Tuesday, October 27, 2020
Negation Aspiration vol. 243
“After Epstein’s arrest in 2019, a media narrative coalesced around the question of his strange place in the global elite: Epstein the master salesman, a man who had skillfully conned his way into the world’s most powerful circles, fooling everyone in the process. But after my travels through the book, after hearing more of the petty gossip and childish drama of the people who rule our world, I realized this was obviously incorrect. Built into the premise of Epstein the mastermind scammer is the notion that some kind of legitimate path to a legitimate global aristocracy exists. To call Epstein a grifter is to assume he circumvented some genuine meritocratic world order, where the “real” virtuosos dutifully climb the “real” ranks into the oligarchy, powered by nothing but their native talents. The truth is that the elite world that Epstein ascended into, the one I tapped into by way of the black book, is populated with hordes of loathsome, boring, untalented people living their bumbling, idiotic lives while just so happening to wield some share of the preposterous global bounty that he and the rest were after. For all the mystery surrounding Epstein’s fortune, its existence is hardly more inscrutable than the wealth of any of his other billionaire peers. He earned it the same way they all did, which is to say precisely not at all. This wasn’t some masterful hack into the global aristocracy. It’s what everyone does. It’s what the whole thing is. There is no scam here. It’s grifters grifting grifters all the way down.”
U.S.A.! U.S.A.! vol. 310
The signs of a coming conflict are everywhere. Political polarization is up, gun and ammunition sales have spiked, killers such as Kyle Rittenhouse are being lauded by their political allies, and protests are widespread in American cities. Police kill unarmed people in the street, the government is polarized and corrupt, and our institutions are failing. Armed militias patrol U.S. streets and groups like the Atomwaffen Division and the Base plot to start a larger conflict. Mass shootings, sometimes ideologically motivated and other times not, occur frequently. Poverty and unemployment are widespread as mass evictions loom and Congress stalls to help those in need.
This is all happening during an election year, and we have a sect of the president's supporters who have vowed to show up at polling places armed. If you have a terrible and ominous feeling about all this, you’re not alone.
Experts say that a new civil conflict
will look nothing like the last
American Civil War, but that the
country is on the verge
of large scale political violence.
Monday, October 26, 2020
Negation Aspiration vol. 242
Of the hundreds of publications put out by these authors, at least a dozen contain the same kinds of fantastical claims. Many have been published in lesser-known journals: the 5G paper, for instance, was published in the Journal of Biological Regulators & Homeostatic Agents, which claims on its website that all studies are peer-reviewed. Another set of papers with titles such as, “DNA Waves and Their Applications in Biology,” and “A Black Hole at the Center of Earth Plays the Role of the Biggest System of Telecommunication for Connecting DNAs, Dark DNAs and Molecules of Water on 4+N- Dimensional Manifold” were published in the Open Access Macedonian Journal of Medical Sciences, an open access journal that offers peer review for some of its content, though it is unclear whether these papers went through peer review.
From black holes at the Earth's center to decapitated quails, a group of scientists—some working for a journal from a major publisher—are prolifically publishing pseudoscience.
Sunday, October 25, 2020
U.S.A.! U.S.A.! vol. 309 / #gorenoise vol. 38
“There are indications that both Dr. Amin and the referring detention facility took advantage of the vulnerability of women in detention to pressure them to agree to overly aggressive, inappropriate, and unconsented medical care,” the document alleges.
Women detained at Irwin, the document goes on, faced “pressure to have unnecessary surgery without a discussion of risks, benefits, or alternatives, including one woman who was told she needed removal of her uterus, fallopian tubes, and ovaries.”
A team of doctors
reviewed more
than 3,200 pages
of medical records
from 19 women who allege
"medical maltreatment"
at an ICE detention
facility in Georgia.
Friday, October 23, 2020
U.S.A.! U.S.A.! vol. 308
I know we've all grown numb to Trump's casual cruelty and his obvious inability to imagine that other people are fully real, but hot damn, it is incumbent on us who carry the dubious title of "journalist" not to let that numbness cloud our vision. There is something deeply wrong with that man. Anyone who listened — really listened — to him on Thursday night could see it.
Imagine how this felt for people who have had someone close to them die, or who have themselves survived a near-death experience with COVID-19. I've personally had multiple people in my life become ill with this virus, and was wracked with worry about losing one of them. Trump's entire soulless diatribe, especially when he mentioned that his "young son" had the disease and "was fine," was profoundly disturbing. The man has no empathy, not even for his own family.
It went on like that all night. On every issue touching human suffering, Trump sounded like a callous jerk.
