Photo Archive from Terra:Extremitas now online http://tinyurl.com/6cpxq9
Photo Archive from Terra:Extremitas now online
Gun rights article from 1957
Download 10-meg zipped PDF of magazine.
or
This is the complete “Guns” magazine from Sept. 1957. Has lots of cute ‘n’ dorky photos of WASPy father/son bonding over guns, advertisements for mail-order 20 dollar Remington shotguns and mail-order 40 dollar fully automatic machine guns, as well as an interesting article (starts on page 22) called “Why Not a PRO-Gun Law?” (in which the author also admits he’s a felon, having purchased confiscated guns from cop friends.)
This mag, and all the photos, somehow kinda make me miss my grandfather.
(StinkFight.com)
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“Guns is a magazine for the recreational and competitive shooter, hunter, collector, and firearm owner. Each issue features new products, shooting competitions, history, and trade show coverage. From handguns to shotguns, this monthly magazine provides the ultimate coverage in the field of firearms.Features proper gun use, hunting techniques, collecting, firearms legislation, and new guns and accessories.
“Since 1955, sportsmen and enthusiasts have turned to Guns Magazine for the latest news on firearms, training, hunting, accessories and more. In the field or on the range, you’ll find the information you need to make the shooting sports more enjoyable.”
September 1957
The GSpot #39: Greg Kuehn
Joseph Matheny speaks with Greg Kuehn, who was fresh back from Warped Tour with TSOL. They talk about Greg’s life in TSOL, life as a musician and the new media landscape, and more. Music: Darker My Love (TSOL) and This Town’s Nowhere (The West Coast Dukes).
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Greg Kuehn (composer)
An accomplished composer and musician, Greg’s career began in Orange County’s early punk scene, when he left his classical piano studies at Cal State Long Beach to join punk icons T.S.O.L. Together they made the groundbreaking Beneath The Shadows album, still a highly regarded and influential work. Following his tenure in T.S.O.L., he spent several years as a recording and touring musician working with artists including Bob Dylan, The Church, Berlin and Ian Astbury of The Cult.
Greg got his start in film working on the score for cult classic Repo Man, on which he arranged music and played keyboards. Since then, Greg has scored numerous films, including Bandwagon, winner of the Maverick award at the Newport Beach Film Festival 2005, and “Born to Lose”, Doug Cawker’s loser epic on Provisional Films. Greg’s most recent film project is the acclaimed documentary, “Confessions of a Superhero”, produced by Morgan Spurlock. He is also set to begin composing on the feature documentary “We Were Feared” about the punk Mecca, The Cuckoo’s Nest in Costa Mesa and directed by Jonathan Mills.
Greg has scored hundreds of television commercials, and recent campaigns include DirecTV, Netflix and Mini Cooper. His company, Peligro Music and Sound Design continues to thrive as one of Los Angeles’ most sought after boutique music houses.
As musical director for singer / actress Megan Mullally, Greg has produced two critically acclaimed cd’s: The Sweetheart Break-In, and Big As A Berry. Their band, Supreme Music Program, continues to perform nationally, and is in preparation for the recording their third album.
Greg is currently writing and producing albums for punk icons Jack Grisham (TSOL), and Duane Peters (U.S. Bombs, The Huns).
Greg’s teenage sons, Elvis and Max are members of The Diffs, a great American rock band appearing at last year’s SXSW music festival. Their debut record on SOS records received high praise from numerous national publications, and their sophomore album will be released this year.
www.peligromusic.com
www.suprememusicprogram.com
www.myspace/thekuehnandjonesporchestra.com
www.myspace/thediffs
Fallen Nation: Babylon Burning optioned by Invictus Films & SB Productions
Just a quick announcement for those that have been following along here because I can’t contain myself- You read the title right. The film rights to Fallen Nation: Babylon Burning have been optioned by Invictus Films & SB Productions. Expect many more updates to come!
