Interzone report of July 2005

Interzone report of July 2005

For the new comers: The reports of Interzone contain the monthly activities of the members of the group in different domains. As we are about 400 people in the world, all different, the whole might appear at first sight as an incongruous medley. For more information on the subjects developed here, please refer to the previous reports since 1997 in the page Information on Interzone

Paul O'Donovan

Hi all,

In spite of the Eastern time and holidays, the Zone has been quite active this month : no rest for the braves !

Interzone: Eight years after :

August 2nd is the eight anniversary of Burroughs departure and the start of Interzone. For the people who jumped in the running train, thanks for referring to the first pages of the story of the group and the monthly reports written since, where the whole is visible, at http://www.inter-zone.org/presentation.html and http://www.interpc.fr/mapage/westernlands/infzone.html . Thanks to the members for making it happen, for the huge amount of contributions, for their involvement and their friendship. Each month making the report I am bewildered by the amount of creativity here, and the fact is that each report seems to be bigger than the previous ones.

When Interzone started in 1997, I could not figure out that the adventure would go on so long. But I guess that if it is so, the group has a function and answers the expectations of the members. It keeps going actuality on Burroughs even if he is not physically present. Under this aspect, knowing that Burroughs has written quite a lot on death and draw maps of the after death territories (“The Western Lands”), and knowing he used the non-Aristotelian function of writing which consists in making things happen through the relation between the author and the readers, he might actually have an active role in it and use the Zone to go on the experiments with us.

Beyond the activities of the members, it is a good demonstration of the efficiency and accuracy of the references of thinking of the group : Burroughs’ spirit which has impulsed all this, and whose books and teachings are the base we refer to and apply, and the French biologist Henri Laborit’s work on the structure of living organism, which is used for the coordination and model of relation. Those two authors, who both referred to Alfred Korzybski’s general semantics, are complementary.

I have no idea about what Interzone represents out of the group of actual members whom I relate to. To me, it is the actualization of a Johnson family. It seems some consider it as a movement part of contre-culture. Out of the group, this has led to a number of unpleasant reactions from people who do not introduce themselves. The present game they are playing consists in unsubscribing me from the list I am part of, which reveals itself completely inefficient, as I immediately subscribe again in one click. There also is a number of spasm being sent in my name and not coming from my computer : at the moment, I am receiving mails from “Baudron”, nearly one everyday : see the new pages of “Virus and spasm senders” where I put some on line : http://www.interpc.fr/mapage/westernlands/virussenders13.html & http://www.interpc.fr/mapage/westernlands/virussenders14.html. Strange to see how some people like to loose their time and energy, when others use theirs to have fun building things together and minding their own business. But, as Burroughs said, some people just cannot bear the ones who mind their own business, because they have not more business of their own than a small-pox virus.

Visit of Philip Beitchman and Lionel Bloom:

As for me, it is a great pleasure and fun to coordinate it, and I am proud to relate to the people who are part of it, with whom the relations have been just great during those years. What strikes me the most is the ability of the Zoners here to get organized as a group and to build something collective, in spite of the differences of nationalities and countries. As a result, Interzone has become a virtual country. Though the contacts between the members are not only virtual : Philip Beitchman and Lionel Bloom came for a visit yesterday.

Philip is an American writer from Brooklyn, translator of Jean Baudrillard(“Fatal Strategies”) and Paul Virilio (“The Aesthetics of Disappearance). He wrote “Alchemy of the Word” and “The View from Nowhere” on the Kabbala, and sent a text some years ago on Burroughs and Naked Lunch : “The Structure of Nothingness- William Burroughs' Naked Lunch”, on line at http://www.interpc.fr/mapage/westernlands/nl.html

Lionel, also American has a jazz bar in Paris, the SWAN BAR, in the center of Montparnasse : 165 bvd de Montparnasse, Paris 6e, 01 44 27 05 84. Both have been friends since college. As students, they were living at the Beat Hotel, at the time Burroughs was there with Brion Gysin.

