BLAST.famy volume 1 ish 7 October 1994 ( $ P E C I A L $ELLING out in the ninetie$ i$$ue ) $$$$$$$$$$ $$$ $$$$$$$$$$$ $$$ $$$ $$$ $ $$$$$$$$$$$$ $$$$$$$$$$$ $$$ $$$ $$$ $$ $$ $$ $$$ $$$ $$$ $$$ $$ $$ $$$ $$$ $$$$$$$$$ $$$ $$$$$$$$$$$$ $$$$ $$$ $$$ $$$ $$$ $$$ $$$ $$$$$$$$$$$ $$$ $$$ $$$ $$$ $$$ $$$ $$$$ $$$ $$$ $$$ $$$$$$$$$$$ $$$ $$$ $$$$ $$$ $$$ $$$$$$$$$$$$ $$$$$$$$$$$ $$$ $$$ $$$$$$$$$$$$$ $$$ F _ A _ M _ Y A Private World E-zine. Publisher = P. W. Casual, C.E.O, PWE; C.O.B, PWC pwcasual@io.org Editor-in-chief = markjr@io.org +---------------------------+ | "when a nation falls, he | | who claims he is king, | | becomes king." | | -Carolyn Schmidt | +---------------------------+ --------------------------================-------------------------- ||||||||||||||||||||||||| c o n t e n t s ||||||||||||||||||||||||| ===========================---------------========================== PRIVATE WORLD SELLS OUT!!! special editorial by P.W. Casual state of the shmooze by markjr FEEDBACK: darren "access denied" nowakowski drops a poigniant line... SELLING OUT? get a clue, by (Adam----->) !*@# REVIEWS: Adam West, Hakim Bey, Bugjuice, Magnapop BLAST.famy INFILTRATED??? abnormal subscription requests coming in... FOR INFORMATIONAL PURPOSES ONLY: corrupt.sekurity.com bbs COOL ZINE: Cutthroat ----------------------------=======================-------------------------- ||||||||||||||||||||||||||| c o n t r i b u t o r s ||||||||||||||||||||||||| =============================----------------------========================== pwcasual@io.org st554@rosie.uh.edu (Adam----->) !*@# magazine reviewers: john f. butland, chris barany, neil exall PRIVATE WORLD SELLS OUT!!! Label band resides at the Online Shmooze!! special editorial by p.w.casual: Well, in our esteemed client's words, "Music For All It's Worth". [EOF] markjr's state of the shmooze address: -------------------------------------- This month we created "Salvador Dreamland", on the Online Shmooze. They are a Vancouver-based power-trio, recently signed to Warner Music Canada. In addition to this we also have something for Moist in the pipe. We'll be running their Canadian tour dates on the Online Shmooze, and the plan is to have a sound bite of voice audio from the group available for download. Balancing things out on the indie side, we've got a few more coming in soon. I just found out about it tonite so I won't name names yet. BLAST.famy is now transmitting to 10 countries: Canada, the US, the UK, Germany, Belgium, Finland, Russia, South Africa, Australia, and New Zealand, not to mention the military-industrial complex (see later article). We're so proud of ourselves we've decided to do a print issue of BLAST.famy, featuring the best of BLAST, and graphics by Joe Deagnon (Paranoid Tales of Neurosis) and Sonny Moone Shyne (Forest City Snootful) on a quarterly basis. Look for the first ish in Jan 95. <<< Explicative Deleted >>> (feedback) To: markjr@io.org Subject: No subject in particular Message-Id: <94Jul$.11380$edt.144253@explorer.dgp.toronto.edu> Date: Wed, $ Jul 1994 11:37:52 -0400 Well Mark my Apple design project is finally finished and so I have a few minutes on my hands to respond to mail. Thanks for the Blasts. They are quiet entertaining. I'm going to print them up and show them to Laura tonight since the telecom Facists at U of T are not allowing us mere undergrads to phone in from home. Unless of course we are trying to do our homework in some pitifully nepotistic computer language like Turing. So I was looking forward to hearing your CD last week but I guess that you didn't get a chance to bring it by before going to London. Next time that you have some free time we'll have to give it a spin. Getting back to Blast for a minute, I like the analysis of our political structures. I think that you are correct when you say that our government is obsolete. They wield political power during 5 year sessions, a term autocracy, -- or autocracy for a 5 year term if you prefer -- with the chief objective being to win for another session. I recently talked to Denis Mills, a Toronto MP for a riding somewhere near little Greece I think. He wants to be a cyber punk in the worst possible poserish sense of that term. He helped write the Feds Canadian Information highway handbook, a truely nasuating government of Canada publication full of weird nonsensical phrases like "the goal is to set up a gigabit testbit." What the hell is a gigabit