DEEP SCRATCH

Author: flyagaric23

  • Cosmic Trigger Stage Play. Links, News, Details

    Hi,

    The Cosmic Trigger Stage Play is best described at the website, please visit and get involved. I did, and i am. Hope to see you.

    From the website:

    The Discordians Are Coming

    In 1976 Ken Campbell staged Illuminatus in Liverpool. This production and the novel that it was based on irrevocably changed the lives of all who were involved, both performers and audiences, and wound up opening The Cottesloe at the National Theatre.

    Conceived backstage by Ken and The Goddess of Chaos and Confusion, Daisy Campbell now proposes to re-invoke that mythic production, but this time telling the story that surrounds Illuminatus: the extraordinary life and times of its co-author, Robert Anton Wilson as the central thrust; the unstoppable force that was Ken Campbell; and some key scenes from Illuminatus woven through. As Ken would say, “this is an enthusiasts’ production”.

    There have been a number of blog posts and news items about the play, plus the usual facebook page shenanigans. Take a look, it seems to be taking off….

    Steve fly

    Steven James Pratt

  • Astral Projective Verse: Olson, Ophiel and Sun Ra

     

    Astral Projective Verse

    By Steve Fly Agaric 23

    For Eric Wagner and John Sinclair. Thanks for inspiring these wild speculations which are really notes that shall be reshuffled into a more coherent whole at some future point.

    Sounds Fly: Music Writing

    by Steven James Pratt et al.

    Link: http://a.co/9OHmjhJ

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  • Fungal Economics (2007) by Fly Agaric 23

    Fungal Economics
    branching words and
    money walk

    the shit into our future
    your words
    our words and their
    words of air-sound-sutra

    why is money and
    how did it get all stinky
    who issues it and how?
    a coin for a cow
    paper for gold
    our money their money
    overnight

    who has the magic wands
    the words and the rite
    disorder of things and stuff
    multi-ordinal terms fed to
    herds like worms to morning
    birds

    credit/debit digit edit
    where is the source
    the root and sacred well
    spring of your knowledge
    our nohledge and their
    scholedge
    who issues shit

    and how holy dung
    holy chao
    money exchanged
    for words language and
    economics co-ming-ling

    honey does not grow on trees
    the bees bring it to each
    branch
    the river bank connect
    with moon goddess via
    the rising and falling water
    levels

    make every river bank
    a bank you can trust
    and the fungi
    facts decompose rotten
    money theory

    a natural fungi force
    consumes carbon dioxide
    and releases carbon
    monoxide

    like wise a new natural
    economic order will

    start with fungi
    and mycelium as the
    fiscal roots and financial
    fibers that in the buginning
    fed

    all the money by
    the process of decomposing
    using smart drugs
    depreciating truffle skins

    the truly regenerative and
    maximum interests inherent in the
    fungal feeding
    of the planetary and
    inter-planetary bio-sphere
    make most but not all forms
    of banking and international
    financial doings on this planet
    seem deceptive

    at best and damned sadistic
    and apocalyptic at worst
    new webworking tools
    help to communicate more
    scientifically how and
    why mycelium networks
    have spread into earths biosphere

    in turn the field of fungal
    economics seems less
    of a joke to me
    and more of a biological
    fact observable in nature

    for fly this fungal
    economic reorder fits with
    the animal and plant kingdom
    and the propensity for doing more
    with less

    and maximizing information
    output to the benefit of all
    no dropping carcass seed
    or shell left behind not
    even zero is wasted

    the whole biological spaceship
    earth recycles energy freely
    between species and
    kingdoms of living systems

    some very influential humans
    on the other hand seem to
    have a propensity for hoarding
    life support
    in all its forms

    for a few chosen people
    or a few International syndicates
    at the expense of the many
    –the Majority of humanity on
    planet earth

    who issues it and how
    what is money and how did
    it get that way, to paraphrase Ez

    the fungal metaphor
    maybe the most eloquent
    and beautiful metaphor to
    employ in 2008

    pitched against unrestricted
    global capitalism driven
    by private interest and
    crooked double crossed
    intelligence tsars

    depreciating currency
    imitates the fungal process of
    breaking down biological matter
    making more room at the
    bottom by recycling

