Students have to show I.D. for Rolling Stone magazine in library
WALES, Wis. (AP) - Students at Kettle Moraine High School who want to read Rolling Stones magazine will have to show proof they are 18 years old or have permission from their parents. A new school policy, spurred after a school board member sought to have the magazine banned from the library, restricts access to the publication.
Students who are 18 or older will be allowed to read Rolling Stone at any time. Other students will need written parental permission to see the magazine.
Superintendent Sarah Jerome did not follow a committee's recommendation earlier this week to keep the magazine on the library shelf and available to all students.
Rolling Stone will be placed behind the counter in the library. The policy is "extremely unusual," said Mary Finn, the high school's head librarian. Finn said she was unhappy with Jerome's decision, but said she would "abide by the superintendent's decision."
The American Civil Liberties Union of Wisconsin denounced the policy. "Restricting access to material because of its content amounts to censorship," said Chris Ahmuty, executive director of the ACLU in Wisconsin. The ACLU has written the district and requested all public records related to the Rolling Stone decision.
School Board member Gary Vose said Rolling Stone's content was pornographic and unsuitable for reading at school libraries.
Vose first raised the issue last school year after seeing the Nov. 27, 1997 issue of Rolling
Stone. The cover showed "Saturday Night Live" cast members touching breasts and buttocks.
Jerome said Friday she will send a letter to parents next week informing them of her decision.
The letter will include a permission slip that parents must sign and return if they want their
children to have access to Rolling Stone.
EDITORIAL COMMENT: This story was included for three reasons.
1. It's funny. `Rolling Stone` has been crap for ages and it amuses us that some people can still
see it as a cultural threat
2. The ridiculous headline sent to us by the sexiest lady in cyberspace deserved a wider
audience
3. back when we were a paper mag ten years or so ago our finest moment was interviewing
John-Paul Jones (ex Led Zeppelin). He signed Atilla the Hen`s copy of Led Zep 4 with the words
"don`t sell out like Jan Wenner" and we never have...
More from The Sexiest Lady in Cyberspace......
Man convicted of killing old woman who criticized his rap singing
January 22, 1999
VERO BEACH, Fla. (AP) -- A young man was convicted of murder Friday for beating, kicking
and stomping to death an 81-year-old woman who had criticized him for singing a rap song with
vulgar lyrics. Victor Brancaccio, 21, could get life in prison in the 1993 slaying of Mollie Mae
Frazier. Because he was 16 at the time, he cannot get the death penalty. Brancaccio bit his lip
when the verdict was read, then turned and appeared to scowl at his family, who were weeping
loudly. Defense lawyers said they will appeal.
Brancaccio conceded he killed the woman, but his lawyers argued that brain damage, depression and a psychiatric drug rendered him legally insane at the time. Mrs. Frazier, a neighbor, had criticized him for rapping the lyrics of the Dr. Dre song "Stranded on Death Row''
as he walked down the street. He beat Mrs. Frazier, jumped on her rib cage and bashed her skull with a toy gun, leaving her to die in a vacant lot. He returned the next day to spray paint on
her body and burn it.
Prosecutors argued that Brancaccio was a rebellious boy with a history of violence who was
angry at his mother and took it out on Mrs. Frazier. It was the second time Brancaccio was
convicted of kidnapping and murder in the case. In 1995 he was sentenced to life in prison, but
an appeals court ordered a new trial because the judge did not specifically tell jurors they could
consider whether the anti-depressant Zoloft rendered Brancaccio "involuntarily intoxicated''
when he killed Mrs. Frazier. Brancaccio's parents lost their home and their pizza business trying
to pay for their son's first trial. But for the second trial, they were able to hire celebrity attorney
Roy Black - who defended William Kennedy Smith and Marv Albert -- after winning $2.7 million
in the Florida lottery.
OBITUARY This has nothing to do with Rock and Roll, but today the world has lost a great man.
The Lion sleeps Tonight.
7 Feb 1999 - The world today mourns the death of Jordan's King Hussein, leaders hailing him as
one of the great men of the 20th century. Hussein's death, after nearly 50 years in power,
resounded through the Middle East, with several Arab states declaring periods of official
mourning. U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan grieved at the king's passing Jordan today and
called him a "valuable partner" for peace..............
