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Note to potential buyers, check the label -- "SKULLBODDY" is a knock-off product and NOT safe to operate

barf gang!!

(seriously i don’t know anything but i love that term thank you!)

Ohhh that’s a nice one! Equally applicable to many people, from the ethically ambiguous to the proto-lycanthrope. 

Very true! Misunderstanding is the best medicine!

(That reminds me, someone around here was actually drawing butts everywhere, it was weirdly effective)

SEE YOU IN 🐒

Haha we disagree on Neuromancer but agree on Wild Palms - I'll take it! Neuromancer is a little  obscure and dense and hard to read, he was still kind of a clunky writer at that point, so I get why it may not be everyone's cup of tea. He's more fully formed by Pattern Recognition,  but even then he's an acquired taste and I could see why it might be annoying to some. He was actually hugely influenced by Burroughs, to the point where he had to completely negate his style to avoid slavishly imitating him. I think of his writing sometimes as "Burroughs by other means"

It TURNS OUT the never-ending cyclical revenge tale of Romonde Contreras can be summed up in the motto "Nothing Moves, Yet Eternities Tremble"... Something I would like to see emblazoned upon an honorary coat of arms for this our SICK SAD KNIGHT of the ages. We learn this issue that we are all children of Abracadabraham, the channel surfing patri-anarch, and that this perpetual channel surfing is dialectically generating a new kind of moistened gnosticism. Heady stuff, but OF KEY IMPORTANCE!

This is followed by another exciting episode of the ANTI ASTHMATIC COOKING channel… Arguably the most therapeutic experience on the Internet. It performs simultaneously the function of purgation, meditation, and the medieval concept of a “memento mori”... Although in this case, it’s more like a “memento choppo”... In an ordinary cooking view, we identify with the hands. After getting Shem’s ANTI-ASMR treatment, we are suddenly forced through the largo tempo and extreme concentration to identify with the VICTIM VEGETABLE, aka the Object to be Chopped (in Kantian lingo). A most disconcerting reversal.

It was at this moment that I found out much to my dismay that I was compromised in my career through explicit association in the CREEPSTEIN FILES. The fifteenth asterisk on page 9 is clearly referring to my person. AH WELL. As Shem saith, "Put cola in the IV tube of dying rats" and move on. I must say I greatly appreciate Shem’s untimely anti-news, and especially his patent-pending occult art of SYMPATHETIC UNREDACTION… Seemingly a chaotic gibberish of upsets, but in actuality, working its way through the news cycle IN REVERSE like some maddened Burroughsian virus. We we expect great things. WE LEARN HOW THE NIGHT MOVES.

The final segment on MAL.ISM is a hyperattractant. The association with the techno-loa is actually reminiscent of the plot of Gibson’s Count Zero. The difference being that here we get some highly specific technical acronyms, and a much more conclusive global consequence, which is about damn time if you ask me. We should especially not rush over the gaze of that beautiful fragmentary VISAGE, the face of something perturbing in the code.

VOTE SHEM SHELLEY FOR ACCELERANT BAILIFF, NOW

PARADISIACAL ASSASSIN GOD HYPOSTASIS ACHIEVED

TURNS OUT THERE WAS SOMETHING CABBALISTIC IN THE LETTERS OF THE NAME BAYROU

Thank you so much Oxy!

Hell yes!!! Thank you for bringing Decker into the physical world, let a thousand ditherzines bloom

Another happy graduate!

Gorgeous scrapbook diary jumble--perfect format for this kind of adolescent haze!

Thanks so much!! Yes it’s this one, great read if you like obscure Canadian tax shelter film lore

https://archive.org/details/cronenbergoncron0000cron_o3z5

A satisfying, spectral mix of textures!

A fantastic and atmospheric "slice of sleep". Really great interplay between the photography, field recordings, dream stories, and noise fonts all pulled together by the mysterious little noise machine... Haunto-therapeutics at their best!

Incredible! Thank you so much for trying them out. 

It worked really well already, but I can't wait to see where you go with it!

UNHEIMLICHKEIT INCARNATE

I am a sucker for a good fragment, sometimes just a single corner can imply the rest of the shape. Of all the stories suitable to being disjointed in this way, this one is really perfect. I am blown away by the creeping dread and the exquisite depiction of loneliness-as-place. The imagery and textures, the light and colour, and the sound all creep under the skin. This has incredible promise. It is all threat.

I am also really in love with the stark, numbered object-oriented format of the various choices. It's quite cinematic, I can feel the hard cuts between close-ups of the evidence locker contents.

