The other post got to big so now we have part 2. This is all of the audio files, transcripts, pics and other miscalleanous stuff. I lost some of the stuff at the bottom when it got cut off so I will be fixing that a little later.
Hopefully we wont need Part 3
UPDATED 4/19
Updated 24.XX.YY numbers
Added the BB interview (in the video section)
Added pics of the phones given at teh LA OSR
Added Free Rebel Art's phone message
UPDATED 4/16
Updated Silver Zero's book list
Added Exterminal's audio file
List Of All Websites
Big list of EVERYTHING Part 1 (websites)
[Table of Contents]
LEAKED SONGS
AUDIO FILES
VIDEO
SPECTROGRAPH/IMAGES
PHONE NUMBERS (with transcripts)
24.xx.yy NUMBERS
BUTTONS
Working Combos
Single Buttons
BIBLE REFRENCES/BANNED BOOKS
Bible Refrences
Banned Books/Hidden Phrases
YEAR ZERO WEBSITE
NIN PHOTOS DEALING WITH THE ARG
PICS OF BUTTONS FLYERS BILLBOARD
Buttons
Flyers
Billboard
Lithographs
Phones
SITE RIPS AND EASY TO READ TEXT
Emails
SBI IRC Chat Log
Site Rips
List Of All People In The ARG
AnotherVersionOfTheTruth/Revisionism Both Versions
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Leaked Songs
The Beginning Of The End
Survivalism
Me, I'm Not
My Violent Heart
In This Twilight
All songs can be found at this site: symphonyofnoise.com
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Audio Files
Another version of the truth's forum (Violent Resistance)
ballgameOver.mp3
Another version of the truth's forum (Opal/Cocaine)
opalo.mp3
Another version of the truth's forum (Cops Murder Muslim Kid)
nohurry.mp3
US Wiretap phone number (216-333-1810)
216-333-1810
2432.MP3 (File that contains spectrograph of Us wiretap phone number)
(thanks for hosting botley)
2432.mp3
Tourshirt phone number (310-295-1040)
310-295-1040.mp3
Survivalism Our End Trip.aif
Original: Our End Trip.aif
case number only (link needed)
Survivalism Garage Band Multitrack (From official site)
Survivalism Garage Band Multitrack
Phone number off Year Zero case (1-866-445-6580)
http://img479.imageshack.us/img479/4984/backtt5.jpg
(Thanks to Toraylin for recording this)
http://www.fileden.com/files/2006/9/6/206315/186644565801.mp3
Free Rebel Art's phone message
(Thanks backstab for recording this)
http://dodownload.filefront.com/7286240//81949acece8bb26718965e30c8a26566a51fe0f506112e17de65e687446a4ec458c15db027bf6f90
Exterminal Capital G audio
Reveals mailstrom wreakage pain
http://files.exterminal.net/exhibitA.wav
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Video
Year Zero Trailer Hi (From official site)
http://yearzero.nin.com/yearzero_hi.html
Year Zero Trailer Low (From official site)
http://yearzero.nin.com/yearzero_lo.html
Survivalism Hi (From official site)
http://yearzero.nin.com/survivalism/survivalism_hi.html
Survivalism Low (From official site)
http://yearzero.nin.com/survivalism/survivalism_lo.html
Trent Interview (BB)
Trent YZ interview (205 MB)
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Spectrograph/Images
Presence in "My Violent Heart" static
Phone number in 2432.mp3 from "Me I'm Not" leak
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Phone Numbers
(216-333-1810) Uswiretap message
Automated female voice: U.S. Wiretap. Case identifier 7-1-8-3-9-J. File accessed. Begin playback.
(2 1/2 Rings)
Roby: Hello?
Mia: Roby? Roby? Roby, are you there? Oh my god, I'm at the club, you need to get me out of here. I'm going to die, oh my God, I'm going to die.
(Gunshot and scream)
Roby: Mia, what's going on?
Mia: He killed Joey so I locked myself in the stock room and now I can't get out and everybody's got it.
Roby: What is going on?
Mia: This guy, he came into the club really freaked out. And we, we didn't even see the knife. And his shirt was soaked red. And Joey said "Holy shit, you need a doctor". And then the guy just stabbed him, and he was sweating blood, and screaming, and he wouldn't stop until somebody killed him with a beer bottle.
(Crash, scream from Mia)
Roby: Honey, okay wait. I'm going to call the cops.
Mia: (Screaming) They're outside, they're outside!
Mia: Don't, the cops are already here. They're the ones who locked us in.
Roby: What?
Mia: I've gotta fight, I need a weapon...a gun.
Roby: You're going to be okay, you're going to make it out of there. I'll be up there in five minutes
Roby: Mia, you okay?
(Breathing)
Mia: Roby, you there? Blood...there's blood coming out of my skin...
Roby: Mia, listen. You need to listen.
Mia: Roby, I need you to take care of my dog. Okay, the food..
(Screaming)
Roby: Mia! Mia, what's going on?!
Mia: Get me the hell out of here.
Roby: Tell me what's going on.
Mia: Oh my God, please. Help me, please, God.
Roby: Mia!! Mia!!!!
(Re-order tone and hangup)
(NOTE: There appears to be another Morse code signal here between the hangup and the automated voice saying "Goodbye." However it is difficult to make out using the file below due to the low 8KHz sampling rate. It's speculated that the number is 24.3.1.)
Automated female voice: Goodbye.
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(310-295-1040) Sample of Survivalism and news broadcast
Newsreader type: There you have it, the latest presidential address. America is Born Again. In this reporter's opinion, a brilliant, values-based vision of the future.
Angry man: Honest to god, once they banned free elections I figured at least we wouldn't have to hear this self righteous motherfucker give any more speeches, he must just like doing it. "America is born again", maybe that was a values-based vision of the future, maybe it was the same old manifest destiny bullshit. Or, another way to put it by an old friend
song interrupts (chorus of [Survivalism])
Angry man: Still no formal charges. Listen people, I know you're out there and you're angry but you're scared of going to jail. Here's the bad news; the prison came to you my friend. The bars are all around you, you're already a criminal, fucking act like it.
The end of the recording has another Morse Code message.
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(Phone number off Year Zero case (1-866-445-6580))
(Transcript by (whotookthisname))
This is a message from the United States Bureau of Morality.
Pursuant of statute 24.12.2 disclosure of surveillance.
Citizen, by calling this number, you and your family are implicitly pleading guilty to the consumption of anti-American media and have been flagged as potential militants. The United States Bureau of Morality has activated the tracking system embedded in your personal media and initiated citizen surveillance.
United States Surveillance Log gives us the right to search and seize information relating to subversive activity from your person, vehicle, workplace, or home. Any attempt to hinder or prevent our investigation will be met with all necessary force.
You are now part of the problem.
Your re-education is about to begin.
God bless America.
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24.xx.yy Numbers
(Thanks for the idea Yami)
24.1.1 http://www.themailstrom.com/ main page
24.2.1 http://www.freerebelart.net/ main page
24.3.1 1-216-333-1810 Morse Code
24.3.2 myviolentheart.mp3 ID3 comments and also found from 2432.mp3(24.3.2)on the Barcelona USB drive.
24.3.3 http://www.uswiretap.com/case_number_required/
24.4.1
(thanks xsweartolistenx)
Black Resistance kit (10 fliers, 10 buttons, 1 marker, 1 hat, 1 bandana, 1 patch, 4 stickers, 1 stencil
24.4.2
(thanks xsweartolistenx)
Black Resistance kit (10 fliers, 10 buttons, 1 marker, 1 hat, 1 bandana, 1 patch, 4 stickers, 1 stencil, 1 phone
24.5.1 http://www.thepriceoftreason.net/ hidden in the logo (b/t the O and N.)
24.5.2 http://www.opensourceresistance.net/ hidden top left corner (Ctrl + A to see it.)
24.5.3 email sent from Bureau of Morality - Year 0000 Search <DCS1000@thepriceoftreason.net>
24.6.1
(thanks xsweartolistenx)
http://www.viabilityindex.com
24.7.1 http://www.exterminal.net/ In page source
24.8.1 http://www.gracetheteacher.net
24.9.1 (redhorse video) http://video.redhorsevector.net/redhorse_24_9_1.mov
24.9.2 http://www.redhorsevector.net
24.10.1 nohurry.mp3
24.10.2 http://www.churchofplano.com/
24.10.3 opalo.mp3
24.10.4 WARNING CODE
24.10.5 ballgameOver.mp3
24.10.6 http://www.105thairbornecrusaders.com
24.10.7 http://www.bethehammer.net
24.10.8 http://www.anotherversionofthetruth.com
24.11.1 http://www.onecountryatatime.net
24.11.3 Botttom left corner of LA mural
24.12.2 BOM Phone Recording (1-866-445-6580)
24.13.1 http://www.artisresistance.com/warning.htm
24.13.2 Art Is Resistance flyer (below right horizontal of T in art as a vertical series of _ & |)
24.14.1 Black/Red 2007 tour t-shirt
24.14.2 auto-reply e-mail from water@iamtryingtobelieve.com
24.14.3 http://www.iamtryingtobelieve.com
24.15.1 White 2007 tour t-shirt
24.15.2 1-310-295-1040 Morse Code
24.16.1 http://www.thewaterturnedtoblood.net (Ctrl + A to see it within the text near the presence.)
24.16.2 http://www.judsonogram.net/ (Written in white text above the 'Vocational' picture on the main page.)
24.16.3 http://www.thewaterturnedtoblood.net/bridge.htm (White text written in front of the top image.)
24.16.4 Found on the video for Survivalism - in the bottom-right corner of some of the monitors.
24.17.1 http://www.hollywoodinmemoriam.org/memoriam.htm
24.18.1 http://www.cedocore.com/ main page written in light blue
24.19.1 Auto-reply from francisco@securebroadcastinformatics.com at SecureBroadcastInformatics website
24.19.2 http://www.solutionsbackwardsinitiative.net/pilgrims/
24.20.1 http://www.operationswamp0000.net/ (Written in black text between first and second paragraphs.)
24.20.2 http://www.operationchipsweep.net/ (Ctrl + A to see it.)
24.20.3 Brixton billboard
24.20.4 Brixton flyer
24.21.1
(thanks xsweartolistenx)
http://www.briantsunoda.com
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Buttons
Released at listener parties
Credit to madcactus keeper of the buttons!
http://www.echoingthesound.org/phpbbx/viewtopic.php?p=876576#876576
The working theory is two like buttons = wreckage/shard combo.
Working Button Combos
Button 1 -- Robot Head (from billboard) -- gasoline
Button 2 -- Moltov Cocktail, Held by robot (from billboard) -- uuu891
Button 3 -- AIR Flag (White on green) -- sickle
Button 39 -- Angel in background from Billboard -- Nnqa49
Button 6 -- "You will be heard" (black on white)-- bitter
Button 20 -- AIR flag (White on red) -- BGtg57
Button 8 -- Purple guy from mural -- tumbrel
Button 9 -- Purple guy from mural -- AD44Us
Button 10 -- AIR Flag (White on Black) -- vC99iT
Button 34 -- AIR Flag (Black on White) -- widow
Button 11 -- AIR Flag (Red on white) -- infarction
Button 38 -- "You Will be Heard (White on Gray) -- 6k961G]
Button 12-- Scythe of angel from Billboard -- wretched
Button 13 -- Angel from Billboard -- Ypq2QQ
Button 14 -- AIR flag graphics (Grey on white) -- wetwork
Button 15 -- AIR flags on (Black on red) -- c276E4
Button 16 -- AIR flags on (Red on black) -- fratricide
Button 17 -- AIR flag graphics (White on grey) -- 774HZx
Button 19 -- AIR flag (White on blue) -- pliers
Button 25 -- AIR Flag (Blue on white) -- Ji3p09
Button 21 -- "Art is Resistance" (Black on red) -- slander
Button 29 -- "Art is Resistance" (Red on Black) -- Yr4893
Button 22 -- Cop from billboard -- atropine
Button 23 -- Chip held by crying angel from billboard -- gH319x
Button 24 -- AIR Flag (Black on White) -- needle
Button 36 -- Spotted AIR Flag (White on Black) -- jp411r
Button 26 -- Background from artisresistance.com -- venom
Button 27 -- Background from artisresistance.com -- D3i8Na
Button 28 -- Air Flag on back of dude on billboard -- MKs742
Button 30 -- Bottle of dude on billboard -- corrida
Button 31 -- "Art is Resisance" White on Black -- flense
Button 32 -- "Art is Resistance" White on Red -- E5PPvv
Button 5 -- "You have a voice" (white on green)-- spore
Button 40? -- This did not come from a known button, the combination was posted on ninwiki with no explaination. Aynone who knows where pQw2pP came from, please let us know. -- pQw2pP
Button 41? -- No button found, discovered through brute force dictionary attack -- Belladonna
Button 37 -- Guy in headlock from billboard -- 3Mz3tU
Button 42? -- No button found, discovered through brute force dictionary attack -- parasite
Button 18 -- "Speakergun" from artisresistance.com background -- tP366K
Button 43? -- No button found, discovered through brute force dictionary attack -- cleaver
Button 4 -- "Speak Truth" (red on black) -- I682fg
Button 44? -- No button found, discovered through brute force dictionary attack -- necrotic
Button 7 -- Cop Baton (from billboard) -- blE34c
Single Buttons
Button 33 -- AIR Flags (Orange on Black) -- regret
Button 35 -- "Art is Witness" (White on Red) -- cleansing
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Bible refrences / Banned books
Bible refrences
Need help with this... specifically which verse, verse itself, where it is found in the ARG
Matthew 26: 45-46
<password for secure broadcast informatics takes you to Solutions Backwards Initiative>
(NIV) 45. Then he returned to the disciples and said to them, "Are you still sleeping and resting? Look, the hour is near, and the Son of Man is betrayed into the hands of sinners.
46. Rise, let us go! Here comes my betrayer!"
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(SURVIVALISM BIBLE VERSES)
Revelation 18:3-4
<On door in Survivalism video>
(NIV) 3. For all the nations have drunk
the maddening wine of her adulteries.
The kings of the earth committed adultery with her,
and the merchants of the earth grew rich from her excessive luxuries."
4. Then I heard another voice from heaven say:
"Come out of her, my people,
so that you will not share in her sins,
so that you will not receive any of her plagues;
(There is debate on the verse on the door. Both relate to the story)
Revelation 16:3-4
(NIV) 3. The second angel poured out his bowl on the sea, and it turned into blood like that of a dead man, and every living thing in the sea died.
4. The third angel poured out his bowl on the rivers and springs of water, and they became blood.
(Thanks to adlusk for pointing these out)
Isaiah 15:9 (found on wall 11:06:37:12 in Survivalism video)
"9 Dimon's waters are full of blood, but I will bring still more upon Dimon
a lion upon the fugitives of Moab, and upon those who remain in the land"
Exodus 7:21 (found on wall 11:07:53:18 )
"21 The fish in the Nile died, and the river smelled so bad that the Egyptians could not drink its water. Blood was everywhere in Egypt."
II Kings 3:22 (found on same wall)
"22 When they got up early in the morning, the sun was shining on the water. To the Moabites across the way, the water looked red—like blood. "
this next one i'm not sure about at all, but some say it's there...
John 19:34(apparently found on the pic of jesus in the living room)
"34Instead, one of the soldiers pierced Jesus' side with a spear, bringing a sudden flow of blood and water."
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Ephesians 6:12
<Password for The Water Turned to Blood>
<Mentioned in Judson Ogram Correctional Facility #4382BX12 addendum>
(NIV) 12. For our struggle is not against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the powers of this dark world and against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly realms.
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Matthew 5:44
<mailstrom... Wreakage:fratricide Shard:774HZx>
(NIV) 44. But I tell you: Love your enemies[a] and pray for those who persecute you
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"God! there is no God but he, the living, the self-subsisting."
<Quoted from text in Hollywood In Memoriam (under the 28th picture)>
<translations of the Holy Qura'n>
(Thanks to bwary)
Quote:
2:255 Allah! there is no Allah but He the living the Self-subsisting Eternal. No slumber can seize him nor sleep. His are all things in the heavens and on earth. Who is there can intercede in His presence except as He permitteth? He knoweth what (appeareth to his creatures as) before or after or behind them. Nor shall they compass aught of his knowledge except as He willeth. His throne doth extend over the heavens and the earth and He feeleth no fatigue in guarding and preserving them. For He is the Most High the Supreme (in glory).
Quote:
3:2 Allah! there is no god but He the Living the Self-Subsisting Eternal.
Quote:
3:1-2 Allah has said, "Alif, Lam, Mim. Allah, (there is) no god but He, the ever-Living, the self-Subsisting, the One through Whom all things subsist"
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Banned books / Hidden phrases
(Huge thanks to Silver Zero for making this list)
(Silver Zero: Okay, everyone. As far as I know, this list is completely comprehensive, fully cited, and in chronological order (as of 6:25 PM 4/16/07). This took me a while to do, and I tried to do it as thoroughly and accurately as possible, but if you feel I've missed something, or I haven't given the proper credit to whomever, just PM me or leave a message on the thread or something. As we get more mined texts, I'll update this as necessary.
NOTE: This does not include references to pieces of literature found in areas other than the backgrounds of these ARG sites, e.g. "The Stand" reference on Hollywood In Memoriam or the Martin Niemoller poem found from the Francisco auto-reply on SBI.
I AM TRYING TO BELIEVE, ANOTHER VERSION OF THE TRUTH FORUMS, BE THE HAMMER, 105TH AIRBORNE CRUSADERS, CONSOLIDATED MAIL SYSTEMS
The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien
Perhaps one of the world's most well-known novels, this book prefaces the Lord of the Rings trilogy. This epic fantasy has been found on most banned books lists.
Text found by: morethanshapes
"For your hospitality our sincerest thanks, and for your offer of professional assistance our grateful acceptance. Terms: cash on delivery, up to and not exceeding one fourteenth of total profits (if any); all traveling expenses guaranteed in any event; funeral expenses to be defrayed by us or our representatives, if occasion arises and the matter is not otherwise arranged for."
ANOTHER VERSION OF THE TRUTH: REVISIONISM
A People's History of the United States: 1492-Present by Howard Zinn.
The famous anarchist/socialist/Marxist political scientist and historian Howard Zinn chronicles American history from Columbus onward through the prisms of those groups generally ignored in historical books.
Text found by: Disposition_on_Reflection
"Arawak men and women, naked, tawny, and full of wonder, emerged from their villages onto the island's beaches and swam out to get a closer look at the strange big boat. When Columbus and his sailors came ashore, carrying swords, speaking oddly, the Arawaks ran to greet them, brought them food, water, gifts. He later wrote of this in his log."
ANOTHER VERSION OF THE TRUTH: 0
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey
(this text references Lawrence Hauben's screenplay)
This well-known novel is a foray into the dangers of institutionalized psychiatry as well as the lesser-searched corners of the human mind. Made into a play the year after its release and a highly-acclaimed film in 1975, starring Jack Nicholson as protagonist Randle P. McMurphy.
Text found by: tuatara
"MCMURPHY (V.O)
(through loudspeaker)
Medication time! Medication time!
Rise and shine! Rise and shine!
Time to say goodbye... Everybody
up, up, up!"
US WIRETAP
Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut
A sharp, witty, and surreal tale of Billy Pilgrim, who has become "unstuck in time." Based somewhat on Vonnegut's own experience of the fire-bombing of Dresden, Germany during WWII.
(note: a portion of this text was also found on the AVOTT forums)
Text found by: Warped909
"All this happened, more or less. The war parts, anyway, are pretty much true. One guy I knew really was shot in Dresden for taking a teapot that wasn't his. Another guy I knew really did threaten to have his personal enemies killed by hired gunmen after the war. And so on. I've changed all the names. I really did go back to Dresden with Guggenheim money (God love it) in 1967. It looked a lot like Dayton, Ohio, more open spaces than Dayton has. There must be tons of human bone meal in the ground. I went back there with an old war buddy, Bernard V. O'Hare, and we made friends with a cab driver, who took us to the slaughterhouse where we had been locked up at night as prisoners of war. His name was Gerhard Müller. He told us that he was a prisoner of the Americans for a while. We asked him how it was to live under Communism, and he said that it was terrible at first, because everybody had to work so hard, and because there wasn't much shelter or food or clothing. But things were much better now. He had a pleasant little apartment, and his daughter was getting an excellent education. His mother was incinerated in the Dresden fire-storm. So it goes."
HOLLYWOOD IN MEMORIAM
"Caution" by Walt Whitman
One of Whitman's many celebrated poems in his famous collection, "Leaves of Grass," it cautions against unyielding authority.
Leaves of Grass
(note: no wiki-page for the text itself)
Text found by: Skean
"To: The States, or any one of them, or any city of The States, Resist much, Obey little; Once unquestioning obedience, once fully enslaved; once fully enslaved, no nation, state, city, ever afterward resumes its liberty."