Interzone collage ?

I would like to make a big collage with Zoners pics which you guys sent during those years, for Interzone posters and tee-shirts, but I am not good enough at it and suggest that Paul makes it. As I shall not use anybody’s pic without your permission, let me know if you are ok for it. Those who want to be part of it can send their pictures.

Paul O’Donovan’s tee-shirts :

Paul has started to print paintings on tee shirt and sent one to me. If Zoners are interested, they can get some from him as well. The tee-shirt is very good quality. You can join him at odonovan@evemail.net . I am adding this to the catalogue of Interzone : http://www.inter-zone.org/catal1.html. See below the ones worn by Paul and your reporter.

Interzone song :

For this eighth anniversary, I wrote a song on Interzone. If you like it, musicians are welcome to adapt it. This way we might make several songs and make a CD with them. Here are the lyrics :

Interzone song

Refrain :

Interzone Interzone

Est un réseau étonnant

De gens entreprenants

De Beyrouth à Singapour

De Las Vegas à Strasbourg

Interzone c’est épatant.

Quand Burroughs s’en est allé

En août 97

Nous nous sommes rassemblés

A travers un site internet

On a fait des dreamachines

Avec une feuille en carton

Une ampoule et une platine

Les ondes alpha c’est tout bon

On a fait nos propres sites

Pour y mettre nos créations

Nos textes nos livres nos musiques

Nos tableaux et nos chansons

Ensuite on a fait des cut-ups

On a découpé les mots

Pour arrêter la machine

Et déprogrammer le scénario

La sémantique générale

Que l’on doit à Korzybski

Nous aide à garder le moral

Et à refaire l’économie

Si vous en avez assez

Du présent qu’on vous impose,

Créez votre réalité,

Rejoignez –nous chez Burroughs

Interzone song

(rough translation to be adapted)

Refrain :

Interzone Interzone

Is an astonishing group

Of enterprising people

From Beyrouth to Singapore

From Las Vegas to Strasbourg

Interzone is wicked.

When Burroughs went away

In August 97

We gathered

Through an internet site

We made dreamachines

With a cardboard sheet,

A bulb and a record player

Alpha waves are just great.

We built our own sites

To host our creations

Our texts our books our musics

Our paintings and our songs

Then we made cut-ups,

We cut the words up

To stop the machine

To deprogram the scenario

General semantics

Which we owe to Korzybski

Helps us to cheer up

And to rebuild economy

If you are fed up

With the present you are dictated to

Create your own reality

Join us with Burroughs.

General semantics :

I am adding some more pages in the site « La sémantique générale pour tous » at http://semantiquegenerale.free.fr/ about economy, my job as a psychotherapist and seminars. Yannick Chosse is going to put them on line in the following days, so you can see them then.

The next part of the investigation on the new rules of economy at http://www.geocities.com/clemsnide23/econona1.html is in preparation, see next month.

Galleries :

· Culture Grounds

A new series of digital images by Scott Lickstein are in the gallery Culture Grounds Contemporary Art : http://www.culturegrounds.org/scott_lickstein/index.html

· New paintings by Paul Donovan :

· New paintings by Vasha :

New paintings of the serie Vasha sent last month: http://www.interpc.fr/mapage/westernlands/vasha5.html Previous pages http://www.interpc.fr/mapage/westernlands/vasha1.html, http://www.interpc.fr/mapage/westernlands/vasha2.html, http://www.interpc.fr/mapage/westernlands/vasha3.html, http://www.interpc.fr/mapage/westernlands/vasha4.html

· William Burroughs' paintings at the Galerie K :

Three new pages of the exhibition of Burroughs'paintings in Paris in spring 1990 at the Galerie K:

http://www.interpc.fr/mapage/westernlands/wbpaintings11.html http://www.interpc.fr/mapage/westernlands/wbpaintings12.html , http://www.interpc.fr/mapage/westernlands/wbpaintings13.html

