Shiny Black Rainbows #10

1. John Haigh's Acid Bath
2. Salem Witch Trials
3. Billy Corgan the Vampire?
4. Poems
5. Reviews
6. Lyrics
7. Zines, Websites, and other necessities of life....
8. Survey
9. Closing

John Haigh's Acid Bath

John Haigh was raised by a devout puritanical family, in Yorkshire, England, and was a very religious child. He spent several years in prison for petty thefts, but when he got out, he stole more than his victims posessions, he also took their blood. Haigh murdered Donald McSwann. He drank his blood, stole some of his belongings, and dissolved his body in sulfuric acid. Apparently he believed there would be no evidence left to convict him.

Haigh went on like this for five years. He murdered and drank the blood of McSwann's parents, along with three other people. Dissolving their bodies in sulfuric acid, each time.

Haigh's last victim was Mrs. Durand-Deacon. He fooled her into thinking they would go into the artificial fingernail business together. She went to his home to see the materials and he shot her in the back of the head. He went to his car, got a drinking glass, and returned to the body. Using a pen knife, he cut into the side of her neck and filled his glass with blood. He stole all her valuables and dissolved her body in acid. Parts of Haigh's last victim didn't dissolve. Among the remains were bones, dentures, and a part of a foot (that was used to identify her). Haigh confessed to all his previous acts and was hanged for his crimes in 1949.

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Salem Witch Trials

This was sent to me by LLikINIKIB. It's an excerpt from the book [A Delusion of Satan - The Full Story of the Salem Witch Trials] By Karen Armstrong

Almost thirty died. Well over a hundred languished for months in cramped, dark, stinking prisons, hungry and thirsty, never moving from the walls they were chained to, unsure if they would ever go free. Some were tortured by the strange method known as "tying neck and heels", their bodies forced into hoops, necks roped to feet. Others were made to stand without rest during interminable sessions of questioning. Many were even more equisitely tortured by knowing that their children were left unprovided for when they were seized. Mothers wondered if their babies still lived.

By the spring of 1693 despair lay almost as heavy outside the prisons as in. Farms had been neglected while families traveled long distances, on horseback or foot, to visit their relatives in prisons and to attend their examinations and trials. Some families had been impoverished or bankrupted by the disruption of work and the need to pay for the upkeep of their jailed mothers and fathers, brothers, sisters, husbands, and wives. It seems incredible today, but prisoners were responsible for their own fees for their board and lodging, their fetters and chains. Many were without income or assets. Some had been poor, even destitute, before they were accused. Others had their estates and posessions seized by the sheriff on imprisonment, at times so vindictively that cattle were killed, beer poured out of barrels, and broth tossed from pots. Childrens were left to shift for themselves or to be saved from starvation by mercy of their neighbors.

The witchcraft hysteria, which had begun in Salem village a year before, had wrecked Eastern Massachusettes as would a civil war.

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Billy Corgan the Vampire??

This is a letter I got from Katie@voicenet.com. It's really quite funny (sorta strange too), so I thought put it in:

Hey speaking of vampires theres this stupid thred on the smashing Pumpkins usenet bored about Billy corgan being a vampire, i have pasted a little post that someone has posted.

grind666@dur.mindspring.com wrote:

It sounds bizarre but it's true, Billy is a vampire, and the stuff about the vampire queen, it's not Billies queen, it's Akasha, the vampire queen. You people don't know anything.

And another one was:

I KNOW WHAT YOU ARE BILLY AND I WANT IT. COME TO ME IN 8 YEARS. ALSO HOW IS MEKARE, MAHARET, AND DANIEL.

Hmmmm I think someone has been reading too much Anne Rice lately. Well if your looking for stuff for the Zine (which I must say I luv) or just some entertainment on a shitty day those should help. Kat

(Thanks Kat, that was cool.)

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Poems

Untitled, By Keef Rut

they say that when you die your life flashes before your eyes
I remember my mother looking down at me
I remember black jellybeans
I remember living in the poor neighborhood across from the kid who had to shave his head, because he had lice
I remember school
I remember my first new car
I remember the mailbox in front of the drug store my father lived close to
I remember my wedding day
I remember looking down at my newborn son for the first time
I remember my son growing older and leaving
I remember my divorce
I remember working very hard at something I did not enjoy
I remember reading and writing
I remember the first time I thought I was old
I remember my son, now old, telling me he was putting me into a home
I remember smiling
I remember crying
I remember screaming
I remember feeling
I remember dreaming
I remember hurting
I remember

The Rose Family, By Robert Frost

The rose is a rose,
And was always a rose.
But the theory now goes
That the apple's a rose,
And the pear is and so's
the plum, I suppose.
The dear only knows
What will next prove a rose,
You, of course, are a rose-
But were always a rose.

