#William Zappa

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Population 11: Season 1 – TV Review

TL;DR – While it gets messy in the middle, it starts and ends strong, and has a fundamentally entertaining cast. ⭐⭐⭐⭐ Rating: 3.5 out of 5. Disclosure – I paid for the STAN service that viewed this series. Population 11 Review – If there is one thing that Australia can do very well, it is the mystery set in the Outback. Indeed, some of my earliest TV memories are of the wild and wonderful…

[pandorasboxofhorrors]

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Alan Dawson: A Drummer's Drummer and Master Educator

Introduction: The world of jazz drumming is filled with numerous influential figures, each contributing uniquely to the evolution of the genre. Among these legends, Alan Dawson stands out not only for his extraordinary skill and versatility as a drummer but also for his profound impact as an educator. His ability to blend technical proficiency with deep musicality made him a sought-after…

[sivavakkiyar]

speaking of which I tried a great jazz fusion album (I’m not as into that stuff these days) I didn’t really know before on my drive into work, Tony Williams Joy of Flying. Super weird because the last track features Cecil Taylor—there’s overlap between fusion and free jazz but you’d never really expect Cecil Taylor. Wild cool shit

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[senorboombastic]

What’s On Michael Portillo’s iPod OR What's On Kiran Leonard's Eclipse CD101 Mark II Compact Disc Player

Here at Birthday Cake For Breakfast, we like to get to the heart of what an artist is all about. We feel that what influences them is just as important as the music they make. With that in mind, off the back of releasing his sixth album ‘Real Home‘ (via Memorials of Distinction), Manchester-born, London-based experimental artist Kiran Leonard talks us through a number of influences. Take it…

[julio-viernes]

Man, otra banda británica con una enorme influencia de la west coast norteamericana. El grupo de Micky Jones, Deke Leonard y Terry Williams publicó 9 álbumes entre 1969 y 1976, y el séptimo de ellos fue "Rhinos, Winos and Lunatics" en 75, un disco en el que se aprecian campando a sus anchas ecos de Jefferson, Grateful, Grape, Doors, etc... Pero tal vez el tema más sorprendente sea "Four Day Louise" con esa parte inicial, que luego retoman, tan Television antes de Television. La banda galesa suena por momentos a unos TV más fluidos, con callo, tocando mejor (y con "whatsApp") * alternándolo con una sección Zappajazz- canterburyiana que, eso sí, no tiene nada que ver. El grupo de Verlaine, Lloyd & Hell ya existía en 1975, pero casi nadie lo conocía, estaba todavía en las catacumbas del underground neoyorquino. Su debut "Marquee Moon" no salió hasta 1977.

* Quiero aclarar que los TV me gustan mucho y que "Marquee Moon" es uno de mis discos favoritos, simplemente dejo constancia del evidente parecido, sin ninguna clase de ánimo de desacreditar a la televisión, gran grupo ahora y siempre.

[superfallingstars]

marauders era faceclaims/fancasts but it's all musicians from the 60s-80s because i am insane. let's go

first up is kate bush as lily! this felt so obvious. even though she's not a ginger and her eyes are hazel (i think?) instead of green, there's something so sweet and warm about her that makes her a perfect lily to me. and omg the pics of her as a child are sooo ridiculously cute.

next up is andy partridge (my beloved) as james. he is in fact blond but i think the glasses are a wonderful coincidence. and he has a great face for james, very british-looking. honorable mention to steve albini who was my original pick but wasn't quite right (not very british-looking, does have black hair tho) – just wanted to mention that because i really only wanted to include him in this post to piss him off

young chris cornell is literally scary accurate for sirius like his face might as well be directly lifted from my BRAIN. i was really hoping to find a 70s musician for him (these pics are from the late 80s) just for consistency among the marauders, but this was too good not to use

next is alex chilton as remus. the pic on the left was when he was literally 17, while the middle one (and presumably the right one?) are when he's older. i might just be picking him because he reminds me of andrew garfield, who i don't even like as a fancast for remus, but he's infiltrated my subconscious nonetheless. also look at his little peace signs, isn't he so cute and silly and quirky? ok moving on

