Get Ready for "Joe"

From: "Rev. Ivan Stang" <stang@subgenius.com>

Date: Fri, Aug 1, 2003 9:52 PM

I have been wanting to do this for a long time.

I have converted "THE JOE TAPE" to MP3 and am posting Side One to a.b.s.

Technically, this is Side One, the "Perversion" side of a cassette tape
called "Mockery and Perversion" by Joe Auffricht of The Order of
Dionysus/Sabazios. I have divided it into 20 tracks.

Here's the story.

Jesus used to own a bookstore in Lakewood, Ohio (Cleveland West Side)
called The Flying Lemur. It was a pretty hip bookstore and among his
regulars was a very weird guy named Joe Auffricht.

Joe had started his own cult, The Order of Dionysus/Sabazios, and
offered taped lectures by subscription. Jesus sold the tapes in his
store and The SubGenius Foundation briefly sold this one out of our
catalog.

Last we heard, Joe had 9 subscribers.

When Jesus set up the 1996 SubGenius World Tour, it meant 2 weeks of 5
guys travelling from city to sity in a van. The 5 guys were me, Jesus,
Dr. Legume, Andrew the Impaled and David Apocolypse of Circus
Apocolypse (sic).

Jesus brought this "Joe tape."

We listened to it. Over and over. It was about the only tape we
listened to for the two weeks. We memorized it. We loved it.

When we got to Cleveland, we had JOE HIMSELF come and rant at Peabody's
Down Under, at the devival. The staff of Peabody's thought Joe was
funny. They thought he was kidding. They thought we should have more
"singing preachers" like him.

Joe is not kidding. If they had known he was serious, they would have
killed him.

The audience at the devival would have killed him except that we the
other preachers treated him as a superstar and cheered him on, even
getting him to do ENCORES of "Horny with a Chick" and "The Moonpants
Song." As if he was SUPPOSED to be this way.

I had actually encountered Joe before by way of a tape sent me by Rev.
Mike Cole, who had invited Joe onto his radio show "Asylum for
Shut-Ins" on WCSB (Cleveland State U.) and had him debate another
"Satanist."

You might listen to only the first portion and decide not to download
the rest. On the other hand, like me, you might recognize that Joe has
a special talent that mustn't be squandered -- he is "PURE" as Princess
Wei characterized him -- and you might find yourself singing his little
songs to yourself and your friends. You might find yourself listening
to the whole thing over and over and even talking like Joe.

Joe is like the Janor Hypercleats of old, in that what he does is so
abhorrent and bizarre that one finds oneself repulsed but cannot turn
away. Morbid curiosity then gives way to hilarity because, let's face
it, this stuff taps into something very deep and ancient (and
infantile), and is fucking hilarious on a couple of different, perhaps
opposing levels. If you're a fucked up freak.

PRABOB

There's a photo of Joe in the 1996 World Tour section of SubSITE, in
the Cleveland devival section. He wants to be a fat bearded pervert,
but he isn't actually especially fat.

He was very shy when he came to the devival, and it took a lot of
encouragement to get him up there and singing. Once he started, though,
he got into it.

I do not know where Joe is now and as far as I know, our devival was
his only public appearance.

--
4th Stangian Orthodox MegaFisTemple Lodge of the Wrath of Dobbs Yeti,
Resurrected (Rev. Ivan Stang, prop.)
P.O. Box 181417, Cleveland, OH 44118 (fax 216-320-9528)
A subsidiary of:
The SubGenius Foundation, Inc. / P.O. Box 204206, Austin, TX 78720-4206
Dobbs-Approved Authorized Commercial Outreach of The Church of the SubGenius
SubSITE: http://www.subgenius.com
For SubGenius Biz & Orders: call toll free to 1-888-669-2323
or email: jesus@subgenius.com
PRABOB

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Subject: Re: Get Ready for "Joe"
From: subspecies23@aol.comyourmom (SubSpecies23)

You know what tape I wish I could get a copy of? Back in Episodes 552 and 553,
and maybe more, there was a tape called "Thought Alchemy" by Von Graffen, or
something like that. It was a long, depressing rant, with sounds of rain and
thunder in the background.