    transform and keep the process
    moving along
    if you stay in one place too
    long with your savings

    chemical compound interest
    you will rot at the bottom of the pile
    without jumping into a new
    state of energy

    by the magic transform process
    see transbutation
    holy communion and
    the u.s fed bank of england

    the deception and trickery
    of the global banking
    fraud-gamer community
    is also mimicked

    on a global scale within
    fungal communities
    in fact mushroom myceilium
    germinate those very orchids
    that so many banksters
    are infatuated with

    even penicillin and all its
    synthesized relatives
    are fungal entities
    claimed patented and
    exploited by global pharmo
    corporations

    the dream-drug in its
    penicillin incarnation
    fungal intelligence
    has already penetrated the
    money maze

    not to mention all the
    other medical applications
    and drugs synthesized
    from mushrooms and/or
    fungal bacterium

    but the poet with mould-money
    and mushrooms spilling
    from his mouth does not stop
    here

    mushrooms and fungus
    metaphors deployed to
    synergize human
    financial intelligence

    just the sprouting tip
    of a swarming underground
    body of evidence

    sometimes sprout a fruiting
    bodyblog and spilling
    billions of its viral meme
    spores into earths atmosphere
    every second of every day
    for a billion years to come

    once the poet has sharpened
    his gaze and the haze of terrestrial
    primate politics and economics
    has vanished in the maze

    we can begin to revision
    our future past present perfect
    days all-at-once

    an enpsychlopedia Fungi
    galactica a languaging entity
    a self-replicating fungal blogject
    spore of the words

    money and wind and
    seeds and stars all-at-once

    –fly agaric 23.
    Amsterdam.

    Footsauce:

    Giles Chase: Shanigums Wave, Oillyseas, Publiners, A Sculpture of the Banker as an old man, Excommunicated and the albums Ballads and Strange Folk. Epiphenome’. Faben & Faben.
    Ira Pod: The Dantales, ABS of Revolutions, 17 Stereotypes of Damnbiguation. Videoglyphic method. History is not a dream from which I am trying to awake. No Direction Press.
    Martin McLure: The Gutterverb Autopsy, Misunderstanding Money, The road to Shennanigums Wave
    James Shermon: Mystical doctrine of sports and greedy behavior
    Nesta Venossa: The Wildstyle Grafitti Character as a Medium for Math.
    J. Nathan Shaft: Skully Von’s Travels.
    Sonny Cob Laughlin: Blooming Magnus Trilogy, Neuro-Trigger, Flasks of the really hot tea, The Windows Sunshine, BOG: Bogus Occupation Government, Quantum Theology,
    Ali Fowley: The Book of flies, The book of the wall, poetry without tears, 111 and other writings.
    Jacky Muller: Nine Joints to the moon, Operating manual for Shennanigums Wave, Sin-Energy-Zetitics, On the Path, Planet Terry Sociology.
    Carson Wools: Citizen Murdoch, War of the Words, McGriff, C For Cake, Touch of Usury.
    Manfred Humanski: Religion and Insanity, General Pendantics, X’tenshun Method.

    –Steve Fly Agaric 23
    Amsterdam.
    Thursday, July 17, 2008/Saturday 11th January, 2014

    Steven James Pratt

  • Ernest Fenollosa 2014 and TTOTT

    “Ezra Pound was no starnger to Oriental art when he met Mary McNeil Fenollosa, the widow of the American Orientalist Ernest Fenollosa (1853-1908), in London in late September 1913.”–Zhaoming Qian, Orientalism and Modernism (1994)  pg. 9.

     

    Fenollosa 2014 and TTOTT

    by Steve Fly

    “Fenollosa [1853-1908], wrote an essay on
    “The Chinese WrittenCharacter as a Medium for Poetry” which vastly influenced
    Ezra Pound and, through Pound, modern poetry generally;
    said essay also anticipates some formulations of General Semantics
    and NeuroLinguistic Programming [NLP], and foreshadows
    modern critiques of “linear” and “alphabetical” thinking. –Robert Anton Wilson, Recorsi 2005.

    Ernest Fenollosa (1853-1908) found a place in the chain of human innovation, and the lineage of modernism as defined by Dr Robert Anton Wilson in his unfinished project called ‘the tale of the tribe’. Please read some of my others posts trying to get at TTOTT and what it all means to me.

