Underworld Amusements
By Kevin I. Slaughter
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Podcast Description
The Underworld Amusements Variety Hour is a podcast covering an eclectic mix of subjects, guided by the interests of its host Kevin I. Slaughter. There are few "Standard episodes" so far, but there have already been multiple special episodes, short format extras and pdf files of free materials. Underworld Amusements is a small media company focusing on publishing books of forgotten and marginalized works, our podcast and other products and even events. Episodes will be released according to the whim of the host.
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ExplicitUAVHEP011 :: JUCHE! 3/3 – Reunification Rainbow | Underworld Amusements Variety Hour, Episode 11 :: JUCHE! - Reunification Rainbow (http://www.underworldamusements.net/wp-content/uploads/Arch_of_Reunification-1024x676.jpg) ÃÂ Straight from the DPRK, the final installment of our musical tribute to the paradise of North Korea! It ends in a tribute to the land itself and the prospect of REUNIFICATION! Track list after the fold:ÃÂ ÃÂ (http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2595/4156691009_f748d1dcba_o.jpg) (http://www.underworldamusements.net/wp-content/uploads/article-2075959-0F38ABE700000578-603_634x407.jpg) * Glad to See You * Spring of Home Village * Song of Bean Paste * Song of Kimchikkaktugi * Song of the Half Moon * Our Nation Is Best * Reunification Rainbow * Song of Mt. Pukak * Reunification Tondollari * Ojak Bridge of Reunification * We Are One * See You Again * Reunification of the Country by Our Nation Itself * Both Paektu and Halla Belong to My Motherland | 12/20/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitUAVHEP010 :: JUCHE! 2/3 – Let’s Embroider the Traces of a Beautiful Life | Underworld Amusements Variety Hour, Episode 10 :: JUCHE! - Let's Embroider the Traces of a Beautiful Life (http://www.underworldamusements.net/wp-content/uploads/korean-kids_1203980i.jpg) Straight from the DPRK, uplifting songs in praise of youth and the future! In this time of universal mourning, it is good to hear the message "Be confident of the future!" Let's become satellites of the sun, indeed! REUNIFICATION! Track list after the fold:  (http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2595/4156691009_f748d1dcba_o.jpg) (http://www.underworldamusements.net/wp-content/uploads/article-2075959-0F38ABE700000578-603_634x407.jpg) * Young People, Be Loyal To Our Party * Campfire * Young People, Answer * Are We Living Like in Those Days? * Ours is a Song of Victory * Youth * The Country Will Be Aware of You * Let's Become Satellites of the Sun * A Girl in the Saddle of a Steed * Both the Country and the Youth Will Shine * Do Not Ask My Name * Let's Love Our Country * Higher and Faster * Be Confident of the Future * We'll Devote Our Youth to the Country * Let's Embroider the Traces of a Beautiful Life | 12/19/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitUAVHEP009 :: JUCHE! 1/3 – Music of North Korea – Song of Women | Underworld Amusements Variety Hour, Episode 9 :: JUCHE! - Music of North Korea - Song of Women (http://www.underworldamusements.net/wp-content/uploads/download.jpg) Straight from the DPRK, the women of Korea lift their voices to Dear Leader in praise of motherhood, womanhood, soldiers and heroes. REUNIFICATION! Tracklist after the fold: (http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2595/4156691009_f748d1dcba_o.jpg) (http://www.underworldamusements.net/wp-content/uploads/article-2075959-0F38ABE700000578-603_634x407.jpg) * Oh, Dear Mother's Photograph * Song of Women * In Maidenhood * Women Are Flowers * Love Your Wives * Whistles * Perhaps He Does Not Know * Cuckoo * I Cannot Tell It Yet * Girl's Song * I Am the Wife of Soldier * I Never Dreamed of Becoming a Hero's Wife * I Think of My Mother * Soldiers Call Me Mother * Song of Wife * My Mother | 12/18/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Explicit9 Sense interviews Kevin I. Slaughter about Underworld Amusements | Adam P. Campell of the 9 Sense podcast interviewed me earlier this year (May 29th, 2011) for his podcast that focuses in Satanism and the people and ideas involved with the philosophy. (http://radiofreesatan.com/9senseBanner_540x125.png) After the interview I recall spending more than an hour rambling about 100 different things without much coherence. He ran a heavily edited version (I told him I didn't envy the cutting job I'd caused him to engage in) on his podcast (I think it was supposed to be a 10-15 minute segment) and claims it is not only the most downloaded episode but also his favorite interview. Others have assured me it's entertaining and worth the time. I am too harsh a critic on myself, and it would certainly go against my best interest to debunk this sort of praise. I am grateful for it, and appreciate everyone who supports the work that I do. He has now released a full interview recording, and you can listen to it using the player that should be embedded on this page, through your subscription to our podcast feed (http://www.underworldamusements.net/feed/podcast/), or find the mp3 on Adam's site (http://adampcampbell.com/9sense/mp3/interviews/UnderworldAmusements_Interview.mp3).  | 11/7/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitUAVHEP008 :: Songs on the Death of Children | Underworld Amusements Variety Hour, Episode 8 :: Songs on the Death of Children (http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2595/4156691009_f748d1dcba_o.jpg) This episode is a surprise as much to me as it may be for you, as it hadn't occurred to me to do it until I started listening to Gustav Mahler this morning and I remembered his Kindertotenlieder, or, "Songs on the Death of Children". I thought I could easily put this episode together to share these amazing and rather macabre pieces with you, and so I did. Other episodes are in the works, but all in due time.... We are now accepting donations for the podcast: (https://www.paypalobjects.com/en_US/i/scr/pixel.gif)We have not asked in the past, because we viewed the podcast as a promotional vehicle for our books and other projects. I would like to spend more time on the podcast though, and to do that it needs to generate money. I would prefer you buy some books, of course, but if there's nothing you want, and you're feeling appreciative of the podcast, consider it a tip jar. Subscribe to the podcast, rate and review at iTunes (http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewPodcast?id=318653364).  Or just find an archive of all of our audio episodes on a dedicated page (../podcast-archive/). Find us also at: facebook.com/underworldamusements (http://www.facebook.com/underworldamusements) youtube.com/UnderworldAmusements (youtube.com/UnderworldAmusements) e-mail at: podcast@underworldamusements.com and of course, our website is: UnderworldAmusements.com (http://www.underworldamusements.com)  | 6/23/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitUAVHEP07 :: Dark Ages Shadow Conference with Andrew Yeoman and Paul Fromm | (http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2595/4156691009_f748d1dcba_o.jpg) I'll expand on this post later, but I'm pressed for time right now. The important stuff has been recorded and you can just listen to it. This episode is different from others, though I know I mix up the format frequently. It's more like the Satanic Wedding/H.R. Giger episode in that it's about travelling and the narration is more personal. I've been working on episode 8 for a few weeks now, it'll be drastically different from this episode, and might be more interesting to a larger audience. I can't say. A list of links pertinent to this episode: Massive list of links to news articles on my personal site. (http://www.kevinislaughter.com/2011/american-renaissance-conference-2011-how-intellectual-dissent-is-assaulted-updating/) Matt Parrot's Hoosier Nation (www.hoosiernation.us) Lighthouse Literature (http://www.lighthouseliterature.com/) BANA (http://www.bayareanationalanarchists.com/) Paul Fromm (http://www.canadianfreespeech.com/cafe/index.php) We are now accepting donations for the podcast: (https://www.paypalobjects.com/en_US/i/scr/pixel.gif) We have not asked in the past, because we viewed the podcast as a promotional vehicle for our books and other projects. I would like to spend more time on the podcast though, and to do that it needs to generate money. I would prefer you buy some books, of course, but if there's nothing you want, and you're feeling appreciative of the podcast, consider it a tip jar. | 2/19/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitUAVHEP06 :: Satan As Rebel Hero | Underworld Amusements Variety Hour, Episode 6 :: Satan as Rebel Hero (http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2595/4156691009_f748d1dcba_o.jpg) (http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4129/5035706783_beaa8cd8b3_m.jpg) This episode brings you the audio from the lecture Robert Merciless and I gave at the University of Maryland on October 3rd of 2010 as part of the first SkeptiCamp DC. The three part video is posted on YouTube, but that and a transcript and images of the slides are available on my personal blog kevinislaughter.com (http://www.kevinislaughter.com/2010/rebel-hero-a-brief-history-of-blasphemers/) Subscribe to the podcast, rate and review at iTunes (http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewPodcast?id=318653364). As always, our full episodes and specials are also available atàRadio Free Satan (http://radiofreesatan.com/ua_variety_hour.html). Or just find an archive of all of our audio episodes on a dedicated page (../podcast-archive/). We are now accepting donations for the podcast: (https://www.paypalobjects.com/en_US/i/scr/pixel.gif) We have not asked in the past, because we viewed the podcast as a promotional vehicle for our books and other projects. I would like to spend more time on the podcast though, and to do that it needs to generate money. I would prefer you buy some books, of course, but if there's nothing you want, and you're feeling appreciative of the podcast, consider it a tip jar. Find us also at: facebook.com/underworldamusements (http://www.facebook.com/underworldamusements) youtube.com/UnderworldAmusements (youtube.com/UnderworldAmusements) e-mail at: podcast@underworldamusements.com and of course, our website is: UnderworldAmusements.com (http://www.underworldamusements.com) | 12/4/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitSchopenhauer’s Son – Ben Hecht | Kevin I. Slaughter reads an excerpt from the book "A Thousand and One Afternoons in Chicago (http://www.lulu.com/content/paperback-book/1001-afternoons-in-chicago-the-iron-heel/7165462)" by Ben Hecht. A small digression from our series of podcasts on our Tichenor book. A short story about Clarence Darrow (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clarence_Darrow)'s eulogy of George Burman Foster (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Burman_Foster). We are now accepting donations for the podcast: (https://www.paypalobjects.com/en_US/i/scr/pixel.gif) We have not asked in the past, because we viewed the podcast as a promotional vehicle for our books and other projects. I would like to spend more time on the podcast though, and to do that it needs to generate money. I would prefer you buy some books, of course, but if there's nothing you want, and you're feeling appreciative of the podcast, consider it a tip jar. | 11/20/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitUAVHEP05 :: Robert Merciless, Sorceries and Scandals of Satan – Pt.2 | (http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4129/5035706783_beaa8cd8b3_m.jpg)The second half of my interview with Robert Merciless (pt1 here (http://www.underworldamusements.net/blog/2010/uavhep04-robert-merciless-sorceries-and-scandals-of-satan-pt-1/)), the author of the foreword to our new release, The Sorceries and Scandals of Satan (http://www.underworldamusements.net/books/sorceries-and-scandals-of-satan/), written by Henry M. Tichenor and published in 1917. Ebook editions are now available in both the Amazon.com Kindle Store (http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0046A9MHC?ie=UTF8&tag=stevenjohnson-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=B0046A9MHC)(http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=stevenjohnson-20&l=as2&o=1&a=B0046A9MHC) and the Barnes and Nobles Nook Store (http://search.barnesandnoble.com/books/e/9780983031420/?itm=3&USRI=henry+tichenor). Robert and I both had a great time at previously(http://www.underworldamusements.net/wp-includes/js/tinymce/plugins/wordpress/img/trans.gif) mentioned SkepticampDC and I hope to either be posting video of our talk on YouTube and/or audio in our podcast stream. It depends on how well the audio comes through on the recording, of course. Subscribe to the podcast, rate and review at iTunes (http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewPodcast?id=318653364). As always, our full episodes and specials are also available at Radio Free Satan (http://radiofreesatan.com/ua_variety_hour.html). Or just find an archive of all of our audio episodes on a dedicated page (../podcast-archive/). We are now accepting donations for the podcast: (https://www.paypalobjects.com/en_US/i/scr/pixel.gif)We have not asked in the past, because we viewed the podcast as a promotional vehicle for our books and other projects. I would like to spend more time on the podcast though, and to do that it needs to generate money. I would prefer you buy some books, of course, but if there's nothing you want, and you're feeling appreciative of the podcast, consider it a tip jar. Find us also at: facebook.com/underworldamusements (http://www.facebook.com/underworldamusements) youtube.com/UnderworldAmusements (youtube.com/UnderworldAmusements) e-mail at: podcast@underworldamusements.com and of course, our website is: UnderworldAmusements.com (http://www.underworldamusements.com) | 10/16/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitUAVHEP04 :: Robert Merciless, Sorceries and Scandals of Satan – Pt.1 | (http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4129/5035706783_beaa8cd8b3_m.jpg)I'm promoting one of my own books for once on the UA Variety Hour, by interviewing Robert Merciless, the author of the foreword to our new release, The Sorceries and Scandals of Satan (http://www.underworldamusements.net/books/sorceries-and-scandals-of-satan/), written by Henry M. Tichenor and published in 1917. Got a problem with something I've said on the podcast? Got an angle not discussed? Call (218) 666-UAVH and leave a voice mail. Keep it under 3 minutes and think about what you're going to say before you call. Identify yourself, your blog, or keep it anonymous. If I get enough calls, I'll do a special show, if I get one or two, I'll slip them into the regular show. If your call lacks substance and seems like you were more interested in plugging your website than commenting,àit won't be aired. You can comment on the most recent or even a previous episode. Subscribe to the podcast, rate and review at iTunes (http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewPodcast?id=318653364). As always, our full episodes and specials are also available atàRadio Free Satan (http://radiofreesatan.com/ua_variety_hour.html). Or just find an archive of all of our audio episodes on a dedicated page (../podcast-archive/). We are now accepting donations for the podcast: (https://www.paypalobjects.com/en_US/i/scr/pixel.gif) We have not asked in the past, because we viewed the podcast as a promotional vehicle for our books and other projects. I would like to spend more time on the podcast though, and to do that it needs to generate money. I would prefer you buy some books, of course, but if there's nothing you want, and you're feeling appreciative of the podcast, consider it a tip jar. Find us also at: facebook.com/underworldamusements (http://www.facebook.com/underworldamusements) youtube.com/UnderworldAmusements (youtube.com/UnderworldAmusements) e-mail at: podcast@underworldamusements.com and of course, our website is: UnderworldAmusements.com (http://www.underworldamusements.com) | 10/2/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitUAVH H.L. Mencken, Scopes Trial Aftermath (13 of 13) | Aftermath (http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4100/4765567742_bfe655e939_d.jpg) Intro. song:Bennie Kreuger "Yes! We Have No Bananas" Outro song: Ben Bernie & His Orchestra - melody Notes: There were some spots where I failed to edit this edition properly, so the first 25-30 people got a copy of the file with me f*****g up. It has since been corrected, and the only screw-ups should be a) my lame jokes and b) the "blooper reel" at the end. Now that the series is complete, I'll be placing them all on a special page. I'm also going to be zipping them up and making a torrent available through The Pirate Bay (to be announced soon). If you download the torrent, seed it for a little while, will ya? June 29th - Homo Neanderthalensis (../blog/2010/uavh-scopes-june29/) July 9th - Sickening Doubts About Publicity (../blog/2010/uavh-scopes-july09/) July 10th - Impossibility of Obtaining Fair Jury (../blog/2010/uavh-scopes-july10/) July 11th - Trial as Religious Orgy (../blog/2010/uavh-scopes-july11/) July 13th - Souls Need Reconversion Nightly (../blog/2010/uavh-scopes-july13/) July 14th - Darrow's Eloquent Appeal (../blog/2010/uavh-scopes-july14/) July 15th - Law and Freedom (../blog/2010/uavh-scopes-july15/%20%20%E2%80%8E) July 16th - Fair Trial Beyond Ken (../blog/2010/uavh-scopes-july16/%20%20%E2%80%8E) July 17th - Malone the Victor (http://www.underworldamusements.net/blog/2010/uavh-scopes-july17/) July 18th - Genesis Triumphant (http://www.underworldamusements.net/blog/2010/uavh-scopes-july18/) July 20th - Tennessee in the Frying Pan (http://www.underworldamusements.net/blog/2010/uavh-scopes-july20/) July 27th - Bryan (http://www.underworldamusements.net/blog/2010/uavh-scopes-july27/) Sept. 14th - Aftermath (http://www.underworldamusements.net/blog/2010/uavh-scopes-sept14/) The full text of the report at the end of the blog! Subscribe to the podcast, rate and review at iTunes (http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewPodcast?id=318653364).  You can also subscribe direct to the RSS feed (http://feeds.feedburner.com/UnderworldAmusements) or find an archive of all of our audio episodes on a dedicated page (../podcast-archive/). Find us also at: facebook.com/underworldamusements (http://www.facebook.com/underworldamusements) youtube.com/UnderworldAmusements (youtube.com/UnderworldAmusements) e-mail at: podcast@underworldamusements.com and of course, our website is UnderworldAmusements.com (http://www.underworldamusements.com) I The Liberals, in their continuing discussion of the late trial of the infidel Scopes at Dayton, Tenn., run true to form. That is to say, they show all their habitual lack of humor and all their customary furtive weakness for the delusions of Homo neanderthalensis. I point to two of their most enlightened organs: the eminent New York World and the gifted New Republic. The World is displeased with Mr. Darrow because, in his appalling cross-examination of the mountebank Bryan, he did some violence to the theological superstitions that millions of Americans cherish. The New Republic denounces him because he addressed himself, not to "the people of Tennessee" but to the whole country, and because he should have permitted "local lawyers" to assume "the most conspicuous position in the trial." Once more, alas, I find myself unable to follow the best Liberal thought. What the World's contention amounts to, at bottom, is simply the doctrine that a man engaged in combat with superstition should be very polite to superstition. This, I fear, is nonsense. The way to deal with superstition is not to be polite to it, but to tackle it with all arms, and so rout it, cripple it, and make it forever infamous and ridiculous. Is it, perchance, cherished by persons who should know better? Then their folly should be brought out into the light of day, and exhibited there in all its hideousness until they flee from it, hiding their heads in shame. True enough, | 7/28/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitUAVH H.L. Mencken, Scopes Trial Bryan (12 of 13) | Bryan (http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4102/4764930235_1c4da83434_d.jpg) Intro. song:Jeno Fesca Dance Band "Yes! We Have No Bananas" Outro song: Al Jolson "All Alone" June 29th - Homo Neanderthalensis (../blog/2010/uavh-scopes-june29/) July 9th - Sickening Doubts About Publicity (../blog/2010/uavh-scopes-july09/) July 10th - Impossibility of Obtaining Fair Jury (../blog/2010/uavh-scopes-july10/) July 11th - Trial as Religious Orgy (../blog/2010/uavh-scopes-july11/) July 13th - Souls Need Reconversion Nightly (../blog/2010/uavh-scopes-july13/) July 14th - Darrow's Eloquent Appeal (../blog/2010/uavh-scopes-july14/) July 15th - Law and Freedom (../blog/2010/uavh-scopes-july15/%20%20%E2%80%8E) July 16th - Fair Trial Beyond Ken (../blog/2010/uavh-scopes-july16/%20%20%E2%80%8E) July 17th - Malone the Victor (http://www.underworldamusements.net/blog/2010/uavh-scopes-july17/) July 18th - Genesis Triumphant (http://www.underworldamusements.net/blog/2010/uavh-scopes-july18/) July 20th - Tennessee in the Frying Pan (http://www.underworldamusements.net/blog/2010/uavh-scopes-july20/) July 27th - Bryan (http://www.underworldamusements.net/blog/2010/uavh-scopes-july27/) Sept. 14th* - Aftermath (http://www.underworldamusements.net/blog/2010/uavh-scopes-sept14/) *Will be released by July 30th. The full text of the report at the end of the blog! Subscribe to the podcast, rate and review at iTunes (http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewPodcast?id=318653364).  