RonnySimulacrum

yep, booooooooooooming, bring on more rain and they will be droping from the sky [ 29. May 2003, 17:54: Message edited by: RonnySimulacrum ]

Yo Adrian Yes they are out in force everywhere. Of course we will catch up soon, we all live at Rubys (it is the mushroom headquarters). If you have something of intrust for the page let me know what you are thinking. We seem to have lots of pics, so something different might be in order. Thanks again for all the helpers that are contributing to the site.

COMING SOON FORBIDDEN FRUIT DOCO - WEB PAGE Yes, you all recognise this informers picture that has been know to go missing from every library across the country. Yes it is the well know Bruce Fuhrer P.Sub pic. Well he is just one of the people that has contributed to this up and coming site. We hope you like it. Thanks to the efforts of lots off outstanding people we will be bringing you a page with lots of goodies. Were the hell is the doco you may ask, yes well that is still being edited but we hope this will do for a little bit.

Sorry Ramon, which site do you mean, do you have a url?

If you are after new cameras and you are in Melbourne, drop us a line, I will try and help you out. I owe a few favours here and there. But only for personal use, no friend of a friend shit or business purposes.

Infected mushroom rocked my world. Think I will go for a look today; see what is around the hill. Wish me luck.

DJ start at 11pm sat 19. Upstairs will be; Break Beat, Jungle, progressive, Trance and Madness. Downstairs will be Energy, Hard-Trance, Psy-Trance, Ambient and lots more Madness. Come and dance to some fat beats with the freaky organic twisted crew. open till past 5am

Time Becomes a Loop Present; Psychedelic – Easter Breaks 19 April@RUBYS Happenings; Funky freaky tunes across two floors, cool visuals, outdoor & indoor happenings, random madness and giveaways. Band Upstairs – ‘The Cants’ – rock & roll sharper than Chewbacca’s teeth. 9:pm-11pm Downstairs - Psychedelic Chill zone – a tribute to Albert Hoffman ‘Zanzibar Cob’ – Psychedelic Rock Improvisation 9:00pm-10:40pm ‘Barrel Full of Monkeys’ – a ‘Bicycle Day’ performance piece 10:40pm-11pm DJs Upstairs - Break Eggs 11pm-12:00am GroovyBoots 12am-1:30am CutLuce 1:30am-3:00am ADeBIET 3am-4:00am SuperTool 4am-6:00am PostmanPat Downstairs - Psy-co Bunny’s 11pm-12:30am Mr Turtle 12:30am-2:30am SYZMIX 2:30am-5:00am Matt Nucleus & RonnySimulacrum Where; RUBY’S Nightclub and Lounge 1648 Burwood Hwy Belgrave Ph: 9754 7445 Price; $8 with pass $12 without Buy tickets presale from Rubys or pick up passes from Ruby’s and or promoters before the event date. Or just front up on the night and pay $12 Free before 8:30 pm. Time Becomes a Loop is proudly supporting ‘Forbidden Fruit - a documentary’ Our next party will be held on the 7 June 2003. If you have any enquiry or would like to get on our mailing list do not hesitate to email us at; [email protected]

Will I see any of you mad and lovely People up in the hills for this one or is there some other plant related dance event going down???? ????? is anyone from this site going to ‘Infected Mushroom’ ???

I love rain, yes i love rain, keep on a raining. [ 11. April 2003, 14:08: Message edited by: RonnySimulacrum ]

My normal picking spots are all wet on the top but if you scratch off the top of bark and mulch it is all bone dry, I think we may have to wait even in the hills.

Very nice pics. How is everyone going with this, are you having much luck in the Vic fields?

