Jeffrey Dahmer

 

Jeffrey Lionel Dahmer 

 May 21, 1960 – November 28, 1994

 the Milwaukee Cannibal 

the Milwaukee Monster, 

 killed and dismembered seventeen men and boys between 1978 and 1991.

Many of his later murders involved necrophilia, cannibalism, and the permanent preservation of body parts—typically all or part of the skeleton.

Although he was diagnosed with borderline personality disorder, schizotypal personality disorder, and a psychotic disorder, Dahmer was found to be legally sane at his trial. 

He was convicted of fifteen of the sixteen homicides he had committed in Wisconsin and was sentenced to fifteen terms of life imprisonment on February 17, 1992.

Dahmer was later sentenced to a sixteenth term of life imprisonment for an additional homicide committed in Ohio in 1978.

On November 28, 1994, Dahmer was beaten to death by Christopher Scarver, a fellow inmate at the Columbia Correctional Institution in Portage, Wisconsin.

Imagination

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZmD0ZArJfJQ

Belouis Some has described the song as being "about a British man's encounter with an extremely self-indulgent American woman",and one that "expresses the conflict between reality and dreams". 

 "'Imagination' isn't an erotic song because it doesn't go for the jugular in say the same way that Prince does, but it is very suggestive."

 "The single's very straight, no gimmicks, it's the song for the song's worth."

A music video was produced for "Imagination", and was directed by Storm Thorgerson. 

It caused controversy as it contained full frontal nudity.

Some said of the video ,"It's quite tasteful, not dirty. [Guitarist] Carlos Alomar called me a sexist pig but thought it was wonderful."

 Belouis Some said of the video's controversy,

"It wasn't done to cause a stir, it was done for artistic reasons and we put a lot of our own money into it. It became an obsession for all of us because we believed in it so much.

Reviews:

 "Imagine a David Bowie single from his Young Americans period played by his Let's Dance band and you'll have a fair idea of what this is about. It's played exceptionally well and is a brilliant single."

"a stomping, assured record sung with Bowiesque conviction".

Belouis Some, "Imagination"

 

She lit a cigarette, both hands behind her back
Thought she was hungry, lack of choice saw to that
Only you can try to see what I'm really like
She said, only you can understand the way I feel tonight
She blamed excesses on the 'merican dream
So seldom witnessed, never seen
Hah, hah, hah, hah, hah

Imagination, could make a man of you
Imagination, could make me love you too
Imagination, is all I want from you

She lost her virtue before she could write
I lost mine too, on my very first night with you
You'll have to guide me, these impossible schemes
You make me steal unstealable things
She blamed excesses on the 'merican dream
So seldom witnessed, never seen
Hah, hah, hah, hah, hah

Imagination, could make a man of you
Imagination, could make me love you too
Imagination, is all I want from you

And, she blamed excesses on the 'merican dream
So seldom witnessed, never seen
Hah, hah, hah, hah, hah

Imagination, could make a man of you
Imagination, could make me love you too
Imagination, is all I want from you

Imagination

 

Belouis Some, "Imagination"

The Police, "Synchronicity II"

 Bonzo Dog Doo Da Band, "Urban Spaceman"

Peter Gabriel, "Shock The Monkey"

Pat Benatar, "Love is a Battlefield"

 Ultravox, "Love's Great Adventure"

Madness, "Driving in My Car"

 Heaven 17, "Let Me Go"

Go West, "Call Me"

 The Pale Fountains, "Jean's Not Happening"

 Roger Daltrey, "After The Fire"

Elton John & Millie Jackson, "Act of War"

 

So there's this man, he has a time machine. 

Up and down history he goes, zip, zip, zip, zip, zip, getting into scrapes.

 Another thing he has is a a passion for the works of Ludwig van Beethoven. 

And one day he thinks, 'What's the point of having a time machine if you don't get to meet your heroes?' 

So off he goes to 18th century Germany, but he can't find Beethoven anywhere. No one's heard of him. Not even his family have any idea who the time traveller is talking about. 

Beethoven literally... doesn't exist. 

The time traveller panics. He can't bear the thought of a world without the music of Beethoven.

 Luckily he brought all of his Beethoven sheet music for Ludwig to sign. So he copies out all the concertos and the symphonies, and he gets them published. He becomes Beethoven. And history continues with barely a feather ruffled. 

But my question is this - who put those notes and phrases together? 

Who really composed Beethoven's 5th Symphony?

Beethoven bootstrap

 

 Imagine a time traveller who loves Beethoven, and so travels back in time to meet his hero. 

