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Saturday, December 26, 2009

I am tripping balls!!! ...or... HURRAY FOR ASTHMA!!!

I have alot of breathing problems right now.

Also, I am tipsy on hard beer.

Although, I had problems breathing before I started drinking today. It's very weird to be drunk and feeling good but trying to catch your breath and gasping for air at the same time. Oh so fucking weird...

Definitely weird.

Saturday, December 19, 2009

I did not cheated on you, I swear!!

I know, I know, lack of updates...
I did had have internet for a while at my new place. Now I do.

My computer was fucking up and I lost episode 10. I know, I know.

Let me just wake up from the hangover now...

Sunday, November 8, 2009

RSNS EPISODE 9A

AT LONG FUCKING LAST!!!!!!

http://www.megaupload.com/?d=MVOXHBOE

I'll try to do more updates as for now on

Wednesday, November 4, 2009

This saturday! I promise!

I gonna deliver episode 9A

I've been fucking deprived of sleep for 3 days now. Had to sleep like 5 hours or less each times and I am growing fucking nervous and paranoid. I can cower in fear of the smallest of things. Also, I am moving on the weekend of the 14th. So, I don't know when I gonna have internet again at the other place.


...but I tell you, This week-end. Honest!
Where's my coffee?

Tuesday, October 13, 2009

What a shame! I am still not dead yet.......

I've been fucking sick through all the thanksgiving holiday. Now it's day 5 and my breathing is very labored and rough. Worst, shit needed to happen and my finished episode 9 had a problem and thus, went dead air for a good 45 minutes. Have to start all over again.


Why can't I just die after all this suffering? Why the fuck would god invent the cold and flu virus anyways?? Sadistic fuck...

Monday, September 21, 2009

REVEREND SPADE REVIEWS : Japanese movies (PART DEUX)

Ju-on : Kuroi Shôjo




















When I saw this movie, I couldn't have any subtitles with it. So I'll go with what I know.
This movie is about a girl who has a cyst inside her which are the remains of the grudge of an unborn baby. Fair enough plot as far I know. This time, people fight back with sorcery and magic. However, it backfires...

As far as the movie was. Some shots were cool. Better than OLW. They even fricken proceed to an exorcism with is beyond cool. What happens afterwards is even better than the exorcism. However, the ending dosen't really seem right or fitting. Once again, Toshio makes an appearing only in the movie and doesn't do anything.

I'll proceed to a deeper review when i'll see it again with the subtitles.




And now the pièce de résistance...

Attack girl swim team VS the undead





















Take a blender. Add in busty japanese girls in swimsuits, shower scenes, japanese schoolgirl lesbian sex scenes, a deadly zombie virus, a mad scientist, a trained assassin with big boobs, cheap gore scenes, odd decapitation scenes and even odder behaving zombies, rulers as sharp as blades and odd fighting objects laying around and you get this movie.

It probably is a b-movie that maybe was intended to be serious. But I really can't do such a thing. This movie is first and foremost, fan service. I mean, having sex in the school's kitchen while a zombie attack is going inside the premises is the first thing you would do, right? Also, before that, why would you feed something like soup or porridge to someone by shoving some in your mouth and liplocking the girl? Also, how could someone compulsively masturbate when some flute is played? And how the flying fuck would you be able to fire a laser gun from INSIDE YOUR VAGINA? I kid you not! This is in the actual movie. Also include weird battle object like flaming torches laying unsupervised around on school property, chains laying around, 2X4's and possibly chainsaws (don't remember), rulers as sharp as butcher cleavers that can cut heads. Juggling zombies and cock teasing zombies that dosen't say ''Braiiiiiiiins...'' but rather ''I want your.'' and then proceeds to cut toes with a pair of scissors. No outside officials or even police officers that are informed of the situation no matter the horror screams heard in the movie. Explosions occurring not destroying any part of the building and the starting fire after the explosion that dies out immediately after the scene change and the ridiculous cure for the zombie virus are all part of this movie that it is so bad, it is good.

WATCH IT NOW!

TRIVIA : Aki, the trained assassin is played by Sasa Handa, a japanese AV model. (AV stands for Adult Video)

Sunday, September 20, 2009

REVEREND SPADE REVIEWS : Japanese movies

Tonight, I am going to review 2 recent japanese movies that caught my interest this month.

First movie : Ichi





















Ichi is about a blind girl named Ichi (d'uh) who roams from town to town looking for someone she holds dear. On the way, she meets a ronin named Touma and a small child.

