Meanwhile, behind closed doors there seemed to be a mild hubbub going on… Eventually the door opened and one could see a bunch of guys in a sort of ill-formed circle around the very tall Peter Stafford so that we could just see his naked chest, goofy grinning laughing face and wildly flailing arms. Everybody [...]
In an interview that St. Jude Milhon conducted with Richard Preston for Thresher, Preston dropped a bit of “knowledge” that has always stuck in my head. In an interview dedicated to the possibilities for bioterror, Preston said, “Martin Hugh-Jones told me that his all-time favorite bioweapon is Brucella. It’s a bacterium that gives you a [...]
Yikes! You will be entertained and irritated by these douchebags as they “deconstruct” the satanic illuminati mind control experiment that is rock and roll. It starts when Robert Johnson goes down to the crossroads and somehow relates to Anna Nicole Smith. Try to at least make it through the second section… which is the most [...]
It was the Escape From New York tour with The Ramones, Blondie and Tom Tom Club. I was backstage at Berkeley’s Greek Theater with Bart Nagel interviewing Chris Franz and Tina Weymouth of Tom Tom Club and Talking Heads when Debbie Harry wandered in. She came right up to me. “You’re the MONDO 2000 guy?” [...]
Take the self-enhancement/personal mutation aspect of transhumanism and marry that to the intentions of Anonymous and you have something sort of like what St. Jude and I wanted to achieve with a book titled How To Mutate & Take Over The World. There were multiple problems with this. For all the huffing and puffing [...]
After the confident declarations of inevitable cyberpunk youth takeover in the first edition of Mondo 2000 and the philosophically trippy and mostly utopian read on Virtual Reality in #2, it was inevitable that affairs in the world would bring us crashing down to earth… at least a little. The third edition revolved largely around the [...]
Farewell, Adam Yauch. The Beastie Boys were the alpha and omega Brooklyn white jewbu rap group. He’s leaving us way too young…
For me, the Mondo 2000 History Project is this weird process of exploring my own history — among others — in the context of that magazine and scene. In an introduction for the book (expect it to be completed around the end of the year), someone who shall remain nameless for now quotes from my [...]
What you’ll be looking at is a scan of part of MONDO 2000 Issue #6, including an interview/article inside in which Timothy Leary interviews David Byrne and also writes an art essay titled “Reproduced Authentic.” First, the cover. It’s my favorite. Behold and contemplate. It hailed an inside article titled “America’s First Psychedelic President?” [...]
The book project, How To Mutate & Take Over the World, which we were to complete for Ballantine Books in six months was complicated enough — considering that we, at first, took the title seriously — and we were way too young, in terms of technology, to compose a handbook for a victorious fusion of [...]
