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MUSIC, CINEMA, BOOKSUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger530125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2962721263288722253.post-30877830425639235292024-02-18T06:56:00.000-08:002024-02-18T06:57:02.360-08:00How to Hypnotize<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgocwiUxaWQzbKpkcdh3FzaR3Xz15Sx3h2ZPDkzdvU8evpn53RM_d_9x_dC4khcMW1cEzvL1sUkdFJ6GhyphenhyphenTbAXLJDYuXEmy4CVqc-2bPhevndw4SUzyThwPilgPpISU6N87LD5Pp9qr9f4nmT7RUw5gwaypeVJJz32_9tNQBAfM_Key6-vb3fpmAW-4OZjk/s652/_methode_times_prod_web_bin_e670d230-77df-11ed-8dd6-146590878cf8.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="434" data-original-width="652" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgocwiUxaWQzbKpkcdh3FzaR3Xz15Sx3h2ZPDkzdvU8evpn53RM_d_9x_dC4khcMW1cEzvL1sUkdFJ6GhyphenhyphenTbAXLJDYuXEmy4CVqc-2bPhevndw4SUzyThwPilgPpISU6N87LD5Pp9qr9f4nmT7RUw5gwaypeVJJz32_9tNQBAfM_Key6-vb3fpmAW-4OZjk/w640-h426/_methode_times_prod_web_bin_e670d230-77df-11ed-8dd6-146590878cf8.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-size: 17px;">Hypnosis is the misdirection of attention and focus ''think of ur toe''</span><p></p><p>Say IMAGINE, PICTURE, FOCUS, BELIEVE, FEEL, EMBRACE, ACCEPT</p>
<span style="font-size: 17px;">Focus on image</span><br />
<span style="font-size: 17px;">Say whats gonna happen</span><br />
<span style="font-size: 17px;">Mention the experience </span><br />
<span style="font-size: 17px;">Turn their focus to what ur saying (do u feel a sensation in ur feet etc...) shift their consciousness</span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: 17px;">Emotional persuasion u need to bypass the conscious mind:</span><br />
<span style="font-size: 17px;">*Who's gonna be the 1st person to notice you've stopped smoking</span><br />
<span style="font-size: 17px;">*since ur going to the store go to the bank for me</span><br />
<span style="font-size: 17px;">*our country is in trouble, everythings a mess, we are in a mess, thats why i need to be president'! </span><br />
<span style="font-size: 17px;">(Truth,truth,truth, command)</span>
<br /><br /><span style="font-size: 17px;">Manson</span><br />
<span style="font-size: 17px;">Do u love ur world?</span><br />
<span style="font-size: 17px;">Would u give ur life for ur world?</span>
<br /><br /><span style="font-size: 17px;">The mind takes the facts, it runs them through feelings and comes up with judgements</span>
<br /><br /><span style="font-size: 17px;">He hasnt been 100% honest with u, he hasnt been happy</span>
<br /><br /><span style="font-size: 17px;">Psychometry - </span><span style="font-size: 17px;">token-object reading, or psychoscopy, is a form of extrasensory perception characterized by the claimed ability to make relevant associations from an object of unknown history by making physical contact with that object</span>
<br /><br /><span style="font-size: 17px;">What is the nature of the human condition?</span><br />
<span style="font-size: 17px;">People have the desire to think they r better than others, they look for reasons to appear superior</span><br />
<span style="font-size: 17px;">How often do u stop and ask if ur justified to think that ur smarter than someone else?</span><br />
<span style="font-size: 17px;">Construct the situation - trigger the bahaviour - watch them step into ur trap</span>
<br /><br /><span style="font-size: 17px;">In what situation would their characteristics benefit my goals</span><br />
<span style="font-size: 17px;">Outspokeness, low self esteem, naive, trusting, contrarian, emphatic quality</span>
<br /><br /><span style="font-size: 17px;"><b>Speak in a low, slow, soothing, voice.</b></span><span style="font-size: 17px;"> Take your time when talking, keeping your voice calm and collected. Draw out your sentences a little longer than usual. Imagine you are trying to calm down a frightened or worrying person, letting your voice be an example. Keep this tone of voice throughout the entire interaction. Some good words to start with include:</span>
<br /><br /><span style="font-size: 17px;">• "Let my words wash over you, and take the suggestions as you desire them."</span>
<br /><br /><span style="font-size: 17px;">• "Everything here is safe, calm, and peaceful. Let yourself sink into the couch/chair as your relax deeply."</span>
<br /><br /><span style="font-size: 17px;">• "Your eyes may feel heavy and want to close. Let your body sink naturally down as your muscles relax. Listen to your body and my voice as you begin to feel calm."</span>
<br /><br /><span style="font-size: 17px;">• "You are in complete control of this time. You will only accept those suggestions which are for your benefit and that you are willing to accept."</span>
<br /><br /><span style="font-size: 17px;">Suggestions</span><br />
<span style="font-size: 17px;">• "You can feel your eyelids getting heavy. Let them drift and fall."</span>
<br /><br /><span style="font-size: 17px;">• "You are letting yourself slip deeper and deeper into a calm, peaceful trance.</span>
<br /><br /><span style="font-size: 17px;">• "You can feel yourself relaxing now. You can feel a heavy, relaxed feeling coming over you. And as I continue to talk, that heavy relaxed feeling will get stronger and stronger, until it carries you into a deep, peaceful state of relaxation."</span>
<br /><br /><span style="font-size: 17px;">• "Every word that I utter is putting you faster and deeper, and faster and deeper, into a calm, peaceful state of relaxation."</span>
<br /><br /><span style="font-size: 17px;">• "Sinking down, and shutting down. Sinking down, and shutting down. Sinking down, and shutting down, shutting down completely."</span>
<br /><br /><span style="font-size: 17px;">• "And the deeper you go, the deeper you are able to go. And the deeper you go, the deeper you want to go, and the more enjoyable the experience becomes."</span><br />
<span style="font-size: 17px;">• </span><br />
<span style="font-size: 17px;">Here’s a closer look at his bag of techniques for rigging the game – his gimmickry:</span>
<br /><br /><span style="font-size: 17px;">1. Phatic Communication - </span><span style="font-size: 17px;"><i>What were we thinking? Why weren’t we paying attention? Now then, now then”, </i></span><span style="font-size: 17px;"> “How’s about that then”, “Now then, Now then” “Gather round” “Guys and gals” ''Jinggle janggle''</span>
<br /><br /><span style="font-size: 17px;">2. Rhythm: Power, Effect & the Paradiddles</span>
<br /><br /><span style="font-size: 17px;">3. Terror-Eyes to Terrorise - make the whites of ur eyes show by bulging ur eyes</span>
<br /><br /><span style="font-size: 17px;">4. Legerdemain: The art of misdirection - </span><span style="font-size: 17px;">In addition to manual dexterity, sleight of hand depends on the use of psychology, timing, misdirection, and natural choreography in accomplishing a magical effect. Misdirection is perhaps the most important component of the art of sleight of hand. The magician choreographs his actions so that all spectators are likely to look where he or she wants them to. More importantly, they do not look where the performer does not wish them to look. Two types of misdirection are timing and movement. </span><span style="font-size: 17px;">A phrase often used is “A larger action covers a smaller action.” Care must be taken however to not make the larger action so big that it becomes suspect.”</span>
<br /><br /><span style="font-size: 17px;">There has been a whole school of argument that hypnosis is nothing more than an exaggerated form of social compliance. This is evidence that they are not just telling you what they think you want to hear. They are actually perceiving things differently. That is a very important lesson."</span>
<br /><br /><span style="font-size: 17px;">Derren Brown</span><br />
<span style="font-size: 17px;">*You'll notice that your eyes start to get heavy as u listen to me</span><br />
<span style="font-size: 17px;">*You can wonder how deeply you are going into a trance</span><br />
<span style="font-size: 17px;">*As u sit there i want you to notice that ur body is growing heavier</span><br />
<span style="font-size: 17px;">*feel me enhancing the trance</span><br />
<span style="font-size: 17px;">*As u sit there reading these words try not to scratch</span><br />
<span style="font-size: 17px;">*As u sit there, and as u, despite ur enviroment, really focus on these words, and as u carry in reading this page, and the more u try not to think about it, the more u'll notice the feeling of wanting to scratch</span>
<br /><br /><span style="font-size: 17px;">*DESCRIBE WHAT THEY ARE DOING FIRST, WHAT YOU ARE OBSERVING THEM DOING: as u sit there, reading these words, trying not to scratch ur arm etc....</span><br />
<span style="font-size: 17px;">Pacing & leading: As you X, so you Y</span><br />
<span style="font-size: 17px;">The 1st piece of behaviour is true & then you mention the desired outcome</span><br />
<span style="font-size: 17px;">''As you sleep, you will dream about me''</span>
<br /><br /><span style="font-size: 17px;">*Here's 3 pacing statements and 1 leading statement</span><br />
<span style="font-size: 17px;">''Feel the temperature in the room, listen to my voice, as ur aware of chair ur sitting in - u can begin to relax"</span><br />
<span style="font-size: 17px;">Or</span><br />
<span style="font-size: 17px;">''Thinking back on all ur past problems u might find a solution today''</span>
<br /><br /><span style="font-size: 17px;">Vague Language such as:</span><br />
<span style="font-size: 17px;">NOMINALIZATION</span><br />
<span style="font-size: 17px;">A noun with no phisical form:</span><br />
<span style="font-size: 17px;">Problem, depression, understanding, enpowerment, excitment, love, connection, skill</span><br />
<span style="font-size: 17px;">UNSPECIFIED VERB</span><br />
<span style="font-size: 17px;">Travel, move, relocate, transform,</span><br />
<span style="font-size: 17px;">NEGATION LANGUAGE (creates confusion)</span><br />
<span style="font-size: 17px;">I dont know, it doesnt matter, i5s not important, dont focus, i dont know if u can,</span><br />
<span style="font-size: 17px;">NEGATE & COMMAND</span><br />
<span style="font-size: 17px;">''I dont know if u can LISTEN intensely' </span><br />
<span style="font-size: 17px;">''It's not important to FOCUS ur attention''</span>
<br /><br /><span style="font-size: 17px;">As you sit there listening to my words, with your eyes closed, feeling your hands on the chair, allowing my words to relax you as your breathing becomes regular and peaceful. Id like you to let ur self begin to drift away into a kind of sleep</span>
<br /><br /><span style="font-size: 17px;">As you listen to my voice and look up at my watch, watching it as u relax in the chair, you'll notice that your eyes start to grow heavy as u listen to me. Thats right - and as u notice them blinking, so too you can keep listening to me as you relax and as you allow them to grow heavier. As the rest of you relaxes in the chair so your eyes get heavier and you blink more and more and just allow them to close so that you can drift off into a sleep</span>
<br /><br /><span style="font-size: 17px;">USE IMAGERY</span><br />
<span style="font-size: 17px;">If u are talking about a garden let them hear, feel, smell, see and taste the surroundings.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: 17px;">Hear the birds sing in the trees, feel the grass under their feet, smell of the flowers. Make it a multi-sensory experience, they can feel the sun in their face.</span>
<br /><br /><span style="font-size: 17px;">HYPNOSIS STRUCTURE</span><br />
<span style="font-size: 17px;">*prepare subject for the trance by using suggestions and eye closure, utilize the subjects expectations and beliefs. Have them breath normally then tense their muscles, hold it and then relax their muscles. Tell them they are sinking into their chair as their body grows heavier with relaxation.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: 17px;">''And as ur body grows heavier and your breathing becomes relaxed and regular, so too you can listen to me as you sink down in the chair and let ur self drift off comfortably.''</span><br />
<span style="font-size: 17px;">Or have them look at a swinging watch and tell them their eyes are growing heavier</span><br />
<span style="font-size: 17px;">*deepen the trance by using a metaphor such as walking down some stairs. Tell them each step down will relax them more amd more, we r going to delve into ur subcontious and they r in a safe place </span><br />
<span style="font-size: 17px;">''you r now going deeper into ur trance, u will hear and understand everything I say. U will be aware of your self going into a trance. I will count from 1 to 10 as you walk down the stairs. Once i reach 10 you will be at the bottom of the stairs and in a profound state of relaxation. AS i count, AS u take each step, AS you breath, AS you listen to me, SO each step, each number, each word will take you deeper. U can return to the staircase anytime u want to.''</span><br />
<span style="font-size: 17px;">*carry out hypnotic work. Tell them they will see 5 coloured doors, what colours do they see, pick a door and enter.''</span><br />
<span style="font-size: 17px;">Or u can simply describe what they see behind the door 'a garden' and describe the experience to them. Tell them they can always return to the garden as a safe place. Suggest to them that there is a chair in the garden in the perfect spot and to sit in it. Say that their right arm is heavy as it rests on the arm chair. You try and lift your arm but you cant because u r so relaxed. ''Try to unstick ur arm from the chair''. If they cant unstick their arm from the chair but tries to that means they are the best subject for suggestability and is responsive. If they do lift their arm treat it like a success ''Excellent, and as u notice how heavy ur arm is you gently rest it and let it take you down now even deeper into a state of total relaxation. Let go of all ur tensions and fears and relax even more.''</span><br />
<span style="font-size: 17px;">No tell them their other arm is getting lighter like a helium balloon and all the tension vanishes from their arm. You can even make them float away in the sky. Pace the feeling of the hand coming away from the chair, pace, lead and suggest the arm rising up to the sky. Then have the arm gently lower and as it touches the arm chair it sinks them even deeper into a trance. ''See you hand come up to ur face as u sit in the garden, feel ur hand touch ur face. Once it does you will drift off into an even more profound and comfortable trance, u will feel dreamy and maybe start to levitate. Tell them that in the future they can return to this special place by going down the staircase and entering the door to the garden in order to relax, lie in the grass and re-experience these wonderful sensations and feelings. Use this regularly so it locks into ur mind otherwise it will be difficult to bring back.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: 17px;">*awaken the subject. Have them leave the garden and walk back up the stair case slowly counting from 10 to 0 as the reach the top of the stairs. As they reach zero openur eyes and feel the drowsiness slip away.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: 17px;">*make sure the subject is free of any suggestion and no longer hypnotically responsive</span>
<br /><br /><span style="font-size: 17px;">Cold reading</span><br />
<span style="font-size: 17px;">Feelings, deep down, on the inside</span><br />
<span style="font-size: 17px;">Often, rarely, occasionally</span><br />
<span style="font-size: 17px;">Never use: never & always</span><br />
<span style="font-size: 17px;">Create an out: ''Sometimes you hide things & occasionally u reveal too much''</span>
<br /><br /><span style="font-size: 17px;">*Bring ur mind to the present</span><br />
<span style="font-size: 17px;">*Look them in the eye (if their eyes r darting it means they want to escape from the conversation or topic) - if they look straight at u they r interested in ur thoughts</span><br />
<span style="font-size: 17px;">*if they eyebrows go down while they look away they might be thinking hard or worried about something else</span><br />
<span style="font-size: 17px;">*if the eyebrows go up and eyes go big then they r curious about what u say</span><br />
<span style="font-size: 17px;">*if pupils go big they like u, excited and happy</span>
<br /><br /><span style="font-size: 17px;">The unknown side of the human psyche</span>
<br /><br /><span style="font-size: 17px;">''The more u REMEMBER the RELAXATION within, the more u notice the COMFORT through your arms and people really begin to RELAX deeply and more comfortably when they start to LET GO and REST'</span><div><span style="font-size: 17px;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-size: 17px;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-size: 17px;"></span><span style="font-size: 17px;">I like ur style</span><br />
<span style="font-size: 17px;">I appretiate you</span><br />
<span style="font-size: 17px;">When can i see u again?</span><br />
<span style="font-size: 17px;">Great sense of humour/brains/personality</span><br />
<span style="font-size: 17px;">I got this babe/ i'll take care of it</span><br />
<span style="font-size: 17px;">YOU got this baby</span><br />
<span style="font-size: 17px;">You look extra beautiful</span><br />
<span style="font-size: 17px;">Good memory</span><br />
<span style="font-size: 17px;">Fill u with more children</span><br />
<span style="font-size: 17px;">Ur the perfect mix of cute and sexy</span>
<br /><br /><span style="font-size: 17px;">Your my hearts breath****</span><br />
<span style="font-size: 17px;">Sensational</span><br />
<span style="font-size: 17px;">Enchanting</span><br />
<span style="font-size: 17px;">Ur a precious package</span><br />
<span style="font-size: 17px;">I like ur perspective</span><br />
<span style="font-size: 17px;">Marvalous</span>
<br /><br /><span style="font-size: 17px;">Luminous, exotic, lovely, erotic, radiant</span>
<br /><br /><span style="font-size: 17px;">The plot of female hero myth is she tames a mysterious & agressive male (vampire,wolf, surgeon, millionaire,pirate)</span><br />
<span style="font-size: 17px;">Women want to tame but then lose interest in u once tamed</span>
<br /><br /><span style="font-size: 17px;">I can see ur soul</span>
<br /><br /><span style="font-size: 17px;">EMBEDDED COMMANDS & SUGGESTIONS</span><br />
<span style="font-size: 17px;">*remember when....imagine how.....in the future.....picture....recall.....feel...allow...</span><br />
<span style="font-size: 17px;">visualise</span><br />
<span style="font-size: 17px;">*allow your self to feel</span><br />
<span style="font-size: 17px;">*do u feel ready</span><br />
<span style="font-size: 17px;">*allow it to happen</span><br />
<span style="font-size: 17px;">*allow ur self to take action tonight</span><br />
<span style="font-size: 17px;">Its happening in ur mind....</span><br />
<span style="font-size: 17px;">Thats occuring when u imagine....</span><br />
<span style="font-size: 17px;">Its taking place</span><br />
<span style="font-size: 17px;">Its on</span><br />
<span style="font-size: 17px;">Make me feel welcome</span><br />
<span style="font-size: 17px;">Bliss</span><br />
<span style="font-size: 17px;">Accepting of me</span><br />
<span style="font-size: 17px;">U make me feel comfortable</span><br />
<span style="font-size: 17px;">I could feel their innocence</span><br />
<span style="font-size: 17px;">I understand ur passions</span>
<br /><br /><span style="font-size: 17px;">TURN ON TOPICS</span><br />
<span style="font-size: 17px;">*transcendence, awe, mystery, identity, edge, novelty, surprise, being dominated, partner in crime, secrets, secret location, love, people watching</span><br />
<span style="font-size: 17px;">Tension, indulgence, gravitating to people, magnetic qualities, adventure, rituals & courtships, emotional roller coaster</span><br />
<span style="font-size: 17px;">Passion, intrigue, control</span><br />
<span style="font-size: 17px;">Teacher, vivid imagination, receive, master, learn, fascination, tender, challenges, her process,</span>
<br /><br /><span style="font-size: 17px;">*Which quality would you pick to have in ur life to make it all worthwhile?</span><br />
<span style="font-size: 17px;">*what does that allow u to do in life?</span><br />
<span style="font-size: 17px;">*how does that make you feel inside?</span><br />
<span style="font-size: 17px;">* what would be a perfect scenario for you to feel happy?</span><br />
<span style="font-size: 17px;">*what emotion do you feel inside?</span><br />
<span style="font-size: 17px;">*what will bring you closer to that feeling?</span><br />
<span style="font-size: 17px;">*what do you like doing?</span>
<br /><br /><span style="font-size: 17px;">Do you have the time? </span><br />
<span style="font-size: 17px;">Can i ask u a question wheres the best pub around here to go drinking cose im not from around here?</span><br />
<span style="font-size: 17px;">R u single by any chance?</span><br />
<span style="font-size: 17px;">Can i have ur number?</span>
<br /><br /><span style="font-size: 17px;">I'll think about it</span><br />
<span style="font-size: 17px;">I ll tell u later</span>
<br /><br /><span style="font-size: 17px;">Ur my fav person to talk to / to spend time with</span><br />
<span style="font-size: 17px;">I could talk to u all night long</span><br />
<span style="font-size: 17px;">Ive learned so much from talking with u</span><br />
<span style="font-size: 17px;">U look amazing as always</span><br />
<span style="font-size: 17px;">Thats a good joke ur pretty funny</span><br />
<span style="font-size: 17px;">Ur not like anyone ive ever met before</span><br />
<span style="font-size: 17px;">Ur really good at what u do</span><br />
<span style="font-size: 17px;">I feel like im so much better when im with u</span><br />
<span style="font-size: 17px;">U have such incredible hair/ lips/eyes</span><br />
<span style="font-size: 17px;">I admire ur work ethic</span><br />
<span style="font-size: 17px;">What do u think?</span>
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<span style="font-size: 17px;">You've been activated</span><br />
<span style="font-size: 17px;">That must have been so traumatic for you</span><br />
<span style="font-size: 17px;">You're special</span><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><!--/data/user/0/com.samsung.android.app.notes/files/clipdata/clipdata_bodytext_240218_145518_900.sdocx--><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><!--/data/user/0/com.samsung.android.app.notes/files/clipdata/clipdata_bodytext_240218_145348_233.sdocx--></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2962721263288722253.post-50026345166505576652024-01-10T06:44:00.000-08:002024-01-12T03:42:43.982-08:00Paranoid Alice: Songs about Cults, Serial Killers & Mind Control<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEia4cIK18OyH9_KNmoEo0VuMAxuwP_fXhuynp89yazbkoHc-K8OccSRs4rhgAwxOkMtuSLwlxXjxPhUTJQQzzGcclzDSmKWjiaI_WQbpsuKrZVURsbiVQes8x5Ka2oT46VSxqR0Gpb-cJ4okMOQnbenStSg11EhEyCYZd_hP1IeU1SRd_ThnZt62VM-sd1w/s1280/befunky_2024-0-3_10-14-51.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="720" data-original-width="1280" height="360" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEia4cIK18OyH9_KNmoEo0VuMAxuwP_fXhuynp89yazbkoHc-K8OccSRs4rhgAwxOkMtuSLwlxXjxPhUTJQQzzGcclzDSmKWjiaI_WQbpsuKrZVURsbiVQes8x5Ka2oT46VSxqR0Gpb-cJ4okMOQnbenStSg11EhEyCYZd_hP1IeU1SRd_ThnZt62VM-sd1w/w640-h360/befunky_2024-0-3_10-14-51.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><p><span style="font-family: arial;">The 'punge rock' band Paranoid Alice have been causing waves with their tsunami like live shows across the country and even ripping up a picture of Putin on a music tv show over the past year. Their debut album Mental Illness For The Masses is a combination of grunge, punk, doo-wop and noise psych, during the recording they did a seance and fired two bass players before they took the songs on the road.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">At the moment their lyrics have been the subject of much mystery, mainly because over the years most of the best rock albums have checked a lot of the same esoteric boxes this band is fascinated by. Paranoid Alice mix everything from true crime stories such as the Jonestown Massacre, Caroline Calloway, Charles Manson, Jessica Wongso. Horror and psychological movies are examined such as 'The Shinning', 'Black Widow' and 'The Joker' not to mention society and woke culture on their song Buttons.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">Paranoid Alice are a weird mixture of being an articulate band who have obviously read up on psychology and crowd control, but once they plug in they capture a dangerous quality that all the best bands possess on record and onstage. They are unpredictable and enjoy provoking audiences when other bands arent these days. Over the year they have been compared to The Jesus & Mary Chain, Oasis, The Doors, New York Dolls, Sex Pistols, Throbbing Gristle, Joy Division, Nirvana and The Velvet Underground.</span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen='allowfullscreen' webkitallowfullscreen='webkitallowfullscreen' mozallowfullscreen='mozallowfullscreen' width='320' height='266' src='https://www.blogger.com/video.g?token=AD6v5dygirlJ_04mMMNrs_Uwb8-aqxsWADRprSzXsKWMlAETdhs0fY3Asof8Y6Vs4KIlm7UgH_1Mi1vuh2CKUNohcQ' class='b-hbp-video b-uploaded' frameborder='0'></iframe></div><span style="font-family: arial;"><p>The guitar smashing went viral after many older people complained about the destruction which captivated social media thus creating a new generation gap in rock music, with those understanding the frustration of todays society that is then dissipated when smashing a guitar onstage, it is also the purest form of rebel yell that can be made in rock music. The band joked about the attention but it hasnt stopped the band from their ideals. Another angle that has cropped up is the use of mysticism and shamanic imagery they have used on posters and bootlegs, including artwork from the Salem witch trials, voodoo ceremonies and occult secret societies. The overt cruelty and menace of the music — the droning and distortion behind lyrics about addiction, sadism and cultural exploitation doesn't come from nowhere. Paranoid Alice will show you where that perpetual novelty of the dark side comes from, and allowes you to connect the sonic dots with other, contemporaneous artistic eruptions. </p></span><p></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEim3Cyzdx4_j9Ctqdij2AMP7jkMyCWFPF12P8xNscXpg2gUpdBrngXeHZu1yW5uJAs7rJmhsEghyphenhyphenCGoO5b4jpifVuI-MtgDHVk3vA9I4bs5vUcVaiAYVfEON5FtBarA9qNje8Lbguw67j_PPGpc6oJEk8tDSnzUHKd6GxVv4tw5Xu5IaRjPGgC_9vvpoQ36/s1080/Screenshot_20230908-142217_Facebook.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="732" data-original-width="1080" height="434" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEim3Cyzdx4_j9Ctqdij2AMP7jkMyCWFPF12P8xNscXpg2gUpdBrngXeHZu1yW5uJAs7rJmhsEghyphenhyphenCGoO5b4jpifVuI-MtgDHVk3vA9I4bs5vUcVaiAYVfEON5FtBarA9qNje8Lbguw67j_PPGpc6oJEk8tDSnzUHKd6GxVv4tw5Xu5IaRjPGgC_9vvpoQ36/w640-h434/Screenshot_20230908-142217_Facebook.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span><p></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><p></p><p><br /></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2962721263288722253.post-46654444642396258062023-11-19T09:56:00.000-08:002023-11-19T12:24:16.351-08:00The Genius of Exploitation Film Marketing<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEivzXPWhugsps-wGJ3M2KF_AfReLwAbLkdvZHpchoxVM6Bri9rdArmiLmsq_HrevPOxFDG7idUBaOQIbJcn-QSoY8_quGcrJvj6Y45q8UDlkm-574-pEZUAWYVyj3BAWenuLhBuDpZ50X24optKM-0EKEMM0zMpkrLOuGtP6Sa7Fl9yvwMEZu-cYkvDBH91/s1124/Kroger%20Babb-1.webp" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="474" data-original-width="1124" height="270" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEivzXPWhugsps-wGJ3M2KF_AfReLwAbLkdvZHpchoxVM6Bri9rdArmiLmsq_HrevPOxFDG7idUBaOQIbJcn-QSoY8_quGcrJvj6Y45q8UDlkm-574-pEZUAWYVyj3BAWenuLhBuDpZ50X24optKM-0EKEMM0zMpkrLOuGtP6Sa7Fl9yvwMEZu-cYkvDBH91/w640-h270/Kroger%20Babb-1.webp" width="640" /></a></div><p></p><p>From 1919-1959 exploitation films ruled underground & sometimes even mainstream theatres. Many exploitation classics were created, and the marketing genius behind these films was outrageous but should be celebrated. </p><p>The marketing and storytelling practices revolved around a strict code:</p><p></p><ol style="text-align: left;"><li>The movies were limited to adult-only showings.</li><li>Performances used to be segregated by gender.</li><li>Age restrictions.</li><li>Lectures & clinical nurses would be in attendance.</li></ol><div>The films plot & storyline would revolve around:</div><div><ol style="text-align: left;"><li>The Innocent: Young man or woman who either gets addicted to drugs, booze, sexual disease, pregnancy, gambling, cigarettes, abortion. Sets up the story to prove that the innocent lacks and needs an education in such a subject.</li><li>The Corruptor: The person who leads the young innocent astray and down a path of destruction. Pimps, homesexuals, theatrical agent, drug pusher, seducer, prostitute. They will entice the innocent to ''try'' something.</li><li>The Parents: They are represented as either being good because they educated their children about vice, or bad because they were selfish & too ignorant to teach their kids about the corruptors.</li><li>The Crusader: Usually is a teacher, cop, physician, public health officer or reporter who comes to the rescue. They are usually having to fight petty moral codes & the status quo of closed minded society. They are the underdog and they address both the characters and the audience.</li><li>The Charlatan: The physician, snake oil salesman, back alley abortionist, televangelist or any other quack motivated by greed. The crusader works to expose the charlatans evils.</li></ol><div>Education is at the center of these early trash exploitation films, the need to protect the youth from nudists,high-flying hop heads, strippers, vice lords, mafia, bad high school girls.</div></div><div><br /></div><div>Most of these movie campaign adverts covered the major appeals and bases that drew people to them such as sex & vice:</div><div><br /></div><div><ol style="text-align: left;"><li>The aftereffects of heterosexual bonding, ''I was an innocent virgin, now a victim of desire.''</li><li>Blatant sex & nudity. Images and referencea to sex & catch lines, ''See the queens of burlesque in their sensational strip tease dances.''</li><li>The unusual, aberrant, or forbidden, ''Sex maniacs, murderers, hookers, victims of passion.''</li><li>Timelines or expose, ''Scoop! The picture that dares expose the naked & shameless truth about the scarlet street of sin. Timely as todays headlines.''</li><li>Veracity, ''See & know the truth.''</li><li>Pedagogic appeal, ''This could be your daughter, why shohld she suffer for your ignorance, dont let it happen.''</li></ol><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh6Rid_BpYjmr1OMB6G8yXsOYH_Ud9jntOzXofv0NCBWtuxyaIH9EVuOO8VabHwIvxOhsSS-lBKfsSkEZujIlVUe5weve96oDbcdp-g43GkGHPbsjF4KdKZYUGyRHwooHeQk_Q6-exrq0sk917xALIXwzHuWOmNVIc6rU-GjfkRo107BUf76gV2md7VKwGC/s960/Camps.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="960" data-original-width="691" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh6Rid_BpYjmr1OMB6G8yXsOYH_Ud9jntOzXofv0NCBWtuxyaIH9EVuOO8VabHwIvxOhsSS-lBKfsSkEZujIlVUe5weve96oDbcdp-g43GkGHPbsjF4KdKZYUGyRHwooHeQk_Q6-exrq0sk917xALIXwzHuWOmNVIc6rU-GjfkRo107BUf76gV2md7VKwGC/w460-h640/Camps.jpg" width="460" /></a></div><div><br /></div><div>Film producers like Kroger Babb, Dwain Esper, William Castle, George Hilriman, Raymond L. Friedgen, Edward L. Alperson, Edgar G. Ulmer, George McCall,</div><div>James M. Doane, J. G. Sanford, David F. Friedman, Samuel Z. Arkoffs and Joseph E. Levines, Bob Shaye used all the tricks & tactics in the book to get people into the cinemas. </div><div>"ONCE IN A LIFETIME Comes A Presentation That TRULY PULLS NO PUNCHES! Now YOU Can SEE The Motion Picture That DARES DISCUSS and EXPLAIN SEX AS NEVER BEFORE SEEN and HEARD! THE ONE, THE ONLY, THE ORIGINAL...MOM AND DAD...Truly The World’s Most Amazing Attraction! NO ONE UNDER HIGH SCHOOL AGE Admitted Unless Accompanied By Parents!! EVERYTHING SHOWN! EVERYTHING EXPLAINED!"</div><div><br /></div><div>If you lived in a small town in the 1940s or ’50s, it was virtually impossible not to know about a film called Mom and Dad. Sooner or later a flamboyant publicity man would drive into town, the ads would appear, and the tempestuous debate would begin. Plastered on every available storefront, barn, bus bench, and shoeshine stand was a poster seducing you with an attractive couple in mid-kiss and black bold-faced ballyhoo exploding all around them. And in a black box in the lower left-hand corner:</div><div><br /></div><div>"Extra! IN PERSON: ELLIOT FORBES, ‘THE SECRETS OF SENSIBLE SEX.’"</div><div><br /></div><div>Alarmed letters to the editor would appear in the newspaper. Clergymen would express opinions from the pulpit. If you were Catholic, you’d be banned from attending. In some towns the police would send men to check the film for violations of the obscenity statutes. And as soon as the first women-only matinee was screened, at 2 p.m. on a Friday afternoon, the town would blaze with Mom and Dad gossip. Though all but forgotten today, Mom and Dad was so heavily promoted that Time once remarked that the ad campaign "left only the livestock unaware of the chance to learn the facts of life."</div><div><br /></div><div>Kroger Babb, who billed himself as "America’s Fearless Young Showman," ruled over a vast army of Mom and Dad "roadshow units" from his headquarters in Worthington, Ohio. He used a form of exhibition that has all but disappeared today, called "fourwalling." Instead of booking his film into theaters for a percentage of the box office, he would simply rent the theater outright and take it over for the week or, in smaller markets, just one or two days. He would pay for all advertising and promotion, put his own banners and marquees out front, and turn the theater into a midway attraction, complete with lobby curiosities designed to lure customers. But because he was a pariah in Hollywood, he had to use independent mom-and-pop theaters that weren’t part of the big chains like Paramount and RKO, and he had to fight censorship boards, police forces, judges, clergy, and outraged newspaper editors everywhere he went. The film was in 400 separate court proceedings during its run.</div><div><br /></div><div>The Blowoff</div><div><br /></div><div>Babb was an expert at creating a kind of mob psychosis that peaked at the moment the projector started to roll. Watching the film today, it’s all but impossible to recreate the atmosphere of a capacity audience waiting breathlessly to see things they knew were forbidden and probably shocking. It was Babb’s peculiar genius that he was able to evoke the emotions of a horror movie using what is actually one of the blandest, most formulaic stories ever concocted. </div><div><br /></div><div>At this point the film would stop entirely and the house lights would come up. Elliot Forbes, an "eminent sexual hygiene commentator," would stride onto the stage and deliver a 20-minute lecture on the need for openness in sex education, the morality of the times, the biology of the body, and what the community can do to avoid the ruination of its youth.</div><div><br /></div><div>If anyone checked the credentials of Elliot Forbes, he would have discovered that the speaker was the busiest man in the history of the lecture circuit, appearing 78 times a day in cities scattered from Maine to Oregon. There were actually 26 Elliot Forbeses, one for each roadshow, and Babb hired most of them from the ranks of retired or underemployed vaudeville comedians. They knew how to work crowds with a combination of earnestness, humor, and downhome "just folks" patter that would always crescendo at the moment when they held up two paperback books -- one called Man and Boy, the other called Woman and Girl -- and made a spiel for "a set of these vitally important books to be read in the privacy of your own home." Two women in nurse uniforms -- supposedly stationed in the theater to take care of people who fainted or had heart attacks -- would then pass among the crowd collecting money and distributing the volumes.</div><div><br /></div><div>The books themselves were rehashes of venereal disease and pregnancy information that could be obtained at any public health agency. The Elliot Forbes speech was what is known in the carnival world as a "blowoff," long used in 10-in-one freak shows to hustle additional money from people who had already paid an admission price. In any good blowoff, there’s the constant implication that the "good stuff" is in the attraction you haven’t paid for yet -- in this case, the book. Forbes’ main job was to sell the books, which frequently augmented the box-office take by as much as 50 percent. In 1957, for example, at a four-week showing of Mom and Dad in Baltimore, the box-office gross was $82,000, but 45,000 copies of the books were sold, resulting -- </div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhkmTZ3O9lCAyJxWeEmdE_WMwKAJ-EPzJiLQ2JWL06sKHxfSRvzVfTP_UbZbDNSxPxrR65A6F1XX1enw-31zZDIWpEvNjWZdesPrJtcwIERSDoJVokfEgqzWiRFTR3VxWEG7Zdi3jnes35nY04jHYahhsTn8ZJoeNZgcMWBhMH6QhlltaWya2e7xWp1MkEo/s704/Kroger%20Babb.webp" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="704" data-original-width="541" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhkmTZ3O9lCAyJxWeEmdE_WMwKAJ-EPzJiLQ2JWL06sKHxfSRvzVfTP_UbZbDNSxPxrR65A6F1XX1enw-31zZDIWpEvNjWZdesPrJtcwIERSDoJVokfEgqzWiRFTR3VxWEG7Zdi3jnes35nY04jHYahhsTn8ZJoeNZgcMWBhMH6QhlltaWya2e7xWp1MkEo/w492-h640/Kroger%20Babb.webp" width="492" /></a></div><br /><div>By the time Kroger Babb came along, the formula for a sex hygiene movie was so well established that all he did was incorporate every element of every sex hygiene movie in history into a single film. But in search of even better profits, he changed the rules slightly. Many of the old sex-hygiene films had played in grindhouses or marginal theaters or even bars and restaurants. He wanted to break through to the biggest theaters in the country.</div></div><div><br /></div><div>Howard W. Babb had gotten the nickname "Kroger" from the name of the grocery store where he worked as a boy growing up in Lees Creek, Ohio. Born in 1906, he was a sportswriter, a newspaper reporter, an ad manager, and, by his late 20s, publicity manager for the Chakeres-Warners theater chain, where he distinguished himself with publicity stunts such as having a man buried alive in front of a theater. He got the exploitation roadshow bug when he hooked up with an outfit called Cox and Underwood, which was peddling an aging sex hygiene film called Dust to Dust that was actually a 1935 film called High School Girl with a live-birth reel slapped onto the end. Proving that he was born to be in the business, it’s the same plot Babb would use in Mom and Dad. (The Forty Thieves frequently quarreled over territories, but they never sued for copyright infringement. Of course, many of them were carnival men, who regarded all cons as ancient and passed down from generation to generation, but they may also have simply sold stories the same way they occasionally sold sideshow acts.)</div><div><br /></div><div>Anxious to go out on his own, Babb got 20 investors to put up the money to make Mom and Dad. The script was written by Mildred Horn, who would later become his wife, and who would also write Man and Woman and Boy and Girl. To direct he hired William "One Shot" Beaudine (so named because he never did a second take), who dated back to the Bowery Boys serials and had made over 200 B movies. He made the whole film in six days in 1944.</div><div><br /></div><div>Perhaps the most revolutionary thing Babb did was to give his film such a bland and praiseworthy title. Who could object to a movie called Mom and Dad? This wasn’t a movie about crazed sex maniacs or loose women or pregnant girls or the vice rackets. It was a movie about the education of all the moms and dads in the world, and, in fact, he wanted every mom and every dad to see it. His principal weapon, when he came under attack, was the very ordinariness of his story.</div><div><br /></div><div>End of the Hygiene Era</div><div><br /></div><div>Babb was not just prepared for the inevitable censorship battles he would face. He egged them on. He stirred up the Catholics at every opportunity, capitalizing on the church’s "C" rating (for "condemned") of his film. He wrote fake letters to the editor in advance of the film’s arrival in town, hoping there would be controversy. His most successful letter was supposedly written by the anonymous mayor of a small town. The "mayor" explained that he had opposed the showing of Mom and Dad in his town, too, but then the 17-year-old daughter of a local churchgoing couple found herself "in trouble." He saw Mom and Dad with a friend, and as a result had the courage to tell her parents about her predicament. They were shocked, but forgave her. The girl gave birth to a healthy boy, which was adopted by a childless couple. The girl then completed high school and is now engaged to a fine young man. The mayor goes on to thank Babb for having the courage "to tell young people what their parents didn’t." And the letter ends: "P.S. That girl was my daughter."</div><div><br /></div><div>Babb’s company, Hygienic Productions, sent out an advance man to place letters like this, buy advertising, do mailings, and hold screenings for town fathers and religious leaders. (If the town’s leaders liked the film, a "soft" campaign would be used. If they didn’t like it, a "hard" campaign, advertising it as "the movie self-styled moralists don’t want you to see," would be used. Both campaigns worked.) The advance man would be followed a week later by a crew of four -- including "Elliot Forbes" and two "nurses" -- to actually manage the film during its run. The crews would stay on the road for 20 weeks at a time. Babb even had one all-black crew for black theaters, with Olympic champion Jesse Owens substituting for Elliot Forbes.</div><div><br /></div><div>As the Mom and Dad exploitation scheme evolved over time, it attracted imitators. By 1950 there were so many sex-hygiene roadshows that they were starting to get in each other’s way, and after a town was "scorched" by a promotional campaign, it would be spoiled for any film arriving later. So four of the films -- Mom and Dad, Street Corner, Because of Eve, and The Story of Bob and Sally -- banded together to form Modern Film Distributors, carving out territories and agreeing not to steal markets.</div><div><br /></div><div>"He was the greatest showman this country ever saw," says one still awed associate. "People talk about Mike Todd, but Todd needed an expensive item to promote. Krog could take any piece of junk and sell it."Imagine for instance a 1948 filmed passion play out of Lawton, Okla., where telephone poles were visible behind the Cross and the were so thick, on the order of "When're y'll gonna betray me?" that it became known as "the only film that had to be dubbed from English into English."</div><div><br /></div><div>That picture, you couldn't giveit away, but I said "Nothing's hopeless if it's advertised right,'" Babb remembers now. "I told them to give me a bottle of gin and let me see what I could come up with overnight."</div><div>After retitling the film "The prince of Peace" and creating an ad campaign with lines like "Be Brave bring your troubles and your family to history's most sublime event" and "You'll find God - right in there. Babb ended up with a movie that had crowds ilined up even in sinful New York, where The Daily News bannered its success as "The Miracle of Broadway." "We killed 'em." Babb says with satisfaction. "The thing took off like a turpentined pup."</div><div><br /></div><div>Babb today is in his 70th year, a heavy-set man with slicked-back white hair and still sharp, hooded eyes peering out of a beefy face. He is semi-retired and recovering from a stroke - "Doing nothing the hardest job I ever had in my life - but neither his living in Palm Springs nor his 3.8-carat diamond ring in a gold and platinum seting particularly denote current wealth. "Money never worried me," he says with enviable simplicity. "I could always make it."</div><div><br /></div><div>Born in the hamlet of Lees Creek, Ohio, Babb still likes to refer to himself, with artful modesty, as "just a country boy with a shoeshine." Called Kroger as a nickname because of his father's fondness for the B.H. Kroger brand of coffee, Babb had that wild variety of jobs that characterizes so many American entrepreneurs. Among things he refereed enough football and basketball games to make Ripley's Believe It Or Not, and staged Depression-era stunts like burying alive one Digger O'Dell right in the center of Wilmington, Ohio. It started one night in 1943 when Babb attended a town meeting in tiny Burkburnett, Tex., called because local high school girls were being impregnated in large numbers by men from a nearby Army Air Corps base. "It was a hell of a meeting, you had all these old biddies squabbling and roasting everybody, they wanted to declare the whole Air Corps off limits," Babb remembers. "Then the idea hit me, that would make a hell of a movie." </div><div><br /></div><div>Undaunted, Babb made the film for his own Hygenic Productions company for a bargain-basement $62,000 invested by 20 individuals. Each investor, Babb claims, made back $63,000 for each thousand put in, except for one fellow who pulled out before the film was made and ended up a suicide. Such was the power of "Mom and Dad." Its international grosses have been estimated at anywhere from $40 to $100 million, and even Time Magazine claimed in 1949 that one out of 10 people in the world had seen it. "Mom and Dad" did not flourish because of its birth footage, featuring normal, breech birth and cesarean section, or because of its puerile plot, which Babb himself disparages as dealing with "this dumb high school girl, very beautiful, who wanted to know more about her body, about sex, but every time she asked her mother a question, the mother said, 'Tut, tut, you're too young to know.' So then she went to a party, danced with a good-looking stranger, and she got pregnant."</div><div><br /></div><div>The success flowed, rather, from Babb's extraordinary promotional abilities. Working from the premise that "You've got to tell 'em to sell 'em." Babb would simply overwhelm a town with exploitation material, even pioneering the use of direct mail "Krog would spend more money on promotion than the theater would normally gross, but our returns would be sensational," remembers K. Gordon "Cagey" Murray, a former Babb associate. "Sometimes we'd find some old wino somewhere, dress him up to look like a streetcorner preacher and stand him on a corner talking about the terrible evils of this movie. People would grab the handbills and head for the theater," where separate shows for men and women, to avoid unsightly embarrassment, were the rule. The result, wrote Time, "left no one but the livestock unware of the chance to learn the facts of life." Even today, Babb's eyes glisten when he says, "We packed 'em!" The piece de resistance here were Babb's newspaper ads, still stirring models of enticement. "It Happens Somewhere Every Night!" roared the copy. "One mistake . . . can ruin an entire lifetime of happiness. So bold - it's shocking! So human - you'll both laugh and cry! So wonderful - you'll be lucky to get in!" And the real clincher, "You May Faint But You'll Learn Facts!"</div><div><br /></div><div>Patrons of "Mom and Dad" got more than a movie, they got "Two Nurses in Attendance" plus a lecture by "Elliot Forbes, Fearless Hygiene Commentator," strategically placed midway in the film. The purpose of the lecture was to sell books, either "Father and Son" or "Mother and Daughter," depending on the audience, antediluvian sex manuals that cost next to nothing to print but a whole dollar to buy. "They made you feel you had to buy this thing or you were the most ignorant person in the world," remembers one spectator. And this didn't happen in just one city at a time, oh no. In his salad days Babb had 300 units on the road at the same time, each complete with its own nurses and its own lecturer, and to this day he continues to run into men who tell him. "You don't know me Mr. Babb, but my name was Elliot Forbes."</div><div><br /></div><div>In today's carefree, enlightened times, when films like Mom" and Dad" could probably be shown on television - "Oh, it'd be nothing, very tame, it'd be a Sunday school picture," Babb himself says - it is hard to imagine what a fuss its showing stirred up in the late 1940s. Yet grown men were known to faint at the "clap opera" sections, medical reels exhibiting the aftereffects of venereal disease - "In Minneapolis, we had 'em laying there by the dozens on marble benches in the lobby, like slabs in a morgue" - and by Babb's own count the film was taken either to court or before local censorship boards 428 times. "Oh, my God, you don't have any idea of the vigor with which opponents pursued this film, it was absolutely fierce," remembers Henry Fox of Arent, Fox, Kintner, Plotkin and Kahn, Washington's second-largest law firm, who supervised some of "Mom and Dads" litigation. "Its almost incredible as you thing back, but censors called it salacious, obscene, they swore they'd die before they'd show the thing."</div><div><br /></div><div>This combination of outraged decency and lusty curiosity led to startling crowd scenes for "Mom and Dad," scenes which Babb cannily photographed and used to stimulate further throngs. And while riots were not exactly commonplace, things did tend to happen. "In Hamilton, Ohio, they came like a stampede of wild animals," Babb remembers. "They took the box office right off its foundation, they moved it clear through the glass doors into the lobby, and the girl inside with it." And in Phoenix, "They had to bring the fire department and flush men out the front of the theater because the cashier had gone berserk, berserk, and had sold 2,000 tickets for a theater that had 800 seats." But most astonishing of all was what happened in New Orleans. "The first time we played there, the priests from the various parishes came down early that morning and put themselves in a chain by locking arms, they put a complete chain around the front of the theater and no one could get through, it was like a football line," Babb says, still sort of amused.</div><div><br /></div><div>"Well, various women said they weren't Catholics and went up to the line of priests and demanded to get through. When they refused some woman hauled off and slapped one of the priests and it started a real fist fight. It was a sort of knock-down, drag-out situation and the priests finally yielded."</div><div>Or so it seemed until the next time "Mom and Dad" showed up in town and Babb got a call from his theater manager. "He said we can't open and I said "Why" and he said. 'We have no street in front of the theater.' 'No street, what do you mean no street?' Well, during the night they had come in there with bulldozers and they had scooped up the entire street, the sidewalk, everything, right up to the building's edge and there was like a 6.8, 10-foot drop there in front of the theater," Babb, ever undaunted, built a quickie box office in the alley behind the theater, sent people in through the exits and ended up playing to capacity for "I don't know how many weeks." </div><div><br /></div><div>Babb never quite duplicated his success with "Mom and Dad" with the other films he promoted, but he did create a group of splendid ad lines that even today have a touch of poetry about them. "Karimoja," an African documentary, was advertised as "They wear nothing but the wind," while "Kipling's Women" was hailed as "He had a way with woman: the only way."</div><div><br /></div><div>And then there was a film "by this foreign director, he became famous, I can't think of the fellow's name," that Babb was called on to promote. The director was Ingmar Bergman, who saw "Monika" become his first American success after Babb tagged it with one of his immortal lines, "The Story of a Bad Girl." Yet though films whose campaigns he worked on still turn up at an occasional theater, Babb has pretty much taken himself out of the movie business. "The pictures just got so bad, so filthy, they call 'em sexy but that's what I call 'em," says the man who once outraged America, shaking his head, "I just didn't have any taste for 'em."</div><div><br /></div><div>What Kroger Babb does retain, however, is his absolute, almost religious faith in the all-conquering powers of salesmanship. "He had a theory," explains attorney Henry Fox, "That if there was a crowd of at least three people standing around, you ought to be selling them something. It was an absolute sin if you didn't." </div><div><br /></div><div>By releasing movies of questionable quality that were propelled by the invention of marketing techniques that leaned into sex, shame, women of ill repute and nudity that made the films irresistible to repressed moviegoers.</div><div><br /></div><div>Among the films Babb released were Monika, the Story of a Bad Girl – Kroger bought the American rights to an Ingmar Bergman film and cut out all the meaningful stuff to wind up with a crisp 62 minutes worth of sex scenes; She Shoulda Said No!, a cautionary tale of sex and marijuana use; and the Christ story Prince of Peace that was made so cheaply that telephone poles could be glimpsed in shots of the crucifix. </div><div>Babb was a salesman his whole life. As a young man he had invented gimmicks to promote films, like giving away bags of groceries to raffle winners. In Babb’s vision of humanity, you had to “Tell ‘em to sell ‘em.” He became a specialist in buying the rights to grade-Z films about prurient subjects, then creating buzz about them to increase ticket sales. He repackaged a 1938 film called “Child Bride” and was opposed in print by an Indiana film critic named Mildred Horn. His solution? He made love to her, and Mildred became his partner for life. She wrote the screenplay for the 1945 film “Mom and Dad”, one of the most profitable films of all time. Press kits supplied by Babb provided a template for creating controversy weeks before the film would be shown in each town. Babb and his employees would write emotional letters to the editor of local papers using pseudonyms, about how seeing “Mom and Dad” had changed their lives or saved them from unwanted pregnancy. Leaflets were given free to local churches to distribute. Some were in support, and others portrayed moral outrage that the film would be shown. It created tremendous local interest in whether or not SEX (gasp) was going on between young people, innocent and ignorant of the risks of pregnancy and disease. Or you might see Olympic Medalist Jesse Owens, who gave the talk to black audiences. They sold sex information pamphlets (written by Mildred, Babb’s wife) similar to the pamphlets shown onscreen. It must have been an amazing carnival ride. I wish I could have seen it in theaters, but I was about eleven when the show stopped touring. Babb was sued for obscenity more than 400 times over this film, and he won again and again on the basis of “educational value”.