tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-73562597330458169032024-02-07T17:32:51.425+00:00JOHN HIGGSAuthor of Watling Street, The KLF, Stranger Than We Can Imagine and I Have America Surrounded.John Higgshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00646513595673689415noreply@blogger.comBlogger98125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7356259733045816903.post-40361188491364042082018-01-26T16:46:00.000+00:002018-01-26T16:46:01.028+00:00This website is being abandoned - I've movedThis website is being shuttered up - but the party continues over at <a href="https://johnhiggs.com/">johnhiggs.com</a>, so come join us over there.<br />
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This blogger site will be left as is for now, and possibly taken down in due course. Or perhaps just left for the moths, that might be kinder.<br />
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Come over to <a href="https://johnhiggs.com/">johnhiggs.com</a>, there's nothing to see here.John Higgshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00646513595673689415noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7356259733045816903.post-47866519808481367292017-07-13T06:00:00.000+01:002017-07-14T06:55:57.929+01:00Watling Street - Book and podcast launchI am a proud parent limping out of a delivery room with uncountable stitches and a head full of endorphins - my new book has entered the world!<br />
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Her name is Watling Street and you'll find her at your local bookshop - <a href="http://amzn.to/2tMOjBl">or online here</a>.<br />
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She tells of a journey across England and Wales. She will not make you proud to be British but she just might make you delighted to be British. <br />
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She comes complete with a four-part podcast series, in which myself and <a href="http://www.drbramwell.com/">David Bramwell</a> revisit the stories and places in the book accompanied by guests including Salena Godden, Alan Moore, Iain Sinclair, Miranda Kane, CJ Stone, John Constable, Andy Miller, Daisy Campbell and Lord Victor Adebowale.<br />
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The first episode is out today - here's <a href="https://itunes.apple.com/gb/podcast/watling-street/id1257578517?mt=2">a direct iTunes link</a>, or search for 'Watling Street' on your podcasting app (the feed is <a href="http://urbandrum.co.uk/watling_street/feed/podcast">here </a>if that's easier). The first episode will also be on the <a href="https://soundcloud.com/orionbooks/watling-street-podcast-by-john-higgs">Orion Books soundcloud</a>. If you could subscribe today it would be hugely appreciated - as would listens and reviews - as a sudden bump of new subscribers keeps iTunes' algorithms happy.<br />
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Further episodes will arrive monthly.<br />
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If you want to join me to help wet the baby's head, I'll be appearing at a number of bookshops up and down Watling Street.<br />
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<a href="http://jmrhiggs.blogspot.co.uk/2017/05/summer-2017-talks-and-appearances.html">Details of the talks are here</a>.<br />
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And finally, here's<a href="http://www.bbc.com/culture/story/20170710-the-road-that-led-to-1000-stories"> a little something I wrote for BBC Culture</a> that will give you a taste of what to expect. <br />
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To celebrate, here is The Ghosts of Watling Street, a song about the book by Oddfellow's Casino, remixed by the mighty Greg Wilson and Peza:<br />
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Summer is (just about) with us and my new book <a href="http://amzn.to/2q6NK4V" target="_blank">Watling Street</a> is getting ready to launch... but more on that soon. Now it's time to leave the house and pop up in strange places to talk about that book and other strange stuff.<br />
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To warm up, I've already done talks for <a href="http://wearewia.com/putting-her-in-history/" target="_blank">Women In Art</a>, <a href="http://blog.gregwilson.co.uk/2017/03/a-14-hour-super-weird-happening/" target="_blank">the Super Weird Happening at The Florrie, Liverpool</a> and the <a href="https://cosmictriggerplay.com/" target="_blank">Cosmic Trigger </a>play. Here's what's still to come, I'm either coming to a place near you or trying my damnedest to:<br />
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May 22 - <a href="http://bathfestivals.org.uk/blog/event/john-higgs-watling-street/" target="_blank">Bath Literary Festival</a>.<br />
This will be my first talk about the new book - let's see if it makes sense to anyone other than me.<br />
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May 24 - <a href="https://www.brightonfringe.org/box-office/shows/view/odditorium-spiegeltent" target="_blank">Odditorium 'Watling Street' Event, Spiegeltent, Brighton Fringe</a>.<br />
I'm utterly thrilled to report that I'll be joined by those giants of psychogeography, Alan Moore and Iain Sinclair, plus music from Oddfellow's Casino, for this unique one-off event. This is a bigger venue than last year's Fringe talks, but it is looking like it will still sell out, so get in soon.<br />
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May 25 - <a href="https://www.brightonfringe.org/box-office/shows/view/odditorium-bosco-theater" target="_blank">Odditorium book event, Bosco Tent, Brighton Fringe</a><br />
...and the following day I'll be one of the gang in the neighbouring Bosco Tent focusing on the Odditorium book - I'll be talking about Baroness Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven.<br />
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June 4 - <a href="http://www.bylinefestival.com/data-dome-1/2017/6/4/operation-mind-fuck" target="_blank">Byline Festival, Sussex</a><br />
A talk called Operation Mindfuck: The Experiment that Fucked Itself by myself and David Bramwell <br />
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June 18 - <a href="http://willowmanfestival.co.uk/" target="_blank">Willowman Festival, Thirsk, Yorkshire</a><br />
In beautiful North Yorkshire as part of the Chapel Perilous stage, with assorted movers from the neo-Discordian world - memorable times ahead.<br />
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June 30 - <a href="https://www.bucklitfest.org/product/2-4-john-higgs-5-00-pm-friday-30th-june-watling-street-travels/" target="_blank">Buckingham Literary Festival </a><br />
Talking about Watling Street not far from Bletchley Park and Milton Keynes, both of which figure in that book. <br />
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July 1 - <a href="https://no.eventbu.com/oxford/irregular-folks-summer-session-2017/1947843.amp" target="_blank">Irregular Folks Summer Sessions, Oxford</a><br />
Appearing as part of David Bramwell's travelling Odditorium circus.<br />
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July 2 - <a href="https://eveshamfestivalofwords.org/programme/" target="_blank">Evesham Festival, Worchestershire</a><br />
More Odditorium fun at the festival finale.<br />
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July 12 - <a href="https://www.waterstones.com/events/watling-street-an-evening-with-john-higgs/brighton" target="_blank">Brighton Waterstones</a><br />
The Watling Street book launch! Come one, come all, there may even be drink.<br />
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July 13 - West End Lane Books, West Hampstead, London<br />
Another Watling Street talk, close to its London route.<br />
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July 14 - <a href="http://www.lichfieldfestival.org/events/john-higgs-watling-street/" target="_blank">Lichfield Literary Festival, Staffordshire </a><br />
A talk on Watling Street with added ghosts.<br />
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July 15 - <a href="http://www.latitudefestival.com/line-up/artist/salon-london-presents-false-memories-time-place">Latitude Festival</a><br />
As part of the Salon London: False Memories of Time and Place event.<br />
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July 17 - <a href="https://nunheadwi.wordpress.com/" target="_blank">Nunhead Women's Institute, London</a><br />
In the Old Nun's Head.<br />
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July 19 - <a href="https://www.waterstones.com/events/watling-street-john-higgs/canterbury-rose-lane">Waterstones Canterbury</a><br />
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July 25 - <a href="https://www.waterstones.com/events/watling-street-an-evening-with-john-higgs/shrewsbury">Waterstones Shrewsbury</a><br />
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July 26 - <a href="https://www.waterstones.com/events/an-evening-with-john-higgs-featuring-alan-moore/northampton">Waterstones Northampton</a><br />
With Alan Moore. <br />
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July 27 - <a href="http://www.bookabookshop.co.uk/john-higgs-watling-street/" target="_blank">Booka Bookshop, Oswestry, Shropshire</a><br />
I've heard nothing but good things about this indie bookshop.<br />
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August 6 - <a href="https://www.wildernessfestival.com/" target="_blank">Wilderness Festival, Oxfordshire</a><br />
Talking about Operation Mindfuck for Odditorium Podcast live, with David Bramwell, in the main Forum tent at 5pm.<br />
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August 10 - <a href="https://www.waterstones.com/events/watling-street-an-evening-with-john-higgs/st-albans">Waterstones St Albans</a> <br />
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September 13 - <a href="https://www.facebook.com/events/1918874311704503">Conway Hall, London</a><br />
A Watling Street talk in the London Fortean Society's 'New Lands' series.<br />
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October 7 - <a href="http://henleyliteraryfestival.co.uk/" target="_blank">Henley Literary Festival</a><br />
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October 11 - <a href="https://ropetacklecentre.co.uk/events/shoreham-wordfest-operation-chaos-a-debate-on-fake-news-active-citizenship/">Shoreham Wordfest</a><br />
"Operation
Chaos: a debate on active citizenship led by political columnist Rafael
Behr. Featuring an introductory romp through the history of
misinformation by David Bramwell and John Higgs." <br />
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October 12 - <a href="https://www.facebook.com/events/728061727386727/">The Indelicates album launch, Brighton</a><br />
More on this intriguing event later.<br />
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November 24 - <a href="http://www.buxtonfestival.co.uk/events/john-higgs">Buxton Festival </a><br />
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<br />John Higgshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00646513595673689415noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7356259733045816903.post-45562030371388556532017-01-18T11:45:00.000+00:002017-01-18T11:45:39.402+00:00For Robert Anton Wilson's Birthday – some words on Operation Mindfix<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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Today is the birthday of the late great American agnostic
Robert Anton Wilson.<br />
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His books (and in particular, the<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Illuminatus!_Trilogy" target="_blank">Illuminatus!</a> </i>trilogy he co-wrote with Robert Shea) depict a
bewildering world of conspiracies, half-truths, lies, fake news, incompetence
and our inability to find anything resembling objective truth. Or to put it
another way, it describes the world as it is now, ten years after his death.</div>
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Wilson was a leading figure in the counterculture project
known as <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Mindfuck" target="_blank">Operation Mindfuck</a>. This was a form of western Zen. Seeding our
culture with confusion, contradiction and mischief, it was thought, would jolt
people out of their illusions. Operation Mindfuck kicked off in the 1970s and
has never really stopped.</div>
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Operation Mindfuck, like the Discordian religion which
embraced it, was typically politically neutral, or at least clear that the
ideologies of both the left and right were equally valid targets. However, the ideas behind Operation Mindfuck have since become a tool for those with a lust
for political power, most blatantly Putin’s advisor <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vladislav_Surkov" target="_blank">Vladislav Surkov</a>, as explained
in this short film by Adam Curtis. </div>
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It’s stating the obvious, but the vast majority of us are not
enjoying this ‘<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/books/2016/nov/15/post-truth-named-word-of-the-year-by-oxford-dictionaries" target="_blank">post-truth</a>’ world. It is not so much that the fake news is disturbing. The real gut-kick is when people confidently proclaim that we should return to
the pre-post-truth world, and then think about how to do that, and slowly
realise that not only is it impossible but that there was no pre-post-truth
world in the first place. Think of Hillsborough, or Iraq’s imaginary WMDs. What has actually
changed is that it is no longer possible to comfortably fall for our earlier illusions. As the
saying goes, if you want to be certain, buy an encyclopaedia. If you want to be
uncertain, buy two encyclopaedias. Our culture has bought a second encyclopaedia.<br />
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The rise of the Alt-Right, with their use of <a href="http://motherboard.vice.com/read/trumps-occult-online-supporters-believe-pepe-meme-magic-got-him-elected" target="_blank">meme magic</a>, conspiracies and disinformation, led to left-leaning Discordians thinking
that Operation Mindfuck had been weaponised against them.<br />
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<a href="https://twitter.com/BogusMagus">@BogusMagus</a> The Right basically stole Operation Mindfuck from us, weaponised postmodernism. The Discordian response is evolving…</div>
— Citizen Of Hookland (@catvincent) <a href="https://twitter.com/catvincent/status/798842147919118337">November 16, 2016</a></blockquote>
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You don’t need me to tell you that this is currently grim as
all hell. But if you take the long term, pragmatic view, it could be that the
use of Operation Mindfuck techniques in this way are, essentially, a trap.</div>
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In his books, and most importantly in his autobiography
<a href="http://www.hilaritaspress.com/portfolio-item/cosmic-trigger-1/" target="_blank">Cosmic Trigger,</a> Robert Anton Wilson talks about the psychological state where
you have no way of making sense of what is happening, where all your maps have
run out, and where you have no fixed point with which to orient yourself by. He
called this place Chapel Perilous. This is where we are now as a culture.<br />
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There are only two outcomes from a visit to Chapel Perilous,
Wilson tells us: paranoia or agnosticism.</div>
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Agnosticism – and here Wilson means not just doubt about
God, but doubt about everything - requires an acceptance that you are not the
only right-thinking person on the planet, and that it is not true everyone else
should agree with you. It requires a recognition that you are statistically just
as full of shit as everyone else. There are over 7 billion people on the planet
and you will never find someone else who shares your views exactly. Our reality
tunnels are all different because they are shaped by our own unique experiences. None
of us know what we don’t know. We need all the help we can get, including science
and other people’s perspective, in order to get by. The ultimate goal of the
agnostic is not to become right, but to become less wrong. </div>
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Agnosticism, then, involves humility. It was humility – and
an extraordinary act of forgiveness - that rescued Wilson from his own stay in Chapel
Perilous. Wilson was ultimately able to make a good life for himself with no need for certainty.</div>
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But the alt-right don’t do humility. They like strength, and
decisiveness, and have a psychological need for certainty. How will they exit Chapel Perilous with those
values? They may have grabbed the ring of power, but are
trapped in the postmodern post-truth world, the one place
they will never find the certainty and strength they seek. They are like Brer Rabbit and the tar baby. The more they attack, the
more stuck they become. They aren’t
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It’s no secret that populist far-right movements never end
well. There are no examples in history of them being a good idea. How desperate
for a fixed, certain ideology would you have to be to hitch your identity and
worldview to one? This is clearly a dangerous time. But look again at the alt-right in Chapel Perilous, lashing out in
all directions, owning the news cycle as they do. See how their contradictions enrage
those around them, who react with great energy, which keeps the system running?
