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Entartete Kunts [LINK-ZUM]

"Entartete Kunts" is a playful bastardization of the German term "degenerate art" and a snide reference to the 1937 Nazi purging of all art deemed objectionable by "Der Fuhrer." This unfortunate pun seems somehow appropriate for a bunch of drooling degenerates that consistently crank out uncompromising eyesores with seemingly little regard for commercial viability or good taste. As it turns out, the title also insures that many local businesses will refuse to display the flyer or otherwise promote this annual optic apocalypse. Entartete Kunts is in fact a very special exhibition that assembles some of the most devoted artists from around the world for a rare glimpse into a thriving and still largely renegade culture!

Featuring J. Petagno, Chris Reifert, Drew Elliott, Rev. Kriss Hades, Conny Cobra, Mannuel Tinnemans, Nor Prego, Glenn Smith, Strephon Taylor, T. Ketola, Joseph A. Smith, French, Musta Aurinko, Paul "Unhinged" McCarroll, Bobby BeauSoleil and Dennis Dread.

OPENING RECEPTION
Friday JUNE 20 2008
7pm-10pm
OPTIC NERVE ARTS

[All text from press release. Dennis Dread is well known to readers of OVO as the cover artist for OVO 16 ANTICHRIST. See press release for remarkable biography of each artist. - Trevor Blake]

Labels: art, magick, music, satanism

DJ Scientific [LINK-ZUM]

"Founded in 2005 by veteran DJ, Mark 'Scientific' Branch, Scientific Beats provides top quality music production for artists in the R&B and Hip-Hop genres, as well as top quality DJs for industry events. The founder, DJ Scientific, has been making people dance in clubs and at private affairs across the country for nearly 2 decades, starting in the mid '80s while in Junior High School.

"One day while talking to students about what he does outside of NASA (namely his life as a DJ on TV and in the clubs), he noticed that the students became more attentive. Once he captured their attention, they were more receptive to learn about the plethora of career possibilities in STEM [The Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics Education Coalition]. After that life-changing experience, Scientific chose to utilize Hip-Hop culture as a means to capture the attention of students and direct their energies toward a focus on improving their scholastic performance. At this time, he is working on a plan to broaden his talks and get involved with 'at-risk' kids at a DC elementary school to see if his ideas will improve those students' scholastic performance and foster an attitude of furthering their education past high school and on to college and beyond! We all hope that he is successful with this endeavor."

Labels: music, rockets

GADGETTO: Certain Men Always Get Their Way [LINK-ZUM]

See also: cover art, mp3.

Labels: music, video

Trevor Blake: Music Recommendations [LINK-ZUM]

The Cock N Bull Kid: [myspace] [video]
Mochipet: [myspace] [video]
Time Served: streaming audio show hosted by Guy, J.Dub, Sharpshooter & Rapid MC on dnbradio.com.
Tom Ellard: [past] [archive] [present]

file2hd is an online tool useful for extracting audio files from myspace. downloadthemall is a Firefox plugin useful for downloading large amounts of audio from Web pages.

Labels: music, tools, video

Trevor Blake: Insects in Cans [LINK-ZUM]

Exhibit one:
Dr. Lance Sanchez USDA Approved Hornet Nest in a Can, Use It Today. From the film Splash Splash Oops. Portland Oregon USA, 3 August 2005.

Exhibit two:
The Modesto Bee: Angela Nellany didn't admit that she tried to kill her estranged husband with a can of wasps.

Exhibit three:
Negativland - Nesbitt's Lime Soda Song [video]

We spent a lovely summer, my wife Elaine and me,
We bought us a great big motor home, with a shower and TV,
We was camping and having a great time, watching Brokaw on Today,
Till a bee flew into the Nesbitt's Lime Soda, and we had to throw it away.
Now most of the time I'm a peaceful man, but I lost my temper that day,
Just one last bottle of Nesbitt's Lime Soda, and we had to throw it away.
I brought a case of Nehi, and Double Cola, too,
A half a dozen Upper 10's, and good old Mountain Dew,
I bought a quart of cola-a, to get me through the day,
But just one bottle of Nesbitt's Lime Soda, and we had to throw it away.
Now most of the time I'm a peaceful man, but I lost my temper that day,
Just one last bottle of Nesbitt's Lime Soda, and we had to throw it away.
We spent a lovely summer, my wife Elaine and me,
We bought us a great big motor home, with a shower and TV,
We was camping and having a great time, watching Brokaw on Today,
Till a bee flew into the Nesbitt's Lime Soda, and we had to throw it away.
FUCK! GIT - FUCKING GET OUT OF HERE! GET AWAY FROM HERE!
JUST GET THE FUCK AWAY! SHIT!

