| Bitchin' Bibliography of Banned Books |
[Dec. 16th, 2009|11:28 am] |
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[NOTE] This is the first piece I have written since mid-2007, so I'm just getting back into the swing of things. Feel free to critique my writing, or point out mistakes. Anyhow, here goes...
Censorship can be an ugly thing, but it's been around even before the printed word.
Like murder and rape, it doesn't seem to be ugly enough for us, as a species, to wipe it out of existence. And yet, like murder and rape, it needs to be.
It was believed that Ovid was exiled by Emperor Augustus due to his writings, but it turned out to be something a bit more political.
400 years before the Common Era, Plato suggested the removal of material from Homer's Odyssey for immature readers. Hell, Caligula tried to suppress it completely.
In 325 C.E. the Council of Nicaea gathers to decide what writings should be kept, and which others to discard, for a book that would later be called The Bible. It was such fun, they did it again in 787.
Speaking of which, many Christians will say that The Bible was the first banned book, and, while it was not, I wonder how many are aware that because of their book, many other similar works by Gnostic sects are now lost.
The Catholic Church began their first list of banned books in 1559, though they began banning books in 1514. The Index Librorum Prohibitorum or List of Prohibited Books was done away with only by a decree of Pope Paul VI in 1966. Even so, Catholics still try to tell you what books to read and what films to see.
In 1818 Shakespeare received a reworking for decent folk, titled Family Shakespeare. This unforgivable act was committed by English physician Thomas Bowdler, who upon retiring from medicine thought reading Shakespeare to be a necessity for children - so long as it wasn't the actual works of Shakespeare. Now, thanks to him, we have the word "bowdlerize".
Well, if knowledge is power, then books are dangerous.
When books flood the streets, blood will flow there as well!
Or, at least, that seems to be what those in charge have thought all along, as once printing became cheap, and books were available to the "common man" - thank you Gutenberg - it became policy, by governments since the beginning of government, to ban books.
Some bans are funny, like the 1931 banning of Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland in the Hunan providence of China, because it portrayed animals that spoke, and acted like humans.
Better yet, in 1966 a Yugoslavian court order had to ban the Dictionary of Modern Serbo-Croatian Language by Miloš Moskovljevic, as many of the definitions were not only poor, but fist-fight worthy.
Some aren't so funny: The Diaries of Anne Frank was banned in Lebanon for "portraying Jews, Israel or Zionism favorably". They also banned Sophie's Choice by William Styron, Thomas Friedman's From Beirut to Jerusalem, and even entire titles by authors, such as Philip Roth and Saul Bellow. All of it helping to brood calls of Muslim anti-Semitism, but then they go and ban the over-hyped The DaVinci Code, when a Catholic board deems it offensive to Christians.
Well, Christians use the word "kyke" too, I guess. I forget that anti-Semitism is a world sport.
Anyhow, no country is blameless, and though many do look towards the States for progressive action, we're just as guilty by sometimes being frightened witch-hunters.
Southern U.S. states banned Uncle Tom's Cabin, and the writings of Harriet Beecher Stowe send half the country fighting the other half.
The United States had book burnings from the mid-1800s to the 1950s, reaching its zenith in 1957 by throwing author Wilhelm Reich in jail over his books.
By far, the U.S. has some of the strangest bans. It hated Fanny Hill (by John Cleland) so much, that it banned it in 1821, and then again in 1963. It was the last book to be banned by a court in the U.S., until 2003, when a judge ordered Irwin Schiff's 13 year old book, The Federal Mafia, to be removed from store shelves.
In the early 1960s, Naked Lunch was banned, or threatened to be banned, to an extent where it helped William Burroughs become the first man to get rich off of nonsensically rambling.
And one has to ask, "Why were all German copies of George Orwell's Animal Farm confiscated by the Allies after the war?"
The United States can be bad, but we're not terrible. There really was a lot worse going on out there.
In the 50s, the U.S.S.R. banned everything Orwellian, not to mention almost anything else that had pages, or wasn't The Communist Manifesto itself.
South Korea put out a list in 2008, which banned their military from reading 23 specific books, including Noam Chomsky's Year 501: The Conquest Continues, and Bad Samaritans: The Myth of Free Trade and the Secret History of Capitalism by Ha-Joon Chan. Though I don't agree, I can understand those two titles being on the list, but why did they add the novel A Spoon on Earth by Hyeon Gi-yeong?
Sometimes, these matters can get kinda personal.
For instance, Pakistan banned copies of Stanley Wolpert's biography Jinnah of Pakistan, after the book made mention of Pakistan's founder, Muhammed Ali Jinnah, having a huge crush on pork and wine. The book The King Never Smiles reached the same fate in Thailand, when they believed author Paul M. Handley was messing with their King Bhumibol Adulyadej.
Other times, it's otherworldly, as when Salman Rushdie had a five million dollar price tag on his head, when the Ayatollah considered his work, The Satanic Verses, blasphemous against Islam. The book is still banned in Indonesia, Bangladesh and Iran.
There were bans then, and still are bans today.
Charlemagne's four-volume refutation of Nicaea's Second Council, Libri Carolini, was hated by the Church so much in 790 C.E., that it did not see the light of day until 1549. Johannes Kepler had his Astronomia Nova placed on the Catholic's shit list in 1609. Daniel Defoe's 1722 novel Moll Flanders was one of the first pieces of fiction to be banned. Radclyffe Hall's The Well of Loneliness was banned in 1928 Britain due to lesbian themes. In the 1990s, Germany outlawed The Turner Diaries by William Pierce - woops, I mean, Andrew MacDonald - due to its calls for racial war. Today, China probably bands more books than they produce.
The biggest problem is, unlike murder and rape, no one cares about book censorship. That is probably because no one reads books anymore, as almost every literary work and politico-religious philosophic idea are now available on the internet.
