Old limbs throwing new shapes TAA London special October 2012

Still squatting in a corner

Just in case anyone forgot that the Con- The gradual removal of rights of use of land brought to light, but investigative journalism servatives are currently back in the State forms the history of the last 1000 years in does that; a minor furore is created, and ex- hot-seat they are implementing a slew of ar- the UK, the push toward wage slavery due perience seemingly shows that everything chetypal Tory policies and legislation; some to the impossibility of self sufficiency. returns to how it was. One unfortunately overtly, and others via the backdoor and well Jump forward to the 20th century and can’t expect the elite to respond to their own under the media radar. One piece of legisla- squatting had a rich history. After World misgivings. These actions instead brought tion which did get plenty of coverage was War II many ex-servicemen and their fami- squatting back into the attention of the pop- the repealing of a centuries-old right to a lies were forced into squatting as a means ular press and their usual, irrational, narrow- roof over your head on this wind-swept isle. of survival. A number of groups, including minded take on things (though who’s to say This right was first fought for by radical the Advisory Service for Squatters (A.S.S), the rich persons’ network doesn’t just make groups of the mid-17th-century such as the sprung up in the 60s and 70s to assist fami- phone calls and the newspapers are just for Diggers, led by Gerrard Winstanley, who lies and vulnerable people getting off coun- voters anyway…). Questions were now be- years ahead of any eco/sustainable trends cil housing lists and taking direct action to ing asked as to why these people should were determined that the world, and partic- find a home. Thanks to the Criminal Law Act be entitled to live so parasitically? Why had ular the common lands of England, were to 1977 (which includes the Section 6 so be- this squatting malarkey been de-criminalised be a garden for all. To quote Winstanley: “the loved of squatters), squatting became a civil for so long? How would the ordinary decent poorest man hath as true a title and just right matter between the accused trespassers landlord [sic] be protected from this scourge? to the land as the richest man”. The Diggers and the freeholders or managing agents of As with any hysteria emanating from the squatted land in and around Surrey, creat- a building, and eviction had to be processed Mail Group there tends to be a knee-jerk ing makeshift settlements and planting veg- via the courts. response from the right wing parties of the etables and crops. Perhaps unsurprisingly, This move, as well as making squatted day (meaning every one); and so it was that this kind of free-thinking behaviour didn’t go housing legal for people living in England a new piece of legislation came to turn every down too well with the local landowners, & Wales (Scotland has had a slightly differ- squatter’s smile upside-down – Section 144 and Digger settlements were frequently at- ent take on squatting whereby owners are of the Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punish- tacked and the squatters beaten. In a form able to evict without a court order), also led ment of Offenders Act 2012, which came of early precedent, the landowners engaged to it becoming a lifestyle choice. This shift into force on 1 September 2012. This crimi- the Parliamentarians’ New Model Army brought to light two very different sides of nalises the squatting of residential property to take decisive action. Their commander the same coin, as on the one side there though, probably only for the time being, Thomas Fairfax met with Winstanley, and af- were still those in dire need of shelter, or omits the occupation of industrial property, ter deciding that the Diggers posed no real who wished to create free-space for con- pubs and anywhere which wasn’t initially de- threat advised the landowners to take the structive creative and political activities, on signed for habitation. This leaves many of the matter further via the courts. However, the the other there may have also been many thousands of residential squats across the landowners had the might to bring about the people simply looking for a free-ride, away land in quite a predicament as even if they collapse of the Diggers movement by 1651. from the modern inconveniences of utility have a sympathetic owner the police are still This was swiftly followed by the Enclosure bills and taxation. entitled to evict the property. In fact, since