Dancing Caterpillars seem to be a recurring theme here at ZipZapZop… This time, I discover that these little Eastern Tent Caterpillar pests (there were literally thousands upon thousands of them here in May) are quite responsive to sound vibrations. It makes me wonder if perhaps some kind of audio mechanism would keep them away…

Across the river from Vilnius, Lithuania is a tiny independent state called Uzupis — The Republic of Angels. Its constitution is engraved in a reflective wall.

Uzupian Constitution

1. Everyone has the right to live by the River Vilnele, and the River Vilnele has the right to flow by everyone.

2. Everyone has the right to hot water, heating in winter and a tiled roof.

3. Everyone has a right to die, but this is not an obligation.

4. Everyone has the right to make mistakes.

5. Everyone has the right to be unique.

6. Everyone has the right to love.

7. Everyone has the right not to be loved, but not necessarily.

8. Everyone has the right to be undistinguished and unknown.

9. Everyone has the right to idle.

10. Everyone has the right to love and take care of the cat.

11. Everyone has the right to look after the dog until one of them dies.

12. A dog has the right to be a dog.

13. A cat is not obliged to love its owner, but must help in times of need.

14. Sometimes everyone has the right to be unaware of their duties.

15. Everyone has the right to be in doubt, but this is not an obligation.

16. Everyone has the right to be happy.

17. Everyone has the right to be unhappy.

18. Everyone has the right to have faith.

19. Everyone has the right to be silent.

20. No-one has the right to violence.

21. Everyone has the right to appreciate their unimportance.

22. No-one has the right to have a design on eternity.

23. Everyone has the right to understand.

24. Everyone has the right to understand nothing.

25. Everyone has the right to be of any nationality.

26. Everyone has the right to celebrate or not celebrate their birthday.

27. Everyone shall remember their name.

28. Everyone may share what they possess.

29. No-one can share what they do not posses.

30. Everyone has the right to have brothers, sisters and parents.

31. Everyone may be independent.

32. Everyone is responsible for their freedom.

33. Everyone has the right to cry.

34. Everyone has the right to be misunderstood.

35. No-one has the right to make another person guilty.

36. Everyone has the right to be individual.

37. Everyone has the right to have no rights.

38. Everyone has the right to not be afraid.

39. Do not defeat.

40. Do not fight back.

41. Do not surrender.

written by Uzupian President (and ex TV commercials director) Romas Lileikis

Mmm. Die beste Tagessuppe in der Welt! Hast du Hunger?

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In honor of the release of Rishi Saturn E.P. from July this year, I've been working on a long video (9 minutes) for "Spaced"

Best quality is the Quicktime Version -

Microcosm-Music
Vinyl from Forced Exposure
Juno Records

Next stop on our historical tour of musical endeavors? pH10! After a few years with LD-50, Recone F. Helmut and I started up pH10 and moved the outfit to Brooklyn, NY shortly thereafter. We did a couple full length CDs, played a lot of shows all over the place, and went on tour with Dr. Israel and Trumystic Sound System and Brooklyn Beat Rockers in Europe in the Spring of 1999. So here’s a bit from a show in Vienna, Austria.

So I’ve been posting lots of old stuff from the archives - a few posts back I put up some Electrode Dingus 2026 videos. One day I went to a show at the Mercury Cafe (Denver) and left some Electrode Dingus 2026 cassettes above the urinals in the bathroom. This was approximately in 1995. The dudes from LD-50 found one, and eventually found me, and we started working together. We made 1 cassette, and hours and hours of videos from playing live, which was really the emphasis. Recone Helmut and I made a few videos for the cassette songs, and I present one of the tracks here.

The other videos and songs can be found on my old LD-50 page.
 

Keep on space truckin! 

Music video for Electrode Dingus 2026, Alien Anchorman from the 1994 cassette “Nitrogen Jukebox” video contains found footage from tv plus original footage from around Denver and a multimedia performance at The Bug Theater called “kin tec”