Interzone report of February 21th 99

http://www.salonmagazine.com/comics/dark/mavr/1998/10/02mavr1.html

Hi Zoners and new members J ,

I hope you are well

Here is the monthly report of Interzone activities :

1. The Interzone Coffee House :

Grovetta (Grape 2061) Grape2061@yahoo.com http://www.geocities.com/Area51/Dreamworld/9825/ created it as a Yahoo club on January the 30^th , the Interzone Coffee House, http://clubs.yahoo.com/clubs/theinterzonecoffeehouse , and she invited other Burroughs' fans out of the Zone to join ( you can join at : http://edit.clubs.yahoo.com/config/sjg?.i=theinterzonecoffeehouse&.a=i& . As a result, 50 members have done it since, and people have been sending many messages (about 150). There is a chat-room, a photo album where you can put pics in, a callendar for the appointments, a page for everyone, etc., and the atmosphere is nice. We don't actually serve real coffee yet, but we are studdying the question J

Due to the success of the club, Yahoo created a special "William Burroughs" category in the Yahoo clubs, and there are two others presently :

Burroughs' Naked Lunch : http://clubs.yahoo.com/clubs/burroughsnakedlunch Dedicated to the beat author junkie

Nova Mob : http://clubs.yahoo.com/clubs/novamob : William S. Burroughs Research Club

Nova Mob was created at the same time as Interzone Coffee House by elGorgo, who joined, and dedicated his club to research on William Burroughs. To get to the mails, you must register in the home page.

So to the new comers, "Welcome to interzone" !

2. Researches on William Burroughs and Brion Gysin'work :

ElGORGO who dedicates his Nova Mob Yahoo club to research on WSB and Brion Gysin (see paragraph upper) is interested in this direction, so I propose that we gather our mails on this subject into Nova Mob : http://clubs.yahoo.com/clubs/novamob So all the info will be there. I'll send mails there about some subjects I'm at at the moment. Several of you are already working in this, and propose several directions : Jeremy jeremy.gluck@dial.pipex.com ; http://www.geocities.com/~spiritechuk/, Jake : dreamers@centtel.com ; Rick : ricochet@reninet.com http://www.reninet.com/ricochet J'lahn : jlwn111@worldnet.att.net , http://home.att.net/~jlwn111, and more.

a) Related to GS :

In a synchronistic way, I'm getting more involved here with the French group of people on Korzybski's general semantics. I hope to come with some of them to a collaboration on WSB and Brion's domains of research : I have been working at it since years, and came to the result that some domains as synchronicities, magic world, non-ordinary levels of reality, cut-ups, etc., which are not understandable in the frame of Newtonnian physics, get to some extent understandable in the frame of quantic physics and on the data of general semantics.

I think we should put up a serious group of research in the frame of Interzone, gathering your personal observations of such domains, and consider them in the frame of a scientific step according to different lightnings. Then we could submit the results to a team of scientists having a common frame of thinking, which allows to understand each-other.

We could for instance studdy the domain of synchronicities, through different aspects : dreams, cut-ups, events of common life, etc., gather our respective experiments and data bases, and see what comes out of it. See what you think.

b) On desintoxication :

I just got a mail from Dr Carlsson from Sweden, who has been working on apomorphine since years now, and sends a set of documents. He advises a medicine called "propanolol" better than apomorphine, but I have not studdied the documents yet and the doctors among you would be more likely to appreciate the contents.

Liberale in Switzerland accepts to get involved in the research, but says it's huge. As far as I am concerned, the direction I'm involved in is putting up a desintoxication cure as much efficient and comfortable as possible and a place to make it at the scale of the Zone, in a legal frame, and taken in charge by social security. And also provide to people afterwards a place stay in the frame of the Academy. If some of you are interested by the protocole of cure and post-cure, let me know.

At first, the most urgent in the direction we have taken is to determine if apomorphine cure is really worth it presently, on the base of the results of the people who have experimented it, this in the aim to put up a desintoxication cure as efficient and comfortable as possible in the frame of the Zone. "The Zone takes care of its own."

The Academy :

Human relations :

At this time, a number of you are having a hard time splitting with the partner, or with loosy jobs, etc. Jon njon2@concentric.net proposes to create a "Zone lonely hearts club" , an Alex, alex@angst-inc.com, to work to form a support and a means for relation. A Yahoo club specialized in relationships is easy to create.

