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oh my god....

Let's bring march madness to an end!

With DEATH's 95 release, Symbolic album.
Track Listing:
1. Symbolic
2. Zero Tolerance
3. Empty Words
4. Sacred Serenity
5. 1,000 Eyes
6. Without Judgement
7. Crystal Mountain
8. Misanthrope
9. Perennial Quest
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Heaven's Gate

The GRAND FINALE of MARCH CULT MADNESS...
This infamous Cult headed by Marshall Herff Applewhite is no longer around today. They all perished by assisted "suicide" on based on firm beliefs that they were leaving their "containers" and finding salvation via the Hale Bopp Commet. 21 women and 18 men voluntarily committed suicide in three groups on three successive days starting on 1997-MAR-23. Most were in their 40's; the rest covered an age range of 26 to 72. 1 Two months later, two additional members, Charles Humphrey and Wayne Cooke attempted suicide in a hotel room a few miles from the Rancho Santa Fe mansion; Cooke succeeded. Humphrey tried again in the Arizona desert during 1998-FEB and was successful. Overall, 41 members died.
Despite the absence of a core group, 2 members of Heaven's Gate who did not "leave" have been maintaining their web site at www.heavensgate.com and distributing materials and information that the group left behind. Seriously check out their web site! It's an exact replica of when the group exited planet Earth.
During the 1980's the group made over 500 audio tapes of their secluded classroom teachings. They also made 11 video tapes and wrote a large anthology of their teachings. The survivors have digitized over 200 hours of those audio tapes, and about 20 hours of Video material and stored the entire archive on three CD-ROM's. They feel it is important to offer this world a permanent record of this groups activities. They are making the CD's themselves available at no charge, asking only that the shipping charges be covered by the recipient. Email rep@heavensgate.com with your postal address to receive the material.
(i may have to proceed with this!)

Below is an article from Time magazine. If you want to continue reading the article just click on the link following the 3 paragraphs! Also below, are featured videos of Heavens Gate members and delusional founder.

TIME Cover Story

The incredible saga of how a charismatic former music teacher and 38 androgynous followers killed themselves in order to hook up with a UFO.

"Planet earth about to be recycled. Your only chance to survive--leave with us."
--Do, leader of Heaven's Gate

By Elizabeth Gleick

If a group of people are going to choose to die together, it is best to have a master plan: proper burial outfits, packed suitcases, lists, farewell videotapes, even recipes for death. The ghastly jumble of bodies piled upon bodies discovered in Jonestown, Guyana, in 1978 may have provided a stark lesson in how not to do it. That mass suicide was a disorderly, ungracious way to meet your maker, a study not in serenity but in chaos.

So last week, in that spacious Rancho Santa Fe mansion, with the bougainvillaea in full bloom outside, 39 bodies were laid out on their backs on bunk beds and mattresses, looking like so many laboratory specimens pinned neatly to a board. Each was dressed in black pants, flowing black shirt, spanking-new black Nikes. Their faces were hidden by purple cloths, shrouds the purple of Christian penance. Those who wore glasses had them neatly folded next to their body, and all, helpfully, had identification papers for the authorities to find. The house, more than one awed witness noted, was immaculate, tidier even than before the victims had moved in. It was as if, in preparing for their death, the members of what the world now knows as the Heaven's Gate cult were heeding the words of the prophet Isaiah: "Set thine house in order; for thou shalt die, and not live."

But though the victims may have believed their bodies were merely irrelevant "containers," to be left behind when they were whisked away by extraterrestrials, to the sheriff's deputies who first encountered them, the corpses were most certainly the real thing. The 21 women and 18 men, ranging in age from 26 to 72, were in varying stages of decomposition; the smell permeating the house was so putrid that two sickened officers went to the hospital to be sure they had not inhaled poisonous fumes. As the San Diego medical examiner reported, the cultists died in three groups: a first round of 15, then the next 15, then seven, all apparently by ingesting phenobarbital mixed with a bit of applesauce or pudding, kicked by a shot of vodka, then helped along by the asphyxiating effect of a plastic bag over the head. The final two men--the ultimate angels of death--had only bags, no shrouds. Alone in the master bedroom, his order in the march of death still unknown, was the master himself: 65-year-old Marshall Herff Applewhite.
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*Watch there 90 min. classroom video --here--

An End to March Madness!

