Those with Resistance LA cell phones received a message today:
“Listen up we think theses phones have been compromised we’ve got to go dark for a while but that is ok you don’t need us anymore it is up to you and your friends to carry the message you have a voice use it, this is your time, this is your hour, the hour of arrival remember that. Do’nt give up don’t give in you are the resistance now.”
This lead to what seems to be the final piece of this game, the site that discusses Danny Jane: http://www.hourofarrival.net
Friday, April 27, 2007
Thursday, April 26, 2007
-15 04.26
Trent and Rob released three new multi-track files for use in Garageband today. Capital G, My Violent Heart and Me, I'm Not. Capital G had a couple of "extra" files. Capital G E.aiff and Capital G O.aiff.
The .aiff files when spectrographically analysed contained images of avatars from echoingthesound forum members. The avatars were from the following members, in the following order:
E:
Esoterrorist
Xanthippe
Heroicraptor
Ishtmail
O:
TheLeper
Without_the_underscore
Exploding Plastic
Nantucket68
Theartofdecay
Yamagu
**there is also a small amount at the end of this file that may be another avatar.
From this came what may be the final chapter:
http://www.exhibit24.net/
Most of the active players in the ARG are listed on the pages here, as well as a fairly comprehensive list of all of the sites and external clues in the game.
I'm listed by both of my aliases:
24.24.2.928 Erik
24.24.1.428 exej [Incarcerated]
One of me even ended up incarcerated!
There are still some things [MISSING] from the exhibit24 files, such as the mysterious Danny Jane letter.
We've got a complete set of Mailstrom buttons now though, and the cleansing wreckage finally has a shard match: http://www.themailstrom.com/cleansing_3Rrt45.htm
This has been a great trip so far... but is it over now?
The .aiff files when spectrographically analysed contained images of avatars from echoingthesound forum members. The avatars were from the following members, in the following order:
E:
Esoterrorist
Xanthippe
Heroicraptor
Ishtmail
O:
TheLeper
Without_the_underscore
Exploding Plastic
Nantucket68
Theartofdecay
Yamagu
**there is also a small amount at the end of this file that may be another avatar.
From this came what may be the final chapter:
http://www.exhibit24.net/
Most of the active players in the ARG are listed on the pages here, as well as a fairly comprehensive list of all of the sites and external clues in the game.
I'm listed by both of my aliases:
24.24.2.928 Erik
24.24.1.428 exej [Incarcerated]
One of me even ended up incarcerated!
There are still some things [MISSING] from the exhibit24 files, such as the mysterious Danny Jane letter.
We've got a complete set of Mailstrom buttons now though, and the cleansing wreckage finally has a shard match: http://www.themailstrom.com/cleansing_3Rrt45.htm
This has been a great trip so far... but is it over now?
Sunday, April 22, 2007
-15 04.22
The Resistance Flag appears several times during this week's "Bonus Round" on Gametrailers.com. The end of the show also features The Presence static from the end of "The Warning".
Friday, April 20, 2007
-15 04.20
They've added an edited quicktime recap video of the 4/18 LA Resistance meeting to Opensourceresistance.net.
It reveals that this is a piece of the game puzzle: 24.11.2
It reveals that this is a piece of the game puzzle: 24.11.2
Thursday, April 19, 2007
-15 04.19
Open Source Resistance has Print ads in the weekly papers in many US cities this week.
Austin Chronicle
Austin, TX
Seattle Weekly
Seattle, WA
City Paper
Philadelphia, PA
Weekly Dig
Boston, MA
Village Voice
New York, NY
Orlando Weekly
Orlando, FL
OC Weekly
Orange County, CA
Chicago Reader
Chicago, IL
San Francisco Guardian
San Francisco, CA
LA Weekly
Los Angeles, CA
We weren't lying. You have a voice.
http://www.actpatriotic.net was found by brute force hacking by scanning the subnets used by the Year Zero sites (some say this is "cheating").
It is still in PilgrimStream stage.
Also this fake story (the people that were really "detained" were questioned by the "police" and let go. they were taken back to the area where the bus dropped off the others and were able to collect their belongings and go without incident):
"Hello everyone: We are the two girls who were detained at the resistance meeting last night. This is our first time posting a message as the vikingtwins, because we want to remain as anonymous as possible. You never know who is reading these threads. We do feel it necessary to share our experience of what happened to us.
As far as the information about the plants, we cannot say for sure, but we suspect there were at least two. However, the police who busted in were very real as was the sobering experience of spending the night in jail.
Here are each of our accounts:
Vikingtwin 1's account:
During the piano solo of the Frail the swat team busted through the door and rushed at us. They were shouting and immediately started pushing us around. When I tried to defend myself and ask what was going on the response I got was the muzzle of a gun pressed to my chest. At that point I lost it. The next thing was a blur, but when I came to I was wrestling on the floor with one of the police. It was surreal, like an out of body experience. Next, I felt a sharp pain at the back of my head followed by the sound of a crunch as my body was being flung into the air. Another cop was dragging me by my hair, then he threw me up against the wall. He put the gun to the back of my head and told me not to move. Behind me I could hear the band shouting and fighting with the officers.
Vikingtwin 2's account:
When the cops busted in there were loud bangs and a deafening alarm. I was confused when a cop came at me shouting. He started shoving me around, which seriously pissed me off. I struggled to get away, but he shoved me down and slammed me into the wall. I could hear more yelling and I know there was a struggle with the band, but all I could see was the wall. About a minute later I was handcuffed with plastic cuffs and led me outside where I saw with my friend, vikingtwin 1, standing handcuffed.
Here's our combined experience of what took place next:
Outside we were questioned for at least 45 minutes. They asked us questions like, "why were we there" and "what was going on", "what was the nature of the meeting we had attended". We told them it was a concert and a gathering of people who are concerned about the future of this country. We tried to make a point that our very being detained was a violation of our civil liberties, but communication seemed futile.
Eventually a Sherrif's van showed up and the took us to Central Jail, downtown. They charged us with unlawful assembly, resisting arrest, and battery of a police officer for vikingtwin1.
In the morning we were taken before a judge and pled not guilty. He dropped one of the charges and set the bail. Later, we were bailed out by someone involved with the band who didn't want to be identified. That's all we know.
One more thing, after having this experience we've realized. Now is the time for us to create a community of resistance. We wish more people would have stayed behind to fight. If so, maybe things would have gone differently. Now is the time to stand up for what we believe, if we don't join together, than separately we will surely fall.
Thanks to the mysterious person who bailed us out. (We think we know who you are)
Vikingtwins"
"i call BS on viking twin ... there is absolutley no way you will get me to believe that was a real raid ... those firecracker gun shots and that whack alarm were almost comical .... if it were a real raid not one person would have gotten out that door with out being questioned and Information (name ,address.etc.) taken from them
i love the whole idea of making YZ a little closer to life but dont think im gunna buy into the fallacy of that raid being real..."
"First of all those weren't gunshots, they were flashbang grenades meant to startle and confuse a crowd. Later, I asked the Deputies why were they shooting in the air and he laughed and said they were grenades not gunshots. They are used by police for crowd control.
Second, we were not the only ones taken in. There were others who never made it on the bus. I guess they grabbed whoever they could get their hands on (i saw a bunch of the roadies lined up). Everyone else ran. They could only get so many of us at a time.
In the end, you can believe whatever you want. But I can tell you, I can still smell the stench of piss from that disgusting "processing room" we spent the night in ."
Austin Chronicle
Austin, TX
Seattle Weekly
Seattle, WA
City Paper
Philadelphia, PA
Weekly Dig
Boston, MA
Village Voice
New York, NY
Orlando Weekly
Orlando, FL
OC Weekly
Orange County, CA
Chicago Reader
Chicago, IL
San Francisco Guardian
San Francisco, CA
LA Weekly
Los Angeles, CA
We weren't lying. You have a voice.
http://www.actpatriotic.net was found by brute force hacking by scanning the subnets used by the Year Zero sites (some say this is "cheating").
It is still in PilgrimStream stage.
Also this fake story (the people that were really "detained" were questioned by the "police" and let go. they were taken back to the area where the bus dropped off the others and were able to collect their belongings and go without incident):
"Hello everyone: We are the two girls who were detained at the resistance meeting last night. This is our first time posting a message as the vikingtwins, because we want to remain as anonymous as possible. You never know who is reading these threads. We do feel it necessary to share our experience of what happened to us.
As far as the information about the plants, we cannot say for sure, but we suspect there were at least two. However, the police who busted in were very real as was the sobering experience of spending the night in jail.
Here are each of our accounts:
Vikingtwin 1's account:
During the piano solo of the Frail the swat team busted through the door and rushed at us. They were shouting and immediately started pushing us around. When I tried to defend myself and ask what was going on the response I got was the muzzle of a gun pressed to my chest. At that point I lost it. The next thing was a blur, but when I came to I was wrestling on the floor with one of the police. It was surreal, like an out of body experience. Next, I felt a sharp pain at the back of my head followed by the sound of a crunch as my body was being flung into the air. Another cop was dragging me by my hair, then he threw me up against the wall. He put the gun to the back of my head and told me not to move. Behind me I could hear the band shouting and fighting with the officers.
Vikingtwin 2's account:
When the cops busted in there were loud bangs and a deafening alarm. I was confused when a cop came at me shouting. He started shoving me around, which seriously pissed me off. I struggled to get away, but he shoved me down and slammed me into the wall. I could hear more yelling and I know there was a struggle with the band, but all I could see was the wall. About a minute later I was handcuffed with plastic cuffs and led me outside where I saw with my friend, vikingtwin 1, standing handcuffed.
Here's our combined experience of what took place next:
Outside we were questioned for at least 45 minutes. They asked us questions like, "why were we there" and "what was going on", "what was the nature of the meeting we had attended". We told them it was a concert and a gathering of people who are concerned about the future of this country. We tried to make a point that our very being detained was a violation of our civil liberties, but communication seemed futile.
Eventually a Sherrif's van showed up and the took us to Central Jail, downtown. They charged us with unlawful assembly, resisting arrest, and battery of a police officer for vikingtwin1.
In the morning we were taken before a judge and pled not guilty. He dropped one of the charges and set the bail. Later, we were bailed out by someone involved with the band who didn't want to be identified. That's all we know.
One more thing, after having this experience we've realized. Now is the time for us to create a community of resistance. We wish more people would have stayed behind to fight. If so, maybe things would have gone differently. Now is the time to stand up for what we believe, if we don't join together, than separately we will surely fall.
Thanks to the mysterious person who bailed us out. (We think we know who you are)
Vikingtwins"
"i call BS on viking twin ... there is absolutley no way you will get me to believe that was a real raid ... those firecracker gun shots and that whack alarm were almost comical .... if it were a real raid not one person would have gotten out that door with out being questioned and Information (name ,address.etc.) taken from them
i love the whole idea of making YZ a little closer to life but dont think im gunna buy into the fallacy of that raid being real..."
"First of all those weren't gunshots, they were flashbang grenades meant to startle and confuse a crowd. Later, I asked the Deputies why were they shooting in the air and he laughed and said they were grenades not gunshots. They are used by police for crowd control.
Second, we were not the only ones taken in. There were others who never made it on the bus. I guess they grabbed whoever they could get their hands on (i saw a bunch of the roadies lined up). Everyone else ran. They could only get so many of us at a time.
In the end, you can believe whatever you want. But I can tell you, I can still smell the stench of piss from that disgusting "processing room" we spent the night in ."
Wednesday, April 18, 2007
-15 04.18
Open Source Resistance has updated with more artwork, added the Melrose and Ogden mural into their broadcasts and posted an update about tonight's meeting in LA:
We are going ahead with an initial meeting in Los Angeles today. A few people have been contacted:
you know who you are. If you aren’t one of those people, check back here for an update later tonight.
Beyond LA – listen, in response to some email that’s come into the site: yes, open source means open source.
Yes, we are putting out some of your messages. Yes, what you see here, you can use.
This is not a website: it’s an idea. You don’t have to like the books we read or the causes we support.
Your meeting in Detroit or Dallas doesn’t have to be like ours: but you should meet.
You don’t have to vote for my candidate: but you should vote.
You don’t have to say what I would say: but you should sure as hell speak, while you still have a voice.
I've also created a downloadable archive of the pages and files mostly accurate as of 4/17/07 that is available at http://savefile.com/projects/808479375
--
The first meeting of the LA Resistance took place tonight. Those summoned by cell phone met at a secret location and then were placed on a bus and driven to another secret location, a warehouse. Inside the warehouse, the meeting took place. The agenda was a six song concert by the subversive rock and roll act nine inch nails.
Early reports:
"(as heard from two different friends who were there) There was a show. 6 songs. They had to board a bus so they didn't know where they were going, then got on an elevator, then saw 6 songs, then it was broken up by a SWAT team. The entire band was there.
They played:
The Beginning of the End
Survivalism
Last
March of the Pigs
We're In This Together
The Frail
There were apparently only 24 people with phones plus guests who showed up."
"I was there. We got a phone call telling us to go to a parking lot. We got to sign a release form saying that we didn't know where we were going or what were doing and that we were over 18 and ok with being filmed. We were searched (all electronics were put back in the car) and then loaded on a rickety bus, in which all of the windows and doors had been blacked out. We pulled up to an abandoned warehouse looking place; there were random people standing on the roof and around the entrance. We were led inside; there were more people and more cameras (there was a hand held camera on the bus, high quality ones inside). Neil Czarno (or whoever is playing him) gave a talk about how we should give a shit and change the world, and how we were stupid for allowing them to herd us like cattle onto a bus to who knows where with no form of communication (and for carrying around cellphones like tracking devices) and that we'd be dead if they were really after us. After his talk, we were led over the river and through the woods (the warehouse complex was really, really big). We were stopped briefly before we entered a room with lots of light and equipment. Next thing I knew, the opening notes of TBOTE were playing, and I was 3 feet away from Jeordie White on the far end of the line (and 10ft away from Trent Reznor, that's the closest that I'll ever get to NIN). There were about 50 people there, so it was a very small, intimate show. They then played Survivalism, Last (it was marvelous), MOTP, WITT (it was marvelous as well), and then The Frail. I knew that something was going to happen because you could see flashing lights outside. Policemen in riot gear entered the building and pushed us all out (they also had a few flash grenade thingies). There seemed to be a few people detained, but I'm not quite sure how they were detained; I was right where the police entered and made it out (and I was wearing a bright red sweater, so I wasn't hard to miss in the sea of black). I should have known that something was going to happen after I saw the 20 song set list that included The Perfect Drug . We were herded back on the bus after a run through the complex and driven back to our cars. People still have their cellphones, so they should be in contact with them. There weren't any clues (and I saw the porta potty, there wasn't anything interesting in there)."
"Honestly, I wasn't looking at them at that point. I was more worried about the people in riot gear pushing me out of the room combined with the flashing lights and the sirens. Rumor has it that they ducked. I'm pretty sure that the footage will be used to demonstrate the secret police busting up a secret show featuring non-BoM approved music. The riot police looked like the ones in the Survivalism video. I saw some of the guys who were handing out stuff on Friday at the show, as well as the guy with glasses who was giving out pins.
The room had the AIR flag stenciled on the wall; there were multiple AIR flags hanging from the roof in the first room where Neil Czarno talked to us. Also, at the end, they told us to be on the look out for more graffiti, murals, ads, etc."
"Tonight was amazing. Really overwhelming and so cool. I can't get over the amount of planning that had to go into everything. When we were being led through the building and finally came into that small room, and all of the sudden you started to hear TBOTE---crazy. There was a lot of filming but I have no idea what it will be used for but I hope we'll get to see it eventually. Hearing Last and WITT three feet away from TR was incredible. Insane night"
"AIR Meeting
April 18, 2007
Los Angeles, CA
Around 6 PM, Reyna (hhippo428) and I were at Echo Park awaiting the phone call to the next destination. It was literally right down the street from where we were. For the record, the phone scared the shit out of me.