SECURE BROADCASTS INFORMATICS
The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank
The tragic, true record of one Jewish girl and her family attempting to avoid the horrors of the Holocaust during WWII.
Text found by: tuatara
"Have you ever heard the term 'hostages'? That's the latest punishment for saboteurs. It's the most horrible thing you can imagine. Leading citizens--innocent people--are taken prisoner to await their execution. If the Gestapo can't find the saboteur, they simply grab five hostages and line them up against the wall. You read the announcements of their death in the paper, where they're referred to as 'fatal accidents.' - October 9, 1942"
SOLUTIONS BACKWARDS INITIATIVE
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
A very familiar tale to most readers, this slice of Americana displays a little bit of everything in rural Southern America from racism to politics. Often found on banned books lists.
Text found by: lostivity
"It was a close place. I took it up, and held it in my hand. I was a-trembling, because I’d got to decide, forever, betwixt two things, and I knowed it. I studied a minute, sort of holding my breath, and then says to myself: “All right then, I’ll go to hell”—and tore it up. It was awful thoughts and awful words, but they was said. And I let them stay said; and never thought no more about reforming."
THE WATER TURNED TO BLOOD
Howl, Part II by Allen Ginsberg
The middle section of Ginsberg's "Howl" is one of the crowning achievements of the Beat Generation, marked by rambling, peyote-soaked prose. The horrors of urban civilization are personified in Moloch, an ancient Canaanite idol.
Text found by: kyle
"Moloch! Moloch! Robot apartments! invisible suburbs! skeleton treasuries! blind capitals! demonic industries! spectral nations! invincible mad houses! granite cocks! monstrous bombs!"
JUDSON OGRAM: JOHN FERMINGER
The Origin of Species by Charles Darwin
Darwin's famous book detailing some of the first thoughts on evolutionary theory was groundbreaking in scientific fields and still resonates in various academic communities today. Has met much opposition from religious groups and finds itself on many banned books lists.
Text found by: AngstyNerd
"We shall best understand the probable course of natural selection by taking the case of a country undergoing some physical change, for instance, of climate. The proportional numbers of its inhabitants would almost immediately undergo a change, and some species might become extinct."
JUDSON OGRAM: MOIRA WAAG PT. 1
The Communist Manifesto by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels
This relatively short tract sparked a new, revolutionary political philosophy that led to the rise of the Communist party in Germany, across Eastern Europe, into Russia and elsewhere around the globe.
Text found by: justnine
A spectre is haunting Europe — the spectre of Communism. All the Powers of old Europe have entered into a holy alliance to exorcise this spectre: Pope and Czar, Metternich and Guizot, French Radicals and German police-spies.
JUDSON OGRAM: MOIRA WAAG PT. 2
Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West by Gregory Maguire.
This dramatic (and erotic) retelling of the story of the Wicked Witch of the West from The Wizard of Oz has been made into a very successful Broadway show.
Text found by: KingMob4313
The decades - Fiyero thought, in love with her or at least so frightened for her that he could mistake it for love -- the decades looked on and didn't see her passing. They stared from their fixed mounts across at each other and didn't see the revolution striding between them, on her way to destiny.
OPERATION SWAMP 0000
The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
The quintessential "coming-of-age" story is of Holden Caufield struggling to find his place in the world and his off-kilter relationships with his peers and society in general. Frequently on banned books lists.
Text found by: remisser
"I'm standing on the edge of some crazy cliff. What I have to do, I have to catch everybody if they start to go over the cliff— I mean if they're running and they don't look where they're going I have to come out from somewhere and catch them. That's all I'd do all day. I'd just be the catcher in the rye and all. I know it's crazy, but that's the only thing I'd really like to be. I know it's crazy."
OPERATION CHIP SWEEP
"The Perils of Obedience" by Stanley Milgram
An article written after Stanley Milgram's famous experiment on obedience, in which he found people will do just about anything (even harm others) if enough pressure is exerted by authority.
The Milgram obedience experiment
(note: no wiki-page for the text itself)
Text found by: PrestonxSmith
"The legal and philosophic aspects of obedience are of enormous importance, but they say very little about how most people behave in concrete situations. I set up a simple experiment at Yale University to test how much pain an ordinary citizen would inflict on another person simply because he was ordered to by an experimental scientist. Stark authority was pitted against the subjects' [participants'] strongest moral imperatives against hurting others, and, with the subjects' [participants'] ears ringing with the screams of the victims, authority won more often than not. The extreme willingness of adults to go to almost any lengths on the command of an authority constitutes the chief finding of the study and the fact most urgently demanding explanation.
Ordinary people, simply doing their jobs, and without any particular hostility on their part, can become agents in a terrible destructive process. Moreover, even when the destructive effects of their work become patently clear, and they are asked to carry out actions incompatible with fundamental standards of morality, relatively few people have the resources needed to resist authority."
CEDOCORE: HYCEPHAMITAMYN-η
Collapse by Jared Diamond
A relatively recent book (2005) concerning societal collapse due in no small part to environmental components, e.g. climate change, overhunting/fishing, erosion, toxic chemicals, etc.
Text found by: digitalLotus
"Will tourists someday stare bewildered at the rusting hulks of New York’s skyscrapers, much as we stare today at the jungle-overgrown ruins of Maya cities?"
MAILSTROM: GALLOWS
1984 by George Orwell.
One of the most famous dystopian novels ever, describes a bleak future in which the world is constantly at war and the government has absolute control (even over reality itself).
Text found by: vipbrj
(portions of this text were also found on the MAILSTROM:NEEDLE page)
"It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen. Winston Smith, his chin nuzzled into his breast in an effort to escape the vile wind, slipped quickly through the glass doors of Victory Mansions, though not quickly enough to prevent a swirl of gritty dust from entering along with him."
MAILSTROM: GASOLINE
Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America by Barbara Ehrenreich.
A book in which Ehrenreich attempts to live on minimum wage for a month in both Florida and Maine and details the hardships that ensue.
Text found by: cynicmuse
"Mostly out of laziness, I decide to start my low-wage life in the town nearest to where I actually live, Key West, Florida, which with a population of about 25,000 is elbowing its way up to the status of a genuine city. The downside of familiarity, I soon realize, is that it's not easy to go from being a consumer, thoughtlessly throwing money around in exchange for groceries and movies and gas, to being a worker in the very same place. I am terrified, especially at the beginning, of being recognized by some friendly business owner or erstwhile neighbor and having to stammer out some explanation of my project. Happily, though, my fears turn out to be entirely unwarranted: during a month of poverty and toil, no one recognizes my face or my name, which goes unnoticed and for the most part unuttered. In this parallel universe where my father never got out of the mines and I never got through college, I am 'baby,' 'honey,' 'blondie,' and, most commonly, 'girl.'"
MAILSTROM: TUMBREL
Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison.
A critically acclaimed novel involving racial tensions in 20th century America.
Text found by: KingMob4313
"I never told you, but our life is a war and I have been a traitor all my born days, days, a spy in the enemy's country ever since I give up my gun back in the reconstruction. Live with your head in the lion's mouth."
MAILSTROM: WRETCHED
Civil Disobedience by Henry David Thoreau.
One of American literature's most famous essays, Thoreau argues for the right of citizens to disobey their governments should they become too strong.
Text found by: cynicmuse
"I HEARTILY ACCEPT the motto, — "That government is best which governs least"; and I should like to see it acted up to more rapidly and systematically."
MAILSTROM: WETWORK
A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess.
Another dystopian look at the future where roving teenage gangs terrorize communities, and the subsequent psychological problems involving rehabilitation. Made into a controversial, but excellent film by Stanley Kubrick.
Text found by: nunzilla
"He was in the land all right, well away, in orbit, and I knew what it was like, having tried it like everybody else had done, but at this time I'd got to thinking it was a cowardly sort of a beschch, O my brothers. You'd lay there after you'd drunk the old moloko..."
MAILSTROM: FRATRICIDE
The Forever War by Joe Haldeman
A sci-fi novel in which the human race is at war with an alien race, the Taurans, for hundreds of years.
Text found by: cynicmuse
"You couldn't blame it all on the military, though. The evidence they presented for the Taurans having been responsible for the earlier casualties was laughably thin. The few people who pointed this out were ignored.
The fact was, Earth's economy needed a war, and this one was ideal. It was a nice hole to throw buckets of money into, but would unify humanity rather than dividing it."
MAILSTROM: BITTER
A Seperate Peace by John Knowles
A book told in retrospect about growing up during World War II. Received criticism by some for potentially being an anti-war novel.
Text found by: nunzilla
"I felt fear's echo, and along with that I felt the unhinged, uncontrollable joy which had been its accompaniment and opposite face, joy which had broken out sometimes in those days like Northern Lights across black sky."
MAILSTROM: ATROPINE
"Bible Stories for Adults, No. 17: The Deluge" by James Morrow.
James Morrow (no wiki-page exists for the text itself)
James Morrow is an author who frequently satirizes religion, but occasionally elements of humanism and atheism, too. Famous for his "Godhead" trilogy in which God is actually found dead and floating in the Atlantic Ocean.
Text found by: KingMob4313
Take your cup down to the Caspian, dip, and drink. It did not always taste of salt. Yahweh's watery slaughter may have purified the earth, but it left his seas a ruin, brackish with pagan blood and the tears of wicked orphans.
MAILSTROM: PLIERS
The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien.
An awesome novel-in-stories concerning the Vietnam War and soldiers' varying reactions to it.
Text found by: Akumu
"First Lieutenant Jimmy Cross carried letters from a girl named Martha, a junior at Mount Sebastian College in New Jersey. They were not love letters, but Lieutenant Cross was hoping, so he kept them folded in plastic at the bottom of his rucksack."
MAILSTROM: CORRIDA
Equus by Peter Shaffer.
A play concerning a psychiatrist's efforts to treat a boy who has an unnatural fascination with horses. Apparently, the actor who plays Harry Potter (Daniel Radcliffe) is currently doing this play.
Text found by: Akumu
"There is now, in my mouth, this sharp chain. And it never comes out."
MAILSTROM: SLANDER
Hiroshima by John Hersey.
An article that appeared in the New Yorker in August 1946, one year after the bomb was dropped on Hiroshima. It was later made into a novel detailing the lives of 6 Japanese people and how the bomb affected them.
Text found by: Akumu
"At exactly fifteen minutes past eight in the morning, on August 6, 1945, Japanese time, at the moment when the atomic bomb flashed above Hiroshima, Miss Toshiko Sasaki, a clerk in the personnel department of the East Asia Tin Works, had just sat down at her place in the girl office and was turning her head to speak to the girl at the next desk."
MAILSTROM: FLENSE
Orientalism by Edward Said.
Discusses how the Western world viewed the Orient as an "other," a threat to their collective political hegemony. Sparked the beginning of post-colonial theory.
Text found by: tuatara
"On June 13, 1910, Arthur James Balfour lectured the House of Commons on 'the problems with which we have to deal in Egypt.' 'These,' he said, 'belong to a whole different category than those affecting the Isle of Wight or West Riding of Yorkshire.'"
MAILSTROM: SPORE
"The Fate of an Honest Intellectual" by Noam Chomsky.
Noam Chomsky (no wiki-page exists for the text itself)
An essay by one of the 20th century's most outspoken philosophers.
Text found by: Akumu
"He's now living in a little apartment somewhere in New York City, and he's a part-time social worker working with teenage drop-outs. Very promising scholar—if he'd done what he was told, he would have gone on and right now he'd be a professor somewhere at some big university. Instead he's working part-time with disturbed teenaged kids for a couple thousand dollars a year. That's a lot better than a death squad, it's true—it's a whole lot better than a death squad. But those are the techniques of control that are around."
MAILSTROM: SICKLE
Heather Has Two Mommies by Leslea Newman
A children's book written in 1989 about a girl who grows up with lesbian parents. Frequently found on banned books lists.
Text found by: KingMob4313
"Heather's favourite number is two. She has two arms, two legs, two eyes, two ears, two hands, and two feet. Heather has two pets: a ginger-colored cat named Gingersnap and a big black dog named Midnight. Heather also has two mommies: Mama Kate and Mama Jane."
MAILSTROM: REGRET
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince by J.K. Rowling
The sixth in the ever-popular Harry Potter series. Consistently found on banned books list for "black magic" and "sorcery."
Text found by: silver zero
"Voldemort himself created his worst enemy, just as tyrants everywhere do! Have you any idea how much tyrants fear the people they oppress? All of them realize that, one day, amongst their many victims, there is sure to be one..."
MAILSTROM: VENOM
The Naked and the Dead by Norman Mailer.
Based on Mailer's experiences in the South Pacific during WWII.
Text found by: _brokenhalo_
"But the compassion lasted for only a few minutes. He understood it all, knew he could do nothing about it any longer, and was not even tempted. What was the use? He sighed and the acuteness of his mood slipped out with his breath. There were some things you could never fix. It was too mixed-up. A man had to get out by himself or he became like Hennessey, worrying over every gimcrack in his life."
MAILSTROM: INFARCTION
Stranger in a Strange Land by Robert A. Heinlein
A famous sci-fi novel about one human's migration from Mars, where he was raised, to the unfamiliar Earth.
Text found by: Deamos
"Christ was crucified for preaching without a police permit. Sweat over that, instead!"
MAILSTROM: WIDOW
M. Butterfly by David Henry Hwang
A successful play (that was also made into a movie) about a French man falling in love with a Chinese opera star. The play deals with cultural stereotypes of the Eastern world and was mentioned in another one of our "mined" texts, Edward Said's Orientalism.
Text found by: silver zero
"GALLIMARD. Butterfly, Butterfly...(He forces himself to turn away, as the image of Song fades out, and talks to us.)The limits of my cell are such: four-and-a-half meters by five."
MAILSTROM: CLEANSING
Beloved by Toni Morrison.
(note - site has yet to have been officially "found." background images were discovered by KingMob4313 using 1337 speak method)
Text found by: KingMob4313
A Pulitzer Prize-winning novel written in 1987 about the legacy of slavery. Was recently voted by a panel of 100 contemporary novelists as the best contemporary novel.
"The Women in the house knew it and so did the children. For years each put up with the spite in his own way, but by 1873 Sethe and her daughter Denver were it's only victims."
MAILSTROM: BELLADONNA
Angels in America by Tony Kushner
A play made into a popular TV miniseries about Prior Walter, a homosexual who sees angels that claim he is a prophet, and Joe Pitt, a closeted Mormon Republican clerk.
Text found by: TimA
“I see the universe, Joe, as a kind of sandstorm in outer space with winds of mega-hurricane velocity, but instead of grains of sand it's shards and splinters of glass ... You ever feel that way? Ever have one of those days?”
MAILSTROM: PARASITE
Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides
A Pulitzer-Prize winning coming-of-age novel about a Cal, an intersexual person suffering from a genetic mutation.
Text found by: Lulah
"But I was beginning to understand something about normality. Normality wasn’t normal. It couldn’t be. If normality were normal, everybody could leave it alone. They could sit back and let normality manifest itself. But people—and especially doctors—had doubts about normality. They weren’t sure normality was up to the job. And so they felt inclined to give it a boost."
MAILSTROM: CLEAVER
The Chocolate War by Robert Cormier
A popular book describing one boys attempts to uncover a secret society at a high school. #4 on the ALA's Banned Books list for its protagonists' musings on sexuality and use of Anti-Catholicism.
Text found by: Disposition_On_Reflection
"They murdered him.
As he turned to take the ball, a dam burst against the side of his head and a hand grenade shattered his stomach. Engulfed by nausea, he pitched toward the grass. His mouth encountered gravel, and he spat frantically, afraid that some of his teeth had been knocked out. Rising to his feet, he saw the field through drifting gauze but held on until everything settled into place, like a lens focusing, making the world sharp again, with edges."
MAILSTROM: HUBRIS
The Crucible by Arthur Miller
Miller's famous play was an allegory of 1950s McCarthyism and made into a critically acclaimed movie in 1996.
Text found by: KingMob4313
"There is a misty plot afoot so subtle we should be criminal to cling to old respects and ancient friendships."
MAILSTROM: PAIN
Fight Club by Chuck Palahniuk
Palahniuk's first novel became a cult hit about American materialism, masculinity, and nihilism after it was converted into a movie starring Brad Pitt and Edward Norton.
Text found by: tuatara
"Tyler gets me a job as a waiter, after that Tyler's pushing a gun in my mouth and saying, the first step to eternal life is you have to die. For a long time though, Tyler and I were best friends. People are always asking, did I know about Tyler Durden."
THE PRICE OF TREASON
The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
A story about Tom Joad and other people affected by the Great Depression setting out for California, searching for new lives. Has been on banned books list since its first publication in 1939.
Text found by: lowki
"Rattlesnakes! Don't take chances with 'em, an' if they argue, shoot first. If a kid'll kill a cop, what'll the men do? Thing is, get tougher'n they are. Treat 'em rough. Scare 'em."
FREE REBEL ART
Rita Hayworth and the Shawshank Redemption by Stephen King
Stephen King's famous novella about false incarceration, institutionalization, freedom, and friendship. Made into a very famous and critically-acclaimed film starring Tim Robbins and Morgan Freeman.
Text found by: Dianne
"Brooks Hatlen knew it. Knew it all too well. All I want is to be back where things make sense. Where I won't have to be afraid all the time."
GRACE THE TEACHER, RED HORSE VECTOR
Silent Spring by Rachel Carson
Considered one of the pioneering works of the environmentalist movement, Carson explores the problems of pollution and pesticides in particular. The catalyst for the banning of the pesticide DDT in 1972.
Text found by: Nunzilla
"The town lay in the midst of a checkerboard of prosperous farms, with fields of grain and hillsides of orchards where, in spring, white clouds of bloom drifted above the green fields. In autumn, oak and maple and birch set up a blaze of color that flamed and flickered across a backdrop of pines. Then foxes barked in the hills and deer silently crossed the fields, half hidden in the mists of fall mornings..."
ONE COUNTRY AT A TIME
Pleasantville by Gary Ross
A 1998 film where two teens get trapped in a 1950s sitcom and teach the button-down vanilla town of Pleasantville the values of diversity, criticism, and nonconformity. So far the only screenplay to appear on the mined texts list.
Text found by: silver zero
"BOB: [to David/Bud and Bill] 'You are charged with descration of a public building and the intentional use of prohibited paint colors in violation of The Pleasantville Code of Conduct and "Laws of Common Decency." Do you admit that on the night of May 1 you did consciously and willfully apply the following FORBIDDEN paint colors to the North Wall of the Pleasantville Police Station: Red, Pink, Vermilion, Puce, Chartreuse, Umber, Blue, Aqua, Ox Blood, Green, Peach, Crimson, Yellow, Olive and Magenta?'"
VIABILITY INDEX
The Simple Art of Murder by Raymond Chandler
(portions of this text were also found on FREE REBEL ART: YOU ARE A THREAT)
Both an essay and a collection of stories by Chandler detailing the problems concerning the "detective fiction" genre of storytelling.
Text found by: tuatara
"But down these mean streets a man must go who is not himself mean, who is neither tarnished nor afraid."
MINING FOR LIFE
Brazil by Terry Gilliam
A satirical look at 20th century governments; a very anti-totalitarian movie directed by one of Monty Python's finest. The second film to be included on the mined texts list.
Text found by: redstar
"Interviewer: What do you believe is behind this recent increase in terrorist bombings?
Helpmann: Bad sportsmanship. A ruthless minority of people seems to have forgotten certain good old-fashioned virtues. They just can't stand seeing the other fellow win. If these people would just play the game..."
EXTERMINAL
Watchmen by Alan Moore
One of the very first popular "graphic novels," Moore portrays an alternate history America which is on the verge of nuclear war with the Soviet Union. Superheroes are abundant and also deal with "everyday" issues.
Text found by: tuatara
"Rorschach's Journal October 12th 1985:
Dog carcass in alley this morning, tire tread on burst stomach. This city is afraid of me. I have seen its true face.
The streets are extended gutters and the gutters are full of blood and when the drains finally scab over, all the vermin will drown.
The accumulated filth of all their sex and murder will foam up about their waists and all the whores and politicians will look up and shout 'Save Us!"'...