This month marks many Anniversaries. Here is one:

Tyler, Texas
Orange County Register, March 30, 2004

God told Deanna Laney, the 39 year old mother of three boys, to kill her sons by bashing their brains in with a VERY large rock. Her defense attorney pointed out that "The dilemma she faced is a terrible one for a mother," Files told the jury. "Does she follow what she believes to be God's will, or does she turn her back on God?" Joshua, 8, and Luke, 6, died, while younger brother Aaron, 14 months old, suffered serious brain injury. Laney believed God had told her the world was going to end and "she had to get her house in order," which included killing her children, who would then shortly be resurrected.
The "deeply religious East Texas woman", a choir member, vocalist, and volunteer worker at the 250 member First Assembly of God in Tyler, who home-schooled her children in New Chapel Hill, wept when the prosecutors showed the courtroom the gruesome and graphic photographs of the bashed in skulls.
Deanna Laney said Luke was lying on his back, his head against a rock, as she stood over him and hammered a sandstone the size of a dinner plate into his skull several times. "He kept gurgling," she said. "He kept breathing and I knew he had to die. So I got this rock and I put it over his chest and I held it over his chest."

QUOTE
Associated Press
Mar. 31, 2004 03:30 PM
TYLER, Texas - In a videotape played at her murder trial Wednesday, a sobbing Deanna Laney described how she smashed her sons' skulls with rocks after getting a sign from God that he wanted her to kill them. "I believed with all my heart that it was the Lord telling me that, but I couldn't figure out why," Laney, 39,

Bay Bound...

I'm officially on Spring Break from school, so i'm bouncing to THE BAY with the lady tomorrow @ 9am. That being said, don't count on daily posts, unless i'm feeling overly inspired and don't have anything better to do while kicking it hard with my boy Jake! I'm bound for the bay ya'll...

ACTUAL PAIN dropped today!

The Seattle clothing label, Actual Pain just released their Spring WILD LIFE line-up today! It looks horrorific!
Sizes will be going fast, so cop your tee asap before you regret not throwing down that heat-bill-money you had saved!
Remember, extra blankets come in handy during this solitude of coldness, and you can always double up on your new tees!!
Below are some of my favorites:







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Happy St. Patty's Day hoods!

Today is the Day of the Irish whether you like it or not! Have a grand ole time and feast your eyes on St Patty's Day kicks!










*somebody have an Irish-Car-Bomb for me today!! cheers...

Blog Biting is worth it!

SDTW came through with a gem today! The new MF Doom album not to be released until the 24th is available via right --HERE--
I remember getting my greedy fingers on MF's first album in Chicago nearly 6 years ago (despite it's actual release way earlier)
Don't thank me, i'm simply biting his post and making it available to you, so thank Skip @ SDTW.
But seriously, check his blog for daily updates, (solid gold) and peep his clothing label Heavy Manners, which i've blogged about in the past! SDTW is on lock so subscribe now...

*Seattle never looked so fresh

Waco...

