JUDITH MOK INTERVIEW

(Above)Copyright © Judith Mok 2011. Photographer unknown. All Rights Reserved.

Judith Mok is an international classical singer and a poet who has published numerous collections of her work in both English and Dutch. A new body of her poetry entitled Gods of Babel was released recently. So impressed was New Obsessive's Gary Farrelly with the content of Gods of Babel that he issued the following endorsement: God's of Babel is the best collection of poetry ever produced within 1000 kilometers of my current location by a female poet. His location at the time of speaking these words was Dublin, Ireland.

Gary Farrelly meets Judith Mok in The Grand Hotel Neustern's roof top cocktail bar. They are meeting as Judith prepares for a performance at The Irish Jewish Museum on December 18th. Judith is in Neustern to make a flight connection to Dublin after a stunningly successful North American tour. As they commence the interview Farrelly is drinking Red wine. Judith is drinking a tea that promotes health and sensuality of the body and mind. Their surroundings are very chic- think: foreign spies discretely mingling, beauty board/ gold leaf combination, international clocks, menthol cigarettes and beige carpet with red stripes.

Gary Farrelly: I loved Gods of Babel which surprised me because I think most female poets are terrible. I am aware this is a stark generalization but it has been my experience. Do you agree with me?
Judith Mok: No. I think men make bad poetry too.

GF: Do most poets make bad poetry?

JM: Yes.

GF: I did not fall in love with Judith Mok until I read Gods of Babel. In the beginning I found you terrifying and couldn't get past that. Are you terrifying?

JM: Not at all. Nine out of ten people think I am though.

GF: Why do you think that is?

JM: I think it is because I am not afraid of the things most people are afraid of.

GF: I identify the main themes pervading the poems as: sex, art and memory. Am I missing anything?
JM: Music is very important to my writing too.

GF: Which poem is the most successful in the collection?
JM: 'Beethoven in New York' [read poem below interview] or 'Blood (le sang des autres)'. Beethoven in New York came from hearing Beethoven played on a steel lid drum in the subway in New York. I struck by the distance the work had traveled since he created it. And I started imagining him in New York. The poem was composed to a hip hop rhythm. 'Blood' on the other hand is very European: Spanish, French, English and nature.

GF: You are a poet and classical singer. Do you have have any other occupations, Does Judith Mok wear any other hats?
JM: I am also a call girl [Judith is joking]. I wear a chefs hat. I love to cook.

GF: Who are your heroes?
JM: I am not really hero person.
GF: That is not the impression I get when I read your work.
JM: You mean Collette and Louis Bourgeois? They are heroes. So is Rembrandt.

GF: You live in Ireland. You are a Dutch jew with Russian and Spanish ancestory. Where is home?
JM: Art is my home.

GF: Your father Maurits Mok was an important Dutch poet. You are married to the writer Michael O'Loughlin and your Daughter Sara is a writer currently on scholarship in New York. Is your family harmonious with so many writers.
JM: It is harmonious in it's entanglement and endless contradictions. It is a challenging and chaotic harmony.

GF: Is poetry and art in your DNA?
JM: Must be.

GF: Do you believe in God:
JM: Absolutely not!

GF: Are you an intellectual?
JM: Yes. In the real sense, not the academic sense.

GF: Are you political?
JM: Yes.

GF: Where do you position yourself on the political spectrum?
JM: Socialist.

GF: Can you define your world view in just a few words please?

JM: General intelligent education.
Admiration for superb charlatanism.
Taste for absurd refinement.

GF: The authorities in the autonomous coastal city state of Neustern recently dedicated a street to you. What do you think about the existence of a Mok Street in Neustern?
JM: It's perfect.

GF: Will you ever have a concert in Neustern?
JM: Definately. In one of Neustern's perfectly restored Neopolitain theatres. An 800 seater with gold leaf and blue seats with yellow suns on the ceiling. Yellow and blue together are very special colours.

GF: Will you read from Gods of Babel in you upcoming performance at the Irish Jewish Museum?
JM: Yes. The poems are inspired by the Sephardic songs that I will be performing.

GF: What question do I need to ask you?
JM: You should ask me why I write in English?
GF: Why do you write in English?
JM: It suits what I'm trying to say. Things about melodiousness, madness and strange sensuality. I write in a very continental English. It is not at all American or British or Australian. I would describe it as an assimilated English.