When we made it to the parking lot, they had us huddled together in a corner barricaded off by caution tape. The people in charge told us to wait for our phone to ring. When it rang, we were supposed to take our guest and our self to get scanned and frisked. We were inspected twice to make sure we didn’t have cell phones or cameras. (Reyna and I left all our stuff in the car.) Then we showed our ID’s, they took our phones and gave us a card so we could get our phones back later and they let us on a bus.
The bus had black paper along the inside of the windows and a big black curtain to block off the driver’s window so we had no idea where the fuck we were going or what was going to happen when we got there. (Pretty much the situation that your mom always warns you about.)
When we arrived, we found ourselves at a warehouse. (Location UNKNOWN, so don’t fucking ask me where we were.) We walked up a ramp to this big ass room with chairs lined up in rows and we sat down. Mind you there was a camera crew filming us the whole time (even on the bus). While we were in this room, this speaker who looked and sounded like Samuel L. Jackson gave us a lecture, basically telling us what a bunch of fools we were to accept cell phones that *could have* been from the FBI or something, and had this been WWII Germany, we would have been locked in the room and gassed. And that part scared me, lol. His main message of the evening, “WAKE UP AND GIVE A SHIT!”
After that, they took us through another door and down some hallways with low ceilings and so forth and then through another door. Then we all got packed into a huge elevator and it took us down a level. This little girl in front of Reyna started shrieking “is that a stage? Is that a stage???” And it was time to rush the fucking thing.
I’ll take a moment to say something about the stage. There was NO fucking barricade between us and the band. We could see every facial expression of Trent and the band. It was truly the most awesome experience ever.
Now for the setlist.
1. The Beginning of the End (he just went right into it)
2. Survivalism
3. Last
4. March of the Pigs
5. We’re in This Together
6. The Frail
So, it was basically the American debut of TBOTE, Survivalism, Last, and WITT. SO FUCKING LUCKY TO HAVE BEEN THERE!
Halfway into The Frail though is when things got interesting. A SWAT team busted in and started shooting all around. Some of the SWAT members *TACKLED* Trent and the bandmates to the ground. By that time I was running my ass off to get the hell out of there just like everyone else. The SWAT team kept 3 people and 3 of their guests behind to “interrogate” them. Later, those folks got dropped off in a van while the rest of us took the bus back to the parking lot where we picked up our cell phones and left.
There were hints that we should keep our eyes open for stuff happening in the future.
I am too fucking excited/grateful/amazed/shocked/whatever!!!"
Opensourceresistance.net updated with a 54 minute version of the night's events, which included the meeting from two camera angles, followed by the full nine inch nails concert. This was replaced by a 39 minute version which uses the second, better angle of the meeting.
Here's a transcript I found online of Neil's speech at the meeting:
"BEGIN TRANSCRIPTION:
[reads off names]
What the hell were you thinking? I just want to start by saying, you’re all dead! You were seen gathering around a piece of protest art. A shady guy in a van gave you resistance themed material, and you took it, in public, without knowledge of who they were. What if they were if FBI, NSA? We gave you phones; cell phones send a signal out to the network every 10 seconds or so. Remember after 9/11 there was a bio-terrorism scare some guy sending the anthrax [inaudible] through the mail, the FBI caught him by triangulating on his cell phone signal. So, you self identified as dissidents, you kindly agreed to carry tracking devices on yourselves, you showed up for a resistance meeting and you singed a waiver that gave us permission to do… ANYTHING. You allowed yourselves to be hustled onto a van, you let us take away any way of communicating with the outside world that you had. We could have drove you to an unknown location and led you down to this room; if this was Nazi Germany, I would walk out that door laughing , and fucking Zyklon B would start hissing out of the vents.
You learned a lesson, guys. In a real resistance, you don’t get a lot of second chances. Look. you’ve seen some scary website about what the future might become, me too. So let’s start by saying, you’re not crazy, I’m not crazy, and go from there. ‘Cause like most people, I need a kick in the ass to change. I mean I was sort of politically aware, I guess, but mostly back then I read the Drudge report every now and then, and felt guilty. I might even get around to voting on Election Day. Then awhile back, some people I know, came across a.. uh… call it a transmission… uh… a few broken pieces of the future. That’s some scary shit, it shook my belief that it, you know, can happen. The other weird thing was, we thought we recognized a some things. Uh, a couple of names, uh, a certain style of a piece of art, the sound of the music. So we sent some of this stuff around to some people we thought we recognized. Obviously, we didn’t say, “dude look, you’ve been beamed back from the future”, because none of us wanted to get [inaudible] a state psychiatric facility. What we did instead was, we sent a piece of work to the person we thought created it. [inaudible] Like hey, is someone trying to copy your style? Like that. For instance, we sent a music clip to a certain artist, and said, “hey this sounds like something new, is it a uh bootleg or is it maybe somebody trying to leak something out of the studio on you?” A couple days later there’s something in my inbox from this artist, the subject line is, “How the fuck did you get this?” Turns out he had written the exact words down in a notebook a few days ago, he hadn’t started working the song. The rest you know. We’ve been trying to find as many of these transmissions as possible, trying to get them out there. People are waking up to this shit! I mean they’re painting street art, they’re writing songs, I’m involved with a website, Open Source Resistance, maybe you’ve seen it?! [audience responds with muffled affirmations ] Yeah! Is this the future? I don’t know, but I sure as hell hope not.
Unfortunately, that future is closer than you think. Think about what you all have witnessed in the last few years, right here in America. In the aftermath of 9/11, the current administration has done unbelievable damage to civil liberties. If you are not a US citizen, and the government decides, God help you, that you are an enemy combatant, which that can define pretty much at will. They can throw you in jail and keep you there, FOREVER! Is there anyone here who is not a US citizen? [one audience member indicates yes] Hey! Just being here at this meeting might be sufficient cause to call you an enemy combatant. Ok, if we were the feds, we might have set this up to scare the shit out of everybody else, but you, you don’t go home tonight. You, get a one way ticket to Guantanamo Bay. What about those of us who are citizens? Tonight, you’re lucky, but what if there was another 9/11 attack? Big terrorist attack, something bigger even, something say, right here in LA soon. Lots of people killed, big chunks of the city evacuated. Do you seriously think the feds wouldn’t extend the Ashcroft laws to make catching terrorists a priority? Listen, I don’t wanna have my plane hijacked by Islamic terrorists either, I’m not crazy, but in the big picture there aren’t a lot of those guys and they don’t have a lot of money. The government has lots of money, and guns, and cops, and lawyers, you don’t want them to get in the habit of using that shit on ya. Keep them honest. Use your voice, be heard!
So what are the ordinary real things we can do to make a difference? Listen, you don’t have to be Gandhi to get involved. If politics seems big and vague, cut it down to size. You don’t have to stop the war in Iraq, look maybe you think you aught to give a shit about Iraq, but you just don’t. Listen, I grew up in Orange County, when they built state route 241 back in the ‘90s, I didn’t pay attention. They said it would make the commute a lot easier, and I was all for that. Then they bulldozed it, right over the Laguna hills, they literally cut the top of the hills and dumped the fill dirt in the valleys. They mutilated it, the place that I grew up in. So then they want to build a southern expansion to 241, they wanna bulldoze it right through the San Mateo Creek watershed, which has 11 federally recognized endangered species. They want to run it up to San Onofre State Park and the Donna O'Neill Land Conservancy, and they want to wipe out the last piece of pristine coast in southern California. Which by the way [inaudible] Do I look like a surfer? But I joined the Surfriders association because those are the guys who are fighting the hardest against this thing, because it’s local and they give a shit. [audience member “Yeah!”] Yeah! The last attorney general threatened to sue the TCA if went ahead with the 241 extension. If you give a damn, when you go home tonight, send an e-mail mean bean Jerrod Brown, our new attorney general, and tell him the exact same thing, that’s all you have to do, to start. Does that make sense? Look, I’m not asking you to be Gandhi. I’m just asking you to stop, and recognize what matters to you and make a seeing effort to actually change your world and other people who didn’t vote on their guy. All I want is this: WAKE UP AND GIVE A SHIT! Open your eyes and pay attention, don’t just swallow the spin, everyone’s fucking spinning, governments, gangsters, fortune 500s, the guy next door, do not swallow what they’re shoving down your throat. WAKE UP AND GIVE A SHIT! And for God’s sake please, do not blindly follow the line of bullshit I am giving you right now, I do not want you to buy what I am selling! What do I want? I want you to… [audience “Wake up and give a shit!”] Nice. Do your own thinking; find out where you stand on things that matter to you. I had this really nice thing I was gonna say about how mad I was that you all showed up and all that shit, but let’s skip the bullshit. The future is ours to change, we better fuckin’ get on it. It’s time to move."
Here's a review and recap of everything:
http://digg.com/music/Resistance_meeting_turns_into_free_Nine_Inch_Nails_show_in_LA_w_photos
RESISTANCE MEETING TURNS INTO FREE NIN SHOW
"Tonight a group of about 50 Art is Resistance members, including the select few from last week’s A.I.R. gathering in LA, were gathered using a series of cellphone calls and directed to an abandoned warehouse in Los Angeles for a private resistance meeting and intimate live Nine Inch Nails show.
The entire meeting was caught on video and is now streaming live on Open Source Resistance.
Last week they received calls on their issued cellphones (read the instructions they received here) telling them to be available tonight for another resistance meeting.
Tonight they received calls again instructing them to go to Echo Park (north of LA) and await further instruction. A few minutes later another call came through directing them to this location where they met several resistance crew members who promptly frisked them of any electronic device and hoarded them into an unmarked van.
The van took them to an abandoned clothing warehouse. One of the attendees named xaphor recited the experience on the Echoing the Sound forum:
Chairs were lined up facing a small makeshift stage.. We were confined to the left side with three sheets or red, white and black sprayed with the AIR logo broke the room in two. On both sides of the chairs about 5 crew members stood ominously overlooking the proceedings. Once everyone filled in our guide went behind a metal sliding door and a minute later a man in camo gear came out and took the stage.
He called roll and then lectured us on our stupidity in being seen at the mural meet receiving subversive material, willingly carrying the cell phone at all times allowing us to be tracked and herding on to a blacked out bus to an unknown destination. Had he been a government agency we all would have been dead. He then proceeded to mention our loss of rights and that we should wake up and use our voice…
He said “Let’s move” and left behind the same metal door. We were then herded through the same door and up a tight wooden staircase and across to either a freight elevator or another steep staircase that took us to a darkened landing with the only light being that which filtered through the dust from above. Once everyone was down, there were lights in a room up ahead and to the left and then screaming and sudden rush as people jockeyed for front and center position as Trent and Co. broke into The Beginning of the End directly in front of us.
This entire sequence was captured on video.
According to another attendee, this was the setlist:
The Beginning of the End
Survivalism
Last
March of the Pigs
Were in This Together
The Frail
Closer
Burn
Gave Up
Eraser
Wish
The Perfect Drug
Only
The Big Come Down
Suck
Down In It
Hurt
The Hand That Feeds
Head Like A Hole
Just as Trent began to get into “The Wretched”, a loud siren went off and tons of heavily armed and armored SWAT-like troops busted into the warehouse. This is all caught on the resistance video feed, where the last images show a SWAT member busting down the video camera and the picture goes blank.
More information as it becomes available.."
"Wow
What else can be said? What a night....
What a night...
For the illiterate, just skip all of this and see the fucking AWESOME footage at http://www.opensourceresistance.net/
On the 101 I recieved a call at around 12:45 or so. They told me that at 6pm, I was to be within a 5 minute drive from the fountain at Echo Park. That they would contact me from there with furthur instructions, and to stay in the car.
6pm?! What was I going to do until then? Oh boy!
I eventually got to Hollywood, where I met up with Tracy (TrentRoxMe) at around 1:30pm. I picked up my extra pre-ordered copy of Year Zero at the Virgin Megastore on Hollywood and Highland.
From there we decided to get some lunch, which is of course when we went to Pinks Hotdogs (Always Pinks). We enjoyed a nice meal, and then headed to the Mural to bide our time. We checked out the mural for a while, took some photos and then walked up and down Melrose, checking out all the sex shops along the way (There are a LOT). Eventually we walked off most of the weight we gained from Pinks, and started walking back to the Mural.
I got a call from Adrienne, one of the other phone holders, telling me she was in the area. Tracy and I met up with her at Coffee Bean and we walked furthur along Melrose to the mural. We took some more photos and got to my car. Adrienne's guest (and ride) was still in class so we decided to help her out and give her a ride. We headed to the parking lot Tracy parked in so she could get her sweater. And then, Adrienne lived across the street so we went to her place to use the restrooms and stretch.
After a weird confrontation with some hippy about where I parked in front of her house, we proceeded to Echo Park.
Even though Tracy nearly got us lost, and late, we arrived with 20 minutes to spare. A few phone holders were chilling in the park, so we joined them for a bit. Chatted a bit, and then 5 minutes before 6 we all headed to our cars. Adrienne's roommate met up with us at this point (this perky blonde girl who has never listened to NIN before in her life, and had no idea what was going on beyond the phones).
At around 6:03 they call us and tell us directions to this parking lot about a mile or two from where we were. To park, and bring ourselves and our ID. We pull into a gated parking area in an alley, the gates are all masked with black sheets, so we can't see inside. We park at around 6:20, and get out.
We gather in little groups, Tracy, Jessica, Russ, Adrienne, I, and all our guests. And others. Eventually, like ameobas we all converge into a corner of the parking lot. All 45 of us. They wrap caution tape around the area and tell us that they are gonna start calling our OSR phones and that when that happens, us and our guest must step up and get wanded and patted down to make sure we were free of recording devices. Soon after they started handing out waivers, stating that we may be recorded and that we give up our rights to be recorded, and that we were going to be transported and that we okayed that too.
Fuck it. Signed.
They called my phone, we stepped up, and got a thorough pat down.
We loaded up onto an old coach bus, with windows completely taped up with black paper, and the front had a black curtain so we could absolutely not see where we were headed. After everyone loaded up we headed off to the super secret location.
After an entertaining 15 minute drive, we arived. We all unloaded at this dilapidated old warehouse. There were OSR members everywhere. They were watching us from the roof, from windows, everywhere. Some of them even had cameras. We walked inside and there were seats and stage.
They sat us down and after a few quiet minutes a guy came out and gave us a very powerful speach about using our voices, waking up and making a difference. Not to necessarily listen to his opinion, but to realize we can form our own, and we have the power to use our voice. You can hear the whole shpiel on the footage.
At the end they took us all and made us walk through this labrinth of a warehouse. Up stairs, under pipes, through dark rooms, on bridges that conntected buildings. For about 3-4 minutes. Eventually we arived at an old elevator. We got inside the elevator, about half of us, the other half had to take the stairs.
The elevator goes down. Slowly...
And as we get furthur down, someone mentions amp lights.
Amp lights?
Someone mentions a stage.
A stage?
Oh fuck. Oh fuck fuck fuck.
Tracy grabs my arm and grips it hard. The elevator arrives and the door opens.
The OSR guys yell at us "Hurry, move, move!"
We don't need them to tell us, we're already half way there.
And there they are.
NINE INCH NAILS
In the dark, we see their shadows.
And then, before we even all arive to the stage (Which is not so much a stage but a few pieces of plywood, and Tracy and I are RIGHT IN FRONT, less than 3 feet away from touching Trent Reznor, literally), The Beginning of the End begins.
We all start going crazy.
After 6 amazing songs are played (Beginning of the End, Survivalism, Last, March of the Pigs, We're In This Together, and The Frail)....
The SWAT team BUSTS IN.
Alarms blare, the music ends, lights flashing... SWAT comes busting in through doors, through windows, guns and lights pointing at us. We hear gunfire and we all run. The OSR team is telling is to 'run and get to the bus!' and we do. We all run.
And we arrive at the bus. And we're all loaded up and we bolt out of there.
We get taken back to our cars.
And that's it.
The end.
They tell us they will be contacting us shortly on our OSR phones.
We all gather around the lot, talk about what we just experienced, and take some photos and we all leave.
The blonde newbie is ecstatic, calling all her friends and telling her all about the experience (Adrienne tells me she asked to have all the CDs burnt, niceeee)
We drop them off and then me and Tracy get Denny's.