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Year Zero website
http://yearzero.nin.com
(Album Cover Originally found in a frame of static in the year zero trailer now linked on main site)
http://yearzero.nin.com/0024/index.html
(Hidden pics found in image at bottom of page)
http://yearzero.nin.com/img/03.html
http://yearzero.nin.com/img/07.html
http://yearzero.nin.com/img/10.html
http://yearzero.nin.com/img/12.html
http://yearzero.nin.com/img/14.html
http://yearzero.nin.com/img/19.html
http://yearzero.nin.com/img/22.html
http://yearzero.nin.com/img/25.html
http://yearzero.nin.com/img/28.html
http://yearzero.nin.com/img/31.html
http://yearzero.nin.com/img/39.html
links to albumcover.jpg, and I believe it was discovered shortly after the /0024/yearzero_cover.jpg
http://yearzero.nin.com/img/86.html
Blank place holder for chinesedemocracy.jpg
http://yearzero.nin.com/img/105.html
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Nin photos Dealing with the ARG
(Thanks NINandNirvana for the idea)
Trent in front of operation swamp billboard
http://www.nin.com/current/photos/3_13_07.html
Trent with AIR flag shirt
http://www.nin.com/current/photos/2_21_07.html
Darren Kroupa is the same "notorious underground figure" mentioned on SecureBroadcastInformatics.com
http://www.nin.com/current/photos/1_26_07.jpg
(Possible information on who Darren Kroupa is. THIS IS NOT CONFIRMED!)
http://forums.unfiction.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=18865
Darren's Obituary
http://www.thnt.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/B3/20070403/OBITUARIES/704030364/1069/OBITS
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Pics of buttons, flyers, billboard, lithographs, phones
Buttons
From Minneapolis, provided by the americant
http://i172.photobucket.com/albums/w30/the_americant/NINYZbuttonz.jpg
From New York, provided by eightcell
http://mywebpages.comcast.net/kymcat3/nin_pinNY2.jpg
http://mywebpages.comcast.net/kymcat3/nin_pinNY3.jpg
From New York, provided by MERVERNATOR
http://www.mervernation.com/misc/2buttons.png
From the Los Angeles listening party, provided by: sAin't
http://img341.imageshack.us/img341/5113/dscf1037gn8.th.jpg
http://img163.imageshack.us/img163/417/dscf1039ey0.th.jpg
From the San Diego listening party, provided by: kill.yr.transistors
http://i32.photobucket.com/albums/d50/ooSaintJimmyoo/DSCN0360.jpg
http://i32.photobucket.com/albums/d50/ooSaintJimmyoo/DSCN0362.jpg
From Chicago listening party, provided by: blind487
http://i19.photobucket.com/albums/b154/blind487/nine2.jpg
http://i19.photobucket.com/albums/b154/blind487/nine1.jpg
From the Dallas listening party, provided by: MrFaust
http://img248.imageshack.us/img248/2362/buttons003dr9.th.jpg
http://img151.imageshack.us/img151/1249/buttons004zn5.th.jpg
http://img248.imageshack.us/img248/996/buttons005np8.th.jpg
http://img443.imageshack.us/img443/2034/buttons006ay9.th.jpg
http://img248.imageshack.us/img248/6991/buttons008nt4.th.jpg
From the Dallas listening party, provided by: _brokenhalo_
Red AIR flag on black background: "fratricide"
http://farm1.static.flickr.com/187/431468805_d83d72e428.jpg
Grey AIR flag-ish looking graphics on white background: "wetwork"
http://farm1.static.flickr.com/165/431469325_b6da7fa8e6.jpg
artwork from AIR site background image: "tP366K"
http://farm1.static.flickr.com/157/431469323_52cd21f572.jpg
Black AIR flag on red background: "c276E4"
http://farm1.static.flickr.com/183/431468804_2da5416ad0.jpg
White AIR flag-ish looking graphics on grey background: "774HZx"
http://farm1.static.flickr.com/161/431468816_6e6ace4171.jpg
White AIR flag on blue background: "pliers"
http://farm1.static.flickr.com/161/431468816_6e6ace4171.jpg
White AIR flag on red background: "BGtg57"
http://farm1.static.flickr.com/187/431468802_58e42d971f.jpg
Black "Art is Resistance" on red background: "slander"
http://farm1.static.flickr.com/157/431468819_a8ac169f8d.jpg
From the Denver listening party, provided by LunaReptile
http://farm1.static.flickr.com/146/431079133_69282abccf.jpg
From the Detroit listening party, provided by Akasha78
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v238/akasha1978/button.jpg
From the Phoenix listening party, provied by Norstauf
http://farm1.static.flickr.com/177/431087962_c3d9a2af5d_m.jpg
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Flyers
Leads to Artisresistance website
http://farm1.static.flickr.com/169/399108993_0befafca97_b.jpg
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Leads to operation swamp 0000 billboard
http://farm1.static.flickr.com/131/418209834_449b700202.jpg
http://farm1.static.flickr.com/124/418209836_e12fe81937.jpg
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Billboard
(High Res by RedDeath)
http://farm1.static.flickr.com/172/419620461_28cf3d67e2_o.jpg
http://www.flickr.com/photo_zoom.gne?id=419620461&size=o
http://farm1.static.flickr.com/126/418142576_c9480f4b28.jpg
http://www.flickr.com/photos/nic/420252848/in/set-72157594586658099/
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Lithographs
http://www.ninwiki.com/images/8/85/Yzlitho.jpg
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Phones
Let me know of any other images worthy of notion!
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Site rips and easy to read text
Emails
(From water@iamtryingtobelieve.com)
------------------------AUTO_RESPONSE--------------_--
Thank you for your interest. It is now clear to me that Parepin is a completely safe and effective agent developed to protect us from bio-terrorism. The Administration is acting purely in the best interests of its citizens; to suggest otherwise was irresponsible and I deeply regret it.
I'm drinking the water. So should you.
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
(From francisco@securebroadcastinformatics.com)
As I write this, cops are coming to arrest me and my friends for trying to make America a better place to live. I'm an IT specialist, they are mostly scientists, ranging from graduate students to eminent professors. None of us are soldiers. None of us wanted to hurt anybody. We weren't in favor of violence-just the same free speech that used to be your right under the constitution.
If you look down, you will see an email I got two days ago. Is this the kind of country you want to live in? Are these the choices you want to make?
If you wanted a job here at SBI, ask yourself *which America do I want to defend?*
If you think about that for even a little while, be careful: the cops will be coming for you next.
Francisco Parro
IT consultant
PS I'm sorry, Elaina. If they had come to me even a little sooner, I would have betrayed my friends to save you. Now it's too late for any of us.
Als sie mich holten,
gab es keinen mehr,
der protestieren konnte.
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From: <blocked>
To: Francisco@securebroadcastinformatics.com
Content: hidden bandwidth
>>Dear Sir:
>>>>It has come to the attention of the Bureau of Morality's Internet Monitoring Taskforce that several of the clients for whom you handle IT seem to show bandwidth loads that do not match their formally submitted audit numbers.
We have asked for clarification of this matter on three occasions. Your replies have been either evasive or insufficient or simply late. Frankly, speaking as one human being to another, it has been as bad as dealing with a health insurance company.
>You may be aware of that frustration yourself, in the lengthy delays you have encountered trying to process the papers for your wife's breast cancer treatments. So I know you understand our frustration, and will be motivated to do your very best to explain these bandwidth discrepancies.
>>>>>>>>>You may submit any information in the full confidence that it will remain anonymous.
Perhaps your wife will start feeling better soon.
>A friend
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
(From Open Source Resistance <list@opensourceresistance.net>)
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Hopefully we wont need Part 3
UPDATED 4/19
Updated 24.XX.YY numbers
Added the BB interview (in the video section)
Added pics of the phones given at teh LA OSR
Added Free Rebel Art's phone message
UPDATED 4/16
Updated Silver Zero's book list
Added Exterminal's audio file
List Of All Websites
Big list of EVERYTHING Part 1 (websites)
[Table of Contents]
LEAKED SONGS
AUDIO FILES
VIDEO
SPECTROGRAPH/IMAGES
PHONE NUMBERS (with transcripts)
24.xx.yy NUMBERS
BUTTONS
Working Combos
Single Buttons
BIBLE REFRENCES/BANNED BOOKS
Bible Refrences
Banned Books/Hidden Phrases
YEAR ZERO WEBSITE
NIN PHOTOS DEALING WITH THE ARG
PICS OF BUTTONS FLYERS BILLBOARD
Buttons
Flyers
Billboard
Lithographs
Phones
SITE RIPS AND EASY TO READ TEXT
Emails
SBI IRC Chat Log
Site Rips
List Of All People In The ARG
AnotherVersionOfTheTruth/Revisionism Both Versions
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Leaked Songs
The Beginning Of The End
Survivalism
Me, I'm Not
My Violent Heart
In This Twilight
All songs can be found at this site: symphonyofnoise.com
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Audio Files
Another version of the truth's forum (Violent Resistance)
ballgameOver.mp3
Another version of the truth's forum (Opal/Cocaine)
opalo.mp3
Another version of the truth's forum (Cops Murder Muslim Kid)
nohurry.mp3
US Wiretap phone number (216-333-1810)
216-333-1810
2432.MP3 (File that contains spectrograph of Us wiretap phone number)
(thanks for hosting botley)
2432.mp3
Tourshirt phone number (310-295-1040)
310-295-1040.mp3
Survivalism Our End Trip.aif
Original: Our End Trip.aif
case number only (link needed)
Survivalism Garage Band Multitrack (From official site)
Survivalism Garage Band Multitrack
Phone number off Year Zero case (1-866-445-6580)
http://img479.imageshack.us/img479/4984/backtt5.jpg
(Thanks to Toraylin for recording this)
http://www.fileden.com/files/2006/9/6/206315/186644565801.mp3
Free Rebel Art's phone message
(Thanks backstab for recording this)
http://dodownload.filefront.com/7286240//81949acece8bb26718965e30c8a26566a51fe0f506112e17de65e687446a4ec458c15db027bf6f90
Exterminal Capital G audio
Reveals mailstrom wreakage pain
http://files.exterminal.net/exhibitA.wav
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Video
Year Zero Trailer Hi (From official site)
http://yearzero.nin.com/yearzero_hi.html
Year Zero Trailer Low (From official site)
http://yearzero.nin.com/yearzero_lo.html
Survivalism Hi (From official site)
http://yearzero.nin.com/survivalism/survivalism_hi.html
Survivalism Low (From official site)
http://yearzero.nin.com/survivalism/survivalism_lo.html
Trent Interview (BB)
Trent YZ interview (205 MB)
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Spectrograph/Images
Presence in "My Violent Heart" static
Phone number in 2432.mp3 from "Me I'm Not" leak
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Phone Numbers
(216-333-1810) Uswiretap message
Automated female voice: U.S. Wiretap. Case identifier 7-1-8-3-9-J. File accessed. Begin playback.
(2 1/2 Rings)
Roby: Hello?
Mia: Roby? Roby? Roby, are you there? Oh my god, I'm at the club, you need to get me out of here. I'm going to die, oh my God, I'm going to die.
(Gunshot and scream)
Roby: Mia, what's going on?
Mia: He killed Joey so I locked myself in the stock room and now I can't get out and everybody's got it.
Roby: What is going on?
Mia: This guy, he came into the club really freaked out. And we, we didn't even see the knife. And his shirt was soaked red. And Joey said "Holy shit, you need a doctor". And then the guy just stabbed him, and he was sweating blood, and screaming, and he wouldn't stop until somebody killed him with a beer bottle.
(Crash, scream from Mia)
Roby: Honey, okay wait. I'm going to call the cops.
Mia: (Screaming) They're outside, they're outside!
Mia: Don't, the cops are already here. They're the ones who locked us in.
Roby: What?
Mia: I've gotta fight, I need a weapon...a gun.
Roby: You're going to be okay, you're going to make it out of there. I'll be up there in five minutes
Roby: Mia, you okay?
(Breathing)
Mia: Roby, you there? Blood...there's blood coming out of my skin...
Roby: Mia, listen. You need to listen.
Mia: Roby, I need you to take care of my dog. Okay, the food..
(Screaming)
Roby: Mia! Mia, what's going on?!
Mia: Get me the hell out of here.
Roby: Tell me what's going on.
Mia: Oh my God, please. Help me, please, God.
Roby: Mia!! Mia!!!!
(Re-order tone and hangup)
(NOTE: There appears to be another Morse code signal here between the hangup and the automated voice saying "Goodbye." However it is difficult to make out using the file below due to the low 8KHz sampling rate. It's speculated that the number is 24.3.1.)
Automated female voice: Goodbye.
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(310-295-1040) Sample of Survivalism and news broadcast
Newsreader type: There you have it, the latest presidential address. America is Born Again. In this reporter's opinion, a brilliant, values-based vision of the future.
Angry man: Honest to god, once they banned free elections I figured at least we wouldn't have to hear this self righteous motherfucker give any more speeches, he must just like doing it. "America is born again", maybe that was a values-based vision of the future, maybe it was the same old manifest destiny bullshit. Or, another way to put it by an old friend
song interrupts (chorus of [Survivalism])
Angry man: Still no formal charges. Listen people, I know you're out there and you're angry but you're scared of going to jail. Here's the bad news; the prison came to you my friend. The bars are all around you, you're already a criminal, fucking act like it.
The end of the recording has another Morse Code message.
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(Phone number off Year Zero case (1-866-445-6580))
(Transcript by (whotookthisname))
This is a message from the United States Bureau of Morality.
Pursuant of statute 24.12.2 disclosure of surveillance.
Citizen, by calling this number, you and your family are implicitly pleading guilty to the consumption of anti-American media and have been flagged as potential militants. The United States Bureau of Morality has activated the tracking system embedded in your personal media and initiated citizen surveillance.
United States Surveillance Log gives us the right to search and seize information relating to subversive activity from your person, vehicle, workplace, or home. Any attempt to hinder or prevent our investigation will be met with all necessary force.
You are now part of the problem.
Your re-education is about to begin.
God bless America.
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24.xx.yy Numbers
(Thanks for the idea Yami)
24.1.1 http://www.themailstrom.com/ main page
24.2.1 http://www.freerebelart.net/ main page
24.3.1 1-216-333-1810 Morse Code
24.3.2 myviolentheart.mp3 ID3 comments and also found from 2432.mp3(24.3.2)on the Barcelona USB drive.
24.3.3 http://www.uswiretap.com/case_number_required/
24.4.1
(thanks xsweartolistenx)
Black Resistance kit (10 fliers, 10 buttons, 1 marker, 1 hat, 1 bandana, 1 patch, 4 stickers, 1 stencil
24.4.2
(thanks xsweartolistenx)
Black Resistance kit (10 fliers, 10 buttons, 1 marker, 1 hat, 1 bandana, 1 patch, 4 stickers, 1 stencil, 1 phone
24.5.1 http://www.thepriceoftreason.net/ hidden in the logo (b/t the O and N.)
24.5.2 http://www.opensourceresistance.net/ hidden top left corner (Ctrl + A to see it.)
24.5.3 email sent from Bureau of Morality - Year 0000 Search <DCS1000@thepriceoftreason.net>
24.6.1
(thanks xsweartolistenx)
http://www.viabilityindex.com
24.7.1 http://www.exterminal.net/ In page source
24.8.1 http://www.gracetheteacher.net
24.9.1 (redhorse video) http://video.redhorsevector.net/redhorse_24_9_1.mov
24.9.2 http://www.redhorsevector.net
24.10.1 nohurry.mp3
24.10.2 http://www.churchofplano.com/
24.10.3 opalo.mp3
24.10.4 WARNING CODE
24.10.5 ballgameOver.mp3
24.10.6 http://www.105thairbornecrusaders.com
24.10.7 http://www.bethehammer.net
24.10.8 http://www.anotherversionofthetruth.com
24.11.1 http://www.onecountryatatime.net
24.11.3 Botttom left corner of LA mural
24.12.2 BOM Phone Recording (1-866-445-6580)
24.13.1 http://www.artisresistance.com/warning.htm
24.13.2 Art Is Resistance flyer (below right horizontal of T in art as a vertical series of _ & |)
24.14.1 Black/Red 2007 tour t-shirt
24.14.2 auto-reply e-mail from water@iamtryingtobelieve.com
24.14.3 http://www.iamtryingtobelieve.com
24.15.1 White 2007 tour t-shirt
24.15.2 1-310-295-1040 Morse Code
24.16.1 http://www.thewaterturnedtoblood.net (Ctrl + A to see it within the text near the presence.)
24.16.2 http://www.judsonogram.net/ (Written in white text above the 'Vocational' picture on the main page.)
24.16.3 http://www.thewaterturnedtoblood.net/bridge.htm (White text written in front of the top image.)
24.16.4 Found on the video for Survivalism - in the bottom-right corner of some of the monitors.
24.17.1 http://www.hollywoodinmemoriam.org/memoriam.htm
24.18.1 http://www.cedocore.com/ main page written in light blue
24.19.1 Auto-reply from francisco@securebroadcastinformatics.com at SecureBroadcastInformatics website
24.19.2 http://www.solutionsbackwardsinitiative.net/pilgrims/
24.20.1 http://www.operationswamp0000.net/ (Written in black text between first and second paragraphs.)
24.20.2 http://www.operationchipsweep.net/ (Ctrl + A to see it.)
24.20.3 Brixton billboard
24.20.4 Brixton flyer
24.21.1
(thanks xsweartolistenx)
http://www.briantsunoda.com
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Buttons
Released at listener parties
Credit to madcactus keeper of the buttons!
http://www.echoingthesound.org/phpbbx/viewtopic.php?p=876576#876576
The working theory is two like buttons = wreckage/shard combo.
Working Button Combos
Button 1 -- Robot Head (from billboard) -- gasoline
Button 2 -- Moltov Cocktail, Held by robot (from billboard) -- uuu891
Button 3 -- AIR Flag (White on green) -- sickle
Button 39 -- Angel in background from Billboard -- Nnqa49
Button 6 -- "You will be heard" (black on white)-- bitter
Button 20 -- AIR flag (White on red) -- BGtg57
Button 8 -- Purple guy from mural -- tumbrel
Button 9 -- Purple guy from mural -- AD44Us
Button 10 -- AIR Flag (White on Black) -- vC99iT
Button 34 -- AIR Flag (Black on White) -- widow
Button 11 -- AIR Flag (Red on white) -- infarction
Button 38 -- "You Will be Heard (White on Gray) -- 6k961G]
Button 12-- Scythe of angel from Billboard -- wretched
Button 13 -- Angel from Billboard -- Ypq2QQ
Button 14 -- AIR flag graphics (Grey on white) -- wetwork
Button 15 -- AIR flags on (Black on red) -- c276E4
Button 16 -- AIR flags on (Red on black) -- fratricide
Button 17 -- AIR flag graphics (White on grey) -- 774HZx
Button 19 -- AIR flag (White on blue) -- pliers
Button 25 -- AIR Flag (Blue on white) -- Ji3p09
Button 21 -- "Art is Resistance" (Black on red) -- slander
Button 29 -- "Art is Resistance" (Red on Black) -- Yr4893
Button 22 -- Cop from billboard -- atropine
Button 23 -- Chip held by crying angel from billboard -- gH319x
Button 24 -- AIR Flag (Black on White) -- needle
Button 36 -- Spotted AIR Flag (White on Black) -- jp411r
Button 26 -- Background from artisresistance.com -- venom
Button 27 -- Background from artisresistance.com -- D3i8Na
Button 28 -- Air Flag on back of dude on billboard -- MKs742
Button 30 -- Bottle of dude on billboard -- corrida
Button 31 -- "Art is Resisance" White on Black -- flense
Button 32 -- "Art is Resistance" White on Red -- E5PPvv
Button 5 -- "You have a voice" (white on green)-- spore
Button 40? -- This did not come from a known button, the combination was posted on ninwiki with no explaination. Aynone who knows where pQw2pP came from, please let us know. -- pQw2pP
Button 41? -- No button found, discovered through brute force dictionary attack -- Belladonna
Button 37 -- Guy in headlock from billboard -- 3Mz3tU
Button 42? -- No button found, discovered through brute force dictionary attack -- parasite
Button 18 -- "Speakergun" from artisresistance.com background -- tP366K
Button 43? -- No button found, discovered through brute force dictionary attack -- cleaver
Button 4 -- "Speak Truth" (red on black) -- I682fg
Button 44? -- No button found, discovered through brute force dictionary attack -- necrotic
Button 7 -- Cop Baton (from billboard) -- blE34c
Single Buttons
Button 33 -- AIR Flags (Orange on Black) -- regret
Button 35 -- "Art is Witness" (White on Red) -- cleansing
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Bible refrences / Banned books
Bible refrences
Need help with this... specifically which verse, verse itself, where it is found in the ARG
Matthew 26: 45-46
<password for secure broadcast informatics takes you to Solutions Backwards Initiative>
(NIV) 45. Then he returned to the disciples and said to them, "Are you still sleeping and resting? Look, the hour is near, and the Son of Man is betrayed into the hands of sinners.
46. Rise, let us go! Here comes my betrayer!"
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(SURVIVALISM BIBLE VERSES)
Revelation 18:3-4
<On door in Survivalism video>
(NIV) 3. For all the nations have drunk
the maddening wine of her adulteries.
The kings of the earth committed adultery with her,
and the merchants of the earth grew rich from her excessive luxuries."
4. Then I heard another voice from heaven say:
"Come out of her, my people,
so that you will not share in her sins,
so that you will not receive any of her plagues;
(There is debate on the verse on the door. Both relate to the story)
Revelation 16:3-4
(NIV) 3. The second angel poured out his bowl on the sea, and it turned into blood like that of a dead man, and every living thing in the sea died.