Gods of Babel is published published by Salmon Poetry [buy on line]. Judith Mok will read her poetry and perform Sephardic songs on Sunday 18th 2011 at the Irish Jewish Museum - The event starts at 19.00pm sharp.

Gary Farrelly, Neustern.

CHRISTMAS

(Above) Gary Farrelly, NEW OBSESSIVE CHRISTMAS TREE(2009), private collection, Dublin.

New Obsessive would like to wish all our readers a happy and unhinged Christmas. We would also like to take the opportunity to extend our best wishes for 2012 - May it be a be characterized by happiness, health, prosperity, progress and victory.
The New Obsessive Christmas tree is traditionally decorated: camera stamp, railway, luggage, light bulbs, off ramps, redacted information and airliner motif.

Gary Farrelly, Neustern.

KOMEDA: SOUNDS JADED AND JUBILANT

Title: Cul-de-Sac
Artist(s): Krzysztof Komeda
Composer(s): Krzysztof Komeda
Album: Cul-de-Sac: Original Soundtrack, Knife In The Water: Original Soundtrack

UNIDENTIFIED IMAGE

New Obsessive calls upon it's vast and extensive readership to help identify the above image. The image is suspected to be Italian, likely produced by a member of the Futurist art movement in the first quarter of the last century. A reward is offered to the reader who can offer information resulting in the identification of the image. garyfarrelly@hotmail.fr

Gary Farrelly, Pickering.

LOT LIZARDS

No currency exchanged

booze
or mostly transport
White (age indifferent)
Look over 60
Fried blond hair
Nomadic and high murder rate
Truck stop solicitation
Signs (like above) NO LOT LIZARDS!
Midland/Odessa
Sex in trucks
Gary Farrelly, Neustern

TOURISM* NORTH KOREA PROMOTIONAL VIDEO

(Above) WORKERS MONUMENT, courtesy of DPRK Tourism(2011).

A television advertisement promoting tourism in North Korea's capital city has aired on RTN1* in the autonomous coastal city state of Neustern. A commercial air service** linking Neustern to Pyongyang was inaugurated on August 21st. The 79 second long video entitled Pyongyang Paradise was created specifically for the Neustern market and was personally directed by North Korea's leader Kim Jung Il. North Korea (DPRK) has a tourist office in Neustern located at the following address: DPRK Tourism, 118 Cannibal Wharf, Neustern South Bank. Gary Farrelly, Neustern.

(Above) PYONGYANG PARADISE, courtesy of DPRK Tourism(2011).

* Radio Television Neustern(RTN) is the public service broadcaster of the autonomous coastal city state of Neustern.

** Click this link to read an article announcing the launch of the Neustern-Pyongyang air service which is operated by Vozhd Airways.

NEUSTERN BUILDING PROGRAM AND OVERSEAS EXPANSION

Authorities in the autonomous coastal city state of Neustern have announced a massive public/private building programme (PPBP). Over the next 13 months the number of built structures in Neustern will triple. A significant emphasis will be placed on the erection of high rise and super high rise buildings designed to perform various commercial, cultural and administrative functions. Headline projects in the building program include: a general hospital, opera house, cathedral and full facilities for an aggressive Olympic games bid. Architect Gary Farrelly has been named as the project manager.
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Meanwhile: Artist Gary Farrelly has announced his intention to continue developing the body of artworks inspired by the autonomous coastal city state of Neustern. An expanded and elaborated version of the exhibition All roads lead to Neustern is already progressing and will be shown off shore in 2012/2013.
Gary Farrelly, Neustern.

NEUSTERN EXHIBITION SUCCESSFULLY CONCLUDED IN DUBLIN.

Gary Farrelly's exhibition All roads lead to Neustern at Galerie Modonov has concluded it's sixteen day run and is no longer open to the public. The exhibition, which was Farrelly's first in Ireland since 2007 received and an excellent critical reception and has been declared an 'unmitigated success' by the relevant cultural authorities in the Irish capital. The show centered on a large scale cartographic work entitled Neustern: The artist as autonomous coastal city state. Said work is widely considered the most impressive artwork ever exhibited on the island of Ireland. Other works in the exhibition included drawings of proposed buildings, sovereign debt bonds, a street index and colourful handmade statistics - all related to the imaginary city. There are already preliminary plans to have Neustern tour internationally in the new year. All roads lead to Neustern was curated by Donna Marie O'Donovan at her gallery Galerie Modonov. The exhibition was crowd funded via fundit.ie and was proudly supported by Lecool magazine.

