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"Smash it Up"

This is a start. Cover the bathroom with pictures of my friends. Write letters to people you haven't seen in ages and invite them to stay at your place. Redecorate the street sign so that all traffic will end up in the water. Steal a map of the city and try your hardest not to follow it. Borrow someone's heart for just an hour. Play soccer with 3 goals and no referee. Cross out words like truth, oppression and boredom in every dictionary for free. Change your identity with someone for a week or two. Rob a bank and burn the money. Money sucks! Organize a wildcatstrike at your job or at your school. Drop everything and go to the one place in the world that you have always wanted to go regardless of bull**** considerations and excuses. Steal books and distribute them to strangers. Go to art museums and sneak your own work into displays. Play acoustic versions of angry samoan's songs at posh cafe's. Run for every public election in your town and stress the qualifications that you don't have. Give library cards to all of your friends as a gift. Get all of your friends to go into Burger King, order water and take as many seats as possible for as long as possible, do this every day right before lunch time. Change the time on all clocks that you encounter, at people's houses, in public places, etc. Alter all of the street signs in your town area with names of places in the world which are currently in a state of war, scene of atrocity, or subject to violent oppression. Stuff the suggestions box at your nearest video store demanding that all of the Debord films should be available for rental. Recommend that Henry Miller be required reading in all high schools. Write 'this will be your death' on every piece of money that passes through your hands. Spend more time naked. Call every crappy radio station and demand that they play more G. G. Allin. If you are in a band, never play the same place twice until you have played everywhere once. On any first date, make it the mission to get you both arrested for something embarrassing and stupid, don't let your date in on this plan. If you see people chasing pigeons, chase and pretend to kick them. Laugh a lot more. If you have something stupid to say, make sure that it gets said loud. Celebrate every holiday from all countries and cultures. Bath in public fountains, particularly ones in front of commercial or municipal buildings. Falsify invitations to art exhibitions and pass out to homeless people. Reinvent and make up new and exciting games. Drift. Squat a church, everyone should have their own cathedral.


Words taken from the liner notes of the album 'Survival Sickness' by The (International) Noise Conspiracy.

The 'Survival Sickness' CD booklet has no lyrics. Instead there is a mini-essay for each song about the themes and ideas in that song. This one was for 'Smash it Up' (hence the topic title). I particularly like the 'Forge invitations to art gallerys and hand them out to homeless people.'

I like things like this.

The Pisces Iscariot inner cover has loads of stuff typed by Billy Corgan. For a fan like me, its fantastic to read, and also has some quality stuff in it.

Reminds me of the philosophy of Chaoism as defined in the book: Psychonaut.

This is a start. Cover the bathroom with pictures of my friends. Write letters to people you haven't seen in ages and invite them to stay at your place. Redecorate the street sign so that all traffic will end up in the water. Steal a map of the city and try your hardest not to follow it. Borrow someone's heart for just an hour. Play soccer with 3 goals and no referee. Cross out words like truth, oppression and boredom in every dictionary for free. Change your identity with someone for a week or two. Rob a bank and burn the money. Money sucks! Organize a wildcatstrike at your job or at your school. Drop everything and go to the one place in the world that you have always wanted to go regardless of bull**** considerations and excuses. Steal books and distribute them to strangers. Go to art museums and sneak your own work into displays. Play acoustic versions of angry samoan's songs at posh cafe's. Run for every public election in your town and stress the qualifications that you don't have. Give library cards to all of your friends as a gift. Get all of your friends to go into Burger King, order water and take as many seats as possible for as long as possible, do this every day right before lunch time. Change the time on all clocks that you encounter, at people's houses, in public places, etc. Alter all of the street signs in your town area with names of places in the world which are currently in a state of war, scene of atrocity, or subject to violent oppression. Stuff the suggestions box at your nearest video store demanding that all of the Debord films should be available for rental. Recommend that Henry Miller be required reading in all high schools. Write 'this will be your death' on every piece of money that passes through your hands. Spend more time naked. Call every crappy radio station and demand that they play more G. G. Allin. If you are in a band, never play the same place twice until you have played everywhere once. On any first date, make it the mission to get you both arrested for something embarrassing and stupid, don't let your date in on this plan. If you see people chasing pigeons, chase and pretend to kick them. Laugh a lot more. If you have something stupid to say, make sure that it gets said loud. Celebrate every holiday from all countries and cultures. Bath in public fountains, particularly ones in front of commercial or municipal buildings. Falsify invitations to art exhibitions and pass out to homeless people. Reinvent and make up new and exciting games. Drift. Squat a church, everyone should have their own cathedral.


Words taken from the liner notes of the album 'Survival Sickness' by The (International) Noise Conspiracy.