Acts between 1750 and 1860, which con- The culmination of the lifestyle path, it September the police have taken it upon solidated the removal of previously common could be argued, was the wanton squat- themselves to evict many residential squats, land by enclosing and fencing open fields ting of high-profile buildings valued into the including some which weren’t designed for through the legislation of land ownership, millions for no real substantial gain or politi- habitation, and also squat-parties, declaring where previously local people had the right cal aim. This isn’t to say that that the prop- that it’s ‘all trespassing’. to harvest food and fuel and graze animals. erty excesses of the ruling class shouldn’t be Continued on next page... Continued from front... The rules are if they did their ever more corrupt revenue- ly stable) and those at the bottom (drastically now much less simple, and what you say and chasing will likely see them farm out their worsening conditions). the way you present your case to the police maintenance to un-checked private firms Well, things change and no one can ever is more hazardous. Squatters will now have and treat their tenants like dog-eggs. quite predict burps in the timeline and even to impress upon the police that they don’t When I’ve spoken with non-squatters whether a catastrophe on the horizon may live in residential property, that it was never about this new criminalisation they seem to shift legislation in a different direction in the intended for residential use, and that the new have hoovered up some of the lines from the future (or even bigger picture interventions Section 144 of LASPO doesn’t apply. People press that ordinary people and their interests such as worsening weather – floods and actually squatting in residential property with- needed to be protected. It’s at this juncture storms etc – or even the collapse of the out a decent argument in their favour may that I point out that there was no need to banking system / economy!). Having said well find themselves out on their ear pretty further bolster the rights of property owners that, I personally hope that the groups of swiftly. A revised version of the Legal Warning as the 1994 Criminal Justice Act saw that young squatters and their selfish, media- (known as the Section 6) for non-residential in extreme circumstances evictions could be baiting ‘actions’ across central London of buildings, and a separate one for pubs, is carried out by police within 24 hours as Pro- the past few years now feel very proud of now available on the A.S.S website. tected Intended Occupiers (PIOs). This was themselves – you know who you are! The The detrimental effect is also felt beyond intended to protect those who ‘went out to basic right to housing or the choice to take squatters too, as councils have been swift buy milk only to return to squatters’ from up squatting as a lifestyle, or as a means to to evict tenants whose tenancies have rash or inconsiderate squatting, and though recycle and survive off the excess and spoils ended, as they no longer have any rights to I’ve never heard of it being used, it worked of a rich society, did already exist. There bide their time and occupy the property until as well as it needed to. was no need to push the point up people’s such time that an eviction notice is served While true that legislation already exists to noses, as the Tories have sadly now proved. by the courts. In these hard times those who deal with the squatting of non-empty resi- Every squatter or potential squatter, whether get into arrears may well find themselves on dences, the problem with this argument is young or old, single or with a family, an art- the streets much more quickly – with others, that many non wanker owners (you decide), ist or an activist; whether they’ve had their for example those on epically long council for example those doing up their homes, property repossessed, failed to keep up their waiting lists, taking their places. The A.S.S or those about to move into a temporarily rental payments or are just plain homeless has always dealt with many council tenants, empty home, find themselves having to pay now has less options for a roof over their squatting has always been wide-ranging to remove what for them are unwanted tres- heads, but the fight for self-determination across society, and the change in the law passers. It’s not always the case that squat- everywhere goes on… will not only affect squatters, it will further ters luck out or put in the effort to find long the precarious situation many renters find term empties. Presenting the issues and law Advisory Service for Squatters: themselves in by tipping the already uneven change as a battle purely between owners www.squatter.org.uk; Squatter Network of balance further in favour of landlords. Local and the homeless mainly serves to deflect Brighton and Hove: network23.org/snob authorities also have the powers to bring attention from the inequalities in society and SQUASH – Squatters Action for Secure long-term empties back into use, but they the more or less unrestrained and expand- Homes – www.squashcampaign.org rarely use them unless pushed; and even ing divide between those at the top (relative- Squatters Legal Network – 07925 769 858