MISSING LINKS Siggsy is a great devotee of the horror writer H.P.Lovecraft & is planning aa ridiculous record
of Cockney drinking songs based on themes within Lovecraft`s work. This project - provisionally
entitled "The Cheeky Cockney Cultists" will be releaased later in the year if we get around to
recording it. In the meantime, however, here are a few websites with H.P.Lovecraft musical
gubbins on them.
Firstly something totally ridiculous:
A Cthulhu Hymnal
Being a Compendium, Fortunately not Definitive, of Odes, Songs, Hymns, Psalms, Ballads, Limericks, Haiku and Rhymes in Honour of the Great Old Ones
Collected on the Net for the Education, Elevation, Titilation, Edification, Delectation and Merciful Mental Obliteration
of the Civil and Learned Webbed Publick
by Cosma Rohilla Shalizi
Sources, Attributions, etc.
These songs are taken from postings to alt.horror.cthulhu. Many of the original posters didn't
know who had written the songs, and I suspect some of the texts are corrupt. If you know who
wrote a song; if you have a better version of the text; or if you wrote a song and want it yanked
from this collection; drop me a line at shalizi@phys-next1.physics.wisc.edu.spam (lop off the
.spam from the address), and I'll be happy to oblige. (But please don't send any more songs; I've
my reasons, but it's a long, boring story.)
....But other devotees produce music which is somewhat more serious in form...
http://www.hplovecraft.com/popcult/music.htm
Lovecraftian Music
Although many would say that the following bands were influenced by Lovecraft, it is probably
more accurate to say that many of them were influenced more by the "Simon" edition of the
Necronomicon.
Arzachel
Arzachel (1969)
"Azathoth" -- Electric guitar, a church organ, and sound effects.
Babyland
You Suck Crap
"Arthur Jermyn"
Bal-Sagoth -- Although this band has some Lovecraft references, like that to "Hatheg-Kla", it
takes much more inspiration from Robert E. Howard.
Black Moon Broods Over Lemuria (1994)
"Hatheg Kla" -- Keyboard Instrumental
Bethzaida
Nine Worlds (1996)
"The Outsider" -- Based on Lovecraft's story of the same name.
The Bevis Frond
The Auntie Winnie Album (1988)
"The Miskatonic Variations" -- 15 minutes of monotonous, psychedelic guitar.
New River Head (1991)
"The Miskatonic Variations II"
Black Sabbath
Black Sabbath (1970)
"Behind the Wall of Sleep" --
Blue Oyster Cult -- Much of the following information can be found in The Blue Oyster Cult FAQ
Agents of Fortune (1976)
"E.T.I. (Extra Terrestrial Intelligence)" -- Makes references to "The King in Yellow".
Imaginos
"I Am the One You Warned Me Of" -- The "Starry Wisdom" is mentioned. "Les Invisibles" -- The
reference to "beneath the polar mountain" may be a reference to Lovecraft's At the Mountains
of Madness. Also, the lyrics "the empress lay sleeping to the rhyme of the star clock" may refer
to the return of the Great Old Ones. "In the Presence of Another World" -- The phrase "when
the stars are right" is spoken. "The Seige and Investiture of Baron Von Frankenstein's Castle
at Wisseria" -- The "Starry Wisdom" is mentioned.
Caravan
For girls who grow plump in the night -- The name "Cthulhu" is mentioned in a song title.
Cassandra Complex
Satan, Bugs Bunny, and Me
"E.O.D." (Esoteric Order of Dagon) -- Makes direct references to Cthulhu and mentions that "he
sleeps beneath the waves".
And finally.......
Probably the most monumentaally groovy Lovecraftian band are "Darkest of the Hillside
Thickets"
http://www.holycow.com/thickets/home2.html
Full name: Merrick Helge Atkinson
Alliances/Contacts: William; those pink crustaceous beings from space;Cats from Saturn
Notes: Dog's name is Hastur
GREETINGS! My name is Merrickman, and I will be your guide into the vast and disturbing world
of Cthulhu's good-time boys--those crazy kids who mix the two great tastes of rock, roll, and
Lovecraftian horrors--The Darkest of the Hillside Thickets
When you've mustered the nerve, just click on your favourite band member's pickled head to
learn more about his identity, and in the meantime I'll tell you a bit about the band.