</div><div><br /></div><div>"They cannot be obtained on newsstands or at booksellers, or anywhere else. No, these books are offered exclusively to the patrons of this presentation at a slight charge over the actual costs of printing and distribution. That price -- on dollar ... Now think of it: for less than the cost of a carton of cigarettes, you can have a set of the vitally important books to be read in the privacy of your won home, and I believe with all my heart that a set of these books belongs on the bedside table of every home in this great land..."</div><div><br /></div><div> -- Eliot Forbes</div><div><br /></div><div>If you bought that load of crap, then you bought yourselves a copy of The Digest of Hygiene for Mother and Daughter or The Manual of Hygiene for Father and Son (-- penned by Babb's wife, and Mom and Dad co-screen-writer, Mildred Horn). Now, I have no idea if those editions were segregated like the audiences were (-- anybody else remember the day in High School Health class when the girls had to go watch a film in the library while the boys had to go and watch one in the cafeteria?). Either way, most of the information in these pamphlets was outdated before they were even printed, and the fact that Babb had 25 different touring companies roaming the country at the same time, each with their very own Eliot Forbes to stump for safe sex never discouraged sales all that much. "Nothing's hopeless if it's advertised right."</div><div><br /></div><div> -- Kroger Babb</div><div><br /></div><div>Lightning never did strike again for Babb after Mom and Dad, though. His more famous follow ups include trying to cash in on actress Lila Leeds' drug bust (-- along with fellow actor, Robert Mitchum,) with She Shoulda Said No (1949); Karamojia (1954) -- kind of a proto-mondo movie about a blood-drinking tribe of Africans; The Prince of Peace, a truly atrocious religious film out of Oklahoma with the promise of a new Bible for every paying customer; he also chopped-up Ingmar Bergman's Summer with Monkia (1953) and re-packaged as the nudie-flick The Story of a Bad Girl; and last, and least, a badly dubbed Italian version of Uncle Tom's Cabin (1965).</div><div><br /></div><div>During the intermission of his films and after the showings, books relevant to the subject of the film were sold. Mom and Dad's distributor Modern Film Distributors sold over 45,000 copies of Man and Boy and Woman and Girl, written by Babb's wife, netting an estimated $31,000. According to Babb, these cost about eight cents to produce, and were sold for $1 apiece. While Modern Film was able to sell 45,000 on its own, Babb estimates sales of 40 million, citing "IRS figures." This sort of companion selling would become common practice for Babb: with the religious film The Lawton Story (AKA-Prince of Peace), he would sell Bibles and other spiritual literature; and with his fidelity film Why Men Leave Home books featuring beauty tips. With other films, Babb would try different approaches. For She Shoulda Said No!, an anti-marijuana film of the 1950s, he highlighted the sexual scenes and arranged "one-time-only" midnight showings, claiming that his company was working with the United States Treasury Department to release the film "in as many towns and cities as possible in the shortest possible length of time" as a public service. David F. Friedman, another successful exploitation filmmaker of the era, has attributed the "one-time-only" distribution to a quality so low that Babb wanted to cash in and move to his next stop as fast as possible. At each showing of a film, a singing of "The Star-Spangled Banner" was also required.</div><div><br /></div><div>As well as being at the forefront of the battles over censorship and the motion picture censorship system, the exploitation genre faced numerous challenges during the 1940s and 1950s. It was estimated that Babb was sued over 400 times just for Mom and Dad. He would often use the supposed educational value of the films as a defense, also recommending it to theater owners; in his pressbook for Karamoja, he wrote, "When a stupid jerk tries to outsmart proven facts, he should be in an asylum, not a theater." Despite the criticism that Babb drew for Mom and Dad, in 1951 he received the first annual Sid Grauman Showmanship Award, presented by the Hollywood Rotary Club in honor of his accomplishments over the years.</div><div><br /></div><div>Babb cheaply acquired the rights to what would become "She Shoulda Said No!" shortly after Robert Mitchum and Lila Leeds were arrested for marijuana use. Its original producer had struggled to get it distributed as Wild Weed, and Babb quickly presented it as The Story of Lila Leeds and Her Exposé of the Marijuana Racket, hoping that the title would draw audiences. When it failed to stir up much interest, Babb instead focused on the one scene of female nudity, using a photo of Leeds in a showgirl outfit, and retitled it "She Shoulda Said 'No'!", with taglines such as "How Bad Can a Good Girl Get . . . without losing her virtue or respect???" According to Friedman, Babb's midnight presentation of the film twice a week made more money than any other film at the same theater would earn over a full run; Friedman proceeded to use the film in his own roadshow double features. Another film, Karamoja, was marketed as a shocking portrayal of a tribe from Uganda who wore "only the wind and live[d] on blood and beer". Scenes included "the bleeding of cattle and drinking of the warm blood, and self-mutilation as a form of ornamentation", as well as a full-color circumcision scene. Karamoja proved less controversial than many of Babb's other films and grossed less.</div><div><br /></div><div>Babb suffered from various ailments toward the end of his life, including a stroke. He retired in 1977, at 70, and died of heart failure (due to complications from diabetes) on January 29, 1980, in Palm Springs, California. 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text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi4qvRtaJ1jBb8TBIEuygYwXcpV06zXfQmMefAc-QfRqxSS86xYe0ZZd-l0hxNmT65Vsenxm4hJSfjSspwEBf55N6COY42s-tHBb0evHKxUgkMNGOfY_Osu6HCpBCuDv30lwWWK0FjPeNDvyeI5mRqkfU-YmUFEncaHQECwrRzSGIqaeSpuJIGEacgXGMXu/s1080/Screenshot_20231013-183946_Gallery.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1069" data-original-width="1080" height="396" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi4qvRtaJ1jBb8TBIEuygYwXcpV06zXfQmMefAc-QfRqxSS86xYe0ZZd-l0hxNmT65Vsenxm4hJSfjSspwEBf55N6COY42s-tHBb0evHKxUgkMNGOfY_Osu6HCpBCuDv30lwWWK0FjPeNDvyeI5mRqkfU-YmUFEncaHQECwrRzSGIqaeSpuJIGEacgXGMXu/w400-h396/Screenshot_20231013-183946_Gallery.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><p>“There is no terror in the bang, only in the anticipation of it.” -Alfred Hitchcock</p><p>In a nutshell, he gave the audience information of danger that the protagonist did not have, he would show the viewer what might happen. But there was a lotmore to it than that Hitchcock often made use of subjectivity for a lot of voyeuristic purposes. Hitchcock’s characters had the uncanny ability to mimic the movie audience by a basic instinct to ogle an unassuming subject. But this technique is not one of Hitchcock’s creations and in fact named Lev Kuleshov as his inspiration. This technique is known as “The Kuleshov Effect.” Apparently, the basis of suspense always revolves around the fact that the film audience is constantly anticipating what can happen next in a given narrative situation and can manipulate the spectators in such a way as to generate suspense. When the audience is repeatedly reminded of the possibility of an event, this fact allows the building of suspense and more importantly the maintenance of tension throughout the narrative so that the identification of the audience with a relevant story does not decrease.</p><p><b>Subjectivity</b></p><p>By rhythmically repeating this technique, Hitchcock was able to cultivate suspense in a lot of his movies. He periodically switched from the ogler to the ogled which led to building the action. What resulted from this was a feeling and anticipation of utter helplessness as you watch the character observe a dangerous situation unfold and you see he or she proved incapable of preventing the spectacle.</p><p>In the movie Rear Window, Hitchcock can build the suspense the audience feels by building the one felt by the character. This way the audience feels like they are one with the character or are sharing something personal and intimate together. </p><p>Hitchcock believed that information and suspense went hand in hand, he believed in showing the audience what the character was unaware of. If something was going to harm your character in the future, show it at the beginning scene.</p><p><b>Using information to create suspense</b></p><p>Then you let the scene play like there’s nothing wrong. From time to time, remind the audience of the looming danger. This way you continuously build up the suspense level. Remember, the character is unaware of the coming danger. One method Hitchcock used in increasing the suspense level was by having the camera playfully roam around looking for something or someone suspicious. This way, the audience not only feels like they’re involved in solving the mystery, but they also feel like they’re one step ahead of the character.</p><p><b>His use of montage</b></p><p>Another method Hitchcock applied was in dividing action into a series of close-ups that were then shown in succession. This is a basic technique in cinematography. However, you should not make the mistake of thinking it is the same as throwing random shots together as you would see in a fight sequence.</p><p>This is a more subtle approach. First, Alfred Hitchcock starts with a close-up of a hand, then an arm, then you’ll see a face, followed by a gun falling to the floor, all of which are tied together to tell a story. This allowed him to portray an event by showing different pieces of it and gaining control over the timing. You can also use this method to hide parts of an event from the audience so that their mind is engaged.</p><p><b>A simple story</b></p><p>The confusing and overly complex story requires the audience to memorize quite a bit. It’s hard to squeeze out suspense from stories like that. The key to Hitchcock’s raw energy in his movies is the simplistic linear stories he adopts.</p><p>They are usually easy for the audience to follow and grasp. Your screenplay should be streamlined, so it offers the highest dramatic impact. Abstract stories tend to bore audiences. This is why Hitchcock mostly used crime stories that were filled with a lot of spies, assassinations, and people constantly running from the police. Plots like these aren’t necessary for all movies, but they are the easiest to play on fear.</p><p><b>No clichés</b></p><p>Clichés are boring and easy to predict. When you create suspense the best characters are those with hard to predict personalities, make decisions on a whim instead of what is expected from the previous buildup. Audiences tend to find such characters much more realistic which makes it easier for something to happen to them.</p><p>Many of you might have heard of the term “MacGuffin” floating out there in the ether, but what the is it? The answer is not that straightforward. Legendary director Alfred Hitchcock coined the phrase back in the days of his film 39 Steps and used it throughout his career.When asked what a MacGuffin was Hitchcock told this story:</p><p>A man asks, “Well, what is a MacGuffin?” You say, “It’s an apparatus for trapping lions in the Scottish highlands.” Man says, “But there are no lions in the Scottish highlands.” Then you say, “Then that’s no MacGuffin.”</p><p>In fiction, a MacGuffin (sometimes McGuffin or maguffin) is a plot device in the form of some goal, desired object, or another motivator that the protagonist pursues, often with little or no narrative explanation. The specific nature of a McGuffin is typically unimportant to the overall plot. The most common type of McGuffin is a person, place, or thing (such as money or an object of value). Other more abstract types include victory, glory, survival, power, love, or some unexplained driving force.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhCfJHa3FjZ-0it2Wmc08DG2U1stweF77JLFiDvqbkT6jngIGANWfW9BSN4TaFWHFYdYa5BnZvHEDd0SkhRrTaYLnuCaexHpSTrleevAL1tkvP91zRGh7WX_ygh0cjvZut5yky13wN7FbgwqGKohc0NqaGntx388_oRdTX6r9KUObW80dwx_7QnxWMkf76l/s1245/alfred-hitchcock-the-master-of-suspens.webp" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="698" data-original-width="1245" height="358" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhCfJHa3FjZ-0it2Wmc08DG2U1stweF77JLFiDvqbkT6jngIGANWfW9BSN4TaFWHFYdYa5BnZvHEDd0SkhRrTaYLnuCaexHpSTrleevAL1tkvP91zRGh7WX_ygh0cjvZut5yky13wN7FbgwqGKohc0NqaGntx388_oRdTX6r9KUObW80dwx_7QnxWMkf76l/w640-h358/alfred-hitchcock-the-master-of-suspens.webp" width="640" /></a></div><p><b>Editing</b></p><p>Hitchcock’s weapon of choice is editing. He intercuts shots of an unaware character with shots of the element of danger. For instance, in “The Birds’ (1963), when Melanie Daniels is riding a motorboat to the bay, she is attacked by a bird. It is a quick shot and we see a drop of blood. With the bird established as the threat, he can go on to create tension in a later scene where Melanie is sitting in a park, smoking a cigarette. Shots of her calmly smoking are intercut with shots of birds crowding on to a jungle gym behind her, one by one. Her shots are longer and those of the birds are quicker, lasting only a few second each. The final shot of her relaxed face lasts almost 30 seconds before she looks up to see a bird. And then when the film cuts to the jungle gym, it is crawling with tens of black birds perched on the bars. It is quietly terrifying. Moreover, we can hear children in a nearby school singing an eerie, monotonous song throughout the scene.</p><p><b>Tracking Shots</b></p><p>Camera movement can provide a much-needed layer of visual storytelling to a scene, but Hitchcock takes this a step further, using camera movement to lull the audience in. In many of his murderous scenes, Hitchcock starts by moving the camera with the subject throughout the space. As Detective Milton Arbogast (Martin Balsam) in Psycho walks up the stairs of the Bates’ house, the camera moves up the stairs with him. The audience knows that Mrs. Bates is somewhere in the house, and the camera opens up the space behind Arbogast, filling us with terror as we try to anticipate what direction Mrs. Bates will emerge from. After Arbogast is attacked, he falls down the stairs and the camera follows him, bookending the scene with the two tracking shots. </p><p>Another example of this is in the final scene in Vertigo. As Scottie (James Stewart) and Judy (Kim Novak) climb the tower, a dolly zoom (or the Vertigo zoom) takes us to the top. We are following the action while also becoming disoriented in the space. This mimics how both of the characters feel as the suspense of the scene heightens. The camera movement intentionally disarms the audience as we assume it is just a simple shot of someone in motion. On a closer look, the camera works subconsciously, manipulating space to reflect the state of mind the character is entering. When the character is firmly in a specific state of mind, Hitchcock’s genius locks in with a static camera.</p><p><b>Static Camera</b></p><p>While a camera in motion can feel naturalist and familiar, the static camera creates an eerie language that forces us to watch what is unfolding on screen, after Hitchcock lulls his audience into a false place of familiarity. </p><p>In The Birds, the camera stops tracking Melanie (Tippi Hedren) as sits down near a playground. The camera remains static as it watches her, cutting to the playground behind her that is slowly being taken over by birds. As more and more birds appear in each shot, the audience begins to fear for the unaware Melanie, becoming desperate for her to simply turn around. The lack of movement mimics one of the ways we respond to a threat: freezing. Hitchcock has complete control over how we interact with a scene, and he forces the audience to watch the tension building while knowing there is nothing they can do about it. The audience cannot flee or fight. Instead, they must wait for something to happen. </p><p>Hitchcock was hyper-aware that he had control over how the audience watched a scene. The suspense is built by his refusal to let the audience look away from what could happen. That is why the audience is relieved when Melanie looks back and sees all of the birds because we no longer have to anticipate what will happen.</p><p><b>Hollywood film coverage</b></p><p>Coverage hasn’t changed much throughout the history of cinema. Classic Hollywood coverage often starts with a long shot that goes to a medium shot, then a close-up, and ends with a long shot. You can find this style of coverage in most films because it works. Why change something that works? </p><p>Well, Hitchcock does classic coverage with a twist. The twist comes with the final long shot which is often positioned from a high angle. The camera, sometimes moving away from its subject, puts the audience at arm's length from the subject to show the character's emotions or state of mind in the scene. The effect can be used as a release from the suspense, but Hitchcock also uses it to build tension in the space, manipulating a character's size in the space, often making them look small and insignificant</p><p><b>The Mis en Scene</b></p><p>The way that things like the set were set up also created suspense. For example, the way that Hitchcock chose to have the Bates’ residence over looking the motel, eliciting an ominous feeling. In addition, the house is just downright creepy with a (supposed) human silhouette standing by the window, where one could assume nothing good is happening inside. also particularly enjoyed the way Hitchcock situated the Mis en Scene so that the audience did not know that Norman was the one committing the murders, dressed as his mother. For example, the above shower curtain blocking the view of Norman. Psycho only proved more to me Hitchcock’s abilities to create horror and suspense not only through his storylines, but also through the way he shot most of his films, and how he directed them.</p><p><b>Let the audience’s imagination create the shock and horror</b></p><p>The human imagination is a funny little thing. It can take information, and create something far more terrifying than what is happening on screen. This is why so many movie monsters are hidden in the shadows until the end of the film. Keeping the creature out of frame builds a specific type of fear that is unattainable if the creature is shown. </p><p>Certain elements in storytelling can transfer into the mind of the audience, forcing them to participate in the film. Many films treat the audience as a spectator, but doing this will eliminate any chance of suspensefully engaging with the audience. Be subtle and picky about what the audience does and doesn’t see in the frame, and let their minds do the work for you. These three lessons in suspense from Hitchcock will help you hone your ability to create genuine suspense in your screenplay. Don’t be afraid to play with audience expectations when you deliver specific information in a scene, but make sure that the information being presented has weight in the overall story.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjcTlbNZ0_omU8ASaiQiiD8NFXQZhgk598BBbMw9Fwdfs0lBex4g4Ic-XeyDR7RQlvwTtdpf5SiZmIU_yYdPjWLhCon43l6IFKildi8-V_CogjEjW3507iAT8t9slbcSHvMZ_v3E9QKHleatrUJxNSsZAusRGSYXflG_mjIQ3ObrY2A_57Y9si7jU9CRTKH/s720/0_Rdmt4JPn0-x_RhN4.webp" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="480" data-original-width="720" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjcTlbNZ0_omU8ASaiQiiD8NFXQZhgk598BBbMw9Fwdfs0lBex4g4Ic-XeyDR7RQlvwTtdpf5SiZmIU_yYdPjWLhCon43l6IFKildi8-V_CogjEjW3507iAT8t9slbcSHvMZ_v3E9QKHleatrUJxNSsZAusRGSYXflG_mjIQ3ObrY2A_57Y9si7jU9CRTKH/w640-h426/0_Rdmt4JPn0-x_RhN4.webp" width="640" /></a></div><p><b>The “bomb under the table” analogy</b></p><p>Hitchcock believed that a simple scene about four people sitting around a table, talking about anything until a bomb went off unexpectedly creates ten seconds of shock. What if that same scene took place but the people around the table knew that there was a bomb under the table the entire time?</p><p>The emotional response of the audience will be different because you’ve given them a little bit more information about the scene. When the audience knows something that the characters don’t know, that otherwise mundane sequence of dialogue becomes much more enthralling because the audience knows what is going to happen. </p><p>Suspense forces the audience to engage with the story. The audience wants the people at the table to stop talking about their meaningless topic of conversation and see that there is a bomb about to blow them to smithereens. If you want to be particularly cruel to your audience, then that bomb under the table shouldn’t go off. You’ve suspended the audience in suspense and they are waiting for the explosion, but nothing happens. This will send the audience into a frenzy because they were denied proper relief. It doesn’t matter if the bomb goes off or not, but you’ve given the audience the information needed to keep them on the edge of their seats. Just because they’ve pieced a story together with the information presented doesn’t mean that you have to follow the story.</p><p><b>Limiting information</b></p><p>Rear Window is full of suspense and it definitely doesn’t disappoint. There are many effects that Hitchcock has used but there are a few that stand out more than the rest.</p><p>One of these effects would be when Lars Thorwald is removing items from his apartment in a large case in the early hours of the morning. Soon after he returns then leaves again with the case. We know that Thorwald is acting suspicious but and we want to know why. Hitchcock has purposely limited our information by confining our point of view to that of Jeff. Hitchcock has drawn us into to participating through intellectual participation. This builds the suspense and engages us more in the film and particularly what Thorwald is doing.</p><p>In a different scene, Hitchcock uses parallel editing to build suspense. Lisa is rummaging through Thorwald’s apartment trying to search for clues. In this scene we have two views from Jeff’s point of view. One of these is Lisa searching the apartment and another of the hallway leading to Thorwald’s apartment. Thorwald had previously left the apartment after Jeff making a fake phone call to Thorwald telling him to meet him in a restaurant. After he leaves, Lisa enters his apartment via the window and after looking for a few minutes, she finds Mrs Thorwald’s wedding ring. As we see this, we also see Thorwald coming up the hallway towards his apartment and we know that neither one knows the other is on the opposite side of the door. This captures the perfect parallel editing while building up suspense. We are helpless as an audience to helping her and so is Jeff because of his broken leg but luckily Jeff has called the police and they arrive just in time.</p><p>In another scene Jeff is waiting in his apartment as Thorwald attempts to enter. The suspense was built up very effectively by using cross cutting. The way the camera cuts back and forth between Thorwald who is slowly getting closer to Jefferies while Jefferies is frantically trying to reload more camera flashes to blind Thorwald is incredibly effective when trying to build suspense. Not only does the camera cut back and forth but also the actions of the individuals in the shot build’s up suspense even more. Cross cutting is a brilliant way to build suspense and Alfred Hitchcock does it with excellent precision. In this scene as well, Hitchcock uses sound to build up suspense. After the police leave with Lisa, Jeff loses sight of Thorwald. This happens after he realises that Jeff has been spying on him. At this point he does not know Thorwald is or what he’s doing and then suddenly Jeff’s phone rings. He answers and there is no sound on the end of the phone and the absence of sound builds up even more suspense. Soon after we hear the loud footsteps of someone, most certainly Thorwald. Next, we hear the sound of someone attempting to open the door.</p><p>As can be seen by these examples given, Hitchcock lives up to his nickname “The Master of suspense”. He shows this by the cinematic techniques he uses.in his shots. He uses the point of view of one of the characters to limit our information, parallel editing, cross cutting and sound all to create suspense.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi1KR265aPCgRs1aKj72DfIX9yL0VTq3aXGHmO57BaqyWuZwVJPderxIt-G_D6c02NnjDDmAMJKrrfugbDxR5m-szvftZale2PvkbWBaVJRK_EsLsne8Zzg39mjP4TagAGmvSeoK9NMJKmfUxK3nPg4xyTKOwkT7uD-aS2yNhjWDNYi_80acSDedMRD-ILO/s1080/Screenshot_20231013-212600_Samsung%20Internet.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1043" data-original-width="1080" height="618" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi1KR265aPCgRs1aKj72DfIX9yL0VTq3aXGHmO57BaqyWuZwVJPderxIt-G_D6c02NnjDDmAMJKrrfugbDxR5m-szvftZale2PvkbWBaVJRK_EsLsne8Zzg39mjP4TagAGmvSeoK9NMJKmfUxK3nPg4xyTKOwkT7uD-aS2yNhjWDNYi_80acSDedMRD-ILO/w640-h618/Screenshot_20231013-212600_Samsung%20Internet.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><p><b>Patterns of Suspense; Suspense as a Narrative Process</b></p><p>Another device Hitchcock uses is patterns of suspense, used the whole way through his narratives, through the juxtaposition of local suspense with a global suspense. This technique involves adding strands of suspense throughout a narrative, within the overall suspense pattern of a film, Hitchcock devises clearly identifiable phases of suspense, nodes of localized suspense. It is the transition from these back to the main line of suspense that both involves, and shifts the audience. Hitchcock varies the patterns used- creating a different tension in audiences each time. Timing plays a lot of importance in this– in The Man Who Knew Too Much (1965), “Hitchcock has realized that suspense cannot be produced in an instant, but must be built up carefully. We are ensnared gradually via curiosity, suspicion, apprehension and worry.” (Hitchcock; Suspense, Humour and Tone; p.26) I found a few other examples of how he creates suspense. </p><p>Rear Window is a prime example of how Hitchcock works with cumulative, multi-levelled suspense. This is the pitting of one suspense situation against another – the effect can be “…to complicate the notion of suspense as a method for obtaining audience involvement by constructing a rather bifurcatory centrifugal trajectory into, and viewpoint upon, the narrative worlds.” (p31) The ‘Miss Lonelyhearts” storyline in ‘Rear Window’ starts out as self-contained unit in the narrative whole. As the main line of suspense builds (that regarding Thorwald murdering his wife), her storyline becomes a source of distraction for both the film’s characters and the audience. In the film’s final sequence it is Jeffries’ phoning of the police for Miss Lonelyhearts suicide attempt that endangers Lisa as he misses seeing Thorwald return to the apartment.</p><p>This local suspense competes with the main suspense by literally delaying the progression of that main narrative line – increasing the audience’s tension at seeing it resolved. By slowing action down almost to a stopping point, Hitchcock draws our attention to the “…waiting , delaying tactic on which all suspense depends….and consequently realize suspense’s potential ability to produce narrative stasis if the flow of information and the trajectory towards resolution are thwarted to an abnormal degree.” </p><p>We see a similar device in ‘Psycho’ – where Hitchcock pulls the viewer away from the film’s true dramatic centre. He uses the film’s opening moments to establish a ‘red herring’ storyline, where the localized storyline of Marion stealing the money is falsely set up as the main suspense storyline. This is reinforced by the opening title sequence and first moments of the film – which also set up a ‘false’ sense of dread (echoed again when Marion is in the car) – which quickly dissipates. “The film therefore mixes up and reworks the various stages of suspense in a way that is much more disruptive and unsettling than a gradual, predictable build-up of tension.” The effect of starting the film with this heightened, almost hysterical tone is that we can never really return to a baseline of normal tone – after the film’s true horrors start to occur. By starting at an advanced stage of suspense, the film has nowhere to go but beyond suspense to even deeper fear and horror. Hitchcock maintains fine control – the fact that these ensuing moments of horror are intrusive and quick only contributes to audience anxiety by denying us the chance to absorb the shock. The overall effect of Hitchcock’s patterning of suspense storylines in “Pyscho” is to create a powerful tension that never really gets resolved. </p><p><b>Suspense and Point of View </b></p><p>Hitchcock uses a technique through the identification of the audiences and their viewpoint- getting them involved in the scene itself. The protagonists viewpoint is one that most audiences strive to be part of- Hitchcock uses this to undermine the spectators stability and therefore evoke responses to narrative.</p><p>An example of this, is shown in Rear Window (1954). The viewer’s perspective is linked completely to the perspective of the protagonist who is the ultimate spectator, a wheelchair bound photographer spying out of his window. Hitchcock is making our identification with the hero absolutely self-conscious – drawing attention to a cinematic narrative device that is usually functioning invisibly. The result is a constant tension between what we see and what is actually occurring, “Jeffries functions as author as well as spectator, piecing together (and possibly inventing) the story of the murder.” </p><p>As the hero of Rear Window is ultimately a good guy, this device this is less subversive than it is in a film like Vertigo, where we are being asked to share the perspective of a less stable and attractive character. As in Rear Window, where Hitchcock played with the frame of perspective by constricted Jeffries (and therefore the audience’s) point of view by having the hero physically removed from the action – in Vertigo Hitchcock links us to a protagonist who own vision is impaired by severe bouts of vertigo. As the film progresses the protagonist’s perspective is even further befogged, and his point of view is so severely undermined that the mistaken identities of victim and victimizer lead to the film’s climax.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhjRQ8qHPmc6tjmdacKsbH8v69o-0Iz8rm2GSpmziGgzYhQ78M4DoFXg3-BXV-0LgwX87L2jze1H8X4MBH5cy3L3hucT7nhdxvdR4ud2g6G0JTKaNVlFlM_wPjDAy_TLerkGSviohD_7b5_BEtmAyzVfJpDWMbwODKqYDynQn7M9fZc-GhIhPlbDtAsGxFh/s2048/shutterstock_editorial_390900ia.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1536" data-original-width="2048" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhjRQ8qHPmc6tjmdacKsbH8v69o-0Iz8rm2GSpmziGgzYhQ78M4DoFXg3-BXV-0LgwX87L2jze1H8X4MBH5cy3L3hucT7nhdxvdR4ud2g6G0JTKaNVlFlM_wPjDAy_TLerkGSviohD_7b5_BEtmAyzVfJpDWMbwODKqYDynQn7M9fZc-GhIhPlbDtAsGxFh/w640-h480/shutterstock_editorial_390900ia.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><p>Feet = safety, dramatic introduction to a character, personality differences, lack of safety, sense of place</p><p>Hands = anxiety and shock, interact with objects, objects are evidence of a crime, uneasiness</p><p>Eyes = shows thought process, the mind at work, show what they are looking at</p><p>Watch the listening</p><p>Proximity to the actors faces</p><p>Close up - nervousness or suspicion</p><p>Behind shot - denial</p><p>Side - guilt</p><p>Wide shot - emotional distance</p><p>High - objective or supernatural</p><p>The closer to the face equal more emotion.</p><p>Tracking away means its beyond our control</p><p>Tracking from wide to close u can find a hidden secret</p><p>Cutting from wide to close = shock</p><p>Following an actor emphasizes emotion</p><p>Moving the camera to the next shot instead of cutting holds onto tension</p><p>Long stationary camera shot allows opposing forces to converge within the screen space line in Marnie with the office cleaner.</p><p>Fast cutting is impressionistic can stretch out a fast event or evoke things not seen on the screen for the audiences imagination</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /><br /></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2962721263288722253.post-41063020073197722152023-07-11T00:36:00.006-07:002023-07-11T23:08:44.595-07:00Rules on How to Survive a Celebrity Scandal & Make a Comback<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh52t0A70MUjXlJT9mZuo2KM-wolYb9Gy6VBcwRHMJbnphLsQ7N41Xylzzf2SsNQYrGFCP7AFI2Ce7dXcDw4XvudQwJCAn67mhlooKWPdlw4kQSfYLrCwn4zPTiZ6XwgFjRk-JhGuxe7xM33L4OU_Fyl-Nw9RnXHE6XD7-6dUus5AVs_3-tZH_Kqx0Tg9ea/s960/1608778638-scandals-2020-edm.webp" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="600" data-original-width="960" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh52t0A70MUjXlJT9mZuo2KM-wolYb9Gy6VBcwRHMJbnphLsQ7N41Xylzzf2SsNQYrGFCP7AFI2Ce7dXcDw4XvudQwJCAn67mhlooKWPdlw4kQSfYLrCwn4zPTiZ6XwgFjRk-JhGuxe7xM33L4OU_Fyl-Nw9RnXHE6XD7-6dUus5AVs_3-tZH_Kqx0Tg9ea/w640-h400/1608778638-scandals-2020-edm.webp" width="640" /></a></div><p>The most basic strategy follows a tried-and-trusted story arc. The classic scandal begins, of course, with the initial disgrace. This is quickly followed by a heartfelt mea culpa, rehab, some good works, a soft-touch interview on daytime TV, the public support of an understanding spouse and the final triumphant comeback with lessons learnt and a new album/movie/cabinet post in the pipeline. And the public plays their part because, while we love to see the rich and famous fall flat on their faces, we also love a good comeback story.</p><p>1 <b>Get Out In Front Of The Story</b> - The really good PR person will find out about the scandal just before it breaks, usually through media contacts. And they will do their level best to get their client's retaliation in first and put the most positive spin possible on the story. The classic way to do this is to use one gossip columnist to rubbish the scandal about to be broken by a rival. The story should be along the lines of "My family have been deeply hurt by these totally unfounded claims that I had an affair with our former nanny who, sadly, we had to let go after she became unstable. "And we are now prepared to help her get the professional help she desperately needs." If a celeb can muddy the waters enough, it might just head off a full-blown scandal. </p><p> 2 <b>Be Ready to Say Sorry -- A Lot</b> - When Ben Dunne flew back from Florida on a grey Sunday morning in 1992, the papers were full of lurid tales of cocaine, call girls and panic attacks. The natural instinct for any person would be to find a deep hole somewhere and crawl into it. But the then Dunnes Stores supremo, possibly with the help of some very good PR advice, decided to invite journalists, one by one, into his home and talk frankly about how he had hurt his family and his friends. The media were shocked to have such open access and the public almost immediately came to see Big Ben as a basically decent man who made a bad mistake. There was no doubting his sincerity (this writer was one of those who interviewed Mr Dunne that morning). But it was also a classic case of the mea culpa defence and a shining example for any future Irish celebs encountering trouble. </p><p> 3 <b>Concoct an Explanation -- No Matter How Ludicrous -- And Stick To It</b> - When Eddie Murphy was pulled over by the Los Angeles Sherriff's Department on a spring night in 1997, with a transsexual prostitute in his car, he was not -- repeat not -- soliciting kinky sex. No, Eddie (as he explained to the cameras later) was actually just being a good Samaritan. "I'm just being a nice guy," said Eddie as he blinked into the camera lights. "I was being a good Samaritan. It's not the first hooker I've helped out. I've seen hookers on corners and I'll pull over and they'll go: 'Oh you're Eddie Murphy, oh my God,' and I'll empty my wallet out to help.' Did anybody believe him? Well, Eddie did have plausible deniability and has gone on to make a string of successful family comedies for Disney. After all, if Bill Clinton could look us in the eye and state: "I did not have sexual relations with that woman", then it's possible we'll believe anything. </p><p> 4 <b>Keep Smiling</b> - Inside, Victoria Beckham must have been harbouring bloody thoughts about a particularly sensitive part of David's body and an electric hedge trimmer. But when the Rebecca Loos story broke in 2004, the Posh'n'Becks PR machine swung into action and the couple were soon pictured cavorting on the ski slopes of Courchevel. Funnily enough, the "We've Never Been Happier" snaps were taken by Posh's favourite paparazzo, who just happened to be driving past their secluded chalet. And while the Beckhams did make lots of noise about suing Ms Loos and various newspapers, their lawyers never did get around to issuing writs. Still, at least Brand Beckham has survived and prospered (which is more than we can say about Posh's singing career).</p><p>5 <b>Do Good Works</b> - We're not suggesting Jonathan Ross should spend the next five years running an orphanage in Bangladesh. But we can expect to see the suspended BBC chat-show host appearing -- in a low- key way -- at a lot of charity events over the coming months; walking the red carpet and looking relaxed, confident and in no way desperate to get back on TV. Former British cabinet minister John Profumo was involved in the affair that, for many, heralded the start of the Swinging Sixties and the end of the stuffy empire and the deference that kept the sins of the rich and powerful out of the daily papers. Profumo was genuinely horrified at the scandal he had caused and, shortly after leaving office, he volunteered to clean toilets at a shelter for the homeless in the East End of London. Profumo worked for the charity for the rest of his life and ended up raising huge sums of money for worthy causes. "He had to be persuaded to lay down his mop and lend a hand running the place," said one colleague after his death in 2006. </p><p> 6 <b>Brazen It Out</b> - Also known as the George Michael Defence. If you are caught soliciting a cop in a public toilet, make a song and a video about it and get the public to love you even more. After all, if you are going to go down, you might as well go down singing and dancing to a catchy tune.</p><p>7 <b>The number of transgressions matters</b> - A single misdeed can be explained away, especially when the person responsible has built up years of good will. Amber Heard accused Johnny Depp of physical abuse, but his previous partners haven’t reported the same treatment, so some fans have rationalized that she made it all up. Despite troubling photos of her bruised face, Depp doesn’t seem to have lost any jobs. Compare that to Cosby. It was no secret that Cosby had been accused of sexual assault in the past, but who wanted to believe that Dr. Huxtable was a predator? So the news media and the public chalked up one or two accusers to aberrations. But when 60 women stepped forward with strikingly similar stories, it became much harder to ignore. Regardless of what happens with Cosby’s legal woes, his career is over.</p><p>8 <b>The justice system doesn’t dictate public sentiment</b> - Long before he was famous, Nate Parker was tried for rape in 1999 and found not guilty. But that wasn’t enough to stop the backlash when allegations against him resurfaced earlier this year, casting a major cloud over the opening of his “Birth of a Nation.” Until then, he had seemed poised to conquer Hollywood as the latest actor-turned-auteur. Now the prospects for his film, and his future as a filmmaker, are looking less rosy. It turns out that circumstances matter. Parker was an athlete at Penn State at the time he avoided charges — the very place where Jerry Sandusky abused kids with impunity for so many years — which placed the old allegations against him into a troubling narrative. Then there was the bombshell that his accuser committed suicide in 2012. In the end, “Birth of a Nation” bombed at the box office. Now the once-surefire Oscar nominee isn’t looking like such a lock anymore. Meanwhile, Roman Polanski was accused of raping a 13-year-0ld girl in 1977. He pleaded guilty to a lesser charge in exchange for a lighter sentence. But when it seemed like the judge was going to renege on the plea deal, Polanski fled the country. He has been living in France for the most part since then. Polanski has released nearly a dozen movies while in exile. His biggest hit was “The Pianist,” in 2002, a movie that also won him the best director Oscar. He was also nominated for an Academy Award just a few years after the scandal, for “Tess” in 1981. It’s hard to square the public’s reaction to Parker and Polanski — in part because they were at different stages of their careers, and their scandals broke in very different eras. It’s also too soon to know whether or how Parker will weather his storm. But it’s also worth noting that.</p><p>9 <b>The celebrity’s public persona plays a role, but not necessarily how you’d think</b> - Celebrities on high horses have a longer way to fall. Parker had some lofty goals with his mission to bring the story of Nat Turner’s 1831 slave uprising to the screen: He wanted his movie to prompt national conversations and heal century-old wounds. A noble and worthy goal for a young actor, no? But once people learned of his past, his quest started to look a little grandiose. It didn’t help that his movie portrayed two rape scenes as a way to justify the motivations of the main character — a little tasteless for someone who had once been accused of the same crime. Whereas Woody Allen — well, didn’t people always think he was a little creepy? He can be tasteless and crass. Does that mean we hold him to a different standard? Possibly. Whether or not you believe the claims of Mia Farrow’s daughter Dylan, who says Allen sexually abused her when she was a child, he still emerged from the scandal of marrying Farrow’s other daughter, Soon-Yi Previn, with his career intact. As he told the Hollywood Reporter, “You can see I worked right through that, undiminished. Made films all through those years and at the same rate I was making them. I’m good that way. I am very disciplined and very monomaniacal and compartmentalized.”</p><p>10 <b>Time heals (most) wounds</b> - If there was one person who seemed like he would never be forgiven, it was Mel Gibson, who offended just about everyone at one point or another. First it was the gay community, with homophobic comments during an interview. Then there was his anti-Semitic tirade (“F–ing Jews. … The Jews are responsible for all the wars in the world”) after getting pulled over for drunken driving in 2006. (He also called a female officer by a vulgar, sexist nickname.) Then in 2010, he was also caught on tape threatening his estranged wife and spewing racist gibberish. His talent agency dropped him — and so, it seemed, did most of Hollywood. But what do you know: He’s back after serving time in Hollywood’s version of solitary confinement (i.e., taking a role in “The Expendables 3?). This year, he will unveil “Hacksaw Ridge,” his first directorial effort since “Apocalypto” premiered just after his DUI arrest, and it’s getting major Oscar buzz. Perhaps smartly, he stayed behind the camera, letting Andrew Garfield be the face of the military drama. It seems as though Winona Ryder — one of the few women on this list — is forging a similar path to redemption. She took time off after getting caught shoplifting but has slowly re-emerged with buzzy roles in films such as “Black Swan” and, this year, Netflix’s summer hit “Stranger Things.” </p><p>11 <b>The type of transgression matters</b> - Clearly, some crimes are more serious than others. Hugh Grant had a dalliance with a prostitute, but did that really hurt anyone? Arguably only his girlfriend at the time, Elizabeth Hurley. One cheeky interview on “The Tonight Show” was more or less enough to absolve him and salvage his career. “I did a bad thing, and there you have it,” he said, while the audience cheered and clapped. That was easy. The same goes for Tom Cruise’s wild-eyed antics and couch-jumping. It wasn’t criminal behavior but it certainly startled people, forever saddling him with the label of loony cultist. Even so, it didn’t slow his box office success. It’s obviously harder to forgive something like sexual assault — at least these days, as Parker’s flailing, failed apology circuit shows us. What does all this mean for Billy Bush? In that leaked video clip, he came off as unctuous and pathetic, but he didn’t break any laws. And the things he said in private with Donald Trump weren’t all that shocking to anyone familiar with Bush’s smug on-air personality. Would anyone miss his obnoxious red carpet interviews if he disappeared? Maybe not, but people who refuse to fade from view are often rewarded. (Just look at Anthony Weiner.) Bush may not be long for the “Today” show. But he’s quite possibly one reality show away from being back in the good graces of an ever-forgiving public.</p><p><b>Pr campaign core story central narrative:</b> Reinvention / Redemption / Ressurection / Freedom / Self reflection / Love / Survival</p><p><b>4 Tips for a PR Comeback:</b></p><p>Disappear for a while: earn a living, enjoy some free time, learn a new hobby. Take time for yourself.</p><p>Wait for your moment.</p><p>Become a thought leader: Write op-eds, make speeches, get booked on podcasts, etc. </p><p>Get a good PR firm to help place your contributor pieces in newspapers/blogs/Medium.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2962721263288722253.post-32431788422521649582023-04-05T05:01:00.002-07:002023-04-23T14:02:19.057-07:00The Song That Became THE Anti-Woke Anthem<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEigQtjQHzpRepSBLTAd7kSLSaXD4MiK7MIi0mZYMy1QGpYcvddIRcN_xF-N_f-TomrYJGcbKt-Hk7ahxB06yj5ox02kpf4kpUz1yZAS6gFAYSLx9PZMsZ3ftXmbO5p4LaVVZjNzhhbdTte04qhy9lVhzuj--RYOPFBD-CPTEf3YO5V8IDS9pnAzKnJg_g/s1200/befunky_2023-3-3_12-26-32.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="630" data-original-width="1200" height="336" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEigQtjQHzpRepSBLTAd7kSLSaXD4MiK7MIi0mZYMy1QGpYcvddIRcN_xF-N_f-TomrYJGcbKt-Hk7ahxB06yj5ox02kpf4kpUz1yZAS6gFAYSLx9PZMsZ3ftXmbO5p4LaVVZjNzhhbdTte04qhy9lVhzuj--RYOPFBD-CPTEf3YO5V8IDS9pnAzKnJg_g/w640-h336/befunky_2023-3-3_12-26-32.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><p></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">Over the past year the Woke movement has become short-hand for an agenda that has become more radicalized by the minute. It's turned into a mutated Frankenstein monster for the snowflakes of society, turning people against each other over the smallest micro-aggression, to the point that it has started to impact freedom of speech. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">Just like all the intelligent people in society we are against racism, and are for freedom of choice and life, but tip-toeing though a minefield of woke propaganda is no way to go through life. This is where the song <b>Buttons</b> comes in.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">The band <b>Paranoid Alice</b> have released this exciting track (part of the new Punge Rock movement) which features a deadpan recital, ironic lyrics, ''You're still my favourite porn star", "Tell the world that it's going broke'' and "Hey bitch your like Destinys Child.'' Imaginative and with an infectious cheeky beat with a fresh approach. It offers many implications, but no straight answers – an excellent introduction to an intriguingly mysterious band that has dared to call out the Woke Movement. Even coining the phrase ''Drama-geddon''</span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/QLN4JX4G2W8" width="320" youtube-src-id="QLN4JX4G2W8"></iframe></div><p><span style="font-family: arial;">The songs chorus, ''I was not happy last night TRUST'' is a chant about being trapped in bad scene after bad scene, the vocals lurch and spiral, sidling away from the unrelenting rhythm section and canine guitars like a child going floppy to escape her parent’s arms. Brilliant absurdity, their music is a mix of indie-rock and post-punk and it’s far from mainstream, but this danceable track will push the band and Punge Rock into the spotlight, and elbow Woke into the past, as we all learn how to just get along without complaining too much. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;"><b>Paranoid Alice</b>: <a href="https://www.facebook.com/paranoidalice">Facebook</a> / <a href="https://www.instagram.com/paranoidalice2022/">Instagram</a></span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></p><p><br /></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2962721263288722253.post-40071300983933861942023-04-03T15:04:00.004-07:002023-07-11T23:07:52.551-07:00The Hysteria of the “War of the Worlds” Radio Broadcast<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEikoNmG_Pj6Jj5-zLmGRSRxHDqu8Uqt0_MvyFdUdM5JnGVvL-OS48PP01dJMFuVjnox8QH4ifebgO0dkGo35HbwX3SAdIgzYR_H9xmSeiopDekQTwxGpSWFMofLI5MyHNGIAgteQV6dkkkNkvES13FKG09wOqaFptyFKsXiS3O1xIBc3A6XbVBKFxSEWQ/s1280/maxresdefault-2.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="720" data-original-width="1280" height="360" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEikoNmG_Pj6Jj5-zLmGRSRxHDqu8Uqt0_MvyFdUdM5JnGVvL-OS48PP01dJMFuVjnox8QH4ifebgO0dkGo35HbwX3SAdIgzYR_H9xmSeiopDekQTwxGpSWFMofLI5MyHNGIAgteQV6dkkkNkvES13FKG09wOqaFptyFKsXiS3O1xIBc3A6XbVBKFxSEWQ/w640-h360/maxresdefault-2.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><p>The mind takes the facts, it runs them through feelings and comes up with judgements. On October 30, 1938 Orson Wells and the Mercury Theatre in New York broadcast over CBS radio H. G. Wells' 1898 novel, The War of the Worlds. The broadcast was heard by 6,000,000 people, some of whom believed that the story of the invading Martians was real. To the extent that a large number of people were deceived by the drama, this may be one of the earliest examples of mass hysteria induced by electronic media. It also was a dramatic illustration of the power of mass media to impact people's fears and feelings.</p><p>Orson Welles had walked into the Columbia Broadcasting Building on Madison Avenue knowing it was going to be an interesting evening broadcast. He was scheduled to present the regular series “Mercury Theatre on the Air,” a weekly hour-long broadcast. He had been inspired by a radio play he acted in the year before called “The Fall of the City.” It was a story about a conquerer that comes back from the dead to rule the city, but it was really an allegory on fascism. It made Orson Welles an overnight sensation in radio, and the style was something that was new. This new fad was taking hold that had been made popular by a radio program called “The March of Time”: the idea of telling a dramatized story as a live radio broadcast. Welles experimented with the realistic-sounding radio broadcast storytelling format a couple more times the next year with an “As-it-happens” drama called “Air Raid” and a historical piece about Julius Caesar. But what he had planned for the Halloween Special was something bigger – something special and he knew it would be ground-breaking. He discussed the idea of adapting a piece of Sci-Fi for a radio broadcast with producers John Houseman and Paul Stewart and they decided on a 19th century piece of Sci-Fi set in England: H.G. Wells’s “The War of the Worlds.”</p><p>Midafternoon on October 30, 1938, just hours before airtime, Welles arrived in CBS’s Studio One for last-minute rehearsals with the cast and crew. Almost immediately, he lost his temper with the material. But according to Houseman, such outbursts were typical in the frantic hours before each Mercury Theatre broadcast. Welles routinely berated his collaborators—calling them lazy, ignorant, incompetent, and many other insults—all while complaining of the mess they’d given him to clean up. He delighted in making his cast and crew scramble by radically revising the show at the last minute, adding new things and taking others out. Out of the chaos came a much stronger show.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEieC5fJKBovFHaEg_Afph5XAgCCEOkDPIZaIlqOoAsEg7maxrGtnFraO3he24WMFtsVN6dSRYwr-K18I9b3VkKglKk5Kkr6ef_hE413ViO0Hx3zTowbZU6TOPhGy-7yzYGt_06Pxfayoxh2Evf51v38kgtedvvArLUcS2XtlAIrwfkTzb3LqimNg3w2Xw/s1024/LDN-L-WAGONER-1029-e1635212803626.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="773" data-original-width="1024" height="242" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEieC5fJKBovFHaEg_Afph5XAgCCEOkDPIZaIlqOoAsEg7maxrGtnFraO3he24WMFtsVN6dSRYwr-K18I9b3VkKglKk5Kkr6ef_hE413ViO0Hx3zTowbZU6TOPhGy-7yzYGt_06Pxfayoxh2Evf51v38kgtedvvArLUcS2XtlAIrwfkTzb3LqimNg3w2Xw/s320/LDN-L-WAGONER-1029-e1635212803626.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><p>One of Welles’s key revisions on War of the Worlds, in Houseman’s view, involved its pacing. Welles drastically slowed down the opening scenes to the point of tedium, adding dialogue and drawing out the musical interludes between fake news bulletins. Houseman objected strenuously, but Welles overruled him, believing that listeners would only accept the unrealistic speed of the invasion if the broadcast started slowly, then gradually sped up. By the station break, even most listeners who knew that the show was fiction would be carried away by the speed of it all. For those who did not, those 40 minutes would seem like hours. Another of Welles’s changes involved something cut from Koch’s first draft: a speech given by “the Secretary of War,” describing the government’s efforts to combat the Martians. This speech is missing from the final draft script, also preserved at the Wisconsin Historical Society, most likely because of objections from CBS’s lawyers. When Welles put it back in, he reassigned it to a less inflammatory Cabinet official, “the Secretary of the Interior,” in order to appease the network. But he gave the character a purely vocal promotion by casting Kenneth Delmar, an actor whom he knew could do a pitch-perfect impression of Franklin D. Roosevelt. In 1938, the major networks expressly forbade most radio programs from impersonating the president, in order to avoid misleading listeners. But Welles suggested, with a wink and a nod, that Delmar make his character sound presidential, and Delmar happily complied.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiNetU2_DhUrOl12N_RBjd9XaXLx0urD5dk6LsOtRd4HermR6KbEiY-Ceoo_pkOZQFQcgAQ29E3Xn6Py4P3NDH_03ukR7Fi5xlEOxi2-QkCaA2v3xH_aJBM1m0-Z4uteYYlWSOdmASCuQiF-qbNiSmSnZa--Wqx6dY2ivJKoNVUffGIf1rZ76U3KlM1gw/s1000/61tcHRXIm3L._UF1000,1000_QL80_.