Death & Co. By, Sylvia Plath

Two of course there are two.
It seems prefectly natural now----
The one who never looks up, whose eyes are lidded
And balled, like Blake's,
Who exhibits

The birthmarks that are his trademark----
The scald scar of water,
the nude
Verdigris of the condor.
I am red meat. his beak

Claps sidewise: I am not his yet.
He tells me how badly I photograph.
He tells me how sweet
the babies look in their hospital
Icebox, a simple

Frill at the neck,
Then the flutings of their Ionian
Death-gowns,
Then two little feet.
He does not smile of smoke.

The other doesn that,
His hair long and plausive.
Bastard
Masturbating a glitter,
He wants to be loved.

I do not stir.
the frost makes a flower,
the dew makes a star,
The dead bell,
The dead bell.

Somebody's done for.

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Reviews

Music

[Pacific Trim] by Pavement

This record is a rare little gem from one of the nost well respected indie bands around. I don't know why the public shuns these guys. They play what might be called "avant-garde pop", maybe like Weezer, except Weezer is a realy bad imitation, and a lot more boring.

This record starts off with the song "Give it a Day". It's a very Beatlesy song, but a little more tired sounding, in a good way. A lot better than Oasis's annoying imitation. I think it's about a girlfriend's dad or something.

Next on the A side is "Pranksters and Gangsters". This one is a lot like Pavement's older work, if your familiar with it. If not, it's kind of a fun song, melodic, but with a lot of odd sound effects. It's actually pretty cheesy, but the kind of cheesiness that makes a song even better.

First on the B-side is "Saganaw". It's a completely beautiful song, different from most of this band's previous work. It sounds maybe a little countryish, or folky, but with those weird things Pavement always does in their songs. Steve Malkmus kind of yodels once or twice in it. I really love this one a lot.

And last is "I Love Perth". All about Australia and love. I really like this one, too. It's real short, and it kind of sounds like an oldie or something. The words are great. "You're gorgeous, I'm pretty handsome too, we make a pair, me and you, etc." It sounds like they were all drunk when they wrote and recorded it, which makes it all the better.

All in all, I think this is a great little record. Pavement is such a fun band. A refreshing thing to hear after putting up with all that annoying angst-ridden silliness on the radio. Just remember this, friends don't trust anyone who takes themselves too seriously. And give Pavement all your money.

~ Written By B DAN B

(Hey I like all that angst-ridden silliness)

Movies

[The Lost Boys]

This movie was really good. It's not new, but that doesn't matter. It's about these guys that move to a new town that's full of vampires. The older brother gets into the vampire crowd and becomes one. Th younger one meets a couple of vampire slayers at a comic book store, and they offer to help him anytime. And the mother is just oblivious to everything. I think this movie was supposed to be a horror movie, but it's actually really funny. The younger brother is really wimpy, the kind of "have to sleep in bed with mom cuz I'm scared", kind of wimpy. Anyway is you haven't seem this yet, you should. It's around an 8.

Books

[Flowers in The Attic], by VC Andrews

I've read all of her books (I think theres around 25), and I just love them. It's about a family whose father dies, and they have to move in with their grandmother. Their mother's really selfish and locks them up in the attic for years. There's a set of twins and the grandmother poisons them little by little. The older brother and sister get involved we'll just say (You know what I'm talking about). They all get sick from lack of exercise, food, and sunlight. There's five books in the series, and each book follows their lives as they grow up. The last book tells about their grandmother and why she became so mean and nasty. By the way, the movie sucks. It's nothing like the book. It's a 10.

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Lyrics

This was originally a poem by Roger Waters, then set to music by David Gilmor (both Pink Floyd people). It was sent in by Millfarm1

[Wish You Were Here], by Roger Waters

So you think you could tell
Heaven from Hell?
Blue skies from pain?
Can you tell a green field,
From a cold steel rail??
A smile from a veil?
Do you think you can tell?

And did they get you to trade
Your hero's for ghosts
hot ashes for trees,
hot air for a cool breeze?
Cold comfort for change?
Did you exchange
a walk on part in a war
for a lead role in a cage?

How I wish, How I wish you were here
We're just two lost souls swimming in a fish bowl
Year after year
Running over the same old ground
What have we found, the same old fears
Wish you were here.........