i'll be honest i struggled with peter but i think i'm pretty happy with greg lake here. the hair is a little dated (these pics are probably from the late 60s?) but i like his big round face. and come on i needed SOMEONE from a prog rock band in this post. it just feels right for it to be peter

alright i really struggled with snape so i'm including a few options and i really want to hear which one people like the best. personally i think the best fit is unfortunately young marilyn manson (first two pics). i was originally going to go with todd rundgren (next two) because of the long face, long hair, bad teeth... why are you booing me i'm right. i like that todd is a 70s guy because it feels more consistent with the other characters, but marilyn's got the goth factor... overall i think they're both DECENT, but i'm not sure if either one has quite the right nose. what do you guys think?

also shoutout to my many rejected snape picks, including steve peregrin took from t rex (not bad but not amazing, i debated including pics but this post is already long enough), rozz williams (too cool-looking), roger waters (meh), and frank zappa (PERFECT nose, but no good pictures without the giant mustache and the rest of his face isn't very snapey to me).

wow ok i can't believe i did this. this is so incredibly stupid but it also took me weeks to do, so i would love to hear what people think of my picks. you're welcome or i'm sorry or whatever

[caroloftheshells]

lit masterpost

as “a music theorist” a lot of what i read is basically a really specific slice of sociology, which may be of interest to folks here, so: here’s my reading list for comprehensive exams (skimming / intros & conclusions for now and i’m going to try and do more of a deep dive later). starred stuff is on zee lib btw (which, if you recall, still exists but under that new format where you sign up for a personal domain link). non-starred stuff might be on there too; idk (haven’t checked yet; i have some of these in physical form from my library). this stuff is all about genre theory, popular/classical crossover, music recording/production, and economics.

*adorno - current of music

*adorno - introduction to the sociology of music

*attali - noise: the political economy of music

*benjamin - “the work of art in the age of mechanical reproduction” [a classic!]

born - rationalizing culture: ircam, boulez, and the institutionalization of the musical avant-garde

born & haworth - “from microsound to vaporwave: internet-mediated musics, online methods, and genre” [really good. plenty of old vaporwave bloggers on tumblr.edu make cameos, which is entertaining, but it’s basically about the construction of diff electronic genres around diff aesthetic values, methods of file-sharing, & community organizational properties]

brackett - categorizing sound: genre and twentieth-century popular music

burgess - the history of music production

chapman - “the one-man band and entrepreneurial selfhood in neoliberal culture”

*drott - “the end(s) of genre”

echard - psychedelic popular music

*eisenberg - the recording angel: music, records, and culture from aristotle to zappa

fabbri - “a theory of musical genres: two applications”

fellezs - birds of fire: jazz, rock, funk, and the creation of fusion

frow - genre

gjerdingen & perrott - “scanning the dial: the rapid recognition of music genres”

holt - genre in popular music

johnson - “analyzing genre in post-millennial popular music”

*kittler - discourse networks 1800/1900

*kraft - stage to studio: musicians and the sound revolution, 1890-1950

kronengold - living genres in late modernity: american music of the long 1970s

moore - “neoliberalism and the musical entrepreneur” [side note. spellcheck did not recognize the term “neoliberalism,” lol??]

negus - music genres and corporate cultures

*ritchey - composing capital: classical music in the neoliberal era

robin - “balance problems: neoliberalism and new music in the american university and ensemble”

robin - industry: bang on a can and new music in the marketplace

sterne - the audible past: cultural origins of sound reproduction

waksman - this ain’t the summer of love: conflict and crossover in heavy metal and punk

*williams - marxism and literature

[permettez-moi]

The burning bridge audiobook thinkies:

So you are telling me that in the burning bridge alone, we discover Halt has not only tossed a baron into the moat, but he also yeeted Gilan in the river before making him his apprentice, I fear that's where it started (or maybe he's dealing with his past trauma xD)

Also the fact that Halt basically yeeted the baron in the moat bc he missed Will so much

Halt admitting that his grim face is trained 'cultivated over the years'

