s/M OPERATIONSS/M Operations — April 26, iy82 Exit Smarm Magazine. Smarm editor Rolaid Alpo Cola, and Screw Machine audio cass- ette creator Richard Scott will hereupon be co-editors of S/M Operations. Past issues of Smarm are no longer available, Further copies of this S/M Operations issue can be obtained by sending one U.S. dollar to; S/M Operations, P.0.Box 1282, Port Huron, MI 48060 abn ‘eit ; Cone the way ot all (igs4 — The following interview was conducted by the editors in late March, 1982.:The interviewees'name will be kept confidential. "I worked in a family-owned funeral home, did general duties around the house.(S/M- House?) Well, the whole place was a big house..there was an apartment upstairs, they pay you $5 a night to stay there, plus when you do a removal they give you another $5. After a while, you get rather anxiety stricken- you'd be sleeping and the phone would ring, I'd just go, "I hope it's not that". You start getting paranoid about it- you know, getting up at 3o'clock in the morning having to put on a suit and go pick this body up someplace- usually at a hos- pital, or wherever they found them. Not too pleasant of an awakening. My first pickup was this old lady ip a hospital bed, her thighs were about(5" in diameter)...didn't even use a hearse on that one, we just used a station wagon. I didn't know what to expect, well, I guess there's no way of knowing until you've done it..we go in, and take the "death cot"(like an ambulance stretcher, with a vinyl bag and a rubber sheet) with us...she had a gaping mouth, no teeth- just this gaping hole of a mouth. I didn't even want to go near her, it was disgusting! So the guy I was with said, "Help me turn her over.", So I tried to roll her over by her flannel "nitie"; he just grabbed my hands from there and just stuck 'em on her flesh! After that when I went home, it seemed like I just couldn't wash my hands enough. Well, after a while you get pretty much used to it...(S/M- pick up the body with one handand eat a sandwich with the other?) Wo...bul 1 know a guy that beat a dog to death while eating a ham & cheese sand- wich! (S/M- You've got great friends!)..it's someone you know as well!// The suicide cases weren't too pleasant, oither. We went to this*one. house where this like, 20 year-old guy, just a wasted life anyway...had this sheet over him, and this "lake" of blood at his feet. There wis this cop standing out- side the door looking pretty sick.’ We pick this guy up and.. this stringy blood was clinging to the chair he was in, that looked... There was this scandal about him later on, the gun he shot himself with was there- this .22 rifle that had boen cut off at the barrel where the hand grip ended, and the stock had been cut off also, so it looked like a dueling, pis- tol...It turns out that the guy he got the gun from had cau- ght him in bed with the other guys' wife- so he told him; “either you kill yourself, or else I'm going to kill you", and then he sold him the gun!...got real drunk and blew him- self away.// There was this body we called "Hattie in a Box", she was real disgusting! She was old, and had cellulite on every portion of her body- shaped like a torpedo, with no coloration whatsoever. She had a slit from the base of her throat all the way down to her pubic line- when they autopsy, they take the organs out for examination, and when they're done, they stick 'em in plastic baggpps. F and put the bags back in the chest c cavity, then sew it back up. At any rate, when they sewed her up, the seam didn't match right, so the skin was sticking up with the stite+ hes pulled tight. You could see the bright white fat, and the bloody looking red flesh, that looked like a fresh cut of meat or something. We took her back to the funeral home and had to put her in a crema-}, tion tray(a cardboard box, with a piece of particle board and a plas- tic liner in the bottom. They have praying hands stenciled on the cover..). When she came back a few days later she was'all neatly wrapped in a plastic bag inside this like, 6 by 8 inch box. "Hattie in a box", she only weighed about 10 or 12 pds. then, with her name on a nice white label. // One time I was down in the prep room witt this other guy, and he said, "Do you smell something?", Of course I said, "NO, I don't smell anything!". He was real gung-ho about it though- so he ended up taking these forcips and opening up this corpses! (anus), cleaning inside withsort of like giant swabs- things to dot//After they got the body on the prep table... this table had like these stainless steel lips around the edges, blood gutters..it tilted over the sink so when you made the cuts on the arteries and started pumping out the blood with this thing, this pump which looked not unlike an electric blen- der, the blood would run out into the drain. Embalming fluid sort of pushes the blood out, until you get just straight em- balming fluid...then they just sewed ‘em back up. I remember being upstairs above the prep room, and hearing water splash below, but it wasn't really water.