Hey! Doesn't that just stream into our homes?
Shit, the government's going to be at all of our doors any minute now!
Oh wait, never mind... they found a short cut through the bedroom.
- Adel
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| Small Guns = Big Balls |
[Sep. 26th, 2007|12:24 pm] |
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The only handicap many of you face when purchasing a practical piece is your ego. That's why most go for the big guns, with large penis-shaped ammo. Why go for bulk, where each shot rips more and more ligaments in your wrist, when you can find easy-to-control firearms that are a cinch to conceal?
Virgin buyers are usually steered away from smaller caliber weapons with smirks and jokes, over to hand-canons, like the S & W Magnum, .500 Linebaugh or Desert Eagle Action Express. The customer often feels as if the clerk has pinned them as a fag, pussy or common street thug if they even look at the .22 and .25 display case.
"If you shoot an attacker with those, you're probably just gonna make 'em mad," I've heard gun-pushers jest, making the embarrassed, rose-cheeked novice peer at bigger (read: more expensive) show pieces. Guns that inflate the price of your protection, as well as the dealers wallet. Guns with "stopping power" and noises that'll wake the neighborhood.
"You're better off hitting a fucker in the face with that palm-sized ditty, than you are firing it at 'em," they'll assure the newbie. Sometimes even calling smaller weapons "nigger guns", "girl gadgets" or "pea shooters".
It makes you wonder why they even carry the smaller pistols at all.
I've heard salesman after salesman make the remark that .22 and .25 caliber ammo is pretty harmless, and almost always off target.
Sure, just ask James Brady who was the Whitehouse Press Secretary and Assistant to President Reagan before the assassination attempt in 1981 by John Hinckley Jr. Wait, he has problems talking since that .22 bullet shredded his gray matter like Swiss cheese. Or maybe we should ask one-time Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy? I guess we can't since he's been forever silenced by Sirhan B. Sirhan with a .22 in the lobby of L.A.'s Ambassador Hotel back in 1968.
Way too much accentuation is placed behind ammunition that's supposed to rip people in half, or turn their opponents into ash, but this is all yeehaw talk. It's bravado unaware that velocity, aim, distance, caliber and ft/lbs of energy altogether have more to do with it that just caliber alone.
Serious studies of entry-exit wounds can prove that once a bullet enters the body, the most damage is done when it stays in the body. Large ammo usually cuts clean through a person, often leaving a charging assailant to keep on charging. Many victims of these types of projectiles claim that except for a burning feeling, not much pain was felt. On the other hand, a smaller caliber will lose momentum and begin to ricochet off bones and even muscle, traveling throughout the body turning vital organs into bleeding sacks of tissue.
If you ponder a bit, you will realize that people sometimes become incapacitated at the mere sight of a gun, as sudden death holds intense, deep and dear psychological (terror, anxiety), or even physiological (fainting) effects. Many a police blotter is filled with reposts of handguns firing blanks, only to have the would-be victim immediately fall to the ground clutching their chest or abdomen.
Accuracy isn't really important. If it is, then pick out a rifle, as most gun battles take place between ten to fifteen feet. If your gun cannot hit a target at that range, you have either bought a busted pistol, or you need serious target practice - but don't blame the caliber. In this type of situation, you can also use a one-handed shooting method, over the two-handed martial arts stance needed for recoil nightmares.
Another plus to smaller weapons is the fact that they are way easier to conceal than bomb blasters. Wrap-around elastic bandages around your stomach can hide a piece while you wear a t-shirt and have no one the wiser.
Lastly, like I mentioned before, the price is pretty good. The gun and the ammo are cheap. At the cost of one Dirty Harry, you can buy a half-dozen 22s. You can take them and hide them everywhere (bedroom, office, bathroom, car), which increases the chances of being armed without breaking Concealed Weapon Laws, or even filing for the proper permits. For the dirtier folks out there, you can also just dispose of each one after use, so as not to be caught with a gun that holds distinguishing ballistic evidence against you.
Let it be known, gun dealers are sales people. They often don't care about your protection; they only care about the protection of their cash registers. So if any of them are telling you, "You'll just sting 'em with that thing," ask them if they don't mind being "stung" a bit just to be sure.
Now, don't bother me with any of the particulars of the larger weapons. I don't take well to arguments.
Plus, I'm armed. - Adel feastofhateandfear.com |
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| Is Your God Goofy, Or Just Nuts |
[Jul. 2nd, 2007|08:46 pm] |
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If you were to flip through the words of many contemporary religious writers (Jack Van Impe, Tim LaHaye, Hal Lindsey or Gorgio Agamben) or even yesterday's preachers (Muhammad, St. John the Apostle, Michel de Nostredame or Edgar Cayce) you'd think that the world will come to a fiery end.
According to science it may... if our Sun enlarges.
It may also end in a quick boom (asteroid), or even a silent, ever-increasing cold (if the Sun runs out of energy), but this is science.
Most religions teach that God's gonna come down with flaming sword in hand, send four dudes on horseback, or turn the poles end on end. All of this is considered a "Grand Purification", mostly for the sins of mankind.
In the 1800s, Native Americans were almost wiped off the face of their homelands by invading Europeans and their Manifest Destiny.
The U.S. fire-bombing of Tokyo, as well as atomic bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki killed half a million civilians in 1945.
In the 60s, violence in the country of Burundi pitted Hutu against Tutsi in a war that still rages in Rwanda and has claimed millions.
In 1971, Pakistan was alarmed at the rising independence of what is now Bangladesh. Yahya Khan said, "Kill three million of them and the rest will eat out of your hand." Pakistanis took his words to heart, marched in and killed nearly a million, mostly by machete and pitchfork.
In the 70s and 80s, an half-million Africans were killed (mostly Acholi and Langi tribes) by the warring factions of Idi Amin and Milton Obote.
