnote in "Disinformation: The Interviews," Metzger is the uncredited male-voice interviewing Japanese pop singer Maki Nomiya of Pizzicato 5 on their song "This Year's Girl #2" (Matador Records EP CD: "5 x 5"). Metzger has also directed and produced several music videos in the 1980s for such New York "underground" luminaries as Bongwater (their animated "Power of p***Y"), Warhol pal John Sex and others.

alkemical · 11-29-2006, 06:05 PM

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_David_Thoreau

Henry David Thoreau
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Henry David Thoreau

Central topics

Henry David Thoreau
Thoreau Society
A Plea for Captain John Brown
A Walk to Wachusett
Civil Disobedience
Slavery in Massachusetts
Walden

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Abolitionism — Anarchism
Anarchism in the United States
Civil disobedience
Concord, Massachusetts
Conscientious objection
Direct action — Ecology
Environmentalism
History of tax resistance
Individualist anarchism
John Brown — Lyceum movement
Nonviolent resistance
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Simple living — Tax resistance
Tax resisters — Transcendentalism
The Night Thoreau Spent in Jail
Walden Pond

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Henry David Thoreau (July 12, 1817 – May 6, 1862; born David Henry Thoreau) was an American author, naturalist, transcendentalist, tax resister, development critic, and philosopher who is most well-known for Walden, a reflection upon simple living in natural surroundings, and his essay, Civil Disobedience, which argues for individual resistance to civil government in moral opposition to an unjust state. Thoreau was famous for saying: "“Any fool can make a rule, and any fool will mind it.” Thoreau’s books, articles, essays, journals, and poetry total over 20 volumes. His ideas influenced the development of anarchism, and are most evident with the American anarchists, the pacifist Leo Tolstoy, and the nonviolent activism developer Mohandas K. Gandhi.

He was a lifelong abolitionist, delivering lectures that attacked the Fugitive Slave Law while praising the writings of Wendell Phillips and defending the abolitionist John Brown. Among his lasting contributions were his writings on natural history and philosophy, where he anticipated the methods and findings of ecology and environmental history, two sources of modern day environmentalism. His philosophy had tremendous influence on leaders like Gandhi and Martin Luther King, Jr.

alkemical · 01-13-2007, 12:16 PM

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Anton_Wilson

Robert Anton Wilson or RAW (b. January 18, 1932) is an American novelist, essayist, philosopher, psychologist, futurologist, anarchist, and conspiracy theory researcher.

Wilson was born in Methodist Hospital, downtown Brooklyn, New York, and spent his first years in Flatbush, moving with his family to Gerritsen Beach around the age of 4 or 5, where they stayed until he turned 13.

On June 22, 2006, Huffington Post blogger Paul Krassner reported that Robert A. Wilson is currently under hospice care at home with friends and family. [1] On 2 October 2006 Douglas Rushkoff reported that Wilson was in severe financial trouble.[2] As of 3 October the front page of rawilson.com contains an appeal for funds. Slashdot, Boing Boing, and the Church of the Subgenius also picked up on the story, linking to Rushkoff's appeal. [3] [4] As his homepage reports on 10 October these efforts succeeded beyond expectation and raised a sum which will support him for at least 6 months.

RIP

Tredici · 01-13-2007, 12:26 PM

You want the details on how my lantern gets lit?

Really, now....

Sassy · 01-13-2007, 01:04 PM

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You want the details on how my lantern gets lit?

Really, now....

alkemical · 01-13-2007, 04:20 PM

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You want the details on how my lantern gets lit?

Really, now....

Tred,

How could i possibly respond to this in any manner that didn't sound uncouth?

