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  • Poverty And Austerity: Some Drugs And Some People

    Here we go again. The recent headlines in the UK, concerning drug use by some politicians is to me, a prime example of how ignorant, and strategically confusing the unholy alliance between party politics and party media can become.  

    First, stories about cocaine use by prominent Tory politicians, Michael Gove, the main story, followed by one or two about cannabis use. Both lumped together into one of the most misused and abused terms in the English language: drugs. Until the police break down the doors of Superdrug, the term will remain unfit for the purpose of clarity. Fit for exploiting that old damnbiguity.

    And so the confusion begins, sweet confusion for the divisive politics and media mayhem. And the lack of any sensible, meaningful statements on specific drugs and doses themselves, and/or the wider social, human picture. The fact, for example, that many drug problems are tied together with POVERTY is lost in the premature ejaculation of the chest beating purists. If you have enough money, enough lawyers, and enough private health care treatment, many dangerous drugs are simply a lifestyle choice, a social habit, with little to no danger of putting yourself, or those around you in danger. Depending on set, setting, and dose. Remember. This goes for both regional, national, and international cultures.  

    I don’t want to sound like a drug snob, my position is that all drugs in the right set and setting, and at different dosages can have positive uses, both medicinal and recreational medicines. However, personally speaking, I gravitate toward the mildly psychoactive drugs, those that have a long history of use by humans, and those drugs that are not controlled by intelligence cabals, and dealt by narcissistic arseholes. I’ll let you come to your own conclusions.

    To repeat, poverty and austerity, in combination with illegal drug use in an environment of prohibition and the money-mad wars on some people who use some drugs, fueled by the industrial prison complex, leads to problems. Personal and social. Those, such as some politicians, and some pop celebrities, and the journalists whose job it is to hold them to account, seem to me to inhabit a different world to the rest of us.

    Meanwhile, as uncle Terence used to point out, the majority of humans are habitually dependent on sugar, meat and alcohol, although due to social norms, unaware of the fact it maybe a problem, until you remove the thing craved for.

    Know your poison, and poisoner. Stay safe. Smoke less, get higher. 

  • Gregory Arnott reviews Fly’s ‘Tale of the Tribe’

    My broadest respects and thanks to Gregory Arnott for the kind and brilliant review, and for sharing a part of his journey, alongside and within my works.

    Thank You.

    –Steve

    And thanks to Tom Jackson of RAWillumination for the BLOG POST.

    Gregory Arnott reviews Fly’s ‘Tale of the Tribe’

    By Gregory Arnott
    Special guest blogger

    I was a latecomer to Maybe Logic Academy — I was there for its final hurrah in a semester that saw one of the classes I enrolled in cancelled and another with only two active students and an absentee teacher. I can’t even remember how I found out about it — something to do with how one can wander over the Internet while working a boring office job. Anyways, that was where I first heard about The Tale of the Tribe.

    Later, after I had read more about the Tribe and had read TSOG where the most complete piece of information on the book was in print at the time, I was talking about it to my friend as we stood outside looking at the stars on a hot West Virginia night; Robert Anton Wilson was basically going to explain communication, the Internet, and what was going on. My friend laughed — “finally!” he exclaimed. Robert Anton Wilson had been dead at least five years.

    To say that Wilson’s unfinished Tale felt like a loss is an understatement. In one issue of Alan Moore’s Tom Strong the perfect man finds his heart’s desire as an illusion conjured up by a malignant alien intelligence; a copy of Joyce’s sequel to Finnegans Wake, Finn Wakes Agen. In Steven Moore’s Somnium the protagonist in the protagonist’s novel finds himself in a library of unwritten novels. There’s something sublime about an unpublished work or some valuable manuscript lost to time; it has been easy for me to remain tantalized by the lost promise of the Tribe.

    This is all a rather lengthy way to say I was excited when I saw the release of Steven “Fly” Pratt’s Fly On The Tale of the Tribe. Pratt’s book is slim but dense with information — it’s playful and thought provoking. Fly deals with the Current Situation and how Wilson’s ideas have endured into our young century; appropriately for one of the torchbearers of model agnosticism, the book is full of promise and puzzles. Like Higgs at the end of Stranger Than We Can Imagine, Pratt seems to bank on agnosticism as a solution to the increasingly chaotic information climate: but that’s beside the point as I believe Pratt is more interested in inspiration than pontification.