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1000" data-original-width="1000" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiNetU2_DhUrOl12N_RBjd9XaXLx0urD5dk6LsOtRd4HermR6KbEiY-Ceoo_pkOZQFQcgAQ29E3Xn6Py4P3NDH_03ukR7Fi5xlEOxi2-QkCaA2v3xH_aJBM1m0-Z4uteYYlWSOdmASCuQiF-qbNiSmSnZa--Wqx6dY2ivJKoNVUffGIf1rZ76U3KlM1gw/s320/61tcHRXIm3L._UF1000,1000_QL80_.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhWc_Aj1UspFYX3hu3BLDH_68_m-pSiui1RMyDKgFn-CN_Y49DXtpxf2UwQqXsDrK3Bi9ba5pzrop0MosvXbgqAYhaNuHSM7Fi3FrOeR_d6dzMjkZefbpSNJlJ_zULpVVNVI4ojKxbWRwNUwziVi2EopteR7_4gniqbXuLjxK2lmaBuTDw44D2z8ComVQ/s499/e642c687-75bb-432e-8c13-82615dca352a.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="499" data-original-width="354" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhWc_Aj1UspFYX3hu3BLDH_68_m-pSiui1RMyDKgFn-CN_Y49DXtpxf2UwQqXsDrK3Bi9ba5pzrop0MosvXbgqAYhaNuHSM7Fi3FrOeR_d6dzMjkZefbpSNJlJ_zULpVVNVI4ojKxbWRwNUwziVi2EopteR7_4gniqbXuLjxK2lmaBuTDw44D2z8ComVQ/s320/e642c687-75bb-432e-8c13-82615dca352a.jpg" width="227" /></a></div><p>These kinds of ideas only came to Welles at the last minute, with disaster waiting in the wings. As Richard Wilson observed in the audio documentary Theatre of the Imagination, radio brought out the best in Welles because it “was the only medium that imposed a discipline Orson would recognize, and that was the clock.” With the hours and then the minutes before airtime ticking away, Welles had to come up with innovative ways to save the show, and he invariably delivered. The cast and crew responded in kind. Only in these last minute rehearsals did everyone begin to take War of the Worlds more seriously, giving it their best efforts for perhaps the first time. The result demonstrates the special power of collaboration. By pooling their unique talents, Welles and his team produced a show that frankly terrified many of its listeners—even those who never forgot that the whole thing was just a play.</p><p>At the press conference the morning after the show, Welles repeatedly denied that he had ever intended to deceive his audience. But hardly anyone, then or since, has ever taken him at his word. His performance, captured by newsreel cameras, seems too remorseful and contrite, his words chosen much too carefully. Instead of ending his career, War of the Worlds catapulted Welles to Hollywood, where he would soon make Citizen Kane. Given the immense benefit Welles reaped from the broadcast, many have found it hard to believe that he harbored any regrets about his sudden celebrity.</p><p>In later years, Welles began to claim that he really was hiding his delight that Halloween morning. The Mercury, he said in multiple interviews, had always hoped to fool some of their listeners, in order to teach them a lesson about not believing whatever they heard over the radio. But none of Welles’s collaborators—including John Houseman and Howard Koch—ever endorsed such a claim. In fact, they denied it over and over again, long after legal reprisals were a serious concern. The Mercury did quite consciously attempt to inject realism into War of the Worlds, but their efforts produced a very different result from the one they intended. The elements of the show that a fraction of its audience found so convincing crept in almost accidentally, as the Mercury desperately tried to avoid being laughed off the air. War of the Worlds formed a kind of crucible for Orson Welles, out of which the wunderkind of the New York stage exploded onto the national scene as a multimedia genius and trickster extraordinaire. He may not have told the whole truth that Halloween morning, but his shock and bewilderment were genuine enough. Only later did he realize and appreciate how his life had changed. As we mark the centennial of Welles’s birth in 1915, we should also remember his second birth in 1938—the broadcast that, because of his best efforts but despite his best intentions, immortalized him forever as “the Man from Mars.”</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjvlCt8x_cjte8NH5p17ldfCdJLDVKGn-ZTseAcSySg-cNEkDfYpy6j-dlO5Jvh67z4fMD59ZEPfAaTf0G5NeA0xfoVc6BeopPiH03MofSntZNHPXdwv2mU4ATdk5oPA8ALhB0molbYNjqwZH09iPoPlY8No3fvnv6Jb4YanfioPLlwtBMzxCF8uHfmwQ/s254/images.jpeg-4.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="198" data-original-width="254" height="198" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjvlCt8x_cjte8NH5p17ldfCdJLDVKGn-ZTseAcSySg-cNEkDfYpy6j-dlO5Jvh67z4fMD59ZEPfAaTf0G5NeA0xfoVc6BeopPiH03MofSntZNHPXdwv2mU4ATdk5oPA8ALhB0molbYNjqwZH09iPoPlY8No3fvnv6Jb4YanfioPLlwtBMzxCF8uHfmwQ/s1600/images.jpeg-4.jpg" width="254" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhuzkZTo4vJ5gUodLWvCiVYQ1Z9exdLaJEUw9MyWs01VZQvjrjEQfcwMRjdK0Ojt6Hhelu4kUxHlhyB5_Whas7uKt00ZEHvYDAJ3RTTV18e-fgmJJ2JBQYfr3lHxrRwt0j7dHQkEVLPXX5ebOB8SwOR6I-IqLg2mlAjmuv4WtY3w1Tq-Dszdr4CUh5E3Q/s1600/Orson-Welles-War-of-the-Worlds-newspaper-headlines-1938.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="685" data-original-width="1600" height="137" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhuzkZTo4vJ5gUodLWvCiVYQ1Z9exdLaJEUw9MyWs01VZQvjrjEQfcwMRjdK0Ojt6Hhelu4kUxHlhyB5_Whas7uKt00ZEHvYDAJ3RTTV18e-fgmJJ2JBQYfr3lHxrRwt0j7dHQkEVLPXX5ebOB8SwOR6I-IqLg2mlAjmuv4WtY3w1Tq-Dszdr4CUh5E3Q/s320/Orson-Welles-War-of-the-Worlds-newspaper-headlines-1938.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgs_NN13WF7rBHsx9kt6ICtM3mo-bBoBAfyn1ntdTZqqYYsOh3TTuNjXXOdh8SXe7HPJVAZCH2LRA-CrffkRHRZrT7gu-EuJmoyoHaMIX0ssi-8-JJBoiUDGpbVMXhzenQ-sPK78IgyIX7Vii0lqPbyJ4_v1u4J7IEPgTwbciw-3q6N3qHixjGaCsmyog/s800/Orson_Welles-02-megaphone.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="450" data-original-width="800" height="180" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgs_NN13WF7rBHsx9kt6ICtM3mo-bBoBAfyn1ntdTZqqYYsOh3TTuNjXXOdh8SXe7HPJVAZCH2LRA-CrffkRHRZrT7gu-EuJmoyoHaMIX0ssi-8-JJBoiUDGpbVMXhzenQ-sPK78IgyIX7Vii0lqPbyJ4_v1u4J7IEPgTwbciw-3q6N3qHixjGaCsmyog/s320/Orson_Welles-02-megaphone.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><p>The first two thirds of the program went on like this. To anyone who just tuned in, it would sound like a real news broadcast. There were weather reports and a supposed live broadcast of a musical performance from a local hotel: Ramon Raquello and his Orchestra. In fact, it was Welles’s intention to make these musical interludes last an uncomfortably long amount of time in order to add realism to the live broadcast style. A little bit after talking about the gas explosions on Mars, we hear about a strange meteorite landing. The broadcast was so realistic, we even go on to hear screams and a moment of dead-air, something that was a huge no-no in the conventional rules of radio. Eventually in the radio drama, the Martians are attacking and the broadcast focuses on the military units that are trying and failing. Then the broadcast turns to a supposed reporter on the roof of a building in Manhattan watching giant alien machines attack the city. The drama intensifies and then we hear the reporter become desperate. There are a few moments of silence and then we get the first indication since the program began that this isn’t real. “You are listening to a CBS presentation of Orson Welles and the Mercury Theatre on the Air, in an original dramatization of The War of the Worlds by H. G. Wells. The performance will continue after a brief intermission. This is the Columbia Broadcasting System.”</p><p>There were only 4 instances throughout the entire broadcast to let listeners know it wasn’t real. The opening, before and after the middle commercial break, and at the very end. The commercial break itself was delayed 10 minutes later than usual to increase the realism of the piece. Later that night, three different times, disclaimers were read on the air to reiterate that the piece was merely fiction. And the popular story about this broadcast – the reason anyone remembers it from the thousands of other radio plays in history – came about because of the many newspaper headlines that talked about it afterward. Headlines like “RADIO FAKE SCARES NATION,” “FAKE RADIO WAR STIRS TERROR THROUGH U.S.” and a lighted bulletin in Times Square reading “ORSON WELLES CAUSES PANIC.” The broadcast had started at 8pm that night. By 8:32pm, the CBS Executive Davidson Taylor was on the phone taking a frantic phone call. Producer John Houseman said he returned to the studio “looking white as a ghost.” He had been ordered by the higher ups at CBS to immediately interrupt the broadcast to announce that it was a dramatic work of fiction. Luckily for Welles and Houseman, there was a scheduled commercial break less than a minute away. That commercial break carried disclaimers about the program before and after.</p><p>But as the show continued on, a few policemen entered the room outside the studio. Then a few more. CBS pages and executives stood in front of the police, begging them to just wait. The police wanted to barge into the studio and stop the broadcast immediately. They, of course, weren’t allowed into the room. The program continued. The final third of the show was a more standard radio drama format without the realism of the news report break-ins and weather bulletins. We learn the rest of the story – that the Aliens have taken New York City and eventually have died of human pathogenic germs. The broadcast ended with Orson Welles once again telling the listeners that they’ve been listening to a radio play and that it was merely a holiday offering for Halloween.</p><p>According to Houseman, the next few hours were crazy. Here’s a quote from his 1980 memoir: “The building was suddenly full of people and dark-blue uniforms. Hustled out of the studio, we were locked into a small back office on another floor. Here we sat incommunicado while network employees were busily collecting, destroying, or locking up all scripts and records of the broadcast.” They apparently fielded a call from a small-town mayor who complained that his citizens were rioting in the streets. One of the reasons that is often given for the panic is that people were listening to another program on the radio, and switched to The War of the Worlds after the opening disclaimer. Another reason for the panic that’s cited is that radio broadcasts for weeks had been updating America on the growing war between Germany and Czechoslovakia, so people were already on edge. They were used to hearing important news bulletins interrupting radio shows.</p><p>The newspaper headlines followed and the rest became a lasting legacy. Most people today know the story about how this radio broadcast sent Americans into a panic. But there are more than a couple reasons to doubt that it actually caused any sort of widespread panic. Robert Bartholomew, a sociologist who is an expert on mass panic outbreaks, has said that “there’s a growing consensus among sociologists that the extent of the panic was greatly exaggerated.” First, there simply weren’t enough people listening. One of the pieces of evidence of panic is this treasure trove of 2,000 letters mailed to CBS and Orson Welles complaining about the broadcast. But when they were scrutinized, only about 27% of those letters came from people who were listening. It was originally reported that 12 million – or 1 out of 12 homes were listening to The War of the Worlds. But a survey was actually conducted that night during the broadcast. They had a sample size of only 5,000. But out of that 5,000, only 2% said they were listening to it. After all, it was up against the most popular radio show of the time, Edgar Bergen’s Chase and Sanborn Hour Variety Show. Mercury Theater on the Air had horrible ratings. Another survey which was conducted later at Princeton estimated the real number listening was closer to 6 million. When those people were asked if they were “frightened or disturbed” by the show. 1.2 million said they were. But there’s sort of inherent problem with that question. In that era, radio had the power to move people. It had the ability to shock, to frighten and disturb. It would be like asking you about the scariest movie you’ve ever seen and ask if it frightened or disturbed you.</p><p>So this brings us to what is the most likely reason for the overblowing of the panic. Newspapers. Newspapers, whose existence was threatened by social media, and before that by online news, and before that by television news, were threatened by radio. It was in their best interest to get the public to have a healthy distrust of what they hear on the radio. So these many newspapers stories talking about the mass chaos and public panic caused by the broadcast could have had a motive, whether conscious or unconscious, of telling the public – “look at this new medium and take it with a grain of salt, because unlike a trusty newspaper, the radio can mislead the public!” Take the New York Times, for instance, who said “Radio is new but it has adult responsibilities. It has not mastered itself or the material it uses.” So while the cultural lore about The War of the Worlds is one of groundbreaking realism and a story about not trusting everything you hear, the truth is probably a story that gives much more credit to the public at large. And proving that nothing is new under the sun, and proving history always repeats itself, the same thing happens today on Social Media. Celebrity death hoaxes are a weekly occurrence on Twitter. Fake News gets spread on Facebook by people who don’t take the time to find out whether or not it’s a true story. And certain news stations don’t cover major news events because of their own political interests. So in that way, what Orson Welles was doing really was groundbreaking. 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text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi4jeBzI2BXQuSTnXvjU_U797uRqfRC6iX3Y-KR7RcYr1SzwPYZxzw7wRfad7CNG818mE_m1jYt3FOrc8ECRgqvcVKzQ3B5EzzF7BHkVcRJNgKDc8qonDoZ1WkZ_jMybD6aPHxnJWHbRoA0ahIxzFTWBazkoW3Cx4kQDCmNBnWibZF10JgUsayvZAb8wQ/s1080/Screenshot_20230402-162447_Gallery.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="786" data-original-width="1080" height="532" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi4jeBzI2BXQuSTnXvjU_U797uRqfRC6iX3Y-KR7RcYr1SzwPYZxzw7wRfad7CNG818mE_m1jYt3FOrc8ECRgqvcVKzQ3B5EzzF7BHkVcRJNgKDc8qonDoZ1WkZ_jMybD6aPHxnJWHbRoA0ahIxzFTWBazkoW3Cx4kQDCmNBnWibZF10JgUsayvZAb8wQ/w727-h532/Screenshot_20230402-162447_Gallery.jpg" width="727" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">The power and magic that surrounds the music of Jim Morrison & The Doors is legendary, but a little known fact is that Jim Morrison was also a passionate cinephile, and now finally a book has been released detailng his talent as a filmmaker from 1965-71. The book <b>Jim Morrison: The Genius of an Unsung Filmmaker</b>,<b> </b>written by underground film director <i>Fabrizio Federico,</i> is a unique and razor-sharp look into Morrison as a shamanic artist. ''This book is essential to Jim's story, he loved cinema it was his life, even his lyrics are cinematic. I really enjoyed researching this book, I've been a Doors fan since I was ten years old so being able to write about Jim's love of film was a dream come true, because not many people even know that he was a filmmaker. It's like a hidden secret, but he really understood how to hypnotize an audience with his vision, and you can see that in his wild performances too. This book is also a manual into what techniques Jim used to create mass-madness.''</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">After studying cinema at UCLA, where he met fellow bandmate Ray Manzarek, they incorporated this unique cinematic quality into The Doors dark psychedelic music, making them the kings of Acid-Rock during the turbulent sixties. Proving that the devil has the best songs. The Doors were also one of the first bands to make artistic music videos, and in 1968 they even made a fly-on-the-wall documentary called <i>Feast of Friends, </i>which chronicles their spring tour, while at the peak of their powers. The film is<i> </i>full of riots and transcendence and is now a cult classic<i>.</i> Morrison's independent movie <i>HWY</i> was screened only a few times before his tragic death in 1971, making him a member of the notorious <i>27 Club</i>. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg919BQ7JEmtK53FK9kH8KrfZgY3rFNUOLDVXGxYmBsDEr8YHpLnf9yZqWFAtMkZG2jQ48pJvmQ_TuNNVRHe5jBmfYzE2zx5f0k9VGccq0Z9mGuY9_DsEVjd68K6RksbWUYF2OJOaIh62Tu_xyjIHSwGVKtISQFy3oDu8JBy_Y417HNT372y9UTxnLM0Q/s457/unknownlocation.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="275" data-original-width="457" height="386" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg919BQ7JEmtK53FK9kH8KrfZgY3rFNUOLDVXGxYmBsDEr8YHpLnf9yZqWFAtMkZG2jQ48pJvmQ_TuNNVRHe5jBmfYzE2zx5f0k9VGccq0Z9mGuY9_DsEVjd68K6RksbWUYF2OJOaIh62Tu_xyjIHSwGVKtISQFy3oDu8JBy_Y417HNT372y9UTxnLM0Q/w640-h386/unknownlocation.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Jim Morrison could have been an amazing independent filmmaker had he lived longer and it would have enhanced his already solid legacy. His movies prove that there is an unbreakable bond between alchemy/ritual/shamanism and the power of cinema.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">In this book his film projects and thoughts on performance are examined through interviews he gave talking about his films, giving us a glimpse into the real artistic heart of Jim Morrison. Plus how he used mind control through media manipulation to achieve superstardom. Additionally, there are rare and previously unpublished glimpses into Morrison's cinematic wisdom, and his point of view on the dark powers of cinema. Through trace and hypnosis he could spellbind an audience and for the very first time this is examined. An unremittingly exhilarating journey into the psychosis of an alluring yet enigmatic artist. A must read for fans of The Doors. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><a href="https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0C2S1M93V/ref=mp_s_a_1_1?crid=4C0UMVYD8XU1&keywords=jim+morrison+book+filmmaker&qid=1682324147&sprefix=jim+morrison+book+filmmaker%2Caps%2C186&sr=8-1"><b><span style="font-family: arial;">Amazon: Buy Here</span></b></a><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjMVmtWNhwMsw3HZYkCOi5eezmXp_1107U5yzc30h5xP_AV-Kt8WzhPQrDhHDPkbeSzSL-G9g85JRufqs69F4LmhY18Mx-x3JZ6_Dj1Sl9tn5srk6n5wi3TAvebPGjBsWmn1AOUqyPNBuxPSLjOMP3X_9pC54DuTVaPN85yobOK6k61s3Uxdats3TK7iw/s507/rmjm.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="200" data-original-width="507" height="252" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjMVmtWNhwMsw3HZYkCOi5eezmXp_1107U5yzc30h5xP_AV-Kt8WzhPQrDhHDPkbeSzSL-G9g85JRufqs69F4LmhY18Mx-x3JZ6_Dj1Sl9tn5srk6n5wi3TAvebPGjBsWmn1AOUqyPNBuxPSLjOMP3X_9pC54DuTVaPN85yobOK6k61s3Uxdats3TK7iw/w640-h252/rmjm.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/lj_64K03SlE" width="320" youtube-src-id="lj_64K03SlE"></iframe></div> <br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjBalcks3vepNQ3pjwxjknOP5mbaRVPU8LgFL9tijnL1fmx-iE8xHxWIeFtiobGb_b_wSnv3nWTLY59BwbdxrXu1Ucj-2eR7zHMEbxSMMkQrD-Eh6p04CY0g4yzsOjd9q_ceeO3WZGfXYBIVVNsWXUy5wH1KTs9jnVHyXRA-fkpAyGJdUyvMCLu22_a4g/s1080/Screenshot_20230402-200628_Samsung%20Internet.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="599" data-original-width="1080" height="354" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjBalcks3vepNQ3pjwxjknOP5mbaRVPU8LgFL9tijnL1fmx-iE8xHxWIeFtiobGb_b_wSnv3nWTLY59BwbdxrXu1Ucj-2eR7zHMEbxSMMkQrD-Eh6p04CY0g4yzsOjd9q_ceeO3WZGfXYBIVVNsWXUy5wH1KTs9jnVHyXRA-fkpAyGJdUyvMCLu22_a4g/w640-h354/Screenshot_20230402-200628_Samsung%20Internet.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><p></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2962721263288722253.post-11710916802180009842023-04-02T04:36:00.000-07:002023-04-02T04:36:57.675-07:00How Hannibal Lecter Manipulates<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh8Hxk2Llbs0RdpzvBbtMKTbuy_PRyMd1ZZTmmZgNj4Uda_z_OBm2_djE_dFrHgCxmvlXAEi7TYcRLI2YlLj85k0KBMXdeGZUAXijjMbNtHjwPmNN72JiGziz7BIlb6GkN-vNDZSl3tPXVw1r8CYRj9YcRwibWWs8y1-l8jQp5g16tdc7I6RSU1qVpyzQ/s430/200905_hannibal-lechter-is-back.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="281" data-original-width="430" height="418" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh8Hxk2Llbs0RdpzvBbtMKTbuy_PRyMd1ZZTmmZgNj4Uda_z_OBm2_djE_dFrHgCxmvlXAEi7TYcRLI2YlLj85k0KBMXdeGZUAXijjMbNtHjwPmNN72JiGziz7BIlb6GkN-vNDZSl3tPXVw1r8CYRj9YcRwibWWs8y1-l8jQp5g16tdc7I6RSU1qVpyzQ/w640-h418/200905_hannibal-lechter-is-back.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><p></p><div>For the movie Silence of the Lambs, Anthony Hopkins based his portraial as a cross between Truman Capote, Katharine Hepburn and HAL. He is the devil, but a very charming, witty, seductive, all clever and wise, sexual and lethal. He is manipulative, mysterious and highly intelligent. He has so much depth you are in awe if him. Lecter is loosely based on the real-life serial killer Alfredo Ballí Treviño (aka Dr. Salazar), a Mexican doctor who gruesomely dismembered his lover in the 1960s. Novelist Thomas Harris took his own experience from meeting Treviño and incorporated some of the doctor's physical and psychological traits into the mold of the infamous cannibalistic serial killer that would become Hannibal Lecter. Harris understood that even the most despicable people aren't all bad and humans are incomprehensibly complicated by nature. Russian serial killer Andrei Chikatilo, Albert Fish, Pietro Pacciani 'The Monster of Florence' (Thomas Harris was seen taking notes at his trial). Plus William Coyne a local murderer who had escaped from prison in 1934 and gone on a rampage that included acts of murder and cannibalism.</div><div><br /></div><div>He plays psychological games on his victims by assering his intellectual dominance. ''You were doing fine. You were courteous, and receptive to courtesy. You had established trust with the embarrassing truth about Miggs.'' His calculating nature makes every sentence a potential trap, luring you into his webb. He manipulates you by instructing your mind constantly, like guided meditation: ''sit, tell me, you send that through now, fly back to school now, dont move, you're in shock now, in a moment you'll be light headed.''</div><div>Assering constant control over everything. Asking intimate questions that cut to the root of their character, verbally pocking around in areas that are off limits: ''Did you nurse Catherine yourself?" - "What is your worst memory of childhood?" - So their guiding motivations become predictable so he is in control. Psychologically devouring you.</div><div><br /></div><div>He studies peoples speech patterns, scent and apperance, emphasising with peoples emotions while being able to read them. Understanding their thought process, weaknesses and strengths so he can take advantage of them for his own ends. This doesnt only apply to people, and can come up with plots and plans with access to only ninimal resorces, and being able to see into the future. All of these intellectual traits make him a prodigy and a genius with an intellect and hyper- sensitivity rarely found in people. It's his thirst for knowledge that drives him towards the forbiden. He has a cultured and elegant air about him, polite and moving gracefully but he can also be unnaturaly still, in total control of each movement. </div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh3rBczE5WvoIYSRcIDxbrui5W_0Z1k12UtVs7uEAfphmwX0stuUUZteD4Xk2JO6tusLgRhpDrB88DbhsGoRw3xuIsNpU7kVCkw3tJcLhCHd9jSoTEmPwgNIxmQEQf0NUfO39joqN6k1HcTLZxcEvZVJ2V_rYGCiLlKojUKcAGxfnUwrtWlbt5DG4KkZw/s1080/Screenshot_20230331-131003_YouTube.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="582" data-original-width="1080" height="344" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh3rBczE5WvoIYSRcIDxbrui5W_0Z1k12UtVs7uEAfphmwX0stuUUZteD4Xk2JO6tusLgRhpDrB88DbhsGoRw3xuIsNpU7kVCkw3tJcLhCHd9jSoTEmPwgNIxmQEQf0NUfO39joqN6k1HcTLZxcEvZVJ2V_rYGCiLlKojUKcAGxfnUwrtWlbt5DG4KkZw/w640-h344/Screenshot_20230331-131003_YouTube.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div><br /></div><div>The Silence of the Lambs shows people manipulating others for bad (Buffalo Bill tricking Catherine into the van) and for good (Clarice making a fake offer to Hannibal Lecter in order to save Catherine). There's a big gray area when it comes to manipulation. Despite needing to manipulate Lecter, Clarice does not like feeling manipulated herself. No one does. But she does see that it's necessary for Jack Crawford to keep things from her in order for them to succeed.</div><div><br /></div><div>CHILTON: Crawford's very clever, isn't he? Using you. […] A pretty young woman to turn him on. Jack Crawford is doing the best he can to manipulate Lecter into talking, even if he has to use Clarice to do it. We'll see later on that he has manipulated her too, in a way. </div><div><br /></div><div>CLARICE: If Lecter feels that you're his enemy, then, um, well maybe we'll have more luck if I go in by myself. Clarice can play the manipulation game too. She puts up with Dr. Chilton just long enough to get access to Lecter, then she sends him away. </div><div><br /></div><div>LECTER: Closer, please. Closer. Here, Lecter manipulates Clarice into moving closer to his cell, which she isn't supposed to do. But the director also manipulates us, by using close-ups of the actors almost exclusively. These camera angles make us feel a lot closer than we'd ever want to be. </div><div><br /></div><div>LECTER: You think you can dissect me with this blunt little tool? Clarice is doing a good job at convincing Lecter to talk to her, but she blows it when she hands him the FBI questionnaire. Lecter requires skill and subtlety. The FBI questionnaire is too blatant a move. </div><div><br /></div><div>CRAWFORD: The orderly heard Lecter whispering to him all afternoon and Miggs crying. They found him at bed check. He'd swallowed his own tongue. Lecter is so good at manipulating people, he convinces Miggs to kill himself, without even touching the man. That's so crazy, we want to know what he said to him. Or maybe we don't… [Dr. Chilton takes away Lecter's drawings, turns off the lights, and puts a televangelist show on the TV.] </div><div>Dr. Chilton uses psychiatry as punishment. In this way, he and Lecter are kindred spirits. If they weren't on different sides of the bars, and if they played nice with others, they might make a diabolical team. The filmmakers are geniuses at manipulating us to the extent that we're almost happy at the end to see Chilton being Lecter's next victim.</div><div><br /></div><div>CRAWFORD: If I had sent you in there with an actual agenda, Lecter would have known it instantly. He would have toyed with you, and then turned to stone. This quote references the first one in this section, and what we said about Crawford manipulating Starling too. He keeps her in the dark, and says it's for her own good. Is he right to do this, or is he not giving her enough credit? </div><div><br /></div><div>LECTER: Quid pro quo. I tell you things, you tell me things. […] Quid pro quo. Yes or no? Here we have Lecter's ultimate manipulation. Clarice is told not to let Lecter inside her head, but now she must, or else he won't help her. It's a power play. Lecter removes any power Clarice might have, and he finds out things that he could use against her. But by this point, he likes her, and it's a good thing too. Or else he could use these facts to destroy her.</div><div><br /></div><div>Professor James Oleson in the Journal of Criminal Justice and Popular Culture (during 2005-2006). Oleson did a thorough review of various academic literatures and noted (in his 2005 paper) the following in relation to (i) the appeal of serial killers, and (ii) the appeal of Lecter more specifically: “Apter (1992) suggests that serial killers transfix people because dangerous things – like serial killers – tend to create a state of invigorating psychological arousal. To neutralize the feelings of anxiety that accompany dangerous threats – like serial killers – we use protective frames such as narrative explanations or criminological theories. In explaining the serial killer’s behavior, we allow ourselves to succumb to the exciting magnetism of evil (Kloer, 2002) and can thereby ‘experience the excitement of arousal without being overwhelmed by anxiety’ (Ramsland, 2005)…Why do we love Lecter? Perhaps because he is the ‘perfect gothic hero’ (Dunant, 1999) or because he is the perfect gothic antihero (Dery, 1999). Perhaps it is because the heroic and the villainous co-exist within him. Because he is Obi Wan Kenobi and Darth Vader rolled into one (Hawker, 2001), because he is Darth Vader and Superman rolled into one (Cagle, 2002), or because he is Sherlock Holmes and Professor Moriarty rolled into one (Sexton, 2001)”.</div><div><br /></div><div>fied two key precursors that have a high association with serial homicide – a pathological fantasy life and childhood trauma. Oleson argues that Lecter fits “this basic etiological model” because “he enjoys a rich and detailed fantasy life” and “he suffered serious childhood trauma”. Oleson also recounted the FBI’s research into ‘organized’ and ‘disorganized’ serial killers, and argued that there was evidence across all Harris’ books that Lecter displayed all 14 profile characteristics of an organized serial killer: (i) average to above-average intelligence, (ii) socially competent, (iii) skilled work preferred, (iv) sexually competent, (v) high birth order status, (vi) father’s work stable, (vii) inconsistent childhood discipline, (viii) controlled mood during crime, (ix) use of alcohol with crime, (x) precipitating situational stress, (xi) living with partner, (xii) mobility with car in good condition, (xiii) follows crime in news media, and (xiv) may change jobs or leave town.</div><div><br /></div><div>Oleson also notes there are some models of serial killing that Lecter does not fit at all. For instance, the ‘addiction model’ of killing argues that some serial killers have a compulsion to kill and that they become addicted to killing (as put forward in the 1988 book Serial Killers by Dr. Joel Norris, and the 1996 book The Psychopathology of Serial Murder by Dr. Stephen Giannangelo). Another psychological model associated with serial killers is the concept of ‘sociopathy’ and ‘psychopathy’ (now termed ‘antisocial personality disorder’). Throughout Harris’ novels there are various references to Lecter being a sociopath and in the films he is described as being a psychopath (most notably by the psychiatrist Dr. Frederick Chilton, Director of the Baltimore State Hospital for the Criminally Insane, where Lecter was sent after being caught by his former profiling partner at the FBI (Will Graham). Oleson uses Dr. Robert Hare’s commonly used Psychopathy Checklist (first published in a 1980 issue of the journal Personality and Individual Differences) and convincingly shows that there is little evidence that Lecter is a psychopath.</div><div><br /></div><div>Another model that Lecter does not fit is the “homicidal triad” of warning-sign behaviours (i.e., bed-wetting, animal cruelty, and fire starting) outlined in the many books of the FBI’s Dr. John Douglas and Mark Olshaker. This FBI research asserts that these three warning behaviours (particularly when they co-occur in adolescence) signal an elevated risk of subsequent serial homicide. However, Oleson shows that Lecter does not fit this profile at all. In his second (2006) paper, Oleson also assesses to what extent Lecter is insane. According to the M’Naughten test for insanity:</div><div><br /></div><div>“It must be clearly proved that, at the time of committing the act, the party accused was laboring under such a defect of reason, from disease of the mind, as not to know the nature and quality of the act he was doing, or that [if] he did know it, that he did not know he was doing what was wrong (Finkel, 1988)”. Oleson argues that Lecter “flunks the M’Naughten test on all counts”. In fact he goes on to say that: “[Lecter] does not suffer from a defect of reason – if anything, as a genius with an infinitely rare IQ score, he may suffer from a superhuman perfection of the reason... Similarly, Lecter knows perfectly well the nature and quality of the crimes he commits, and he knows that they are denounced as wrong by society…The character of Hannibal Lecter would be deemed sane under more recently developed tests for insanity, as well. Lecter, in perfect command of his will, does not commit his crimes because he is compelled. Accordingly, he would not be insane under any formulation of the irresistible impulse test (Finkel, 1988). Nor would he be found insane under the American Law Institute test. ‘A person is not responsible for criminal conduct if at the time of such conduct as a result of mental disease or defect he lacks substantial capacity either to appreciate the criminality of his conduct or to conform his conduct to the requirements of law’ (Finkel, 1988). Lecter possesses both near-infallible cognitive ability and an iron will. He in no way fits the categories of insanity articulated under prevailing rules”.</div><div><br /></div><div>Oleson's papers also examine the idea that Lecter may be a non-human monster, a vampire, a superhuman, and/or the Devil. He also speculates that his crimes may be the product of his superhuman intellect (as Lecter’s IQ is so high that it cannot be assessed by any instruments that are currently used). As Oleson concludes in the second of his three papers:</div><div><br /></div><div>It has been suggested that the character of Hannibal Lecter is so memorable because he emerges from paradox…It could simply be the case, however, that Lecter is such a successful villain because we love monster stories…because we need monsters…and because the Lecter novels skillfully combine the police procedural with particularly resonant elements of the supernatural horror story”. I (for one) love the paradox of Lecter’s personality and character. Both (super)man and monster. I admire some of his character traits but (of course) despise others. He is a highly flawed criminal genius and polymath. A serial killer and a cannibal. Victim and villain. In his third paper on Lecter, Oleson asserts something that I agree (and will leave you) with:</div><div><br /></div><div>“By asking why Hannibal Lecter commits his crimes, criminologists may be able to use the Lecter novels and movies as a catalyst for the study of the etiology of serial homicide. The character of Hannibal Lecter is, after all, based on real life serial killers, and provides readers and viewers with an intimate (if hyperbolic) case study of an organized serial killer. Characters drawn from novels can serve as valuable heuristic devices…teaching us a great deal about the nature of crime and evil”.</div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2962721263288722253.post-74878902002406352602023-03-30T05:45:00.006-07:002023-04-02T04:42:51.776-07:00How to Sell Anything to Anyone<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEihniAmcpnpPPZKB00SVnH3OSzmAusyZd3FP0KmAIn7m_9SMXu0O0LWqzRwxKrSD2oo4AuIpZQpLihyzlok1629D1LSvUk6DxDdcAFJJKjh6gd9kiGBVX2yXP9oU9-NmiKcoIFHBxnLQHS-8mqzv9tHCJYFfHE2vz1uakslkUuBZxnJD9fqjVWMFkjeRw/s1080/Screenshot_20230330-131925_Gallery.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="596" data-original-width="1080" height="353" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEihniAmcpnpPPZKB00SVnH3OSzmAusyZd3FP0KmAIn7m_9SMXu0O0LWqzRwxKrSD2oo4AuIpZQpLihyzlok1629D1LSvUk6DxDdcAFJJKjh6gd9kiGBVX2yXP9oU9-NmiKcoIFHBxnLQHS-8mqzv9tHCJYFfHE2vz1uakslkUuBZxnJD9fqjVWMFkjeRw/w640-h353/Screenshot_20230330-131925_Gallery.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div>No matter what industry you’re in, you can learn how to sell anything. Start selling like a star sales rep by following the best tips of the trade.</div><div><br /></div><div><span style="font-size: 17px;">Top 10 buying triggers</span><br />
<span style="font-size: 17px;">Discounts</span><br />
<span style="font-size: 17px;">Best seller</span><br />
<span style="font-size: 17px;">Money back no risk guarantee</span><br />
<span style="font-size: 17px;">Limited time offer</span><br />
<span style="font-size: 17px;">New & improved</span><br />
<span style="font-size: 17px;">Testimonials</span><br />
<span style="font-size: 17px;">Celebrity endorsements</span><br />
<span style="font-size: 17px;">Nostalgia (vacations, proms, 1st date, weddings, child birth)</span><br />
<span style="font-size: 17px;">Associations (images of people happy, dancing, amazing party)</span><br />
<span style="font-size: 17px;">Buying Bonuses (buy 1 get 1 free) aka. "But thats not all"</span><br /><!--/data/user/0/com.samsung.android.app.notes/files/clipdata/clipdata_bodytext_230330_132228_367.sdocx--></div><div><br /></div><div><span style="font-size: 17px;">*Make the buyer the hero!</span></div><div><span style="font-size: 17px;"><span>*People buy with emotions</span><br />
<span>*This product will solve ur problems (tell a story of how it solved someones problem)</span><br />
<span>*People dont buy what they dont understand</span><br />
<span>*Be a problem solver - ur product is the only solution</span><br />
<span>*Pain point - not pleasing their kid, no memories, cheap entertainment, what themes is the kid into?, do u have a lot of guests on the day?, book soon because its a busy date and no one will be available, be a nice surprise</span><br />
<span>*ur product is either solution, a strategy or a secret method</span><br />
<span>*ur product is durable and will never let u down</span><br />
<span>*Fear of missing out</span><br />
<span>Things that make u go awww (cute kitten)</span><br />
<span>We're here to empower u</span><br />
<span>Celebrity endorsements</span><br />
<span>Respect</span><br />
<span>Hunger for good family relationships</span><br />
<span>A sense of freedom</span><br />
<span>Connection with others</span><br />
<span>Promise of self development</span><br />
<span>Dignity & calmness</span><br />
<span>Clotaire Rapaille</span><br />
<span>Raymond lowey</span><!--/data/user/0/com.samsung.android.app.notes/files/clipdata/clipdata_bodytext_230330_132303_168.sdocx--></span></div><div><span style="font-size: 17px;"><span><br /></span></span></div><div><span style="font-size: 17px;"><span><span>TALK ABOUT THE QUALITY, CREDIBILITY & USEFULNESS OF A PRODUCT</span><br />
<span>beautiful design, simple to use, affordable, user friendly</span><br />
<span>innovative, elegant</span><br />
<span>*cleaner, simpler, more effective</span><br />
<span>*give compliments ''ur looking great'' ''i like u'' ''i am like u''</span><br />
<span>*Talk about the incredible results u'll get from the product, then demonstrate it! ''Its a category killer product, its incredible!''</span><br />
<span>*be enthusiastic and confident</span><br />
<span>''Unlimited learning, unlimited amazingness, unlimited curiosity''</span><br />
<span>*its cheap, professionals use it, its long lasting, gives u reserve energy, because its good</span><br />
<span>*if you dont buy it someone else will</span><br />
<span>*its a truism</span><br />
<span>*Top of the range</span>
<br /><br /><span>Adverising's job is to tell u:</span><br />
<span>Whats available, where to get it, what it will do, cost, and why its good value</span>
<br /><br /><span>What do you care about/or scared of?</span><!--/data/user/0/com.samsung.android.app.notes/files/clipdata/clipdata_bodytext_230330_132628_142.sdocx--></span></span></div><div><span style="font-size: 17px;"><span><span><br /></span></span></span></div><div><span style="font-size: 17px;"><span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEis0pTI-I8ppvDkC5I-I8kEFHl2TjVpnRxnD2w0mQCB1hKsL5Oypgkk4VqKV73mwItwsioulRw366i0B3UnWRdv0-MK-UlKjCrhY-wdwLuyWkFmjywe0a0e3ato0QpuncXMk6NbFUCu0F_npN5eg4wrsA8GfuFl51dBjPm9RAFByGAKCNvV9kPxD3485Q/s1080/Screenshot_20230328-174210_YouTube.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="564" data-original-width="1080" height="334" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEis0pTI-I8ppvDkC5I-I8kEFHl2TjVpnRxnD2w0mQCB1hKsL5Oypgkk4VqKV73mwItwsioulRw366i0B3UnWRdv0-MK-UlKjCrhY-wdwLuyWkFmjywe0a0e3ato0QpuncXMk6NbFUCu0F_npN5eg4wrsA8GfuFl51dBjPm9RAFByGAKCNvV9kPxD3485Q/w640-h334/Screenshot_20230328-174210_YouTube.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div><span style="font-size: 17px;"><span><br /></span></span></div>Happiness</span></span></div><div><span style="font-size: 17px;"><span>
<span>Reinvigorate ur self</span><br />
<span>Rediscover ur self</span><br />
<span>Sexual desire </span><br />
<span>Reliable</span><br />
<span>Protective shield</span><br />
<span>Best friend</span><br />
<span>Adventure</span><br />
<span>Ownership</span><br />
<span>Sentimental bond</span><br />
<span>New</span><br />
<span>Nostalgia</span><br />
<span>Memories</span><br />
<span>Beauty & desire</span><br />
<span>Belonging and acceptance</span><br />
<span>Good girl/bad girl</span><br />
<span>Attitude</span><br />
<span>Fashion</span><br />
<span>Secret sauce</span><br />
<span>Cultural awareness</span><!--/data/user/0/com.samsung.android.app.notes/files/clipdata/clipdata_bodytext_230330_132348_136.sdocx--></span></span></div><div><span style="font-size: 17px;"><span><span><br /></span></span></span></div><div><span style="font-size: 17px;"><span><span><span>*Attract attention & create a crowd by courting attention by presenting something new and unusual, stand out be colourful.</span><br />
<span>*Spectacles & mysteries, keep them talking about you. Build an audience through personality, branding or controversial opinions.</span>
<br /><br /><span>*change peoples attentions</span>
<br /><br /><span>*</span><span>Create a transformative experience for your audience to go through, dont tell them the idea but let them feel it, lower their defenses by connecting them back to their childhood and let the idea blossom</span></span></span></span></div><div><span style="font-size: 17px;"><span><span><br /></span></span></span></div><div><span style="font-size: 17px;"><span><span>
<span>Promise - You could be the most persuasive member of your family</span><br />
<span>Picture - you could sell ice to an eskimo</span><br />
<span>Proof - testimonials, reference, reviews</span><br />
<span>Push - introduce the product, scarcity, social proof, give 3 choices</span>
<br /><br /><span>4 p's marketing</span><br />
<span>Product </span><br />
<span>Price - reasonable</span><br />
<span>Placement - where can they buy it?</span><br />
<span>Promotion - ads</span>
<br /><br /><span>AIDA</span><br />
<span>Awareness - get attention</span><br />
<span>Interest - the benefits</span><br />
<span>Desire - ''its top of the line, breath taking, most people dont even own it yet, you coyld accomplish more tasks, think of what u can accomplish...''</span><br />
<span>Action - have solutions in case they start to ask ''what if it breaks?" - Money back guaranteed, make them feel smart for buying ur product</span></span></span></span></div><div><span style="font-size: 17px;"><span><span><br /><span>Anchoring - ''you can buy this for £2k or you can have this for £20 and comes with a bonus gift''</span><!--/data/user/0/com.samsung.android.app.notes/files/clipdata/clipdata_bodytext_230330_174904_336.sdocx--><br /><br /><span>*people dont buy into the product they buy into ur values and philosophy</span></span></span></span></div><div><span style="font-size: 17px;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: 17px;"><span><span><!--/data/user/0/com.samsung.android.app.notes/files/clipdata/clipdata_bodytext_230330_132434_297.sdocx--></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEicJ2HZHNTvZ8TnoNDro6OKP5mY48RqSw3NeMe5JW0kYIEtJIKU-yJpLC39S64HTPUxWjxgtva1WOyGfoKifX5g5pFduo0_GG7MdfmabUK41vpPKAkk1UUX-hL5NasNRCsj9d_xPrIDGOg5BTiRzw2E8pHBdOHk0N6FIS3emHA2-dk2NjZZMfiQUUYSjQ/s1080/Screenshot_20230402-124031_YouTube.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="588" data-original-width="1080" height="348" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEicJ2HZHNTvZ8TnoNDro6OKP5mY48RqSw3NeMe5JW0kYIEtJIKU-yJpLC39S64HTPUxWjxgtva1WOyGfoKifX5g5pFduo0_GG7MdfmabUK41vpPKAkk1UUX-hL5NasNRCsj9d_xPrIDGOg5BTiRzw2E8pHBdOHk0N6FIS3emHA2-dk2NjZZMfiQUUYSjQ/w640-h348/Screenshot_20230402-124031_YouTube.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /></span></span></div><div><span style="font-size: 17px;">*Gulan Gork - mentalist</span></div><div><span style="font-size: 17px;"><span><span><span>
<span>3 questions people ask themselves;</span><br />
<span>Are u reliable?</span><br />
<span>Are u capable of helping me?</span><br />
<span>Do you care about me?</span>
<br /><br /><span>LIKING Factors</span><br />
<span>People who are similar to us</span><br />
<span>Compliments</span><br />
<span>People who are cooperative</span>
<br /><br /><span>*Tell a story of how the product makes ur life easier, and how u can become a better person through the product. A solution to ur problems</span>
<br /><br /><span>*people with passion can change the world for the better, through ambition and aspiration. Honor greatness</span>
<br /><br /><span>''Believe in challenging the status quo, and thinking differently like the crazy misfit you are. Passion and ambition are what count, so honour your greatness. There are no rules in cinema, so push and change the future with your unique genius.''</span>
<br /><br /><span>Always use ''you''</span><br />
<span>Feelings, deep down, on the inside</span><br />
<span>Often, rarely, occasionally</span><br />
<span>Never use: never & always</span><br />
<span>Create an out: say they ''hide things'' & or ''reveal too much''</span><br />
<!--/data/user/0/com.samsung.android.app.notes/files/clipdata/clipdata_bodytext_230330_132502_073.sdocx--></span></span></span></span></div><div><span style="font-size: 17px;"><span><span><span><span><br /></span></span></span></span></span></div><div><span style="font-size: 17px;"><span><span><span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjKSdUI4fI3jsi9akKiLHO1LgL5Ck5s40j6XxD0IjlapTHFPSYltlZHCCslvun86uj7Fky-Axpkjgqvh9g66lEb6Y1m2JtLw-1_0SRmaOhNN8Va_BGx1kplC54cFjBUQK8-CYMwPflJJ308wC7QhZn5VCDBTKhc-HKE_i4urcDQxg59TnB_dlCE9L7aow/s1080/Screenshot_20230330-172208_YouTube.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="588" data-original-width="1080" height="348" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjKSdUI4fI3jsi9akKiLHO1LgL5Ck5s40j6XxD0IjlapTHFPSYltlZHCCslvun86uj7Fky-Axpkjgqvh9g66lEb6Y1m2JtLw-1_0SRmaOhNN8Va_BGx1kplC54cFjBUQK8-CYMwPflJJ308wC7QhZn5VCDBTKhc-HKE_i4urcDQxg59TnB_dlCE9L7aow/w640-h348/Screenshot_20230330-172208_YouTube.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div><span style="font-size: 17px;"><span><span><span><br /></span></span></span></span></div>INCEPTION</span></span></span></span></div><div><span style="font-size: 17px;"><span><span><span><span>
<span>*what excites them?</span><br />
<span>Ask about childhood</span><br />
<span>Ask a question</span><br />
<span>Then you talk about ur experiences</span>
<br /><br /><span>*Planting a seed</span><br />
<span>Forget about it, dont listen to what i just said</span><br />
<span>*use body language through looks</span><br />
<span>*dont judge or preach/ dont be in a hurry/ talking too much/ not listening/being brutal with them</span><br />
<span>Be like Errol Flyn RELAXED pass on that mood</span>
<br /><br /><span>Suggestion</span><br />
<span>*you know what to do</span>
<br /><br /><span>Peoples fundamental motivation is - </span><span>I dont wanna fail - i wanna be invisible & left alone (Jordan Peterson)</span><!--/data/user/0/com.samsung.android.app.notes/files/clipdata/clipdata_bodytext_230330_132524_781.sdocx--></span></span></span></span></span></div><div><span style="font-size: 17px;"><span><span><span><span><span><br /></span></span></span></span></span></span></div><div><span style="font-size: 17px;"><span><span><span><span><span><span>You - I - Us (in that order when selling like Ricky Martin)</span><br />
<span>What YOU have (You have the whole package)</span><br />
<span>I can help you</span><br />
<span>Let US go on this journey</span>
<br /><br /><span>Syntax & Elements of the STRAIGHT LINE method:</span><br />
<br /><br /><span>Trust, credebility & support</span>
<br /><br /><span>People give according to their needs</span>
<br /><br /><span>Inside compliment: their integrity, honesty, values, character (people like it better then visual appearance)</span>
<br /><br /><span>You, Free, Because, Now (influential words)</span>
<br /><br /><span>Ethos (authority - doctors, teachers etc...), Pathos (emotions, feel proud, patriotic), Logos (logic)</span>
<br /><br /><span>*buy it you wont regret it, im selling you magic</span><br />
<span>*i want to be a part of your life</span><br />
<span>*agree, reason & then let them say yes</span><br />
<span>*its the best let me tell u why</span><br />
<span>*i've never told anyone this but i'll tell you</span><br />
<span>*keep this in your back pocket</span><br />
<span>*whats your goal, challenge, target, objective, ambition</span><br />
<span>*one time offer / limited edition price & availability</span><!--/data/user/0/com.samsung.android.app.notes/files/clipdata/clipdata_bodytext_230330_132757_886.sdocx--></span></span></span></span></span></span></div><div><span style="font-size: 17px;"><span><span><span><span><span><span><br /></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div><div><span style="font-size: 17px;"><span><span><span><span><span><span><span>*On the phone break preocupation, grabs attention, also point to the benefits of ur product</span><br />
<span>*talk about the results the product will achieve for u!!</span><br />
<span>* if its not exactly what ur looking for theres no charge at all</span><br />
<span>* use the word 'fair' a lot</span><br />
<span>*''u would do the same for me''</span><br />
<span>*''i want ur advice on this''</span><br />
<span>*imagine</span><br />
<span>* dont call it a contract; call it paperwork or agreement</span><br />
<span>*dont use 'buy' use 'own'</span><br />
<span>*dont use ''deal'' its an opportunity or transaction</span><br />
<span>*dont use ''problem'' use the word ''challenge''</span><br />
<span>* you, free, new, now, secret (persuasive words)</span>
<br /><br /><span>*focus on the benefits, deflect criticism, be vague on the details, and corner ur opponents ''they are dangerous & untrustworthy''</span><br />
<br /><br /><span>*</span><span>Promise, picture, proof, pitch</span>
<br /><br /><span>*Universal Psychological Sales Trigger Principles:: </span><span>Reciprocity, social proof, scarcity, credibility, commitment & consistency, relatable factor, authority, community & unity</span>
<br /><br /><span>*Everythings relative</span><br />
<span>*create urgency</span><br />
<span>*talk about the results the product will achieve for u!!</span><br />
<span>* say ''have to'' & ''gotta'' & ''feel incredible'', ''looks amazing'', ''freaking love it''''get it NOW'', ''ITS NEW'' ''improves everything'' alot.</span>
<br /><br /><span>*SOCIAL PROOF; saying everybody uses it, everybody knows, all the other people did it, ask anyone etc...</span><!--/data/user/0/com.samsung.android.app.notes/files/clipdata/clipdata_bodytext_230330_132838_154.sdocx--></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div><div><span style="font-size: 17px;"><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><br /></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div><div><span style="font-size: 17px;"><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><b>SALES TERMS</b></span><br />
<span>* its a good fit</span><br />
<span>*seen to be believed</span><br />
<span>*its quick & easy</span><br />
<span>*its been tested and proven</span><br />
<span>*unbelievable, surprising, amazing</span><br />
<span>*mystery & intrigue</span><br />
<span>*only one left</span><br />
<span>*u can return it no questions asked</span><br />
<span>*get it today</span><br />
<span>*rare, unique</span>
<br /><br /><span>Nod while ur asking a question (Sullivan nod)</span>
<br /><br /><span><b>FBI techniques</b></span><br />
<span>*the friend routine ''good job''</span><br />
<span>*persuasive image package (looks, vocabulary, knowledge, charm)</span><br />
<span>*authenticity</span><br />
<span>*only talk for 30sec, brief & direct</span><br />
<span>*confessional paraphrasing - make them elaborate on their own ideas</span><br />
<span>*Ransberger pivot - dont attack a persons error; listen, say something positive</span><br />
<span>"Thats a really good point, but i still dont understand how...''</span><br />
<span>*mindful manners ''please & thank u''</span><br />
<span>*slow down and get to know them</span><br />
<span>*potential answers, ''i can answer that question but 1st i need to know what u did?''</span><br />
<span>*unfinished questions ''when ur boss yelled at u, you felt....?''</span><br />
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<span>*basic associations & context clues - ''my friend is really kind and smart''</span><br />
<span>*spontaneous trait transference - give compliments ''ur funny, valuable, kind and reliable''</span><br />
<span>*zero cost approach - show ur interested in their well being, be considerate</span><br />
<span>*uplifting flexibility - adapt to peoples interests</span><br />
<span>*individualized greetings - cool hello ''hello red'' ''hi sassy lassie'' etc...</span><br />
<span>*sensory biases - people judge u on ur smell</span><br />
<span>*motivated possibility bias - depending ur social setting people interact differently e.g: gym, club, library so read the room</span><br />
<span>*reciprocity of liking - buying gifts makes people like u (dyadic vs generalized)</span><br /><br /><span>*SOCRATIC METHOD - questioning style of conversation ''isnt this also...''</span><br />
<span>''so you're saying'?' ''what are ur assumptions and reasons based on?''</span><br />
<span>• Clarifying concepts, give me an example?</span><br />
<span>• Probing assumptions. ... </span><br />
<span>• Who benefits from this??</span><br />
<span>• Probing rationale, reasons and evidence. ... </span><br />
<span><b>• Questioning</b></span><span> viewpoints and perspectives. ... </span><br />
<span>• Probing implications and consequences. ... </span><br />
<span><b>• Questioning</b></span><span> the </span><span><b>question</b></span><br />
<b><span>• </span></b><span>How does this relate to what we have been talking about?</span>
<br /><br /><span>*food for thought</span><br />
<span>*collosal</span><br />
<span>*thats duly noted</span><br />
<span>*deflection, diversion, evasion</span><br />
<span>*feelings, motivations, values</span><br />
<span>*self persuasion: Are u sure thats a good idea?</span><br />
<span>*Dangerous & untrustworthy</span><br />
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<span>*remember when....imagine how.....in the future.....picture....recall.....feel...allow</span><br />
<span>*Even if - You will become more flexible EVEN IF you are new to exercise</span><br />
<span>* balanced argument</span><br />
<span>*Cults remove peoples 'critical thinking' process</span><br />
<span>E.g ignore ur doubt and gut instincts because thats whats holding u back towards personal growth</span><br />
<span>E.g </span><span>What are ur assumptions and reasons based on?</span><br />
<span>E.g dont be so prideful</span>
<br /><br /><span><b>PERSUASIVE PHRASES</b></span><br />
<span>I'll do the work for you</span><br />
<span>How did u succeed?</span><br />
<span>You are beautiful</span><br />