Hitler killed 10 million, Stalin 30 million, Mao 50 million.
Were any of these "Grand Purifications" for the sins of the groups attacked?
Nowhere in the Bible does God say, "That's it! I'm leaving it up to man, so I'm outta here for the next two millennia," leaving many preachers to think these are truly acts of cosmic providence.
Many also believe that pestilence, famine, and natural disasters are the work of a divine intelligence designed to punish those that died, while the survivors had "favorable" angelically stamped on their souls.
This logic has lead to Jehovah's Witnesses refusing care to those that need it, claiming it is God's will.
The idea that El Duce (Eldon Hoke) was hit by a train because he released Rock Bible, or that Jan Paul Beahm aka Darby Crash's heroin overdose was God's retaliation for his homosexual tendencies seems irrational, yet many think along these lines.
It sounds much worse that millions are indiscriminately killed to get to a few sinners.
Not working in a confessional, I don't know who the greatest sinners are, but I'm sure that if they did enough to piss off The Man in the Sky, he would pick the right time and place to execute said infidel.
To say that God would employ a tsunami to get Pacific Island despot Papa Minn, all the while needlessly drowning thousands of peasants makes your concept of God a kind of goofball.
None of this may seem irrational to Christianity, where God is himself, his son and an omnipresent spirit known as The Trinity. The Church, believing psychology as Satan's realm, probably isn't aware of Multiple Personality Disorder, so it might be hard for them to see that, clinically speaking, their God is a nut job.
- Adel
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| I Can Do It Myself, But You're Welcome To Help |
[Jun. 5th, 2007|09:18 pm] |
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Masturbatory practices are one of the only sexual acts you can practice alone. And because to masturbate you don't need a partner, or dish out a benjee for a dinner date, it's usually everyone's most practiced form of sex, though definitely not everyone's favorite. No mating ritual, courting or even talking to a fellow human is needed. Just a firm grip and an empty room.
Still, masturbation is looked at as if it were only done by losers and the lonely. While spilling white all over your knuckles isn't a bad thing, many of the masturbatory extras may be, as anything from phone sex to sex toys cater to the alone, when all you need is your hand and a working fantasy.
Or someone else's - hand or fantasy.
The laws of sexual supply and demand have made big business out of spewing goo, from pornography, and 1-900 sex lines to contraptions that invade the dark corridors of your underpants or simulate the warm, wetness of a human hole.
For most of us, jerkin' it and workin' it with no more than your imagination and nature's lube (saliva, spit, drool) is all one needs to set off fireworks.
Even with the millions made from taco tickling and monkey spanking, it still seems that masturbation is a no-no. Something to be ashamed of, or at least kept in the bathroom while the water's running.
If not, why did then-president Bill Clinton fire Joycelyn Elders? Okay, it could also have been her stance to legalize drugs (I'm right behind you Elders!), but it was mostly due to simply stating a fact: teenagers touch themselves till they stain the bedsheets.
Jerking off doesn't create welfare babies, unwed mothers or cause AIDS, yet the myths on blindness and hairy palms still exist, especially in right-wing politics and conservative religions.
If we rubbed ourselves more often, as well as become more open about it, we'd be less repressed and possibly less hostile. A hand that holds a sex organ can't hold a firearm. The fingers you push into yourself can't pull a trigger.
Masturbation equals less warfare.
Well, that may not be true, but let's all try to find out.
- Adel
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| What is Feast of Hate and Fear? (Part II) |
[May. 19th, 2007|08:51 am] |
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This is a question I'm going to answer for the neophytes, while hopefully getting a chuckle out of both new and old friends.
I get asked a lot "What is Feast of Hate and Fear?"
Let me start by explaining what FHF was.
It was a fanzine publication from 1990 until 1998.
A small portion of it, plus massive amounts of new material, can now be found on the web, so that leaves me to answer what Feast of Hate and Fear is today.
Currently, FHF is a website containing some of the articles found in the original 'zine, as well as some newer pieces, a virtual library holding rare texts and obscure material, underground music and movie reviews, band and artist interviews, an outsider music archive, an internet music show, and a little more here and there.
If you're still confused, then maybe everyone should be asking, "What is Feast of Hate and Fear all about?"
Honestly, if you have to ask, you really shouldn't worry yourself anyhow, because you didn't bother reading... and that's what FHF is, and was, all about: reading. It's about firing off synapses. It's about working out those rarely used neurons to help you think for yourself.
Most of my articles are written to make you laugh, while trying to make you think, and the archived library is a hodgepodge of propaganda from the left to the right, and from those that think themselves to be good to those that label themselves evil - all to help you see both sides of an argument and help you draw your own conclusions.
There is one page that can best sum up what Feast of Hate and Fear really is all about, and it's where you get to sniff my logs.
Let me explain: my hosting company sends me the skinny on pirated links and search engine results. I've learned quickly that some of the Googlers out there are twisted fuckers. I post the funnier / weirder searches along with what the search engine (Yahoo, MSN, Google, etc) mistakenly sent them to somewhere on the Feast of Hate and Fear website.
Here are a few highlights...
Yahoo search: why did charles manson get involved
What they found: Charles Manson - Your Children
It's really odd to see people asking questions in a search engine. Most everyone knows that they produce pages with word searches, not answer questions. Here, the question actually is, "Get involved with what?"
This surfer found Manson's closing comments from his murder / conspiracy trail. Charles Miles Manson was tried for the August 1969 murders of the Tate and LaBianca households, which began June 1970, and lasted until January of 1971, where he was found guilty of conspiracy and sentence to death (which was commuted to life in prison).
Google search: What can you conclude about your distance from the mirror and the size of image you see? Is there a difference in how much of yourself you can see? Can you see more of yourself standing farther away from the mirror? How tall a mirror do you need to see yourself from the top of your head to your toes? If you wink your left eye does your image wink the right or left eye back at you? Finally is there some way that you can cause your image to wink the same eye as you?