Renata Muller, Dublin

NEW OBSESSIVE WALKING TOUR A SUCCESS!

(Above) GERMAN U-BOAT DOCKED PROCEEDS TO DOCK AT THE QUAYS IN DUBLIN (1939)

The first ever New Obsessive city tour took place in Dublin this Saturday. The tour was operated in conjunction with Gary Farrelly's exhibition All roads lead to Neustern which is currently on public show at Galerie Modonov. Taking the gallery as a starting point, Farrelly guided an enthusiastic group of more than 40 spectators around previously unknown points of historical interest in the Irish capital.The New Obsessive tour was the result of many months of applied research, was free of charge and was approximately 90 minutes in duration. Though all who were on the tour thoroughly enjoyed it and found it profoundly educational, there were some who questioned the factual integrity of some aspects of the tour. Principal sites visited included:

The city brothel
Kim Jong Il's Dublin holiday home
The 1939 Nazi U-Boat landing site
Intervision suicide hotel
The Vlad the Impaler monument
Hydrogen bomb proof buildings

Farrelly maintains that these as well as all the other locations on his tour were completely credible and 'without excessive exaggeration' or fictionalization. One member of the tour group commented "I don't care if all the facts are true or not. I loved seeing Dublin through the artist's eyes for an afternoon. I loved the stories of cold war espionage, city center FEMA camps and cannibalism, It was a refreshing break from the usual grey mince".
Renata Muller, Dublin.

NEW CHURCH OPENS IN NEUSTERN

(Above) Gary Farrelly, FREE CHURCH OF NEUSTERN(2011), Galerie Modonov.

Free Church of Neustern,

102-105 Gold Standard Paradeway,

Neustern South Central.

A dedicated United Christian Worship Facility UCWF has been inaugurated in the autonomous coastal city state of Neustern. The church building, which is the first of it's kind is to be named: The Free Church of Neustern*.The building has taken four months to construct and has been in planning for over a decade. The church will be open to all- 24 hours day/ 365 days a year.

*Dedicated to Saint Sophia of Slutsk and Neustern.

The Free Church of Neustern will occupy the new building after a ribbon cutting ceremony tomorrow afternoon. The church has issued a list aims and objectives list for public consumption:

• To promote unity and cooperation between the various christian denominations.
• To promote understanding and respect between Christians, other faiths and non believers.
• To remove all exclusionary human political additives from religious discourse.
• To promote apocalypse awareness and readiness among the congregation.
• To consult with the state authorities in robustly preparing Neustern for the apocalypse.
• To provide for the welfare and health care needs of Neusterners.

The popularity of Catholicism and protestantism in Neustern has been in decline since the foundation of the state in 1983. The new church rejects any political subdivision among the followers of Jesus Christ. Some radically liberal elements in the foreign press have criticized government funding of 25% of total construction. The government of Neustern commits itself to part funding to the sum of 25% any facility used to house any organization (with a membership numbering no less that 20,000 souls) - seeking to promote community, religious or political discourse. The very same government monies were made available for the following projects: The Islamic Cultural Center of Neustern(2007), The Jewish Worship Center(1988), The Homosexualist Alliance headquarters(2009) and the Center for Obsessive Compulsive Socializing(1985). Indeed the recently formed Libertarian Party of Neustern opened it's own university using state subsidy only two months ago. The foreign criticism is perchance unsurprising at a time when international opinion has turned against the 2000 year old teachings of Christ in favor of secularism, radical earth worship and self worship. Believeing in god is not chic? Sucking dick through holes in bathroom doors is chic? A hate for god and his creations is chic? Not so in Neustern, which is a civilized country taking the freedom of speech and the right to worship very seriously. These rights are inherant and apply to all individuals and their faiths and social persuasions excluding none. In Neustern freedom is chic! no matter how controversial the dispensation of that freedom is.

Gary Farrelly, Neustern.

IT'S TRUE - WHITE TRASH PEG

(Above) Peggy Clydesdale, WORDS AND IMAGE(2011).

