Re: CV OT Test Department

[Richard Zvonar <zvonar@zvonar.com>]

Title: Re: CV OT Test Department

At 2:39 PM -0800 12/14/01, rich wrote:

> do you really think Mark Pauline
> could give a rats ass about robot wars, or that reality tv
> "junkyard" thing?

No.

> i had the privelege of seeing an SRL
> show first hand in San Francisco about '89.  Definitely one of
> the most intense experiences of that period of my life.  having
> entrails spit at you from a tree shredder is quite
> something...

My first SRL experience was "Live TV Coverage of a Short Excursion Into The Bottomless Pit of Everlasting Fire In June 1981.

<http://www.srl.org/shows/archive/cadillac/livetv.html>

I also attended "A Cruel and Relentless Plot to Pervert the Flesh of Beasts to Unholy Uses"  http://www.srl.org/shows/archive/cruelplot/cruelplot.html and a few others, but haven't seen anything since the mid-80s.

> they scare me more because they seem
> to be venting outwards more, whereas SRL seemed to vent the violence
> inwards.  they invited the audience to observe, and took no
> responibility if a wayward fragment hurt someone, but there seemed to
> be no anger or violence TOWARDS the audience.

Some of the events I saw in the early '80s had some pretty in-your-face acts. Monte Cazzaza had a pneumatic cannon that shot fluorescent tubes and he enjoy firing them up onto the freeway overpass. There were also some pretty aggressive flame throwers and a machine that pulverized blocks of concrete and sent showers out across the audience.

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