As far as my review of the movie: 3.5 out of 5

Plausible storyline. Comedy in this movie has been well spread and the fight scenes are nice. It goes without saying this is inspired of Zatoichi. He, also, is a wandering blind skilled swordsman like Ichi. Some elements of the movie, apart from blood always disappearing from swords, were a bit displeasing. For example, Ichi, apart from her ''inner demons'', is shown almost flawless and can predicts stuff and even hear a fish biting bait. Also, Touma cannot draw his katana due to some ''circomstances'' (spoiler censorship) I know that it was about symbolism but you often see him struggle with both arms of the goddamn thing like someone trying to open a locked door. I found that element too much present in the movie and the fight where he does draw his sword, doesn't really show all of his fighting capacities and thus, was a disappointment for me. Overall, this is overlooked easily by the atmosphere of the movie which mixes comedy, drama, and action quite well. It is suggested for people who is into the lone wolf kind of movies.


Second movie : Ju-on Shiroi Rôjo (old lady in white)


















Benig a huge Ju-on. I came buckets when I knew that new movies came out recently in japan.
Old Lady in White (which I gonna abbreviate OLW). Both were released at the same time. I will review Ju-on Kuroi Shojo at a later date because I am tired

I rate OLW 2.5 out of 5

I was disappointed of the whole movie. It had a decent plot to make the whole thing grow out of control and truly be like a ''grudge virus'' infecting everyone but it did not achieve such prowess.
For one, too many loose ends and too many barely suspenseful deaths. The story, like previous Ju-On movies has been told in a scrambled way through several individuals. Together, they make a storyline, which is ok. However, some elements were loose or didn't meant much to the movie. Some parts like the cassette tape reminded me of the Ring series which I am also a fan of. OLW is about a guy who killed his whole family because he went mad after failing his university entrance exam and we see before it all and the aftermath. There is a scene about two policeman talking and one says to the other : ''Do not listen to the tape, someone went mad because of it'' This sequence could have introduced a valid subplot to explore but no such luck. Some parts are also, just plain weird. For example the ''ghost'' carries a basketball. We know in the movie it has a connection to it but carrying it even dead is really WTF?. Thank God it doesn't not kill people with it. Also, the fact that Toshio (the kid screaming like a cat) just randomly appears for a few seconds in each movies and doesn't even have an impact on the story or killing whoever is also very odd. It is, just, there like some weird reminder. Thirdly, we don't know exactly why the ghost became that ''grudge'' thing. It just... did. After being killed, of course. in the original Ju-on movies, we knew why and how they became so. Here, no.

On the plus side of the story, some death scenes have been really creative and entertaining with sudden twists and graphic effects. Some gruesome scenes were brilliantly executed and had very powerful imagery for me contrasting between the grudge and the other side of life it has destroyed. The scenes about the guy and the christmas cakes was, for me, the best scenes

Only recommended for those who are hardcore fans of the series and even so, it is a bit disappointing to watch nonetheless.

I will probably continue with my reviews tomorrow. Stay tuned for the other Ju-on movie and the worst b-movie I ever saw : Attack girl swim team VS the undead

Interesting bif of wisdom from Hakim Bay

The mandarins draw their power from the law;
the people, from the secret societies.

(Chinese saying)


Last winter I read a book on the Chinese Tongs ( Primitive Revolutionaries of China: A Study of Secret Societies in the Late Nineteenth Century, Fei-Ling Davis; Honolulu, 1971-77):--maybe the first ever written by someone who wasn't a British Secret Service agent!--(in fact, she was a Chinese socialist who died young--this was her only book)--& for the first time I realized why I've always been attracted to the Tong: not just for the romanticism, the elegant decadent chinoiserie decor, as it were--but also for the form, the structure, the very essence of the thing.

Some time later in an excellent interview with William Burroughs in Homocore magazine I discovered that he too has become fascinated with Tongs & suggests the form as a perfect mode of organization for queers, particularly in this present era of shitheel moralism & hysteria. I'd agree, & extend the recommendation to all marginal groups, especially ones whose jouissance involves illegalism (potheads, sex heretics, insurrectionists) or extreme eccentricity (nudists, pagans, post-avant-garde artists, etc., etc.).