Mass Squatting Action North Street, past Churchill Square and pro- Leaving a group in occupation of the ceeded to occupy a 5 storey vacant shop building, the march continued, despite the Around 150 – 175 people gathered for on Western Road (an ex-HMV). Around 40 rain, back the way it had come, through SNOB(AHA)’s mass squatting action on people stormed into an unsecured back en- the North Laines and on to London Road, Saturday 13 October in Brighton, taking ad- trance and hung banners from the roof and where it finished up at a newly squatted art vantage of the brief lull in the bad weather to gallery run by a collective of radical artists fight back against the Squatban. called CRAB. Led by a large banner saying “SQUAT- All in all, a very successful day with a TERS RIGHTS OR SQUATTER RIOTS”, large public crack being carried out on the people marched up Edward Street, past main shopping street of Brighton, in front the Law Courts, and round on to St James’ of hundreds of shoppers, tourists and sup- Street, where two squatters climbed up and porters. hung a banner saying “BETTER TO SQUAT SNOB(AHA) would like to thank all those THAN LET HOMES ROT” on the front of who came out in solidarity despite the Darkside, an ex-residental squat that has weather (it hailed on us at one point). A been left empty for three years. inside the windows. Many other supporters special award goes to Sussex Police Liaison Chanting “No homes, no peace, fuck remained outside to watch and cheer on the team who provided us with much laughter the police!”, the march then moved on up occupiers. and totally failed to stop our direct action. What would you do if you were God?

An interesting question, which pre-sup- colony insects. All of these exhibit behav- there is only one mind then what better term poses that there is a God, but bear with iours which are apparently intelligent; the is there than God? me for a moment or two as I think there’s a amazing engineering of the termites springs Which leads me back to my original ques- reasonable amount of scientific evidence for to mind, whereas it would be difficult to ar- tion, what would WE do if we were God? the existence of a universal mind, and if the gue that an individual termite has any intel- Well after some deliberation, if I had the universe has a mind, what better label for it ligence, and thus we start to see that the power of creation, I think I’d try to do every- than God? existence of individual minds is a conceit of thing. How else can we prove we’re omnipo- So what is this evidence? Well we can start modern man. By modern, I mean the last tent? This is considerably more difficult than with some quantum mechanics. One of the 2000 years or so, which is the time during one might first assume, as to bang out the conclusions of quantum mechanics is that which the modern scientific method of think- blaarty hardcore all night long, for example, the universe is made from fundamental parti- ing has been prevalent. Maybe ‘conceit’ is a one must first have created a planet, a solar cles. These are made of two things: mass/en- bit derogatory as without this ‘conceit’ we system, people, music, soundsystems etc. ergy and information. The first expresses how would never have developed the sciences, In fact you can see that the more we do, the much stuff they are made of and the second and our understanding of the universe we more we can do and as we do stuff the de- defines the characteristics of this stuff, such live in would have been significantly ham- fintion of everything just keeps on growing. as its charge spin, strangeness and charm pered. The sciences are reliant on the exist- This is where theories of the multiverse (no really, charm is one of the properties of ence of an external, impartial, observer, and come in handy. The many worlds interpreta- quarks). So from this we can draw the con- to create such mankind developed a strong tion of quantum