The reader of the audiobook reads Alyss as al-iece/ al-is / al-ise (he kind of drawls out the 'yss' part of her name, instead of saying Alice, which is how I say it in my head, which is therefor the only correct way, so it hurts my ears

ALYSS BRINGING UP THE MOAT INCIDENT

HAHAHAH I'M DYING TO THE FACT THAT ALYSS BASICALLY SAID SHE'S SCARED WILL WILL TURN OUT LIKE HALT (grim and silent) (also the fact that, when Alyss died Will did turn so brb crying)

I am obsessed with Gil fangirling about Horace's swordmanship

OMG OMG OMG the scene where Halt and Alyss are out to convince that one absolute asshole of a baron(?) To hand over troops to Arald, because he has refused before, claiming independence from Redmond fief, and he is being a misogynistic shit, and Halt steps up, SAYING HE IS TO ADRESS ALYSS AS 'LADY ALYSS' AND NOT AS GIRL OR SWEETHEART OMMGGGG I AM FANGIRLING SO MUCH, MY HEARTBEAT GOT RAISED FROM THIS

I am dying please help

THE BOOK STATES THAT HALTS BOW IS 60 KG, AND BECAUSE HE HAS TO DRAW IT OFTEN AND EASILY, HIS ARM PROLLY HOLD A LOT MORE STRENGTH THAN THAT, AND I GENUINELY DON'T MEAN THIS IN A HOE WAY, BUT I WEIGH BETWEEN 60-70 KG MEANING HALT COULD PICK ME UP WITH EASE, AND IT IS DOING THINGS TO ME

3 people. Halt has, so far, tossed 3 people in moats. I always thought it was just the one guy. (And Gil isn't technically a moat, but I am counting it)

Let's not talk about Halt kind of crushing on Alyss after she kisses him on the cheek. Let's just pretend it doesn't excist

EVANLYN EVANLYN EVANLYN

Not Gil saying he'll hang the bandits

Okay okay, hear me out, Evanlyn/Gil (or Cas/Gil)

Poor Duncan thinking Cassie is dead makes me cry

Crying again at Duncan discovering Cassie is still alive

The small detail that Arald, too, was sad about Will being kidnapped

Halt crying about Will

Okay but Gil seeing Horace's move with the dagger before anyone else is a really fun detail

Morgarath is called insane here, and I think it really works

RODNEY SCREAMING TO LIL BABY HORACE BC HE'S AL WORRIED AND UPSEt

The scene at the boat between Halt and Will is being listened to in class, and my emotions are very hard to contain

Help I finished it already, but it's like €10 for each book, and they're only about 10h of listening time, which is approximately a full school day (I listend while I work) and when I tell you I don't have to money for this 😭😭 (any of you know where I can 'loan' the books read by William Zappa?)

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Population 11: Outback UFO Tours – TV Review

TL;DR – This weird and wonderful first episode hooked me in to see what wild ride we are about to go on. ⭐⭐⭐⭐ Rating: 4 out of 5. Disclosure – I paid for the STAN service that viewed this series Population 11 Review – If there is one thing that Australia does very well, it is the mystery set in the Outback. Indeed, some of my earliest TV memories are of the wild and wonderful Jeopardy,…

[brookstonalmanac]

Birthdays 9.5

Beer Birthdays

Jack Daniel; distiller (1846)

Beevo Moore (1983)

Five Favorite Birthdays

Michael Keaton; actor, comedian (1951)

George Lazenby; actor (1939)

Freddie Mercury; rock singer (1946)

Bob Newhart; comedian, actor (1929)

Raquel Welch; actor (1940)

Famous Birthdays

J.C. Bach; composer (1735)

John Cage; composer (1912)

William Devane; actor (1939)

Dennis Dugan; actor (1946)

Werner Erhard; cult leader (1935)

Robert Fergusson; Scottish poet (1750)

Cathy Guisewite; cartoonist (1950)

Werner Herzog; German actor (1942)

Jesse James; outlaw (1847)

Arthur Koestler; writer (1905)

Nap Lajoie; Philadelphia Phillies/Cleveland Naps 2B (1874)

Carol Lawrence; actor, singer (1932)