You can also subscribe direct to the RSS feed (http://feeds.feedburner.com/UnderworldAmusements) or find an archive of all of our audio episodes on a dedicated page (../podcast-archive/). Find us also at: facebook.com/underworldamusements (http://www.facebook.com/underworldamusements) youtube.com/UnderworldAmusements (youtube.com/UnderworldAmusements) e-mail at: podcast@underworldamusements.com and of course, our website is UnderworldAmusements.com (http://www.underworldamusements.com) I It was plain to everyone, when Bryan came to Dayton, that his great days were behind him -- that he was now definitely an old man, and headed at last for silence. There was a vague, unpleasant manginess about his appearance; he somehow seemed dirty, though a close glance showed him carefully shaved, and clad in immaculate linen. All the hair was gone from the dome of his head, and it had begun to fall out, too, behind his ears, like that of the late Samuel Gompers. The old resonance had departed from his voice: what was once a bugle blast had become reedy and quavering. Who knows that, like Demosthenes, he had a lisp? In his prime, under the magic of his eloquence, no one noticed it. But when he spoke at Dayton it was always audible. When I first encountered him, on the sidewalk in front of the Hicks brothers law office, the trial was yet to begin, and so he was still expansive and amiable. I had printed in the Nation, a week or so before, an article arguing that the anti-evolution law, whatever its unwisdom, was at least constitutional -- that policing school teachers was certainly not putting down free speech. The old boy professed to be delighted with the argument, and gave the gaping bystanders to understand that I was a talented publicist. In turn I admired the curious shirt he wore -- sleeveless and with the neck cut very low. We parted in the manner of two Spanish ambassadors. But that was the last touch of affability that I was destined to see in Bryan. The next day the battle joined and his face became hard. By the end of the first week he was simply a walking malignancy. Hour by hour he grew more bitter. What the Christian Scientists call malicious animal magnetism seemed to radiate from him like heat from a stove. From my place in the court-room, standing upon a table, I looked directly down upon him, sweating horribly and pumping his palm-leaf fan. His eyes fascinated me: I watched them all day long. | 7/27/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitUAVH H.L. Mencken, Scopes Trial Tennessee in the Frying Pan (11 of 13) | Tennessee in the Frying Pan (http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4140/4764930901_0d1ec229dc_d.jpg) Intro. song: Great White Way Orchestra "Yes! We Have No Bananas" Outro song: Oliver Naylor's Orchestra "Roaring Twenties" Notes: June 29th - Homo Neanderthalensis (../blog/2010/uavh-scopes-june29/) July 9th - Sickening Doubts About Publicity (../blog/2010/uavh-scopes-july09/) July 10th - Impossibility of Obtaining Fair Jury (../blog/2010/uavh-scopes-july10/) July 11th - Trial as Religious Orgy (../blog/2010/uavh-scopes-july11/) July 13th - Souls Need Reconversion Nightly (../blog/2010/uavh-scopes-july13/) July 14th - Darrow's Eloquent Appeal (../blog/2010/uavh-scopes-july14/) July 15th - Law and Freedom (../blog/2010/uavh-scopes-july15/%20%20%E2%80%8E) July 16th - Fair Trial Beyond Ken (../blog/2010/uavh-scopes-july16/%20%20%E2%80%8E) July 17th - Malone the Victor (http://www.underworldamusements.net/blog/2010/uavh-scopes-july17/) July 18th - Genesis Triumphant (http://www.underworldamusements.net/blog/2010/uavh-scopes-july18/) July 20th - Tennessee in the Frying Pan (http://www.underworldamusements.net/blog/2010/uavh-scopes-july20/) July 27th - Bryan (http://www.underworldamusements.net/blog/2010/uavh-scopes-july27/) Sept. 14th* - Aftermath *Will be released by July 30th. The full text of the report at the end of the blog! Subscribe to the podcast, rate and review at iTunes (http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewPodcast?id=318653364).  You can also subscribe direct to the RSS feed (http://feeds.feedburner.com/UnderworldAmusements) or find an archive of all of our audio episodes on a dedicated page (../podcast-archive/). Find us also at: facebook.com/underworldamusements (http://www.facebook.com/underworldamusements) youtube.com/UnderworldAmusements (youtube.com/UnderworldAmusements) e-mail at: podcast@underworldamusements.com and of course, our website is UnderworldAmusements.com (http://www.underworldamusements.com) I That the rising town of Dayton, when it put the infidel Scopes on trial, bit off far more than it has been able to chew -- this melancholy fact must now be evident to everyone. The village Aristides Sophocles Goldsboroughs believed that the trial would bring in a lot of money, and produce a vast mass of free and profitable advertising. They were wrong on both counts, as boomers usually are. Very little money was actually spent by the visitors: the adjacent yokels brought their own lunches and went home to sleep, and the city men from afar rushed down to Chattanooga whenever there was a lull. As for the advertising that went out over the leased wires, I greatly fear that it has quite ruined the town. When people recall it hereafter they will think of it as they think of Herrin, Ill., and Homestead, Pa. It will be a joke town at best, and infamous at worst. The natives reacted to this advertising very badly. The preliminary publicity, I believe, had somehow disarmed and deceived them. It was mainly amiable spoofing; they took it philosophically, assured by the local Aristideses that it was good for trade. But when the main guard of Eastern and Northern journalists swarmed down, and their dispatches began to show the country and the world exactly how the obscene buffoonery appeared to realistic city men, then the yokels began to sweat coldly, and in a few days they were full of terror and indignation. Some of the bolder spirits, indeed, talked gaudily of direct action against the authors of the "libels." But the history of the Ku Klux and the American Legion offers overwhelmingly evidence that 100 per cent Americans never fight when the enemy is in strength, and able to make a defense, so the visitors suffered nothing worse than black, black looks. When the last of them departs Daytonians will disinfect the town with sulphur candles, and the local pastors will exorcise the devils that they left behind them. II Dayton, of course, | 7/19/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitUAVH H.L. Mencken, Scopes Trial Genesis Triumphant (10 of 13) | Battle Now Over, Mencken Sees; Genesis Triumphant and Ready for New Jousts (http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4134/4765567004_efee15bf82_d.jpg) Intro. song: "The John Scopes Trial" Outro song: Vernon Dalhart "The Prisoner's Song" Notes: Someone just wrote me the following interesting note... Have you read the book Panzram: A Journal of Murder? I just got done reading it and thought you might find one of my notes interesting which has to do with Mencken... *Henry Lesser (Jewish prison guard) sent panzram's written material to H. L. Mencken who wrote him a letter in return saying "This is one of the most amazing documents I have ever read." http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/8578795-panzram (http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/8578795-panzram) June 29th - Homo Neanderthalensis (../blog/2010/uavh-scopes-june29/) July 9th - Sickening Doubts About Publicity (../blog/2010/uavh-scopes-july09/) July 10th - Impossibility of Obtaining Fair Jury (../blog/2010/uavh-scopes-july10/) July 11th - Trial as Religious Orgy (../blog/2010/uavh-scopes-july11/) July 13th - Souls Need Reconversion Nightly (../blog/2010/uavh-scopes-july13/) July 14th - Darrow's Eloquent Appeal (../blog/2010/uavh-scopes-july14/) July 15th - Law and Freedom (../blog/2010/uavh-scopes-july15/%20%20%E2%80%8E) July 16th - Fair Trial Beyond Ken (../blog/2010/uavh-scopes-july16/%20%20%E2%80%8E) July 17th - Malone the Victor (http://www.underworldamusements.net/blog/2010/uavh-scopes-july17/) July 18th - Genesis Triumphant (http://www.underworldamusements.net/blog/2010/uavh-scopes-july18/) July 20th - Tennessee in the Frying Pan July 27th - Bryan Sept. 14th* - Aftermath *Will be released by July 30th. The full text of the report at the end of the blog! Subscribe to the podcast, rate and review at iTunes (http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewPodcast?id=318653364).  You can also subscribe direct to the RSS feed (http://feeds.feedburner.com/UnderworldAmusements) or find an archive of all of our audio episodes on a dedicated page (../podcast-archive/). Find us also at: facebook.com/underworldamusements (http://www.facebook.com/underworldamusements) youtube.com/UnderworldAmusements (youtube.com/UnderworldAmusements) e-mail at: podcast@underworldamusements.com and of course, our website is UnderworldAmusements.com (http://www.underworldamusements.com) Dayton, Tenn., July 18. -- All that remains of the great cause of the State of Tennessee against the infidel Scopes is the formal business of bumping off the defendant. There may be some legal jousting on Monday and some gaudy oratory on Tuesday, but the main battle is over, with Genesis completely triumphant. Judge Raulston finished the benign business yesterday morning by leaping with soft judicial hosannas into the arms of the prosecution. The sole commentary of the sardonic Darrow consisted of bringing down a metaphorical custard pie upon the occiput of the learned jurist. "I hope," said the latter nervously, "that counsel intends no reflection upon this court." Darrow hunched his shoulders and looked out of the window dreamily. "Your honor," he said, "is, of course, entitled to hope." No doubt the case will be long and fondly remembered by connoisseurs of judicial delicatessen -- that is, as the performances of Weber and Fields are remembered by students of dramatic science. In immediate retrospect, it grows more fantastic and exhilarating. Scopes has had precisely the same fair trial that the Hon. John Philip Hill, accused of bootlegging on the oath of Howard A. Kelly, would have before the Rev. Dr. George W. Crabbe. He is a fellow not without humor; I find him full of smiles today. On some near tomorrow the Sheriff will collect a month's wages from him, but he has certainly had a lot of fun. More interesting than the hollow buffoonery that remains will be the effect upon the people of Tennessee, the actual prisoners at the bar. | 7/18/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitUAVH H.L. Mencken, Scopes Trial Malone the Victor (9 of 13) | Malone the Victor, Even Though Court Sides with Opponents, Says Mencken (http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4134/4764930383_54ca58018d_d.jpg) Intro. song: Bernard Ette "Yes! We Have No Bananas" Outro song: Notes: ÂI realize what life must have been in Judea 1925 years ago. No wonder the Romans finally bumped off the son of Joseph. After an hour on the main street, listening to the bawling, I feel like loading a cannon with the rejecta of the adjacent hogs (Sus scrofa) and letting fly. The thing is genuinely fabulous. I have stored up enough material to last me 20 years. -From a letter my HLM regarding the Scopes Trail June 29th - Homo Neanderthalensis (../blog/2010/uavh-scopes-june29/) July 9th - Sickening Doubts About Publicity (../blog/2010/uavh-scopes-july09/) July 10th - Impossibility of Obtaining Fair Jury (../blog/2010/uavh-scopes-july10/) July 11th - Trial as Religious Orgy (../blog/2010/uavh-scopes-july11/) July 13th - Souls Need Reconversion Nightly (../blog/2010/uavh-scopes-july13/) July 14th - Darrow's Eloquent Appeal (../blog/2010/uavh-scopes-july14/) July 15th - Law and Freedom (../blog/2010/uavh-scopes-july15/%20%20%E2%80%8E) July 16th - Fair Trial Beyond Ken (../blog/2010/uavh-scopes-july16/%20%20%E2%80%8E) July 17th - Malone the Victor (http://www.underworldamusements.net/blog/2010/uavh-scopes-july17/) July 18th - Genesis Triumphant (http://www.underworldamusements.net/blog/2010/uavh-scopes-july18/) July 20th - Tennessee in the Frying Pan July 27th - Bryan Sept. 14th* - Aftermath *Will be released by July 30th. The full text of the report at the end of the blog! Subscribe to the podcast, rate and review at iTunes (http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewPodcast?id=318653364).  