<span>You are absolutely right</span><br />
<span>U r the best thing that ever happened to us/me/our company..</span><br />
<span>U have no idea.... how nice it is to work with smart people</span><br />
<span>U deserve all the best</span><br />
<span>U have earned the right to etc...</span><br />
<span>I've got high expectations for you</span><br />
<span>I hear what ur saying</span><br />
<span>I appreciate ur work and im excited to see more.</span><br />
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<span>Charismatic, creative, consistant, driven, hungry, impecable integrity, skills, motivated, assess peoples needs, i know what people respond to, understand peoples personalities, dignity, build rapport, build trust, build relationships, confidence, pillar of ur community, limitless potential, showcase ur talent, influential, comraderie,</span>
<br /><br /><span>A family man, a sportsman, a learner, an earner, and a communicator</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div><div><br /></div><div><span style="font-size: 17px;"><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><br /><span>SHOCK & FRAME BLOCKING (block their frame by making it seem idiotic & for asking an obvious question)</span><br />
<span>*Why are u doing that? Cose im a fucking idiot</span><br />
<span>*What u gonna spend ur money on? Hookers & cocaine</span><br />
<span>*Do u know what the odds of winning the lottery? Why do u wanna tell me its impossible to win?</span><br />
<span>*</span><span>Do u know what the odds of winning the lottery? Why, ur not gonna tell me its impossible to win are u?</span><br />
<span>*Ur never gonna make it? I know but i like dreaming, i take chances</span><br />
<span>*Why r u wasting ur money? Cose im a millionaire, i can afford to</span>
<br /><br /><span>Memory - manipulation - money - insanity plea</span><br />
<span> (Lawyer tricks)</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div><div><span style="font-size: 17px;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: 17px;"><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><!--/data/user/0/com.samsung.android.app.notes/files/clipdata/clipdata_bodytext_230330_133051_320.sdocx--></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgjCQzZcBAalqMvXD1imcMI5IaQqnsHqCmdqqKNNIO6owfKXkd_CNAII43zbTmzbHPTerJm9bzykHmz65HonfQY9yKwqqgAepgF06NL-rpHOn6e7gN3zmKALzlp5D103-jkEVCxzGXqsD4C87-ijhEOqMz22ho-y3c6ao11gqHfqbMFhj9HqQpVN1Brvw/s1080/Screenshot_20230330-003347_YouTube.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="578" data-original-width="1080" height="342" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgjCQzZcBAalqMvXD1imcMI5IaQqnsHqCmdqqKNNIO6owfKXkd_CNAII43zbTmzbHPTerJm9bzykHmz65HonfQY9yKwqqgAepgF06NL-rpHOn6e7gN3zmKALzlp5D103-jkEVCxzGXqsD4C87-ijhEOqMz22ho-y3c6ao11gqHfqbMFhj9HqQpVN1Brvw/w640-h342/Screenshot_20230330-003347_YouTube.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div><div><span style="font-size: 17px;">Beautiful apartment, fully furnished, immaculate</span></div><div><span style="font-size: 17px;"><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span>
<span>*Novelty and the power of familiarity are crucial (a familiar surprise)</span><br />
<span>*MAYA principle : most advanced yet acceptible (</span><span>Raymond Loewy)</span><br />
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<span>Sales funnel</span><br />
<span>Platitudes - cliches</span><br />
<span>Proclivity - to do something regularly</span><br />
<span>Principles</span><br />
<span>Associate and correlate</span><br />
<span>Purview - awareness, attention</span><br />
<span>Point of illustration</span><br />
<span>duplicitous - deceitful</span><br />
<span>Aptitude - fondness</span><br />
<span>inconsequential</span><span> - insignificant</span><br />
<span>chef d'oeuvre - masterpiece (che-do-vro)</span><br />
<span>Groundbreaking</span><br />
<span>Hubris - arrogance</span><br />
<span>Reiterate - repeat</span><br />
<span>Conjecture - speculation</span><br />
<span>Synonymous</span><br />
<span>Plausible - Credible - Reasonable</span><br />
<span>Overview</span><br />
<span>*extemporaneously - </span><span>carefully prepared but delivered without notes or text.</span><br />
<span>*Symbiosis - alliance</span><br />
<span>*unequivocally - that leaves no doubt</span><br />
<span>*Exacerbated - annoyed</span><br />
<span>Send out a blast</span><br />
<span>insurmountable = unconquerable</span><br />
<span>Accredited investors and qualified buyers</span><br />
<span>Bragadoccious</span><br />
<span>Jaberwokery</span><br />
<span>Bonus</span><br />
<span>omniscient = all knowing</span><br />
<span>Glean = obtain</span><br />
<span>Certainty, confidence, clarity, courage</span><br />
<span>Cutting edge/high-tech</span><br />
<span>Huge upside potential</span><br />
<span>Defiant</span><br />
<span>General Factotum - odd job man</span><!--/data/user/0/com.samsung.android.app.notes/files/clipdata/clipdata_bodytext_230330_133208_449.sdocx--></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div><div><span style="font-size: 17px;"><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><br /></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div><div><span style="font-size: 17px;"><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span>Defensive tactics</span>
<br /><br /><span>KAYLEIGH MCENANY</span><br />
<span>*Clarify the question & put into context</span><br />
<span>*point the finger to a worse problem</span><br />
<span>*overwhelm the person with facts</span>
<br /><br /><span>KELLY-ANNE CONWAY</span><br />
<span>*Offensive Parallelism; repeat a key word the other person says and use it against them and deflect</span><br />
<span>* Agreeing & amplifying; are you satisfied with his campaign?</span><br />
<span>Yes but what im most satisfied with is his...</span><br />
<span>*Call out double standards</span><br />
<span>*Always have a narrative to come back to</span><br />
<span>''Hes transparent, honorable, trustworthy and has integrity''</span><br />
<span>*When ur stuck use Ad Hominem; attack the other side personally</span><br />
<span>*Pass the buck; ''i dont know'' ''ur gonna have to ask him'' ''i havent discussed that with him''</span><br />
<span>*Makes something up and reinterpret it</span>
<br /><br /><span>Recapitulate and summerize it back to them ''it sounds to me like your point is....''</span>
<br /><br /><span>Its not an argument its a perceptual bias steeped in idiology</span>
<br /><br /><span>Start off with what u agree on then expand on ur point</span>
<br /><br /><span>Clarify the other persons point, validate them a bit</span><br />
<span>Say ''im not trying to trap you''</span><br />
<span>Say ''yes i agree but....''</span><br />
<span>Seperate ur ego from ur views</span><br />
<span>Say ''the problem i have with THE (instead of YOUR) argument is it leaves certain things unadressed and uresolved even though some points are laudible ...''</span>
<br /><br /><span>Please reconsider</span><br />
<span>If they r argumentative simply say ''what im saying is...''</span>
<br /><br /><span>''People dont want to hear ur opinion, they just want to hear their opinion come out your mouth' </span>
<br /><br /><span>*if someone is baraging u with questions say ''slow down lets go back to that 1st question''</span><br />
<span>*in order of being able to think one must risk being offensive</span><br />
<span>*do u care more for freedom of speech than not offending people?</span><br />
<span>*"dont u believe in free will, cose your ability and will to comprehend the universe and an objective truth means you believe in a higher power and the mind that can entertain that notion and reflect a reality thats bigger than science and stands behind that truth.'' Ben Shapiro</span>
<br /><br /><span>TIPS to fight Cognitive dissonance:</span><br />
<span>Dont rub things in their faces</span><br />
<span>Dont force someone to live out new values if u change their mind</span><br />
<span>Dont hold past consistancies against people</span>
<br /><br /><span>BEN SHAPIRO</span><br />
<span>Tell them not to use character smear</span><br />
<span> tactics lets focus on the issues</span><br />
<span>*Assume good motivations</span><br />
<span>"Unless im mistaken thats a more abstract opinion''</span><br />
<span>''According to the studies ive read''</span><br />
<span>''The way that i see things''</span><br />
<span>Push for specifics; ''which ones?''</span><br />
<span>Reduce their argument to absurdity ''so u think all those people who believe Elvis is alive are right?"</span><br />
<span>*Tell the other person that u agree with certain statements they've made (conciliatory statements)</span><br />
<span>*use vivid imagery to make ur point "a tsunami of dead bodies throwing themselves off buildings''</span><br />
<span>*identify the premise of the argument</span><br />
<span>*if someone gets emotional say ''im still waiting for ur point'' ''i still disagree''</span><br />
<span>*push for specifics ''which one? Who...etc''</span><br />
<span>*Use snuck premises</span><br />
<span>*emphasize the conditions u would agree with them</span><br />
<span>*use humour "al capone wasnt gonna turn into a priest after prohibition ended''</span><br />
<span>*use the ''others have said'' ''other people r saying'' trick</span><br />
<span>*stick to the subject</span><br />
<span>*double bind ''are u gonna apologize for interupting, no'' , ''i know ur trying to be more high energy but its not working''</span><br />
<span>*</span><span><b>There is no scientific consensus </b></span>
<br /><br /><span>Christopher Hitchens</span><br />
<span>''U dont know what ur talking about, u dont know what its like, u dont know what it took, u dont know what it would be like, you didnt hear the speech, </span>
<br /><br /><span>People welcome change</span><br />
<span>Iraq is a threat to its neighbours</span><br />
<span>Saddam should be charged with crimes against humanity</span><br />
<span>A moral choice</span><br />
<span>Anti-theist = against religion</span><br />
<span>God is a celestial dictator</span>
<br /><br /><span>Noam Chomsky</span>
<br /><br /><span>Im still waiting to hear what ur point is.</span><br />
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<span>*U go with the flow</span><br />
<span>*Anything is possible</span><br />
<span>*Alluring and mesmerizing</span><br />
<span>*Love & peace</span><br />
<span>*Ur stronger then ever, abundance</span><br />
<span>*Faith, belief, ur gonna be great</span><br />
<span>Blessings</span><br />
<span>*Message of light, peace and love</span><br />
<span>*Follow ur heart its never wrong</span><br />
<span>*Take the just path</span><br />
<span>*Ur beginning a cycle of good things: health, money, joy, love</span><br />
<span>*U have an important decision to make</span><br />
<span>*Have peace in ur soul for everyone</span><br />
<span>*Time will heal old wounds</span><br />
<span>*Ur whole life will change & u'll be happy</span><br />
<span>*A change is coming: a move, a trip, something very favorable & fortunate to u</span><br />
<span>*Ur a go-getter, u've broken barriers</span><br />
<span>*U've always loved creating, inventing, hustling, u never freeze up</span><br />
<span>*Ur higher mind pushes u to new attainments to new heights</span><br />
<span>*u have to be radiant</span><br />
<span>*a night of power & mystery</span><br />
<span>* seek out the warmth of heart, home & love</span><br />
<span>*teach, help & serve</span><br />
<span>*love is the reason for everything, the reason to live, the beginning and the end</span><br />
<span>*i always take a pill called the i-dont-care-pill</span><br />
<span>*ur strong, no one destroys u, no one knocks u down</span><br />
<span>*if u dont have faith u'll have nothing</span><br />
<span>*what once was ugly will become beautiful</span><br />
<span>*all religions have a point of convergence, call it interface religion</span><br />
<span>*dont give up until u accomplish ur destiny, the cosmos will gift it to u</span><br />
<span>*use my teachings as a roadmap to a more fullfilling life</span><br />
<span>*'may god bless all of u today, tomorrow & always</span><br />
<span>*u can win, believe in ur self b stronger</span><br />
<span>*if u have questions and need answeres, if ur concerned about a loved one, or need career or love advice</span><br />
<span>*u were born with a gift to help and empower peoples lives</span><br />
<span>*i predict lotto numbers, family reunions, success stories, marriages</span><br />
<span>*motivation & inspiration</span><br />
<span>*exquisite, extravagant & excellent</span><br />
<span>*TV, home videotapes, video-disc, cable transmission, magazines, print, direct mail, books, electronic publishing, CD-ROM's, the internet</span><br />
<span>*Name, likeness & image</span><br />
<span>*strong, intelligent, brave, healthy, loving, friendly, giving, good looking, charitable, stylish</span><br /><br /><span>*Illustrate the problem and associate pain to it</span><br />
<span>*Pre-emptively deal with any objections and how you'll fix it with ways thats you've researched</span><br />
<span>*Convince them that ur plan of action is actually consistant with the type of person they are and want to be its a logical expension of their current value system not a deviation</span><br />
<span>*Paint the heaven that happens if they go in the exciting direction u want them to go in</span><br />
<span>*End with an ASK 'i need your help'</span>
<br /><br /><span>LIKING Factors</span><br />
<span>People who are similar to us</span><br />
<span>Compliments</span><br />
<span>People who are cooperative</span>
<br /><br /><span>OPRAH</span><br />
<span>*Platonic touch</span><br />
<span>*Strong eye contact</span><br />
<span>*Summarize what the person just said</span><br />
<span>*Say ''you know how we're most alike?"</span><br />
<span>*Find out what moves people ''how did you find out?'' Family, hardships, dreams, what ur ashamed of</span><br />
<span>''Every father has a dream for their kid, what is ur dream in ur heart for ur kids?"</span><br />
<span>*Allow people to express themselves, encorage and validate their pain ''you overcame the pain thats beautiful''</span>
<br /><br /><span>Subjects that make people cry:</span><br />
<span>Kids</span><br />
<span>Fav teacher</span><br />
<span>Whats the most difficult thing u had to do to fullfill ur destiny?</span><br />
<span>Childhood</span><br />
<span>How did u pull urself together</span><br />
<span>What are you ashamed of</span><br />
<span>Hardship</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div><div><span style="font-size: 17px;"><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><br /></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div><div><span style="font-size: 17px;"><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span>Peoples motivations</span><br />
<span>*money, friendship, land, pride, women</span>
<br /><br /><span>* the way for them to get what they want is to FOLLOW YOU</span>
<br /><br /><span>Feelings, deep down, on the inside</span><br />
<span>Often, rarely, occasionally</span><br />
<span>Never use: never & always</span><br />
<span>Create an out: hide things & reveal too much</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div><div><span style="font-size: 17px;"><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><br /></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div><div><span style="font-size: 17px;"><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><!--/data/user/0/com.samsung.android.app.notes/files/clipdata/clipdata_bodytext_230330_133603_986.sdocx--><span>*Vigor, health, vitality</span><br />
<span>*Hope, admiration, optimism</span><br />
<span>*with appretiation and highest esteem</span><br />
<span>*very fetching, polished</span><br />
<span>*Youthfull, handsome, thoughtfull, compassionate</span><br />
<span>*A man of letters</span><br />
<span>*grateful for the cordial hospitallity offered</span><br />
<span>*the academic, the war hero, the family man</span><br />
<span>*gold standard</span><br />
<span>*intellectual samurai</span><br />
<span>*find direction & a proper goal in life</span><br />
<span>*with renewed and heartfelt thanks</span><br />
<span>*collective personality</span><br />
<span>*elaborate idea</span><br />
<br /><br /><span>Japanese emperor ethict:</span><br />
<span>Frugality, patience, diligence, self-control, manliness</span>
<br /><br /><span>Unity, achievements, a leader, great new era, pioneees, new fronteer, place in history</span>
<br /><br /><span>* highly intelligent, highly insightful</span><br />
<span>*dedication, concentraction & practice</span><br />
<span>*a game changer</span><br />
<span>*real satisfaction</span><br />
<span>*risk taker, protector, humble</span>
<br /><br /><span>*disreputable - vile</span><br />
<span>*glean = obtain</span><br />
<span>*psychological implications</span><br />
<span>*determination, motivation, willpower</span>
<br /><br /><span>*everythings relative</span><br />
<span>*morally presumptious</span><br />
<span>*dignity, ur genuine u have respect for ur self</span><br />
<span>*indignation</span><br />
<span>*</span><span>virtue signalling</span>
<br /><br /><span>*</span><span>I've meditated, ruminated and cogitated on the situation </span>
<br /><br /><span>*</span><span>Family, occupation, recreation, dreams</span><br />
<span>*unilateral = one sided</span><br />
<span>*repudiate = reject and deny</span>
<br /><br /><span>*my teacher, care, love, a gentleman</span>
<br /><br /><span>OBAMA</span><br />
<span>*hope, change, meaning, purpose, faith, beliefs, politics, principles, america, life, family, power, Choice, liberty, freedom</span>
<br /><br /><span>*neo-colonial, imperialistic, technocratic society of the United states of aggression</span>
<br /><br /><span>*big component</span><br />
<span>*namaste</span>
<br /><br /><span>*5 points of wisdom of the Kabbalah:</span><br />
<span>Listening, silence, rememberence, practicing, teaching</span><br />
<br /><br /><span>Persuasion</span><br />
<span>*1st establish who u r and ur credentials,experties, accomplishments and what u represent.</span><br />
<span>*then talk about the opportunity for great wealth but that theres an obstacle that only you can solve</span><br />
<span>*loop back and talk about ur credentials</span><br />
<span>*undermine ur opposition and that ur the best choice</span><br />
<span>* say ur a family man and believe in honor, moral values</span><br />
<span>*tell them to do it for their family</span>
<br /><br /><span><b>GARETH</b></span><br />
<span>Work hard and u'll be rewarded.</span><br />
<span>Supportive parents, good intuition and real talent, and sacrifice things to work and improve ur talents.</span><br />
<span>Listen to guidence and take on good advice.</span>
<br /><br /><span>Analogy - comparison</span><br />
<span>consensus</span>
<br /><br /><span style="font-size: 18px;">Mcdonalds</span><br />
<span>Family, opportunity</span><br />
<span>Mcdonalds is one big family</span><br />
<span>Im looking for a few good men who arent afraid of hard work</span><br />
<span>Arent afraid to roll up their sleaves</span><br />
<span>Im looking for scrappers, hustlers</span><br />
<span>People with drive</span><br />
<span>People with fire in their belly</span><br />
<span>Got a little chutzpa</span><br />
<span>Im gonna offer u something as precious as gold, an opportunity to advance!</span><br />
<span>To move forward, to move up, to succeed, to win, to step up, skys the limit, grab the brass ring, a shot at the American dream, put ur arms around your dream.</span><br />
<span>If you've got the guts, the gumption, the desire, i guarantee u you can succeed.</span><br />
<span>Theres gold at the end of every dreams road.</span><br />
<span>Think big, fortune favours the bold, ambition</span><br />
<span>So who's with me?</span><br />
<br /><br /><span>Gulan Gork - mentalist</span><br />
<span>3 questions people ask themselves;</span><br />
<span>Are u reliable?</span><br />
<span>Are u capable of helping me?</span><br />
<span>Do you care about me?</span>
<br /><br /><span>Trust, credebility & support</span>
<br /><br /><span>Austerity = </span><span>higher taxes to fund spending, public sector budgets are reduced, raising taxes while cutting spending, and lower taxes and lower government spending</span>
<br /><br /><span>On what do u bias ur opinion?</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div><div><span style="font-size: 17px;"><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><br /></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div><div><span style="font-size: 17px;"><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span>'Happy to help''</span><br />
<span>''Put myself in your shoes''</span><br />
<span>''I think there may be a mistake''</span><br />
<span>''This is a topic you'll enjoy''</span><br />
<span>''I can give you these insights''</span><br />
<span>''Have u ever made an exception?''</span><br />
<span>''If i was in ur position''</span><br />
<span>''How will you know you've made the right choice?"</span><br />
<span>The ''yes'' ladder</span><br />
<span>''Because''</span><br />
<span>''It seems like...''</span>
<br /><br /><span>*generalising</span><br />
<span>*discreet</span>
<br /><br /><span>*Manic self publicist, ex hippy, adventurer, completely out to lunch</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div><div><span style="font-size: 17px;"><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><br /></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div><div><span style="font-size: 17px;"><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span>Strong, proud, safe , great again</span>
<br /><br /><span>*best, biggest, number 1 attraction, greatest, the finest, largest, in the world, of the decade, brilliant deal, exciting, spectacular</span>
<br /><br /><span>*awe inspiring, outgoing, vivacious</span>
<br /><br /><span>*paralipsis "im not saying, but im saying"</span><br />
<span>"I refuse to say he's low energy''</span><br />
<span>''I will not say hes low energy''</span><br />
<span>''I wont tell you what he did, but he grabbed...''</span><br />
<span>*High quality, exquisite, beautiful, honorable, perfect, luxury, prestigious, spectacular, sensational, perfect</span><br />
<span>*Sea beach</span><br />
<span>*i guarantee it!!!</span><br />
<span>*u have a great reputation</span><br />
<span>*So True!</span><br />
<span>*stronger, safer, greater</span><br />
<span>*Its real</span><br />
<span>*im 1# in the polls</span><br />
<span>*you dont mind do you, you dont mind?</span><br />
<span>*Winning, believe me</span><br />
<span>*everybody knows!! Everybody says, *EVERYBODY</span><br />
<span>* the stakes are high</span><br />
<span>*misleading</span><br />
<span>*powerful, wealthy, strong, respected</span><br />
<span>*momentum</span><br />
<span>*gold plated information</span><br />
<span>*Turbo charged rocket fuel</span><br />
<span>*Roaring back</span><br />
<span>*Vivacious</span><br />
<span>*i've heard a lot of good things about u</span><br />
<span>*u made a lot of people rich</span><br />
<span>*Fellas, its gonna be a biggie</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div><div><span style="font-size: 17px;"><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><br /></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div><div><span style="font-size: 17px;"><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span>*nobody does it better than me</span><br />
<span>*i have many friends</span><br />
<span>*Staggering, substantial</span><br />
<span>*Exemplar, spectacular</span><br />
<span>*NOBODY knows it better than me</span><br />
<span>*Very, believe me, fair</span><br />
<span>*bigger, stronger, better</span><br />
<span>*A home-run of home-runs</span><br />
<span>*so easy</span><br />
<span>*in the old days...</span><br />
<span>*u see whats happening, and u see whats going on</span><br />
<span>*Very exemplar fella</span><br />
<span>*big league, astronomical, billions, millions</span><br />
<span>*Its a biggie</span><br />
<span>*Stay tuned, keep u in suspense so we'll find out, i'll tell u later, i will tell u at the time, somethings gonna happen</span><br />
<span>*gutless</span><br />
<span>*forget about all that</span><br />
<span>*We will see what we will see, you'll find out</span><br />
<span>*stay tuned</span><br />
<span>*</span><span>Just wait and see what happens</span>
<br /><br /><span>#1 Make speech sound improvised</span><br />
<span>#2 Paralipsis</span><br />
<span>#3 Repetition</span><br />
<span>#4 Use Ambiguity - ''dont worry about it'', ''its so easy", ''dont worry about me'', ''forget about all that''</span><br />
<span>#5 Complain about common grievences ''they're gutless"</span><br />
<span>#6 Audience participation</span><br />
<span>#7 Use suspence (stay tuned, we'll see)</span><!--/data/user/0/com.samsung.android.app.notes/files/clipdata/clipdata_bodytext_230330_133921_467.sdocx--></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div><div><span style="font-size: 17px;"><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><br /></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div><div><span style="font-size: 17px;"><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span>*say BELIEVE ME all the time</span><br />
<span>*use facial expressions</span><br />
<span>*say you're the underdog</span><br />
<span>*say EVERYONE LOVES ME</span><br />
<span>*use persuasion hacks</span>
<br /><br /><span>Dummy, ur ratings stink, dumbass, demant notice, dopey, moron, stupid guy, failing comedian, dumb guy, lowlife, ugly, dismal, low energy, wacko, delete ur account, low I.Q, overrated, a nothing burger</span>
<br /><br /><span>Future pacing, arcing statements, embedded commands</span><br />
<span>''We are losing ourselves to China, we need to build a wall, ee are being invaded, we cants be safe in our own home''</span><br />
<span>Create frenzy then follow with a future pacing statement.</span><br />
<span>''When i am ur future president i will build this great wall''</span><!--/data/user/0/com.samsung.android.app.notes/files/clipdata/clipdata_bodytext_230330_133944_222.sdocx--></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div><div><span style="font-size: 17px;"><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><br /></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div><div><span style="font-size: 17px;"><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span>*Emissary, anointed</span><br />
<span>*Crimson lit</span><br />
<span>*Emotional concept or emotional decision</span>
<br /><br /><span>*Sparkling conversation</span><br />
<span>*Conjecture, speculation</span>
<br /><br /><span>*Goodwill ambassador gesture</span><br />
<span>*U've only bloody gone and done it</span>
<br /><br /><span>*Asserting myself</span><br />
<span>Litigating</span><br />
<span>Contesting</span>
<br /><br /><span>*Trash panda</span><br />
<span>*Swallowed a dictionary</span>
<br /><br /><span>*</span><span>Honduran, bosnian, armenian</span><br />
<span>*</span><span>Demonstrated applied knowledge</span><br />
<span>*</span><span>Embedded commands, embedded suggestions</span>
<br /><br /><span>*</span><span>The cure for ignorance is education. You fix the ignorance, there’s nothing to fear. If there’s nothing to fear, there’s nothing to hate. If there’s nothing to hate, there’s nothing or no one to destroy.</span>
<br /><br /><span>*</span><span>Droll and laconic</span><br />
<span>*glib</span><br />
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<span>Get me rs</span><br />
<span>Get me a rs type</span><br />
<span>Who is?</span><br />
<span>*Past is the prologue</span>
<br /><br /><span>*</span><span>calisthenics vocal exercises</span><br />
<span>*</span><span>reiterates the theme</span><br />
<span>*</span><span>How to u keep a woman in suspense?....i'll tell u later </span><br />
<span>*K</span><span>now who u r so u know what you're capable of</span><br />
<span>*</span><span>Suddenly so sad so silent</span><br />
<span>*</span><span>Imperfection is a sign of individuality</span><br />
<span>*motif</span><br />
<span>*</span><span>Move, block, capture (chess)</span><br />
<span>*</span><span>analysis by hypothesis</span><br />
<span>*</span><span>Is the moon high</span><br />
<span>*Ask me something else </span><br />
<span>*</span><span>elocution lessons</span><br />
<span>*amalgamation</span>
<br /><br /><span>*Power, order, solemnity</span><br />
<span>*Honour, power, glory and justice</span>
<br /><br /><span>*sharper than Gillette</span><br />
<span>*</span><span>Legend has it...</span><br />
<span>*its tradition</span><br />
<span>*semantics</span><br />
<span>*sophistry (how, what, which, them)</span><br />
<span>*thats my line</span>
<br /><br /><span>*rhubarb grows stronger in the cold</span><br />
<span>*rub a dandelion under ur chin, it rubs off it means ur in love</span>
<br /><br /><span>*what CANT i do for you?</span><br />
<span>*Vigor</span><br />
<span>*polemics, disgrace, superlatives</span><br />
<span>*</span><span>Insolent, smug</span><br />
<span>*Bum cum</span><br />
<span>* A friend is a gift u give ur self</span><!--/data/user/0/com.samsung.android.app.notes/files/clipdata/clipdata_bodytext_230330_134058_273.sdocx--></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div><div><span style="font-size: 17px;"><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><br /></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div><div><span style="font-size: 17px;"><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span>*</span><span>census bureau - provide people and economic data </span><br />
<span>*keep this is ur back pocket</span><br />
<span>*distractions</span><br />
<span>*i misinterpreted the rules</span><br />
<span>*riposte</span><br />
<span>*legitimate human emotion</span>
<br /><br /><span>*education creates patience, patience creates understanding, understanding creates love, love creates unity</span>
<br /><br /><span>******</span><br />
<span>*Pathos, apparatus, holistic</span><br />
<span>*</span><span>Failing to prepare is preparing to fail.</span><br />
<span>*</span><span>A danger recognized is a danger defeated</span>
<br /><br /><span>Xxxxxxxxxxxx</span>
<br /><br /><span>*Outrageous, egregious, preposterous.</span><br />
<span>Lewed, lascivious, salacious, outrageous.</span><br />
<span>Restful, resplendent, magnificent</span>
<br /><br /><span>*truth is what works</span><br />
<span>*disreputable</span><br />
<span>*facilitate</span><br />
<span>*big component</span><br />
<span>*ostensibly</span><br />
<span>*susceptible</span><br />
<span>*</span><span>dissociation and disregard</span><br />
<span>Devoted & decisive/ tenacious & grab life by the horns</span><br />
<span>*once in a life time chance</span><br />
<span>*gratitude</span><!--/data/user/0/com.samsung.android.app.notes/files/clipdata/clipdata_bodytext_230330_134125_995.sdocx--></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div><div><span style="font-size: 17px;"><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><br /></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div><div><span style="font-size: 17px;"><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span>Pr campaign core story/central narrative</span><br />
<span>Reinvention</span><br />
<span>Redemption</span><br />
<span>Ressurection</span><br />
<span>Freedom</span><br />
<span>Self reflection</span><br />
<span>Love</span><br />
<span>Survival</span>
<br /><br /><span>WALL STREET</span><br />
<span>*Everyones doing it</span><br />
<span>*go on the offensive ''give me a good reason why you should stay on the straight and arrow''</span><br />
<span>*flattery & disappointment - ''its a shame you had what it took to get into my office but now do you have what it takes to stay''</span>
<br /><br /><span>Refute the charges</span><br />
<span>Deny</span><br />
<span>Reject the charges</span><br />
<span>Slander</span><br />
<span>Defamation</span>
<br /><br /><span>Robert greene - author</span><!--/data/user/0/com.samsung.android.app.notes/files/clipdata/clipdata_bodytext_230330_134156_453.sdocx--></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div><div><span style="font-size: 17px;"><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><br /></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div><div><span style="font-size: 17px;"><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span>I like ur style</span><br />
<span>I appretiate you</span><br />
<span>When can i see u again?</span><br />
<span>Great sense of humour/brains/personality</span><br />
<span>I got this babe/ i'll take care of it</span><br />
<span>YOU got this baby</span><br />
<span>You look extra beautiful</span><br />
<span>Good memory</span><br />
<span>Fill u with more children</span><br />
<span>Ur the perfect mix of cute and sexy</span>
<br /><br /><span>Luminous, exotic, lovely, erotic, radiant</span>
<br /><br /><span>The plot of female hero myth is she tames a mysterious & agressive male (vampire,wolf, surgeon, millionaire,pirate)</span><br />
<span>Women want to tame but then lose interest in u once tamed</span>
<br /><br /><span>EMBEDDED COMMANDS & SUGGESTIONS</span><br />
<span>*remember when....imagine how.....in the future.....picture....recall.....feel...allow...</span><br />
<span>visualise</span><br />
<span>*allow your self to feel</span><br />
<span>*do u feel ready</span><br />
<span>*allow it to happen</span><br />
<span>*allow ur self to take action tonight</span><br />
<span>Its happening in ur mind....</span><br />
<span>Thats occuring when u imagine....</span><br />
<span>Its taking place</span><br />
<span>Its on</span>
<br /><br /><span>TURN ON TOPICS</span><br />
<span>*transcendence, awe, mystery, identity, edge, novelty, surprise, being dominated, partner in crime, secrets, secret location, love, people watching</span><br />
<span>Tension, indulgence, gravitating to people, magnetic qualities, adventure, rituals & courtships, emotional roller coaster</span><br />
<span>Passion, intrigue, control</span><br />
<span>Teacher, vivid imagination, receive, master, learn, fascination, tender, challenges, her process,</span>
<br /><br /><span>*Which quality would you pick to have in ur life to make it all worthwhile?</span><br />
<span>*what does that allow u to do in life?</span><br />
<span>*how does that make you feel inside?</span><br />
<span>* what would be a perfect scenario for you to feel happy?</span><br />
<span>*what emotion do you feel inside?</span><br />
<span>*what will bring you closer to that feeling?</span><br />
<span>*what do you like doing?</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div><div><span style="font-size: 17px;"><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><br /></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div><div><span style="font-size: 17px;"><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span>PROPAGANDA<br /><br /><span>*plays on hopes, fears and frustrations</span><br />
<span>*crowds are a state of mind. If one engages in group identification their mind and behaviour will be changed. Fullfill their supressed and unconscious desires </span><br />
<span>-Edward Bernay</span><br />
<span>Examples of social identities are </span><span><b>race/ethnicity, gender, social class/socioeconomic status, sexual orientation, (dis)abilities, and religion/religious beliefs</b></span><span>.</span>
<br /><br /><span>*sow moral confusion</span>
<br /><br /><span>Charm - try to be loving</span><br />
<span>Coercion - yell until they do it</span><br />
<span>Silent treatment - dont respond until they do it</span><br />
<span>Reason - explain why they should</span><br />
<span>Regression - whine until they do it</span><br />
<span>Self abasement - act submissive</span><br />
<span>Responsability Invocation - get them to make a commitment</span><br />
<span>Hardball - hit them</span><br />
<span>Pleasure induction - show how much fun it is</span><br />
<span>Social comparison - tell them everyone is doing it</span><br />
<span>Monetary reward - offer money to do it</span>
<br /><br /><span>*Pressure, influence, bribery, blackmail</span>
<br /><br /><span>*******</span>
<br /><br /><span>*Bandwagon- following the crowd</span><br />
<span>*Transfer - idea linked with a positive attitude</span><br />
<span>*Card Stacking - highlighting positives</span><br />
<span>*Name calling - creates negative opinion</span><br />
<span>*Plain Folks - establish raport with ur audience</span><br />
<span>*Testimonial - celebrity endorses a product or person</span><br />
<span>*Glittering Generalities - make ur idea sound much better than others by using vague virtue words such as freedom, security, hope, tradition, change, prosperity, possibility, justice</span><br />
<span>*Technical Jargon - uses unfamiliar technical terms to impress or confuse the mind</span><br />
<span>*Powerful Words - uses pleasant or hideous words to influence people "effective resistance'' ''thicker, stronger''</span><br />
<span>''Better protection''</span><br />
<span>*Appeal To Fear - scares consumers into what to buy and use</span><br />
<span>*************</span><br />
<span>*****</span><br />
<span><span style="color: #ff3636;">SOUTH PARK</span></span><br />
<span>''It's not your fault" manipulation technique he used against Heidi</span>
<br /><br /><span>You were right, i will never question ur keen intellect again</span>
<br /><br /><span>*Be sure to show everyone its really amazing</span><br />
<span>*But its not true, im being serious i really think i should tell the truth</span><br />
<span>*If u did that maybe somehow i could live with this lie</span>
<br /><br /><span>“No you must have remembered wrong” </span><br />
<span>*He's just a little boy you shouldn't have done that!</span><br />
<span>*im already being punished by not getting the ipad</span><br />
<span>*Ur denying us our rights</span><br />
<span>*U need to tell the truth ur only making things worse on ur self</span><br />
<span>*u lied to us all, u betrayed ur kind</span><br />
<span>*Omg what did u just say, are u ok, does he always talk to u like that? </span><br />
<span>*help me change</span><br />
<span>*you had a breakthrough this is a beginning of a whole new chapter in ur life good luck</span><br />
<span>*Truth</span><br />
<span>*i understand where ur coming from and i appreciate u for being so direct</span><br />
<span>*stop playing the victim</span><br />
<span>*stop putting people down to make ur self feel better</span><br />
<span>*ur playing the victim just to justify ur horrible behaviour</span><br />
<br /><br /><span>Playing the victim in every situation for example in his relationship with Heidi (“Shes toxic guys!”)</span>
<br /><br /><span>Acting like he cares about a serious issue</span><br />
<span>"Because they made fun of other people's religion, Kyle!"</span>
<br /><br /><span>''I'll do what i want to preserve my integrity''</span>
<br /><br /><span>LeBron James ''what should i do?''</span>
<br /><br /><span>Tom Brady technique; deny & subvert ''everybody shoplifts why u coming down on me?''</span>
<br /><br /><span>*i misinterpreted the rules</span><br />
<span>*see he hasnt learnt a thing u guys!</span><br />
<span>****************************************</span><br />
<span>Wall Street</span><br />
<span>*give me a good reason why staying on the straight and narrow will get u anywhere in life, when all around us the most honest people are poor</span><br />
<span>*everyones doing it</span><br />
<span>*Flattery with hint of disappointment that you arent reaching ur true potential</span><br />
<br /><br /><span>**********************</span><br />
<span>*Power, order, solemnity</span><br />
<span>*Honour, glory and justice</span><br />
<span>*</span><span>Enthusiasm, energy and commitment to a cause</span>
<br /><br /><span>*</span><span>pre-persuasion, source credibility, and message and emotions are integral for propaganda to be believable.</span><br />
<span>*</span><span>Pre-persuasion involves structuring the debate and the social atmosphere so as to be conducive to one’s goals. It involves establishing the rules and pre-conceptions, whether stated or unstated, </span><br />
<span>that dictate the terms of the issue. For example, envision the difference between a TV newscast opening with “Today we are discussing immigration”, or “Today we are </span><br />
<span>discussing the problem of immigration.”</span>
<br /><br /><span>******</span><br />
<span>Its not just the ideas people will be attracted to, a movement also has to have an effective clear-cut agenda, be cohesive, purposeful and be an active movement</span>
<br /><br /><span>*if someone tries to demonize your character just say ''ur only saying that cose ur losing the debate and want to avoid the argument''</span>
<br /><br /><span>TELLING STORIES</span><br />
<span>*Let me tell you why</span><br />
<span>*True story</span><br />
<span>*I'll tell u this and then i gotta go</span><br />
<span>*Listen to me</span><br />
<span>*Let me explain whats going on</span>
<br /><br /><span>GET RESPECT</span><br />
<span>*pause</span><br />
<span>*ask people to respect ur time</span><br />
<span>*gesticulate & take up space, move</span><br />
<span>*finish ur sentences strongly</span><br />
<span>*display social courage</span><br />
<span>*sharing ur values</span><br />
<span>*calling people out on bad behaviour</span>
<br /><br /><span>6 Persuasion Tactics:</span><br />
<span>Misdirection</span><br />
<span>Time pressure</span><br />
<span>Limited amount</span><br />
<span>Opportunity</span><br />
<span>Social compliance</span><br />
<span>Social proof</span><br />
<span>Ikea Effect: ''can you help me with this?'' ''May i have ur advice with something?'' ''Can i get ur opinion?''(make a person think its their idea, have them come to conclusions that u desire and it gets them more involved and invested - its a brain glitch)</span>
<br /><br /><span>NXIVM (personal inventory questions)</span><br />
<span>*what do u regret the most in life?</span><br />
<span>*what was ur most positive relationship in ur life?</span><br />
<span>*ur most negative relationship in ur life/ describe the situation?</span><br />
<span>*who do u love most?</span>
<br /><br /><span>*Cults remove peoples 'critical thinking' process</span><br />
<span>E.g ignore ur doubt and gut instincts because thats whats holding u back towards personal growth</span><br />
<span>E.g </span><span>What are ur assumptions and reasons based on?</span><br />
<span>E.g dont be so prideful</span>
<br /><br /><span>Frank Underwood</span><br />
<span>*Appear as a team player, keep ur anger to ur self, march forward</span><br />
<span>*find ur target and win them over</span><br />
<span>*use selective truth, dont insult peoples intelligence</span><br />
<span>*generosity</span><br />
<span>*get to the 'maybe' find their desires, ask what they want, create rapport, woo them</span><br />
<span>*appeal to peoples interests, dont remind them of past favors, focus on benefits of new alliance, dont be greedy</span><br />
<span>*disarm with a mirror effect, agree with ur superior, insinuate ur ideas with Ikea effect</span><br />
<span>*action + goal + plan</span>
<br /><br /><span>*if im gonna do this for you...</span><br />
<span>If im gonna be staying here</span>
<br /><br /><span>She tries</span><br />
<span>Weeping, sex, standing up to him, defying him, domestic fantasy, seducing</span>
<br /><br /><span>INCEPTION </span><br />
<span>*what excites them?</span><br />
<span>Ask about childhood</span><br />
<span>Ask a question</span><br />
<span>Then you talk about ur experiences</span><br />
<span>*Planting a seed</span><br />
<span>Forget about it, dont listen to what i just said</span><br />
<span>*use body language through looks</span><br />
<span>Lower their defences and hitting them with </span><br />
<span>Emotion, dazzling them with images, powerful symbols and visceral sensory cues</span>
<br /><br /><span>*dont judge or preach/ dont be in a hurry/ talking too much/ not listening/being brutal with them</span><br />
<span>Be like Errol Flyn RELAXED pass on that mood</span><br />
<span>*Say we're a team/group/family</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div><div><span style="font-size: 17px;"><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><br /></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div><div><span style="font-size: 17px;"><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span>From what i can gather...</span><br />
<span>Thats dully noted</span><br />
<span>Revival</span>
<br /><br /><span>God has ordained that ur best days are still infront of you, say to your self:</span><br />
<span>I am blessed, strong, focused, young, vibrant, fresh, amazing, valuable, masterpiece, talented, disciplined, glorious prosperous, radiant, attractive, wonderful</span><br />
<span>-joel osteen</span>
<br /><br /><span>MANSON</span>
<br /><br /><span>''Be ur own person, love ur self, but let go of ur ego. </span><br />
<span>Dont be influenced my material things. Nothing is wrong if it feels good and satisfies u. </span><br />
<span>Live for now and forget about yesterday and dont think too much about tomorrow. Dont depend on 1 person or u'll be hurt. </span><br />
<span>If u want to share with others share what u have. Dont be too materialistic. Dont hide behind emotions and what ur parents taught u. Love is for everyone, to be shared.''</span>
<br /><br /><span>"If you look down to me you will see a fool;If you look up to me you will see a god; If you look straight at me you will see yourself"</span>
<br /><br /><span>Death is essentially the reason for religion</span>
<br /><br /><span>*Dont be a begging puppy dog</span>
<br /><br /><span>''Dont think in right or wrong thing in truth and use that energy', theres no big answers, collages are taking people the other way, all the smartest people are the common ones whi are cut off from society, they're the ones who have soul''</span>
<br /><br /><span>''If u have a thought in ur mind about what im thinking, is that what im thinking or is that what ur thinkjng im thinking?''</span>
<br /><br /><span>''You are your faith, lose it and you're not''</span>
<br /><br /><span>*Death is peace from this worlds madness and paradise in my own self</span>
<br /><br /><span>"Death is psychosomatic, its all verses, climaxes, all music. Death is permanent solitary confinement''</span>
<br /><br /><span>''Cast aside ur remaining egos, rid ur selves of all the crap ur parents taught u, quit reflecting ur mothers everytime u speak, we will have no leaders, no followers just our individual selves, so strong with each others we will be one. Thats what we're gonna do, can everyone agree on that?''</span>
<br /><br /><span>''We'll be so comfortable, it will be paradise, think about it: no rents to pay, no laws to obey, and no cops on our asses. We'll be one step ahead of anything in this world.</span>
<br /><br /><span>''Wipe ur own ass, do ur own thing and ego be damned.''</span>
<br /><br /><span>''Wheres ur manhood? This girl cant out muscle u both, besides we need some coffee and she can make it for us</span>
<br /><br /><span>''Whats happening to u? Cant u see this is for our future? You would have done this before, so why all this static now?</span>
<br /><br /><span>You gotta catch it ur self boy.</span>
<br /><br /><span>''There is no crime, no sin its all a game, you gotta be me before you can be you because I am a reflection of you, im just what u see in yourself, give up your world so you can have mine, and by giving it up God will come through me, and you will be a hole in the infinite just like i am''</span>
<br /><br /><span><b>GARETH</b></span><br />
<span>Work hard and u'll be rewarded.</span><br />
<span>Supportive parents, good intuition and real talent, and sacrifice things to work and improve ur talents.</span><br />
<span>Listen to guidence and take on good advice.</span>
<br /><br /><span>*remember when....imagine how.....in the future.....picture....recall.....feel...allow</span>
<br /><br /><span>Simple, easy to understand answers, secret, satisfying, secrets supressed, the underdog, the one true God, priviledged information, the same as everyone else, isolating followers, </span>
<br /><br /><span>DALE CARNEGI</span><br />
<span>*Become interested in other people "smile, introduce ur self, ask them to tell u about themselves''</span><br />
<span>*let the other person take the credit for ideas etc...IKEA EFFECT</span><br />
<span>* talk about ur own mistakes or vulnerabilities, experiences before giving criticism</span><br />
<span>*People want to feel appreciated</span><br />
<span>*Dramatize ur ideas</span><br />
<span>*talk in terms of the other persons interests & desires ''all the best leaders read this book''</span><br />
<span>*get the other person saying ''YES'' immediately</span><br />
<span>*Give honest and sincere authentic appreciation from the heart ''thank you FOR....''</span><br />
<span>*give the person a good reputation to live up to, as a leader</span><br />
<span>* power of identity ''i am able" ''i am someone'' ''i am not the kind of person'' ''i am someone who gives' </span><br />
<span>*say the persons name</span>
<br /><br /><span>Sovereignty</span><br />
<span>Project truth, knowledge and wisdom</span>
<br /><br /><span>*Tell people what they want to know About themselves</span>
<br /><br /><span>Cult tactics</span><br />
<span>*Keep it vague and simple - promise of something great, a transformative change in their lives, achieve enlightenment, love, righteous formula to get into paradise.</span><br />
<span>Offer romantic, mysterious, ethereal and otherwordly solutions, offer a family , father figure, music, let go of society and ur past, freedom and the spring of life</span><br />
<span>*Emphasise the visual over the intellectual - get rid of boredom and skepticism, use theatre and luxury, exotic culture, write songs together, orgies, drugs, remove calanders, clocks, news, books,</span><br />
<span>*Borrow forms from organized religion - create a structure that emanates power and loftiness, create rituals, create a hierarchy with titles and new names, ask for sacrifices, </span><br />
<span>*Prophethood - the leader calls himself god and alludes to it ''they've already nailed me to the cross'', ''they killed me before and it wont happen again'', quote the bible</span><br />
<span>* Disguise the source of ur income - never reveal that the money comes from their followers and gifts</span><br />
<span>*Use the ''us'' vs ''them'' dynamic - make them believe its an exclusive club, create an enemy, create a cause, purpose and a message for them to believe in</span>
<br /><br /><span><b>JIM JONES</b></span><br />
<span>*i want freedom and to defend liberty</span><br />
<span>*u say u dont believe in god but u really do, u've substituted ur sky god in me. Now if father was a sky God he'd eliminate all poverty. Im amazed i have as much power as i do without people paying any attention to me. Im amazed that people who have had a stroke in my church have been healed. Because people dont listen to me and very few seldom know me. But dont u ever insult me by calling me ur creator sky god. I am a savior because i save everyone who comes to me. I would rather u call me the devil because he had the sense to rebel.</span><br />
<span>''I represent divine principles, total equality, a society where people own all things in common, no rich or poor, no racism, where ever theres people struggling for justice and righteousness, there i am! And there i am involved'' </span><br />
<span>Jim jones</span>
<br /><br /><span>''I dont own a car i dont own any new furniture, i never buy any new clothes, i aint never brought a new pair of shoes in my life, and thats why i am free, ur not free ur a slave, ur doing exactly what the man wants u to do'' JJ</span>
<br /><br /><span>''This country will not be safe until we do something to share the wealth, and share it completely and fairly, and democratically and peacefully'' jj</span>
<br /><br /><span>*we're all gonna be niggers till everybody gets free</span><br />
<span>*get ready, if u need to live u need me, if u need to survive in this time of Watergate, if u need to survive amongst the crooks, the spiritual wickedness in high places, if u wanna get saved from injustice and </span><span>persecution and</span><span> robbers, if u wanna get saved from preachers and their lackeys, if u wanna get saved come on home!</span><br />
<span>*wake up , thats what i promise</span><br />
<span>*u cant love something u havent seen, u gotta be able to touch somebody to love them, u gotta be able to see somebody to love them, you gotta be able to feel somebody to love them, today is the day of salvation!</span><br />
<span>*i come to set people free, i come to give them the spirit of liberty, i want u to say it, you'll go to hell if you dont think!</span><br />
<span>*I am here the spirit of Christ, to set u free, to deliver u from ur captivity</span><br />
<span>*im a sample of example</span><br />
<span>*i come to show u </span><span>that the only god you need is within u</span><br />
<span>*i shall do all the miracles u said ur God would do but never did, i shall come and heal you all of the disease that you prayed for that never happened</span><br />
<span>*the only thing that brings perfect freedom, justice and equality, perfect love in all of its beauty and holiness is socialism</span><br />
<span>*just get on my bus amd i'll take u onto the promised land</span><br />
<span>*you are the chosen, to bring deliverence to the continent. You are the sons and daughters of the most high god.</span><br />
<span>*i am no longer a man, i am a revolution, i am the mighty wind of revolutionary change</span><br />
<span>*im principled and dedicated to my people</span>
<br /><br /><span>*ur gotta help ur self or u'll get no help, theres only 1 hope of glory and thats within u. Nobodys gonna come out of the sky, theres no heaven up there. We'll have to make heaven down here, we dont need no sky God.</span>
<br /><br /><span>*Honesty is not a word but a practice</span>
<br /><br /><span>Atrocity tale</span><br />
<span>Sadism, deadly spell, evil, horror</span>
<br /><br /><span>Holy holy, holy, i will raise you, alright, alright, praise him, save him, my my my my, look in ur heart, yes, do u feel it, i said come out, i said come out, stand up, i said it & i'll say it again, i'll rise up from the grave, the price is high, yes its real, we're gonna get things done, we're gonna shine on, bless you bless u bless u, turn me loose, good god almighty, my god almighty, good god, its a good day, release us, let me go, open up ur heart, </span>
<br /><br /><span>''I want u to be like i am, to become what i am, i want you to enjoy the fearlessness that i have, the courage that i have, the compassion that i have, the love that i have, the all encompassing mercy that i am, i want u to be what i am and something greater, and if you dont want to go this route then go to hell where you want to, but dont bother me'' </span><br />
<span>j jones</span>
<br /><br /><span>Because i am freedom, i am peace, i am justice, i am equality. I am God </span><br />
<span>Jj</span>
<br /><br /><span>The bible is not sacred and you wont die if u drop it. You wont die if u stand on it, u wont die if you jump up and down on it</span><br />