The story of how I became part of this ageless band of malcontents is perhaps too unsettling
even for me to relate here. But of course, I have come this far...
Not long ago, I was just a semi-normal inquisitive soul. But then... shudder
I have William to thank for all this! Gadzooks, would that I had left well enough alone, and my
curiosity been left UNSATISFIED. But alas, now I know...ALL TOO WELL. Those Old Ones in
the hills, and the months after the encounter... oh, it will change the world. For better, or for
worse? I cannot decide. Clearly there is room for improvement, but these fiends would have the
slate wiped clean... they would throw the baby out with the bathwater. But I know that I cannot
resist. They are near deathless. And I am their servant. Be that as it may, I must fulfill my duties
as a member of this unwholesome league, and convince you to aid us in our unspeakable rock
'n' roll ascension. It is all in the music, you see? Clever, these boys... and their hidden masters.
Yes, I will introduce them to you, funny hats and all, and then, prepare you for the unpreparable.
The yawning void... the stinking chasm... R'lyeh... Yog-Sothoth! N'gai! Ph-nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu
R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn!! Yuggoth on the Rim! THE THREE-LOBED BURNING EYE!!!! THE
BLACK GOAT OF THE WOODS WITH A THOUSAND YOUNG!!!!!!!!!!
yours in sanity,
Merrickman
PRICK UP YOUR EARS
(NOTE: PREVIOUS FEATURES CAN STILL BE SEEN ON THIS WEBSITE) Bauhaus "Crackle" (Beggars Banquet BEGL2018 CD) ***** Out of the crushed velvet and black eyeliner morass that was the early 80`s Goth heyday, one
band emerged to tower head & shoulders above all competitots: Bauhaus. The best thing
tocome out of Northampton & led by `Joker` lookalike Pete Murphy, this band was unrivalled in
lyrical originality and wrote tunes by turns haunting and exciting. From the grand guignol of "Bela
Lugosi`s Dead" to the magestic "Spirit`.
To the great joy of Goths everywhere, they reformed and played two gigs late last year to
publicise this album. The question on everybody`s loipsis `Are they reforming for good?` As I
was too out of pocket to get to either of these gigs, I hope that this is the case. Until a proper
tour is announced I can only say "Scratch pictures on Aasylum Walls/Broken Nails and
Matchsticks". Siggsworthy Crags.
BIOGRAPHY Originally known as Bauhaus 1919, this Northamptonshire quartet comprised Peter Murphy
(vocals), Daniel Ash (vocals, guitar), David Jay aka David J. (vocals, bass) and Kevin Haskins
(drums). Within months of their formation they made their recording debut in 1979 with the
classic, brooding, nine-minute gothic anthem, 'Bela Lugosi's Dead'. Their career saw them move
to various independent labels (Small Wonder, Axix, 4AD and Beggars Banquet) and along the
way they recorded some interesting singles, including 'Dark Entries', 'Terror Couple Kill Colonel'
and a reworking of T. Rex 's 'Telegram Sam'. Often insistent on spontaneity in the studio, they
recorded four albums in as many years, of which Mask (1981) proved the most accessible. A
cameo appearance in the movie The Hunger, starring David Bowie, showed them playing their
memorable Bela Lugosi tribute. They later took advantage of the Bowie connection to record a
carbon copy of 'Ziggy Stardust', which gave them their only UK Top 20 hit. Although there was
further belated success with 'Lagartija Nick' and 'She's In Parties', the group disbanded in 1983.
Vocalist Peter Murphy briefly joined Japan 's Mick Karn in Dali's Car and the remaining three
members soldiered on under the name Love And Rockets.
Encyclopedia of Popular Music Copyright Muze UK Ltd. 1989 - 1998
THE GOOD, THE BAD AND THE UNLISTENABLE (CD REVIEWS) ***** Fuck-off Brilliant Coldcut "Let us Replay" (Ninja Zen39) *** I can`t truly say anything about this double CD pack except for the fact that for what it is....it`s
OK. As regular readers of these hallowed pages will know I am rather fond of dance music, and
it has to be said that in their time `Coldcut` have produced some of the best. However this
record is ultimately a little disappointing. Which is sad because the package tries incredibly hard
to break new ground with the inclusion of VJAMM Software, allowing the user to digitally remix
a selection of video clips in a similar way to the way that the band themselves did on their last
tour.