When he’s there, he discovers that the composer has written and will never write any of the music attributed to him. 

In desperation, the time traveller decides to copy out all of his favourite tunes for Beethoven. 

The plan is successful, and Beethoven’s place in history is secure. 

Then, several centuries later, the time traveller listens to Beethoven and decides to meet him. 

The question is this one:

who really wrote Beethoven’s Fifth Symphony?

Beethoven

 

You know, I was singing that tune just the other day. And I got a kind of... heh, heh... a kind of ringing in my ears and suddenly I couldn't hear a thing. 

And I thought: if Beethoven was deaf as a post, how did he know what he was playing? 

For example: if his piano was out of tune when he played 'duh-duh-duh-DUM,' what was the tune he was actually playing in his head?

 It could have been 'aga-doo-doo, aga-doo-doo' 

- it's a pity, because he could have had a big hit with that.

 

Who was it that said watching the United States is like watching an epic movie. 

Oscar Wilde? Woody Allen? ...

 Just think: they've got an actor for a president, economic advisors called projectionists, even their latest defense strategy is named after a film: Star Wars. 

And why pick on that one? Why not something gentler, like Kramer Vs. Kramer?

 And of course, everywhere in the world to them is just a theater of operations... except when they're fighting in it. 

And then, it's a theater... of war.

 

• the big one, the advice to beat all advice: how to walk out on the street and look a real man.
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Okay. You want to look macho, right? Here's how you do it. First, it's how you move. Try to get that all-important shoulder twitch. Getting that nice, subtle hint of the hairy back just tickling away, there, under the shirt - essential for the macho man. But not too twitchy, or your cigarette packet will fall out of the pocket in your sleeve.

Now: where to work. I'm afraid macho men do not work in public libraries. (Sorry, all you he-man bookworms.) Though, if you have to, at least stamp the books very hard. And, if possible, carry them around in a brick hod.

Lesson number two: If possible, get a job on a building site, giving full opportunity to wear the two-shirt t-shirt and the baggy hipster jeans, just about to slide down over the hips. So when you bend down, you expose that essential nine inches of the bottom of your back. And of course, that is the perfect place for your gold chain or your 'I Love Mary' tattoo. See? Think original. And, working out of doors does allow you to address passing women with the macho conversation opener: (wolf whistle), and 'Whhhuuut?' - not to be confused with the standard greeting of male friends 'Ooh-whut oo-whut ol' son?'

Moth

 

Of all the creatures in the cos-cos-cosmos, how come the moth is so stu-stupid? 

It hates the light, it only comes out in the dark, and then it spends all night beating itself silly. 

And where? 

Against the light bulb. 

So if any of you dumbo moths are listening, come out in the day...

 there's light everywhere.

 

 If you want to feel safer in your car, the most popular method is to buy a... St. Christopher. 

("Winning smile.") 

Light up. 

And what most people like to do is hang it in their windscreen. 

This is a good idea... because it swings around and distracts you on long journeys.

 (Sound of car failing to start.) 

Posture

 

Now I'm going to say a word: po-po-posture. Mmm. Now, there's a nice Ti-i-ime magazine, working-for-you, in quotation marks, it's a legger now kind of word, isn't it? 

Posture. Sort of makes you sit up and listen. M-m-m. Sit up properly and listen. 

People sleep in beds with posture springing. Well, most people, except, how shall I put it right off the top of my head... the Japanese. The Japanese don't have beds, they sleep on a fu-ton. Futons are very popular and very expensive, and they consist of nothing more than a stuffed sack. Weird. Well. Very good for your posture, and they help you relax and dream. 

Mostly about sleeping in a proper bed

 

what about the more important questions in the world, like, who is it that loses that odd shoe you find lying in the gutter?

 And is it that same idiot who leaves one soaking-wet glove stuck on a spike of the park railings?

 

Boy, you can't trust anyone in this business. You know, on a recent show, I suggested a new game show called 'Stake Your Bedroom Furniture.' Well, I'm damned if there isn't a new game show coming out soon on a major network called: 'Stroke the Piece of Furniture.' Hmm. All the contestant has to do is stroke one of the prizes - like a refrigerator, hi-fi system or videocassette player - in a more loving and sexy way than the hostess, and they get to keep the prize. I'm keeping my mouth shut in the future

 

You know, people can be really nasty. Only the other day I heard someone say, 'he's nothing but a robot, covered in makeup - talks a lot of nonsense.' What a way to talk about the President of America!

 

You know, I was walking around the city the other day, and it was so quiet you could have heard a window being smashed. It is strange, really. I suppose a lot of people are like windows. So many are... see-through. So many get smashed. And so many wander around with a glazed look over them. Are you like a window? Is your life a pane? Who was it said that..

