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*WARNING* *WARNING* *WARNING* *WARNING*
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This document may violate your local community standards on obscenity.
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[Information is sexy, not sexual]
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Consult your local religious or moral authorities for further instruction.
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"You are Number Six"
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February 13, 1993
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| Cyberlicious <tm> | Editor : Blade X | The Bamboo Gardens |
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| PO Box 4510 | bladex@wixer.cactus.org | (512) 385-2941 |
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| Austin, TX 78765 | Neo-Wobblie Node # 269 | WWIV : 46@5285 |
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INDEX | OUTDEX
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Legal Disclaimer |
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Back Issues | Apartmentopia -- a New Edge
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Subscriptions | apartment complex
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Ediborial Cyberpunk E-zines \ Q&A : Advice column by
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Interview David Blair, Wax \ Blade X Lax, the
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News Agrippa: Book of the Dead \ cyberpunk's cyberpunk.
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\
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Reviews Under Siege __\__________________________
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Sin / |
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Sound Photosynthesis / Either catch a wave or get |
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Snow Crash / |
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Lethal Enforcer / a grip, cuz it's only gonna |
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Gray Areas / |
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/ get buzzier. |
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Next Issue : SXSW /___________________________________|
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SOFTWARE LICENSING AGREEMENT
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"Some people just don't get it"
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DISCLAIMER
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Scream Baby Global Headquarters are located in Austin, Texas, USA, and this
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location shall be considered the site of jurisdiction for any criminal or
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civil course of action(s) taken by or against the publisher, Cyberlicious
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<tm>.
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the publisher -- that could possibly be interpreted as libelous, defamatory,
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or slanderous, is actually *NOT* libel, defamation, or slander, but rather
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fair commentary and free speech, protected by the First Amendment.
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By continuing to read any more of this document, you, the home viewer, grant
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implicit agreement to abide and comply with these regulations. And another
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thing, any other regulations I may decide to implement in the future.
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If you do not wish to abide by these restrictions, simply use your system's
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method-of-choice for discarding documents and go do or read something else
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instead. People tell me _Wired_ is pretty cool.
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Contents are copyrighted, 1993, by the most powerful and litiginous nation on
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the planet.
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America, you wise guy.
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/ \
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/ Statement of Purpose : Gray Areas exists to examine the gray areas \
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| of life. We hope to unite poeple involved in all sorts of \
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| alternative lifestyles and deviant subcultures. We are everywhere! \
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|_________________________________ \
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\ -- Fall 1992 Gray Areas, page 5 |
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\ [see review later in this issue] |
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BABY GOT BACK ISSUES
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There are so many easy and fun ways to get back issues of Scream Baby, there
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is really no excuse for anyone not to have your very own copy.
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FTP SITES ftp.eff.org /pub/journals
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Also, The WEll is setting up an anonymous ftp site ANY DAY NOW, and all of the
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digital Cyberlicious <tm>! products will eventually be found there, even the
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stupid ones.
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PRIVATE BBS SYSTEMS
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Tejas BBS (512) 467-0663 14.4K modem, fast pick-up site
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Bamboo Gardens North (512) 385-2941 2400 baud, 800+ textfiles
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a.k.a. The Home for Wayward Information Junkies
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STOP BY MY HOUSE
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when I'm home and copy it DIRECTLY FROM MY COMPUTER SYSTEM. Bring your
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own 5.25" disks, please. Bring me some food while you are at it.
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| True Life Story: I buy Tom Maddox's novel, Halo, at Wal-mart |
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| for 2.36 plus tax. I'm reading on the bus and look up. The |
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| guy on my left is reading William S. Burrough's Naked Lunch. |
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| Guy on my right is scanning up and down the pages of a world |
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| atlas/almanac with lots of interesting facts on the average |
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| rainfall of Eastern European countries. I'm in the middle, |
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| reading Halo. |
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SUBSCRIPTIONS
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If you look at back issues of Scream Baby, you will find that there are
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several methods in order to get a subscription of Scream Baby. Choose the one
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you like best. Or simply send me e-mail.