We part ways.
And here I am.
Watch it all here... http://www.opensourceresistance.net/
They aparently replay the speech from a different angle in the video, it goes from 00:00 to 11:30, and then plays again, and then at the 25:30 mark you can see the continuation. From the walking the elevator, to the entire show, to the raid.
Enjoy.
Un
Fucking
Believeable
Photos: http://picasaweb.google.com/requieminadream/OSR1stMeeting"
"Apparently I wrote the post that echoed through out the ninternet tonight. I've rewritten it in a more coherent form (and it's even in more than one paragraph this time).
It all began when I met the person with a cellphone at the parking lot of the LA Police Academy. We then headed over to Echo Park to wait for the phone call (though I got us a little lost along the way). The phone call gave us directions to a nearby parking lot. We milled around in the parking lot for a while before they roped us off into a corner and handed out release forms. The release forms were very entertaining; they said that we didn't know where we were going or what we were doing and that we were over 18 and ok with being filmed. We were searched (all electronics were put back in the car; I at least got the name of the person frisking me this time, unlike the listening party) and then loaded on a rickety bus, in which all of the windows and doors had been blacked out. I was definitely afraid that the bus wasn't going to make it up some of the hills, and there were a few rough bumps. There was a guy with a hand held camera filming us on the bus.
We pulled up to an abandoned warehouse; there were random people standing on the roof and around the entrance. We were led inside; there were more people inside, and AIR flags hanging from the roof. The people inside all had neat black shirts with white AIR flags on them. There also was a mural with the angel, the guy with the face mask, and the robot with a skull inside from the mural in London with "Art is Resistance" written on the bottom. There was a camera when we first walked in and then another one inside. Neil Czarno (or whoever is playing him) gave a talk about how we should give a shit and change the world. I was rather cynical about his talk at first, but he redeemed himself by noting that we shouldn't just blindly accept what he was saying and that we should change the world in small ways. He also told us that we were stupid for allowing them to herd us like cattle onto a bus to who knows where with no form of communication (and for carrying around cellphones like tracking devices) and that we'd be dead if they were really after us. After his talk, we were led over the river and through the woods (the warehouse complex was rather large). We were stopped briefly before we entered a room with many lights and lots of equipment.
The opening notes of TBOTE began playing, and I was 3 feet away from Jeordie White on the far end of the line (and 10ft away from Trent Reznor, that's the closest that I'll ever get to NIN). There were about 50 people there, so it was a very small, intimate show. They then played Survivalism, Last, MOTP, WITT, and then The Frail. I'd honestly thought that I was going to have to wait six months or more to hear TBOTE, Survivalism, Last, and WITT live. There were people there filming the show with cameras, and Rob was taking shots of the band. There was a large AIR flag painted on the wall behind the band. I knew that something was going to happen because you could see flashing lights outside during The Frail. Policemen in riot gear (they looked like carbon copies of the ones in the Survivalism video) entered the building and pushed us all out (they also had quite a few devices like firecrackers that made noises that sounded like gun shots and that sparks; I got a very good look at them). There seemed to be a few people detained, but I'm not quite sure how they were chosen, because the six people were all cell phone people with their guests. I should have known that something was going to happen after I saw the 20 song set list that included The Perfect Drug . We were herded back on the bus after a run through the complex and driven back to our cars.
The people on the bus told us to be on the lookout for more graffiti, murals, and ads, and that they'd be in touch with the people with the cellphones."
"I was with cynic_muse the majority of the time so our accounts will be very similar but I’ll post mine as well.
I can’t really start without thanking Esrevni for giving me the opportunity to come along and to take his place in the event they would not accept his id. Thankfully they accepted his id and luckily for me there was someone without a guest who graciously invited me along (Thanks Al).
We were all instructed to Echo Park just North of downtown LA and to stay in our cars and await a phone call with further instructions. A few minutes past 6 the phone and we were given driving directions to a nearby parking lot alleyway (). From here we exited our cars and were rounded up into a corner of the lot boarded off with caution tape by about a half dozen crew members in black OSR shirts identifiable by a grey ‘r’ flag logo on the front. We were given waiver forms to sign which indicated we were boarding a vehicle of our own free will and agreed to be taken wherever they wished and for whatever they planned to do with us. At 7pm they called the phones and lined us up to be scanned and thoroughly frisked before taking our release forms. They checked each phone and provided a playing card which had an identifying sticker on the face side. Then it was on the well worn bus featuring blacked out windows and a black curtain between us and the driver. Once on the bus they were filming and photographing the rest of the evening non-stop. Every seat was occupied as the bus drove the 50 or so of us to an unknown location. Our “guide” introduced the event informing us that we are going to a meeting about the resistance and about using our voice. Along the way we entertained ourselves with a cappella versions of The Fragile and Wheels on the Bus (don’t ask me .
After about 15 minutes we arrived at an abandoned clothing warehouse and herded into the building. Chairs were lined up facing a small makeshift stage with a painting on the wall of 3 figures, the left one I recognized as the box face guards from the London billboard. We were confined to the left side with three sheets or red, white and black sprayed with the AIR logo broke the room in two. On both sides of the chairs about 5 crew members stood ominously overlooking the proceedings. Once everyone filled in our guide went behind a metal sliding door and a minute later a man in camo gear came out and took the stage.
He called roll and then lectured us on our stupidity in being seen at the mural meet receiving subversive material, willingly carrying the cell phone at all times allowing us to be tracked and herding on to a blacked out bus to an unknown destination. Had he been a government agency we all would have been dead. He then proceeded to mention our loss of rights and that we should wake up and use our voice. He drew upon an issue that was important to him, a freeway that cuts through the hills of Laguna Beach and the plans to extend it cutting through environmentally important areas of the coastline (
He said “Let’s move” and left behind the same metal door. We were then herded through the same door and up a tight wooden staircase and across to either a freight elevator or another steep staircase that took us to a darkened landing with the only light being that which filtered through the dust from above. Once everyone was down, there were lights in a room up ahead and to the left and then screaming and sudden rush as people jockeyed for front and center position as Trent and Co. broke into The Beginning of the End directly in front of us. Fake windows with strobe lighting would glow illuminating AIR graffiti on the wall behind the band. There were about a dozen crew members around us - some filming, some insuring we stayed together as a group. The next song was Survivalism followed by Last. When they played March of the Pigs I noticed quite a few of the crew members really getting into the music as well. Next up was Were In This Together which lead into The Frail. I overheard one of the crew members say, “keep them outside” over his phone and noticed a flashing red light through a side window that looked unmistakably like an undercover cop’s lights. When I looked over again, the window had been blacked, the light no longer visible. Right as the band were gearing up to break into the Wretched, the door was burst open by a guy in swat gear carrying a machine gun, shots sounded through the building and small fireworks were lit. I was pushed by a crew member and told to move and I followed cynic_muse as we were quickly sent back though the building.
Straight back onto the bus and while some people were asking about their jackets they left behind, I noticed the bus was not as full as before. They called roll and there were a few names absent indicating they had been detained along with the bag holding all the phones. Once all the missing clothing items were found (who cares about the detainees) we were on our way back to the lot. Everyone was psyched and in a jovial mood and the time passed much quicker on the return. Off the bus we gathered while we were handed back out phones by the playing card we received earlier. Two girls who missed the bus and assumed detained returned to the lot via another method. Once all the phones were returned we were free to go back to our normal lives.
Thanks to the band and everyone there.
http://www.opensourceresistance.net/
xaphor"
"5:30am and I am a awake and still filled with excitement.
Not much I can write that hasn't already been said.
Walking off the eleavator, hearing someone say, "Is that a stage?"
A bunch of screams of excitement and suddenly my little elevator group is running.
Seeing Trent motionless, brooding over his keyboard waiting for us is frozen in my mind.
All the girls instantly took up all the space between the two columns in front of the stage. I moved over to the right and Aaron was right in front of me.
Sometimes I had to duck as he flailed away. I could look down and see the zippers in his boots. I could look up and see his teeth weren't pearly white. Straight ahead, I could watch his fingers do magic on his guitars.
Setlist as best I can remember it:
The Beginning of the End
Survivalism
Last
March of the Pigs
Were in This Together
The Frail
*******
Closer
Burn
Gave Up
Eraser
Wish
The Perfect Drug
Only
The Big Come Down
Suck
Down In It
Hurt
The Hand That Feeds
Head Like A Hole
So when The Frail was coming to an end, I had Closer on my mind. When the sirens started blaring, all I could think of was no Perfect Drug.
I was hoping that just maybe, when we got back to the parking lot the show would finish at the studio that was next to the lot.
But the night ended. The sun isnt even up yet and I'm still filled with excitement."
"Oh. My. God.
I wasn't sure what to expect last night, and I don't think I would have believed it anyway. From start to finish this was incredible, and it's possibly not even over (we still have the phones, we still might be contacted again). From the fantastically hilarious waiver (something along the lines of "I don't know where I'm going and I don't know what will happen, but sure, that's cool!") to the scary-ass bus to seeing fucking NIN right before my eyes. So close! Without any barrier, buffer, or staff! Just, right there!
I must say, while the meeting was cool, it was also kind of funny. "Don't believe everything people tell you! Oh, but repeat after me! Don't blindly follow orders! Now, follow me into this dark hallway!" God knows we would have followed that man anywhere. I mean, we'd just signed this fantastically all-encompassing waiver, gotten into a blacked-out bus without so much as a cell phone, and then into an unknown building for some type of meeting. Seriously, this was somebody's case study. And I'd gladly do it all over again.
What a fantastic, fantastic treat. I never dreamed I could see NIN that close and that personal. Just...wow.
Also? I learned that when ordered to run, I'll leave my friend(s) behind. Good to know. Perhaps I should work on that. Honest to god, I thought she was behind me, but I ran without checking. Nice."
We are going ahead with an initial meeting in Los Angeles today. A few people have been contacted:
you know who you are. If you aren’t one of those people, check back here for an update later tonight.
Beyond LA – listen, in response to some email that’s come into the site: yes, open source means open source.
Yes, we are putting out some of your messages. Yes, what you see here, you can use.
This is not a website: it’s an idea. You don’t have to like the books we read or the causes we support.
Your meeting in Detroit or Dallas doesn’t have to be like ours: but you should meet.
You don’t have to vote for my candidate: but you should vote.
You don’t have to say what I would say: but you should sure as hell speak, while you still have a voice.
I've also created a downloadable archive of the pages and files mostly accurate as of 4/17/07 that is available at http://savefile.com/projects/808479375
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The first meeting of the LA Resistance took place tonight. Those summoned by cell phone met at a secret location and then were placed on a bus and driven to another secret location, a warehouse. Inside the warehouse, the meeting took place. The agenda was a six song concert by the subversive rock and roll act nine inch nails.
Early reports:
"(as heard from two different friends who were there) There was a show. 6 songs. They had to board a bus so they didn't know where they were going, then got on an elevator, then saw 6 songs, then it was broken up by a SWAT team. The entire band was there.
They played:
The Beginning of the End
Survivalism
Last
March of the Pigs
We're In This Together
The Frail
There were apparently only 24 people with phones plus guests who showed up."
"I was there. We got a phone call telling us to go to a parking lot. We got to sign a release form saying that we didn't know where we were going or what were doing and that we were over 18 and ok with being filmed. We were searched (all electronics were put back in the car) and then loaded on a rickety bus, in which all of the windows and doors had been blacked out. We pulled up to an abandoned warehouse looking place; there were random people standing on the roof and around the entrance. We were led inside; there were more people and more cameras (there was a hand held camera on the bus, high quality ones inside). Neil Czarno (or whoever is playing him) gave a talk about how we should give a shit and change the world, and how we were stupid for allowing them to herd us like cattle onto a bus to who knows where with no form of communication (and for carrying around cellphones like tracking devices) and that we'd be dead if they were really after us. After his talk, we were led over the river and through the woods (the warehouse complex was really, really big). We were stopped briefly before we entered a room with lots of light and equipment. Next thing I knew, the opening notes of TBOTE were playing, and I was 3 feet away from Jeordie White on the far end of the line (and 10ft away from Trent Reznor, that's the closest that I'll ever get to NIN). There were about 50 people there, so it was a very small, intimate show. They then played Survivalism, Last (it was marvelous), MOTP, WITT (it was marvelous as well), and then The Frail. I knew that something was going to happen because you could see flashing lights outside. Policemen in riot gear entered the building and pushed us all out (they also had a few flash grenade thingies). There seemed to be a few people detained, but I'm not quite sure how they were detained; I was right where the police entered and made it out (and I was wearing a bright red sweater, so I wasn't hard to miss in the sea of black). I should have known that something was going to happen after I saw the 20 song set list that included The Perfect Drug . We were herded back on the bus after a run through the complex and driven back to our cars. People still have their cellphones, so they should be in contact with them. There weren't any clues (and I saw the porta potty, there wasn't anything interesting in there)."
"Honestly, I wasn't looking at them at that point. I was more worried about the people in riot gear pushing me out of the room combined with the flashing lights and the sirens. Rumor has it that they ducked. I'm pretty sure that the footage will be used to demonstrate the secret police busting up a secret show featuring non-BoM approved music. The riot police looked like the ones in the Survivalism video. I saw some of the guys who were handing out stuff on Friday at the show, as well as the guy with glasses who was giving out pins.
The room had the AIR flag stenciled on the wall; there were multiple AIR flags hanging from the roof in the first room where Neil Czarno talked to us. Also, at the end, they told us to be on the look out for more graffiti, murals, ads, etc."
"Tonight was amazing. Really overwhelming and so cool. I can't get over the amount of planning that had to go into everything. When we were being led through the building and finally came into that small room, and all of the sudden you started to hear TBOTE---crazy. There was a lot of filming but I have no idea what it will be used for but I hope we'll get to see it eventually. Hearing Last and WITT three feet away from TR was incredible. Insane night"
"AIR Meeting
April 18, 2007
Los Angeles, CA
Around 6 PM, Reyna (hhippo428) and I were at Echo Park awaiting the phone call to the next destination. It was literally right down the street from where we were. For the record, the phone scared the shit out of me.
When we made it to the parking lot, they had us huddled together in a corner barricaded off by caution tape. The people in charge told us to wait for our phone to ring. When it rang, we were supposed to take our guest and our self to get scanned and frisked. We were inspected twice to make sure we didn’t have cell phones or cameras. (Reyna and I left all our stuff in the car.) Then we showed our ID’s, they took our phones and gave us a card so we could get our phones back later and they let us on a bus.
The bus had black paper along the inside of the windows and a big black curtain to block off the driver’s window so we had no idea where the fuck we were going or what was going to happen when we got there. (Pretty much the situation that your mom always warns you about.)
When we arrived, we found ourselves at a warehouse. (Location UNKNOWN, so don’t fucking ask me where we were.) We walked up a ramp to this big ass room with chairs lined up in rows and we sat down. Mind you there was a camera crew filming us the whole time (even on the bus). While we were in this room, this speaker who looked and sounded like Samuel L. Jackson gave us a lecture, basically telling us what a bunch of fools we were to accept cell phones that *could have* been from the FBI or something, and had this been WWII Germany, we would have been locked in the room and gassed. And that part scared me, lol. His main message of the evening, “WAKE UP AND GIVE A SHIT!”
After that, they took us through another door and down some hallways with low ceilings and so forth and then through another door. Then we all got packed into a huge elevator and it took us down a level. This little girl in front of Reyna started shrieking “is that a stage? Is that a stage???” And it was time to rush the fucking thing.
I’ll take a moment to say something about the stage. There was NO fucking barricade between us and the band. We could see every facial expression of Trent and the band. It was truly the most awesome experience ever.
Now for the setlist.
1. The Beginning of the End (he just went right into it)
2. Survivalism
3. Last
4. March of the Pigs
5. We’re in This Together
6. The Frail
So, it was basically the American debut of TBOTE, Survivalism, Last, and WITT. SO FUCKING LUCKY TO HAVE BEEN THERE!
