October 2005 - KLF - mailman.xmission.com

[OT?] 23
by Kusic Drazen 11 Oct '05

11 Oct '05

-Twenty-three is the ninth prime number, the sequence continues 29, 31, 37, 41,... Twenty-three is also the fifth factorial prime, the fifth Sophie Germain prime, the fourth safe prime, the second Woodall prime, and the second Smarandache-Wellin prime. It is an Eisenstein prime with no imaginary part and real part of the form 3n − 1. -23 also has the distinction of being one of two integers that cannot be expressed as the sum of fewer than 9 cubes of integers (the other is 239). See Waring's problem. -23 is a Wedderburn-Etherington number. -23 is a highly cototient number. -23 is the smallest odd prime that is not a twin prime. -The number of chromosomes in a human germline cell -The 23rd moon of Jupiter is Carme -The sacred number (along with 5) of Eris, goddess of discord, according to the Principia Discordia; it is the number of the Illuminat. -Robert Anton Wilson's book, Cosmic Trigger I: Final Secret of the Illuminati, lists 23 as a cosmic number with strong connections to arcane magic and synchronicity. Numerous people have claimed to see 23's everywhere (the 23 curse) prior to enormous success and fruitfulness. -In early 20th century United States slang, it meant to leave a place. (From the phrase 23 skiddoo ; the origins of the phrase are largely unknown). -Sydney Carton is the 23rd person executed at the end of A Tale of Two Cities, by Charles Dickens. -A telegraphers' code meaning "line break". -When mathematician John Forbes Nash suffered from schizophrenic delusions, he said that Life Magazine had run a cover story of him disguised as Pope John XXIII as his name was John and his favorite prime number was 23. -Nash published a total of 23 scientific articles. -The largest integer number of hours in a day. -ASCII character number 23 is ETB, end transmission block. -The number of people (16 females, 7 males) Neo was to select in order to refound Zion in The Matrix Reloaded -The smallest group of people where there is more than a 50% chance that 2 people will share the same birth day (day and month, not year). -Unusual circumstances being linked to 23 are mentioned by William S. Burroughs. He tells the story of meeting a ferry captain named Clark who claimed to have sailed the same route without an accident for 23 years. That very day, however, the ferry sank. Later that day, Burroughs writes, he was thinking about Clark's ferry accident when he heard that a Flight 23 on a New York-Miami route had crashed. According to Burroughs, the pilot's name for the flight had also been Clark. Burroughs began collecting incidences of the number 23 in a scrapbook and referred to them in his writings. -The human biorhythm is 23 days long. Though Hermann Swoboda and Wilhelm Fliess, the two doctors who first posited biorhythm, did determine that a human's 'physical cycle' was 23 days long, biorhythmics is at best a highly speculative and subjective area of study. -It takes 23 seconds for blood to circulate throughout the entire body. Blood is a suspension and does not flow at the same rate for all of its components. Furthermore, there is no single path blood takes when it circulates. For both these reasons, verification is both difficult and meaningless. In any case, the "second" is an arbitrary fraction of 1/86400 of a solar day. -The first Moon landing, Apollo 11 was in the Sea of Tranquility at 23.63 degrees East. The second landing, Apollo 12, was in the Ocean of Storms, 23.42 degrees West. Also, 11 + 12, the numbers of the missions, add up to 23. Again, this is stretched as far as the degrees, and there are at least 11 pairs of integers that add to 23, not counting negative integers or zero. -December 23, 2012 is the date the Mayan calendar ends, predicting an apocalyptic event. The Mayan calendar's "Long Count" does indeed end on either the 21st or 23rd of December of 2012, depending on calculation. -Both the ancient Egyptian and Sumerian calendars begin on 23 July. Both calendars were apparently calculated from the date of the heliacal rising of Sirius, which does occur at that latitude around that time of year. -Julius Caesar was stabbed 23 times when he was assassinated -The Knights Templar had 23 Grand Masters, the last being Jacques de Molay. -John F. Kennedy was assassinated on November 22, 1963 and his supposed assassin -- Lee Harvey Oswald -- was assassinated on November 24, 1963, the 23rd being in between. -On a normal modern latin alphabet keyboard, the 23rd letter W is right below and between 2 and 3. -Pi's first six digits (3.14159) added together equal 23. -Volkswagen's VW logo contains the roman numeral V (2+3=5) and the 23rd letter W. Volkswagen is based in Wolfsburg which starts with the 23rd letter. Interesting indeed... 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Re: [KLF] KLF Not so FAQ No 1 (of 2)
by TheRitesOfMu＠aol.com 11 Oct '05