Books and writings :

· Kenji Siratori's forum :

Kenji has created a forum at http://p097.ezboard.com/fmondobizarrofrm17

Comix :

· The Taxidermist on line : end of the comix :

The comix by José Altimiras and Fran çois Darnaudet : The new pages of this month, the last ones : pages 41 http://www.geocities.com/the_taxidermist_on_line/taxi41.html, 42 http://www.geocities.com/the_taxidermist_on_line/taxi42.html 43 http://www.geocities.com/the_taxidermist_on_line/taxi43.html, and 44 http://www.geocities.com/the_taxidermist_on_line/taxi44.html So now the English version can be available as a printed book as well.

A special thanks to Ken Gage <mrkengage@yahoo.com> for his help in the translation of the text.

Sites :

· "Jim Jala*AN" is releasing a new version of "the 111 experience" :

* "Our Alien Ancestry" - Why Panspermia Makes So Much Sense

* "Under the Three Keys Hood - Parts I, IIa, & IIb" - Essential Background/Origins/11:11/111

* "Halliday and Resnick FINALLY Say 'Curiously' " - Worlds Within Worlds?

* "Why Shadow Puppets?" - An Introductory Guide to Thinking Beyond 3-D

* "The Least Amount of Light" - My 1-1-1 Roots: New Material/Commentary

* Updated PDF files of the old "hard copy" versions

and a whole bunch of very interesting links at http://www.the111experience.org

· Michel Cousy’s site on sound waves :

Michel Cousy is making independent research on sounds and has made a site on sound waves. You can listen the real player recording in the site Hybria: http://hybria.free.fr/

· Group for poets and artists :

Group blog for poets,artists, post their work,appreciation|commentaries|polemic_ Appreciation is |Cabaret __positive and interested___ calL enthusiasm_the positive_Poems, images, audio, comments, theory of poems,Pop _ discourse of the same, lines of thought, a space_one desire-machine crossing the plane, crissing the other,plugging in,the transversality of verse, the metanoia of commentary. Work is defined as text that is either complete or in 'progress'__ digression__Expression__Production_ at http://takingthebrim.blogspot.com/

To join contact orpheecd@yahoo.com

· New beat site

the new word/sex virus for beat poets
http://www.the-beat.co.uk

Exhibitions :

· Lisa Lovebucket :

CEPHALOPODIA : Exhibition on Ken Campbell and more : See the details in the News page of July at http://www.geocities.com/clemsnide23/News71.html as the text is quite long. Site : www.pentapus.org

See Liza Lovebucket’personnal site and stuff at http://www.complexity.org/12mindsun/

· Ricardo Mbarak: Art and Lebanon : THE 5th LEBANESE NATIONAL TABBOULEH DAY, Saturday, July 02, 2005.:

THE 5th LEBANESE NATIONAL TABBOULEH DAY First Saturday of the month of July)
An annual national day, which is the first Saturday of the month of July, is dedicated to TABBOULEH where all the Lebanese people celebrate this link between each other and their home country.

TABBOULEH is known as one of the famous and traditional Lebanese dish that every Lebanese loves.In this day, Lebanese and friends around the world gather in private or in public to celebrate and enjoy the taste of TABBOULLEH. This gathering demonstrates and strengthens their love and integrity with Lebanonand carries a lot of meanings to the Lebanese
community wherever they are in this world.

This unique social gathering and experience that we will share all together wherever we are, will strengthen our communication, coherence and cooperation in the name of the Free and Independent LEBANON.

So let us all participate in the upcoming LEBANESE NATIONAL TABBOULEH DAY which will be on Saturday, July 02, 2005.

Alf sa7tayn w hana
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Historic:
1st Tabbouleh Day: 1st Saturday of July 2001
2nd Tabbouleh Day: 1st Saturday of July 2002
3rd Tabbouleh Day: 1st Saturday of July 2003
4th Tabbouleh Day: 1st Saturday of July 2004