WELCOME TO THE NEGATIVLAND FORKLIFTERS CLUB
Good Hello Forklifters. In this announcement you will find–
 1. A 15 LETTER WORD
2. IS NEGATIVMAILORDERLAND STILL ALL FUCKED UP?
3. THESE GUYS ARE FROM ENGLAND AND WHO GIVES A SHIT
4. PIXEL PLUNDER
5. MY DINNER WITH GEORGE
1. A 15 LETTER WORD
Did you know that there is only one 15 letter word that can be spelled without repeating a letter? That word is "uncopyrightable".
2. IS NEGATIVMAILORDERLAND STILL ALL FUCKED UP?
No, it is not. Our address of the last 20 years in Concord, California was officially shut down (not our choice- the mail service company we used went out of business!) and relocating and sorting out the messy aftermath of that and getting things running smoothly again took some time. A thousand apologies to you if your order was delayed! All credit and debit card orders are now being processed in one to six days, and all snail mail orders are being processed in one to two weeks.
3. THESE GUYS ARE FROM ENGLAND AND WHO GIVES A SHIT
New 73 minute bootleg NEGATIVLAND CD release available from Negativmailorderland!
Wow. Exactly ten years after it was sued out of existence, Negativmailorderland has discovered what can only be described as the ultimate "reissue" of the music that made Negativland so (in)famous: the two track 1991 EP originally released by SST Records featuring cover versions of a Very Famous Irish Rock Band's hit song. If you've gotten this far you undoubtedly know what we're talking about so we won't bore you with the details...
Several "bootleg" versions of our banned EP have appeared over the past decade, including some forgeries that were so well-designed that it's hard to tell them apart from the original (see our on-line discography for details), but none of them have come even close to encapsulating the bloody history of that old release as does this brand-new CD on the suspicious sounding "SEELARD RECORDS" label. We don't even know where this off-shore "label" is actually located, but we were so impressed with their efforts that we've decided to distribute a bunch of copies of it ourselves.
THESE GUYS ARE FROM ENGLAND AND WHO GIVES A SHIT is a seventy-three minute long collection of just about every darn audio hiccup and gasp made by Negativland which relates to this notorious and banned recording. From early improvisational run-throughs of the material on our weekly radio show, OVER THE EDGE, to drastically altered live versions both pre-lawsuit and post, and to the actual single itself. We are amazed at the extremely high-fidelity and professional presentation of this material, which even includes the only top-notch recordings available from our "Music For Lawyers" tour of 1993 (several lawsuit-related compositions which never saw the light of day on any other "legitimate" Negativland album are also included here).
Complete track listing:
TRACK 1: Excerpt from 'Over The Edge' radio program (1989) - 7:59
TRACK 2: Long Distance Dedication (live NYC, 1990) - 6:19
TRACK 3: 1991 A Cappella Mix (studio, 1991) - 7:15
TRACK 4: Special Edit Radio Mix (studio, 1991) - 5:47
TRACK 5: Long Distance Dedication (live SF, 1993) - 7:03
TRACK 6: Copying is a Criminal Act (live SF, 1993) - 5:07
TRACK 7: Wake Up America (live SF, 1993) - 4:03
TRACK 8: The Black Lady Of Espionage (live SF, 1993) - 5:00
TRACK 9: Deliberate Sabotage (live SF, 1993) 2:59
TRACK 10: Live A Cappella Version (live SF, 1993) - 7:16
TRACK 11: Edited Special Edit Radio Mix (Which You Can Actually
Play on the Radio) (studio, 2001) - 5:42
We are convinced that this definitive collection of our most criminal music
will EXHAUST your interest in this subject FOREVER and provide the
Negativ-fan with legally impossible entertainment at the same time.
Please note our new mailing address. The old address in Concord is gone for
good.
Price - USA / Canada - $13.50. Europe/Mexico - $16.50. Elsewhere - $18.00.
For credit and debit card purchases on-line, please go here.
For snail mail orders, send check payable to NEGATIVLAND or well concealed cash to-
Negativmailorderland
P.O. Box 1154
El Cerrito, CA 94530-1154 USA
Price includes postage.
4. PIXEL PLUNDER
http://www.year01.com
Year Zero One presents...
