report-april-98

Report of April 21 th 1998

Hi all,

Lots of things to sum up this month.

1. First, concerning the montly meeting of the 23rd in the chat-room, some of you cannot get to gay.com. So Chaya has just created a chat-room in mIRC called #Interzone. For getting it, you go to the site http://www.mirc.co.uk download the chat, and register it, and it will be in your computer then. So you do not have to go on the net to chat, just click on your mIRC icon. Then you click on "File" and "connect" to get connected to the site. You sometimes have to try several times to get connected as it can fail. Once connected, you click on "Command" , and "Join channel" , and you write #Interzone, as the channel you select.

When you are in the chat #Interzone, you can also use other chat systems at the same time, as ICQ, or gay.com. ICQ is very practicle to know with the other ICQ users who are connected and to get in touch with them immediately, and it's okay for chats with two or three people, but not for bigger meetings. mIRC chat can have a huge number of people.

So if you want to join on April 23 (11 p.m. in Paris, 5 p.m. in Toronto), you can try this new chat in downloading it. I send the icon by E-mail to interzone23@hotmail.com : it's 363 octets, and can go in a floppy disk , so you can get it from there (I hope it works, let me know if not) : http://www.hotmail.com. If you have not got it, you can use the "Music, Art and Books" in gay.com, as this time, I'll be in both.

For all the infos concerning the chat-meeting, and the chat systems, go to Interzone chat page : http://www.interpc.fr/mapage/westernlands/Chat.html

When you download the mIRC, it says you get it for free and then have to pay after sometimes. I downloaded it some months ago, never payed anything , and it still works well.

2. Our common collaboration is getting organized at several levels :

The new thing is the extension of the translation of the Last Words of Hassan Sabbah in the different languages spoken in Interzone for an international CD, "Last Words 1999", with different musical adaptations made by the musicians. Then several of us propose to press the CD, and the distribution will be another step. At the moment, the Spanish, Bulgarian and African versions are beguinning.

For the copyrights, we are gonna see with James Grauerholz and John Giorno.

Several among you asked for the text to translate : I used extracts a transcription of "Nothing Here but the Recordings", but there are other ones, from Nova Express, and a shorter one Rick sent: see in Interzone23 : the three of them are there in the mail "Last words 1999", and also at :

http://www.interpc.fr/mapage/westernlands/Derniersmots.html

http://web.ukonline.co.uk/gary.leeming/text.htm

Chaya's translation in Arabic is at : http://www.interpc.fr/mapage/westernlands/Dmarabic.html

If you want to make it in your own language, choose your favorite. Then you can record it on a tape, make several samples, listen to them several times, and then send the best one in a wav file or Real Player file to Pierre : apo33@hotmail.com and Foe: foe4foe@sprynet.com. If you got some music, you can send them too.

Foe, Andrew and Pierre are working on videos : see the first results at :

APO-33 PRESENT : "1999" By FOE 4 FOE : http://campus.ensba.fr/belouin/

Agent Zero's second issue of Rub-Out is now available : join him at : andy@got.net . I got some copies of the first issue.

We plan to get a free site somewhere to gather the different translations, recordings and music and make a commercial division for Interzone. This commercial project is a bet as we are inventing the conditions of an international collaboration with our personnal means without investing money in it. It has already begun with the tee-shirts Pierre made and which are being sold. We do not intend to make fortunes, nor hope any official recognition, just try to eat with out work, which is legitimate. I do not know if this will be a financial success, but, beside this aspect, Pierre's work and contacts for the tee-shirts has demonstrated that we are able to get organised together to produce and sell things , living in different countries, starting from little things and gathering our efforts. And this first experience is real fun. So let's not make it in the aim of making money, but because we can make it, and that the results are worth doing it.

Some precise demands from you since the latest report in the following domains :

a) Two people working in social domains ask if Interzone can be a place for working on questions of environmental justice : which answers and actions to bring to the problems of pollution for people who got no money and no mean to prevent themselves, and how to help for the defense of the rights and better educative means.

b) Several among you complain about sexual repression in our societies and about fear and shamed related to it. How can we get free of this in Interzone? I put some hotlinks in a trapdoor you access from the link page : http://www.interpc.fr/mapage/westernlands/hotlinks.html. We might have common exchanges about it if you want.

c) Some are making research on the past of our civilisations (Eastern and Western) and are looking for people interested it and in a compared study of civilisation.

About the book "le Temps des Naguals", I am recapitulating the different parts and pages at the moment.

We got 13 articles, 19 cut-ups, 4 short stories, 1 literary comment, dreams (I keep on adding them from time to time) , 2 common stories with cut-ups (Homage to His, and another one started), a whole bunch of poems, and interesting common exchanges on specific subjects.

Plus the French part which was already done at the beginning, which now is accessible in English for the most, as only the dream machine plan and the article "Le temps des Naguals" were in French : you can read it in English at the time of naguals, as a draft, as it's not definitive.

This one is gonna be printed and given for free with the tee-shirts.

I am still in touch with Roger Gentis who sends his support and best wishes for Interzone, and for a book I wrote sometimes ago , "le Carrefour des Impasses" (which means : the place of dead roads) on psychiatry.

Bill Rich (http://www.interpc.fr/mapage/westernlands/bill-rich.html) also sends his support and cheerings.

3. Concerning the dreamachine : some of you got other technics that the 78 rpm record player : glasses, computor program, etc... You can send them to be added to the Dreamachine page.

4. Concerning the medical research : we got data on addiction (see the apomorphine cure in the News page), alternative and not commonly used treatments for cancer, new strategies towards diseases .

If some of you are interested in working on a new map of human organism, gathering the data of western technology and the ones of Eastern traditional cultures (Chinese, Tibetan, etc..), let me know.

5. The sites are getting thicker too : new pages in "Welcome to Interzone" at http://web.ukonline.co.uk/gary.leeming/report1.htm & http://web.ukonline.co.uk/gary.leeming/text.htm : with a Burroughs' animation.

a whole bunch in Foe's http://home.sprynet.com/sprynet/foe4foe/foeindex.htm :

http://home.sprynet.com/sprynet/foe4foe

and also in Rub Out http://members.aol.com/rubout

In Western Lands, several new pages. Here are the ones you cannot access from the front page :

On Roger Gentis and French antipsychiatry : http://www.interpc.fr/mapage/westernlands/Gentis.html

On general semantics :

http://www.interpc.fr/mapage/westernlands/GS.html

http://www.interpc.fr/mapage/westernlands/s&s6.html

On Patricia Garfield's method to get rid of nightmares :

http://www.interpc.fr/mapage/westernlands/Nightmares.html

Chaya's translation of the Last words :

http://www.interpc.fr/mapage/westernlands/Dmarabic.html

Hot links page :

http://www.interpc.fr/mapage/westernlands/hotlinks.html

A letter from Brion :

http://www.interpc.fr/mapage/westernlands/BGletter.html

New pages in the Temps des Naguals : 2 Burroughs interviews in English by Bill Rich and Victor Bockris :

http://www.interpc.fr/mapage/westernlands/bill-rich.html

http://www.interpc.fr/mapage/westernlands/dr-burroughs.html

Homage to HIS : common cut-up by Gary, Rick, Foe and Andrew :

http://www.interpc.fr/mapage/westernlands/HIS.html

In French : Juniel's poems at :

http://www.interpc.fr/mapage/westernlands/Juniel.html

See the coming infos untill the next report at the News page .

Thanks for sending your ideas, propositions, texts, creation. Thanks for your involvement and participation.

All the best.

Love

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