    Much of the book is invitational — Pratt repeats throughout that it is critical to create one’s own “tale of the tribe.” One excellent example is given earlier in the book when Pratt points out that his and RAW’s cast of characters are all male — Pratt gives an example of a female “tribe” beginning with Ada Lovelace. Later in the book Fly lays out the schemes for two later tale of the tribe courses that could be reconstructed by the intrepid student. Pratt also gives a healthily circumspect view of Ezra Pound and his complicated life; at one point Pratt seems to decide upon using Ernest Fenollosa as the primary touchstone for Pound’s contribution to the tale of the tribe, ideogrammic language,  as a deft sidestep when the fascist taint becomes too much with Pound. Of course Pratt makes sure to mention that Pound’s antisemitism was a phase that the poet regretted in later life. Everyone’s happy.

    The most interesting ideas, for this reader, were the discussions of the hologrammic prose exemplified by Finnegans Wake and, this part really hooked me, Alan Moore’s Jerusalem. Fly is one of the few commentators I’ve seen who have given Moore his due: Jerusalem is a monumental masterpiece that will rank high among our race’s literary achievements if Providence is kind enough to ensure some sort of posterity. Fly is able to explicate how breathtaking the scope of the work is, as it encompasses art, magic, and the facets of our reality, and we seem to have similar tastes, go figure, since we both consider the chapter “Round the Bend” as the crowning achievement of the novel. (He even shares my love of Moore’s The Black Dossier!) In many ways “Round the Bend” serves as a magnificent realization of Tom Strong’s lost novel — it is a sequel or a continuation of Finnegans Wake. The whole of Jerusalem could be seen as something similar or as an essential commentary on Joyce’s goals but that would belie the empirical majesty of Moore’s work.

    While talking about the epic Cosmic Trigger play produced and directed by Daisy Eris Campbell Fly waxes rhapsodical: “Co-create a Universe, a theatre of the mind where each and everyone of us can work on many levels of synchrony, consider set and setting, speech and place. Make the invisible visible.” Marching orders to make one’s head turn.

    Pratt’s little book will give the reader a lot to think about and chew on — it is a text that is meant to send you into the hinterlands of language to find the foundations of our reality. I’ve brushed over a lot of Fly’s work in the book, partly for the sake of length and partly because I am still figuring out my thoughts and plans for the ideas he brings to the table. Suffice to say that this is an indispensable piece of scholarship for the RAW fan and an all around Important Book. RAW’s original book may have not been able to come to life but Fly proves that the tale of the tribe is still being told and is ready to be explored at any moment. Personally, I’m just grateful Fly made sure to include Moore in RAW’s canon. The book’s cover art is by, the Tenniel to RAW’s Carroll, Bobby Campbell whose illustrations implicitly make a connection between Fly and the green-skinned Mescalito. Pay attention.

    As a postscript to the Maybe Logic story — it was through Maybe Logic that I found Tom’s blog so even when the initial attraction is in bits and pieces it can lead to something satisfying. The tale of the tribe isn’t over until the last monkey stops squawking.

    http://www.rawillumination.net/2019/05/gregory-arnott-reviews-flys-tale-of.html

  • DJ Fly Agaric Plays Funk

    DJ Fly Agaric Plays Funk

    Here, a selection of my dj mixes, shows, and live turntable performances on the funky side of things.

    Bookings contact: flyagaric23 @ gmail

    #djflyagaric23

    Steve Fly Bio:
    https://flyagaric23.com/2013/06/10/steve-fly-biography-from-iron-man-records/

    DJ SETS


    No Hassle Mix (Funk)

    https://www.mixcloud.com/flyagaric23/james-meters-funk-dj-fly-agaric-no-hassell-mix-5/

    Fly Funk 4Q

    https://www.mixcloud.com/flyagaric23/fly-funk-4q-beats-breaks-and-scratches-by-dj-steve-fly/

    Ricorsi Funk

    https://www.mixcloud.com/RadioFreeAmsterdam/fly-by-night-272-ricorsi-funkey/

    Funk March

    https://www.mixcloud.com/RadioFreeAmsterdam/fly-by-night-254-funk-march/

    Bear Home (Jazz, Blues, Funk)

    https://soundcloud.com/flyagaric23/bear-full-mix-july-19th-2009

    LIVE


    Garaj Mahal 2017 (Live w/ DJ Fly)

    http://radiofreeamsterdam.org/fly-by-night-243-never-give-up/

    Garaj Mahal 2003 (Live w/ DJ Fly)

    https://archive.org/details/garaj2003-10-31.flac16/garaj2003-10-31d2t07.flac

     

    VIDEO

     

     

     

  • DJ Steve Fly In Amsterdam (clip)

     

    https://www.instagram.com/p/BnJ-7-ngfol/?taken-by=dj_gibbo

  • Support Me On Patreon – Build With Me

    https://www.patreon.com/stevefly

     

    “Steve Fly is a native of Stourbridge UK now an Amsterdam resident who plays drums, spins vinyl, writes novels and literary and cultural commentary, maintains a flock of websites and works in various other art forms without visible restraint.–John Sinclair, 2013.