You might actually experience "sick building syndrome" through the screen if you play this, I can feel the asbestos hovering above my head.

We mentioned this excellent game in the new issue of ChoiceBeat along with a selection of others from Partim500!

https://willyelektrix.itch.io/choicebeat-issue-16

Bonjour à tous. Nous avons récemment publié un article dans le dernier numéro de ChoiceBeat pour célébrer les 10 ans de Partim500 !

https://willyelektrix.itch.io/choicebeat-issue-16

I appreciate it Rat King 🙏

Perfect for any noise fan's Last Will and Testament!

⚔️THE FIRST VIDEOTOME DOOM METAL ALBUM 🌋

Salty out here salting the earth. Quake and quail, mfers!

Have you ever played Snakes and Ladders? I mean REALLY PLAYED? The Ventroliquist and the Snake has set a new standard for Hermetic notation of what I can only assume was a perverse, one-person session of the common board game gone harrowingly wrong.

HE’S JUST A FUN GUY is the FU equivalent of a Y2K era cooking show. As with all media that comes under the intense scrutiny of Shem, however, it has been cruelly and directly INVERTED such that all that was banal, helpful, distracting, and low-stakes has become a SARDONIC, PAINFUL, NOISY, ALL-CONSUMING WAGER… And one that smiles back. Highly recommend to any neo-flagellants for clearing out distracting thoughts of joy or ease.

The Bone Scriptures read like a para-funerary papyral fragment dug up in the desert of the real, containing some vaguely unsettling implications with regards to the exact nature of its authors. Certainly this forms either a scrap, or worse, the WHOLE of some heretofore unknown Book of the Dead (™), certainly the grimmest on record now. For whereas most Books O the D focus on the optimum staged transition from body to bones, this text seems to imply a HOSTILITY between states, an actual screed against the flesh from the clean ones. The theodic implications are disturbing, to say the least.

The ever-relevant ROMONDE CONTRERAS brings us another platinum-wriggling “news???” report from wherever and however. A rather Ballardian Terminal Beach scenario in keeping with current events (or should we say, prefiguring them?) The black iron prison, cages within cages, hierarchies of ghouls… So many taxonomies of disrepair! And yet somehow there is as always with ROMONDE a kind of cosmic buddy-cop relief in just seeing the guy screaming in action, if only to the void.

FLOOD SACRIFICE strikes me as either a proposition for a scientific study, a guerilla marketing piece for a suppressed new wave album or Charlie’s Angels derivative action series, or maybe even an invigorating bit of Chaos Magic slapped onto an esoteric point of a tube station wall.

Finally, in a bit of very practical Home Advice (or even perhaps a “life hack”) Shem gives us a tried and true methodology for Banishing and Cursing the spectacular from our quotidian writhings. I for one can attest to the efficacy of this practice, not only hygienic but in fact a much needed form of PEST CONTROL against the most odious of invasive species. Well sprayed, Shem!

Cryptic and compelling little reports from some mysterious dateline service. It really works!

Thank you!!! Accurate to the point of diagnosis. You know I think in retrospect I probably did just that to myself this winter…

sincerely thank you (from my side of the mirror to yours!)

Just watched a deck I am working on halved in size after saving in this update. Incredible!

This works so well! The "noise" aspect of a mermaid is somehow really palpable... Maybe invoking the sirens of yore?

Thanks so much! This is a great jam  and am super pleased to participate 

Disembodied emanations will LITERALLY eat deep fried void smiles rather than go to therapy.

Thank you for sampling!

So glad you liked it!!

I love this fragmentary petrie-dish! It's like Edward Young's "Night-Thoughts" reincarnated into the zine dimension.

EXACTLY!!! 

This is incredible. What a convincing format to |situate| the dérive in a totally fresh way! Very impressive, really distills the high points of your "findings" while preserving the pace, mystery, threat of the adventure. On-foot and inter-subjective perspectives somehow carried-over really well. And above all, acknowledging the many layers of the experience (locus, atmosphere, occurence, association...) through the different simultaneous on-screen elements. Hats off!

Insurrection interruptus! Amazing

and violence loves you!

Thank you so much! I keep a thorough dream journal and was just waiting for something like nswengine to come along and give me an appropriate excuse to release them!

This engine is so evocative with just the right amount of arbitrary constraints that really make it a dreamlike experience.  

My first  instinct was to make use of this oneiric engine to present some dreams of my own, so I made this little zine: Violent Dream Games