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/ Too Much Coffee Man Says: \
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/ "It's a Fine Line Between \
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/ Sayings That Make Sense." \
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/ \
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/ -- Too Much Coffeeman #2, back cover \
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/______________________________________________\
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EDIBORIAL : CYBERPUNK E-ZINES
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I have stumbled across several references lately to the "numerous" cyberpunk
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electronic publications available on the Net.
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Huh?
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My scorecard reads 2 e-zines, 2 FAQs, and 3 mailing lists that provide
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information on the New Edge intersection of art, science, and pop culture.
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So someone must be using a different definition of cyberpunk.
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I say that cyberpunk is a conversation, not a thing. You can't go to the
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store and buy a six pack of Shiner Bock, some Cheetos, and then say, oh yeah,
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let me have 2 ounces of cyberpunk.
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It is not an object, not a commodity. Time magazine is a commodity. An
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article in Time magazine is an object. But neither is cyberpunk.
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I'm not a cyberpunk. You're not a cyberpunk. We *can't* be, since identity
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is a thing as well, and I've already said cyberpunk is not a thing.
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Cyberpunk is a relationship between the individual and society, the individual
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and technology. There are several axioms (of which Gareth Brandywn's The
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Cyberpunk Manifesto is the best) but cyberpunk is not clearly delimited.
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Nor should it.
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So the cyberpunk meme has been appropriated and is now represented in movies,
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literature, music, fashion, television, you name a vehicle for culture and I
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can name a cyberpunk representation.
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So the thought of a housewife in New Jersey flipping through a copy of Time
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while waiting for her hairdresser to be ready and stumbling across the
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cyberpunk article doesn't upset me like nearly everyone else on alt.cyberpunk
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and
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Mainstream people aren't stupid idiots, but potential converts.
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Is there a cyberpunk movement? Yes, but it's a bowel movement.
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But back to the topic of the numerous "cyberpunk" e-zines that are allegedly
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available in the Matrix. After looking around, I conclude that they must be
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referring to the PHAC cloud of cyberpunk. They must mean Phrack, Narc,
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Cracked!, and the various computer underground publications that discuss
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carding, phreaking, computer access, as being "cyberpunk".
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Well....sorta, but not really.
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Take out a sheet of paper and draw a large billowous cloud.
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Oops, let's wait for people who need to find paper and something to write
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with.
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<pauses 30 seconds>
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Ok, now that you've drawn that cloud, label it cyberpunk. Now draw smaller
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clouds around the cyberpunk cloud. Label these clouds things like magazines,
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books, art, film, music, CU, home electronics, DIY, etc. etc. etc.
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Notice that the Computer Underground is only one cloud among dozens and to
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call it "cyberpunk" is to disenfranchise and discount all the other clouds.
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CU is definitely *part* of the cyberpunk conversation, but it is not the whole
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cloud. While the mediastinum thoracic cavity is part of the human body, no
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one would ever claim that the mediastinum thoracic cavity *was* the human
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body.
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So don't do it!
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[Note: an excercise left for the home viewer is to
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create crystalized rain drops falling from these
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clouds, and label them such things as bOING-bOING,
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Blade Runner, Beyond Cyberpunk stack, etc. This will
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help further clarify the distinction]
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I don't attempt to create a complete map, since that is the purpose of the
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FutureCulture FAQ. Consider me a tour guide.
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________________ [Also note my bias towards the cultural manifestations
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\ of c-punk, rather than the technological]
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Fringeware \
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Leri-L \
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FutureCulture \ AGRIPPA -- BOOK OF THE DEAD
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\ NOT RELEASED TO THE NET
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Scream Baby \
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Cult of the Dead Cow \ "The book is an art object with weight, smell,
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\ texture, and the charm and weakness of paper,
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alt.cyberpunk.faq \ ink, cloth, and composite plastics"
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FutureCulture FAQ \
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\ -- press release as
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Info Junkies Anonymous \ reported in Project X
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____________________________\ Issue 23.
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Agrippa is a large over-sized book, too large and bulky to read on the bus.
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Yellow, aged pages with ink whose chemical composition changes when exposed to
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sunlight so that some writing&images disappear and new ones appear.
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Words&images Agrippa has a secret space within it's pages that holds a
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computer disk. A computer disk holding a program which replicates a William
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Gibson poem....once.....before erasing and eradicating itself. A poem which
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speaks of loss, the process of reintegration, and completion.