4. The third angel poured out his bowl on the rivers and springs of water, and they became blood.
(Thanks to adlusk for pointing these out)
Isaiah 15:9 (found on wall 11:06:37:12 in Survivalism video)
"9 Dimon's waters are full of blood, but I will bring still more upon Dimon
a lion upon the fugitives of Moab, and upon those who remain in the land"
Exodus 7:21 (found on wall 11:07:53:18 )
"21 The fish in the Nile died, and the river smelled so bad that the Egyptians could not drink its water. Blood was everywhere in Egypt."
II Kings 3:22 (found on same wall)
"22 When they got up early in the morning, the sun was shining on the water. To the Moabites across the way, the water looked red—like blood. "
this next one i'm not sure about at all, but some say it's there...
John 19:34(apparently found on the pic of jesus in the living room)
"34Instead, one of the soldiers pierced Jesus' side with a spear, bringing a sudden flow of blood and water."
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Ephesians 6:12
<Password for The Water Turned to Blood>
<Mentioned in Judson Ogram Correctional Facility #4382BX12 addendum>
(NIV) 12. For our struggle is not against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the powers of this dark world and against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly realms.
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Matthew 5:44
<mailstrom... Wreakage:fratricide Shard:774HZx>
(NIV) 44. But I tell you: Love your enemies[a] and pray for those who persecute you
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"God! there is no God but he, the living, the self-subsisting."
<Quoted from text in Hollywood In Memoriam (under the 28th picture)>
<translations of the Holy Qura'n>
(Thanks to bwary)
Quote:
2:255 Allah! there is no Allah but He the living the Self-subsisting Eternal. No slumber can seize him nor sleep. His are all things in the heavens and on earth. Who is there can intercede in His presence except as He permitteth? He knoweth what (appeareth to his creatures as) before or after or behind them. Nor shall they compass aught of his knowledge except as He willeth. His throne doth extend over the heavens and the earth and He feeleth no fatigue in guarding and preserving them. For He is the Most High the Supreme (in glory).
Quote:
3:2 Allah! there is no god but He the Living the Self-Subsisting Eternal.
Quote:
3:1-2 Allah has said, "Alif, Lam, Mim. Allah, (there is) no god but He, the ever-Living, the self-Subsisting, the One through Whom all things subsist"
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Banned books / Hidden phrases
(Huge thanks to Silver Zero for making this list)
(Silver Zero: Okay, everyone. As far as I know, this list is completely comprehensive, fully cited, and in chronological order (as of 6:25 PM 4/16/07). This took me a while to do, and I tried to do it as thoroughly and accurately as possible, but if you feel I've missed something, or I haven't given the proper credit to whomever, just PM me or leave a message on the thread or something. As we get more mined texts, I'll update this as necessary.
NOTE: This does not include references to pieces of literature found in areas other than the backgrounds of these ARG sites, e.g. "The Stand" reference on Hollywood In Memoriam or the Martin Niemoller poem found from the Francisco auto-reply on SBI.
I AM TRYING TO BELIEVE, ANOTHER VERSION OF THE TRUTH FORUMS, BE THE HAMMER, 105TH AIRBORNE CRUSADERS, CONSOLIDATED MAIL SYSTEMS
The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien
Perhaps one of the world's most well-known novels, this book prefaces the Lord of the Rings trilogy. This epic fantasy has been found on most banned books lists.
Text found by: morethanshapes
"For your hospitality our sincerest thanks, and for your offer of professional assistance our grateful acceptance. Terms: cash on delivery, up to and not exceeding one fourteenth of total profits (if any); all traveling expenses guaranteed in any event; funeral expenses to be defrayed by us or our representatives, if occasion arises and the matter is not otherwise arranged for."
ANOTHER VERSION OF THE TRUTH: REVISIONISM
A People's History of the United States: 1492-Present by Howard Zinn.
The famous anarchist/socialist/Marxist political scientist and historian Howard Zinn chronicles American history from Columbus onward through the prisms of those groups generally ignored in historical books.
Text found by: Disposition_on_Reflection
"Arawak men and women, naked, tawny, and full of wonder, emerged from their villages onto the island's beaches and swam out to get a closer look at the strange big boat. When Columbus and his sailors came ashore, carrying swords, speaking oddly, the Arawaks ran to greet them, brought them food, water, gifts. He later wrote of this in his log."
ANOTHER VERSION OF THE TRUTH: 0
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey
(this text references Lawrence Hauben's screenplay)
This well-known novel is a foray into the dangers of institutionalized psychiatry as well as the lesser-searched corners of the human mind. Made into a play the year after its release and a highly-acclaimed film in 1975, starring Jack Nicholson as protagonist Randle P. McMurphy.
Text found by: tuatara
"MCMURPHY (V.O)
(through loudspeaker)
Medication time! Medication time!
Rise and shine! Rise and shine!
Time to say goodbye... Everybody
up, up, up!"
US WIRETAP
Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut
A sharp, witty, and surreal tale of Billy Pilgrim, who has become "unstuck in time." Based somewhat on Vonnegut's own experience of the fire-bombing of Dresden, Germany during WWII.
(note: a portion of this text was also found on the AVOTT forums)
Text found by: Warped909
"All this happened, more or less. The war parts, anyway, are pretty much true. One guy I knew really was shot in Dresden for taking a teapot that wasn't his. Another guy I knew really did threaten to have his personal enemies killed by hired gunmen after the war. And so on. I've changed all the names. I really did go back to Dresden with Guggenheim money (God love it) in 1967. It looked a lot like Dayton, Ohio, more open spaces than Dayton has. There must be tons of human bone meal in the ground. I went back there with an old war buddy, Bernard V. O'Hare, and we made friends with a cab driver, who took us to the slaughterhouse where we had been locked up at night as prisoners of war. His name was Gerhard Müller. He told us that he was a prisoner of the Americans for a while. We asked him how it was to live under Communism, and he said that it was terrible at first, because everybody had to work so hard, and because there wasn't much shelter or food or clothing. But things were much better now. He had a pleasant little apartment, and his daughter was getting an excellent education. His mother was incinerated in the Dresden fire-storm. So it goes."
HOLLYWOOD IN MEMORIAM
"Caution" by Walt Whitman
One of Whitman's many celebrated poems in his famous collection, "Leaves of Grass," it cautions against unyielding authority.
Leaves of Grass
(note: no wiki-page for the text itself)
Text found by: Skean
"To: The States, or any one of them, or any city of The States, Resist much, Obey little; Once unquestioning obedience, once fully enslaved; once fully enslaved, no nation, state, city, ever afterward resumes its liberty."
SECURE BROADCASTS INFORMATICS
The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank
The tragic, true record of one Jewish girl and her family attempting to avoid the horrors of the Holocaust during WWII.
Text found by: tuatara
"Have you ever heard the term 'hostages'? That's the latest punishment for saboteurs. It's the most horrible thing you can imagine. Leading citizens--innocent people--are taken prisoner to await their execution. If the Gestapo can't find the saboteur, they simply grab five hostages and line them up against the wall. You read the announcements of their death in the paper, where they're referred to as 'fatal accidents.' - October 9, 1942"
SOLUTIONS BACKWARDS INITIATIVE
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
A very familiar tale to most readers, this slice of Americana displays a little bit of everything in rural Southern America from racism to politics. Often found on banned books lists.
Text found by: lostivity
"It was a close place. I took it up, and held it in my hand. I was a-trembling, because I’d got to decide, forever, betwixt two things, and I knowed it. I studied a minute, sort of holding my breath, and then says to myself: “All right then, I’ll go to hell”—and tore it up. It was awful thoughts and awful words, but they was said. And I let them stay said; and never thought no more about reforming."
THE WATER TURNED TO BLOOD
Howl, Part II by Allen Ginsberg
The middle section of Ginsberg's "Howl" is one of the crowning achievements of the Beat Generation, marked by rambling, peyote-soaked prose. The horrors of urban civilization are personified in Moloch, an ancient Canaanite idol.
Text found by: kyle
"Moloch! Moloch! Robot apartments! invisible suburbs! skeleton treasuries! blind capitals! demonic industries! spectral nations! invincible mad houses! granite cocks! monstrous bombs!"
JUDSON OGRAM: JOHN FERMINGER
The Origin of Species by Charles Darwin
Darwin's famous book detailing some of the first thoughts on evolutionary theory was groundbreaking in scientific fields and still resonates in various academic communities today. Has met much opposition from religious groups and finds itself on many banned books lists.
Text found by: AngstyNerd
"We shall best understand the probable course of natural selection by taking the case of a country undergoing some physical change, for instance, of climate. The proportional numbers of its inhabitants would almost immediately undergo a change, and some species might become extinct."
JUDSON OGRAM: MOIRA WAAG PT. 1
The Communist Manifesto by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels
This relatively short tract sparked a new, revolutionary political philosophy that led to the rise of the Communist party in Germany, across Eastern Europe, into Russia and elsewhere around the globe.
Text found by: justnine
A spectre is haunting Europe — the spectre of Communism. All the Powers of old Europe have entered into a holy alliance to exorcise this spectre: Pope and Czar, Metternich and Guizot, French Radicals and German police-spies.
JUDSON OGRAM: MOIRA WAAG PT. 2
Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West by Gregory Maguire.
This dramatic (and erotic) retelling of the story of the Wicked Witch of the West from The Wizard of Oz has been made into a very successful Broadway show.
Text found by: KingMob4313
The decades - Fiyero thought, in love with her or at least so frightened for her that he could mistake it for love -- the decades looked on and didn't see her passing. They stared from their fixed mounts across at each other and didn't see the revolution striding between them, on her way to destiny.
OPERATION SWAMP 0000
The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
The quintessential "coming-of-age" story is of Holden Caufield struggling to find his place in the world and his off-kilter relationships with his peers and society in general. Frequently on banned books lists.
Text found by: remisser
"I'm standing on the edge of some crazy cliff. What I have to do, I have to catch everybody if they start to go over the cliff— I mean if they're running and they don't look where they're going I have to come out from somewhere and catch them. That's all I'd do all day. I'd just be the catcher in the rye and all. I know it's crazy, but that's the only thing I'd really like to be. I know it's crazy."
OPERATION CHIP SWEEP
"The Perils of Obedience" by Stanley Milgram
An article written after Stanley Milgram's famous experiment on obedience, in which he found people will do just about anything (even harm others) if enough pressure is exerted by authority.
The Milgram obedience experiment
(note: no wiki-page for the text itself)
Text found by: PrestonxSmith
"The legal and philosophic aspects of obedience are of enormous importance, but they say very little about how most people behave in concrete situations. I set up a simple experiment at Yale University to test how much pain an ordinary citizen would inflict on another person simply because he was ordered to by an experimental scientist. Stark authority was pitted against the subjects' [participants'] strongest moral imperatives against hurting others, and, with the subjects' [participants'] ears ringing with the screams of the victims, authority won more often than not. The extreme willingness of adults to go to almost any lengths on the command of an authority constitutes the chief finding of the study and the fact most urgently demanding explanation.
Ordinary people, simply doing their jobs, and without any particular hostility on their part, can become agents in a terrible destructive process. Moreover, even when the destructive effects of their work become patently clear, and they are asked to carry out actions incompatible with fundamental standards of morality, relatively few people have the resources needed to resist authority."
CEDOCORE: HYCEPHAMITAMYN-η
Collapse by Jared Diamond
A relatively recent book (2005) concerning societal collapse due in no small part to environmental components, e.g. climate change, overhunting/fishing, erosion, toxic chemicals, etc.
Text found by: digitalLotus
"Will tourists someday stare bewildered at the rusting hulks of New York’s skyscrapers, much as we stare today at the jungle-overgrown ruins of Maya cities?"
MAILSTROM: GALLOWS
1984 by George Orwell.
One of the most famous dystopian novels ever, describes a bleak future in which the world is constantly at war and the government has absolute control (even over reality itself).
Text found by: vipbrj
(portions of this text were also found on the MAILSTROM:NEEDLE page)
"It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen. Winston Smith, his chin nuzzled into his breast in an effort to escape the vile wind, slipped quickly through the glass doors of Victory Mansions, though not quickly enough to prevent a swirl of gritty dust from entering along with him."
MAILSTROM: GASOLINE
Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America by Barbara Ehrenreich.
A book in which Ehrenreich attempts to live on minimum wage for a month in both Florida and Maine and details the hardships that ensue.
Text found by: cynicmuse
"Mostly out of laziness, I decide to start my low-wage life in the town nearest to where I actually live, Key West, Florida, which with a population of about 25,000 is elbowing its way up to the status of a genuine city. The downside of familiarity, I soon realize, is that it's not easy to go from being a consumer, thoughtlessly throwing money around in exchange for groceries and movies and gas, to being a worker in the very same place. I am terrified, especially at the beginning, of being recognized by some friendly business owner or erstwhile neighbor and having to stammer out some explanation of my project. Happily, though, my fears turn out to be entirely unwarranted: during a month of poverty and toil, no one recognizes my face or my name, which goes unnoticed and for the most part unuttered. In this parallel universe where my father never got out of the mines and I never got through college, I am 'baby,' 'honey,' 'blondie,' and, most commonly, 'girl.'"
MAILSTROM: TUMBREL
Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison.
A critically acclaimed novel involving racial tensions in 20th century America.
Text found by: KingMob4313
"I never told you, but our life is a war and I have been a traitor all my born days, days, a spy in the enemy's country ever since I give up my gun back in the reconstruction. Live with your head in the lion's mouth."
MAILSTROM: WRETCHED
Civil Disobedience by Henry David Thoreau.
One of American literature's most famous essays, Thoreau argues for the right of citizens to disobey their governments should they become too strong.
Text found by: cynicmuse
"I HEARTILY ACCEPT the motto, — "That government is best which governs least"; and I should like to see it acted up to more rapidly and systematically."
MAILSTROM: WETWORK
A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess.
Another dystopian look at the future where roving teenage gangs terrorize communities, and the subsequent psychological problems involving rehabilitation. Made into a controversial, but excellent film by Stanley Kubrick.
Text found by: nunzilla
"He was in the land all right, well away, in orbit, and I knew what it was like, having tried it like everybody else had done, but at this time I'd got to thinking it was a cowardly sort of a beschch, O my brothers. You'd lay there after you'd drunk the old moloko..."
MAILSTROM: FRATRICIDE
The Forever War by Joe Haldeman
A sci-fi novel in which the human race is at war with an alien race, the Taurans, for hundreds of years.
Text found by: cynicmuse
"You couldn't blame it all on the military, though. The evidence they presented for the Taurans having been responsible for the earlier casualties was laughably thin. The few people who pointed this out were ignored.
The fact was, Earth's economy needed a war, and this one was ideal. It was a nice hole to throw buckets of money into, but would unify humanity rather than dividing it."
MAILSTROM: BITTER
A Seperate Peace by John Knowles
A book told in retrospect about growing up during World War II. Received criticism by some for potentially being an anti-war novel.
Text found by: nunzilla
"I felt fear's echo, and along with that I felt the unhinged, uncontrollable joy which had been its accompaniment and opposite face, joy which had broken out sometimes in those days like Northern Lights across black sky."
MAILSTROM: ATROPINE
"Bible Stories for Adults, No. 17: The Deluge" by James Morrow.
James Morrow (no wiki-page exists for the text itself)
James Morrow is an author who frequently satirizes religion, but occasionally elements of humanism and atheism, too. Famous for his "Godhead" trilogy in which God is actually found dead and floating in the Atlantic Ocean.
Text found by: KingMob4313
Take your cup down to the Caspian, dip, and drink. It did not always taste of salt. Yahweh's watery slaughter may have purified the earth, but it left his seas a ruin, brackish with pagan blood and the tears of wicked orphans.
MAILSTROM: PLIERS
The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien.
An awesome novel-in-stories concerning the Vietnam War and soldiers' varying reactions to it.
Text found by: Akumu
"First Lieutenant Jimmy Cross carried letters from a girl named Martha, a junior at Mount Sebastian College in New Jersey. They were not love letters, but Lieutenant Cross was hoping, so he kept them folded in plastic at the bottom of his rucksack."
MAILSTROM: CORRIDA
Equus by Peter Shaffer.
A play concerning a psychiatrist's efforts to treat a boy who has an unnatural fascination with horses. Apparently, the actor who plays Harry Potter (Daniel Radcliffe) is currently doing this play.
Text found by: Akumu
"There is now, in my mouth, this sharp chain. And it never comes out."
MAILSTROM: SLANDER
Hiroshima by John Hersey.
An article that appeared in the New Yorker in August 1946, one year after the bomb was dropped on Hiroshima. It was later made into a novel detailing the lives of 6 Japanese people and how the bomb affected them.
Text found by: Akumu
"At exactly fifteen minutes past eight in the morning, on August 6, 1945, Japanese time, at the moment when the atomic bomb flashed above Hiroshima, Miss Toshiko Sasaki, a clerk in the personnel department of the East Asia Tin Works, had just sat down at her place in the girl office and was turning her head to speak to the girl at the next desk."
MAILSTROM: FLENSE
Orientalism by Edward Said.
Discusses how the Western world viewed the Orient as an "other," a threat to their collective political hegemony. Sparked the beginning of post-colonial theory.
Text found by: tuatara
"On June 13, 1910, Arthur James Balfour lectured the House of Commons on 'the problems with which we have to deal in Egypt.' 'These,' he said, 'belong to a whole different category than those affecting the Isle of Wight or West Riding of Yorkshire.'"
MAILSTROM: SPORE
"The Fate of an Honest Intellectual" by Noam Chomsky.
Noam Chomsky (no wiki-page exists for the text itself)
An essay by one of the 20th century's most outspoken philosophers.
Text found by: Akumu
"He's now living in a little apartment somewhere in New York City, and he's a part-time social worker working with teenage drop-outs. Very promising scholar—if he'd done what he was told, he would have gone on and right now he'd be a professor somewhere at some big university. Instead he's working part-time with disturbed teenaged kids for a couple thousand dollars a year. That's a lot better than a death squad, it's true—it's a whole lot better than a death squad. But those are the techniques of control that are around."
MAILSTROM: SICKLE
Heather Has Two Mommies by Leslea Newman
A children's book written in 1989 about a girl who grows up with lesbian parents. Frequently found on banned books lists.
Text found by: KingMob4313
"Heather's favourite number is two. She has two arms, two legs, two eyes, two ears, two hands, and two feet. Heather has two pets: a ginger-colored cat named Gingersnap and a big black dog named Midnight. Heather also has two mommies: Mama Kate and Mama Jane."
MAILSTROM: REGRET
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince by J.K. Rowling
The sixth in the ever-popular Harry Potter series. Consistently found on banned books list for "black magic" and "sorcery."
Text found by: silver zero
"Voldemort himself created his worst enemy, just as tyrants everywhere do! Have you any idea how much tyrants fear the people they oppress? All of them realize that, one day, amongst their many victims, there is sure to be one..."
MAILSTROM: VENOM
The Naked and the Dead by Norman Mailer.
Based on Mailer's experiences in the South Pacific during WWII.
Text found by: _brokenhalo_
"But the compassion lasted for only a few minutes. He understood it all, knew he could do nothing about it any longer, and was not even tempted. What was the use? He sighed and the acuteness of his mood slipped out with his breath. There were some things you could never fix. It was too mixed-up. A man had to get out by himself or he became like Hennessey, worrying over every gimcrack in his life."
MAILSTROM: INFARCTION
Stranger in a Strange Land by Robert A. Heinlein
A famous sci-fi novel about one human's migration from Mars, where he was raised, to the unfamiliar Earth.
Text found by: Deamos
"Christ was crucified for preaching without a police permit. Sweat over that, instead!"
MAILSTROM: WIDOW
M. Butterfly by David Henry Hwang
A successful play (that was also made into a movie) about a French man falling in love with a Chinese opera star. The play deals with cultural stereotypes of the Eastern world and was mentioned in another one of our "mined" texts, Edward Said's Orientalism.
Text found by: silver zero
"GALLIMARD. Butterfly, Butterfly...(He forces himself to turn away, as the image of Song fades out, and talks to us.)The limits of my cell are such: four-and-a-half meters by five."
MAILSTROM: CLEANSING
Beloved by Toni Morrison.
(note - site has yet to have been officially "found." background images were discovered by KingMob4313 using 1337 speak method)
Text found by: KingMob4313
A Pulitzer Prize-winning novel written in 1987 about the legacy of slavery. Was recently voted by a panel of 100 contemporary novelists as the best contemporary novel.
"The Women in the house knew it and so did the children. For years each put up with the spite in his own way, but by 1873 Sethe and her daughter Denver were it's only victims."
MAILSTROM: BELLADONNA
Angels in America by Tony Kushner
A play made into a popular TV miniseries about Prior Walter, a homosexual who sees angels that claim he is a prophet, and Joe Pitt, a closeted Mormon Republican clerk.
Text found by: TimA
“I see the universe, Joe, as a kind of sandstorm in outer space with winds of mega-hurricane velocity, but instead of grains of sand it's shards and splinters of glass ... You ever feel that way? Ever have one of those days?”
