AMEBIX THE BOOK
'END THE OLD DAY - ENTER BRIGHT NIGHT', about
Pagan//Punk Protagonists AMEBIX (1978-1987), and
some in their surroundings: ZYGOTE, SKRAELINGS,..IS OUT NOW!!!
Over hundred A4 pages: interviews, pictures, flyers, lyrics and artwork, with permission of Baron Rob, Stig, Molde,..
Thanks for co-operation and cameraderie to Rubinho, Sonya Hevn, Molde & Jaxx, Meg, Rosi Dotti, Jonathan RagnarRok, Pogo Mara, Stijn, Michael and of course Stig and Rob ex-AmeBiX.
The book is dedicated to the memory of Bibip, Afai, Willow, Suzanne and Lady Jaye.
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**CHANGING EVERYDAY! CHOOSING EVERY WICKED WAY! JUST JOKING KIDS, JUST JOKING.**I've read all Sherlock Holmes stories long ago, so have some capacity to find out. Swimming. Lucid dreaming. Indo-European History and Mythology. Chaoïsm. Rune Magic and Seidr - a Scandinavian sort of shamanism. Adeolinka's Yoruban spiritual background - if true there is a link between the Yoruban tribe and the Egyptian pyramids but in any case their cult was the fundament of the Santeria religion. Get fitter again. Herbalism. Ashwagandha, Calamus, Fly Agaric, Elder, Alder, Yew and so many other herbs inspire me - but definately most are NOT for ingestion, eating a Yew berry can kill you! A herb is: 'a plant with a special quality,' meaning all flora are herbs. Reading. Unique Fanzines, Magazines and Books. I'd love to get back to writing poems and song-lyrics. And funny short stories, re-working of older good material, phhhoooee, there's so much still to do. Anyway: Carpe Diem!**People with (relatively good) books on herbs, the ancient techniques of poetry, archeology, etc. who don't want them anymore, or if you wanna share your poems, whatever really, that you've got ready for your dustbin, get in touch for Karma-benefit. I can read Dutch, English, German, a bit of French, and allthough I don't understand most of the content immediately I love to browse through books in Scandinavian languages.Reyn til Runa!
I'd like to meet:
..* Difficult one without beginning about Gods and Goddesses I believe in. Of them I'd like to know the least known better: Tamfana, Albruna, Veleda, Nehelenia, Idunna, Gna, Snotra and the Alcis too of ourse. Some might have only been 'holy women' but that's about the same to me. I also hope that Bragi (eloquence) and Odin (wisdom) will lead and help and inspire me this year.** Because I'm gonna write a book about plants; NOT to be used as drugs except maybe one chapter to be complete. There's so much more to plant: their loox, ways of procreation, Clove against tooth-ache. So I'd like to meet the tooth-fairy and help me with my book.*** Singer Hazel O'Connor again, leading role in 1980 punk-movie, Breaking Glass. Now accompanied by guitar en harp; folky and beautifull.
To see again: Hazel O'Connor. Also: soulsis Esther Saldna, muse Romy Haag forever, Rubbella Ballets former bass-player Gem Stone, now I'm not so shy anymore and I'd talk with her, and her mother singing with her legendary band Poison Girls, even just one gig: I will be there, VI SUBVERSA./b
Music:
..FIRST: PRESS THE PLAY-TRIANGLE WITHIN THE BLACK SQUARE, JUST ABOVE AXEL'S INTERESTS TO HEAR A SPECIAL SONG. NOW, LET'S GO.SECOND: SEEN AND ENJOYED LIVE:Poison Girls. Zygote. Radical Dance Faction. Rubella Ballet. Contropotere. Toxic Waste. Current 93. Joolie Wood, Maja Elliot. Grijsland project. Romy Haag. Nina Hagen. Oroonies. Seven Kevins. Astrandt. Screech Rock. Disorder. Georges Moustaki. Lost Cherrees. Diamanda Galas. Psychick Warriors Ov Gaia. The Shamen. The Orb. Eat Static. Hawkwind. Einstuerzende Neubauten. Velvet Underground. Back To The Planet. The Pressgang. PAIN. Inner Terrestrials. Quazar. Liesbeth List. Antony and The Johnsons. Jah Sabi. Neuroot. Siouxsie and the Banshees. Loreena McKennit. Marianna Faithful. Robin Williamson ( // Incredible String Band). TV Smith. The Ex. The Legendary Pinkdots. Ozric Tentacles. Chris and Cosey. Coil. Little Annie aka Annie Anxiety was too drunk to funk in '87 but her last album, composed together with Antony, is well worth hearing,it's the best one she did during all her meanderings: 'Songs of the Coalmine Canary'.
** Anti-sect: what a waste to go see them in '85. Fast degeneration from their only studio album two years before. In '85 they were not a vegetarian band by the way -strange...or shall we say: very hypocritical for a band who made and makes money on the back of the animals by singing against meat-eating, vivisection and other animal exploitation topics; letting people think they care and buy their T-shirts and so promote they records.