mechanics suggests that for clusion that the universe is suffused with in- ego which thus seperated him from the rest every binary quantum event (i.e. one that has formation at every level. Now with some un- of the universal mind and allowed him[0] to two possible outcomes) two separate uni- derstanding of chaos theory we can see that perform the observations necessary. verses are created, and for a trinary event, mind is an autopaeotic (self orgainising) struc- There are times in all our lives where we three. Which seems like a reasonable strat- ture created from building blocks of informa- disassociate ourselves from this egotisti- egy to take to explore every possible out- tion and that if we have enough information cal mindset and find our minds merging, come. Add to this the shamanic tales of uni- and informational stuctures then mind(s) will to some degree, with our fellows around verses stacked like layers of onion skin which arise, given enough complexity. us. Sports (whether as an observer on the suggests that our mind extends into the uni- That we have minds is evidence of this terraces of part of a team), music (whether verse next door and the multiverse starts to process but there is no valid reason to sup- as a member of a choir/band or part of a look like a concerted effort to do everything. pose that our wet-ware is in any way special crowd at a concert or a rave) and even oc- But what does this mean for us as indi- or that mind cannot arise in other circum- casionally as a member of a congregation in viduals? Where do we fit in God’s plan? It stances given a similar level of complex- some church or other, though this last one is seems to me that our job is to be creators of ity. We can also attack this problem from remarkably rare. These moments are often novelty. There is no point in doing that which the other end, and this is in some part the some of the most memorable and pleasur- has been done before, as this does not ad- work of one Carl Gustav Jung. One of his able ones we experience where we forget vance the prime function of the multiverse. main theories was that of the ‘group un- who we are, and merge with the universal Thus we should strive to be ourselves, and to conscious’. He proposed that all of our un- mind. Which is the definition of communion, do things in our own individual, unique way. conscious minds are in fact the same mind not a morsel of bread and a sip of wine. and presented a large amount of evidence, Now none of this is conclusive. But I [0] I use the male pronoun here as not only were including dream analysis and more, to back would say there is a strong suggestion that most of the scientists in history male (due to the prejudices of the societies they lived in) but also be- up his theory. That this is not limited to hu- there is only one mind, and that in order to cause the dry, upward seeking, hard fact seeking man beings is easy to see by studying flocks develop the sciences mankind has deliber- nature of western science, seems to me more akin of birds, shoals of fish and especially the ately separated ourselves from this mind. If to the Yang (male) nature from Chinese philosophy. played us an amazing Indian acid house tune tailed how electronic media currently under- Datacide 12 made well before Phuture’s ‘Acid Trax’). Ce- goes a shift in dimension equivalent to when drik discussed and experiments the internet became a public rather than a Launch, Berlin from many countries, and gave a background purely military technology, as techniques of Praxis records has just published issue 12 of the adverse conditions faced in many plac- mapping make information available to both of datacide, a magazine of noise and politics. es, such as in Iran following the reversal of de- corporations and individuals which may be To celebrate, a conference and party took mocracy and the re-institution of religious rule. used to control populations / bring accounta- place on 20 October at subversiv e.v, a former The second talk, by the OKK Team, again bility and strategies for resistance to bear from squat and now the last alternative space in foregrounded issues of class, race, and gen- below. The full article appears in datacide 12. that area of Berlin as gentrification continues. der in relation to art and cultural histories, a wel- Following these talks the action moved to Cedrik Fermont spoke about electronic and come strategy often ignored in favour of other the delightful techno basement, with deep in and to a lesser seemingly neutral critiques in which art exists and squiggly live electro from Void Tactical extent