These two episodes also introduced me to one of the greatest albums ever "Hit &
Run Holiday" by My Life with the Thrill Kill Kult.

--
Beware! The Paranoids are watching you!

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Subject: Re: Get Ready for "Joe"
From: "Rabbi Shankar" <me@privacy.net>

"Rev. Ivan Stang" <stang@subgenius.com> wrote

> Jesus used to own a bookstore in Lakewood, Ohio (Cleveland West Side)
> called The Flying Lemur.

Whadda ya know. All the times I drove by and never went in. So typical of
me. I'm beginning to see that the inventory of subs is small enough that
if you see something that looks subg-like it's probably by/from someone I
want to know.

> "The Moonpants Song."

So this IS that guy! PraJOE!

> his radio show "Asylum for
> Shut-Ins" on WCSB (Cleveland State U.) and had him debate another
> "Satanist."

PRACSB! Occasionally someone plays the moonpants song. That, the 'Speeding
Motorcycle' caller and others like them are priceless. That is to say,
valuable beyond price. Treasures. And just as rare.

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Subject: Re: Get Ready for "Joe"
From: Mr. F. Le Mur <lemurama@comxcast.net>

On Fri, 01 Aug 2003 21:52:33 -0400, "Rev. Ivan Stang" <stang@subgenius.com>
wrote:

->You might listen to only the first portion and decide not to download
->the rest. On the other hand, like me, you might recognize that Joe has
->a special talent that mustn't be squandered -- he is "PURE" as Princess

Yeah, that's the word, though Frewd might say "underdeveloped superego,"
as if anyone cares what Frewd might say.

->Wei characterized him -- and you might find yourself singing his little
->songs to yourself and your friends. You might find yourself listening
->to the whole thing over and over and even talking like Joe.
->
->Joe is like the Janor Hypercleats of old, in that what he does is so
->abhorrent and bizarre that one finds oneself repulsed but cannot turn
->away. Morbid curiosity then gives way to hilarity because, let's face
->it, this stuff taps into something very deep and ancient (and
->infantile), and is fucking hilarious on a couple of different, perhaps
->opposing levels. If you're a fucked up freak.

"Monsters from the id."

The funniest part was "Fuck them and their hard fucking life,"
which I added to my list of sigs that I never use. And the
pregnant woman on roller skates.

And -
http://www.etext.org/Zines/F5/Spirituality.html
Rejuvenation: Publication of the Order of Dionysus/Sabazios Issue 13
Summer '95 $4 Each , Subs: $16.00 for 4 issues to Joseph E. Aufricht,
P.O. Box 711, Lakewood, OH 44107 (31 Pages/D/RSF) reviews zines/
submissions OK/back issues/no ads/

Got a new advertising slogan: "Do Dionysusians have more fun?"
Now I need to get the fine people at Voleman's R&D to come up
with an expensive product to go with it.

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Subject: Re: Get Ready for "Joe"
From: "Rabbi Jacklyn Hyde" <rabbs@subgenius.com>
Newsgroups: alt.binaries.slack,alt.slack
Date: Sat, Aug 2, 2003 10:53 AM
Message-ID: <AfQWa.577$GW4.293640@newshog.newsread.com>

"Rev. Ivan Stang" <stang@subgenius.com> wrote in message
news:010820032152336480%stang@subgenius.com...
> I have been wanting to do this for a long time.
>
> I have converted "THE JOE TAPE" to MP3 and am posting Side One to a.b.s.
>
A caveat to all who would download this! Back in early September of 1996, I
was listening to this tape on headphones and FELL ASLEEP somewhere in the
middle of it (I was on a boat in the middle of a tropical storm and blame
the waves, not the material). Something sank into my subconscious and I
could NOT get it out of my head. Less than a month later was when I handed
over my $30 to Stang in a blind stupor and have never fully recovered since.
This is a severe brain twister. At least I gave my $30 to a pervert I could
trust!

--With love, the Rabbs

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