Exhibit four:
The Onion: Single Bee Sends Gathering Of Humans Into Helpless Panic.

Labels: music, subgenius, video

Trevor Blake: Music Recommendations [LINK-ZUM]

The CockNBull Kid: There's a Mother In Our Bed [mp3] [video] [more]
Ebony Bones: Don't Fart on My Heart [video] [more]
Lily Allen: Smile [video] [more]
Trent Reznor, Jeordie White, Peter Murphy - Warm Leatherette [video]
Barnes and Barnes - Fish Heads [video]
Coil - Tattooed Man [video] [lyrics] [more]

If you want to download audio files from myspace, try file2hd.com - works every time.

Labels: music, tools, video

Dennis Dread Original Art for Sale [LINK-ZUM]

A rare oportunity to own original art by Dennis Dread.

In the late 1980s / early 1990s I lived in Knoxville TN and Dennis lived in New York state. I traded copies of my zine OVO for a t-shirt produced by Mutilation Graphics, and the t-shirt I got was almost certainly screen printed by Dennis. More than ten years later we found ourselves working at the same job, amazed that our paths had crossed years before. Dennis did the cover art work for OVO 16 AntiChrist. I have attended a number of art shows produced by or including Mr. Dread's work, but this is the first time I've seen original works (rather than high-quality prints) for sale. Recommended!

Labels: art, christianity, commerce, music, portland, zine

John Butler Trio - God will Fuck You Up [LINK-ZUM]

Labels: christianity, music, subgenius, video

Tom Ellard: Adenoids [LINK-ZUM]

[I very much like the band Severed Heads. The following by Tom Ellard describes a new limited-edition vinyl set of music by Severed Heads called Adenoids. - Trevor Blake]

And here we have it - the ultimate produce of the new millennium. A box of vinyl discs with music from as much as thirty years ago. Could something express any less faith in the future? My guess is that we seek to capture some 'purity' that has since been encrusted with quibbles. It's a hopeless fetish that leads in an ever contracting spiral - music is born continuously and defies attempts to capture it in decorative tombs. Nevertheless. We have here a very decorative tomb.

Music made from 1977 onwards by people who would be identified for a time as 'Severed Heads'. Much is by Richard Fielding who left in 1982. Some by Andrew Wright, gone in 1980. Some by Bradbury, left in 1985, Deering also. I plan to be quit of it as soon as it ceases bleeding. Meanwhile I hold the tourniquet. In each case the music has been taken from the best copy, cleaned only as much as needed and organised to fit onto long playing vinyl. It is ancient, funny, half arsed, crinkly, clever and juvenile. It was compiled by a prick. All proceeds will be spent by Fielding on horse races. Buy two because they will wear out.

Labels: music

Trevor Blake: Out of the Strong Came Forth Sweetness [LINK-ZUM]

A sluggish golden river, a sickly golden treacle, a golden sticky trickle.

Labels: art, christianity, food, music

Trevor Blake Wishes You A Happy New Year 2008 [LINK-ZUM]

Video by SELENE, audio by SATCHMO.

Labels: music, rockets, video

Trevor Blake: Sleep Chamber Wishes You a Merry XXX-Mas [LINK-ZUM]

Brad Miller is documenting the work of John Zewizz, aka Sleep Chamber. This is much-needed archival work, as Sleep Chamber was a band deserving of far more positive attention than it got. Anyone interested in the sort of sex-heavy occult electronic music of earlier Coil or Psychic TV would do well to see what America had to offer in that genre. I corresponded with John in the late 1980s, trading my zine for his videotapes. Sleep Chamber spawned Women of the SS, who became Women of Sodom. Here is a digitalization of a remarkably rare holiday compilation cassette edited by John Zewizz. John, wherever you are, take care and thank you.