about (due to time constraints). in some kind of non-political vacuum. The Media (Key, Dimentia, Split Horizon); awe- Cedrik described how ‘the Western canoni- speaker from the OKK Team concentrated on some tough and swirling next level d’n’b sation’ of these musics has largely excluded how the art establishment in Berlin (focussing from Amboss; Xanopticon’s live super intense all other areas of the world, and sidelined mainly on the 7th Biennale) and elsewhere, micro-beats of incredible meditative balance non-Western music as being influenced by has attempted to project inclusivity and social and nails hardness; LFO Demon spinning 909 the West and so not as relevant or worthy engagement while having links to nationalist gabba kicks from Holland and elsewhere; and of inclusion in histories. This despite the fact and right-wing politics, and excluding / dif- ably finished off by H-Kon / datacide DJ team. that (1) Western electronic and experimental ferentiating the treatment of artists precisely Props all round for a great event of inspira- music was itself influenced by musics from along lines of race, class, gender. More at tion and hilarity! all around the world – for example musique 2012istheseasonfortreason.wordpress.com Datacide 12, a 68pg magazine featuring concrete by Indonesian gamelan music, and Split Horizon – who keen listeners may have articles on noise and politics, reviews, fic- (2) that in some instances musical experi- heard on Pitchless radio recently – gave a talk tion, and more can be ordered from data- ments from beyond the Western canon pre- entitled ‘On The Map – Control and Freedom cide.c8.com or in the UK from terra audio at dated those that have been historified (Cedrik in Geographic Information Systems’. 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In September, Random Artists travelled out evolution. Sound frequencies catalysed these the arches of the hangars; and some bass- to the European mainland to take part in a processes, from electromagnetic radio waves heavy sonics. Videos and pics of the festival: couple of festivals, with an interactive instal- found in space to terrestrial synthetic sound- piratepad.net/freezefest2012 lation entitled ‘Wasteland Alchemy’- a dev- scapes. The installation featured painting, From there the tour travelled to the ADM astated zone where the future enters the sculpture made from found metal, domestic squat in the port area of Amsterdam, Holland, present, as organic and synthetic life forms, waste and other materials, computer tings, another inspiring locale with super nice peo- and forces, mutate both chaotically and with video, sound, light. And it all looked pretty ple. ADM, as a reservation of DIY exponents, direction. The theme of the immersive instal- good too. combines large warehouse spaces and other lation became, more or less, ‘evolution and The FreezeFest, just outside Prague in the buildings with outdoor dwellings and trailers transformation’, expressed by the artists in Czech Republic, happened on a hired ex- / vehicles nestled amongst trees, sculptures different yet pleasingly complementary ways. military base (popular in Eastern for dotted all over site (ADM hosts the Robo- Ideas conveyed included (amongst others): teknivals and festivals) in the middle of a lush dock festival), and docked boats. The fes- the fragility of memory; the journey as agent forest, the site featuring earth-covered sub- tival featured bands of many varieties, DJs, of mutation; illness and identity as journey; merged aircraft hangars. The Wasteland Al- performance, an exhibition of ye ancient ve- DNA and personal history as transformation chemy/Synthetic Garden exhibition inhabited hicles and tat (“I’ll be back for this in a couple through evolution; the convergence of terres- a small outhouse which nestled into the forest of weeks” - dust rust space… My favourite trial and cosmic energies and the conscious appropriately. Across the festival as a whole performance featured a fella called DeadFish- creation and opening of a portal for future a coherency of unspoken motifs – to do Fuck playing a mic’ed up sheet of metal with evolution; chaotic and comedic mutation and with progression and elevated understand- wooden sticks, a very zen performance gen- evolution in materials; playfulness and com- ing - linked everything together very nicely. All erating incredible resonant harmonic frequen- edy in life and death; primordial elemental sound stages doubled up as artspaces, and cies ina very Dutch oil refineries at dawn / dusk essence creature firecore; the expression of the friendly people