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LVX23

18:13 / 26.09.05

B-b-bump

Chiropteran

18:25 / 26.09.05

Been reading this all weekend, and I found it really inspiring.

Yeah, great thread, isn't it?

Boy in a Suitcase

11:20 / 27.09.05

Glad everybody who's got a chance to see it so far has liked it!

Anybody have ideas of celebrities I can send it to?

Jimmy Page got one yesterday (in person), Alex Grey saw it and thinks it's really cool, Momus wants one, Julian Cope wants one... any more anyone can think of, esp high-profile people with webpages who might do a review?

And if anybody who liked the book would be as kind to post their thoughts on Amazon, I would be most obliged!!

+#'s, - names

18:06 / 27.09.05

I just had the local small bookshop order one, they said that it isn't published yet? Not in the warehouses? Any idea when it's going to be available through retailers?

Logos

19:09 / 27.09.05

Well, if what you want is publicity, you can always send a copy to the Dobson people, or Faux News, so that they can decry the falling morals (and excellent punctuation) of today's youth.

Otherwise, you're stuck with the usual suspects, like Neil Gaiman or Warren Ellis, on the writerly side. Poppy Z Brite would be another good candidate--she just lost most of her worldly goods to Katrina, and might appreciate a care package.

Imaginary Mongoose Solutions

20:07 / 27.09.05

"Are you saying Jason has cooties?"

Ultracooties, darling.

Seth

21:37 / 27.09.05

Send one to Billy Graham.

Colonel Kadmon

23:44 / 27.09.05

Send one to:

Adam Kadmon
1/5 New Bell's Court
Edinburgh
UK
EH6 6RY

Thanks!

illmatic

06:49 / 28.09.05

We could probably organise this for you better this side, but I'd suggest Gary Larchman (sp?). Blondie guitarist whose written a book on Ouspensky. He seems to be the on call occult specialist for left leaning broadsheets. I'll try and get contact details for him. Reviews of Now That's What I Call Chaos Magic, Strange Attractor and some others have been published recently in the UK broadsheets, so maybe this is a timely release.

Boy in a Suitcase

12:34 / 28.09.05

I sent one to Gary Lachman about a week ago, Disinfo was his publisher in the US so his contact easy was pretty easy to score.

Scrambled Password Bogus Email

13:56 / 28.09.05

Send a copy to Robbie Williams. He is teh l33t mag1ck1ian!!

Boy in a Suitcase

14:52 / 28.09.05

I'm sure he'll find it on his own, actually. Cause he's l33t like that.

trouser the trouserian

15:58 / 28.09.05

How's about Razor Smile magazine? I've never seen it (I think it's a subscriber-based UK chaos 'zine what comes with a covermount cdrom) but I've met the editor, Matt Lee, and he is one very nice bloke.

There's also that Konton magazine what the www.chaosmagic.com people do - only seen the first issue, but it'd be good for garnering the odd review.

trouser the trouserian

16:01 / 28.09.05

And don't forget www.forteantimes.com

Boy in a Suitcase

12:28 / 29.09.05

Great suggestions, thanks!

The review packages are piling high...

beautifultoxin

00:28 / 30.09.05

Can someone with a copy tell me how many of the contribs ended up being female? Just wondering.

Less searchable M0rd4nt

00:31 / 30.09.05

Something in the water?

Less searchable M0rd4nt

00:36 / 30.09.05

Sorry, lagerfoolishness. Will cease. Having checked the site, though, I can't see a terribly high ladycount. In fact I make it less than half, even if one allows for androgynous names. Maybe I'm not seeing a full list of contributors?

ghadis

01:49 / 30.09.05

There did seem to be a few Ladies writing in it when i looked. Something about unicorns and waterfalls i think. BiaS, maybe, next book there can be some sort of suppliment.

beautifultoxin

04:30 / 30.09.05

Thanks for the reports, MC. Less than half would be a coup, actually.