It may be that the loud, chaotic and disruptive aspects of Trump's personality are so annoying that they drown out what is actually most disturbing about the man, which is that he has no human feeling for other people. Or perhaps it's because the ideology of American conservatism at this point is so cruel and unfeeling that Trump seems like a natural fit with the 21st-century Republican Party. Possibly it's because the political culture of mandatory cynicism doesn't allow people to admit that they're weirded out by someone whose empathetic capacity is so busted.
Whatever the reason, it's remarkable how so many people have grown accustomed to sitting through that man's cold-blooded rants and callous affect and don't seem disturbed by it, as long as the volume is kept at a reasonable level.
But the truth is, without the yelling and headache-inducing interruptions, Trump's ruthless attitude towards any human being besides himself came through with crystalline clarity. There's nothing "civil" about a man who doesn't care about human suffering and death, and is only upset by the fact that he's not receiving the constant praise and flattery he believes is his due.
What "civil" debate? The one I watched revealed Donald Trump as a cold-blooded psychopath
A calmer tone only exposed Trump's lack of basic empathy about the pandemic, family separation or anything else
Thursday, October 22, 2020
#gorenoise vol. 37
Two men were arrested after trying to visit the victim whose testicles they harvested and kept in a freezer in what appeared to be a botched sex-reassignment attempt.
Cannibals Lured Victim to Cabin in Oklahoma Woods for Castration: Sheriff
Wednesday, October 21, 2020
U.S.A.! U.S.A.! vol. 307 / Awwwwww Yeah vol. 182
Towards the end of the film, 24-year-old actress Irina Nowak, playing the role of Borat’s 15-year-old daughter Tutar Sagdiyev, sits down for an interview with Giuliani in a New York City hotel room. After she gins him up with a series of compliments and red meat questions related to China and Hunter Biden, she invites Giuliani into the next room for a drink. Once in the bedroom (which has been rigged with hidden cameras), Giuliani sits on the bed and begins touching Tutar’s back. She removes his microphone, and Giuliani untucks his shirt and reaches into his trousers.
Borat, wearing a red bra and panties, then bursts into the room and yells, “She’s 15! She’s too old for you. Please, take me instead!” Giuliani promptly exits the room, and Borat and Tutar are then seen running down the sidewalk to the wail of police sirens.
Rudy Giuliani Caught on Camera Attempting to Seduce Borat’s “15-Year-Old Daughter”
U.S.A.! U.S.A.! vol. 306
"Vote for Trump or else!" the email's subject line proclaimed.
"We are in possession of all your information (email, address, telephone… everything)," the message stated. "You are currently registered as a Democrat and we know this because we have gained access into the entire voting infrastructure. You will vote for Trump on Election Day or we will come after you. Change your party affiliation to Republican to let us know you received our message and will comply. We will know which candidate you voted for. I would take this seriously if I were you."
While at first glance the email seems to come from an account under the domain of a website affiliated with The Proud Boys, a review of the source code embedded in seven emails reviewed by CBS News shows the message originated from IP addresses linked to servers located in Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates and Estonia.
Emails threatening Florida voters to "vote for Trump or else!" linked to overseas servers
Tuesday, October 20, 2020
Sunday, October 18, 2020
Saturday, October 17, 2020
CUT VISIONS: another failure from yours truly
2007.
i had graduated from college roughly a year prior. i was playing regularly in my band, and had recently entered a period of deep sexual satisfaction. it seems like both of those might just well be out of reach for the foreseeable future, but i digress...
i had spent the prior few years building up my video / DVD library with the weirdest, most fucked up films i could find. i was particularly taken with the cinemas of Alejandro Jodorowsky, Jan Svankmeyer, Kei Fujiwara, Richard Kern, and films such as Sweet Movie, Begotten, Subconscious Cruelty, Tetsuo the Iron Man, Titus, The Mansion of Madness, essentially anything dream-like, trangressivley violent, sexually provocative, and impenetrably experimental... with heavy imagery that came off the screen. i was also digging deep into researching fringe performance artists like Chris Burden, the Vienna Aktionists, as well as Artaud's Theatre of Cruelty and industrial / electronic acts that put on elaborate shows, such as IRM, SPK, Skinny Puppy, and so forth.
i had gotten to place with my lyric writing where i finally felt like i had found my niche, and i had just had a short story published in the Dennis Cooper edited anthology Userlands (my own personal "Four Touchdowns in One Game" moment i suppose), so i was feeling a bit of that old hubris, and i decided to go a head and write a screenplay that would encompass all that mentioned in the above paragraph; an experimental art-splatter surrealist epic (with some of that Tarantino-esque "interlaced anthology" structure thrown in for *shrugs in abject creative failure*) about the days immediately following a violent uprising at a mental institution. i first called it House with a Sky Inside, but feeling that the title was like a mouthful of a plastic flowers, i settled on Cut Visions, probably as a nod to Douglas Buck's resplendent short Cutting Moments.
the inmates would each represent different horror film archetypes:
- a young teenage girl who represented the "killer kid" genre, made popular by the Bad Seed. but really an homage to my favorite TV movie ever Child of Rage, as well as the America Undercover episode that inspired the former.
