One of my all time favorite ditties is Pete Shelley’s 1981 single "Homosapien." Never did see the video until today. I logged on into some message board, and someone pointed out that Pete Shelley pulls out the Fool card from out his crisp white jacket. The Fool card being from Crowley’s Thoth deck. Interesting.
So of course I went to YouTube and checked out this video myself:
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Im the shy boy/Youre the coy boy/Homosapien too/Im the cruiser/Youre the loser/Me and you sir/Homosapien too/Homosuperior/In my interior/But from the skin out/Im homosapien too/And youre homosapien too/And Im homosapien like you/And were homosapien too/And I think of your eyes in the dark and I see the star/And I look to the light and I might wonder right where you are/All the gods in the sky way up high see the world spinning round/But the sun and the moon and the stars are so far from the ground/Im the shy boy/Youre the coy boy/And you know were/Homosapien too/Im the cruiser/Youre the loser/Me and you sir/Homosapien too/Homosuperior/In my interior/But from the skin out/Im homosapien too/And youre homosapien too/And Im homosapien like you/And were homosapien too/And the worlds built of age are a stage where we act out our lives/And the words in the script seem to fit cept we have some surprise/I just want this to last or my future is past and all gone/And if this is the case then Ill lose in lifes race from now on/Homosuperior/In my interior/But from the skin out/Im homosapien too/And youre homosapien too/And Im homosapien like you/And were homosapien too/And I just hope and pray that the day of our love is at hand/You and i, me and you, we will be one from two, understand?/And the world is so wrong that I hope that well be strong enough/For we are on our own and the only thing known is our love/I dont wanna classify you like an animal in the zoo/But it seems good to me to know that youre homosapien too/Im the shy boy/Youre the coy boy/I dont wanna classify you like an animal in the zoo/But it seems good to me to know that youre homosapien too/I dont wanna classify you like an animal in the zoo/But it seems good to me to know that youre homosapien too/I dont wanna classify you like an animal in the zoo/But it seems good to me to know that youre homosapien too
Here's links to two profiles I created on that internet virus otherwise known as MySpace; one for Psycho Bunny, and the other for Babalon Babes. Just click on either link and it should direct you to another portal:
Finally left Kansas City, MO for good during the last week of October 2007. Boy, let me tell you, that was one of the most magickal things I had ever done for myself within that year, something as mudane as boarding an airplane. The minute I stepped foot on NYC concrete, it was bliss. Even better, I was in the big apple just in time for the Halloween/Samhain celebrations all around town.
Now its the middle of January 2008. Figured that since I'm here I would showcase a few illustrations I had worked on:
Before we had Jerry Springer parading around the best of trailer park and ghetto trash, there was something actually called a "talk show."
As a pre-teen in the early 1980s, there was talk shows featuring hosts like Phil Donahue and Tom Synder. It didn't stoop to the level of the gutter; instead it presented its subjects in an intelligent manner. It was through Phil Donahue that I learned about Susie Bright, the feminist 'sexpert.' I'm also quite sure that's how many American (pre-MTV) learned about 'Punk Rock' and 'New Wave' thanks to Tom Synder.
I found out this morning that Tom Synder had passed away from cancer. Kinda made me sad, I wish we had more talk shows like 'The Tomorrow Show' during its prime. Sure as hell beats today's chants of "JERRY! JERRY! JERRY!"
And people wonder why I'm not much of a television fan...
Tom Synder interviewed a wide range of people from Johnny Rotten of The Sex Pistols, to Charles Manson at his cell, to John Lennon. Ironically, his show was cancelled and in his place was a wise-cracking comedian known as David Letteman.
In his tribute I thought I would share some of these clips I found on YouTube:
This is a classic Witchipoo art file from two years ago. When this was created, I had just returned to NYC after spending my first summer nearby Kansas City, Missouri (Merriam, Kansas, otherwise known as Johnson County to be exact). I had only been married for a month when I had created this:
Which saying do you believe to be true, but just can't seem to follow?
Submitted by Maxvan.
"If you have to ask for something more than once or twice, it wasn't yours in the first place..."
Then again, never say never.
Since today is Monday, July 23rd, 2007, let's take a light hearted look at the number 23....
23 is one of the most commonly cited prime numbers - a number that can only be divided by itself and one. Twenty three is the lowest prime that consists of consecutive digits. Primes have been described as the "atoms" of mathematics - the building blocks of the world of numbers. An American businessman has put up a US$1m (£500,000) prize for the first mathematician to find a pattern in primes - a problem known as the Riemann hypothesis.
2 The number has been the subject of not one but two films: the 1998 German movie, 23, and The Number 23, starring Jim Carrey, released (naturally) today. Each has a main character obsessed with the number.