You can also subscribe direct to the RSS feed (http://feeds.feedburner.com/UnderworldAmusements) or find an archive of all of our audio episodes on a dedicated page (../podcast-archive/). Find us also at: facebook.com/underworldamusements (http://www.facebook.com/underworldamusements) youtube.com/UnderworldAmusements (youtube.com/UnderworldAmusements) e-mail at: podcast@underworldamusements.com and of course, our website is UnderworldAmusements.com (http://www.underworldamusements.com) Dayton, Tenn., July 17. -- Though the court decided against him this morning, and the testimony of the experts summoned for the defense will be banned out of the trial of the infidel Scopes, it was Dudley Field Malone who won yesterday's great battle of rhetoricians. When he got upon his legs it was the universal assumption in the courtroom that Judge Raulston's mind was already made up, and that nothing that any lawyer for the defense could say would shake him. But Malone unquestionably shook him. He was, at the end, in plain doubt, and he showed it by his questions. It took a night's repose to restore him to normalcy. The prosecution won, but it came within an inch of losing. Malone was put up to follow and dispose of Bryan, and he achieved the business magnificently. I doubt that any louder speech has ever been heard in a court of law since the days of Gog and Magog. It roared out of the open windows like the sound of artillery practice, and alarmed the moonshiners and catamounts on distant peaks. Trains thundering by on the nearby railroad sounded faint and far away and when, toward the end, a table covered with standing and gaping journalists gave way with a crash, the noise seemed, by contrast, to be no more than a pizzicato chord upon a viola da gamba. The yokels outside stuffed their Bibles into the loud-speaker horns and yielded themselves joyously to the impact of the original. In brief, Malone was in good voice. It was a great day for Ireland. And for the defense. For Malone not only out-yelled Bryan, he also plainly out-generaled and out-argued him. His speech, indeed, was one of the best presentations of the case against the fundamentalist rubbish that I have ever heard. | 7/17/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitUAVH H.L. Mencken, Scopes Trial Fair Trial Beyond Ken (8 of 13) | Mencken Declares Strictly Fair Trial Is Beyond Ken of Tennessee Fundamentalists (http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4081/4765567064_4b476d7066_d.jpg) Intro. song: Billy James "Yes! We Have No Bananas" Outro song: Belle Baker "Hard-Hearted Hannah" N... | 7/16/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitUAVH H.L. Mencken, Scopes Trial Law and Freedom (7 of 13) | Law and Freedom, Mencken Discovers, Yield Place to Holy Writ in Rhea County (http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4100/4764930869_d75e52b86d_d.jpg) Intro. song: "Monkey Business" Outro song: Ben Selvin Orch.,"That's a Good Girl" Notes: Okay, so the second song is from 1926. I hope it doesn't rip you from your true love like in the movie "Somewhere in Time". June 29th - Homo Neanderthalensis (http://www.underworldamusements.net/blog/2010/uavh-scopes-june29/) July 9th - Sickening Doubts About Publicity (http://www.underworldamusements.net/blog/2010/uavh-scopes-july09/) July 10th - Impossibility of Obtaining Fair Jury (http://www.underworldamusements.net/blog/2010/uavh-scopes-july10/) July 11th - Trial as Religious Orgy (http://www.underworldamusements.net/blog/2010/uavh-scopes-july11/ ) July 13th - Souls Need Reconversion Nightly (http://www.underworldamusements.net/blog/2010/uavh-scopes-july13/) July 14th - Darrow's Eloquent Appeal (http://www.underworldamusements.net/blog/2010/uavh-scopes-july14/) July 15th - Law and Freedom (http://www.underworldamusements.net/blog/2010/uavh-scopes-july15/) July 16th - Fair Trial Beyond Ken July 17th - Malone the Victor July 18th - Genesis Triumphant July 20th - Tennessee in the Frying Pan July 27th - Bryan Sept. 14th* - Aftermath *Will be released by July 30th. The full text of the report at the end of the blog! Subscribe to the podcast, rate and review at iTunes (http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewPodcast?id=318653364).  You can also subscribe direct to the RSS feed (http://feeds.feedburner.com/UnderworldAmusements) or find an archive of all of our audio episodes on a dedicated page (../podcast-archive/). Find us also at: facebook.com/underworldamusements (http://www.facebook.com/underworldamusements) youtube.com/UnderworldAmusements (youtube.com/UnderworldAmusements) e-mail at: podcast@underworldamusements.com and of course, our website is UnderworldAmusements.com (http://www.underworldamusements.com) | 7/14/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitUAVH H.L. Mencken, Scopes Trial Darrow’s Eloquent Appeal (6 of 13) | Darrow's Eloquent Appeal Wasted on Ears That Heed Only Bryan, Says Mencken (http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4078/4764930261_1004867392_d.jpg) Intro. song: Paul Godwin "Yes! We Have No Bananas" Outro song: Art Landry "Five Foot Two, Eyes of Blue" Notes: No notes that I can think of at the moment. Help spread the word about these podcasts, will ya? June 29th - Homo Neanderthalensis (http://www.underworldamusements.net/blog/2010/uavh-scopes-june29/) July 9th - Sickening Doubts About Publicity (http://www.underworldamusements.net/blog/2010/uavh-scopes-july09/) July 10th - Impossibility of Obtaining Fair Jury (http://www.underworldamusements.net/blog/2010/uavh-scopes-july10/) July 11th - Trial as Religious Orgy (http://www.underworldamusements.net/blog/2010/uavh-scopes-july11/ ) July 13th - Souls Need Reconversion Nightly (http://www.underworldamusements.net/blog/2010/uavh-scopes-july13/) July 14th - Darrow's Eloquent Appeal (http://www.underworldamusements.net/blog/2010/uavh-scopes-july14/) July 15th - Law and Freedom (http://www.underworldamusements.net/blog/2010/uavh-scopes-july15/) July 16th - Fair Trial Beyond Ken July 17th - Malone the Victor July 18th - Genesis Triumphant July 20th - Tennessee in the Frying Pan July 27th - Bryan Sept. 14th* - Aftermath *Will be released by July 30th. The full text of the report at the end of the blog! Subscribe to the podcast, rate and review at iTunes (http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewPodcast?id=318653364).  You can also subscribe direct to the RSS feed (http://feeds.feedburner.com/UnderworldAmusements) or find an archive of all of our audio episodes on a dedicated page (../podcast-archive/). Find us also at: facebook.com/underworldamusements (http://www.facebook.com/underworldamusements) youtube.com/UnderworldAmusements (youtube.com/UnderworldAmusements) e-mail at: podcast@underworldamusements.com and of course, our website is UnderworldAmusements.com (http://www.underworldamusements.com) Dayton, Tenn., July 14. -- The net effect of Clarence Darrow's great speech yesterday seems to be precisely the same as if he had bawled it up a rainspout in the interior of Afghanistan. That is, locally, upon the process against the infidel Scopes, upon the so-called minds of these fundamentalists of upland Tennessee. You have but a dim notion of it who have only read it. It was not designed for reading, but for hearing. The clanging of it was as important as the logic. It rose like a wind and ended like a flourish of bugles. The very judge on the bench, toward the end of it, began to look uneasy. But the morons in the audience, when it was over, simply hissed it. During the whole time of its delivery the old mountebank, Bryan, sat tight-lipped and unmoved. There is, of course, no reason why it should have shaken him. He has those hill billies locked up in his pen and he knows it. His brand is on them. He is at home among them. Since his earliest days, indeed, his chief strength has been among the folk of remote hills and forlorn and lonely farms. Now with his political aspirations all gone to pot, he turns to them for religious consolations. They understand his peculiar imbecilities. His nonsense is their ideal of sense. When he deluges them with his theological bilge they rejoice like pilgrims disporting in the river Jordan. The town whisper is that the local attorney-general, Stewart, is not a fundamentalist, and hence has no stomach for his job. It seems not improbable. He is a man of evident education, and his argument yesterday was confined very strictly to the constitutional points -- the argument of a competent and conscientious lawyer, and to me, at least very persuasive. But Stewart, after all, is a foreigner here, almost as much so as Darrow or Hays or Malone. He is doing his job and that is all. The real animus of the prosecution centers in Bryan. He is the plaintiff and prosecutor. | 7/13/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitUAVH H.L. Mencken, Scopes Trial Souls Need Reconversion Nightly (5 of 13) | Yearning Mountaineers' Souls Need Reconversion Nightly, Mencken Finds (http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4098/4764952171_299cdf0192_d.jpg) Intro. song: The Pied Pipers "Yes! We Have No Bananas" Outro song: Chick Straun "Don't Bring Lulu!" Notes: I'm least satisfied with the recording of the Mencken piece in this episode. I'd recorded it entirely 3 separate times and the 3rd was shortly before I posted it (the first episode to not be posted right after midnight the day of). I had to record it hastily because I'd blown out the levels on all the prior recordings, but this one suffers from plosive problems (the mic picking up the breath of air when you make "p" sounds, etc.) and various "mouth noises". Because this is one of my favorite reports, I may rerecord it at a later date and update the file, but this'll have to do for now. June 29th - Homo Neanderthalensis (http://www.underworldamusements.net/blog/2010/uavh-scopes-june29/) July 9th - Sickening Doubts About Publicity (http://www.underworldamusements.net/blog/2010/uavh-scopes-july09/) July 10th - Impossibility of Obtaining Fair Jury (http://www.underworldamusements.net/blog/2010/uavh-scopes-july10/) July 11th - Trial as Religious Orgy (http://www.underworldamusements.net/blog/2010/uavh-scopes-july11/ ) July 13th - Souls Need Reconversion Nightly (http://www.underworldamusements.net/blog/2010/uavh-scopes-july13/) July 14th - Darrow's Eloquent Appeal (http://www.underworldamusements.net/blog/2010/uavh-scopes-july14/) July 15th - Law and Freedom July 16th - Fair Trial Beyond Ken July 17th - Malone the Victor July 18th - Genesis Triumphant July 20th - Tennessee in the Frying Pan July 27th - Bryan Sept. 14th* - Aftermath *Will be released by July 30th. The full text of the report at the end of the blog! Subscribe to the podcast, rate and review at iTunes (http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewPodcast?id=318653364).  