Waco continues through the weekdays! On the 17th, Koresch speaks with FBI negotiator about whether or not he is Jesus Christ. Read an excerpt of the Transcript --HERE--

MARCH 16:

During the day, conversations between the FBI and those in the compound amount to only 46 minutes. [Scruggs 71]


MARCH 17:

KORESH refuses to allow SCHNEIDER to have another face-to-face conversation with SAGE. In a "confrontational" conversation--what JAMAR called the "Dutch uncle conversation"--SAGE urges KORESH to surrender, challenging his sincerity and calling on him to take some positive action. SAGE tells SCHNEIDER his entreaties apparently had "fallen on deaf ears." With SAGE's agreement, JAMAR decides to increase the pressure on KORESH. SMERICK leaves Waco. [ Scruggs 72, 73, 135, 179]

MARCH 18:

The FBI broadcasts a message to those in the compound over a loudspeaker, saying they will be treated fairly if they come out. [Scruggs 73]

MARCH 19:

In a purported attempt to address some of the Davidians' concerns, the FBI delivers to the compound legal documents, letters from KORESH's attorneys and other items. KORESH says he is ready to come out and face the music. Two Davidians, Brad BRANCH and Kevin WHITECLIFF, come out of the compound. [Scruggs 75]


MARCH 20:

Another Davidian, Rita RIDDLE, comes out of the compound. [Scruggs 76]

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*Devin, please silkscreen this...

The Restoration of the Ten Commandments of God

--(Various Sources)--
This Doomsday Cult was based in Uganda and founded in the late 80s by excommunicated Roman Catholic priests, Joseph Kibweteere, Joseph Kasapurari, John Kamagara and Dominic Kataribabo; two excommunicated Roman Catholic nuns; and Credonia Mwerinde, an ex-prostitute.

On March 15 2000, (two days before the church fire) a "farewell" letter was issued by Kibeteere to government officials. That letter spoke of the imminent end of the current generation and the world. Similar sentiments were expressed in a previous communication, which said "God sent us as a movement of truth and justice to notify the people to prepare for the closing of this generation, which is at hand." One official reflecting upon Kibwetere's last letter recalled, "The person who brought the letter bid farewell to the...staff. It was pre-meditated suicide."

At their height, the cult may have included as many as 5,000 members. The 68-year-old self-styled "bishop" was once a prominent Roman Catholic and active in Ugandan politics. In 1998 Kibwetere was hospitalized for treatment of a mental illness. "He had an affective disorder. A cyclical thing. Up and down. Like manic depress[ion]," advised Dr. Fred Kigozi, executive director of Kampala's Butabika mental hospital.



Kibwetere claimed to have visions and hear conversations between Jesus and the Virgin Mary. He said the Virgin Mary complained about the world's departure from the Ten Commandments. And subsequently, that he was commanded to announce a coming Apocalypse in the year 2000.

Kibwetere authored a handbook, which foretold a litany of coming calamities that would destroy most of the world's population. He said only those who obeyed the commandments and followed him might be spared within his church, which he called the "ark."

Joseph Kibwetere merged his leadership with a former prostitute named Credonia Mwerinde often called the "programmer." Some say Mwerinde, who claimed to have met the Virgin Mary, ultimately eclipsed the cult's founder in both real importance and power. Fr. Paul Ikazire, a priest and former cult member said she dominated the group and that "Kibwetere was just a figurehead." He characterized Mwerinde as "a trickster, obsessed with the desire to grab other people's property." The Virgin Mary as channeled through Mwerinde proscribed all the rules of the group.

Credonia Mwerinde preached that personal possessions were evil. She encouraged cult members to sell everything and surrender all their assets to her. Eventually Mwerinde became rich and accumulated farms, houses and cars. Paul Ikazire recalled, "She would come in and say things like: 'The Virgin Mary wants you to bring more money."'

Kibwetere and Mwerinde kept their followers isolated. Any contact with outsiders ("sinners") was strictly monitored and often forbidden. Cult members were predominately poor and former Catholics. They were encouraged to be celibate, sworn to a vow of silence and unable to speak unless in prayer. They often relied upon sign language.



The movement's members rose at dawn, prayed until noon and worked long hours in the fields before going to bed usually at 10 PM. Though newcomers were fed well the regular members largely subsisted on beans. They were hungry, tired, estranged from family and largely cut off from the outside world.