Sorry for the long silence Ben and I have been discussing for some time now how the hell to put together some 30 hours of footage in to 52 mins. In some areas we have got exactly what we thought we might and in others like the law we have got almost nothing. And there have been some interesting surprises along the way, eg like interviewing Trout. I have said it before but we are now truly at the end of the filming stage of this thing and we think there is a little bit of the major blood and bones of this missing. How is this so you may say, well not many of you more educated people have come foreword for interviews and I understand? I read post on these two sites and think shit these people are really with it, they do not fit the stereotype of the stupid unemployed drug taker and then I think is the documentary truly going to convince people of this. I am left wondering when I truly shouldn’t be. I am not having a stab at the people I have interviewed (in fact I have barley done three camera interview with people from these sites), I am thankful but I would like to show the public that sacrament CAN-NOT DO but CAN change people for the better. Open people up, change lives for the better. The true story about people that use these substances is that they have concord there prejudices and exhibit a true empathy towards all people and there natural environment, it is not all about the other places we visit it is about connecting and understanding, about utilizing the thing we have been taught on the other side in the real would (if there is such a thing). ‘We are on the edge of something’ I here people say around these parts, we are on the edge of all getting to truly communicate on a level that transcends all of the garbage that people/governments/religious bodies ect try to make important and brake on throw to what is real, I truly hope so. People say hay ‘I am hip with current times and stuff’, they say ‘it is all about tolerance, tolerance of everything and every body’, eg, gays, indigenise Australian. But tolerance is still a negative term, it should be about acceptance and understanding, and I think that is where we entheoheads leading the race, we are prepared to put all of that constructed ideology behind us and just say we are all people of equality, people that all mater. It is time to come forward, be counted and express our view. To quote a good friend Rak turning Leary words inside out; “there is no longer any time left to tune out”. What has all of this got to do with the mushroom doco, well I thought it had a lot, in fact it is really why I personally started it, maybe I just mist the boat. Thanks a lot for all the people that have come forward, thanks to all the people that have contributed in some way or other, thanks to all the people who say there time on camera is coming, I certainly hope it is. We are what me make our selves. Maybe i am saying somthing that is not all to do with the doco as well

Here is some exerts from a letter I thought may be of some interest to people following the progress of the doco. or maybe just a laugh. "Well the story goes something like this. About 4 years a go Ben Lee and myself (Jonathan Carmichael) went on the mystical pursuit of the forbidden fruit, and after an intensive 5 week study and about 2 weeks in the field we managed to hospitalize one of us, and send the other into a state of madness and paranoia. Luckily we where both going to Monash Uni at time studying arts so, basically we where just normal students experimenting with things. Ben stopped playing with plant drugs at that point because every time he had mull he ended up in a simular head space as the mushrooms and weirded out. I stopped eating much of anything but embarked on a 2 year study mission of plant drugs and Ethnobotany. We both continued to work on Low-Fi DV student films and the decided it was about time we made our own documentary. Knowing that we only had a low budget and more theoretical experience than practical in the field of documentary, we decided to embark on a documentary topic we thought was very different and unexplored. We have shot the all the footage so far on a Mini DV 3CCD Camera with a 16:9 anamorphic lens (we are reliably informed that this will scrape into the all exclusive “broadcast quality” club), and all the audio has been recorded on Mini disc. So the amount of fun we are to have syncing all that up in Post will be beyond joy!! And here we are about a year later with 30 hours of footage, only about 10 of it really usable. During that time we have picked up other people on the way to assist us. Including one person that has left the doco to pursue other things after experiencing an ontological breakdown because of the subject matter. But we still have two other people Andrew and Troy who help out with camera and sound. And Damon and Jeremy that help out in some round-about fashion. We often received helpful much assistance (not-economic) from people I will not name, who are in the field of Ethnobotany community themselves. The ‘Time Becomes a Loop’ Rave was started partly as a way to try to raise some money to keep the project moving, after we were unable to obtain any funding from any other parties without having to sacrifice content and form of any sort. The Event is the combined work of Dj GroovyBoots and Myself, with help from other really good and down to earth people that keep the event alive and running. This event has gone on to take on a life of its own but essentially continues to have an ethnogenic core philosophy. Not many people who come to the event are familiar with its beginnings or of the interests of the people involved, they just come to have a good time. The highlight of the whole project has been getting involved with people who utilize sacraments and have revealed to us a very different way that they conceive the world, plants and the cosmos. A large amount of the project is preoccupied around safe usage of sacrament; this is going to be a very difficult task to balance personal stories, scientific and medical information with legality. What is left to do??? We have a potential 5-10 interviews left to do (depending on headspace and physical movements of interviewees) We need to write a voiceover script, and then send it to the UK where the Channel 4 voiceover man is going to read it to DAT. We need to shoot about 5 hours of ambient footage for trip cutaways and background visual narrative Collect psychedelic art And edit the fucker Negotiate Distribution and film festivals showing and then hopefully SBS. Probably other shit as well???? That is the simplified story of `Forbidden fruit a documentary’, so far. We are hoping to get it finished by the end of the year. Thanks for your interest in the project. Kind Regards Jonathan Carmichael"

Ben and myself are thinking of heading out to collect some ambient footage to go in the doco, what kinds of images do people think would be appropriate? Eg, trees swaying in the wind, water moving down stream, sounds all a bit Twin Peaks, any ideas?

