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University of Wollongong Research Online OZ magazine, London Historical & Cultural Collections 11-1969 OZ 24 Richard Neville Editor Follow this and additional works at: http://ro.uow.edu.au/ozlondon Recommended Citation Neville, Richard, (1969), OZ 24, OZ Publications Ink Limited, London,36p. http://ro.uow.edu.au/ozlondon/24 Research Online is the open access institutional repository for the University of Wollongong. For further information contact the UOW Library: [email protected] OZ 24 Description Contents: The Beautiful Freaks issue. Lee Heater cover (insert: Honeybunch Kaminski poster with anti-Oz articles from the People [7/9/69] and a rebuttal from the Guardian [10/9/69] on the reverse). ‘Welcome to the OZ Freak Show’ by Ian Channell. Danae on Rufus Collins & the Living Theatre. Marcia Herscovitz interviews herself. ‘Urological Nurturement’ by John Ivor Golding. Gilbert Shelton ‘Freak Brothers’ strip. Lee Heater. Anthony Haden-Guest on ‘Bruce’, a freak. ‘I Agree with your Tactics But I Don’t Know about Your Goals’ - extracts from Jerry Rubin’s Do It! 1p+ John & Yoko photomontage. Dr Hip Ocrates. ‘Mr Orgone’ - Interview with Ilse Reich about Wilhelm. Rolling Stones Through the Past, Darkly ad. ‘The aN vy Lark’. ‘Mozic and the Revolution’ by Germaine Greer. Harvest records ad. LP reviews: The Kinks, John Mayall and Steve Miller. ‘The Beatles Come Together’ - Abbey Road/John Lennon interview by Miles. Back cover ad (girl dancing in IOW festival crowd) for LP by Free. Publisher OZ Publications Ink Limited, London,36p Comments Please be advised: This collection has been made available due to its historical and research importance. It contains explicit language and images that reflect attitudes of the era in which the material was originally published, and that some viewers may find onfc ronting. This serial is available at Research Online: http://ro.uow.edu.au/ozlondon/24 the OZ Freak Show. A The wonderful gallery of beautiful people, whose wildly original world-view flows into their life style. Freaks are anti- hypocrites; who abolish the barriers between theory and action, fantasy wizard of Auss and reality, politics and play, sanity and madness HE only conventional thing the university and is supported, he his neck and a plastic hammer_in With media turning the world into T about lan Channel! was the said, by the students and the Vice- his belt. manner of his arrival at Heath- that global village, plugging us into chancellor's fund. "My house," he said, "is called row Airport yesterday. He flew in The exact purpose of his un- the ALF house. It stands for the same experiences — we all risk fit strolia by jet-. usual post is not entirely clear. Action for Love and Freedom growing into the same person. In A ident wizard at the The wizard of Aussie said simply: Members of ALF are for freedom` such a world, freaks restore the Univ= si c4 New South Wales, " They need me for almost every- without the use of drugs." I ndividual he m •t hove been expected to thing." The whistles, he said, were to arrive n `a broomstick. But he A strange figure in most curious make everything go quiet while he expl fte do not scatter powder clothes, he is on his way to a explained to policemen that he is a e sells. I am an illusion students' conference in Hamburg. not dangerous. He carries flowers and rolled Ian was tarred and feathered by ivis-in a special house at umbrella, and wears whistles round students recently, but the expen- • ______,Nalk_ THE THEORY AND himself from the sinful act of to desert safely if this is the PRACTICE OF POLITICS OF committing suicide so that he only way out, Martyrs are THE ABSURD could go on with his search for manipulating pity to get their Some fragments to be filled in the universal human essence in cause accepted not by reason by others the world of the soul — why but through Black Magic Need for an Alf couldn't he wait until the (emotional control). Going to [Australian Liberation Front usual time, the impatient old gaol is no sign of being right, devil? going into a mental institution — edi cadre of tough hobbit type detached expressive is no sign of being wrong (see actors on the stage of life. IN THE FUN REVOLUTION Laing and Goffman on this). Optimistic existentialists EVERYONE WINS Work it out free of social con- assuming as a base line the sort In the fun revoliktion trol by the "Lonely Crowd" of model of the universal man everyone wins or it is immoral around you. that can be derived from many and inhumane. Social THE FUNCTION OF ACTING religious thinkers, artists, relationships are transformed, DEMONSTRATION philosophers and humane individual organisma are not Postulate: Demonstrations THE FOOL hurt, maimed or killed. Man is have at