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A selection of photos of friends and family.
Frank Ragsdale picture above peering through the over abundant flora of the Dream Magazine gardens. Frank is the person that let me into the computer world (which I'd dragged my feet to do until 1998) and allowed me to embark upon this website experiment. Hopefully we'll someday finish the animated film we've been working on for a few hundred years. There's a cooler photo of Frank with Andy Partridge, but you'll have to wait to see that'n. Till then contact him at:
The Broken Face Editor Mats Gustafsson is pictured above with his niece. His publication was a huge influence on Dream Magazine, and since the demise of his publication, he's been an avid contributor to this one. Below is the old Broken Face manifesto.
The Broken Face is a printed journal, or fanzine for the non-euphemistically inclined, devoted to the exploration of rock and psychedelic music. Because we're only interested in what we consider to be good music most of the artists covered could be considered underground or indie bands, but we have no real aversion towards popular music. We're just not concerned with commercially motivated individuals, and besides those folks get all the coverage they need as it is. As a result, we try to cover a wide variety of more established and lesser known but equally rocking bands. We're firm believers in the idea that one guy with nothing more than a used guitar, a 4-track, and the incessant yapping of the voices in his head is capable of creating the kind of honest music that can stir the soul and open the mind, and in some cases just flat-out blow us away. We mainly focus on pop and rock, but we're also interested in psych, noise, post punk, folk, drone, New Zealand pop and noise, Japanese psych, "post rock" (ahem) and other sounds and places yet undiscovered. While we generally focus on bands of today, we're also familiar with the history of rock and its tendency to recycle itself from time to time. Alongside new music we like to cover older and even forgotten acts, because a great album has no expiration date. Over the period of 3+ years time we've published more than 50 in-depth interviews plus deranged columns about nothing in particular and a cauldron full of rambling reviews. The Broken Face is based in Trosa, Sweden, with an international roster of writers, music theorists, and cultural demagogue's led be Mats Gustafsson as editor, publisher and contributing writer.
Address:
The Broken Face, c/o Mats Gustafsson, Brovagen 14, 610 72 Vagnharad, Sweden.
E-mail: matsanna@mail.bip.net
Web: http://brokenface.exitflagger.com
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Our friend Magical Power Mako asked his designer friend Minako Suzuki to do make a site-animation from some images I sent them. It's kinda spooky and sexy too. Thanks very much to M.P.M. and Minako for pop 's DREAMflash.
Scott Sterbenz & his girlfriend Carrell McCarthy went to Avebury in the UK, their guide was good Rod Goodway. They took some beautiful photographs of the adventure. Here's one that Carrell took. (Click on the image above to see a larger more detailed image)
He's also got a trippy site to check out and quite an archive of Terrastock photos to ogle in awe.
Words cannot almost describe Avebury. Others have done so much better than I. Avebury dates to 3,000 B.C. It's creation continued for many hundreds of years. It's a massive geographical site actually, spread over many square miles. There's the West Kennett Longbarrow, Silbury Hill (largest man made creation in all of Europe, made entirely of white chalk! but now covered in grass). There are two "avenues" of stones. Many were destroyed over the years by Christians and profit takers. The Stone Circle is beyond belief. The 2 avenues lead up to it. On the horizon, in 360 degrees, are Barrows - burial mounds surrounded by trees - everywhere! All of this pre-dates the Beaker people who were immigrants to the area. There are also chalk figures in the hillsides, on a very large scale. These are likely 17th century though, and not related, more of a homage. The crop circles in the area are pure folly, done at midnight by locals. Experience wise, the site emanates - for me - a sense of being that wordly concerns no longer exist. Just BEING THERE gives one a feeling of immortality, a connection with the past that is undeniable. It's best experienced by hiking, starting at the West Kennet longbarrow which is by Silbury Hill, and then following the West Kennet avenue towards the "Circle". The Circle was not originally inhabited. Oddly enough, there are not many traces of the inhabitants. A large ditch surrounds the Circle, and excavations of it show that it was over 30 feet deep, straight down, into the hard chalky ground. It's not a moat in the sense of a castle moat.
Scott Sterbenz