3 John Forbes Nash, the Nobel Prize-winning economist who was the subject of the film, A Beautiful Mind, starring Russell Crowe, was obsessed with 23. It featured prominently in his battle with mental illness. His breakdown began when he claimed that a photograph of Pope John XXIII on the cover of Life magazine was in fact him, the proof being that 23 was his favourite number. Nash published 23 scientific articles.
4 More freaky numerical coincidences: Charles Darwin's Origin of Species was published in 1859 - 1+8+5+9 = 23. Two divided by three makes 0.666 recurring (allegedly - actually it makes 0.6666666667). The Hiroshima bomb was dropped at 8.15am - 8+15= 23.
5 23rdians are a group of people who subscribe to the mystical power of 23 and see it in multiple combinations throughout daily life.
6 The Ancient Chinese believed numbers conveyed sexuality - evens for feminine and odds for masculine. They considered prime numbers to be the most masculine, conferring special status on 23 which is made up of two consecutive prime numbers and the only even prime number - two.
7 In the disaster movie, Airport, the bomber has seat 23. The number of crosses on Calvary at the end of the Monty Python film, The Life of Brian, is 23. In Die Hard With A Vengeance, a train derails in subway station 23. The lead characters in the Coen brothers' film The Big Lebowski always used Lane 23 at the bowling alley. In the television series Lost, one of the combination of six numbers that haunt the characters and they have to input to a computer to avoid an unknown fate is 23.
8 The terrorist attacks on America on 11 September 2001 have been held up as one of the most portentous examples of the disturbing power of 23. The figures in the date (9+11+2+0+0+1) add up to 23. The independent US commission which investigated the attacks found the date had been chosen randomly by the hijackers and had originally been planned for later in the year. Alternative explanations for the date included the taking over of Palestine by Britain in 1922 and the fact that 911 is the US emergency code.
9 Few hold 23 in more esteem than the followers of Discordianism, a self-declared religion based on the premise that discord and chaos are the building blocks of life. For Discordianists, 23 is the Holy Number and a tribute to the goddess Eris, who surveys a world of chaos. The mantra invoked by Discordianists for the Holy Number is "Invert The Pyramid". If you invert the sentence one letter at a time - eg "dinvert the pyramid", "id invert the pyram" etc - it takes 22 chants, finished by the line "The Pyramid Inverts" to make 23. The last line is called "the final energy releaser". Discordianism is described by some followers as "a joke disguised as a religion disguised as a joke".
10 Sport stars have developed a particular affinity (and aversion) to 23. Michael Jordan, the American basketball player, wore the number throughout his career and inspired many copy cat fans of wardrobe vigintitriplicity. Best known is former England captain David Beckham, who swapped his number seven Manchester United jersey for number 23 when he joined Real Madrid. Beckham, who said it was in deference to Jordan, is expected to continue wearing 23 when he joins LA Galaxy this summer. But the number is not always a harbinger of sporting good fortune. Manchester City have not assigned the squad number 23 to any player since 2003 after the last incumbent, Marc Vivien Foe, collapsed and died while playing for the Cameroon on 26 June 2003. Marcus Trescothick, the England cricket players, wears number 23 and was Australian bowler Shane Warne's 600th test wicket. Warne also wears 23.
11 The Bible does not let 23 pass without conferring upon it some significance, at least to students of the Book. Although the Old Testament is unspecific, it is widely held that Adam and Eve had 23 daughters. The 23rd verse of the first chapter of Genesis brings the act of creation to a close while the 23rd chapter of the book of Genesis deals entirely with death, namely that of Abraham's wife, Sarah. The most famous and most quoted of the Psalms is number 23: "The Lord is my shepherd; I shall not want. He maketh me to lie down in green pastures: He leadeth me beside the still waters."
12 Each parent contributes 23 chromosomes to the start of human life. The nuclei of cells in human bodies have 46 chromosomes made out of 23 pairs. Egg and sperm cells in humans have 23 chromosomes which fuse and divide to create an embryo.
13 The most detailed account of the assassination of Julius Caesar, written by Nicolaus of Damascus, claims numerous enemies stabbed the Roman emperor 23 times. The wounds ranged from superficial to mortal.
14 William Shakespeare was born in Stratford Upon Avon on 23 April 1564. He died 52 years later on his birthday, 23 April 1616. Kurt Cobain, the god of grunge, was born in 1967 and died in 1994 - 1+9+6+7= 23, 1+9+9+4 = 23.
15 In the science fantasy saga, Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope, Luke Skywalker, Han Solo and Chewbacca sneak into detention block AA23 to rescue Princess Leia. The rescue attempt is botched and Leia escapes only by dodging Stormtroopers' laserfire. A police robot called 23 is included in Star Wars director George Lucas' first film, THX 1138.
