Added to the links at left: Thorrific. When I lived in Dallas I used to say the city was "a great source of negative inspiration, ha ha" while slowly rotting inside. Eventually fled screaming ten years ago but Thorrific (aka Thor Johnson) stays there and makes good art, music and video, while also documenting with his camera what former prisoner Randall Adams, framed by the Dallas DA's office and freed in the '80s by Errol Morris, called the "hell on earth that is Dallas County." Recommended is the animated vid "Adventures of the Christian Pirate Pussies," based on the beliefs of certain idiot wackos in freeway churches and, sadly, at the highest levels of the US government, that a "red heifer" must be born and sacrificed in Jerusalem before Jay-sus can come again. In the video, the eponymous vaginas transport such a beast, genetically engineered in a lab in Texas, to the holy land by pirate ship, while a talking, flying bible explains the superstitious beliefs surrounding it. Thorrific's photographs likewise excel; think William Eggleston not just as a chronicler of the quirky beauty of the South but someone burning up with hatred for the epidemic obesity and preacher-promulgated ignorance so abundant in that part of the world. (Start with the Texas State Fair photos, but they're all pretty powerful.) Lastly, check out the site's streaming files of spacy, dubbed-out atmospheric tunes, layering Thorrific's guttural didgeridoo-playing with jangly, ominous electronics. A web-place well worth your time: oppositional culture at its finest.
Thanks Tom!!!
Here's a page where, if you want to, you can download the mp3s instead of streaming them...
www.thorrific.com/tempmusic.htm
...plus I think there might be a few more tunes on that page than the streaming page.
thanks,
Thor
Oh yeah, if you click on the words "The Red Heifer" (they are red) in the "Our Story So Far" part at the beginning of "The Adventures of The Christian Pirate Pussies", it brings up a google search about The Red Heifer. I didn't make up the stuff about people trying to breed Red Heifers in Texas! !!!
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Added to the links at left: Thorrific. When I lived in Dallas I used to say the city was "a great source of negative inspiration, ha ha" while slowly rotting inside. Eventually fled screaming ten years ago but Thorrific (aka Thor Johnson) stays there and makes good art, music and video, while also documenting with his camera what former prisoner Randall Adams, framed by the Dallas DA's office and freed in the '80s by Errol Morris, called the "hell on earth that is Dallas County." Recommended is the animated vid "Adventures of the Christian Pirate Pussies," based on the beliefs of certain idiot wackos in freeway churches and, sadly, at the highest levels of the US government, that a "red heifer" must be born and sacrificed in Jerusalem before Jay-sus can come again. In the video, the eponymous vaginas transport such a beast, genetically engineered in a lab in Texas, to the holy land by pirate ship, while a talking, flying bible explains the superstitious beliefs surrounding it. Thorrific's photographs likewise excel; think William Eggleston not just as a chronicler of the quirky beauty of the South but someone burning up with hatred for the epidemic obesity and preacher-promulgated ignorance so abundant in that part of the world. (Start with the Texas State Fair photos, but they're all pretty powerful.) Lastly, check out the site's streaming files of spacy, dubbed-out atmospheric tunes, layering Thorrific's guttural didgeridoo-playing with jangly, ominous electronics. A web-place well worth your time: oppositional culture at its finest.
- tom moody 9-11-2005 6:44 am
Thanks Tom!!!
Here's a page where, if you want to, you can download the mp3s instead of streaming them...
www.thorrific.com/tempmusic.htm
...plus I think there might be a few more tunes on that page than the streaming page.
thanks,
Thor
- Thor Johnson 9-11-2005 7:23 pm
Oh yeah, if you click on the words "The Red Heifer" (they are red) in the "Our Story So Far" part at the beginning of "The Adventures of The Christian Pirate Pussies", it brings up a google search about The Red Heifer. I didn't make up the stuff about people trying to breed Red Heifers in Texas! !!!
- Thor Johnson 9-11-2005 7:36 pm