The real problem is that dance music is essentially a live medium, and whilst I have no doubt that
the VJAMM technology provides an exceptional audio-visual experience in a club situation, the
idea of doing it at home on your PC is essentially rather pointless. The same criticism, sadlyt
can be levelled at people like Todd Rundgren and Peter Gabriel who have produced CDRom
versions of their albums where the punter can remix them to their heart`s desire. Such brave
efforts have so far failed, mainly because the perpetrators over-estimate the aspirations of the
punter. People want to listen to music or dance to itor fuck to it... If they`d wanted to remix it
they`d have become recording engineers and if they had wanted to see bizarre and exciting
images alongside the (pretty good) dance music on this album they`d drop some acid. sad but
true :-( Atilla the Hen
Desert Eagle Discs "The Eagle has Landed" (Arista 74321 594412) * `Oh wow`, we thought when this CD and its accompanying CD single arrived on our doormat.
`A musical re-creation of Jack Higgins`s novel about a Nazi Plot to capture Chutrchill using a
renegade IRA man in 1943`. Was it heck? This is tired, lame Gangsta Rap which piles cliche
upon cliche until it dissapears under the weight of its own banality. Yo mamma, uh get down
respect etc. Atilla the Hen
Garth Brooks "Double Live" (Capitol 7243 4 97424 2 0) *** Unlike Siggsy who HATES Country and Western music with a vengeance I rather like it, and
although I have to admit that I agreed with his comments about the Billy Ray Cyrus album last
week, this album, which as its title consists is a 2 CD set of Garth Brooks live in concert, is a
completely different kettle of fish. 26 slices of down-home high energy C&W. Garth brooks is the
spearhead of the `New Country` wave of a few years ago and if you were seduced by the
promises of amplified fiddle music and Mom`s Apple Pie then you will love this. For me, however,
it has all got a little too sanitised and big business, and he no longer sounds as if he is sitting on
the stoop at Baton Rouge, but instead this record is redolent of the vives of every other major
stadium act. Its OK if you like that sort of things and many people do. This Chicken hasn`t made
up his mind yet. Atilla the Hen
Madder Rose "Tragic Magic" (Cooking Vinyl CookCD167) *** The thing that has been the biggest stumbling block upon this band`s rise to success is that they
are almost uncategorisable. Imagine a weird mixture of oddly alienated strummetty strum guitars,
slightly discordant electric organ and a slightly dated late 1980`s rehash of the sort of
instrumentation on the first and fourth Velvet Underground albums. It has glorious Sandy
Dennyesque female vocals, but is lacking in songs. It presses all the right buttons but ultimately
fails to deliver purely because of lack of material. This is Natalie Merchant`s 10,000 Maniacs
on dextropropaphine. I quite like it but.......... Atilla the Hen
TWITCHY'S DITCH Thoughts on life, love and music from Twitchy the Tramp in his tawdry little ditch.. I have vacated my ditch for the time being and am currently lodging with my cousin `Rambling
Asquith` in the bandstand at Riversleigh Park. `Why the Big Move?` you ask. It all started a
week ago when a couple of students started moping around the ditch. At first I thought that they
were Aanthropology Students studying tramp behaviour. However, the picked a coupleofpieces
of pottery out of the side of the ditch, popped them into littleplastic bags and buggered off!
It turns out that it was Roman pottery, and before you could say `Jack Scabbyarse` the whole
place was crawling with Boffins from Warwick University. They were cutting into my dear little
ditch, nd digging under it, whilst talking excitedly about the `find of the decade`. of course, I had
to move out temporarily, but that didn`t bother me as I have always found movements quite
attractive.
TV`s "Time Team" are now involved and Tony `Baldrick` Robinson and his pals have unearthed
a whole Roman temple under my ditch! Ironically the temple is dedicated to Inebrius the Roman
God of Tramps otherwise known as Patricianus Via Romanus (Gentlemen of the Roman
Roads). When the Priests of Inebrius invoked his spirit they staggered around swearing, singing,
and urinating in public.