Now imagine those people who feed them gradually finding their own way out of
Chapel Perilous. See how the non-humble flounder and turn in on themselves when their victims move on and there is no-one else left to fight?
They are stuck in postmodern, post-truth quicksand from which they are the only ones who can never
escape. Without humility, Chapel Perilous is a nightmare jail for the cruel.</div>
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What is the way forward? Readers of Robert Anton Wilson
are a useful group to look at here because they have already processed Chapel
Perilous and, judging by the ones I’ve met, there is something interesting
happening. It is too soon to definitively label and define, but the designer
<a href="http://www.theestateovcreation.co.uk/" target="_blank">Amoeba </a>has coined the temporarily-useful name <a href="https://twitter.com/amoebadesign/status/818077047415312384" target="_blank">Operation Mindfix</a>. As he says,
Operation Mindfuck is over for Discordians because it is unnecessary in the post-2016
world. From now on, the ongoing work can be considered part of Operation Mindfix.</div>
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All this is happening away from the boxing matches of social media.
It needs the coming together of people in the real world, because empathy is
rarely found online. There is magical thinking involved, but then, when is
there not? It chimes with academic talk about the move from postmodernism to
<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metamodernism" target="_blank">metamodernism</a>, where sincerity and belief are returned to our world not as
pillars of identity but as tools for personal use, to be used and discarded as
circumstances demand. There are echoes of it in the theatre director <a href="https://cosmictriggerplay.com/" target="_blank">Daisy Campbell</a>’s attempt “to create a narrative so utterly complex and so thoroughly
self-referential that it becomes to all intents and purposes alive.” </div>
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It understands that social media can be used for finding
those who chime with us but that there is no point in using it to shout at the
different. It comes from a recognition that being a consumer and a critic are not
enough, and that we won’t be fulfilled until we step up and contribute in our
own individual way. It involves the virtuous circle of people being inspired by
people being inspired. It centres of the understanding that meaning exists, but
it needs to be self-generated.</div>
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It’s the dawning realisation that, by supporting friends and
being supported by them, and by taking a leap of faith, every one of us can evolve
our own souls. </div>
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None of this is a solution to our immediate political
problems, of course. Near-future politics will be chaos as technology takes our jobs,
walls replace bridges and climate change and population demographics start to
bite. Great change is coming and it is going to be messy. No, this is a larger
project: the act of evolving into twenty-first century humans.</div>
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I have a suspicion that, when we moved from being
hierarchical people of the book to networked people of the screen, all this became
inevitable. Which is not to say that Operation Mindfuck or the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Illuminatus!</i> trilogy were unnecessary.
They were, in many ways, a training manual for both understanding this
particular point in time, and in getting through it. </div>
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So Happy Birthday Bob - and thanks for the toolkit.</div>
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John Higgshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00646513595673689415noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7356259733045816903.post-8094220739803025472016-03-04T08:41:00.000+00:002016-03-06T11:00:08.629+00:00Adventures on the Edge of Culture<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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We've got something a bit special planned for this years Brighton Fringe. The May 12th <a href="http://oddpodcast.com/" target="_blank">Odditorium</a>, called <b>Adventures on the Edge of Culture</b>, is an evening of the following... <br />
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A talk from me called Ziggy Blackstar & the Art of Becoming</div>
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<a href="http://shardcore.org/" target="_blank">Shardcore</a> on subverting social networks</div>
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<a href="http://www.melindagebbie.com/" target="_blank">Melinda Gebbie</a> and <a href="http://cosmictriggerplay.com/" target="_blank">Daisy Campbell</a> in conversation</div>
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<a href="http://www.drbramwell.com/" target="_blank">Dr David Bramwell</a> on Sun-Ra and living myths</div>
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<a href="http://www.gregwilson.co.uk/" target="_blank">Greg Wilson</a>, <a href="http://www.kermitleveridge.co.uk/" target="_blank">Kermit Leveridge</a> and me in conversation,</div>
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and a talk and Q&A from Alan Moore.</div>
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Yeah, that's right, Alan Moore's coming to Brighton.<br />
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Which means - this will probably sell out pretty quickly. Which means, you might want to get tickets now.<br />
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So you'll have to tackle the Fringe booking website, which is far from easy and which currently doesn't even make it clear when this particular event is on. This may be fixed soon, but for now, <a href="https://www.brightonfringe.org/box-office/shows/view/odditorium" target="_blank">here's the link</a>.<br />
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You need to select the<b> May 12th event</b> - this is 3 hour one, not the usual hour and half talks (it will run from 6pm to 9pm).<br />
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I can't tell you how much I'm looking forward to this - see you there! <br />
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<b>UPDATE - MARCH 6th:</b> And... that sold out quick, in just over a day. Hope you got tickets okay. If not, there are three <a href="http://oddpodcast.com/category/events/" target="_blank">other Odditorium events</a> at the Fringe with different speakers, which are well worth a look.<br />
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<br />John Higgshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00646513595673689415noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7356259733045816903.post-59128381779533569332015-09-16T11:50:00.000+01:002015-09-16T11:50:09.315+01:00Stranger Than We Can Imagine algorithmically compressed into 400 wordsMy new book<b> Stranger Than We Can Imagine: Making Sense of the Twentieth Century</b> is finally loose in the UK - being <a href="https://www.waterstones.com/book/stranger-than-we-can-imagine/john-higgs/9780297870890" target="_blank">sold in shops</a>, downloaded as ebooks onto <a href="http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B00NLHJR94/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1634&creative=19450&creativeASIN=B00NLHJR94&linkCode=as2&tag=jmrhiggscom-21" target="_blank">Kindles</a> and as <a href="http://www.audible.co.uk/pd/History/Stranger-Than-We-Can-Imagine-Audiobook/B00ZYV9632/" target="_blank">audiobooks</a> onto phones. It will be published in <a href="https://www.chapters.indigo.ca/en-ca/books/stranger-than-we-can-imagine/9780771038471-item.html?ref=by-shop%3abooks%3abooks-mostanticipated%3amost-anticipated-books-of-2015%3a27%3a" target="_blank">Canada </a>on October 6th and <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Stranger-Than-Can-Imagine-Twentieth-ebook/dp/B00NLHJR94/" target="_blank">America </a>on November 10th, with <a href="http://www.amazon.es/Historia-alternativa-del-siglo-XX-ebook/dp/B014X60LGE/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1442397856&sr=8-2&keywords=john+higgs" target="_blank">Spanish</a>, German, Dutch, Greek, Turkish and Romanian translations on their way. There are, I'd like to think, versions for everyone.<br />
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Everyone, that is, except those who don't want to read an entire book. What about those people?<br />
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Now, my friend the artist <a href="http://www.shardcore.org/" target="_blank">Shardcore </a>had been playing around with <a href="http://www.shardcore.org/shardpress/index.php/2014/12/18/tldrlit/" target="_blank">automatic text compression software</a>. If you have a long document to plough through, you can run it through this software and it will create a shorter version which, in theory, will retain the most important information. And the results are pretty impressive, so long as you set it to shorten the text by no more than about 40%. If nothing else, it highlights the differing levels of redundancy in the prose styles of different writers.<br />
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If you try to shorten the text further, the results aren't quite so good. Information, nuance, insight and meaning are all lost. If you try to shorten the text by 99.5%, all you get is a bunch of unrelated random sentences.<br />
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This is, clearly, a dumb and pointless exercise that only a fool would inflict on their hard-crafted work.<br />
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Here, then, for those who have no desire to read an entire book, is Stranger Than We Can Imagine algorithmically compressed by 99.5% into about 400 words of near-gibberish: <br />
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What the hell happened to the human psyche? An omphalos is the centre of the world or, more accurately, what was culturally thought to be the centre of the world, or, perhaps more accurately, was the idea that an artist challenged the art establishment by presenting a found object sufficiently interesting for that idea to be considered a work of art? The wars that did occur after the defeat of Napoleon were brief. Do what thou wilt. In April 1904 the British poet, mountaineer and occultist Aleister Crowley dictated a book which, he believed, was transmitted to him by a non-human intelligence called Aiwass. Naturally, they dispensed with the restraints of customary morality and of reason. </blockquote>
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Buñuel told Dalí of a dream in which ‘a long tapering cloud sliced the moon in half, like a razor slicing through an eye’, but there is a big difference between the world at the sub-atomic level and the human scale world we live in. I wanted to make something sacred. The English maverick theatre director Ken Campbell also recognised that this level of ambition could arise from science fiction. When Clov says that the world is going out, but he has never seen it lit up, I could say ‘Well I have.’ Antoine Roquentin initially suspects that the repulsion he has begun to feel towards existence may not be a product of the objective world, but rather something internal that he projects outwards, and Parsons would pioneer the solid fuel rocketry that would take America into space. </blockquote>
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For real liberation to be enjoyed by men and women, neither can be reduced to a passive role. Greer argued that the way forward for women was to recognise their innate self-worth and become fully sexual creatures, but Rees-Mogg and The Rolling Stones were not, perhaps, as politically different as they might first appear. Seeing how systems flipped from one state to another brought home just how fragile and uncontrollable complex systems were. The idea that a Western democratic politician from a mainstream political party could gain office with a platform that aimed to reduce corporate power became increasingly implausible, and I happen to have Mr McLuhan right here. If you want to understand postmodernism you should spend a few hours playing Super Mario Bros, a 1985 video game designed by Japan’s Shigeru Miyamoto. It would not be properly investigated, not least because of his charity work.</blockquote>
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The full text, I should add, is possibly the only book to have been lauded by both <a href="http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/0297870890/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1634&creative=19450&creativeASIN=0297870890&linkCode=as2&tag=jmrhiggscom-21" target="_blank">Alan Moore</a> and the <a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/home/books/article-3221552/The-weirdos-ideas-changed-lives-alternative-unothodox-history-individualism-20th-century.html" target="_blank">Daily Mail</a>, which means it must make more sense than the above.<br />
<br />John Higgshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00646513595673689415noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7356259733045816903.post-31318580490985124852015-04-13T12:06:00.002+01:002015-11-18T11:05:45.028+00:002015 TourTime to emerge from hibernation and go out and face people - here's a list of all the talks I'll be doing in 2015:<br />
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<b>Thurs 16th April - London</b><br />
A Campfire Storytelling event, accompanied by art by <a href="http://www.shardcore.org/" target="_blank">Shardcore</a>. Free entry, but please RSVP. Details are <a href="http://thealphaproject.createsend1.com/t/ViewEmail/r/22068F77E7DA80862540EF23F30FEDED/96DBE77F661F3AE03FEC1D8A50AFD3BD" target="_blank">here</a>.<br />
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<b>Thurs 23rd April - Harrogate</b><br />
I'll be talking about the twentieth century, and there's a couple more really interesting speakers on the bill, it should be a good night. <a href="http://harrogateinternationalfestivals.com/home-page/salon-north-innovate/" target="_blank">Details</a>.<br />
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<b>Thurs 21st May - Brighton </b><br />
<a href="https://boxoffice.brightonfringe.org/events-and-film/10585/the-odditorium" target="_blank">The Catalyst Club present The Lost Worlds of Albion</a> in the Spiegeltent Bosco tent, as part of the Brighton Fringe. I'll be talking about Watling Street.<br />
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<b>Sat June 20th - Also Festival, Warwickshire</b><br />
I'll be talking about The KLF, more details <a href="http://www.also-festival.com/line-up/details/2015events-the-chaos-the-music-the-madess" target="_blank">here </a><br />
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<b>July 30th - Aug 2nd </b>- <a href="http://www.porteliotfestival.com/" target="_blank">Port Eliot Literary Festival, Cornwall</a><br />
Like last year we'll be in the mysterious, enigmatic tent at the back of the woods that no-one could find.<br />
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<b>Aug 6th - Aug 9th </b>- <a href="http://www.wildernessfestival.com/" target="_blank">Wilderness Festival, Oxfordshire</a><br />
