Years ago (early 1990s) I was pretty well involved with the LA Cacophony Society – more or less a group of bohemian ne’re-do-wells who would take picnics to auto junkyards, visit UFO cults, have JFK assassination suspect costume parties, and just generally make a cheerful sport out of “freaking the mundanes”. Lots of dadaesque fun that made the big city a little more interesting.
I more or less retired from LA Cacophony in the late 1990s but hung around on the mailing list until the whole thing collapsed amidst death, a weird conversion into cultism, and subsequent Bad Vibes. It was all very strange from the outside – seeing folks I used to know through the group freak out. I hadn’t thought about it in a long time until I picked up the current issue (#6) of Arthur, which has a lengthy article on what happened. A PDF of the whole issue is available from their site.
Also in Arthur #6, check out the long interview with Iggy Pop and a fantastic interview with John Sinclair who’s packing up and leaving the country permanently.