 

What would you do to help the world if you could spend 30,000 pounds a week for the next thhhh-ousand years? Well, that's how much the government are spending on Trident missiles. Don't facts like that just wipe you out? (sound of bowling roll and strike, leading to dancing taps) 

I know how to tap dance..."

 

What I want to know is, why aren't more people inventing useful things? Like Mr. Bob-Bob-Bobby Ashimura, who wins our  product of the month award for coming out with a little attachment you plug into your TV and it warns you that the commercial break is coming, by automatically switching off your set for five seconds. And here to demonstrate it for us is Mr. Ashimura himself. 

(Okay, Bob, take it away...) 

(five seconds of static)

 

I got a joke. Okay, there was an Englishman, an Irishman-an Irishman and a Scotsman. And a Frenchman, and... an American. And a German. And I think an Australian as well. Okay. So there was this little Englishman Irishman Scotsman and American and German, and possibly an Australian, and I think they were in a bar. Heh. Ha... that's stupid, I've forgotten it.

 

You see, we've just had a telegram from the police-police in Texas, asking if we've seen a cow-cowboy answering this description: apparently he wears a brown paper hat, brown paper shirt, brown paper trousers and brown paper boots. They say he's wanted for rustling."

 

He's the toast of the town, lightly buttered. He's the non-fattening sugar substitute in your tea. He's a bon vivant, a gaucho amigo, a goombah, a mensch and the fifth Musketeer. He's the apple of your eye and orange you glad he's here. Direct from a wax and shine at the car wash around the corner, it's the man of the hour (oh, for at least a good 30 minutes)... 

 

Episode CH4.2.6

• Max introduces the show and his guest Boy George.
• Video: The Police, "Synchronicity II"
• Max sulks about his lack of fan mail.
• Video: Belouis Some, "Imagination"
• Max compares the US to an epic movie.
• Video: Paul Hardcastle, "19"
• Max muses about Beethoven's deafness.
• Video: Black Lace, "Agadoo"
• Max and his guest Boy George talk about:
  • What to call each other
  • Sanity and insane asylums and recording Culture Club's next album in Switzerland
    • Clip from video: Culture Club, "Victims"
  • Max asks George about golf and gets a scorching reply
    • Video: Culture Club, "Victims"
  • George's book & Max's book (Max yawns and gets zinged again)
  • Acting on "The A-Team" and "Dynasty"
  • Max is back to golf...
    • Video: Culture Club, "Victims" concludes
  • Minorities & gays
  • The Athens concert (George refuses to answer)
    • Video: Bonzo Dog Doo Da Band, "Urban Spaceman"
      • Insert: Max chides George for touching up his makeup with a powderpuff
  • George's career ("I'd like to go about ten more years.")
  • Max gives George an autograph book with his signature on the first page and insists that he not thank him.
• Max croons "It's Been a Great Show" to close the show and the season - all about his own wonderfulness, of course - in what might be the first appearance of his white suit.

 

Episode CH4.2.3

• Max introduces the show and his guests.
  • Video: Intaferon, "Steamhammer Sam"
    • Insert as LeBon says, "Nick, you look just like Richard Gere!"
• Max comments on having his game show idea stolen.
  • Video: Bryan Adams, "Heaven"
• Max comments on Simon LeBon's favorite color, and odd shoes and gloves left lying about.
  • Video: Jesse Rae, "Over The Sea"
• Max talks about posture and sleeping on futons.
• Commercial break (?)
• Max chides Nick for sitting in a wheelchair (a designer chair with big chrome loops on the sides) and gets them to sit at his bar for "big interview time." (Nick: "God, he's rude, as well!") They chat about:
  • Doc Martins
  • Max wants to clear one thing up (not their acne - but he isn't going to talk about golf). Who should he aim the questions at? Nick suggests in the middle, towards the fan. Max: "Ah, your one and only fan!"
  • Video: Severed Heads, "Goodbye Tonsils"
    • Max likes the name "Arcadia." Simon says it came from a book about the mythical land.
  • Max asks Nick about the new album, "So Dead the Nose." Nick corrects him - it's "So Red the Rose" - and says of the cities it was recorded and mixed in, he prefers Paris to New York.
  • Video: Arcadia, "Election Day"
    • Max asks "SLB" (or "SOB"?) which city he liked better. Simon says he liked the girls in Paris and the money in New York...
    • Max's next question is to both of them: "St. Andrews, Wentworth, St. Andrews, Augusta, St. Andrews, Glen Hills, St. Andrews, Wentworth... what would it mean to you?" Nick: "Definitely not golf."
    • Max asks Simon about sailing. Simon: "Well, I don't know which way up I am..." and Max turns it into a gay joke.
    • Simon accidentally says, "golf course... oh, sh*t" (poorly bleeped) "...I said sh*t... f*ck," (Again poorly bleeped). Max: "Cut! Print it! I love it!"
  • Max loves their records - "I use them for frisbees all the time" - and gives them each a small "snow storm" (snowglobe), which they pick up and shake. (One has a small sailboat, the other might be a skier on a mountain. "Simon, the boat's for you.") He thanks them for the rare and meaningful experience.
• Video: David Bowie, "Loving The Alien"
  • Max: "Ah, god, the guy's a genius.
• Max makes a closing comment about next week's show.