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_______________________PAIR-O-DOCS_________________________
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| To isolate a small section | Nothing happens in |
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| and claim representation | cyberspace because there |
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| of the whole is why the | are no things here. |
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| world is in the trouble | |
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| that it is today. | Only representations.|
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|____________________________|______________________________|
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Agrippa, Book of the Dead,
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not released to the Net,
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December 9, 1992.
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SUPPOSED I ASKED DAVID BLAIR, CREATOR OF _WAX_, TO CONSENT TO AN E-MAIL
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INTERVIEW WHERE WE WOULD SWAP QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS BACK AND FORTH, BUT THEN I
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GOT LAZY, AND NEVER RESPONDED PAST HIS ANSWER TO MY QUESTION, YOU'D STILL CALL
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IT AN INTERVIEW, RIGHT?
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SB : Scream Baby
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DB : David Blair
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SB: Accounts that I have read about Wax act as if you suddenly popped out of
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no where to create this masterpiece. As if once there was a void, and
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then there was Wax. Tell me a little about what you did before Wax.
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What is your intellectual and educational background?
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DB: Well, I'm a 1956, and didn't get started on WAX until '85, so I have
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posted to generation x under false pretenses, though of the driver's
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license kind.
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My education is a comp lit sort of thing, but I guess what I took most
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seriously at the time was a failed attempt at guided reading, meant to
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help illuminate the huge dark valleys in Gravity's Rainbow. After that I
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left for NY, and, like most video people I know who started at that time,
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worked as an autodidact for a long time... there being very few ways to
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find out about video back then (not so long ago... 1979 into the mid-
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80's).
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I did about 6 shorts (Charlemagne Ptomaine, etc), before WAX,a beginner
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attempting videoart (couldn't get anything into festivals), then started
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the long tape, which actually began when I tried to cut a 15 minute tape
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down to 3 minutes. In between there were 2 trailers (for WAX).
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| "The planet completely vanished, leaving it's weather behind" |
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| -- Wax |
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REVIEW-A-RAMA
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UNDER SIEGE
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Take My Pies Out of The Oven
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My roommate Mehrdad is a connosseiur of B-action-adventure-films. I mean,
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he's seem them *ALL*. An information diet consisting of Chuck Norris, Claude
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Van Damme, and Steven Siegal.
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[So when he asked if I wanted to go see the latest
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Steven Siegal vehicle (now on videotape), I said
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no, not really.
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In his best film ever, Steven Siegal is a former Navy SEAL who gets promoted
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to *cook* after slugging his superior officer because of "inferior
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intelligence at the airport" during the raid on Panama. There is a small
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suggestion that he was intentionally given bad information by CIA operatives
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in order to have him killed.
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[Lucky for the viewer, Steven gets to
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keep all his cool spy stuff!]
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In Under Siege, we get to witness the extreme personal violence of Steven
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Siegal in hand-to-hand combat. Armed with the K-factor of SEAL training, he
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guns down villains, crashes I-beams through chests, rips out Adam's apples,
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gouges out eyeballs, stabs knives into armpits, throats, chests, and
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delivers killing blows with a single chop.
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[He is the good guy.]
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Opposing Siegal is Tommy Lee Jones, who has commandeered the USS Missouri and
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is attempting to steal Tomahawk missiles, (including 8 "specials", military
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jargon for nuclear-tipped warheads).
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In stark contrast, the violence represented by Tommy Lee Jones is very
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abstract : the threat of a detonation of a nuclear-tipped missile over
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Honolulu, Hawaii; the enemy "command center" a collection of screens, computer
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images, and virtual realities.
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The Bad Guys launch a missile in one scene, and tracks it's progress as a
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little blip on the computer screen. It hits; Tommie Lee Jones goes "boom!"
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Next shot immediately goes to the Naval Admiral Command Center, who start
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discussing why they would blow up a satellite relay station. We never see any
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physical evidence of the damage.
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Towards the end of the film, the viewer is transported into the I-camera!
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This is a genre of slasher films where you follow the action from the
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perspective of the killer. In this case, watching from the fins of the nuclear
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missile as if it were *you* hurtling towards the coastline of Hawaii.