Halfway into The Frail though is when things got interesting. A SWAT team busted in and started shooting all around. Some of the SWAT members *TACKLED* Trent and the bandmates to the ground. By that time I was running my ass off to get the hell out of there just like everyone else. The SWAT team kept 3 people and 3 of their guests behind to “interrogate” them. Later, those folks got dropped off in a van while the rest of us took the bus back to the parking lot where we picked up our cell phones and left.
There were hints that we should keep our eyes open for stuff happening in the future.
I am too fucking excited/grateful/amazed/shocked/whatever!!!"
Opensourceresistance.net updated with a 54 minute version of the night's events, which included the meeting from two camera angles, followed by the full nine inch nails concert. This was replaced by a 39 minute version which uses the second, better angle of the meeting.
Here's a transcript I found online of Neil's speech at the meeting:
"BEGIN TRANSCRIPTION:
[reads off names]
What the hell were you thinking? I just want to start by saying, you’re all dead! You were seen gathering around a piece of protest art. A shady guy in a van gave you resistance themed material, and you took it, in public, without knowledge of who they were. What if they were if FBI, NSA? We gave you phones; cell phones send a signal out to the network every 10 seconds or so. Remember after 9/11 there was a bio-terrorism scare some guy sending the anthrax [inaudible] through the mail, the FBI caught him by triangulating on his cell phone signal. So, you self identified as dissidents, you kindly agreed to carry tracking devices on yourselves, you showed up for a resistance meeting and you singed a waiver that gave us permission to do… ANYTHING. You allowed yourselves to be hustled onto a van, you let us take away any way of communicating with the outside world that you had. We could have drove you to an unknown location and led you down to this room; if this was Nazi Germany, I would walk out that door laughing , and fucking Zyklon B would start hissing out of the vents.
You learned a lesson, guys. In a real resistance, you don’t get a lot of second chances. Look. you’ve seen some scary website about what the future might become, me too. So let’s start by saying, you’re not crazy, I’m not crazy, and go from there. ‘Cause like most people, I need a kick in the ass to change. I mean I was sort of politically aware, I guess, but mostly back then I read the Drudge report every now and then, and felt guilty. I might even get around to voting on Election Day. Then awhile back, some people I know, came across a.. uh… call it a transmission… uh… a few broken pieces of the future. That’s some scary shit, it shook my belief that it, you know, can happen. The other weird thing was, we thought we recognized a some things. Uh, a couple of names, uh, a certain style of a piece of art, the sound of the music. So we sent some of this stuff around to some people we thought we recognized. Obviously, we didn’t say, “dude look, you’ve been beamed back from the future”, because none of us wanted to get [inaudible] a state psychiatric facility. What we did instead was, we sent a piece of work to the person we thought created it. [inaudible] Like hey, is someone trying to copy your style? Like that. For instance, we sent a music clip to a certain artist, and said, “hey this sounds like something new, is it a uh bootleg or is it maybe somebody trying to leak something out of the studio on you?” A couple days later there’s something in my inbox from this artist, the subject line is, “How the fuck did you get this?” Turns out he had written the exact words down in a notebook a few days ago, he hadn’t started working the song. The rest you know. We’ve been trying to find as many of these transmissions as possible, trying to get them out there. People are waking up to this shit! I mean they’re painting street art, they’re writing songs, I’m involved with a website, Open Source Resistance, maybe you’ve seen it?! [audience responds with muffled affirmations ] Yeah! Is this the future? I don’t know, but I sure as hell hope not.
Unfortunately, that future is closer than you think. Think about what you all have witnessed in the last few years, right here in America. In the aftermath of 9/11, the current administration has done unbelievable damage to civil liberties. If you are not a US citizen, and the government decides, God help you, that you are an enemy combatant, which that can define pretty much at will. They can throw you in jail and keep you there, FOREVER! Is there anyone here who is not a US citizen? [one audience member indicates yes] Hey! Just being here at this meeting might be sufficient cause to call you an enemy combatant. Ok, if we were the feds, we might have set this up to scare the shit out of everybody else, but you, you don’t go home tonight. You, get a one way ticket to Guantanamo Bay. What about those of us who are citizens? Tonight, you’re lucky, but what if there was another 9/11 attack? Big terrorist attack, something bigger even, something say, right here in LA soon. Lots of people killed, big chunks of the city evacuated. Do you seriously think the feds wouldn’t extend the Ashcroft laws to make catching terrorists a priority? Listen, I don’t wanna have my plane hijacked by Islamic terrorists either, I’m not crazy, but in the big picture there aren’t a lot of those guys and they don’t have a lot of money. The government has lots of money, and guns, and cops, and lawyers, you don’t want them to get in the habit of using that shit on ya. Keep them honest. Use your voice, be heard!
So what are the ordinary real things we can do to make a difference? Listen, you don’t have to be Gandhi to get involved. If politics seems big and vague, cut it down to size. You don’t have to stop the war in Iraq, look maybe you think you aught to give a shit about Iraq, but you just don’t. Listen, I grew up in Orange County, when they built state route 241 back in the ‘90s, I didn’t pay attention. They said it would make the commute a lot easier, and I was all for that. Then they bulldozed it, right over the Laguna hills, they literally cut the top of the hills and dumped the fill dirt in the valleys. They mutilated it, the place that I grew up in. So then they want to build a southern expansion to 241, they wanna bulldoze it right through the San Mateo Creek watershed, which has 11 federally recognized endangered species. They want to run it up to San Onofre State Park and the Donna O'Neill Land Conservancy, and they want to wipe out the last piece of pristine coast in southern California. Which by the way [inaudible] Do I look like a surfer? But I joined the Surfriders association because those are the guys who are fighting the hardest against this thing, because it’s local and they give a shit. [audience member “Yeah!”] Yeah! The last attorney general threatened to sue the TCA if went ahead with the 241 extension. If you give a damn, when you go home tonight, send an e-mail mean bean Jerrod Brown, our new attorney general, and tell him the exact same thing, that’s all you have to do, to start. Does that make sense? Look, I’m not asking you to be Gandhi. I’m just asking you to stop, and recognize what matters to you and make a seeing effort to actually change your world and other people who didn’t vote on their guy. All I want is this: WAKE UP AND GIVE A SHIT! Open your eyes and pay attention, don’t just swallow the spin, everyone’s fucking spinning, governments, gangsters, fortune 500s, the guy next door, do not swallow what they’re shoving down your throat. WAKE UP AND GIVE A SHIT! And for God’s sake please, do not blindly follow the line of bullshit I am giving you right now, I do not want you to buy what I am selling! What do I want? I want you to… [audience “Wake up and give a shit!”] Nice. Do your own thinking; find out where you stand on things that matter to you. I had this really nice thing I was gonna say about how mad I was that you all showed up and all that shit, but let’s skip the bullshit. The future is ours to change, we better fuckin’ get on it. It’s time to move."
Here's a review and recap of everything:
http://digg.com/music/Resistance_meeting_turns_into_free_Nine_Inch_Nails_show_in_LA_w_photos
RESISTANCE MEETING TURNS INTO FREE NIN SHOW
"Tonight a group of about 50 Art is Resistance members, including the select few from last week’s A.I.R. gathering in LA, were gathered using a series of cellphone calls and directed to an abandoned warehouse in Los Angeles for a private resistance meeting and intimate live Nine Inch Nails show.
The entire meeting was caught on video and is now streaming live on Open Source Resistance.
Last week they received calls on their issued cellphones (read the instructions they received here) telling them to be available tonight for another resistance meeting.
Tonight they received calls again instructing them to go to Echo Park (north of LA) and await further instruction. A few minutes later another call came through directing them to this location where they met several resistance crew members who promptly frisked them of any electronic device and hoarded them into an unmarked van.
The van took them to an abandoned clothing warehouse. One of the attendees named xaphor recited the experience on the Echoing the Sound forum:
Chairs were lined up facing a small makeshift stage.. We were confined to the left side with three sheets or red, white and black sprayed with the AIR logo broke the room in two. On both sides of the chairs about 5 crew members stood ominously overlooking the proceedings. Once everyone filled in our guide went behind a metal sliding door and a minute later a man in camo gear came out and took the stage.
He called roll and then lectured us on our stupidity in being seen at the mural meet receiving subversive material, willingly carrying the cell phone at all times allowing us to be tracked and herding on to a blacked out bus to an unknown destination. Had he been a government agency we all would have been dead. He then proceeded to mention our loss of rights and that we should wake up and use our voice…
He said “Let’s move” and left behind the same metal door. We were then herded through the same door and up a tight wooden staircase and across to either a freight elevator or another steep staircase that took us to a darkened landing with the only light being that which filtered through the dust from above. Once everyone was down, there were lights in a room up ahead and to the left and then screaming and sudden rush as people jockeyed for front and center position as Trent and Co. broke into The Beginning of the End directly in front of us.
This entire sequence was captured on video.
According to another attendee, this was the setlist:
The Beginning of the End
Survivalism
Last
March of the Pigs
Were in This Together
The Frail
Closer
Burn
Gave Up
Eraser
Wish
The Perfect Drug
Only
The Big Come Down
Suck
Down In It
Hurt
The Hand That Feeds
Head Like A Hole
Just as Trent began to get into “The Wretched”, a loud siren went off and tons of heavily armed and armored SWAT-like troops busted into the warehouse. This is all caught on the resistance video feed, where the last images show a SWAT member busting down the video camera and the picture goes blank.
More information as it becomes available.."
"Wow
What else can be said? What a night....
What a night...
For the illiterate, just skip all of this and see the fucking AWESOME footage at http://www.opensourceresistance.net/
On the 101 I recieved a call at around 12:45 or so. They told me that at 6pm, I was to be within a 5 minute drive from the fountain at Echo Park. That they would contact me from there with furthur instructions, and to stay in the car.
6pm?! What was I going to do until then? Oh boy!
I eventually got to Hollywood, where I met up with Tracy (TrentRoxMe) at around 1:30pm. I picked up my extra pre-ordered copy of Year Zero at the Virgin Megastore on Hollywood and Highland.
From there we decided to get some lunch, which is of course when we went to Pinks Hotdogs (Always Pinks). We enjoyed a nice meal, and then headed to the Mural to bide our time. We checked out the mural for a while, took some photos and then walked up and down Melrose, checking out all the sex shops along the way (There are a LOT). Eventually we walked off most of the weight we gained from Pinks, and started walking back to the Mural.
I got a call from Adrienne, one of the other phone holders, telling me she was in the area. Tracy and I met up with her at Coffee Bean and we walked furthur along Melrose to the mural. We took some more photos and got to my car. Adrienne's guest (and ride) was still in class so we decided to help her out and give her a ride. We headed to the parking lot Tracy parked in so she could get her sweater. And then, Adrienne lived across the street so we went to her place to use the restrooms and stretch.
After a weird confrontation with some hippy about where I parked in front of her house, we proceeded to Echo Park.
Even though Tracy nearly got us lost, and late, we arrived with 20 minutes to spare. A few phone holders were chilling in the park, so we joined them for a bit. Chatted a bit, and then 5 minutes before 6 we all headed to our cars. Adrienne's roommate met up with us at this point (this perky blonde girl who has never listened to NIN before in her life, and had no idea what was going on beyond the phones).
At around 6:03 they call us and tell us directions to this parking lot about a mile or two from where we were. To park, and bring ourselves and our ID. We pull into a gated parking area in an alley, the gates are all masked with black sheets, so we can't see inside. We park at around 6:20, and get out.
We gather in little groups, Tracy, Jessica, Russ, Adrienne, I, and all our guests. And others. Eventually, like ameobas we all converge into a corner of the parking lot. All 45 of us. They wrap caution tape around the area and tell us that they are gonna start calling our OSR phones and that when that happens, us and our guest must step up and get wanded and patted down to make sure we were free of recording devices. Soon after they started handing out waivers, stating that we may be recorded and that we give up our rights to be recorded, and that we were going to be transported and that we okayed that too.
Fuck it. Signed.
They called my phone, we stepped up, and got a thorough pat down.
We loaded up onto an old coach bus, with windows completely taped up with black paper, and the front had a black curtain so we could absolutely not see where we were headed. After everyone loaded up we headed off to the super secret location.
After an entertaining 15 minute drive, we arived. We all unloaded at this dilapidated old warehouse. There were OSR members everywhere. They were watching us from the roof, from windows, everywhere. Some of them even had cameras. We walked inside and there were seats and stage.
They sat us down and after a few quiet minutes a guy came out and gave us a very powerful speach about using our voices, waking up and making a difference. Not to necessarily listen to his opinion, but to realize we can form our own, and we have the power to use our voice. You can hear the whole shpiel on the footage.
At the end they took us all and made us walk through this labrinth of a warehouse. Up stairs, under pipes, through dark rooms, on bridges that conntected buildings. For about 3-4 minutes. Eventually we arived at an old elevator. We got inside the elevator, about half of us, the other half had to take the stairs.
The elevator goes down. Slowly...
And as we get furthur down, someone mentions amp lights.
Amp lights?
Someone mentions a stage.
A stage?
Oh fuck. Oh fuck fuck fuck.
Tracy grabs my arm and grips it hard. The elevator arrives and the door opens.
The OSR guys yell at us "Hurry, move, move!"
We don't need them to tell us, we're already half way there.
And there they are.
NINE INCH NAILS
In the dark, we see their shadows.
And then, before we even all arive to the stage (Which is not so much a stage but a few pieces of plywood, and Tracy and I are RIGHT IN FRONT, less than 3 feet away from touching Trent Reznor, literally), The Beginning of the End begins.
We all start going crazy.
After 6 amazing songs are played (Beginning of the End, Survivalism, Last, March of the Pigs, We're In This Together, and The Frail)....
The SWAT team BUSTS IN.
Alarms blare, the music ends, lights flashing... SWAT comes busting in through doors, through windows, guns and lights pointing at us. We hear gunfire and we all run. The OSR team is telling is to 'run and get to the bus!' and we do. We all run.
And we arrive at the bus. And we're all loaded up and we bolt out of there.
We get taken back to our cars.
And that's it.
The end.
They tell us they will be contacting us shortly on our OSR phones.
We all gather around the lot, talk about what we just experienced, and take some photos and we all leave.
The blonde newbie is ecstatic, calling all her friends and telling her all about the experience (Adrienne tells me she asked to have all the CDs burnt, niceeee)
We drop them off and then me and Tracy get Denny's.
We part ways.
And here I am.
Watch it all here... http://www.opensourceresistance.net/
They aparently replay the speech from a different angle in the video, it goes from 00:00 to 11:30, and then plays again, and then at the 25:30 mark you can see the continuation. From the walking the elevator, to the entire show, to the raid.
Enjoy.
Un
Fucking
Believeable
Photos: http://picasaweb.google.com/requieminadream/OSR1stMeeting"
"Apparently I wrote the post that echoed through out the ninternet tonight. I've rewritten it in a more coherent form (and it's even in more than one paragraph this time).
It all began when I met the person with a cellphone at the parking lot of the LA Police Academy. We then headed over to Echo Park to wait for the phone call (though I got us a little lost along the way). The phone call gave us directions to a nearby parking lot. We milled around in the parking lot for a while before they roped us off into a corner and handed out release forms. The release forms were very entertaining; they said that we didn't know where we were going or what we were doing and that we were over 18 and ok with being filmed. We were searched (all electronics were put back in the car; I at least got the name of the person frisking me this time, unlike the listening party) and then loaded on a rickety bus, in which all of the windows and doors had been blacked out. I was definitely afraid that the bus wasn't going to make it up some of the hills, and there were a few rough bumps. There was a guy with a hand held camera filming us on the bus.
We pulled up to an abandoned warehouse; there were random people standing on the roof and around the entrance. We were led inside; there were more people inside, and AIR flags hanging from the roof. The people inside all had neat black shirts with white AIR flags on them. There also was a mural with the angel, the guy with the face mask, and the robot with a skull inside from the mural in London with "Art is Resistance" written on the bottom. There was a camera when we first walked in and then another one inside. Neil Czarno (or whoever is playing him) gave a talk about how we should give a shit and change the world. I was rather cynical about his talk at first, but he redeemed himself by noting that we shouldn't just blindly accept what he was saying and that we should change the world in small ways. He also told us that we were stupid for allowing them to herd us like cattle onto a bus to who knows where with no form of communication (and for carrying around cellphones like tracking devices) and that we'd be dead if they were really after us. After his talk, we were led over the river and through the woods (the warehouse complex was rather large). We were stopped briefly before we entered a room with many lights and lots of equipment.