 

Episode CH4.2.5

• Max opens the show with a groovin', get-down hip-hop riff. (Embarrassing, from a late perspective...)
• Video: The Cult, "She Sells Sanctuary"
• Max claims he's a classical music person (as we all know).
• Video: Peter Gabriel, "Shock The Monkey"
• Max talks about his golf lessons and shows a film about golf balls being made, with some offscreen help.
• Video: Izzy Royal, "Coronation Street"
• Max talks about having Severiano Ballesteros as a guest.
• Video: The Kinks, "Come Dancing"
• Max gives advice on how to dress like a real man.
• Video: Pat Benatar, "Love is a Battlefield"
• Max tries to narrate a Jack Nicklaus golf clip only to be interrupted.
• Video: Ledernacken, "Ich will dich essen" ("I Want to Eat You")
  • Max talks about letters asking about his legs.
• Max announces Boy George will be on his next show.

 

Episode CH4.2.2

• Video: Supertramp, "Cannonball"
• Video: Waysted, "Love Loaded"
• Video: Heat N Serve, "Rats on a Budget"
• Video: Bauhaus, "Ziggy Stardust"
• Video: Hit List, "Into the Fire"
• Video: China Crisis, "King in a Catholic Style"
• Video: Udo Lindenberg, "Germans"

 

Episode CH4.2.4

• Video: Ultravox, "Love's Great Adventure"
• Max comments on using St. Christopher for driving safety.
• Video: Madness, "Driving in My Car"
• Max makes an observation about how stupid moths are.
• Video: Heaven 17, "Let Me Go"
• Max has a conversation with the time announcer.
• Video: Go West, "Call Me"
• Max and his guest Roger Daltrey 

• Video: The Pale Fountains, "Jean's Not Happening"

Video: Roger Daltrey, "After The Fire"

• Video: Elton John & Millie Jackson, "Act of War"

 Max Headroom 

Episode CH4.2.1

• Video: Jean-Michel Jarre, "Zoolook" (robot clip version).

"Car Parts" monologue.

• Video: King Kurt, "Designation Zululand"

• Video: Japan, "Visions of China"

Max and his guest Sting 

Cabaret Voltaire video "Sensoria"

 short video clip accompanying the stage recording of "Kinky Boots" (Patrick McNee and Honor Blackman),

 Sting video "If You Love Somebody Set Them Free."

 

Every new beginning 

is some other beginning's 

end 

 

The most successful marriages are based on lies

China - Tori Amos

 

China all the way to New York
I can feel the distance getting close
You're right next to me
But I need an airplane
I can feel the distance as you breathe

Sometimes I think you want me to touch you
How can I when you build a great wall around you
In your eyes I saw a future together
You just look away in the distance

China decorates our table
Funny how the cracks don't seem to show
Pour the wine dear
You say we'll take a holiday
But we never can agree on where to go

Sometimes I think you want me to touch you
How can I when you build a great wall around you
In your eyes I saw a future together
You just look away in the distance

China all the way toNew York
Maybe you got lost in Mexico
You're right next to me
I think that you can hear me
Funny how the distance learns to grow

Sometimes I think you want me to touch you
How can I when you build a great wall around you
I can feel the distance
I can feel the distance
I can feel the distance getting close

 

There is not a thin line between love and hate. 

There is 

--- in fact --- 

a Great Wall of China with armed sentries posted every 20 feet between love and hate

 

One glance at her, even now in the glass of my mind,

and I want to take off and travel with her.

The Riddle

 

This song doesn't appear to make much sense when the lyrics are studied closely, so many theories have popped up regarding the meaning (many of them concerning drugs).

 Nik Kershaw had written the music but had no idea what the song was going to be about, so to practice the tune he added random lyrics to be used until he made the song properly, but he ran out of time and had to use the lyrics on the album.