//The first thing I had to do when I came in, in the morning was to check to see if the bodie: had changed facial expressions or purged blood...once someone stole a casket from the house! Someone found it beside the road and called the police thinking there might be someone inside of it.//The preparer used this instrument called a trocar, which is basically a huge hypodermic needle connected to that same kind of pump I talked about earlier. You take this thing and ram it into the stomach, around where the belly button is, and pierce all of the internal organs to fill them with embalming fluid. It looks pretty freightening when they shove this thing in, because they have to use such force,the body kind of con- vulses, which makes the person appear to be alive.Thermidor Records/Subterranean 912 Bancroft Way Berkeley, CA 94710 Monte Cazazza Box 977 Berkeley, CA 94701 for information on Monte/Factrix videotape. City Lights 261 Columbus San Francisco, CA GHA 33, Book Store, does mailorder. _ CLEM Contact List of Electronic Music c/0 Alex Douglas P.0. Box 86010 North Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, V7L 4J5 Cortes Nocturnal Emissions/ Sterile Recora 90 Lilford Rd. London SE5 England Nanavosh c/o Talk Talk Dave Farmer P.O.Box 36 48 Markwell Close Lawrence, KS Longton Grove, 6604 Sydenham, London SE 26 6G Sub/Pop T.G./PIV informatio: Box 2391 centre. Olympia, WA 98507 Vox mag.c/o Magazine/cassette Dave Clifford mag. with all U.S 4uOA S.Circulk: bands... Rd. Rialto, Dublir Ireland PPresence Records Ltd. P.0.Box 8825 Rowland Heights, CA 91748 cassettes /information by Deviation SocialS.P.K. Box 40 Holme Bldg. Sydney, University Sydney, 2006 Australia Flownotion Tapes Ian Dobson 31 Stainbeck Ave. Leeds, LS? 2QT England Dear Ann Landers: Do you want to know why there are so many rapes? I can tell you, be cause Tama guy who is just wait- int for the right minute and then I'll grab somebody. IT have had a terrible weight problem ever since I was 10 years old. I am 20 now and have been laughed at and made fun of by girls all my life. They have made me feel like I am not worth any- thing. I have tried to be nice but all T ever got was a dirty look or an insult. The last girl I asked for a date told me to come around af- ter I lost 200 pounds. I felt like breaking her damned face. I stay up nights thinking of ways to get back at that b— and Re; vsarcn 20 Romolo B San Francisco, CA 94133 Newest issue is a large paperback book, with writings of, and interviews with; Brion Gysin, William Burroughs, and Throbbing Gristle. Future issues to include information on Sex and Control, Industrial Artists. Factrix ¢/0 Bergland Cabaret Mag. ob RFD 1 B. Allen Windsor, VT I Carnhill Ave, 05089 Newtownabbey Co, (temporary Antrim, address..?) Northern Ireland BT36 6LE You can now own the complete King James version of the Bible on cassette tapes, for $29.95 from; Bible Tapes P.O.Box 3300 Tampa, FL USA all the others who tr-ated me like dirt. In my head I have it all worked out. I know of an aban- doned cabin on the edge of town where I could keep a girl for a month and there would be no wit- nesses when I got through with her. I wouldn’t feel one bit guilty because I would just be getting even. — Guess Who I Am Whoever You Are: You are a very sick guy, much too sick to accept help from me, but I'm glad you wrote because your letter ex- plains why men rape.AM A eS When I was no more than five years-old, I watched the origina: version of "The Time Machine" late at night with my family. i remember a hole in the earth where creatures toiled on some sort of machinery, which made a rhythm of pounding, crashing metal. I heard this rhythm in my head every night before I fe: to sleep for years following. I haven't heard anything that captures that sound and feeling more thouroughly than the new SPK album, Leichenschrei (translation- Screaming corpses). On previous SPK werks the sheer magnitude of dense, screeching synth./etc. grabbed your neck and held you until the spiral track let you loose. On this new LP different aggressive, prir itive rhythms pound your head, and slap your face with a leather strap. The undead rise to chant and scream, I haven't been this distraught over a piece of vinyl since T.G.s D.0.A.; with this much intense, violent energy a small group of Walkm equipped terrorists could overthrow continents(yes, I am very excitable..)! Perhaps the final, tortured scream that ends th: assault will from now on, be bidding me goodnight. Discography SPK- No More/Contact Germanik EP (ed. 500 Side Effects Rec.) [ff Surgical Penis Klinil Meat Processing 45 (Industrial Records, original on SE with additional cut) System Planning Korp-# oration- Informationi Overload Unit LP (Side Effects) SPK- Leichenschrei LP (Thermidor ) SPK- (see interview) Information Dokument I, II ReSearch #3 Another Room V.2 #9 Vox #6 Flowmotion #2 Talk Talk V.3 #5Dominik(sp?) via telephone- he in San Francisco, I in P.H.; S/M- I thought you went to the shooting range with Vale... F D- The others went there. I went! to Alkatraz. i S/M- Will you be showing any video when you tour? D- We've got quite a few videos, but unfortunately it's a diff- erent format. We use (-?