MAILSTROM: PARASITE
Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides
A Pulitzer-Prize winning coming-of-age novel about a Cal, an intersexual person suffering from a genetic mutation.
Text found by: Lulah
"But I was beginning to understand something about normality. Normality wasn’t normal. It couldn’t be. If normality were normal, everybody could leave it alone. They could sit back and let normality manifest itself. But people—and especially doctors—had doubts about normality. They weren’t sure normality was up to the job. And so they felt inclined to give it a boost."
MAILSTROM: CLEAVER
The Chocolate War by Robert Cormier
A popular book describing one boys attempts to uncover a secret society at a high school. #4 on the ALA's Banned Books list for its protagonists' musings on sexuality and use of Anti-Catholicism.
Text found by: Disposition_On_Reflection
"They murdered him.
As he turned to take the ball, a dam burst against the side of his head and a hand grenade shattered his stomach. Engulfed by nausea, he pitched toward the grass. His mouth encountered gravel, and he spat frantically, afraid that some of his teeth had been knocked out. Rising to his feet, he saw the field through drifting gauze but held on until everything settled into place, like a lens focusing, making the world sharp again, with edges."
MAILSTROM: HUBRIS
The Crucible by Arthur Miller
Miller's famous play was an allegory of 1950s McCarthyism and made into a critically acclaimed movie in 1996.
Text found by: KingMob4313
"There is a misty plot afoot so subtle we should be criminal to cling to old respects and ancient friendships."
MAILSTROM: PAIN
Fight Club by Chuck Palahniuk
Palahniuk's first novel became a cult hit about American materialism, masculinity, and nihilism after it was converted into a movie starring Brad Pitt and Edward Norton.
Text found by: tuatara
"Tyler gets me a job as a waiter, after that Tyler's pushing a gun in my mouth and saying, the first step to eternal life is you have to die. For a long time though, Tyler and I were best friends. People are always asking, did I know about Tyler Durden."
THE PRICE OF TREASON
The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
A story about Tom Joad and other people affected by the Great Depression setting out for California, searching for new lives. Has been on banned books list since its first publication in 1939.
Text found by: lowki
"Rattlesnakes! Don't take chances with 'em, an' if they argue, shoot first. If a kid'll kill a cop, what'll the men do? Thing is, get tougher'n they are. Treat 'em rough. Scare 'em."
FREE REBEL ART
Rita Hayworth and the Shawshank Redemption by Stephen King
Stephen King's famous novella about false incarceration, institutionalization, freedom, and friendship. Made into a very famous and critically-acclaimed film starring Tim Robbins and Morgan Freeman.
Text found by: Dianne
"Brooks Hatlen knew it. Knew it all too well. All I want is to be back where things make sense. Where I won't have to be afraid all the time."
GRACE THE TEACHER, RED HORSE VECTOR
Silent Spring by Rachel Carson
Considered one of the pioneering works of the environmentalist movement, Carson explores the problems of pollution and pesticides in particular. The catalyst for the banning of the pesticide DDT in 1972.
Text found by: Nunzilla
"The town lay in the midst of a checkerboard of prosperous farms, with fields of grain and hillsides of orchards where, in spring, white clouds of bloom drifted above the green fields. In autumn, oak and maple and birch set up a blaze of color that flamed and flickered across a backdrop of pines. Then foxes barked in the hills and deer silently crossed the fields, half hidden in the mists of fall mornings..."
ONE COUNTRY AT A TIME
Pleasantville by Gary Ross
A 1998 film where two teens get trapped in a 1950s sitcom and teach the button-down vanilla town of Pleasantville the values of diversity, criticism, and nonconformity. So far the only screenplay to appear on the mined texts list.
Text found by: silver zero
"BOB: [to David/Bud and Bill] 'You are charged with descration of a public building and the intentional use of prohibited paint colors in violation of The Pleasantville Code of Conduct and "Laws of Common Decency." Do you admit that on the night of May 1 you did consciously and willfully apply the following FORBIDDEN paint colors to the North Wall of the Pleasantville Police Station: Red, Pink, Vermilion, Puce, Chartreuse, Umber, Blue, Aqua, Ox Blood, Green, Peach, Crimson, Yellow, Olive and Magenta?'"
VIABILITY INDEX
The Simple Art of Murder by Raymond Chandler
(portions of this text were also found on FREE REBEL ART: YOU ARE A THREAT)
Both an essay and a collection of stories by Chandler detailing the problems concerning the "detective fiction" genre of storytelling.
Text found by: tuatara
"But down these mean streets a man must go who is not himself mean, who is neither tarnished nor afraid."
MINING FOR LIFE
Brazil by Terry Gilliam
A satirical look at 20th century governments; a very anti-totalitarian movie directed by one of Monty Python's finest. The second film to be included on the mined texts list.
Text found by: redstar
"Interviewer: What do you believe is behind this recent increase in terrorist bombings?
Helpmann: Bad sportsmanship. A ruthless minority of people seems to have forgotten certain good old-fashioned virtues. They just can't stand seeing the other fellow win. If these people would just play the game..."
EXTERMINAL
Watchmen by Alan Moore
One of the very first popular "graphic novels," Moore portrays an alternate history America which is on the verge of nuclear war with the Soviet Union. Superheroes are abundant and also deal with "everyday" issues.
Text found by: tuatara
"Rorschach's Journal October 12th 1985:
Dog carcass in alley this morning, tire tread on burst stomach. This city is afraid of me. I have seen its true face.
The streets are extended gutters and the gutters are full of blood and when the drains finally scab over, all the vermin will drown.
The accumulated filth of all their sex and murder will foam up about their waists and all the whores and politicians will look up and shout 'Save Us!"'...
...and I'll look down, and whisper, 'No.'" ######################################################################
Year Zero website
http://yearzero.nin.com
(Album Cover Originally found in a frame of static in the year zero trailer now linked on main site)
http://yearzero.nin.com/0024/index.html
(Hidden pics found in image at bottom of page)
http://yearzero.nin.com/img/03.html
http://yearzero.nin.com/img/07.html
http://yearzero.nin.com/img/10.html
http://yearzero.nin.com/img/12.html
http://yearzero.nin.com/img/14.html
http://yearzero.nin.com/img/19.html
http://yearzero.nin.com/img/22.html
http://yearzero.nin.com/img/25.html
http://yearzero.nin.com/img/28.html
http://yearzero.nin.com/img/31.html
http://yearzero.nin.com/img/39.html
links to albumcover.jpg, and I believe it was discovered shortly after the /0024/yearzero_cover.jpg
http://yearzero.nin.com/img/86.html
Blank place holder for chinesedemocracy.jpg
http://yearzero.nin.com/img/105.html
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Nin photos Dealing with the ARG
(Thanks NINandNirvana for the idea)
Trent in front of operation swamp billboard
http://www.nin.com/current/photos/3_13_07.html
Trent with AIR flag shirt
http://www.nin.com/current/photos/2_21_07.html
Darren Kroupa is the same "notorious underground figure" mentioned on SecureBroadcastInformatics.com
http://www.nin.com/current/photos/1_26_07.jpg
(Possible information on who Darren Kroupa is. THIS IS NOT CONFIRMED!)
http://forums.unfiction.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=18865
Darren's Obituary
http://www.thnt.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/B3/20070403/OBITUARIES/704030364/1069/OBITS
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Pics of buttons, flyers, billboard, lithographs, phones
Buttons
From Minneapolis, provided by the americant
http://i172.photobucket.com/albums/w30/the_americant/NINYZbuttonz.jpg
From New York, provided by eightcell
http://mywebpages.comcast.net/kymcat3/nin_pinNY2.jpg
http://mywebpages.comcast.net/kymcat3/nin_pinNY3.jpg
From New York, provided by MERVERNATOR
http://www.mervernation.com/misc/2buttons.png
From the Los Angeles listening party, provided by: sAin't
http://img341.imageshack.us/img341/5113/dscf1037gn8.th.jpg
http://img163.imageshack.us/img163/417/dscf1039ey0.th.jpg
From the San Diego listening party, provided by: kill.yr.transistors
http://i32.photobucket.com/albums/d50/ooSaintJimmyoo/DSCN0360.jpg
http://i32.photobucket.com/albums/d50/ooSaintJimmyoo/DSCN0362.jpg
From Chicago listening party, provided by: blind487
http://i19.photobucket.com/albums/b154/blind487/nine2.jpg
http://i19.photobucket.com/albums/b154/blind487/nine1.jpg
From the Dallas listening party, provided by: MrFaust
http://img248.imageshack.us/img248/2362/buttons003dr9.th.jpg
http://img151.imageshack.us/img151/1249/buttons004zn5.th.jpg
http://img248.imageshack.us/img248/996/buttons005np8.th.jpg
http://img443.imageshack.us/img443/2034/buttons006ay9.th.jpg
http://img248.imageshack.us/img248/6991/buttons008nt4.th.jpg
From the Dallas listening party, provided by: _brokenhalo_
Red AIR flag on black background: "fratricide"
http://farm1.static.flickr.com/187/431468805_d83d72e428.jpg
Grey AIR flag-ish looking graphics on white background: "wetwork"
http://farm1.static.flickr.com/165/431469325_b6da7fa8e6.jpg
artwork from AIR site background image: "tP366K"
http://farm1.static.flickr.com/157/431469323_52cd21f572.jpg
Black AIR flag on red background: "c276E4"
http://farm1.static.flickr.com/183/431468804_2da5416ad0.jpg
White AIR flag-ish looking graphics on grey background: "774HZx"
http://farm1.static.flickr.com/161/431468816_6e6ace4171.jpg
White AIR flag on blue background: "pliers"
http://farm1.static.flickr.com/161/431468816_6e6ace4171.jpg
White AIR flag on red background: "BGtg57"
http://farm1.static.flickr.com/187/431468802_58e42d971f.jpg
Black "Art is Resistance" on red background: "slander"
http://farm1.static.flickr.com/157/431468819_a8ac169f8d.jpg
From the Denver listening party, provided by LunaReptile
http://farm1.static.flickr.com/146/431079133_69282abccf.jpg
From the Detroit listening party, provided by Akasha78
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v238/akasha1978/button.jpg
From the Phoenix listening party, provied by Norstauf
http://farm1.static.flickr.com/177/431087962_c3d9a2af5d_m.jpg
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Flyers
Leads to Artisresistance website
http://farm1.static.flickr.com/169/399108993_0befafca97_b.jpg
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Leads to operation swamp 0000 billboard
http://farm1.static.flickr.com/131/418209834_449b700202.jpg
http://farm1.static.flickr.com/124/418209836_e12fe81937.jpg
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Billboard
(High Res by RedDeath)
http://farm1.static.flickr.com/172/419620461_28cf3d67e2_o.jpg
http://www.flickr.com/photo_zoom.gne?id=419620461&size=o
http://farm1.static.flickr.com/126/418142576_c9480f4b28.jpg
http://www.flickr.com/photos/nic/420252848/in/set-72157594586658099/
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Lithographs
http://www.ninwiki.com/images/8/85/Yzlitho.jpg
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Phones
Let me know of any other images worthy of notion!
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Site rips and easy to read text
Emails
(From water@iamtryingtobelieve.com)
------------------------AUTO_RESPONSE--------------_--
Thank you for your interest. It is now clear to me that Parepin is a completely safe and effective agent developed to protect us from bio-terrorism. The Administration is acting purely in the best interests of its citizens; to suggest otherwise was irresponsible and I deeply regret it.
I'm drinking the water. So should you.
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
(From francisco@securebroadcastinformatics.com)
As I write this, cops are coming to arrest me and my friends for trying to make America a better place to live. I'm an IT specialist, they are mostly scientists, ranging from graduate students to eminent professors. None of us are soldiers. None of us wanted to hurt anybody. We weren't in favor of violence-just the same free speech that used to be your right under the constitution.
If you look down, you will see an email I got two days ago. Is this the kind of country you want to live in? Are these the choices you want to make?
If you wanted a job here at SBI, ask yourself *which America do I want to defend?*
If you think about that for even a little while, be careful: the cops will be coming for you next.
Francisco Parro
IT consultant
PS I'm sorry, Elaina. If they had come to me even a little sooner, I would have betrayed my friends to save you. Now it's too late for any of us.
Als sie mich holten,
gab es keinen mehr,
der protestieren konnte.
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From: <blocked>
To: Francisco@securebroadcastinformatics.com
Content: hidden bandwidth
>>Dear Sir:
>>>>It has come to the attention of the Bureau of Morality's Internet Monitoring Taskforce that several of the clients for whom you handle IT seem to show bandwidth loads that do not match their formally submitted audit numbers.
We have asked for clarification of this matter on three occasions. Your replies have been either evasive or insufficient or simply late. Frankly, speaking as one human being to another, it has been as bad as dealing with a health insurance company.
>You may be aware of that frustration yourself, in the lengthy delays you have encountered trying to process the papers for your wife's breast cancer treatments. So I know you understand our frustration, and will be motivated to do your very best to explain these bandwidth discrepancies.
>>>>>>>>>You may submit any information in the full confidence that it will remain anonymous.
Perhaps your wife will start feeling better soon.
>A friend
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
(From Open Source Resistance <list@opensourceresistance.net>)
Thanks. You are now on the Open Source Resistance email list. I don’t sell, I don’t spam. If you want to get off, write back with "Unsubscribe&a
Holy fuck.
silver zero
24.24.2.2579 [soft target my ass]
Master of the Ninth Arch
Joined: 26 Feb 2007
Posts: 316.597
Location: PA
24.24.2.2579 [soft target my ass]
Master of the Ninth Arch
Joined: 26 Feb 2007
Posts: 316.597
Location: PA
Merzbau wrote:
Holy fuck.
You said it.
Masamune3570
24.24.2.1802 [Soft target]
Master of the Ninth Arch
Joined: 13 Feb 2007
Posts: 433.873
Location: Kennesaw(Atlanta), GA
24.24.2.1802 [Soft target]
Master of the Ninth Arch
Joined: 13 Feb 2007
Posts: 433.873
Location: Kennesaw(Atlanta), GA
Now thats what I call an elaborate list.
silver zero
24.24.2.2579 [soft target my ass]
Master of the Ninth Arch
Joined: 26 Feb 2007
Posts: 316.597
Location: PA
24.24.2.2579 [soft target my ass]
Master of the Ninth Arch
Joined: 26 Feb 2007
Posts: 316.597
Location: PA
MAABUS: Here's the list, freshly updated 
Okay, everyone. As far as I know, this list is completely comprehensive, fully cited, and in chronological order (as of 11:30 PM 4/16/07). This took me a while to do, and I tried to do it as thoroughly and accurately as possible, but if you feel I've missed something, or I haven't given the proper credit to whomever, just PM me or leave a message on the thread or something. As we get more mined texts, I'll update this as necessary.
NOTE: This does not include references to pieces of literature found in areas other than the backgrounds of these ARG sites, e.g. "The Stand" reference on Hollywood In Memoriam or the Martin Niemoller poem found from the Francisco auto-reply on SBI.
I AM TRYING TO BELIEVE, ANOTHER VERSION OF THE TRUTH FORUMS, BE THE HAMMER, 105TH AIRBORNE CRUSADERS, CONSOLIDATED MAIL SYSTEMS
The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien
Perhaps one of the world's most well-known novels, this book prefaces the Lord of the Rings trilogy. This epic fantasy has been found on most banned books lists.
Text found by: morethanshapes
"For your hospitality our sincerest thanks, and for your offer of professional assistance our grateful acceptance. Terms: cash on delivery, up to and not exceeding one fourteenth of total profits (if any); all traveling expenses guaranteed in any event; funeral expenses to be defrayed by us or our representatives, if occasion arises and the matter is not otherwise arranged for."
ANOTHER VERSION OF THE TRUTH: REVISIONISM
A People's History of the United States: 1492-Present by Howard Zinn.
The famous anarchist/socialist/Marxist political scientist and historian Howard Zinn chronicles American history from Columbus onward through the prisms of those groups generally ignored in historical books.
Text found by: Disposition_on_Reflection
"Arawak men and women, naked, tawny, and full of wonder, emerged from their villages onto the island's beaches and swam out to get a closer look at the strange big boat. When Columbus and his sailors came ashore, carrying swords, speaking oddly, the Arawaks ran to greet them, brought them food, water, gifts. He later wrote of this in his log."
ANOTHER VERSION OF THE TRUTH: 0
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey
(this text references Lawrence Hauben's screenplay)
This well-known novel is a foray into the dangers of institutionalized psychiatry as well as the lesser-searched corners of the human mind. Made into a play the year after its release and a highly-acclaimed film in 1975, starring Jack Nicholson as protagonist Randle P. McMurphy.
Text found by: tuatara
"MCMURPHY (V.O)
(through loudspeaker)
Medication time! Medication time!
Rise and shine! Rise and shine!
Time to say goodbye... Everybody
up, up, up!"
US WIRETAP
Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut
A sharp, witty, and surreal tale of Billy Pilgrim, who has become "unstuck in time." Based somewhat on Vonnegut's own experience of the fire-bombing of Dresden, Germany during WWII.
(note: a portion of this text was also found on the AVOTT forums)
Text found by: Warped909
"All this happened, more or less. The war parts, anyway, are pretty much true. One guy I knew really was shot in Dresden for taking a teapot that wasn't his. Another guy I knew really did threaten to have his personal enemies killed by hired gunmen after the war. And so on. I've changed all the names. I really did go back to Dresden with Guggenheim money (God love it) in 1967. It looked a lot like Dayton, Ohio, more open spaces than Dayton has. There must be tons of human bone meal in the ground. I went back there with an old war buddy, Bernard V. O'Hare, and we made friends with a cab driver, who took us to the slaughterhouse where we had been locked up at night as prisoners of war. His name was Gerhard Müller. He told us that he was a prisoner of the Americans for a while. We asked him how it was to live under Communism, and he said that it was terrible at first, because everybody had to work so hard, and because there wasn't much shelter or food or clothing. But things were much better now. He had a pleasant little apartment, and his daughter was getting an excellent education. His mother was incinerated in the Dresden fire-storm. So it goes."
HOLLYWOOD IN MEMORIAM
"Caution" by Walt Whitman
One of Whitman's many celebrated poems in his famous collection, "Leaves of Grass," it cautions against unyielding authority.
Leaves of Grass
(note: no wiki-page for the text itself)
Text found by: Skean
"To: The States, or any one of them, or any city of The States, Resist much, Obey little; Once unquestioning obedience, once fully enslaved; once fully enslaved, no nation, state, city, ever afterward resumes its liberty."
SECURE BROADCASTS INFORMATICS
The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank
The tragic, true record of one Jewish girl and her family attempting to avoid the horrors of the Holocaust during WWII.
Text found by: tuatara
"Have you ever heard the term 'hostages'? That's the latest punishment for saboteurs. It's the most horrible thing you can imagine. Leading citizens--innocent people--are taken prisoner to await their execution. If the Gestapo can't find the saboteur, they simply grab five hostages and line them up against the wall. You read the announcements of their death in the paper, where they're referred to as 'fatal accidents.' - October 9, 1942"
SOLUTIONS BACKWARDS INITIATIVE
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
A very familiar tale to most readers, this slice of Americana displays a little bit of everything in rural Southern America from racism to politics. Often found on banned books lists.
Text found by: lostivity
"It was a close place. I took it up, and held it in my hand. I was a-trembling, because I’d got to decide, forever, betwixt two things, and I knowed it. I studied a minute, sort of holding my breath, and then says to myself: “All right then, I’ll go to hell”—and tore it up. It was awful thoughts and awful words, but they was said. And I let them stay said; and never thought no more about reforming."
THE WATER TURNED TO BLOOD
Howl, Part II by Allen Ginsberg
The middle section of Ginsberg's "Howl" is one of the crowning achievements of the Beat Generation, marked by rambling, peyote-soaked prose. The horrors of urban civilization are personified in Moloch, an ancient Canaanite idol.
Text found by: kyle
"Moloch! Moloch! Robot apartments! invisible suburbs! skeleton treasuries! blind capitals! demonic industries! spectral nations! invincible mad houses! granite cocks! monstrous bombs!"
JUDSON OGRAM: JOHN FERMINGER
The Origin of Species by Charles Darwin
Darwin's famous book detailing some of the first thoughts on evolutionary theory was groundbreaking in scientific fields and still resonates in various academic communities today. Has met much opposition from religious groups and finds itself on many banned books lists.
Text found by: AngstyNerd
"We shall best understand the probable course of natural selection by taking the case of a country undergoing some physical change, for instance, of climate. The proportional numbers of its inhabitants would almost immediately undergo a change, and some species might become extinct."
JUDSON OGRAM: MOIRA WAAG PT. 1
The Communist Manifesto by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels
This relatively short tract sparked a new, revolutionary political philosophy that led to the rise of the Communist party in Germany, across Eastern Europe, into Russia and elsewhere around the globe.