PIXEL PLUNDER©, an exhibition of seven on-line projects created by net art stars who hack, steal, borrow, appropriate and plunder found pixels on the world wide web. PIXEL PLUNDER© was curated by Michael Alstad and Michelle Kasprzak
The on-line projects in PIXEL PLUNDER are -
0100101110101101.ORG - Life Sharing
Negativland - Pastor Dick's Mailbox
MTAA Collective - Ten Digital Readymades
Joanna Briggs - Haikoo
Trip Dixon - Cling Wrap & Gag
Harwood - Uncomfortable Proximity
Author Unknown - I LOVE MOUCHETTE!
and an essay by Matthew Fuller
Opening Launch: Sensatiable Cinephonic Aural Investigation by
John Oswald (PLUNDERPHONICS):
Workplace � 35 Liberty St. #103 � Toronto � 416.532.7139
Friday September 21 @ 8PM ( oops, sorry , this already happened)
PIXEL PLUNDER © is an exhibition of net.art which explores the artistic
idea of authenticity, intellectual property and copyright on the web through satire, humour, parody, subversion, clever illusion and skilful juxtapositions. The seven projects in Pixel Plunder© range from a sanctioned hack of the Tate Moderns website by Harwood from the Mongrel Collective; 0100101110101101.ORG "Life Sharing", which allows the viewer complete entry into the artists computer and system folder; Duchampian Digital Readymades harvested through net search engines by MTAA Collective; Joanna Briggs Haikoo which parallels and challenges the structure of web-based information by borrowing and mimicking the popular search engine Yahoo; Negativland's "Pastor Dicks Mailbox", a long time associate of theirs who has been spreading the gospel of Jesus Christ since 1981; Trip Dixons "Cling Wrap & Gag" - an organic remodeling of the interface meshed with a playable re-creation device to "I Love Mouchette"...an obsessive lovesite found on the web which features 'borrowed' files from mouchette.org mixed with furtive snapshots of the famous reclusive 13 year old net art star Mouchette discovered on the streets of Toronto.
Pixel Plunder© is presented through the support of the Canada Council for the Arts, InterAccess Electronic Media Art Center, Instant Coffee and the Ontario Arts Council.
YEAR ZERO ONE is an on-line artist run center which operates as a network for the dissemination of digital culture and new
media through web based exhibitions, an extensive media arts directory, and the YEAR01 Forum - an electronic art journal.
HYPERLINK "http://www.year01.com" http://www.year01.com
5. MY DINNER WITH GEORGE
Mark from Negativland had a very strange dream last night -
“I was at the White House as a guest. I was in some part of the White House that looked just like the inside of a regular middle class condominium, and I was starving. The walls were white and it was kind of cramped and small.
There were no windows, but a skylight above our heads letting in light.
There was too much furniture in the room I was in. Some of it was blocking the entrance to another room, a veritable WALL of furniture. There were stuffed children's toys stashed in the corners that seemed like they might have belonged to the previous guests.
I sat down in the kitchen of this White House condo to a late lunch/early
dinner at a small square card table with the President, George W. Bush Jr., and some other people I did not know who were also his guests. They were just regular people, nobody special.
The President brought out stale croissants and tomatoes for us all to eat. He seemed SO pleased to be serving us and eating this simple food. He handed me a short little menu in case I wanted to get a more elaborate dinner. There were 3 kinds of complete meals to choose from on this menu- one was $19.95, one was $27.95 and the most expensive one was $65. This was a White House menu that charged you for your meals, which kind of surprised me.
I thought about buying one of the dinners from the menu, because I knew that stale croissants and tomatoes were not going to be enough to fill me up. But I also knew that I could not afford even the cheapest White House meal because I was totally broke.
So I was more interested in the free food that George was preparing for me at the small table we sat at. He sliced all of the tomatoes and the
croissants for me himself. He wouldn't let me help. I kept wanting to help him slice the tomatoes and slice the croissants and I kept wanting to say all kinds of things to him about what he was doing that was all terrible and wrong in how he was handling the aftermath of the attack on the World Trade Center.....but I couldn't. Because I knew he would not understand me. He thought he was my friend and he seemed like a very well intentioned man with a very, very low I.Q. He was surprisingly kind and I could tell that he was basically a simpleton running our country and did not deserve my hate or anger, but rather my kindness and good will and forgiveness. Even though I knew he was doing terrible, terrible things, I felt all this peaceful compassion for him. He was simply doing the best his little mind do - he was serving us stale croissants and tomatoes.”
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