16 The Knights Templar, the order of soldier monks who eventually fell foul of the Vatican and have been the subject of conspiracy theories about the Holy Grail, had 23 Grand Masters.
17 The first morse code transmission - "What hath God wrought?" - was from the Bible passage Numbers 23:23. In telegraphers code 23 means "break the line".
18 The Birthday Paradox states that a group of 23 randomly-selected people is the smallest number where there will be a probability higher than 50 per cent that two people will share the same birthday.
19 The author William Burroughs was obsessed with 23. While living in Tangiers, he met a Captain Clark who ran a ferry between Spain and Morocco. One day, Clark told Burroughs that he had been doing the route for 23 years without incident. Later that day, the ferry sank, killing the captain. While Burroughs was thinking about the incident, a radio bulletin announced the crash of a Flight 23 on the New York-Miami route. The pilot was another Captain Clark. The events prompted an obsession which saw Burroughs record every occurrence of the number 23 for the rest of his life.
20 The disbanded pop act KLF are one of several musical sources of 23-related lore. The two men behind KLF - Bill Drummond and Jimmy Cauty - were once known as the Justified Ancients of Mu Mu, which has 23 letters and comes from the novels of Robert Anton Wilson, another 23 obsessive. A police car used for the video of the KLF's number one, "Doctorin' The Tardis", had 23 painted on the roof, their final performance lasted 23 minutes and they incinerated £1m on a remote Scottish island on 23 August 1994. Psychic TV, another cult act, released 23 live albums on the 23rd day of 23 consecutive months.
21 "W" is the 23rd letter of the Latin alphabet. It has two points down and three points up. White supremacists use 23 to represent "W" as a mark of racial superiority.
22 "23 skidoo" is an American catchphrase from the early 20th century meaning to make a sharp exit. It was used as the title of a poem by the occultist Aleister Crowley, another 23 aficionado. But some believe its origins lie in Charles Dickens' Tale of Two Cities, where the old woman counting the daily victims of the guillotine calls "23" as the hero is beheaded in the last chapter.
23 The average human physical biorhythm is 23 days
Originally link/research here: http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/this_britain/article2296846.ece
Happy 23rd everyone!
“The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated” - Mahatma Gandhi
Sunday afternoon was simple enough. I was invited to hang with a few new friends, walked around some parkgrounds. Afterwards, headed over to someone’s home for a bbq and watch a few films.
After being served an all-American lunch of hot dogs and hamburgers, Fast Food Nation was put in the dvd player.
For some of the readers out there, Fast Food Nation might be already old news. First there was the 2001 book, intended to be an expose on the United States fast food industry. In 2006, a fictionalized film version was released directed by Richard Linklater (Slacker, Dazed and Confused) and co-produced by Malcolm McLaren (former Sex Pistols manger). I remember seeing the book around in the stores but I never had the chance to read it. Although the film wasn’t exactly ‘uplifting’ it was a reality check on hidden facets of society. Basically the ugly truth on how not only is fast food produced, but the greed and exploitation of people as well as animals.
The film starts out with illegal Mexican immigrants trying to cross the border to the US. They’re smuggled across and quickly hired to work in a meat processing plant for a major fast food chain. At the same time, a high ranking marketing executive gets sent to this same processing plant to investigate breakouts of e-coli. Mr. Executive meets a young female cashier at the local Mickey’s (the fast food restaurant in question) making minimum wage. The male immigrants get sent to the very dangerous field of cutting up meat without proper safety training. The female immigrants work on the assembly line, supervised by a guy who sexually exploits the newbie chicks. Keep in mind that although fictional, the story itself is based on actual facts. Oh, and yes, it does show cows being killed in the same processing plant for your favorite burger. Not too nice.
I'll spare you the rest, but after viewing this film you'll think twice about ordering from a fast food place again. If 'Supersize Me' wasn't deterrent enough, then this will. Personally I was a semi-vegetarian for 11 years, and this film had me re-thinking my diet. Even if you decide that swearing off meat isn't for you, perhaps you might still skip going to your local McDonalds or Sonic.
UPDATE: Around the same time when I was posting this, I stumbled across this most recent news flash...Canned Meat Recall
Oh, before I forget...this is the cover to the latest issue of Babalon Babes:
Also if you're in the New York City area, you can purchase your own copy at Jim Hanley's Universe. Jim Hanley's is one of the best comic book stores in NYC, located in midtown Manhattan, 4 East 33rd Street, near the Empire State Building.
In addition, some other good news from the WitchesBrewPress department...
Jim Hanley's has also restocked the other WitchesBrewPress titles, including Babalon Babes issues 1 & 2, as well as Psycho Bunny issues 1, 2, and the limited edition Psycho Bunny Scrapbook.
Of course, if you're not in the NYC area and wish to purchase your own copy,simply send me an email for more details.
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