What they found: José Luis Jordán Peña - The UMMO Papers
Wow! Speaking of questions to a search engine. I think the best part of this whole thing is before the last question, they wrote "finally" like the search engine may get tired of his ranting.
Anyhow, that search brought this person to the UMMO Papers, which was to Spanish UFO researchers what Area 51 is to UFOlogists in the States, and was first documented by UFO sightings in 1966 & 1967 with the symbol: )+(
Later came the manuscript (1968), now known as the UMMO Papers, mailed by supposed anonymous aliens, and were also signed: )+(
The applied physics and mathematics were slightly ahead of their time, so it fooled many though it was a practical joke by José Luis Jordán Peña and a group of collaborators. UMMO is supposed to be the phonetic pronunciation of the Spanish word for "smoke".
MSN search: best place on the forearm to cut without bleeding to death
What they found: John Minnery - How to Kill
I don't know what trick this person's trying to mess with, but I have a sneaky suspicion that it's a guy searching for some dramatic bullshit he'll be trying to pull on an ex-girlfriend.
Much of my website can get me in trouble. Like posting John Minnery's out-of-print, six-volume set, How to Kill, later published as the more compact-yet-wimply-titled. Kill Without Joy - also out-of-print. Read it and learn.
Ask search: pros and cons of zones deliveries with trucking company
What they found: William Pierce - The Turner Diaries
This is a truly priceless misdirection, as this poor fellow is trying to get info on how to run his company as smoothly as possible, but winds up getting white power propaganda.
The Turner Diaries was written by Aryan Nations head William Pierce under the pen name, Andrew Macdonald in 1975. The FBI calls it "a right wing bible", and though it's just racist fiction, it could have inspired the Oklahoma bombing.
Dogpile search: the life of the cumelion the animal that disguise itself
What they found: Noble Drew Ali - The Holy Koran of the Moorish Science Temple
I don't know what a "cumelion" is but it sounds gooey, yet fierce.
Noble Drew Ali (Timothy Drew) was born in 1886 and almost nothing was known about him until he formed the Moorish Science Temple in 1913 (with chapters in several states). The Temple of Moorish Science is a strange blend of Islamic and Buddhist study, Masonic ritual and black power, later adopted by Elijah Muhamed and his Nation of Islam (minus the Buddhism and Freemasonry). He mysteriously died in 1928.
AOL search: de back estree boys
What they found: Pauline Reage - The Owl
Okay, assa fully-fledged spic, ima embarrassed to eben chair dis one wis alla jew out der.
"The Owl" is Chapter Four from French author Anne Desclos' 1954 erotic novel The Story of O, which she wrote under the pen name Pauline Réage.
The story is based on letters to her lover, as well as the work of the Marquis de Sade. Though tame by today's standards, it is about a woman who is taught to be a sex slave, and it brought obscenity charges against the publisher.
MSN search: seminar report on chemical industry helped by small invisible tube
What they found: Leonard C. Lewin - Report From Iron Mountain
If the tube is invisible, how did the chemical industry even find it - let alone develop it?
Report From Iron Mountain is a book, which claimed to be a transcript of a conspiratorial meeting of the world's most powerful elite inside Virginia's Iron Mountain. It was published by Dial Press, a division of Simon & Schuster, in 1967. The introduction material was by Leonard C. Lewin - who admitted in 1972 to fabricating the entire thing.
Google search: is watching children getting spanked sexual gratification
What they found: J. H. Kellogg - The Solitary Vice
Another question to a search engine. Sadly, there is no answer other than in that person's own head. They should be asking themselves, not Google.
"Solitary Vice" is Chapter 9 from Plain Facts for Old and Young: Embracing the Natural History and Hygiene of Organic Life by John Harvey Kellogg, and is an anti-masturbation tract. J. H. Kellogg ran the Battle Creek Sanitarium, which was a health spa based on the teachings of the Seventh-Day Adventist Church. In 1897, Kellogg started the Sanitas Food Company to produce their now famous whole cereal, with the help of his brother Will Keith Kellogg.
- Adel
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| Let's Make Some Noise! |
[Apr. 10th, 2007|10:30 pm] |
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| | An Anthology of Noise Music: First A-Chronology by Various Artists | ] |
You've heard it before, probably a hundred times over already, from the mouths of noisicians (noise-musicians), "I want to create sounds that will make people throw-up, or shit their pants."
Sadly, unless they're talking about making a style of music that's so psychologically creepy that it causes sickness or insta-crapping, they don't know their sciences.
Sound is a simple set of vibrations, ranging in varying Hz (hertz = cycles per second) and dB (decibels = volume). Hertz can range from the negative field (say, -5 Hz) to as high as 1000 MegaHz. Decibels range is from 0 dB (absolute silence) to 1000 dB (atomic explosions) - though decibels may go higher, only the explosion of Krakatoa (a volcano near Indonesia, where in 1883 it created the loudest known sound, which reverberated around our planet seven times and was detectable for five days) could surpass it.
The human ear can only pick up the sound field of 20 Hz through 20,000 Hz, where as a dog's hearing range is 60 Hz to 45,000 Hz, and a cat's is 40 Hz to 85,000 Hz.
Any sound lower than 16 Hz is considered "infrasound", and is so low we tend to feel it, over hearing it. Sounds above the human limit of 20,000 are considered "ultrasound", and are usually ineffective to us.
To get someone to poop their pants at one of your rockin' shows, you're gonna have to work with infrasound, but there's another catch...
You're also gonna have to work with organic sound emitted by an item you use at that very moment, not mechanical or prerecorded sounds emitted by speakers, a PA or any other sound system.
Why?
Simple: all manufactured speakers are built with a range from 16 HZ to 16,000 Hz (the frame between infra and ultrasound), so no matter how hard you try, your equipment just won't produce it.