The opening notes of TBOTE began playing, and I was 3 feet away from Jeordie White on the far end of the line (and 10ft away from Trent Reznor, that's the closest that I'll ever get to NIN). There were about 50 people there, so it was a very small, intimate show. They then played Survivalism, Last, MOTP, WITT, and then The Frail. I'd honestly thought that I was going to have to wait six months or more to hear TBOTE, Survivalism, Last, and WITT live. There were people there filming the show with cameras, and Rob was taking shots of the band. There was a large AIR flag painted on the wall behind the band. I knew that something was going to happen because you could see flashing lights outside during The Frail. Policemen in riot gear (they looked like carbon copies of the ones in the Survivalism video) entered the building and pushed us all out (they also had quite a few devices like firecrackers that made noises that sounded like gun shots and that sparks; I got a very good look at them). There seemed to be a few people detained, but I'm not quite sure how they were chosen, because the six people were all cell phone people with their guests. I should have known that something was going to happen after I saw the 20 song set list that included The Perfect Drug . We were herded back on the bus after a run through the complex and driven back to our cars.
The people on the bus told us to be on the lookout for more graffiti, murals, and ads, and that they'd be in touch with the people with the cellphones."
"I was with cynic_muse the majority of the time so our accounts will be very similar but I’ll post mine as well.
I can’t really start without thanking Esrevni for giving me the opportunity to come along and to take his place in the event they would not accept his id. Thankfully they accepted his id and luckily for me there was someone without a guest who graciously invited me along (Thanks Al).
We were all instructed to Echo Park just North of downtown LA and to stay in our cars and await a phone call with further instructions. A few minutes past 6 the phone and we were given driving directions to a nearby parking lot alleyway (
After about 15 minutes we arrived at an abandoned clothing warehouse and herded into the building. Chairs were lined up facing a small makeshift stage with a painting on the wall of 3 figures, the left one I recognized as the box face guards from the London billboard. We were confined to the left side with three sheets or red, white and black sprayed with the AIR logo broke the room in two. On both sides of the chairs about 5 crew members stood ominously overlooking the proceedings. Once everyone filled in our guide went behind a metal sliding door and a minute later a man in camo gear came out and took the stage.
He called roll and then lectured us on our stupidity in being seen at the mural meet receiving subversive material, willingly carrying the cell phone at all times allowing us to be tracked and herding on to a blacked out bus to an unknown destination. Had he been a government agency we all would have been dead. He then proceeded to mention our loss of rights and that we should wake up and use our voice. He drew upon an issue that was important to him, a freeway that cuts through the hills of Laguna Beach and the plans to extend it cutting through environmentally important areas of the coastline (
He said “Let’s move” and left behind the same metal door. We were then herded through the same door and up a tight wooden staircase and across to either a freight elevator or another steep staircase that took us to a darkened landing with the only light being that which filtered through the dust from above. Once everyone was down, there were lights in a room up ahead and to the left and then screaming and sudden rush as people jockeyed for front and center position as Trent and Co. broke into The Beginning of the End directly in front of us. Fake windows with strobe lighting would glow illuminating AIR graffiti on the wall behind the band. There were about a dozen crew members around us - some filming, some insuring we stayed together as a group. The next song was Survivalism followed by Last. When they played March of the Pigs I noticed quite a few of the crew members really getting into the music as well. Next up was Were In This Together which lead into The Frail. I overheard one of the crew members say, “keep them outside” over his phone and noticed a flashing red light through a side window that looked unmistakably like an undercover cop’s lights. When I looked over again, the window had been blacked, the light no longer visible. Right as the band were gearing up to break into the Wretched, the door was burst open by a guy in swat gear carrying a machine gun, shots sounded through the building and small fireworks were lit. I was pushed by a crew member and told to move and I followed cynic_muse as we were quickly sent back though the building.
Straight back onto the bus and while some people were asking about their jackets they left behind, I noticed the bus was not as full as before. They called roll and there were a few names absent indicating they had been detained along with the bag holding all the phones. Once all the missing clothing items were found (who cares about the detainees) we were on our way back to the lot. Everyone was psyched and in a jovial mood and the time passed much quicker on the return. Off the bus we gathered while we were handed back out phones by the playing card we received earlier. Two girls who missed the bus and assumed detained returned to the lot via another method. Once all the phones were returned we were free to go back to our normal lives.
Thanks to the band and everyone there.
http://www.opensourceresistance.net/
xaphor"
"5:30am and I am a awake and still filled with excitement.
Not much I can write that hasn't already been said.
Walking off the eleavator, hearing someone say, "Is that a stage?"
A bunch of screams of excitement and suddenly my little elevator group is running.
Seeing Trent motionless, brooding over his keyboard waiting for us is frozen in my mind.
All the girls instantly took up all the space between the two columns in front of the stage. I moved over to the right and Aaron was right in front of me.
Sometimes I had to duck as he flailed away. I could look down and see the zippers in his boots. I could look up and see his teeth weren't pearly white. Straight ahead, I could watch his fingers do magic on his guitars.
Setlist as best I can remember it:
The Beginning of the End
Survivalism
Last
March of the Pigs
Were in This Together
The Frail
*******
Closer
Burn
Gave Up
Eraser
Wish
The Perfect Drug
Only
The Big Come Down
Suck
Down In It
Hurt
The Hand That Feeds
Head Like A Hole
So when The Frail was coming to an end, I had Closer on my mind. When the sirens started blaring, all I could think of was no Perfect Drug.
I was hoping that just maybe, when we got back to the parking lot the show would finish at the studio that was next to the lot.
But the night ended. The sun isnt even up yet and I'm still filled with excitement."
"Oh. My. God.
I wasn't sure what to expect last night, and I don't think I would have believed it anyway. From start to finish this was incredible, and it's possibly not even over (we still have the phones, we still might be contacted again). From the fantastically hilarious waiver (something along the lines of "I don't know where I'm going and I don't know what will happen, but sure, that's cool!") to the scary-ass bus to seeing fucking NIN right before my eyes. So close! Without any barrier, buffer, or staff! Just, right there!
I must say, while the meeting was cool, it was also kind of funny. "Don't believe everything people tell you! Oh, but repeat after me! Don't blindly follow orders! Now, follow me into this dark hallway!" God knows we would have followed that man anywhere. I mean, we'd just signed this fantastically all-encompassing waiver, gotten into a blacked-out bus without so much as a cell phone, and then into an unknown building for some type of meeting. Seriously, this was somebody's case study. And I'd gladly do it all over again.
What a fantastic, fantastic treat. I never dreamed I could see NIN that close and that personal. Just...wow.
Also? I learned that when ordered to run, I'll leave my friend(s) behind. Good to know. Perhaps I should work on that. Honest to god, I thought she was behind me, but I ran without checking. Nice."
Tuesday, April 17, 2007
-15 04.17
Year Zero has been released to the masses in the United States, after releasing in most other international countries throughout the past week. The only country getting slighted is Japan due to a manufacturing issue.
The ARG hasn't progressed today, but tomorrow is the first meeting of the LA Resistance.
Monday, April 16, 2007
-15 04.16
(I've made this post based on eastern time, as I think this happened based on their timezone turning over to Monday, April 16. It was actually still April 15 here on the West Coast when I started updating for today.)
12:11AM:
The following sites went active a few minutes ago:
http://themailstrom.com/scorpion_4rTL21.htm
http://exterminal.net/
http://www.miningforlife.com
http://viabilityindex.com/
http://freerebelart.com
http://themailstrom.com/usurp_397W4P.htm
A new page was found linked to the Scorpion_4rTL21 Mailstrom page (and the Usurp_397W4P page mentions the previously found www.miningforlife.com):
http://www.briantsunoda.com/
Freerebelart.com allows you to input a name and phone number. You'll soon get a callback from 866-445-6580 where you need to say the password "RESISTANCE". Once you do so, it reveals its true nature. You've just turned yourself in to the Bureau of Morality. After you say RESISTANCE, the site also changes in your browser. The Bureau is willing to give you a second chance if you BCC: informer@freerebelart.net and turn in your friends:
Subj: Have you seen this website?
Date: 4/16/2007 12:48:22 AM Eastern Daylight Time
From: You
To: Your Friends
BCC: informer@freerebelart.net
I was ranting about the government a few days ago and a friend sent me
this link. Sometimes, you just need to show the President *exactly*
what you think of him, if you know what I mean.
http://www.freerebelart.net
Check it out, soon. I have a feeling this site won't be allowed to
stay up very long...
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You'll receive a response from informer@freerebelart.net:
From: informer@freerebelart.net
To: You
Subject: RE: Have you seen this website?
Date: Sun, Apr 15, 2007 09:49 PM
Thank you for helping us identify other citizens in need of re-education.
It will be a long time before the United States can have full confidence in you as a
citizen, but we realize you are working hard to correct your earlier mistake. If any of
the people you identify as subversive do in fact take the step of signing up at
freerebelart.net, we will review the status of your citizen points and consider
reinstating a portion of them based on your actions.
Now more than ever, America needs you, heart and soul. Welcome home.
United States Bureau of Morality
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To help you make better choices, please review the information at http://www.ThePriceOfTreason.net Remember, your browser activity is being logged and monitored.
--
A .WAV file of Capital G is Exhibit A on Exterminal.net.
The ExhibitA.wav file included an encoded message: "wreckage is pain" but no shard. Entering pain as a wreckage with no shard, brings up:
tHere is no daTa associateD with thaT wreckage/shard combiNation. please try agAin.
Using the shard HTDTNA reveals the page:
http://www.themailstrom.com/pain_HTDTNA.htm
In turn, this reveals an unlinked page on Anotherversionofthetruth.com:
http://anotherversionofthetruth.com/0/
And it is a puzzle. Using the clues, the pages continue on:
Page zero:
1 - > opposite
highlighted: work
solution: play
Page 1 - Last night.:
2 -> it has six letters, all in alphabetical order
solution: the word on the page that meets this criteria is glossy.
Page 2 - Eleven years ago.:
3 -> "what you really want to be remembered for"
solution:
as this page has to do with merit badges and ice skating, the answer, while not on the page, is implied as goldaward.
Page 3 - Three years ago.:
4 -> made up of only the same four letters, repeated.
solution:
The only word on this page that meets that criteria, hotshots.
Page 4 - Thirteen years ago.:
5 -> the missing direction
solution:
up, down and right were on the page, the only direction missing is left.
Page 5 - 11 years ago.:
6->N1*N2*N3*N4
Solution:
The numbers printed in numeric values on the page multiplied by each other:
11*4*36*2
3168
Page 6 - Six years ago.:
7-> Adding 1 letter to the end turns a 1 syllable word to 3
Solution:
The word came when you add the letter o turns from a 1 syllable word to a 3 syllable word, cameo
Page 7 - 18 months ago.:
8->...fear of...
Solution:
agoraphobia (the fear of experiencing a difficult or embarrassing situation from which the sufferer cannot escape.)
Page 8 - 3 days ago.:
9-> It has 7 musical notes
Solution:
baggage (BAGE are all musical notes, the word is seven letters long)
Page 9 - Two days ago.:
10-> made up of one of one, two of another and three of a third
Solution:
tattoo
(one A, two Os, three Ts)
Page 10 - When you’re on copper, it’s hard to believe in miracles.:
11 -> +zinc
Solution:
copper+zinc=
brass
Page 11 - Yesterday Morning:
12-> able was I ere...
Solution:
"able was i ere i saw elba" is a palindrome.
A palindrome that is on the page is radar
Page 12 - Yesterday Early Morning:
13 - all the vowels
Solution:
The only word on the page that has AEIOU in it is equation
Page 13 - Today, lunch time:
14-> cabbage king's mood
Solution:
The page mentions cole slaw, which is made of cabbage.
"Old king COLE was a MERRY old soul."
The answer is merry.
Page 14 - Early this evening:
15->past present
Solution:
The only highlighted word originally was dashed. No one could figure out the clue and eventually the word swing was also highlighted. the past present of swing dashed = swung dash is a tilde.
~
Page 15 - 10 minutes ago.:
16->works backwards
Solution:
lived spelled backwards is devil
Page 16:
Catch me if you can.
Solutions:
play
glossy
goldaward
hotshots
left
3168
cameo
agoraphobia
baggage
tattoo
brass
radar
equation
merry
~
devil
Pages:
http://anotherversionofthetruth.com/0/
http://anotherversionofthetruth.com/0/play/index.htm
http://anotherversionofthetruth.com/0/glossy/index.htm
http://anotherversionofthetruth.com/0/goldaward/index.htm
http://anotherversionofthetruth.com/0/hotshots/index.htm
http://anotherversionofthetruth.com/0/left/index.htm
http://anotherversionofthetruth.com/0/3168/index.htm
http://anotherversionofthetruth.com/0/cameo/index.htm
http://anotherversionofthetruth.com/0/agoraphobia/index.htm
http://anotherversionofthetruth.com/0/baggage/index.htm
http://anotherversionofthetruth.com/0/tattoo/index.htm
http://anotherversionofthetruth.com/0/brass/index.htm
http://anotherversionofthetruth.com/0/radar/index.htm
http://anotherversionofthetruth.com/0/equation/index.htm
http://anotherversionofthetruth.com/0/merry/index.htm
http://anotherversionofthetruth.com/0/~/index.htm
http://anotherversionofthetruth.com/0/devil/index.htm
And a chilling reference to the first meeting in Los Angeles, from 15 years in the future:
There are numbers in the lyric booklet
Block 1 - 346290
Block 2 - 630357
Block 3 - 1437379
If you were to move your fingers as though you were dialing on a phone WFLOODSLHL7P3
Wreckage: Flood
Shard: LHL7P3
http://www.themailstrom.com/flood_LHL7P3.htm
12:11AM:
The following sites went active a few minutes ago:
http://themailstrom.com/scorpion_4rTL21.htm
http://exterminal.net/
http://www.miningforlife.com
http://viabilityindex.com/
http://freerebelart.com
http://themailstrom.com/usurp_397W4P.htm
A new page was found linked to the Scorpion_4rTL21 Mailstrom page (and the Usurp_397W4P page mentions the previously found www.miningforlife.com):
http://www.briantsunoda.com/
Freerebelart.com allows you to input a name and phone number. You'll soon get a callback from 866-445-6580 where you need to say the password "RESISTANCE". Once you do so, it reveals its true nature. You've just turned yourself in to the Bureau of Morality. After you say RESISTANCE, the site also changes in your browser. The Bureau is willing to give you a second chance if you BCC: informer@freerebelart.net and turn in your friends:
Subj: Have you seen this website?
Date: 4/16/2007 12:48:22 AM Eastern Daylight Time
From: You
To: Your Friends
BCC: informer@freerebelart.net
I was ranting about the government a few days ago and a friend sent me
this link. Sometimes, you just need to show the President *exactly*
what you think of him, if you know what I mean.
http://www.freerebelart.net
Check it out, soon. I have a feeling this site won't be allowed to
stay up very long...
---
You'll receive a response from informer@freerebelart.net:
From: informer@freerebelart.net
To: You
Subject: RE: Have you seen this website?
Date: Sun, Apr 15, 2007 09:49 PM
Thank you for helping us identify other citizens in need of re-education.
It will be a long time before the United States can have full confidence in you as a
citizen, but we realize you are working hard to correct your earlier mistake. If any of
the people you identify as subversive do in fact take the step of signing up at
freerebelart.net, we will review the status of your citizen points and consider
reinstating a portion of them based on your actions.
Now more than ever, America needs you, heart and soul. Welcome home.
United States Bureau of Morality
----
To help you make better choices, please review the information at http://www.ThePriceOfTreason.net Remember, your browser activity is being logged and monitored.
--
A .WAV file of Capital G is Exhibit A on Exterminal.net.