 He named the song "The Riddle" because that's essentially what it is.

The Riddle

The Riddle

Nik Kershaw

I got two strong arms
Blessings of Babylon
Time to carry on and try
For sins and false alarms
So to America the brave
Wise men save

Near a tree by a river
There's a hole in the ground
Where an old man of Aran
Goes around and around
And his mind is a beacon
In the veil of the night
For a strange kind of fashion
There's a wrong and a right
But he'll never, never fight over you

I got plans for us
Nights in the scullery
And days instead of me
I only know what to discuss
Oh, for anything but light
Wise men fighting over you

It's not me you see
Pieces of valentine
And just a song of mine
To keep from burning history
Seasons of gasoline and gold
Wise men fold

Near a tree by a river
There's a hole in the ground
Where an old man of Aran
Goes around and around
And his mind is a beacon
In the veil of the night
For a strange kind of fashion
There's a wrong and a right
But he'll never, never fight over you

I got time to kill
Sly looks in corridors
Without a plan of yours
A blackbird sings on bluebird hill
Thanks to the calling of the wild
Wise men's child

Near a tree by a river
There's a hole in the ground
Where an old man of Aran
Goes around and around
And his mind is a beacon
In the veil of the night
For a strange kind of fashion
There's a wrong and a right
But he'll never, never fight

 

Where is the feast they promised us? 

Where is the wine -- the new wine 

-- dying on the vine?

 

I feel the universe functioning perfectly but I'm still perfectly locked inside myself. 

Instead of oneness, I feel total isolation. 

Aloneness. 

Fear... pain...

 all I feel is pain.

 

Those who are bound by desire

seek only that which can be held in their hands 

 

Confusion is part of life 

 A rock doesn't doubt 

Nor does it believe 

 

confusion is the sound of creation.

 

our real desires are unconscious and unseen.

 

It's only through death that you know life. 

 medicine men heal people by sacrificing their own life.

 

Things are about to explode 

 You can feel it in the air

 Sides are being chosen. 

People wanna fight or fuck, love or kill, everything's gonna flame. 

The planet's screaming for change,

 

Erich von Stroheim

 

Erich von Stroheim, original name Erich Oswald Stroheim, 

(born September 22, 1885, Vienna, Austria—died May 12, 1957, near Paris, France),

 one of the most critically respected motion-picture directors of the 20th century, 

best known for the uncompromising realism and accuracy of detail in his films.

So on Foolish Wives, Stroheim began to scatter more than a million dollars. The film was set in Monte Carlo, and he told Universal to build it anew with palaces and plazas on the Californian coast, and make it lavish.

most noted as a film star and avant-garde, visionary director of the silent era.

His 1924 film Greed (an adaptation of Frank Norris's 1899 novel McTeague) is considered one of the finest and most important films ever made. 

 

 I don't really remember being born. 

It must have happened during one of my blackouts.

 

When the serpent appears, his head is ten feet long and five feet wide. 

He has one red eye and one green eye. 

He's deadly and he's seven miles long. 

As he moves—on his scales is written all the history of the world, all people, all actions, all of us our little pictures on the scales, 

It's big! -- and it's eating as it moves all the time, devouring, digesting consciousness, power, a monster of energy! 

We must kiss the snake on the tongue, 

if it senses our fear, it will eat us instantly. 

But if we kiss it without fear, the snake will take us through the garden and out the gate 

To our freedom

 -we must ride this snake.

 To the end of time.

 We gotta take the planet back

Reinvent the gods

Make new myths

 "The movie will begin in five moments," the mindless voice announced. 

All those unseated will await the next show.

We filed slowly, languidly into the hall. The auditorium was vast and silent.

 As we seated and were darkened, the voice continued, 

"The program for this evening is not new. You've seen this entertainment through and through. You've seen your birth, your life and death. You might recall all the rest.

 Did you have a good world when you died?

 Enough to base a movie on?"

Warning!

 

Warning!

If you are reading this then this warning is for you. 

 Every word you read of this useless fine print is another second off your life. 

Don't you have other things to do? 

 Is your life so empty that you honestly can't think of a better way to spend these moments?

 Or are you so impressed with authority that you give respect and credence to all that claim it?

 Do you read everything you're supposed to read? Do you think every thing you're supposed to think? Buy what you're told to want? 

 Get out of your house. Meet a member of the opposite sex. Stop the excessive shopping and masturbation. Quit your job. Start a fight. Prove you're alive. 

 If you don't claim your humanity you will become a statistic. 

 You have been warned.