The Annihilation Fountain Issue #10

GutterVision -
tv the way it was meant to be -
but isn't.

So I got this note in my email that expoused the dark wonders of GutterVision. I checked out the site and was intrigued. I contacted the main guy there Frank Czajka and a little while later a video tape appeared in my mail -

GutterVision - High Defiance Television.

Insert. Click. Play.

WARNING

This Program
may be offensive
or dangerous
if taken internally
for children
or
Politically correct
morally challenged
racially motivated
monitarily advanced
upscale oriented
sewer sucker
prayer spewing
religiously right
poodle owning
busted out the butt
of another pair of
slacks because you're
just too damn fat
in the head
Bastards

This is reality
This is GutterVision

I liked it. I liked the whole tape. Some truely disturbing scenes, great graphics but beyond the shock, beyond the in-yer-faceness, beyond the darkness, it was mainly one thing; REAL. This wasn't Disneyland's version of contemporary America, full of sugar and spice and everyone nice pursuing their own individual American dream, no, this was much more than that (or much less if you are monitarily advanced and upscale oriented). This was a tearing off of the facade, exposing the wizard, for all to see. This is GutterVision. Post apocalyptic television. If all the shit were to hit the fan come January 1, 2000, GutterVision is what we would experience. Brutally honest, stark yet compassionate, harsh fucking reality. This is what we are made of - and it ain't always pretty.

GutterVision reminds me of the works of Emergency Broadcast Network, Throbbing Gristle, Psychick TV, NIN and the like. Cutting edge slices of social pie that the mainstream goes out of their way to avoid/ignore/pretend doesn't really exist. Everything from weird videos that eMpTytV would never dare play to Robert Tilton - The Farting Preacher (this is a truely hilarious bit that I recommend anyone with a sense of humour watch). Distorted images fly by so quick at times that there is no way you can catch everything. Suicides and cesarian sections intersperced with skulls and crosses and decaying rodents.

Inner City Television.
Apocalypse Culture Television.

Like tantalizing, forbidden secrets that promise to reveal themselves if you watch just a little closer, just a little longer... The rapid fire editing suggests subliminal messages just beyond our grasp... An electronic carrot dangled before our viewing cart. Television that challenges the viewers to think for themselves. The only downside, in this reviewer's opinion, is that GutterVision is not available in my area...

Available NOW on local cable in New York City, L.A. and Chicago.

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