Bill Mazeroski; Pittsburgh Pirates 2B (1936)

Rose McGowan; actor (1973)

Patti McGuire; Playboy playmate, model, television producer (1951)

Giacomo Meyerbeer; German composer (1791)

Buddy Miles; jazz musician (1947)

Arthur Charles Nielsen; market researcher (1897)

Cardinal Richelieu; French minister, clergyman (1585)

Al Stewart; pop singer (1945)

John Stewart; folk singer (1939)

Frank Thomas; animator (1912)

Jack Valenti; film industry thug (1921)

Cornelius Vanderbilt III; engineer, inventor (1873)

Loudon Wainwright III; singer, songwriter (1946)

Daryl F. Zanuck; film director (1902)

Dweezil Zappa; rock guitarist (!969)

[manmetaphysical]

It is well known that Sagittarians make great teachers, lawyers, performers, comedians, artists, philosophers, leaders and musicians. And even with Mercury in Sagittarius, great writers too. So that runs the gamut. So this is a comprehensive round up just in case you missed how multi faceted this zodiac sign actually is, its range is wide. Top of the list are the giants like William Blake who straddles poetry, art and mysticism, and Ludwig Beethoven whose work is monumental and will still be listened to in hundreds of years. But there was  also Oliver Messiaen who composed music  La Constellation du Sagittaire which was his zodiac sign.

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Sagittarians make great magicians like Franz Bardon.  He was much less known than Aleister Crowley, but nevertheless regarded as one of the most important occultists of the 20th Century, and still we have Dion Fortune, let’s not forget, who was also a Sagittarian and an acute psychologist. for a modern Sagittarian magicians look to  Uri Geller. Needless to say Sagittarians also make great astrologers like Robert Hand Nik Kollerstrom and Karen Hamaker-Zondag and these are only the known charts.

Dec 2nd, is the birthday of Britney Spears, who in spite of her wobbly personality is still much loved and, when on form, delivers the goods as a performer. But so many Sagittarian singers. Note also Christine Aguilera, Taylor Swift, Miley Cyrus, and Nicki Minaj- who all love to perform. But before them some of the greats of old include Frank Sinatra, Dionne Warwick and thunder thighs (Sagittarius is linked to the thighs) herself, Tina Turner who became the ultimate Buddhist fulfilling the yearnings of her spiritual nature.

There are also some oddball singers Little Richard, Frank Zappa, Ted Nugent and Tom Waits, and there are two outstanding opera stars Maria Callas, whose voice no one can match, and Jose Carreras.

Sagittarians can even be great hedonists crazies who go off piste from time to time, but are still entertaining. There’s Jim Morrison of the Doors, Ozzy Osbourne of Black Sabbath, Jay-Z and wild man Billy Idol. Some Sagittarians in this category can come across with a certain edgy swagger like Keith Richards of the Rolling Stones.

Then there are philosopher teachers, leader and gurus like Osho, Bruce Lee and B.K.S. Iyengar also embody many quintessentially Sagittarian traits as ultimate teachers all offering some form of physical practice yoga and martial arts-which marries the higher and lower self. Iyengar said ‘my body is my temple and the asanas are my prayers’ but he also said, as a true Sagittarian, that ‘honesty is essential’ in teaching. With Mercury in Sagittarius he could sometimes be difficult to understand when speaking. But there’s also wiseacre, Noam Chomsky, who functions in dual areas as linguistic philosopher and political activist, and then there's author who popularises 'Life School' philosophy, Alain de Botton.

Then we have the artists and painters from Masaccio, to Kandinsky, Paul Klee, Jan Toroop to Lucien Freud and the ever controversial, Marina Abramovic. But one mention must go to French artist and teacher of painting, William Adolph Bougereau, His name was tarnished as being too traditional, not  being ‘modern’ enough by Picasso and the art gallery owners who ganged up against him and cast him into the margins of art history as an old fuddy duddy, but he was was as skilled and technically accomplished as any of the Renaissance painters, ran his own school and more hard working and prolific than any of the Impressionists or Post-Impressionists or Cubists.