Which I agreed to do the moment I realised that both Bjork and George Clinton's Parliament/Funkadelic are playing... I'll be doing a talk entitled The Urinal and the Baroness.<br />
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<b>Thursday August 13th - Brighton</b><br />
Another appearance at the always-great <a href="http://www.catalystclub.co.uk/" target="_blank">Catalyst Club</a>.<br />
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<b>Sat Aug 15th - Whitstable</b><br />
The history of magical thinking from Tim Leary to The KLF, at <a href="https://www.facebook.com/events/881422958601143/" target="_blank">CJ Stone's Psychedelic Salon</a>.<br />
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<b>Fri August 21st - Dorkbot Bristol</b><br />
Me and Shardcore talking at <a href="http://bristolmakerfaire.com/2015/08/11/makers-social-dorkbot-special-speakers-confirmed/" target="_blank">Bristol Mini- Maker Faire Dorkbot Special </a><br />
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<b>Fri Aug 28th - London</b><br />
A night at <a href="http://www.thesocial.com/2015/08/john-higgs-book-launch/" target="_blank">Heavenly Social</a> to celebrate the new book, with talks from me, Daisy Eris Campbell, Alistair Fruish and a DJ set from Flinton Chalk of TC Lethbridge. Plus Heavenly Jukebox - come along, all welcome!<br />
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<b>Sep 3rd - Sep 6th</b> - <a href="http://www.festivalnumber6.com/" target="_blank">Festival No6, Portmeirion.</a><br />
I'll be doing a talk about Timothy Leary on the Friday and... something else on the Saturday as part of the Super Weird Happening. Really looking forward to this.<br />
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<b>Thurs Sept 10th - Northampton</b><br />
At the NN Cafe with Robin Ince, Alan Moore and Grace Petrie for <a href="http://www.wegottickets.com/event/329920" target="_blank">Another Blooming Buzzing Confusion Night</a> (recording for Robin's podcast)<br />
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<b>Sept 30th - Wigtown, Scotland</b><br />
Speaking about the 20th Century at the <a href="http://www.wigtownbookfestival.com/programme/2865/4003" target="_blank">Wigtown Book Festival</a>.<br />
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<b>Oct 14th - 16th</b> - <b>Amsterdam</b><br />
Talking about The KLF at the mighty <a href="http://www.amsterdam-dance-event.nl/" target="_blank">Amsterdam Dance Event</a><br />
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<b>Friday Oct 30th - Hotel de las Letras, Madrid, Spain</b><br />
In conversation with Jordi Costa, 8pm<br />
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<b>Thurs Nov 5th - Salon London</b><br />
<a href="http://www.salon-london.com/content/Events/Event/event-Salon-LXXXIII-82" target="_blank">In conversation with Helen Bagnall</a><br />
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<b>Friday Nov 13th - Lavenham Literary Festival</b><br />
I'll be speaking in a medieval National Trust guildhall, should be fun. <a href="http://www.lavenhamliteraryfestival.co.uk/" target="_blank">Details</a>.<b> </b><br />
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<b>Sunday Nov 22nd - Bristol Cube KLF night</b><br />
<a href="http://www.cubecinema.com/programme/event/klf-chaos-magic-and-the-band-who-burned-a-million-pounds,8317/" target="_blank">"Tickets £5 on the door, £10 in advance..."</a><br />
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<b>Monday Nov 23rd - London Fortean Society, Conway Hall</b><br />
<a href="https://www.facebook.com/events/1610298185917996/" target="_blank">A Talk entitled The Strange Person Theory of History </a><br />
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<b>Tuesday Nov 24th - UKC Psychedelics Society, Cambridge</b><br />
<a href="https://www.facebook.com/events/1050899351610447/" target="_blank">7pm - 9pm in KLT3, Keynes College</a> <br />
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<b>Sat Nov 28th - Under The Austerity, The Beach - Northampton</b><br />
Alan Moore's day of counterculture, with Robin Ince, Josie Long et al - <a href="https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/under-the-austerity-the-beach-a-day-of-counter-culture-tickets-19392228678" target="_blank">more details here</a> <br />
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That's all for 2015 - 2016 should see me speaking at Hebden Bridge, Hawarden and... who knows? Hope to see you somewhere along the way.<br />
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<br />John Higgshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00646513595673689415noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7356259733045816903.post-73727040370567877422014-11-25T20:15:00.002+00:002014-11-25T20:29:50.851+00:00Cosmic Trigger Festival Talk<br />
It's too early to say exactly what detonated at the <a href="http://cosmictriggerplay.com/" target="_blank">Cosmic Trigger play and festival</a> in Liverpool this weekend, save to say that this particular firework was not a dud and much will be written about it.<br />
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At one point a man called Duncan Harvey handed me a memory stick containing a long lost photo shoot he did with Robert Anton Wilson at the Old Chelsea Town Hall, London, in 1986. I've placed my favourites throughout this post. Good, rights-clearable photos of Bob are in short supply, so if anyone has a use for these photos get in touch and I'll connect you with Duncan. This is my absolute favourite:<br />
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I was due to give a talk and host a panel with Robin Ince, Adam Gorightly, Robert Temple and Daisy Campbell. This didn't happen alas - whoever was in charge of the speaker's room lost interest in that role and wandered off and the resulting confusion and free-for-all (Hail Eris!) claimed the time alloted for my talk. So rather than see that talk go to waste I've transcribed here roughly what I would I would have said, bar the ums and errs and general blather.<br />
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Rather marvellously the panel talk was replaced by an impromptu wedding between Greg Donaldson and Daisy Eris Campbell. This was entirely fitting as we were going to be talking about connections, but the weekend was working on deeper levels than mere talk. It was a weekend of theatre and ritual, and a wedding expressed the concept of connection far better than words alone. Without giving away too much of the story of the play, a connection of love in the dark heart of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chapel_perilous" target="_blank">Chapel Perilous</a>, expressed in ritual theatre, is exactly what the weekend was about. Chapel Perilous, lest we forget, is still a chapel.<br />
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It is a year and a month to the day since I stood up, at
the Horse Hospital in London, <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cm7M7nTp07k" target="_blank">and spoke about Robert Anton Wilson</a>. I talked about how people
no longer reference Bob, and that I feared he was in danger of becoming
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As it turned out, the deathly quiet that I had mistaken for
disinterest was a potent tingle of potential enthusiasm, waiting for an excuse
to manifest. This was the day when <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HsBWj5jNadw" target="_blank">Daisy Campbell spoke</a> in public for the first
time about her dream of putting on a <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Cosmic
Trigger</i> play, and this was the excuse that was needed. You know how a
pearl forms seemingly out of nothing, provided it has a bit of grit to form
around? Well, Daisy was our bit of grit. Which admittedly doesn’t sound
like a great compliment but trust me, it is.</div>
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Watching this festival form over the past year has brought
to mind the Noah’s Ark story. Noah didn’t go out and collect up all the
animals. He busied himself building the ark. The animals just knew they were
supposed to be there, and they turned up at the right time, and they got on the ark,
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performers, backstage, and production crew. You somehow knew you had to be here
and you turned up as and when needed. I’ve talked to a lot of you this last
year and your stories about what brought you here are all very different. You
are very different people, with different aims and motivations and baggage. Yet
you all turned up, and you didn’t eat each other.</div>
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This coming together has been extremely productive. It’s
been a virtuous circle of people being inspired by people being inspired. I’m
reminded of a quote from Ken Campbell I saw recently, in which he said that the
meaning of life can be peripherally glimpsed by being amazed and by amazing
others, but it can fully grasped by amazing yourself.</div>
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When you gather together new-age heads and materialist
rationalists, American libertarians and British socialists, the focused and the
vague, the serious and the silly, the human and whatever it was that accosted me earlier, it does not sound
like a recipe for getting things done. The only thing we all have in common is
that we have at some point read Robert Anton Wilson and recognised and valued
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So the fact this weekend actually happened is, I think, a great
credit to Bob’s philosophy. Discordians take it for read that other people have
different reality tunnels, and we don’t feel the need to force others into our
own. We know it is as important that we don’t fall for our own belief
system, our own BS, as it is that we don’t fall for other peoples'. Instead we value people like Robin Ince, a man who knows Alan Moore and Richard Dawkins, and
who can be friends with them both and converse with them both and understand
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I could tell countless stories about what brought people
here. Scott Mcpherson who did all the animations and projections is a good
example, as everyone has been raving about his projections today. When
Daisy was writing the script, she wondered if it was possible to do stuff with
projections, but neither of us knew anyone who did that sort of work or what it
cost. And at that point, this guy <a href="https://twitter.com/amoebadesign" target="_blank">@amoebadesign</a> tweets out of the blue, asking
if we need anyone to do projections. I’d seen him about on twitter talking about
my KLF book and clocked that he was a Wilson head, and I’d assumed he was based
in Glasgow. But no, he was in Brighton, where me and Daisy live. So we went to
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He started showing us examples of his work including footage
of a road in front of blue wooden garage door, with typography animated in the
scene as if the words were filmed in the real world. I asked him why he had filmed
those particular blue garage doors, and he explained that his then-office was right
there, in the window next to the blue doors. And I explained that I know that
road because I wrote the KLF book in the building opposite, sat at a window in an
office which looked down at those doors. What was on the screen was the exact
view I had as I wrote that book. Which was something of a coincidence, when you
think about the size of the world... So yeah, I knew then that he was our guy and
having seen what he did yesterday, I don’t think anyone will disagree. Although
I do sometimes ponder if such close proximity to Scott’s psychic pollution
during writing could have shaped that book in any way.</div>
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Another example of what brought people here is the band <a href="http://tclethbridge.com/" target="_blank">TC Lethbridge</a>, who played their first gig last night, 23 years after they formed. Their story needs longer than I have here to do justice. <a href="http://jmrhiggs.blogspot.co.uk/2014/11/standing-on-verge-of-getting-it-on.html" target="_blank">In fact I’ve written a 28,000 word book about it</a>, to mark their appearance at this festival. I doubt
there are any other bands who have had a full biography written about them
before they have even poked their noses out in public, and I wouldn’t have done
so if they and their story hadn’t been so extraordinary. </div>
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That edition of that book is just limited to 111 copies – it’s
not for sale bar for 5 copies which were placed, for obvious Discordian
reasons, on the bookstall this morning and which have since gone. One reason
why it’s not being made properly available is because I feel some unease about
how badly a particular individual comes out of that story. But after writing it I realised that the book
also works as a jigsaw piece. It connects to the story I told in my KLF book,
and it also connects to my Timothy Leary book. With that work connecting the other
two, the three books can be thought of as one larger story - if admittedly a lopsided
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This pleased me greatly, for what was my KLF book but a
statement that five seemingly separate stories were, in a certain light, one bigger story?
It was my way of saying that the stories of Bill Drummond, Robert Anton Wilson,
Ken Campbell, Alan Moore and Doctor Who were parts of something larger, even if
none of the characters in that story were aware of it. And so by joining up
those three books, and squinting at them a bit, you get an even larger story
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This, it seems to me, is exactly where we are as a culture.
I’ve written a book about the 20<sup>th</sup> Century which will be out next
year and which I’ll bang on endlessly about soon. But one thing I realised
writing that book that the predominant story form of the 20<sup>th</sup>
Century, especially in cinema, is what Joseph Campbell called the Hero’s
Journey. A young man (and it's almost always a man) of lowly means receives a
call to adventure, meets a patriarchal mentor, faces many challenges, defeats
the personification of evil and returns home with treasure. You’re probably
sick to death of that story, it’s been used in everything from Errol Flynn
movies to Luke Skywalker and Harry Potter. It’s the story of a single reality
tunnel – it’s the tale of how the hero views the world.</div>
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competing reality tunnels proves to be a far more interesting, rewarding and
illuminating piece of television than the story of one single reality tunnel. You
get things like the Marvel cinematic universe, where all these separate individual
superhero films join up into something larger, because Marvel understands that
the sum is larger than the parts. In the Eighties the fact that <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Doctor Who</i> had decades of backstory was
a reason not to watch it: now people love it when they pick up on a Jon Pertwee
reference from the 1970s. A simple children’s Hero Journey story such as <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The Hobbit</i> becomes an epic 9-hour trilogy for today’s audience.