FTR #167: No, the Aliens STILL Aren’t Among Us!
Yet more of the infamous Alien series.
Master and Margarita Miniseries (2005)
Mikhail Bulgakov’s Master and Margarita is as relevant today as it was when he first concieved of the idea. Insightful both in its satire of the specific time and place of its creation and as an illustration of the degradation and suffocation of the human spirit and intellect under an overarching thechnocratic tyranny.
One can see the influence of Bulgakov’s writing in the magical realism of Salman Rushdie and the magic(k)al surrealism of Giger.
From http://www.masterandmargarita.eu:
The punitive expedition of the devil throughout Moscow, Margarita’s search for her lover and excerpts from the Master’s novel about Pontius Pilate are the most important materials for The Master and Margarita. The book is not only a funny and sometimes caustic criticism on the soviet society between 1920 and 1940 but also a touching love story… And the devil, after all, does not at all appear a bad chap. The book shows the large creative phantasy of Bulgakov. His work is part of a Russian tradition of satire that started with Gogol and continued with authors as Zostchenko, Ilf and Petrov..
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The Master and Margarita is a satire. In order to understand it completely one should know its context. Bulgakov, born in 1891, was youngster and adolescent in the last years of the regime of czar Nicolas II. During the civil war following the revolution he took the Whites’ side.
When Stalin came to power he had a very difficult time. His stories, novels and plays were very popular among the public, but unanimously abused by the state critics and banned by the authorities. Though Stalin said that he loved Bulgakov’s plays, he was prohibited to publish them.
From Wikipedia:
The novel alternates between three settings. The first is 1930s Moscow, which is visited by Satan in the guise of Woland or Voland (Воланд), a mysterious gentleman “magician” of uncertain origin, who arrives with a retinue that includes the grotesquely dressed “ex-choirmaster” valet Koroviev (Fagotto) (Фагот, the name means “bassoon” in Russian and some other languages), a mischievous, gun-happy, fast-talking black cat Behemoth (Бегемот, a subversive Puss in Boots, the name referring at once to the Biblical monster and the Russian word for Hippopotamus), the fanged hitman Azazello (Азазелло, hinting of Azazel), the pale-faced Abadonna (Абадонна, a reference to Abbadon) with a death-inflicting stare, and the witch Hella (Гелла). The havoc wreaked by this group targets the literary elite, along with its trade union, MASSOLIT (a Soviet-style abbreviation for “Moscow Society of Literature”, but possibly interpretable as “Literature for the Masses”; one translation of the book also mentions that this could be a play on words in Russian, which could be translated into English as something like “LOTTALIT”), its privileged HQ-cum-restaurant Griboyedov’s House, corrupt social-climbers and their women (wives and mistresses alike) – bureaucrats and profiteers – and, more generally, skeptical unbelievers in the human spirit.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mikhail_Bulgakov
http://www.masterimargarita.eu/
Original Russian txt | English txt
Download torrent (4.12gb avi)
Halfcast Revision Part 2 - Ep 6-10
Halfcast Revision Part 2 - Ep 6-10
Some randomly assorted bits from episode 6-10, enjoy.Episode 12 coming very soon, I promise.
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or copy and paste
http://feeds.feedburner.com/HalfcastPodcast
into your podcasting software
Playlist after the more
Francoise Hardy/Marc Lavoine - Chere Amie
The Secret Word
My First Trumpet - Dipl Link
Video store mutilation
Monks - Drunken Maria
A Taze of Justice
Goblin - buio omega
A close encounter
Mark Mothersbaugh - Ned’s Theme
Cloud 911
Keith Emerson - Mark’s Discovery
The Fags
John Murphy - Don Abandons Alice
Dr. Zombie
Aronas - Happy Song
Stoned relief
Alexandre Desplat - Camera Obscura
Boob Honk
Ennio Morricone - Ninna nanna in blu
Funeranal
Piero Piccioni - Black Flower
Internal piercings
Phillip Glass - Facades
Annoyagedon
John Zorn - Trance Dance
Dr. Boredom
Kids and Drugs
Michael Andrews - The Artifact and Living
Dr. Disease
Turkington on JFK
Dream Analysis
+ Ends and Odds
FTR #68: The Aliens Are STILL Not Among Us (from 07/97)
More from the “Aliens” series.
