From: Mike Willey <wallmartyr-AT-gmail.com>
Date: 30 Jun 2009 18:37:16 UTC   (01:37:16 PM in author's locale)
To: Situationist <situationist-AT-lists.nothingness.org>

concerning artists and suicide, i have always found the death of yukio
mishima to be pretty fascinating:

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yukio_Mishima

"On November 25 <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/November_25>,
1970<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1970>,
Mishima and four members of the Tatenokai, under pretext, visited the
commandant of the Ichigaya <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ichigaya> Camp—the
Tokyo headquarters of the Eastern Command of Japan's Self-Defense
Forces<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japan_Self-Defense_Forces>
..[4] <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yukio_Mishima#cite_note-film-3> Inside,
they barricaded the office and tied the commandant to his chair. With a
prepared manifesto and banner listing their demands, Mishima stepped onto
the balcony to address the soldiers gathered below. His speech was intended
to inspire a coup d'etat
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coup_d%27etat>restoring the powers of
the emperor. He succeeded only in irritating them,
however, and was mocked and jeered. He finished his planned speech after a
few minutes, returned to the commandant's office and committed
*seppuku<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seppuku>
*. The customary *kaishakunin
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kaishakunin>*duty at the end of this
ritual <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ritual> had been assigned to Tatenokai
member Masakatsu Morita <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Masakatsu_Morita>, but
Morita was unable to properly perform the task: after several attempts, he
allowed another Tatenokai member, Hiroyasu
Koga<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hiroyasu_Koga>,
to behead Mishima.

Another traditional element of the suicide ritual was the composition of *
jisei* (death poems <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_poem>) before their
entry into the headquarters.[6]<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yukio_Mishima#cite_note-5>Mishima
planned his suicide meticulously for at least a year and no one
outside the group of hand-picked Tatenokai members had any indication of
what he was planning. His biographer, translator and former friend John
Nathan <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Nathan> suggests that the coup
attempt was only a pretext for the ritual suicide of which Mishima had long
dreamed.[7] <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yukio_Mishima#cite_note-6> Mishima
made sure his affairs were in order and left money for the legal defence of
the three surviving Tatenokai members."

On Tue, Jun 30, 2009 at 1:11 PM, richard haden <richard_haden-AT-yahoo.com>wrote:

> GG Allin was definitely once an alive guy thing. His shocking tactics may
> have been on a rock stage rather than performance art stage but
> yet...shocking...none the less. I think it was Lydia Lunch who performed
> less offensive female versions of GG's attitudinal pranks.
>
> Then there were the point blankness of Chris Burden's bullet....or his
> mimicking Jesus piercing on a VW Beetle.
>
>
> images.google.com/imgres9&tbnw9&prev=/images%3Fq%3DChris%2BBurden,%2BVW%26hl%3Den%26client%3Dsafari%26rls%3Den%26sa%3DN%26um%3D1
>
> or the drastic action of taking the self out of the picture--suicide
>
> arthistory.about.com/library/artists/lists/bl_suicide.htm
>
>
> Richard Haden
>
>
>
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> Sent: Tuesday, June 30, 2009 9:50:08 AM
> Subject: RE: I Wanna Piss On You
>
>
> It must be a guy thing.
>
>
> It's difficult for girls to aim that accurately.
>
>
>
> Diana
>
>
> > Gotta love GG Allin:
> >
> > *I wanna piss on you, I wanna piss on you
> > You ain't shit to me, 'cause I'm better than you
> > I wanna shit on you, and rape your little sister too
> > I wanna piss on you, my pecker has a yearning to
> >
> > I wanna piss on you, I wanna piss on you
> > Shit in your mouth, piss on you
> > Fill your mouth with super glue
> >
> > My glands can't hold it in, I've got an Uncle Yen
> > Wanna pull it out again, and urinate on everyone
> > I wanna piss on you, my peckers got a yearning to
> > Gotta pull it out again, and urinate on everyone
> >
> > I wanna piss on you, fill your mouth with super glue
> > I'll piss on you and your sister too
> > I wanna rape that bitch
> >
> > Piss, piss, piss on everybody, yes
> > Piss, piss, urinate, piss 'till your face is yellow, yea
> > Your hair is yellow, it's dripping down your chin
> > It's going in your mouth again
> > I wanna piss on you, I hope you drowned, I hope you do
> >
> > I wanna piss on you, fill your mouth with super glue
> > I wanna piss on your mother too
> > And rape your sister, she is so cool
> >
> > I wanna piss on you, everyone should be pissed on
> > I wanna piss on you, I hate you, I wanna piss on you
> > I wanna shit on you, piss on you and rape you too
> > I wanna piss on your brother, wanna piss on your father too
> >
> > I wanna piss on you, wanna piss on you, you, you
> > I wanna piss on you, piss, piss, piss, piss, piss on you
> > *
> > en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gg_allin
> >
> > -MIKE.
> > **
> > *
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