testbit anyway? In any case, I asked him how much the government spends on holding a federal election. Thats not the cost of running candidates or other party expenses. Just the cost to the taxpayer for enumeration, printing ballots, etc. Well it comes to around 12 million dollars. I suggested to him that for 12 million you could set up a computer system whereby everyone in the country could vote on any issue, anytime they wanted to, using their phone or comp. This system need only be set up once and the cost of maintanence would be minimal compared to the cost of running an election every four or five years. Mr government cyber guy suddenly turned technophobe. Denis just kept ranting about how there was an appropriate place for technology and how elections were not one of those places. Yup, direct democracy is a long way away as long as any current government has anything to say about it. So keep in touch and send more mail if you get the chance. By for now Darrin Nowakowski $$$ Selling Out? g e t a c l u e $$$ From: st554@rosie.uh.edu (Adam----->) Newsgroups: alt.punk Subject: Selling Out? Get a clue. Date: 12 Sep 1994 11:40 CDT Organization: University of Houston Lines: 30 Distribution: world How many of you people are in a band? Not many I bet. If you were then you would understand how hard it is to make it when you play a show that you have perpared for weeks, then you get 60 bucks for the whole fucking night. If you are lucky and in a three piece band you get $20 bucks. That doesn't even cover sticks or strings. So after doing this for years you get popular. You get a little more. You go on tour and make $1000 if you are lucky(I might be wrong I have never been touring) Either way $1000 for two months. 24hrs a day. 7 days a week. Ok so now you are really popular and some shithead from Atlantic or Warner Bros. offers you a lot of money. Do you do it? I mean are you really willing to give up your $4.25 an hour to get beucoup money? Yeah band members work for shit wages cause who is going to give you a good paying job if you are going to be gone for months at a time, but now you have an opportunity to get out of the shithole. So now they are supposed to "not sell out" in order to keep the "punk scene" going. So a bunch of college kids can have fun while they study and prepare for "real life"(I wonder how many punks will no longer be punks after they work for IBM or whatever) So what do you do about it. After all the big corporations are screwing you out of your money (do you really think it takes $14 dollars to make a CD, Ive heard that the cost of printing a CD is under $3). What you do is bootleg. Bootleg like a mother fucker. Thats all you have to do. Greenday will still get their money. So will BR. Shit all those empty-v-er will still buy that shit. So now go get the new BR a box of blank tapes and copy them. Go to you favorite punk show and sell that shit for $2, or give them away. Or get three friends and share the cost of buying the tape and make copies for yourselves. Oh yeah, before I forget. Will you all stop posting shit about BR selling out. Even if I agreed with you, that shit is getting old(real old). And by the way, the new BR does suck. Not because the sold out but because it in no way compares to the early shit(and yeah i like recipe for hate) -------------------------------------------------------------------------- (editor's-note: I DIDN'T WRITE IT!!!) !*@# !*@# !*@# !*@# !*@# !*@# !*@# !*@# !*@# !*@# !*@# !*@# !*@# !*@# !*@# E X C L A I M M A G A Z I N E R E V I E W S !*@# !*@# !*@# !*@# !*@# !*@# !*@# !*@# !*@# !*@# !*@# !*@# !*@# !*@# !*@# More of this month's !*@# is available electronically: via WWW: http://www.io.org/~pwcasual/exclaim.html email: exclaim@io.org for all of it: S[nM]ail: Exclaim Magazine 7b pleasant blvd., #966, toronto, ont, canada, m4t 1k2 (print subscriptions $20 CDN/yr 12 issues, tabloid fmt) Adam West Brunswick Hotel (Sabre Toque) Adam West (a group, not the side of smoked pork from the old Batman TV series) play guitar-based pop songs. Yeah, I know, Big Deal. But wait, they play that rarest of variations of the old two guitars, bass and drums deal - intelligent pop songs. They occasionally sound a bit like Squeeze, but while those old Brits always managed to appeal to the head, they were always lacking in the heart (and hips) department, and that's where Adam West makes the leap from the merely good and clever into the wonderfully