NEUSTERN MOVES TOWARDS A TAX FREE FUTURE

The flat income tax rate in the autonomous coastal city state of Neustern has been cut from 7% to 5%. The sovereign municipality has the lowest income tax rate in the world. The newly electedLibertarian government has pledged a further 5% cut by years end, effectively ending the forced redistribution of wealth in Neustern. The new government aspires to reduce the involvement of civic authorities in the non essential personal welfare NEPW of citizens. A gradual transition of NEPW services from the state to the community, voluntary and charity sectors is central to the new Libertarian ethic.The average indirect and consumption tax level has also fallen to 5%. Taxation on typewriters, alcohol, tobacco, airline tickets and imported goods has been reduced. Simultaneously new levies on the price of foreign published publications, portable telecommunications and non gray car paint have been introduced to offset the loss of revenue to the exchequer.

Gary Farrelly, Neustern.

(Above image) Gary Farrelly, NEUSTERN TAXATION STATISTICS(2011), Galerie Modonov.

NEUSTERN - MORE GUNS/ LESS GUN DEATHS

(Above) Gary Farrelly, GUN OWNERSHIP IN NEUSTERN(2011), Galerie Modonov.
(Above) Gary Farrelly, GUN DEATHS IN NEUSTERN(2011), Galerie Modonov.

The level of domestic gun ownership in Neustern has risen to it’s highest level since the foundation of the state in 1983. 81% of Neusterners eligible to own guns now do so. Under the free militia clause, the constitution promotes domestic gun ownership as a guarantee against abuse of power and the rise of tyrannical government. At the time of the foundation of the country, just 25% of age eligible citizens owned serviceable firearms. 1983 was the year that Neustern saw it’s highest level of violent and gun related fatalities. 27 deaths by shooting were recorded in the autonomous coastal city state of Neustern in 1983. 2011 has seen violent gun deaths drop to their lowest level ever with just 5 recorded gun deaths in the first 10 months of the year. 4 of the recorded 5 deaths were of criminals killed while illegally entering private dwellings. Neustern is now noted to be one of the best armed societies In the world as well as being one of the lest likely places to get shot.

Gary Farrelly, Neustern.

APOCALYPSE MAKE-UP TUTORIAL

This video is a constructive beauty tool for the end of days period. It was made in a spirit of utmost seriousness. The video was inspired by the wonderful work done by The Divine David (David Hoyle). The was shot and composed at Pickering Forest by Oisin Byrne and the star is Gary Farrelly.

LIBERTARIAN VICTORY IN NEUSTERN ELECTION

(Above) NEUSTERN POLL DATA(2011)

General elections have taken place in the autonomous coastal city state of Neustern. After 27 years dominating the political scene, The National Comrades Party (NCP) have lost their majority in parliment and will not form the next government. The NCP won just 38% of the popular vote, their worst result since the foundation of the state in 1983. Due to the expanding population: the total number of seats in Neustern's parliment was increased for this election from 117 to 200. The NCP's 38% translates into 72 of these seats. Massive gains for the Libertarian Party of Neustern (LPN). The newly formed LPN polled 58%, giving them 116 seats and a stunning overall majority. The LPN fought the election on a four principal platform: personal freedom, property rights, small government and a defencive foreign policy. Other parties fared as follows: Workers Party (WP) 2%/4 seats. Conservative Party (CP) 1%/2 seats. Liberal Party of Neustern incorperating the Gay, Lesbian, Feminist and Liberal Alliance (NPNGLFLA) >1%/2 seats. The Libertarian Party are expected to form a government within the next 24 hours.

Aswell as the election, Neusterners voted on in a very important referendum today. Citizens were asked if the Supreme Controller should remain head of state and guardian of the peace indefinately. The role of Supreme Controller was created as a position for life in 1983. The office marginally exceeds the authority of the elected government when it comes to the dispensation of power. The current Supreme Controller, (who's name before assuming the title has passed out of national memory) is the founder and leader of the National Comrades Party. The referendum was passed by a 99.8% majority.

Gary Farrelly, Neustern.

A WHITE TRASH GHOST STORY

North of New Orleans in the bayou country parish of Calcasieu is Lake Charles. It's your average run of the mill, small southern city in most ways. If you need a new funeral suit, they will set you up at the Penney's over at Prien Lake Mall. If you want to bitch about The Saint's head coach or maybe do a little karaoke, the Sports Pit is the perfect venue for it. If you find you are a bit peckish, you can travel to the Isle of Capri Casino, an architectural vision in peach and hot pink stucco, and take in the Calypso Lounge breakfast buffet for the low price of $6.99.