Text found by: justnine
A spectre is haunting Europe — the spectre of Communism. All the Powers of old Europe have entered into a holy alliance to exorcise this spectre: Pope and Czar, Metternich and Guizot, French Radicals and German police-spies.
JUDSON OGRAM: MOIRA WAAG PT. 2
Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West by Gregory Maguire.
This dramatic (and erotic) retelling of the story of the Wicked Witch of the West from The Wizard of Oz has been made into a very successful Broadway show.
Text found by: KingMob4313
The decades - Fiyero thought, in love with her or at least so frightened for her that he could mistake it for love -- the decades looked on and didn't see her passing. They stared from their fixed mounts across at each other and didn't see the revolution striding between them, on her way to destiny.
OPERATION SWAMP 0000
The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
The quintessential "coming-of-age" story is of Holden Caufield struggling to find his place in the world and his off-kilter relationships with his peers and society in general. Frequently on banned books lists.
Text found by: remisser
"I'm standing on the edge of some crazy cliff. What I have to do, I have to catch everybody if they start to go over the cliff— I mean if they're running and they don't look where they're going I have to come out from somewhere and catch them. That's all I'd do all day. I'd just be the catcher in the rye and all. I know it's crazy, but that's the only thing I'd really like to be. I know it's crazy."
OPERATION CHIP SWEEP
"The Perils of Obedience" by Stanley Milgram
An article written after Stanley Milgram's famous experiment on obedience, in which he found people will do just about anything (even harm others) if enough pressure is exerted by authority.
The Milgram obedience experiment
(note: no wiki-page for the text itself)
Text found by: PrestonxSmith
"The legal and philosophic aspects of obedience are of enormous importance, but they say very little about how most people behave in concrete situations. I set up a simple experiment at Yale University to test how much pain an ordinary citizen would inflict on another person simply because he was ordered to by an experimental scientist. Stark authority was pitted against the subjects' [participants'] strongest moral imperatives against hurting others, and, with the subjects' [participants'] ears ringing with the screams of the victims, authority won more often than not. The extreme willingness of adults to go to almost any lengths on the command of an authority constitutes the chief finding of the study and the fact most urgently demanding explanation.
Ordinary people, simply doing their jobs, and without any particular hostility on their part, can become agents in a terrible destructive process. Moreover, even when the destructive effects of their work become patently clear, and they are asked to carry out actions incompatible with fundamental standards of morality, relatively few people have the resources needed to resist authority."
CEDOCORE: HYCEPHAMITAMYN-η
Collapse by Jared Diamond
A relatively recent book (2005) concerning societal collapse due in no small part to environmental components, e.g. climate change, overhunting/fishing, erosion, toxic chemicals, etc.
Text found by: digitalLotus
"Will tourists someday stare bewildered at the rusting hulks of New York’s skyscrapers, much as we stare today at the jungle-overgrown ruins of Maya cities?"
MAILSTROM: GALLOWS
1984 by George Orwell.
One of the most famous dystopian novels ever, describes a bleak future in which the world is constantly at war and the government has absolute control (even over reality itself).
Text found by: vipbrj
(portions of this text were also found on the MAILSTROM:NEEDLE page)
"It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen. Winston Smith, his chin nuzzled into his breast in an effort to escape the vile wind, slipped quickly through the glass doors of Victory Mansions, though not quickly enough to prevent a swirl of gritty dust from entering along with him."
MAILSTROM: GASOLINE
Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America by Barbara Ehrenreich.
A book in which Ehrenreich attempts to live on minimum wage for a month in both Florida and Maine and details the hardships that ensue.
Text found by: cynicmuse
"Mostly out of laziness, I decide to start my low-wage life in the town nearest to where I actually live, Key West, Florida, which with a population of about 25,000 is elbowing its way up to the status of a genuine city. The downside of familiarity, I soon realize, is that it's not easy to go from being a consumer, thoughtlessly throwing money around in exchange for groceries and movies and gas, to being a worker in the very same place. I am terrified, especially at the beginning, of being recognized by some friendly business owner or erstwhile neighbor and having to stammer out some explanation of my project. Happily, though, my fears turn out to be entirely unwarranted: during a month of poverty and toil, no one recognizes my face or my name, which goes unnoticed and for the most part unuttered. In this parallel universe where my father never got out of the mines and I never got through college, I am 'baby,' 'honey,' 'blondie,' and, most commonly, 'girl.'"
MAILSTROM: TUMBREL
Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison.
A critically acclaimed novel involving racial tensions in 20th century America.
Text found by: KingMob4313
"I never told you, but our life is a war and I have been a traitor all my born days, days, a spy in the enemy's country ever since I give up my gun back in the reconstruction. Live with your head in the lion's mouth."
MAILSTROM: WRETCHED
Civil Disobedience by Henry David Thoreau.
One of American literature's most famous essays, Thoreau argues for the right of citizens to disobey their governments should they become too strong.
Text found by: cynicmuse
"I HEARTILY ACCEPT the motto, — "That government is best which governs least"; and I should like to see it acted up to more rapidly and systematically."
MAILSTROM: WETWORK
A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess.
Another dystopian look at the future where roving teenage gangs terrorize communities, and the subsequent psychological problems involving rehabilitation. Made into a controversial, but excellent film by Stanley Kubrick.
Text found by: nunzilla
"He was in the land all right, well away, in orbit, and I knew what it was like, having tried it like everybody else had done, but at this time I'd got to thinking it was a cowardly sort of a beschch, O my brothers. You'd lay there after you'd drunk the old moloko..."
MAILSTROM: FRATRICIDE
The Forever War by Joe Haldeman
A sci-fi novel in which the human race is at war with an alien race, the Taurans, for hundreds of years.
Text found by: cynicmuse
"You couldn't blame it all on the military, though. The evidence they presented for the Taurans having been responsible for the earlier casualties was laughably thin. The few people who pointed this out were ignored.
The fact was, Earth's economy needed a war, and this one was ideal. It was a nice hole to throw buckets of money into, but would unify humanity rather than dividing it."
MAILSTROM: BITTER
A Seperate Peace by John Knowles
A book told in retrospect about growing up during World War II. Received criticism by some for potentially being an anti-war novel.
Text found by: nunzilla
"I felt fear's echo, and along with that I felt the unhinged, uncontrollable joy which had been its accompaniment and opposite face, joy which had broken out sometimes in those days like Northern Lights across black sky."
MAILSTROM: ATROPINE
"Bible Stories for Adults, No. 17: The Deluge" by James Morrow.
James Morrow (no wiki-page exists for the text itself)
James Morrow is an author who frequently satirizes religion, but occasionally elements of humanism and atheism, too. Famous for his "Godhead" trilogy in which God is actually found dead and floating in the Atlantic Ocean.
Text found by: KingMob4313
Take your cup down to the Caspian, dip, and drink. It did not always taste of salt. Yahweh's watery slaughter may have purified the earth, but it left his seas a ruin, brackish with pagan blood and the tears of wicked orphans.
MAILSTROM: PLIERS
The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien.
An awesome novel-in-stories concerning the Vietnam War and soldiers' varying reactions to it.
Text found by: Akumu
"First Lieutenant Jimmy Cross carried letters from a girl named Martha, a junior at Mount Sebastian College in New Jersey. They were not love letters, but Lieutenant Cross was hoping, so he kept them folded in plastic at the bottom of his rucksack."
MAILSTROM: CORRIDA
Equus by Peter Shaffer.
A play concerning a psychiatrist's efforts to treat a boy who has an unnatural fascination with horses. Apparently, the actor who plays Harry Potter (Daniel Radcliffe) is currently doing this play.
Text found by: Akumu
"There is now, in my mouth, this sharp chain. And it never comes out."
MAILSTROM: SLANDER
Hiroshima by John Hersey.
An article that appeared in the New Yorker in August 1946, one year after the bomb was dropped on Hiroshima. It was later made into a novel detailing the lives of 6 Japanese people and how the bomb affected them.
Text found by: Akumu
"At exactly fifteen minutes past eight in the morning, on August 6, 1945, Japanese time, at the moment when the atomic bomb flashed above Hiroshima, Miss Toshiko Sasaki, a clerk in the personnel department of the East Asia Tin Works, had just sat down at her place in the girl office and was turning her head to speak to the girl at the next desk."
MAILSTROM: FLENSE
Orientalism by Edward Said.
Discusses how the Western world viewed the Orient as an "other," a threat to their collective political hegemony. Sparked the beginning of post-colonial theory.
Text found by: tuatara
"On June 13, 1910, Arthur James Balfour lectured the House of Commons on 'the problems with which we have to deal in Egypt.' 'These,' he said, 'belong to a whole different category than those affecting the Isle of Wight or West Riding of Yorkshire.'"
MAILSTROM: SPORE
"The Fate of an Honest Intellectual" by Noam Chomsky.
Noam Chomsky (no wiki-page exists for the text itself)
An essay by one of the 20th century's most outspoken philosophers.
Text found by: Akumu
"He's now living in a little apartment somewhere in New York City, and he's a part-time social worker working with teenage drop-outs. Very promising scholar—if he'd done what he was told, he would have gone on and right now he'd be a professor somewhere at some big university. Instead he's working part-time with disturbed teenaged kids for a couple thousand dollars a year. That's a lot better than a death squad, it's true—it's a whole lot better than a death squad. But those are the techniques of control that are around."
MAILSTROM: SICKLE
Heather Has Two Mommies by Leslea Newman
A children's book written in 1989 about a girl who grows up with lesbian parents. Frequently found on banned books lists.
Text found by: KingMob4313
"Heather's favourite number is two. She has two arms, two legs, two eyes, two ears, two hands, and two feet. Heather has two pets: a ginger-colored cat named Gingersnap and a big black dog named Midnight. Heather also has two mommies: Mama Kate and Mama Jane."
MAILSTROM: REGRET
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince by J.K. Rowling
The sixth in the ever-popular Harry Potter series. Consistently found on banned books list for "black magic" and "sorcery."
Text found by: silver zero
"Voldemort himself created his worst enemy, just as tyrants everywhere do! Have you any idea how much tyrants fear the people they oppress? All of them realize that, one day, amongst their many victims, there is sure to be one..."
MAILSTROM: VENOM
The Naked and the Dead by Norman Mailer.
Based on Mailer's experiences in the South Pacific during WWII.
Text found by: _brokenhalo_
"But the compassion lasted for only a few minutes. He understood it all, knew he could do nothing about it any longer, and was not even tempted. What was the use? He sighed and the acuteness of his mood slipped out with his breath. There were some things you could never fix. It was too mixed-up. A man had to get out by himself or he became like Hennessey, worrying over every gimcrack in his life."
MAILSTROM: INFARCTION
Stranger in a Strange Land by Robert A. Heinlein
A famous sci-fi novel about one human's migration from Mars, where he was raised, to the unfamiliar Earth.
Text found by: Deamos
"Christ was crucified for preaching without a police permit. Sweat over that, instead!"
MAILSTROM: WIDOW
M. Butterfly by David Henry Hwang
A successful play (that was also made into a movie) about a French man falling in love with a Chinese opera star. The play deals with cultural stereotypes of the Eastern world and was mentioned in another one of our "mined" texts, Edward Said's Orientalism.
Text found by: silver zero
"GALLIMARD. Butterfly, Butterfly...(He forces himself to turn away, as the image of Song fades out, and talks to us.)The limits of my cell are such: four-and-a-half meters by five."
MAILSTROM: CLEANSING
Beloved by Toni Morrison.
(note - site has yet to have been officially "found." background images were discovered by KingMob4313 using 1337 speak method)
Text found by: KingMob4313
A Pulitzer Prize-winning novel written in 1987 about the legacy of slavery. Was recently voted by a panel of 100 contemporary novelists as the best contemporary novel.
"The Women in the house knew it and so did the children. For years each put up with the spite in his own way, but by 1873 Sethe and her daughter Denver were it's only victims."
MAILSTROM: BELLADONNA
Angels in America by Tony Kushner
A play made into a popular TV miniseries about Prior Walter, a homosexual who sees angels that claim he is a prophet, and Joe Pitt, a closeted Mormon Republican clerk.
Text found by: TimA
“I see the universe, Joe, as a kind of sandstorm in outer space with winds of mega-hurricane velocity, but instead of grains of sand it's shards and splinters of glass ... You ever feel that way? Ever have one of those days?”
MAILSTROM: PARASITE
Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides
A Pulitzer-Prize winning coming-of-age novel about a Cal, an intersexual person suffering from a genetic mutation.
Text found by: Lulah
"But I was beginning to understand something about normality. Normality wasn’t normal. It couldn’t be. If normality were normal, everybody could leave it alone. They could sit back and let normality manifest itself. But people—and especially doctors—had doubts about normality. They weren’t sure normality was up to the job. And so they felt inclined to give it a boost."
MAILSTROM: CLEAVER
The Chocolate War by Robert Cormier
A popular book describing one boys attempts to uncover a secret society at a high school. #4 on the ALA's Banned Books list for its protagonists' musings on sexuality and use of Anti-Catholicism.
Text found by: Disposition_On_Reflection
"They murdered him.
As he turned to take the ball, a dam burst against the side of his head and a hand grenade shattered his stomach. Engulfed by nausea, he pitched toward the grass. His mouth encountered gravel, and he spat frantically, afraid that some of his teeth had been knocked out. Rising to his feet, he saw the field through drifting gauze but held on until everything settled into place, like a lens focusing, making the world sharp again, with edges."
MAILSTROM: HUBRIS
The Crucible by Arthur Miller
Miller's famous play was an allegory of 1950s McCarthyism and made into a critically acclaimed movie in 1996.
Text found by: KingMob4313
"There is a misty plot afoot so subtle we should be criminal to cling to old respects and ancient friendships."
MAILSTROM: PAIN
Fight Club by Chuck Palahniuk
Palahniuk's first novel became a cult hit about American materialism, masculinity, and nihilism after it was converted into a movie starring Brad Pitt and Edward Norton.
Text found by: tuatara
"Tyler gets me a job as a waiter, after that Tyler's pushing a gun in my mouth and saying, the first step to eternal life is you have to die. For a long time though, Tyler and I were best friends. People are always asking, did I know about Tyler Durden."
MAILSTROM: SCORPION
Leo Africanus by Amin Maalouf
A fictitious story about the mysterious figure Leo Africanus and the rift between Islam and Christianity. The text comes from the first section, "The Book of Granada."
Text found by: NINny
"In that year, the sacred month of Ramadan fell in high summer. My father rarely left the house before nightfall, as the people of Granada were short-tempered during the daytime. Quarrels were frequent, and a sombre bearing was regarded as a sign of piety; only a man who was not keeping the fast could smile under the fiery heat of the sun, and only a man who had no concern for the fate of the Muslims could remain cheerful and friendly in a town exhausted from within by civil war and threatened from without by the unbelievers."
MAILSTROM: FLOOD
Also Sprach Zarathustra by Friedrich Nietzsche
One of philosophy's most seminal works, Nietzsche gained notoriety in this text for the (in)famous "God is dead" line. That, along with its scathing criticism of the Bible, often push it onto banned books lists across America and elsewhere.
Text found by: redstar
"Verily, I have often laughed at the weaklings who thought themselves good because they had no claws."
THE PRICE OF TREASON
The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
A story about Tom Joad and other people affected by the Great Depression setting out for California, searching for new lives. Has been on banned books list since its first publication in 1939.
Text found by: lowki
"Rattlesnakes! Don't take chances with 'em, an' if they argue, shoot first. If a kid'll kill a cop, what'll the men do? Thing is, get tougher'n they are. Treat 'em rough. Scare 'em."
FREE REBEL ART
Rita Hayworth and the Shawshank Redemption by Stephen King
Stephen King's famous novella about false incarceration, institutionalization, freedom, and friendship. Made into a very famous and critically-acclaimed film starring Tim Robbins and Morgan Freeman.
Text found by: Dianne
"Brooks Hatlen knew it. Knew it all too well. All I want is to be back where things make sense. Where I won't have to be afraid all the time."
GRACE THE TEACHER, RED HORSE VECTOR
Silent Spring by Rachel Carson
Considered one of the pioneering works of the environmentalist movement, Carson explores the problems of pollution and pesticides in particular. The catalyst for the banning of the pesticide DDT in 1972.
Text found by: Nunzilla
"The town lay in the midst of a checkerboard of prosperous farms, with fields of grain and hillsides of orchards where, in spring, white clouds of bloom drifted above the green fields. In autumn, oak and maple and birch set up a blaze of color that flamed and flickered across a backdrop of pines. Then foxes barked in the hills and deer silently crossed the fields, half hidden in the mists of fall mornings..."
ONE COUNTRY AT A TIME
Pleasantville by Gary Ross
A 1998 film where two teens get trapped in a 1950s sitcom and teach the button-down vanilla town of Pleasantville the values of diversity, criticism, and nonconformity. So far the only screenplay to appear on the mined texts list.
Text found by: silver zero
"BOB: [to David/Bud and Bill] 'You are charged with descration of a public building and the intentional use of prohibited paint colors in violation of The Pleasantville Code of Conduct and "Laws of Common Decency." Do you admit that on the night of May 1 you did consciously and willfully apply the following FORBIDDEN paint colors to the North Wall of the Pleasantville Police Station: Red, Pink, Vermilion, Puce, Chartreuse, Umber, Blue, Aqua, Ox Blood, Green, Peach, Crimson, Yellow, Olive and Magenta?'"
VIABILITY INDEX
The Simple Art of Murder by Raymond Chandler
(portions of this text were also found on FREE REBEL ART)
Both an essay and a collection of stories by Chandler detailing the problems concerning the "detective fiction" genre of storytelling.
Text found by: tuatara
"But down these mean streets a man must go who is not himself mean, who is neither tarnished nor afraid."
MINING FOR LIFE
Brazil by Terry Gilliam, Tom Stoppard, and Charles McKeown.
A satirical look at 20th century governments; a very anti-totalitarian movie directed by one of Monty Python's finest. The second film to be included on the mined texts list.
Text found by: redstar
"Interviewer: What do you believe is behind this recent increase in terrorist bombings?
Helpmann: Bad sportsmanship. A ruthless minority of people seems to have forgotten certain good old-fashioned virtues. They just can't stand seeing the other fellow win. If these people would just play the game..."
EXTERMINAL
Watchmen by Alan Moore
A complex superhero story with few heroes and almost no "super-" ones, it is about the extreme measures taken by the powerful and driven in the name of the greater good. Set in an alternate 1985, it traces the thin line between social order and fascism. One of the very first popular graphic novels.
Text found by: tuatara
"Rorschach's Journal October 12th 1985:
Dog carcass in alley this morning, tire tread on burst stomach. This city is afraid of me. I have seen its true face.
The streets are extended gutters and the gutters are full of blood and when the drains finally scab over, all the vermin will drown.
The accumulated filth of all their sex and murder will foam up about their waists and all the whores and politicians will look up and shout 'Save Us!"'...
...and I'll look down, and whisper, 'No.'"
Okay, everyone. As far as I know, this list is completely comprehensive, fully cited, and in chronological order (as of 11:30 PM 4/16/07). This took me a while to do, and I tried to do it as thoroughly and accurately as possible, but if you feel I've missed something, or I haven't given the proper credit to whomever, just PM me or leave a message on the thread or something. As we get more mined texts, I'll update this as necessary.
NOTE: This does not include references to pieces of literature found in areas other than the backgrounds of these ARG sites, e.g. "The Stand" reference on Hollywood In Memoriam or the Martin Niemoller poem found from the Francisco auto-reply on SBI.
I AM TRYING TO BELIEVE, ANOTHER VERSION OF THE TRUTH FORUMS, BE THE HAMMER, 105TH AIRBORNE CRUSADERS, CONSOLIDATED MAIL SYSTEMS
The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien
Perhaps one of the world's most well-known novels, this book prefaces the Lord of the Rings trilogy. This epic fantasy has been found on most banned books lists.
Text found by: morethanshapes
"For your hospitality our sincerest thanks, and for your offer of professional assistance our grateful acceptance. Terms: cash on delivery, up to and not exceeding one fourteenth of total profits (if any); all traveling expenses guaranteed in any event; funeral expenses to be defrayed by us or our representatives, if occasion arises and the matter is not otherwise arranged for."
ANOTHER VERSION OF THE TRUTH: REVISIONISM
A People's History of the United States: 1492-Present by Howard Zinn.
The famous anarchist/socialist/Marxist political scientist and historian Howard Zinn chronicles American history from Columbus onward through the prisms of those groups generally ignored in historical books.
Text found by: Disposition_on_Reflection
"Arawak men and women, naked, tawny, and full of wonder, emerged from their villages onto the island's beaches and swam out to get a closer look at the strange big boat. When Columbus and his sailors came ashore, carrying swords, speaking oddly, the Arawaks ran to greet them, brought them food, water, gifts. He later wrote of this in his log."
ANOTHER VERSION OF THE TRUTH: 0
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey
(this text references Lawrence Hauben's screenplay)
This well-known novel is a foray into the dangers of institutionalized psychiatry as well as the lesser-searched corners of the human mind. Made into a play the year after its release and a highly-acclaimed film in 1975, starring Jack Nicholson as protagonist Randle P. McMurphy.
