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Weaponized Episode 2: Aftermath

  

The dust-devils recede and the silence booms with the voices of those who have left. All is undone but those actions that can never be undone. You are left in the aftermath, the pieces falling are grains too small to pick up. The only way out is through. 

Cast: John Harrigan, Lucy Allin, P. Emerson Williams 

Producer: P. Emerson Williams 

Sonic Assistance: Eianorange kkoagulaa 

Sonic degradation and collation tools used in this episode were built by ccernn for kkoagulaa:programming-node. 

Weaponized is brought to you by FoolishPeople. John Harrigan is writer, dramatic catalyst and performer alongside Lucy Allin and the rest of the FoolishPeople cast. Atmosphere, electronic voice phenomena and the occasional character sketch are provided by P. Emerson Williams. The scope of the Weaponized ranges from darkly humorous vignettes to claustrophobic occult horror. From monologues to full on audio theatre. Listen to or download show @alterati.com

GreyLodge - The Best of William S. Burroughs

GreyLodge continues to find exactly what I'm looking for just at the very moment I need it. After watching Naked Lunch for the first time in many years, GreyLodge posted the torrents for the best of Burroughs. A four CD collection of his greatest works.

Thank you GreyLodge.

 

The Ten Towers have been constructed.

The Ten Towers was a ritual designed to pay respect and thanks to the community that has been generous in its support of my art.

Originally I had planned to complete the Ten Towers by August last year but I was unable to do this due to the various shifts in time.

Tonight Tower Ten was completed. All of the Towers have now been constructed and delivered to the men and women who were originally invited to take part in this audio ritual. You can listen to the first three recorded Towers below the projects section on this page.

The final seven Towers remain to be recorded and it's possible you may never get to hear them all for various reasons. The ten gates (Private facts provided by participants) which were used to help me create the Towers are personal and it may be the case that participants wish to keep their Tower to themselves.

They are entirely welcome to do this is if they wish and I would completely understand their reasons.

When further Towers are recorded they will be uploaded.

The Book of Hate

Coming>2008 - Yiri T. Khol - John Harrigan

Yasutaka Tsutsui's Profile

Link: Yasutaka Tsutsui's Profile.

The Japanese guru of "metafiction," Yasutaka Tsutsui started his career as a science fiction writer in the mid-60s, came to break up in the 70s the generic boundary between serious and popular fiction, and won numero us prestigious awards of science fiction and mainstream literature by the early 90s. Deeply influenced by Darwin, Freud, and the Marx Brothers, his own post-Situationist poetics of "hyper-fictionality" has persisten tly disclosed the conspiracy between reality and fiction in the hyper-capitalist age haunted by a variety of "spectacles" and "pseudo-events." While his earliest works in the mid-60s such as "Tokaido Senso" ("The Tokyo-Osaka War,"1964) and "Vietnam Kanko Kosha" ("The Vietnam Tourist Bureau,"1967) and Dasso to Tsuiseki no Samba (The Samba for Runaways and Chasers, 1972) prophesized the acceleration of hypermedia that would transform fictions into realities, the battlefield into an amusement park, and one's identity into a computer program, his latest diptych of Gaspard of the Morning (1992) and Paprika (1993) radically reconsidered our own reality as a version of hyper-fictionality, our everyday life as the effect of the political unconscious, and the boundary-transgressor as the greatest survivor of natural selection. Tsutsui states: "I do not find it accidental that from the 60s through the 70s, just while the post-surrealist mode nurtured British New Wave and North-American Metafiction and Latin American Magic Realism, I was making every effort to develop my own theory of hyper-fictionality without knowing those western literary experiments" ("On My Fictional Theory: a Recollection ," unpublished, 1991). Tsutsui also unwittingly rivalled scholar-critics like David Lodge, Malcolm Bradbury and Terry Eagleton, by experimenting with avant-garde literary criticisms in the novel Bungaku-bu Tadano Kyoju (Hitoshi Tadano the Professor of Literary Studies ,1990), which became a national bestseller. Thus, Tsutsui's long career from the 1960s to the 1990s convinces us of the way Japanese literary history has gradually accepted the hybridization of metafiction and science fiction as the fate of postmodern literature per se .

Terra Incognita - Line up announced

Line up, line up...

Ten Towers - Tower One: Danny Chaoflux

Tower One of the Ten Towers project is Danny Chaoflux.

Danny Chaoflux is a Persian artist living in Portland OR, and the
founder of Portland Occulture.

Hir main interests are crossdressing, dream travel, and ancient mysticism.

Ten Towers

The Ten Towers are audio recordings of ten highly respected individuals from the occult community reading prose written especially for them by myself.

This project is also my way of saying thank you for the immense support each of them has given to FoolishPeople; giving them each a creation of prose that will always belong to that person and that person alone.

All Towers will also have access to the entire recording and everyone who works on the project will be entitled to sell copies via CD; each person creating the aesthetic and design, so as to create a modern day magical artifact unique to themselves. Any money made can be kept by the Tower who has produced the CDs.

I have no idea how many of these recordings will get turned into artifacts until after the project is completed.

Tower number one is Danny Chaoflux. Danny Chaoflux is a Persian artist living in Portland OR, and the
founder of Portland Occulture. His main interests are crossdressing, dream travel, and ancient mysticism.

Tower One

Sewing the Saint's Lips Shut

Video excerpt from FoolishPeople's rehearsal of 'Dark Nights of the Soul- Cycle VI: Carousel' of Santiago Genochio's lips being sewn shut.

Download FoolishPeopleRehearsals.mov

Sticky with wet desires and slick evolve; disney hurt and pentagon medicine. I want you when it’s all done, when all the stories are told. When the teeth are out and the flesh in my mouth has scales. Give your sacred role, as we ache for your pain.

Hooked into what I am, I attach you now to this purpose, as your pain becomes the conduit with which the scar heals and the bridge is built across the end into the new. Look out and stroke my face. Look at what you are, know you are the beautiful one with poena, who takes the punishment in place of those who will not face the future.

Close the gates and let your velvet passion rise as we will you to become what you were, and are. Every innocent lost in one moment of simple pain will heal via this night, as we resurrect every possibility for your species.

Let us see your quiet glory.

Transmitio Interuptus

Encircled by deadlines,  bugs  and  mysterious happenings  Kaotec  found himself unable  to  contact  the  terminal  of the  FoolishPeople.  Vainly  he  tried to send the weekly signal that assured the world that the (R)evolution was still underway in Catford, but dark forces encircled him and blocked his path. Finally a brief window opened and he was able to break through with a brief cryptic message : 'if dolphins could walk where would they go?'
A thunder clap sounded in the distance and a chill breeze blew across the land.