You can also subscribe direct to the RSS feed (http://feeds.feedburner.com/UnderworldAmusements) or find an archive of all of our audio episodes on a dedicated page (../podcast-archive/). Find us also at: facebook.com/underworldamusements (http://www.facebook.com/underworldamusements) youtube.com/UnderworldAmusements (youtube.com/UnderworldAmusements) e-mail at: podcast@underworldamusements.com and of course, our website is UnderworldAmusements.com (http://www.underworldamusements.com) Dayton, Tenn., July 13. -- There is a Unitarian clergyman here from New York, trying desperately to horn into the trial and execution of the infidel Scopes. He will fail. If Darrow ventured to put him on the stand the whole audience, led by the jury, would leap out of the courthouse windows, and take to the hills. Darrow himself, indeed, is as much as they can bear. The whisper that he is an atheist has been stilled by the bucolic make-up and by the public report that he has the gift of prophecy and can reconcile Genesis and evolution. Even so, there is ample space about him when he navigates the streets. The other day a newspaper woman was warned by her landlady to keep out of the courtroom when he was on his legs. All the local sorcerers predict that a bolt from heaven will fetch him in the end. The night he arrived there was a violent storm, the town water turned brown, and horned cattle in the lowlands were afloat for hours. A woman back in the mountains gave birth to a child with hair four inches long, curiously bobbed in scallops. The Book of Revelation has all the authority, in these theological uplands, of military orders in time of war. The people turn to it for light upon all their problems, spiritual and secular. If a text were found in it denouncing the Anti-Evolution law, then the Anti-Evolution law would become infamous overnight. But so far the exegetes who roar and snuffle in the town have found no such text. Instead they have found only blazing ratifications and reinforcements of Genesis. | 7/12/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitUAVH H.L. Mencken, Scopes Trial Trial As Religious Orgy (4 of 13) | Mencken Likens Trial to a Religious Orgy, with Defendant a Beelzebub (http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4141/4764930821_d491af4d22_d.jpg) Intro. song: "Can't Make a Monkey Out of Me" Outro song: Sippie Wallace "Devil Dance Blues" Notes: In the intro to the Mencken piece, the joke is that the book became a huge success, and the film is completely lost. Nerdy, yes, but the jokes just go downhill from here. The two songs featured in this episode were supposed to be on the next one, but in all my arranging it seems I've switched them around. Not that you'd know that without me mentioning it here. June 29th - Homo Neanderthalensis (http://www.underworldamusements.net/blog/2010/uavh-scopes-june29/) July 9th - Sickening Doubts About Publicity (http://www.underworldamusements.net/blog/2010/uavh-scopes-july09/) July 10th - Impossibility of Obtaining Fair Jury (http://www.underworldamusements.net/blog/2010/uavh-scopes-july10/) July 11th - Trial as Religious Orgy (http://www.underworldamusements.net/blog/2010/uavh-scopes-july11/ ) July 13th - Souls Need Reconversion Nightly (http://www.underworldamusements.net/blog/2010/uavh-scopes-july13/) July 14th - Darrow's Eloquent Appeal July 15th - Law and Freedom July 16th - Fair Trial Beyond Ken July 17th - Malone the Victor July 18th - Genesis Triumphant July 20th - Tennessee in the Frying Pan July 27th - Bryan Sept. 14th* - Aftermath *Will be released by July 30th. The full text of the report at the end of the blog! Subscribe to the podcast, rate and review at iTunes (http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewPodcast?id=318653364).  You can also subscribe direct to the RSS feed (http://feeds.feedburner.com/UnderworldAmusements) or find an archive of all of our audio episodes on a dedicated page (../podcast-archive/). Find us also at: facebook.com/underworldamusements (http://www.facebook.com/underworldamusements) youtube.com/UnderworldAmusements (youtube.com/UnderworldAmusements) e-mail at: podcast@underworldamusements.com and of course, our website is UnderworldAmusements.com (http://www.underworldamusements.com) Chattanooga, Tenn., July 11. -- Life down here in the Cumberland mountains realizes almost perfectly the ideal of those righteous and devoted men, Dr. Howard A. Kelly, the Rev. Dr. W.W. Davis, the Hon. Richard H. Edmonds and the Hon. Henry S. Dulaney. That is to say, evangelical Christianity is one hundred per cent triumphant. There is, of course, a certain subterranean heresy, but it is so cowed that it is almost inarticulate, and at its worst it would pass for the strictest orthodoxy in such Sodoms of infidelity as Baltimore. It may seem fabulous, but it is a sober fact that a sound Episcopalian or even a Northern Methodist would be regarded as virtually an atheist in Dayton. Here the only genuine conflict is between true believers. Of a given text in Holy Writ one faction may say this thing and another that, but both agree unreservedly that the text itself is impeccable, and neither in the midst of the most violent disputation would venture to accuse the other of doubt. To call a man a doubter in these parts is equal to accusing him of cannibalism. Even the infidel Scopes himself is not charged with any such infamy. What they say of him, at worst, is that he permitted himself to be used as a cat's paw by scoundrels eager to destroy the anti-evolution law for their own dark and hellish ends. There is, it appears, a conspiracy of scientists afoot. Their purpose is to break down religion, propagate immorality, and so reduce mankind to the level of the brutes. They are the sworn and sinister agents of Beelzebub, who yearns to conquer the world, and has his eye especially upon Tennessee. Scopes is thus an agent of Beelzebub once removed, but that is as far as any fair man goes in condemning him. He is young and yet full of folly. When the secular arm has done execution upon him, | 7/10/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitUAVH H.L. Mencken, Scopes Trial Impossibility of Obtaining Fair Jury (3 of 13) | Impossibility of Obtaining Fair Jury Insures Scopes' Conviction, Says Mencken (http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4074/4765567136_40789837f6_d.jpg) Intro. song: Sam Lanin (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sam_Lanin) "Yes! We Have No Bananas" Outro song: Eddie (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eddie_Cantor)Cantor (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eddie_Cantor) "If You Knew Suzie" Notes: Starting with this episode, I have "jokes" about corrections for the local newspaper. All of them are pulled from the paperback "Press Boners", edited by Earle Temple. It was printed in 1967, a paperback original from Pocket Books. June 29th - Homo Neanderthalensis (http://www.underworldamusements.net/blog/2010/uavh-scopes-june29/) July 9th - Sickening Doubts About Publicity (http://www.underworldamusements.net/blog/2010/uavh-scopes-july09/) July 10th - Impossibility of Obtaining Fair Jury (http://www.underworldamusements.net/blog/2010/uavh-scopes-july10/) July 11th - Trial as Religious Orgy (http://www.underworldamusements.net/blog/2010/uavh-scopes-july11/ ) July 13th - Souls Need Reconversion Nightly (http://www.underworldamusements.net/blog/2010/uavh-scopes-july13/) July 14th - Darrow's Eloquent Appeal (http://www.underworldamusements.net/blog/2010/uavh-scopes-july14/) July 15th - Law and Freedom July 16th - Fair Trial Beyond Ken July 17th - Malone the Victor July 18th - Genesis Triumphant July 20th - Tennessee in the Frying Pan July 27th - Bryan Sept. 14th* - Aftermath *Will be released by July 30th. The full text of the report at the end of the blog! Subscribe to the podcast, rate and review at iTunes (http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewPodcast?id=318653364).  You can also subscribe direct to the RSS feed (http://feeds.feedburner.com/UnderworldAmusements) or find an archive of all of our audio episodes on a dedicated page (../podcast-archive/). Find us also at: facebook.com/underworldamusements (http://www.facebook.com/underworldamusements) youtube.com/UnderworldAmusements (youtube.com/UnderworldAmusements) e-mail at: podcast@underworldamusements.com and of course, our website is UnderworldAmusements.com (http://www.underworldamusements.com) Dayton, Tenn., July 10. -- The trial of the infidel Scopes, beginning here this hot, lovely morning, will greatly resemble, I suspect, the trial of a prohibition agent accused of mayhem in Union Hill, N.J. That is to say, it will be conducted with the most austere regard for the highest principles of jurisprudence. Judge and jury will go to extreme lengths to assure the prisoner the last and least of his rights. He will be protected in his person and feelings by the full military and naval power of the State of Tennessee. No one will be permitted to pull his nose, to pray publicly for his condemnation or even to make a face at him. But all the same he will be bumped off inevitably when the time comes, and to the applause of all right-thinking men. The real trial, in truth, will not begin until Scopes is convicted and ordered to the hulks. Then the prisoner will be the Legislature of Tennessee, and the jury will be that great fair, unimpassioned body of enlightened men which has already decided that a horse hair put into a bottle will turn into a snake and that the Kaiser started the late war. What goes on here is simply a sort of preliminary hearing, with music by the village choir. For it will be no more possible in this Christian valley to get a jury unprejudiced against Scopes than would be possible in Wall Street to get a jury unprejudiced against a Bolshevik. I speak of prejudice in its purely philosophical sense. As I wrote yesterday, there is an almost complete absence, in these pious hills, of the ordinary and familiar malignancy of Christian men. If the Rev. Dr. Crabbe ever spoke of bootleggers as humanely and affectionately as the town theologians speak of Scopes, and even Darrow and Malone, | 7/9/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitUAVH H.L. Mencken, Scopes Trial Sickening