**Conflict: From '83 I'd seen some good punky local bands live (first gig with De Muur and Certaines Erreurs was great) but an English band like Conflict in '84 that was..'84? /CUT/ Every stereotype Anarcho-punk: GAME OVER!THIRD: POSITIVE NEWS: Hazel O'Connor is a-coming to Limburg(remember the movie BREAKING CLASS?).FOURTH: BANDS I DIDN'T SEE BUT LIKED SOME OF THEIR MATERIAL ON TAPE, VINYL OR CD:AmeBiX. The Skraelings. Iowaska. Karnyx. Flowers In The Dustbin. The Ruts. Jefferson Airplane. Great Society. Grace Slick. Malaria.'Acts of Love' LP. Comus. Plasmatics. 'Diana' 7" with Gramschap autonomen zine. Beethoven's 'Für Elise' played by my Mutti (I've got one too Dotti!!). The Babys. False Prophets (once). Fairport Convention with Sandy Denny. Pentangle. Trees. The Damned. The Pogues when with Shane McGowan. Blondie. David Bowie ('Heroes' was my first 7", bought Christmass 1977). Amanda Lear (especially cos of the'Give a bit of Hmmm to me. and I'll give bit of Hmmm to you' piece). Sonne Hagal. Fire + Ice. Verdandi. Joni Mitchel. Nico. Nico again. Nurse With Wound (some, there is too-ooth much). Eden Abhez. Vacuüm. PRAGMA (although they didn't get past their embryonic stage). De Jet $et. The Atims. Toxic Shock. Japan (first two LP's). Modern English (first album). Pro Justitia (not so much for the band, which was good though) but for the hash from pipes (when I still could bear this hallucinogen) and - being only 15 years old and curious - the attendance of a beautiful young trans-sexual, sister of a girl in my class, but that was all taboo to be spoken of..I later heard from her sister all went well with her, including the material and marital aspects..this while the local hardrockers who pestered her then are now probably alcoholic wage-slaves.
**The Baader Popgruppe (their 7" with Gramschap, their communiqué in Kotskompas no 5, and their demo-tape on Stum Tapes)
**It was very wyrd to meet some-one somewhere in a coffee-shop in Holland in the country-side, just over the Belgian border. A fat and tattoed guy stood next to us and started talking to us with the easy line: 'Here from Belgium?' This 'man in the crowd' told us he had been a heavy junk while in Amsterdam, and had played in a band, but no-one of the younger people here would even recognise the name of the band,' so he said. 'What was the name of the band I asked, expecting nothing special, besides perhaps a 'Status Who' cover band. To my extreme surprise he said
'De Baader Popgruppe'. And I remembered having seen leaflets for his release from prison after he had (tried to) 'wanted to earn revolutionary taxes' from an 'internationally operating shopping-chain,' ages ago. So this 'freedom fighter' was actually just this bloke who had needed money for his next fix. I said: I've got your single and your demo-tape, were you on that last one as well.? 'Noooo-,' he moaned, 'that was recorded after they kicked me out, you know, I cared more for the needle than for the band.' Sometimes we laughed when I told that story to friends who had also heard BPG's only 7" when younger, but being fair - I fucked with drux and got fat due to medication to get me off them, and just like him left a minor legacy on vinyl as well. 6 Tracks for the band Dawn of Liberty (a 4 track 7", 2 tracks on 2 compilation LP's whereof one was the first compilation on the Peaceville label titled 'A Vile Peace', released 1986/7 - with Doom, Chumbawamba, Civilised Society etc. Actually the band almost begged me to write positive anarcho lyrics when at that point I was already writing more, 'real' poetry. It was a good record though.THAT WILL DO FOR NOW.
Movies:
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The Wicker Man. The Gods must be Crazy. Soylent Green. Snow White. Watership Down. The Kingdom by Lars von Trier
MARY POPPINS, every year on TV: supercalifragilisticexpealidocious...even just the sound
Television:
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DE LUSTIGE LEZERS! Hertenkamp. Jiskefet. The Simpsons. Tour de France - full 3 weex every year! Mary Poppins, every time around Christmass.
Books:
..I WILL DEVIDE ALL THESE BOOX4CROOX IN TWO. BELOW, AT THE WELL OF WYRD, YOU WILL FIND ALL BOOKS I FOUND OF USE ON MY SPIRITUAL SEARCH FOR THE RUNES, THE MYSTERIES OF THE
MULTIVERSE. ABOVE, A SAMPLE OF WHAT I THOUGHT WAS REALLY GOOD, LEAVING OUT MUCH OF THE MEDIOCRE.
