November „/ 1968
YOl'R FRIEND,
MY HEAD ■
j .Ioj.- -. Morgansterrij David l^ood
causa doing your ovm tiling is
not only sanitary, but necessary in
this machine age, our advice to you
is simple: If you have a thing, by
all means, do it! Of Course, know
ing how to do your thing is vital!
Furthermore, it helps if you can do
your thing and enjoy doing it! That
is why we undertook the seemingly
impossible task of composing answers
to all your problems as artists and
as human beings in our book Your
Friend. Your Head. Chapter one will
deal with Problem Solving Solutions.
When you, as an artist, are de
pressed, worried about your lessons,
afraid of facing the world—when you
are generally UPTIGHT!, we suggest
that the organization provide you
with a sign-up list—guaranteed to
cure you completely and uncondition
ally. If you sign your name there
can be no backing out; and, the fol-
iovring Saturday morning at 7:00
o clock a group of four strong men
will drag you from your bed, bind
you securely and take you to Friend
ship Airport where you will be
placed in a piper cub airplane. The
plane then will take off, climb to
an altitude of 30,000 feet, where
you are immediately EXPELLED (with
an automatic parachute, of course).
guarantee that when you reach the
ground you will be so happy with
life itself that you will have for
gotten all of your hang-ups.
Another option is that on the
following Saturday morning at 4:30
you are flown, via Whisper-Jet, to
some pre-determined South American
country undergoing internal revolu
tion. Once there you will be smug
gled to the capital and taken to the
mansion of the beseiged dictator.
Just before the rebels storm the
mansion you will be dressed in the
dictators uniform and turned loose.
When - if ever - you return to
N.C.S.A. your depression will be
over - life, itself, will be all
you’ll ever require.
Yes, there are many solutions
as you can see! If you are, for
instance, worried about your mascu
line image, (and are a male student),
you simply sign your name to another
list where upon we assign one pro
fessional New York queen to you for
a week. Any masculinity doubts will
certainly be satisfied—one way or
the other. If you are a snob of a
musician, frowning on other musical
forms, we have a solution. Sign
your name to list A3-41, and upon
your head will be taped a speaker
during a performance by Captain
Speed and the Fungy Electric Mothers.
The perfect cure!
! Attention Work Study Program
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\A meeting is scheduled for Work |
■Study Students and Supervisors j
next Wednesday3 Noveni)er 6^ at \
a.m. in the auditorium. I
The fl.C. Essay
If you are unpopular or feel
you aren't loved - sign list KL-96
and we will send you notes, taped
on your mail box so you can pick
them up in front of people - tele
phone calls in the dorm - telegrams
during your classes. What splendor!
What satisfaction!
As an added attraction in the
coming weeks, and because every
school needs its share of smut, we
will print our strange but true re
ports: The Artful Application And
Introduction To the Rumor or How To
Destroy A Friend. Also - Our Fac
ulty: What They Signed In Their
High School Year Books, Something
Fishy be Herring's Office, The Real
Reason Mr. Ward Wears Bow Ties,
Lewis Hawley: The Man Behind The
Legend, What Makes Duncan Dance,
What Snyder Can't Tell Harold Head,
and Alan Bowman: Secret Agent.
Yes - Fantastic! Stranger than
truth! All included in our book
Your Friend Your Head. So remember-
Do Your Thing and follow our easy
instructions to contented living.
Good night, David.
Good night, Mark
bARBARELLAs ARI
OR VOYEUR ISM ?
Barbarella is more than a sat
iric futuristic spoof based on the
popular illustrated comic feature by
Jean-Claude Forest. It is not a
"peep show" designed to arouse "Pru
rient interest," but a cleverfully
constructed film which is suggestive
of both literary and film classics,
especially Lewis Carroll's Alice in
Wonderland, Dante's Inferno, and
Fellini's Juliet of the Spirits.
It is the year 40,000 and cham
pion astronaut Barbarella (Jane Fonda)
must interrupt her vacation to find
Durand Durand, a missing Earth scien
tist who has disappeared, taking
with him the secret of the Positron-
ic Ray, the most evil ultimate wea
pon.
The story begins with Barbar
ella, with skin white as alabaster
and perfect proportions, is like the
statue of the love goddess which ador-
nes her love-nest spaceship. Naked
ness fits Barbarella, for the motto
of Earth is love. Barbarella is not
vamp, but a sensuous Alice in Wonder
land who is terribly naive, and, for
all her sophistication, terribly
dumb. Barbarella's humorous qual
ity prevents the movie from lapsing
into non - plausible, distasteful
melodrama.
Barbarella is the master of
comic understatement. When search
ing for Pygor, the winged bird-man
and an Angel of Love, she is con
fronted by screams, and glibly she
comments: "A good many dramatic
situations begins with screaming."In
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her travels, Barbarella, has learned
how to make love the ancient, "bar
baric" way. (Future Earthlings
first compare psychocardiograms to
check their electrical compatability
then pop "exhaltation transference
pills" into their mouths, and fin
ally touch fingers until ultimate
rapport is reached.) But the camera
never focuses on the love acts; in
stead, Barbarella, pink, glowing,
humming, is seen later, lolling on
rugs, wallowing in a bird's nest
(Pygor's, who else), tripping and
falling on her tail ^ fur tail, that
is, of a costume she has to borrow.
When Barbarella's spaceship is
brought down, she is forced into a
world of evil. During the descents
the photography is brilliant. Rich
glowing golds and purples, vibrant
reds and oranges swirl across her
screen, like living protoplasm
swirling in phantasmagoric patterns
seen jnder a gigantic microscope.
After a series of both comic
and grotesque exploits, Barbarella
reaches the Labyfinth of the City of
Night. H-she is beset by bodies
who have been imprisoned by the
Greek Tyrant because they are good
instead of evil. The Labyfinth is
rock, and like Dante's Inferno, the
victims are imprisoned for all eter
nity, slowly becoming fossilized and
engulfed with cobwebs.
With Pygor's help, Barbarella
escapes into the City of Night, a
world of perverted sexual pleasure
reminiscent of the ribald house in
Juliet of the Spirits. Here Barbar
ella is Alice; the cunning Concierge
is a perverted Mad Hatter; and the
Great Tyrant, and overpowering
seductress, is the Queen of (Evil)
Hearts.
In short, Barbarella becomes
an immersion into a world of fan
tasy and sounds, a world which stems
from a long literary and film heri
tage. The music, ranging from Baro
que to Electronic to Pop Rock, en
hances the film's constant fluctua
tions of moods. The sets, photo
graphy, and steam-line ultra mod
clothing make it a film of todaj’.
Barbarella should not be missed.
L£TTER ID EDITOR
by Ral Tyson and
Jim Babbit
Recent trends have led the in
novative composer away from he piano
and towards the new exciting realm
of electronically produced sound.
Such composers as Stockhausen, Babb
itt, Pausseur, and Ussachevsky have
led the way in experimentation of a
fascinating and new mode of musical
expression.
Using complex equipment and
various electronic instruments the
new composers are creating striking
ly original, and sometimes beautiful
compositions.