Doubts About Publicity (2 of 13) | Mencken Finds Daytonians Full of Sickening Doubts About Value of Publicity (http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4081/4765567558_b2a7da28b3_d.jpg) Intro. song: Green Bros. Novelty Orchestra "Yes! We Have No Bananas" Outro song: Lee Morse (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lee_Morse) "Yes, Sir! That's My Baby!" Notes: Thanks to AmSci (http://www.amateurscientist.org/2010/07/scope-monkey.html), ChristianChildAbuse (http://christianchildabuse.blogspot.com/), Diabologue (http://purgingtalon.com/diabologue/2010/06/30/ua-variety-hour-homo-neanderthalensis/) and Cosmodromium (http://cosmodromium.blogspot.com/2010/06/uavh-hl-mencken-scopes-trial-06-29-1925.html) and everyone on facebook who "shared" the show link for the support. Please blog, tweet, "share" and digg these shows. I haven't given historical background info in the blog posts because I'm working under the assumption that visitors/listeners will at least have a basic understanding of the event. If not, or if you wanted to know more, they just recently invented a research tool called "the internet", it's cool, I'm on it. I do want to make one additional note though. I just obtained the first 5 issues of H.L. Mencken and George Jean Nathan's "The American Mercury" (Jan. - Mar. 1924) . In Vol.1 No. 2 there is an article debunking osteopathy (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Osteopathy), and it began with the following quote: Despite our remarkable advance of knowledge, nonsense is ever becoming bolder and more rampant: it is pre-eminently a time of fads and crazes, and the question as to how people are to be brought to their senses grows urgent. - W. Duncan McKim June 29th - Homo Neanderthalensis (http://www.underworldamusements.net/blog/2010/uavh-scopes-june29/) July 9th - Sickening Doubts About Publicity (http://www.underworldamusements.net/blog/2010/uavh-scopes-july09/) July 10th - Impossibility of Obtaining Fair Jury (http://www.underworldamusements.net/blog/2010/uavh-scopes-july10/) July 11th - Trial as Religious Orgy (http://www.underworldamusements.net/blog/2010/uavh-scopes-july11/ ) July 13th - Souls Need Reconversion Nightly (http://www.underworldamusements.net/blog/2010/uavh-scopes-july13/) July 14th - Darrow's Eloquent Appeal (http://www.underworldamusements.net/blog/2010/uavh-scopes-july14/) July 15th - Law and Freedom July 16th - Fair Trial Beyond Ken July 17th - Malone the Victor July 18th - Genesis Triumphant July 20th - Tennessee in the Frying Pan July 27th - Bryan Sept. 14th* - Aftermath *Will be released by July 30th. The full text of the report at the end of the blog! Subscribe to the podcast, rate and review at iTunes (http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewPodcast?id=318653364).  You can also subscribe direct to the RSS feed (http://feeds.feedburner.com/UnderworldAmusements) or find an archive of all of our audio episodes on a dedicated page (../podcast-archive/). Find us also at: facebook.com/underworldamusements (http://www.facebook.com/underworldamusements) youtube.com/UnderworldAmusements (youtube.com/UnderworldAmusements) e-mail at: podcast@underworldamusements.com and of course, our website is UnderworldAmusements.com (http://www.underworldamusements.com) Dayton, Tenn., July 9. -- On the eve of the great contest Dayton is full of sickening surges and tremors of doubt. Five or six weeks ago, when the infidel Scopes was first laid by the heels, there was no uncertainty in all this smiling valley. The town boomers leaped to the assault as one man. Here was an unexampled, almost a miraculous chance to get Dayton upon the front pages, to make it talked about, to put it upon the map. But how now? Today, with the curtain barely rung up and the worst buffooneries to come, it is obvious to even town boomers that getting upon the map, like patriotism, is not enough. The getting there must be managed discreetly, adroitly, with careful regard to psychological niceties. The boomers of Dayton, alas, | 7/8/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitUAVH H.L. Mencken, Scopes Trial – Homo Neanderthalensis (1 of 13) | Homo Neanderthalensis (http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4078/4745113918_92baf730a9.jpg) Welcome to the first installation of an ongoing series of reports on the Scopes Trial in Dayton Tennesee in 1925, exactly 85 years ago! The trial was the first in the US to be broadcast on the radio. Those recordings no longer exist, but we will be releasing a podcast every day that Mencken published an article in the Baltimore Sun. Relive the trial in real time through the words of one of America's greatest and most prolific writers. Intro. song: Coon-Sanders Nighthawks "Hong Kong Dream Girl" Outro song: Ted Weems "Somebody Stole My Gal" Notes: The radio was a new medium. I've had a hard time finding examples of radio shows from the time, but these podcasts aren't created to be true to the period. All of the music was from 1925 or prior, and were popular hits. The trial itself was broadcast live, an historical first, but no recordings of it exist. June 29th - Homo Neanderthalensis (../blog/2010/uavh-scopes-june29/) July 9th - Sickening Doubts About Publicity (../blog/2010/uavh-scopes-july09/) July 10th - Impossibility of Obtaining Fair Jury (../blog/2010/uavh-scopes-july10/) July 11th - Trial as Religious Orgy (../blog/2010/uavh-scopes-july11/) July 13th - Souls Need Reconversion Nightly (../blog/2010/uavh-scopes-july13/) July 14th - Darrow's Eloquent Appeal (../blog/2010/uavh-scopes-july14/) July 15th - Law and Freedom (../blog/2010/uavh-scopes-july15/%20%20%E2%80%8E) July 16th - Fair Trial Beyond Ken (../blog/2010/uavh-scopes-july16/%20%20%E2%80%8E) July 17th - Malone the Victor (http://www.underworldamusements.net/blog/2010/uavh-scopes-july17/) July 18th - Genesis Triumphant (http://www.underworldamusements.net/blog/2010/uavh-scopes-july18/) July 20th - Tennessee in the Frying Pan (http://www.underworldamusements.net/blog/2010/uavh-scopes-july20/) July 27th - Bryan Sept. 14th* - Aftermath *Will be released by July 30th. (http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3465/3854627378_414eacfac4_o.jpg) The full text of the report after the fold! Subscribe to the podcast, rate and review at iTunes (http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewPodcast?id=318653364).  You can also subscribe direct to the RSS feed (http://feeds.feedburner.com/UnderworldAmusements) or find an archive of all of our audio episodes on a dedicated page (../podcast-archive/). Find us also at: facebook.com/underworldamusements (http://www.facebook.com/underworldamusements) youtube.com/UnderworldAmusements (youtube.com/UnderworldAmusements) e-mail at: podcast@underworldamusements.com and of course, our website is UnderworldAmusements.com (http://www.underworldamusements.com) Homo Neanderthalensis by H.L. Mencken (The Baltimore Evening Sun, June 29, 1925) I Such obscenities as the forthcoming trial of the Tennessee evolutionist, if they serve no other purpose, at least call attention dramatically to the fact that enlightenment, among mankind, is very narrowly dispersed. It is common to assume that human progress affects everyone -- that even the dullest man, in these bright days, knows more than any man of, say, the Eighteenth Century, and is far more civilized. This assumption is quite erroneous. The men of the educated minority, no doubt, know more than their predecessors, and of some of them, perhaps, it may be said that they are more civilized -- though I should not like to be put to giving names -- but the great masses of men, even in this inspired republic, are precisely where the mob was at the dawn of history. They are ignorant, they are dishonest, they are cowardly, they are ignoble. They know little if anything that is worth knowing, and there is not the slightest sign of a natural desire among them to increase their knowledge. Such immortal vermin, true enough, get their share of the fruits of human progress, and so they may be said, in a way, to have their part in it. The most ignorant man, | 6/28/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitUAVHEP03 :: Andy Nowicki, Considering Suicide | (http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2595/4156691009_f748d1dcba_o.jpg) We're Considering Suicide (http://ninebandedbooks.com/?p=50) this episode with Catholic reactionary and author Andy Nowicki (http://www.andynowicki.blogspot.com/). (http://ninebandedbooks.com/wp-content/plugins/image-shadow/cache/6e158e8c38863d4d7cbc14785bbfc55d.jpg) Since our discussion ran quite long, I've left out any discussion that didn't pertain to the book and begin the show with a reading from the first part of his book titled "Diary of a Suicide". Those three pages of his novel will give you a clear understanding that Andy is not competing in the market with such dreck as the Left Behind series or other eminations of s****y pop culture eminating from the unironic, low-brow modern Evangelical media machine. 9BB (http://ninebandedbooks.com/?p=50) describes the book as: In his epistolary novel,àConsidering Suicide, Andy Nowicki gives voice to the forgotten man, the man for whom âÂÂthe death of affectâ is no postmodernist amusement, but something experienced acutely â as a profound loss to be mourned. When the pillars of tradition and faith yield to fracture and every higher purpose is thrown to chaos, such a man is left to look into the abyss that remains. Such a man is left to suffer. Such a man may act. Oràreact. For this forgotten man, one question will intrude without irony:àIs life worth living? Got a problem with something IâÂÂve said on the podcast? Got an angle not discussed? Call (218) 666-UAVH and leave a voice mail. Since my shows are once a month give or take, IâÂÂd like to have a âÂÂcall inâ show where I compile listener responses and my added commentary in the in-between. Keep it under 3 minutes and think about what youâÂÂre going to say before you call. Identify yourself, your blog, or keep it anonymous. If I get enough calls, I'll do a special show, if I get one or two, I'll slip them into the regular show. If your call lacks substance and seems like you were more interested in plugging your website than commenting,àit won't be aired. You can comment on the most recent or even a previous episode. The interview, final recording and mixing for this podcast were completedàBetween Thursday, April 15th, and Sunday, April 18th, 2010. Subscribe to the podcast, rate and review at iTunes (http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewPodcast?id=318653364). As always, our full episodes and specials are also available atàRadio Free Satan (http://radiofreesatan.com/ua_variety_hour.html). Or just findàan archive of all of our audio episodes on a dedicated page (../podcast-archive/). Find us also at: facebook.com/underworldamusements (http://www.facebook.com/underworldamusements) youtube.com/UnderworldAmusements (youtube.com/UnderworldAmusements) and I rarely ever checkàmyspace.com/underworldamusements (http://www.myspace.com/underworldamusements) e-mail