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  • Deliria2: Cyberpunks Mutants & Mondoids

    Deliria2: Cyberpunks Mutants & Mondoids

    Tickets To Deliria 2!

    A 2 Day Extravaganza
    Wednesday 8/12 – Thursday 8/13

    Benway Bill

     

     

    Dr Benway is waiting for you to buy your tickets to Deliria! Nurse! Prepare the patient for surgery…

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    Break News: 15 Minutes with Brett Leonard, film director and Hollywood’s go-to guy about digital culture, VR & AI has been added to the Wednesday August 12 bill!

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    Featuring

    SF Bay Area PremiereNova ’78 directed by Aaron Brookner and Rodrigo Areias. Starring William S. Burroughs, Frank Zappa, Patti Smith, Laurie Anderson, Allen Ginsberg, Timothy Leary, Robert Anton Wilson. Nova ’78 is showing once on August 12 only! Limited seating for Wednesday program. 

    Guillermo Gómez-Peñala pocha nostra hybrid ethno-techno language performance

    Deliria2

    MC David Gill of Point Reyes Reality Investigation Center (PRRIC) will be hosting both nights

    Live Sonic Deconstruction by ‘Know – 1″

    Extreme ambiance provided by Kimric Smythie (formerly SRL and other performance groups)

    (Revelers at The Gulf Of Deliria at Gray Area June 7 2025)

    Films / Visual Media

    Deliria2

    Craig Baldwin’s Tribulation 99

    Filmmaker Presentation: Degens — Down & Out in the Crypto Casino   Directors Brian McGleenon and Joe Haughey discuss the making of their upcoming documentary.

    John Law  — finding out what he was SUPPOSED TO DO for the last 50 years and then doing something else.

    Marc Franklin/Lord Nose[pre-Mondo mondoid] psychedelic heroes and other revealing photos

    Nova ’78starring William S. Burroughs, Frank Zappa, Patti Smith, Laurie Anderson and too many more

    Music

    Deliria

    Cyrnai: Pioneering electronic music project of Carolyn Fok, fuses analog synthesis, industrial textures, ambient soundscapes, and driving electronic rhythms into immersive, hypnotic live performance

    300dpi smarter kings of deliria front cover (#71022)

    R.U. Sirius/Phriendz/Digital Dead/Virtual Pretenderers –No one expects this inquisition

    Your Leader Oakland-based guitar and synth strangling madness

     (Guillermo Gómez-Peña)

    Performance Art

    Deliria

    Guillermo Gomez-Peña la pocha nostrahybridic mutant language performance

    Tony Parisi & Marina Berlin — Have all your questions answered by the AI God

     

    Talks

    Annalee Newitz Hugo Award winning fancaster and SF author

    David Gill Point Reyes Reality Investigation Center will be hosting both nights

    Shira Chess & R.U. Sirius with Bart Nagel offer a nibble from Freaks in the Machine: Mondo 2000 in Late 20th Century Tech Culture

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    Now on Sale visit Gray Area to get your Early bird tickets! 

    * The performances and viewings might be subject to change

    send inquiries to Sirioso@Yahoo.com under the topic Deliria2

  • Mama But Weer All In Chapel Perilous Now

     

    Lyrical cycle by R.U. Sirius with a number of videos and songs attached

    Imagine 2.0 (2015)

    Unrecorded

    Imagine there’s a song everybody sings and no one means
    Imagine they sing it in Times Square every New Years Eve

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    Mama But Weer All in Chapel Perilous Now (2017)

     

     

    Has your S M I Two L E turned into a scowl?
    Does weaponized idiocracy have you throwing in the towel?
    Could anybody in this pinched surveiled nation write another Howl?
    I said mama but we’re all in Chapel Perilous now

    Are the students at your college acting like Maoists?
    Have you seen weird apparitions like neonazi Taoists?
    Does it seem perfectly normal that the President’s a crazy clown?
    I said mama but we’re all in Chapel Perilous now

    Did you read RAW and not get the joke
    Are you gorging on conspiracies until you choke
    r.u. even more dogmatic after taking a toke
    How we wish Bob was here to make everybody Pope

    Is Operation Mindfuck now with Gog and Magog
    And some witless little nerd boy who loves Pepe the Frog
    If nothing is true and anything is allowed
    I said mama but we’re all in Chapel Perilous now

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    Merry Tweekster World Mutation Day/Sufi Sales (1987)

    recorded by Merry Tweeksters (pre-MONDO Vanilli) Listen to Merry Tweekster World Mutation Day/Sufi Sales

    It’s still a few days away
    And the kiddies all look so gray
    But they’ll be getting a bit of a spin-out
    When they see the hippie trip-o-world flip out