Doomsday predictions were made by the cult's leaders, but pushed forward again and again. Kibwetere's manifesto handbook had been mailed out by the thousands, which was titled "A Timely Message From Heaven: The End of the Present Time." The date for this final event was set for December 31, 2000. When that day passed as another unfulfilled prophecy it is believed that some disgruntled members wanted to leave and have their property returned.



OVERALL GLIMPSE:

On the 17th of March 2000, 530 bodies, of which at least 78 were children, were found to have burned alive in a church in a remote part of Uganda; all part of a Christian apolcalyptic group. 330 skulls were found, the rest had turned to ash. Over 1,000 bodies were found elsewhere in Uganda during the following days, many of which were found to have been strangled. The doors and locks were fastened from the inside, suggesting this was the final intention of the group's leader, not necessarily an outsider murdering them.

On March 24, two mass graves containing 153 bodies were found at a cult compound in Kalingo, 45 km to the west of Kanungu. Some had been dead for more than four months.

Days later, 155 bodies were discovered under a newly-cemented floor in the house of cult leader 'Father' Dominic Kataribabo in Rugazi, 80 km north of Kanungu.

Most of the victims were women and children, many with stab wounds or ropes around their necks. Others were poisoned.



There are many reasons that lead authorities to believe it was a MASS SUICIDE:

- There is one initial report, never unconfirmed, that the members had applied gasoline and paraffin to their skin before the explosion and fire. However, it is difficult to see how the observer could have witnessed these preparations if the windows and doors of the church were nailed shut. If confirmed, this would be one indicator that the deaths might have been the result of a mass suicide, similar to that of Heaven's Gate.
- The police investigation cast doubt on this sole witness; they found no signs of paraffin having been used at the church. Most of the world media initially emphasized the suicide theory. So did representatives of the anti-cult movement who are keen to promote their belief that mass suicide is a logical outcome of cult activity. They accuse cults of brainwashing their membership and reducing their will to act independently.
- Although their fundamental beliefs have been widely discounted by mental health professionals, the ACM has been quite successful in propagating their beliefs among the press and the rest of the public.

However, there are also many indications that the tragedy was actually MASS MURDER:

- Several news sources reported that the doors of the church were nailed shut from the inside. That might indicate that the leadership wanted to confine the full membership within the church in order to murder the entire group.
- The discovery of additional bodies which had been murdered and buried in latrines near the church gives weight to the mass murder theory.
- The discoveries of many hundreds of murder victims at other locations also point towards mass murder.
- Leader Kibwetere appears to have planned the tragedy in advance. He allegedly sent a letter to his wife before the tragedy, encouraging her to continue the religion "because the members of the cult were going to perish the next day.''
- The group's membership are almost entirely ex-Roman Catholic -- a faith that strongly forbids suicide. Traditional belief also very strongly forbids suicide. Finally, local belief is that if a person dies in a fire, that not only their body is killed but their soul is as well. This is the reason why evil sorcerers were once burned alive: so that they would be completely annihilated. It is very unlikely that if a person in this area wanted to commit suicide that they would choose death by fire."



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Portland Wet Rag unleashed!

My magazine editing course recently released its publication via online. We created it from scratch, wrote individual stories and edited them to the 9's.
Go to my story --HERE-- and check out the others!!

Wet Rag mission statement:
We don’t like tall food, we don’t wear stilettos to go shopping, and we don’t look forward to next year’s Street of Dreams. We live in the real world—the beautiful, gritty, irreverent, sometimes rough, usually wet, always interesting city of Portland. Wet Rag is the kind of dirty that feels good, like mud between the toes or sweat after a long workout. Our online pages are filled with events, reviews, narratives, essays, and interviews about arts and culture in the Portland-metro area. There is no bar too seedy or interpretive dance too humiliating—Wet Rag will cover it all. Join Wet Rag as we explore the people and culture of the place we call home.

