Headpress, Issue 25 ("Flicker Machine Edition"), 2003

 

Includes "Dream On" by Klarion the Witch-Boy, an article on the Dreammachine, Gysin, and Burroughs' involvement, pp. 5-8. This is followed by Jerry Glover's "Waking up to the Dreamachine: Do It Yourself", pp. 9-13, an instructional for creating a Dreamachine.

An interview by Jan Bruun of David Woodard entitled "Dreamachines, Wishing Machines or Feraliminal Lycanthropizers, Anyone?", pp. 27-34, contains discussion of Gysin and Burroughs. Photos by John Aes-Nihil and by Christina Buckingham of David Woodard and William S. Burroughs accompany the interview.

Published in Manchester, England by Headpress in 2003.

Selected Contents:

• Niks Brakchi: "Sunrise Tangier #2 (featuring W. Burroughs)" (cover art)
• Gregory Ego: photographs of William S. Burroughs
• David Kerekes:
• editorial
• review of Peter Grant: The Man Who Led Zeppelin by Chris Welch
• review of Photographs by Charlie White
• review of The Comics Journal
• review of Jack Kirby edited by Milo George
• review of Pulp Culture by Frank M. Robinson and Lawrence Davidson
• review of The Great American Paperback by Richard A. Lupoff
• review of Auf Wiedersehen by The Buzzcocks
• review of Divine's Shoot Your Shot and Live at the Hacienda
• review of Straight Outta Rampton by Ceramic Hobs
• combined review of Vamp Babes, Miss Libido 2000, and Bride of the Atom by Messer Chups
• Klarion the Witch-Boy: "Dream On: Looking Again at the Dreamachine" (essay)
• Progeas Didier: "l'abécédaire chimerique" (illustration)
• Jerry Glover:
• "Waking up to the Dreamachine: Do It Yourself" (essay)
• review of Wild 7, v.1, by Mikiya Mochizuki
• review of To Afghanistan and Back by Ted Rall
• review of The Rare Movies by James Dean
• Jan Bruun: combined review of Burroughs Live: The Collected Interviews of William S. Burroughs 1960-1997 edited by Sylvère Lotringer, William S. Burroughs' Last Words: The Final Journals of William S. Burroughs, Graham Caveney's The Priest They Called Him: The Life and Legacy of William S. Burroughs, and Giorno Poetry Systems' The Best of William S. Burroughs
• Johnny Strike, Gregory Ego, and William S. Burroughs: "The Burroughs Brain Machine: An Interview with William Burroughs" (interview)
• Spencer Kansa and Paul Bowles: "Beats in the Interzone: An Interview with Paul Bowles" (interview/essay)
• Jan Bruun and David Woodard: "Dreamachines, Wishing Machines or Feraliminal Lycanthropizers, Anyone?" (interview)
• David Kerekes and Noel Lawrence: "Tuning the Sleeping Machine: An Experiment in Terror" (interview)
• Anton Black: "Search and Destroy: London, Saturday March 8, 2003" (essay)
• Phil Tonge: "Chase Me, Chase Me..." (review of Paul Anderson's Shopping)
• Mikita Brottman and Michael Moore: "Guns & Moses" (interview)
• Riotgibbon: "Public Autopsy: An Eyewitness Report: London, November 20, 2002" (review of the Bodyworlds exhibition, photographs)
• Stephen Portlock and Richard Kern: "The Not so Evil Cameraman: An Interview with Richard Kern" (interview)
• Richard Kern: photographs
• John Harrison and John Backderf: "My Friend Dahmer: Killer Komix" (interview)
• Tom Brinkmann: "It's a Violent World: LSD, Cannibal Hippies, Devil's Children & Snuff Vampires!: Bad Mags" (on Front Page Detective)
• Anthony Petkovich and Amee Donavan: "Flesh Feash: An Interview with Amee Donavan" (interview)
• Dr. Spike: "Size Matters? The Film Career of Luis de Jesus" (essay)
• Stephen Portlock and Michel Reilhac: "The Good Old Naughty Days! Erotica from a By-Gone Age" (interview)
• Martin Jones: 
• review of Bizarrism, #8, edited by Chris Mikul
• combined review of Random Precision: Recording the Music of Syd Barrett 1965-1974 by David Parker and of Progressive Rock Reconsidered edited by Kevin Holm-Hudson
• review of The Legendary Joe Meek: The Telstar Man by John Repsch
• review of Joan Book 1 by Yoshikazu Yasuhiko
• review of Trekkers: True Stories by Fans for Fans edited by Nikki Stafford
• combined review of Raptors, v.3, by Jean Dufaux and Enrico Marini and Dixie Road, v.2, by Jean Dufaux and Hughes Labiano
• review of Little Doors by Paul Di Filippo
• Simon Collins: 
• review of Firelight Shocks, #4
• combined review of Death Cults edited by Jack Sargeant, and Female Terror by Ann Magma
• review of Epileptic, v.1 by David B.
• review of The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, v.1, by Alan Moore and Kevin O'Neill
• review of Fairy Tales of the Brothers Grimm by W. & K. Grimm, Doug Wheeler, and David Wenzel
• review of Trosper by Jom Woodring and Bill Frisell
• Darren Arnold: 
• review of Raindance Film, #10, edited by Leigh Singer
• review of Storm Riders, book 1 by Wing Shing Ma
• Anton Black: 
• review of Blackharvest, #6
• review of Lexicon Devil: The Fast Times and Short Life of Darby Crash and The Germs by Brendan Mullen, Don Bolles, and Adam Parfrey
• review of The Yellow Jar by Patrick Atangan
• Justin Bomba: 
• review of From the Tomb, #9, edited by Peter Normanton
• review of Alien Apocalypse 2006 by Kathy Glass, Spain, and Harry S. Robins
• Rik Rawling: 
• review of Gene Simmons' Tongue, #1
• review of Shit Magnet by Jim Goad
• review of Hale Phil by Phil Hale/"Tray Batey"
• review of Planetary: The Fourth Man by Warren Ellis and John Cassady
• Will Youds: review of Looking for Orthon by Colin Bennett
• Stephen Sennitt: 
• review of Tyr: Myth, Culture, Tradition edited by Buckley, Cleary, and Moynihan
• review of Demons of the Flesh by Nikolas and Zeena Schreck
• review of Hooky the Cripple by Mark "Chopper" and Adam Cullen
• review of 20th Century Eightball by Daniel Clowes
• Mikita Brottman: 
• review of Running on Emptiness by John Zerzan
• review of Orpheus Emerged by Jack Kerouac
• Michael Carlson: 
• review of Brusel by François Schiten and Benoit Peeters
• review of Prince Valiant, v.44 by Hal Foster and John Cullen Murphy
• "When Patsy Met Jacky" (combined review of Portrait of a Killer: Jack the Ripper: Case Closed by Patricia Cornwell and of the documentary Patricia Cornwell: Stalking the Ripper
• review of Polissons et Galipettes: The Good Old Naughty Days edited by Michel Reilhac
• Colin Wilson: "A Tea Dance at Savoy: Philosopher Meadley's Book" (essay)
• Micky Murphy: review of L'oeil a courts thèmes la semaine exemplaire X. Voto by Didier Progéas
• James Marriott: review of The DNA Cowboys Trilogy by Mick Farren
• Anthony Petkovich: combined review of I Want to Be a Millionaire and Five Song CD by Gregory Ego

Publishing Information: 

• Editor: David Kerekes