-), a German system. But we have got films, super 8- and slides, which are very unusual. S/M- Are you planning on doing soundtracks for other peoples videos in addition to your own?, D- Oh,..no, basically our own. We're not really interested in doing other peoples', I mean, we have the facilities, perhaps if anything's interesting enough. We did a little thing with Mark Pauline the other day- he's a very interesting chap.. S/M- Is anything you have done with video available presently? D- It's difficult to get what we've done so far transferred. Eventually we would like to have some sort of an American distribution as far as our videotapes are concerned, but at this stage we haven't got the facilities to duplicate them. S/M- What personnel does the band consist of now? D- I'm in charge of the visuals. There's two people on stage, and a mixer. S/M- What will be the album to be released in England? D- There's a tentative working title of something like, The Last Atempt At Paradise, but we haven't really decided on anything as of yet. S/M- Will this be the final SPK album, then? D- We might do sort of a soundtrack type thing, -there's some possibility of a live album. S/M- I was disgpointed to hear that you tried out infra/ultra * sound on an audience in Australia, and nothing came of it... D- It just sort of destroyed this guys' p.a., that's all it really acheived. I mean it was quite good, it was an inter- esting thing..it was just sort of really low sub-harmonics.. that were on a fifteen-hundred watt p.a.. It just popped all those fiftean-inch bass speakern- didn't. really lend itself for the rest of the concert with the bass speakers being blown,able to reproduce them D- Well, I've heard =; stories of really bor ing bands like Pink Floyd using individual bass speakers under | peoples! chairs in | concert to create a | really amazing bass sound... i S/M- I was really look-! ing foreward to seeing what kind of guinea | pig I might be to Infr or ultra- sound... D- OH, well we do have extreme frecuencies still, don't. feel that we won't sort of be | "blasting it out"- it!) just that on that one, | on that level, it did-' n't really acheive ' much. People tend to become quite excited with some of the sounds created- dis- - turbed, in a sense.. sort of interesting reactions, both because of the visual ‘and © musickal contents, I think the lend themselves to each other very nicely. S/M- Do you film or tape all of the visuals yourself, or are they found e... D-Alot of them are done in a very clandestine way- going into medical schools and such, taking pictures of actual corpses. And museums where specimens are being kept in jars and things like that. And also... I never found out what “and also" was- the rest of the band came back with the news that the van they had purchased just lost it's transmission.Throbbing Gristle/ Psychic Television Flowmotion Tapes have been granted permission to copy the Industrial cassettes for distribution. An Italian record company has released lp versions of two previously cassette only releases; T.G.- Psychic Rally, and Clock DVA- White souls in Black Suits. The first PIV videotape should be out around June, as should a soundtrack LP. When a Detroit tele-vi-sion station news show ran a story of a recent Michigan multiple killing, the graphic projected be- hind the newscaster was comprised of the image of dead bodies with the words MASS MURDER in red, dripping horror-show lett- ering over the top, for added effect. t Factrix/Monte Cazazza Factrix and visual co-ordinator, Ruby Ray, are presently working on their next sound project in New England, and are apparently doing a few concerts. A Factrix Live with Monte Cazagza videotape is now available through Mr. Cazazza- It is entitled "Night of the Succubus", and a live lp, "@ali- fornia Babylon" is soon to be released on Subterranean Red- ords. This fall, Sordide Sentimental will release a Monte Cazazza single, "Stairway to Hell" and "Sex is no Emergency" Featuring Bond and Joseph of Factrix.he Mefurns| Laissions— Sterite dente The Nocturnal Emissions is a group of three individuals who operate Sterile Records, which has released an Li’ by Maurzio Bianchi(Italy),. an album by the cultural terroristes, LUSTMPRD (should be out by the time you read this), compilation cassettes, various paraphernalia, as well as two of their own lps, through their London based company. i When you think you have a good footing listening to Noc- | turnal Emissions' music- they pull the plank out from under you. N.E. collage sounds that agitate your brain, after listening to their newest lp, Fruiting Body, you get a head full of confusion- and no conclusions. Disorienting audio. The Nocturnal Emissions have stressed to me that they "have no thing(sic) to do with art or entertainment". I can see why they feel as though they have to stress this- thoy use | both "art" and "entertainment" is in their endeavors- but instead of playing the usual game, they terrorize instead of entertain- inform rather than create passive wallhanging music to do your dishes to. To merely listen to their musick is robbing yourself- Write them(address elsewhere), they are a valuable source of information. "Total Emissive Power" for the Mest Ganaratinn"