    Hi, your kind support will help me continue my current activities, plus to build a new synthesis between writing, music production and video. I’ll share rare material from my mentors John Sinclair and the late Robert Anton Wilson, and exhibit works by others from a network of creative associates.

     

  • Brexit Paper

    BREXIT PAPER (slice)

    #PassportToBrexit #Brexitpaper #BrexitPoems

    red

    paper
    urgent deal and secret
    classifried brexit
    sausages
    bigpig mouth Cameron
    wipes lips
    of Banks and Bannon

    and Farage
    before his own, with Alex Jones
    wet wipes
    paper shelved, again

    brexit green paper
    hemp paper rolling…

     

     

  • Bloom Jamm (July Update)

    Bloom Jamm (July Update)

    DOWNLOAD HERE: BloomPack

    DOWNLOAD NINJAJAMM HERE: NINJAJAMM

    For more info go here: https://flyagaric23.com/bloomjamm/


    Bloomjamm    : A Finnegans Wake NInjajamm Pack

     

    Steven Fly: Drums, Guitar, Turntable, Samples

    Karl Frisby: Bass Guitar

    Robert Anton Wilson: Vocals

    Tom Grashion: Pack Programming 

    Tim Egmond: Sample Assistance

    A sneaky funk expedition through jungles, over oceans and across savannahs, with daubs of electronica. A synchronistic Samba of Coincidance. A new tribal soundtrack with a global village stomp to boot. Bloomjamm sucks you into a wonkyworld of audio, like something David Attenborough might hallucinate. Raise the tempo, bring up the sub bass, get the party jumping and your trotters shaking.  

    Bloomjamm is an experimental musical investigation into Finnegans Wake. Crafted for a performance and give-away, at the 26th International James Joyce Symposium, Antwerp, on Bloomsday.  

    This pack features Robert Anton Wilson reading from Finnegans Wake, and singing the ballad. For more information about BloomJamm and more free download packs by Steve Fly, please visit:

    www.flyagaric23.com/bloomjamm

    Special thanks to all NinjaJamm heads, Matt, Tom, Aneek. Derek @ Waywords and Meansigns, Rasa @ Hilaritas Press, Karl, and all Joyce and RAW Ninjas worldwide. Jamm on. 

  • What if the almanac were the Tesla papers?

    What if the almanac were the Tesla papers?

    What if the almanac were the Tesla Papers?

    And McFly was Biff
    And Biff’s nephew were Donald Trump
    And Donald Trump’s uncle was called John
    An M.I.T electromagnetic physics don?

    What if the Almanac were the Tesla papers?

    What if John Trump got into capers
    With Tesla’s secret weapons papers
    And went to Malvern in a hurry
    To build a bomb, and some radar therapy
    Was it covered in the newspapers?

    What if the Almanac were the Tesla papers?

    And Back to the Trump/Biff future
    A plan by the man to sell more arms
    What if the USA & UK & Canada
    Secretly pursued Tesla’s killingry
    While ignoring Bucky Fuller’s plans for livingry

    What if the Almanac were the Tesla papers?

    What if this little poem was coded
    And overloaded with things that exploded
    What if the worlds weapons programmes
    Nuclear, electromagnetic, high energy laser
    And space weapons all stemmed from Tesla’s work?

    What if the Almanac were the Tesla papers?

    What if, to continue a popular meme
    Dr. Emmett Brown was really mean?
    And McFly really that Biff guy
    And the Flux Capacitor from Tesla’s dream?
    I mean

    What if, the Almanac, were, the Tesla papers?

    What if all humanity deserved a cut of the
    Trillions of Dollars and Pounds of profit
    Gained from research at Malvern and other
    Weapons facilities?
    In accordance with Tesla’s free-for-all proclivities

    What if the Almanac, were the Tesla papers?

    What if John Trump travelled into the future
    And created Cambridge Analytica,
    To ensure his nephew Donald became Prez
    Who sez that’s crazy talk?
    Just google John G Trump + Malvern
    And ask yourself to wake up and smell the vapours

    What if the Almanac, were the Tesla papers?

    what if John passed Death-star plans to Reagan?
    What if Doc Brown were a charlatan like Fagin
    And Elon Musk were using Tesla’s ideas
    Free of charge, trips to mars and tiny nano-gears
    What if a white devil ruled from Skyscrapers

    What if the Almanac, were the Tesla papers?