entertaining. Usually, I don't pay attention to the words that much - they're more of a bonus if they're clever - but the music had better be good. And it is on Brunswick Hotel. Lots of hooks and sometimes ringing, almost chopping guitars. The bonus is that those smart licks are matched by smart lyrics most of the time. "Ribbons" is a slam at those who sanctimoniously wear those red ribbons all over TV, but as the song says, there's "too much fabric and not enough material." They can turn a phrase as good as Costello in "What I Like" - "What I like most about you/is the back of your head as you leave the room/and you never leave too soon." Occasionally they pick too easy a target, like on "Entertainment Tonight," where they slag Mary Hart for "getting too rich by destroying your culture." Mary would eviscerate John and Leeza, both, to have that kind of influence. "The Great Lakes" is a powerful, personal tale about somebody's grandfather; the combination of the personal and the historical that few, other than The Band, could pull off; and its seven minutes pass too quickly. Unfortunately, they try to pull the trick off again a few songs later (including the seven-minute length) with "Coal" and fail. They manage a goofy and good-natured look at poverty in "Lower Income" and manage to avoid self-righteousness and maintain dignity: "I'd rather sing for my supper than suck ass for minimum wage." Musical whores take a pounding in "The Kids Aren't All Right." Ya gotta love a line like "[Y]ou gotta bigger martyr complex than Jesus Christ did/and someone's gonna nail your ass up." The lone cover on the CD is also the weakest cut. Their version of Kate bush's "Running Up That Hill" is just too slow and deliberate. It should've been fast, loud and sloppy - an anti-epic. -John F. Butland Hakim Bey T.A.Z. (Axiom) Sitting like a detached cyber-Buddha somewhere between the "established events" of the past and universes of the "virtual future" is Hakim Bey, author of the handbook for poetic terrorism, The Temporary Autonomous Zone. His current release, a meld with musical terrorist Bill Laswell, seems an inevitable project for the Axiom workshop. With its blurred connecting points and unification of seemingly unrelated conventions, it serves as a textbook reference and spoken counterpart to the creative muse behind the label's purely musical chunks of autonomous and, by virtue of their "immarketability," marginal grenades of artistic liberation. Here, Bey is as comfortable dropping names like Proudhon or Marx as he is an anonymous, fellow modern terrorist known as "P.M." Similarly, he unveils an ominous plot behind the distribution of propagandist television shows like Hill Street Blues while diving into other, less mediated and more "ancient" outposts, such as the 19th Century Chinese Tong, where one spends free time. The result is like a muse needle out of control, making inherent connections in things both marginal and mediated - a swirling, surreal vertigo of information and methods for "escape." Woven with the kind of airy tones and hallucinatory rhythms that Laswell has been playing with lately, Bey's voice calms and prepares the listener for an age where missing information and the icons of late capitalist high-tech correspond with an increasing alienation of this "X-generation"'s most primitive needs. Most of all, Bey doesn't come across as a cheesy, overzealous, visionary bard, but presents us with ideas point-blank, allowing us to be choosy in aiming our own forms of poetic terrorism against those forces that attempt to suppress and homogenize humility and free thought. -Chris Barany Bugjuice !Que Va! (Ringing Ear Records) The latest self-proclaimed contenders in the indie rawk sweepstakes, Bugjuice, hail from Newmarket, New Hampshire and profess an appreciation for all things Sebadoh, Dinosaur Jr. and Pavement. All 16 songs sort of crawl along in the same vague, general direction, and when it ends, your stomach will still be empty. They play well together, and the recording quality is decent, but they never seem to get anywhere. The make me think of afternoon television. -Neil Exall Magnapop Hot Boxing (Priority Records) Hot Boxing starts out with "Slowly Slowly," a bouncy little ditty reminiscent of a noisy version of "99 Red Balloons." But don't worry, Magnapop are more than just a Nena for the 90s. they've released a slew of well-received singles and EPs and such, and this