Alex is gonna come and live in Europe, and proposes an Interzone meeting in Paris in August.

Physical academy:

We can get organized together to put up something physical. Things would be easier if we start to consider what Zoners who want to get involved in this can bring practicly, rather than me handling things here alone, which is not satisfying . We should see what are our real ressources at all levels, included human ones, and then see what we can do with it.

Anyway, here are the directions I am trying in function of the circumstances, and the context , and without big money investment :

I have sent a project on it to a doc of "Medecins du Monde" in Poitiers (association of "French Docs") : see in the "News3" page : http://www.interpc.fr/mapage/westernlands/News3.html (Protocole of cure and post-cure) I have an appointment with in Poitiers on March the 3^{rd .}They take care of people without social security in town; such a place might be helpful to them and they might support it. The doc seemed interested on phone, and proposes me to come and expose it to his team. So I'll tell you the results.

Chantal, a friend whom I had joined about the hotel project two months ago, called this week to say she is ok to start it with me now. She is into music, aware of the money in this domain, and wants to put up a cafe-theatre, just like we projected. But the hotel in Migné is sold now , so we are gonna visit the other ones in liquidation at the moment and also see with big houses to rent in Poitiers, which would be a better place than Migne.

After talking about it with her this afternoon, it comes out of it that we can put up with her a project like the one we had foreseen about the hotel in Migne, open it with a license 2 for wines and beers, in the frame of an association, and rent the rooms to students. Chantal is ok to work with the Zoners who want to get involved in it. Her husband works in a jazz band, and can bring people in the place very quickly. We have been friends since 1976, so we know each other and can work together.

You can check the following site on old houses for sale in the area : http://www.residences-poitou.com/ "French property sales-residences du Poitou - French real estate prices from 80.000FF" , and Comareg : www.bonjour.fr with many adverts. So you get a better idea of the prices and stuff in France.

4. The Anthology :

The printers I wrote to in US replied, but they need to deal with someone there directly about the prices, mail, phone-calls, etc. Though as nobody expresses the willing to have the anthology published at the moment, we might leave the printing aside and put it all on the web, so you would all access to it, and print it then if you want to. I can send you the files ready to print if you want to.

You still keep on sending them every week, and I must say it's growing at the speed of taxifolia weeds in Mediteranian sea !!! J

I suggest that we wait for things be more advanced here for the academy and the rest, when something physical is on, then printing and selling the writings can be organised more easily then.

5. Trade foodJ :

Buy Pemmican from Joshua's The Casa Blanca Carne Seca Beef Jerky Web Page is at: http://members.tripod.com/~Saraswati_Online/jerky.htm

Josh is gonna exchange me some against home made chocolates . "The Zone feeds its own", avis aux amateurs ! J

6. New pages and sites :

In "Welcome to Interzone" : Gary's cutup machine at : http://web.ukonline.co.uk/gary.leeming/cutup3.htm "To finally celebrate the beta2 release of the Interzone cutup machine here is one I made earlier. Otherwise, you know the score ;o)"

The review of the Zone http://web.ukonline.co.uk/gary.leeming/zone/rindex.htm with Rick Gentry : Angelic Symphony http://web.ukonline.co.uk/gary.leeming/zone/angeltech.htm and the monthly reports. See this one in some days there, as well as my account on Gary's and Tanya's visit in March.

Jeremy Glucke : Spiriteck.uk : http://www.geocities.com/~spiritechuk Cut and paste page four text here. See everyone cut and paste text. http://www.geocities.com/~spiritechuk/ra.html downloadable cut up samples... http://www.geocities.com/~spiritechuk/invalid.html a roll call of virtual beings

Check Chiki Raw info : The Center of Raw Information http://www.rawinfo.to/ Get Event Info (japanese only) http://www.rawinfo.to/web/meet/japanese/vision155.html
Join our table talk! Location : http://www.rawinfo.to/chat.html Your new idea, favorite contents, Dream contents, etc..
See your time zone : http://www.burbs.com/fcgi-bin/tzconvert.fcgi

New sites and new Zoners :

Snappy has created her site at : http://www.geocities.com/SoHo/Studios/9266/ " hey! i am working (slowly very slowly) on my own web page. J it's not quite right yet, but this is it so far" Snappy!