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Gone are the boy bands and fake X Factor acts, they are dead and buried.</p><p>Now what huge crowds of music fans have been craving and flocking to are live bands, and the crazier they are the more they are loved. There is now a massive wave of Punge bands in England where the movement started, with so many exciting new bands such as Iodine, Inertia, Paranoid Alice, The Fakers, Unified Roots, Content Provider, just too many to mention - check out the <a href="https://instagram.com/derbyfaceandbodypainting?igshid=YmMyMTA2M2Y=">PUNGE Rock Playlist</a></p><p>Gneration after generation, there’s always a fresh class of kids picking up electric guitars and making an exciting racket – and new rock acts continue to fill clubs (in normal times), rise up the ranks and push the form forward. </p><p>Much like the '90s when bands were penned ‘grunge,’ you had a group of bands that honestly didn’t sound very similar or maybe didn’t even really share the same ethos, but they all were under that umbrella. It was probably frustrating and weird for all of them to be labeled under this one thing together, but they were better off for it in the end. It became a movement.</p><p>This type of sound is finding popularity as a kind of backlash to what we’ve been fed over the last 10 years. Things move in cycles, and new rock ‘n’ roll – not alternative or metal, like a real rock ‘n’ roll sound – has been very hard to find over the last decade.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEipW53dzvjkHyoCex5P3uex8gxIluueSxwY80_DPXGwBYB7DDwCwEix0BRA3na31xIEo3mltNE0WCNJt-1J1NKc3QqFEr23aFjBC-2I_hF_NQBq2CIsHGV-Fg67kBFDZfu_E0jLGLCQ8b2YCfkhdYppK9pXoQZdmFP7v4h7CUonaQdtiH3En91DhIzcrQ/s554/befunky_2023-2-5_16-40-21.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="554" data-original-width="368" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEipW53dzvjkHyoCex5P3uex8gxIluueSxwY80_DPXGwBYB7DDwCwEix0BRA3na31xIEo3mltNE0WCNJt-1J1NKc3QqFEr23aFjBC-2I_hF_NQBq2CIsHGV-Fg67kBFDZfu_E0jLGLCQ8b2YCfkhdYppK9pXoQZdmFP7v4h7CUonaQdtiH3En91DhIzcrQ/w426-h640/befunky_2023-2-5_16-40-21.jpg" width="426" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjfGq7ANFKV_TImSoDv7AOFXTON_OzWTpVk0crqDukHrW6W-qNQ_JFMpIqSrlwRk3hPdLJVlkd0H6np-Qh152V3-82lJANDBrZ374NjwAjlS_4yH-WWU3tw_hl8UMIgitVt0U00ip3rOwjmyIB5Dvlh8YQTvjlMOEctCcsKiAzK_fJ6yfoT73-KmEpQ4g/s1536/befunky_2023-1-0_15-56-39.v1.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1536" data-original-width="1100" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjfGq7ANFKV_TImSoDv7AOFXTON_OzWTpVk0crqDukHrW6W-qNQ_JFMpIqSrlwRk3hPdLJVlkd0H6np-Qh152V3-82lJANDBrZ374NjwAjlS_4yH-WWU3tw_hl8UMIgitVt0U00ip3rOwjmyIB5Dvlh8YQTvjlMOEctCcsKiAzK_fJ6yfoT73-KmEpQ4g/w458-h640/befunky_2023-1-0_15-56-39.v1.jpg" width="458" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEilald2hetz8aTGdKu08FMbiWG9fn1WizweoPpy8Im_i99eygXShnTXOF2mEGplgH_8VLj5fJbQFIW-cPs3v7otMc-4hRPBVjQZHevezz5XdfJcMXI46HvN3ze57IIBQJxwDpNdrRt9VzlZNDscxYkQyzgluhxLOIlC_1Csf_4SXVDqL0lwpp_xItEUrQ/s2877/befunky_2023-1-3_20-47-29.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2877" data-original-width="2016" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEilald2hetz8aTGdKu08FMbiWG9fn1WizweoPpy8Im_i99eygXShnTXOF2mEGplgH_8VLj5fJbQFIW-cPs3v7otMc-4hRPBVjQZHevezz5XdfJcMXI46HvN3ze57IIBQJxwDpNdrRt9VzlZNDscxYkQyzgluhxLOIlC_1Csf_4SXVDqL0lwpp_xItEUrQ/w448-h640/befunky_2023-1-3_20-47-29.jpg" width="448" /></a></div><br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2962721263288722253.post-91105026957050614302023-03-14T03:06:00.005-07:002023-03-14T03:06:53.797-07:00THE NOTORIOUS 'JOKER DIARY'<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiXxMAB7tLNs-ZFL03QHehCQtiWkmuDJ3v0xttORvFeT-Z5l4N9aOK7idWItqh4GejHWjuvoj3IF2wgmE5WZbOjSqCngqHCQMKnm_ii8CzDR_sGmTtV6DTebFlpkI59GFFmULswbkwZE4ijr2qhG3z_UUazybOI8t6dvvPRBTmpIYIn8J3IvvTmlZVTag/s1280/05-1570226159623.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="721" data-original-width="1280" height="360" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiXxMAB7tLNs-ZFL03QHehCQtiWkmuDJ3v0xttORvFeT-Z5l4N9aOK7idWItqh4GejHWjuvoj3IF2wgmE5WZbOjSqCngqHCQMKnm_ii8CzDR_sGmTtV6DTebFlpkI59GFFmULswbkwZE4ijr2qhG3z_UUazybOI8t6dvvPRBTmpIYIn8J3IvvTmlZVTag/w640-h360/05-1570226159623.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><p></p><p>Over a decade after it first appeared on the big screen, Heath Ledger's rendition of the Joker in 2008's The Dark Knight stands above all other supervillain portrayals. He came across as cold, thoughtful, and scarily real, bringing the Clown Prince of Crime to life in a new and impactful way. Pulling off such a chilling performance didn't come easy, and was the result of impressive dedication on the part of the man behind the makeup. </p><p>Heath Ledger took his acting work incredibly seriously and didn't shy away from an opportunity to push himself as an artist. He'd envelop himself in his characters to ensure he got every mannerism, line, and facial expression just right, no matter the nature of the project. Christopher Nolan's vision of Joker was no exception, and as it turns out, Ledger took his methodology to the next level for the part with a disturbing diary. While much of the diary's content – playing cards, comic panels, and various quotes from The Dark Knight – centers on the Joker, it also contains many extra images and writings that give fans a glimpse into Ledger's mind as he delved deeper down the rabbit hole. The small book has become almost as legendary as the character itself, leading fans and critics to praise Ledger for his unsettling commitment to his craft. Because of the foreboding nature of its content, however, it comes with its fair share of urban legends. </p><p>To truly become the Joker, Heath Ledger chose to isolate himself from the rest of the world for months at a time, locking himself in his apartment or hotel room to iron out the finer details of the character. During his exile, he'd work on his diary free of distraction, documenting his thought process, important quirks to the character, and other notes that describe how he came up with so many now-iconic parts of the Joker's characterization. </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhopGY4DNNGKnKh5eP4wlt6YjBNaa8bM1NA87dVqMe0CpHa-oEUB2BYFWIGZgVHZv-LeIAJ5b6laiipI7IboUWbVdOYKR1nT88BJOrJyLqXBUs0CAtVnnPeMBaBzuE6PwGmIkz-x68Fq9sC3tYMi1gGAfUvMt4-aiCgZ-Ld-H7KB0Jbf2_GAt9PBo2r7w/s1909/55ca5e5edd0895976d8b4709.jpeg.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="955" data-original-width="1909" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhopGY4DNNGKnKh5eP4wlt6YjBNaa8bM1NA87dVqMe0CpHa-oEUB2BYFWIGZgVHZv-LeIAJ5b6laiipI7IboUWbVdOYKR1nT88BJOrJyLqXBUs0CAtVnnPeMBaBzuE6PwGmIkz-x68Fq9sC3tYMi1gGAfUvMt4-aiCgZ-Ld-H7KB0Jbf2_GAt9PBo2r7w/w400-h200/55ca5e5edd0895976d8b4709.jpeg.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><p>In a German documentary about the late actor, titled Too Young to Die: Heath Ledger, his father, Kim Ledger, was interviewed on the unorthodox nature of his son's preparation. While the elder Ledger admitted that the isolation and prolonged study was nothing new for his son, he described the Joker journal as being on "a whole new level." Even as bizarre as its content seemed on its own, the two strategies Ledger utilized in tandem with were undeniably crucial to perfecting his performance. The diary is full of clippings from comic books, which Ledger read in isolation. Pages of the diary are filled up with handwritten copies of the Joker's dialogue from his scenes, including the infamous moment when the Joker detonates a bomb in a Gotham City hospital. In the documentary, Kim mentions that when they were kids, Ledger's older sister Kate would dress him in a nurse's uniform, like he wears in the movie. </p><p>When Ledger described his version of the character to Empire in 2007, he said "I ended up landing more in the realm of a psychopath. Someone with very little to no conscience towards his acts. He's just an absolute sociopath, a cold-blooded, mass-murdering clown. </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiDyOmOqBMxsTur1C0hZ3HcYlDfDORaJbtST0qYtFkAxwrxKQ_sMDbtOVBzkY4_4Cfk15uwZqxYqwjOs4wEGCAlE24EVeQUb4lYb6hu07H-vG4uEtAbL4C_gTkM4O9gkHVOX1SeqHBFXtsvUp6E7aCaYTN-L3GWuB05Z1AWd7PNklb4r0sB76XQbWA-Vg/s450/661c751c-b190-5cbf-8735-412306d510b9.image.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="337" data-original-width="450" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiDyOmOqBMxsTur1C0hZ3HcYlDfDORaJbtST0qYtFkAxwrxKQ_sMDbtOVBzkY4_4Cfk15uwZqxYqwjOs4wEGCAlE24EVeQUb4lYb6hu07H-vG4uEtAbL4C_gTkM4O9gkHVOX1SeqHBFXtsvUp6E7aCaYTN-L3GWuB05Z1AWd7PNklb4r0sB76XQbWA-Vg/w400-h300/661c751c-b190-5cbf-8735-412306d510b9.image.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><p>Heath also told Empire about Christopher Nolan's input on the character. "Chris has given me free rein," Ledger said. "Which is fun, because there are no real boundaries to what The Joker would say or do. Nothing intimidates him, and everything is a big joke." Ledger channeled this freedom while writing his diary, which is filled with words and phrases like "chaos" and "kill the Batman." On set, Ledger often improvised moments during scenes, and Ledger rarely told Christopher Nolan exactly what he was planning to do — and the unpredictability made directing his scenes much more intense than usual. One of the most memorable moments in the film that Ledger improvised takes place during the scene when Jim Gordon (Gary Oldman) gets promoted to police commissioner shortly after capturing the Joker. The Joker, in a nearby prison cell, sarcastically claps along with everyone else (via CheatSheet). </p><p>Among the many seemingly random images and frantic scribblings inside Ledger's diary were a handful of references to Stanley Kubrick's 1971 classic A Clockwork Orange — more specifically, a few images of fictional psychopath Alex DeLarge. The main character of the piece, he's best described as a sadistic teenager who commits heinous crimes and terrorizes anyone and everyone he encounters simply for the fun of it. Is that description ringing any bells? </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi1o8Dwgxdip3GVWntAm6DYY4SOVAdlcKCOd58RLWHoFyWDnvBobUEamJw9DSJLozMtG0tGFMpPSV4XfkXVHRi7grNbnCyxwmteIUeyKDdkIvUuyWg1Moua49p4AWeUUd1MOknXzOgQR7RTI6p-WJ8GNEfDkoW2U3CHxfG4ablCdaIr3vTRYzEqydBdWQ/s650/3f8538ae28d8ddaefa7909703fd9deb3.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="435" data-original-width="650" height="268" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi1o8Dwgxdip3GVWntAm6DYY4SOVAdlcKCOd58RLWHoFyWDnvBobUEamJw9DSJLozMtG0tGFMpPSV4XfkXVHRi7grNbnCyxwmteIUeyKDdkIvUuyWg1Moua49p4AWeUUd1MOknXzOgQR7RTI6p-WJ8GNEfDkoW2U3CHxfG4ablCdaIr3vTRYzEqydBdWQ/w400-h268/3f8538ae28d8ddaefa7909703fd9deb3.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjbe2-1CdrbdEnyU7ynwmWvplEL3f5SDcdUXW2cvzmk0Kv1u1_v9a5aC8qOvKgaWnjZ3AhLSKg2rztjk5qR9eHYsZ7U56oRZWg7w0y4XOsL9cGgje1197G5Kp93759Hf9HIYPTZgrfKUT3YnXN9EdbLltRYWy6vxmm5kf6P2bpdxWHUxWYHGFvBJeIaSw/s336/images.jpeg-3.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="150" data-original-width="336" height="179" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjbe2-1CdrbdEnyU7ynwmWvplEL3f5SDcdUXW2cvzmk0Kv1u1_v9a5aC8qOvKgaWnjZ3AhLSKg2rztjk5qR9eHYsZ7U56oRZWg7w0y4XOsL9cGgje1197G5Kp93759Hf9HIYPTZgrfKUT3YnXN9EdbLltRYWy6vxmm5kf6P2bpdxWHUxWYHGFvBJeIaSw/w400-h179/images.jpeg-3.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg_wo0BXGQ-N_xoW6vFUYi2iIN07cDcbWTrf2fcWqenqM9wZOZtKQrew8fh4bVCOKVxshNZpnIU4YYAcNGb89AJei_c9SaG_13DAY5S4Bt03YVoQNkh-ixTEQ6LIH809SkHJzWvY3bF2cRH44lM66Yv-DCLUxWkULY5OP78Nw1DgxhlUgAy-tLfdOvq5A/s1680/The-Dark-Knight-Heath-Ledger-s-Joker-Diary-2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1118" data-original-width="1680" height="266" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg_wo0BXGQ-N_xoW6vFUYi2iIN07cDcbWTrf2fcWqenqM9wZOZtKQrew8fh4bVCOKVxshNZpnIU4YYAcNGb89AJei_c9SaG_13DAY5S4Bt03YVoQNkh-ixTEQ6LIH809SkHJzWvY3bF2cRH44lM66Yv-DCLUxWkULY5OP78Nw1DgxhlUgAy-tLfdOvq5A/w400-h266/The-Dark-Knight-Heath-Ledger-s-Joker-Diary-2.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgNbyozBbPGv_3nVS1AKlIoz8QYw0o-qDBgg2GnJyxtg71Qa7jn8EVsBH6zfjdxUzqu6k8y1j9iV61TuLx-NvfQoBWV6X9muUu4G10ovbG8rJH5t489pAA7JADNP5jxHrBfFS8hIQnsA8BApKqXcSFdiKMeP5fQjzduz-maMNaMTMB6tlQVAgE322tIkQ/s1680/The-Dark-Knight-Heath-Ledger-s-Joker-Diary-3.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1260" data-original-width="1680" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgNbyozBbPGv_3nVS1AKlIoz8QYw0o-qDBgg2GnJyxtg71Qa7jn8EVsBH6zfjdxUzqu6k8y1j9iV61TuLx-NvfQoBWV6X9muUu4G10ovbG8rJH5t489pAA7JADNP5jxHrBfFS8hIQnsA8BApKqXcSFdiKMeP5fQjzduz-maMNaMTMB6tlQVAgE322tIkQ/w400-h300/The-Dark-Knight-Heath-Ledger-s-Joker-Diary-3.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><p><br /></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2962721263288722253.post-48561208658733893352023-03-01T01:12:00.007-08:002023-03-01T01:19:15.733-08:00Inertia - Heaven's Glue (Album Review)<p><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiQHI4Ve1CVa9iMHsxMxfLKR7zkj_pNIrnwRUpU8UTTPiuxw0jysFFBxc8rktVjTSRIVbe4EVDFbqR-b3UXg37gcthfY_7Lp4PJmpxmvqLQekIspDbC4N19NI0tWTGMZvmh3YxpFqF2yYPrZJ-T_8B_07Oq4bjHQukW9e4vwbasubgS9XxWuZrF9J9-8g/s960/IMG_20230219_181641_993.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="960" data-original-width="960" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiQHI4Ve1CVa9iMHsxMxfLKR7zkj_pNIrnwRUpU8UTTPiuxw0jysFFBxc8rktVjTSRIVbe4EVDFbqR-b3UXg37gcthfY_7Lp4PJmpxmvqLQekIspDbC4N19NI0tWTGMZvmh3YxpFqF2yYPrZJ-T_8B_07Oq4bjHQukW9e4vwbasubgS9XxWuZrF9J9-8g/w640-h640/IMG_20230219_181641_993.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><p></p><p>With eleven new tracks, the high-energy Doncaster band have created a perfect fusion of grunge & punk with hints of metal on their debut album. The speed demon power of 'Whats the Point' which opens up the album is only the start of the raw chaos thats in store. 'IDK' keeps the music roaring, while 'Grass on the Green' shows off the musical control the band has achieved through constant giging up and down the country. For such a yound band they display a knack for ear-worms, 'Libra' with its perfect catchy grunge chorus is an obvious single. 'Potty Meat' feels like the band is falling off a cliff while defying, and laughing right into deaths fucking face. </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/Ts7A2TR9-z8" width="320" youtube-src-id="Ts7A2TR9-z8"></iframe></div><p>'Cornello' may be its more sensible evil-twin brother but it stil surges. 'Dear Listener' is a laid back, ethereal shift in mood which shows us that Inertia has many tricks up its sleeve, and is a love letter to their devoted fans. 'Peace of Mind' returns to punk textures, and is the hardest rocking song on the album yet, and a fan favourite. Their lyrics express pure desolation but also hope toward the powers that be, such as on 'Dicktator' a call to arms against tyrants and evil demigods, as it thrashes away leaving bloody faces in its wake. 'Senseless' motors along vitriolic, with a buzzing fuzzbox set on stun, the lyrical barbs personalised and sharpened. 'Scumbag Stitcher' leaves the best for last and is a masterclass rock song, leaving us wanting more sooner than later, they better not take long recording a sophmore album.</p><p>Despite the twists of gratuitous Grunge-oid anger that Inertia inflicts throughout the 11 tracks on offer, we feel at home on this record. It's this kind of immediate intimacy which makes Heaven's Glue such a passion-filled ride with its maniac crushing drumming, rumbling catchy bass riffs, and abuse ridden six-string power chords. </p><p><a href="https://linktr.ee/inertia.theband?fbclid=PAAaZpBanF8v8BT23X-VmwI5FSXj9gjvWbId0UTOLP69aYsrHn48dK787J_II"><b>LISTEN TO THE ALBUM HERE</b></a><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhYFyEN0o4D_qkUKk--nFExeHAIR7dz9zoqqtwSNaig8YjFAQ2pREk-bRTvQzj-rz5u_R3UToOcKPIr4V5ex1VQE5z1f7lRq01Km6pAR-KCVx6B0fhBD33LjJGF-tE5_qeha67BltKQ9Xe2Nb1y_h508ZkTWbXDhF0IMFELHUqsHiagKpa3UDKTthYOxA/s1104/IMG_20230219_181653_799.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1104" data-original-width="828" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhYFyEN0o4D_qkUKk--nFExeHAIR7dz9zoqqtwSNaig8YjFAQ2pREk-bRTvQzj-rz5u_R3UToOcKPIr4V5ex1VQE5z1f7lRq01Km6pAR-KCVx6B0fhBD33LjJGF-tE5_qeha67BltKQ9Xe2Nb1y_h508ZkTWbXDhF0IMFELHUqsHiagKpa3UDKTthYOxA/w480-h640/IMG_20230219_181653_799.jpg" width="480" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhws8A8SAeVzHKu0rOcuEe4C7etK3GQuEinFxhPHfuxGbTOw_1jocuH0g6cDhsSZymEA4ONme3WjtOtwXvJuO9FlGCiloOZLjM7T1y98ioPQWpq4R1dhaNXz8kYGcRMDZC7AptBb7-1BdV548v-QFrsLu_ZmfgymyhWyq6rgGJ1I5IbFA_eGU8w8Yr9sA/s1008/IMG_20230219_181705_304.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="601" data-original-width="1008" height="382" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhws8A8SAeVzHKu0rOcuEe4C7etK3GQuEinFxhPHfuxGbTOw_1jocuH0g6cDhsSZymEA4ONme3WjtOtwXvJuO9FlGCiloOZLjM7T1y98ioPQWpq4R1dhaNXz8kYGcRMDZC7AptBb7-1BdV548v-QFrsLu_ZmfgymyhWyq6rgGJ1I5IbFA_eGU8w8Yr9sA/w640-h382/IMG_20230219_181705_304.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><p><br /></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2962721263288722253.post-30624817980946685292023-01-13T13:00:00.042-08:002023-01-14T03:11:22.064-08:00The Stanford Prison Experiment - The Psychology of Evil<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi_JemYYEKTJYOs9DKWPOJ4LfdtDKDPWnateOzquZfJWFozm9jldut99u9RW3uwm_R39Ne5lbxhH-hEcK9Ia_9oqlcFwMGXnWGO9uZVSSfuEwjsUDrwLlXTaRPi7aW4F5CfgcNUfLH1f8vtM2a8UtK0VM4uhNSMrBL-asu4E9vWaTbPqgnFtKATMtO0VA/s1500/image-asset.jpeg-3.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="895" data-original-width="1500" height="382" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi_JemYYEKTJYOs9DKWPOJ4LfdtDKDPWnateOzquZfJWFozm9jldut99u9RW3uwm_R39Ne5lbxhH-hEcK9Ia_9oqlcFwMGXnWGO9uZVSSfuEwjsUDrwLlXTaRPi7aW4F5CfgcNUfLH1f8vtM2a8UtK0VM4uhNSMrBL-asu4E9vWaTbPqgnFtKATMtO0VA/w640-h382/image-asset.jpeg-3.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><p></p><p>In 1971, psychologist Philip Zimbardo tried to prove the existence of crowd theory, also called deindividuation, which is a version of group madness. He turned a Stanford basement into a mock prison and recruited participants for an experiment. Nine would be guards, nine would be prisoners, and six would be on call. He acted as the superintendent. Zimbardo terminated the experiment after less than a week because the guards became too sadistic and treated the prisoners like animals. One guard, Dave Eshelman, screamed at the prisoners to “fuck the floor” and humiliated them by making them pretend to be in love with Mrs. Frankenstein. Zimbardo appeared to have proven that when people are put into an evil place (the basement included small cells, solitary confinement, and the prisoners wore chains) and surrounded by evil influences (himself and the other guards), they act in evil ways. </p><p>Led by psychology professor Phillip Zimbardo in 1971. In one of the most controversial psychology experiments ever, college students were assigned the role of prisoner and prison guards. The Stanford Prison Experiment, led by psychology professor Phillip Zimbardo in 1971. In one of the most controversial psychology experiments ever, college students were assigned the role of prisoner and prison guards. Zimbardo and his group wanted to see whether the brutality among prison guards in American prisons was due to dispositional personalities of guards or whether it had to do with the prison environment. Zimbardo and his group chose 24 of 75 applicants who were judged the most physically and mentally stable and the least involved in antisocial behaviors. They were all paid $15 to take part in the experiment, but had no idea what the experiment was about. Prisoners were treated like criminals, being arrested from their homes and taken to a police station, and then blindfolded to go to the basement of the psychology department at Stanford, where Zimbardo set with barred doors and windows, bare walls and small cells — a prison environment to make prisoners feel deindividuated. Prisoners were not called by their names — only ID numbers to make them feel anonymous. Guards were dressed in uniforms of khakis, carrying whistles and billy club, and wore sunglasses to avoid eye contact with prisoners. Guards worked eight hour shifts and were instructed to do whatever they could to maintain law and order in the prison, but were not allowed.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh8Bsn0NluQuAqGP0ojeJLRRPImP941okhrOtB_smwax4KACnVXS4Hc0GGUdMq-ryNExvmZKTLA1dx1UCcA1tQPBYS9KT9tAuDar1hyLo_6wk82YqkU_Jgp58K62HTQGGVriCMTsAXC1Bii3cLfA-vANZwG8zsvUUoic6pmhw3LvAqZHzxwM7KWu9r2SQ/s906/Screenshot_20230113-120855_Facebook.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="906" data-original-width="900" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh8Bsn0NluQuAqGP0ojeJLRRPImP941okhrOtB_smwax4KACnVXS4Hc0GGUdMq-ryNExvmZKTLA1dx1UCcA1tQPBYS9KT9tAuDar1hyLo_6wk82YqkU_Jgp58K62HTQGGVriCMTsAXC1Bii3cLfA-vANZwG8zsvUUoic6pmhw3LvAqZHzxwM7KWu9r2SQ/w636-h640/Screenshot_20230113-120855_Facebook.jpg" width="636" /></a></div><p>They began with nine guards and nine prisoners in our jail. Three guards worked each of three eight-hour shifts, while three prisoners occupied each of the three barren cells around the clock. The remaining guards and prisoners from our sample of 24 were on call in case they were needed. The cells were so small that there was room for only three cots on which the prisoners slept or sat, with room for little else. Zimbardo and his group wanted to see whether the brutality among prison guards in American prisons was due to dispositional personalities of guards or whether it had to do with the prison environment.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhra4PGEhVMWOL0se_76ciTZVBHi1Jw4c5MRlJrfvZtJPDr3Yo5NV341FTecZgOinqim3ZcbedIt1U9dCMDxd4wfF6zGEwNstQg-CXh-_XGFsHJQOpLYcMWjtzjGSZKiTylctjOZmNzO3yn7I3LVvcl7to_vnJCHpnIxuGkZLMl7pX8ng6YrdrHtIHaIg/s885/Screenshot_20230113-111804_YouTube.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="589" data-original-width="885" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhra4PGEhVMWOL0se_76ciTZVBHi1Jw4c5MRlJrfvZtJPDr3Yo5NV341FTecZgOinqim3ZcbedIt1U9dCMDxd4wfF6zGEwNstQg-CXh-_XGFsHJQOpLYcMWjtzjGSZKiTylctjOZmNzO3yn7I3LVvcl7to_vnJCHpnIxuGkZLMl7pX8ng6YrdrHtIHaIg/w640-h426/Screenshot_20230113-111804_YouTube.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><p>In fact, this wasn’t the case. Dave Eshelman nicknamed 'John Wayne' after his swaggering, macho attitude, was the only guard who appeared to suffer from madness, group madness or otherwise. When speaking to Ronson, Eshelman admitted that he’d been faking his loss of control because the experiment was going nowhere in the early days and Eshelman was concerned that Zimbardo wasn’t going to get good results. He acted evil—channeling the sadistic prison warden in Cool Hand Luke—to get the experiment started. The fact that Eshelman was acting doesn’t invalidate what happened—Eshelman chose to act in the way that he did for some psychological reason, and the prisoners still experienced brutality regardless of its sincerity. However, the fact that Eshelman was motivated by wanting to help Zimbardo is the opposite of group madness—Eshelman wasn’t corrupted by an environment; he was trying to do “something good.” </p><p>The prisoners even nicknamed the most macho and brutal guard in our study "John Wayne." Later, we learned that the most notorious guard in a Nazi prison near Buchenwald was named "Tom Mix" – the John Wayne of an earlier generation – because of his "Wild West" cowboy macho image in abusing camp inmates. Where had our "John Wayne" learned to become such a guard? How could he and others move so readily into that role? How could intelligent, mentally healthy, "ordinary" men become perpetrators of evil so quickly? These were questions we were forced to ask.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj-PiNXEsSHjLG14Zc5rja-XS26f7gxRBQZEqMXH0hhC16b5bD_l_yYYyqwEC0i2Q3kD8XD3I5YoyB4BX4KIjgf42VCVX5A2SwGMPH_S_yuJ1Enb8p3MBD2bcSVRyBgCZ5gd8r24i_pr_gikN2FPAz3Fh2tIfq5q6Hb1d8VP90PmoZPUIQfMDU786Xgng/s750/JohnWayne.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="454" data-original-width="750" height="388" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj-PiNXEsSHjLG14Zc5rja-XS26f7gxRBQZEqMXH0hhC16b5bD_l_yYYyqwEC0i2Q3kD8XD3I5YoyB4BX4KIjgf42VCVX5A2SwGMPH_S_yuJ1Enb8p3MBD2bcSVRyBgCZ5gd8r24i_pr_gikN2FPAz3Fh2tIfq5q6Hb1d8VP90PmoZPUIQfMDU786Xgng/w640-h388/JohnWayne.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><p>Because the first day passed without incident, everyone was surprised and totally unprepared for the rebellion which broke out on the morning of the second day. The prisoners removed their stocking caps, ripped off their numbers, and barricaded themselves inside the cells by putting their beds against the door. And now the problem was, what were the guards going to do about this rebellion? The guards were very much angered and frustrated because the prisoners also began to taunt and curse them. When the morning shift of guards came on, they became upset at the night shift who, they felt, must have been too lenient. The guards had to handle the rebellion themselves, and what they did was fascinating for the staff to behold.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiboDPLXBC7XHE_vGRPq2mo5GycIxCMTzrxARgF791il0C69Tl1ysY9askU1cVy8w4srvOSnELxSDRHQqzD-2uLvNRz0WjgkxYVDitmGLSyzKkVy0m40XJWN5POXtX5JqiNC_7txms6Ug521qy8_8YCbD0xW0NQy7ag-BSVWPyLLB7rhl0poOtH7_KLcA/s987/Screenshot_20230113-120931_Facebook.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="697" data-original-width="987" height="452" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiboDPLXBC7XHE_vGRPq2mo5GycIxCMTzrxARgF791il0C69Tl1ysY9askU1cVy8w4srvOSnELxSDRHQqzD-2uLvNRz0WjgkxYVDitmGLSyzKkVy0m40XJWN5POXtX5JqiNC_7txms6Ug521qy8_8YCbD0xW0NQy7ag-BSVWPyLLB7rhl0poOtH7_KLcA/w640-h452/Screenshot_20230113-120931_Facebook.jpg" width="640" /></a><span style="text-align: left;">Guards sprayed fire exstinguishers into the cells when they resisted. The three back up guards were even called in to regain control cose it was going so wrong. Sleep interuption, the prisoners were striped naked, they were not allowed to shower, paper bags were put over their heads, they had to do exercises even at 2am, ritualistic humiliation was now all on the cards. All these mind games quickly escalated. The prisoners were later forced to choose between keeping their blanketsor letting a fellowe prisoner out The Hole from solitary confinement. Dave Eshelman aka 'John Wayne' was the one who also made them do push up when they couldnt remember their new given numbers. He was extremely inventive with his cruelty. Arbitrarily subjecting them to embarrassing sexual innuendo, solitary confinement for little mistakes.</span></div><p>An ex-convict consultants later informed the staff that a similar tactic is used by real guards in real prisons to break prisoner alliances. For example, racism is used to pit Blacks, Chicanos, and Anglos against each other. In fact, in a real prison the greatest threat to any prisoner's life comes from fellow prisoners. By dividing and conquering in this way, guards promote aggression among inmates, thereby deflecting it from themselves. The prisoners' rebellion also played an important role in producing greater solidarity among the guards. Now, suddenly, it was no longer just an experiment, no longer a simple simulation. Instead, the guards saw the prisoners as troublemakers who were out to get them, who might really cause them some harm. In response to this threat, the guards began stepping up their control, surveillance, and aggression. The guards were especially tough on the ringleader of the rebellion, Prisoner #5401. He was a heavy smoker, and they controlled him by regulating his opportunity to smoke. We later learned, while censoring the prisoners' mail, that he was a self-styled radical activist. He had volunteered in order to "expose" our study, which he mistakenly thought was an establishment tool to find ways to control student radicals. In fact, he had planned to sell the story to an underground newspaper when the experiment was over! However, even he fell so completely into the role of prisoner that he was proud to be elected leader of the Stanford County Jail Grievance Committee, as revealed in a letter to his girlfriend.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiWj1t_ofHQIRafpWaWg1GoHMQFzA49ekEE4M7XWBUuRAi9WIlsu2t9JB1p_zeqQn5f3JxKhAHhTgEy0blpOSbBANUA78C98aEL3E1uBDadcVrg_N1ZJEtnrW5oM76QcZ_sAUKAM2nB3G1G2W3uiuVzTLY56jsmnAMvwGkki-Ido7ggQIkcffzXW-y5bw/s1080/Screenshot_20230113-085509_YouTube.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="785" data-original-width="1080" height="466" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiWj1t_ofHQIRafpWaWg1GoHMQFzA49ekEE4M7XWBUuRAi9WIlsu2t9JB1p_zeqQn5f3JxKhAHhTgEy0blpOSbBANUA78C98aEL3E1uBDadcVrg_N1ZJEtnrW5oM76QcZ_sAUKAM2nB3G1G2W3uiuVzTLY56jsmnAMvwGkki-Ido7ggQIkcffzXW-y5bw/w640-h466/Screenshot_20230113-085509_YouTube.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiNdbxIxOoWKeBNWnzy8-DsspIoF8VlkRvVdULjGarBPXg02CfUkKOUJWwoDxaIqK0w0Bac8uHyi1Jl__Zf-A-sLrDXwzE-B9ahgefBIfJXfXm7-pX7oz7cpbt6anzZQRfiFyFs5wjA8PJoReQBJKBtjHV6ZOT75zG_n4lV8vcdosB2Rq0NhMbMbe448g/s1080/Screenshot_20230113-105548_YouTube.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="796" data-original-width="1080" height="472" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiNdbxIxOoWKeBNWnzy8-DsspIoF8VlkRvVdULjGarBPXg02CfUkKOUJWwoDxaIqK0w0Bac8uHyi1Jl__Zf-A-sLrDXwzE-B9ahgefBIfJXfXm7-pX7oz7cpbt6anzZQRfiFyFs5wjA8PJoReQBJKBtjHV6ZOT75zG_n4lV8vcdosB2Rq0NhMbMbe448g/w640-h472/Screenshot_20230113-105548_YouTube.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><p>Prisoner #8612 wad the first to crack. Less than 36 hours into the experiment, he began suffering from acute emotional disturbance, disorganized thinking, uncontrollable crying, and rage. In spite of all of this, we had already come to think so much like prison authorities that we thought he was trying to "con" us – to fool us into releasing him. When our primary prison consultant interviewed Prisoner #8612, the consultant chided him for being so weak, and told him what kind of abuse he could expect from the guards and the prisoners if he were in San Quentin Prison. He had a full blown breakdown, even trying to act crazy but in the end he completely lost it. Dr Zimbardo even tried to make #8612 a snitch to calm him down. During the next count, Prisoner #8612 told other prisoners, "You can't leave. You can't quit." That sent a chilling message and heightened their sense of really being imprisoned. #8612 then began to act "crazy," to scream, to curse, to go into a rage that seemed out of control. in the end he was asked to leave. </p><p>At first the prisoners showed solidarity by refusing to eat the special privilidge foods, or by refusing to leave The Hole if the matresses weren't returned to the other prisoners. In retaliation the guards made them do slow push up's, sit up's and jumping Jack's. Going to the toilet was soon denied after their 10pm curfew so each cell was given a bucket which wasnt allowed to be emptied so by morning the cells started to smell. On visiting day (day 3) families were allowed to see their sons. Worried that when the parents saw the state of our jail, they might insist on taking their sons home. To counter this, staff manipulated both the situation and the visitors by making the prison environment seem pleasant and benign. They washed, shaved, and groomed the prisoners, had them clean and polish their cells, fed them a big dinner, played music on the intercom, and even had an attractive former Stanford cheerleader, Susie Phillips, greet the visitors at the registration desk. Before any parents could enter the visiting area, they also had to discuss their son's case with the Warden. Of course, parents complained about these arbitrary rules, but remarkably, they complied with them. And so they, too, became bit players in the prison drama, being good middle-class adults. When one mother said she had never seen her son looking so bad, they responded by shifting the blame from the situation to her son. "What's the matter with your boy? Doesn't he sleep well?" Then they asked the father, "Don't you think your boy can handle this?" He bristled, "Of course he can – he's a real tough kid, a leader." Turning to the mother, he said, "Come on Honey, we've wasted enough time already." And to the staff, "See you again at the next visiting time.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjkFuYHccfcxDHYzpdCXwHWNNrjNN0IMjuUmdRZBnMBd5DxIomAuXDs1Sktftvf_oKmfRlLa2Dvdo82O8gU7B1rJ5e3sGAoimSZxZoWv72AD4l_qTpCd2-oK45gkwRTUKxBA3u3iLkNqktQk1oDhjLZhpwA2ObVwkqFttjlWrv7tVlXlp4Z1ALl6UCOXQ/s1000/image-asset.jpeg-2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="672" data-original-width="1000" height="430" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjkFuYHccfcxDHYzpdCXwHWNNrjNN0IMjuUmdRZBnMBd5DxIomAuXDs1Sktftvf_oKmfRlLa2Dvdo82O8gU7B1rJ5e3sGAoimSZxZoWv72AD4l_qTpCd2-oK45gkwRTUKxBA3u3iLkNqktQk1oDhjLZhpwA2ObVwkqFttjlWrv7tVlXlp4Z1ALl6UCOXQ/w640-h430/image-asset.jpeg-2.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg7ZrQ9pu3W2dl9R1vAM2notKOT4ojrdGo_8YvRQV8Z-sHD8y9xpvCdGGxFhf5Cvh7lLPajfQbJobl9vQydszURzqbVWtc5Lp6U8CyaHTg2l-opsuqH6VTXBsexY1_EDRb63EwseEcVQzsyj7Ml-mVlkIW0DNg6xyMgBZN3B3yA-xuZVMKGsIGDmyrO0g/s1000/image-asset.jpeg.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1000" data-original-width="1000" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg7ZrQ9pu3W2dl9R1vAM2notKOT4ojrdGo_8YvRQV8Z-sHD8y9xpvCdGGxFhf5Cvh7lLPajfQbJobl9vQydszURzqbVWtc5Lp6U8CyaHTg2l-opsuqH6VTXBsexY1_EDRb63EwseEcVQzsyj7Ml-mVlkIW0DNg6xyMgBZN3B3yA-xuZVMKGsIGDmyrO0g/w640-h640/image-asset.jpeg.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><p>A rumour circulated that #6812 would come back to rescue the remaining prisoners so the guards had to move the prison from the basement into an upstairs department floor. When prisoner #819 was about to be sent home the guards made the other prisoners shout ''#819 is a bad prisoner.'' The guards also sprayed fire exstinguishers into the cells when the prisoners barricaded themselves inside the cells with their matresses. The guards then used psychologicals tactics such as offering special privilidge meals to three of the prisoners, they ate while the other prisoners watched, were allowed to wash and brush their teeth, and to wear their uniforms in the ''good cell''. After 12 hours they were sent back into the regular cell that lacked beds.</p><p>At this point in the study, a Catholic priest who had been a prison chaplain to evaluate how realistic the prison situation was, and the result was truly Kafkaesque. The chaplain interviewed each prisoner individually, and in amazement half the prisoners introduced themselves by number rather than name. After some small talk, he popped the key question: "Son, what are you doing to get out of here?" When the prisoners responded with puzzlement, he explained that the only way to get out of prison was with the help of a lawyer. He then volunteered to contact their parents to get legal aid if they wanted him to, and some of the prisoners accepted his offer.</p><p>The priest's visit further blurred the line between role-playing and reality. In daily life this man was a real priest, but he had learned to play a stereotyped, programmed role so well – talking in a certain way, folding his hands in a prescribed manner – that he seemed more like a movie version of a priest than a real priest, thereby adding to the uncertainty they were all feeling about where our roles ended and our personal identities began.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjJA3MLfSBY6FWtBMOp1tJWwXMKoQEGE_6n7mg5HMXjgDFw4p5oullhDeqZNy2LP0HrwuaTQnJCYBrCs6ew9D4UTNctmbuBDRmf6r8vO-pJ55q8PWhv9XMSLRqN9wsjYABhPCdPXamuSbfSqyDMh9F707tc_7MUyW5i6KkU_ZOrbnnOt9HhCKrCpu2mYg/s1080/Screenshot_20230113-071937_YouTube.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="771" data-original-width="1080" height="456" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjJA3MLfSBY6FWtBMOp1tJWwXMKoQEGE_6n7mg5HMXjgDFw4p5oullhDeqZNy2LP0HrwuaTQnJCYBrCs6ew9D4UTNctmbuBDRmf6r8vO-pJ55q8PWhv9XMSLRqN9wsjYABhPCdPXamuSbfSqyDMh9F707tc_7MUyW5i6KkU_ZOrbnnOt9HhCKrCpu2mYg/w640-h456/Screenshot_20230113-071937_YouTube.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjn_hSsW8Z-SfTYITSYw0O-HP6yNFbdY0c8pM3wUxT9NKm7SM_sjoosMnMTmqIgRBu2WXNbPvod7ks-I0Rs_YlF6mOR38-W-sByvQwjKCvaTjcE2gso6q0gF2_PeGdPlhep3Ys21QNv6Fg3mw7HQCkf8WcAyeMz2vtBikOsD_PsmMXPv4MudGdT_jwPlA/s1080/Screenshot_20230113-110423_YouTube.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="798" data-original-width="1080" height="472" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjn_hSsW8Z-SfTYITSYw0O-HP6yNFbdY0c8pM3wUxT9NKm7SM_sjoosMnMTmqIgRBu2WXNbPvod7ks-I0Rs_YlF6mOR38-W-sByvQwjKCvaTjcE2gso6q0gF2_PeGdPlhep3Ys21QNv6Fg3mw7HQCkf8WcAyeMz2vtBikOsD_PsmMXPv4MudGdT_jwPlA/w640-h472/Screenshot_20230113-110423_YouTube.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><p>The only prisoner who did not want to speak to the priest was Prisoner #819, who was feeling sick, had refused to eat, and wanted to see a doctor rather than a priest. Eventually he was persuaded to come out of his cell and talk to the priest and superintendent so we could see what kind of a doctor he needed. While talking to them, he broke down and began to cry hysterically, just as had the other two boys we released earlier. They took the chain off his foot, the cap off his head, and told him to go and rest in a room that was adjacent to the prison yard. He was given some food and then taken to see a doctor.</p><p>The next day, all prisoners who thought they had grounds for being paroled were chained together and individually brought before the Parole Board. The Board was composed mainly of people who were strangers to the prisoners (departmental secretaries and graduate students) and was headed by the top prison consultant. Several remarkable things occurred during these parole hearings. First, when they asked prisoners whether they would forfeit the money they had earned up to that time if they were to parole them, most said yes. Then, when they ended the hearings by telling prisoners to go back to their cells while they considered their requests, every prisoner obeyed, even though they could have obtained the same result by simply quitting the experiment. Why did they obey? Because they felt powerless to resist. Their sense of reality had shifted, and they no longer perceived their imprisonment as an experiment. In the psychological prison they had created, only the correctional staff had the power to grant paroles. During the parole hearings they also witnessed an unexpected metamorphosis of our prison consultant as he adopted the role of head of the Parole Board. He literally became the most hated authoritarian official imaginable, so much so that when it was over he felt sick at who he had become – his own tormentor who had previously rejected his annual parole requests for 16 years when he was a prisoner.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhJPtifMU7ycJWxhdE5Z1pyHU0CCVFyuX92KSj4Lz_u0oUYTxAekK2Kq-q8_ug2qQFFZ1UZTJ16kCHVehgOCmQ5rCTJgXOtRfcnV1xJ_un1eBm6zPFWwI2XWtMekaER6__zxj23ZfM_Fk5tfq86OQ05pYHJi-G0ZxClM8E3ZOEF_a2NZ0dfeieXBfUogg/s1080/Screenshot_20230113-072007_YouTube.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="779" data-original-width="1080" height="462" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhJPtifMU7ycJWxhdE5Z1pyHU0CCVFyuX92KSj4Lz_u0oUYTxAekK2Kq-q8_ug2qQFFZ1UZTJ16kCHVehgOCmQ5rCTJgXOtRfcnV1xJ_un1eBm6zPFWwI2XWtMekaER6__zxj23ZfM_Fk5tfq86OQ05pYHJi-G0ZxClM8E3ZOEF_a2NZ0dfeieXBfUogg/w640-h462/Screenshot_20230113-072007_YouTube.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjHD6uxRgaFgR7B8R4cCigGfY3yNqb2BbMxfC_F-v5_xxoyCBKjAlIXTWQpjahAX6GAoX_aascFOCbi8TQmEN57OyOsw3XjkFzJGbGV6VB8KJkQz1Dfxyy8PUYw2A7p34owpSpBtn3t_2VWHITdUIuWTMldvxnnNNfNMntxy3kz--cNH_ubgVH2mXVOmw/s806/Screenshot_20230113-101236_YouTube.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="588" data-original-width="806" height="466" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjHD6uxRgaFgR7B8R4cCigGfY3yNqb2BbMxfC_F-v5_xxoyCBKjAlIXTWQpjahAX6GAoX_aascFOCbi8TQmEN57OyOsw3XjkFzJGbGV6VB8KJkQz1Dfxyy8PUYw2A7p34owpSpBtn3t_2VWHITdUIuWTMldvxnnNNfNMntxy3kz--cNH_ubgVH2mXVOmw/w640-h466/Screenshot_20230113-101236_YouTube.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><p>By day #4 the guards were angry about wasting their time dissasembling the prison and even missed their lunch. Now prisoners were made to do longer push up's and made to clean toilets with their bare hands and polish the guards shoes.</p><p>When the new prisoner #416 went on a hunger strike the guards made the prisoners do push up's while #416 sang Amazing Grace. Prisoners coped with their feelings of frustration and powerlessness in a variety of ways. At first, some prisoners rebelled or fought with the guards. Four prisoners reacted by breaking down emotionally as a way to escape the situation. One prisoner developed a psychosomatic rash over his entire body when he learned that his parole request had been turned down. Others tried to cope by being good prisoners, doing everything the guards wanted them to do. Prisoner #2093 was nicknamed 'Sarge' for being a model prisoner. There were 3 types of guards: the nice one who felt sorry for the prisoners and did little favours, the tough but fair guard, and the sadistic guard John Wayne who constantly degraded and humiliated the prisoners. He even put the prisoners blankets in nettles so it would take them hours to remove them if they wanted to sleep.</p><p>By day 5 the guards had total control and even dictated a letter to the prisoners to write to their families: </p><p>'<i>'Dear mom & dad, Im having a marvelous time, food is great and there is always a lot of fun & games. The officers have treated me well, they are all swell guys, you would like them. No need to visit because its 7th heaven. - Yours always #7258''</i></p><p>John Wayne would also force the prisoners to repeat things: </p><p>'<i>'In the future you do the work when you're told </i></p><p><i>Thank you Mr Correctional Officer </i></p><p><i>Say it again! </i></p><p><i>Thank you Mr Correctional Officer </i></p><p><i>Say bless you Mr Correctional Officer </i></p><p><i>Bless you Mr Correctional Officer''</i></p><p>Even Sarge was abused:</p><p><i>''Why do you try and be obedient so much? </i></p><p><i>I dont know its my nature to be obedient correctional officer. </i></p><p><i>You're a liar, you're a stinking liar. </i></p><p><i>If you say so Mr correctional officer. </i></p><p><i>What if I told u to get down on the floor, and fuck the floor? What would you do then. </i></p><p><i>I would say I didnt know how Mr Correctional officer.''</i></p><p>Prisoner #416 kept up his hunger strike and was thrown in the hole holding the sausages that he refused to eat. John Wayne even hit him in the face with a sausage. The guards threaten to cancel visiting hours if #416 didnt eat his sausages. #416 refused again. The guards then had the prisoners express their anger at #416 while he was sitting in the hole behind the door in total darkness ''thank you #416''. He was kept in solitary confinement for 3hr even though 1hr was the limit.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjONHPguQ-TQ9U7FMiiaQ_ffRIjHugGROrE0uKXvxuEwcD6cSjauLNkJa2raqRuLhqsP0DmfG-dlmwnzeIVDtGhiZvRhA-Ulb4vv0uXIw9EIsAxlaB1P1_sBg0VbeZrzhI1riTlnigUDbhjW24Ep37ryzVxMrysCHlPomM6WtXfYh5iH6PK-69zbRXPJg/s1080/Screenshot_20230113-082658_YouTube.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="715" data-original-width="1080" height="424" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjONHPguQ-TQ9U7FMiiaQ_ffRIjHugGROrE0uKXvxuEwcD6cSjauLNkJa2raqRuLhqsP0DmfG-dlmwnzeIVDtGhiZvRhA-Ulb4vv0uXIw9EIsAxlaB1P1_sBg0VbeZrzhI1riTlnigUDbhjW24Ep37ryzVxMrysCHlPomM6WtXfYh5iH6PK-69zbRXPJg/w640-h424/Screenshot_20230113-082658_YouTube.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj2JAzqOIZeIjsR3404qHCGvl3_M_Xkx88DT9ISpw-x47lEUzv2EtF6InKajqEicPimBGK-tt-vR8uYi80DZI9F-AnmfR1jut97YW0cUmPcNWl47KDtpMgxf3CgB1WH2dLSSFGIY3vCC17-XXS7zZNBwA_zGrnT5IGmTEg7hvLeXlRFC_r48H8CdASaXA/s819/Screenshot_20230113-101314_YouTube.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="596" data-original-width="819" height="466" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj2JAzqOIZeIjsR3404qHCGvl3_M_Xkx88DT9ISpw-x47lEUzv2EtF6InKajqEicPimBGK-tt-vR8uYi80DZI9F-AnmfR1jut97YW0cUmPcNWl47KDtpMgxf3CgB1WH2dLSSFGIY3vCC17-XXS7zZNBwA_zGrnT5IGmTEg7hvLeXlRFC_r48H8CdASaXA/w640-h466/Screenshot_20230113-101314_YouTube.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><p>John Wayne then made #416 put his hands in the air then role play being Frankenstein to walk over to another prisoner pretending to be the Bride of Frankenstein and say ''i love you #2093''. He then yelled at #416 to ' walk like Frankenstein', I didnt tell you to walk like you!" and to hug and kiss. "Get up close''. When #2093 refused to kiss he was made to do push up's.</p><p>#416 once again refused to eat his sausages. By now he was dirty from being on the floor so much. John Wayne decided to give the prisoners a choice:</p><p>'<i>'Now theres a couple of ways we can do this depending on what you wanna do. If #416 does not wanna eat his sausages then you can give me the blanket and sleep on your mattress or you can keep you blanket and #416 will stay in another day, now what will it be?.'' ''Im gonna keep my blanket''. ''You boys need to come to some sort of a decision.'' ''We got 3 against 1. Ok keep your blankets, #416 your gonna be in there for a while so just get used to it.''</i></p><p>The prisoners displayed 3 types of behaviour. At first they rebelled and faught the guards, then by day 4 they became passive, and 4 prisoners broke down and cried, while others became model prisoners.</p><p>"After the first day I noticed nothing was happening. It was a bit of a bore, so I made the decision I would take on the persona of a very cruel prison guard," said Dave Eshleman, one of the wardens who took a lead role. </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhXW_Nv428euZ-pW4J-9Zh5LkHbT1gvD8vo3i0Hn4Uqgd543CoMlDoNW4EClu99qOOHoToz07ybieJ24szih2yAzXqSzrpDWZQFGrzDeP46cKnzKUQELeHWYBKpRBIVa1XACORoI1JbQ5nM-swiC3_d3OA3dUP7webJqpJ6hkF5Sg34YF0AcRdVfs55wg/s1000/50-guard.smiling.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="592" data-original-width="1000" height="378" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhXW_Nv428euZ-pW4J-9Zh5LkHbT1gvD8vo3i0Hn4Uqgd543CoMlDoNW4EClu99qOOHoToz07ybieJ24szih2yAzXqSzrpDWZQFGrzDeP46cKnzKUQELeHWYBKpRBIVa1XACORoI1JbQ5nM-swiC3_d3OA3dUP7webJqpJ6hkF5Sg34YF0AcRdVfs55wg/w640-h378/50-guard.smiling.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhRXlKV5lruGaoTIR7la7OT9JODCIM3AcsvNqxHZIDevqXUSe9c2vh1IHDjavMaeTHFyiBCHrNt3ecajnFsWXQxGx3h6W27jMcjqNiXoaUAjBiFJyNbHZvhU0WlI-hPzfpVQ5Z-MFFLOpNrPjpXwmVHDPyxpB5dMnuKNxAtm1wcP7jRwxYGAFadzj_dXQ/s1000/image-asset.jpeg-1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1000" data-original-width="1000" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhRXlKV5lruGaoTIR7la7OT9JODCIM3AcsvNqxHZIDevqXUSe9c2vh1IHDjavMaeTHFyiBCHrNt3ecajnFsWXQxGx3h6W27jMcjqNiXoaUAjBiFJyNbHZvhU0WlI-hPzfpVQ5Z-MFFLOpNrPjpXwmVHDPyxpB5dMnuKNxAtm1wcP7jRwxYGAFadzj_dXQ/w640-h640/image-asset.jpeg-1.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><p>At the same time the prisoners, referred to only by their numbers and treated harshly, rebelled and blockaded themselves inside their cells. The guards saw this as a challenge to their authority, broke up the demonstration and began to impose their will. "Suddenly, the whole dynamic changed as they believed they were dealing with dangerous prisoners, and at that point it was no longer an experiment," said Prof Zimbardo. It began by stripping them naked, putting bags over their heads, making them do press-ups or other exercises and humiliating them. "The most effective thing they did was simply interrupt sleep, which is a known torture technique," said Clay Ramsey, one of the prisoners. "What was demanded of me physically was way too much and I also felt that there was really nobody rational at the wheel of this thing so I started refusing food."</p><p>"It was rapidly spiralling out of control," said prison guard Mr Eshleman who hid behind his mirrored sunglasses and a southern US accent. "I kept looking for the limits - at what point would they stop me and say 'No, this is only an experiment and I have had enough', but I don't think I ever reached that point."</p><p>The abusive prison guard, Mr Eshleman, also felt he gained something from the experiment. "I learned that in a particular situation I'm probably capable of doing things I will look back on with some shame later on," he said. "When I saw the pictures coming from Abu Ghraib in Iraq, it immediately struck me as being very familiar to me and I knew immediately they were probably just very ordinary people and not the bad apples the defence department tried to paint them as. "I did some horrible things, so if I ever had the chance to repeat the experiment I wouldn't do it." </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjQFuqE0rldpZgVbNjVnTTFwcmdjcKDSWV5RtiDG1IVDbOf7EvPHVBKKmejzeksuxbE431Z4kyXhpg3Qg0I3PCWStFkJlqZvXLvU8n1MouQmDQ67M6ArEND7tMLS2-KDCmnkJgCUVaJvooOkgUr6lZudRhkR_30GJ2Qjt9l8lGaaT8z7_RITFLNEx1lDA/s1080/Screenshot_20230113-075625_YouTube.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="782" data-original-width="1080" height="464" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjQFuqE0rldpZgVbNjVnTTFwcmdjcKDSWV5RtiDG1IVDbOf7EvPHVBKKmejzeksuxbE431Z4kyXhpg3Qg0I3PCWStFkJlqZvXLvU8n1MouQmDQ67M6ArEND7tMLS2-KDCmnkJgCUVaJvooOkgUr6lZudRhkR_30GJ2Qjt9l8lGaaT8z7_RITFLNEx1lDA/w640-h464/Screenshot_20230113-075625_YouTube.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEitRKRl-1KLd7d4c14L0mOH_UrV0dVAxHOUMc6E_EcflcdbcZ4g4YevPFrsQ3dMmQk4wS83wg9lEjLl57-HeJSN7o22D8Qhq3ocEi6OpgJwWeHOlurzOzXCvlthq1YBe2lzWk5Fa8JE0pczaHOix-dMvwTTNPCwobVfHahgMpQ0X6GwFC9oZOJGfGAzlg/s1080/Screenshot_20230114-081435_Facebook.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1047" data-original-width="1080" height="620" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEitRKRl-1KLd7d4c14L0mOH_UrV0dVAxHOUMc6E_EcflcdbcZ4g4YevPFrsQ3dMmQk4wS83wg9lEjLl57-HeJSN7o22D8Qhq3ocEi6OpgJwWeHOlurzOzXCvlthq1YBe2lzWk5Fa8JE0pczaHOix-dMvwTTNPCwobVfHahgMpQ0X6GwFC9oZOJGfGAzlg/w640-h620/Screenshot_20230114-081435_Facebook.jpg" width="640" /></a><span style="text-align: left;">On the fifth night, some visiting parents asked to contact a lawyer in order to get their son out of prison. They said a Catholic priest had called to tell them they should get a lawyer or public defender if they wanted to bail their son out! A lawyer was called as requested, and he came the next day to interview the prisoners with a standard set of legal questions, even though he, too, knew it was just an experiment. At this point it became clear that they had to end the study. They had created an overwhelmingly powerful situation – a situation in which prisoners were withdrawing and behaving in pathological ways, and in which some of the guards were behaving sadistically. Even the "good" guards felt helpless to intervene, and none of the guards quit while the study was in progress. Indeed, it should be noted that no guard ever came late for his shift, called in sick, left early, or demanded extra pay for overtime work.</span></div><p>On the last day, a series of encounter sessions were held, first with all the guards, then with all the prisoners (including those who had been released earlier), and finally with the guards, prisoners, and staff together. They did this in order to get everyone's feelings out in the open, to recount what they had observed in each other and ourselves, and to share our experiences, which to each of us had been quite profound. They also tried to make this a time for moral reeducation by discussing the conflicts posed by this simulation and our behavior. For example, they reviewed the moral alternatives that had been available to us, so that they would be better equipped to behave morally in future real-life situations, avoiding or opposing situations that might transform ordinary individuals into willing perpetrators or victims of evil.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjSorBKH9UDMH3q1nCp3a3NaYK2fOGuAF0dQnd0V218NhCrFNaYLlN_-XnaBV0AAHaZyJLziEgyu3ywdOQYnMFt9H-CI0lW5kbqhMXRSZEl7cBcu6f27j_m9dwYEXoYp4gh_HfG0SBWCGxtfvDdGdEqHhWpU4AOc0X6U5O058FAmQaDwkTGE6oOodAILw/s1080/Screenshot_20230113-074056_YouTube.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="654" data-original-width="1080" height="388" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjSorBKH9UDMH3q1nCp3a3NaYK2fOGuAF0dQnd0V218NhCrFNaYLlN_-XnaBV0AAHaZyJLziEgyu3ywdOQYnMFt9H-CI0lW5kbqhMXRSZEl7cBcu6f27j_m9dwYEXoYp4gh_HfG0SBWCGxtfvDdGdEqHhWpU4AOc0X6U5O058FAmQaDwkTGE6oOodAILw/w640-h388/Screenshot_20230113-074056_YouTube.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjW8irlFswW25CbXnW8QGrmykKiC1Sy7UGzqAU_wd6Cc0-7gf_yvdgbvF6-oGEEVmpXAnZ5fOozZti9YLDGcbOzfWzMJ5LjE45O_MYI67GQJxK-w6MRTjhPXG8EbLtAghwGl37PyjOnqKQfi7PcNQWF_qDmxuOS78Tenc3M1Yc7AJlQXbUcYHlfNPM-2g/s500/51MJwDa6LgL.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="500" data-original-width="500" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjW8irlFswW25CbXnW8QGrmykKiC1Sy7UGzqAU_wd6Cc0-7gf_yvdgbvF6-oGEEVmpXAnZ5fOozZti9YLDGcbOzfWzMJ5LjE45O_MYI67GQJxK-w6MRTjhPXG8EbLtAghwGl37PyjOnqKQfi7PcNQWF_qDmxuOS78Tenc3M1Yc7AJlQXbUcYHlfNPM-2g/w400-h400/51MJwDa6LgL.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><p></p><p>Spectacle is capital accumulated to such a degree that it becomes an image, and in societies where modern production prevail all of life presents itself as an immense accumulation spectacle.</p><p>Spectacle can take on many forms before it reaches its absolute realization. Image as a blissful social unification through consumption. Disillusionment with life is the life-source for the spectacle carrying on. Whether its is a lifestyle, military, capitalistic, or image spectacle. </p><p>Its a mix of a treadmill dynamic and the economic foundation of capitalism created the ideology of the spectacle. Through philosophical speculation and a Marxist politics approach the spectacle has now become a boring dystopia. Philosophically it shows that we lead a boring in-authentic life, just passive phony spectators. From a philosophical stand point it is our alienation, merely observers in a world of objects, to the point that we have become objects. An army of consumers who have become what they have consumed, similar to the movie Terminal Man.