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And this is what this weekend is all about. All the stories,
all your individual stories about what brought you here to this building on
this day, they all connect up and form one larger story that is greater than
the sum of its parts. And none of us can see that story, but we can sense it. We
know deep down that this is exactly where we are meant to be, and that being
here is important and will resonate with us for perhaps the rest of our lives. This
weekend is about something other than one person’s reality tunnel. And yes, it
is frustrating that none of us can see this larger story, but you know it’s
there, just out of the corner of your eyes, because you keep getting flashes of
it. So perhaps now is the time where we should stop hearing what me and the
rest of the speakers think, and get as many different voices heard as possible.
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and people who might have insights into what you’re thinking, and we’ll see
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John Higgshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00646513595673689415noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7356259733045816903.post-85322937825501448172014-11-20T11:46:00.000+00:002014-11-20T12:28:37.262+00:00Standing on the Verge of Getting It OnI've written a book called <i>2000 TC: Standing on the Verge of Getting It On</i>.<br />
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The text was finished on Friday and look, here it is already. It's not for sale, though, it's a private edition of 111 copies.<br />
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It was written to mark the <a href="http://cosmictriggerplay.com/" target="_blank"><i>Cosmic Trigger</i></a> play and festival in Liverpool this coming weekend.<br />
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It is the story of a band, TC Lethbridge, who will be playing their first gig after the play on Saturday - 23 years after they formed. TC Lethbridge are Doggen and Kev Bales, of Spiritualized and Julian Cope/Brain Donor, and Flinton Chalk, who you'll find in my KLF book (pages 116-117).<br />
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2000 TC is an album they recorded an album in Avebury 20 years ago. This is being released on November 23rd by <a href="http://ironmanrecords.net/2014/11/tc-lethbridge/" target="_blank">Iron Man Records</a>, but you can hear it here now:<br />
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The voice on the track Bou Saada is that of Brian Barritt. He makes an appearance in the book <i>Cosmic Trigger</i>, when Timothy Leary tells Robert Anton Wilson that he needs to talk to Brian if they are to both understand Aleister Crowley.<br />
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Spending a few months writing a biography of a band who have yet to show their faces in public was not the most career-minded way to spend my time, but it had to be done. This is a story about people who've had some form of visionary or incomprehensible experience, and about how they can only move on and process what happened to them through a creative act. It is about the impact an uncompleted artistic project can have on a life. It also functions as a jigsaw piece, connecting the story in my Timothy Leary book to the one I tell in <i>The KLF</i>.<br />
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So, yeah, it had to be written. <br />
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No doubt it will be made more widely available at some point, in some format, in some way, should the band keep gigging and putting themselves about. But until then - more about the band <a href="http://ironmanrecords.net/2014/11/tc-lethbridge/" target="_blank">here</a>, and catch them Saturday if you can.<br />
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Hope to see you all <a href="http://cosmictriggerplay.com/" target="_blank">in Liverpool this weekend</a>. I'll be speaking on the Sunday after Robin Ince and will then host a panel that will attempt to make sense of the preceeding days (fat chance!)John Higgshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00646513595673689415noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7356259733045816903.post-4750395506606216932014-08-19T18:37:00.000+01:002014-08-19T18:50:07.870+01:00Our Pet QueenThere's a new book from me that is being published on Monday. <i>Our Pet Queen</i> is an ebook short I wrote for <a href="http://www.randomhouse.ca/books/hazlitt-originals" target="_blank">Random House Canada</a> about the monarchy. Yeah, you weren't expecting that, were you?<br />
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In the modern, democratic twenty-first century, the notion of an unelected, dynastic monarchy is not easy to defend. This new book argues that the current monarchy is by far the best system for choosing a Head of State - providing that it is understood that we are not subjects and that the monarchy are not our superiors. They are, in fact, our pets.</div>
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In this original ebook, John Higgs, author of the <i>The 20th Century: An Alternative History</i>, makes an argument in favour of the monarchy that will annoy royalists even more than it will annoy republicans. This is a tongue-in-cheek, witty examination of the persistence of monarchy in the modern world. </blockquote>
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It's 15,000 words, contains revolutions and beheadings, and you can pre-order now from <a href="http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B00MKZBV7Y/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1634&creative=19450&creativeASIN=B00MKZBV7Y&linkCode=as2&tag=jmrhiggscom-21" target="_blank">Amazon UK for £1.94</a> or from <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Our-Pet-Queen-Perspective-Monarchy-ebook/dp/B00MKZBV7Y/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&qid=1408468895&sr=8-3&keywords=our+pet+queen" target="_blank">Amazon.com for $3.25</a>.<br />
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<br />John Higgshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00646513595673689415noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7356259733045816903.post-24736099579379357532014-07-23T11:52:00.001+01:002014-07-23T11:52:59.451+01:00Historia Discordia - The Origins of the Discordian SocietyAdam Gorightly's <a href="http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/1618613219/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1634&creative=19450&creativeASIN=1618613219&linkCode=as2&tag=jmrhiggscom-21" target="_blank">new book</a> is hardcore. The most battle-hardened historian would blanch at writing a history of Discordian Society.<br />
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As you can imagine with a society whose major contribution to world culture was a conspiracy called Operation Mindfuck, telling accurate stories of their origin was not their thing. Discordians thought it was far more useful and enlightening to make stuff up. That this book exists is, frankly, something of a miracle. But it was clear from his <a href="http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B008FQBO6U/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1634&creative=19450&creativeASIN=B008FQBO6U&linkCode=as2&tag=jmrhiggscom-21" target="_blank">earlier biography of Kerry Thornley</a> that if anyone was going to pull this off, it would be Adam Gorightly.<br />
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This is a large-sized, coffee table book full of reproductions of original Discordian Society documents, the Holy Grail of which is a complete reproduction of the long assumed lost first edition of the Principia Discordia. Only five copies of this were ever made, ironically on the photocopier of New Orleans District Attorney Jim Garrison, who would later suspect co-author Kerry Thornley of involvement in the JFK assassination.<br />
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This first edition reveals how much of later Discordian lore appeared fully formed at the start, most notably the <a href="http://discordia.wikia.com/wiki/Law_of_Fives" target="_blank">Law of Fives</a>. What is particularly interesting to readers of Robert Anton Wilson is
seeing his influence appear after this point, bringing with him concepts
such as the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/23_enigma" target="_blank">23 Enigma</a> and Timothy Leary's <a href="http://youtu.be/VXRJC8b8qEk?t=39s" target="_blank">reality tunnels</a>.<br />
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This is a treasure-trove of odd revelations. Who knew, for example, that a Discordian had once gone by the alias Rev. Jefferson Fuck Poland? I had never taken seriously the claim that Discordians were responsible for introducing the two-fingered peace sign, as adopted <i>en masse</i> by hippies in the 1967 Summer of Love, because this sounded too much like the sort of thing they would make up. Yet here we have proof that the Discordians were promoting the sign in 1965.<br />
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I tend to see Discordianism's development as akin to a musical genre where the real creative fire occurred at the very start, when people were still working in the dark and clueless about they were manifesting. Later developments, such as the Church of the Sub Genius, seem like a form of diet-Discordianism to me - great for what they are, and clued-up enough to preserve the good stuff, but ultimately restrained by being reproductions of earlier maps. So what Gorightly has assembled here is, to my eyes, very precious.<br />
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<br />John Higgshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00646513595673689415noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7356259733045816903.post-41639356841231345062014-05-01T17:09:00.000+01:002014-05-01T17:09:02.926+01:00Steve Moore (1949 - 2014)<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Steve Moore (centre) at the Brinklow Crescent burial mound. Photo by Mark Pilkington</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">When someone dies there is a temptation to write an obituary.
If I'd written an obituary for the comic writer, Fortean Times grandee and occultist Steve Moore when he died last month it would have ended with the final few sentences from his dream
diary, in which he describes the end of his last dream:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">“I came to what seemed
to be a small lake, and decided to float across the surface, but it seemed to
be only about an inch deep anyway. I then decided to run, as I wanted to get
home quick.”</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">That would normally have been a perfect image with which to
mark someone’s passing. But the usual narrative of a-physical-thing-leaving-us
doesn’t seem appropriate in Steve's case. As his life-long friend Alan Moore wrote in the afterword to <a href="http://www.amazon.co.uk/Somnium-Alan-Moore/dp/1907222065/" target="_blank"><i>Somnium</i></a>, Steve “had always seemed
to me to be deliberately liminal and ghostly in relation to the solid and
shin-bruising world around him.” As an example of this, I searched through the video footage of Alan we shot at <a href="https://twitter.com/AlistairFruish" target="_blank">Alistair Fruish</a>’s house earlier in the year, to see if
there was a good image of Steve. All I could find was the following screengrab, from the moment that the camera was lifted up to be switched off, in which his left hand and leg can be seen in the top left of the frame. He was
there, but you’d have a hard time proving it in court.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Steve possessed both a great love of the margins and a
rigorous quality control, so as a result he was often way ahead of the curve.
Much of the imaginative end of our culture has Steve’s influence somewhere in its background, but the man himself is largely absent. Remembering how he co-organised
the first British comics convention and was behind the first British comics
fanzine, I asked my teenage daughter, who lives in the Tumblr world of Sherlolly and Wholock, if she could imagine a world without organised fandom.
She just stared at me, horrified, before saying, “How could you even suggest
that?!”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Steve is, of course, frequently invisible in those cultures
that he was in some way involved in shaping. At best, you might find a hand or
a leg peeking into the frame.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Yet my relationship with Steve Moore is easier to pinpoint. With
the exception of that afternoon at Alistair’s, I can show you exactly what our
relationship consisted of, for I still have it in front of me. It is a chain of
58 lengthy emails, entitled ‘Re: From Steve Moore’, that we wrote between last
November and his death in March. It was a relationship of the written word, where
he seemed more present that in the physical world.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">The emails begin after he discovered that I’d named the
moonbase in <a href="http://www.amazon.co.uk/The-First-Church-Moon-Higgs/dp/0956416330/" target="_blank"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The First Church on the Moon</i></a>
after him. He got in touch to say that, in his philosophy, having a fictitious
moonbase named after you was more of a compliment than if it had been a real one.