A Tong can perhaps be defined as a mutual benefit society for people with a common interest which is illegal or dangerously marginal--hence, the necessary secrecy. Many Chinese Tongs revolved around smuggling & tax-evasion, or clandestine self-control of certain trades (in opposition to State control), or insurrectionary political or religious aims (overthrow of the Manchus for example-- several tongs collaborated with the Anarchists in the 1911 Revolution).

A common purpose of the tongs was to collect & invest membership dues & initiation fees in insurance funds for the indigent, unemployed, widows & orphans of deceased members, funeral expenses, etc. In an era like ours when the poor are caught between the cancerous Scylla of the Insurance Industry & the fast-evaporating Charybdis of welfare & public health services, this purpose of the Secret Society might well regain its appeal. (Masonic lodges were organized on this basis, as were the early & illegal trade unions & "chivalric orders" for laborers & artisans.) Another universal purpose for such societies was of course conviviality, especially banqueting-- but even this apparently innocuous pastime can acquire insurrectionary implications. In the various French revolutions, for example, dining clubs frequently took on the role of radical organizations when all other forms of public meeting were banned.

Recently I talked about tongs with "P.M.," author of bolo'bolo (Semiotext(e) Foreign Agents Series). I argued that secret societies are once again a valid possibility for groups seeking autonomy & individual realization. He disagreed, but not (as I expected) because of the "elitist" connotations of secrecy. He felt that such organizational forms work best for already-close-knit groups with strong economic, ethnic/regional, or religious ties--conditions which do not exist (or exist only embryonically) in today's marginal scene. He proposed instead the establishment of multi-purpose neighborhood centers, with expenses to be shared by various special-interest groups & small-entrepreneurial concerns (craftspeople, coffeehouses, performance spaces, etc.). Such large centers would require official status (State recognition), but would obviously become foci for all sorts of non-official activity--black markets, temporary organization for "protest" or insurrectionary action, uncontrolled "leisure" & unmonitored conviviality, etc.

In response to "P.M."' s critique I have not abandoned but rather modified my concept of what a modern Tong might be. The intensely hierarchical structure of the traditional tong would obviously not work, although some of the forms could be saved & used in the same way titles & honors are used in our "free religions" (or "weird" religions, "joke" religions, anarcho-neo-pagan cults, etc.). Non-hierarchic organization appeals t o us, but so too does ritual, incense, the delightful bombast of occult orders--"Tong Aesthetics" you might call it--so why shouldn't we have our cake & eat it too?--(especially if it's Moroccan majoun or baba au absinthe--something a bit forbidden!). Among other things, the Tong should be a work of art.

The strict traditional rule of secrecy also needs modification. Nowadays anything which evades the idiot gaze of publicity is already virtually secret. Most modern people seem unable to believe in the reality of something they never see on television --therefore to escape being televisualized is already to be quasi-invisible. Moreover, that which is seen through the mediation of the media becomes somehow unreal, & loses its power (I won't bother to defend this thesis but simply refer the reader to a train of thought which leads from Nietzsche to Benjamin to Bataille to Barthes to Foucault to Baudrillard). By contrast, perhaps that which is unseen retains its reality, its rootedness in everyday life & therefore in the possibility of the marvelous.

So the modern Tong cannot be elitist--but there's no reason it can't be choosy. Many non-authoritarian organizations have foundered on the dubious principle of open membership, which frequently leads to a preponderance of assholes, yahoos, spoilers, whining neurotics, & police agents. If a Tong is organized around a special interest (especially an illegal or risky or marginal interest) it certainly has the right to compose itself according to the "affinity group" principle. If secrecy means (a) avoiding publicity & (b) vetting possible members, the "secret society" can scarcely be accused of violating anarchist principles. In fact, such societies have a long & honorable history in the anti-authoritarian movement, from Proudhon's dream of re-animating the Holy Vehm as a kind of "People's Justice," to Bakunin's various schemes, to Durutti's "Wanderers." We ought not to allow marxist historians to convince us that such expedients are "primitive" & have therefore been left behind by "History." The absoluteness of "History" is at best a dubious proposition. We are not interested in a return to the primitive, but in a return OF the primitive, inasmuch as the primitive is the "repressed."

In the old days secret societies would appear in times & spaces forbidden by the State, i.e. where & when people are kept apart by law. In our times people are usually not kept apart by law but by mediation & alienation (see Part 1, "Immediatism"). Secrecy therefore becomes an avoidance of mediation, while conviviality changes from a secondary to a primary purpose of the "secret society." Simply to meet together face-to-face is already an action against the forces which oppress us by isolation, by loneliness, by the trance of media.

