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The Silence, Slenderman and Alan Moore's Ideaspace
Here's a spooky thing to think about this Hallowe'en. This is The Silence. I'll assume you know about the Silence from watching Doctor Who.This is Slenderman. Slenderman (Or the Slender Man, if you...
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KLF: Chaos Magic Music Money - new book out now
In 1994 Bill Drummond and Jimmy Cauty took a million pounds to a deserted boathouse on the island of Jura, and burnt it. I wish they hadn't, to be honest, but there you go.I read about it afterwards in...
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The Superman/Doctor Who/KLF Popstar Car - An Unseen Transvestite Pirate Nun...
Here you go...Okay, this picture might need a bit of explaining.First of all, you may recognise the car:As the car explains on its record sleeve, its name is Ford Timelord and it is the first car to...
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The last days of Radio Eris
Radio Eris is still burbling away, but it will shut down for good at midnight on Friday.If you're not familiar with Radio Eris, it's an algorithmically generated audio stream that takes a bank of...
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Danny Boyle's Jerusalem: The High Magic of the 2012 Olympics Opening Ceremony
Bruce Robinson's 1989 film How To Get A Head In Advertising ends with Richard E. Grant paraphrasing William Blake's Jerusalem: "I shall not cease 'til Jerusalem is builded here, on England's green and...
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The Red Room & The White Room
Are there connections between The KLF's 'White Room' and David Lynch's 'Red Room' from Twin Peaks? Both are unreal places which represent a certain state of mind, but are there any, more concrete,...
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Update on the KLF paperback
So where's the bloody KLF paperback, then?I get asked that most days and the short answer is that it will be a while yet - but it will be a much nicer edition when it arrives.This is the longer...
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The KLF paperback: September
I am very happy to announce that the paperback version of my KLF book will be released on September 26th and can be pre-ordered here.And because this is a story that grew out of a fire, I'm quietly...
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Last Call for the KLF ebook
Just to forewarn anyone with half a mind to pick up a copy of the KLF ebook - I'll be pulling it from Amazon on Monday (May 27th). It will then be unavailable until September 26th, when a shiny new...
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The NSA and Biographers
When I was researching my Timothy Leary biography in 2005, I had access to Leary's archive. This is now being meticulously cared for by the New York Public Library, but it was then in this nondescript...
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Gimpo's M25 25-Hour Spin
Once a year, at the weekend closest to the Spring Equinox, Gimpo - best known to KLF watchers as the man who filmed the money burning - drives around the M25 for 25 hours. His aim is to do this for 25...
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Brandy In The Basement
Jason Arnopp is a lovely, charming man, so it is sometimes difficult to understand where the malignant evil in his writing comes from.You may know Jason from his Doctor Who, Sarah Jane Adventures or...
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The First Church on the Moon - out now
Today is my 42nd birthday. To celebrate I'm putting out a The First Church on the Moon, a Douglas Adams-esque novel and the sort-of sequel to The Brandy of the Damned, as a freebie.You can get the...
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EPIC UPDATE - Plate Spinning 101
There's so much going on that I'm starting to lose track with what's been announced and what hasn't. Hence this EPIC UPDATE to put that right - more for my benefit than for yours, I suspect.1. The...
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Go Home @klfbook, You're Drunk
A relationship with a book is very one-sided. You learn from it, it does not learn from you. A book can alter your brain if it so wishes, but you can do nothing to the book. Except throw it at a wall....
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Youth's early Killing Joke-era "acid flipout"
Writing The KLF was in part an attempt to scratch an itch created by an aborted attempt to write a book about Killing Joke. There's a lot of cross-over between those two stories, and many of the...
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The Daily Mail is a Drug
The reason for the Daily Mail's continued growth is simple. For every story it runs it asks itself, "How can I present this story in manner that will generate a feeling of disgust in the reader?" The...
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Jimmy Cauty's tiny police state
Yesterday I went to launch of James Cauty's Aftermath Dislocation Principle, a square mile of post-apocalyptic landscape shrunk down to 1:87 scale. The model itself is huge - 448 square feet - but the...
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Ten Reasons For Burning Money
Burning money is an action where intent is everything.I've already written at length about Jimmy Cauty and Bill Drummond burning a million pounds, but what other reasons are there for lighting up the...
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Moon Bibles
This story appeared in The Times earlier in the week (many thanks to Steve Moore for sending me the clipping).Microfilm moon bibles! What a wonderful snapshot of that brief moment in history when we...
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