Before I teach you how to actually decimate your audience's underwear or destroy your fan base, let me get into some more science.
Infrasound is naturally found all around you; from high winds, the ocean and thunder to natural disasters like earthquakes. Even a car traveling at 60 mph, with the windows slightly open, creates a frequency of 16 Hz at 112 dB - enough to make some drivers appear drunk.
The study of infrasound was put to practical use in the First World War, where infrasound detection equipment was used to locate where enemies were launching large artillery. It was later taken more seriously at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base in Dayton, Ohio, throughout the early 60s by Dr. Henning E. von Gierke (a Nazi scientist picked by the U.S. in their Project Paperclip, and not the actor by the name of Henning von Gierke), where they developed infrasound weaponry. The previous WWI techniques - and later weapons - pretty much stayed an United States secret, until 1965, when members of the French National Center for Scientific Research in Marseilles began having headaches and feeling sick, only to find it was all caused by a large industrial fan that emitted an infrasonic sound, and began studying sounds and their effects on humans.
It was found that different sound frequencies at differing volumes have detrimental effects on the human body, as well as the mind.
0 - 50 Hz above 140 dB can cause organs to rub against one another, internal bleeding, gag reflexes, respiratory trouble, mental breakdown, and fatigue.
50 - 100 Hz above 150 dB can cause headaches, choking, and visual blurring.
60 Hz at 150 dB causes coughing, and substernal pressure.
70 Hz at 150 dB causes salivation, pain on swallowing and light-headedness.
100 Hz at 150 dB causes nausea, giddiness, and flushing of the skin.
The most dangerous of all infrasound (0 Hz - 16 Hz) is at 7 Hz, as low as 60 dB, which causes disassociation, impaired thinking, trouble breathing, and severe psychological trauma (including panic and psychosis). This sound range is dangerous simply because it is the range of our brain's alpha waves, so it can interrupt them.
At the same time, infrasound is medically beneficial, as doctors have used it to restore the sense of smell in patients and helped stimulate ovulation in women. It also has a commercial used, as it's a feature in theater's Sensurround, which was first used in the 1971 disaster film "Earthquake".
Okay, now I'll teach you noise-hounds how to fuck shit up, or shit fuck-ups.
Whistles can emit one of the most dangerous audible sounds, so the larger the worse. A regular whistle emits 1 watt of acoustic output (to compare, an everyday conversation emits 1 milliwatt). The Levavasseur Whistle is nothing more than a regular whistle attached to an acoustic cavity of 2 ft in diameter and a 1ft tube (looking much like a larger whistle) and in tests emitted 400 watts at a sound range of 2600 Hz. One was created with a four ft diameter cavity and a two ft pipe and emitted a hardly audible acoustic resonance of 1000 watts at a range of only 37 Hz. Therefore, a whistle with a 16 ft cavity would emit the mind-numbing 7 Hz range.
Next is what is called the Acoustic Gun, which is nothing more than an L-shaped tube of about three feet in length (on each angle) encased in 300 lbs of concrete. The way noise travels throughout the L shape, plus the encasing concrete making the sound vibrations bounce in the interior, causes a sound range of 190 Hz, and at 100 dB (very loud yelling in the mouthpiece) one can cause painful internal vibrations at whomever it's pointed at.
Lastly is the Acoustic Laser, which is nothing more than 49 tubes (all of equal length) attached in seven rows of seven tubes, with a spacing of 2 inches between each tube. At the mouthpiece end, all the tubes are connected to one another into a single tube with flexible plastic tubing. This can be pointed at a group of people for a frequency of 0.6 Hz, causing organs to vibrate, and wild coughing.
Of course, you can test and try to invent your own, but I do caution against some of these experiments as the creator of the Lavavassuer Whistle (Rudolfo Lavavassuer), according to documents from his colleague, VladimirGavreau (Science Journal Vol. 4, No. 1, 1968), became an invalid upon the creation of one of the larger models.
Plus, being a fan of noise music, I could be out in the audience, and if you point that thing at me, I'll kick your nerdy ass - then rub all over your face what you made me do in my pants.
- Adel
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| The Case Against Abstract Art |
[Mar. 11th, 2007|05:33 pm] |
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For many it's hard to understand, much less fathom, that we are being manipulated at every turn. Only a few know how public schools are set up to help establish the "bright young minds" of the future. Less know about television and the internet's metabolism-lowering and Alpha wave-blocking attributes (as the obese and stupid make for better consumers). Even less know of the C.I.A.'s hand in establishing Top 40 Radio, as well as early Rock 'N' Roll.
But, almost no one knows about the shadowy hand of the government and their artistic brush strokes.
Art, like all other forms of media, is a tool useful in control. It inspires and elevates the nature of being human, but it can also anger and confuse.
For millennia, artists have had a special place in society. Those who patron the arts had an equal, if not higher, societal standing, and rightfully so, as they are usually the rich and those in power.
Artists, being held in such esteem, usually had control over the placement of their work in the market, as well as their own economic interests, sometimes making an artist equal to a politician or even nobility. That is, until the end of the Industrial Revolution as bohemian mythology set a standard where artist refused to see their works as commodity, while rejecting the values of everyday society, and so was born "the starving artist". Soon after, we had the rise of U.S. museum culture and the gallery system, placing control of the arts back in the hands of the rich and powerful, which are often members of industry and the government.
With the rise of the European art school known as Symbolism, as well as the Surrealist movement, also came a rise in Socialist thinking, and our government feared that when this found its way into the States, it would spread like wildfire in the underground.
It was a lucky strike for the Capitalist system when the Stalinist regime, following National Socialist ideals, brought about its artistic code of "Socialist realism", thus banning abstract and surreal modes of art. This did well for a new developing school of art from the U.S. called Abstract Expressionism, and, in turn, that school of art did well for the U.S. government.