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alkemical Guerrilla Ontologist rorrim\|mirror Join Date: Apr 2001 Location: Future Posts: 42,696 Adopt-a-Bronco: Prima Materia	http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brion_Gysin Brion Gysin From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to: navigation, search Brion Gysin (January 19, 1916 - July 13, 1986) was a writer and painter. He is best known for his rediscovery of Tristan Tzara's cut-up technique while cutting through a newspaper upon which he was trimming some mats. He did many experiments with cut-ups while living in Tangiers (where incidentally, he established with the Moroccan painter Mohamed Hamri a cafe called the 1001 Nights in order to employ members of the Master Musicians of Joujouka so that he could hear them as frequently as possible). He shared his discovery with his friend William S. Burroughs, who subsequently put the cut-up technique to good use and dramatically changed the landscape of American literature. Hamri subsequently organised, with Brian Jones from The Rolling Stones, the international exposure of the music of Joujouka. Gysin helped Burroughs with the editing of several of his novels, and wrote a script for a film version of Naked Lunch which was never produced. The pair collaborated on a large manuscript for Grove Press titled The Third Mind but it was determined that it would be impractical to publish it as originally envisioned. The book later published under that title incorporates little of this material. As a joke, he contributed a recipe for marijuana fudge to a cookbook by Alice B. Toklas; it was unintentionally included for publication, becoming famous under the name Alice B. Toklas brownies. A consummate innovator, Gysin altered the cut-up technique to produce what he called permutation poems in which a single phrase was repeated several times, with the words rearranged in a different order with each reiteration. A memorable example of this is "I don't dig work, man" (try it!) Many of these permutations were derived using a random sequence generator in an early computer program written by Ian Sommerville. He also experimented with permutation on recording tape, and in 1960 was asked by the BBC to produce material for broadcast. The results included "Pistol Poem", which was created by splicing together the sounds of a gun firing recorded at different distances. That year, the piece was subsequently used as a theme for the performance in Paris of Le Domaine Poetique, a showcase for experimental works by people like Gysin, Françoise Dufrêne, Bernard Heidsieck, and Henri Chopin. He worked extensively with the noted jazz soprano saxophonist Steve Lacy. In the early '60, together with Ian Sommerville, he built what is called the Dreamachine, a device meant to be viewed with the eyes closed. He is the subject of a critically-acclaimed biography, Nothing Is True Everything Is Permitted: The Life of Brion Gysin, by John Geiger, and features in Geiger's book "Chapel of Extreme Experience: A short history of stroboscopic light and the Dream Machine". A monograph on Gysin was also published by Thames and Hudson. Also of interest is a collection of hommages, Man From Nowhere by Joe Ambrose, Frank Rynne, and Terry Wilson. In addition to substantial texts by the authors, Man from Nowhere contains tributes to Gysin by Marianne Faithfull, John Cale, William Burroughs, and Paul Bowles.

11-29-2006, 06:04 PM	#3
alkemical Guerrilla Ontologist rorrim\|mirror Join Date: Apr 2001 Location: Future Posts: 42,696 Adopt-a-Bronco: Prima Materia	http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Anton_Wilson Robert Anton Wilson or RAW (b. January 18, 1932) is an American novelist, essayist, philosopher, psychologist, futurologist, anarchist, and conspiracy theory researcher. Wilson was born in Methodist Hospital, downtown Brooklyn, New York, and spent his first years in Flatbush, moving with his family to Gerritsen Beach around the age of 4 or 5, where they stayed until he turned 13. On June 22, 2006, Huffington Post blogger Paul Krassner reported that Robert A. Wilson is currently under hospice care at home with friends and family. [1] On 2 October 2006 Douglas Rushkoff reported that Wilson was in severe financial trouble.[2] As of 3 October the front page of rawilson.com contains an appeal for funds. Slashdot, Boing Boing, and the Church of the Subgenius also picked up on the story, linking to Rushkoff's appeal. [3] [4] As his homepage reports on 10 October these efforts succeeded beyond expectation and raised a sum which will support him for at least 6 months.

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alkemical Guerrilla Ontologist rorrim\|mirror Join Date: Apr 2001 Location: Future Posts: 42,696 Adopt-a-Bronco: Prima Materia	http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_David_Thoreau Henry David Thoreau From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to: navigation, search Henry David Thoreau Central topics Henry David Thoreau Thoreau Society A Plea for Captain John Brown A Walk to Wachusett Civil Disobedience Slavery in Massachusetts Walden -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Related topics Abolitionism — Anarchism Anarchism in the United States Civil disobedience Concord, Massachusetts Conscientious objection Direct action — Ecology Environmentalism History of tax resistance Individualist anarchism John Brown — Lyceum movement Nonviolent resistance Ralph Waldo Emerson Simple living — Tax resistance Tax resisters — Transcendentalism The Night Thoreau Spent in Jail Walden Pond edit this box Henry David Thoreau (July 12, 1817 – May 6, 1862; born David Henry Thoreau) was an American author, naturalist, transcendentalist, tax resister, development critic, and philosopher who is most well-known for Walden, a reflection upon simple living in natural surroundings, and his essay, Civil Disobedience, which argues for individual resistance to civil government in moral opposition to an unjust state. Thoreau was famous for saying: "“Any fool can make a rule, and any fool will mind it.” Thoreau’s books, articles, essays, journals, and poetry total over 20 volumes. His ideas influenced the development of anarchism, and are most evident with the American anarchists, the pacifist Leo Tolstoy, and the nonviolent activism developer Mohandas K. Gandhi. He was a lifelong abolitionist, delivering lectures that attacked the Fugitive Slave Law while praising the writings of Wendell Phillips and defending the abolitionist John Brown. Among his lasting contributions were his writings on natural history and philosophy, where he anticipated the methods and findings of ecology and environmental history, two sources of modern day environmentalism. His philosophy had tremendous influence on leaders like Gandhi and Martin Luther King, Jr.

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