Then we have the visionary Sci Fi writers  Philip K. Dick author of the stories that made it into film: Blade Runner, Minority Report and The Adjustment Bureau. Dick spoke of visions of the future that have if not come true, then are resonating widely. His imagination was as fertile as any and he worked at top speed even bringing downloads of Gnostic wisdom into novels like Valis. Also Arthur C. Clarke and C.S. Lewis were both Sagittarians. These are the big names in the field whose legacy remains strong.

And the film directors can’t be bigger Fritz Lang, Stephen Spielberg and Ridley Scott who directed some of the best known films in past decades and has just directed Napoleon. But working on a smaller, more intimate scale we should not ignore Woody Allen, John Cassavetes, and the lesser known Argentinian film director, Marco Berger.

And who is the most loved actress in the UK?  Yorkshire born, Dame Judi Dench as talented and versatile as any actress can be. But world renowned actors include Liv Ullman, John Malkovich, Christopher Plummer, Brad Pitt, Kim Basinger, Julianne Moore and Jake Gylenhaal, most of them known around the world not just in their home countries.

Finally the athletes. Sagittarius is a fully developed physical sign – the hybrid centaur- so we have runner Florence Griffiths-Joyner, Donovan Bailey, and Oscar Pistorius, and football player Kylian Mbappe, along with Tennis players Boris Becker and Monia Seles.

See who else you can recognise in the collage of famous Sagittarians and in the list.

And now to end with comedian Bill Hicks, a Sagittarian, capturing the essence of a daily thought in the minds of these fiery, idealistic spirits:

“The world is like a ride in an amusement park, and when you choose to go on it you think it’s real because that’s how powerful our minds are. The ride goes up and down, around and around, it has thrills and chills, and it’s very brightly colored, and it’s very loud, and it’s fun for a while.

Many people have been on the ride a long time, and they begin to wonder, “Hey, is this real, or is this just a ride?” And other people have remembered, and they come back to us and say, “Hey, don’t worry; don’t be afraid, ever, because this is just a ride.” And we … kill those people. “Shut him up! I’ve got a lot invested in this ride, shut him up! Look at my furrows of worry, look at my big bank account, and my family. This has to be real.” It’s just a ride. But we always kill the good guys who try and tell us that, you ever notice that? And let the demons run amok …

But it doesn’t matter, because it’s just a ride. And we can change it any time we want. It’s only a choice. No effort, no work, no job, no savings of money. Just a simple choice, right now, between fear and love. The eyes of fear want you to put bigger locks on your doors, buy guns, close yourself off. The eyes of love instead see all of us as one. Here’s what we can do to change the world, right now, to a better ride. Take all that money we spend on weapons and defenses each year and instead spend it feeding and clothing and educating the poor of the world, which it would pay for many times over, not one human being excluded, and we could explore space, together, both inner and outer, forever, in peace.”

If you think the world is accelerating towards a collective psychosis, you are not alone but it could be a  magnified reflection of our own fears. According to author Paul Levy to recognise that there’s a dream-like quality to reality is the first step to activating your creative higher self, and to use the Daimon- the inner genius or ‘higher’ self- is a way to counter the wetiko mind-blindness that appears to have become virulent in the world. This means taking a ‘quantum’ perspective and Sagittarius is at home with the quantum world and the weird and multiple perspectives and dimensions it brings to bear on the old solidified way of seeing reality.

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[gaymormonmike]

STUDS TERKEL

I am reading Terkel's book Coming of Age. It is a chronicle of interviews he had with people who shaped the 20th Century. These aren't the people you would be familiar with. Stud's hung out with and was friends to the marginalized . He fought against any prejudice aligning himself with Blacks such as Mahalia Jackson, gay and lesbians, downtrodden workers, unionists, and was comfortable with anyone that was open, honest and willing to speak out. He had a Chicago radio program that interviewed people (we would call them podcasts today) from 1952 to 1997. He wrote oral histories of his famous people and of the everyday person. His oral history of people on the home front during WWII won a Pulitzer prize and made me love the way he wrote and spoke and how much he wanted to record the unspoken stories of everyone. He understood that everyone had a story to tell. I am sharing this because if you never heard of Studs Terkel, you are missing an American treasure. Check him out. Here is part of his story from Wikpedia:

A political leftist, Terkel joined the Works Progress Administration's Federal Writers' Project, working in radio, doing work that varied from voicing soap opera productions and announcing news and sports to presenting shows of recorded music and writing radio scripts and advertisements. In the late 1940's he voiced characters in WMAQ's Destination Freedom series, written by Richard Durham.[5] His own well-known radio program, titled The Studs Terkel Program, aired on 98.7 WFMT Chicago between 1952 and 1997.[6] The one-hour program was broadcast each weekday during those 45 years. On this program, he interviewed guests as diverse as Martin Luther King Jr., Leonard Bernstein, Mort Sahl, Bob Dylan, Alexander Frey, Dorothy Parker, Tennessee Williams, Jean Shepherd, Frank Zappa, and Big Bill Broonzy.

In the late 1940s and early 1950s, Terkel was also the central character of Studs' Place, an unscripted television drama about the owner of a greasy-spoon diner in Chicago through which many famous people and interesting characters passed. This show, Marlin Perkins's Zoo Parade, Garroway at Large, and the children's show Kukla, Fran, and Ollie are widely considered canonical examples of the Chicago School of Television.

Terkel published his first book, Giants of Jazz, in 1956. He followed it in 1967 with his first collection of oral histories, Division Street: America, with 70 people talking about the effect on the human spirit of living in an American metropolis.[7][8][9]

He also served as a distinguished scholar-in-residence at the Chicago History Museum. He appeared in the film Eight Men Out, based on the Black Sox Scandal, in which he played newspaper reporter Hugh Fullerton, who tries to uncover the White Sox players' plans to throw the 1919 World Series. Terkel found it particularly amusing to play this role, as he was a big fan of the Chicago White Sox (as well as a vocal critic of major league baseball during the 1994 baseball strike), and gave a moving congratulatory speech to the White Sox organization after their 2005 World Series championship during a television interview.

Terkel received his nickname while he was acting in a play with another person named Louis. To keep the two straight, the director of the production gave Terkel the nickname Studs after the fictional character about whom Terkel was reading at the time—Studs Lonigan, of James T. Farrell's trilogy.

Terkel was acclaimed for his efforts to preserve American oral history. His 1985 book "The Good War": An Oral History of World War Two, which detailed ordinary peoples' accounts of the country's involvement in World War II, won the Pulitzer Prize. For Hard Times: An Oral History of the Great Depression, Terkel assembled recollections of the Great Depression that spanned the socioeconomic spectrum, from Okies, through prison inmates, to the wealthy. His 1974 book, Working, in which (as reflected by its subtitle) People Talk About What They Do All Day and How They Feel About What They Do, also was highly acclaimed. Working was made into a short-lived Broadway show of the same title in 1978 and was telecast on PBS in 1982. In 1995, he received the Chicago History Museum "Making History Award" for Distinction in Journalism and Communications. In 1997, Terkel was elected a member of The American Academy of Arts and Letters. Two years later, he received the George Polk Career Award in 1999.

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JH name headcanons!

1. Most of the names of Jackie and Hyde's pets are the offbeat names Hyde suggests. And by "suggests," I mean for middle names, because he knows Jackie will never accept them as first names. Jagger, Hendrix, etc.

2. However, Jackie will go for Layla, Paige, and Dylan (boy). Jackie will never go for unisex names, except for Ashley (for a girl, see below).

3. Jackie loves the names Ashley (for a girl) and Scarlett, but Hyde hates them, because he hates Gone With The Wind.

4. Hyde prefers the name Sophie, and Jackie prefers Sophia. They both mean "wisdom." That's cool.

5. Hyde thinks the name Sage is cool, for a girl. Jackie hates it.

6. Hyde jokingly suggests the names of Frank Zappa's kids, to see Jackie freak out.

Hyde (with a smirk): Think we should name our kid Moon Unit?

Jackie hits him with a pillow.

