ARCHIVE OF EVENT/NON-EVENT EVENTS
2004 - 2008
Saturday December 27, 2008 UMOUR RITUAL EXPEDITION TO THE HIGH LINE NYC AN EVENT/NON-EVENT EVENT Our intrepid Ritual Specialists Kol and Loudmouth Bill set out on this dismal Saturday to perform a restorative healing ritual on the High Line elevated railway in New York City. Our efforts were to be an attempt to purposefully de-gentrify the High Line, in particular, and the city in general. Alas, we found our access point blocked by a facistic police presence. Undeterred, we performed a musical de-gentrification ritual in the street just below the High Line, which can be seen both below and here. See pictures and read an account of this historic expedition here. |
Saturday August 2, 2008 UMOUR RITUAL RECORDING SESSION LEOPARD RECORDING STUDIO, STONE RIDGE NY Umour Ritual Specialists Kol, Kane and Loudmouth Bill were joined by European Ritual Specialist Em and singer-songwriter Java Jel for an Umour Ritual Recording Session at Leopard Recording Studio in Stone Ridge NY.
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Monday April 21, 2008 RITUAL EXPEDITION TO THE PALMS HOTEL, SOUTH FALLSBURG, NY
Once again mining the psychic depths of Sullivan county, N.Y., our intrepid Ritual Specialists engaged in an expedition to the historic (and fragrant) Palms Hotel. Like many other Catskills archeological sites, The Palms has the look of a world which has suffered through some apocalyptic conflict. The few human survivors appear basically left to fend for themselves. Are these places actually crumbling former resorts in an economically depressed area or are they a prophetic glimpse of a future that awaits us all?
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Monday February 8, 2008 RITUAL EXPEDITION TO THE PINES HOTEL, SOUTH FALLSBURG, NY CLICK HERE TO SEE PHOTOS OF This onetime borscht belt glitz place is in the process of becoming something much much more; a growing, sprouting, decaying, surrealist fantasy. Visiting The Pines is like diving into the bubbling swimming pool (or cesspool) of long repressed childhood nightmares. We could smell our uncle's greasy cigars and swear we heard the stale laughter from old Henry Youngman jokes drifting on the wind... or maybe that was just a side effect of all the mould.
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Thursday January 3, 2008 OTTO'S SHRUNKEN HEAD
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Sunday December 22, 2007 NATHAN'S IMMINENT DEMISE
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Saturday July 14, 2007 (Bastille Day) THIS IS NOT THE SUMMER OF LOVE! Ritual Specialists Mr. Kane, Kol Kutz and Loudmouth Bill participated in an Umour Trip to The Whitney Museum in New York City to experience "The Summer Of Love" . After the event and quick trip to the Alice In Wonderland statue at The Conservatory Pond, the Ritual Specialists visited The Rocket Garage Cigarette Graveyard, a popular Manhattan tourist destination. |
Monday February 12, 2007 UMOUR RITUAL EXPEDITION TO THE TEMPLE OF PUDGY THE BEAVER, GODDESS OF ROSENDALE Ritual Specialists Kol, Kane and Loudmouth Bill undertook a dangerous mid-winter pilgrimage to the holy temple of the fearsome yet beneficent Pudgy The Beaver, Goddess of Rosendale. Below is the YouTube video of their historic performance of the ancient rituals.
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During the afternoon of Saturday June 24, 2006 an Umour Ritual was performed. Nine Ritual Participants were in attendance including three Ritual Specialists. Two hundred and thirty minutes of ritual was recorded. Click here for sounds and images.
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Saturday, December 3, 2005 AN UMOUR RITUAL EXPEDITION To An Umour outing to the peaceful shores of the idyllic and tranquil Gowanus Canal. The gentle zephyrs which blew off the N.Y. harbor tingled our skin and filled our olfactors with a bliss that can only be described as transcendental. Oh, lovely Gowanus, may that we be worthy to again behold thy fragrant waves and stroll thy pastoral banks. |
Saturday, November 12,
2005 FLUSHING MEADOW PARK Site of the 1964 WORLDS FAIR Global Warming had the weather feeling like summer in mid-November,
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Saturday, October 16,
2005 THE TROLLY TO THE MOUNTAIN OF WHITE TRASH Near the sleepy village of Kingston, N.Y. stands the mighty Mountain
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Sunday, May 22 2005
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Saturday, September
25 2004 7:00 PM: AN UMOUR NON-EVENT EVENT! NEW YORK YANKEES vs. BOSTON RED SOX Watch the game (at Fenway Park) with us at: NEWS ROOM 854 Gerard Ave, Bronx NY 10451 Just 1 block east of Yankee Stadium! |
09.26.2004 ACCOUNT OF THE NON-EVENT EVENT: |
JULY 4th 2004 Loud Mouth Bill MC's THE 1st CONEY ISLAND 4th OF JULY HAMBURGER EATING CONTEST to be held at: Peggy O'Neill's Restaurant 1904 Surf Avenue Brooklyn, NY 11224 (718) 449-3200 (Right across the street from Coney Island's famous Cyclone Roller Coaster) |
ACCOUNT OF THE EVENT/NON-EVENT EVENT: So the three of us leisurely rolled down from Yonkers to Coney Island in Loud Mouth Bill's big ugly Buick, The Pig. We arrived in front of Peggy O'Neill's about 1:00 PM. There we observed The Chow Hound huckstering people into the place. Coney Island was a mad house. We pulled over briefly to say "hey" and to ask where we should look for parking. Chow Hound suggested a lot on the next block. It was full. In fact, all the lots on Coney Island were full. We tooled around for over an hour, with no where to park The Pig, and finally ended up at a diner in Brighton Beach, where the food was good and the beautiful russian women were plentiful. Loud Mouth Bill picked up the tab and we headed back to the 'burbs. On the way back we passed the Fountain Avenue landfill. |