Those emails then continued on a strange, twisting path covering such subjects
as triangular temples, why I should not go and see the upcoming movie based on
his Hercules comics (“It will be shit”) and, perhaps most relevant here, the
eternal nature of time.</span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">"Don't go and see it, it'll be shit" - Steve Moore</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Steve was an eternalist. Like Einstein, he thought that all
of time exists in a big block. If something existed at any one point, then it
exists always. The future and the past are just as real as the present - it’s
just that you happen to be in the present, so you don’t usually see them. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">The day before I heard he died, I read an interview from
2009 in which he said that the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Bumper
Book of Magic </i>he was writing with Alan would be finished next year. I made
a mental note to mock him about that when I visited him the following week, for
I was due to spend actual real-world time with him the following Thursday. He also
said that he had to get his long-promised academic work on the Greek moon goddess
book, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Selene: The Moon Goddess and the
Cave Oracle,</i> finished before he died, because he “owed it to my goddess”. He
died at his desk, upon which sat a half-eaten Kit-Kat and printout of that
manuscript, and on top of that was a helpful ‘Things To Do’ list, which
itemised all the changes to the text that he still had to make. And so, over the last
month, I've been editing that book in accordance to his wishes.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">In the book he strips away modern lunar symbolism, such as
the mother-maiden-crone triple goddess, in order to reveal what Selene meant to
the ancients. To the Greeks, gods and goddesses were ageless and immortal. This
set them apart from us mortals, who age and die. The story of Selene tells of
her love for Endymion, a simple shepherd from Latmos. A relationship between an
ageless immortal goddess and an ageing mortal man was never going to be
straightforward, but in this myth it was possible because that mortal retired
to a cave and sank into a never-ending sleep. This meant, essentially, that he
was removed from the present. For Endymion, this was a small price to pay to be
with his goddess. Steve Moore, it is fair to say, agreed with Endymion on this point.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">There are indications, in that 58-email chain, that Steve
wasn’t as beholden to the present as the rest of us. In one email he mentioned
how he had been struck by the thought of what he would do should his doorbell ring
at 11:30 at night (which never happened). He decided that he would go to his
upstairs office and call down through that window. That evening the doorbell
went at 11:30, so he went up to the upstairs window, where he was able to
direct a confused fast food delivery guy to the correct address. Two days
before he died, he dreamt that a plasterer was up a ladder, trying to seal that
same upstairs window. After he died the police gained access to his house by
putting a ladder up and getting in through that window. In his account of his final
dream, the last lines quoted above come immediately after he noted that it was,
in his dream, 11:30 at night. As he has noted, in magic you often get the
answer long before you understand what the question is.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Selene will be finished and published in due course. He did
his goddess proud. The <a href="http://www.topshelfcomix.com/catalog/the-moon-and-serpent-bumper-book-of-magic/578" target="_blank"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Bumper Book of Magic</i></a>
will be finished by Alan, <a href="http://www.amazon.co.uk/Somnium-Alan-Moore/dp/1907222065/" target="_blank"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Somnium</i> </a>will be arrive
in paperback soon and a collection of prose <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Tales
of Telguuth</i> stories should also be released. Steve may no longer be in the
present, but he exists in the same quietly productive way he always did.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">We can’t actually see him at the moment, of course, but then
what’s new?</span></div>
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John Higgshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00646513595673689415noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7356259733045816903.post-4290527599143408602014-04-02T15:48:00.000+01:002014-04-10T09:13:05.951+01:00Tour DatesWell, it's a bunch of talks over the next six months - I can pretend that's a tour, can't I? A man can dream.<br />
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A couple of these are still a little vague, but I'll update as the fog lifts.<br />
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<a href="https://www.facebook.com/events/1480780718810186/" target="_blank">SUNDAY APRIL 6th - Black Dove, Brighton</a><br />
Me and Daisy Eris Campbell discussing Robert Anton Wilson, The KLF and Cosmic Trigger<br />
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<a href="http://www.brightonspiegeltent.com/2014/05/14/cabaret-of-the-mind-1405/" target="_blank">WEDS 14 MAY - Spiegeltent, Brighton Festival</a><br />
Cabaret of the Mind: Tricksters & Troublemakers. Talks on KLF, Ken Campbell and the Church of the SubGenius from me, Daisy, Dr Bramwell and JimBob from Carter <br />
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SAT 17 MAY - The Corner, Nottingham<br />
Pulling the Cosmic Trigger, with Daisy, Adrian Reynolds and Anna Reynolds<br />
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<a href="http://www.porteliotfestival.com/" target="_blank">SAT JULY 24-27, Port Elliot Festival, Cornwall</a><br />
Me, CJ Stone and Daisy Eris Campbell will be appearing in the Ways With Weirds lineup.<br />
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<a href="http://www.wildernessfestival.com/" target="_blank">AUG 7 - 10, Wilderness Festival Oxfordshire</a><br />
I'm doing a couple of talks in the Odditorium tent, one on The KLF and one with Daisy on Robert Anton Wilson<br />
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<a href="http://www.weirdweekend.org/" target="_blank">AUG 15 - 17, Weird Weekend, Devon</a><br />
Talking about The KLF and assorted strangeness, CJ Stone will also be appearing.<br />
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NOV 20th-23rd - Cosmic Trigger Festival, Liverpool<br />
Of which more news anon.<br />
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Anyone who comes to all events wins a cheese.<br />
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Hope to see you along the way.<br />
<br />John Higgshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00646513595673689415noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7356259733045816903.post-65443174669816439552014-03-05T19:56:00.001+00:002014-03-05T19:56:41.415+00:00Transformation and Jamie ReidYesterday I was looking at this page from the 6 February 1977 edition of the Sunday People:<br />
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The reason it's framed is because it's the actual page which was the source material <a href="http://www.isisgallery.org/artists/jamie_reid.html" target="_blank">Jamie Reid </a>photocopied in order to create one of the most iconic British images of the late 20th Century:<br />
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Now, pretty much everyone of a
certain age in this country loves this image. It captures something of
the national character perfectly. But until yesterday I had no idea of where it had come from. The original photo of the Queen was from an opinion piece, the headline of which read: "On her Jubilee day, how the Queen may see us: SHE'S DONE HER JOB... HAVE WE?'<br />
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The full gist of the writer's argument has been lost, alas, as only the
top half of the article remains, but the general idea was to question
whether the British people, in the year of the Queen's silver jubilee,
are worthy of such a perfect monarch. The writer, who was clearly very angry,
and also mad, took the view that his fellow Brits must be something of an disappointment to the monarch.<br />
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Knowing this makes me see that image in a whole new light. What Jamie Reid did seems like pure alchemy to me - he took dirt and turned it into gold. Through an act of creative imagination, the intention of the original article was not just negated or subverted - it was transformed into an era-defining icon that was the antithesis of everything that the original article stood for. The original author's deepest fears were blown up into a Godzilla-sized monster, because to do so was hilarious, and because the original author was asking for it. <br />
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I wonder if the unnamed author ever realised that Jamie Reid's iconic image was, in part, his fault?<br />
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All this fascinated me because I've just spent a month writing a short ebook on the monarchy, for Random House in Canada. This will be out in June, I think. It is in theory a pro-monarchy book, but it offers a perspective on monarchy that is more likely to get me lynched by royalists than republicans. Looking at these images again, I started to wonder if I would have written the ebook I have just written if I hadn't grown up in a country where Jamie Reid's image was ubiquitous. And if I'm honest, I don't think that I would have. It is a powerful image indeed that has such a transformative effect on your relationship with your national identity.<br />
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The knowledge of where that portrait came from is, in this context, the icing on the cake. If it is possible to take an article like that and, through alchemy, create such a transformative icon, then what else is the creative imagination capable of?<br />
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The reason why I was looking through Jamie Reid's work was because I was with Daisy Eris Campbell, and Jamie Reid will be working with her on her Cosmic Trigger play and festival in November. Keep an eye on <a href="http://facebook.com/cosmictriggerplay">facebook.com/cosmictriggerplay</a> for updates on that.<br />
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Until then, here's a piece of Jamie's more recent work to leave you with...<br />
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<br />John Higgshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00646513595673689415noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7356259733045816903.post-7889555614821299252014-01-31T15:27:00.002+00:002014-01-31T15:27:39.777+00:00Talking RAW with Alan MooreYesterday me and <a href="https://twitter.com/DaisyEris" target="_blank">@DaisyEris Campbell</a> drove up to Northampton to visit Alan Moore, the Greatest Living Englishman, to talk about Robert Anton Wilson. We filmed the interview and <a href="https://www.facebook.com/events/1396779923913799/?ref_newsfeed_story_type=regular" target="_blank">we'll show it in Liverpool on Feb 23rd</a>. If you can't make that, then Daisy will also use the footage as part the indiegogo campaign to crowdfund the Cosmic Trigger play, which kicks off on April 23rd.<br />
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There was a lot of press recently about <a href="http://slovobooks.wordpress.com/2014/01/09/last-alan-moore-interview/" target="_blank">Alan's decision to withdraw from interviews and public appearances</a>, so the fact that he was good enough to do this for us yesterday is an indication of how important RAW is to him. Alan has only rarely been asked about Wilson in interviews, and what he has to say is well worth hearing.<br />
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If that wasn't enough, we also met Steve Moore, whose eternal novel <a href="http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B006VL1I30/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1634&creative=19450&creativeASIN=B006VL1I30&linkCode=as2&tag=jmrhiggscom-21" target="_blank">Somnium </a>will finally appear in paperback later this year, and Alistair Fruish, whose novel <a href="http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B00GWMW4EK/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1634&creative=19450&creativeASIN=B00GWMW4EK&linkCode=as2&tag=jmrhiggscom-21" target="_blank">Kiss My ASBO</a> will please all who hanker after a bit of dark urban psychedelia. Alistair, it turns out, rides a rowbike, which is a bike that is propelled by rowing rather than cycling. As a result I found myself standing in a Northampton terraced street watching him row past, while Alan Moore told me that the trick was to wave as he passed as this made him automatically take his hand of the handles and fall off. Should my mind ever be wiped, I suspect that will be one of the last memories to go. <br />
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Ken Campbell's <i>Illuminatus! </i>play famously included the voice of Sir John Geilgud as FUCKUP, the artificially intelligent supercomputer which predicts Armageddon by use of the I Ching. As Daisy's <i>Cosmic Trigger</i> play includes scenes from the staging of <i>Illuminatus!</i>, she had the problem of finding someone significant enough to step into Geilgud's shoes. Ultimately it comes down to a choice between Alan Moore and Richard Dawkins and, lets be honest, Alan has the better voice. And also, a sense of humour. So his lines have been recorded, and those planning on coming to see the play will now hear Alan Moore as the voice of FUCKUP.<br />
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For more news on all of this get yourself to Liverpool on Feb 23rd, where there will be talks, performances, music, and me discussing the origins of my KLF book in a talk entitled 'I Blame Liverpool'. See you there, yes?<br />
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<br />John Higgshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00646513595673689415noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7356259733045816903.post-69350306127909002732013-11-28T12:56:00.000+00:002013-11-28T12:56:41.648+00:00Moon BiblesThis story appeared in The Times earlier in the week (many thanks to Steve Moore for sending me the clipping).<br />
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Microfilm moon bibles! What a wonderful snapshot of that brief moment in history when we were both an analogue civilisation, and also going into space.<br />
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But the story raises a number of questions. Every ounce in weight was precious to the Apollo programme, so taking books on microfilm appears sensible at first. Until, that is, you remember that there was no way a bulky microfilm reader would have been on board. Whatever reason they took those Bibles to the moon, it was not to read them. Their journey into space was for symbolic reasons, not practical ones.<br />
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Then there's the fact that they took 100 of them, as if the astronauts were intending to convert The Clangers.<br />
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The answer, of course, is money. Those microfilm moon bibles can fetch over $10,000 a pop in auctions, so taking 100 will have made someone a nice little windfall.<br />
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But look again at what really happened - the proximity of the moon granted these old Iron Age texts an extra quality - they gained value. That is magical thinking. Money itself is magical thinking, as certain pieces of green paper are deemed to have value which other pieces of green paper do not, provided they have been blessed by the wizards at the Federal Reserve (as Robert Anton Wilson used to put it.)<br />
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So the Apollo Prayer League were using the power of the moon to take an old form of magic (sacred texts) and convert them into a more modern form of magic (dollars). That's an occult act, in anyone's book, and one performed for personal gain rather than the greater good.<br />
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Who knew that Christians were that ideologically flexible?<br />
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<br />John Higgshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00646513595673689415noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7356259733045816903.post-80647658880890142702013-11-19T15:44:00.001+00:002013-11-19T15:44:32.520+00:00Ten Reasons For Burning MoneyBurning money is an action where intent is everything.<br />
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I've already written at length <a href="http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/1780226551/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1634&creative=19450&creativeASIN=1780226551&linkCode=as2&tag=jmrhiggscom-21" target="_blank">about Jimmy Cauty and Bill Drummond burning a million pounds</a>, but what other reasons are there for lighting up the magic paper?<br />
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Here's your handy top 10:<br />
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<b>1. To Frighten</b><br />
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Here's The Joker in <i>The Dark Knight </i>setting fire to a considerable stack of cash.<br />
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He claims he does this to 'send a message', but what message is he
sending? It is, clearly, that people should be afraid of him. The Joker
operates on levels that are so far off the maps of other crime bosses that fear is
the only logical response.<br />
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This is also the reason why Hagbard Celine burns
money in Robert Shea and Robert Anton Wilson's <i>Illuminatus! Trilogy</i> - although Hagbard Celine is considerably more gentlemanly about it.<br />
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<b>2. Ostentation</b><br />
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Should a TV programme or film wish to imply that a character has too much money, the standard trope is to show them lighting a big fat cigar with burning money.<br />
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This is the behaviour of cold-hearted corporate sharks and insecure rappers. It also has a poorer cousin, namely waving your money in someones face. See, for example, Harry Enfield's Loadsamoney character, city bankers during G20 anti-capitalism protests, or the overtime-rich police waving their bonuses at striking miners during the 1980s.<br />
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No-one who has ever undertaken these acts has come out of it well.<br />
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Here's an Occupy Wall Street protester burning a few dollars. <br />
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Like many protests, this is a largely symbolic act. The actual amount of
money doesn't mean much in the grand scheme of things, yet symbolically
it is <i>sacrilege </i>- like upturning a crucifix or denying someones gods.