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**********Ovid: 'Metamorphosis', Ouspenski, Tuurke Schopenhauer, A. Crowley (semi-fiction), Rumi (Sufi Poet), Dostojewski, De Heilige Genoveva van Brabant, 'Het Grote Leger achter de Anarchistische Vlag' (je kindertijd laat je toch nooit los, hé?), Papoea Punk (wil ik wel een exemplaar van kopen indien mogelijk, uitgeverij was EPO), Diana Ozon, Inge Viett, Ulrike Meinhoff, Ulrike Thimme, Stefan Aust,Ian Glasper, Gerard Berger, Timothy Leary: 'Flashbacks', Jim Hogshire: 'Opium for the Masses', Hermann Hesse. E.A. Poe, E.T.A. Hoffmann, Penny & Arthur Rimbaud, Homerus (enkel 'De Ilyad'to nu toe), HH Ewers, Waterschapsheuvel, Tom Sawyer, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Bipip aka Eric Deckers, JP van Rossem, Ernest Claes, Menno Wigman, (onderwerp:) De Bokkerijders, Leopold and Wanda von Sacher-Masoch voornamelijk's Leopold's 'Venus in Furs', Re/Search Series by V.Vale and extended family: 'Angry Women', Fanzines vol 1 and 2, Incredibly Strangle music vol 1 and 2, Pranks vol 1 (-- vol 2 has just been released), Robert Anton Wilson and Robert Shea: 'The Illuminaty!Trilogy, Robert Anton Wilson: 'The Illuminaty Chronicles' vol 1& 2, Meyrinck, Blok 5 fanzine & Destructief Jong Nederland blad - kompleet met punkspel, Alle verhalen en legenden rond de Loreley, Wilhelm Reich (verbannen uit Duitsland door de Nazi's, en daarna openbare boeken-verbranding door de Yanks), Austin Osman Spare, Brenda Love: 'Encyclopedia of unusual sex-practices', ?: 'L'Histoire d'O' (Naar het Nederlandse vertaald door Adriaan Morriën), Ovid: Methamorphosis§§§§§§§§§§§§§§§§§§§§§§§
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3-monthly magazine RUNA, Rudiger Suner: 'Schwarze Sonne', Stephen Harrod Bohnen: 'Sacred and Herbal Healing Beers', Claudia Muller-Ebeling, Christian Rätsch & Wolf-Dieter Stoll: 'Witchcraft medicine', Chirstian Rätsch: 'Magical plants', Thomas Karlsson: 'Uthark, Nightside of the Runes', Julius Ceasar: 'The wars on Gaul', Yves Kodratoff: 'Les Runes', Ralhp Metzner: 'At the well of wyrd', Flowers aka Thorson,'The well of Wyrd - The Rune Casters handbook,', 'Runelore', 'Northern Magic', 'Rune Might', 'Runarmal', 'Ogham, the Celtic oricle', 'Witchdom of the True', 'S.Flowers'&'Chrystal Dawn': 'Carnal Alchemy' 'The Runepoems, vol 1' Mainstays, vol 1 - from the Rune-Kevels 1994-1998', Johannes Bureus and the Adulruna', 'Green Runa', 'Blue Runa' Alice Karlsdottir: 'The Magic of the Norse Godesses -Mythology, Ritual, Tranceworking-', Peter Carroll: 'Liber Null & Psychonaut', 'Liber Kaos', Dave Lee: 'The Rune Poem', 'Wealth Magic', 'Rigsthula retold', Dion Fortune : 'Avalon of the heart', Aleister Crowley: 'The book of the law', 'Absinthe, the Green Goddess', Axel van Valvrucht: 'Germaanse Mythology, Magie en Mysteries', 'Ecodrugs', Valgard: 'Valknutr-9 Lays of Power', Jan Fries: 'Cauldron of the Gods (Celtic), 'Seidways', ? The Vinland Saga's', A. Cheetan & D. Brueton: 'The Sacred Yew', Stephen Flowers: 'Northern Dawn, volume 1', Kveldulfr Gundarsson: 'Teutonic Magic', 'Our Troth' ?: 'Egil's Saga', ?: 'Sagas of the Warior-Poets', ?': 'Laxdaela Saga', ?: 'Njal's Saga', ?: 'The Völsungen Saga', James Chisholm: 'Grove and Gallows', Tacitus: 'Germania', Procopius: 'Secret History', Elias Lönrott: 'The Kalevala', S. Flowers and M. Moynihan & 'The Secret king - Karl Maria Wiligut', Nigel Pennick: 'Runic astrology', 'The secret of the runes, 'Games of the Gods', Robert Roller: 'Runic Numeroly'. Andy Orchard: 'Encyclopedia of Norse Myth and Legend', H.A. Guerber: 'Saga's of the Norseman', Grimm's Fairytails, Hans Andersen: 'De kleine Zeemeermin, Procopius: 'De Oorlogen, boeken 1 tot 8', Horst Eber: 'Odin', Gundarsson: 'Wotan: the road to Valhalla', Hilda Ellis Davidson: 'The road to Hel', ? : 'Scientific Magic', 'Jenny Blain: 'Wights and Anderson', Inga Steddinger: 'Wiccan Sex Magic', ?: 'Eyrbyggja Saga'
My New Book
Heroes:
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My Grandfather. My Son. My Valkyrie and MySelf. Romy Haag. Sherlock Holmes and Doctor Watson.