- a malnourished vampire who was meant to invoke the more "artful" strains of that genre (the Hunger, Martin, etc)
- a slasher villain whose exploits inspired a film-within-a-film, scenes from that being intercut with the "real world" events of the film.
- a school shooter with delusions of being a revolutionary.
- the "mad doctor" who ran the asylum, who was meant to be a "gritty, deconstructionist" take on Dr. Giggles (oh lord how i wasted so many creative hours pondering "elevated" takes on what is best left to be glorious trash. if you're ever feeling like you a need a hit of cringing pity, ask me sometime about my idea to synergize Venom and Carnage with Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer.)
- a witch who is sexually attracted to inanimate objects (no idea what i was going for here, but some of the imagery i liked the most came from this character, even if she served no real narrative purpose [not there was any narrative purpose at all, but y'know])
- the "pen pal" of the aforementioned killer kid, who would evolve into the biggest screen writing no-no imaginable; a nakedly obvious stand-in for *points two thumbs at carotids and makes a slashing motion*... a regrettable lapse into the kind of navel-gazing wish fulfillment that made me loathe such charmless fodder like Garden State and Ruby Sparks... Cause I Hooked Her To A Car Battery During Edgeplay, after i wrote what might be my most embarrassing set-piece ever, where this guy has a full on John Stagliano style punch-fuck session with a Lydia Lunch stand in who he flirts with at a nearby sex club while watching the aforementioned movie within a movie, i tried to negate my "tortured writer who is secretly really good at fucking trust me please baby please WHERE ARE YOU GOING" posturing by having the "killer kid" bite his cock off (having realized i inadvertently made this character a creep whose basically stalking a teenage girl... fuck i'm just like all the rest. i'm trying to be better now i promise).
- members of a cosmic death sex cult who served as a kind of stream-of-conscious greek chorus.
- random one-off characters like a Buffalo Bill lady skin suit wearing person who does an extended dance number to "I'm So Beautiful" by Divine, an environmentally autistic woman who wore a burqa of used diapers, a cop named after the Vio-Lence song "Officer Nice", a private investigator who went nuts trying to capture a slippery arch-criminal, and several other non-sequitur set-pieces that i pulled from dreams and Communion lyrics (i think i flirted with the idea of this being some kind of grindcore version of the Wall or Tommy because i was reaching Rupert Pupkin levels of socially nullifying self-delusion, but i digress).
i worked on Cut Visions for roughly two years. i had read that when David Cronenberg writes a first draft of a screenplay, he makes it as insane as possible, knowing full well that much of it will be changed or shed entirely during the filmmaking process, but giving himself and those who would come to work on a project a general idea of the film's world, pathos, and atmosphere. i applied that theory to my script, but i might've been overzealous, as i ended up with a crowded, meandering tumor of a project that scared away any potential collaborators, who either wanted nothing at all to do with the project, or who would've preferred to isolate the characters and slot them into more conventional genre stories. i felt that the point of the script was that these characters from disparate worlds were crossing over into each other's lives, being situated in a universe with rules that are completely different from the worlds they inhabit. creating something with more dimensions than their isolated mythologies possess. it's still how i feel about my creative universe; by themselves, the characters are little more that stand-ins for other myths and archetypes, but when put together, they form something more varied, and i think more bursting with imaginative potential.
nearly 10 years after i wrote Cut Visions, music had hit the skids for me, and i had once again looped back to the kind of sanity-squeezing isolation that defined much of my school years. i turned my attention back to prose, using Cut Visions has grist for the mills of the shared universe of my writing, re-examining and expanding upon the imagery, characters, atmosphere, and pathos in ways that i find much more rich and satisfying, so much so that the script feels like a skeleton drained of its marrow.
i'm not sure if i will ever attempt to write a screenplay again; movies are the most insurmountable and remote of creative opportunities... but never say never i suppose.