In a society which enforces a schizoid split between Work & Leisure, we have all experienced the trivialization of our "free time," time which is organized neither as work nor as leisure. ("Vacation" once meant "empty" time--now it signifies time which is organized & filled by the industry of leisure.) The "secret" purpose of conviviality in the secret society then becomes the self-structuring & auto-valorization of free time. Most parties are devoted only to loud music & too much booze, not because we enjoy them but because t he Empire of Work has imbued us with the feeling that empty time is wasted time. The idea of throwing a party to, say, make a quilt or sing madrigals together, seems hopelessly outdated. But the modern Tong will find it both necessary & enjoyable to seize back free time from the commodity world & devote it to shared creation, to play.

I know of several societies organized along these lines already, but I'm certainly not going to blow their secrecy by discussing them in print. There are some people who do not need fifteen seconds on the Evening News to validate their existence. Of course, the marginal press and radio (the only media in which this sermonette will appear) are practically invisible anyway-- certainly still quite opaque to the gaze of Control. Nevertheless, there's the principle of the thing: secrets should be respected. Not everyone needs to know everything! What the 20th century lacks most--& needs most--is tact. We wish to replace democratic epistemology with "dada epistemology" (Feyerabend). Either you're on the bus or you're not on the bus.

Some will call this an elitist attitude, but it is not--at least not in the C. Wright Mills sense of the word: that is, a small group which exercises power over non-insiders for its own aggrandizement. Immediatism does not concern itself with power-relations;-- it desires neither to be ruled nor to rule. The contemporary Tong therefore finds no pleasure in the degeneration of institutions into conspiracies. It wants power for its own purposes of mutuality. It is a free association of individuals who have chosen each other as the subjects of the group's generosity, its "expansiveness" (to use a sufi term). If this amounts to some kind of "elitism," then so be it.

If Immediatism begins with groups of friends trying not just to overcome isolation but also to enhance each other's lives, soon it will want to take a more complex shape:-- nuclei of mutually-self-chosen allies, working (playing) to occupy more & more time & space outside all mediated structure & control. Then it will want to become a horizontal network of such autonomous groups--then, a "tendency"--then, a "movement"--& then, a kinetic web of "temporary autonomous zones." At last it will strive to become the kernel of a new society, giving birth to itself within t he corrupt shell of the old. For all these purposes the secret society promises to provide a useful framework of protective clandestinity--a cloak of invisibility that will have to be dropped only in the event of some final showdown with the Babylon of Mediation....

Prepare for the Tong Wars!

Saturday, September 19, 2009

EPISODE 8 OF THE NIGHTSHIFT

Just imagine that, one more episode, or two more, and we lasted longer than the podcasts @ 23ae.com

I do no have anything against them. Not at all. I just want that pirate radio/podcasting for discordianism keeps on living. All suggestions are welcome.

http://www.megaupload.com/?d=48GO2YJ4 (Episode 8) (copy the adress on your browser)

Friday, September 4, 2009

There won't be a new show this week due to wholly day

Yup. There won't be a new show of the Nightshift this week because it's my birthday saturday, the day I usually publish another podcast and I am off to party with co-workers this weekend. So, I am only coming back (hungover) this monday.

...But the works on the new one has already started (and no, I still don't have a new microphone. I aim for a mic on a headset though...)


In other news, I had the strangest [bad] luck to have seen on the internet a video of my ex performing an audition for a show (it wasn't porn). She kept bouncing around like she used to in real life during our relationship, many years ago. Good Grief...

Sunday, August 30, 2009

NEW EPISODE OF THE NIGHTSHIFT

My new episode is out

Download Here

Unknown episode number entitled speechless

I'm gonna upload also the rest of my older episodes later today. Stay tuned fnord.

ALSO...

The first 7 shows are all here.

Download here, you spag. (it's ruffly 740 mbs.)

Sunday, July 26, 2009

FNORD 23.5FM Radio Retro Discordian is o[ff]line

Got it to run after all. I'm not that bad... Now, which songs I used to go do some bicycle on?...



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Saturday, July 25, 2009

Out of the womb

Yes, this is probably the first Discordian Blog on Blogspot. I needed something that was idiot proof and easy to configure. Now after a large beer, I tend to start liking editing this. Oh well...

Remember, boys and girls.
Do not accept imitations!