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London, baby!

 
 
penitentvandal
17:09 / 14.10.03
I'm in London for 23 hours from Friday this week to Saturday. During this time I intend to do 2 things:

1) see Diamanda Galas kick merry arse at the world premiere of Deifixiones, Will and Testament - you do not know how long I've been waiting for that - down at the Royal Festival Hall, and,

2) distribute a few copies of Hypershibuya: a situationist glam sigil disguised as a visually dazzling 'poem', which I use in my (and our) ongoing battle with the forces of Boredom for the fate of reality. There's a lot more info about the project on the velvetvandal website - which I'm not going to slugline in here, guessing its name won't be rocket science for you lot - but, because I like y'all, and because I know more than a few of you live in the Smoke, a little game.

I want you to try and find a copy of my little sigil. Don't go out of your way and search for it; just try and find it in your travels around the city. Attune yourself to my consciousness, divine my whereabouts with pendulum, map, and drawing pin, whatever; try and find a copy. You'll have more chance in the area around Embankment and South Bank than elsewhere, but I will be covering a fair bit of the city on my travels - mostly the usual places you'd expect 'Lithers to go during the day (Tate M, for the Bacons, Whitechapel maybe, the odd Hawksmoor church, Canary Wharf). Anyway. I want to see if any of you do come across a copy of my little (pseudo) random distribution sigil. If you do, then pm me with a line from it - to prove you've found it, and aren't just foolin'.

As befits any worthwhile game, there is a prize of some kind for, say the first ten people who manage to locate copies, and it's this: send me a desire of yours, along with the line, and I shall send you a personally designed sigil to use in a ritual to achieve said desire, plus a variety of other personalised stuff (poems, badges, etc) as part of my ongoing invocation to warp my poetic persona more in the direction of Crazy Pop Randomness. Okay?

Okay. Play begins officially at Kings Cross Station, 19h05 on Friday 17th of October. Game on!
 
 
illmatic
07:07 / 15.10.03
Will try. That's a f***ing great idea.
 
 
Quantum
08:35 / 15.10.03
Great idea!
 
 
Boy in a Suitcase
09:21 / 15.10.03
Well, since me, Mono and Chairman Maominstoat are going to the Diamanda show, we'll probably see you there. PM a number and maybe we can arrange to meet up, therefore sidestepping any effort to find the sigil.
 
 
AfroBarber
15:52 / 15.10.03
let me get this straight, it would be futile for me to begin scouring the land now because you dont start hiding them until friday, correct?
 
 
penitentvandal
16:35 / 15.10.03
Afrobarber - well, yeah - unless you either have access to some kind of time machine or were in the North of England recently...

How did I know there'd be other 'lithers going to see Diamanda?
 
 
penitentvandal
17:21 / 19.10.03
Well, that's that over with. It was fun, in a weird, panicky, rushing around kind of way.

Highlight would probably have to be walking down Hercules Road and sticking a copy of the sigil up on a lamppost near where Blake used to live; lowlight would be arriving for the Diamanda gig a full THIRTY MINUTES late. But, y'know, can't complain. Things happen for a reason, and now I know how this whole evolving situationist art-magic working thing is going to end, in two weeks' time, in Darlington, at a big Hallowe'en party. Make-up! Vinyl! Fire! Glam! Oh, yes...

Report on the London leg of the trip going up at www.velvetvandal.com sometime soon, assuming my utter fucking piece-of-shit senile computer gets its bloody act together...

Ahem.
 
 
penitentvandal
17:23 / 26.10.03
Just bumping this to say the site has now been updated with a full report of the London expedition. Have a look if you fancy it.
 
  
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