Text found by: tuatara
"MCMURPHY (V.O)
(through loudspeaker)
Medication time! Medication time!
Rise and shine! Rise and shine!
Time to say goodbye... Everybody
up, up, up!"
US WIRETAP
Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut
A sharp, witty, and surreal tale of Billy Pilgrim, who has become "unstuck in time." Based somewhat on Vonnegut's own experience of the fire-bombing of Dresden, Germany during WWII.
(note: a portion of this text was also found on the AVOTT forums)
Text found by: Warped909
"All this happened, more or less. The war parts, anyway, are pretty much true. One guy I knew really was shot in Dresden for taking a teapot that wasn't his. Another guy I knew really did threaten to have his personal enemies killed by hired gunmen after the war. And so on. I've changed all the names. I really did go back to Dresden with Guggenheim money (God love it) in 1967. It looked a lot like Dayton, Ohio, more open spaces than Dayton has. There must be tons of human bone meal in the ground. I went back there with an old war buddy, Bernard V. O'Hare, and we made friends with a cab driver, who took us to the slaughterhouse where we had been locked up at night as prisoners of war. His name was Gerhard Müller. He told us that he was a prisoner of the Americans for a while. We asked him how it was to live under Communism, and he said that it was terrible at first, because everybody had to work so hard, and because there wasn't much shelter or food or clothing. But things were much better now. He had a pleasant little apartment, and his daughter was getting an excellent education. His mother was incinerated in the Dresden fire-storm. So it goes."
HOLLYWOOD IN MEMORIAM
"Caution" by Walt Whitman
One of Whitman's many celebrated poems in his famous collection, "Leaves of Grass," it cautions against unyielding authority.
Leaves of Grass
(note: no wiki-page for the text itself)
Text found by: Skean
"To: The States, or any one of them, or any city of The States, Resist much, Obey little; Once unquestioning obedience, once fully enslaved; once fully enslaved, no nation, state, city, ever afterward resumes its liberty."
SECURE BROADCASTS INFORMATICS
The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank
The tragic, true record of one Jewish girl and her family attempting to avoid the horrors of the Holocaust during WWII.
Text found by: tuatara
"Have you ever heard the term 'hostages'? That's the latest punishment for saboteurs. It's the most horrible thing you can imagine. Leading citizens--innocent people--are taken prisoner to await their execution. If the Gestapo can't find the saboteur, they simply grab five hostages and line them up against the wall. You read the announcements of their death in the paper, where they're referred to as 'fatal accidents.' - October 9, 1942"
SOLUTIONS BACKWARDS INITIATIVE
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
A very familiar tale to most readers, this slice of Americana displays a little bit of everything in rural Southern America from racism to politics. Often found on banned books lists.
Text found by: lostivity
"It was a close place. I took it up, and held it in my hand. I was a-trembling, because I’d got to decide, forever, betwixt two things, and I knowed it. I studied a minute, sort of holding my breath, and then says to myself: “All right then, I’ll go to hell”—and tore it up. It was awful thoughts and awful words, but they was said. And I let them stay said; and never thought no more about reforming."
THE WATER TURNED TO BLOOD
Howl, Part II by Allen Ginsberg
The middle section of Ginsberg's "Howl" is one of the crowning achievements of the Beat Generation, marked by rambling, peyote-soaked prose. The horrors of urban civilization are personified in Moloch, an ancient Canaanite idol.
Text found by: kyle
"Moloch! Moloch! Robot apartments! invisible suburbs! skeleton treasuries! blind capitals! demonic industries! spectral nations! invincible mad houses! granite cocks! monstrous bombs!"
JUDSON OGRAM: JOHN FERMINGER
The Origin of Species by Charles Darwin
Darwin's famous book detailing some of the first thoughts on evolutionary theory was groundbreaking in scientific fields and still resonates in various academic communities today. Has met much opposition from religious groups and finds itself on many banned books lists.
Text found by: AngstyNerd
"We shall best understand the probable course of natural selection by taking the case of a country undergoing some physical change, for instance, of climate. The proportional numbers of its inhabitants would almost immediately undergo a change, and some species might become extinct."
JUDSON OGRAM: MOIRA WAAG PT. 1
The Communist Manifesto by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels
This relatively short tract sparked a new, revolutionary political philosophy that led to the rise of the Communist party in Germany, across Eastern Europe, into Russia and elsewhere around the globe.
Text found by: justnine
A spectre is haunting Europe — the spectre of Communism. All the Powers of old Europe have entered into a holy alliance to exorcise this spectre: Pope and Czar, Metternich and Guizot, French Radicals and German police-spies.
JUDSON OGRAM: MOIRA WAAG PT. 2
Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West by Gregory Maguire.
This dramatic (and erotic) retelling of the story of the Wicked Witch of the West from The Wizard of Oz has been made into a very successful Broadway show.
Text found by: KingMob4313
The decades - Fiyero thought, in love with her or at least so frightened for her that he could mistake it for love -- the decades looked on and didn't see her passing. They stared from their fixed mounts across at each other and didn't see the revolution striding between them, on her way to destiny.
OPERATION SWAMP 0000
The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
The quintessential "coming-of-age" story is of Holden Caufield struggling to find his place in the world and his off-kilter relationships with his peers and society in general. Frequently on banned books lists.
Text found by: remisser
"I'm standing on the edge of some crazy cliff. What I have to do, I have to catch everybody if they start to go over the cliff— I mean if they're running and they don't look where they're going I have to come out from somewhere and catch them. That's all I'd do all day. I'd just be the catcher in the rye and all. I know it's crazy, but that's the only thing I'd really like to be. I know it's crazy."
OPERATION CHIP SWEEP
"The Perils of Obedience" by Stanley Milgram
An article written after Stanley Milgram's famous experiment on obedience, in which he found people will do just about anything (even harm others) if enough pressure is exerted by authority.
The Milgram obedience experiment
(note: no wiki-page for the text itself)
Text found by: PrestonxSmith
"The legal and philosophic aspects of obedience are of enormous importance, but they say very little about how most people behave in concrete situations. I set up a simple experiment at Yale University to test how much pain an ordinary citizen would inflict on another person simply because he was ordered to by an experimental scientist. Stark authority was pitted against the subjects' [participants'] strongest moral imperatives against hurting others, and, with the subjects' [participants'] ears ringing with the screams of the victims, authority won more often than not. The extreme willingness of adults to go to almost any lengths on the command of an authority constitutes the chief finding of the study and the fact most urgently demanding explanation.
Ordinary people, simply doing their jobs, and without any particular hostility on their part, can become agents in a terrible destructive process. Moreover, even when the destructive effects of their work become patently clear, and they are asked to carry out actions incompatible with fundamental standards of morality, relatively few people have the resources needed to resist authority."
CEDOCORE: HYCEPHAMITAMYN-η
Collapse by Jared Diamond
A relatively recent book (2005) concerning societal collapse due in no small part to environmental components, e.g. climate change, overhunting/fishing, erosion, toxic chemicals, etc.
Text found by: digitalLotus
"Will tourists someday stare bewildered at the rusting hulks of New York’s skyscrapers, much as we stare today at the jungle-overgrown ruins of Maya cities?"
MAILSTROM: GALLOWS
1984 by George Orwell.
One of the most famous dystopian novels ever, describes a bleak future in which the world is constantly at war and the government has absolute control (even over reality itself).
Text found by: vipbrj
(portions of this text were also found on the MAILSTROM:NEEDLE page)
"It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen. Winston Smith, his chin nuzzled into his breast in an effort to escape the vile wind, slipped quickly through the glass doors of Victory Mansions, though not quickly enough to prevent a swirl of gritty dust from entering along with him."
MAILSTROM: GASOLINE
Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America by Barbara Ehrenreich.
A book in which Ehrenreich attempts to live on minimum wage for a month in both Florida and Maine and details the hardships that ensue.
Text found by: cynicmuse
"Mostly out of laziness, I decide to start my low-wage life in the town nearest to where I actually live, Key West, Florida, which with a population of about 25,000 is elbowing its way up to the status of a genuine city. The downside of familiarity, I soon realize, is that it's not easy to go from being a consumer, thoughtlessly throwing money around in exchange for groceries and movies and gas, to being a worker in the very same place. I am terrified, especially at the beginning, of being recognized by some friendly business owner or erstwhile neighbor and having to stammer out some explanation of my project. Happily, though, my fears turn out to be entirely unwarranted: during a month of poverty and toil, no one recognizes my face or my name, which goes unnoticed and for the most part unuttered. In this parallel universe where my father never got out of the mines and I never got through college, I am 'baby,' 'honey,' 'blondie,' and, most commonly, 'girl.'"
MAILSTROM: TUMBREL
Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison.
A critically acclaimed novel involving racial tensions in 20th century America.
Text found by: KingMob4313
"I never told you, but our life is a war and I have been a traitor all my born days, days, a spy in the enemy's country ever since I give up my gun back in the reconstruction. Live with your head in the lion's mouth."
MAILSTROM: WRETCHED
Civil Disobedience by Henry David Thoreau.
One of American literature's most famous essays, Thoreau argues for the right of citizens to disobey their governments should they become too strong.
Text found by: cynicmuse
"I HEARTILY ACCEPT the motto, — "That government is best which governs least"; and I should like to see it acted up to more rapidly and systematically."
MAILSTROM: WETWORK
A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess.
Another dystopian look at the future where roving teenage gangs terrorize communities, and the subsequent psychological problems involving rehabilitation. Made into a controversial, but excellent film by Stanley Kubrick.
Text found by: nunzilla
"He was in the land all right, well away, in orbit, and I knew what it was like, having tried it like everybody else had done, but at this time I'd got to thinking it was a cowardly sort of a beschch, O my brothers. You'd lay there after you'd drunk the old moloko..."
MAILSTROM: FRATRICIDE
The Forever War by Joe Haldeman
A sci-fi novel in which the human race is at war with an alien race, the Taurans, for hundreds of years.
Text found by: cynicmuse
"You couldn't blame it all on the military, though. The evidence they presented for the Taurans having been responsible for the earlier casualties was laughably thin. The few people who pointed this out were ignored.
The fact was, Earth's economy needed a war, and this one was ideal. It was a nice hole to throw buckets of money into, but would unify humanity rather than dividing it."
MAILSTROM: BITTER
A Seperate Peace by John Knowles
A book told in retrospect about growing up during World War II. Received criticism by some for potentially being an anti-war novel.
Text found by: nunzilla
"I felt fear's echo, and along with that I felt the unhinged, uncontrollable joy which had been its accompaniment and opposite face, joy which had broken out sometimes in those days like Northern Lights across black sky."
MAILSTROM: ATROPINE
"Bible Stories for Adults, No. 17: The Deluge" by James Morrow.
James Morrow (no wiki-page exists for the text itself)
James Morrow is an author who frequently satirizes religion, but occasionally elements of humanism and atheism, too. Famous for his "Godhead" trilogy in which God is actually found dead and floating in the Atlantic Ocean.
Text found by: KingMob4313
Take your cup down to the Caspian, dip, and drink. It did not always taste of salt. Yahweh's watery slaughter may have purified the earth, but it left his seas a ruin, brackish with pagan blood and the tears of wicked orphans.
MAILSTROM: PLIERS
The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien.
An awesome novel-in-stories concerning the Vietnam War and soldiers' varying reactions to it.
Text found by: Akumu
"First Lieutenant Jimmy Cross carried letters from a girl named Martha, a junior at Mount Sebastian College in New Jersey. They were not love letters, but Lieutenant Cross was hoping, so he kept them folded in plastic at the bottom of his rucksack."
MAILSTROM: CORRIDA
Equus by Peter Shaffer.
A play concerning a psychiatrist's efforts to treat a boy who has an unnatural fascination with horses. Apparently, the actor who plays Harry Potter (Daniel Radcliffe) is currently doing this play.
Text found by: Akumu
"There is now, in my mouth, this sharp chain. And it never comes out."
MAILSTROM: SLANDER
Hiroshima by John Hersey.
An article that appeared in the New Yorker in August 1946, one year after the bomb was dropped on Hiroshima. It was later made into a novel detailing the lives of 6 Japanese people and how the bomb affected them.
Text found by: Akumu
"At exactly fifteen minutes past eight in the morning, on August 6, 1945, Japanese time, at the moment when the atomic bomb flashed above Hiroshima, Miss Toshiko Sasaki, a clerk in the personnel department of the East Asia Tin Works, had just sat down at her place in the girl office and was turning her head to speak to the girl at the next desk."
MAILSTROM: FLENSE
Orientalism by Edward Said.
Discusses how the Western world viewed the Orient as an "other," a threat to their collective political hegemony. Sparked the beginning of post-colonial theory.
Text found by: tuatara
"On June 13, 1910, Arthur James Balfour lectured the House of Commons on 'the problems with which we have to deal in Egypt.' 'These,' he said, 'belong to a whole different category than those affecting the Isle of Wight or West Riding of Yorkshire.'"
MAILSTROM: SPORE
"The Fate of an Honest Intellectual" by Noam Chomsky.
Noam Chomsky (no wiki-page exists for the text itself)
An essay by one of the 20th century's most outspoken philosophers.
Text found by: Akumu
"He's now living in a little apartment somewhere in New York City, and he's a part-time social worker working with teenage drop-outs. Very promising scholar—if he'd done what he was told, he would have gone on and right now he'd be a professor somewhere at some big university. Instead he's working part-time with disturbed teenaged kids for a couple thousand dollars a year. That's a lot better than a death squad, it's true—it's a whole lot better than a death squad. But those are the techniques of control that are around."
MAILSTROM: SICKLE
Heather Has Two Mommies by Leslea Newman
A children's book written in 1989 about a girl who grows up with lesbian parents. Frequently found on banned books lists.
Text found by: KingMob4313
"Heather's favourite number is two. She has two arms, two legs, two eyes, two ears, two hands, and two feet. Heather has two pets: a ginger-colored cat named Gingersnap and a big black dog named Midnight. Heather also has two mommies: Mama Kate and Mama Jane."
MAILSTROM: REGRET
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince by J.K. Rowling
The sixth in the ever-popular Harry Potter series. Consistently found on banned books list for "black magic" and "sorcery."
Text found by: silver zero
"Voldemort himself created his worst enemy, just as tyrants everywhere do! Have you any idea how much tyrants fear the people they oppress? All of them realize that, one day, amongst their many victims, there is sure to be one..."
MAILSTROM: VENOM
The Naked and the Dead by Norman Mailer.
Based on Mailer's experiences in the South Pacific during WWII.
Text found by: _brokenhalo_
"But the compassion lasted for only a few minutes. He understood it all, knew he could do nothing about it any longer, and was not even tempted. What was the use? He sighed and the acuteness of his mood slipped out with his breath. There were some things you could never fix. It was too mixed-up. A man had to get out by himself or he became like Hennessey, worrying over every gimcrack in his life."
MAILSTROM: INFARCTION
Stranger in a Strange Land by Robert A. Heinlein
A famous sci-fi novel about one human's migration from Mars, where he was raised, to the unfamiliar Earth.
Text found by: Deamos
"Christ was crucified for preaching without a police permit. Sweat over that, instead!"
MAILSTROM: WIDOW
M. Butterfly by David Henry Hwang
A successful play (that was also made into a movie) about a French man falling in love with a Chinese opera star. The play deals with cultural stereotypes of the Eastern world and was mentioned in another one of our "mined" texts, Edward Said's Orientalism.
Text found by: silver zero
"GALLIMARD. Butterfly, Butterfly...(He forces himself to turn away, as the image of Song fades out, and talks to us.)The limits of my cell are such: four-and-a-half meters by five."
MAILSTROM: CLEANSING
Beloved by Toni Morrison.
(note - site has yet to have been officially "found." background images were discovered by KingMob4313 using 1337 speak method)
Text found by: KingMob4313
A Pulitzer Prize-winning novel written in 1987 about the legacy of slavery. Was recently voted by a panel of 100 contemporary novelists as the best contemporary novel.
"The Women in the house knew it and so did the children. For years each put up with the spite in his own way, but by 1873 Sethe and her daughter Denver were it's only victims."
MAILSTROM: BELLADONNA
Angels in America by Tony Kushner
A play made into a popular TV miniseries about Prior Walter, a homosexual who sees angels that claim he is a prophet, and Joe Pitt, a closeted Mormon Republican clerk.
Text found by: TimA
“I see the universe, Joe, as a kind of sandstorm in outer space with winds of mega-hurricane velocity, but instead of grains of sand it's shards and splinters of glass ... You ever feel that way? Ever have one of those days?”
MAILSTROM: PARASITE
Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides
A Pulitzer-Prize winning coming-of-age novel about a Cal, an intersexual person suffering from a genetic mutation.
Text found by: Lulah
"But I was beginning to understand something about normality. Normality wasn’t normal. It couldn’t be. If normality were normal, everybody could leave it alone. They could sit back and let normality manifest itself. But people—and especially doctors—had doubts about normality. They weren’t sure normality was up to the job. And so they felt inclined to give it a boost."
MAILSTROM: CLEAVER
The Chocolate War by Robert Cormier
A popular book describing one boys attempts to uncover a secret society at a high school. #4 on the ALA's Banned Books list for its protagonists' musings on sexuality and use of Anti-Catholicism.
Text found by: Disposition_On_Reflection
"They murdered him.
As he turned to take the ball, a dam burst against the side of his head and a hand grenade shattered his stomach. Engulfed by nausea, he pitched toward the grass. His mouth encountered gravel, and he spat frantically, afraid that some of his teeth had been knocked out. Rising to his feet, he saw the field through drifting gauze but held on until everything settled into place, like a lens focusing, making the world sharp again, with edges."
MAILSTROM: HUBRIS
The Crucible by Arthur Miller
Miller's famous play was an allegory of 1950s McCarthyism and made into a critically acclaimed movie in 1996.
Text found by: KingMob4313
"There is a misty plot afoot so subtle we should be criminal to cling to old respects and ancient friendships."
MAILSTROM: PAIN
Fight Club by Chuck Palahniuk
Palahniuk's first novel became a cult hit about American materialism, masculinity, and nihilism after it was converted into a movie starring Brad Pitt and Edward Norton.
Text found by: tuatara
"Tyler gets me a job as a waiter, after that Tyler's pushing a gun in my mouth and saying, the first step to eternal life is you have to die. For a long time though, Tyler and I were best friends. People are always asking, did I know about Tyler Durden."
MAILSTROM: SCORPION
Leo Africanus by Amin Maalouf
A fictitious story about the mysterious figure Leo Africanus and the rift between Islam and Christianity. The text comes from the first section, "The Book of Granada."
Text found by: NINny
"In that year, the sacred month of Ramadan fell in high summer. My father rarely left the house before nightfall, as the people of Granada were short-tempered during the daytime. Quarrels were frequent, and a sombre bearing was regarded as a sign of piety; only a man who was not keeping the fast could smile under the fiery heat of the sun, and only a man who had no concern for the fate of the Muslims could remain cheerful and friendly in a town exhausted from within by civil war and threatened from without by the unbelievers."
MAILSTROM: FLOOD
Also Sprach Zarathustra by Friedrich Nietzsche
One of philosophy's most seminal works, Nietzsche gained notoriety in this text for the (in)famous "God is dead" line. That, along with its scathing criticism of the Bible, often push it onto banned books lists across America and elsewhere.
Text found by: redstar
"Verily, I have often laughed at the weaklings who thought themselves good because they had no claws."
THE PRICE OF TREASON
The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
A story about Tom Joad and other people affected by the Great Depression setting out for California, searching for new lives. Has been on banned books list since its first publication in 1939.
Text found by: lowki
"Rattlesnakes! Don't take chances with 'em, an' if they argue, shoot first. If a kid'll kill a cop, what'll the men do? Thing is, get tougher'n they are. Treat 'em rough. Scare 'em."
FREE REBEL ART
Rita Hayworth and the Shawshank Redemption by Stephen King
Stephen King's famous novella about false incarceration, institutionalization, freedom, and friendship. Made into a very famous and critically-acclaimed film starring Tim Robbins and Morgan Freeman.
Text found by: Dianne
"Brooks Hatlen knew it. Knew it all too well. All I want is to be back where things make sense. Where I won't have to be afraid all the time."
GRACE THE TEACHER, RED HORSE VECTOR
Silent Spring by Rachel Carson
Considered one of the pioneering works of the environmentalist movement, Carson explores the problems of pollution and pesticides in particular. The catalyst for the banning of the pesticide DDT in 1972.
Text found by: Nunzilla
"The town lay in the midst of a checkerboard of prosperous farms, with fields of grain and hillsides of orchards where, in spring, white clouds of bloom drifted above the green fields. In autumn, oak and maple and birch set up a blaze of color that flamed and flickered across a backdrop of pines. Then foxes barked in the hills and deer silently crossed the fields, half hidden in the mists of fall mornings..."