    Fly On The Tale Of The Tribe: A Rollercoaster Ride With Robert Anton Wilson

    by Steven James Pratt

    Link: http://a.co/gOGNKyV

     

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  • Make it NEW


     


    http://www.loa.org/excerpts/pound/sieburth.jsp 


    Introduction

    “The artist is always beginning,” Ezra Pound once wrote. “Any work of art which is not a beginning, an invention, a discovery is of little worth. The very name Troubadour means a ‘finder,’ one who discovers.” Readers of Poems and Translations will be able to follow, for the first time in a single volume, a poet whose career moves through a series of beginnings and re-beginnings—perhaps Pound’s most distinctively American trait.

    In his first published book of poems, A Lume Spento, the Pound of 1908 is still very much a late nineteenth-century poet, steeped in the archaisms of the Pre-Raphaelites. A mere four years later, in Ripostes, he has reinvented himself as a modernist proponent of “Imagism,” before moving on, in rapid succession, to the avant-garde aesthetics of Vorticism and translations from the Chinese (Cathay), the Japanese (“Noh” or Accomplishment), the Provençal (Arnaut Daniel), and the Latin (“Homage to Sextus Propertius”). Each of these forays into new identities and new languages constituted, as Pound himself explained, a “search for oneself,” which entailed “casting off complete masks of the self in each poem.”

    The title Pound chose for the first comprehensive collection of his shorter poems in 1926 was, significantly, Personae—Latin for “masks.” Whether writing in the form of Browningesque dramatic monologues, medieval canzoni, satirical epigrams, Confucian analects, or Sophoclean tragic choruses, Pound in his poems presents us with a medley of masks whose multiple and contradictory features helped shape the face of American poetry in the 20th century.

    In his dedication of The Waste Land, T. S. Eliot paid homage to Ezra Pound as “il miglior fabbro”—that is, “the better craftsman”—Dante’s term for the Troubadour poet Arnaut Daniel. Pound remains a vital ancestral presence in the lineage of American modernist and post-modernist poetry. The list of his descendants includes not only William Carlos Williams, Marianne Moore, Louis Zukofsky, George Oppen, and Charles Olson, but also the Beats and, more recently, the Language Poets—all of whom in their own fashion learned their craft from his work while observing his central imperative: “Make it new.”

    —Richard Sieburth

  • Jacob Applebaum fights turnkey tyranny with new light

  • Fenollosa Pound Olson and the Chinese written character

     

    “The first was Ernest Fenollosa’s provocative essay ‘The Chinese Wriiten Character as a Medium for Poetry.’ He found the Pound-edited text of the essay in the latter’s book Instigations and excitedly copied out its main arguments into his notebook that June. Fenollosa’s account of the exhaustion of poetic qualities in modern discourse resulting from a degeneration of the original capacity of language to mime the physical processes, and his implicit advocacy of a return to the state of primal verbal immediacy, with words once again becoming instrumental to the creation of ‘a vivid shorthand picture of the operations of nature,’ held for Olson the same appeal it had for Pound before him.–Tom Clark, Charles Olson: The Allegory of a Poet’s Life. pg. 103.

     
     
     
     

  • The Mohawk Club

    Mohawk Artwork by CHU www.schudio.co.uk

    The Mohawk Club

    down
    to gothamsterdam
    city clouds curl
    like hair parting
    to reveal grey root
    beneath

    platinum breaking
    through air
    to reveal silver
    moonlight
    streaking down

    solid rays bouncing

    off the puddles
    street amber
    tiger lightning
    shattered glass
    outside
    that stinky moon
    eclipsed by rolling
    marshmallows

    snatching the eye
    back

    cracked street light
    the car lamp &
    reefer torch
    burning the other
    out

    Big Chief: Getting High With John Sinclair And The Fly

    by Steven James Pratt et al.