Like most places in the swampy and mysterious state of Louisiana, people tell a few ghost stories here. Teenagers like to scare each other with tales of a phantom pickup truck that will tailgate an unsuspecting victim, chasing them at high speeds until it vanishes into thin air. A little murdered girl is rumored to re-appear in the streets and alleyways, still wearing her Halloween ghost costume. You can't swing a dead cat without hitting a house that people say has a resident ghost. And of course, there's the legend of Toni Jo Henry.

Toni Jo Henry had that look about her that would prove to scare away any "decent" guy: pretty, but in a way that often looked rode hard and put up wet. She looked like she would lift your wallet as she breathed bourbon-scented, erotic promises in your ear. She had a rough life. Her mother died of consumption when she was just a girl of six, and her dad must not have known what to do with her, because she was blowing guys for dope in a whorehouse in Shreveport by the time she should've been having her debut.

When a squinty eyed boxer and part time petty criminal from Texas called "Cowboy" swept Toni Jo off of her feet, it was true love. Cowboy helped her get off the blow. She didn't have to turn on the red light anymore, either. Cowboy and Toni Jo got married, and all was right in the world.

The honeymoon didn't last long. "Cowboy" Claude Henry was up on charges for killing a cop in a bar fight in San Antonio. Just weeks after her fairy tale wedding at the justice of the peace, Toni Jo was promising to break her new husband out of Huntsville Prison. She wasted no time teaming up with Finnian "Arkie" Burks (just released from Huntsville) and the two set off hitchhiking to break Cowboy out. It was a cold and rainy Valentine's Day evening. A businessman from Houston in a brand new Ford coupe liked the looks of Toni, and offered them a ride. They forced him to drive by gunpoint to a rice field and stripped him naked. (Toni Jo thought his outfit would look good on Cowboy.) They tortured him, and told him to say his prayers. Toni Jo pressed the barrel between his eyes as he prayed, and coldly blew his brains out.

They hadn't even made it to the Texas line when the two career criminals pulled over to party in the roadhouses along the way and brag loudly about the "successful" theft of the car and their upcoming jailbreak scheme. Toni showed up unannounced at her aunt's house in Shreveport and confessed that she had killed a man. They lingered in the area long enough for word to get out about their bragging, and for a manhunt to ensue. No one had any idea what had happened to the salesman until the two talked about it all over town. Cocaine is a hell of a drug.

Toni Jo was taken to the jail at Lake Charles to await trial, and Arkie was taken to a seperate facility. She would spend two years unsuccesfully trying to pin the crime on Arkie. During that time she charmed the jailers, who even allowed her a pet, and she made national press in her quest to be free. The papers called her "Tiger Girl".

After three trials, she ran out of appeals and was sentenced to death. The only regret she vocalized was that they were going to shave her head. She donned a brightly colored scarf as she made her way, in front of snapping cameras, to the back of an 18 wheeler that was heavily loaded with generators and a portable electric chair. They placed the hood on her and barbecued her right there in the parking lot. I'm sure they offered her a minute to say her prayers. Just days before, just across the state line, Cowboy had managed to escape prison. He planned to hold Toni Jo's sentencing judge hostage until they freed her. He made it as far as Beaumont, TX before he was caught in a fleabag hotel and thrown back in the slammer.

The courthouse at Lake Charles is haunted by the only woman to die in Louisiana's electric chair. Clerks who work there can smell burning hair once in awhile. A huge records room that mechanically shifts giant metal file holders has inexplicably turned itself on and rotated after it was shut off for the evening, on more than one occasion. Many have heard a woman shriek in the stairwells and in the parking lots. The doors, which lock with a key, will suddenly lock themselves in the middle of a regular work day. Men especially seem to hear talking in the empty building as they clean at night.

Toni Jo admitted the day of her execution that she was solely responsibile for the murder in the rice field. The state executed Arkie a year later anyway. On her last phone call to Cowboy she asked him to "Go straight and try to make something of your life" so that his mother would be proud of him. Two years later, he was paroled early (he was prematurely dying of heart failure). He was gunned down in the street in Dallas three months after his parole.