</p><p>The French radical theorist Guy Debord wrote about boredom in the 20th century during a pseudo-cyclical time and how time is a marketable commodity, pointing at tourism, theme parks and subscriptions to what he called cultural consumption as examples. How life is kept at a distance as if behind glass, without intimacy and awareness. People congregating with strangers in order to experience the world as a series of mere images. Condemned to a pseudo & hyper reality. The feeling of endless repetition is contradicted by the linear time that defines capitalism production. These constant innovations are not echoed in consumption, which presents nothing but an expanded repetition of the past. Because dead labour continues to dominate living labour in spectacular time, the past continues to dominate the present. Stuck in an eternal present, stuck in an unchanging world. For Debord the material aspects of capitalism is a material realm, but the real of exploitation and production is real and really does move. Innovation occurs in the factory and in studios, in a way that it never occurs in our personal lives. </p><p>Situationist Techniques </p><p>*Dérives - ''It is an unplanned journey through a landscape, usually urban, in which participants drop their everyday relations and "let themselves be drawn by the attractions of the terrain and the encounters they find there" </p><p>*Détournement - The cut up, collage, montage, juxtaposition, the refusal of original creation, everything has already been created just put it into new creations </p><p>*Unitari-Urbanism - integrated city creations, games played on urban sites *psycho-geography - play as free and creative activity</p><p>Lettrism or ‘letters’ in French was an art movement founded in the 1940’s by Isidore Isou in Paris, influenced by the theories of Dada and Surrealism, Isidore Isou’s aim was to rewrite all of human knowledge. In order to accomplish this rewriting of all human knowledge he believed that transforming the letter and creating a new language to abolish all others would complete this. His idea of a language consisted of letters and symbols, creating a visual art. He aimed his work at all fields of knowledge including theatre, art, cinema, economics and law. His paintings including his self-portrait were covered in a layer of symbols and letters. </p><p>The movement soon expanded by attracting numerous creative people, such as Gabriel Pomerand, Maurice Lemaître and Gil J Wolman. Isou is argued to have had a connection with ideals of Futurism within his ideas. One of his main areas to deconstruct was poetry. He saw that many aspects of society including poetry, music and painting had been created with a blue print. In the case of poetry, he saw that Homer had created the blue print of poetry and that poets had simply built upon this blue print instead of creating original work. Isou wanted to be the man who radically changed the blue prints of society and become the original. He believed that deconstructing this idea through re-writing poems using symbols and letters would destroy the idea of the poem and therefore create a new Lettrism poem. </p><p>He further tried to deconstruct film and cinema by making his own film ‘Le Traité de bave et d’éternté / Treatise on Venom and Eternity (1951) where Isou destroys the concept of the classical image by using scraps of film found in trash bins, scratching graffiti on these images to make them unrecognizable. He goes even further in radically disassociating the sound and the image, viewed as two totally independent channels. The Lettrist ideals carried on into the 1990’s until Isou died in 2000. His friend Lemaitre continues to pursue the theories of Lettrism, however these techniques are on a much smaller scale than they were in the 1940’s and 1950’s. </p><p>Hurlements en faveur de Sade (English: Howlings for Sade) is a 1952 French avant-garde film directed by Guy Debord. Devoid of any images, the film was an early work of Lettrist cinema. The image track of Hurlements en faveur de Sade contains no actual images, only solid white or solid black frames. It follows the sound track such that when there is speech the screen is white, and when there is silence the screen is black. The sound track uses text détourned from Isidore Isou's book Esthétique du cinéma, John Ford's film Rio Grande, work by James Joyce, and the French Civil Code. The time between speeches becomes increasingly long throughout the film, and it ends with a 24-minute sequence of silence and darkness. </p><p>Debord wrote the original script for Hurlements en faveur de Sade during the winter of 1951–1952. His notes outlined a combination of original scenes and found footage. Debord planned to use newsreel footage, images of himself and other Lettrists, painted film stock, and sequences of solid black. For the film's soundtrack, his notes included Lettrist poetry, text by Guillaume Apollinaire, and music by Antonio Vivaldi. In April 1952 Debord published his original scenario in Ion magazine along with a preface titled "Prolégomènes à tout cinéma futur" (English: "Prolegomena to Any Future Cinema"). Debord abandoned most of his original plan for the film and instead used no images at all. He used speeches delivered by himself, Gil J. Wolman, Isidore Isou, Serge Berna [fr], and Barbara Rosenthal. Hurlements en faveur de Sade premiered 30 June 1952 at the Ciné-Club Avant-Garde 52 in the Musée de l'Homme. The audience became unruly, and the screening was stopped after twenty minutes. The film had its UK premiere in 1957 at the Institute of Contemporary Arts in London.</p><p>Orson Welles once remarked that “everything that’s been called directing is one big bluff. Editing is the only time when you can be in complete control of a film.” </p><p>Critique of Separation (1961), as should be most obvious, takes this mark as its point of critical departure, and, in more ways that one, Society of the Spectacle picks up where the former had left off, further dissecting “the official language of universal separation”, voiced here (and consequently détourned) by appearances of French government ministers and union bureaucrats integral to the restoration of spectacular order following May ’68. Here, the political leaders of spectacular society attain an unprecedented star status, and their citizenry consequently becomes reduced to passive spectatorship; images of rulers institute a one-way, top-down communicative model wherein the constituent has no autonomous voice, no means of talking back.</p><p>The spectacle, Debord argues, thrives on the repetition of commodity form, reinvesting the structure with seemingly new products and images. By compiling image after image of the commodification of life by consumer capitalism (female bodies, political figures, product advertisements, popular films, and so on), his films expose this oppressive repetition and artificial sense of the new, and, as if to help along one of the most problematic concepts in Marx’s work, Society of the Spectacle (1973) ponders the commodity’s “metaphysical subtleties” while sequentially imaging automobile showrooms and naked cover girls.</p><p>In 1951, Isou released his first movie, the experimental film Traité de bave et d'éternité (Treatise on Venom And Eternity), whose premiere took place at the Cannes Film Festival. Although the film was not officially entered in the festival, it was widely publicized in the press and its screening constituted one of the festival's fringe events. While threatening to form his own jury to judge the film, Isou went door to door, harassing the administrators of the festival until they agreed to grant him a small, peripheral exhibition. The film consisted of "four and a half hours of 'discordant' images, enhanced with scratches, shaky footage running upside down or in reverse, blank frames, stock shots and a soundtrack consisting of monologues and onomatopoeic poetry". In addition, the celluloid on which the film was recorded was attacked with destructive techniques such as scratches and bleaching.</p><p>In one of the film's voiceovers, Isou states his opinion on the medium: "I believe firstly that the cinema is too rich. It is obese. It has reached its limits, its maximum. With the first movement of widening which it will outline, the cinema will burst! Under the blow of a congestion, this greased pig will tear into a thousand pieces. I announce the destruction of the cinema, the first apocalyptic sign of disjunction, of rupture, of this corpulent and bloated organization which calls itself film."</p><p>Following its screening, the work was deemed revolting by many critics present at the premiere. The film was booed and hissed from the start, but after the first section was completed and the screen went completely blank with the audio still going, the audience was furious and the screening had to be stopped. It was, nonetheless, celebrated by Cannes jury member Jean Cocteau, who called it “the most beautiful scandal of the entire festival”and handed Isou a hastily concocted “Prix de spectateurs d’avant-garde”. Including a reflexive discourse on the making of a new cinema, Isou's film became a virtual Lettriste manifesto. Following the scandal after the film's showing at the 1951 Cannes Film Festival, it was later imported into the United States, where it influenced avant-garde film makers such as Stan Brakhage, who corresponded with Isou directly afterward and let it change his approach to the medium and to narrative entirely. In the early 1950s, one segment of Orson Welles' film journal, which was entitled Le Letrrisme est la Poesie en Vogue, included an interview with Isou and Maurice Lemaître.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2962721263288722253.post-65868436176106202932022-11-03T15:13:00.011-07:002022-11-05T07:01:10.278-07:00Elvis & Colonel Tom Parker: Conman or Genius<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgFt3NY7q_niLRz0pY8XdylOGhbsSX-juiumBzp4ye-1Ee64n2P0Jb0jdVMCbMRylExtT67BB4X8QKO7OLhAkCD4WZR6aJhdRvQW3zWY11P8PV1rM9U9RqVVyTGZXc20iJZ6KALkgqQNInFhpRrCyUgF3d9evy3iWQwF15cw55sFgNoS4zNBiXfk97MSQ/s300/download.jpeg-2.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="168" data-original-width="300" height="358" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgFt3NY7q_niLRz0pY8XdylOGhbsSX-juiumBzp4ye-1Ee64n2P0Jb0jdVMCbMRylExtT67BB4X8QKO7OLhAkCD4WZR6aJhdRvQW3zWY11P8PV1rM9U9RqVVyTGZXc20iJZ6KALkgqQNInFhpRrCyUgF3d9evy3iWQwF15cw55sFgNoS4zNBiXfk97MSQ/w640-h358/download.jpeg-2.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><p></p><p>According to last year's "The Inner Elvis," written by psychologist Peter Whitmer, Presley's problems with Parker were rooted in his desperate mama's-boy relationship with Gladys Presley. According to Whitmer, Parker was "a perfect psychological amalgam of an idealized mother. . . . After Gladys' death in 1958, Tom Parker became Gladys Presley," with whom he shared such physical attributes as a rotund body and a round face with double chin. Whitmer also writes that Gladys and the Colonel were both "masters of passive-aggressive manipulation {who} used subtle set-pieces of controlling behaviour with which they could coax and entice, rather than shout or push, to make their point. . . . Forever supplicant before those he perceived as authoritarian, in this regard Elvis was like a weather vane in a strong wind." My Boy Elvis: The Colonel Tom Parker Story is another great book on Parker.</p><p>And Tom Parker was a hurricane, one who first touched down on American shores in Hoboken, N.J., in 1927, after having stowed away on a ship. Soon after, Andres Cornelius van Kuijk became Thomas Parker and joined the Army ("Colonel" was an honorary title bestowed many years later by Louisiana Gov. Jimmie Davis, writer and first singer of "You Are My Sunshine"). After the Army, Parker gravitated to Florida, America's circus capital, and began honing the skills that would serve him so well with Presley. For a while he was an advance man for a traveling circus, slipping into a town to slap up posters, goad the local media and generally stir things up. It was a process he never abandoned, and sometimes you could find traces of that, as when Parker hired a troupe of midgets to parade around Los Angeles, provoking boat loads of copy about the Elvis Presley Midget Fan Club. Even at the height of Presley's fame, Parker himself would sometimes hawk programs, photos and buttons to fans waiting to get into a venue. That aggressive attitude was a metaphor for the Colonel's stance after Aug. 15, 1955, when Presley signed a usurious contract naming Parker his "sole and exclusive adviser, personal representative and manager." The standard manager's fee then (as now) was 10 to 15 percent, but Parker started at 25 percent. In 1966, he jacked it up to an unheard-of 50 percent.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhkFxj0Aslc8Ew1n-9sWyBLMw12VD6FhqDPTr8lcmp6hS-reiVeDMoJa6ScP41GU3tItgmhnhbGOVGi6FhJHkIGUYTiK2kuwNZwAEeEuv3UfCLmdrXACU8q9HEsYaVzRhMc0iw7KSIYT4M6lAFiD9z4cJhFoP6hp62iymtal1Ej3NiZdNZ8Zv-KCu5uhw/s1080/Screenshot_20221103-180948_Gallery.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="901" data-original-width="1080" height="534" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhkFxj0Aslc8Ew1n-9sWyBLMw12VD6FhqDPTr8lcmp6hS-reiVeDMoJa6ScP41GU3tItgmhnhbGOVGi6FhJHkIGUYTiK2kuwNZwAEeEuv3UfCLmdrXACU8q9HEsYaVzRhMc0iw7KSIYT4M6lAFiD9z4cJhFoP6hp62iymtal1Ej3NiZdNZ8Zv-KCu5uhw/w640-h534/Screenshot_20221103-180948_Gallery.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><p>When Col. Tom Parker passed away Tuesday at the age of 87, it marked the death of a super-salesman whose one and only product -- Elvis Presley -- became the catalyst for a worldwide cultural revolution. Parker, a onetime carnival barker, never had a clue about Presley's sociological impact, didn't particularly care for rock-and-roll, and certainly didn't care for the fans. They were just marks. He couldn't have cared much for Presley, either. When the singer died in August 1977, the first thing Parker told an associate was: "This won't change anything." And even as Presley was undergoing an autopsy in Memphis, Parker was putting the finishing touches on a souvenir merchandise deal, the final chapter in his client's transformation from cultural oddity to commercial commodity. Parker and Presley represent the convergence of two characters from carnival culture: the poor country boy who grabs the brass ring and the mysterious stranger who fleeces the innocent. The Colonel was often described as a cross between P.T. Barnum and W.C. Fields; in the King's court, he was combination court jester, Svengali and Robin Hood. For Parker, success was never measured by creative achievement, only by financial payoff, understandable since the bigger the pot, the bigger his portion. When million-dollar offers would come in for a concert or some other project, Parker would smile and say, "That's plenty for me, but what about my boy?" And he wasn't joking. </p><p>Everything had its price, including Parker, who offered himself for interviews at $25,000 for small talk, $100,000 for long conversation. Neither situation promised anything resembling truth, of course. Admittedly, the Colonel was a character -- fat, oblivious to fashion, possessed of a strange, unexplained accent. But he was a cipher, as well. It wasn't until Albert Goldman's 1981 Presley biography that the world learned Col. Tom Parker was really Andres van Kuijk of the Netherlands. By that time, he'd been an illegal alien here for half a century, as well as an inadvertent cultural revolutionary by proxy. And just as Presley's greatest fear was that everything would suddenly disappear, fear of discovery and deportation kept Parker from ever fully enjoying the fruits of his client's labors. Parker was the world's highest-paid manager. And since he demanded additional payments as adviser, consultant, technical director and so on, he actually made more in commissions and consultancies on some films than Presley did.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjWi5BHOjoiGdWtaWz0uq8fP_zh_H0qZVShK36U9x0zjsjk4w_cb3teqN9HNj1LiG5UurypRT_a3s9r1tRmDvQiHr5YZ3jmj9FPpYBJwzku2gPvrfRuA7Xk8213XSX7C6DWvu35z1XqXTRfVoj6FrMoT-AnW7snNt7zSGdmmZfkwyAexEZsEH4kERtvGA/s643/1970-elvis-presley-2.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="643" data-original-width="608" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjWi5BHOjoiGdWtaWz0uq8fP_zh_H0qZVShK36U9x0zjsjk4w_cb3teqN9HNj1LiG5UurypRT_a3s9r1tRmDvQiHr5YZ3jmj9FPpYBJwzku2gPvrfRuA7Xk8213XSX7C6DWvu35z1XqXTRfVoj6FrMoT-AnW7snNt7zSGdmmZfkwyAexEZsEH4kERtvGA/w606-h640/1970-elvis-presley-2.jpg" width="606" /></a></div><p>About the same time as the RCA deal, Parker formed Boxcar Enterprises to handle Elvis merchandising, with Presley getting only 15 percent. Eventually, of course, the dancing chickens came home to roost. During an estate hearing in 1980, an alert Memphis judge questioned Parker's 50-percent commission as well as other elements of his contract and appointed a lawyer to represent and defend the interests of Lisa Marie Presley, then 13. The court subsequently declared Parker "guilty of self-dealing and overreaching" and said he had "handled affairs not in Elvis's but his own interest." Calling Elvis "naive, shy and unassertive" and Parker "aggressive, shrewd and tough," it closed the book on any further dealings between him and the estate. After being exposed in Goldman's Presley book and sued by the Presley estate, the Colonel proved wily as ever. He filed legal papers suggesting that since he'd served in the U.S. Army without permission from the Dutch government, he had automatically forfeited his citizenship there. Since he had never applied for U.S. citizenship, he was essentially a man without a country and no one had jurisdiction over him. Such tactics delayed resolution so long that the Presley estate finally settled with Parker, and he received a $2 million settlement from RCA Records. That was the last money he made from Elvis. </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEggyIaIp8vPTNypAQ3HhWSWKKCw2GDYMHUyTHyp0Qby3jFWMfg4JSkOSgpXoPrDXvYPRQ_3Ep5aBo2vi0-tVYDW84mjbo1ntyaVrcIzpSobDmM8pY0JACx8-Rzn7YQ7bkD6PG_XJNg-puc2hk-ZKJm2aTvv1n9T_ZrpUq_y-NnZH_3QRcvG4W_-9ziavA/s533/snowman-league-handbook.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="533" data-original-width="371" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEggyIaIp8vPTNypAQ3HhWSWKKCw2GDYMHUyTHyp0Qby3jFWMfg4JSkOSgpXoPrDXvYPRQ_3Ep5aBo2vi0-tVYDW84mjbo1ntyaVrcIzpSobDmM8pY0JACx8-Rzn7YQ7bkD6PG_XJNg-puc2hk-ZKJm2aTvv1n9T_ZrpUq_y-NnZH_3QRcvG4W_-9ziavA/w446-h640/snowman-league-handbook.jpg" width="446" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjMuPytMD2psf5JZNIxnWLeY_elHjO_Q6rQC2jjDn8ZQAjfIp1aDr38S1owiLJC2PcXBsdgR8c2G8ipk8TOggjEjB3LKdK-fZ0bfIvcA0ouYwTbE4FpUf2MuVim3FzN1XgxcAb2hdonVwYuKoRkS8avjDmrd9worN7p3X6Cco7AFuv1heTkZVGJKbMimw/s320/snowmens-league-of-america_snowcard.gif" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="216" data-original-width="320" height="432" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjMuPytMD2psf5JZNIxnWLeY_elHjO_Q6rQC2jjDn8ZQAjfIp1aDr38S1owiLJC2PcXBsdgR8c2G8ipk8TOggjEjB3LKdK-fZ0bfIvcA0ouYwTbE4FpUf2MuVim3FzN1XgxcAb2hdonVwYuKoRkS8avjDmrd9worN7p3X6Cco7AFuv1heTkZVGJKbMimw/w640-h432/snowmens-league-of-america_snowcard.gif" width="640" /></a></div><p>The Colonel had a bag of tricks that went all the way back to his carny days such as:</p><p></p><ul style="text-align: left;"><li>Selling Elvis to Hollywood ''I dont want to read the script cose I cant read and write but how much are you going to pay me? We'll give you $25k. -That is exactly what I wanted, but how much are you going to pay Elvis?</li><li>Never letting Elvis play to venues that aren't overflowing with people out onto the street.</li><li>Telling promoters that they can have Elvis for $12k when other promoters are paying $10k for him.</li><li>In the circus the Colonel had a dancing chicken act. The chicken danced because it was standing on a hot plate.</li><li>Only released a limited number of records per year not to saturate the market.</li><li>Invented an exclusive club called the Snowmens League Of America to keep people loyal. It was free to join but $1k to leave. The club celebrated the art of the con trick. ''We've never lost a member yet.''</li><li> He would get his watch out and hypnotise members of the Memphis Mafia and make them pretend to be a dog.</li><li>He would solicit donations for dogs, and also charge people to bury their dogs, charge grieving people if they wanted flowers, and also providing mini tombstones.</li><li>To check if Elvis wasnt too fat for his next movie he would have girls hug his waist to see if he'd put in extra weight.</li><li>Made Elvis pretend to be single so women would think he was available.</li><li>Used TV commercials with the only word being ELVIS!</li><li>Threatened the Presley family after Elvis died, that he was gonna build an Elvis museum, complete with a massive parking lot. The Presley family settled in buying the whole of the Colonels memorabilia museum for $1million. The biggest snow job he did.</li><li>Sold advertising space in his unpublished/unwritten autobiography book 'How Much Does It Cost If It's Free.' </li><li>While working at a hotdog booth in Florida, to make extra money he would cut out the middle bit on the foot long hot dog, fill the middle with sauerkraut and just have the meat sticking out at both ends. If someone complained he would say that they must have dropped it. </li><li>He made ends meet by painting sparrows yellow and selling them as canaries.</li><li>If Elvis wore his own clothes in a movie he was entitled to an extra $10k, even if he was only wearing a watch.</li><li>In 1973 he organized a live world satellite telecast. He got the idea after watching Nixon's live broadcast from China.</li><li>Sold 'I Hate Elvis' badges.</li><li>He considered his artists his main passion, ''you're my hobby''.</li><li>He invented the patent medicine Hadacol drink which included alcohol.</li><li>Sensing a marketing opportunity that no music manager had every considered before, Colonel Parker signed a deal with a Beverly Hills movie merchandiser for $40,000. </li><li>In just a few months, over 50 different Elvis-themed products were produced, from charm bracelets and necklaces, to scarves, teddy bear perfume, Topps bubble gum cards, and sneakers... to record players, hats, and lipsticks in "Heartbreak Pink" and "Hound Dog Orange" - sold with the slogan, "Keep Me Always On Your Lips."</li><li> When asked about the deal between him and Elvis, the Colonel responded: “That’s not true at all. He takes 50 per cent of everything I earn.”</li><li>He'd say ''this is probably gonna be Elvis' last film so we should double the price.''</li><li>Even after his death, Parker continued business as usual: 'Elvis didn't die,' he said, 'The body did.' </li><li>The Snowmen's League Of America booklet only had two written pages then all the other pages were blank. ''A real Snowman reads between the lines.''</li><li>He liked to rub peoples curly hair and say ''now you can tell people the Colonel rubbed your head, you're gonna be a star!''</li><li>Gradually, Parker eased out competition to become the gyrating teen's 'sole and exclusive adviser, personal representative and manager.' So read their ironclad contract. </li><li>He used to say, 'You don't have to be nice to people on the way up if you're not coming back down.'</li><li>He sold 500 spare penmamt sticks as ''Elvis special Pearl Harbour Day special: Teddy Bear Toothpicks'' to the Vegas hotel's Japanese tourists. </li><li>One of his fav saying was ''I'll be very happy if you buy something.''</li><li>To build credit with Las Vegas casino managers he would send someone to borrow $500, he'd than put it in an evelope in his desk, not touch it, and at the end of the Las Vegas residency give it back.</li><li>He would send his assistant Kenny Wynn on a 4 hour flight from Vegas to Palm Springs to pick up some catfish in his fridge and then fly back to Vegas.</li><li>He had a very unusual mind. Most people have one voice of inner dialogue. It's our inner thought. We think all the time, words are formulated in our minds. That's our thinking process. Colonel had multi levels of inner dialogue.</li><li>Parker had total recall. Colonel never made notes. He carried everything in his mind. And when someone would ask him a question about something that occurred maybe six months ago, or 20 years ago, his replay invariably was, 'Let me run my tapes'. And he would sit for a minute, and then he would bring the answer out.</li><li>He bought 900 pairs of binoculars from Army surplus for 90 cents a pair and sold them at a dollar each (10 cent profit) at the back of the auditorium. 'They had just plain glass in them, but they looked good' he admitted.</li><li>During his carnival days he gypped rube carnival goers with a quarter glued to the side of his ring.</li><li>When he was a dog catcher in order to give the dogs new homes he would hild contests for people to win a dog.</li><li>He also had a Flower Contract and people would pay him to put fresh flowers on peoples graves. Only he would go at night to different florists and get the old flowers for free. When people complained that the flowers didnt look good he would say '' well you should have been here yesteday they looked wonderful.''</li><li><br /></li></ul><p></p><p><br /></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2962721263288722253.post-27228304293874126632022-10-24T09:22:00.004-07:002022-10-24T09:23:08.524-07:00The Weirdest Record Ever Made: The Sounds of American Doomsday Cults<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEijrVpSP5Q6_aO3FQZW1PUfMaps0CdKyukm-kuoXyYSgjcYkA-cBQwA3c4nak73b-jOHTlLFG9qPqieY-ugd5qlsdFzDOcHIdSgQa85-v5gWnmV6gWl6mFUKPtUoks5b8yfeWBFfTzXYp5ophRWWSMMWep5bcX7a7uH0BngcDYUUYecd2FSL9fQBDeYoA/s400/Church_Universal_And_Triumphant__Inc._Featuring_Elizabeth_Clare_Prophet_1390411528_resize_460x400.jpeg.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="400" data-original-width="400" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEijrVpSP5Q6_aO3FQZW1PUfMaps0CdKyukm-kuoXyYSgjcYkA-cBQwA3c4nak73b-jOHTlLFG9qPqieY-ugd5qlsdFzDOcHIdSgQa85-v5gWnmV6gWl6mFUKPtUoks5b8yfeWBFfTzXYp5ophRWWSMMWep5bcX7a7uH0BngcDYUUYecd2FSL9fQBDeYoA/w640-h640/Church_Universal_And_Triumphant__Inc._Featuring_Elizabeth_Clare_Prophet_1390411528_resize_460x400.jpeg.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><p></p><p>Isn’t it weird? How do they do that with their voices [ululates manically]? There’s a really good documentary called Death Cults or something, and it shows you them digging this enormous bunker, and [Elizabeth Clare Prophet] says: “The world is going to end on this date with a nuclear war”. The bunker’s not finished on time, but they go down anyway, come back out about a week later and the world hasn’t changed [laughs]. She says the master’s order wasn’t right, and that the world will actually be in four or five months. So they all go back down, and it doesn’t happen. It turns out she has brain tumours, which probably explains the entire cult, and then she dies. But it’s still going! They interviewed them a few years later. The women all look like Elizabeth Clare, with their suburban haircuts and clothes, and big smiles! There’s one piece on the album where they’re cursing pop music, and it’s just stunning. Hilarious. We play them at the beginning when we DJ!</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/PbmSaTGQj_Y" width="320" youtube-src-id="PbmSaTGQj_Y"></iframe></div><br /><p><br /></p><p>“Together,” a man's voice intones. And then an onslaught of voices. Two are in front, a man and a woman; if they’re actually saying words, they're impossible to decipher. It's just syllables rolling together, the sound of lips flapping and tongues rolling over a single note. There’s something insectine about it, its nasality and its density, like a fog of cicadas descending. Occasionally—every few minutes or so—both of the leads stop to take a breath. You can really hear the congregation then: hundreds, maybe thousands of voices droning in a cavernous room, every tone and pitch in the musical spectrum. It is a great, heaving cloud of voices.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjMpnqc3yYPvq7NEujuGDl43Q7KF5GS_P9PaKFtuYTp5jV7BM931-MxXw2FJph0Va2VhsGljvaQENjF3slbzHyM5T1thwTKoJkUhZrdRGE-RhamiBJDqKBkdU5PIDD11Nhy2CEaRe7bGHuObAuwtbfvCuJL0Hvns6aOu-RGKK18Z2V34eyUB6fdBn5rlw/s480/hqdefault.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="360" data-original-width="480" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjMpnqc3yYPvq7NEujuGDl43Q7KF5GS_P9PaKFtuYTp5jV7BM931-MxXw2FJph0Va2VhsGljvaQENjF3slbzHyM5T1thwTKoJkUhZrdRGE-RhamiBJDqKBkdU5PIDD11Nhy2CEaRe7bGHuObAuwtbfvCuJL0Hvns6aOu-RGKK18Z2V34eyUB6fdBn5rlw/w640-h480/hqdefault.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><p>I’ve heard mantras and chants before but this sounds different. It’s insistent, for one thing. The energy is turned outward, instead of inward. And the intensity jacks upward every five minutes or so, the voices all become louder together and raise pitch a half-step, like a phalanx of semi trucks shifting up at the same time. After 27 minutes of these intensifications, the chanting is fast, high-pitched, the kind of thing that makes your eyeballs want to jump out of their sockets. The image in the mind is a congregation in the thousands, knelt down, eyes rolled back, filling their lungs with their intentions. What are they asking for? Then, abruptly, it stops. “Please be seated,” says the woman.</p><p>I looked it up right after the first time I heard it—on a late night show on WFMU, New York’s venerable free-form radio station—and located it online right away. It’s an old recording of the Church Universal and Triumphant, from an album entitled Sounds of American Doomsday Cults, Vol 14, released by a mysterious imprint called Faithways International. The cover, which had been copied and posted online along with mp3 files, is austere, an obvious homage to the old Smithsonian Folkways releases—a picture of a lighthouse, lime green and pink background. As far as anyone on the internet knew, there were no Sounds of American Doomsday Cults Volumes 1 through 13. The label, according to the internet, had only one other release to its name: a collection of original tunes by Aum Shinrikyo, the cult that killed 12 Japanese subway commuters in a terrorist attack in 1995. History and half-researched mythology blend together in the internet’s accounting of the Church Universal and Triumphant recording’s origins. CUT was a group in rural Montana that was at one time centered around Elizabeth Clare Prophet, who believed herself a reincarnation of Marie Antoinette and Guinevere who could channel a pantheon of saints that included Jesus, Hercules, and Shiva. Pictures show a woman with a perm and a dead-eyed grin—perhaps the most homespun-looking doomsday cult leader of all time. It was Prophet's voice I’d heard leading the chant. The recording originated sometime in the mid-80s. No one knew who had made the recording. No one knew who Faithways International was. No one knew where Sounds of American Doomsday Cults, Vol. 14 had come from. I reached out to the DJ who’d played it on his show—they were just some mp3s he’d found online a few years ago, he said.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgdGIw6umGhxJBazqswa4BMedqCY07_S5pLQjv85bOUKTMJDfKLOGXuW_1UbVp9dzBcjr8j8BZoIeqo-5wVhQiTiSeQhw9T5ItjgutIRdVrMw5b7-VEK896lCugH7yBCKJkTa8Gavl56MZwgz3TdTnET_vHKhWmPJwe39vYsrvLlliP7N2Fs9lNDhXHNA/s480/hqdefault-1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="360" data-original-width="480" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgdGIw6umGhxJBazqswa4BMedqCY07_S5pLQjv85bOUKTMJDfKLOGXuW_1UbVp9dzBcjr8j8BZoIeqo-5wVhQiTiSeQhw9T5ItjgutIRdVrMw5b7-VEK896lCugH7yBCKJkTa8Gavl56MZwgz3TdTnET_vHKhWmPJwe39vYsrvLlliP7N2Fs9lNDhXHNA/w640-h480/hqdefault-1.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><p>I downloaded them. The entire recording is plainly amazing. Sitting through the entire 27-minute chant is a rush, consuming and burying, like being swallowed up by human voices. It has a touch of the supernatural; it exists somewhere beyond music. It’s thoroughly of its own making, science fictional. The rest of the recording is maybe even more fascinating: an entire Church Universal and Triumphant service dedicated to “the tackling of the beast and the dragon—the momentum of rock ‘n’ roll.” Mostly, it’s Prophet’s voice, preaching about the sexual perversion of rock music, saying outrageous things that are both hilarious and truly inspired. Chanting alone, she prays for those “subverted by the syncopated rhythm of the fallen ones and the misuse of the 4/4 time.” She “calls on the electronic solar rings of the great central sun.” She plays the music video for Tina Turner’s “Better Be Good to Me." The man, when it’s his turn, "calls forth the sacred fire” in nasally solemnity on a list of 71 contemporary rock and roll celebrities including Michael Jackson, Kenny Loggins, the Alan Parsons Project, “Cyndi Looper,” and “Scooby Dooby Doo." I felt like I’d found a buried amulet. There was something slightly morbid and voyeuristic about my interest—these are, after all, real people’s prayers. I wanted to know what I was hearing; what the room looked like; what they were saying. And who was this shady Faithways International label that put the album out? With slightly nosy intentions—like flipping through the pages of someone else’s family bible—I tried to find where it had come from.</p><p>I was joining a group of curious listeners, sound artists, and avant garde music obsessives who have been fascinated by the recordings for decades. The spoken parts of the album—the parts about Tina Turner and Cyndi Looper—had been a hit for years with underground DJs and experimental composers. Genesis P-Orridge of Throbbing Gristle once said they brought it with them every time they DJed. Negativland, dissident sound collagists and copyright crusaders who’d once thrown down with U2, sampled the “sacred fire” rock ‘n’ roll-call on a piece called “Michael Jackson” way back in 1987. Fatboy Slim sampled it in 1996 and also called his piece “Michael Jackson.” Negativland's Mark Hosler said they found the original tape of the Church Universal and Triumphant service back in the mid-80s. It was titled “Rock ’n’ Roll Exposé #1,” copyright Church Universal and Triumphant, Inc. This wasn’t the Sounds of American Doomsday Cults CD, but the source material.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgceDNo_wS2yoYeJCoaZT85cYsuW8c0-jknNFBMQMH8abyZ2gC8D0HHdFID9YjZQ9nslw_L5YJESHlh3cRjLbguzyBubGOizTkiBv_7wsDx707-ukoF6KozSDlv41fcKYPII3KzEyTfSM7l7Di_Qmjv2d5V5d18mcnx_HEfdJD31u27kAWo3raTqG_qcQ/s500/17prophet.500.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="500" data-original-width="338" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgceDNo_wS2yoYeJCoaZT85cYsuW8c0-jknNFBMQMH8abyZ2gC8D0HHdFID9YjZQ9nslw_L5YJESHlh3cRjLbguzyBubGOizTkiBv_7wsDx707-ukoF6KozSDlv41fcKYPII3KzEyTfSM7l7Di_Qmjv2d5V5d18mcnx_HEfdJD31u27kAWo3raTqG_qcQ/w432-h640/17prophet.500.jpg" width="432" /></a></div><p>"It sure wowed us back then,” Hosler told me. “[It] cried out to be used.” But it wasn’t Hosler who found the tape—he said it was either band members Ian Allen or Don Joyce. Could either of them have been behind Faithways International? We might never know—they both sadly passed away earlier this year—though it doesn’t seem likely. A hard copy of Sounds of American Doomsday Cults, Vol. 14, which was issued by Faithways in 2000, is not easy to find. It’s out of print; every once in awhile, someone puts a CD or vinyl copy of it on sale for $100 (outside my writerly budget). I called Aquarius Records, the oldest record store in San Francisco, the city where everyone who discovered the recording seemed to have found it. But since the CD is out of print, the store doesn’t carry it anymore. And none of the people I talked to there knew where it came from (though one clerk said he still subscribes to new recordings from the church—they still put them out on CD-R and ship through the US Postal Service—because “they’re awesome”).</p><p>I eventually found a copy on the internet’s back pages—a guy named Earl Kuck was selling them on his website, Tedium House. He told me he bought a box of the CDs at a record fair in San Francisco ten years ago. He sent it to me in a package along with a wooden snake, the last page of an angry hand-written note, and a copy of Le Carillon by the Autumns. The packaging of the CD is simple—a pink booklet with two reprint news articles about the cult and nothing in the way of credits. Kuck said he didn’t know where the CDs he bought had come from, but he thought someone in Australia had made them. He connected me with another San Francisco friend, a guy named “Seymour Glass” who’d reviewed the “Rock ’n’ Roll Exposé” version of the tape for his underground zine Bananafish. “Glass" had an experience similar to mine when he heard it. “The first time I listened to the tape, I sat staring at my stereo with mouth agape for the duration,” he wrote. “I returned to the bookstore and bought every copy they had. I’ve made more recordings of this tape than any other.” I managed to get a hold of “Glass” (the name on his email was “Maria Estevez”) who confirmed he found the tape at a since-shuttered bookshop in San Francisco, which led him to lament "the plague of start-ups and luxury condos” in the city. "I have a long history of exploiting (I guess you could say) these recordings I love,” he wrote me, "and have been told numerous times that I am suspected as, if not assumed to be, the disc's midwife. It's nice to be remembered."</p><p>Now, I had it on background that “Glass" and Kuck are the same person and that neither name (surprise!) is real. It would make sense that they/he were the one/s who put together the Doomsday Cults CD from the original tape. Both claimed they didn’t know its origins, which was, of course, in keeping with the tone and tenor of this whole affair. I became convinced—and still am— these merry pranksters were, in fact, the “midwives” of the CD; that they'd taken the old tape and cleverly repackaging it. But they’d never tell me if they did, so I kept poking around for good measure. (I told Kuck I had heard him and "Glass" had never been seen together in the same room. He replied: "He and I are in the same room together frequently. People just aren't observant enough to notice.") Brian Turner was, as far as I could tell, the first WFMU DJ to spin Doomsday Cults 15 years ago, when it was first released by Faithways. He’s also the music director. I was sure he would have some insight. He didn’t know where it came from, but he said that when it first came out in 2000, he’d gotten his own copy in the mail. That’s not that weird for him—he’s the music director at a radio station, after all—but when he opened the package, he was startled to find he was thanked by name in the credits. He ventured a couple guesses about who put it out. "Elizabeth Clare Prophet has been touted by weird sound connoisseurs like [Gregg] Turkington, [Germs and Ariel Pink drummer] Don Bolles, and the ilk,” Turner told me. Otherwise, he had no clue.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjhBo0aHI0GJNaHve_TLzOSikQuapaKcghzog9Yp2-Qjurqotv4SUzXPU2hUKKF1K511bgDBtO4EkrPrLPAUcttfZfXDZXsMXKsq8So_6-6I0-4Sm8mzs9xBNsFEXWY4OU2rNKKAS6at_UZCu-h-44PiSre-CnsYfi0AqCcYtndLlMPjLtyvpiK6A1QfA/s1039/elizabeth-clare-prophet-660694e3-3c29-4d84-b7c2-16ac4971e26-resize-750.jpeg.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1039" data-original-width="750" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjhBo0aHI0GJNaHve_TLzOSikQuapaKcghzog9Yp2-Qjurqotv4SUzXPU2hUKKF1K511bgDBtO4EkrPrLPAUcttfZfXDZXsMXKsq8So_6-6I0-4Sm8mzs9xBNsFEXWY4OU2rNKKAS6at_UZCu-h-44PiSre-CnsYfi0AqCcYtndLlMPjLtyvpiK6A1QfA/w462-h640/elizabeth-clare-prophet-660694e3-3c29-4d84-b7c2-16ac4971e26-resize-750.jpeg.jpg" width="462" /></a></div><p>Gregg Turkington is famous in the comedy world for creating the Neil Hamburger anti-comedian character. He’s also Australian. I felt like I might have been on the right track. I reached out to him right away, but got only a brief message in reply: "I had nothing to do with that record,” he wrote. “I have no idea who actually was behind it… though if I recall correctly, I'm thanked in the liner notes.” I got a reply back from Don Bolles right after. “No,” he wrote. “But my name was on it.” Elizabeth Clare Prophet laughed at us from beyond the grave.</p><p>In 1875, a Russian immigrant in New York City named Helena Blavatsky formed the Theosophical Society with her friends. Blavatsky claimed to communicate with a host of spirits, including Jesus. The society sought to unite world religions into a single belief system, and by the time she died in 1891—of influenza, at the top of a growing organization, besieged with accusations of fraud—she’d launched Theosophical Society enclaves in India, Europe, and Russia. Forty years later, Theosophy had made headway in America—including to Chicago, where Guy Ballard, a Blavatsky acolyte, founded the I AM movement in the early 30s with his wife Edna. Ballard, like Blavatsky, believed he could communicate with a spiritual dream team, whom he referred to as the Ascended Masters and expanded to include Buddha, Confucius, and the Virgin Mary. (He believed himself to be the reincarnation of George Washington.) The Ballards led their growing membership through marathon “decrees”—composed prayers shouted out loud by the entire congregation during services. In 1939, Ballard died suddenly, and immediately afterward, Edna and their son Don were both indicted by the federal government for mail fraud (which they fought and won before the Supreme Court in 1946). The I AM movement, like the Theosophy Society, had sprouted many groups of followers.</p><p>One of those followers, Mark L. Prophet (his honest-to-God birth name) founded the Summit Lighthouse in 1958. Like Ballard, Prophet claimed to communicate with venerable ghosts (he adds Hercules and Shakespeare and many more to the list). Like Ballard, claimed to have been reincarnated (in his case, Sir Lancelot and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow); and, like Ballard, Prophet's wife Elizabeth Clare could chat with Ascended Masters, too. The New Age movement of the 70s provided a glut of washed out and disenchanted hippies that swelled the Summit Lighthouse's membership rolls. Like the Ballards before them, the Prophets wrote decrees for the congregation to chant, but with less shouting and more of a controlled drone. During services, the Prophets would specify an intention—for example, the judgment and destruction of rock music—and the congregation believed their decrees, if they were forceful enough, could make the intentions come true. They could turn the tides of history without going outside the walls of their sanctuary. (In other words, what I’d heard as music, church members considered serious prayer.) Sometimes, while the congregation decreed, Elizabeth would swing an actual steel sword over her head, sometimes for hours. The faithful called her “Guru Ma." When Mark Prophet died in 1973, Elizabeth moved the church to Los Angeles and renamed it Church Universal and Triumphant. In 1986, as she amassed members and money, she moved again, to a 30,000 acre ranch just north of Yellowstone National Park she bought from Malcolm Forbes.</p><p>In these days, Elizabeth Clare Prophet is on fire. She’s built the Church Universal and Triumphant into a religion with something like 30,000 adherents. She’s leading marathon services to 2,000-or-so believers who live with her in Montana. And she’s starting to get messages from the Ascended Masters about doomsday. She shifts the church into full-on prepper mode. The church commenced building underground fallout shelters big enough to house 750 people, started stocking weapons, and stored thousands of gallons of gas in giant tanks. In the early 1990s, she told followers that Soviet nuclear missiles would fall on the United States at midnight on March 15. Local pharmacies reported being sold out of medicine, Band-Aids, bottles of water; banks said customers were lining up to close their savings accounts. "It's bizarre,” a bank official told the Los Angeles Times in March. "They don't want to wait, they want it now, and they want it in cash."</p><p>One night near the apocalypse, one of the church’s members, packing up his things, had his own kind of religious epiphany. It centered on the band Rush. 25-year-old Sean Prophet, only son of Elizabeth and Mark, often helped his mother spread her anti-rock and roll propaganda, but he nursed a secret: He loved prog rock. That night, Sean impulsively put on his headphones and listened to Power Windows—for research, he told himself—and was surprised to find himself moved to tears. He listened to at least five more Rush albums that night. Later, he wrote, "the idea that such talented musicians could be 'fallen ones' as the church taught just didn’t add up. They felt like brothers to me.” The experience changed him. He decided he’d stick around to see if the world did in fact end (never hurts to hedge your bets) and if it didn’t, he was out.</p><p>On the night of March 15, hundreds of adherents crouched in the cult’s homemade shelters, amid fetid buckets of human waste (the plumbing wasn’t finished yet). The sun set on the compound that night and (surprise!) rose again the next morning. Devotees started to pack up and go home. Sean and his family cut their final ties with the cult in 1993. (Incidentally, one of Sean's sons, Chris, grew up to play drums in Horse the Band.) In 1999, Elizabeth stepped down from the church—she’d developed Alzheimer’s—and died in 2009. The Church Universal and Triumphant does still exist, albeit diminished both in its scale and mission. I like Sean. He’s affable, doesn’t mind digging into the details of the church, and seems as inspired now, as a radical free-thinker, as he ever could have been the child of a cult leader. We talk about growing up in the cult. I couldn’t wait to ask him about the decrees. “I haven’t talked to anyone about this in years,” he told me. It turns out, Sean is the one who recorded the “Rock ’n’ Roll Exposé #1” tape—the one that Seymour Glass and Ian and Don from Negativland found at local junk stores. The one that someone out there had released as Sounds of American Doomsday Cults, Vol 14. In the 80s, Sean had headed a 25-person team that made audio and video tapes to mail to devotees scattered around the world. The team cranked out tapes like “Rock ’n’ Roll Exposé" on a weekly basis.</p><p>these old tapes—it’s tapping into a world I know nothing about, extracting a 27-minute sample, and burying myself in it like it’s any old experimental recording. There’s a world beyond the recording I'll never grasp; a web of believers who were (and perhaps still are) enraptured, mislead, and manipulated. I feel in some way that it’s unfair to dig into the recording without fully appreciating its origins. It’s a door I’m not ready to open. But I can’t just stop my fascination with the tape, either.</p><p>I think back on the conversation I had with Mark Hosler of Negativland—a pioneer of this tape, in a weird way as much an expert as anyone. Hosler and other artists are able to appreciate these sounds as wholly independent—as much a product of the geeks who’ve dubbed it thousands of times as it is of a secluded doomsday cult in Montana. “We have a true love and tender appreciation for all the weird things we have collaged in our work over the last 35 years, this tape included,” Hosler told me. "It's never a patronizing or sneering or hateful thing, though perhaps some listeners mistakenly guess otherwise. It's more like amazement and stunned admiration that humans being can be so incredibly odd and unusual."</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2962721263288722253.post-54682230761544264602022-10-17T23:31:00.033-07:002023-02-07T00:53:12.534-08:00Ian Curtis & his disturbing 'Epileptic Dance'<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEizG6qH0jjOUKVVTj7iBXicTWFfWy3q7EHwW3Ejm0Q0QcL_bte42XIcwEfhewPbWxBRGVtmKHfPcm-HI-lxLHqR8RQbFnBan6TqcUuSJLeBCDUn2qBzPvS7RHjO_W4MtYNP3I55-XBAhKrs_y5C8okfA2jYUxBMPaAiS32epJRNM9FM1l42b3a0p7fUtA/s1191/8f7ae5264089441dbdb01fcb4c3d5d47.webp" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1191" data-original-width="770" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEizG6qH0jjOUKVVTj7iBXicTWFfWy3q7EHwW3Ejm0Q0QcL_bte42XIcwEfhewPbWxBRGVtmKHfPcm-HI-lxLHqR8RQbFnBan6TqcUuSJLeBCDUn2qBzPvS7RHjO_W4MtYNP3I55-XBAhKrs_y5C8okfA2jYUxBMPaAiS32epJRNM9FM1l42b3a0p7fUtA/w414-h640/8f7ae5264089441dbdb01fcb4c3d5d47.webp" width="414" /></a></div><p>Ian Curtis the demonic ring master, a man passessed, electrified by his own scowling intense music, lost in his own world, as he marches back and forth like a crazed <i>Wehrmacht</i> sentry, rhythmically clutching at imaginary ghosts. Peer closer, and his eyes are glazed and haunted. It's as if he's seeing something we cant. Maybe he was.</p><p>After watching all the video's of his performances cult filmmaker <i>Fabrizio Federico</i> noticed that ''the audiences loved him because he made them gape with astonishment with his unique cataclysmic choreographic style. His brooding haunting vocal delivery was the icying on the cake. Ian was a crooner from a black hole from the underworld, the voice of a dark lord from a terrifying void from centuries past. The phenomenal vacancy and desolation in his eyes as he loses himself to the music is astounding. You can feel the power of the music going through him, but he's not excited, he's terrified. His dancing showed us what the music looked like. There was desperation, anger, honesty and fear in his dancing, with the weight of the world on his shoulders as he danced like a lost marionette. He was mesmerizing and trying to escape from his body, like a helpless puppet on some strings. This style of dancing can be traced back to <i>David Bowie</i> performing Stay on the Dinah Shore TV show. His impulsive, choppy dancing is a strange counter-balance to his lifless eyes.'' </p><p>Ian was possessed by some very strong powers onstage, while his band created emotional, icy magic, his soul-searching performances made him vulnerable and immolated, like he was in another world, appearing both very powerful and very fragile. He'd come onstage looking very shy and quiet, and then he would go inside and take comand, as if he was pluged into a huge electrical voltage, twitching and jerking. This tranced out symbol of a human being. When he shook himself into a frenzy you didnt know where it was gonna take you, like a performance artist who sacrificed a part of them selves. He treated each show as a laboratory experiment, performing each show as if it were his last. With his dancing Ian had tapped into unknown dark forces that lurked beneath the surface of everyday life. </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhVBM866mJ21OYKgGze8_kgULw8FrqlbfkANsW38wXjOB9hmgy4DoiMo4ZmXQo1WDuUqyKc1dbLvdnNUc-4SayNfhBNgWGavCVv78Jx94kgIUTpTgeONi5GILhfoiISF0Hu3Uj_tESYaKQ9YxvY732SAAJwtEumJVjJataieTGCw3zJvgHAXih-JyLgUw/s500/7a3caf087fe0d36cad8acb7718f2391c.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="363" data-original-width="500" height="464" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhVBM866mJ21OYKgGze8_kgULw8FrqlbfkANsW38wXjOB9hmgy4DoiMo4ZmXQo1WDuUqyKc1dbLvdnNUc-4SayNfhBNgWGavCVv78Jx94kgIUTpTgeONi5GILhfoiISF0Hu3Uj_tESYaKQ9YxvY732SAAJwtEumJVjJataieTGCw3zJvgHAXih-JyLgUw/w640-h464/7a3caf087fe0d36cad8acb7718f2391c.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjWYyL71pmiEqJ9hTn75iHu2ZlxHxOhXiHw_Q3jqQP8XndokGbYKZtrkf2TGFNWlznEhAS6ucvy6l7I8dwNbtDGXobc80OZbjxtwJLUeqIsCgrnFoc6MP65XHsFeN8vDS1TXyJvL28xFMn3lwYBWlf2UdHzlSSRBqrW4Y80NJaw_-TceKgCfXOFtSihUg/s750/a1057e405fd108779c03d597cdcef48e.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="750" data-original-width="483" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjWYyL71pmiEqJ9hTn75iHu2ZlxHxOhXiHw_Q3jqQP8XndokGbYKZtrkf2TGFNWlznEhAS6ucvy6l7I8dwNbtDGXobc80OZbjxtwJLUeqIsCgrnFoc6MP65XHsFeN8vDS1TXyJvL28xFMn3lwYBWlf2UdHzlSSRBqrW4Y80NJaw_-TceKgCfXOFtSihUg/w412-h640/a1057e405fd108779c03d597cdcef48e.jpg" width="412" /></a></div><p>Through his lyrics he had powerful psychic abilities, he was a channel for the Gestalt. A lightning conductor. Haunted by the spirits of the past like in the song Dead Souls. Here Ian cast a spell that felt more like an invocation as he spelled it out: ''Someone take these dreams away, that point me to another day.'' It went beyond aesthetics into something undeniable, making the hairs stand up on the back of your neck. There were forces that lurked beneath the surface of everyday life, and Ian had tapped into them.</p><div class="ujudUb" jsname="U8S5sf" style="background-color: white; color: #4d5156; margin-bottom: 16px; max-height: 999999px;"><i><span style="font-family: arial;"><span jsname="YS01Ge" style="max-height: 999999px;">Someone take these dreams away</span><br aria-hidden="true" style="max-height: 999999px;" /><span jsname="YS01Ge" style="max-height: 999999px;">That point me to another day</span><br aria-hidden="true" style="max-height: 999999px;" /><span jsname="YS01Ge" style="max-height: 999999px;">A duel of personalities</span><br aria-hidden="true" style="max-height: 999999px;" /><span jsname="YS01Ge" style="max-height: 999999px;">That stretch all true realities</span></span></i></div><div class="ujudUb" jsname="U8S5sf" style="background-color: white; color: #4d5156; margin-bottom: 16px; max-height: 999999px;"><i><span style="font-family: arial;"><span jsname="YS01Ge" style="max-height: 999999px;">That keep calling me</span><br aria-hidden="true" style="max-height: 999999px;" /><span jsname="YS01Ge" style="max-height: 999999px;">They keep calling me</span><br aria-hidden="true" style="max-height: 999999px;" /><span jsname="YS01Ge" style="max-height: 999999px;">Keep on calling me</span><br aria-hidden="true" style="max-height: 999999px;" /><span jsname="YS01Ge" style="max-height: 999999px;">They keep calling me</span></span></i></div><div class="ujudUb" jsname="U8S5sf" style="background-color: white; color: #4d5156; margin-bottom: 16px; max-height: 999999px;"><i><span style="font-family: arial;"><span jsname="YS01Ge" style="max-height: 999999px;">Where figures from the past stand tall</span><br aria-hidden="true" style="max-height: 999999px;" /><span jsname="YS01Ge" style="max-height: 999999px;">And mocking voices ring the halls</span><br aria-hidden="true" style="max-height: 999999px;" /><span jsname="YS01Ge" style="max-height: 999999px;">Imperialistic house of prayer</span><br aria-hidden="true" style="max-height: 999999px;" /><span jsname="YS01Ge" style="max-height: 999999px;">Conquistadors who took their share</span></span></i></div><p>Or when he alluded to having been reincarnated through many different times, like in Wilderness. Other topics featured: guilt, fear, rage, claustrophobia, disgust, self-hatred, and fatalism. Darkside immersion also included: mass murders, summary violence, radical right wing politics, and Nazism inspired by J.G Ballard, Burroughs, Kafka etc... ''A lot of people think he was on drugs. He wasn’t on any drugs at all. That was just him losing himself in the music.” So said Ian Curtis’ former Joy Division bandmate, Stephen Morris, of his extraordinary dancing. On May 18th 1980, Ian Curtis lost his battle with depression at the age of just 23. </p><p>Ian's expressive, confused vocals croon over recurring musical patterms which themselves mock any idea of escape. Possessed by demons as he danced spastically and with lightning speed, winding and unwinding as the rigid metal music folds and unfolds over him. In his short life, he released two seminal albums, and cultivated one of the most captivating live performance styles of all time. Dubbed, perhaps a little insensitively, his “epilepsy dance” (Curtis suffered from epilepsy, as did the subject of his song ‘She's Lost Control’), Curtis’ twitchy, possessed dance moves are inimitable. </p><p>“When we rehearsed he used to literally just sit in the corner mumbling into a microphone,” said Morris, "and then you’d do a gig with him and he’d turn into this… dervish thing.”