loved interacting with the kind of a way. Whoooh skweech! The beauty resonances and frequencies through shape installation (and us). Highlights included an of control… (check: antidelusionmechanism. and colour. An interactive game pulled to- interactive bamboo pagoda synthesizer (!); org). All in all the festival was a lively buzz, and gether symbols from various pieces, the par- a film a bit like Koyaanisqatsi, upped a few again the installation went down a treat. ticipants altering the contents of the game as dimensions with the cwaziest revolving fades Thanks to everyone involved. it unfolded by engaging with the process of its and edits of everyday life; visuals on walls in Randomartists.org The ultimate Another Brick in the Wall bisexual sexual encounter

We meet. eat. then a taxi home and bed. I empty my astral testicles all over god’s face. He/she licks it up, looks me in the eye and says: mmm, i just loved that. Let me have some more…

So i says: whoa big girl/guy! I’m gonna need a cup of tea and at least half and hour before we can do that again… Several police forces across the UK are now connected together in multiples to form an Off-Licence Romance the proud owners of Cobham plc’s ‘Scene even longer wall too. Increasingly SMBS are Management Barrier System’; a 10 foot high, seen being used to restrict the movement of The soldier fires his gun. 13 metre long solid steel cordon designed to protestors at lawful demonstrations, and they The drummer bangs his drum. be used during chemical, radiological, biologi- have so far been deployed by City of London, The mother rocks the baby, cal or nuclear (CRBN) incidents. Metropolitan, West Midlands, Sussex, South While the baby sucks its thumb. Cobham’s brochure describes it thus; “A Wales, Leicestershire, and Greater Manches- lockable rear door ena- ter police. 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The lion stalks the savanna, can be “…very unforgiving…too much speed “Tools and technology created and pur- Proudly deitelicious when towing one will destabilise the towing chased for one purpose are often ultimately In a sun-spangled tan. vehicle…therefore not easy to deploy in quick used for another; this kind of “mission creep”… Seeking out the easiest meat developing situations . . .”), can be combined where technologies that are initially intended For a savoury treat. with a ‘Public Communications System’ (a for use only in the most serious national se- trailer with 2 loudspeakers and an LED screen curity cases gradually enter regular policing.” The man wanders through the aisle of on top, controllable by remote) and may be – Privacy International his local Tesco, All done up in a three-stripe two-piece KETAMINE USERS/EX-USERS! On the hunt for the cheapest feast. Will Phuq is currently researching for a comprehensive and up to date book on K and Two for five pounds on frozen pizzas: needs your input. Please pick up an anonymous questionnaire from the TAA info stall, else One pepperoni, one margarita. email [email protected] for a digital copy... have tires slashed, exhausts snapped off, These non-choices will not contain us, de- RESIST NOW paint stripped. ‘Why would we do this? Out spite the Tories proposed increase in state of disgust for the ways in which G4S are en- surveillance powers. NEWS UPDATE croaching on our lives, as they profit from this The Con-Dem government have slashed prison world.’ benefits, criminalised squatting, cut back Contrary to the impression given by the HMP Dartmoor, Sept 13th & HMP Cold- services, denied access to the “justice” sys- corporate media and even the alternative ingley, Surrey, Aug 27th: Rooftop protests tem and generally continued and escalated press, the anger felt by people due to social by prisoners. Labour’s war on the poor. pressures and control does sometimes result Midlands, Sept 8th: Livestock lorries at an This isn’t a reformist gesture, but a small in thoughtful and considered outbursts in this abattoir vandalised – wipers torn off, paint- gesture of our defiance. Governments have country. work ruined and tires slashed. proven throughout time that their only interest While some create future conditions and UK, Sept 4th: Websites of MI5 and MI6 is serving the rich and they don’t give a fuck raise awareness of creative possibilities and brought down for an hour in solidarity with about the rest of us. The only way we will find so on, a dedicated and growing number take Julian “Wikileaks” Assange. true freedom is through the destruction of the more hardcore affirmative action. The solu- UK, Aug 30th: Police.uk (main police web- state and capitalism.’ tions to the problems can be approached site for England & Wales) hacked and data from any number of angles, and complement leaked. All infos taken from 325.nostate.net & each other when seen as a totality. Bristol, July 31st: For Olympic opening prisonislanduk.noblogs.org/ Many actions continually happen all over week, two BT (“Olympic partner”) vehicles Check 325.nostate.net for action news and the world as the pressure increases and the including contents burned, and O2 (BT’s par- background info on resistance struggles from realisation dawns that as well as engaging ent company) mobile mast sabotaged with all around this planet, plus library / free down- with present time necessity, actions carried fire. Done for a variety of reasons such as loads, and distro, including 325 magazine. out now may well prevent greater misery O2’s prison exploitation, supply of equipment in the future, and also send a message of to the police, and use of their sims for G4S solidarity to others engaged in the struggle, tagging systems. keeping doors open for further interventions. Bristol, July 24th: Olympic Park energy We present here a very brief roundup of contractor GDF have 20 windows broken, some recent anarcho actions from these is- “ECOCIDE” and “A.C.A.B” tagged on lands: walls. GDF is a pioneer of nuclear Cardiff, Oct 4th: Squatters at Gremlin Alley, power in Europe, involved in police City Rd resist eviction. Banners including “We infrastructure, runs prison surveil- are resisting eviction: Fuck the fucking fuck- lance in , communications ers”, “Solidarity with Alex Haigh, imprisoned for the military, and security for oil for 3 months for being homeless”. rigs in Nigeria, and much more… Leicester, Sept 28th: Antifascists vandalise Bristol, May 30th: Conservative GH Watts coach company, who have con- Association have windows bro- sistently supported the EDL. Locks glued, ken, outside of building painted and gates D-locked. ‘The EDL are nothing more tagged. than class traitors. Their leadership have ‘This is a rejection of all party poli- formed an alliance with investment bankers tics. The whole system must go. Brand and property speculators who send their A, or Brand B, Pepsi or Cola, Labour or army of useful idiots to do their bidding.’ Conservative, we are allowed to choose any- Bristol, July 15th: EDL members confront- thing we want as long as it’s within the pre- ed and attacked following their march. written guidelines of capitalism, the state, and Nottingham, Sept 26th: Two G4S vehicles the myth of democracy. WANTED: young crew to take up TAA mantle. Will need a tight crew of dedicated spirits who enjoy the adventure of finding and prepping London’s aban- My bog roll badge is laid to rest, zimmerframe crown for Sunday best, goodbye to doned and derelict buildings to create four disposable g-strings, and to twilight south Mimms meetings. day events of art, performance, film and Now roll me out on any A road, let me chill your meaty payload, stuff your wares in my music. The priority MUST be the gallery, cavern, I’ll deliver in shiny wagon. TAA is not an excuse for a rave. If you are A daylight waltz with evil cages, the desperate hunt and shitty wages. interested, please do your own events. We Have you checked my lumps n gashes? my tail lift droops, and dashboard flashes, but can supply website, contact lists and net- I’ll be your fast food lacky, if it keeps me in coal n baccy. Another winter now to get works. This is a serious request. Success- through, Goodnight darling, I’ll not forget you xxx ful candidates must be prepared to give up at least 2-8 weeks to make it happen. An Ode to Man Tits hands, toiled the soil and worked the land. things, like the towels that come with If it wasn’t for my misspent youth, out- I could have been an organic farmer (a wings. I could have studied quantum spoken, brash and uncouth, if I’d stayed vegan one, not animal harmer), been a physics, or write guides for tourist visits. I in institution, not gone chasing revolution, French minousie, carving wood, to earn could have built a helter-skelter, or worked if I’d kept my neck wound in, and not got my pay. I could have been a story writer, down the animal shelter. But if I’d done lost in ‘other things’... artist, drummer or bagpiper. I could have these other things, I’d never found what I could have studied tantric yoga, tried to fought against oppression, or leant an ear my job brings, coz listen closely mother stay a little sober, or with these little girly at confession. Maybe I’d have invented fuckers, I get to work with moody truckers!