Terata new home-page http://userwww.service.emory.edu/~critche/texts.html

RailheaD : http://www.geocities.com/SoHo/8591/ see Burroughs' pics at : http://www.geocities.com/SoHo/8591/pic25.html and pieces of writings.

JJ Dobson : jjdobson@kayhay.com Particularity Web Design : http://members.xoom.com/jjdobson

Vincent Molloy 's site on the illustrator "Alex Barbier" : http://perso.club-internet.fr/molloy/ Alex Barbier is connected to the Zone and getting the news. He included Burroughs as a character in his comix, which look more like water color paintings than comix illustrations really : see "Le Dieu du 12" . Some pics too in Liberale's writings in http://www.interpc.fr/mapage/westernlands/christmas-bill-meetin'.html and http://www.interpc.fr/mapage/westernlands/christmas2.html

Jens Gebhart : "Infozone" : http://campus.ensba.fr/infozone

Reynald Drouhin : http://www.incident.net/metaorigine/

RoikaXul : http://users.aol.com/onomasti/

elGORGO : death dwarf: [a WSB interactive site] http://www.geocities.com/ResearchTriangle/Node/3667/

In the Western Lands :

The page Interzone Ring : http://www.interpc.fr/mapage/westernlands/Interzone-links.html now contains the URL of your sites, as well as the infos on Interzone gathered by rubrics : it now contains the ones which previously were in the page "Work"

See the most recent infos between 2 reports at News 3 : http://www.interpc.fr/mapage/westernlands/News3.html

Jon Nelson : Nevada http://www.interpc.fr/mapage/westernlands/Nevada.html

In the Interzone Academy :

- Dead Joe's Forked Yew : http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Crete/9445/Dead-Joe.html Dead Joe just has also made a printed review called :"Dead Ends : Forked Yew - This is the Blood" You can write to him about it at : deadjoe@webtv.net Page Web : http://members.theglobe.com/deadjoe/

- Philosophy : Frantz : Qu'est-ce que les actes bestiaux ? : http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Crete/9445/frantz.html

- Human rights http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Crete/9445/humanrights.html : see Vincent's Molloy's article on human rights ( in French) at http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Crete/9445/molloy1.html

- Apomorphine file an research on desintoxication : http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Crete/9445/apo.html

- Department on general semantics : http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Crete/9445/dpt-gs.html

- Zone links http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Crete/9445/zone-links.html

Comix on William Burroughs :

http://www.salonmagazine.com/comics/dark/mavr/1998/10/02mavr1.html

7. Last Words 1999 :

Bulgarian version : "Последните думи на Хассан Саббах" by Ivan Tonev and Dean Kassabov : http://www.interpc.fr/mapage/westernlands/DMbulgarian.html

Arabic version : Chaya Foufou's recording in Real Player : the Real Player files have been made by Dean http://www.interpc.fr/mapage/westernlands/DMarabic.html

Dutch version : "De Laatste Woorden van Hassan Sabbah" by Rasta Robert http://rasta.www.cistron.nl/his/

or listen to Dead Joe's music for the CD http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Crete/9445/Dead-Joe.html

More recordings at : http://campus.ensba.fr/belouin/

The Zone's services :

In case of problem, you can write to Jim, Interzone doc, who provides a service of free councelling : Interzone doc the_doc27@hotmail.com

Common E-mail : Interzone23 : interzone23@hotmail.com; lodging name : interzone23 ; password : hereweare

For the chat appointment of February 23^rd 99 :

see the Interzone chats in gay.com, mIRC and in Dan's site at http://www.interpc.fr/mapage/westernlands/Chat.html ;

we can use as well the chat-room of Interzone Coffee House : http://clubs.yahoo.com/clubs/theinterzonecoffeehouse ,

Chicki's Raw Info chat : http://www.rawinfo.to/chat.html

mIRC : #Interzone : Random US DALnet server

For you chat appointments : see the worldclock : http://www.interpc.fr/mapage/westernlands/worldclock2.html and Chiki's time zone : http://www.burbs.com/fcgi-bin/tzconvert.fcgi .

My ICQ # is 3146693

For the news after this report, refer to http://www.interpc.fr/mapage/westernlands/News3.html

Hope I did not forget anything. All the best waiting for the next spring report J .

Much thanks for your involvement , participation and support.

Take care.

Love

Izzy

Report of March 21st 99