    On the frontiers of my neocortex
    As I think bi-lobely and act globally
    Who knows what glows Cher Noble
    And who sees armageddon it on
    But beyond the abyss we’re on vinegar and piss
    As we leave Ronald Reagan and beyond
    Merry Tweekster World Mutation Day
    And it’s never gonna be the same

    Merry Tweekster World Mutation Day
    So let me introduce you to the one-and-only Sufi Sales
    Merry Tweekster World Mutation Day
    So let me introduce you to the one-and-only Sufi Sales
    Merry Tweekster World Mutation Day
    So let me introduce you to the one-and-only Sufi Sales
    Merry Tweekster World Mutation Day
    So let me introduce you to the one-and-only Sufi Sales

    SUFI SALES

    I’m Sufi Sales
    Though no one seems to know it
    I’m Sufi Sales
    Though no one seems to care
    And if it rains
    I don’t believe I’ll go out
    You’ll wait for me but I won’t make it there

    Rolling along singing a song
    And I don’t believe I’ll be for very long
    Coming back home and sitting alone
    And my Sadie comes in with an ice cream cone
    Ice cream cone
    Ice cream cone oh yeah

    And it’s my day to be just this way
    The loving I crave won’t make me a slave
    I can lay down without a frown
    Sufi Sales is back in town

    (Watch out for laughter
    Watch out for fun
    Sufi Sales is back
    Hun)

     

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    On The Beam (1982/2016 remix)

    Watch video by Phriendz. On The Beam by Party Dogs, Remix by Phriendz 2016

    She’s so fine
    On the beam
    And she’s so high
    On the beam
    On the beam on the beam
    All the time
    In the world
    Well if you try
    You’re a lucky girl lucky girl

    If you can feel it
    You can dance forever
    If you can deal with it
    Live forever live forever
    Everything
    Will be ours
    From the planet
    To the stars to the stars

    We’re getting on the beam
    Things are just as they seem
    Immortality in the age of the clever
    Live forever live forever

    On the beam
    Live forever

     

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    White Babbits (2017)

    Watch video for White Babbits  Music by Trevor Boink & Grace Schtick, Video by Satori D

    based on White Rabbit by Grace Slick

    One pill makes you smarter
    And one pill makes you small
    and the ones that mother gives you
    ritalin or adderall
    And your phallus Needs Viagra after all

    and if you go fleecing babbits
    cause the banks are gonna fall
    tell ’em the hookah smoking anarchist
    has got you by the balls
    call alice — she’s totally appalled

    White men on the radio
    Get off on telling you who to hate
    and your friend has joined the teabags
    And your spending your weekends straight
    And your phallus has a Cialis date

    When logic and proportion
    Have fallen sloppy dead
    And the fat cat’s are aging backwards
    And your friends are filled with dread
    Remember what the lab rat said
    Freeze your head
    Freeze your head

    …..

    I Wanna Be Your Radio 1992

    recorded by MONDO Vanilli

    Listen to I Wanna Be Your Radio

    I wanna steal your radio
    Sacrifice your fingers to an electric fence
    I torture you in future tense staccato
    And come back home and rest in bed all day

    I’ve got techniques for ecstasy
    Keeping them under the hat stand
    Let’s whip ’em out
    And see if anything fits on your head

    I wanna steal your radio
    Capture you on a hard disc drive
    Save you and make a million copies
    Give one to each of my friends

    I inverted the very color of being
    But you — you weren’t there

    I wanna be your radio
    Sire wire fire and inspire you (cyber cyber)
    Flick the switch that renders you insane
    Come back home and rest in bed all day (cyber cyber)

    I wanted to be Salvador Dali
    I wanted to be dead and unreasonable
    Let’s grieve in concentric circles
    To make the night release your brain

    I wanna be your radio
    Now I wanna be your radio (more…)

  • Timothy Leary’s Trip Thru Time (born on October 22 in 1920)

    Then this tree, like a cosmic vacuum cleaner, went ssssuuuck, and every cell in my body was swept into the root, twigs, branches, and leaves of this tree. Tumbling and spinning, down the soft fibrous avenues to some central point which was just light.

    It’s Timothy Leary’s birthday and for your pleasure, here is the original version of a chapter from Timothy Leary’s Trip Thru Time

    by R.U. Sirius

    Timothy Leary AP (After Psychedelics) — The Harvard Psilocybin Project

     

    Timothy Leary’s First Trip

    When David McClellan, director of the Center for Personality Research at Harvard asked Timothy Leary to teach there under his aegis, he told Tim to “stir things up a bit.” In his later years, Leary liked to quip, “I think he got his money’s worth.”

