Today's Topics:
Dave Barry evangelists
negativland
UFO special Friday eve
yup, duped again
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Message-Id: <9110180749.AA13127@fernwood.mpk.ca.us>
From: Lang_Zerner@go.com
Date: 18 Oct 91 00:04
To: subgenius@mc.lcs.mit.edu
Subject: Dave Barry evangelists
> Date: Thu, 17 Oct 91 10:49:29 EDT
> From: aldo@think.com
>
> From: Eric Haines <erich@eye.com>
> Subject: nuke the whales
>
> Just passing this on...
>
> This is from harold zatz, who got it from a friend at caltech.
>
> >From Tom Tucker
> I am absolutely not making this incident up
> [...]
>
> Just for the record, this is a plagiarized exerpt from a column by Dave
> Barry, a columnist for the Miami Herald.
.. and your personal saviour, without doubt. Shall I let him into my heart
so that all my sins shall be forgiven? For X' sake, if it is news it is
news. "The heathen, may he rot in baby oil, dared repeat a news story that
our Davey did report in the Holy Column (blessed be the syndicated)!" Jumpin'
J'hova fat, why don't you barryites suck down a coupla horse-sized chill
pills and admit that not everything "He" writes is his privately-owned
fucking gospel for whose sampling we should flagellate ourselves in
gratitude. The guy said he saw a videotape of a local NEWSCASTER reporting
at the scene! Oh, but of course, that must have been the Dave Barry hoax
video, that He, in his all-seeing wisdom, created so that the unwashed might
fall victim to the temptation of DARING to believe the unholy lie that real
life might, on even the rarest occasion, be a tad, a smidge, NAY a teeny,
weeeny, itty, bitty HAIR funnier than that which the most illustrious One
reports. Silly me.
Get a life. He's not that funny.
Ciao,
The Rt. Rev. K'houtek Hyphen-Dache
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Message-Id: <m0kXo4M-0003CUC@romulus.reed.edu>
Date: Fri, 18 Oct 91 00:10 PDT
From: Nelson Minar <minar@reed.edu>
To: subgenius@mc.lcs.mit.edu
Subject: negativland
>what I wanna know: how much of this is true? did David Brom of Rochester
>Minnesota really do the forthy-whacks to his mom, dad, bro, and sis?
>and was it over the track christianity is stupid?
The straight dope seems to be that the murder really DID happy in Minn,
but that it had nothing to do with Negativland. Their music, how their
music was not involved. This comes from reading the notes carefully,
talking to the band, a person in Minn. who remembers the murder, and the
fact that Hal Eisner really is a real California news broadcaster and those
are real honest to god broadcasts. Negativland engineered the whole thing -
its known as a media virus.
The best Negativland album is probably still Escape From Noise, justb
because its listenable. All of the albums are damn good, and Big 10-8
place was just released on CD and would you believe it sounds even
better? I bet you would. Its true. I read it, and I heard it with my
own two eyes. The third thing that happens..
I also saw them in concert, and I suggest you pull the Scam to do this
yourself. See them in concert. Do it. Now. Not later, now. Well, not now,
it will have to be later. They did this song that went something like "
A bible carved this nation out of the wilderness
A submachine gun and a bible carved this nation out of the wilderness
A machete, a submachine gun, and a bible carved this nation out of the
wilderness
"
three $ gets donated to your favourite charity if you can tell me which
of the weird Negativland tapes this song is available on. Its great. They
performed it in front of a video of a rotating neon cross
Jesus loves me, this I know,
cuz the Bible tells me so!
Cthulhu loathes me, this I know,
cuz AlHazrad tells me so!
never trust the Subgenius.