Abstract Expressionism is actually several styles within one school, and range from "action painting" (the splatter and throwing of paint onto a canvas), "hard edge" (many straight lines on a canvas), and "color field" (simply one or two colors spread on a canvas). Artists of this school include Jackson Pollock, Mark Rothko, and Clyfford Still. To many AE seemed to have taken the childish look of Abstract art and made it even more child-like, with its lack of image identity and wild emotional impression - the total opposite of "Socialist realism".
To understand how this art was used as a tool to help the spread of Capitalism, I'll have to go into a brief history of The Museum of Modern Art (known as MOMA). MOMA was founded in 1929 by one of conspiracy theorists' favorite families, the Rockefellers. Just before 1940, Nelson Rockefeller took the helm, though soon leaving to become a cabinet member in President Roosevelt's Office of Inter-American Affairs, and later returning in '46.
Since WWII all policies of the war against Communism, as well as almost every Secretary of State has been shaped and educated by the Rockefellers. This also includes John Hay Whitney, who was MOMA's Board of Trustees' Chairman in the early 40s and was quoted as saying, "The Museum can educate, inspire, and strengthen the hearts and wills of free men in defense of their own freedom." While it does sound a bit like propaganda, it'll sound more so after you read that before his boardship, John worked for the Offices of Strategic Services (who later made a name change to Central Intelligence Agency). MOMA then became, though minor, an actual war contractor, with a near-40 contracts for the Office of War Information, as well as the Library of Congress. The contracts were to ship art exhibits to Asian and Latin American countries on the brink of turning Communist, all under the direction of Porter McCray, who was working for the government's Office of Inter-American Affairs.
MOMA also had a hand in the Mexican muralist art movement, who were anti-Nationalists, coincidentally one would think, at the same time Mexico was thinking of nationalizing their oil fields, which threatened a large portion of Rockefeller's oil business.
MOMA's executive secretary from 1948 to '49 was Thomas W. Braden, who left the chair only to join the C.I.A., and staying there until 1954. Braden is best known, not for his art world connections, but for his 1967 article in The Saturday Evening Post, titled "I'm Glad the CIA is 'Immoral'". In that article Braden admitted that the Central Intelligence Agency gave money and political backing to a large number of cultural programs, not to mention founding the National Student Association (a confederacy of university student governments), and even Encounter Magazine (a literary arts publication).
After the Cold War the traveling art exhibit, as well as literature and art publications, became a mechanism to show fledgling countries or newfound governments and their people how rigid culture had become in Socialist regimes, and how stiff and inflexible artistic expression was in Communist controlled areas.
Now do you see where modern art becomes a tool of the Democracy and Capitalist systems?
The Museum of Modern Art and the Abstract Expressionist movement, whether it was known by the artists themselves, were used to sell a vision of America as being in the avant-garde, opposed to European Socialist and Russian Communist competitors. It was all a well-marketed show for the world to see how life, and art, is benefited under a Capitalist and Democratic society.
It's better than blood splatter, I guess, though that would look cool on a canvas.
- Adel
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| They're Out There... Somewhere. |
[Feb. 22nd, 2007|10:39 pm] |
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It is estimated by the F.B.I. that every large city has, at any given time, at least three serial killers running around and mauling about. With the regular crime rate, that leaves one with scary odds that you'll meet your maker at the end of a gun or knife. It's looking more and more like some of you may be nothing more than a statistic, and a handful will be just another face in some fucker's basement.
We've all heard at one time or another that there's a killer on the loose, but with only 50% of all murders solved, those killers will probably stay on the lamb, and die free men.
While the murder rate over the last decade dropped by 25%, the rate of serial killings have increased. Meaning, when one is caught, more than one usually takes his place.
There's a huge list of cases of unsolved serial killings and mass murders from around the U.S., and while every once in a while you'll hear that one has been caught, for every B.T.K. (Bind them - Torture them - Kill them, at ten victims - who, interestingly enough, murdered a distant relative of mine) or Green River Killer (48 known victims) there are hundreds of Zodiac-like hunters, who are still on the prowl, and whose names you've never heard of.
Let's look into some of the more interesting, yet unsolved cases of serial murder and mayhem.
The Alphabet Killer: Given this name by police due to the fact that his victims all had strange coincidences with letters and their names. Carmen Colon was killed in Churchville. Wanda Walkowicz was killed in Webster, and Michelle Maenza was killed in Macedon. New York, 1971 - 73
The Babysitter: With seven known victims ranging in ages 11 to 16, the killer (who some think is female) is called "the babysitter" due to care of the bodies, who were often fed before death, then cleaned, manicured, and always left out in fresh snow, placed in funerary positions. Michigan, 1976 - 77
Black Businessmen Murders: Killed six African-American businessmen, each shot execution style (back of the head), with robbery as the main motive. All killings were done after business hours, and the victims were left to die where killed, though one was pulled from a river. Illinois, 1971 - 72
Castration Murders: Dubbed so for the killers mode of operation, which is a shot to the head and then removal of victims genitals. Four victims are known from two states, with ballistics and fingerprints confirming that it's the work of one killer. Utah and Oklahoma, 1981 - 86
The Doodler: With 17 attacks, and 14 deaths, his victims were either drag queens picked off the street or gay men picked up at sadomasochistic leather bars. The killer was called "the Doodler" by the press because those that lived told of being picked up by the assailant after he drew cartoon pictures of them. California, 1974 - 75
The Frankford Slasher: Killing seven women in the Frankford District where Sylvester Stallone shot Rocky, the Slasher's victims were all female, stabbed 20 to 30 times, and each was slashed with a gash from the navel to vagina. Pennsylvania, 1986 - 90
Freeway Phantom: Five D.C. girls from the ages of 12 to 17 were found under highway overpasses or near highway exits. All five were raped, and later killed by strangulation or gunshot. In nearby Maryland several female victims were found killed and dumped in the same manner, but authorities refuse to believe it’s the work of the same killer. Washington D.C., 1971 - 73 / Maryland, 1983 - 86
The Highway Killer: Just one of many "highway killers", this killer took out nine women in just a few months time. From April to September, victims were abducted and later found rotting hidden behind bushes on the side of the highway. Many of the bodies were dropped directly across from where the last body was found. Massachusetts, 1988
The Occult Murders: With 14 known victims, this murderer picked up female hitchhikers, ages 12 to 22. Many were killed with poison, and later molested. Some of the bodies were left in the same locations as previously discovered victims. The "occult" angle stems from twigs placed in a certain fashion near the bodies, as well as each had a missing earring.