Like the Joker's 'message', it is a declaration that other value systems
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Here we see France's worst babysitter Serge Gainsbourg lighting a 500 Franc note in 1984, in response to what he felt were France's high levels of taxation. This could be filed under 'protest', but as it is also an example of burning money <i>because you don't want anyone else to have it</i>, it is placed here under spite.<br />
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This is not a list about money being lost or squandered. I haven't included Yves Klein throwing gold dust into the Seine, for example, because the gold was scattered rather than destroyed. But there are other non-paper sources of wealth that can be physically destroyed, and that includes the virtual algorithm-backed currency BitCoin.<br />
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Here we see some people burning a memory card containing their bitcoin wallet. As the video states, "...the real aspect making it into a currency is not when it is spent but when it is burnt." Hence, this burning can be seen as further legitimisation of this mighty game-changing currency.<br />
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<a href="http://vimeo.com/63124778">Hello Bitcoin</a> from <a href="http://vimeo.com/videocasetera">Videocassettera</a> on <a href="https://vimeo.com/">Vimeo</a>.<br />
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Love the marshmallows at the end. (h/t to <a href="https://twitter.com/sinkdeep" target="_blank">@sinkdeep</a> for this one)<br />
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<b>6. Cracking up</b><br />
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Burning money seems to be a good way to get yourself locked away in a psychiatric institute - on the grounds that you must <i>obviously be insane</i> if you do it. One example was Billie Boggs, a homeless New York City woman notable for the legal test case that followed her being institutionalised for burning dollar bills in 1987 (h/t to <a href="http://www.jonone100.com/" target="_blank">Jonathan Harris</a> for that one). Another example is Youth from Killing Joke, which he discuses in <a href="http://jmrhiggs.blogspot.co.uk/2013/10/youths-early-killing-joke-era-acid.html" target="_blank">my interview with him here</a>.<br />
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It's not hard to imagine that guy burning money at Occupy Wall Street in the video above being carted away some day soon for just this reason. <br />
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<b>7. Becoming Sane</b><br />
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Allen Ginsberg's epic Beat poem <i>Howl </i>mentions someone "burning their money in wastebaskets and listening to the Terror through the wall." This is a reference to Ginsberg's friend <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucien_Carr" target="_blank">Lucian Carr</a>. Carr had claimed that he placed his head in a gas oven as "a work of art", but this argument was not accepted by the medical authorities and he was sectioned for suicidal tendencies. When he was declared sane and released he burnt his psychiatric record in a wastebasket along with $20, and Ginsberg immortalised the act.<br />
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The 20th Century introduced us to aerial bombardment and as a result an unquantifiable amount of cash went up in smoke. True, it was largely very poor countries that found themselves on the receiving end of large amounts of bombs, but not exclusively - Dresden, London and Hiroshima will attest to that.<br />
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Of all the reasons for burning money, the one I can get behind is that demonstrated by Jonathan Harris at our <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cm7M7nTp07k" target="_blank">London Fortean Society Robert Anton Wilson event</a>. He just burnt twenty quid, as you can see here, but doing so had a very powerful effect on those present:<br />
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Why? Well, his reasons focus on forgiveness, and giving without expectation of reward. I recommend you read <a href="http://jonone100.blogspot.co.uk/2013/10/money-burning-at-horse-hospital.html" target="_blank">his account of the act over on his blog</a>, in which he explains his reasoning far better than I can here.<br />
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Of course, millions of notes are burnt
around the world every day. Such is the normal housekeeping involved in
printing and maintaining a paper currency. <a href="http://www.efootage.com/stock-footage/80501/The_Federal_Reserve%3A_Burning_Old_Money_-_HD/" target="_blank">You can see some of this here</a>. And why not? It is, after all, just paper.<br />
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Almost every note you ever hold will be burnt in the end. That is the ultimate fate of every tenner or dollar bill. Hence the question when it will be burnt - and with what intent.<br />
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<br />John Higgshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00646513595673689415noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7356259733045816903.post-1034211718387314252013-10-08T14:56:00.000+01:002013-10-08T14:56:36.992+01:00Jimmy Cauty's tiny police stateYesterday I went to launch of James Cauty's <a href="http://www.l-13.org/acatalog/JAMES_CAUTY_-_The_Aftermath_Dislocation_Principle_Parts_I___II.html" target="_blank">Aftermath Dislocation Principle</a>, a square mile of post-apocalyptic landscape shrunk down to 1:87 scale. The model itself is huge - 448 square feet - but the details are tiny.<br />
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It's a phenomenal piece of work - although one that is bleak as all hell. Everywhere you look there are little dramas occurring, sight gags, and political digs at the likes of Wonga and Foxconn. <br />
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Normally the crowd at art openings has an initial look at the work and then ignores it for the rest of the evening. This was different - people kept going back to it. The more you look at it, the more you find. Here's a packing crate Stonehenge.<br />
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My friend Brian Barritt used to say that it was simple to tell whether a
piece of visual work was 'art' or not. If you never tired of looking at
it, then it was art. For this reason the work of Banksy wasn't art.
It's still great, of course, because it was a giggle and that's entirely
valid. But once you'd groked it there was no reason to look at it
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I'm not sure why, but it's all kicking off at Burger King.<br />
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Cauty's obsessional model echoes of the shift that has happened in film and TV storytelling. In the 20th Century, the 'Hero's Journey' story was considered enough to hold people's attentions. That is no longer the case. Now we flock to things that are deeper and far more complex - the so-called '1000-hour narrative'. Examples of this include the complex politics of a series like <i>Game of Thrones</i>, the endless storytelling of the Marvel Universe or the 50-year character story of <i>Doctor Who</i>. For all the concern about our modern attention spans, we've actually become sophisticated enough to want far more intricate and rewarding work - narratives that continue to reveal details the longer we engage with them.<br />
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This was brought home when I walked home and passed street art. It just seemed shit in comparison to what Cauty had done. It just wasn't enough.<br />
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Here's a film to give you more of a sense of the thing.<br />
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It's <a href="http://www.l-13.org/acatalog/JAMES_CAUTY_-_The_Aftermath_Dislocation_Principle_Parts_I___II.html" target="_blank">on display in London</a> until October 20th and is highly recommended. You'll find it in the railway arches right next to Hoxton overground station.<br />
John Higgshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00646513595673689415noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7356259733045816903.post-14310492721489108202013-10-03T15:24:00.000+01:002013-10-03T15:24:42.029+01:00The Daily Mail is a DrugThe reason for the Daily Mail's continued growth is simple. For every story it runs it asks itself, "<i>How can I present this story in manner that will generate a feeling of disgust in the reader?</i>" The paper is, by now, phenomenally good at presenting news stories so that they always do generate that emotion of disgust. From that, all else follows.<br />
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Should you think that this is an over-simplification, it would be worth pausing to look again at any edition of the paper with this idea in mind.<br />
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Disgust is not just one of our many emotions. It is bedded deep in the foundations of our psychology. It is largely generated by part of the brain known as the anterior insula. Freud linked it to our initial oral stage, and Leary & Wilson to what they called the first circuit of their eight circuit model. It is not something that is learnt, like higher emotions. All mammals are born with the hard-wired ability to feel disgust, along with its opposite, attraction. Newborns feel attraction to food and comfort, and disgust or repulsion from rotting or poisoned food or stagnant water. This is the level it affects us at.<br />
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Disgust in itself is no bad thing, of course, but the Daily Mail's use of it is a problem because of the plasticity of our brains. The nature of reactive brain chemistry means that the more the experience of disgust is stimulated, the stronger the disgust reflex becomes and the more it gets linked to higher level concepts and models. Constant, repeated stimulation over time changes the brain and alters the personality of the Daily Mail reader. There is good reason why the common stereotype of Mail readers is as it is. There is also good reason for the rise of UKIP.<br />
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In the same way that heroin is so dangerous and addictive because it stimulates the deep psychological feeling of attraction and comfort, so the repeated stimulation of disgust is also addictive. It is important to recognise this, because it is being overlooked in all the current concern about the paper's actions and press regulation.<br />
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Most people have probably heard a Mail reader say, "I know that it is awful, but I can't read any of the other papers." Other newspapers do not provide that <i>guaranteed hit of disgust</i> that long-term Mail readers need. This is why they continue to buy the newspaper, even though they know how bad it is for them. It is not an act of free will. They are ill, they are addicts, and they need help. Mail readers simply cannot just switch to the Mirror, Times or Independent. They need to go cold turkey through a period of withdrawal.<br />
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Disgust-addiction is a terrible thing. It means that people spend their lives believing that the world is terrifying and cruel, when that is not the case. There is an argument that people have the right to their Daily Mail hit, of course, but we should remember that this is a public health issue, and it needs to be considered as such.<br />
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There are no easy answers. But one thing is clear: If you are a Daily Mail reader with a partner who would be expected to care for you when you become old and infirm, and if you do love that partner, then for their sake quit now.<br />
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<br />John Higgshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00646513595673689415noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7356259733045816903.post-41045111099076695752013-10-01T11:10:00.000+01:002013-10-01T11:10:59.460+01:00Youth's early Killing Joke-era "acid flipout"<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Writing <a href="http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/1780226551/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1634&creative=19450&creativeASIN=1780226551&linkCode=as2&tag=jmrhiggscom-21" target="_blank">The KLF</a> was in part an attempt to scratch an itch created by an aborted attempt to write a book about Killing Joke. There's a lot of cross-over between those two stories, and many of the threads I explored in The KLF would have worked equally well in a Killing Joke book - not least of which being the money burning (see below). </span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Here's a transcript of an interview I did with Youth for that book, regarding his "acid flipout".</span></span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Youth, 1980, before Killing Joke gig at the Music Machine, London.<a href="http://flickriver.com/photos/khiltscher/4160770993/" target="_blank"> Photo by Klaus Hiltscher on Flicker</a></td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><br /></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">I was doing acid regularly. I’d done a German tour and I’d
hooked up with this 21 year old hairdresser-come-acid queen called Heidi.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She gave me a little quarter trip before each
gig. She was wealthy so she put me up in nice hotels and drove me to the gigs
in a sports car which pissed the rest of the band off.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">So I was doing quite a lot but nothing cosmic had
happened.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I was still treating it very
much as a laugh. I was cocky, I always thought that I’d never lose it on acid.
I thought that you had to be born a shaman to be cosmic or be like Jim Morrison
or whatever, and I was too middle class, ordinary and normal.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">The rest of the band weren’t really into acid. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Jaz had had a major freakout when he was 16. He
used to take acid at school but one time he was spiked and he thought that his
arm had disappeared. He was having The Horrors. His mum was an award winning
teacher, very progressive.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She just sat
him down, gave him some rocks to hold, did a bit of research.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She was very cool. So, yeah, the other guys
weren’t into it, although we did take mushrooms together. But we’d rarely take
acid. I was the acid head.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">But then there was this one event that pushed me over the
edge.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I’d let Ralph, this friend of
mine, use my squat one weekend while I was away. When I came back my TV had
disappeared. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I couldn’t get hold of him
for ages, but then I bumped into him at a club one night. He was there with
this other guy looking pretty rough.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I
said, ‘Oh Ralph, how are you?’ And he goes, ‘I hear you think I nicked your
TV.’ And I said, ‘No, no, I mean you stayed there and it disappeared and I
wondered if you knew anything or had seen what happened?’<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But he didn’t quite get that, he was fixating
on whether I was accusing him and if I was still his friend.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Then he said, ‘If you are my friend, take this,’ and he gave
me a tab of acid. It was this Sorcerer’s Apprentice trip with a picture of a
little Mickey Mouse with stars going between his hands.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I said, ‘Acid? Oh yeah I take acid all the
time.’ I took it. I mean he didn’t force me but at the same time I was taking
it because that’s what he wanted.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Half an hour later I’m in the attic of the club thinking
that he’s going to murder me. I went down to the bar and met this Polish ballet
dancer. I said, ‘You’re going to have to rescue me, I think these guys are
going to kill me. I’ve been spiked with this acid and it’s freaking me out.’
She took me back to Westbourne Grove and shagged me solid for three days. But I
never quite came down.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I slowly started
to come down a bit but it was very strong acid.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">I was really upset about the whole thing. I thought my
friend had set me up. He lived in Croydon with his Nan, so I wrote to him there.