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To: The network Clench <SubGenius@mc.lcs.mit.edu>
Subject: UFO special Friday eve
Date: Fri, 18 Oct 91 01:07:06 -0400
Message-ID: <1198.687762426@ANKARA.MT.CS.CMU.EDU>
From: Todd_Kaufmann@ankara.mt.cs.cmu.edu
produced by henry winkler,
on fox network,
8or9pm,
discussing various sitings,
and area 51.
interview last night on larry king,
attracted the kooks,
interesting anecdotes.
a second part may be in the works
depending upon the initial reception
watch for a new flurry of interest among the masses.
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Message-Id: <9110181741.AA04752@juniper>
From: Eric Haines <erich@eye.com>
Date: Fri, 18 Oct 1991 13:41:57 EDT
To: subgenius@media-lab.media.mit.edu
Subject: yup, duped again
>From: "Crazy Irma, she's gonna go nuts!" <hsm@kepler.unh.edu>
>Subject: negativland
>
>recently purchased Negativland's album Helter Stupid, which is based on the
>premise that the band came under fire in 1987-88 when a 16-year-old in
>Michigan axe-murdered his family over an argument about "Christianity is
>Stupid", a track from N'land's album "Escape from Noise".
>
>The liner notes go on about the media circus that (naturally) surrounded
>the event and that the band tried to exacerbate the situation by sending
>mixed signals to the media in hopes of exposing how the media sensationalizes everything and the cannibalistic way in which news becomes new news.
>
>
>what I wanna know: how much of this is true? did David Brom of Rochester,
>Minnesota really do the forty-whacks to his mom, dad, bro and sis?
>and was it over the track Christianity is Stupid
>
>or am I just being a dupe?
Partially duped, which was the point. There's a too long article on all this
in "Mondo 2000", Issue 2 (Summer 1990). Yes, David Brom did do in his
relatives. The NY Times then mentions that David and his father may have
argued over a music tape David had listened to. The Broms are described as a
devout Roman Catholic family.
About three weeks later Negativland sends a phony press release for
distribution which attributes the cancellation of the tour to pressure from
"Federal Official Dick Jordan" who has advised the band not to leave town
pending an investigation of the Brom murders. The press release implies that
David & parents argued over the "Christianity is Stupid" song.
There's a lot more, but the essence is that Negativland fully admitted later
that they had totally made up the original press release. What's amusing is
to see how the press' desire to break a big story overcame their worries about
not being able to confirm any of the press release (e.g. no one found the
nonexistent Dick Jordan). Some reporters tried, but the story was too
exciting to not print. Other reporters simply rehashed a lot of it without
any critical thought. Pretty amusing.
Eric Haines
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To: trudel@athos.rutgers.edu
CC: Subgenius@mc.lcs.mit.edu
In-Reply-To: <CMM-RU.1.0.687705246.trudel@athos.rutgers.edu>
Reply-to: ingria@bbn.com
Date: Fri, 18 Oct 91 16:52:47 EDT
From: ingria@bbn.com
Message-ID: <9110181655.aa07028@mc.lcs.mit.edu>
Date: Thu, 17 Oct 91 9:14:06 EDT
From: Jonathan <trudel@athos.rutgers.edu>
> From: Eric Haines <erich@eye.com>
> Subject: Bible cards - swap 'em, trade 'em
>Jesus, Augustus, John the Baptist and 161 other figures from the New Testament
>will adorn baseball-sized cards soon,
>If anyone finds the address of these guys, please pass it on,
>as I'd love to order some cards. Hmmm, I wonder if an interesting Tarot deck
>could be made with them...
Nah. Imagine, if you will:
"I call. Whaddya got"
"Three Blessed Virgins."
"Sheeeeit. I just had a lousy pair of Jews."
"Hold it. My Apostolic Straight beats your ladies."
This is starting to sound like Lenny Bruce's ethnic poker, where he
would describe the audience as if they were a hand in poker:
Well, I've got a pair of niggers, a kike, a wop, and a spic.
Hah, I've got two pair of polocks.
etc.
Check out the script for the play ``Lenny'' for a complete dialogue
along these lines. Me, I fold with a Sicilian straight flush...
-30-
Bob
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