On her way to the chair, Toni Jo smiled coyly at reporters and said "Have you any idea how much talent is being wasted here today?"

White Trash Peg, Wynona.

INTERVIEW WITH NINA HYNES

(Above) Photography of Nina Hynes by David Cleary(2011).

Songwriter/ musician Nina Hynes travels to the autonomous coastal city state of Neustern at the invitation of New Obsessive. Gary Farrelly first met Hynes this summer during recording of her upcoming album Goldmine. Instantly compelled and interested by the Berlin based artist, Farrelly was eager to question her. Said questioning took place Madame Mao's bar on Krasnodar Wharf in Central Neustern. As the interview starts Farrelly and Hynes are drinking their second bottle of Neustern Carbonate (A domestically produced Champagne substitute with subtle undertones of eau de cologne).

Gary Farrelly: How do you like Neustern do far?

Nina Hynes: I feel at home.

GF: How would you concisely describe the music you create?

NH: Therapy.

GF: I love your voice. It is very sweet and your face is lovely and sweet. Are you a very sweet girl?

NH: Thank you. I mirror you or dance with you but if you're really nasty, I build a wall and walk away.

GF My favourite song of yours from the last album is 'Fitness'. In it you sing about face lifts, euthanasia and liposuction. What's that about?

Unhinged?

NH: Isn't it amazing that we can take the fat out of our thighs to make our lips plump? Innovative humans. Pity about the pain but worth singing about and dreaming of lean thighs and plump lips.

GF: I don’t see you as a typical singer song writer of Irish origin. You don’t conform to that stereotype. Do you agree?

NH: Agreed but most of the population do not fit the conventional singer songwriter stereotype

GF: Are you an outsider? (if so, how do you feel about that?)

NH: I'm an insider, I feel a warm glow but I may as well apply for German citizenship if Sean Gallagher becomes president.

GF: Your partner Fabien Leseure and yourself are working very closely on your next album 'Goldmine'. Is it a democratic collaboration or does Nina wear the trousers in the project?and how does this effect you relationship?

NH: I wear a dress to keep the peace, he's French, you know. There is no democracy here but I try to mask the dictatorship in charm and sweetness. It might be the death of one of us but we make a good Government.

GF: How does Goldmine differ from previous output?

NH: Goldmine rests further in the future than my previous output. It's musically a new road for me and represents my freedom from my old sabotaging subconscious beliefs.

GF: There is a lot of excitement surrounding this project. How do you plan to make Goldmine a global Success?(Ie.Bring it to the Greater Public).

NH: I plan to surround it in love and to get it in to the hands of powerful people.

GF: Do you believe in God?

NH: Yes.

GF: Are you political?

NH: It depends on the subject matter.

GF: You have a three year old daughter Caia-a very beautiful and charismatic little girl. How do you find motherhood?Is it hard to find time to work?

NH: Caia was a gift for all the good I've ever wished for or done. She keeps me present and reminds me to focus better to create the future. She is some kind of angel and work gets done precisely because time is tighter.

GF: Best case Scenario:Where is Nina Hynes in 5 years?

NH: Living with family in our magical community creating and feeling healthy and prosperous, maybe in a certain park in Neustern growing vegetables, drinking Neustern carbonated and pressing vinyl.

GF: Worst case Scenario is a FEMA camp, right?

NH: A FEMA camp with no limbs and my tongue cut out , oh and not knowing the whereabouts of loved ones.

GF: There are streets, parks and squares named after you here in Neustern-how did that come about?

NH: A mutual love and appreciation. An understanding of the significance of meeting fellow Humans to whom we can relate.

GF: 3x Things you find wonderful?

NH: Understanding, appreciation, friends.

GF: 3x things you find profoundly negative?

NH: Greed. Cruelty. Shame.

GF: 3x Things that make you feel bliss?

NH: Communion with others, inner sanctity, music.

GF: You made your album at Pickering Forest:How was that?

NH: Recording at Pickering came as an unprecedented honour and surprise. The atmosphere surrounding the work was eccentric, free, creative with feeling emotion and generosity. I am extremely grateful for the experience to record in such an environment where I felt equally at home and in awe. I am sure such depth of human experience and history has crept in to the record somehow.

Gary Farrelly, Neustern.

