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Text / images: Mark Soden ( Agent SCOW ) |
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It is stated in The Book Of SCOW |
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| That to be absolved of the artificial Greed, Guilt and Desire that are produced in us by persuasive media it is necessary to assault the Icon its self. In a precedent set by the late God, Elvis Presley, the ritual shooting of televisions with large caliber hand guns is a way for the followers of SCOW to rid themselves of the residual anxiety left by the persuasive media. Persuasive media is also known as advertising. Easily one of the most damaging forms of visual pollution. Advertising demands our attention and turns our desire for sexual gratification against us to make us a race of consumer robots. Gaining neither happiness or sexual gratification in the process. As pathetic as it sounds the ever growing mass of humanity that considers their television their only true friend willingly runs a television all day just for some "Sound in the house." The followers of SCOW recognize that these people are LOST. They can NEVER be rehabilitated and reprogrammed. So LET THEM GO! This leads us directly to one of the most holy postulates in The Book of SCOW; You can not save anyone else if you don't save your own ass first. For a follower of SCOW to purify themselves of the demons left by advertising it is necessary to leave the society and travel to the unpopulated desert wasteland. To eat the Ritual Satanic Barbecue and to pick a target for the ritual from the piles of debris offered for sale or barter in a swap meet. Only by doing this can the devoted once again "walk in beauty" purged of the longings for unattainable possessions. At midnight we ride. Driving while listening to the CB radio drift is the preferred method for the devoted to achieve the Zen state of no mind. A state of emptiness and void that allows the follower of SCOW to be free of thought and focus on the emptiness of existence. Driving is its own reward. Quartzite The writer Hachim Bey speaks of Temporary Autonomous Zones or TAZ. Places where like minded people congregate to revel in their similarity of purpose. Although Mr. Bey may have been referring to far more "hip" situations, Quartzite Arizona is a TAZ for the aged and unhip. Located off exit 17 on interstate 10. Quartzite is a collection of swapmeets, flea markets and rabble. It is here that the quest for absolution will begin. In this instance Agent SCOW has located his truck in a dry camp behind the "Texas BBQ" off the business loop in Quartzite. Lacking the tools to do his own ritual satanic barbecue, the Texas BBQ will have to do. As the ritual for Texas and southern style barbecue is similar to satanic barbecue. In that the hellish flames and fiery sauces are present for all three types. The Texas BBQ is a worthy place to begin the quest. The Day of Atonement Beginning the day of atonement at sunrise Agent SCOW must locate a sacrifice and a ritual site. Moving by bicycle between flea markets SCOW locates a suitable sacrifice at the west end of Quartzite at the "Shop till you drop" stand. After leaving Quartzite and driving north SCOW crosses the state line into California at Parker Arizona. He then proceeds west on highway 62 crossing the California desert. The city of Rice stands as a symbol of life in the wasteland. If it is not occupied it will be destroyed. The Ritual Off highway 62 on a private mining road Agent SCOW locates a site for the ritual. Utilizing a Ruger .357 caliber handgun Agent SCOW focuses on an image for each bullet he loads. A commercial image. An image that has lodged itself into his brain uninvited and must be removed. After a secret prayer invoking the spirit of Elvis SCOW begins to discharge rounds. He carefully counts as he fires repeating the invocation to Elvis on the prime numbered rounds. After the sacrificial television has been pummeled by 23 rounds SCOW pauses. The television is silent and is humiliated in its disarray. It is rendered harmless in that it can no longer deliver its torrent of stupidity, its sham of content and its parade of persuasion. It is the nexus of the ritual, now as SCOW loads the revolver a much more complex set of images is attached to each round. The last fourteen rounds are discharged in a flurry. Shouting obscenities and venting the hatred back to the sacrificial television SCOW releases the demons by name. Calling out the names of programs and so-called stars, cursing the news and all forms of media driven non-information. All told 37 rounds were passed through the sacrificial television. SCOW's focus was good and none of the rounds missed their target. The ritual was completed and absolution was achieved. Later, as SCOW cleaned the Ruger in a motel room that smelled of gunpowder solvent, he considers whether to meditate on the ritual. Whether to seek the thread of meaning buried in the torrent of epithets he chose during the discharge of the last fourteen rounds. He decides to let it go. Whatever meaning he would find there could never match the ecstatic emptiness of driving. | |
| WWW http://www.personal.u-net.com/~andyhunt/ Andy Hunt is a guy that works in a mattress factory in theUK. He also makes Midi files and got married on the internet. My relationship to all this is that we met as resrocket surfers and mixed each others midi files. http://www.deltanet.com/intersphere/be Evil Albert’s BBQ When I do Barbecue competitions I compete as Evil Albert’s BBQ. Cooking in this manner is about as lazy as you can get. All the evidence you need is on the Evil Albert’s site. HotWired is the only really commercial site that I follow regularly. http://www.deltanet.com/intersphere/be/scow000.htm If attitude is substance, then SCOW has substance. We are lazy, We are SCOW! http://www.deltanet.com/intersphere/be/ The Big Enjoyers are not lazy. They provide the world with yet another flavor of guitar pop. http://jubal.westnet.com/hyperdiscordia/sacred_ heart_elvis.html The First Church of Jesus Christ Elvis. The title was all it took to get me to this site. If you have no sense of humor or satire then don’t go there! |
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