Deliria2: Cyberpunks Mutants & Mondoids

June 26, 2026July 7, 2026 Ken GoffmanLeave a comment

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

Tickets at Gray Area!

Featuring

SF Bay Area Premiere Nova ’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-Peña la pocha nostra hybrid ethno-techno language performance

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

Music

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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

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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

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

* The performances and viewings might be subject to change

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fragments of A String of Saturdays: The New Southern Romance

March 5, 2018December 12, 2020 Ken GoffmanLeave a comment

Illustrations courtesy Joseph Glen Daigle

by Todd Brendan Fahey

“I said, ‘Man, why don’t you come on in? I mean: we got a keg of codeine, five hundred cubic meters of nitrous oxide, a crateful of Special K—in those extra large ampoules you like.’ And Stan kind of kicks at the dirt and checks his watch: ‘Alright… But I only have fifteen minutes’.”

It is one of those delayed-megaton deliveries that pass into the cerebrum, whirl about for a bit, hit home as one is finishing the unfortunate angel food cake. And whilst speaking to the Dean.

Dr. Bryant Andersson turns his head just quickly enough, but nothing can save him—a fluffy and unnecessary concoction ridden of, flown from mouth and nostrils, so rude. But tenured, so nothing she can do about it—other than to suck her teeth, even though she gets it, too.

A collective wrack of guilty pleasure. A human buckling, at least one shot-through into the pool, fistpoundings on Home Depot outdoor dining sets and the general upset of disposal kitchenware. Fuck a Shriners roast: George Carlin would have shat himself.

From across the terrace, Stan nods mildly and stands a salute; Jack Jump flips him off and at ease. Infamy, notoriety: states to which he has always held a big brass Key. Read more “fragments of A String of Saturdays: The New Southern Romance”