is their first real LP. It's produced by Bob Mould, and he brings a lighter then normal touch, for him at least, to the record. There's lots of chunky guitars and solid, driving rhythms, but less white noise than the Du. There's less thrash, and the hooks are more obvious, and it's almost as good as his old band. But enough of that, 'cause it's not a Bob Mould record, it's a Magnapop record. The band is tight; there are no extraneous solos or extra choruses. They get in and out and get the job done, kinda like a SWAT team. In a pleasant contrast to all this no-nonsense style, Linda Hopper's vocals are cool and semi-detached, almost ambivalent. It balance out the tension in the music nicely. Oh yeah, almost forgot: the last song is about rugburns. Works for me. -John F. Butland ((((((((((((((((((( F O R Y O U R E Y E ' S O N L Y )))))))))))))))) b i z a r r e s u b r e q u e s t s c o m i n g i n The subreqs have been coming in at a steady clip of late. From 10 countries. Not bad at all for six issues. What has been helping I think, is our listing in John Leibovitz's (johnl@ora.com) E-Zine Listings, so hat's off and thank-you. What perplexes me however is a recent smattering of sub requests from gov't addresses from both my own government, and moreso from our good neighbours to the south. Who is davisc@sld1.gordon.army.mil, I wonder? Fingering that address (or any of them, for that matter), yields a "connection refused" error. A traceroute proves interesting: bonk% traceroute sld1.gordon.army.mil traceroute to sld1.gordon.army.mil (147.51.218.2), 30 hops max, 40 byte packets 1 io.org (198.133.36.1) 2 ms 1 ms 1 ms 2 wf.toronto.uunet.ca (142.77.27.1) 3 ms 3 ms 3 ms 3 alternet-gw.toronto.uunet.ca (142.77.1.202) 4 ms 12 ms 4 ms 4 Falls-Church1.VA.ALTER.NET (137.39.7.1) 478 ms 453 ms 495 ms 5 Falls-Church4.VA.ALTER.NET (137.39.8.1) 392 ms 460 ms 433 ms 6 Vienna1.VA.ALTER.NET (137.39.100.34) 421 ms 426 ms 403 ms 7 en-0.ENSS136.t3.ANS.NET (192.41.177.253) 464 ms 404 ms 458 ms 8 t3-0.cnss58.Washington-DC.t3.ans.net (140.222.58.1) 456 ms 553 ms * 9 mf-0.cnss56.Washington-DC.t3.ans.net (140.222.56.222) 494 ms 552 ms 543 s 10 * t3-0.enss145.t3.ans.net (140.222.145.1) 537 ms 434 ms 11 FIX-EAST.DDN.MIL (192.80.214.251) 613 ms 485 ms 473 ms 12 137.209.6.1 (137.209.6.1) 344 ms 297 ms 351 ms 13 BELVOIR-IP-GW.DDN.MIL (137.209.61.2) 298 ms 361 ms 384 ms 14 GUNTER1-GW.AF.MIL (137.209.59.2) 383 ms * 545 ms 15 FTGORDON-GW1.ARMY.MIL (26.6.0.206) 2440 ms * 1491 ms 16 147.51.6.2 (147.51.6.2) 1469 ms 1389 ms 1372 ms 17 emh.sld.gordon.army.mil (147.51.218.2) 1089 ms * 853 ms ...comparing that with birchmnt@gov.on.ca whom has also entered a sub request: bonk% traceroute gov.on.ca traceroute to gov.on.ca (192.75.156.244), 30 hops max, 40 byte packets 1 io.org (198.133.36.1) 2 ms 1 ms 3 ms 2 wf.toronto.uunet.ca (142.77.27.1) 3 ms 3 ms 3 ms 3 alternet-gw.toronto.uunet.ca (142.77.1.202) 4 ms 4 ms 4 ms 4 Falls-Church1.VA.ALTER.NET (137.39.7.1) 452 ms 436 ms 289 ms 5 Falls-Church4.VA.ALTER.NET (137.39.8.1) 423 ms 407 ms 325 ms 6 Vienna1.VA.ALTER.NET (137.39.100.34) 314 ms 308 ms 351 ms 7 en-0.ENSS136.t3.ANS.NET (192.41.177.253) 415 ms 423 ms 518 ms 8 t3-0.cnss58.Washington-DC.t3.ans.net (140.222.58.1) 468 ms 299 ms 327 ms 9 mf-0.cnss56.Washington-DC.t3.ans.net (140.222.56.222) 293 ms 305 ms 298 s 10 t3-0.cnss32.New-York.t3.ans.net (140.222.32.1) 377 ms 503 ms 440 ms 11 t3-0.cnss48.Hartford.t3.ans.net (140.222.48.1) 556 ms 565 ms 431 ms 12 t3-0.enss133.t3.ans.net (140.222.133.1) 422 ms 446 ms 514 ms 13 * XPSP.ON.CANET.CA (192.35.82.20) 503 ms 548 ms 14 psp.on.canet.ca (192.70.164.181) 525 ms 401 ms 291 ms 15 exterior.onet.on.ca (192.68.55.102) 271 ms 386 ms 522 ms 16 toronto1.onet.on.ca (130.185.5.11) 410 ms 506 ms * 17 ontgvt.onet.on.ca (130.185.1.2) 469 ms 568 ms * 18 199.246.118.1 (199.246.118.1) 528 ms 390 ms 516 ms 19 govonca.gov.on.ca (192.75.156.244) 497 ms 507 ms 444 ms ...hmmm. I know someone who is very suspicious about the fact that all roads seem to run thru FALLS CHURCH, VA, now I'm curious myself. Does anyone happen to know if there is a major juncture of backbones there or something? Is there a reason why Canadian gov't net traffic puts in a brief appearence in Washington, DC? Just wondering. ...and thinking of the unthinkable, it's time for ... FOR INFORMATIONAL PURRRPOSES ONLY _______ _____________ / | ___ ________ _______ _____ ____ _____| | / _ | \ \ \ | | \ _ _ | | / \| | | | | | | | | | | | | \| | | \ ___ / / / | | __ / | | | \ _ /| | \ \ | | | | \ | | | | | | | | | | __\ _______| |____|____|___|____|______ _| __| __|____|_____ / |_______ ___ ____ ___ ____ ______ / \ ____|__ | | | _ | | | | | | \ __ / | | | | \ \| ____| | | | | | |_|__ __| / \ \ | / | | / | | \ / |\_| | ____| \ | \ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |________ /________|___|____|________|___|____|____|____| |_____| corrupt.sekurity.com iNTR0 ~~~~~ Ever heard of the information highway? Yeah, me too, so many times that if I ever hear some loser who can't tell twisted pair from Twisted Sister mention it again, I'm going to run him down with my information Corvette! The media and the politicians have made this the rallying cry of the techo-wannabe's who are flooding the 'Nets with thier crys of "Information for the people!" Hmmmm... haven't I seen that before? Isn't that what the true hackers have been crying all along? Well, the techno-wannabe's are in for a big shock. If they think that the information highway is some electronic El Dorado and the Internet is its foundation, then they better prepare themselves for the worst. The internet was around a long time before they got their Macintosh Quadra 640 and bought an issue of Wired. And during that time, the 'Nets grew from isolated electronic villages into a raging data metropolis. The media and their worshipers have it all wrong, you see. Calling the international data networks a 'highway' is like calling Los Angeles the Santa Monica Freeway. The Internet is not just some bundle of copper, but rather the worlds largest city where thoughts fly around the world in seconds. These newbies logging onto the net for the first time are not much different than the farmhands who flocked to New York after World War II. They don't have the first clue how sophisticated the established city dwellers are and only have an inkling of what really takes place in its streets. I think Bruce Sterling said it best when he wrote: "Things happen there that have very serious consequences. This 'place' is not 'real', but it is serious, it is earnest... Some people became rich and famous from thier efforts there. Some just played in it, as hobbyists.Others soberly pondered it, and regulated it, and negotiated over it in international forums, and sued one another about it, in gigantic, epic court battles that lasted for years. And almost since the beginning, some people have committed crimes in this place." tH3 fAKtz ~~~~~~~~~ So if the Internet is a city of millions, than there are bound to more than just shiny skyscapers and hallowed halls of learning. Every city has its dark allies, its seedy bars, its whore houses, its head shops, its gambling halls, its adult bookstores, and its pawnshops. And every city has its self righteous police force who are just as likely to be found hanging out in these places as they are to be busting them. This is the high standard which Corrupt Sekurity BBS strives for! This bbs serves as a meeting place for those who desire to exchange information and meet people who are more interested in how the system works (and how it can be abused) than in where to find the latest Cindy Crawford gif. This is a place where the crooks, the creeps, and the outcasts can hang out in complete anonymousity without ever having to leave their bedrooms. Here is the current state of the bbs. [At this point in time, the file I have is out of date for this period on. For the most recent ver. of this file mail info@sekurity.com with send info on the subject line. You can also ftp corrupt.sekurity.com.] C_C OO L zIne: ========= Cutthroat P.O. Box 481654 Denver, CO. 80248 ========= My girlfriend got a copy of this from some guy in a band called Mustang Lightning (sp?), out of Denver, Colorado. An interesting assembly of photocopies mainly. A couple of those rare newspaper articles that only pop into the papers for a fleeting instant, and are gone forever (i.e "Family flees home in hurry after clothes disintegrate" , "Bodies buried with trash, without coffins in Tenn.") Would the following catch your eye in the morning rag?: "A naked and angry woman was smacked in the head with a sausage when drug agents burst into her apartment and started throwing pieces of meat to her attack dog." Then again I would't bat an eye if I saw it in the Weekly Word News. (It doesn't come as a surprise on the net either). 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