D imensional M ystical T ranscendence, what is that [ 17. March 2003, 00:03: Message edited by: RonnySimulacrum ]

Thank God for Albert Hoffman He has truly lived We will be hosting a ‘Time becomes A loop’ rave on that night in Melbourne to Honour the man and the occasion. I think some people will be riding there bicycles from the CBD out to the party.

I am very sorry for anyone that has tried to contact me or Ben in the last two weeks; we have been moving and have not had the net. I have just started the process of watching all the tapes; I think I am going to have to just shut myself in a room for about two weeks. I now live in a home in the suburbs rather than the foot hills of Melbourne and are the forth single archaeologist in the house so you can understand that it is a bit of a wired place. If any media oriented people would like to come over and possible help edit then PM me. I guess it is about time for them lovely things to start popping up around here anyway. Happy hunting. [ 11 March 2003, 01:20: Message edited by: RonnySimulacrum ]

Everything for this coming weekend friendly faced freaky Doof is set. I am looking forward to seeing some of you there. If you live in the area you can get tickets at Rubys presale for $6 If you would like me to send you some $6 pass, do not hesitate to PM me. If you would like to get on our emailing list for details or future events please pm me it. If you are looking for me there, generally we organisers and co. seem to inhabit the downstairs area. Where we can chat . Kind regards Jonathan [ 17. February 2003, 13:12: Message edited by: RonnySimulacrum ]

Time Becomes a Loop Present; Dance till Dawn 22 February@RUBYS Happenings; Funky freaky tunes across two floors, cool visuals, outdoor & indoor happenings, random madness and giveaways. Band 900pm-11:00pm Silent Six DJs Upstairs 11pm-12:30am Mister Turtle (Dream, Dome, Plastik) 12:30am-2:30am LegoHead (Eclipse, Rainbow Serpent) 2:30am-4:00am DJ khris (Altitude, Bass Station) 4:00am-6:00am PostmanPat AKA GroovyBoots(Psyneumetics, Free bass) Downstairs 12-1:30am Mat Nucleus 1:30am-3:00am ADeBIET 3:00am-4:30am Supertool Where; RUBY’S Nightclub and Lounge 1648 Burwood Hwy Belgrave Ph: 9754 7445 Price; $6 with pass $10 without Passes available from Ruby’s and promoters before the event date. Free before 9 pm. Time Becomes a Loop is proudly supporting ‘Forbidden Fruit a documentary’ :D Our next party will be held on the 19 April 2003. [ 07. February 2003, 21:25: Message edited by: RonnySimulacrum ]

I think jungle from psyarubbery had something in mind out in the bush? Like a weekend shin dig not to shore, your home sounds good to me [ 18. February 2003, 01:24: Message edited by: RonnySimulacrum ]

Thank Brain; my linguistic history is not up to scratch I think you can be shore you will not need earplugs for this one in the caribean .

Good to here you are coming out BM. Sounds like you are bringing a harem of cyberpunk witches with you? It is going to be a fun night out in wierdsvill Did you ever find cover art for you album?

nabraxas did you miss the line that said I was speaking about the topic of my next novelette?

Sorry you died for your imperialist governments. I would not say that space travel would not have its advantages, but I think it can sometimes be a form of hope for governments that already know that they have no intention of trying to regenerate owe own planet. And also need some other non-military technological developing gazer.---did I just say non-military. We should be focusing all of owe resources, energy and info crunching to benefiting the present ecological and social suffering of the planet. When that is stabilized or on the mend then we can think of these other worldly things. But unlikely there is a lot of governments in the would that have vested interest in the space programs, the same governments that will just happen to be able to flee this plant one day when there is nothing left for them to use or sell. Innerspace first-----then you may see that you do not even need outerspace