The ExhibitA.wav file included an encoded message: "wreckage is pain" but no shard. Entering pain as a wreckage with no shard, brings up:
tHere is no daTa associateD with thaT wreckage/shard combiNation. please try agAin.
Using the shard HTDTNA reveals the page:
http://www.themailstrom.com/pain_HTDTNA.htm
In turn, this reveals an unlinked page on Anotherversionofthetruth.com:
http://anotherversionofthetruth.com/0/
And it is a puzzle. Using the clues, the pages continue on:
Page zero:
1 - > opposite
highlighted: work
solution: play
Page 1 - Last night.:
2 -> it has six letters, all in alphabetical order
solution: the word on the page that meets this criteria is glossy.
Page 2 - Eleven years ago.:
3 -> "what you really want to be remembered for"
solution:
as this page has to do with merit badges and ice skating, the answer, while not on the page, is implied as goldaward.
Page 3 - Three years ago.:
4 -> made up of only the same four letters, repeated.
solution:
The only word on this page that meets that criteria, hotshots.
Page 4 - Thirteen years ago.:
5 -> the missing direction
solution:
up, down and right were on the page, the only direction missing is left.
Page 5 - 11 years ago.:
6->N1*N2*N3*N4
Solution:
The numbers printed in numeric values on the page multiplied by each other:
11*4*36*2
3168
Page 6 - Six years ago.:
7-> Adding 1 letter to the end turns a 1 syllable word to 3
Solution:
The word came when you add the letter o turns from a 1 syllable word to a 3 syllable word, cameo
Page 7 - 18 months ago.:
8->...fear of...
Solution:
agoraphobia (the fear of experiencing a difficult or embarrassing situation from which the sufferer cannot escape.)
Page 8 - 3 days ago.:
9-> It has 7 musical notes
Solution:
baggage (BAGE are all musical notes, the word is seven letters long)
Page 9 - Two days ago.:
10-> made up of one of one, two of another and three of a third
Solution:
tattoo
(one A, two Os, three Ts)
Page 10 - When you’re on copper, it’s hard to believe in miracles.:
11 -> +zinc
Solution:
copper+zinc=
brass
Page 11 - Yesterday Morning:
12-> able was I ere...
Solution:
"able was i ere i saw elba" is a palindrome.
A palindrome that is on the page is radar
Page 12 - Yesterday Early Morning:
13 - all the vowels
Solution:
The only word on the page that has AEIOU in it is equation
Page 13 - Today, lunch time:
14-> cabbage king's mood
Solution:
The page mentions cole slaw, which is made of cabbage.
"Old king COLE was a MERRY old soul."
The answer is merry.
Page 14 - Early this evening:
15->past present
Solution:
The only highlighted word originally was dashed. No one could figure out the clue and eventually the word swing was also highlighted. the past present of swing dashed = swung dash is a tilde.
~
Page 15 - 10 minutes ago.:
16->works backwards
Solution:
lived spelled backwards is devil
Page 16:
Catch me if you can.
Solutions:
play
glossy
goldaward
hotshots
left
3168
cameo
agoraphobia
baggage
tattoo
brass
radar
equation
merry
~
devil
Pages:
http://anotherversionofthetruth.com/0/
http://anotherversionofthetruth.com/0/play/index.htm
http://anotherversionofthetruth.com/0/glossy/index.htm
http://anotherversionofthetruth.com/0/goldaward/index.htm
http://anotherversionofthetruth.com/0/hotshots/index.htm
http://anotherversionofthetruth.com/0/left/index.htm
http://anotherversionofthetruth.com/0/3168/index.htm
http://anotherversionofthetruth.com/0/cameo/index.htm
http://anotherversionofthetruth.com/0/agoraphobia/index.htm
http://anotherversionofthetruth.com/0/baggage/index.htm
http://anotherversionofthetruth.com/0/tattoo/index.htm
http://anotherversionofthetruth.com/0/brass/index.htm
http://anotherversionofthetruth.com/0/radar/index.htm
http://anotherversionofthetruth.com/0/equation/index.htm
http://anotherversionofthetruth.com/0/merry/index.htm
http://anotherversionofthetruth.com/0/~/index.htm
http://anotherversionofthetruth.com/0/devil/index.htm
And a chilling reference to the first meeting in Los Angeles, from 15 years in the future:
There are numbers in the lyric booklet
Block 1 - 346290
Block 2 - 630357
Block 3 - 1437379
If you were to move your fingers as though you were dialing on a phone WFLOODSLHL7P3
Wreckage: Flood
Shard: LHL7P3
http://www.themailstrom.com/flood_LHL7P3.htm
Sunday, April 15, 2007
-15 04.15
Another site was discovered: http://www.miningforlife.com
Revealed on ETS by poster "p.l.a.n.t." who had just joined.
It seems like it could have been uncovered just by doing a Google search for "Pilgrim Stream" "Data in Transit"
Revealed on ETS by poster "p.l.a.n.t." who had just joined.
It seems like it could have been uncovered just by doing a Google search for "Pilgrim Stream" "Data in Transit"
Saturday, April 14, 2007
-15 04.14
Potential Resistance members in LA that received phones from the event at Melrose and Ogden on April 13 start receiving live phone calls on their phones.
They are asked questions such as:
What does OSR stand for?
Where were you last night?
What does the instruction sheet that came with the phone say?
Are you over 18?
Are you bringing a guest?
Are they over 18?
Will you be in Los Angeles and available on April 18?
Those that failed to pick up were left messages saying that they were only asked to follow a simple order and that the person calling was very disappointed in them.
---
On the OSR flyers that were in the kits, a strange code made of white bars matched up with a similar code in the liner notes in the cd booklet of Year Zero. A third version was found in someone else's cd booklet. The three combined to form a visible image:
(The white lines across the top and bottom and the left and right sides were added to the image)
Even with missing parts, the result lead to http://www.viabilityindex.com/ another new site!
They are asked questions such as:
What does OSR stand for?
Where were you last night?
What does the instruction sheet that came with the phone say?
Are you over 18?
Are you bringing a guest?
Are they over 18?
Will you be in Los Angeles and available on April 18?
Those that failed to pick up were left messages saying that they were only asked to follow a simple order and that the person calling was very disappointed in them.
---
On the OSR flyers that were in the kits, a strange code made of white bars matched up with a similar code in the liner notes in the cd booklet of Year Zero. A third version was found in someone else's cd booklet. The three combined to form a visible image:
(The white lines across the top and bottom and the left and right sides were added to the image)
Even with missing parts, the result lead to http://www.viabilityindex.com/ another new site!
Friday, April 13, 2007
-15 04.13
Mural event:
6:30pm, some buttons were passed out by Steve Peters. Some red, some yellow:
"just got buttons, yellow with AIR flags, one big one small, and Ad54S7 at the top."
The Ad54S7 linked up with a unmatched Mailstrom wreckage, Regret, to lead to:
http://www.themailstrom.com/regret_Ad54S7.htm
A little after seven pm, the blue van pulls up. They start to pass out ammunition boxes filled with resistance supplies:
* - A marker
* - A military style hat with a red Resistance flag on it
* - 4 Resistance Flag stickers
* - A flag stencil
* - A black bandana with a blood red Resistance flag on it
* - 10 Art is Resistance/Open Source Resistance flyers
* - Some cards with the robot from the London mural and a barcode on them
* - A Resistance Patch
* - 10 resistance flag buttons
* - A list of what is in the kit
And in some cases... a Motorola C139 Cingular Go-Phone pre-paid cell phone with the resistance flag painted on the back with 100 minutes credit, a charger and a note saying that the next meeting would be on 4/18 and if the recipient is over 18, they and a friend would get directions on how to go to the event:
"If you are 18 or over, and will be in LA area Wed. Apr. 18th we need you. If not, give this hardware to someone else.
the phone is your membership card to the resistance. Within the next few days we will use it to contact you with details of this first resistance meeting. It will get you through the door.
Keep it charged, and keep it with you at all times, Most importantly, there are only 100 minutes of use on these phones, so use them up and you'll be SOL.
We'll be in touch."
Depending on if you had received a button you were wearing you received a specific kit.
The kit contents paper read:
Red resistance kit
10 Flyers
10 Buttons
1 marker
hat
1 bandana
1 patch
4 stickers
1 stencil
1 phone
-or-
Black resistance kit
10 Flyers
10 Buttons
1 marker
hat
1 bandana
1 patch
4 stickers
1 stencil
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sHNLYFpg1-c has a black box being received.
License on the van:7U49648 Cali plates with Galipn license plate frame
The buttons are multi-colored and marked "LA" below the flag. This might mean more resistance events in other cities.
The phone kits have a red star on them, the non-phone kits do not. The kits are in real metal ammunition boxes.
Two other buttons were found with hubris and 39tpLe on the side, which lead to:
http://themailstrom.com/hubris_39tpLe.htm
---
Earlier today, a couple other wreckage/shard combinations were found in the artwork to Year Zero. On the graphic of an arm holding a rifle:
http://themailstrom.com/scorpion_4rTL21.htm
And by taking the ascii values of pairs spelling out numbers found in red characters in the lyrics:
5 7 3 a 7 5 7 3 7 5 7 2 7 0 2 0 5 3 3 a 3 3 3 9 3 7 5 7 3 4 5 0
57 = W
3a = :
75 = u
73 = s
75 = u
72 = r
70 = p
20 = space
53 = S
3a = :
33 = 3
39 = 9
37 = 7
57 = W
34 = 4
50 = P
so:
W:usurp S:397W4P
http://themailstrom.com/usurp_397W4P.htm
6:30pm, some buttons were passed out by Steve Peters. Some red, some yellow:
"just got buttons, yellow with AIR flags, one big one small, and Ad54S7 at the top."
The Ad54S7 linked up with a unmatched Mailstrom wreckage, Regret, to lead to:
http://www.themailstrom.com/regret_Ad54S7.htm
A little after seven pm, the blue van pulls up. They start to pass out ammunition boxes filled with resistance supplies:
* - A marker
* - A military style hat with a red Resistance flag on it
* - 4 Resistance Flag stickers
* - A flag stencil
* - A black bandana with a blood red Resistance flag on it
* - 10 Art is Resistance/Open Source Resistance flyers
* - Some cards with the robot from the London mural and a barcode on them
* - A Resistance Patch
* - 10 resistance flag buttons
* - A list of what is in the kit
And in some cases... a Motorola C139 Cingular Go-Phone pre-paid cell phone with the resistance flag painted on the back with 100 minutes credit, a charger and a note saying that the next meeting would be on 4/18 and if the recipient is over 18, they and a friend would get directions on how to go to the event:
"If you are 18 or over, and will be in LA area Wed. Apr. 18th we need you. If not, give this hardware to someone else.
the phone is your membership card to the resistance. Within the next few days we will use it to contact you with details of this first resistance meeting. It will get you through the door.
Keep it charged, and keep it with you at all times, Most importantly, there are only 100 minutes of use on these phones, so use them up and you'll be SOL.
We'll be in touch."
Depending on if you had received a button you were wearing you received a specific kit.
The kit contents paper read:
Red resistance kit
10 Flyers
10 Buttons
1 marker
hat
1 bandana
1 patch
4 stickers
1 stencil
1 phone
-or-
Black resistance kit
10 Flyers
10 Buttons
1 marker
hat
1 bandana
1 patch
4 stickers
1 stencil
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sHNLYFpg1-c has a black box being received.
License on the van:7U49648 Cali plates with Galipn license plate frame
The buttons are multi-colored and marked "LA" below the flag. This might mean more resistance events in other cities.
The phone kits have a red star on them, the non-phone kits do not. The kits are in real metal ammunition boxes.
Two other buttons were found with hubris and 39tpLe on the side, which lead to:
http://themailstrom.com/hubris_39tpLe.htm
---
Earlier today, a couple other wreckage/shard combinations were found in the artwork to Year Zero. On the graphic of an arm holding a rifle:
http://themailstrom.com/scorpion_4rTL21.htm
And by taking the ascii values of pairs spelling out numbers found in red characters in the lyrics:
5 7 3 a 7 5 7 3 7 5 7 2 7 0 2 0 5 3 3 a 3 3 3 9 3 7 5 7 3 4 5 0
57 = W
3a = :
75 = u
73 = s
75 = u
72 = r
70 = p
20 = space
53 = S
3a = :
33 = 3
39 = 9
37 = 7
57 = W
34 = 4
50 = P
so:
W:usurp S:397W4P
http://themailstrom.com/usurp_397W4P.htm
Wednesday, April 11, 2007
-15 04.11
Open Source Resistance has gone live in Los Angeles. Randomly in San Francisco, I spot two OSR and two Art is Resistance posters hanging on Mission Street between 18th and 19th Street. I've finally seen something that at least advertises the Year Zero campaign in person, and now it looks like I may have the chance to see something more.
A giant mural is now on the wall of a bicycle repair shop near the corner of Melrose and Ogden. It lead to http://onecountryatatime.net/ which has a graphic novel of sorts in its pages. It also seems to be leading to something truly physical in this world of Year Zero, as the email that let us know about the mural also said for people to be there wearing something that is related to the campaign at 7:00pm or a little after on Friday night (4.13). Knocking twice on the van door seems to be the way to get the goods.
The underground resistance band nine inch nails is back in Los Angeles... this could have something to do with them.
I won't get to LA until the first week of May, but I really hope the mural still stands at that point!
Here's the email from Neil Czerno's list@opensourceresistance.net:
Unbelievable, the quality of stuff you have been sending in. Check out the new content on the site-and beyond that, people are starting to submit platforms with real potential. From campus DJs and copy store clerks to people with connections at major networks and publications. This feels like the start of something real. (I'll be sending out the first few connections soon, so please keep them coming. Every voice out here helps.)
Local news-some very serious artists in LA are making a difference in a very public place. Check out the piece near Melrose and Ogden in LA. If you're worried about where this country (and this world) is going, check out their work. It will remind you why you should be worried: but maybe give you a little juice for the fight, too.
Lastly, a few of us are talking about organizing a meeting here in LA. If you're interested, show up at the Melrose location at or a little after 7 pm on this Friday evening (April 13th). Wear something that shows you're one of us. Stand under the big pig and follow the revolver across the street to the van. Knock twice. When you've got the stuff, get out of there fast. Don't attract attention. Don't be followed.
That's it for now. Sometimes it feels like hope is hard to come by. What you're doing makes hope a little easier for me to find.
Neil
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A giant mural is now on the wall of a bicycle repair shop near the corner of Melrose and Ogden. It lead to http://onecountryatatime.net/ which has a graphic novel of sorts in its pages. It also seems to be leading to something truly physical in this world of Year Zero, as the email that let us know about the mural also said for people to be there wearing something that is related to the campaign at 7:00pm or a little after on Friday night (4.13). Knocking twice on the van door seems to be the way to get the goods.
The underground resistance band nine inch nails is back in Los Angeles... this could have something to do with them.
I won't get to LA until the first week of May, but I really hope the mural still stands at that point!
Here's the email from Neil Czerno's list@opensourceresistance.net:
Unbelievable, the quality of stuff you have been sending in. Check out the new content on the site-and beyond that, people are starting to submit platforms with real potential. From campus DJs and copy store clerks to people with connections at major networks and publications. This feels like the start of something real. (I'll be sending out the first few connections soon, so please keep them coming. Every voice out here helps.)
Local news-some very serious artists in LA are making a difference in a very public place. Check out the piece near Melrose and Ogden in LA. If you're worried about where this country (and this world) is going, check out their work. It will remind you why you should be worried: but maybe give you a little juice for the fight, too.
Lastly, a few of us are talking about organizing a meeting here in LA. If you're interested, show up at the Melrose location at or a little after 7 pm on this Friday evening (April 13th). Wear something that shows you're one of us. Stand under the big pig and follow the revolver across the street to the van. Knock twice. When you've got the stuff, get out of there fast. Don't attract attention. Don't be followed.
That's it for now. Sometimes it feels like hope is hard to come by. What you're doing makes hope a little easier for me to find.