    Leary first heard about the effects of psilocybin in 1959 from his friend Frank Barron, who had recently tried the mushrooms and came away impressed by their visionary properties. Tim reacted negatively to Barron’s suggestion that he try them. Lacking any awareness of psychedelic substances — and in spite of Barron’s vivid description — he thought of drugs, along with such gross physical methods as electroshock therapy, as blunt, harmful, coercive tools that behavioral psychology used to force patients to conform. However, the following year — perhaps undergoing one of those much vaunted “midlife crises” as his fortieth birthday was approaching — Leary suddenly got the urge to try the mushrooms.

    Timothy Leary’s poolside psilocybin trip on August 9, 1960 in Cuernevaca, Mexico is an oft-told tale — central, as it is, to the history of Western psychedelic culture.

    The ‘shrooms were copped by Leary’s friend, historian Lothar Knauth, from “Old Juana,” a disheveled, hunchbacked old woman in raggedy clothes who led him wordlessly out of town and onto an old dirt road before effecting the deal.

    Timothy Leary’s first trip began pleasantly. He felt lightheaded “as if from laughing gas.” One of the people who had not taken the drug had been assigned to take notes. He was nerdily-dressed in oddly mismatched clothes. Leary, seeing him scribbling earnestly in his notepad, went into fits of laughter that only increased as he reflected on the pomposity of socialized professionals, himself included.

    As the trip intensified, he had a brief moment of panic, worrying that the effects may be too strong, and that his kids, playing blissfully unaware inside the villa shouldn’t be around a bunch of drug-crazed adults. He had one of the straight adults send the kids off to the movies for the afternoon. Then he let himself go.

    In High Priest and other autobiographical books, Leary describes visions of “Nile Palaces, Bedouin pleasure tents, mosaics of flaming color, jewel encrusted reptiles, mosaics lit from within.” And then he re-experienced all of evolution; floating “down through snake time, fish time, giant jungle-palm-time, green lacy fern leaf-time” until “hello, I am the first living thing.”

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  • Did It! From Yippie To Yuppie: Jerry Rubin, An American Revolutionary (Excerpt)

    Did It! From Yippie To Yuppie: Jerry Rubin, An American Revolutionary (Excerpt)

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

    As savvy as the slickest madmen in advertising, the Yippies tried to project universal messages: “everyone is a leader” and “the Festival is whatever you want it to be.” As Jerry told Abe Peck in 1985, “It was mutual manipulation.

    A marvelous visual stunning book by Pat Thomas, Did It: Jerry Rubin” An American Revolutionary captures the excitement and humor of the prankster counterculture radicalism of the 1960s and ’70s as well as the odd engagements of Rubin and varied fellow travelers with other attempts at bending reality across the remainder of the 20th Century. Did It is an oral history — not just of Jerry Rubin, but of the people with whom he engaged in activism and play… among them boldface names like John Lennon and Yoko Ono, Bob Dylan and Allen Ginsberg.

    For those of you too young to remember, Jerry Rubin was one of the leaders of the Yippies or Youth International Party, a group that took a radical mix of counterculture and new left ideas and impulses and turned it into disruptive, funny and dangerous political theater.

    While the Yippies are best known for their famous “siege of Chicago” — some of the activities leading up to that are memorialized in this excerpt — they remained a vital organization into the 1970s and were the leading activists in a few communities.

    We will be running an interview with Pat Thomas about the book soon. Meanwhile, we hope you enjoy these pages straight from the book.

    Thanks to author Pat Thomas and FANTAGRAPHICS for permission to publish this excerpt. In addition to his current book, Thomas is the author of Listen, Whitey! The sights & sounds of Black Power 1965-1975 and consulted on the essential film history of the Black Panther Party, The Black Panthers: The Vanguard of the Revolution.

    For those of you who would prefer not to squint at the tiny print that accompanies the pdfs from the book itself, we provide the unadulterated text below the designed pages.

    btw there’s not much point to Steal This Book online. It’s the visual design that makes it! So rip off your boyfriend instead.

    See also Steal This Singularity – The Yippies Started The Digital Revolution

     

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  • HYPER-INTERACTIVITY TEARSHEET From “Freaks In The Machine: MONDO 2000 in the Tech Culture” High Frontiers 1988

    Describe your earliest peak experience in 500 words or less. The best response, as determined by a panel of huffy curmudgeonly semioticists, urban folklorists, and idiopathologists, will be published in the next issue.

    Magazines are supposed to learn more about their consumers for advertisers. We needed advertisers just like anybody else. But this tear-sheet from High Frontiers #4 (1988) was not at all normal. Some of it today might just look like cheap “hipster” appeal, but these semiotics were potent and friendly in the day. And some of these are genuinely amusing.  I believe many of the questions came from Morgan Russell. Also, from Queen Mu and R.U. Sirius and maybe some other folks. Answer Us! (more…)