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Idea for a novel. A love story in which the characters never meet, and never fall in love. This has to go on for about 400 pages - will they meet? Will they meet? On and on. They never meet.

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These are some malformed ponderings issued from the mouth of Dr. Pik Wunderlas, outsider musicologist and cosmic theoritician at Chicago's Beef Station:

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Musical elements
Neo Classical Grecian Music Theory

Music is air worship.

Why else would one want to excite its particles?

It is the human tribute to an element without which we could not survive longer than... [holds breath a moment]... oh, three minutes. Hence, music is immediate, instantaneous, vital, surprising.

Water, however, you could survive without for... [takes a sip of water] a few days.

Dance is the art form which is dedicated to water. Painting and sculpture sculpture are earth worship. Fire worship is warfare, or movies, or fireworks etc.

Air vibrational moulding creates audible sound.

Fire is the Frictional element with which a musician excites the string, percusses, burns energy at at a cellular level in order to blow a note.

Water is that which lubricates the joints and bulks the muscles to move the instrument which excites the air.

Earth is the instrument itself: wood, metal etc. are of the earth, rather than clay trombones, mud pianos, dirt tamborines,

But what of ice-drums? Fire flutes? Or light harps? Or the music of the moon?

Idea for an experimental choral society producing, in real-time, the sounds of real orgasms, with the use of whatever masturbatory aids the performers feel necessary / dildos, magazines, herbal tea, washing-up gloves, personal stereos. Not for public performance. Not sure how it would be conducted?


Idea for a touring group of spoken-word / writer types: all on stage, seated behind tables with one table centre-stage. Each performer takes a turn at anchor / handing over to the next performer. A performance-news-weather-report piece. Video back drops.

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Idea for DJ's / bands etc. copped from E. Bauer: a 'fly-drop' tour: you visit all the places you'd love to play, leaving copies of your demo tape behind.

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A paralyzed US man has become the first person in the world to have an brain implant that can read his mind. 25-year-old Matthew Nagle, who was paralyzed from the neck down after being attacked with a knife four years ago, can now control objects by thought alone. His implant reads his mind and sends the thoughts to a computer. For example, he can turn his TV on and off, as well as change the volume and channels, with a robotic arm that is controlled by his implant, reacting to signals, sent to a computer directly from his brain. www.unknowncountry.com

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www.youwhores.com is a brilliant site offering bizarre services such as:

Arch nemesis
Hey, you have'nt done anything to me, and so far me and you have a blank emotional connection, but for the reasonable price of £100, I will become your sworn mortal enemy. This service will include verbal physical and mental abuse, matriachal insults, and attempts on your life, and will only stop when you choose and pay me a second £100 pounds. Some people need that kind of hatred before they can really shine, and if that person is you, then I am your man!! Love Josh

Josh
josh@bolshaband.com
United Kingdom - 18/10/04

www.youwhores.com

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Idea 4 a chat show set in a reel-life café. Presented by the people who are making and serving the food. Open to the public.

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