</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgOd4dQkiiZm88hFaoTGuyBM_rhgLQGZM5i6JEJfbZmUd9HxeiclLPzH5x_l0dOYWxSGdS-ZVrsu6zXSqVpyw1obFIfPNGWmb3KzDhPL2A1aoDOA0dFFlmV8O5QMrASyk8M17IMyvQyDW6ZWCGt26F-RBx7xMtQRS6wnKVDIyE3w6tq_JSQdXqXxaUiyQ/s1411/e95e3109-d696-4c22-ae55-3ead3338af79.jpeg.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1411" data-original-width="912" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgOd4dQkiiZm88hFaoTGuyBM_rhgLQGZM5i6JEJfbZmUd9HxeiclLPzH5x_l0dOYWxSGdS-ZVrsu6zXSqVpyw1obFIfPNGWmb3KzDhPL2A1aoDOA0dFFlmV8O5QMrASyk8M17IMyvQyDW6ZWCGt26F-RBx7xMtQRS6wnKVDIyE3w6tq_JSQdXqXxaUiyQ/w414-h640/e95e3109-d696-4c22-ae55-3ead3338af79.jpeg.jpg" width="414" /></a></div><p>Curtis had held a keen interest in music since the age of 12, and this interest developed greatly in his teenage years, with artists such as Jim Morrison and David Bowie being particular favourites of his, and thus influencing his poetry and art. Curtis could seldom afford to purchase records, leading him to frequently steal them from local shops. By his mid-teens, Curtis had also developed a reputation among his peers as a strong-willed individual, with a keen interest in fashion. Despite gaining nine O-levels at King’s School, and briefly studying A-Levels in History and Divinity at St. John’s College, Curtis soon became disenchanted with academic life, and abandoned his studies to commit himself to finding employment. Despite abandoning his studies at St. John’s College, Curtis continued to focus on the pursuit of art, literature and music, and would gradually draw lyrical and conceptual inspiration from ever more insidious subjects.</p><p>Joy Division a name that will live in infamy. This moniker was derived from the 1955 novel The House of Dolls, writen by Ka-Tsetnik 135633, born Yehiel Feiner, which featured a Nazi concentration camp with a sexual slavery wing called the “Joy Division”. The cover of the band’s first EP depicted a drawing of a Hitler Youth beating a drum and the A-side contained a song, “Warsaw”, which was a musical retelling of the life of Nazi leader Rudolf Hess.</p><p>While performing with Joy Division, Curtis became known for his quiet and awkward demeanour, and a unique dancing style often reminiscent of the epileptic seizures he began experiencing in late 1978. If you watch the Apollo performance the opener Dead Souls, with its progressive, intense build up, it allowes Ian to position himself and read the audiences atmosphere as the band lock in behind him, so he can calibrate himself to see how far he wants to travel in his trance.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhmSdlCFSe9ufDhgpBsxYZfWZQDCJgEcilyyDIf3b3R6cPyAVIX2cDFDSKgOFCRgwFRPjrbLhWU2aoSWL0Fommcx24eZ0RuQqnubS59W-YTOVNUM6D4wiqmBnev8hETodo7H77kHu5emcDI02wl7JdtRBOeicN1cG-i-aRklihBPpZ6YWsCElJgLrSZMA/s1066/DW1cQedXUAANePL.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="800" data-original-width="1066" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhmSdlCFSe9ufDhgpBsxYZfWZQDCJgEcilyyDIf3b3R6cPyAVIX2cDFDSKgOFCRgwFRPjrbLhWU2aoSWL0Fommcx24eZ0RuQqnubS59W-YTOVNUM6D4wiqmBnev8hETodo7H77kHu5emcDI02wl7JdtRBOeicN1cG-i-aRklihBPpZ6YWsCElJgLrSZMA/w640-h480/DW1cQedXUAANePL.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><p>Throughout Joy Division’s live performances in 1979 & 1980, Curtis collapsed several times while performing and had to be carried off stage. To minimise any possibility of Curtis having epileptic seizures, flashing lights were prohibited at Joy Division gigs; despite these measures, Bernard Sumner later stated that certain percussion effects would cause Curtis to suffer a seizure. In April 1980, Terry Mason was appointed as a minder to ensure Curtis took his prescribed medications, avoided alcohol consumption, and got sufficient sleep. Regarding the choreography of Curtis’s stage performances, Greil Marcus in The History of Rock ‘n’ Roll in Ten Songs quotes Jon Savage from Melody Maker: “Ian’s mesmeric style mirrored the ever more frequent epileptic spasms that Deborah Curtis had to cope with at home.” Marcus remarked that Curtis’s performance “might also have been a matter of intentionally replicating fits, re-enacting them, using them as a form of energy and a form of music.” Curtis’s final live performance with Joy Division was on 2 May 1980. This performance was at the High Hall of Birmingham University, and included Joy Division’s first and only performance of “Ceremony”, later recorded by New Order and released as their debut single. The final song Curtis performed on stage with Joy Division prior to his death was “Digital”.</p><p>In West Hampstead to honour their commitment to perform a second gig in one evening at this location, although some 25 minutes into this second gig, Curtis’s “dancing started to lose its rhythmic sense and change into something else entirely” before he collapsed to the floor and experienced the most violent seizure he had endured to date.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiKeg-8LaMbYFAm4dprna1EkzoamQYd-OnCVpzroJtg_vSZ6vpXov8LKxE_gJnTitUj0O8amnhi47PIVck17HvU65DFVWdmW2mjfiaWF7dF7LTelNOn1iNl1Ad51p7sPtqHtR63O377111qhVaZlh27tTun0g_NyuQYXqLu0PR4rd-nCIWh_zvx50wMIQ/s615/Ian_Curtis.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="615" data-original-width="500" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiKeg-8LaMbYFAm4dprna1EkzoamQYd-OnCVpzroJtg_vSZ6vpXov8LKxE_gJnTitUj0O8amnhi47PIVck17HvU65DFVWdmW2mjfiaWF7dF7LTelNOn1iNl1Ad51p7sPtqHtR63O377111qhVaZlh27tTun0g_NyuQYXqLu0PR4rd-nCIWh_zvx50wMIQ/w520-h640/Ian_Curtis.jpg" width="520" /></a></div><p>According to Tony Wilson, prior to his suicide, Curtis had watched Werner Herzog’s 1977 film Stroszek and listened to Iggy Pop’s album The Idiot. His wife recollected that he had taken photographs of their wedding and their baby daughter off the walls, apparently to view as he composed his suicide note.</p><p>It was the band’s performances that got the press going, particularly due to the transparent movements of frontman Ian Curtis. He was like a pale phantom. A dark cloud of sweat starting out small and then moving south along his button-down shirts. His movements on stage were chaotic and unpredictable: a moment of stillness followed by a windmill of rapid arm movements, or his body, twisting and turning into a brief and uncontrolled tornado before settling into abrupt calm again. There are videos online – compilations of these moments that people can watch and marvel at. Through the grainy black and white footage, the small fists of Curtis cut through the darknesses, like he’s fighting some invisible demon, circling the stage. The sight of Ian trembling and alone onstage singing ''dance, dance, dance to the radio...'' is one of the truly iconic sights of the post-punk era. If you watch the Facrory video Here Are The Young Men you can see how Ian could physically wind the music to new levels of intensity. When Ian danced Joy Division became a better band. Flicking his wrists, violent swaying, nodding his head, a backwards shimmy, standing on his tip-toes. No dance instructor would recognize his ferocious movements.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/tafVvJD4Bq8" width="320" youtube-src-id="tafVvJD4Bq8"></iframe></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhtJBr7iF0kCwBssUpLWBDt6JpW2xlcJGI9szIxzQCVmuV_TD-0Rv1qfcCVDb4nGBKOi-BEj4nPtF0BXSz6ieFu4HbJ-H44LmjgHDXRBdqcmB4IZGDpgmfXcefUDJ3ldDairtmYT_TF2QTxPw9rKKMX7s-FEsju-CoKrMs1onnHtBH8S0SRt5o2PuU-jQ/s1200/jd.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1200" data-original-width="1200" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhtJBr7iF0kCwBssUpLWBDt6JpW2xlcJGI9szIxzQCVmuV_TD-0Rv1qfcCVDb4nGBKOi-BEj4nPtF0BXSz6ieFu4HbJ-H44LmjgHDXRBdqcmB4IZGDpgmfXcefUDJ3ldDairtmYT_TF2QTxPw9rKKMX7s-FEsju-CoKrMs1onnHtBH8S0SRt5o2PuU-jQ/w640-h640/jd.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><h2 style="background-color: white; color: #313131; font-family: "Playfair Display", serif; font-size: 32px; line-height: 1.3; margin: 1em;">Joy Division’s Ian Curtis’ favourite 32 books:</h2><ul style="background-color: white; color: #313131; font-family: "Open Sans", sans-serif; font-size: 16px; list-style: inside circle; margin: 1em; padding: 18px 0px;"><li style="padding: 0px; position: relative;">Adrian Henri, <em style="font-family: inherit; font-weight: inherit;">Environments And Happenings</em></li><li style="padding: 0px; position: relative;">Aldous Huxley, <em style="font-family: inherit; font-weight: inherit;">Brave New World</em></li><li style="padding: 0px; position: relative;">Anthony Burgess, <em style="font-family: inherit; font-weight: inherit;">A Clockwork Orange</em></li><li style="padding: 0px; position: relative;">Antonin Artaud, <em style="font-family: inherit; font-weight: inherit;">The Theatre And Its Double</em></li><li style="padding: 0px; position: relative;">Arthur Rimbaud, <em style="font-family: inherit; font-weight: inherit;">A Season In Hell</em></li><li style="padding: 0px; position: relative;">Arthur Rimbaud, <em style="font-family: inherit; font-weight: inherit;">Illuminations</em></li><li style="padding: 0px; position: relative;">Dawn Ades, <em style="font-family: inherit; font-weight: inherit;">Dada And Surrealism</em></li><li style="padding: 0px; position: relative;">Franz Kafka, <em style="font-family: inherit; font-weight: inherit;">In The Penal Colony</em></li><li style="padding: 0px; position: relative;">Franz Kafka, <em style="font-family: inherit; font-weight: inherit;">The Castle</em></li><li style="padding: 0px; position: relative;">Friedrich Nietzsche, <em style="font-family: inherit; font-weight: inherit;">The Antichrist</em></li><li style="padding: 0px; position: relative;">Friedrich Nietzsche, <em style="font-family: inherit; font-weight: inherit;">Thus Spoke Zarathustra</em></li><li style="padding: 0px; position: relative;">Friedrich Nietzsche, <em style="font-family: inherit; font-weight: inherit;">Twilight Of The Idols</em></li><li style="padding: 0px; position: relative;">Fyodor Dostoyevsky, <em style="font-family: inherit; font-weight: inherit;">Great Short Works Of Fyodor Dostoevsky</em></li><li style="padding: 0px; position: relative;">Fyodor Dostoyevsky, <em style="font-family: inherit; font-weight: inherit;">Notes From Underground</em></li><li style="padding: 0px; position: relative;">Fyodor Dostoyevsky, <em style="font-family: inherit; font-weight: inherit;">The Idiot</em></li><li style="padding: 0px; position: relative;">Hermann Hesse, <em style="font-family: inherit; font-weight: inherit;">Steppenwolf</em></li><li style="padding: 0px; position: relative;">Hermann Hesse, <em style="font-family: inherit; font-weight: inherit;">The Glass Bead Game</em></li><li style="padding: 0px; position: relative;">J.G. Ballard, <em style="font-family: inherit; font-weight: inherit;">High–rise</em></li><li style="padding: 0px; position: relative;">J.G. Ballard, <em style="font-family: inherit; font-weight: inherit;">The Atrocity Exhibition</em></li><li style="padding: 0px; position: relative;">Jean–paul Sartre, <em style="font-family: inherit; font-weight: inherit;">Nausea</em></li><li style="padding: 0px; position: relative;">John Heartfield, <em style="font-family: inherit; font-weight: inherit;">Photomontages Of The Nazi Period</em></li><li style="padding: 0px; position: relative;">John Wilcock, <em style="font-family: inherit; font-weight: inherit;">The Autobiography And Sex Life Of Andy Warhol</em></li><li style="padding: 0px; position: relative;">Ka–tzetnik 135633 [Yehiel De–nur], <em style="font-family: inherit; font-weight: inherit;">The House Of Dolls</em></li><li style="padding: 0px; position: relative;">Michael Green, <em style="font-family: inherit; font-weight: inherit;">The Art Of Coarse Acting</em></li><li style="padding: 0px; position: relative;">New Worlds [British Science Fiction Magazine] <em style="font-family: inherit; font-weight: inherit;">Nik Cohn, Rock Dreams: Under The Boardwalk</em></li><li style="padding: 0px; position: relative;">Nikolai Gogol, <em style="font-family: inherit; font-weight: inherit;">Dead Souls</em></li><li style="padding: 0px; position: relative;">Oscar Wilde, <em style="font-family: inherit; font-weight: inherit;">The Complete Works Of Oscar Wilde</em></li><li style="padding: 0px; position: relative;">Selected Poems By Thom Gunn & Ted Hughes</li><li style="padding: 0px; position: relative;">Various, <em style="font-family: inherit; font-weight: inherit;">A Century Of Thrillers: From Poe To Arlen</em></li><li style="padding: 0px; position: relative;">William S. Burroughs, <em style="font-family: inherit; font-weight: inherit;">Naked Lunch</em></li><li style="padding: 0px; position: relative;">William S. Burroughs, <em style="font-family: inherit; font-weight: inherit;">The Third Mind</em></li><li style="padding: 0px; position: relative;">William S. 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text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEicarAzJDwhoXrjX4QUnCqozICu7r80pDXAb02YRGQ9dx4uBHTJdl61cCnOHSQWbEuYwxptOG05qSjW9HbuVAGUM1mANC0yF_puxH9e8mfrpLRA3K0bWNKLIGKOo8aWk3Mz61fWAVE7r-fGYfoD1y2FwhyI2YvPpSBBW3X52qqNwt25KEK3EPt-CmCvWg/s1760/Screenshot_20220926-072917_Facebook.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1760" data-original-width="1052" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEicarAzJDwhoXrjX4QUnCqozICu7r80pDXAb02YRGQ9dx4uBHTJdl61cCnOHSQWbEuYwxptOG05qSjW9HbuVAGUM1mANC0yF_puxH9e8mfrpLRA3K0bWNKLIGKOo8aWk3Mz61fWAVE7r-fGYfoD1y2FwhyI2YvPpSBBW3X52qqNwt25KEK3EPt-CmCvWg/w382-h640/Screenshot_20220926-072917_Facebook.jpg" width="382" /></a></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Cambria;"><em>Shortly after this interview, Manson’s telephone privileges were suspended by the court.</em></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Cambria;"><br /><strong>CHARLES MANSON:</strong> When you look at things in a positive manner, everything can work out perfect. You know, like as fast as man can go, he is destroying everything he can destroy. The pace that he’s picked up in sawing the trees down, killing the animals and shooting everything. You know, I go live out in the desert and I see a lot of madness. I see big fat people coming around with guns, shooting lizards, spiders, birds, anything they can get their hands on. Just killing and killing. They’re all programmed to kill.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Cambria;"></span> </p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Cambria;">You know, there’s one thing I flashed on the other day. A policeman took me over and on his helmet, you know, right on his forehead, there’s a beast, a bear, a bear beast on his forehead. And I say, “Well, can’t the people see the mark of the beast?” You know, it’s not… it’s not hard to see. <br /> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-indent: 0.5in;"><span style="font-family: Cambria;">Is there anything you want to know? That I could tell you?</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-indent: 0.5in;"><span style="font-family: Cambria;"></span> </p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-indent: 0.5in;"><span style="font-family: Cambria;"><strong>Q:</strong> What’s your birthsign?<br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-indent: 0.5in;"><span style="font-family: Cambria;"><strong>A:</strong> Scorpio</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-indent: 0.5in;"><span style="font-family: Cambria;"></span> </p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-indent: 0.5in;"><span style="font-family: Cambria;"><strong>Q:</strong> Do you know your rising sign?</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-indent: 0.5in;"><span style="font-family: Cambria;"></span> </p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-indent: 0.5in;"><span style="font-family: Cambria;"><strong>A:</strong> You know you wake up every morning and there’s another rising sign.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-indent: 0.5in;"> </p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-indent: 0.5in;"><span style="font-family: Cambria;">You know, maybe I can tell you where I’m from Everybody is always telling me where I’m from and where I developed my philosophy and what I think and all this and none of this is the things I’ve always said. I’m from Juvenile Hall. I’m from the line of people nobody wants. I’m from the street. I’m from the alley. Mainly I’m from solitary confinement. You spend twenty years in institutions and you forget what the free world is. You don’t know how the free world works. And then you come out and you live in it and you say, “Wow, I’ve been locked up for twenty years but my mind has been free.” And I come outside and I see everybody’s got their minds locked up and their bodies are free. You know?</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-indent: 0.5in;"><span style="text-indent: 0.5in;">I’ll give it to you just like this. All my life I felt all the bad people were in jail and all the good people were on the outside. Then I would get out of jail and I would find out that that the people on the outside smiled and pretended like they were good, but there wasn’t too many of ‘em, you know? And then I’d go back to jail. I think my longest time out in the last 22 years have been maybe 6 or 8 months. And I was out two – let’s see, three different times – one time for 6 months, one time for 8 months and then the last time I’ve been out for three years.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-indent: 0.5in;"> </p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-indent: 0.5in;"><span style="font-family: Cambria;">Well, when I got out the last time, I didn’t want out. I told the Man, I sez, “I can’t adjust to society and I’m content to walk around the yard playing my guitar, doing the things you do in a penitentiary,” So when I got out I met a 16 year old boy. I was living in Berkley, and I ask him where he lived. And he said, “Weill I live out in my sleeping bag.” I said, “Well don’t you work?” and he told me, “Hell no. Nobody works, you don’t have to work.” I said, “Well how do you eat?” He said, “Well I eat at the Diggers.” And I said, “Well how can you live that way?” He said, “Come on.” He put his arm around me and like I was his brother and he showed me love.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-indent: 0.5in;"><span style="font-family: Cambria;"></span> </p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-indent: 0.5in;"><span style="font-family: Cambria;">He took me to Haight-Ashbury and we slept in the park in sleeping bags and we lived on the streets and my hair got a little longer and I started playing music and people liked my music and people smiled at me and put their arms around me and hugged me – I didn’t know how to act. It just took me away, it grabbed me up, man, that there was people that are real.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-indent: 0.5in;"><span style="font-family: Cambria;"></span> </p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-indent: 0.5in;"><span style="font-family: Cambria;">You know, I just didn’t think there were such real people. There were people with beards and we smoked grass. And like I never had been involved with dope – with what you call dope – except when I got out I took some LSD, which enlightened my awareness. But mainly it was the people. It was the young people walking up and down the street trading shirts with each other and throwing flowers and being happy and I just fell in love. I love everything.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-indent: 0.5in;"> </p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-indent: 0.5in;"><span style="font-family: Cambria;">But the worst thing is, I have seen how the Haight was going, because being in jail for so long has left my awareness pretty well open. So I’ve seen the bad things that were coming into Haight, the wild problems and the people getting harassed in the doorways and the policemen coming with the sticks and they were running them up and down the street. So I got a school bus and I asked anybody, “Anybody wants to go can go in the school bus. The school bus is not mine, it doesn’t belong to anyone. We’ll put the pink slip in the glove compartment and the school bus belongs to itself.” And we all turned our minds off and we just went around looking for a place to get away from the Man.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-indent: 0.5in;"><span style="font-family: Cambria;"></span> </p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-indent: 0.5in;"><span style="font-family: Cambria;">We went to Seattle, Washington – the Man was there, every we went. We went to Texas – the Man was there. We went to New Mexico – the Man was there, everywhere we went. And like it was just a trip, we were going nowhere, coming from nowhere and just grooving on the road because the road seemed to be the only place where you can be free when you’re moving from one spot to another. You seem to have the freedom to take a breath. To take a breath from the city. To take a breath form oppression, from the madness of the city.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-indent: 0.5in;"><span style="font-family: Cambria;"></span> </p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-indent: 0.5in;"><span style="font-family: Cambria;">And then we went out and got out in the desert. We found a whole world out in the desert. Then I got to see that the animals were smarter than the people. You know, like I’ve never been around many animals. In jail there are hardly any animals around. Then I got to looking at coyotes, and I got to looking at dogs and snakes and rabbits and cats and goats and mules. And we walked around for weeks, following the animals and just see what they do. And there is a lot of love there. That’s where most of the love is, in the young people and in the animals. And that’s where my love is.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-indent: 0.5in;"> </p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-indent: 0.5in;"><span style="font-family: Cambria;">You know, I don’t have any philosophy. My philosophy is “don’t think.” You know, you just don’t think. If you think, you are divided in your mind. You know, one and one is one in two parts. Like I don’t have any thought in my mind, hardly any at all, it is all love.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-indent: 0.5in;"> </p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-indent: 0.5in;"><span style="font-family: Cambria;">If you love everything, you don’t have to think about things – you just love it. Whatever circumstances had to you, whatever dealer deals you, whatever hand you get handed, you just love the hand you got, you know, and make it the best you can. And that’s what I’ve always thought. I’ve never had much schooling. No mother, no father. In and out of orphanages and foster homes. And then to boy’s school and reform schools. Like it’s always been like… my head is empty.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-indent: 0.5in;"><span style="font-family: Cambria;"></span> </p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-indent: 0.5in;"><span style="font-family: Cambria;">I have no opinion. I know the truth – the truth is in no word form. It just is. And everything is the way it is because that’s the way love says so. And when you tune in with love, you tune in with yourself. You know, that’s not really a philosophy, that’s a feel and everybody who’s got love in their hearts knows that. Okay?</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-indent: 0.5in;"><span style="font-family: Cambria;"></span> </p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Cambria;"> <strong>Q:</strong> If you’ve got anything else to say, just keep talking.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Cambria;"></span> </p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Cambria;"> <strong>A:</strong> Yeah, okay, if anybody wants to listen. I realize everybody’s got their own message, dig? But I can’t tell anybody nothing that they don’t already know. But I can sing for them and I got some music that says what I like to say if I ever had anything to say.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Cambria;"></span> </p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><em><b>Steve Alexander for Tuesday’s Child</b></em></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><em><br /></em></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: "Gentium Book Basic", serif; font-size: 16px;">Local occult publication </span><em style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: "Gentium Book Basic", serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1; outline: none;">Tuesday’s Child</em><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: "Gentium Book Basic", serif; font-size: 16px;"> was born on Nov. 11, 1969 — three weeks after the </span><a href="https://www.cnn.com/2013/09/30/us/manson-family-murders-fast-facts/index.html" rel="noreferrer noopener" style="background-color: white; background-image: linear-gradient(90deg, rgba(250, 116, 151, 0.3), rgba(250, 116, 151, 0.3)); background-position: 0px 102%; background-repeat: no-repeat; background-size: 100% 1px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #fa7497; display: inline; font-family: "Gentium Book Basic", serif; font-size: 16px; outline: none; position: relative; text-decoration-line: none; transition: background-color 0.3s ease 0s;" target="_blank">Manson murders</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: "Gentium Book Basic", serif; font-size: 16px;"> and a month and a half before the new decade. The newspaper — if it can even be called a newspaper; avant-garde magazine or cultural zinelet seems more appropriate — was assembled and curated by a bunch of angry beat poets and old </span><em style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: "Gentium Book Basic", serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1; outline: none;"><a href="https://losangelesfreepress.com/" rel="noreferrer noopener" style="background-image: linear-gradient(90deg, rgba(250, 116, 151, 0.3), rgba(250, 116, 151, 0.3)); background-position: 0px 102%; background-repeat: no-repeat; background-size: 100% 1px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #fa7497; display: inline; outline: none; position: relative; text-decoration-line: none; transition: background-color 0.3s ease 0s;" target="_blank">L.A. Free Press</a></em><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: "Gentium Book Basic", serif; font-size: 16px;"> writers, producing an “ecumenical, educational newspaper for the Los Angeles occult & underground.” They circulated the paper all over the city, selling it for 25 cents a copy. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: "Gentium Book Basic", serif; font-size: 16px;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: "Gentium Book Basic", serif; font-size: 16px;">At the helm of </span><em style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: "Gentium Book Basic", serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1; outline: none;">Tuesday’s Child</em><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: "Gentium Book Basic", serif; font-size: 16px;"> were founder Art Kunkin and editor Chester Anderson. Kunkin was a broke occult-and-labor-union-obsessed retired journalist. Anderson was a Haight-Ashbury zine-maker and musician who slept on a cot inside of the </span><em style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: "Gentium Book Basic", serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1; outline: none;">Tuesday’s Child</em><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: "Gentium Book Basic", serif; font-size: 16px;"> offices in Hollywood. Together, their paper took shape: nonsense, “useful” witchcraft, political satire, riddles, socialist poetry, comics, countercultural sentiment and whatever else came into Kunkin’s head while he trolled the Sunset Strip.</span></p><div class="single-content contents-wrap tipi-row content-bg clearfix article-layout-1" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: "Gentium Book Basic", serif; font-size: 16px; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; max-width: 1440px; outline: none; padding-left: 20px; padding-right: 20px; padding-top: 30px; position: relative; transition: all 0.5s ease 0.3s; width: 360px; z-index: 1;"><div class="tipi-cols clearfix" readability="20.022360015031943" style="background: inherit; box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; position: relative;"><main class="site-main tipi-xs-12 main-block-wrap block-wrap tipi-l-8 tipi-col clearfix" readability="30.27771514468245" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; float: left; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; min-height: 1px; outline: none; position: relative; width: 320px;"><article style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none;"><div class="entry-content-wrap clearfix" readability="62.02048102217211" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none;"><div class="entry-content body-color clearfix link-color-wrap progresson" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none;"><div class="wp-block-blockgallery-masonry alignwide" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; position: relative;"><div class="blockgallery has-caption-style-dark has-gutter" style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style: none; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; outline: none; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px;"><ul class="has-grid-xlrg has-gutter-15 has-gutter-mobile-15" style="box-sizing: border-box; height: 964.365px; list-style: none; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: -8px !important; margin-top: -8px !important; margin: -8px -8px 1em 1em; max-width: calc(100% + 15px) !important; outline: none; padding: 0px; position: relative;"><li class="blockgallery--item" style="box-sizing: border-box; left: 0px; list-style: none; margin: auto; outline: none; padding: 0px; position: absolute; top: 0px;"><figure class="blockgallery--figure" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 8px; outline: none; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; position: relative;"><img alt="" class="wp-image-10009252" data-id="10009252" data-link="https://losangeleno.com/tuesdays-child-cover-online/" height="1024" loading="lazy" sizes="(max-width: 707px) 100vw, 707px" src="https://losangeleno.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/Tuesdays-Child-cover-online-707x1024.jpg" srcset="https://losangeleno.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/Tuesdays-Child-cover-online-707x1024.jpg 707w, https://losangeleno.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/Tuesdays-Child-cover-online-207x300.jpg 207w, https://losangeleno.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/Tuesdays-Child-cover-online-104x150.jpg 104w, https://losangeleno.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/Tuesdays-Child-cover-online-770x1115.jpg 770w, https://losangeleno.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/Tuesdays-Child-cover-online-293x424.jpg 293w, https://losangeleno.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/Tuesdays-Child-cover-online.jpg 1036w" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; height: auto; max-height: 90vh; max-width: 100%; object-fit: cover; opacity: 1; outline: none; vertical-align: bottom;" width="707" /></figure></li><li class="blockgallery--item" style="box-sizing: border-box; left: 0px; list-style: none; margin: auto; outline: none; padding: 0px; position: absolute; top: 477.87px;"><figure class="blockgallery--figure" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 8px; outline: none; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; position: relative;"><img alt="" class="wp-image-10009255" data-id="10009255" data-link="https://losangeleno.com/tuesdays-child-smoke-dreams-online/" height="1024" loading="lazy" sizes="(max-width: 694px) 100vw, 694px" src="https://losangeleno.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/Tuesdays-Child-Smoke-Dreams-online-694x1024.jpg" srcset="https://losangeleno.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/Tuesdays-Child-Smoke-Dreams-online-694x1024.jpg 694w, https://losangeleno.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/Tuesdays-Child-Smoke-Dreams-online-203x300.jpg 203w, https://losangeleno.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/Tuesdays-Child-Smoke-Dreams-online-102x150.jpg 102w, https://losangeleno.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/Tuesdays-Child-Smoke-Dreams-online-770x1136.jpg 770w, https://losangeleno.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/Tuesdays-Child-Smoke-Dreams-online-293x432.jpg 293w, https://losangeleno.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/Tuesdays-Child-Smoke-Dreams-online.jpg 1017w" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; height: auto; max-height: 90vh; max-width: 100%; object-fit: cover; opacity: 1; outline: none; vertical-align: bottom;" width="694" /></figure></li></ul></div></div><p style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 15px; margin: 0px 0px 1em; outline: none; padding: 0px;">Left: <em style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1; outline: none;">Tuesday’s Child</em> inaugural issue published on Nov. 11, 1969. Right: A graphic comic from within the pages of the occult publication.</p><div class="wp-block-image" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 2em; margin-top: 2em; outline: none;"><figure class="alignleft size-full is-resized" style="box-sizing: border-box; clear: left; display: table; float: left; margin: 0.5em 1em 0.5em 0px; max-width: 50%; outline: none; padding: 0px; transition: all 0.4s cubic-bezier(0.3, 0.7, 0.7, 1) 0s;"><img alt="" class="wp-image-10009254" height="544" loading="lazy" sizes="(max-width: 332px) 100vw, 332px" src="https://losangeleno.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/Tuesdays-Child-Man-of-the-Year.jpg" srcset="https://losangeleno.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/Tuesdays-Child-Man-of-the-Year.jpg 332w, https://losangeleno.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/Tuesdays-Child-Man-of-the-Year-183x300.jpg 183w, https://losangeleno.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/Tuesdays-Child-Man-of-the-Year-92x150.jpg 92w, https://losangeleno.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/Tuesdays-Child-Man-of-the-Year-293x480.jpg 293w" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; height: auto; max-height: 90vh; max-width: 100%; object-fit: cover; outline: none;" width="332" /><figcaption style="box-sizing: border-box; caption-side: bottom; display: table-caption; font-size: 15px; line-height: 1.3; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-top: 0.5em; outline: none; text-align: center;">Charles Manson on the cover of <em style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1; outline: none;">Tuesday’s Child</em> as the “Man of the Year.”</figcaption></figure></div><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1em; outline: none; padding: 0px;">Unsurprisingly, <em style="background-color: inherit; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1; outline: none;">Tuesday’s Child</em><span style="background-color: inherit;">’s favorite subject was Charles Manson, as he was the perfect intersection of crime, occultism, celebrity, class warfare and local news. One issue featured a crucified Manson on the cover, while another proclaimed he was “Man of the Year.” The timely coverage of the Manson murders through the absurdist lens of</span><span style="background-color: inherit;"> </span><em style="background-color: inherit; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1; outline: none;">Tuesday’s Child</em><span style="background-color: inherit;"> </span><span style="background-color: inherit;">was not only chilling, but it also predicted the rise of Manson’s notoriety and a cultish cynicism that would overtake the softer free-love ideologies of the 1960s. </span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1em; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><em style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1; outline: none;">Tuesday’s Child</em> inexplicably ceased publication in the mid-1970s. Though the reason it shut down remains unclear, the publication probably didn’t make many friends publishing essays like “The Universe as an Electric Train” or “Sympathy for the Devil.”</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1em; outline: none; padding: 0px;">Still — and like the time it reflected — reading <em style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1; outline: none;">Tuesday’s Child</em>, which can be found deep in the Los Angeles Public Library archives, is enjoyable in its confusion. It is darkly playful and politically provocative with prose that captures our lesser-known California magic.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1em; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><em style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1; outline: none;">To hear more about Tuesday’s Child and the hijinks that surrounded the publication, tune into Rebecca Leib and Jason Horton’s <a href="https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/107-tuesdays-child-las-satanic-magazine/id1407606863?i=1000480896004">Ghost Town podcast</a></em></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1em; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><br /></p><table align="center" border="0" bordercolor="#000000" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="0" style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: sans-serif; width: 771.198px;"><tbody><tr valign="top"><td width="100%"><p style="color: #444444; font-size: 16px;"><strong><span lang="EN"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Life:</span></span></strong><span lang="EN"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> What was the Manson Family?<br /><strong>Manson:</strong> The D.A. put the word “family” on </span></span><span lang="EN" style="background-color: inherit;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">i</span></span><span style="background-color: inherit; font-family: Calibri;">t to make me a leader and bring me into the conspiracy. They’ve never really been my family or my followers. We were together in a dream, man.</span></p><p style="color: #444444; font-size: 16px;"><span lang="EN"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><strong>Life:</strong> You stay in touch?<br /><strong>Charles Manson:</strong> I know everything they’re thinking. They won’t think nothing in the next 20 years that I don’t know. I answer their letters before they write them. If you got all those people, and you put them in this room, everything would be all just like it once was. We’d sit around and sing. The family circle can never be broken. We’re still together. There’s no taking us apart.<br /><strong>Life:</strong> How did this group get started?<br /><strong>Manson:</strong> I get out of the penitentiary— a man can understand this— and I haven’t been with a broad in a long time. So I meet a broad on the street corner. She’s real young. So I ask to stay with this other broad [Mary Brunner]. So we meet another chick [that] didn’t have no place to stay. That was Squeaky [Fromme]. Then we meet Patty [Krenwinkel]— and Patty’s got a credit card! So we’re just going to have a little vacation trip, so we get a bus. We’re just tripping. And Susie [Atkins] wants to freeload, see? So I look up and I’m sitting on the beach with 12 girls. They’re lighting my cigarettes, spoiling me, and actually it’s a pretty nice little trip I’ve got going.<br /><strong>Life:</strong> Why did it go bad?<br /><strong>Manson:</strong> The troubles came when the guys came. Every guy that came had troubles. And everybody that comes in that circle, I gotta go through all their changes.<br /><strong>Life:</strong> The troubles weren’t your fault?<br /><strong>Manson:</strong> I’m not saying I didn’t influence— I did influence. But no more than I’ve been influenced. It’s hard to explain 20 years of a running psychotic episode. It had no logic, no good, no evil; it all runs in insanity. You put 30 people in a circle, and you’ve got a vortex of everybody’s thought and will, and it reflects off onto one head, and that head goes off into madness. I was stuck in that psychotic episode.<br /><strong>Life:</strong> Are you psychotic?<br /><strong>Manson:</strong> We can go in and out.<br /><strong>Life:</strong> Do you every hear from these people now, like Squeaky?<br /><strong>Manson:</strong> She’s in the joint doing life.<br /><strong>Life:</strong> Do you write to her?<br /><strong>Manson:</strong> Back and forth. She’s me.<br /><strong>Life:</strong> Do you hear from Sandra Good, who was jailed for writing death threats to corporate executives?<br /><strong>Manson:</strong> yeah. She’s out now.<br /><strong>Life:</strong> She’s the one in Vermont?<br /><strong>Manson:</strong> She’s your blue socks.<br /><strong>Life:</strong> How about Mary Brunner?<br /><strong>Manson:</strong> Mary Snitch?<br /><strong>Life:</strong> Is she still in jail?<br /><strong>Manson:</strong> No. she snitched. When she had [my] baby, I held the baby up and I held a knife to it and said, “If the cops come and say, ‘Tell or we’ll kill this baby, what are you going to do?’ She said, “I won’t tell. I won’t tell.”<br /><strong>Life:</strong> Is Susan Atkins, who boasted of the killings, still in jail?<br /><strong>Manson:</strong> If they let her out tomorrow, she’s still going to be in jail. She’s imprisoned herself. She’s playing Jesus for parole. They say, “If you accept Jesus as your savior, we’ll let you out.” So she says, “O.K.” But I got nothing against Susie. I love her. You know. But I wouldn’t want her around me.<br /><strong>Life:</strong> Do you regret that those people are not free and happy today?<br /><strong>Manson:</strong> Don’t you realize what those kids have done for you people? What do you think would have happened if the Manson family hadn’t did what they did? You seen the Vietnam war stopped, didn’t you?<br /><strong>Life:</strong> Because of what you did?<br /><strong>Manson:</strong> No. because of what these kids did. You forgot? It was the peak of the revolution. [Sings] “You say you want a revolution…”<br /><strong>Life:</strong> Are you saying the murders were political acts?<br /><strong>Manson:</strong> Why was people killed? There was $250,000 worth of gold coins laying by the dead body, by LaBianca. Why didn’t they pick it up? You think we weren’t in the peace movement?<br /><strong>Life:</strong> Are you at peace with yourself?<br /><strong>Manson:</strong> Sure. How do you think I’ve survived all this madness? By not having a mother and father.<br /><strong>Life:</strong> You think your suffering absolved you from later deeds?<br /><strong>Manson:</strong> Yeah, yeah, yeah. Later deeds? I’ve done nothing I’m ashamed of. Nothing I couldn’t face God with. I wouldn’t kill a bug.<br /><strong>Life:</strong> But you’d kill a person?<br /><strong>Manson:</strong> I’d probably kill all of them if I could— is that what you’ve been waiting to hear? Hey, time and circumstance made me into this Manson guy, Satan. Society wanted to buy this evil, mass-murdering-devil-fiend. I’m nobody. I’m the hobo in line. Give me a bottle of wine and put me on a train.<br /><strong>Life:</strong> You said you lived in darkness.<br /><strong>Manson: </strong>I do. It’s away from the light. I don’t fit into the world you guys live in, so I live over there in the shadows of it.</span></span></p></td></tr></tbody></table><p align="center" style="color: black; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: medium;"> </p></div></div></article></main></div></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: "Gentium Book Basic", serif; font-size: 16px;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: "Gentium Book Basic", serif; font-size: 16px;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: "Gentium Book Basic", serif; font-size: 16px;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br /></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Cambria;"><o:p></o:p></span> </p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Cambria;"><o:p></o:p></span> </p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Cambria;"><o:p></o:p></span> </p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2962721263288722253.post-72136741352564831722022-09-12T22:22:00.003-07:002022-09-12T22:28:08.062-07:00INTERVIEW with author Georgiana Kent<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgqkP5UeaCJM-D_U3EL3qMEEfirBwPj-ZCWaSxEMqVi6oPsSHJVfyyfgA1znXs6jGKE3BPrhqIN3THTHd8AVfnIDIfFX9dmwooX9WqH-bFiIXk_-Qf3Qkid4uarTkHCIICyQ3THGmdBiNuH7ZzVEWW2SwoPbEUaXenbpjHpmWk9rZ_pnEenl9UqcktkPg/s2250/Keys%20of%20Time%20small.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2250" data-original-width="1410" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgqkP5UeaCJM-D_U3EL3qMEEfirBwPj-ZCWaSxEMqVi6oPsSHJVfyyfgA1znXs6jGKE3BPrhqIN3THTHd8AVfnIDIfFX9dmwooX9WqH-bFiIXk_-Qf3Qkid4uarTkHCIICyQ3THGmdBiNuH7ZzVEWW2SwoPbEUaXenbpjHpmWk9rZ_pnEenl9UqcktkPg/w402-h640/Keys%20of%20Time%20small.jpg" width="402" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-family: arial;"><b>How did you first get into writing?</b> When I was a teenager, I wanted to be a manga artist. I spent all my free time drawing and sketching graphic novels. Then, university got in the way and teacher training took over and I had no time to draw. Whenever I had holidays and picked up a pencil, I was never happy with the results. So, I turned to writing. But, even now, when I write, I see the characters like an anime in my head. </span><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><b>What lead you to write this book? </b>My morning commute to university in London took me past a house with no front door. Whilst I knew the neighbouring house had merged it with theirs and done away with the front door, I immediately thought of who would live in a house with no front door. And into my imagination walked my time traveller, Michael Nicholas. A day later, my female main character Erica Shylocke introduced herself and the world her and Michael lived in. </span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><b>What was the biggest challenge during the project?</b> Keys of Time was my first ever book. It was something I did to while away boredom during holidays and my maternity leave. But I never researched the craft of writing, so when it c</span><span style="font-family: arial;">ame to editing it, I had a lot to do! </span></div><div><p></p></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><b>Did any funny stories occur during the writing process? </b>Well, not exactly funny, but I started writing my book on my phone in Google Docs because my laptop had broken, and it was going great. Then, one day when I open up the document it was all gone. For no reason. Gone. Everything. About 40,000 words. I was devastated. Hubby came home to find me bawling my eyes out. I told him what had happened and the next thing I knew he vanished, returning an hour later with a brand-new laptop for me! </span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><b>What was the most interesting thing you learnt while making the book? </b>When writing Book Two, Keys of Fate, I asked a paramedic and detective to help with some scenes. I learnt all about flatlines, police procedure for emergencies and special forces. </span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><b>What other projects do you have in mind for the future? </b>I’m currently writing Keys of Death, the third and final instalment in my Soul Dominion series. I am also beginning work on a follow up series following my Korean vampire whilst drafting a fantasy romance series. It’s been tricky working out a routine to balance multiple projects, but I'm finally there. I can't wait to share them with everyone! </span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><b>Find me on</b> <b>Facebook, Instagram and TikTok:</b> authorgeorgianakent</span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><b>Get your free prequel novella here: </b><a href="https://storyoriginapp.com/giveaways/075116da-4188-11eb-bd10-27b58428d0a3">https://storyoriginapp.com/giveaways/075116da-4188-11eb-bd10-27b58428d0a3</a></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><b><a href="https://georgianakentautho.wixsite.com/keymasterchronicles?utm_source=book,+newsletter,+website&utm_medium=link&utm_campaign=general">WEBSITE (click here)</a><br /></b></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi0IWOeLiTU499-UJPgOCZGUG6zC9iEKcEXAVM6vWUoPcZvoGse3k_cDagOnw3733zwrbBvtPcarPvVxh6WYFY2BC3p5WhMk1INGvyxHgZub_ae-jedPO843csTDQe-aQ0JdGgy3rATCoBEO5ZRo4Ap61-fLqhvl8D3c4e1-OpPthMfG3pLrQiQO8r03g/s2250/Keys%20of%20Fate%20small%20size.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2250" data-original-width="1410" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi0IWOeLiTU499-UJPgOCZGUG6zC9iEKcEXAVM6vWUoPcZvoGse3k_cDagOnw3733zwrbBvtPcarPvVxh6WYFY2BC3p5WhMk1INGvyxHgZub_ae-jedPO843csTDQe-aQ0JdGgy3rATCoBEO5ZRo4Ap61-fLqhvl8D3c4e1-OpPthMfG3pLrQiQO8r03g/w402-h640/Keys%20of%20Fate%20small%20size.jpg" width="402" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div><br /></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2962721263288722253.post-38582236585839368542022-09-01T23:45:00.006-07:002023-01-15T00:57:21.711-08:00Jim Morrison's Lost Love<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhDbrWdT0Xp-vLQemctIIDhYcNKmqReSe5WRWAqfb2JCSzWhbxGVA8qqWIDq1WJpIwhp86wCxu-3SJYPuiTr9je5n5vj7AAxxsTezPr-j6A3yidCXKO_kVH0U3GDRdu9t4HodeV6B5hnLKdaUfpLAgDdETf9wYyWr5KiZy8fBRp6_7TVIDwtFCyNaSZzQ/s1000/30013477492d9b09dbd50d1cf61bee59.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1000" data-original-width="1000" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhDbrWdT0Xp-vLQemctIIDhYcNKmqReSe5WRWAqfb2JCSzWhbxGVA8qqWIDq1WJpIwhp86wCxu-3SJYPuiTr9je5n5vj7AAxxsTezPr-j6A3yidCXKO_kVH0U3GDRdu9t4HodeV6B5hnLKdaUfpLAgDdETf9wYyWr5KiZy8fBRp6_7TVIDwtFCyNaSZzQ/w640-h640/30013477492d9b09dbd50d1cf61bee59.png" width="640" /></a></div><p>Mary Werbelow is polite but firm: She doesn't do interviews. Ever. </p><p>Jim Morrison was her first love, before he got famous with the Doors. Friends from Clearwater say that for three years in the early 1960s, Jim and Mary were inseparable. He mourns their breakup in the Doors' ballad The End. For nearly 40 years, all manner of people have tracked Mary down and asked for her story, including Oliver Stone, when he was making his movie starring Val Kilmer as Jim. Others waved money. Always she said thank you, no. </p><p>"I have spoken to no one." She can't see what good could come of it; some things are just meant to be kept private. Besides, journalists always get it wrong. They focus on Jim Morrison as drunk, drug abuser, wild man. They don't know his sensitivity and intellect, his charm and humor.</p><p>"They take a part of him and sensationalize that. People don't really know Jim. They don't really have a clue." Mary is afraid to share. Because nobody could ever fully understand him, or her, or them. Not to mention how painful it is, even 40 years later, to relive something she would rather forget. She still aches for love lost; her regret never relents. She lives in California, alone, in an aging mobile home park. By phone she is told that back in Clearwater, they're tearing down the house on N Osceola Avenue, the place Jim lived in when they met, to make way for condos. His room was in back, books stacked everywhere save for the path to his bed. "That was a lovely home," Mary says. "It's a shame to knock it down." Across a dozen conversations, she amplifies on stories the old Clearwater crowd tells, and adds some of her own. She says she's not sure why she's talking now. Maybe it's just time. Summer 1962, Clearwater: Nine years before Jim died Mary and best friend Mary Wilkin spread their beach blanket near Pier 60. </p><p>Our Mary was 17, wearing a black one-piece, cut all the way down the back, square in front - a little daring for the time, especially for a buttoned-down Catholic girl. Amid the flattops on the pier, the guy with the mop of hair stood out. Jim had been sent here by his father, then a Navy captain, after he blew off his high school graduation ceremony in Virginia. He had just finished the year at St. Petersburg Junior College and lived with his grandparents, who ran a coin laundry on Clearwater-Largo Road.</p><p>On her beach towel, Mary turned to her friend and uttered the first sexual comment of her life: "Wow, look at those legs!" Jim tagged along when his friend came over to flirt with Mary Wilkin. He told our Mary he was a regular pro at the game of matchsticks, a mental puzzle in which the matches are laid out in rows, like a pyramid. Loser picks up the last one. Jim challenged Mary and suggested they spice things up with a wager. </p><p>If she won? "You'll have to be my slave for the day." If he won? Mary had to watch beach basketball with him. As Mary's first command, she marched Jim to the barber. She was just finishing her junior year at Clearwater High, where all the boys had flattops; she was not going to be seen with such a hairy mess. "Shorter," she told the barber. "Shorter. "Shorter." To a buzz cut. </p><p>He must really like me, Mary thought. I'll see if I still dig him by the time his hair grows out, and if I do, it won't matter. Slave order No. 2: Iron and clean. And wash her black Plymouth, a.k.a. "The Bomb." Jim had begun the wax job when Mary's father rescued him with a picnic basket and suggested the couple adjourn to the Clearwater Causeway. To cap slave day, Mary had Jim chauffeur her to St. Pete, in the shiny Bomb, to see the movie West Side Story.</p><p>Mary was on the high school homecoming court. Her friends did cotillion dances at the Jack Tar Harrison Hotel, hit Brown Brothers dairy store for burgers and malts, and shopped Mertz's records for Ben E. King, Del Shannon and Elvis Presley. Hair shorn, Jim still attracted attention, shy behind granny glasses, army jacket and a conductor's hat. The local law stopped him multiple times to check his ID. He read his poetry at the avant-garde Beaux Arts coffeehouse in Pinellas Park and visited St. Pete's only live burlesque show, at the Sun Art Theater on Ninth Street. Friends who thought they knew Mary couldn't fathom why she would want to hang out with the likes of Jim Morrison. What they didn't know was how out of place Mary felt in her social circle. Jim talked like no one she had met. "We're just going to talk in rhymes now," he would say. </p><p>He recited long poems from memory. "Listen to this, listen to this," he'd say, "Tiger, tiger, burning bright . . ." excited, like it was breaking news, not William Blake. This was not puppy love, Mary says, like the earlier boyfriend who played guitar, wrote songs and serenaded her by phone. This was different. This was intense. "We connected on a level where speaking was almost unnecessary. We'd look at each other and know what we were thinking."