11 Oct '05

In a message dated 04/10/2005 13:23:52 GMT Standard Time, chris(a)k23productions.com writes: > CDs didn't really make it big until 1989/90 and then it was only albums. I > think the idea of CD singles was even more new (does anyone have a CD single > from _before_ 1989?) so maybe it was a cost thing? Given that "1987" had > been banned and they were facing legal action from the MCPS, I don't suppose > they had much cash when they did the PT series... ah but cds were used in 1985 by the Hit TV show Airwolf.... You often saw dominic santini pop in the old cd.... not sure if it was for the music tho... LOL Wizard Keep Listening forever

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Ronnie Barker (OT) (and a bit about Chipping Norton)
by John Milne 11 Oct '05

11 Oct '05

> From: "RMStringer" > I am not up on this show. Who died? Ronnie Barker, a very famous British comic actor who - I think - didn't really cross the Atlantic. Very briefly, he was an actor for about 60 years, and was also an acclaimed comic writer. He started in local theatre in Oxford, and then had a big break in a 1950s radio show called "The Navy Lark" (where he appeared with the third "Doctor Who" Jon Pertwee). In the mid-sixties he appeared in David Frost's "Frost Report" with a young, pre-Monty Python John Cleese, along with his later comedy partner, the tiny Scotsman Ronnie Corbett. Corbett and Barker launched a prime-time TV sketch show called "The Two Ronnies" in 1971/2-ish, and it ran for about 15 years, and was consistently one of the highest rating shows of the time. Later, he became famous for two comedy characters - Norman Stanley Fletcher, the imprisoned criminal in the mid-1970s sit-com "Porridge" and Arkwright, the stuttering skinflint shopkeeper in "Open All Hours", another sit-com which ran for a good deal of the 80s and at times was the biggest rated show in the UK (beating all the soap operas). He retired in 1987, after one final, self-written sitcom called "Clarence" (which wasn't very good) and set up an antiques shop in Chipping Norton (where the KLF played a rave two years later, coincidentally). He ran this shop, quietly, for about 13-14 years, before returning to television, first as the butler to Winston Churchill in a recent biopic, and then in some new "Two Ronnies" sketches which were broadcast this year. I'm trying to think of US equivalent of Ronnie Barker, but there probably isn't one. He mixed elements of people like Steve Martin, Mel Brooks and Robin Williams, I suppose. The news programmes this morning have been full of tributes. John

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Drummond in NME - crap Soup rehash
by say.map＠ihug.co.nz 10 Oct '05

10 Oct '05

BILL DRUMMOND IN THE SOUP! http://www.nme.com/news/klf/16264 God bless Bill Drummond... Former KLF man and renowned art terrorist BILL DRUMMOND has turned to soup for his next project. Drummond, who once burnt £1 million in cash on a Scottish island, will spend a week in Northern Ireland in May preparing soup. The stunt is part of Drummond's The Soup Line, and will run as part of Belfast's Cathedral Quarter Arts Festival from April 30 to May 5. "In May 1998, Bill made soup for people in a house in Belfast," said Sarah Hughes, a festival spokesperson. "In January 2003 he made soup for a people in a house in Nottingham. He's now taken a map of the British Isles and drawn a line across it - right through Belfast and Nottingham - and called it The Soup Line. "Anybody living on the line is welcome to invite him to their home and have him make soup for their family and close friends." The line passes through some curious towns, including Inch Burnfoot in Donegal and Portavogie outside of Belfast. In 2002, Drummond launched the silent protest playing cards, which were used as a silent call for peace. Most notoriously, in 1994 he and fellow KLF cohort Jimmy Cauty burnt £1 million in new banknotes on the Scottish island of Jura. -- This is the webmail account of Stuart Young, Michelle Ardern & Felix Ardern-Young (4) 16, Seacombe Rd, Pt Chev, Auckland, NZ Phone: +64 (0)9 849 9020 say.map(a)ihug.co.nz Photography, Graphic and Web design, Web development and hosting: http://www.pixelandgrain.co.nz/ Stuey's personal website - a cobweb site: http://easyweb.easynet.co.uk/~stuey/