The Original Clarks

If you don't know about these shoes you're sleeping. Not only are Wallabees mentioned dozens of times throughout NYC rap (specifically wu-tang), but their legendary style serves as an ideal and promising platform for many other labels to bite from. That's the way of fashion, ya got to bite others sometimes.
Clarks have been around since 1950, so they have a relentless status that no other street label can match. I don't care that Alife put out a mock-replica that resembles Clarks ("Kennedy" release 07/08) they were fresh releases by all means, despite their over-zealous $140+ price tag.



The fact is, it was a smart idea of Alife to clearly bite Clarks, given Alife's street-cult following. Other brands have clearly been inspired as well.
However, Clarks will remain atop of the pedestal no matter how many "slick" shoe brands break bank pushing their "limited edition" lines to the masses. Wallabees are classic, which means they can't be touched! I'm not a hater, i cop Alife when i can, but i also cop Clarks. Their style is simple but limitless. 50 years and they're still crushing! From Desert Boots to Wallabee-hi, Clarks tower above the rest.

Waco thru the weekend!

MARCH 13:

SCHNEIDER complains that people inside the compound are cold and freezing. The FBI notifies KORESH that his mother has retained attorneys Richard DeGUERIN and Jack ZIMMERMAN to represent him. [Scruggs 68]

MARCH 14:

At nightfall the FBI begins to illuminate the compound with bright lights "to disrupt sleep, to put additional pressure on those inside and to increase the safety of the HRT." [ Scruggs 69]

MARCH 15:

The FBI establishes a "modified negotiation strategy," continuing to insist on peaceful resolution but refusing to listen to any more of what they call "Bible babble." SCHNEIDER and another Davidian, Wayne MARTIN, meet outside the compound with SAGE and McLennan County Sheriff Jack HARWELL. [Scruggs 70]

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ADIDAS + ST PATTY'S DAY + H.O.P.

EQUALS only 1500 produced for consumerism. That means i won't ever see a pair on my feet. But at least i saw House of Pain live in 98 at Seattle's Bumbershoot.

A theme to live by

Waco...

MARCH 12:

RENO is sworn in as Attorney General. SCHROEDER leaves the compound, saying no mass suicide would occur. Dr. John HAGMAN, a local physician, consults over the telephone. Over the objections of some FBI negotiators, JAMAR orders all electricity to be cut off for good, because "he wanted those inside the compound to experience the same wet and cold night as the tactical personnel outside." RENO is extensively briefed on Waco by FBI (Exact day is unclear) [Scruggs 65-67, 142, 240]

The Davidians say the power shut-off is a "huge, huge setback," causing SCHNEIDER and others to change their minds about coming out. The justification for cutting the power is that it is going to be a very cold night and maximum effect would be gained in making the Davidians uncomfortable inside the compound. Also, cutting the power is designed to challenge KORESH's control of the situation and to raise the level of stress within the compound to force more departures. [Dennis 14]

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Flying Coffin x Manik x Goods collabo = dope skateboards

This collaboration also marks yet another wall-hanging that will surely take place within the homes of hipsters citywide...despite this harsh criticism, the skateboards are still fresh and the three labels keep it real once again.
Want them? Go --here-- and buy them separately or as a unit!

Alabama: the day after!

Source: CNN

SAMSON, Alabama -- Alina Knowles anxiously crept along her neighbor's porch, where the bodies lay strewn on the blood-covered floor.

And then she heard the baby's wail. The infant was covered in blood, but she was crying.

"I'm glad she was crying -- I knew she was alive," Knowles told CNN Wednesday, just a day after her neighbors were gunned down in the middle of a shooting spree over two south Alabama towns.

"There was blood everywhere, I couldn't tell where the bleeding was coming from," said Knowles, a certified nurse's assistant. "Her mother's blood was on her."

Just minutes before, Knowles had heard the rapid fire of gunshots from her home next door in the Samson neighborhood as 28-year-old Michael McLendon methodically shot dead five people, including two children, on the front porch of his uncle's home on West Pullum Street.

Among the dead were the wife and and toddler of Geneva County Sheriff's Deputy Josh Myers.