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[These are the Bad Guys]
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I mean, it's perfectly *okay* for the military and Pentagon to have control
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and access over nuclear missile technology. But who knows what would happen
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if political undesirables gained access. We must defend against this evil
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threat!
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[Here's a little Cyberlicious hint: build less bombs. Shh...]
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Let's hop back to the beginning of the film, where the bad guys gain entry to
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the ship by masquerading as caterers and entertainers for a surprise birthday
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party for the captain. Tommy Lee Jones is the band leader and dresses exactly
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like John Shirley. Black leather jacket, tye died t-shirt, dark sunglasses.
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[Sound familiar?]
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[Sound cyberpunk?]
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SIN magazine
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The Cyberart Gallery
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The next time you're in your favorite alternative magazine/book store, look in
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the music section for a zine called "SIN Magazine". It has a stylish and
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ghoulish graffitti b-boy on the cover with a gun aimed at his temple. Pick it
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up and look at the last two pages, which is called The Cyberart Gallery and
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contains 8 pictures of groovy computer-generated art. From what I remembered,
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Sin magazine covers underground punk/rap/hip hop sub culture scene, with an
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emphasis on visual information.
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Sound Photosynthesis Catalog [free upon request]
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P.O. Box 2111
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Mill Valley CA 94942-2111
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415-383-6712
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Sound Photosynthesis sells audio and visual cassettes of speeches, lectures,
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conferences, story tellings, etc. From what I can decipher, 1500+ titles
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cover major themes of consciousness, Buddhism, psychedelics, philosophy, UFOs,
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and related explorations of reality.
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Big-names-that-I-recognize include Robert Anson Wilson, Timothy Leary, Stephen
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Gaskin, William S. Burroughs, Terence McKenna, the Dalai Lama, Richard
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Feynman, Colin Andrews, Helen Caldicott, Fritjof Capra, Noam Chomsky, Ram
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Dass, Rudy Rucker and do I need to go on? There is a *lot* of candy in
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this store that demands your personal investigation.
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While there is some variation, prices are $9 per audio tape and $35 for video.
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On the back of one of the single-page inserts sent is a promise that the
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complete New Edge 1993 : "Mind at Large" catalog is coming soon. Until then,
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be satisfied with the 8 pages of hand-outs with densely printed
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text.
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Snow Crash
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by Neal Stephenson
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ISBN 0-553-35192-3 (Tradeback, $10)
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All I gotta say is Juicy!
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Unless you were already aware of pooning, the Infocalpyse, Burbclaves, bimbo
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boxes, Kouriers, Rat Things, CostraNostra Pizza franchise, that Americans
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excel at only two things : writing software and delivering pizza in less than
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30 minutes, freeways designed around your personality type (i.e. one for those
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who have to get there *NOW* and one for those who like to enjoy the scenery),
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hopped up skateboards with smart wheels and explosive charges, dendatas, the
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Black Sun, biological-software viruses that are especially deadly for hackers,
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the Metaverse, Liquid Knuckles, the Tower of Babel, Sumerian mythology,
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gargoyles, Central Intelligence Corporation, Clint & Barbie's off-the-shelf
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avatar sets, General Jim's Defense System, Short Range Chemical Restraint
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Projectors (loogie guns), and the Deliverator
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Fast, funny, and furious. Oh look, I'm a fucking blurb writer now!
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I say we genericize the word snow crash to describe anyone who goes through
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Info-Shock Overload. So the next time Andy Hawks posts to the Future Culture
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mailing list some derivative of "fuck it, I can't take it anymore, I gotta
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take a break, gotta get away from it all" we can just say...oh dude...Andy's
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snow crashed again.
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Lethal Enforcer
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(arcade video game -- $.50 to start and .25 to continue play)
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You are a police officer in this simulation shooting gallery. More-than-less
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real-time video imagery shows different shoot-em-up crisis scenes involving
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bad guys : at a bank, city streets, train station, airport, etc. Bam! Bam!