And agreed on the supplement. "I heart magic." In big puffy girlish letters. I suggested as much to Louv, after my and another ladyfriend's essays were excised in the eleventh hour, due to 'space constraints.' Never heard back from him, but hey, seems like there's a demand mounting.

trouser the trouserian

04:39 / 30.09.05

There did seem to be a few Ladies writing in it when i looked.

two, actually.

Less searchable M0rd4nt

05:25 / 30.09.05

Ah, chicks'd just write about crystals and all that fluffy shit. Real magic is a man's game.

Rage

08:16 / 30.09.05

My original article was about incense and fluffy bunnies, but I was told to write about magickal oils of death and all that. Damn corporations! All because I have a vagina.

trouser the trouserian

08:27 / 30.09.05

I wonder if this is a Disinfo blind spot? Their "Book of Lies" also had relatively few female contributors. Any thoughts on this, Jason?

Rage

08:41 / 30.09.05

So who here has actually read the articles in Gen Hex that were written by females?

trouser the trouserian

09:17 / 30.09.05

Well I certainly enjoyed your bit, Q&R, and I don't recall much about Agelina Fabbro's article apart from thinking it was a bit, well, heavy on "explanations" rather than experiental stuff, which I prefer; rather than "yadda yadda yadda, energies, yadda yadda yadda quantum physics, yadda yadda yadda, don't forget to banish" sort of thing. Having said that, it was still better IMO than some of the male contributors, one or two of whom read like they'd OD'd on Liber Kaos.

Boy in a Suitcase

12:35 / 30.09.05

Any thoughts on this, Jason?

Yes. I published the best articles that were submitted to me, in the relatively small space constraints that I was given.

Less searchable M0rd4nt

12:58 / 30.09.05

Jokes about rainbows'n'crystals apart, I'm vigorously disinclined to believe that the small number of women authors included in the book was the result of prejudice on the part of the editor (unconscious or otherwise). I'm pretty certain that the majority of submissions, accepted or rejected, will have been written by men. Is that the case?

I'm not sure but I think women are under-represented in this kind of work generally. Why is that? (I'm now experincing a twinge of guilt for not submitting something myself; I suppose I just vaguely assumed no-one would be interested, which is a bit lame now I come to think about it.)

Material for a new thread, mayhap?

illmatic

13:19 / 30.09.05

Please do start a thread. Somehting that's come up in the group I'm involved with is the lack of appraoches from women. Be very interested in anything that might help figure this out.

Boy in a Suitcase

14:25 / 30.09.05

So has anybody read the book yet? Thoughts?

Imaginary Mongoose Solutions

21:28 / 30.09.05

Finally had a chance to really sit down and take a look at it today. I'll have some more composed thoughts once I've actually finished it. So far it's been a good read and I rally dig a lot of what the book is trying to do. Funnily enough, it landed on my doorstep just I was working through some related issues myself.

However, what stunned me, personally was that someone else wrote about the derive as a magical practice. (I submitted a far inferior article on the same subject.) Glad to know that even if my presentation was crap (and it was), I wasn't completely off base in my thinking.

Anyway, more once I've finished and digested the whole thing. Great work so far, though.

Ria

21:41 / 30.09.05

Mr. Gaiman and Ms. Brite (AFAIK) have no interest in magic, really, though perhaps Nema or Caitlin R. Kiernan might like copies. and I can't think of who else other than people you probably have thought of yourself.

Imaginary Mongoose Solutions

22:39 / 30.09.05

I'm assuming you have the usual suspects like Daniel Pinchbeck, the folks over at Arthur and that sort of thing covered?

Boy in a Suitcase

22:52 / 30.09.05

Ayup...

I'm thinking more left-field ideas, not necessarily occulture related, I've got those under wraps...

LVX23

01:55 / 01.10.05

Hmm... Howard Bloom, Erik Davis, Ramsey Dukes, Bob Wilson, Lon Milo DuQuette. Not all left-field but...

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