at: podcast@underworldamusements.com and of course, our website isàUnderworldAmusements.com (http://www.underworldamusements.com) | 4/18/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitClocks and Owl Cars – Ben Hecht | Kevin I. Slaughter reads an excerpt from the book "A Thousand and One Afternoons in Chicago (http://www.lulu.com/content/paperback-book/1001-afternoons-in-chicago-the-iron-heel/7165462)" by Ben Hecht. YouTube video at: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x0quag1z47M (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x0quag1z47M) Audio file attached for podcast subscribers. | 1/30/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitUAVHEP02 :: Steve Sailer, Egalitarian Matador | (http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2595/4156691009_f748d1dcba_o.jpg) (http://www.theoccidentalobserver.net/authors/ss_book_cover002.jpg) Matador, of course, meaning killer. Steve Sailer, blogger (http://isteve.blogspot.com/) and author of "America'... | 1/20/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitUAVHEP01 :: We Are Deluded, Savage and Ultimately Doomed | (http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2595/4156691009_f748d1dcba_o.jpg) (http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2688/4159347964_d71f6d43a6_m.jpg)John Derbyshire, author of the new book We Are Doomed: Reclaiming Conservative Pessimism (http://www.amazon.com/Are-Doomed-Reclaiming-Conservative-Pessimism/dp/0307409589%3FSubscriptionId%3DAKIAICLWT3ZO3YSTADEA%26tag%3Dkevinislaughter-20%26linkCode%3Dxm2%26camp%3D2025%26creative%3D165953%26creativeASIN%3D0307409589), sat down for a discussion of atheism and conservatism, math cranks and more in our first proper episode. Your host Kevin I. Slaughter discusses the post hoc ergo propter hoc logical fallacy and touches on the myth of the noble savage by way of a quote from an author stolen from an interview on the Skepticality Podcast (http://www.skepticality.com) and by lifting a passage from Pinker's The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature (http://www.amazon.com/Blank-Slate-Modern-Denial-Nature/dp/0142003344%3FSubscriptionId%3DAKIAICLWT3ZO3YSTADEA%26tag%3Dkevinislaughter-20%26linkCode%3Dxm2%26camp%3D2025%26creative%3D165953%26creativeASIN%3D0142003344). We also hear an archival recording of HL Mencken discussion his philosophy of drinking, and a plug for the new UA release Laffs & Juggs (http://www.lulu.com/content/paperback-book/laffs-juggs-a-doorstop-collection-of-dirty-old-comic-digests/7202577). John Derbyshire has previously released the novels Seeing Calvin Coolidge in a Dream: A Novel (http://www.amazon.com/Seeing-Calvin-Coolidge-Dream-Novel/dp/0312156499%3FSubscriptionId%3DAKIAICLWT3ZO3YSTADEA%26tag%3Dkevinislaughter-20%26linkCode%3Dxm2%26camp%3D2025%26creative%3D165953%26creativeASIN%3D0312156499) (1997), a New York Times âÂÂNotable Book of the YearâÂÂ, Fire From the Sun (2000) a storyline written in an astounding 76 chapers in 3 volumes. His non-fiction books Prime Obsession: Bernhard Riemann and the Greatest Unsolved Problem in Mathematics (http://www.amazon.com/Prime-Obsession-Bernhard-Greatest-Mathematics/dp/0452285259%3FSubscriptionId%3DAKIAICLWT3ZO3YSTADEA%26tag%3Dkevinislaughter-20%26linkCode%3Dxm2%26camp%3D2025%26creative%3D165953%26creativeASIN%3D0452285259) (2003), Unknown Quantity: A Real and Imaginary History of Algebra (http://www.amazon.com/Quantity-Real-Imaginary-History-Algebra/dp/0452288533%3FSubscriptionId%3DAKIAICLWT3ZO3YSTADEA%26tag%3Dkevinislaughter-20%26linkCode%3Dxm2%26camp%3D2025%26creative%3D165953%26creativeASIN%3D0452288533) (2006) and now We Are Doomed: Reclaiming Conservative Pessimism (http://www.amazon.com/Are-Doomed-Reclaiming-Conservative-Pessimism/dp/0307409589%3FSubscriptionId%3DAKIAICLWT3ZO3YSTADEA%26tag%3Dkevinislaughter-20%26linkCode%3Dxm2%26camp%3D2025%26creative%3D165953%26creativeASIN%3D0307409589) (2009). (http://ebooks-imgs.connect.com/product/400/000/000/000/000/177/412/400000000000000177412_s4.jpg)In addition to the books, he has over three and a half decades of journalism and reportage under his proverbial belt. A selection of the magazines and newspapers he's written for: Nat. Review, NYT, Boston Globe, Weekly Standard, Mathematics Magazine, Wall Street Journal and many others. He's contributed to National Review Online (http://author.nationalreview.com/?q=MjIxNg==), V-Dare.com (http://www.vdare.com/derbyshire/index.htm) and the New English Review websites. The Underworld Amusements Variety Hour is a podcast covering an eclectic mix of subjects, guided by the interests of its host. This is the first episode proper, but so far there have already been multiple special episodes, short format extras (http://www.underworldamusements.net/podcast-archive/) and pdf files of free materials. Underworld Amusements is a small media company focusing on publishing books of forgotten and marginalized works (http://www.underworldamusements.net/books/), our podcast and other products and even events (http://www.germophilia.com/). I've started posting excerpts of interviews on YouTube | 12/5/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 28 | ExplicitLaffs & Juggs by Christopher R. Mealie and Kevin I. Slaughter â Out Now! | Underworld Amusements announce: (http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3514/3897595429_4de9a9a8ca.jpg) Laffs & Juggs (http://www.lulu.com/content/paperback-book/laffs-juggs-a-doorstop-collection-of-dirty-old-comic-digests/7202577) A Doorstop Collection of Dirty Old Comic Digests compiled by Christopher R. Mealie & Kevin I. Slaughter 570 pages, 5.5" x 8.5", paperback Laff your way back to a time when making light of sex and class differences was not punishable BY LAW. Featuring comics, naughty photos and lots of really bad jokes from the 1960's. Over 560 pages of vintage material! Including an introduction by photographer and archivist Christopher R. Mealie, editor of SexCats (Goliath Books). (http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2468/3792768093_a80418d603.jpg) Click the "Download" link at the top of the post for a free 48 page PDF! | 11/13/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitUA Variety Hour РThe Satanic Wedding / HR Giger | Underworld Amusements Variety Hour 2009 Halloween Special Your host tells the real story of a relationship that begins on 6-6-06 and culminates in a Satanic Wedding that starts in Baltimore on 9-9-09, and ends in at the HR Giger Museum in Gruy̬re, Switzerland, featuring an interview with dark surrealist artist HR Giger! (http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3465/3854627378_414eacfac4_o.jpg) (podcast is above, though some rss readers may not display it, please visit the original post to listen) In the interviews aired so far, I've usually edited them, sometimes heavily. This was the first interview done in person, and it was recorded with a single portable recorder (Blue Microphones Mikey attached to an iPod classic), and it's not as easy to edit as the phone interviews where the two voices are recorded separately. So, you'll hear a minimally edited interview, warts, nervous laughter and all. Baltimore (http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2618/4057322850_29333999b5.jpg) (http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2786/4056584365_832635d712.jpg) (http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3477/4056584273_123a6551be.jpg) (http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2626/4057322662_f3ba2ae3a3.jpg) Switzerland (http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2469/3913690814_3e69ff4957.jpg) (http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3492/3913656352_df3faa4d5f.jpg) (http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3530/3913083441_af3ca69e0f.jpg) (http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2521/3933238544_a0d61c07d2.jpg) (http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2449/3933244006_b226633642.jpg) (http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2522/3922537041_064edd29ce.jpg) We had plans to release the first episode proper on Halloween, but the story and interview that it leads up to take up a whole hour by themselves, so we ditched the 30 minutes of other stuff to release another special! | 10/30/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitPeter H. Gilmore’s “Goat of Mendes” | (http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3427/3854627332_e5e0be08ba_o.jpg)Underworld Amusements is proud to release Peter H. GilmoreâÂÂs âÂÂGoat of Mendesâ as its first fine art print. Close work with Magus Gilmore on all stages of production has been done to create an appropriate representation of his work. Kevin I. Slaughter has personally printed each canvas using a high-end large format giclee process and has hand cut the frames and assembled each final piece of this edition of 33. Each print is numbered and signed by the artist and comes with a certificate of authenticity. (http://www.germophilia.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/08/PHG-MENDES.jpg) Painted in 1982, nearly two decades before he was to become High Priest of the Church of Satan, Peter H. Gilmore was morphing the occult illustration of Eliphas Levi into a truly Satanic figure. From transforming the wings into those of the Chiroptera, to replacing the merely representative phallus with an unabashed erect p***s, GilmoreâÂÂs painting is fierce and carnal while evoking a powerful mythological effigy. The image was used as an illustration for Magus GilmoreâÂÂs first book The Satanic Scriptures, published by Scapegoat Publishing in 2007. The limited hardback and slipcased editions features this image printed in full color on the case wraps, and all editions feature a black and white version on the first page of the book. For information on how to purchase this print, visit the Germophilia website (http://www.germophilia.com)! | 8/13/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitUA Variety Hour – Germophilia Special Pt. 2 | In part two of this very special episode we will be talking to some of the artists that are featured in the gallery show opening at Germ Books (http://www.germbooks.com/) in Philadelphia in August of 2009. (http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3429/3713266207_230c664a0a_o.jpg) (http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3465/3854627378_414eacfac4_o.jpg) Germophilia event on Facebook (http://www.facebook.com/home.php#/event.php?eid=100262968769&ref=ts) Germophilia event on MySpace (http://event.