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In this letter I said, ‘Look that really
freaked me out, you should never do that, and lets meet and sort it out’.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And then literally a few days later I found
out that he’d committed suicide and thrown himself off a railway bridge.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">He was obviously in a very dark place. But that just totally
spun me out. By that point I was tripping all the time. I couldn’t quite understand
how that could be, because I hadn’t taken acid for over a month. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">As it progressed I got more and more out of it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I started to get all the classic delusions of
messianic complex. I thought this white van was following me around.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I thought the Masons were out to get me
because of Killing Joke stirring things up. I started to get intrigued by
Masonry and saw it as this dark conspiracy thing. I was reading Robert Anton
Wilson and stuff like that. And this just progressed and progressed.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The band started to get a bit concerned
because I’d always been very cynical about things and now I was starting to see
Masonic conspiracies in the drain covers.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">I remember breaking into the Masonic headquarters in Covent
Garden, that huge square building. I’m not sure how I got in, it had this
scaffolding over it and doors going in and I managed to get in a side door
somehow. This was around 8 or 9 o’clock at night. I went through all these
different temples and put the crosses down because I thought that they were
abusing the cross. I ran up to the top of the building to these French doors
which were locked, and I was banging on these doors. This African guy came out
in red polka dot shorts. I thought they were going to use him for some
sacrifice.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I said, ‘Come on! Open the
door, I’ll get you out, I’ll rescue you.’ And this guy was talking to me in an
African accent, saying ‘Go away’ or something.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Then this Welsh security guard turns up. And I showed him
this signet ring with this crest on that my Dad had said was something to do
with my family from Llangathen. It had a dolphin on it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I said, ‘Look, I’m Welsh. This is magic. Help
me.’ He said, ‘I’m going to arrest you’. I just did a runner.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">I ran into this bar opposite which was where <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Blitz</i> had been, or one of those New
Romantic clubs. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I remember all these
Masons were in there, all these guys who had come out from some ceremony all in
suits. And these guys started talking to me, I thought ‘They’re on to me, I’m
being followed’. I was very paranoid.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">We’d got a five grand advance for something and my dad set
me up with this bank manager at the Clydesdale Bank. He also tuned out to be a
mason. I deposited this money in and said, ‘I want to borrow another five grand
on top of this.’ He asked why and I said ‘Well I want to do my shamanic
training, study kung fu and do all this stuff.’ He said, ‘Listen son, I’m not
going to lend to you five thousand pounds. You’ve got to learn the value of
money,’ And I said ‘I know what the value of money is’, and I took a five pound
note out and set fire to it, there in his office. I said, ‘Look that’s the
value, it’s just paper.’ The guy freaked out, cleared his desk and threw me out
of the bank. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">I just kept doing more and more crazy things like that. I
was starting to tap into stuff, some powerful energy. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I remember getting the band to sit round and
put their hands out and we’d focus on something, and we’d make something
happen.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I could say to Geordie, ‘look,
if we focus our minds on that streetlamp, it will go out. Or at least flicker
on and off.’ He’d say, ‘Really? Okay, come on let’s do it.’ <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And we did, and it worked.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And other psychic phenomena stuff was occurring.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">And, yeah, it just got progressively more and more crazy. Then
one day I woke up at my step-mum’s. She’d just had a baby with my dad but my
dad was in prison at the time so he wasn’t there, just her and this Spanish
nanny. And I remember looking out of the window and thinking, ‘Oh the sky’s
going green. This is it. It’s the end of the world. I’m going to the river.’</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">I just had this pair of swimming trunks on and a kimono. I
started walking from Brompton Road to Chelsea. And I started going into these
fruit and veg shops and going to people, ‘Look, you want some money?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Have some money!’ They would say ‘No thanks’
but I kept on at them. I was saying ‘Look it’s just money, I’ll start burning
it’. Which I did.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And I immediately got
arrested.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And shipped off to a mental
hospital.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">It was very strange. I remember in the ambulance on the way,
if you looked out the front window it was like normal, if I looked out the back
window I thought it was the future, and everything was underwater. I remember
going past Tooting Bec tube and there was gondolas parked up outside it.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">I was taken to Springfields Hospital, near Tooting Bec. I’d
been put into a sort of flashers’ ward, which was odd in itself, with all these
guys who were flashers because I was in a kimono.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And I was going, ‘I’m not mad, you’re all
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<span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">They gave me Largactil, which I think is supposed to make
you compliant but it just spun me out even more.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And they gave me ECT [Electroconvulsive
Therapy, also known as Electroshock Therapy], like in <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest</i>. They still use it. I must have had
two or three sessions of that. They put a wooden thing or something in your
mouth, it’s all very Victorian.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I don’t
remember it being difficult or anything, I just remember this white light.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">And I just felt we were totally underwater. I remember my
Dad coming to the hospital and sitting with him and seeing utter shock on his
face. This was when Dad was doing time and he got let out to see me in the
hospital, which probably didn’t do him any good. I said, ‘Isn’t it weird Dad,
we can sit here and have this conversation and we are underwater.’ </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">But there was one point where I thought the hospital was on
fire. And I remember running away in the middle of the night and leaping over
this fence, and stabbing my hand on the spike of the fence, running a few miles
to where my Dad had been living, which was the Coach House on the other side of
Wandsworth Common. He was in prison but his friend and his girlfriend were
there. I was completely spaced out. I said, ‘Look’, showing them the wound on
my hand, ‘I’m the one! I’ve got stigmata!’ I thought I was Jesus, that the
whole world was all on my shoulders.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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day and said, ‘Look you’ve broken out, the hospital didn’t burn down, there was
no fire, you’re hallucinating. If you don’t go back they’ll slap a section on
you and you won’t be able to leave’. So she persuaded me to go back.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">While I was in there this guy called The Wizard used to come
up every day to visit me.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The Wizard
lived in the church near Lyndhurst Road with twenty feral cats. He had a seven
pointed star tattooed on his face. He’d never wore shoes, he was very much a
nature magic person. This is the guy who used to come to the early Killing Joke
gigs and blow fire and do circles and make ceremonies, he was our shaman
basically. The whole ‘ceremony’ aspect to Killing Joke was there from very
early on, it came out of the community we were living in really.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">The Wizard came to visit me and gave me this crystal. I
remember meditating with this crystal in the hospital and seeing these stars,
like lights. These were my spirit guides. They talked to me and told me what to
say and do. They said, ‘Look you’re going to come up to a panel of doctors,
you’ve got to say ‘I’ve just had some LSD and I feel really tired and I want to
go home and see my Mum’, and they’ll let you go. Don’t say, ‘I’m not mad you’re
mad’.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">And so I came up before this panel and that’s what happened.
I was released from the mental hospital because I did what the spirit guides in
the crystal told me do. They let me go and I went up to Wales with the band. I
was in there for about two weeks overall.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">It took me a good eight years or so, until I was about 29,
before I would go near psychedelics again. I still smoked pot a bit but I kind
of almost stopped that for a bit. It took me that time to rebuild my ego and
get my confidence back, and find a good anchor again.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">But what’s amazing is, I came back. I was watching that Syd
Barrett documentary recently, and the Peter Green one, and I did achieve going
to the place that they went to. But I managed to come back, which is very rare.
And that is an amazing thing, I think.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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John Higgshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00646513595673689415noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7356259733045816903.post-50558285349411953702013-09-24T11:27:00.000+01:002013-10-02T11:45:41.853+01:00Go Home @klfbook, You're Drunk<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhuRHAT4ThGgridW0QSewpWIQXXT3i4iGKTwwL7QI-jocUY801z5zS_Vfps6RjKJ2XXxiklZ2jPn3M27AdpUzj2SqVdia5VD77-TrbmWia-prQQxfB2W3ZvF3tv6YqTdSHlnqFh58vl-Ak/s1600/living+book.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="213" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhuRHAT4ThGgridW0QSewpWIQXXT3i4iGKTwwL7QI-jocUY801z5zS_Vfps6RjKJ2XXxiklZ2jPn3M27AdpUzj2SqVdia5VD77-TrbmWia-prQQxfB2W3ZvF3tv6YqTdSHlnqFh58vl-Ak/s320/living+book.jpg" width="320" /></a>A relationship with a book is very one-sided. You learn from it, it does not learn from you. A book can alter your brain if it so wishes, but you can do nothing to the book. Except throw it at a wall. Even then, it's not that bothered.<br />
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Books are also said to 'live on' in the heads of their readers, but again this is a one-sided relationship. Pondering this, I fell into conversation with <a href="http://www.shardcore.org/" target="_blank">Shardcore</a> about what my KLF book would actually do, if it could act more like a living thing. I wanted to somehow 'animate' the text through code, in the manner of a more hygienic Doctor Frankenstein, and let it loose online. One of the themes that runs through the book is identifying things that are not alive, but which act like the are, so it seemed fitting.<br />
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The answer, we decided, was that if the book was alive it would do what all the kids do: create animated gifs based on what they like and post them on Tumblr in the hope that they go viral. And also babble away on Twitter.<br />
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It wouldn't touch Facebook, obviously.<br />
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Shardcore then went away and gave the text life. He will blog about what he actually did soon, but basically he created a bot that knows nothing of the world except for the text of my book. From this, it worked out what was important by seeing what was listed in the index, and it attempted to deduce a relationship between those things by analysing their proximity in the text.<br />
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And that's it, that's the entire basis of its "thought". We have just switched it on and are watching it, slightly unnerved.<br />
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It is now posting animated gifs four times a day (in six hourly intervals starting at 23 minutes past midnight.) It first randomly selects a sentence from the book that is less than 130 characters long. It then tries to work out what that sentence relates to, and skims Google Images for pictures of whatever it thinks is important.<br />
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Then it mashes all these up into a seizure-inducing image. You can find them at <a href="http://klfbook.tumblr.com/">klfbook.tumblr.com</a><br />
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Here's an example:<br />
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At some point we will probably see sense and get it to calm down a bit with the flashing images. But at the moment it seems happy going crazy, so who are we to argue? Part of the fun is trying to identify the images it has found as they flash by, and to try and work out why it thinks they are related to the text.<br />
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It is particularly keen on pictures of Patrick Troughton and seems to think that almost everything is connected to the number 23. It's working well, in other words. <br />
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It is also up and running on Twitter - you can find it <a href="https://twitter.com/klfbook" target="_blank">@klfbook</a>. It will tweet links to the gifs it creates, and will periodically scan twitter for popular tweets about subjects in the book, and retweet them. If you like the book, it should be <a href="https://twitter.com/klfbook" target="_blank">worth a follow</a>.<br />
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You can also talk to it. Follow it, and ask it a question. It will attempt to answer. It won't make a great deal of sense, obviously, because all it knows is the text from one book, and one book does not a good model of the world make. Much of the time its responses will be gibberish. But occasionally, you may be able to read some sense into them. Occasionally it will be far wiser than it has any right to be. Or more sinister:<br />
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<a href="https://twitter.com/johnhiggs">@johnhiggs</a> This effect was not just limited to the world in the book.<br />
— klf book (@klfbook) <a href="https://twitter.com/klfbook/statuses/382255570872709120">September 23, 2013</a></blockquote>
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Typically, though, it will make no sense at all:<br />
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<a href="https://twitter.com/johnhiggs">@johnhiggs</a> Moore thought that we each had our own little Baby of Ideaspace, our own home in the mental land.<br />
— klf book (@klfbook) <a href="https://twitter.com/klfbook/statuses/382258590423449600">September 23, 2013</a></blockquote>
<script async="" charset="utf-8" src="//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js"></script> What I find disturbing is that, even when it is talking nonsense, it still sounds exactly like me. This is very sobering. On the plus side, if I do loose the plot completely people will assume I've just gone on holiday and left the bot to take over.<br />
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What all this is, essentially, is an experiment in <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apophenia" target="_blank">apophenia</a>. Apophenia is the process in which people project connections and narratives onto random data. This isn't a bad thing - Humans are apophenia machines, basically -
but we can come unstuck when we confuse the patterns we perceive with
the objective reality. <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A7N6TOFyrLg" target="_blank">Robert Anton Wilson</a> and Robert Shea used apophenia in their Illuminatus! novels. They invented the most absurd conspiracies that they could imagine and relied on apophenia to make them appear plausible to their readers. They did this in order to help us recognise how much of our own beliefs are similarly arbitary patterns of our own devising.<br />