shadow with the scythe is in fact an indicator Ah, that final line: the dead sound on the THE TICK OF TIME of a great and wondrous liberation from the final stroke of nine – there’s that tick of time by feedthemoon – shackles of the physical realm – to a state of again! feedthemoon.wordpress.com being in which the only limits to our worlds are Joseph Campbell (yes, him again) de- ‘Life is the childhood of our immortality’ – the limits imposed by our own minds? scribed the meaning of the Waste Land, and Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Would that not indicate that this, here and its message for humanity far better than I It seems clear to me that the greatest stum- now is merely the training ground for our eter- could ever hope to when he told Bill Moyers: bling block to us achieving our wondrous po- nal souls to follow? And then, could not Death “The theme of the Grail romance is that tentiality is the continuously reinforced notion itself, as exemplified by the Grim Reaper, the land, the country, the whole territory of the second law of thermodynamics – a uni- whilst often depicted as a terrifying apparition, of concern has been laid waste. It is called versal theory which states and I quote: be in fact something else entirely: Perhaps the a wasteland. And what is the nature of the ‘Everything ultimately falls apart and dis- Great Liberator? Joseph Campbell explained, wasteland? It is a land where everybody is integrates over time. Material things are not in reference to Shiva, how appearances can living an inauthentic life, doing as other peo- eternal. Everything appears to change even- indeed be deceptive: ple do, doing as you’re told, with no courage tually and chaos increases. Everything ages ‘Shiva’s dance is the universe. In his hair is for your own life. That is the wasteland. And and wears out. Even death is a manifestation a skull and a new moon, death and rebirth at that is what T. S. Eliot meant in his poem The of this law.’ the same moment, the moment of becom- Wasteland”. Which is quite interesting as the theory of ing. In one hand he has a little drum that goes The people Eliot describes in these lines are evolution basically states the opposite, that tick-tick-tick. That is the drum of time, the all asleep, and, yes, sure these automatons over eons of time, billions of things are sup- tick of time which shuts out the knowledge gazing at their shoes (or I-Pads or Blackber- posed to have developed upward, becoming of eternity. We are enclosed in time. But in ries – whatever) are still there, we see them more orderly and complex; but I digress. Shiva’s opposite hand there is a flame which every day – but let’s be honest, they are never We are constantly reminded that every- burns away the veil of time and opens our going to awaken, they don’t want to – who thing dies: all becomes ash carried upon the minds to eternity’. knows, maybe they’re not reached that part air, and whilst this is evidently true within the ‘The tick of time which shuts out the knowl- of their own particular cycle yet. But some- physical realm, what if the true essence of us, edge of eternity’ – wow! -The tyranny of the thing incredible is happening now: just think that which the scientists cannot quantify or clock; the artifice of time which enslaves us of this site you’re looking at now, a meeting- dissect – i.e. the human soul – is in fact im- all. In short, he is talking of this material realm place for like-minded souls by like-minded- mortal? Imagine if we were to truly understand through which most of us pass through as lit- souls, offering the opportunity for us to com- this, how would the control-system cope with tle more than sleepwalkers. Or maybe even municate our own personal awakenings; a planet full of self-aware immortals? Answer: automatons. As described so brilliantly by T S communities of awakened and awakening It couldn’t, it would collapse (which being a Eliot in The Waste Land: souls. It’s pretty incredible, is it not? materialist creation would make sense, given Unreal City, Sometimes there is a natural impatience the 2nd law of thermodynamics – ha!) Under the brown fog of a winter dawn, with the world, and the oft-heard refrain: ‘But There is an old Muslim saying: ‘When death A crowd flowed over London Bridge, so what can I do?’ approaches it is terrible. When it reaches you many, The answer is: ‘Stay awake’. For, after all, it is bliss’. I had not thought death had undone so isn’t that all that really matters? And indeed, I remember an old documen- many. For once you have awoken to your own im- tary on a South London hospice in which one Sighs, short and infrequent, were exhaled, mortality; the perceived world begins to dissi- of the nurses told of how on numerous oc- And each man fixed his eyes before his feet. pate anyway. So why change an illusion? Our casions, at the very moment of death they Flowed up the hill and down King William own transformations have a transformative had noticed a look of what could only be Street, effect upon the world. Our awakening is a re- described as divine ecstasy pass across the To where Saint Mary Woolnoth kept the birth, and through our own particular rebirths, face of the patient. hours the world is reborn too. So what if that very thing we fear: that With a dead sound on the final stroke of Tick-tick-tick…the tick of time, the final ever-present if seldom acknowledged dark nine. strike of nine – it’s all an illusion. £6 tickets. Bristol venue change tbc. Check Listings on Facebook or email [email protected]

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