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Various Artists

Totally Corrupt (The Dial-A-Poem Poets) 2LP

Label: Giorno Poetry Systems

Format: 2LP

Genre: Sound Art

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** Original copies of this rarity. Sealed! Few copies available **  Volume five of the series, again a double-LP, with Anne Waldman, John Giorno, William S Burroughs, Allen Ginsberg & John Cage all gracing the iconic cover, sitting in business attire at a boardroom-style table. Including readings from them, and Amiri Baraka, Ted Berrigan, Ed Dorn, Jackie Curtis, Frank O’Hara, Maureen Owen, Charles Bukowski Ken Kesey, Tony Towle, Jack Spicer, Peter Orlovsky, Taylor Mead, Michael McClure "Don't you just love these album covers? On this one we got Giorno, Burroughs, Waldman, Allen Ginsberg, and John Cage sitting in business attire at a boardroom-style table. Like a tongue firmly in cheek version of the 'Boards and Goverments of the World concluding their filthy deals to sell out the unborn forever', as Burroughs wrote in the classic poem "Last Words of Hassan Sabbah". Except the deal isn't quite as filthy, other than the frequently 'filthy' language that some of this subversive poetry sends forth into the ether. This comes from a golden age when the world was fresh from the virtual censorship of the fifties, to an age where you could say virtually anything you wanted. This freedom is gradually being reversed from both a liberal and a conservative angle. The liberal side of this nu-censorship, and the most insideous,is the constant drive to 'not offend'. Just today Mark CockZuckerberg said there must be "rules on harmful content" on the internet....is this Hologram, and or his clones, (I'm sure he's a fake human, with fake emotions running a fake personal information gathering corporation) taking the piss? There's nothing more harmful than the tsunami of Lies allowed to stand as fact on his/its anti-freedom through a falsely percieved conceptual freedom digital sewer of a web address. Should be shut down in the morning and a not for profit alternative set up the next day......without compensation. Then we have the problem of who fact-checks the fact-checker?......in two words,it's "TOTALLY CORRUPT!".
Then there's the argument that this liberalism is in fact a deliberately proffered Inverted conservatism, which one can't rule out. We live in an era where we can't tell our arse from a hole in the ground.I can't tell if that's a deliberate strategy to divide any possible opposition or not, because... I Can't tell the difference between my arse and a hole in the ground.
Again I'm not in a position to argue this case, which is becoming similar to arguing for or against the existence of God, but i'm almost certain,and thats as good as it gets, that God doesn't exist, and that the new era of repression by information cancelling alternative truths probably does exist.Its a classic Burroughsian data Control scenario.Like playing recordings of Gunshots in a riot as a cop witnesses his buddy go down. As agent provocateurs rile up the crowds." They're firing at us!" Result....we get Trump, we get Brexit, we get democratically elected Dictators. The sad thing, this isn't paranoia, it's just that we've all been spammed into a new dark age of Ignorance! And it's this new 'Freedom' that's done it to us.
We should have listened to the Dial-A-Poem Poets the first time around.....now its too late.Its just nostalgia." Die or D.I.Y.

Side One
A1 - Charles Bukowski: Cloud Nine, I Live In A Neighborhood of Murderers, Two Horse Collars (MCCC-TV Studio, Detroit, Michigan, October 31, 1974)
A2 - Ed Dorn: Excerpts from Gunslinger, Book 4 (St. Mark’s Church, New York, November 19, 1975)
A3 - William S. Burroughs: When Did I Stop Wanting To Be President (St. Mark’s Church, New York, October 29, 1975)
A4 - Sylvia Plath: Daddy (The British Council, Cambridge, England, 1972)
A5 - John Giorno: Excerpts from Shit, Piss, Blood, Pus & Brains (ZBS Media, Fort Edward, New York, April 28, 1976)
A6 - Michael McClure: From Jaguar Sky : There's Cruelty In Every Jewel (St. Mark’s Church, New York, December 3, 1975)
A7 - The Dial-A-Poem Poets: Jet Set Melodrama (St. Mark’s Church, New York, October 29, 1975)
A8 - Jackie Curtis: You Are My Lucky Star (St. Mark’s Church, New York, January 1, 1976)