Neil
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Tuesday, April 10, 2007
-15 04.10
Nothing of real note happened today. However three mysterious videos were linked to on ETS. They were titled YZTest01.mov, YZTest02.mov, and YZTest03.mov. They were pretty convincing until Rob Sheridan posted:
bull
shit
Which eventually got the thread closed.
bull
shit
Which eventually got the thread closed.
Saturday, April 7, 2007
-15 04.07
Taken from the mono sound file from The Great Destroyer (2:20-2:24, which says "Red Horse Vector"):
http://www.redhorsevector.net/
http://video.redhorsevector.net/redhorse_24_9_1.mov
Just like Vox is presumably a result of a merger of Viacom and Fox, Hali-Bech Reynolds is probably a merger of Haliburton, Bechtel and RJ Reynolds.
http://haliburton.net/
http://www.bechtel.com/
http://www.rjrt.com/
http://www.redhorsevector.net/
http://video.redhorsevector.net/redhorse_24_9_1.mov
Just like Vox is presumably a result of a merger of Viacom and Fox, Hali-Bech Reynolds is probably a merger of Haliburton, Bechtel and RJ Reynolds.
http://haliburton.net/
http://www.bechtel.com/
http://www.rjrt.com/
Friday, April 6, 2007
-15 04.06
Bad quality photos of the rest of the album artwork and the booklet leak to echoingthesound.org.
The booklet has a link printed on it to http://www.freerebelart.com which does not yet appear to be active, only saying:
"Pilgrim Stream: 24.2
Data in transit -".
Playing the cd in a PC brought out the "thermochrome" clue, which was binary and translated as:
0110 0101 = 0x65 = e
0111 1000 = 0x78 = x
0111 0100 = 0x74 = t
0110 0101 = 0x65 = e
0111 0010 = 0x72 = r
0110 1101 = 0x6D = m
0110 1001 = 0x69 = i
0110 1110 = 0x6E = n
0110 0001 = 0x61 = a
0110 1100 = 0x6C = l
0010 1110 = 0x2E = .
0110 1110 = 0x6E = n
0110 0101 = 0x65 = e
0111 0100 = 0x74 = t
http://www.exterminal.net, also not yet active, stating:
"Pilgrim Stream: 24.7
Data in transit -"
Also in the booklet:
Another bunch of numbers
On the booklet page 6 with "Survivalism", these are: 17593 and 314547
On the p. 8 with "Vessel": 13971 (written upside down)
On the p. 12-13 with the image of Presence (12) and "The Warning": 13971 and (126871 and 314697) respectively
On the p. 14 with "God Given": 179 and 174639
On the p. 16 with "Meet Your Master": 179 and 139 (written backwards)
On the p. 17 with "The Greater Good": 71364
On the p. 18 with "The Great Destroyer": 1365697 (written upside down)
Trent was a bit upset at this turn of events, posting in his blog:
"As we approach the end of this leg of the tour I find myself slipping into a depression. Part of it is touring itself - I've really had enough at this point. Another factor has been the production headaches of this tour. I was busy finishing the record and didn't have the resources to dedicate to getting overly involved in the light show this time around, assuming my instructions had been followed... This led to multiple personnel changes and the end result - a poor light show which made / makes every show feel like a disappointment on some level to me.
And... as flattered and happy as I am regarding the interest in Year Zero, it's still frustrating to see that as hard as you try to make the experience as cool as it can be for fans, most people will still hear a poor rip and ugly scans of your artwork - ruining the excitement / secrets / experience. Blah blah blah. Weird position to be in."
Rob Sheridan posted on echoingthesound:
crysaeon wrote:
Shows that we are jumping ahead of ourselves here.
Rob wrote:
yeah, you think? someone obtained the album two weeks early from an illegal source and couldn't wait to scan every bit of it in and spoil it all well before it was intended to be out there? i wonder how it is these sites aren't up yet??
Later in the thread, Trent wrote:
Congratulations! You've figured everything out! All done! We'll get all those sites up ASAP! How was it for you?
--
Another fake (found on ETS: posted by Lowlevel):
hey everyone, i'm a lower level employee for interscope (hence my s/n). i can't reveal how or when i listened to these year zero rejects, so i understand that some of you won't believe me. i listened to two of the yz rejects and was able to write a transcript of the lyrics below.
the 1st song was labeled "protection", and the music sounds like a mix between "closer", "vessel", and "butterfly caught" by massive attack. the part in () is basically trent whisper-rapping. i guess that's the best way to describe it. it was pretty synthy and ended shortly after the last line. it came after "survivalism".
protection
[trent screams]
they came in the dead of night
using infrared sights
they took me underground
my time is running out
i don't want to be a martyr
there's no glory in dying
they say i should have believed
god help me, i'm trying
these wires shroud my head
they chain me to my bed
turn the dial, let it out
don't know what it's all about
i don't want to be a martyr
there's no glory in dying
they say i should have believed
god help me, i'm trying
(does anybody wanna come down here and help me?)
(i'm slowly sufferring)
(it was all my decision in the first place)
(they keep on telling me)
(bound and gagged, i can't even scream)
(over the sound of their torture machines)
(they say i should have believed)
(god help me, i'm trying)
i don't want to be a martyr
there's no glory in dying
they say i should have believed
god help me, i'm trying
---------------
the 2nd song was called "be the hammer" (like the website and it was probably scrapped because it was unnecessary. if i had to compare it to another nin song, i'd say it's like "big man with a gun". when trent starts saying "be the hammer", the beat grinds. it reminded me of "self destruction, final". it would have gone right before "meet your master". after the last "be the hammer", it becomes static-y, then melds into a short piano-session.
be the hammer
all my sisters and my cousins and my brothers
never knew what it takes to kill
but there's a certain satisfaction in knowing
a happiness to go along with the thrill
they can try and use superior numbers
????????????????????? stand still
my drill sargent always used to tell me
better to be a hammer than an anvil
be the hammer, be the hammer
be the hammer, be the hammer
be the hammer, be the hammer
be the hammer, be the hammer
again, i apologize that i'm sketchy with the details. i may not reply to this thread.
The booklet has a link printed on it to http://www.freerebelart.com which does not yet appear to be active, only saying:
"Pilgrim Stream: 24.2
Data in transit -".
Playing the cd in a PC brought out the "thermochrome" clue, which was binary and translated as:
0110 0101 = 0x65 = e
0111 1000 = 0x78 = x
0111 0100 = 0x74 = t
0110 0101 = 0x65 = e
0111 0010 = 0x72 = r
0110 1101 = 0x6D = m
0110 1001 = 0x69 = i
0110 1110 = 0x6E = n
0110 0001 = 0x61 = a
0110 1100 = 0x6C = l
0010 1110 = 0x2E = .
0110 1110 = 0x6E = n
0110 0101 = 0x65 = e
0111 0100 = 0x74 = t
http://www.exterminal.net, also not yet active, stating:
"Pilgrim Stream: 24.7
Data in transit -"
Also in the booklet:
Another bunch of numbers
On the booklet page 6 with "Survivalism", these are: 17593 and 314547
On the p. 8 with "Vessel": 13971 (written upside down)
On the p. 12-13 with the image of Presence (12) and "The Warning": 13971 and (126871 and 314697) respectively
On the p. 14 with "God Given": 179 and 174639
On the p. 16 with "Meet Your Master": 179 and 139 (written backwards)
On the p. 17 with "The Greater Good": 71364
On the p. 18 with "The Great Destroyer": 1365697 (written upside down)
Trent was a bit upset at this turn of events, posting in his blog:
"As we approach the end of this leg of the tour I find myself slipping into a depression. Part of it is touring itself - I've really had enough at this point. Another factor has been the production headaches of this tour. I was busy finishing the record and didn't have the resources to dedicate to getting overly involved in the light show this time around, assuming my instructions had been followed... This led to multiple personnel changes and the end result - a poor light show which made / makes every show feel like a disappointment on some level to me.
And... as flattered and happy as I am regarding the interest in Year Zero, it's still frustrating to see that as hard as you try to make the experience as cool as it can be for fans, most people will still hear a poor rip and ugly scans of your artwork - ruining the excitement / secrets / experience. Blah blah blah. Weird position to be in."
Rob Sheridan posted on echoingthesound:
crysaeon wrote:
Shows that we are jumping ahead of ourselves here.
Rob wrote:
yeah, you think? someone obtained the album two weeks early from an illegal source and couldn't wait to scan every bit of it in and spoil it all well before it was intended to be out there? i wonder how it is these sites aren't up yet??
Later in the thread, Trent wrote:
Congratulations! You've figured everything out! All done! We'll get all those sites up ASAP! How was it for you?
--
Another fake (found on ETS: posted by Lowlevel):
hey everyone, i'm a lower level employee for interscope (hence my s/n). i can't reveal how or when i listened to these year zero rejects, so i understand that some of you won't believe me. i listened to two of the yz rejects and was able to write a transcript of the lyrics below.
the 1st song was labeled "protection", and the music sounds like a mix between "closer", "vessel", and "butterfly caught" by massive attack. the part in () is basically trent whisper-rapping. i guess that's the best way to describe it. it was pretty synthy and ended shortly after the last line. it came after "survivalism".
protection
[trent screams]
they came in the dead of night
using infrared sights
they took me underground
my time is running out
i don't want to be a martyr
there's no glory in dying
they say i should have believed
god help me, i'm trying
these wires shroud my head
they chain me to my bed
turn the dial, let it out
don't know what it's all about
i don't want to be a martyr
there's no glory in dying
they say i should have believed
god help me, i'm trying
(does anybody wanna come down here and help me?)
(i'm slowly sufferring)
(it was all my decision in the first place)
(they keep on telling me)
(bound and gagged, i can't even scream)
(over the sound of their torture machines)
(they say i should have believed)
(god help me, i'm trying)
i don't want to be a martyr
there's no glory in dying
they say i should have believed
god help me, i'm trying
---------------
the 2nd song was called "be the hammer" (like the website and it was probably scrapped because it was unnecessary. if i had to compare it to another nin song, i'd say it's like "big man with a gun". when trent starts saying "be the hammer", the beat grinds. it reminded me of "self destruction, final". it would have gone right before "meet your master". after the last "be the hammer", it becomes static-y, then melds into a short piano-session.
be the hammer
all my sisters and my cousins and my brothers
never knew what it takes to kill
but there's a certain satisfaction in knowing
a happiness to go along with the thrill
they can try and use superior numbers
????????????????????? stand still
my drill sargent always used to tell me
better to be a hammer than an anvil
be the hammer, be the hammer
be the hammer, be the hammer
be the hammer, be the hammer
be the hammer, be the hammer
again, i apologize that i'm sketchy with the details. i may not reply to this thread.
Thursday, April 5, 2007
-15 04.05
The gamejack ended when some fans tried to follow up on the clues and after it started to get out of hand, "manwithoutface" responded:
pull the plug on this. we dont want anyone to get hurt, we dont even want people worrying about other people getting hurt. lock it.
---
dude its fake End it.
---
A new site is found from embedded Morse code in the Year Zero track, Another Version of the Truth (from 3:33-3:55 of the track, the morse code spells out GRACETHETEACHER which spawned):
http://gracetheteacher.net/
Is there more in the album? People work with strange sounds in The Great Destroyer and the spectrograph image at the end of The Warning shows the same image of The Presence originally released on the intentionally leaked USB drive version of Me, I'm Not.
pull the plug on this. we dont want anyone to get hurt, we dont even want people worrying about other people getting hurt. lock it.
---
dude its fake End it.
---
A new site is found from embedded Morse code in the Year Zero track, Another Version of the Truth (from 3:33-3:55 of the track, the morse code spells out GRACETHETEACHER which spawned):
http://gracetheteacher.net/
Is there more in the album? People work with strange sounds in The Great Destroyer and the spectrograph image at the end of The Warning shows the same image of The Presence originally released on the intentionally leaked USB drive version of Me, I'm Not.
Wednesday, April 4, 2007
-15 04.04
The album's cover artwork leaked first on Polish auction website http://allegro.pl. Including a phone number to call to inform the US Bureau of Morality of possible consumption or spreading of subversive material, 1-866-445-6580. The phone number was revealed a bit too early and originally said "mail box number 4456580" in a female voice. Later in the day it was replaced with the real message:
"This is a message from the United States Bureau of Morality.
Pursuant of statute 24.12.2 disclosure of surveillance.
Citizen, by calling this number, you and your family are implicitly pleading guilty to the consumption of anti-American media and have been flagged as potential militants. The United States Bureau of Morality has activated the tracking system embedded in your personal media and initiated citizen surveillance.
United States Surveillance Log gives us the right to search and seize information relating to subversive activity from your person, vehicle, workplace, or home. Any attempt to hinder or prevent our investigation will be met with all necessary force.
You are now part of the problem.
Your re-education is about to begin.
God bless America.".
The album leaked in high quality mp3 format, with the exception of The Beginning of the End, on various torrent and p2p sites. (Humorously it was up and down all day on Oink.me.uk due to the inclusion of a bad, transcoded copy of TBOTE.)
Trent and Rob took action that apparently they had been prepared to take for a few weeks. They introduced the Year Zero player on The Spiral and yearzero.nin.com, allowing fans the opportunity to legally stream the full album in 256kbps high quality.
A couple of fans discovered a way to rip the mp3s from the stream, leaving extremely high quality versions of the album in consistent, non-transcoded form:
"go into your temporary internet files and drag all the .flv songs into a folder named 'yz' on your desktop.
download this http://www1.mplayerhq.hu/MPlayer/releases/win32/MPlayer-mingw32-1.0rc1.zip
extract it to your desktop and open the mplayer folder. copy the 'yz' folder full of flv files into the mplayer folder. so it is now 'mplayer/yz'.
make a new text file in the mplayer folder and paste this:
Code:
mplayer -vc dummy -vo null -ao null -dumpaudio -dumpfile yz/01-Hyperpower.mp3 yz/01Hyperpower[1].flv
mplayer -vc dummy -vo null -ao null -dumpaudio -dumpfile yz/02-TheBeginningoftheEnd.mp3 yz/02TheBeginningoftheEnd[1].flv
mplayer -vc dummy -vo null -ao null -dumpaudio -dumpfile yz/03-Survivalism.mp3 yz/03Survivalism[1].flv
mplayer -vc dummy -vo null -ao null -dumpaudio -dumpfile yz/04-TheGoodSoldier.mp3 yz/04TheGoodSoldier[1].flv
mplayer -vc dummy -vo null -ao null -dumpaudio -dumpfile yz/05-Vessel.mp3 yz/05Vessel[1].flv
mplayer -vc dummy -vo null -ao null -dumpaudio -dumpfile yz/06-MeImNot.mp3 yz/06MeImNot[1].flv
mplayer -vc dummy -vo null -ao null -dumpaudio -dumpfile yz/07-CapitolG.mp3 yz/07CapitolG[1].flv
mplayer -vc dummy -vo null -ao null -dumpaudio -dumpfile yz/08-MyViolentHeart.mp3 yz/08MyViolentHeart[1].flv
mplayer -vc dummy -vo null -ao null -dumpaudio -dumpfile yz/09-TheWarning.mp3 yz/09TheWarning[1].flv
mplayer -vc dummy -vo null -ao null -dumpaudio -dumpfile yz/10-GodGiven.mp3 yz/10GodGiven[1].flv
mplayer -vc dummy -vo null -ao null -dumpaudio -dumpfile yz/11-MeetYourMaster.mp3 yz/11MeetYourMaster[1].flvv
mplayer -vc dummy -vo null -ao null -dumpaudio -dumpfile yz/12-TheGreaterGood.mp3 yz/12TheGreaterGood[1].flv
mplayer -vc dummy -vo null -ao null -dumpaudio -dumpfile yz/13-TheGreatDestroyer.mp3 yz/13TheGreatDestroyer[1].flv
mplayer -vc dummy -vo null -ao null -dumpaudio -dumpfile yz/14-AnotherVersionOfTheTruth.mp3 yz/14AnotherVersionOfTheTruth[1].flv
mplayer -vc dummy -vo null -ao null -dumpaudio -dumpfile yz/15-InThisTwilight.mp3 yz/15InThisTwilight[1].flv
mplayer -vc dummy -vo null -ao null -dumpaudio -dumpfile yz/16-ZeroSum.mp3 yz/16ZeroSum[1].flv
save the file as convert.bat and close it
run convert.bat. a dos prompt will come up and convert all the files for you. when it is done, it will disappear. you should now have a yz folder with 16 flv files and 16 shiny new mp3 files."