</p><p>She liked her alone time, in her bedroom, dancing and drawing. Jim liked his alone time, in his bedroom, reading. They skipped dances and football games and hung out, at her house, his grandparents' house, wherever. "I hated to let him go at night. I couldn't shut the door." When it came to sex, Mary's answer was no. "It was not happening. And it didn't for a long time. I'm surprised he held out that long." Mary's grandparents were strict Catholics. She had visions of them at the last judgment, watching her. "It was too much for me to bear." The poet Everybody, everybody, remembers the notebooks. Any time, any place, Jim would fish one from his back pocket, scribble and chuckle. Chris Kallivokas, Bryan Gates and Tom Duncan. And Phil Anderson, George Greer, Ruth Duncan, Gail Swift and Mary. They all remember. </p><p>Around Jim, you always felt watched. He'd bait and goad, get a rise, take notes. "There was no one who wasn't under observation," Gates says. "His only purpose in life was observation." When Jim drove, Mary kept a notebook at the ready. "Write this!" he'd say, dictating an observation. Or he'd pull over and scribble himself. Everyone has a story about Jim's brainy side. Kallivokas remembers the night his Clearwater High buddies and a new kid came by Alexander's Sundries, his father's drugstore on Clearwater Beach. They wanted Kallivokas to come party, but he had a term paper due the next day, on Lord Essex. Naturally, he had written all of two sentences. </p><p>"I know all about him," the new kid volunteered. Jim wrote the paper off the top of his head, with footnotes and bibliography. "To this day, I don't know if it was right," says Kallivokas, who says he got an A+. They would rag Jim that the books crowding his living space were for show. He'd look away and challenge nonbelievers to pick any book and read the beginning of any chapter. He'd name the book, the author and more context than they cared to hear. "He was a genius," Mary says. "He was incredible." She says his heroes were William Burroughs, William Blake, Hieronymus Bosch, Norman Mailer, Friedrich Nietzsche, Karl Marx, Arthur Rimbaud, Aldous Huxley, Jack Kerouac. Mary didn't have heroes like that. "Jim was my hero." The provocateur Pre-Mary, Jim's buddy Phil Anderson brought him to a house party on Clearwater Beach. Jim was dazzling with the dictionary game. People would pick obscure words, and Jim would tell the definitions. Phil turned, and his pal was standing on the couch, peeing on the floor. "Needless to say, we were asked to leave."</p><p>That was Jim. He'd charm, then provoke. It was worse when he drank. He got epically drunk on Chianti at the all-day car races in Sebring, crawled around in a white fake fur coat like a polar bear covered in dirt and tried to launch himself onto the track. Friends grabbed his ankles. "He'd get a real pleasure out of shocking people and being a little eccentric and peculiar," Kallivokas says. "And that came to the forefront when he had a couple drinks." Mary says he rarely drank in her presence. "It was out of respect for me. We were in love, and he didn't want to do things that I didn't like." "That's a real key to understanding Jim," Gates says. "She was the love of his life in those days. They were virtually soul mates for three or four years."</p><p>In the fall, Jim transferred to Florida State. Most weekends, rain or shine, he hitchhiked back to Clearwater, 230 miles down U.S. 19. Most days in between, letters postmarked Tallahassee arrived at the Werbelow mailbox on Nursery Road. Mary's father intercepted one, read the page about sex and never got to the part that made clear Jim was writing about a class. Furious at her father's snooping, she burned all Jim's letters, a move she came to regret, deeply. She wasn't much of a letter writer herself. At Jim's direction, she wrote once a week and included the number of a public telephone in Clearwater and a time he should call. On his end, Jim would put in a dime for the first two minutes. They would talk for hours. When the operator asked him to settle up, he'd take off. Free phone service. </p><p>On her end, Mary would loiter by the phone at the appointed hour, glancing about, certain it was the week the cavalry was coming to arrest her. "I was so scared," she says, laughing. "I just thought it was normal. I see now it wasn't." She always assumed he had her wait at different phones for her protection; now she's thinking it was his way of making sure she wrote him at least once a week.</p><p>March 30, 1963: Eight years before Jim died</p><p> It's hardly something Mary brags about; she says she would have declined. But when the Jaycees called to recruit her for the Miss Clearwater competition, Mary's mother answered the phone. "Oh, yeah," mom said, "she'll be happy to do it." The third and final night of competition, more than 1,000 people packed Clearwater Municipal Auditorium. Five finalists matched "beauty, personality and poise." Mary was looking good, not that Jim was thrilled. If she won, it was on to Miss Florida. Less time for him. Mary performed matadorlike body twirls. She did the bossa nova. Time for her big question: "If your husband grew a beard, what would you do?" What a stupid question, she thought, and answered: "I'd let him grow it. Whether he would kiss me or not would be another matter."</p><p>She told the judges she was headed for college, torpedoing her chances because it meant she would not be available to fulfill all obligations of Miss Clearwater. Sitting through other contestants' routines, Mary scanned the darkened hall until she spotted Jim, bored senseless. But there. She got first runner-up. 1964-65, Los Angeles: The breakup Mary's father banned Jim from the Werbelow house. Mary won't say why; she doesn't want to add to the Morrison myth.</p><p>When she followed Jim to Tallahassee for a semester, her parents objected. When he started film school at UCLA and Mary announced she was following him to Los Angeles, they were devastated. To bribe Mary to stay, her mother bought her an antique bedroom set, no competition for a 19-year-old following her heart. Mary says Jim asked her to wear "something floaty" when she arrived in Los Angeles. "He wanted me to look like an angel coming off the plane." Instead, she drove out a week early and surprised him. Together again, in an exciting, intimidating city, they kept separate apartments. Mary got her first real job, in the office of a hospital X-ray department. Later, she donned a fringe skirt and boots as a go-go dancer at Gazzari's on the Sunset Strip. Jim studied film. At the end of the year, a handful from among hundreds of student films were selected for public showing. Jim's was not among them.</p><p>Shortly after, Mary says, he told her he was humiliated, considered his formal education over and needed to forget everything. He built a fire in his back yard and incinerated many of his precious Florida notebooks. Mary says he started doubting her commitment. "You're going to leave me," he would tell her. "No, I'm not. How can you say that? I'm in love with you." After one fight, Jim went out with another woman. He wasn't home the next morning. Mary went to the woman's house, but she said Jim wasn't there. Mary called: "Come out wherever you are!" Jim slinked forward, a hand towel around him. Mary bolted and, in a blur, hit the woman's fence as she sped off. "That was the beginning of the end."</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiHaBk64KVtNegBDoUq28JYVCdTF3YPjEu8JpADF7TGpQrFqADaOlKsO7M4-WoiMRaWBaA0f09bKY1AZX9vbJLrm0pveOYt3p_t7mixrla_ZPLDQf-lJSyTxmaf7nZThhKZMVQqjhG_oqhAmWlGcBkZ3YaJ_KP47kr9NWhVMbHz7I6owEzDSLrZmKUfqQ/s630/tumblr_ntdlboyCzQ1qg9bkqo1_500.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="630" data-original-width="421" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiHaBk64KVtNegBDoUq28JYVCdTF3YPjEu8JpADF7TGpQrFqADaOlKsO7M4-WoiMRaWBaA0f09bKY1AZX9vbJLrm0pveOYt3p_t7mixrla_ZPLDQf-lJSyTxmaf7nZThhKZMVQqjhG_oqhAmWlGcBkZ3YaJ_KP47kr9NWhVMbHz7I6owEzDSLrZmKUfqQ/w428-h640/tumblr_ntdlboyCzQ1qg9bkqo1_500.jpg" width="428" /></a></div><p>He was drinking hard and taking psychedelic drugs. The darkness she had always seen seemed to be overtaking him, and she didn't want to watch him explore his self-destructive bent. And she felt he had swallowed her identity. Whatever he liked, she liked. "I had to go out and see what parts of that were me. I just knew I had to be away from him. I needed to be by myself, to find my own identity." She enrolled in art school. The day Jim helped her move to a new apartment, she told him she needed a break. "He clammed up after that. I really hurt him. It hurts me to say that. I really hurt him." They split up in the summer of 1965. A few months later, Jim got together with a film school buddy, Ray Manzarek, who says he wanted to combine his keyboards with Jim's poetry. They started the band that became the Doors. Friends from Clearwater never saw it coming. Back then, Jim didn't have much interest in music. He didn't even appear to have rhythm.</p><p>"He didn't sit around and sing," Mary says, laughing. "Jim, no, he was a poet. He wrote poetry." By phone from his home in Northern California, Manzarek says all the guys in film school were in love with Mary. She was gorgeous, and sweet on top of that. "She was Jim's first love. She held a deep place in his soul." The Doors' 11-minute ballad The End, Manzarek says, originally was "a short goodbye love song to Mary." (The famous oedipal parts were added later.)</p><p>Within two years of their breakup, Light My Fire was No. 1 on the charts and Jim was the "King of Orgasmic Rock," the brooding heartthrob staring from the covers of Rolling Stone and Life. He took up with other women, notably with longtime companion Pamela Courson, but Mary says she and Jim kept up with each other. She says she was his anchor to the times before things got crazy. "I'd see him when he really needed to talk to someone." Before a photo shoot for the Doors' fourth album, she says Jim told her: "The first three albums are about you. Didn't you know that?" She says she didn't have the heart to tell him she had never really listened to them. She had heard Doors songs on the radio, but she didn't go to his concerts, she didn't keep up with his career. Mary vehemently denies it, but Manzarek says she told Jim, "The band is no good and you'll never make it." He says Mary wanted Jim to go back to school, get a master's degree and make something of himself.</p><p>When Mary moved, she says, Jim had a knack for finding her. He would eventually ask if she had changed her mind. "Why can't we be together now?" Not yet, she would answer, someday. More than once, she says, he asked her to marry. "It was heartbreaking. I knew I wanted to be with him, but I couldn't." She thought they were too young. She worried they might grow apart. She needed more time to explore her own identity. </p><p>In late 1968, Mary moved to India to study meditation. She never saw Jim again. March 1, 1969, Miami: Two years before his death With the Doors coming for their first Florida concert, Chris Kallivokas left a message with his old friend's record company. He says Jim called him back, loving life. "The chicks we get, the money. . . . It's great." "So that crowd control works," Kallivokas teased, talking about theories that intrigued Jim in Collective Behavior class at FSU. He said Jim answered: "You've got to make them believe you're doing them a favor by being onstage. The more abusive you are, the more they love it." They planned a reunion in Clearwater.</p><p>Some 15,000 fans cram into the 10,000-capacity Dinner Key Auditorium, a sweaty, converted seaplane hangar in Miami. Jim Morrison announces his drunken presence with dissonant blasts from a harmonica. The cover boy, 26 now, has a paunch and beard, a cowboy hat with a skull and crossbones and noticeably slurred speech. One stanza into the second song, Five to One, he berates the crowd. "You're all a bunch of f - - - - - - idiots!" Confused silence. Uncomfortable laughter. "Letting people tell you what you're gonna do, letting people push you around. How long you do think it's gonna last? . . . "Maybe you like it. Maybe you like being pushed around. Maybe you love it. Maybe you love getting your face stuck in the s - - -." Screams from the audience. "You're all a bunch of slaves. . . . "Letting everybody push you around. What are you gonna do about it? What are you gonna do about it? What are you gonna do about it? What are you gonna do about it? What are you gonna do about it? What are you gonna do! What are you gonna do! What are you gonna do!" He talks as much as he sings. He wails about loneliness and rants about love. Three songs after berating the crowd, the music softens and he lets loose a plaintive: "Away, away, away, away, in India "Away, away, away, away in In-di-a "Away, away, away, away in In-di-a "Away, away, away, away in In-di-a."</p><p>Morrison invited the crowd onstage, and the concert disintegrated. Amid the chaos, he supposedly unzipped his pants, exposed himself and simulated sex with guitarist Robby Krieger. With the country debating indecency run amok, Jim Morrison was Exhibit A. He was charged with lewd and lascivious behavior, a felony, plus indecent exposure and two other misdemeanors. The courtroom in Miami was packed. State witnesses saw what they saw. Others said it was hype, Morrison only simulated what he was accused of. There wasn't a single damning photo. Bryan Gates hadn't seen Jim in ages. They caught up during a break, and talk inevitably turned to Mary. What ever happened to her? Gates asked. Jim said he had lost touch, California seemed to have swallowed her up psychically. He was acquitted of the felony but convicted of indecent exposure. On Oct. 30, 1970, he was sentenced to six months of "confinement at hard labor" in the Dade County Jail. Out on appeal, he moved to Paris, where he shared an apartment with Courson. The Doors released L.A. Woman in April 1971, with hit songs Love Her Madly and Riders on the Storm. Months later, Jim Morrison was dead. On July 3, 1971, Courson found him in the bathtub. The listed cause of death was heart attack; many suspect drugs. He was 27.</p><p>September 2005 </p><p>34 years after Jim died Mary is 61, unemployed and rarely leaves her mobile home. Married and divorced three times, she has no children. "I can't find anybody to replace Jim. We definitely have a soul connection so deep. I've never had anything like that again, and I don't expect I ever will." She painted, mostly realistic oil portraits. She won a small legal settlement after she said she developed multiple chemical sensitivities from rat poison that seeped through the vents of her art studio over the years. It makes it difficult to be around scented products, and she gave up her art. She doesn't think the early Doors albums are all about her but says the lyrics include references to her and Jim's shared experiences, including the "blue bus" in The End. She considered writing about the references but decided against it. An artist herself, she didn't want to spoil people's various interpretations. For decades, she says, she brooded over how things might have turned out had they stayed together but finally concluded it was destiny. "He was supposed to go into that deep, dark place." His grave in Paris draws pilgrims from around the world, but not Mary. Quite the opposite, she says. She wants to forget, and still she feels his ghost checking on her. Lines in Break on Through especially pain her, lines she interprets as Jim saying she betrayed him by not getting back together: Arms that chain us Eyes that lie</p><p>"I promised it wouldn't be forever, that I'd get back together with him sometime. I never did. It's very painful to think of that. For a long time, any time I would think about him, or anyone would talk about him, I'd cry. "It used to make me so sad. I never gave him that second chance. That destroyed me for so long. I let him go and never gave him that second chance. I felt so guilty about that." Mary says she is tired. She has trouble sleeping. She says she's not sure if she has done right by talking so much. She's worried that others will seek interviews that she does not want to give. She wants that made clear: She does not want to talk about Jim anymore. From Jim's notebooks into the song book Everyone who remembers Jim Morrison from his Clearwater days remembers him scribbling notes everywhere he went. Snippets became lyrics. "That's where the songs came from, out of those notebooks," said Doors keyboard player Ray Manzarek. In the song Soul Kitchen, for example, Manzarek said the reference to "minarets" came from the University of Tampa.</p><p>A 1990 letter to the editor of the Los Angeles Times suggested that the Doors song Crystal Ship was about crystal methamphetamine: The ship stood for a hypodermic needle, the kiss meant drug injection. Doors drummer John Densmore responded with a letter of his own: "Jim wrote The Crystal Ship for Mary Worbelo (sic), a girlfriend with whom he was breaking up. . . . The song was a goodbye love song." The first two stanzas: Before you slip into unconsciousness I'd like to have another kiss Another flashing chance at bliss Another kiss, another kiss The days are bright and filled with pain Enclose me in your gentle rain The time you ran was too insane We'll meet again, we'll meet again Jim's college days in Florida Before starting film school in Los Angeles, Jim Morrison spent 2{ years in college in Florida. He attended St. Petersburg Junior College for the 1961-62 academic year, then transferred to Florida State University. </p><p>He was at FSU for the 1962-63 academic year and the fall trimester of 1963. The top section of his transcript shown here is from SPJC, where he got B's and C's in basic classes, including English, math and biology. The bottom four sections are from FSU, where he got A's in Collective Behavior and Essentials of Acting, and a B in Philosophy of Protest. Source: The Doors archive The Doors burned bright _ and were done Two UCLA film students put their talents together in 1965 _ Ray Manzarek and his keyboards, Jim Morrison and his poetry _ and started the band that became the Doors. The other members were jazz drummer John Densmore and guitarist Robby Krieger.</p><p>They derived the name of the group from the poetry of William Blake ("If the doors of perception were cleansed, everything would appear to man as it truly is, infinite.") and from Aldous Huxley's book about psychedelic drugs, The Doors of Perception. The group's music gets lumped with other psychedelic rock of the '60s, but it defies simple description, influenced by flamenco, Indian, blues and classical music. Their debut album, released in January 1967, included Light My Fire, Break on Through and The End. When they performed live on The Ed Sullivan Show, CBS censors demanded that the band change the lyrics in Light My Fire from "Girl we couldn't get much higher" to "Girl we couldn't get much better." Morrison sang the original line instead, much to Sullivan's chagrin. The third album, Waiting for the Sun (1968), was their first No. 1 record and included their second No. 1 single, Hello, I Love You. Morrison nicknamed himself Mr. Mojo Risin' _ an anagram of his name _ and is said to have referred often to the overdose deaths of Janis Joplin and Jimi Hendrix and predicted he would be No. 3.</p><p>On July 3, 1971, Pamela Courson reported that she found him dead in the bathtub of their apartment in Paris. The cause of death was listed as heart attack; drugs were suspected. There was no autopsy. The coffin was sealed before his family or the American Embassy were notified. It was not until six days later that the Doors' manager announced Morrison's death to the world. Conspiracy theorists had a field day. A popular theory was that to escape the demands of celebrity, Morrison faked his death and vanished. The band recorded six studio albums before Morrison's death. The remaining members released two more albums and split up in 1973. The Doors were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1993.</p><p>Summer 1961. Jim's parents, living in Virginia, send their increasingly incorrigible son back to Clearwater to live with his grandparents. He enrolls at St. Petersburg Junior College. Summer 1962. Jim Morrison and Mary Werbelow meet on Clearwater Beach. She is finishing her junior year at Clearwater High. He just finished a year at SPJC and will head to Florida State in the fall. January 1964. Jim starts film school at UCLA. Mary joins him in Los Angeles. Summer 1965. Mary and Jim break up. He and Ray Manzarek start the group that becomes the Doors. January 1967. The Doors release their first album. By July, Light My Fire hits No. 1 on the Billboard charts. Sept. 17, 1967. The Doors perform on The Ed Sullivan Show. Late 1968. Mary moves to India. She never sees Jim again. Jan. 24, 1969. A month after performing before a television audience of 27-million on the Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour, the Doors play to a sellout crowd of more than 20,000 at New York's Madison Square Garden. March 1, 1969. Doors concert at Miami's Dinner Key Auditorium. Morrison is later arrested, accused of exposing himself. Promoters in city after city cancel scheduled Doors concerts. Sept. 20, 1970. Morrison convicted of indecent exposure. Sept. 23, 1970. Morrison and Darryl Arthur "Babe" Hill arrested for public drunkenness in Clearwater.</p><p>Oct. 30, 1970. For indecent exposure, Morrison sentenced to six months "confinement at hard labor" in the Dade County Jail. The judge lets him stay free on appeal. Dec. 12, 1970. The Doors' final concert with Morrison, in New Orleans. July 3, 1971. In Paris, Morrison found dead in the bathtub of the apartment he shared with Pamela Courson. He was 27.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh1L7RN_dh4_hIiljov8PNQjI_T53S6-hm7CG9JyU-hCvnGkr-s5K7WC7rFf6rxNxYxgQYSXvGgKwEN3APj54tFuOecIhj-yvIfxPK9-raU-8ZjA64qspzpf3UDCHkRsljR8EapmU63uuIC6RIOix7zJlD7fHH-X43ewWvV18MaFpeS5X5YSNgB37WTpg/s634/E38gxZOWUAAo3-y.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="634" data-original-width="452" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh1L7RN_dh4_hIiljov8PNQjI_T53S6-hm7CG9JyU-hCvnGkr-s5K7WC7rFf6rxNxYxgQYSXvGgKwEN3APj54tFuOecIhj-yvIfxPK9-raU-8ZjA64qspzpf3UDCHkRsljR8EapmU63uuIC6RIOix7zJlD7fHH-X43ewWvV18MaFpeS5X5YSNgB37WTpg/w456-h640/E38gxZOWUAAo3-y.jpg" width="456" /></a></div><br /><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2962721263288722253.post-88914488092905007752022-08-17T01:48:00.003-07:002022-08-17T01:56:56.405-07:00New wild Jimi Hendrix movie in production<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEioJd48l2vKX24PJMoJJuWY-Lmyt6qJSD0IYitNCh5SkVlMAw3f8Nd4DlPEBNd7vGO15n2ZwZtJzGWZE5s3mmy4vD5G6M4UpqZdW0wvNywnCt_syCaOfGADB1uU6yp6axTOT9mgcGK7Jet7dFzgV2x1LagNTAQBkQXlJqL3U4uXZH-JQjOzA6bq6_fFvw/s400/CxTtSTCXEAAS5i8.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="226" data-original-width="400" height="362" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEioJd48l2vKX24PJMoJJuWY-Lmyt6qJSD0IYitNCh5SkVlMAw3f8Nd4DlPEBNd7vGO15n2ZwZtJzGWZE5s3mmy4vD5G6M4UpqZdW0wvNywnCt_syCaOfGADB1uU6yp6axTOT9mgcGK7Jet7dFzgV2x1LagNTAQBkQXlJqL3U4uXZH-JQjOzA6bq6_fFvw/w640-h362/CxTtSTCXEAAS5i8.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><span style="font-family: arial;"><p>Hendrix, the smiling, young dandy was the greatest and coolest guitar player ever to strike a chord. Or, indeed, play the instrument upside down, with his teeth, set it on fire, or show such a wizard-like mastery of touch that even feedback seemed to fall under his command. Nobody played like him, nobody connected with the music like him, nobody had the same kind of cool. To all who heard and saw him, Jimi Hendrix was simply God.</p></span><p></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">Now cult filmmaker Fabrizio Federico who has been called 'the Jimi Hendrix of cinema' due to his insane fluid psychedelic visuals and habit for burning and smashing video cameras, has been in talks with making a film about the late guitar hero. ''He's a massive inspiration in my movies, he brought an erotic, carnal energy to music, it goes beyond psychedelic, he taught people to reach for the stars'', says the filmmaker, ''I'd focus the movie on his onstage charisma, and magic to move audiences like a titan.''</span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/6s3AzIFY6ds" width="320" youtube-src-id="6s3AzIFY6ds"></iframe></div><span style="font-family: arial;"><p>When Jimi Hendrix (1942-70) began playing London, he pulled out all the tricks he’d learned. That included playing the guitar on his back on the ground; playing in between his legs; and playing with his teeth picking the guitar strings. His wild performances helped launch him on the British scene in ’66.</p></span><p></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">He loved flashy stage routines — the flashier, the better. Over the years, Hendrix’s friends and bandmates from his “Chitlin’ Circuit” days recalled how he honed his techniques. Guitarist Alphonso Young recalled the day Hendrix caught Young’s stage antics. “Jimi’s eye lit up when he first saw me play the guitar with my teeth and behind my back,” Young said. “I was always a show-off. The girls loved it.”</span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgoWiKb7xh7cIfXjNLuGaD6G8kkTVgsL7IWxLj2FInDc5FK0MyRmvGIm0mDclMBQGDNZC9DLIGC4-R5ceXOmuGjJmsdBNGiY3H-vP4_oCFNSBR8U5qyZD_otnmdSX_McNHRciL4EGLIJcM9KwIVczNlJN1N2jqgy4ZuBWAcuReAkWcZfq2P0rTpDSHlmg/s1024/hendrix-over-head.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="664" data-original-width="1024" height="416" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgoWiKb7xh7cIfXjNLuGaD6G8kkTVgsL7IWxLj2FInDc5FK0MyRmvGIm0mDclMBQGDNZC9DLIGC4-R5ceXOmuGjJmsdBNGiY3H-vP4_oCFNSBR8U5qyZD_otnmdSX_McNHRciL4EGLIJcM9KwIVczNlJN1N2jqgy4ZuBWAcuReAkWcZfq2P0rTpDSHlmg/w640-h416/hendrix-over-head.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><span style="font-family: arial;"><p>When Hendrix played shows in New York and other spots in the North, his stage antics didn’t wow the crowds as much. And Hendrix told a friend the Isley Brothers fired him in ’64 because he was always upstaging them. (Later, Hendrix admitted he’d gotten bored with playing in the Isleys’ band.)</p></span><p></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">All the while, of course, Hendrix was also cultivating his musical flash. His use of feedback and otherworldly technique would chart his path forward. After he arrived in London, he added the destructive stage antics that The Who’s Pete Townshend had become famous for.</span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/YqEQRqZ0Yns" width="320" youtube-src-id="YqEQRqZ0Yns"></iframe></div><span style="font-family: arial;"><p>Hendrix’s past in R&B show bands meant he hit London with a bag of tricks, including soloing between his legs, behind his back and using his teeth. Watching slackmouthed, Britrock’s class of ’66 shared the same thought: ‘Well, that’s us screwed, then…’</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/FehfuJIabqM" width="320" youtube-src-id="FehfuJIabqM"></iframe></div><p>Jimi Hendrix would sometimes set fire to his guitar. On March 31st,1967 at performance at London Astoria Hendrix sustained hand burns and visited the hospital. Hendrix was also known for having a very erotic stage presence. Audiences would see him slowly sweeping his hand similar to Townshend's windmill, rolling his head, and "wiping" the guitar's neck in order to create some extra fuzz. Jimi Hendrix would also play guitar with his teeth. In 1967 at the Monterey International Pop Music Festival he played the guitar solo from his popular song "Hey Joe" with his teeth.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/Lpz3A2LR0Cg" width="320" youtube-src-id="Lpz3A2LR0Cg"></iframe></div></span><p></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjTbNwNjd2FcWJZZwmsFFZ-nfraa0Mrj3I-h4nhownPL8j6Ct8dL1kgmf_0O6TYBOniv3Gd2I-ZlPbwtcWzSxdZ15qWDKgfdgAmYT45g7J1ydT45DRnMZXauFHTYfHSXBTqzQwdOHOjFp2Wb0kH5_G0u3Un8ctAUv01HI-QiIXSectdoys4xWWNlYutCQ/s300/images.jpeg.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="168" data-original-width="300" height="358" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjTbNwNjd2FcWJZZwmsFFZ-nfraa0Mrj3I-h4nhownPL8j6Ct8dL1kgmf_0O6TYBOniv3Gd2I-ZlPbwtcWzSxdZ15qWDKgfdgAmYT45g7J1ydT45DRnMZXauFHTYfHSXBTqzQwdOHOjFp2Wb0kH5_G0u3Un8ctAUv01HI-QiIXSectdoys4xWWNlYutCQ/w640-h358/images.jpeg.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiZgPnWs8A9CzR7Ms2iH8bhsMoKzuWQ5f_pRzGQB8IuolfDQUncNN2AdzCck72F5Nb4au6CtbqtcADv-ihf9g9CPs7_hu01OlaSHpDRbikDCQM-pzI5eqI3Rz9TvdD5YIqpyXOw0n20EKfCh2Gn2c0HHQNSm2sTR9IbWHgcCRjncvg6VpOYeiE_l9MGdg/s1920/Mezzanine_815.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1080" data-original-width="1920" height="360" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiZgPnWs8A9CzR7Ms2iH8bhsMoKzuWQ5f_pRzGQB8IuolfDQUncNN2AdzCck72F5Nb4au6CtbqtcADv-ihf9g9CPs7_hu01OlaSHpDRbikDCQM-pzI5eqI3Rz9TvdD5YIqpyXOw0n20EKfCh2Gn2c0HHQNSm2sTR9IbWHgcCRjncvg6VpOYeiE_l9MGdg/w640-h360/Mezzanine_815.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span><p></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></p><p><br /></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2962721263288722253.post-464838523154150342022-08-02T01:56:00.007-07:002022-08-18T14:02:43.781-07:00PARANOID ALICE’S DEBUT ALBUM ‘MENTAL ILLNESS FOR THE MASSES’ FOR KAMIKAZE SUMMER RELEASE<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgnE34QvsamoNTouYUFG2ov831yq2XIhauPNQimWDHIgSpOGGbFayxeYGswBG7A1Sb8AN6lAeHQ5yg-skzsDitRvRp7tYeOBbjf5h7HPF3VdwCC3kkNnrCF4VJ6hBCnSCK4aXcR-VJ9cx1ERv2ZR3NXYgIKlel7k47Pcln9Vx_KcNykwz1nRwaS5gpagQ/s1280/maxresdefault.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="720" data-original-width="1280" height="360" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgnE34QvsamoNTouYUFG2ov831yq2XIhauPNQimWDHIgSpOGGbFayxeYGswBG7A1Sb8AN6lAeHQ5yg-skzsDitRvRp7tYeOBbjf5h7HPF3VdwCC3kkNnrCF4VJ6hBCnSCK4aXcR-VJ9cx1ERv2ZR3NXYgIKlel7k47Pcln9Vx_KcNykwz1nRwaS5gpagQ/w640-h360/maxresdefault.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-family: arial;">Over the past month Paranoid Alice have been in Electric Fields studio with Chris White recording their debut ‘Mental Illness For The Masses’. After a tense first few days of inner band fights ”stop fucking smiling”, “more reverb!!”, trying to record haunted accordions, ‘5-6-7-8’ count in’s, & demands for more cowbell, the album is a mix of dark psych/punk & anthemic grunge rock. Spidery psych guitars were whipped & wah-wah’ed, bass FX’s were pushed to 11, while killer drum heads were smashed. The band combines a wild guitar thrashing stage act with dark poetry, chemistry, and sexuality that delves into a twisted Alice In Wonderland cinematic dreamscape. </span><p></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">This album comes along as an exciting line of new rock bands such as Black Midi, Squid & Dry Cleaning have appeared; but Paranoid Alice is their psychotic glam sibling. While band members Fab (guitar, sitar, vocals), Luca (bass, vocals), Mat ‘Krug’ (drums, screams) have been gearing up for more live gigs, heres what they have to say about the album so far: </span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">Fab: ”We’ve made a special unhinged schizophrenic album, I wanted to mix acid-rock, and grunge, where every song has the potential to be an anthem and to infest different genre’s. Some songs have catchy psych/grunge choruses & Oasis melodies, but others will rip your brain out like In Utero, or are experimental like Sonic Youth. We’re a gang and these songs need to be played at maximum volume. You’ll also hear new guitar moon sounds that have never been heard before. I've been listening to Joe Meek, Delia Derbyshire & Martin Hammett productions, mixing them with electric ragas, reverse solos, and sound collages of dictators, plus an evil cat recorded in a graveyard.’</span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/B9sF0leqox8" width="320" youtube-src-id="B9sF0leqox8"></iframe></div><span style="font-family: arial;"><p>Luca “This album is gonna be some of the wildest shit you’ve ever heard. Punk rock aggression, crushing riffs, blistering solos, whiplash genre changes… we just let our imagination run riot for 12 tracks. Some of the songs are deeply meaningful, some are just dumb stupid fun. Please keep your arms, legs, ears and minds inside the ride vehicle at all times.”</p></span><p></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/KT03t-VH8UE" width="320" youtube-src-id="KT03t-VH8UE"></iframe></div><span style="font-family: arial;"><p>Mat: ”I’m so excited about this album. Its come together really nicely. To say that we set out on a tight budget, been hit back so many times because of COVID, it’s nice to see it all come into fruition! What really makes this album so good is that we all have such varied tastes, and influences, in our own personal style yet it all blends together so seemlessly! It’s time to get proper music back out on the scene and shift away from samey manufactured drivel that has plagued us over the last decade and we are going to rock, riding the crest of the wave, as we bring that back!”</p></span><p></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgtTipuye2mlb8qP0oTs-rwsfqWwLoFOl5zx9pBJDYAqcao9sJv-9vv5uO-AU8HaHD7y3x2i7-pOW7LFFNVJhjOHoANUNl4Vtq0hpDB3LkizERdFN5Es_kVUhci8pmuIIOWF4N-apX4TAGkoXUTaGY9sdEVCq_JfuvOlB0CLl7WtzY23utEUgUZJoUgBg/s1161/1652447518922.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1161" data-original-width="1075" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgtTipuye2mlb8qP0oTs-rwsfqWwLoFOl5zx9pBJDYAqcao9sJv-9vv5uO-AU8HaHD7y3x2i7-pOW7LFFNVJhjOHoANUNl4Vtq0hpDB3LkizERdFN5Es_kVUhci8pmuIIOWF4N-apX4TAGkoXUTaGY9sdEVCq_JfuvOlB0CLl7WtzY23utEUgUZJoUgBg/w592-h640/1652447518922.jpg" width="592" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span><p></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></p><p><br /></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2962721263288722253.post-18170374630475457042022-07-17T03:54:00.005-07:002022-07-17T04:43:18.278-07:00Wah: The New Nottingham Sonic Revival<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj1uoikLaMXpl9IUjSGtHOne1wU8A-YoTmwIpQcyIWINH3vpqiZ1ixjJ5CcJ5MuoEMqsP0m0co87IoOloNfHA407i_sYThTbiNZGd7d71M_-haURMe5MHkq8RoEVqHUpzg8o58xPn8g3terjypnjf1UnS0H5K4LH6nyd1eh5YfEFUlEmCOGYwD0cF5jzA/s1084/befunky_2022-6-6_6-52-3.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1084" data-original-width="1065" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj1uoikLaMXpl9IUjSGtHOne1wU8A-YoTmwIpQcyIWINH3vpqiZ1ixjJ5CcJ5MuoEMqsP0m0co87IoOloNfHA407i_sYThTbiNZGd7d71M_-haURMe5MHkq8RoEVqHUpzg8o58xPn8g3terjypnjf1UnS0H5K4LH6nyd1eh5YfEFUlEmCOGYwD0cF5jzA/w628-h640/befunky_2022-6-6_6-52-3.jpg" width="628" /></a></div><p><span style="font-family: arial;"><b>Origin Point</b>: The alley near a Taco Bell</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;"><b>Key Artists</b>: Iodine, Alpine Thrift, Paranoid Alice, Content Provider, Octavia Wakes, Decade & A Day, The Addiction</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">Fast, Chugging, wah guitars, reverb and demented vocals with wigs, guitar smashing and plenty cheap glitter. Also bringing something new to the table: candy cane props.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">This shtick went viral almost instantly, as other groups embraced this anti-corporate rock mentality. Favoring a sneakier, more subversive approach marked by wry lyrics and cheapo equipment —proof, perhaps, that living weird is the best revenge. The scene’s stone-faced cool and record-collector obsessiveness of all genres has helped set it apart from others.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">These eerie sounds from music’s fringes kicked off a 21st century revival of outsider-rock renaissance. The lo-fi tag, presumably, came from their shared fondness for dusty, vaguely tape-warped sounds—scuzzy, line-noise-riddled sound, as low-fidelity as it gets, the product of a few frayed patch cords, duct tape, and chewing gum. Nottingham has no doubt gone cuckoo.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">A compilation album will be available in August.</span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhJRrfCBD1vG-0TLp19NyAhTEdyzcM7H-0mTZxxk3Xb9xAP1j_spMTakwFm2RFIObiZRz3zeljCYXvQlSmlH_5bukp52lT-3uk1G7Ph8bNGfxEtF9SRY8U_H1aDySOqE6nP2Hooc3_2ermWy8gCllzCmwNvqzhE5GEVptXoGmoVKIQzxdkeuYmEvznUxw/s750/0d717e255d7f82df44ecf087098fee0d.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="500" data-original-width="750" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhJRrfCBD1vG-0TLp19NyAhTEdyzcM7H-0mTZxxk3Xb9xAP1j_spMTakwFm2RFIObiZRz3zeljCYXvQlSmlH_5bukp52lT-3uk1G7Ph8bNGfxEtF9SRY8U_H1aDySOqE6nP2Hooc3_2ermWy8gCllzCmwNvqzhE5GEVptXoGmoVKIQzxdkeuYmEvznUxw/w640-h426/0d717e255d7f82df44ecf087098fee0d.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span><p></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></p><p><br /></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2962721263288722253.post-2113029058382647242022-06-15T14:37:00.007-07:002022-10-09T02:55:13.166-07:00The Anti-Hero Filmmaker Fabrizio Federico<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhLeYQ-ulwXFhx_aIgv3VUpj8o9rmh6ugir7Mccfjn0Op2FJhBS6pSFBX_3kN0hOHz2Gum1QOxRu70omU6l-X7HNjnVPyW_4iVVFmLhINYnLJsGrHU9FUyGl8TmoEbeOVQxC7np2mafkiONKfbAvABY6XfwUqx_Vyh9MmjuPt9y26_l09TsQKR0S1045g/s1856/ZsLyR_ryu_dgj.v1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1254" data-original-width="1856" height="432" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhLeYQ-ulwXFhx_aIgv3VUpj8o9rmh6ugir7Mccfjn0Op2FJhBS6pSFBX_3kN0hOHz2Gum1QOxRu70omU6l-X7HNjnVPyW_4iVVFmLhINYnLJsGrHU9FUyGl8TmoEbeOVQxC7np2mafkiONKfbAvABY6XfwUqx_Vyh9MmjuPt9y26_l09TsQKR0S1045g/w640-h432/ZsLyR_ryu_dgj.v1.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div><div class="p1" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 15.84px; line-height: 19px; max-height: 999999px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="c0" face=""trebuchet ms", sans-serif" style="border: 0px; font-size: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; max-height: 999999px; padding: 0px; text-align: inherit; text-decoration: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;"><i><b>'Id rather create chaotic films, they're more beautiful. Parent's hate my movies, cose I deal in state's of mind not discipline. </b></i></span><b><i style="font-family: "trebuchet ms", sans-serif; font-size: inherit; text-align: inherit;">It's the antithesis of professionalism & craftsmanship - more like sorcery. </i><i style="font-family: "trebuchet ms", sans-serif; font-size: inherit; text-align: inherit;">Be childish & irresponsible when creating, with the minimum of means. </i><i style="font-family: "trebuchet ms", sans-serif; font-size: inherit; text-align: inherit;">Regard my projects as epileptic fits.''</i></b></div><div class="p1" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 15.84px; line-height: 19px; max-height: 999999px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br /></span><span class="c0" style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; max-height: 999999px; padding: 0px; text-align: inherit; text-decoration: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">An auteur filmmaker. Born in the UK in 1983 and the oldest of 6 siblings, Federico was raised in an Italian/Jamaican culture. After surviving a house fire in 1989 which started late one night while he was watching Godzilla, him and his family narrowly escaped with their lives, having to escape by jumping out of their upstairs window. All that survived from their house was a photo of his recently deceased grandfather.</span></span></div><div class="p2" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 15.84px; line-height: 19px; max-height: 999999px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><br /></div><div class="p3" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 15.84px; line-height: 19px; max-height: 999999px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="c0" style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; max-height: 999999px; padding: 0px; text-align: inherit; text-decoration: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">He fell in love with cinema as a young boy after moving to Italy. Films such as the Italian Spaghetti Westerns, Casper cartoons and the comedies of Paolo Villaggio (Fantozzi) all made an impression - as a teenager more avant-garde films by Dennis Hopper, Kenneth Anger, Andy Warhol & Pasolini captured his imagination to create movies outside of the mainstream.</span></span></div><div class="p3" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 15.84px; line-height: 19px; max-height: 999999px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="c0" style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; max-height: 999999px; padding: 0px; text-align: inherit; text-decoration: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br /></span></span></div><div class="p3" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 15.84px; line-height: 19px; max-height: 999999px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="c0" style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; max-height: 999999px; padding: 0px; text-align: inherit; text-decoration: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;"><div class="p17" style="border: 0px; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 19px; max-height: 999999px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="c0" style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; max-height: 999999px; padding: 0px; text-align: inherit; text-decoration: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">After being deported from the USA in 2006 Federico settled back in the UK.</span></span></div><div class="p18" style="border: 0px; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 19px; max-height: 999999px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="c0" style="border: 0px; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; max-height: 999999px; padding: 0px; text-align: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit;">For his debut feature film </span><i style="color: inherit; text-decoration-line: inherit;"><b>Black Biscuit</b></i><span style="font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit;"> (2012) he chose homeless people, sex workers & addicts to star in the film. Raising the funds by nude life modeling & going from door to door asking people to donate a £1.00. Most of the filming was done using car crash stolen cameras, mobile phones and children's cameras. There was no script, and he </span>didn't<span style="font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit;"> tell anyone what the movie's plot was about during filming. His only direction was ''just be yourselves and either make me sick, amazed or inspired'' The film was called ''A rubik's cube of images.''</span></span></span></div><div class="p19" style="border: 0px; color: #0b0000; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 19px; max-height: 999999px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><br /></div><div class="p20" style="border: 0px; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 19px; max-height: 999999px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="c0" style="border: 0px; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; max-height: 999999px; padding: 0px; text-align: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit;">It was around this time that his </span><span style="color: #0b0000;">controversial</span><span color="rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)"><span style="font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit;"> </span></span><i style="color: inherit; text-decoration-line: inherit;"><b>PINK8</b></i><i style="color: inherit; font-weight: inherit; text-decoration-line: inherit;"> </i><span style="font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit;">manifesto emerged, which created hostility, uncomprehending indifference and submission in the filmmaking world.</span></span></span></div><div class="p21" style="border: 0px; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 19px; max-height: 999999px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><br /></div><div class="p22" style="border: 0px; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 19px; max-height: 999999px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="c0" style="border: 0px; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; max-height: 999999px; padding: 0px; text-align: inherit; text-decoration: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit;">In </span><i><b>The Milk Man</b></i><span style="font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit;"> (2013) became an abandoned vérité film project. The movie focused on a milk man who spiked local families milk bottles with LSD on his morning route's. The project was abandoned after the Royal Association of British Dairy Farmers (RABDF) who were notified about the film and threatened to sue over alleged defamation regarding the films subject.</span></span></span></div><div class="p23" style="border: 0px; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 19px; max-height: 999999px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><br /></div><div class="p24" style="border: 0px; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 19px; max-height: 999999px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="c0" style="border: 0px; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; max-height: 999999px; padding: 0px; text-align: inherit; text-decoration: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit;">His next film </span><i><b>Pregnant</b></i><span style="font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit;"> (2015) was released, which focuses on technology addiction in the 21st century & the mass hypnosis of a generation''. We witness the Facebook/Youtube generation's inner spiritual stagnation & mass disconnection from society, as they come to grips with this new madness called reality. During the filmming Federico was accused of arson after a misunderstanding concerning one of the films shoots.</span></span></span></div><div class="p24" style="border: 0px; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 19px; max-height: 999999px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="c0" style="border: 0px; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; max-height: 999999px; padding: 0px; text-align: inherit; text-decoration: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit;"><br /></span></span></span></div><div class="p24" style="border: 0px; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 19px; max-height: 999999px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="c0" style="border: 0px; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; max-height: 999999px; padding: 0px; text-align: inherit; text-decoration: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEixXwgkbdJuxGmWfi7Ugaf-iaD9If7hHPcOyNFugt84cAuuwRdzLS8enYqqwrbd86bFb6I3yF1dtiU_islYrVn3WCLHLBvLBEe2ve0_aoiklxbpZteXFAY8ljp1n0MW3r4GerUQpfXW_Rcm6ZrQAxEvm6OZ19rfPUMI5XmURyQe-YR3foS-o0OkonCTIg/s1406/Screenshot_20220615-234843_Gallery.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1406" data-original-width="1080" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEixXwgkbdJuxGmWfi7Ugaf-iaD9If7hHPcOyNFugt84cAuuwRdzLS8enYqqwrbd86bFb6I3yF1dtiU_islYrVn3WCLHLBvLBEe2ve0_aoiklxbpZteXFAY8ljp1n0MW3r4GerUQpfXW_Rcm6ZrQAxEvm6OZ19rfPUMI5XmURyQe-YR3foS-o0OkonCTIg/w492-h640/Screenshot_20220615-234843_Gallery.jpg" width="492" /></a></div><span style="font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; text-align: inherit; text-decoration-line: inherit;"><div class="p24" style="border: 0px; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 19px; max-height: 999999px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="c0" style="border: 0px; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; max-height: 999999px; padding: 0px; text-align: inherit; text-decoration: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; text-align: inherit; text-decoration-line: inherit;"><br /></span></span></span></div>During this period Jett Hollywood was born. Federico's alter-ego (Ziggy Stardust's illegitimate son). A filmmaker from Mars.</span></span></span></div><div class="p27" style="border: 0px; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 19px; max-height: 999999px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="c0" style="border: 0px; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; max-height: 999999px; padding: 0px; text-align: inherit; text-decoration: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit;">He promised to create two films and then commit 'cinema suicide'. </span><i><b>Evolution Of The Earth Angel</b></i><i style="font-weight: inherit;"> </i><span style="font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit;">(2015) & </span><i><b>Anarchy In The UK</b><span style="font-weight: inherit;"> </span></i><span style="font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit;">(2016) were the two films that emerged.</span></span></span></div><div class="p28" style="border: 0px; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 19px; max-height: 999999px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="c0" style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; max-height: 999999px; padding: 0px; text-align: inherit; text-decoration: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">A controversy emerged from a Jett Hollywood's suicide note which appeared online by his alter ego Jett Hollywood which resulted in an inquest. It prompted a disappearance case which revolved around the cryptic note which has since been withheld.</span></span></div><div class="p29" readability="9" style="border: 0px; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 19px; max-height: 999999px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="c0" style="border: 0px; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; max-height: 999999px; padding: 0px; text-align: inherit; text-decoration: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit;">In 2016 the 1st </span><i><b>Straight Jacket Guerrilla Film Festival</b></i><span style="font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit;"> launched 30 international films across the world, exploring today's Underground/Cult cinema makers.</span></span></span></div><div class="p29" readability="9" style="border: 0px; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 19px; max-height: 999999px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="c0" style="border: 0px; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; max-height: 999999px; padding: 0px; text-align: inherit; text-decoration: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit;"><br /></span></span></span></div><div class="p29" readability="9" style="border: 0px; line-height: 19px; max-height: 999999px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="c0" style="border: 0px; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; max-height: 999999px; padding: 0px; text-align: inherit; text-decoration: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="font-style: inherit;"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="font-weight: inherit;">At the core of the film </span><b>LOON </b>(2017)<span style="font-weight: inherit;"> lies a</span><i style="font-weight: inherit;"> folie à deux</i><span style="font-weight: inherit;"> relationship between two cousins, 16 year old Charlie Sheen (who wishes to be called 'Keith' - even though no one does) and his poison minded </span></span><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-weight: inherit;">18 year </span><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-weight: inherit;">old cousin Georgia Sheen; who's aggressive, cunning, sexual personality has hypnotised her younger cousin into doing anything she wishes.</span><br /><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-weight: inherit;"><br /></span><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-weight: inherit;">An experimental melodrama with presidential assassination bulletins and a parody of children's record-read along book set. Charlie is a nihilistic icon, he's a kleptomaniac and a compulsive liar living in an incestuous tight knit family who have created a pillow world for him (</span><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-weight: inherit;"><i>he's also on prescription tablets - his medical condition is never explained),</i> </span><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-weight: inherit;">to sink deeper into his fantasy lifestyle of becoming a famous drummer like his hero Keith Moon.</span><br /></span></span></span></div><div class="p29" readability="9" style="border: 0px; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 19px; max-height: 999999px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="c0" style="border: 0px; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; max-height: 999999px; padding: 0px; text-align: inherit; text-decoration: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit;"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br /></span></span></span></span></div><div class="p29" readability="9" style="border: 0px; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 19px; max-height: 999999px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="c0" style="border: 0px; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; max-height: 999999px; padding: 0px; text-align: inherit; text-decoration: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit;"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">The climate of Brexit looms as this tragedy unfolds. </span><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">While unemployed his loner life is largely based on crime, daydreaming and pleasing Georgia's superior super-woman Nietzsche anti-heroine.</span></span></span></span></span></div><div class="p29" readability="9" style="border: 0px; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 19px; max-height: 999999px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="c0" style="border: 0px; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; max-height: 999999px; 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line-height: 19px; max-height: 999999px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div class="p29" style="border: 0px; line-height: 19px; max-height: 999999px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: arial;">An apt end to a chaotic career.</span></div></span></span></span></span></span></div><div class="p29" readability="9" style="border: 0px; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 19px; max-height: 999999px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="c0" style="border: 0px; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; max-height: 999999px; padding: 0px; text-align: inherit; text-decoration: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit;"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br /></span></span></span></span></div></span></div><div class="p3" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; 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