Wednesday, October 14, 2020
NERRRRRRRRD! vol. 124
EXCLUSIVE: Humanoids unveils new trailer for THE SEVEN LIVES OF ALEJANDRO JODOROWSKY
The Seven Lives of Alejandro Jodorowsky is due out this week.
Tuesday, October 13, 2020
U.S.A.! U.S.A.! vol. 305 / #gorenoise vol. 37
The drug also manages to slot with almost painful neatness into an ongoing storyline in the right-wing conspiracyverse: that powerful Democratic elites extract the lifeblood or some other vital force from children and feed on it. It’s a trope with roots in the anti-Semitic medieval blood libel, and has recurred in various forms for hundreds of years.
QAnon followers are ignoring or explaining away the fact that Trump's COVID “cure” was developed with fetal tissue, something they’ve said is evil.
Monday, October 12, 2020
Negation Aspiration vol. 241 / U.S.A.! U.S.A.! vol. 304
Without the arts, our cities are violent simulacrums of themselves. They’re nothing, they’re empty vessels. And other countries have figured that out. In South Korea, Spain, Italy and France this week, people will be listening to live music, going to the opera, seeing the ballet, and attending plays. Not as much as before COVID-19 hit. We are in a pandemic, after all. The audiences are smaller, some of the performances outside. But it’s not as though those countries, particularly the European ones, have completely eradicated the disease. They’ve just decided to live with it in a certain way, and that way includes the arts.
The United States has completely neglected the arts during the pandemic. We’ve smothered any idea of leisure activity with a blanket of fear. But we haven’t publicly declared war on them. At least we’re aware that this is a sad state of affairs.
We’ve Destroyed the Arts
Apparently, in a pandemic, culture is meaningless
Sunday, October 11, 2020
Friday, October 9, 2020
#gorenoise vol. 36
A Nigerian man on Friday received the death sentence for the serial murders of nine women in hotel rooms in the country's oil hub in what appeared to be ritual killings. The serial killer appeared in court alongside a woman, Nimi Thankgod, who was acquitted over charges of "misconduct with the corpse of one of the victims".
Nigerian
serial killer
sentenced
to death
Wednesday, October 7, 2020
U.S.A.! U.S.A.! vol. 303
Stephen
Miller,
explained
at least now you can use this downtime to catch up on your erotic Camp of the Saints fanfic (although i'm sure in youur eyes, that's akin to putting a hat on a hat).
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Monday, October 5, 2020
U.S.A.! U.S.A.! vol. 302
On September 9th, the group released an ad about the South Carolina senator Lindsey Graham, “Parasite,” in which gruesome footage of feasting maggots is accompanied by narration mocking Graham’s obeisance to Trump: “Parasites don’t care if they feed off a good host—or an evil one.” At one of the strategists’ regular morning meetings, Wilson—a gregarious Floridian, an aggressive adman, and the most likely of the founders to swear in public—said that a reporter had asked him, “What do you guys say when people think that you’re using the same harsh tactics and language that Trump uses?” Wilson said, “I was, like, ‘Who gives a fuck?’ I was, like, ‘Dude, I’m not running for President.’ ”
Inside the Lincoln Project’s War Room
Progressives are wary of the conservative group hammering the President, but its founders say they’re fighting for all Americans.
Sunday, October 4, 2020
Saturday, October 3, 2020
AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH vol. HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
Trumpists love their Dear Leader in no small measure because of his talent for unapologetically engaging in abject cruelty.
Whether he was mocking a disabled reporter's affliction and delighting in Hillary Clinton's health travails on the 2016 campaign trail or separating migrant children with Down syndrome from their parents and ridiculing Joe Biden's son's struggle with drug addiction during his time in office — Trump supporters can't get enough of the Dear Leader triggering the libs, or really anyone with a conscience.
To his fervent supporters, Trump's callous viciousness is funny. It's the humorless politically correct scolds and loser Never Trumper conservatives who need to lighten up, they say.
Now that President Trump and first lady Melania have tested positive for COVID-19, Trumpworld has discovered the value of empathy. And they are shocked — shocked! — that some of Trump's critics have delighted in the irony of Trump's coronavirus denialism contributing to his own infection.
Trumpworld delighted in cruelty. Now that Trump has COVID, it demands empathy.
i was wondering if the same alt-light cum troughs who chuckle until sore over memes about AOC getting raped... or or the same bungahole boys who troll the survivors of a school shooting.... or the same conservitard buttlords who sent death threats to a teenage girl for being passionate about climate change... would have the temerity to high-road anyone having a larf at Trumpy Wumpy's test results.but hey.. at least the whole ordeal finally got Trump on board with #icantbreathe
Friday, October 2, 2020
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