Knowles scooped up Myers' crying 3-month-old daughter and ducked behind a minivan as McLendon cruised down an adjacent street, still firing at people.

McLendon was "very workmanlike, like he was on a mission," Knowles said. "It really sounded like you were in a war zone."

The 28-year-old gunman would kill three more people, including his 74-year-old grandmother, before heading to Geneva, where he would ultimately take his own life in a standoff with police. Eleven people died in the rampage, which lasted less than an hour and started with the killing of his mother in neighboring Coffee County.

Knowles cleaned off the baby as she anxiously awaited an ambulance and authorities. She found a wound on the baby's leg.

"I was crying the whole time," she said, recalling that she scurried to a neighbor's brick home where she felt safe amid all the gunfire.

A mother of two, Knowles has since spoken to deputy Myers, who was involved in the shootout at the Reliable Metal Products plant a few miles away in Geneva before he even realized his wife, Andrea, and 1 1/2-year-old daughter, Corinne Gracy, were among McLendon's victims.

"He thanked me 'for saving my baby girl,' " Knowles said, dismissing any notion of being a hero, saying Myers would have done the same for her.

A day after Tuesday's shootings, Myers stood in front of his home, across the street from the house where his family members were killed, and spoke to reporters.

"It's supposed to be me out here getting shot, not my family," Myers said, speaking barely above a whisper.
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Meanwhile, Knowles is haunted by the scene on the porch and misses her neighbors, whom she considered friends.

"All I can see is faces," she said. "It's going to take a while to shake that."

Blog Biting

what exactly is going on here??

Waco...

MARCH 11:

KORESH does not participate in negotiations until 7:03 p.m., and there is no progress in negotiations except a promise that Kathy SCHROEDER will come out the next day. [Scruggs 64, 65]

-Want to know more about David Koresh:
(source:pbs)

David Koresh was born Vernon Wayne Howell in Houston, Texas in 1959 to a 15-year old single mother. He never knew his father and was raised by his grandparents.
In his late night conversations with FBI agents during the siege, Koresh described his childhood as lonely. He said the other kids teased him and called him "Vernie." He was dyslexic, a bad student, and dropped out of high school. However, he had musical ability and a strong interest in the Bible. By 12, he had memorized large tracts of it.

When he was 20, Koresh turned to the Church of Seventh Day Adventists, his mother's church. But he was expelled for being a bad influence on the young people. Sometime during the next couple of years, Koresh went to Hollywood to become a rock star but nothing came of it. Instead, in 1981 he went to Waco, Texas where he joined the Branch Davidians, a religious sect which in 1935 had settled 10 miles outside of Waco. At one time, it had more than 1,400 members.

Koresh had an affair with then-prophetess Lois Roden who was in her late sixties. The two travelled to Israel together. When Lois Roden died, a power struggle began between Koresh and Lois Roden's son George. For a short time, Koresh retreated with his followers to eastern Texas. But in late 1987 he returned to Mount Carmel in camouflage with seven male followers, armed with five .223 caliber semiautomatic assault rifles, two .22 caliber rifles, two 12-gauge shotguns and nearly 400 rounds of ammunition. During the gunfight, Roden was shot in the chest and hands.

He and his followers went on trial for attempted murder. The seven were acquitted and a mistrial was declared in Koresh's case. (Koresh told the jury he and his men went to Mount Carmel to find evidence of corpse abuse by Roden and their shots were aimed at a tree.)

By 1990 Koresh had become the leader of the Branch Davidians and legally changed his name, saying on the court document that the change was "for publicity and business purposes." He said the switch arose from his belief that he was now head of the biblical House of David. (Koresh is a Hebrew transliteration of Cyrus, the name of the Persian king who allowed the Jews held captive in Babylon to return to Israel.)

Artist Profile: Artemio Rodriguez

Artemio Rodriguez-born in Tacambaro, Michoacan Mexico in 1972.











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