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The criminals toss out insulting phrases like, "You'll never take me alive,
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copper". You get called Pig a lot too. Bam! Bam! Each bad guy who gets hit
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makes this really loud groaning noise. Bam! Bam! You lose a life for each
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innocent by-stander and police officer that you shoot. [I still nail the
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Japanese tourist on the train who pops up with the camera, *every* time.] uh
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oh, Super Big Bad Guy at the end of each scenario : Bam! Bam! Bam! Bam! Bam!
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Bam! Bam! Bam! Bam! Bam! Bam! Bam! Bam! Bam! Bam! Bam! Bam! Bam! Bam! Bam!
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Bam! Bam! Bam! Bam! Bam! Bam! Bam! Bam! Bam! Bam!
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Now, suppose that you're the manufacturer of a video game that displays
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realistic images where you (essentially) shoots everything that moves. Rather
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than appreciating the aesthetics of Neo-Violence and the technical prowess and
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advances made by your designers, many groups will actually be *concerned* or
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even *upset*. People might complain that it not only desensitizes children to
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the horrors of violence, but actually *encourages* kids to commit violence in
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real life.
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How do you deflect this criticism?
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You paint the guns BRIGHT PINK and BABY BLUE and make them look like TOY GUNS.
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This cracks me up.
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Gray Areas
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P.O. Box 808
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Broomall, PA 19008-0808
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($4.50 cover price per issue)
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grayarea@well.sf.ca.us
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Gray Areas has potential to become a *tremendous* magazine, but it's pretty
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cool as it is right now. Standing in a foundation of Deadhead/tapehead
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culture, Gray Areas pokes around at the common links and problems between home
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taping, software piracy, censorship, and pornography. News, essays, comics,
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interviews, and lots and lots of reviews of books, films, catalogs, zines,
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live video, audio tapes, and software.
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This premiere issue features a long interview with John Perry Barlow about
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copyright, Grateful Dead, computer piracy, and the Electronic Frontier
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Foundation. An interview with Kay Parker, a former porn queen turned
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spiritual counselor. An interview with Zen Tricksters, a (sorta) Grateful
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Dead cover band. A list of all known legitmate and illegitimate Grateful Dead
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video recordings.
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Not many people know about my irrational and spiteful hatred of deadheads.
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I can't stand them, especially those too young to have been alive during the
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60s who have been duped into mining the 60s as a source of escaping from the
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90s. Grrrrrrrrrr
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So for me to say that a zine saturated with so much deadheadednossity is
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worth investigating......I hear my friends saying whoooaaaaa already.
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Final factor: Gray Areas is woefully lacking in the computer scene k-factor.
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An opportunity exists here for one of you to jump in print and become their
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computer columnist/reviewer. Or feed them information, at least.
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SXSW THEME ISSUE
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Next issue : SXSW special theme issue. Every year Austin hosts the South By
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Southwest Music Showcase. One pays $30 for a wristband that allows entrance
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into book-ooze of clubs to watch book-ooze of bands playing hour long sets.
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Each year is greeted with the same bitchy whiny chorus of the tickets costing
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too much, there aren't enough cool bands, that it lasts too long, runs too
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late, that Disney is behind this evil scheme to corrupt the purity of the
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music festival (???), that the music industry slimebuckets get special
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treatment over the fans, etc. etc.
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Start your own damn music festival, then, cuz I'm going and bringing the
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news direct! tape-delayed! to the Scream Baby masses. Last year I pumped out
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20K of text on my own about Helmet, L-7, music, fashion, culture, approval,
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institutional racism, and, as they say, a whole lot more. Another contributor
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wrote over 20K on his experience of SXSW as a record executive. Pretty
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fucking cool.
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Read all about it in the next issue of Scream Baby, end of March.
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Scream Baby is the victim of a virus! It has attached itself to the end of
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this issue and just won't let go. I can't shake it. None of the anti-viral
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forces have been able to help me. Even "taking responsibility" and "getting
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back in touch with my inner child" has failed. So here it is. Why, this
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material is so shameful, so degrading, so not worth your time, that perhaps
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you should just stop reading now.
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OUTDEX
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APARTMENTOPIA
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The purpose of this project is the creation of a New Edge apartment complex,
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wired with the highest technological devices and designed so that one never
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has to leave home.....ever.
