David Ignatius Walsh was the hometown hero, a lion of the pre World War II Boston Irish community. He had served as Governor of Massachusetts followed by five terms in the U.S. Senate, the first Irish Catholic to hold the post. He was a confirmed bachelor, somewhat of a dandy with a penchant for flashy [...]
In the upcoming weeks The Demagogues will begin production of our own podcast and we need your help! In order to complete our vision for the intro, we ask that you record yourself vocalizing our treatise: "We the Demagogues of The Cargo Culte postulate that art is the central element in our conspicuous display of [...]
Al Hansen * Viking Dada * 3rd Rail (New York City) Oct. 5, 1967!!! Non-Verbal Action Lecture Manifesto Tribute To Viennese Cocks THIRD RAIL PROVO PROGRAM Memo: Provo Cation; Hommage to the Vienna Institute for Direct Art and a Manifesto… 'Ono Super Zock'-Otto Muehl, Hermann 'Blood Bath' Nitsch, Guenther-'Meckie Messer' Brus, Kurt 'Flicker' Kren, and [...]
It's generally excepted, that when away from for an extended period from the population from which one would generally select their lovers, that all bets are off. Prison would certainly be an example…or perhaps the navy. San Francisco during the California Gold Rush of the mid 19th century would also be able to stake it's [...]
Fear is at the root of man's destruction of himself. Without Fear there is no blame. Without blame there is no conflict. Without conflict there is no destruction. But there IS Fear: deep within the core of every human being it lurks like a monster, dark and intangible. Its outward effects are unmistakable. Its source [...]
'Tis the season, mädchen und jungen, to peruse the list of St. Nicholas, and determine just who has been good and who has been naughty. If you have truly been good, do not worry. But if you have torn the wings off of flies, or pulled the whiskers of a cat for the sheer fun [...]
"I met a fan in Kentucky who had throat cancer. He was only supposed to live a few weeks. For some reason, I reached out, grabbed his throat, and started praying for the dude. He lives long enough to give me [the certificate] on our next tour." And with the most Holy Gift of Healing [...]
The origins of Hunter Thompson's 1966 book, Hell's Angels: The Strange Terrible Saga of the Outlaw Motorcycle Gangs can be found in a 1965 article for The Nation magazine. The article entitled The Motorcycle Gangs: Losers and Outsiders prompted several book offers. Accepting a deal with Random House Thompson spent the next year living in [...]
January 1942: 500 Wehrmacht soldiers found themselves surrounded by the Red Army on the Eastern Front. Suffering in temperatures of –22 Fahrenheit, marching through snowdrifts that at times reached waist high, soldiers began to lie down in the snow to die. Six hours into their escape they claimed they could go no further. Commanders made [...]
While drowning in the oceans of sickly sweet platitudes and musings on the 10 year anniversary of the September attacks I can't help but remember the inane question asked time and again a decade back: "Why do they hate us?". This was hardly a new question, nor the first generation to ask it. In 1953 [...]
Tender women, you ablaze with love's fire, compensate yourselves now, and do so boldly and unafraid; persuade yourselves that there can exist no evil in obedience to Nature's promptings, that it is not for one man she created you, but to please them all, without discrimination. Let no anxiety inhibit you. Imitate the Greek republicans; [...]
The P.O.W. Comminiqué [In September 1970 Timothy Leary escaped from the California Men's Colony, a state prison in San Luis Obispo, California, with the assistance of the Weather Underground, a clandestine revolutionary organization. He had been incarcerated since February 1970 for a marijuana possession conviction. This communiqué was released to the underground press shortly after [...]
Nothing stokes the ratings like a good blood feud, and the Muslims and Hindus of South Asia are at the center of one of the better. With its roots in the horrific Muslim expansion into India kicked off by the Umayyad Caliphate jihad in 711 C.E., the conflict has raged for some 1300 years. The [...]
During the mid 1950's William Burroughs wrote to Allen Ginsberg from Tangier, Morrocco regarding his experiences with liquid oxycodone. Sold over the counter in the International Zone under the German brand name Eukodol, he described at length spending extended periods of time locked away in his room, only moving to inject himself every two hours. [...]
In 1976 Belgian documentarian Jean Pierre Dutilleux traveled to the Earths most remote corners to film Tribal Journeys: A Window to Another World and Another Time, 13 episodes which took him from the Amazon to Papua New Guinea. Here they make contact with the Toulambi, a Guinean aboriginal tribe that had previously never been exposed [...]
The story of Osho—master, mystic, madman… "Trying to define Osho is like trying to imprison a rainbow or catch a cloud that's floating through your room. Like sand, he slips through your fingers: like a sparkling drops of dew, his magic vanishes with the rising sun of definition. Samuel Johnson, in his Preface to Shakespeare, [...]
(Excerpts from On the Philosophy of the Superman) If we must "speak well of the dead or say nothing at all," in this case it is preferable to observe a respectful silence rather than obscure the social significance of the deceased by a flood of unctuous praise devoid of meaning. We can [...]
The assemblage of Kevin Ayers (Soft Machine), John Cale, Nico (who both both made their bones in the Velvet Underground) and Brian Eno (Roxy Music) for two shows on the night of June 1 1974 at the Rainbow Theatre in London was legendary before they even took place. Known as the ACNE gigs, the event [...]
- Brian Eno, John Cale, Nico, Kevin Ayers - baby's on fire
- Brian Eno, John Cale, Nico, Kevin Ayers - driving me backwards
- Brian Eno, John Cale, Nico, Kevin Ayers - everybody's sometime and some people all the time blues
- Brian Eno, John Cale, Nico, Kevin Ayers - heartbreak hotel
- Brian Eno, John Cale, Nico, Kevin Ayers - may I
- Brian Eno, John Cale, Nico, Kevin Ayers - shouting in a bucket blues
- Brian Eno, John Cale, Nico, Kevin Ayers - stranger in blue suede shoes
- Brian Eno, John Cale, Nico, Kevin Ayers - the end
- Brian Eno, John Cale, Nico, Kevin Ayers - two goes into four
IN 1931, THE MASTER WAS preaching this Great Truth of salvation when He met a man named Elijah Poole in Detroit, Michigan. He chose him to be His Divine Representative in continuing this most difficult task of bringing truth and light to His lost and found people. For 3 1/2 years He taught and trained [...]
Despite the West's bluster during the decades of the Cold War, refusing to recognize the Maoist regime and barking about China's 'legitimate' Nationalist government-in-exile, Chiang Kai-Shek even at his most powerful he never did control much of the Chinese mainland. The general's power base was regulated to the coastal areas, and even then his government [...]