Priest Murders: All four known victims, from all over the U.S., were Catholic priests. All found shot to death, some with of the bodies torched. Each had their car stolen and later set ablaze. Robbery was ruled out as many had large amounts of cash on them, and the first victim was driving a van with thousands of dollars of audio and video equipment. AL, NM, MT & OK, 1982 - 85
Prostitute Murders: Hookers pretty much being trash, and serial killers being dubbed "nature's garbage men" by many newfangled social Darwinists, there truly are too many to name. Some of the unsolved ones are from California 85 - 87, D.C. 89, Michigan 90 - 97, Minnesota 96, Mississippi 94 - 96, New York 89 - 92, Rhode Island 90 - 92, Texas 90 - 97, and so on and so on and so on.
Taxi Cab Murders: Another set of could-be-victims for murderers are cab drivers. One in NY from 1990 had the killer possibly find excitement by shooting 5 taxi drivers in the head, all while the car was still cruising down the street, ending the ride in an accident. Another, from 1980, also in NY, where three cabbies on three nights in a row had their hearts removed from their chest. Last to report is the disappearance of four cab drivers from Texas in 1984, where two of the cabs were found in Florida.
Truck Driving Killers: If you're gonna hitch for rides, stay away from truckers. These speed freak, coke snortin' yahoos are a bad bunch. Here's a list of just some that have been caught; Scott Cox, 20 victims; J. J. Fautenberry, 5 killings; Alvin Wilson; 11 murders, 12 rapes; B. J. Boyle, 1 rape, 2 murders; James Cruz, possibly 5, with only one confirmed; Oscar Bolin Jr., 3 known, but suspect in 12 others; Robert Ben Rhoades, 2 victims, and traveled with a homemade torture kit; Sean Goble, 3 victims.
If this doesn't convince you, how about this...
I'm taking my Commercial Driver's License test soon.
- Adel
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| Sex... It's Out of My Hands. |
[Jan. 24th, 2007|10:28 pm] |
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| | Liberation by Jackie-O Motherfucker | ] |
There was a time when simple acts of masturbatory fantasies were just that: fantasies.
Now, even the most outrageous kinks some would disturb their privates for are available en mass. It's all become public imagery.
Even what you know to be illegal, and of today's worst taboos, pedophilia, is available. For years a site called candyman.com operated (until a recent FBI bust), with only pervs that paid good money to find it, knowing about it.
Where once some fellow had to go down to his basement to check his hidden spot to pull out, maybe, cutouts from magazines pasted together of shoes, or bras, today reclines in the living room, while mom's taking the kids to soccer, to check his Mac for a secret folder of jpegs, Quicktime flicks and chat logs with fellow shoe, or bra enthusiasts.
There's a reason a computer's keyboard has now replaced the kitchen sink (which once replaced the toilet) as the most dirty, scummy and bacteria filled place in one's home.
Crap. I'm backing a w a y from m ine as I w rite thi s.
You have to admit it is all thanks to the machine most of us can't live without, as well as the currently most popular way to stay in touch.
That would be your computer and the internet.
Not that long ago it was all the TV's fault, with many claiming TV brought sex into the home. Before that if you were a transsexual, you were a tranny in your room. Thanks to Springer, Maury and Montel, you could now be a tranny on TV.
That should make one wonder if it's the fetish alone, or the added exhibitionism that makes many seek out this attention.
Those that didn't like what was being broadcast had to turn it off, and tune it out, while others went out to buy a VCR to kick it up hardcore style.
Until the worldwide weirdness came along, then masturbation not only got out of hand, but got out on screens everywhere.
The web's best asset became the availability of, well... everything, along with an anonymous-factor to finding it all. But, the whole "anonymity of the web" has gotten out of hand. Web etiquette went out the window a few years back and has made it to where people whom I've never met, frequently ask me questions about the strangest topics; from what I like to touch myself to, to where I can score some sweet shit.
Some don't even care about anonymity, as a Google search for Nazi fetishes pulls up some quite interesting sites and groups for those that like to bang - or be banged - while dressed in SS garb, swastikas and all. The most popular in this search was Cuddly Necro Babes, and their 'Nazi Girls of the Web' section, at only $5.95 a month. I thought that would be below the Necro Babes' taste, but I guess corpse-fuckers don't have much when it comes to standards.
It used to be that you'd have to at least schlep to the video store and rent titles like "Hitler's Harlot", "SS Beast Woman" and "Gestapo Ass Fuck" (actual Nazi fetish films of the 1970s) for this kind of fun. I know internet porn develops the art of one-handed typing, but watching video leaves both hands free: one for wackin' it, the other for sieg heiling.
Furries have a larger presence on the web. These oddballs dress up in sports team's mascot outfits, Disney characters' suits, or children's-party animal costumes for some loveable, fuzzball freakout. The thought of those big, fuzzy getups just leaves some flustered, I guess, shouting in the middle of sex, "Don't look at my human eyes!"
The gay community thought this was so weird they stopped calling hairy guys "furries", changing it to "bears".
