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Half-Asleep of Sleep Editorial 003 Think of the number of places in which you the third issue of by Suzanne Brøgger have slept, and how many beds you’ve kipped GAS. We thank pre- (Løve Høng). stamp in and thereby shared with others. Take a few vious contributors minutes... to the GAS issues The new contributors FOOD and MONEY were (no kidding) Consider our GAS graphic designer, the for their participa- actually selected distinguished Swede Ms Petra Olsson Gendt. tion, and are thrilled through an intense She has shared a bed with tennis champion to be looking into dream in January Bjørn Borg. When Borg visited Båstad (the the future with new 2007. Dreams do not number one tennis town in Sweden) during the writers and artists: always come true, 1970s, Petra’s granddad lent a bed to the local Lisa Anne Auerbach but this one did and address tennis club. This became the bed that Borg slept (Los Angeles), almost all dream in, as Petra would later, fighting with her cous- Gæoudjiparl van candidates agreed ins over it whenever visiting her grandparents. den Dobbelsteen to participate. Enjoy Some say that we are only six handshakes away (Bedsted), Surasi their texts and im- from knowing everyone in the world: imagine Kusolwong ages throughout this how few beds away we are! We believe that (Bangkok), Olof and the next issue of some of our readers might have similar stories. Olsson (Copenhagen), GAS. Hopefully the Please do not hesitate to send us your unique Emily Pethick content of GAS The story about your bed-sharing experiences and (Utrecht/London), Sleep Issue will in- we will publish it in the next issue of GAS. Scott Reeder duce sleep if you are (Milwaukee), Tyson awake or rouse you if It is a well-known fact that the average person Reeder (Milwaukee), you are asleep. sleeps seven hours per night – which means Mark von Schlegell that approximately 20 years of one’s life are (Cologne), We are proud to be spent in bed. And so we do not need to remind Taner Tümkaya putting out GAS in bed. you how important it is to close those lovely (Frankfurt aM) eyes of yours. No matter who you are, what and Alexis Vaillant Pernille Albrethsen you are, where you are: Sleep is good PERIOD; (Paris). Special and Jacob Fabricius, and therefore a self­‑selectingly apt theme for guest appearance Copenhagen. 9 € 2007 003/The Sleep Issue It seemed somewhat ironic when, as an occasional insomniac, I was invited to write about the subject Half-asleep of sleep. Reading the entry under ‘sleep’ in the Copenhagen Free University’s ABZ lead me to By Emily Pethick, Utrecht / London think of the value of the occasional ‘eureka’ mo- ments that hit one first thing in the morning after a good night’s sleep. Scouring the web for some in- formation about the productivity of sleep, I learned SLEEP from psychologist Professor Wiseman on about. com that the brain does not always sleep when the The Free University is an artist run institution dedicated to the production body does, some restructuring occurs, the resulting dreams often producing unusual combinations of of critical consciousness and poetic language. We do not accept the so‑called ideas that can lead to creative solutions to problems. new knowledge economy as the framing understanding of knowledge. We For some getting a good night’s sleep is not a mat- ter of choice. In January 2007 the French priest work with forms of knowledge that are fleeting, fluid, schizophrenic, uncom‑ Abbe Pierre died at the age of 94 after 40 years of campaigning for the right to sleep in public space promising subjective, uneconomic, acapitalist, produced in the kitchen, pro‑ – something that is illegal in most countries. Last year another campaigner, David Johnston, was duced when asleep or arisen on a social excursion – collectively. given a seven-month sentence for challenging continued from front, Half‑asleep anti-sleeping bylaws in Canada by resting his head herself, the results of which perhaps go someway to in the public realm. Like many other countries, in proving the benefits of a bit of shut-eye… Canada all government land and parks are considered Scott Reeder, Dream Song, ‘private property’, and close nightly at 11pm, those Perhaps one could argue that these changes in ideas caught sleeping on government property are ‘moved around sleep are also the signs of the gradual break- November 5th 2004: along’ by private security and police. ing down of so-called ‘normality’ structures. The easy stability of conventional binary oppositions Insomnia appears to be just one of the many side such as good and bad, black and white, night and effects of the late capitalist, neo-liberal society, day, sleep and awake, public and private, collide with Aardvark oh aardvark where the emphasis on work often supercedes other social realities, breaking down into the grey or conventional living, eating, sleeping patterns. The ‘twilight’ zones of day-sleepers, day dreamers, night An aardvark an