least two functions:- If it is illegal to sleep in the livers. a role-player, not a (i) Instrumental — to open air, sit on the pavement, The new tactics of guerrilla warfare of the mind can be one-dimensional White attempt to persuade other read certain books, to miss a Anglo-Saxon Protestant Adult people that your point of view seen as having a tradition — day at school, to run away Male Bourgeois Business is right. from home under the age of see Czech history especially, Executive with the rest of ( i i ) Affective — the 16, to laugh and sing in the the British fun war against of Hitler 1939-1942, the Danish mankind as an inferior residual emotional satisfaction street, and punishable (by category. Man can be liberated demonstrating itself. refusal of employment) to response to the Nazi invasion and attempt to eliminate from seriousness and self- How can this twin objec- grow one's hair to a pre-1914 hypnosis encouraged by over- tive be best satisfied? THIS is length, then it is obvious that Danish Jews, the defence of dependence on print, educa- the issue — not bourgois con- the insanity of our civilisation Mafeking by the founder of the immortal Boy Scouts, the tion, nationalism, symbols of siderations of respectability gr requires very special handling. success, cleanliness, whiteness puritan self-fulfilling prophe- Without face to lose, there retreat from Gallipoli, the Emden, early days in the and achievement and Pythag- cies that all men are basically is a great freedom of orean overreliance on quan- Vietcong guerrilla warfare aggressive and not to be opportunity for a fundamental titative criteria of meaning. against the Americans and trusted (including themselves, critique of all social relations Man as free from oral of course), nor traditional and ethics. There is a great South Vietnamese depedendency hangups, anal Government troops, in the hanging on to outmoded ideal deal of license permitted a control and order hangups, models of the good old time Fool provided he is seen as subculture the heroes are castration anxiety and sexual Good Soldier Schweik, Brer demos and revolutions that having nothing to gain by his inadequacy hangups. Man worked (did they? — if so why activity. Just to do absurd Rabbit, Bugs Bunny, Tweetie neither as free to hurt others Pie, The Road Runner, the did things get worse) for our things that harm no one, nor as forced to love them. It's grandfathers? perhaps make a sly comment simple alf peasant in Grimm's Household Tales, the universal all in the mind and understan- Banners are only one sort on a puritanical practice in a ding can liberate us and all of props that can be used in a friendly way, let people have a figure of Jack pitted against the powerful aggressive greedy mankind. demo and have as many laugh at your expense if but simple-minded giants. Heads I win Tails you lose disadvantages, if not more, as nothing else. If you are tactics to give the aggressive other props. They produce an generous and wealthy in this Chaplin, Laurel and Hardy puritans enough rope to hang aching in the arms, inhibition area of personality, then you and most of the silent clowns themselves and then to love of freedom of movement have achieved something starting in the Mack Sennet them instead of hurting them during the march, procession, towards alleviating the tension stables. Ulysses is the hero is the basic tactic and ethic of dance, ritual, etc., or in any and anxiety of life in this rather than Agammon or the Alf fun revolution, e.g., rapid tactical withdrawal decaying culture. Who loses? Achilles; Jesus rather than the placard in one of last year's which may have to be made. This leads me into an priestly and political fun Demos, "Let Professors Other gear for demos include:- outline of the theory and bureaucrats he had to outwit. use student toilets". The use Hats: Helmets (affective or practice of the fun revolution Was the crucifixion a of clickers as detonators of decorative Roman, medieval, or politics of the absurd. The Houdini-type hoax and did authoritatarian;teacher figures Goth, Vikings, etc., and/or kingdom of heaven on earth in Jesus make his getaway to disguised as individuals loving instrumental-protective, e.g., this eschatology is of course India with Thomas? Socrates man and wishing to liberate modern Japanese, police or the Fool's Paradise — played his game with the him. firemen's), bowlers and top Cockayne or the Bum's whole of Athens as his Love the Americans in hats (capitalist absurd), flying Heaven that Burl Ives used to opponents and finally got Vietnam, help them to get helmets (curse you, Red sing of. them to kill him to save home to their friends, etc., or -.Baron), boy scout hats (be DAILY tilltROR,'Mursday,Sepfember II, 190 ie once left him unruffled.