Labels: magick, music, ovo, sex, zine

Trevor Blake: OVO blog October 2007 [LINK-ZUM]

Christ @ Work. The Bible does contain some fine moral advice in it. It also contains some inhumanly evil moral advice. It also contains some foolish nonsense that dresses itself up as moral advice. That doesn't make it much different from any number of other books, ancient and modern.

Extremophiles. What might humanity be able to engineer for ourselves to become extremophiles? What dangers do exremophiles present to humanity?

Interfaith Dialog. In some places, disagreements are resolved by discussion. In other places, disagreements are resolved by flogging.

Islam is Peace. Islam, like Christianity and all religions, is a collection of mean-spirited superstitions invented by illiterate pre-scientific nobodies that we have no reason to heed.

Krankheit. Sometimes sickness is a benefit.

The Latter-Day Saints and the Boy Scouts of America. Maybe it wouldn't be such a terrible thing if the Mormons got out of the Scouting business.

More Sperm. February 2005 saw the return of OVO after 13 years of hibernation. The theme for that issue was 'sperm.' Sperm remains in the news, and here are some of the top sperm stories from the past two years.

Peaceable Protests After Amsterdam Attacks. Police in the Dutch city of Amsterdam say several peaceful protests were held in the sixth night of memorials after officers shot a Moroccan man dead.

Priorities. It seems that other people being free to celebrate or have their own superstitions is intolerable to Muslims, while public whippings and stoning are just fine as long as they occur in-house.

Publius Enigma. It has something to do with Pink Floyd and the Internet and a treasure hunt.

Saturn Return. Saturn Return is when Universe picks you up from under the Christmas tree and shakes you to see if it can figure out what you are.

SB777. SB777 protects religious belief against discrimination. It also protects discrimination in religious belief. Only religion can distort the rule of law to this degree.

Sharia in the United States of America. It is illegal to non-surgically amputate people's hands as a punishment for a crime. Illegal under United States law, but legal under sharia law.

Superstitious Exemption from the Rule of Law. For better and for worse, it is not the case that we can all happily get along. But where there is the rule of law and not force, fiat or superstition we can at least get along peaceably.

Two Articles from All Africa. Replacing witch doctors with Christians is not going to help the situation.

Two Links via God is for Suckers. All money spent on religion is money wasted, wasted more thoroughly than money spent on weapons or torture. At least when someone is killed or tortured, something happened.

Workplace Religious Freedom Act (S. 893). If this bill becomes law, then religious employees will have rights and privileges that no atheist employee can have.

Labels: christianity, extremophiles, islam, krankheit, music, ovo, periodical, sperm, theocracy, zine

Trevor Blake: Publius Enigma [LINK-ZUM]

Publius Enigma. It has something to do with Pink Floyd and the Internet and a treasure hunt. Read yourself silly about it here, here, here or here. Or here, which has the appearance of the kind of mystery marketing currently underway for the movie AI. In WWII there was white propaganda (overt) and black propaganda (covert). White propaganda would include posters of the evil Huns plundering Europe. Black propaganda would include a 'translation' of Nostradamus that hinted Germany would not win the War. Perhaps we could consider this 'black marketing.' [Originally published June 25, 2001. Links updated October 17, 2007. - Trevor Blake]

Labels: music

Trevor Blake: Twenty Recommended Art Links [LINK-ZUM]

When I worked in used and rare bookstores I would sometimes buy art books. That occurs less often now that I do not have an employee's discount. Here are twenty wonderful art links that compensate for that loss, grouped by general themes...

Books and Paper: BibliOdyssey, I Love Typography, Joseph Wu's Origami Page, notebookism, Paper Forest and Stains on Paper.
Old: Art Deco, Beautiful Century, The Boat Lullabies, Modern Mechanix, Posters of Cuba, Pre-Raphaelite Sisterhood, Shorpy, and A Soviet Poster A Day.
Random: A Best Truth, Dark Roasted Blend, Everlasting Blort, FFFFound!, flickr and riot rite right clit clip click.

Labels: art, books, music, ovo, paper

media tags [LINK-ZUM]

architecture art blog books comic comics film flash mac music palm periodical podcasts sewing spoken television ubuntu video zine

Labels: architecture, art, blog, books, comic, comics, film, flash, mac, music, palm, periodical, podcasts, sewing, spoken, television, ubuntu, video, zine

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