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Apophenia needs a large data set in order to be really convincing. One single book should not be enough (sorry to break it to you like this, The Pope.) @klfbook, then, is an experiment in seeing how the early sparks of apophenia appear from a small, limited model. For example, the first gif it produced was this:<br />
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The quote about Bill Drummond not looking like a pop star is a line from the book, but the bot has chosen to illustrate this with a picture of Doctor Who's first script editor, David Whitaker. And in that context I suddenly realised that, if you saw him in his younger days, Whitaker did actually look like a pop star. That idea, that connection, is now lodged in my head, and it matters not how random the non-sentient code was being when it put the two ideas together. <br />
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Please feel free to play around with @klfbook and kick it about a bit to see what it does.<br />
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The real paperback book is released on Thursday, Sept 26th, and Amazon are currently <a href="http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/1780226551/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1634&creative=19450&creativeASIN=1780226551&linkCode=as2&tag=jmrhiggscom-21" target="_blank">offering it with a third off.</a><br />
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UPDATE: Shardcore has <a href="http://www.shardcore.org/shardpress/index.php/2013/09/29/klfbook/" target="_blank">now posted on his blog</a> about how @klfbook works, including an interactive data visualisation of how the concepts in the book are related.<br />
<br />John Higgshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00646513595673689415noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7356259733045816903.post-16529834691715158922013-08-14T15:21:00.001+01:002013-08-14T15:46:56.136+01:00EPIC UPDATE - Plate Spinning 101There's so much going on that I'm starting to lose track with what's been announced and what hasn't. Hence this EPIC UPDATE to put that right - more for my benefit than for yours, I suspect.<br />
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<b>1. The First Church on the Moon</b><br />
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This is the sort-of sequel to <i>The Brandy of the Damned </i>and it's out now in paperback and Kindle (<a href="http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B00EEG3XJQ/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1634&creative=19450&creativeASIN=B00EEG3XJQ&linkCode=as2&tag=jmrhiggscom-21" target="_blank">UK</a> | <a href="http://www.amazon.com/The-First-Church-Moon-ebook/dp/B00EEG3XJQ/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1376488917&sr=8-1&keywords=the+first+church+on+the+moon" target="_blank">US</a>). <a href="http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B00EEG3XJQ/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1634&creative=19450&creativeASIN=B00EEG3XJQ&linkCode=as2&tag=jmrhiggscom-21" target="_blank">It's also free to download - but only until about 8am tomorrow, so be warned</a>. The free download offer is lazy marketing, basically, as I'm well aware I've too much going on at the moment to promote it properly.<br />
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Like <i>The Brandy of the Damned</i> and <i>The KLF</i>, <i>The First Church on the Moon</i> was one of the three books I wrote during 2012, so it's good to finally have it out. I hope you enjoy it - it was written just for shits n' giggles after finishing KLF and while sorting out deals for the forthcoming 20th Century book. Maybe I'm overly fond of it for that reason, but I think it stands up well and hope you give it a try.<br />
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<b>2. The KLF: Chaos, Magic and the Band who Burned a Million Pounds.</b><br />
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The paperback of this - originally released on Kindle last November - will be published by Orion's Phoenix imprint on September 26th. <a href="http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/1780226551/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1634&creative=19450&creativeASIN=1780226551&linkCode=as2&tag=jmrhiggscom-21" target="_blank">It's available for pre-order now</a>, and the first edition will come with a sticker of a sheep on the cover which completely covers the title, so get in early all you lovers of limited edition things, and indeed lovers of sheep stickers. The book is a slightly more polished version of the original ebook, now with photographs, notes & sources, a timeline, index and a discography. We've done it proud, I think.<br />
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<b>3. I Have America Surrounded: The Life of Timothy Leary.</b><br />
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It's taken a while, but <i>I Have America Surrounded</i> in back in print in America - <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Have-America-Surrounded-Timothy-Leary/dp/1909609811/ref=sr_1_4?ie=UTF8&qid=1376488866&sr=8-4&keywords=i+have+america+surrounded" target="_blank">this handsome paperback edition is now available from Amazon</a>. Got there in the end!<br />
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<b>4. Brandy In The Basement.</b><br />
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<i>The Brandy of the Damned</i> has entered into an enforced marriage with another book, Jason Arnopp's psychological horror novella<i> Beast in the Basement</i>. The result is <i>Brandy in the Basement</i>, a low-cost, all formats, DRM-free ebook bundle. <a href="http://jmrhiggs.blogspot.co.uk/2013/07/brandy-in-basement.html" target="_blank">Details of where to find it are here</a>. Note that this is currently the only way you can get an epub version of <i>The Brandy of the Damned</i>.<br />
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<b>5. Jason Arnopp interview</b><br />
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Speaking of <a href="https://twitter.com/JasonArnopp/" target="_blank">Jason Arnopp</a> - seen here about to be shot in the head by crack UNIT troops for his crimes aiding the Sontarans - he recently interviewed me about <i>The First Church on the Moon</i> over at The Big Hand. <a href="http://thebighand.wordpress.com/2013/08/10/jason-arnopp-interviews-jmr-higgs/" target="_blank">Go there and see what regrettable confessions he forced out of me</a>.<br />
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<b>6. Robert Anton Wilson talks</b><br />
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I've been doing a number of talks about how, in a culture of people who DECLARE CERTAINTIES LOUDLY, we need Robert Anton Wilson more than ever. Come along and see me if you get the chance. Note that the October London talk with Daisy Campbell for the London Fortean Society has already sold out. If you're around Brighton, though, I'll be doing a quick 15 minutes at the Catalyst Club on Sept 12th.<br />
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I'll try and get some more arranged - they'll be announced on <a href="https://www.facebook.com/johnhiggsauthor" target="_blank">my Obligatory Facebook page,</a> so like that to keep informed.<br />
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You may know <a href="http://www.shardcore.org/" target="_blank">Shardcore</a> as the artist/coder behind Radio Eris, an internet radio stream that ran for a few weeks when the KLF book was originally published. Needless to say, he is up to something different for the release of the paperback. No announcements yet, but watch this space as there may be a soft launch ahead of time.<br />
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<b>8. The 20th Century.</b><br />
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And finally - deep breath - there's the real work for this year. This is my alternative history of the 20th Century, which I'm writing for Orion. I've just hit the half-way mark with this, and am feeling good about it. It's not a book that wants to improve your current understanding of that century, but a book that wants to see that period with completely new eyes. Wish it luck.<br />
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<br />John Higgshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00646513595673689415noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7356259733045816903.post-72180896459997604942013-08-10T10:41:00.000+01:002013-08-10T10:41:10.852+01:00The First Church on the Moon - out nowToday is my 42nd birthday. To celebrate I'm putting out a <a href="http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B00EEG3XJQ/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1634&creative=19450&creativeASIN=B00EEG3XJQ&linkCode=as2&tag=jmrhiggscom-21" target="_blank"><i>The First Church on the Moon</i></a>, a Douglas Adams-esque novel and the sort-of sequel to <i>The Brandy of the Damned</i>, as a freebie.<br />
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Alternatively <a href="http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/0956416330/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1634&creative=19450&creativeASIN=0956416330&linkCode=as2&tag=jmrhiggscom-21" target="_blank">you can get the paperback version here</a> but you'll have to cough up real human money for it, such is life.<br />
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The ebook is free as a thank-you to everyone who has supported me by buying <i>The Brandy of the Damned </i>and the original <i>KLF</i> ebook, because that has led to me being able to stop making cartoons and become a full time author, for the medium-term at least. Please fill your boots and download away with my gratitude. If you were moved to leave an Amazon review or <a href="https://www.facebook.com/johnhiggsauthor" target="_blank">a Facebook like</a>, of course, then I wouldn't try to talk you out of it.<br />
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<i>The First Church on the Moon</i> was written for the hell of it between finishing the unholy brain-mash that was writing <i>The KLF</i> and starting the epic quest that is my book on the 20th Century. It is me enjoying myself, basically, and I hope that's infectious.<br />
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I talk more about the book in <a href="http://thebighand.wordpress.com/2013/08/10/jason-arnopp-interviews-jmr-higgs/" target="_blank">this interview with Jason Arnopp, over at The Big Hand.</a><br />
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<br />John Higgshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00646513595673689415noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7356259733045816903.post-87899558394164019912013-07-19T13:46:00.000+01:002013-07-19T13:57:17.559+01:00Brandy In The Basement<a href="https://twitter.com/JasonArnopp" target="_blank">Jason Arnopp</a> is a lovely, charming man, so it is sometimes difficult to understand where the malignant evil in his writing comes from.<br />
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You may know Jason from his <i>Doctor Who</i>, <i>Sarah Jane Adventures</i> or <i>Friday 13th</i> work, but it is his horror fiction that really makes you question exactly what it was that his mother unleashed on the world. A case in point would be his Stephen King-esque no-don't-go-there psychological horror novella <i>The Beast In The Basement.</i><br />
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I mention this because we have put <i>Beast In The Basement</i> together with my book <i>The Brandy Of The Damned</i> and called it <b>Brandy In The Basement.</b> It's the indie-author equivalent of a indie label split 7-inch single (ask your dad). We've basically invented the AA-sided ebook.<br />
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This means that if you PayPal a few buttons <a href="http://pul.ly/b/71092" target="_blank">via this link here</a> you will immediately be emailed the combined ebook in DRM-free pdf, ePub and mobi for Kindle formats. This is, incidentally, the only way you can get an ePub version of <i>Brandy </i>at the moment.<br />
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The price is something ridiculous like 99p at the moment, although that be raised shortly to the giddy heights of two quid. <a href="http://jasonarnopp.blogspot.co.uk/2013/07/brandy-in-basement.html" target="_blank">You can read Jason's take on all this over on his blog.</a><br />
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If you're not familiar with my short novel <i>The Brandy of the Damned</i>, it was written around the same time as the KLF book and is a companion book to it, in my head at least. <a href="http://www.amazon.co.uk/product-reviews/B00865C2RK/ref=sr_cr_hist_all?ie=UTF8&showViewpoints=1" target="_blank">Here are the reviews</a>. <br />
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<br />John Higgshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00646513595673689415noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7356259733045816903.post-76115673212974096232013-06-23T18:10:00.001+01:002013-06-23T18:15:48.484+01:00Gimpo's M25 25-Hour SpinOnce a year, at the weekend closest to the Spring Equinox, Gimpo - best known to KLF watchers as the man who filmed the money burning - drives around the M25 for 25 hours. His aim is to do this for 25 years.<br />
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This week <a href="http://excusesandhalftruths.com/2013/06/21/distance-versus-time-considering-the-m25-spin-with-jmr-higgs/" target="_blank">I was interviewed by Bristol filmmakers Dominic Wade and Rob Wickings</a>, who are making a documentary called <i>End Point of a Circle</i> about this mighty endeavour. There's an early taste of it <a href="http://vimeo.com/14036242" target="_blank">here</a>, but it won't be finished for another eight years, after the 25th M25 Spin. (A 25-minute version should appear at the <a href="http://www.portobellofilmfestival.com/" target="_blank">Portobello Film Festival</a> at the end of August, and include interviews with Iain Sinclair and Bill Drummond.)<br />
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Gimpo's M25 spin and Iain Sinclair's later book <a href="http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/0141014741/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1634&creative=19450&creativeASIN=0141014741&linkCode=as2&tag=jmrhiggscom-21" target="_blank"><i>London Orbital</i></a> were influences which fed into my book <a href="http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/0956416357/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1634&creative=19450&creativeASIN=0956416357&linkCode=as2&tag=jmrhiggscom-21" target="_blank">The Brandy of the Damned</a>, in a which three people drive around the coast of Britain in a van for confused and uncertain reasons. Their most logical argument for embarking on the journey is that all the good quests have been done, but it is still better to undertake a stupid quest than no quest at all. I still think there is a lot of truth in that.<br />
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Gimpo's argument is that what he is doing is art. Normally this sets alarm bells ringing for me and reminds me of Julian Cope's perennial advice: "Never fall for the art trip!" But I have no trouble seeing what Gimpo is doing as art. It's <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Outsider_art" target="_blank">outsider art</a>, of course, but it's still a damn sight more interesting than anything Damien Hirst will ever do.<br />
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Here's why I say that: Driving around the M25 is shit. Sure, it's a necessary evil, but it's a grim, unpleasant way to spend hours of your life. It is part of most peoples lives, certainly in the south of this country. For that reason it should be a valid subject for artists to do something with, but making something transcendent out of M25 traffic seems to be beyond them. The only way to do so is through the sheer pigheaded determination of Gimpo, who committed to spending 25 years of his life on this project. This heroic dedication to seeing a commitment through to the end is noble and very human, and for me elevates the whole endeavour.<br />
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25 years is a long time. There's lots of things you could achieve in that time, so you have to assume that a nagging voice of doubt occasionally gets in Gimpo's ear and suggests that there are better things he could be doing with his life. Yet he keeps going.<br />
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I have total faith in him, I feel certain that he will see it though to the end. Gimpo is an ex-squaddie who served in the Falklands, and I like to think that he's still out on patrol, year in and year out, circling London and protecting it in his own way. I trust in him because I want to trust in people, and by sticking to his commitment he is showing that people can be trusted. This is, I think, a far more valuable and rewarding reaction than anything I have ever got from a Damien Hirst.<br />
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More power to him, long may he roll. Rather him than me, of course, but it's good to know that as the years pass he is still out there seeing it through. If he wants to call what he is doing art, then that's good enough for me. Here's a film of this year's spin: <br />
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