Supervert News 2004
ETSF Contest, Music, and Theft
2004.12.01
In honor of the winter holidays, Supervert is once again staging its winter contest. For the entire month of December, Supervert will give away one copy of Extraterrestrial Sex Fetish each and every day. Read more and enter the contest. (Sorry, contest is now over!)
Expatriate musician Jack Fancy has created another composition inspired by Extraterrestrial Sex Fetish — you can download an MP3 of "Mercury's Fancies and Smiley Face Blues" on the new Jack Fancy page.
Finally, an anonymous poster on grouphug.us has written a confession in which s/he admits stealing a copy of Extraterrestrial Sex Fetish from a college library. So in case you happen to read this, you little book burglar: Supervert considers it a tremendous compliment that you want the book bad enough to steal it. Thanks!
P.S. Don't forget to visit Supervert's new William S. Burroughs site, RealityStudio.org.
Supervert Launches New Site: RealityStudio.org
2004.11.01
Supervert is proud to announce another new web site: RealityStudio.org, dedicated to William S. Burroughs. The name is derived from a line that Burroughs frequently used in the 1960s — Storm the Reality Studio! — and the site features news, texts, curated links, and a forum.
There is a pretty interesting discussion of Animal Sex Machines — Supervert's essay about bestiality in contemporary art — at a forum for individuals interested in bestiality. Half of them seem to hate it, but a few have been vociferous in defending it. (And incidentally, for those of you who felt the author was "narrow-minded" in his view of bestiality: what do you think Supervert is — an anti-perversion group?)
FleursDuMal.org Updates
2004.10.01
Supervert has continued to enhance its Baudelaire web site, fleursdumal.org. The site was modestly redesigned this month, to make it neater and lighter.
Also, see the Extraterrestrial Sex Fetish reviews page to download a new musical composition by Jack Fancy titled "Ninfa XIX," which was inspired by the Ninfa XIX character in ETSF!
Baudelaire Etc.
2004.09.01
Supervert has added a new text to the Baudelaire eLibrary, Paul Valéry's insightful essay "The Position of Baudelaire."
Supervert has acquired the rights to the domain name fleursdumal.com. You should be able to reach Supervert's site fleursdumal.org via either URL. For consistency, however, the "official" site URL will remain fleursdumal.org.
Supervert is in the process of setting up its own hosting server. Several sites have already been moved. Pervscan.com will probably move during the first week of September, and supervert.com will probably migrate to the new host during the second week. If you experience any outages during these times, don't fret it. However, if you notice any irregularities in any of Supervert's sites after September, please do let us know. Thank you!
New Pick
2004.08.01
There's a new pick this month — summer beach reading if you dare: J. Eric Miller's volume of short stories, Animal Rights and Pornography.
Baudelaire Updates
2004.07.01
Supervert has updated fleursdumal.org with a brand new audio section. Now you can listen to MP3 files of select poems by Baudelaire. (Also added to the site were two additional translations of poems: Aldus Huxley's version of Les Femmes damnés and Karl Shapiro's translation of La Géante.)
Happy Birthday Sade!
2004.06.01
The Marquis de Sade was born on 2 June 1740. In honor of his birthday, Supervert has made two Sadian additions to the site for June. First, there is a freshly digitized text in the Sade elibrary: Roland Barthes' "Life of Sade." Second, the Supervert Pick for this month is the 2000 film Quills, which was based on the life of Sade... Happy Birthday, Donatien Alphonse François de Sade!
New Corporate Headquarters
2004.05.01
Supervert moved to new corporate headquarters during the month of April. There is also a new mailing address:
Supervert 32C Inc.
PO Box 300471
Brooklyn NY 11230
Apologies for the rather thin updates the last two months. Now that this time-consuming move is done, we hope to get back on track...
More ETSF Press
2004.04.01
Jack Malebranche reviews Extraterrestrial Sex Fetish in the April edition of Lust Magazine: "This is what sets [ETSF] apart from the usual Virgin Megastore 'hip books' department pop-lit offerings. It is actually good." Regular readers of Supervert may well want to check out Lust Magazine not only for the review of ETSF but for its serious and thoughtful approach to all matters lustful. The site is "independently owned and operated by proud members of the Church of Satan and strives to present a Satanic perspective on human sexuality."
And in the current issue of Ariadne's Web, a journal dedicated to the examination of esoteric and alchemical thought, John Eberly mentions Extraterrestrial Sex Fetish in his article "Creation Pathology," which looks at creation myths and sees them as examples not just of mythology but also of pathology. (Unfortunately, Ariadne's Web doesn't seem to have a web site. Anyone interested in the journal can email the publisher Rayeson Enterprises Inc.)
New Pick
2004.03.01
There is a new Supervert Pick: Susannah Breslin's You're a Bad Man, Aren't You?. Read all about it in Supervert Picks.
And FleursDuMal.org continued to receive some post-launch tweaks...
Supervert Launches New Site: FleursDuMal.org
2004.02.01
Supervert is very excited to announce a kind of addition to its electronic library, a new web site called FleursDuMal.org. This new site is dedicated to the French poet Charles Baudelaire and aspires to become the definitive online version of Baudelaire's masterwork, Les Fleurs du mal (Flowers of Evil). The site has newly digitized translations and exclusive scholarly features that set it heads above any other Baudelaire site on the web.
On January 14th 2004 Extraterrestrial Sex Fetish was featured on a radio show called Dispenser, which is broadcast on national radio in Italy. It was a really great production — thank you to Lorenzo Anastasio and Dispenser! (Here's an MP3 of the broadcast. It's in Italian, of course.)
The BLAM! 3 CD-ROM is out of stock until further notice.
Supervert won't continue to regale you with its traffic reports, but supervert.com was absolutely flooded with visitors again this last month. There were over seventy-five thousand individual visitors in the month of January — a new record!
Press Room and Whatnot
2004.01.01
The old "bookstore" section has been reworked to make it into the new Supervert Press Room, which features clips about Supervert and in particular a new review of supervert.com by art historian and cultural anthropologist Carrie LeBlanc.
There is a new pick this month: Céleste Albaret's Monsieur Proust.
Thanks in particular to a prominent mention on fleshbot.com, December was the busiest month ever for supervert.com. The site received well over half a million hits from almost fifty thousand visitors.
Finally, congratulations to all of last month's contest winners. Enjoy your prizes!
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