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Jimmy in NME - Stamps @ Disorder gallery
by say.map＠ihug.co.nz 10 Oct '05

10 Oct '05

KLF man to stage London exhibition http://www.nme.com/news/klf/21198 Jimmy Cauty is flogging stamps at new art show Former KLF member Jimmy Cauty is hosting an exhibition of his own stamp designs at London's Disorder gallery. The stamps, displayed under the title Stamps of Mass Destruction and Other Creative Disasters Volume II, address serious contemporary issues, even though Cauty says stamp designing is a welcome relief from his time with the KLF and the K-Foundation. The stamps will be available to buy at the gallery at Woburn Walk, London, open from 11am to 6pm. The designs will also be collected in a book, also titled Stamps of Mass Destruction, which is also being sold. -- This is the webmail account of Stuart Young, Michelle Ardern & Felix Ardern-Young (4) 16, Seacombe Rd, Pt Chev, Auckland, NZ Phone: +64 (0)9 849 9020 say.map(a)ihug.co.nz Photography, Graphic and Web design, Web development and hosting: http://www.pixelandgrain.co.nz/ Stuey's personal website - a cobweb site: http://easyweb.easynet.co.uk/~stuey/

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Re: [KLF] List of members.
by TheRitesOfMu＠aol.com 09 Oct '05

09 Oct '05

> as for you klf fans....keep on dancing but just get me > off this email talk show wannebe, there is more to > life then this....... > > what are you trying to imply? Wizard Keep Listening forever

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Updated list of files.
by RMStringer 09 Oct '05

09 Oct '05

The new list of files is located in the Root KLF Directory. RMStringer ******************** "To open the eternal worlds, to open the immortal eyes Of man Inwards, into the worlds of thought, into Eternity". ITN

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Boards of Canada (OT)
by John Milne 08 Oct '05

08 Oct '05

For those who don't know, there's a new album coming out on 17th October. Can anyone direct me to mp3s of some of their stupidly rare early stuff, particularly "Hooper Bay", "Play By Numbers" and the mighty "BOC Maxima" compilation? Just wondered ... John

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KLF FTP
by RMStringer 08 Oct '05

08 Oct '05

Thankx to a fellow member of our group, who has uploaded about 8 gigs of new material dealing with all Things KLF, I am going to be changing up the directory structure so as to make things more accessible. I will post a new list of files to the server when I get all of this done and when the individual is finished with his uploads. I will also post a copy of the file list to my personal website for download. I will let everyone know when this project is finished. RMStringer ******************** "To open the eternal worlds, to open the immortal eyes Of man Inwards, into the worlds of thought, into Eternity". ITN

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"The Man" reissue will have Bill's liner notes
by John Milne 07 Oct '05

07 Oct '05

https://www.freakemporium.com/new3/index_ie_small.cgi?artist=Bill%20Drummond I wonder if these liner notes will be new? And is Bill really "famous for being famous"? A strangely damning but also life-affirming epitath! John PS - Does anyone have the Japanese Creation CD of "The Man"? Is it worth getting? Does it have better sound quality (a lot of people seem to think Japanese CDs generally do)? > Message Received: Oct 04 2005, 05:26 PM > From: "Sebastien Ledys" > To: "All bound for Mu-Mu Land." > Cc: > Subject: [KLF] Junior Insurgent Transistor Ensemble > > let's all hope that someone recorded this transmission and will make it > surface for us. > Tim, have you heard anything or do you know what it sounds like? > > on the blacksmoke forum some guy named stumpy said "the radio broadcast > saved what was a very wet weekend" > i'll try to message him... > > seb > > > He did perform at the Port Elliot Lit Festival with guerrila style > > radio transmissions on 103fm as the Junior Insurgent Transistor > > Ensemble... a project which to the best of my knowledge he is still > > actively involved with... > > > > _______________________________________________ > KLF mailing list > KLF(a)mailman.xmission.com > http://mailman.xmission.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/klf > Report list abuse to list-abuse at studio-nibble.com > >

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