The GSpot: Solipsistic Nation

Joseph Matheny interviews “another Joe”, AKA Bazooka Joe, from Solipsistic Nation and formerly of the smallWorld. They talk about music, podcasting and get into a weird Joe to Joe cross interview feedback loop.

Also, another episode of In Your Ear, this week reviewing “Variant Frequencies” a podcast of (mostly) short fiction in the horror/subgenre sci-fi vein. From Puske: I pay special attention to the podcast novel which they debuted - “The Failed Cities Monologues” http://www.podiobooks.com/title/the-failed-cities-monologues/) - link is to the podiobooks version.

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Veil of Thorns had the pleasure of playing live on Bazooka Joe's show on WMFO in Massachusetts way back in the dark ages. I'll include those here:


Veil of Thorns first radio appearance one dark Saturday night on Tufts college free-form radio. The second guitarist was Jarrett Laitinen, who I recently learned died of a heroin overdose in 2004. In his final year he lost his father and stepmother in fucked up circumstances. I wish I had recordings that could give a good example of what an otherworldly amazing guitarist Jarrett was. He was the second guitarist on the first two Veil of Thorns demos from 1991 and 1992 respectively.

This is the original lineup:

P. Emerson Williams - Vocals, guitar
Jarrett Laitinen - Guitar
Catherine Chenoweth - Bass
Ruddy Bitch - Drums

Sourced from a reference tape recorded at the station. Some glitches and noise were minimized to the extent possible.

Whole Item	Format	Size
VeilOfThorns-LiveWmfo1991_64kb.m3u	64Kbps M3U	Stream
VeilOfThorns-LiveWmfo1991_64kb_mp3.zip	64Kbps MP3 ZIP	15.4M
VeilOfThorns-LiveWmfo1991_vbr.m3u	VBR M3U	Stream
VeilOfThorns-LiveWmfo1991_vbr_mp3.zip	VBR ZIP	77.0M

Audio Files	VBR MP3	Ogg Vorbis	64Kbps MP3
Veil of Thorns - Live WMFO 1991- 1 Obsession-Possession	20.9M	7.7M	4.2M
Veil of Thorns - Live WMFO 1991- 2 Tear the Cities Down	16.4M	6.2M	3.3M
Veil of Thorns - Live WMFO 1991- 3 Utopia	15.1M	5.7M	3.0M
Veil of Thorns - Live WMFO 1991- 4 Study In Decay	16.5M	6.3M	3.3M
Veil of Thorns - Live WMFO 1991- 5 Youll Never Know	8.1M	3.0M	1.6M

Veil of Thorns radio appearance a stormy night, Halloween, 1992 on Tufts college free-form radio. On second guitar we borrowed Dave, (can't remember his last name), the guitarist from Chuck.

This is the lineup:

P. Emerson Williams - Vocals, guitar
Dave (From the excellent Boston funk rock band Chuck) - Guitar
Catherine Chenoweth - Bass
Ruddy Bitch - Drums

VeilOfThorns-LiveHalloweenWmfo1992_64kb.m3u	64Kbps M3U	Stream
VeilOfThorns-LiveHalloweenWmfo1992_64kb_mp3.zip	64Kbps MP3 ZIP	23.2M
VeilOfThorns-LiveHalloweenWmfo1992_vbr.m3u	VBR M3U	Stream
VeilOfThorns-LiveHalloweenWmfo1992_vbr_mp3.zip	VBR ZIP	116.1M

Audio Files	VBR MP3	Ogg Vorbis	64Kbps MP3
Veil of Thorns - Live Halloween WMFO - 1 Obsession	17.0M	6.1M	3.4M
Veil of Thorns - Live Halloween WMFO - 2 Possession	4.9M	1.9M	981.6K
Veil of Thorns - Live Halloween WMFO - 3 Utopia	15.9M	6.0M	3.2M
Veil of Thorns - Live Halloween WMFO - 4 Void	15.8M	5.7M	3.2M
Veil of Thorns - Live Halloween WMFO - 5 Nothing Is Real	19.3M	7.6M	3.9M
Veil of Thorns - Live Halloween WMFO - 6 Sanctify (Drowning)	24.1M	8.7M	4.8M
Veil of Thorns - Live Halloween WMFO - 7 Souls In Flight	19.1M	6.7M	3.8M

Choronzon - Michelle Remembers

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The figure with the ugly shirt and big ears (you do love the mirrorkaleidoscopics) is Joe Six Pack and also every wino that nips at my heels and slobbers at me. I cannot believe how ugly he is. He is the bastard son of Wal-Mart and Choice Point. Anti-Choronzon, face of the Duh Beast. Death by marriage. Marriage by death. The kitchen floor and the ovens, oven cleaner fumes, clean as a whistle, she lies there under the faucet.

The serpent is escaping or about to, but the doors close too fast and it slides into itself...the end, the end, end, end, the one with no beginning or middle.

Michelle Remembers chronicles Pazder's therapy in the late 1970s with his long-time patient Michelle Smith. Smith allegedly recovered memories of Satanic ritual abuse that occurred when she was a child in the 1950s at the hands of her mother (Virginia Proby) and others in Victoria, British Columbia. Among other things, Smith recovered memories of being placed with a corpse in a car that was then deliberately crashed near the Malahat highway, being kept locked in a cage with snakes without sleep or sustenance for weeks, being forced to ingest poison and other noxious substances, and taking part in bizarre ceremonies in a round room and at the Ross Bay Cemetery (e.g.: being placed in an open grave and having dead cats thrown on her). The book reaches its climax with the details of how in the fall of 1955, Satan himself appeared at an 81-day non-stop ceremony (allegedly involving hundreds of participants) attempting to claim Smith as his own, only to be opposed by Jesus, the Virgin Mary, and the archangel Michael. The book concludes with Smith, having been saved by the Virgin Mary and Jesus, awakening to find she had no memory of the abuse that had occurred and to find her parents telling her that she was recovering from the measles.

Pazder's therapy and treatment for Smith's alleged experiences included hypnotism, exorcism, and conversion to Catholicism. During this time (the late 1970s), Smith was named as the co-respondent (the "other woman") in Pazder's divorce. Pazder and Smith later married (she had been married to Doug Smith during the therapy).

Pazder died suddenly and unexpectedly in his home in March of 2004 of a heart attack. Smith still lives in Victoria. Michelle Remembers is out-of-print as of 2006.