    Link: http://a.co/czUbrSA

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  • The birth claws and death of santa by Steve Fly

    THE BIRTH OF SANTA

    snowdon falls

    king kong is out hunting

    mynah birds

    blizzard strikes

    kong shelters in a barn

    where merry mary

    is giving birth next to

    a mare also giving

    birth to two colts

    the next morning

    kong awakens

    at new-grange

    the barn has gone

    child and colts remain

    child is called santa

    arguments begin

    in the village about

    who will be foster

    father

    a decision is made

    on several dwarfs

    SANTA AND HIS LITTLE WEAPONS

    santa aged 9

    overhears dwarf nick

    speaking to his pals

    about the future police

    state

    santa decides to

    design some survival

    weapons

    kong’s weapon of

    brute strength is the only

    one capable of withstanding

    the santa spasm

    age11 santa returns

    from America where

    he raged for 90 days

    still in his battle fury and

    everyone afraid

    women reveal breasts

    perform bum shaking

    and twerk

    to ease the frothing frenzy

    santa catches

    glance of a large pair

    he stumbles

    and quickly townsfolk

    wrestle him into a

    trash can full of cold

    deer piss

    which explodes

    HOW SANTA GOT HIS CLAWS

    at 14 santa

    begs to join the boy-scouts

    but is refused and runs off

    hiding in chimneys

    and barns

    santa arrives at a

    football field

    he joins the game

    takes the ball to his feet

    and nobody can get it

    back from him

    eventually the other boys

    gang up and attack santa

    he goes into a red

    hulk spasm and

    beats them all upside

    the head

    shortly after

    king kong spots santa

    from the hill

    and invites him to his

    solstice barbecue

    but kong forgets

    after going fuzzy over

    a girl called fay

    and when santa arrives

    at the kong palace

    a guard dog is loose and

    attacks santa

    thinking him a red

    faced intruder

    santa kills the hound

    in self-defence

    throwing the dog down

    a well

    santa makes a vow to take

    the dogs place as

    guardian of the palace

    a druid poet called penny

    announces santa

    will have a new name

    santa claws

    SANTA SCRUBS UP PRETTY GOOD

    his hair was 

    blue at the base

    blood-red crimson

    in the middle and

    a crown of emerald

    green

    a triple helix

    flaying out

    shining strands rappelling

    the shoulder

    78 neat red-blue curls

    around his neck and head

    covered with one

    hundred crimson

    threads encrusted with

    gems and weird fungus

    four dimples in each cheek

    yellow green crimson

    and blue

    seven bright pupils

    eye-jewels in each

    his feet have seven

    toes and each hand

    seven fingers

    his nails shaped

    like a hawks claw

    SANTA CLAWS AT DEATH

    santa was fed reindeer meat

    stolen from reduced food

    isle at Tesco by an old crone

    tired and on the road

    santa dropped his guard and lost

    his magical red

    spasm power

    his reindeer and

    his sleigh-driver were killed

    outright by police horse

    meat poison

    santa was badly wounded

    and entered the death trip

    he tied himself to a rock

    covered in lichen

    he starts the perilous journey

    through the bardo

    questioning death

    and the beyond

    immortality and presents

    flash-backs descend on his brow

    the well

    the dead dog

    suddenly a crow lands

    on his shoulder and whispers

    the word rudolph

    in his ear

    which kills him with grief

    and dispair

    li sao

    for sorrow

    after one brief

    reincarnation in a

    bottle of sugar

    santa came back again

    in a cauldron

    when a group of

    kids started spitting

    and singing to the

    bubble-full elixir

    new santa climbs out

    the cauldron

    only to be attacked

    by more angry dwarves and

    brutally cannibalised

    his blood was drained

    into two separate socks

    frozen and put into storage

    in the old kitchen next to

    a dark wooden barn

    as the snowdon falls

    –Steve fly agaric 23
    Amsterdam

    23/12/13

    Steven James Pratt

  • CHU 3D Graffiti Cube 2010

    CHU 3D GRAFFITI CUBE

    Uploaded on 25 Oct 2010:           

    OPENS 6pm, THURSDAY 28TH OCTOBER at CORDY HOUSE, CURTAIN ROAD, SHOREDITCH, EC2A 3BS. Then every Saturday & Sunday 2pm – 6pm until Sunday 14th Novemeber.

    This is a walk in one person experience. Shoes off, glasses on, step inside the 3rd dimension! (Glasses provided).

    Artwork by Chu. Cordy House by Mutate Britain.

    Steven James Pratt