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Living Quarters : Each room comes fully stocked with a fully integrated
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stereo/CD player/hypodermic needle injection unit/tape deck/HDTV/vcr/your-
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choice-of-computer (Mac/IBM/Amiga)/dildo/telephone (with or without
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picturephone option)/refrigerator stocked with colas/electric razor/laser
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printer/lava lamp. A futon is provided, but residents will need to provide
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their own linens and pillows. Obsolete windows have been replaced with
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programmable wall panels. Stills from the movie _Blade Runner_ are a popular
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choice. Attractive Mexican/Hispanic maids will not only clean your room but
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also pretend to be your girlfriend in order to impress any geeky friends or
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family members who might visit. [Note: non-heterosexual and/or fetish maids
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available upon request]
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Meal Program : The kitchen is amply stocked with Cheetos, soft drinks, coffee
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(and any of it's derivative caffeine delivery systems), and Twinkies. A
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patented meal replacement system permits residents one (but only one) time
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released capsule a day to recieve all of their nutritional needs. Spacious,
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well-lit, and most important of all, you don't have to clean up after
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yourself.
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Energy Supply : The roof contains an enormous parabolic dish that captures sun
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and turns it into electrical power. During the night time, each solar cell
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rotates and the whole dish turns, voila, like the Transformers, into a huge
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radio satellite aimed at the stars, searching for signs of intelligent life.
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Cryonic Life Extension Program : at *NO* additional costs to residents, each
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one will be frozen in a cryonic chamber after death, and periodically revived,
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in case I have to ask you where you placed a certain tool or if you've seen my
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car keys.
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Barn / Dance Hall : behind the complex is an agri-chemo-cultural research
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complex, where the latest cutting edge research in genetics engineering,
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hydroponics, and chemical/drug production is performed. Afterwards, the
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facility is turned into a dance club with different partitions available for
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raves, orchestras, and speed metal and/or slam dancing.
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ADVICE COLUMN
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by Blade X Lax
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"The Cyberpunk's Cyberpunk"
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Why hello all my little cyber-buddies. Here I am again to answer all your
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questions, tell you what to think, set your warped little minds back on track,
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and act like a smarmy overbearing, know-it-all-asshole. You know you like it.
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Dear Mr. Lax :
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Karma Sutra Sez that in order to look important, one should carry a
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clipboard with you. In Snow Crash, however, Hiro Protaganist points
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out that you can always spot the franchise managers since they are
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the ones who carry the three inch binder notebook. How do I handle
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this conflicting information? Should I carry a binder *and* a
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clipboard? What do you suggest?
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The decision over clipboard v. binder depends on the type of expected social
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interaction. Clipboards are superior in face-to-face confrontations; binders
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are best for rushing hurriedly past low level clerks or guards while hastily
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flipping through pages looking for the appropriate reference.
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As to designing a clipboard-binder I started once to reverse engineer a
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combination notebook-clipboard-cellular phone-Unix PDA interface, but only
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managed to get the Krazy Glue all over my hands and ripping off a lot of skin
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in the process. And hey, if I couldn't get it to work, no sense in anyone
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else trying.
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If you are trying to project the proper authoritarian image in a public
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situation, then nothing screams "management material" more than a .38 snub
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nosed blue steeled revolver. Experiment for yourself. Local malls are
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*excellent* laboratories.
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Mr. Lax :
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I want to start my own electronic publication, but don't really know
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what I want to do, or really have any incentive to actually spend the
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time to work on it. Any suggestions?
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First off, son, great! I luv ya attitude. We need more people like you on
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the Nets, but I sense a bit of confusion that maybe I can help clear up.
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Don't forget that you don't actually want to *create* an e-zine, but that you
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*want* to create an e-zine. This is a key distinction. You don't actually
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have to do anything, just talk about stuff you'd like to do someday.
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I think that when you learn this, you will find those nagging concerns about
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incentive, work ethic, and compulsion to complete something will go away.
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Also, don't forget that you need to *SLAG* *UNMERCILESSLY* those m0es who
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actually make the mistake of actually creating something. No matter what it
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is *YOU* can do better, if ya wanted. Remember that it's beneath you to
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actually accomplish anything.
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Now that's cyberpunk!
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