(That was really nice. Very nice, indeed. I liked it)

[Sweet 69], by Babes in Toyland

I live it high cost of livin tell me why give it all
inside you gotta head high one size fits all
Head ride you deside
Sweet sweet ride 1969

I live it why ya gotta limit, crossed grin now I
Gotta bare it head high 9 inside hell to ride
You beside
Sweet sweet ride 1965

I live it it's not a gimmick my side anti-red
What I said in yr head naked what you hide
Will the planes ever collide we align collide
My sweet sign 1969

I like it hot cold livin have you
seen the inside of
My ceiling's got a big wild grin
inside miles
Wide you belle
Sweet sweet ride 1965

I've had it now I've gotta give it all
blind mice
Resign you gotta hoodshine
analyze
Seats alive vinyl thighs
Sweet ride 1969

I live it it what I tado why I give it
not away
Pen said why side when I'm dead
I gotta live it
Speak free sexually why

I feel it's sky's not a limit gotta nice
flight
Suit amd tie headlights on inside
souled a
price you can't buy
Sweet sweet sixty sexy I idolize yr
Sixxy sexty oh me sixty sixxy

[Money], by Pink Floyd.

Sent in by BIG GUY 82.

Money, get away
Get a good job with more pay
And you're okay
Money, it's a gas
Grab that cash with both hands
And make a stash
New car, caviar, four star daydream
Think I'll buy me a football team

Money, get back
I'm alright Jack keep your hands
Off of my stack
Money, it's a hit
Don't give me that
Do goody good bullshit
I'm in the hi-fidelity first class travelling set
And I think I need a lear jet

Money, it's a crime
Share it fairly but don't take a slice
Of my pie
Money, so they say
Is the root of all evil today
But if you ask for a rise it's no surprise
That they're giving none away

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Zines, Websites, and other necessities of life.............

Pattyhole's website http://www.relastar.com/danielle.html

Pattycake, a snail mail zine. Send $1 or 3 stamps for one issue. She's in desparate need of stamps, so donations would be welcome.

Danielle
920 Sterling Ave. apt# 113
Palatine, IL, 60067-1989

A limited edition record of the band Trip 66. Side one: 1. Help me 2. Drift 3. One Desire. Side two: 1. Believe 2. One Desire (demo). No specific price, just the highest bidder. If you are interested email MrManson66@aol.com.

Sugar Rush Zine. It's about the show Mystery Science Theater 3000. As of September it will be a year old. Email Katie@voicenet.com for it.

Black and Blue, an email zine. Email tasty@ibm.net for it. And visit her webpage at: http://www.geocities.com/SoHo/5826/.

Automatic Pansy, a snail mail zine. It's poetry, short stories, rantings and ravings of kids, opinions, reviews, artwork, photos, etc. It costs $1 or 3 stamps. The address is:

Automatic Pansy
5 Mira Court
Baltimore, MD, 21220.

Someone sent me a webpage address, but no description of what it's about. http://www.ncf.carleton.ca/~di362. Email JStroud101@aol.comto find out what it's for.

Email MizWhirled@aol.com for information on her new snail mail zine. She's still working on the first issue, but it deals with riot grrrl, feminism, Ani DiFranco, reviews, artwork, and lots of other stuff. It's free, but she's in need of publishing money, so 1 dollar and stamps would be good.

If you have anything you was to plug, push, or just plain get rid of, email me. Most ads stay in for two weeks, unless you renew it or say otherwise.

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Survey

This week's survey is questions that were sent in from the last survey. I couldn't fit them all, so some will be in later on. If you have any more questions, send them in, I could have the surveys like this all the time.

1. If you could have sex with any rock star (singer, drummer, guitar, bass, etc.) who would it be and why???
~Pattyhole

2. If you could have dinner and a long talk with anyone, living or dead, who would it be and why???
~GregLucas

3. Who's the sexiest (or most attractive, best looking, etc.) person in music???
~NParkerX

4. What was the best concert you've ever been to???
~BIG GUY 82

5. What would you do to see a Hole show???
~HOLEBOY569

6. What do you wear to bed???
~tasty@ibm.net

7. Why do you think Mariah Carey was put on this Earth? Any particular reason? Or just to piss the hell out of people like me???
~Punkeey

8. What is the meaning of life???
~Tool1127

(It will be interesting to see what people think about that one)

9. How many hours a week do you spend on your computer???
~duffs@infobahnos.com

10. How many people have visited SBR at the JunkMagnet website???
~JunkMagnet

[Note from your JM: Really, I'd love to know what you think of all of this. Tell me and Laura]

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Closing

Cool, this is the 10th issue. I guess that's an anniversary of sorts. Well next week we'll have survey answers, and some other stuff that I'm not exactly sure of yet. As always send your reviews, poems, lyrics, survey responses, and anything else you think is interesting to: KITENZ@aol.com. I'm looking for witch stories, or just any story that's strange or weird. I start school tomorrow, so wish me luck. Bye bye

Luv,

Laura

Thought of the week****** "Emily didn't search to belong. She searched to be lost."
(Have you seen all those T-shirts and Emily stickers that are around. They're really cute.)

Question of the week****** Are you going to watch Mtv's Video Music awards???

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