aardvark failure-to-switch-off similarly seems symptomatic workers, public sleepers and insomniacs. Although, of the 24-hour society, which depends on flexible of course the irony is that while conventional sleep How does it feel to workers who are able to perform around the clock. structures have changed in relation to workers (i.e. Again, it seems somewhat ironic that it is not just night work), they still remain fixed with regards to Eat so many the over-worked but the homeless, who are also the homeless in the denial of public sleep. However, often the workless, that are also deprived of a in relation to creative productivity, as is found within Eat so many ants good nights sleep. In fact the predominant cause the CFU’s manifesto, it is often through the destabil- of insomnia is work-related stress, which sets off a ization of these conventional frameworks and life- Is it awful or amazing? kind of vicious circle when that loss of sleep also style structures that potential new ways of thinking begins to affect performance at work. This is further and productive possibilities can be opened up. Does it tickle when they wiggle? sustained by the neurosis of not getting the recom- mended amount of sleep. While a few years ago Can you hear them scream? eight hours was considered a good nights sleep, now apparently seven will suffice (well I guess that’s The aardvark here is me one less to worry about). Furthermore, one of the chief instigators of this neo-liberal economy that we Now I know it’s me find ourselves within, Margaret Thatcher, famously pronounced sleep a waste of time, once declaring ‘sleep is for wimps!’, only taking a modest 4 hours ABZ, Copenhagen Free University Selections from Recent Dreams Scott Reeder, By Scott Reeder, Milwaukee June 21st 2005 June 20th 2003 Met this guy who’s head had a different name than his body. Dream Joke : August 8th 2003 Met a badger with human teeth named Duncan. What did one January 11th 2004 alien say to the Played an organ that had microphones connected to the ocean – when you hit the keys it played the sound of waves, but there was no way to turn it down or other alien? turn it off. “Let’s move into February 12th 2004 I was teaching at a big university trying to get students to throw basketballs at that drawer”. each other with their eyes closed... READERS February 18th 2004 Something about giant bottles of wine and an octopus... COMPETITION! Now is your chance to become the most chic sleepwalker in town with a sleep mask in 100% silk. In which of these following locations has pop icon Your Private Mr.George Michael fallen asleep? Detective, A. Behind the steering wheel of his car. B. In a Newcastle public toilet. TEXAS 1920 C. In the court of law during trial against Sony. By Melvin Motti, Email your answer before October 30th Rotterdam commisioned to [email protected] and win this by Alexis Vaillant, Paris. luxurious sleep mask. By Mark von Schlegell YOU ARE LEILA WADDELL <WhoreTML> <!DOCTYPE WhoreTML PRIVATE “-//W3C//DTD merc-HgTML 4.01 Transitional//EN” -g> <html> <head> <title>YOU ARE LEILA WADDELL</title> , Cologne <meta http-equiv=”Content-Type” content=”text/html; charset=iso-8859-1”> <META NAME=”author” CONTENT=”Mark von Schlegell”> <META NAME=”publisher” CONTENT=”www.gasfanzine.dk”> <META NAME=”copyright” CONTENT=”[email protected]”> <META NAME=”keywords” CONTENT=”Leila Waddell, Laylah, Soror Agatha, Aleister Crowley, Simon Skaw, Scarlet Woman, Sister Cybele, Magick, Thelema, Church of Satan, Book of lies, Book four, Love ist the law, Sister Cybele McAllister, Argentum Astrum, black witch “> <META NAME=”description” CONTENT=”Leila Waddell, Priestess, Scarlet Woman, author -- The book of Lies, Magick, Book Foor. The muse of Thelema, black witch sister cybele, Argentum Astrum soror Agatha, Skaw’s bride. “> <META NAME=”page-topic” CONTENT=”information, Magick, Leila Waddell, Scarlet Woman”> <META NAME=”audience” CONTENT=”All”> <META NAME=”expires” CONTENT=”Tue, 23 Jun 2155 00:00:00 GMT”> <META NAME=”qomPURE” CONTENT=”NEO-ARCHIVE”> <meta name=”robots” content=”index,follow”> <meta name=”robots” content=”all”> <meta name=”content-language” content=”en”> <meta name=”revisit-after” content=”7 lives”> <meta name=”page-type” content=”Magic”> </head> <body> <div align=”center”> <table width=”80%”> <tr> <td> <div align=”center”> <h2 align=”center”><a name=”begin”></a>L. A. Y. L. A. H</h2> </table> <h1 align=”center”>Leila Ida Nerrissa Waddell<br> 1880 - ????<br> </h1> <p align=”center”><font size=”2”>Leila Waddell, Thelemic Saint, Priestess and Love of Aleister Crowley.<br>Author of some of Crowley’s finest works.</font><br></p> <em>&quot;It’s nice to be a devil when you’re one like me.</em>&quot; <br> <font size=”1”>(One of the few quotations of Leila herself.<br> <a href=”http://www.leilawaddell.com/77.htm”>Book of Lies, 77</a>) </font></p> <table border=0 cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0> <tr> <td> <pre> .-.-.
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