UNHINGED SCIENCE CZAR

The current head of Americas Office of Science and Technology Policy is Dr. John Holdren. Until recently he served as The White House science czar (US equivolent of Minister for science). The role of science czar is to act as adviser to the president on all matters related to scientific policy. In 1977 he wrote ECOSCIENCE. Several Universities in Ireland have it in their libraries: Here are some interesting quotes with corresponding page numbers:

p 387:

“Indeed, it has been concluded that compulsory population-control laws, even including laws requiring compulsory abortion, could be sustained under the existing Constitution if the population crisis became sufficiently severe to endanger the society.”

p 787/8:

“Adding a sterilant to drinking water or staple foods is a suggestion that seems to horrify people more than most proposals for involuntary fertility control. Indeed, this would pose some very difficult political, legal, and social questions, to say nothing of the technical problems. No such sterilant exists today, nor does one appear to be under development. To be acceptable, such a substance would have to meet some rather stiff requirements: it must be uniformly effective, despite widely varying doses received by individuals, and despite varying degrees of fertility and sensitivity among individuals; it must be free of dangerous or unpleasant side effects; and it must have no effect on members of the opposite sex, children, old people, pets, or livestock.”

..

“A program of sterilizing women after their second or third child, despite the relatively greater difficulty of the operation than vasectomy, might be easier to implement than trying to sterilize men.

The development of a long-term sterilizing capsule that could be implanted under the skin and removed when pregnancy is desired opens additional possibilities for coercive fertility control. The capsule could be implanted at puberty and might be removable, with official permission, for a limited number of births.”

p942-3

“Perhaps those agencies, combined with UNEP and the United Nations population agencies, might eventually be developed into a Planetary Regime—sort of an international superagency for population, resources, and environment. Such a comprehensive Planetary Regime could control the development, administration, conservation, and distribution of all natural resources, renewable or nonrenewable, at least insofar as international implications exist. Thus the Regime could have the power to control pollution not only in the atmosphere and oceans, but also in such freshwater bodies as rivers and lakes that cross international boundaries or that discharge into the oceans. The Regime might also be a logical central agency for regulating all international trade, perhaps including assistance from DCs to LDCs, and including all food on the international market.”

“The Planetary Regime might be given responsibility for determining the optimum population for the world and for each region and for arbitrating various countries’ shares within their regional limits. Control of population size might remain the responsibility of each government, but the Regime would have some power to enforce the agreed limits.”

p917

“If this could be accomplished, security might be provided by an armed international organization, a global analogue of a police force. Many people have recognized this as a goal, but the way to reach it remains obscure in a world where factionalism seems, if anything, to be increasing. The first step necessarily involves partial surrender of sovereignty to an international organization.”

R. Muller, Lausanne

GARY FARRELLY EXHIBITION, DUBLIN

Gary Farrelly's first exhibition in the Republic of Ireland since 2007 opens this November 10th. The exhibition entitled All Roads lead to Neustern is being presented by Galerie Modonov and will run until November 26th. On show will be a new body of work created by the artist at Central Trak in Dallas and at Pickering Forest. The artworks which Farrelly describes as "a portrait of the artist as an autonomous coastal city state" are being curated by Donna Marie O'Donovan.

‎'All Roads Lead to Neustern'
10 - 26 November 2011
Galerie Modonov
114 Capel Street
Dublin 1

RENO STAR FUCKER REMINISCING (PART 1) - White Trash Peg

I used to live in Reno, Nevada. It was America's Sin City while Vegas was still a mule turd of a mining town in an otherwise useless wasteland. Long past it's prime, Reno is an armpit at the foot of Mount Rose: the top of which rims a volcanic lake so deep that they have to estimate just how perilously close to hell it actually comes. Clustered around that golden rim lives titans of industry and the privately educated, ski-sweater wearing offspring they support. They gather in the standard Tahoe haunts in little packs. The women swill wine with cachexic fingers, laden with massive diamonds. The men ignore their wives, genetically blessed faces that are kept emotionally divoid through the careful use of various pharmeceuticals. The husbands' eyes dart around the room for anything to keep their predatory nature in check through one more obligatory family dinner. The children are oblivious to their creators. Little plastic entertainment devices seem to be the only thing that keeps them from going all Menedez on Mom and Dad. 