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=events.detail&eventID=507097.29312) Stephen Kasner (http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2461/3722050748_a679b56ae6_o.jpg) StephenKasner.com (http://www.stephenkasner.com/) Stephen Kasner was born in 1970 and raised in Cleveland, Ohio. The cloudy, icy winters and cold steel mills of the Northeast Coast ingrained a sense of murky, existential struggle for survival and spiritual introspection in the artist early on. Kasner studied at the Cleveland Institute of Art, earning a BFA in 1993 with a major in Illustration, and double minors in Drawing and Photography. His interest in marrying art to music blossomed very early on, and has continually surfaced throughout his career. He has contributed visuals to many eclectic musicians and albums, including Martin Grech, SUNN 0))) (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sunn_O)))), darsombra, Khlyst (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Khlyst_(band)), Integrity (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Integrity_(band)), Lotus Eaters, Justin Broadrick/Final, Skullflower (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skullflower#Skullflower), Runhild Gammelsæter (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Runhild_Gammels%C3%A6ter), and many others. Kasner pursues his own personal exploration and experimentation in music under the moniker, Blood Fountains (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sS0EE7BW0qc), and is currently collaborating with Dwid Hellion and Jacob Bannon as a trio, Irons. Stephen KasnerâÂÂs work has been exhibited worldwide, with exhibitions in San Francisco, Los Angeles, New York, Chicago, and Berlin, and throughout Australia. His work has been featured in dozens of newspapers and magazines, including The Washington Post, SECONDS Magazine, Parable Visions, NY Arts, Descent, and most recently, Coilhouse (http://coilhouse.net/). His first solo exhibition in New York City was held at Last Rites Gallery in February 2009. GERMOPHILIA marks the first exhibition of his work in Philadelphia. He currently resides in Northern California. Stephanie Crabe (http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2627/3722050860_64bbc5d362_o.jpg) StephanieCrabe.com (http://www.stephaniecrabe.com/) Stephanie Crabe was born in, and currently resides in the beautiful state of New Jersey with her 2 cats, her dog, and her boyfriend. She is a graduate of School of Visual Arts Photography program in New York. She has worked extensively in the art and photo industry and as a designer, getting her start by dressing the windows at Trash and Vaudeville. At a very young age she fell in love with photography when her father took her to art shows by Weegee (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weegee) and Diane Arbus (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diane_Arbus). Currently, Stephanie Crabe is working on several other projects that further expose the disturbing and humorous aspects of everyday life. Coney Island (http://www.coneyisland.com/) - Official website of Coney Island, USA. Motel Bizarre (http://www.scapegoatpublishing.com/blog/our-catalog/motel-bizarre-by-stephanie-crabe/) - Stephanie's Book direct from the publisher. MotelBizarre.com (http://www.motelbizarre.com) - The website, not updated much anymore, but some good stuff on there. Peter H. Gilmore (http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2475/3722050806_71a7241238_o.jpg) ChurchOfSatan.com (http://www.churchofsatan.com/)Born in the industrial town of Paterson, New Jersey. Childhood was spent exploring the natural environment of the Hudson Valley and reading SF, archaeology, mythology, | 7/31/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 32 | ExplicitGermophilia – Catalog Preview – Part 2 | This post is to make available part 2 of the catalog preview PDF for Germophilia. The artists featured in this truncated version of the catalog are interviewed in Part 2 of the Germophilia Special of the Underworld Amusements Variety Hour podcast. iTunes Subscribers will find the PDF available automatically in their podcast section. Click the cover below to download! (http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3511/3773470633_15f4038256_o.jpg) UPDATE: A version of this PDF that was downloaded by a few people had an extra page it wasn't supposed to, that has been fixe in the version available now. | 7/31/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitUA Variety Hour – Germophilia Special Pt. 1 | Yes, we're airing a special episode before we air the first episode. When convention clashes with pragmatism, convention loses. This is part one of two! The podcast overall has been officially dubbed "Underworld Amusements Variety Hour" and in part one of this very special episode we will be talking to some of the artists that are featured in the show opening at Germ Books (http://www.germbooks.com/) in Philadelphia in August of 2009. (http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3429/3713266207_230c664a0a_o.jpg) (http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3465/3854627378_414eacfac4_o.jpg) Germophilia event on Facebook (http://www.facebook.com/home.php#/event.php?eid=100262968769&ref=ts) Germophilia event on MySpace (http://event.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=events.detail&eventID=507097.29312) Catalog Preview - Part 1 - PDF (http://www.underworldamusements.net/wp-content/uploads/2009/07/GERMOPHILIA-PREVIEW-PART1.pdf) Jack Donovan (http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2468/3722050766_d4c8eb5a4a_o.jpg) Jack-Donovan.com (http://www.jack-donovan.com/) Born and raised in rural Pennsylvania, Jack Donovan has lived and worked in New York City, San Francisco, Los Angeles and San Diego. As Jack Malebranche, he wrote a controversial book about homosexuality and masculinity titled Androphilia, released by Scapegoat Publishing in 2007. Velvet paintings by Malebranche have been shown at the Seattle Erotic Art Festival, the UnPop art movementâÂÂs web site, and most recently on the set of the hit HBO television series True Blood (Season One). His second book, Blood-Brotherhood, was published during the summer of 2009. Links: Yukio Mishima (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yukio_Mishima) - Wikipedia Entry HeadlessGod.com (http://www.headlessgod.com) - Yukio Mishima website UnPop (http://www.unpopart.com) - Art movement. True Blood (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/True_Blood) - HBO series featuring Black Velvet Paintings by Jack Androphilia, A Manifesto (http://www.jack-donovan.com/androphilia/) - Jack's first book. Blood Brotherhood (http://www.lulu.com/content/paperback-book/blood-brotherhood-and-other-rites-of-male-alliance/7346767) - Jack's new book with co-author Nathan F. Miller Blood Brother (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blood_brother) - wikipedia entry Christopher R. Mealie (http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2428/3722050710_db6d16a561_o.jpg) ChristopherMealie.com (http://christophermealie.com/) Segments transcribed from audio cassette sent by artist: I always painted and drew. àThe first pictures that I made with a camera were of my many pets, 8 years old. àThey would die. àI would bury them in the mountains behind my home, dig them up later and photograph them over and over again. àOne day my photographs were gone. I went to art school, been a master printer, printed Weegee (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weegee) negs, gallery worker, archivist, film historian, exhibited my work, photo dealer, junk store manager. Beauty and tragedy, that's my pictures. Sex Cats (http://atomicbooks.com/products/-/8462.html) - Christopher's book, published by Goliath (link to Atomic Books in Baltimore) H.L. Mencken (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H._L._Mencken) - The bard of Baltimore (wikipedia). William Lindsay Gresham - The website I maintain archiving information about his work. Egalitarianism (http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/egalitarianism/) - I rant about it. This guy does to (http://principles-of-progressive-politics.blogspot.com/), and it looks like a joke site (though it doesn't seem to be one), where he takes all the most retarded ideas of egalitarians and presents them as a political platform. Cohen Brothers (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coen_brothers) - Wikipedia entry Edgar G. Ulmer (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edgar_G._Ulmer) - Noir Director Russ Meyer (http://www.russmeyer.com/) - Boobs Stacey Barich (http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2577/3722050882_22285a9da7_o.jpg) AtomicCheesecakeStudios.com | 7/24/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 34 | ExplicitGermophilia – Catalog Preview – Part 1 (UPDATE) | This post is to make available part 1 of the catalog preview PDF for Germophilia. The artists featured in this truncated version of the catalog are interviewed in Part 1 of the Germophilia Special of the Underworld Amusements Variety Hour podcast. Click the cover below to download! (http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3424/3752767425_2305a50d66_o.jpg) UPDATE: It just occured to me that I can send the PDF out through iTunes in the podcast, so I'm doing that after the fact. Hopefully it works. | 7/24/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitUnderworld Amusements Podcast Ep000 | In preparing to do a podcast on some sort of regular schedule (yet to be determined), I threw together some archived recordings, samples, production music and did some voice recording on my relatively new Samson CO1U to create this test episode. Good advice I read was to record your first podcast and then delete it. Since this isn't the FIRST thing I'd done, but I wasn't ready to really start the series off, this was my compromise... an episode zero. Surprises await the intrepid listener who dares endure the hour and 18 seconds! Please offer feedback on the episode, +/-. | 6/1/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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I always look forward to hearing what Kevin I. Slaughter will present on each broadcast. His eclectic acumen shows in the range of topics that he covers in each episode. Despite the diversity, there is a single thread that connects the disparate strands; and that is noted in the title "Underworld Amusements." The host covers diverse topics that are united by being outre or out of the ordinary. This excites me and keeps me listening and I have never deleted or dreaded an episode before listening to it. Kevin I. Slaughter is a showman of the old school.
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Immediately becoming a fan after the releases of Peter H. Glmore's The Satanic Scriptures and Jack Donovan's Androphilia, Kevin I. Slaughter's Scapegoat Publishing piqued my interest, which ventures on subjects which aren't typically discussed in everyday conversation. After hearing about Underworld Amusements through announcements on various social media, I had to hear what this guy had to say in audio format. Listeners are entertained with a well-rounded show full of tongue-in-cheek quips, interesting dialogue on taboo subjects, interviews with people who prod the status quo, vintage clips of b-cult films, and much more. If you've happened to thrown your lot in with the Devil already, this show certainly for you. Don't miss it.
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