FTR #68: The Aliens Are STILL Not Among Us (from 07/97) [67:00m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | DownloadFarewell
From JL: Erika Whiteway just emailed me that Carmen Hermosillo, aka humdog, died. I looked for an obit and found a post by my former FringeWare partner, Paco Nathan. “Among those who formed the core of FringeWare,” he says, “Humdog becomes the first of us to go to our ancestors.” Tiffany Lee Brown reports that there’ll be a memorial service in Second Life tomorrow. LINK
Hummy was a friend and a former contributor to sTaRe, as well as the ages old kaospri. We miss ya already.
Naked
It’s likely that I’m bringing up a film many here has seen, but recent looks at apocalyptonazis/cult-crit hand-wringers et al had me thinking of sort of nihilistic apocalyptic dread that seem to come over people in waves.One of the creative highlights in the carreer of Mike Leigh, and David Thewliss in the performance of a lifetime, Naked is not soon forgotten.I find the following section from a review written a few years after the film was made amusing. I wonder at those films mentioned, (Brassed Off, Four Weddings And A Funeral, The Full Monty), being in the category of great films. Maybe by those critics who do the reviews for the lunchtime tv news. Maybe it’s the same half-blind hindsight that makes people think that, in the America of the -50’s, everyone lived like th’Beaver. Or the way the middle-brow faction who make up the majority of modern classical audiences and patrons who feel very comforted to be told that neo-classicism has vanquished and negated modernist movements in music.
From – http://www.uncut.co.uk/film/mike_leigh/reviews/11953“It’s easy to forget Naked now, particularly as within four years of its 1993 release the grim, broken remnants of Thatcher’s Britain had been washed away in the triumphal swell of Cool Britannia. When folks on those talking heads shows reminisce about the Greatest British Films Of The 1990s, they usually direct their praise to the feelgood films that reflected the euphoria of Tony Blair’s rise to power – Brassed Off, Four Weddings And A Funeral, The Fully Monty. Even the nihilism, heroin and dead babies of Trainspotting was deemed acceptable in the mad-fer-it, anything-goes mid-’90s.”
There always seems to be another Armageddon waiting to take over the the one before. Similarly, people will fit a work of art into, or in opposition to their world view. Left and right trade off glib dismissals of any given time period. Blair has certainly left a trail of nihilism and a flood of Afgan heroin much greater in scope and reach in the UK than any other time. That’s saying a lot.
I must add that I think this film has more in common with the existentialists than the kind of art that specifically addresses issues of a particular moment in time. I come away feeling that the main character’s agony is spiritual, and he’s just the proverbial canary in the shaft… The dis-ease is manifest in every single character, and the journey is Rabelais by way of Martin Amis mediated by Sartre. Substitute every mention of 1999 with 2012, and we’re up to date, and perhaps on the subject of a perpetual condition.
The end came and only the crazy-eyed wastrel on the corner noticed.
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New podcast: RADIO FREE NESTLANDIA
The Radio Free Nestlandia Act was ratified by a unanimous vote of the First Continental Congress of the micronation of Nestlandia on August 11, 2008. This provided funding for the formation and continued operation of Radio Free Nestlandia.
Radio Free Nestlandia is rated PG, but is slightly subversive, and quite amusing.
Website: http://www.nestlandia.com/
RSS feed: http://www.nestlandia.com/?feed=rss2
From the site:
Welcome to the sovereign nation of NESTLANDIA. NESTLANDIA is a two-person micronation located in Southern California. The population of two consists of married couple Michael W. Dean and Debra Jean Dean.