People who have enough money to satiate every tiny desire seem to find out that the price to be paid toward that particular blessing is that there is nothing left to have to fight the good fight against, excluding the cremation room. The rich love to rub elbows with famous people. In Tahoe they throw ridiculously excessive golf events to keep themselves occupied in their charmed but boring lives. They hire athletes and actors to populate their events. The famous but not-as-rich are paid to pretend to enjoy the company of rich-but-not-famous, of whom most of the latter would be considered shallow, trite, and boring by any thinking man's estimation. Why else would anyone need to pay interesting people to come to their party?

I found myself amidst these charity golf events on several occasions. This series documents my brushes with fame and glamour between the years of 1999 1nd 2006.

Star Fucker Reminiscing #1: Patrick Swayze

Patrick Swayze was amazingly buff for a dude in his late 50's. He was the crown jewel of that year's charity golf event. He was also really small in stature compared to what one would expect out of the skull cracker from "Roadhouse". All of the old ladies were creaming in their hundred dollar panties to get a spot in the golf cart next to old Johnny Castle. 

I met him in the VIP lounge of the best casino in town. (There is a room in every nice casino in which high rollers can drink for free, get shit scheduled for them by the most subservient of the professional ass-kissers on staff, and feel like they don't have to hang out with the sheep who are shoveling grubby coins into the 25 cent slots beyong the big gilded doors.) He was already half tanked, and was hoisting a comically large tumbler of bourbon and ice. My overly-fawning ex husband (who was, in fact, one of the high-ranking professional ass-kissers himself) weasled his way over by a less than inviting looking Patrick. No one puts Baby in a corner, but there he was, cornered by two rubes from Illinois.

He was very cordial, and discussed his love for flying. We found out we both had the same breed of dog and bantered uncomfortably about that for about the length of time it took to pound a drink. He was a nice guy, I think.

That was the first night of the event. Patrick Swayze proceeded to get shitty drunk all weekend instead of schmoozing and golfing with random boring rich bastards. The wives were pissed. Their panties dried up faster than spit on a Vegas sidewalk. My fat ass loved it. It was the highlight of my trip.

White Trash Peg, Wynona IL.

The most important election in the history of the autonomous city state of Neustern has taken place. Earlier today 1,850,000 Neusterners cast there vote and elected their 117 parliamentary representatives. A referendum on the continued role of the supreme controller as head of state was also on the ballot paper.

NEW PARLIAMENT BUILDING UNVEILED

(Above) NEW PARLIAMENT OF NEUSTERN, Gary Farrelly (2011)

The new parliament buildings of Neustern were officially opened in an elaborate ribbon cutting ceremony today. 250,000 Neusterners came out to celebrate the inauguration of the impressive new erection which will house the parliament aswell as government ministries and political offices. The assembly itself is housed in a cast concrete hall with fine herring bone detail on the exterior. All other functions are accommodated in the adjacent 23 story tower which is pigmented with glasnost green cladding and nostalgia tinted windows. Architects across the world are unanimous  in praising the building as the greatest of the 21st century. Notables in attendance included the Supreme Controller as well 'opposition' leaders and Politburo members.  The crowds were treated to complimentary alcohol and rousing music from the National Radio Orchestra. Deputies will occupy their seats for the first session of parliament following the general election poll on Monday morning. A large number of candidates from the newly formed Libertarian Party are expected to be elected to office. Read the election special tomorrow: Libertarian Party vs. The National Comrades, A new order in Neustern?

Gary Farrelly, Neustern.

NEUSTERN ERECTS GREAT BUILDINGS

(Above) GRAND HOTEL NEUSTERN, Gary Farrelly (2011)

A massive program of building and municipal beautification is underway in the autonomous coastal city state of Neustern. Dozens of private and state funded construction projects of the highest architectural quality are on track right right across the territory. The surge in construction directly employs over 70,000 Neusterners and recruited foreign nationals. The government has promised to reemploy any surplus labour in the armed forces in the event of a slow down. Some of the key erections well advanced in the building process include: Neustern libertarian university, the cathedral of Saint Sophia, the new parliament, the great hall of the people and the state run department store and discotheque. Already completed are the extension to Neustern Sullenberger international airport, the grand hotel Neustern (pictured above) and the National Comrades Party headquarters. Construction of a monument celebrating Neustern's independence and agressively guarded sovereignty commences later this month. 

Gary Farrelly, Neustern.