Once the work is finished Tony and Co will move the temple to a locaal museum and faithfully
restore my ditch to its original filth and squalor. For the time being I am happy in the park. there`s
an aviary and people throw food to ornamental birds theirein. A certain amount falls on the floor
outside, so Asquith and I spend most afternoons on all fours gobbling up the deliciousd bird
seed...
BOOKSHELF The Rising of the Moon: The Devonshire U.F.O Triangle by Jonathan Downes & Nigel Wright. 12.95 from Domra Publications, 65 Constable Road, Corby, Northants.
Fully referenced and indexed.
A dead whale is washed up on a Devon beach with its genitals and rectum cored out in the style
of a classic "cattle mutilation". Meanwhile someTHING is stalking a caravan site attacking
domestic animals. Its description fits no animal on earth. Hooded brethren engage in bizarre rites
on darksome moors as ghost and poltergeist reports flood in from all over the county. Above all
this chaos, seemingly ever-present, were weird lights which hovered in the sky like watchful
eyes.
Two men lived through this uncanny maelstrom and tried to make some sense of it all. This
absorbing and disturbing book is the result.
There have been many attempts to figure out a unified theory of Fortean phenomena but none
have made any sense.....until now. In perhaps the most important paranormal book of the
decade the authors tackle such diverse subjects as mystery air ships, fire spitting dragons, fairy
lore, sightings of alien entities, infestations of ghosts and much more.
Their conclusions may cost you many a nights' sleep.
"Like he upon a lonesome road doth walk in fear and dread........."- Richard Freeman, Cryptozoologist"
THE PRESS RELEASE The Rising of the Moon: The Devonshire U.F.O. Triangle
by Jonathan Downes & Nigel Wright.
ISBN 09524417 7 2 12.95
"...it has something for everybody: the UFO devotee, the Charles Fort fanatic, the H.P.
Lovecraft disciple, the Crowley crowd and just about anyone else who has ever contemplated
the mysteries of our planet." - Nick Redfern, author of "A Covert Agenda" and "The FBI Files"
Summer 1997. During an unprecedented wave of UFO reports, a dead whale is washed up on
a Devon beach in the style of a classic "cattle mutilation". Meanwhile some thing is stalking a
caravan site attacking domestic animals. Its description fits no animal on earth. Sightings of
mystery big cats, and ghost and poltergeist events show that something very strange is afoot
in East Devon.
Nigel Wright, a dedicated UFO researcher and journalist who found that his home was near the
epicentre of this mysterious psychic vortex, began to investigate, and Jonathan Downes, an
accomplished writer, TV presenter and fortean researcher, brought his encyclopaedic knowledge
of social history and scientific and paranormal theory to bear on the problem. "The Rising of the
Moon" is the result.
In this absorbing and thoroughly researched, indexed and referenced work, Jonathan and Nigel
meticulously examine and analyse the evidence and seek an underlying explanation.
Interwoven with reports of the strange events of 1997 are studies of the various locations: their
geology and their social history - and earlier events, some unearthed from centuries in the past,
such as missing persons and unsolved murders, UFOs, alien abductions and "missing time", crop
circles, mystery air ships, and ghost and poltergeist activity. Consideration of scientific and
social factors such as electromagnetic phenomena, earthlights, thoughtforms and faery lore
radically increase the depth and diversity of this remarkable study.
Other writers have sought an overall explanation for outbreaks of strange or fortean
phenomena, but to no avail. Now, in probably the most important paranormal book of
the decade, the authors authoratively lay solid foundations for the first coherent
"unified theory" of forteana.
Their conclusions may cost you (and many mainstream scientists) many a nights' sleep.
"Some of us have made a few faltering steps towards a solution to the UFO phenomenon. Jonathan Downes and Nigel Wright have got there first."
- Gilbert Nelson, author of "The Benhar Encounter"
COMING SOON...... We already have stuff planned on, Kula Shaker, TheMighty Bosstones, Maddy Prior, Portishead,
and Jon Downes and the Amphibians from Outer Space (now THERE`S A SURPRISE).
Since we began in Cyberspace we have been reprinting a potted history of this project since its
roots as a badly photocopied fanzine thingy a decade ago. If you still want to read this stuff you
can access it thru our web-site. If you are heartily sick of it (as we are) you don`t have to.
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