We’re working on a constitution and a national anthem now.Michael W. Dean and Debra Jean Dean (known sometimes as ThornDaddy and Dollie Llama) seceded August 7, 2008. Not from the USA, but from the WORLD. (We’re still part of the USA, still pay taxes and don’t break the laws and all that, but we’re pretty tired of being a part of the world at large.)
We’ve declared our property in Southern California a sovereign micronation called NESTLANDIA. (We also own an annexed protectorate in Kenna, New Mexico.) NESTLANDIA is named after our home, which we call “the Nest.”
Details and discussion about the formation of Nestlandia are on the Submission and Coffee” podcast - must be of legal age), episode 167, here; and episode 168, here.”
Episode one up now: Michael W. Dean and his talented wife Debra Jean Dean talk about love, unconventional marriage, The Sopranos, cat ownership, life in the suburbs, micronations, starting your own country, First- and Second-Amendment rights, being unable to vote for anyone from any party, life in the The Conejo Valley, ThornDaddy, Dollie Llama, conspiracy theories, starting a worldwide radio station in your bedroom, and what it’s like to be peace-lovin’ people who own a shotgun.
RIPPLE #25: A Place To Bury Strangers
Today on RIPPLE:
Ray and the Rev interview Oliver Ackermann from the band A Place To Bury Strangers about touring this year and Death By Audio, the Brooklyn-based effects pedal company he founded.
THE HUMANURE HANDBOOK
A GUIDE TO COMPOSTING HUMAN MANURE3rd edition - Published September 1, 2005
by Joseph Jenkins
255 pages, 42 tables and charts, 55 drawings, 19 photos, glossary, index, and a few bad jokes
3rd edition - ISBN-13: 978-0-9644258-3-5; ISBN-10: 0-9644258-3-1
“Despite all the books on manure and how to use it, human manure composting is not covered elsewhere, making THE HUMANURE HANDBOOK: A GUIDE TO COMPOSTING HUMAN MANURE a fine reference for any who would learn these basics. Now in its 3rd edition, THE HUMANURE HANDBOOK covers all the basics of human waste management, from septic systems to commercial composting toilets, sewers, and more. A history of various composting methods, science, and problems is accompanied by a healthy dose of humor plus a solid foundation of science into pathogens, pros and cons of competing systems, and more. If you’re an avid composter, there’s nothing like this on the market.” (This torrent was contributed to Greylodge by the publisher)
From the publisher: “A paradigm shift in waste management, where microorganisms are the superstars and Water is eliminated from the whole “waste” equation. Help seed to show your support”
Hipster: The Dead End of Western Civilization
We’ve reached a point in our civilization where counterculture has mutated into a self-obsessed aesthetic vacuum. So while hipsterdom is the end product of all prior countercultures, it’s been stripped of its subversion and originality. (Cover story of Adbusters Issue #79, hitting the newsstands now or read on-line.)
Very true indeed
Act One. What Part of “Bomb” Don’t You Understand?Rachel North was on a train that got blown up during the London subway bombings. After writing a very popular blog about her experience and her recovery afterward, Rachel became a spokeswoman for a survivors’ group. Then conspiracy theorists—who believed that there were no bombings and that the whole thing was a cover-up by the British government—started attacking her online, saying she was a spy…or a plant by the police…or,worse, that she didn’t exist at all. Jon Ronson tells her story.
Jon writes books, hosts radio shows, and produces BBC documentaries—all of which you can check out on his website. A version of this story appeared on his BBC Radio Four series Jon Ronson On….
Rachel North has written a book about her experience, called Out of the Tunnel. (20 1/2 minutes)
Song: “Tell It Like It Is,” Dirty Dozen Brass Band
(Note from GL editorial: Having witnessed this kind of ass*ole behavior by the conspiracy crew many times in my life, this piece hit home for me. So, I decided to share. Plus I really like Jon Ronson.)