Side Two
B1 - Ed Sanders: This Is The Age Of Investigation Poetry And Every Citizen Must Investigate (St. Mark’s Church, New York, January 1, 1976)
B2 - Charles Bukowski: Christ, You'll Never Know; The Closing Of The Topless And Bottomless Bars (MCCC-TV Studio, Detroit, Michigan, October 31, 1974)
B3 - Anne Waldman: Some Small Fires (St. Mark’s Church, New York, October 29, 1975)
B4 - Imamu Amiri Baraka: Hard Facts: Rockefeller's Your Vice-President And Your Mama Don't Wear No Draws, A New Reality Is Better Than A New Movie (St. Mark’s Church, New York, November 12, 1975)
B5 - Erica Huggins: For A Woman (Outside the Republican National Convention, Miami Beach, Florida, August 21, 1972)
B6 - Ken Kesey: A Brief Discourse (St. Mark’s Church, New York, May 12, 1975)
B7 - Jackson MacLow: Excerpt from Guru, Guru, Gate (Museum of Modern Art, New York, April 5, 1976)
B8 - Charles Amirkhanian: Mushrooms (for John Cage) (VPRO Radio, Holland, January 1974)
Side Three
C1 - William Carlos Williams: The Yellow Flower, from Pictures From Brueghel and Other Poems (92nd Street YM-YWMA, New York, January 25, 1954)
C2 - Allen Ginsberg: Please Master (Columbia University, New York, April 17, 1975)
C3 - Imamu Amiri Baraka: From Hard Facts: New York Is Everywhere Big (St. Mark’s Church, New York, November 12, 1975)
C4 - Frank O'Hara: To The Film Industry In Crisis (The Evergreen Review, New York, May 11, 1959)
B5 - Taylor Mead: I Was In A Drugstore (St. Mark’s Church, New York, January 1, 1976)
B6 - Jackie Curtis: The All-American Vampire Or How The Bee Sucks (St. Mark’s Church, New York, January 1, 1976)
B7 - Jack Spicer: From The Holy Grail: The Book Of The Death Of Arthur (KPFA, Berkeley, California, 1965)
B8 - John Cage: Song, Derived from the Journal of Henry David Thoreau (St. Mark’s Church, New York, January 1, 1976)

Side Four
D1 - Tom Weatherly: Mud Water Shango, Blues For Frank Swooton (WBAI, New York, November 1965)
D2 - Joanne Kyger: In All This Everyday (St. Mark’s Church, New York, January 1976)
D3 - Charles Olson: Letter 27: Maximus To Gloucester (SUNY at Cortland, New York, October 20, 1967)
D4 - W. S. Merwin: Fear (WBAI, New York, April 1975)
D5 - Maureen Owen: When You're Down And Under (St. Mark’s Church, New York, January 1, 1975)
D6 - Jerome Rothenberg: The Opening Of The Horse Song, Number Eleven, A Total Translation From The Navajo (New York City, Spring 1970)
D7 - Ted Berrigan: Today In Ann Arbor (St. Mark’s Church, New York, November 15, 1975)
D8 - Susan Howe: There Is No Good On Earth And Sin Is But A Name (WBAI, New York, February 1976)
D9 - Rochelle Owens: Excerpt from The Joe Chronicles, Part 2 (Museum of Modern Art, New York, April 5, 1976)
D10 - Bill Knott: Corpse And Beans (MCCC-TV Studio, Detroit, Michigan, December 10, 1974)
D11 - Tony Towle: New York Letters (St. Mark’s Church, New York, January 1, 1976)
D12 - Bernard Heidsieck: Stratimelo (Paris, France, 1966)
D13 - Peter Orlovsky:  Compost Piles (Columbia University, New York, April 17, 1975)


Side Three
C1 - Frank O’Hara: Ode To Joy, To Hell With It (New York, September 1963)
C2 - Joe Brainard: Excerpt from I Remember (Calais, Vermont, July 1970)
C3 - Clark Coolidge: Small Inventions: Suite V (Plurals) Secante, Suite IV (Mills College, California, January 1969)
C4 - Jim Carroll: Excerpts from The Basketball Diaries (GPS, New York, March 1969)
C5 - John Cage: Mushroom Haiku (St. Mark’s Church, New York, April 1972)
C6 - Bernadette Mayer: These Stories About After The Revolution (New York, September 1970)
C7 - Michael Brownstein: Geography (GPS, New York, November 1970)
 
Side Four
D1 - Brion Gysin: I Am That I Am (BBC, London, 1958)
D2 - John Sinclair: The Destruction Of America (Berkeley Poetry Conference, California, July 19, 1965)
D3 - Anne Waldman: How the Sestina (Yawn) Works (GPS, New York, June 9, 1972)
D4 - Heathcote Williams: I Will Not Pay Taxes Until (GPS, New York, March, 1969)
D5 - David Henderson: The Louisiana Weekly No. 1 Ruckus Poem Part 1 (GPS, New York, December, 1968)
D6 - Bobby Seale: Excerpt from Fillmore East Speech (New York, May 20, 1968)
D7 - Kathleen Cleaver: Excerpt from Fillmore East Speech (New York, May 20, 1968)
D8 - Allen Ginsberg: Blake Song: Merrily We Welcome In The Year (Corning Community College, New York, November, 1971) 

Details
Cat. number: GPS 008-009
Year: 1972
Notes:
Issued in a gatefold sleeve. Produced at Giorno Poetry Systems Records Back cover: ©℗ 1976 Giorno Poetry Systems Institute Inc. Labels: ©℗ 1976 Giorno Poetry Systems Most tracks recorded at the locations given above, 1974-1976 (except A4 in 1962, C1 in 1954, C4 in 1959, C7 in 1965 and D1 in 1965). Track B5 recorded outside The Republican National Convention, Miami FL, August 21, 1972. Track D6 recorded in New York City, Spring 1970 Track D12 recorded in Paris, France, 1966 Catalog number on back cover and spine 'GPS 008-009' and on labels respectively 'GPS-008' and 'GPS-009.

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