    Footnote A:     Depending on what you know about Nikola Tesla, or have read, and believe? there’s many avenues here to jump ahead of the facts, proposing for instance, that John Trump was secretly continuing Tesla’s work on more exotic inventions, such as time-travel, and exotic weapons, and fucking weather control. If you want to explore this area of the Trump-Tesla connections, be sure to put on your tin-foil hat and watch yer’ heads goin’ in. Folks, there’s a lot of speculation, but the facts are equally sensational, makes for a heady mix. John G Trump, was indeed a technical aide for Division 14 of the National Defence Research Committee, he reviewed and analysed the Tesla papers after Tesla died. Trump was also the director of the British Branch of the Radiation laboratory based at Malvern, the BBRL, which in turn was a part of TRE, the Telecommunications Research Establishment. There’s dozens of cans of worms to turn over, but my can of worms involves Trump and his connection to Malvern, 1942.

    Some of the most influential and key figures within British and US intelligence were gathered on and around the grounds of the Old Malvern Boys School, in Worcestershire, UK. Including John Trump, and undoubtably many scientists with a shared interest in the work of Nikola Tesla. Who can estimate how influential Tesla’s ideas were in the second world war, and other conflicts were electricity and energy became weaponised? Once again, there’s a lot of room for speculation, and some people have gone all the way, proposing secret military operations that include deep tunnel projects, space colonies on the moon and mars, and interstellar spacecraft powered by advanced propulsion systems, weapons, lasers, radar. You name it. But it’s the time-travel devices that have really captured the imagination of some contemporary conspirators.

    If it takes a wild conspiracy theory about how Donald Trump’s uncle worked on a time-travel technology, that has been used and abused to ensure that Donald became President, and, that the movie Back to the future II” was trying to warn, or prepare us, so be it. Imagine Dr. Emmett Brown as John Trump, who’s using Tesla technologies to send his nephew, Biff, not Marty McFly, back through time to profit from advanced Tesla technologies. Now if Biff is in fact the Donald, and we continue the Back To The Future analogy, then we’re looking for something in the ascendence of Trump to the political kingdom that relates to the almanac? But, instead of an almanac of the results of sporting events, to make bets, win big and take over the world, what i f the almanac were in fact the Tesla Papers? Trump acts in secret, through his uncles old boys circles and manages to feed the technological Tesla almanac and it’s contents to American industrialists, such as Raytheon, Lockheed Martin, DARPA and more recently Space-X. Musk, let’s not forget, in wisdom named his super advanced car, TESLA. The first movie, Back To the Future was released on July 3rd, 1985. John trump died Feb 28th, 1985.  Death Rays, Trump, Tesla, Time Travel, Malvern and Marty McFly, Oh my.

    Some problems, first of all, so what if John was Donald’s uncle, what does that have to do with his personality, even if it’s in the genes as Donald claims when speaking of his rich intellectual heritage (meaning John Trump).  Do all Trumps have a propensity to want to make an ill mannered, belligerent, rude, greed head like Biff, and the 45th president of the United states?  There is a lot of testimony on the web claiming that John Trump didn’t touch the weapons stuff. J Trump was certainly working alongside those who built the bombs and death weapons during the second world war. After the war, we can agree that in public sight he used new high-energy technologies for the betterment of mankind, for medical applications, and ecological projects like treating sludge (Maybe Donald could have used this technology to clean the swamp, rather than drain it?) Meh, it all sounds a bit air-brushed to me, I feel that John Trump was indeed capable of working on weapons. Is a time-machine a weapon?

    “A Hymn To Powick” Coming soon….

    –Steve Fly.

  • Rockers, artists pay tribute to James Joyce with massive project

    “What I found out,” says Pyle, “was that there were all these niches and subcultures — dead heads, punk rockers, out-there artists, avant-garde classical musicians, Robert Anton Wilson fans — and within their subcultures ‘Finnegans Wake’ has a lot of importance. … What I think happened was we were able to bring together a bunch of niches, people who were interesting and also supportive — that cult thing, when you’re really into something, you’re really into something. We brought together those people as both audience and contributors.”
    http://www.telegram.com/entertainmentlife/20170510/rockers-artists-pay-tribute-to-james-joyce-with-massive-project

  • Ninja Jamm – System 7 – Fly Agaric 23 remix

    Ninja Jamm – System 7 – Fly Agaric 23 remix

    Steven James Pratt