A gamejack occurred, when "manwithoutface" started posting cryptic messages leading to specific locations in four areas. As people were called out by 42 Entertainment as part of Ilovebees in the past, some believed in his pleas for help.
The "clue" posts included:
the international criminal court (icc) was established in 2002 as a permanent tribunal to prosecute individuals for genocide, crimes against humanity, war crimes, and the crime of Aggression.
thursday april 5th. 7pm.
Subway
route 6 Bristol, Ct
06010
check behind the toilet in the mens room.
1st stall.
this is real.
---
the Clue is : (under)erdeputeadt = Under Red Duct Tape
and the requested meeting place is NOW
(!!PLEASE BECAREFUL GOING TO ANY OF THESE LOCATIONS!!!!!)
(AS OF RIGHT NOW THESE LEADS ARE TO BE CONSIDERED UNVERIFIED)
(TAKE FRIENDS, SCOPE IT OUT FIRST, IF SOMETHING DOESN'T FEEL)
(SPLIT!!!!!!!!!!!!)
Walnut Hill Park
New Britain, CT
April 5, 1:05 PM
Check underneath the slide
---
knew some of those guys. a lot of them frequented this little place in houston near the circle. i think the address was 777 Walker St
Houston, TX 77002
713.222.2877???????????
---
one time a dog found something. something under a bench in boston. 50 park plaza. monday april 9th 8:30 pm.
"This is a message from the United States Bureau of Morality.
Pursuant of statute 24.12.2 disclosure of surveillance.
Citizen, by calling this number, you and your family are implicitly pleading guilty to the consumption of anti-American media and have been flagged as potential militants. The United States Bureau of Morality has activated the tracking system embedded in your personal media and initiated citizen surveillance.
United States Surveillance Log gives us the right to search and seize information relating to subversive activity from your person, vehicle, workplace, or home. Any attempt to hinder or prevent our investigation will be met with all necessary force.
You are now part of the problem.
Your re-education is about to begin.
God bless America.".
The album leaked in high quality mp3 format, with the exception of The Beginning of the End, on various torrent and p2p sites. (Humorously it was up and down all day on Oink.me.uk due to the inclusion of a bad, transcoded copy of TBOTE.)
Trent and Rob took action that apparently they had been prepared to take for a few weeks. They introduced the Year Zero player on The Spiral and yearzero.nin.com, allowing fans the opportunity to legally stream the full album in 256kbps high quality.
A couple of fans discovered a way to rip the mp3s from the stream, leaving extremely high quality versions of the album in consistent, non-transcoded form:
"go into your temporary internet files and drag all the .flv songs into a folder named 'yz' on your desktop.
download this http://www1.mplayerhq.hu/MPlayer/releases/win32/MPlayer-mingw32-1.0rc1.zip
extract it to your desktop and open the mplayer folder. copy the 'yz' folder full of flv files into the mplayer folder. so it is now 'mplayer/yz'.
make a new text file in the mplayer folder and paste this:
Code:
mplayer -vc dummy -vo null -ao null -dumpaudio -dumpfile yz/01-Hyperpower.mp3 yz/01Hyperpower[1].flv
mplayer -vc dummy -vo null -ao null -dumpaudio -dumpfile yz/02-TheBeginningoftheEnd.mp3 yz/02TheBeginningoftheEnd[1].flv
mplayer -vc dummy -vo null -ao null -dumpaudio -dumpfile yz/03-Survivalism.mp3 yz/03Survivalism[1].flv
mplayer -vc dummy -vo null -ao null -dumpaudio -dumpfile yz/04-TheGoodSoldier.mp3 yz/04TheGoodSoldier[1].flv
mplayer -vc dummy -vo null -ao null -dumpaudio -dumpfile yz/05-Vessel.mp3 yz/05Vessel[1].flv
mplayer -vc dummy -vo null -ao null -dumpaudio -dumpfile yz/06-MeImNot.mp3 yz/06MeImNot[1].flv
mplayer -vc dummy -vo null -ao null -dumpaudio -dumpfile yz/07-CapitolG.mp3 yz/07CapitolG[1].flv
mplayer -vc dummy -vo null -ao null -dumpaudio -dumpfile yz/08-MyViolentHeart.mp3 yz/08MyViolentHeart[1].flv
mplayer -vc dummy -vo null -ao null -dumpaudio -dumpfile yz/09-TheWarning.mp3 yz/09TheWarning[1].flv
mplayer -vc dummy -vo null -ao null -dumpaudio -dumpfile yz/10-GodGiven.mp3 yz/10GodGiven[1].flv
mplayer -vc dummy -vo null -ao null -dumpaudio -dumpfile yz/11-MeetYourMaster.mp3 yz/11MeetYourMaster[1].flvv
mplayer -vc dummy -vo null -ao null -dumpaudio -dumpfile yz/12-TheGreaterGood.mp3 yz/12TheGreaterGood[1].flv
mplayer -vc dummy -vo null -ao null -dumpaudio -dumpfile yz/13-TheGreatDestroyer.mp3 yz/13TheGreatDestroyer[1].flv
mplayer -vc dummy -vo null -ao null -dumpaudio -dumpfile yz/14-AnotherVersionOfTheTruth.mp3 yz/14AnotherVersionOfTheTruth[1].flv
mplayer -vc dummy -vo null -ao null -dumpaudio -dumpfile yz/15-InThisTwilight.mp3 yz/15InThisTwilight[1].flv
mplayer -vc dummy -vo null -ao null -dumpaudio -dumpfile yz/16-ZeroSum.mp3 yz/16ZeroSum[1].flv
save the file as convert.bat and close it
run convert.bat. a dos prompt will come up and convert all the files for you. when it is done, it will disappear. you should now have a yz folder with 16 flv files and 16 shiny new mp3 files."
A gamejack occurred, when "manwithoutface" started posting cryptic messages leading to specific locations in four areas. As people were called out by 42 Entertainment as part of Ilovebees in the past, some believed in his pleas for help.
The "clue" posts included:
the international criminal court (icc) was established in 2002 as a permanent tribunal to prosecute individuals for genocide, crimes against humanity, war crimes, and the crime of Aggression.
thursday april 5th. 7pm.
Subway
route 6 Bristol, Ct
06010
check behind the toilet in the mens room.
1st stall.
this is real.
---
the Clue is : (under)erdeputeadt = Under Red Duct Tape
and the requested meeting place is NOW
(!!PLEASE BECAREFUL GOING TO ANY OF THESE LOCATIONS!!!!!)
(AS OF RIGHT NOW THESE LEADS ARE TO BE CONSIDERED UNVERIFIED)
(TAKE FRIENDS, SCOPE IT OUT FIRST, IF SOMETHING DOESN'T FEEL)
(SPLIT!!!!!!!!!!!!)
Walnut Hill Park
New Britain, CT
April 5, 1:05 PM
Check underneath the slide
---
knew some of those guys. a lot of them frequented this little place in houston near the circle. i think the address was 777 Walker St
Houston, TX 77002
713.222.2877???????????
---
one time a dog found something. something under a bench in boston. 50 park plaza. monday april 9th 8:30 pm.
Tuesday, April 3, 2007
-15 04.03
The program continued to run to hack TheMailstrom, spawning:
http://www.themailstrom.com/parasite_tP366K.htm
http://www.themailstrom.com/cleaver_I682fg.htm
http://www.themailstrom.com/necrotic_blE34c.htm
And that's the most a brute-force reverse engineering can expect to reveal. In all, 22 Mailstrom pages have been found. Due to the usage of "24" throughout this game, there are probably two more to be revealed, and there are many buttons missing.
Here's a run down of the gmt date/time stamps provided for each of the known pairs. These are timestamps reported by the web server indicating when the page went live.
atropine_gH319x 2007.03.22.06.46.00
belladonna_3Mz3tU 2007.03.27.03.58.00
bitter_BGtg57 2007.03.15.19.34.00
cleaver_I682fg 2007.03.15.20.15.00
corrida_MKs742 2007.03.22.06.46.00
flense_E5PPvv 2007.03.22.06.54.00
fratricide_774HZx 2007.03.19.17.05.00
gallows_Y3RG7J 2007.03.10.01.26.00
gasoline_uuu891 2007.03.13.00.11.00
infarction_6k961g 2007.03.14.23.20.00
necrotic_blE34c 2007.03.14.00.44.00
needle_jp411r 2007.03.10.01.26.00
parasite_tP366K 2007.03.22.21.27.00
pliers_Ji3p09 2007.03.19.17.05.00
sickle_nnqa49 2007.03.15.21.22.00
slander_Yr4893 2007.03.20.22.51.00
spore_pQw2pP 2007.03.13.17.56.00
tumbrel_ad44us 2007.03.14.23.20.00
venom_d3i8na 2007.03.27.03.58.00
wetwork_c276e4 2007.03.14.23.20.00
widow_vC99iT 2007.03.27.03.58.00
wretched_Ypq2QQ 2007.03.15.20.32.00
regret and cleansing still have no matching shards.
http://www.themailstrom.com/parasite_tP366K.htm
http://www.themailstrom.com/cleaver_I682fg.htm
http://www.themailstrom.com/necrotic_blE34c.htm
And that's the most a brute-force reverse engineering can expect to reveal. In all, 22 Mailstrom pages have been found. Due to the usage of "24" throughout this game, there are probably two more to be revealed, and there are many buttons missing.
Here's a run down of the gmt date/time stamps provided for each of the known pairs. These are timestamps reported by the web server indicating when the page went live.
atropine_gH319x 2007.03.22.06.46.00
belladonna_3Mz3tU 2007.03.27.03.58.00
bitter_BGtg57 2007.03.15.19.34.00
cleaver_I682fg 2007.03.15.20.15.00
corrida_MKs742 2007.03.22.06.46.00
flense_E5PPvv 2007.03.22.06.54.00
fratricide_774HZx 2007.03.19.17.05.00
gallows_Y3RG7J 2007.03.10.01.26.00
gasoline_uuu891 2007.03.13.00.11.00
infarction_6k961g 2007.03.14.23.20.00
necrotic_blE34c 2007.03.14.00.44.00
needle_jp411r 2007.03.10.01.26.00
parasite_tP366K 2007.03.22.21.27.00
pliers_Ji3p09 2007.03.19.17.05.00
sickle_nnqa49 2007.03.15.21.22.00
slander_Yr4893 2007.03.20.22.51.00
spore_pQw2pP 2007.03.13.17.56.00
tumbrel_ad44us 2007.03.14.23.20.00
venom_d3i8na 2007.03.27.03.58.00
wetwork_c276e4 2007.03.14.23.20.00
widow_vC99iT 2007.03.27.03.58.00
wretched_Ypq2QQ 2007.03.15.20.32.00
regret and cleansing still have no matching shards.
Monday, April 2, 2007
-15 04.02
Saul Williams releases "Survivalism_OpalHeartClinic_NiggyTardust_(ESCAPED..." on his Myspace, as well as a new poem that may or may not be connected. He sends out a MySpace bulletin to his friends:
Date: Apr 2, 2007 3:34 AM
Subject Resistance Agitator, NiggyTardust Escaped!
Body: "Any way u look at it
i’m ro ck n roll.
words
define and become me.
Am that I am
bastion of chaos
withered defeated
hallmarked by glory
came and I rolled.
Tell them my story.
kick it an d fold it
try hard to hold it
It won’t go untold.
Things r
just
as they should be.
u, there.
me,
Loud and defiant.
n th eyes of ur childrn
this is every thing.
Won’t go unnoticed.
We want attention!
U!~
Ur time is up!!
Dance through the mayhem
Kill them or pay them!
Quick!
Change the station.
Now, turn it up!
I will avenge the wrath
of my path with u
if u promise
to kiss me back.
Want u to hold me
tighter
than THEY hold me.
Want u to give me
now give me back.
Now, what do u make of that?"
NiggyTardust ‘7
(Survivalism_OpalHeartClinicMix_NiggyTardust!(escaped….))
{.....i had to stop meditating and eat meat without ritual in order to embody the distress that signals what has become communal recognition. Mirror in the spotlight! I choose to stand now. capitalIzed. cash in on n. outer-body experience. space invader. saturnite. NiggyTardust survived. beckoned by last poets "aunt jemima serving richard nixon honey coated black egos for breakfast". here's whats for dinner: music. like a fly, eat what ur ancestors have already regurgitated. polyrhythm. gun-powder tea. son, i'm used to this. grew up, where things don't grow, except by abstinence. made word a sport. rode bike through graveyard. spun on head. check my footwork. poppin. x-stacey. Niggy Pop! Niggy Pop-lock and freeze! 3+5=8. Infinite. Kingdom Come is Dead. Spit. Ancestor worship. History becomes. There is an afterlife...somewhere beneath the underdog.....}
Thavius Beck, in turn, releases "Survivalism (Tardusted)" on his MySpace.
Date: Apr 2, 2007 3:34 AM
Subject Resistance Agitator, NiggyTardust Escaped!
Body: "Any way u look at it
i’m ro ck n roll.
words
define and become me.
Am that I am
bastion of chaos
withered defeated
hallmarked by glory
came and I rolled.
Tell them my story.
kick it an d fold it
try hard to hold it
It won’t go untold.
Things r
just
as they should be.
u, there.
me,
Loud and defiant.
n th eyes of ur childrn
this is every thing.
Won’t go unnoticed.
We want attention!
U!~
Ur time is up!!
Dance through the mayhem
Kill them or pay them!
Quick!
Change the station.
Now, turn it up!
I will avenge the wrath
of my path with u
if u promise
to kiss me back.
Want u to hold me
tighter
than THEY hold me.
Want u to give me
now give me back.
Now, what do u make of that?"
NiggyTardust ‘7
(Survivalism_OpalHeartClinicMix_NiggyTardust!(escaped….))
{.....i had to stop meditating and eat meat without ritual in order to embody the distress that signals what has become communal recognition. Mirror in the spotlight! I choose to stand now. capitalIzed. cash in on n. outer-body experience. space invader. saturnite. NiggyTardust survived. beckoned by last poets "aunt jemima serving richard nixon honey coated black egos for breakfast". here's whats for dinner: music. like a fly, eat what ur ancestors have already regurgitated. polyrhythm. gun-powder tea. son, i'm used to this. grew up, where things don't grow, except by abstinence. made word a sport. rode bike through graveyard. spun on head. check my footwork. poppin. x-stacey. Niggy Pop! Niggy Pop-lock and freeze! 3+5=8. Infinite. Kingdom Come is Dead. Spit. Ancestor worship. History becomes. There is an afterlife...somewhere beneath the underdog.....}
Thavius Beck, in turn, releases "Survivalism (Tardusted)" on his MySpace.
Sunday, April 1, 2007
-15 04.01
In the early part of the day, a non-nine inch nails related practical joke was played which involved theninhotline.net and echoingthesound.org.
The first two parts of the listening party recording surfaced on echoingthesound.org. Many beggers showed up. They were calling the recording "the biscuits". Someone shared the google cache link with one person. They shared it with five others, who shared it with others and eventually it ended up on Demonoid.
Hackers began reverse engineering the wreckages and shards we had on buttons but no combination. Their dictionary programs spawned a few more pages, the first on 4/01:
http://www.themailstrom.com/belladonna_3Mz3tU.htm
The first two parts of the listening party recording surfaced on echoingthesound.org. Many beggers showed up. They were calling the recording "the biscuits". Someone shared the google cache link with one person. They shared it with five others, who shared it with others and eventually it ended up on Demonoid.
Hackers began reverse engineering the wreckages and shards we had on buttons but no combination. Their dictionary programs spawned a few more pages, the first on 4/01:
http://www.themailstrom.com/belladonna_3Mz3tU.htm
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