If you didn't think either was strange enough, there's also Nazi furries. Wikipedia defining them as the few who never get their hearts and loins pumping harder than when seeing one in full Nazi uniform, with say, the head of the San Diego Chicken, or Hello Kitty.
The furry fetish stems from either needing to anthropomorphize animals, or the subject having zoomorphia. The Nazi one may come from being one guilty whitey, a masochistic Jew, or just really liking cleanliness and order a whole lot.
The mixing of the two though, boggles my analytical mind.
There is so much more out there.
Spankers are ones who can't get off unless their bottoms are beaten red.
Diaper people are those who like to dress up as babies, and be treated as such. Pooping themselves, so their diapees can be changed.
Messies are people who love to screw with food. I don't mean screw around with it, but actually have sex, while smearing food over themselves. Then there's rotting messies, who are messies into - you guessed it - rotting food.
Vomit chuggers, scatologists, golden shower aficionados... all of them are out there, online, and waiting to ask, "Are you into this too?" |
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| Attack of the Elvi |
[Aug. 15th, 2006|01:56 am] |
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Next year, today, it'll be thrity years since the pilled-out King of Rock and Roll passed on the crapper.
His music was played throughout the house by my mother when I was very young. She made me watch his Vegas special in the 70s. Then he died and I kinda forgot about him.
Until listening to Public Enemy in the early 90s, where Chuck D raps, "Elvis was a hero to most, but he never meant shit to me. You see, straight-up racist that sucker was, simple and plain. Motherfuck him and John Wayne." ('Fight the Power')
Huh? My mother loved no racist, but my dad.
I later heard Elvis was spotted flying around in a UFO, later hanging out with Bigfoot.
Que? Flying saucers and Sasquatch.
What the hell am I to believe about this "king", as well as my mom's musical taste?
I had to do some research. I soon found Presley was many things: a pervert, a paranoid, a drug addict - but not a racist, and definitely no yeti-loving, spaceman.
It was believed Elvis once said, "The only thing I want from black folks is to shine my boots and buy my records." Today, this is deemed a myth, similar to BK Shoes being owned by the British Knights of the Ku Klux Klan or Gloria Vanderbuilt asking blacks not to wear her jeans. It's well known Elvis risked his neck to hang out at black jump-joints in his youth, as well as older black musicians claiming he actually helped many of their careers.
As much as Elvis was, and is now, to his fans, he has nothing on them… who are mostly nuts. Well, nuttier than him, at least.
Here in the states, Elvismania hits hardest.
New Jersey resident Fran Horrocks loved Presley so much that when her daughter died she buried her clutching an Elvis LP and in a dress Fran wore to her first Elvis show. Her husband soon divorced her claiming, "excessive devotion to Elvis Presley." The ex-Mrs. Horrocks moved to Memphis to be closer to the King's corpse.
Inventor Rich Twedell made veggie and fruit containers that encased the plant material so it may grow in a desired shape. His Elvis-head editions were his best seller, until Elvis Presley Enterprises gave him the "cease and desist."
An entire book, written by Al Jacobs ('The Two Kings'), covers coincidence and comparisons in the lives of Christ and Presley.
In Alabama an Elvis impersonator named Orion was so good at fooling talk shows and voice experts with his fake tape recorded "messages from Elvis" (after the King's death), that he released an album of cover songs, complete with duets with Jerry Lee Lewis and Carl Perkins, and backed by Elvis' original band The Jordanaries. It was also claimed by many a conspiracy theorist that Orion was a cover for Elvis so he could still record music, while keeping the public believing him to be dead.
Musicians love him so much they sing songs about a man who sung songs, like Mojo Nixon's "Elvis Is Everywhere" and The Residents "The King and Eye". Some bands even impersonate him, like Dred Zeppelin's Tortelvis and Mexico's El Vez.
But, brothers and sisters, the King is so loved the world over, people want to lick him, as after the U.S. finally released an Elvis stamp, Bhutan, Guyana, Antigua, Virgin Islands and even the Republic of Chad (theirs' with Elvis musically battling it out with Bill Clinton and his saxophone) issued Elvi stamps.
In Queensland, Australia a Greek Elvis impersonator and grocer named his new store, Grapeland, while legally changing his name to Elvis Parsley.
In parts of Europe, many of those caught up in the Messianic bloodline theory have claimed Elvis descends from the lineage of the House of David. Some have gone so far as to claim he died while reading a book on the shroud of Turin.
When Elvis-san broadcast "Aloha from Hawaii" in Japan, he received 98 percent of the viewing audience.
In Newcastle, England, artist Shaun Odour publishes, what many Elvis fan called, "the worst Elvis publication ever", which was no more than photographs of models with Elvis' face superimposed. England is also where they made the documentary 'To Find Me', where they follow the life of Jarrow Elvis, who many Elvis fans believe to be the "worst Elvis impersonator ever."
The Granddaddy of Rock 'N' Roll did have his retractors too, as many visit Graceland to gape in awe, while others visit to… heave scorn? Yep, Elvis Presley Enterprises quickly removes any graffiti found on the property. Some that have been missed and caught on camera are:
"Elvis may be king, but he ain't no Joe Strummer."
"Distended anus! The King is dead and I feel fine."
- and -
"Elvis - smoke crack in Hell, you fat, dead fuck!"
A Russian newspaper, 'Youth World', once wrote, "Elvis Presley was a weapon of the American psychological war aimed at influencing a part of inhumanity. Making our adolescents want to destroy anything that is beautiful in order to prepare for war."
I wonder what they thought of punk rock?
The German army agreed in a public statement by writing, "The misuse of rock-n-roll by NATO forces us in its Cold War against the Socialist nations."
All in all, it seems I have a hell of a lot more to write about the wackiness of fans and haters of the King, over the King himself, but then again I haven't checked out his movies yet.
- Adel
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