ONE COUNTRY AT A TIME
Pleasantville by Gary Ross
A 1998 film where two teens get trapped in a 1950s sitcom and teach the button-down vanilla town of Pleasantville the values of diversity, criticism, and nonconformity. So far the only screenplay to appear on the mined texts list.
Text found by: silver zero
"BOB: [to David/Bud and Bill] 'You are charged with descration of a public building and the intentional use of prohibited paint colors in violation of The Pleasantville Code of Conduct and "Laws of Common Decency." Do you admit that on the night of May 1 you did consciously and willfully apply the following FORBIDDEN paint colors to the North Wall of the Pleasantville Police Station: Red, Pink, Vermilion, Puce, Chartreuse, Umber, Blue, Aqua, Ox Blood, Green, Peach, Crimson, Yellow, Olive and Magenta?'"
VIABILITY INDEX
The Simple Art of Murder by Raymond Chandler
(portions of this text were also found on FREE REBEL ART)
Both an essay and a collection of stories by Chandler detailing the problems concerning the "detective fiction" genre of storytelling.
Text found by: tuatara
"But down these mean streets a man must go who is not himself mean, who is neither tarnished nor afraid."
MINING FOR LIFE
Brazil by Terry Gilliam, Tom Stoppard, and Charles McKeown.
A satirical look at 20th century governments; a very anti-totalitarian movie directed by one of Monty Python's finest. The second film to be included on the mined texts list.
Text found by: redstar
"Interviewer: What do you believe is behind this recent increase in terrorist bombings?
Helpmann: Bad sportsmanship. A ruthless minority of people seems to have forgotten certain good old-fashioned virtues. They just can't stand seeing the other fellow win. If these people would just play the game..."
EXTERMINAL
Watchmen by Alan Moore
A complex superhero story with few heroes and almost no "super-" ones, it is about the extreme measures taken by the powerful and driven in the name of the greater good. Set in an alternate 1985, it traces the thin line between social order and fascism. One of the very first popular graphic novels.
Text found by: tuatara
"Rorschach's Journal October 12th 1985:
Dog carcass in alley this morning, tire tread on burst stomach. This city is afraid of me. I have seen its true face.
The streets are extended gutters and the gutters are full of blood and when the drains finally scab over, all the vermin will drown.
The accumulated filth of all their sex and murder will foam up about their waists and all the whores and politicians will look up and shout 'Save Us!"'...
...and I'll look down, and whisper, 'No.'"
updated the 24.xx.yy numbers. If there are any that I missed let me know.
we all want more
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...Wow.
Needless to say, this is awesome.
Needless to say, this is awesome.
Is there an extra large version ?
Is this relevant?
Quoted from text in Hollywood In Memoriam (under the 28th picture)
The following can be found here.
I've also found these translations of the Holy Qura'n
Quote:
"God! there is no God but he, the living, the self-subsisting."
"God! there is no God but he, the living, the self-subsisting."
Quoted from text in Hollywood In Memoriam (under the 28th picture)
The following can be found here.
Quote:
THERE IS NO GOD BUT THEE
Ahmed C. Brann (1907)
"God! - there is no God but He; the Living, the Self-subsisting." - The Throne.
1.
There is no God but Thee;
No partner shares Thy throne;
Through all, unending times and space,
Thy Glory reigns alone.
Source of all life that dwells
In air, or land, or sea:
There is no dead or quickened thing
But cometh, Lord, from Thee.
2.
There is no God but Thee;
Great Ruler of the Spheres,
Thy Power created all, and still,
Sustains them through the years:
Thy Law shall rule for aye,
Thy Justice still decree,
Thy Bounty cherish all and bring
All bound in love to Thee.
3.
O Great, Eternal King,
O Lord of Might and Grace!
Grant that Thy servants yet may find,
With Thee, abiding place.
And hasten, Lord, the time
When mortal things shall flee,
And never-ending choirs shall sing:
"There is no God but Thee!"
THERE IS NO GOD BUT THEE
Ahmed C. Brann (1907)
"God! - there is no God but He; the Living, the Self-subsisting." - The Throne.
1.
There is no God but Thee;
No partner shares Thy throne;
Through all, unending times and space,
Thy Glory reigns alone.
Source of all life that dwells
In air, or land, or sea:
There is no dead or quickened thing
But cometh, Lord, from Thee.
2.
There is no God but Thee;
Great Ruler of the Spheres,
Thy Power created all, and still,
Sustains them through the years:
Thy Law shall rule for aye,
Thy Justice still decree,
Thy Bounty cherish all and bring
All bound in love to Thee.
3.
O Great, Eternal King,
O Lord of Might and Grace!
Grant that Thy servants yet may find,
With Thee, abiding place.
And hasten, Lord, the time
When mortal things shall flee,
And never-ending choirs shall sing:
"There is no God but Thee!"
I've also found these translations of the Holy Qura'n
Quote:
2:255 Allah! there is no Allah but He the living the Self-subsisting Eternal. No slumber can seize him nor sleep. His are all things in the heavens and on earth. Who is there can intercede in His presence except as He permitteth? He knoweth what (appeareth to his creatures as) before or after or behind them. Nor shall they compass aught of his knowledge except as He willeth. His throne doth extend over the heavens and the earth and He feeleth no fatigue in guarding and preserving them. For He is the Most High the Supreme (in glory).
2:255 Allah! there is no Allah but He the living the Self-subsisting Eternal. No slumber can seize him nor sleep. His are all things in the heavens and on earth. Who is there can intercede in His presence except as He permitteth? He knoweth what (appeareth to his creatures as) before or after or behind them. Nor shall they compass aught of his knowledge except as He willeth. His throne doth extend over the heavens and the earth and He feeleth no fatigue in guarding and preserving them. For He is the Most High the Supreme (in glory).
Quote:
3:2 Allah! there is no god but He the Living the Self-Subsisting Eternal.
3:2 Allah! there is no god but He the Living the Self-Subsisting Eternal.
Quote:
3:1-2 Allah has said, "Alif, Lam, Mim. Allah, (there is) no god but He, the ever-Living, the self-Subsisting, the One through Whom all things subsist"
3:1-2 Allah has said, "Alif, Lam, Mim. Allah, (there is) no god but He, the ever-Living, the self-Subsisting, the One through Whom all things subsist"
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bwary wrote:
<a href="http://www.masud.co.uk/ISLAM/bmh/BMH-Minor-poem3.htm">here</a>
Better change that to:
Code:
[url=http://www.masud.co.uk/ISLAM/bmh/BMH-Minor-poem3.htm]here[/url]
Here you'll find more information on BBCode.
ah, thanks! and I also overlooked the BBCode right below this post window I'm typing in - which has a few more tags
Thanks for that bwary!
I added the Holy Qura'n part into the bible passages section. I figured it probably fits more since the person that said it was muslim.
I added the Holy Qura'n part into the bible passages section. I figured it probably fits more since the person that said it was muslim.
I noticed I had a numbering issue with the button list, I had 2 24's and 2 33's so I renumbered a few buttons. Here's the list in the order you use just be make sure we're both on the same page :
gasoline -- Robot Head (from billboard) -- Button 1 -- Minneapolis
uuu891 -- Moltov Cocktail, Held by robot (from billboard) -- Button 2 -- Minneapolis
sickle -- AIR Flag (White on green) -- Button 3 -- Minneapolis
Nnqa49 -- Angel in background from Billboard -- Button 39 -- Cleveland
bitter -- "You will be heard" (black on white)-- Button 6 -- New York
BGtg57 -- AIR flag (White on red) -- Button 20 -- Dallas
tumbrel -- AIR Flag (from mural) -- Button 8 -- San Diego
AD44Us -- AIR Flag (from mural) -- Button 9 -- San Diego
vC99iT -- AIR Flag (White on Black) -- Button 10 -- San Diego
widow -- AIR Flag (Black on White) -- Button 34 -- Clevleand
infarction -- AIR Flag (Red on white) -- Button 11 -- Los Angeles
6k961G -- "You Will be Heard (White on Gray) -- Button 38 -- Cleveland
wretched -- Scythe of angel from Billboard -- Button 12 -- Chicago
Ypq2QQ -- Angel from Billboard -- Button 13 -- Chicago
wetwork -- AIR flag graphics (Grey on white) -- Button 14 -- Dallas
c276E4 -- AIR flags on (Black on red) -- Button 15 -- Dallas
fratricide -- AIR flags (Red on black) -- Button 16 -- Dallas
774HZx -- AIR flag graphics (White on grey) -- Button 17 -- Dallas
pliers -- AIR flag (White on blue) -- Button 19 -- Dallas
Ji3p09 -- AIR Flag (Blue on white) -- Button 25 -- Denver
slander -- "Art is Resistance" (Black on red) -- Button 21 -- Denver
Yr4893 -- "Art is Resistance" (Red on Black) -- Button 29 -- Phoenix
atropine -- Cop from billboard -- Button 22 -- Denver
gH319x -- Chip held by crying angel from billboard -- Button 23 -- Denver
needle -- AIR Flag (Black on White) -- Button 24 -- Denver
jp411r -- Spotted AIR Flag (White on Black) -- Button 36 -- Cleveland
venom -- Background from artisresistance.com -- Button 26 -- Denver
D3i8Na -- Background from artisresistance.com -- Button 27 -- Denver
MKs742 -- Air Flag on back of dude on billboard -- Button 28 -- Denver
corrida -- Bottle held by dude on billboard -- Button 30 -- Detroit
flense -- "Art is Resisance" White on Black -- Button 31 -- Phoenix
E5PPvv -- "Art is Resistance" White on Red -- Button 32 -- Phoenix
I682fg or L682fg or 1682fg -- "Speak Truth" (red on black) -- Button 4 -- Minneapolis
spore -- "You have a voice" (white on green) -- Button 5 -- New York
blE34c or b1E34c or biE34c -- Cop Baton (from billboard) -- Button 7 -- New York
tP366K -- "Speakergun" from artisresistance.com background -- Button 18 -- Dallas
regret -- AIR Flags (Orange on Black) -- Button 33 -- Phoenix
cleansing -- "Art is Witness" (White on Red) -- Button 35 --Cleveland
3Mz3tU -- "Trent" from Billboard (guy in headlock) -- Button 37 -- Cleveland
gasoline -- Robot Head (from billboard) -- Button 1 -- Minneapolis
uuu891 -- Moltov Cocktail, Held by robot (from billboard) -- Button 2 -- Minneapolis
sickle -- AIR Flag (White on green) -- Button 3 -- Minneapolis
Nnqa49 -- Angel in background from Billboard -- Button 39 -- Cleveland
bitter -- "You will be heard" (black on white)-- Button 6 -- New York
BGtg57 -- AIR flag (White on red) -- Button 20 -- Dallas
tumbrel -- AIR Flag (from mural) -- Button 8 -- San Diego
AD44Us -- AIR Flag (from mural) -- Button 9 -- San Diego
vC99iT -- AIR Flag (White on Black) -- Button 10 -- San Diego
widow -- AIR Flag (Black on White) -- Button 34 -- Clevleand
infarction -- AIR Flag (Red on white) -- Button 11 -- Los Angeles
6k961G -- "You Will be Heard (White on Gray) -- Button 38 -- Cleveland
wretched -- Scythe of angel from Billboard -- Button 12 -- Chicago
Ypq2QQ -- Angel from Billboard -- Button 13 -- Chicago
wetwork -- AIR flag graphics (Grey on white) -- Button 14 -- Dallas
c276E4 -- AIR flags on (Black on red) -- Button 15 -- Dallas
fratricide -- AIR flags (Red on black) -- Button 16 -- Dallas
774HZx -- AIR flag graphics (White on grey) -- Button 17 -- Dallas
pliers -- AIR flag (White on blue) -- Button 19 -- Dallas
Ji3p09 -- AIR Flag (Blue on white) -- Button 25 -- Denver
slander -- "Art is Resistance" (Black on red) -- Button 21 -- Denver
Yr4893 -- "Art is Resistance" (Red on Black) -- Button 29 -- Phoenix
atropine -- Cop from billboard -- Button 22 -- Denver
gH319x -- Chip held by crying angel from billboard -- Button 23 -- Denver
needle -- AIR Flag (Black on White) -- Button 24 -- Denver
jp411r -- Spotted AIR Flag (White on Black) -- Button 36 -- Cleveland
venom -- Background from artisresistance.com -- Button 26 -- Denver
D3i8Na -- Background from artisresistance.com -- Button 27 -- Denver
MKs742 -- Air Flag on back of dude on billboard -- Button 28 -- Denver
corrida -- Bottle held by dude on billboard -- Button 30 -- Detroit
flense -- "Art is Resisance" White on Black -- Button 31 -- Phoenix
E5PPvv -- "Art is Resistance" White on Red -- Button 32 -- Phoenix
I682fg or L682fg or 1682fg -- "Speak Truth" (red on black) -- Button 4 -- Minneapolis
spore -- "You have a voice" (white on green) -- Button 5 -- New York
blE34c or b1E34c or biE34c -- Cop Baton (from billboard) -- Button 7 -- New York
tP366K -- "Speakergun" from artisresistance.com background -- Button 18 -- Dallas
regret -- AIR Flags (Orange on Black) -- Button 33 -- Phoenix
cleansing -- "Art is Witness" (White on Red) -- Button 35 --Cleveland
3Mz3tU -- "Trent" from Billboard (guy in headlock) -- Button 37 -- Cleveland
As much as I love this thread, could someone please tell the author that the name of the book is Revelation (no "s" at the end).
better?
Im sure I have many other typos and spelling errors...
Silver Zero where is your master list hiding again? I'm going to put a link to it to make it easier to find. Also have you updated with the new cedocore site?
Edit: Does anyone have good links to the leaked songs. Now that symphonyofnoise is gone we need new links. When I tried some of the links from the respected sites half of them didnt work. If not I'll hunt some down later.
Im sure I have many other typos and spelling errors...
Silver Zero where is your master list hiding again? I'm going to put a link to it to make it easier to find. Also have you updated with the new cedocore site?
Edit: Does anyone have good links to the leaked songs. Now that symphonyofnoise is gone we need new links. When I tried some of the links from the respected sites half of them didnt work. If not I'll hunt some down later.
maabus wrote:
better?
Yes. Sorry for being a pedantic asshole. It comes so easy for me that I don't even recognize it until wel after the fact.
silver zero
24.24.2.2579 [soft target my ass]
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24.24.2.2579 [soft target my ass]
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maabus wrote:
better?
Im sure I have many other typos and spelling errors...
Silver Zero where is your master list hiding again? I'm going to put a link to it to make it easier to find. Also have you updated with the new cedocore site?
Edit: Does anyone have good links to the leaked songs. Now that symphonyofnoise is gone we need new links. When I tried some of the links from the respected sites half of them didnt work. If not I'll hunt some down later.
Im sure I have many other typos and spelling errors...
Silver Zero where is your master list hiding again? I'm going to put a link to it to make it easier to find. Also have you updated with the new cedocore site?
Edit: Does anyone have good links to the leaked songs. Now that symphonyofnoise is gone we need new links. When I tried some of the links from the respected sites half of them didnt work. If not I'll hunt some down later.
Sorry, I've been out of commission the last few days. My girlfriend's in town
Anyway, I updated the master list (which you can find a post or two below your massive one) with the new Cedocore text.
I'll try and stay on top of the ARG but I probably won't be as diligent as usual until Tues. or so.
Valdark
All that's certain is Death and Texas
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All that's certain is Death and Texas
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Posts: 531.441
Location: texas
MAILSTROM: NEEDLE
1984 by George Orwell.
repeat of Gallows
Text found by: valdark http://www.echoingthesound.org/phpbbx/viewtopic.php?t=21369&postdays=0&postorder=asc&start=1100
"It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen. Winston Smith, his chin nuzzled into his breast in an effort to escape the vile wind, slipped quickly through the glass doors of Victory Mansions, though not quickly enough to prevent a swirl of gritty dust from entering along with him."
credit goes to Lulu on this one found on nineinchtool
also http://www.themailstrom.com/spore_pQw2pP.htm
The Fate of an Honest Intellectual, a chapter from Understanding Power, by Noam Chomsky, where he talks about a technique used by ideological control systems to control dissident viewpoints in present-day culture: simple ignoring them and making it very hard for dissidents to hold a position of importance. The fate of the dissident, talked about in the hidden quote:
"He's now living in a little apartment somewhere in New York City, and he's a part-time social worker working with teenage drop-outs. Very promising scholar—if he'd done what he was told, he would have gone on and right now he'd be a professor somewhere at some big university. Instead he's working part-time with disturbed teenaged kids for a couple thousand dollars a year. That's a lot better than a death squad, it's true—it's a whole lot better than a death squad. But those are the techniques of control that are around."
1984 by George Orwell.
repeat of Gallows
Text found by: valdark http://www.echoingthesound.org/phpbbx/viewtopic.php?t=21369&postdays=0&postorder=asc&start=1100
"It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen. Winston Smith, his chin nuzzled into his breast in an effort to escape the vile wind, slipped quickly through the glass doors of Victory Mansions, though not quickly enough to prevent a swirl of gritty dust from entering along with him."
credit goes to Lulu on this one found on nineinchtool
also http://www.themailstrom.com/spore_pQw2pP.htm
The Fate of an Honest Intellectual, a chapter from Understanding Power, by Noam Chomsky, where he talks about a technique used by ideological control systems to control dissident viewpoints in present-day culture: simple ignoring them and making it very hard for dissidents to hold a position of importance. The fate of the dissident, talked about in the hidden quote:
"He's now living in a little apartment somewhere in New York City, and he's a part-time social worker working with teenage drop-outs. Very promising scholar—if he'd done what he was told, he would have gone on and right now he'd be a professor somewhere at some big university. Instead he's working part-time with disturbed teenaged kids for a couple thousand dollars a year. That's a lot better than a death squad, it's true—it's a whole lot better than a death squad. But those are the techniques of control that are around."
silver zero
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24.24.2.2579 [soft target my ass]
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Joined: 26 Feb 2007
Posts: 316.597
Location: PA
Valdark wrote:
MAILSTROM: NEEDLE
1984 by George Orwell.
repeat of Gallows
Text found by: valdark http://www.echoingthesound.org/phpbbx/viewtopic.php?t=21369&postdays=0&postorder=asc&start=1100
"It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen. Winston Smith, his chin nuzzled into his breast in an effort to escape the vile wind, slipped quickly through the glass doors of Victory Mansions, though not quickly enough to prevent a swirl of gritty dust from entering along with him."
credit goes to Lulu on this one found on nineinchtool
also http://www.themailstrom.com/spore_pQw2pP.htm
The Fate of an Honest Intellectual, a chapter from Understanding Power, by Noam Chomsky, where he talks about a technique used by ideological control systems to control dissident viewpoints in present-day culture: simple ignoring them and making it very hard for dissidents to hold a position of importance. The fate of the dissident, talked about in the hidden quote:
"He's now living in a little apartment somewhere in New York City, and he's a part-time social worker working with teenage drop-outs. Very promising scholar—if he'd done what he was told, he would have gone on and right now he'd be a professor somewhere at some big university. Instead he's working part-time with disturbed teenaged kids for a couple thousand dollars a year. That's a lot better than a death squad, it's true—it's a whole lot better than a death squad. But those are the techniques of control that are around."
1984 by George Orwell.
repeat of Gallows
Text found by: valdark http://www.echoingthesound.org/phpbbx/viewtopic.php?t=21369&postdays=0&postorder=asc&start=1100
"It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen. Winston Smith, his chin nuzzled into his breast in an effort to escape the vile wind, slipped quickly through the glass doors of Victory Mansions, though not quickly enough to prevent a swirl of gritty dust from entering along with him."
credit goes to Lulu on this one found on nineinchtool
also http://www.themailstrom.com/spore_pQw2pP.htm
The Fate of an Honest Intellectual, a chapter from Understanding Power, by Noam Chomsky, where he talks about a technique used by ideological control systems to control dissident viewpoints in present-day culture: simple ignoring them and making it very hard for dissidents to hold a position of importance. The fate of the dissident, talked about in the hidden quote:
"He's now living in a little apartment somewhere in New York City, and he's a part-time social worker working with teenage drop-outs. Very promising scholar—if he'd done what he was told, he would have gone on and right now he'd be a professor somewhere at some big university. Instead he's working part-time with disturbed teenaged kids for a couple thousand dollars a year. That's a lot better than a death squad, it's true—it's a whole lot better than a death squad. But those are the techniques of control that are around."
We already had the Spore and Needle ones, but good work anyway!
bennymania
Art Is The Zoo?
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Art Is The Zoo?
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Posts: 157.814
Location: LeftOfText
silver zero wrote:
We already had the Spore and Needle ones, but good work anyway!
We already had the Spore and Needle ones, but good work anyway!
I hadn't noticed that the background (and the background text) had been found before the actual spore email page was discovered this morning.
No real explanation (it's on the Mailstrom page of the ninwiki) as to how/where the shard pQw2pP came from.