Q: what do you get when you get hard drinkers like Ra Ra Rasputin, hard lovers like Laughing Man and hard knocks like Tennis System together on one bill?
A: a night that will probably lead you to spend some hard time for disorderly conduct and assaulting an officer.
We have two tickets to give away to this all-star local lineup. All you have to do is tell me your favorite historical psycho.
I'll go first:
Previously in Misc/Awesome:
- 12/28: Terrible Boyfriend/ Girlfriend Generator.
- 12/1: The John Waters Advent Calendar-it starts today
- 11/28: It Chooses You: All I Want for Christmas is Everything from Miranda July's Pop-Up Shop
- 11/3: Things I'd Move to Minnesota For
- 9/6: PHOTOS: Maloof $$ Money Cup
- 9/2: PHOTOS: Chantilly Model Train Show
- 9/1: Libby's List: 5 Things I Want Right Now...
- 8/22: PHOTOS: Best Friends Day
- 8/10: PHOTOS: Lawn Mover Racing, Eastern Seaboard Regionals @ Bowles Farm
- 7/26: Special List: Things the BYGays Want Now That We Can Marry In DC (and NY!)
God loves a cheerful giver.
Philip K. Dick
Throughout February and March 1974, he experienced a series of visions, which he referred to as "two-three-seventy four" (2-3-74), shorthand for February-March 1974. He described the initial visions as laser beams and geometric patterns, and, occasionally, brief pictures of Jesus and of ancient Rome. As the visions increased in length and frequency, Dick claimed he began to live a double life, one as himself, "Philip K. Dick", and one as "Thomas", a Christian persecuted by Romans in the 1st century A.D. Despite his history of drug use and elevated stroke risk, Dick began seeking other rationalist and religious explanations for these experiences. He referred to the "transcendentally rational mind" as "Zebra", "God" and, most often, "VALIS". Dick wrote about the experiences in the semi-autobiographical novels VALIS and Radio Free Albemuth.
David Icke
Icke was a well-known BBC television sports presenter and spokesman for the British Green Party, when at the age of 38, he had an encounter with a psychic who told him he was a healer and had been placed on Earth for a purpose. In April 1991, he announced on the BBC's Terry Wogan show that he was the son of God—though he argued later he had been misunderstood—and predicted that the world would soon be devastated by tidal waves and earthquakes. The show changed his life, turning him practically overnight from a respected household name into an object of public ridicule.
He nevertheless continued to develop his ideas, and in four books published over seven years—The Robots' Rebellion (1994), And the Truth Shall Set You Free (1995), The Biggest Secret (1999), and Children of the Matrix (2001)—set out a moral and political worldview that combines New-Age spiritualism with a passionate denunciation of what he sees as totalitarian trends in the modern world. At its heart lies the idea that a secret group of reptilian humanoids called the Babylonian Brotherhood created and controls humanity, and that many prominent figures are reptilian, including George W. Bush, Queen Elizabeth II, Kris Kristofferson, and Boxcar Willie.
Psycho Fisher
Aleister Crowley was an English occultist, writer, mountaineer, poet, yogi, and possible spy. He was an influential member of occult organizations, including the Golden Dawn, the A∴A∴, and Ordo Templi Orientis (O.T.O.), and is known today for his magical writings, especially The Book of the Law, the central sacred text of Thelema. He gained notoriety during his lifetime, and was denounced in the popular press of the day as "The wickedest man in the world."
Crowley was also a chess player in his youth, a painter, astrologer, hedonist, bisexual, drug experimenter, and social critic.
Courtney Michelle Love (born Courtney Michelle Harrison on July 9, 1964) is an American rock musician and actress. Love is known as lead singer and lyricist for the alternative rock band Hole and for her marriage to the late Nirvana singer/guitarist Kurt Cobain. Rolling Stone called Love “the most controversial woman in the history of rock”,
where is this show?
RNR Hotel-Saturday
She destroyed the Beatles, you know.
Hey Sid: I highly dispute your assertion that Aleister Crowley was a psychopath!
This is a fucking brilliant quote:
"I have never grown out of the infantile belief that the universe was made for me to suck."
As is this:
"The eternal mistake of mankind is to set up an attainable ideal."
Ra Ra Ronald Reagan
Nikola Tesla
He is the basis for our conception of the "mad scientist," particularly the lightning in every lab. After inventing AC, radio and a thousand other revolutionary things, Tesla went crazy with ambition. He experimented with wireless energy transmission, tried to talk with aliens and spent nearly 40 years building a giant death ray.
Bonus points for being portrayed by David Bowie in The Prestige.
Lady Elizabeth Bathory
Romanian countess who murdered virgin girls so she could bathe in their blood to maintain her own youth. She was convicted of killing 80 and is suspected of killing 520 more.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elizabeth_B%C3%A1thory
My fault, actually of the Kingdom of Hungary, modern Slovakia. Sorry Romania?
Caligula of Ancient Rome
He was obsessed with his horse; his horse had its own temple with servants, was dressed in fine silks and wore necklaces decorated in fine jewels, and was appointed a Senator.
Caligula was also a sex addict, and had had sexual relations with his three sisters, there husbands, once attended a wedding and ran off with the bride, was married and divorced many times, and would murder those who would not sleep with him because he believed he was greater than the god Jupiter.
Basically he was a crazy person who was obssessed with his horse, liked to have a lot of sex (bisexual), and thought he was a god.
Michael Jackson
Frankly, it would be easier to list the crazy things he hasn't done
Case History: Remember those innocent years when Jackson was merely so mental that he lived in an amusement park with llamas, chimps and the Elephant Man's skeleton? The craziest thing is that the most ridiculous rumors turned out to be true — he didn't see anything wrong with pan-generational slumber parties; he didn't have a nose left, let alone money. What spectacular madness turns $750 million in assets to $180 million in debt, apart from, uh, trying to open an amusement park in Poland? For his lifetime of lunacy, Wacko Jacko is the undisputed skin-whitening, baby-dangling, statue-building, crotch-grabbing, kiddie-cuddling King of Pop.
Craziest Moment: He claims he fathered Aryan babies, and then named them Prince I and Prince II. He's outdone himself again!
He's So Crazy: Children and men sleeping together? "What the world needs right now is more love."
(Too soon?)
Shit, too many good ideas here. I guess I'll just have to pay to get in. I was going to propose Pat Boone - god fearing, chevrolet spokesman who tried to steal Little Richard's soul.
I hope he rots in hell.