7. Sarah, Jessica, and Olivia are Jackie's name defaults. Hyde thinks the nickname Liv is cool. Live and let live, man.

8. William, James, and John are the defaults for boys.

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https://archive.org/details/Mondo.2000.Issue.03.1991

Special Guest Editorial - William S. BurroughsOur Readers WriteCongressional Bill would Suspend ConstitutionPushing the Rollercoaster Reality Envelope - Louis M. BrillFiber in the Valley - Denise CarusoStreet Tech - Gareth BranwynPXL 2000 - Brian GoldbergDurk and Sandy Explain it all to You - St. JudeThe War on Drugs and FIJA - Robert Anton WalsonFlow like a Dragonfly, See like a Bee: a Drug-Free Expansion of the Senses - Nick HerbertDo G-men Dream of Electric Sheep? - R. U. Sirius & George GleasonCivilizing the Electronic Frontier: an interview with Mitch Kapor & John Barlow of the Electronic Frontier Foundation - David Gans & R. U. SiriusSynergy Speaks: Goodbye Banks, Goodbye Telephones, Goodbye Welfare Checks - Michael SynergyFreaked by Phrack: an interview with Craig Neidorf - John Perry BarlowA Message to You From Legion of Doom Member "The Mentor"On the Road to Chaos in East Berlin - Morgan RussellThe Worlds Oldest Secret Conspiracy: Fronted by Steve Jackson Games, Inc. - Gareth BranwynGuess Work: an interview w/ Ausust Bequai - Gareth BranwynPhreaks R Us: an interview w/ Hacker Publishers Emmanuel Goldstein of 2600 & Rop Gonggrijp of Hack-Tic - R. U. Sirius & George GleasonDeborah Harry: 21st Century Girl - Tresca Behling, R. U. Sirius & St. JudeDangerous AttireCybernetic Jewelery - Wearable Microsystems - Vernon ReedBoom or Bust - Justine HJeff Designs - Bart NagelHats by Pine - Bart NagelWhat Computers can for for the Fashion Designer - Willard Van de BogartCovert Design & Holographic Clothing: a look at the 21st Century Fashion - Mark HeleyPlastic People - R. U. Sirius & in conversation with Dr. ForshanFuture Food as conceived - Erez with Joshua Ets-HokinShadow World of Heavy Metal Part 3 - Gracive & ZarkovFrank Zappa for PresidentEscape from New York / Talking Hearts & Severed Heads: an interview with Tima Weymouth & Chris Franz - R. U. SiriusBitin' Off the Funk with George Clinton - Rickey VincentHouse Music: the Best Techno-Shamanic Cultural Virus so far - Mark HeleyTune In, Turn on the Acid House with Psychic TV - Philip H. Farber with DjenabaMuzak: the Concept of Manipulation through Music - Genesis P. OrridgeDeee-Lite: Like Tapping into the Soul of a Deep Program - St. JudeThe Primal Venting of Buttheads: a Post Punk Dialectic - Antonio LopezButthole Hacker: We Talk to Gibby, Mostly about his Computer Graphics - Bart Nagel & R. U. SiriusTaking Toys from the Boys: an interview with Rebecca Allen - Jas. MorganSIGGRAPH Gallery: the Wizards of Light & Motion Collected - Jas. Morgan & Christopher CaseChaos & Catastrophe: an interview w/ Ralph Abraham - Rebecca McClen & David Jay BrownQuantum Randiness: Mathematica Author Stephen Wolfram & Physics Genius Saul-Paul Sirag in conversation - Jas. Morgan & Efrem Lipkin assisted by John Zaitz, George Gleason & Jeff MarkDrugs for Sex: Real Aphrodisiacs - Leila Mellow-WhipkitA Word (or Two) on Aphrodisiacs from Dr. Ward Dean interviews - John MorgenthalerAttitude: File Under "Bad" - John ShirleyGreatest Hist from Timothy Leary's Greatest Hists - R. U. SiriusHolidays in Cambodia? - Richard P. GreenfieldMONDOzines - Mike GunderlowSim City, A Cybernetic PlaygroundCracking Mac Software for Fun and Profit: Words from an Expert