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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!

    BrettLeonard

    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

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    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

  • Predictions for the Future

    R.U. Sirius

     

    Immediate Future 2017-2019

    I predict that these predictions will be proved incorrect but it was fun to write them. All kinds of crazy shit will occur that no one could predict.

    In 2018, the Democrats will win back the House. They may or may not win back the Senate.

    If the Democrats win back the Senate, Trump will be impeached.

    If Trump is impeached, a few prominent liberal/feminist pundits will express qualified praise for Mike Pence’s sexual morality.

    “The internet” will continue to get its collective knickers in a twist (or is it panties in a bunch?) every day over something that some celebrity said that doesn’t matter a soggy fucking banana.

     

    2020s

    We will be in a state of constant crisis brought on by…

    • increasingly apocalyptic weather events
    • economic mini-collapses resulting from a) Wall Street bubbles, b) currency confusion due to digital/alternate currencies c) hackers finally cashing in their ownership of everyone’s data… largely in the service of global “cyberwarfare.”
    • Increasing international conflicts

    This state of constant crisis will be greeted by a fair amount of cheery positive thinking, do-gooding and community activism. Good feelings about diversity will be cranked up to 11.

     

    The far right will recede as a force in American politics. The anxiety about immigrants will also recede, although that won’t be the case in other parts of the world. There will be enough remaining dead-enders to distract and let us all feel superior.

    A liberal/neoliberal centrism will maintain power in the US and be credited, correctly, with getting the lid back on enough to prevent total chaos.

    The world will continue to be mostly owned by about a hundred people.

    The multi-trillion dollar surveillance state will continue and grow and rarely be questioned.

    US Foreign interventions will be limited, more frequent and seem, on the surface, pretty necessary as berserkers go ever-more berserk on a global scale. Resistance will be sparse and tepid. We will always seem on the verge of a big war.

     

     

    There will be slow but certain improvements in our justice system and in its treatment of people of color.

    There will be an inadequate universal guaranteed income that will, nonetheless, be less cruel and pinched than what is left of the welfare system.

    The future will be much like Brave New World. A self-regarding, middlebrow, well behaved, quasi-liberal conformism will suffuse everything. It will be sharply satirized, mainly by British TV imports.

    The margins around what’s ok in speech and creative work will continue to tighten.

     

     

    The reputations of almost everybody who was interesting during the 20th Century, including those of many radical feminists, will fall before the expanding sex inquisition.

     

     

    Sexuality will continue to evolve along the lines of a strange hybrid of prissiness combined with organized kink. Gender “non-conformism” will be the new gender conformism

    The Apology will be the main social ritual of the society. It will be a source of gossip and social cohesion, giving 21st Century America a sort-of consensus narrative similar to the one that was once provided for by religion and alcoholism/drug addiction, i.e. sin and redemption.

     

    At the end of the 2020s, we will be on the verge of prescription longevity medicine. It’ll be effective but have side effects. (By its nature, we’ll have to wait a real long fuckin’ time to find out how effective it is.)

    Self-driving cars will not be mass market yet.

    Psychiatrists will increasingly be allowed to prescribe psychedelic drugs and mind stimulants. They will be very effective.

    Printable replacement organs will become increasingly available, mainly to the wealthy.

    Proof of concept will be achieved for molecular machines that can make almost anything out of very little. Possible dangers and broad social chaos will stall its availability. The Pentagon will have a secret project that will have it weaponized and ready for use by the 2030s. It will be less lethal than conventional weapons.

    We will have a major political figure who ends his or her talks by saying “Namaste.” (Jerry Brown will not live long enough to see this happen.)

     

    The likelihood of a lot of cool and useful new toys/tools is largely dependent on the well-being and success of Elon Musk. Stand back! Give him some space!

    Darren Aronofsky will film Illuminatus. It will be denounced as (Fill in the blank)ist by some but not all.

  • 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

    ….

    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

    ……….

    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…)

  • White Babbits Trevor Boing & Grace Schtick

    Lyrics by R.U. Sirius (based on 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
    (more…)