Oneiric Imperium :: Interviewed by Bitchslicer (July 2006)

Hailing from the room right next to mine in South Philadelphia, Bood Samel of Oneiric Imperium.

King Gary :: What's your name, where are you from, and what do you do ???
Bood Samel :: I am Bood Samel and I am from the city of Philadelphia. What I do is mainly my Oneiric Imperium project., which is a multi-media cluster fuck revolving around street art, noise music, the occult, and occulture propaganda. Also I'm into going to shows, contributing to the efforts of art and music around me, sometimes women when one seems at the moment worth being into, the practice of magick and meditation, art and music, reading, and other things along these lines.

King Gary :: Have you ever watched beastiality porn ???
Bood Samel :: Yes on several occasions. A few horse and dog videos, but once I saw a footage clip of chick getting fucked by a pig.

King Gary :: Would you have sex with a women that you know has sex with animals ???
Bood Samel :: If I thought I had something to gain.

King Gary :: Do you what the term "knotting" means ???
Bood Samel :: Yes it means to be penetrated by a dog's penis and the dog-human sex act. It refers to how a dogs' penis swells and enlarges after ejaculating causing the dog to get stuck until the swelling subsides.

King Gary :: Is it true that you have answered singles ads on beast forum ???
Bood Samel :: Yes that is 100% absolutely true.

King Gary :: What does Oneiric Imperium Mean ???
Bood Samel :: It means "dream empire", "empire of dreams" or "dreaming empire". Part of my art and music is the imposition of the internal dialog on the outside world. My main means of apprehending the internal dialog is via dreams, lucid and otherwise. The act of using dream themed art in acts of guerilla art is to impose the inside of me onto what's around me. I am of the opinion that deep rooted aspects of consciousness are eternal and unchanging and represent the well spring of all religious experience. A sort of hidden kingdom with in all of us. When my intent is pure I'm transmitting from there, but the signal gets muddled when I let myself be distracted by the urge to poke at stupid people.

King Gary :: What is relationship between, and the meaning behind your artwork and music ???
Bood Samel :: The music is the soundtrack for the art, which is in turn a ritual to share between myself, places in the streets, the internet, and other people. Each song has a drawing that goes with it. I wheat paste copies of those drawing all over the place and then in turn list on myspace where I put them up at so that some one could get the songs and listen to them with their intended art work al over town. That is the shared aspect of the active part of the work. Also I use both as a material component of results magick. Some songs and drawings relate very specific things, while are more like Rorschach tests open to interpretation. That way they are whatever they need to be. A lot of it has multiple layers of meaning. Lyric wise most of my songs are either based on dreams, or automatic writings, but some are purely rhetorical in content.

King Gary :: What is the most unorthodox thing that you have ever used to create art or music with ???
Bood Samel :: Blood, semen, shit, menstruation, trash, found objects, found sounds, recording our neighbors yelling at each other, recording my sex sounds, recording girl friends when they didn't know it, recording homeless women telling me crazy stories, melted records- all sorts of shit really.

King Gary :: Was it your menstruation, or some one else's ???
Bood Samel :: A few times in art I've used the menstruation of girls I was involved with. One particular case it was just the menstruation of a friend of mine and we used it with a drawing that was to be the material basis of a servitor we evoked.

King Gary :: Was there any meaning behind, or magick involved in the noise split we did together that I am unaware of ???
Bood Samel :: No sadly I must say.

King Gary :: Are you a fan of the band Witch Hunt, I seem to recall you purchasing their album on 12" vinyl a few months back ???
Bood Samel :: No I am not. They represent the absolute most pathetic elements in underground music (like how Christie Road is for underground art) and should be killed, along with Christie Road. It was fun though to melt their record and use it in a song. Every anarchist in west Philly should be ritually sacrificed in front of the Masonic temple in center city and their corpses fed to stray cats.

King Gary :: Who is Christie Road ???
Bood Samel :: She is this artist that is heavily associated with anarcho-punk in the past few years. While I've had no direct dealings with her I've seen her act like a total cunt bag to Justin Duerr and the CODE space, only to later on kiss his ass because of his relationship with Miss Enid Crow. While her art skills are actually good, its the most banal, petty, pathetic appeal to life style demographics ever. She might as well be making punk rock GAP ads. Her website is-http://www.croadcore.org/

King Gary :: Have you ever seen a Ghost or an Alien and anything Supernatural ??? (and please elaborate)
Bood Samel :: Well I know what you're getting at. I've seen both grey aliens and what we would typically call spirits while in hypnagogic states. I have had dream encounters with grey aliens my entire life that blur the distinction between sleeping and waking life. I've experienced moments of lost time where I came to in a spot with no recollection as to how I got there along with thin cuts behind my ear. You know typical abduction crap. As to why these things happen I don't know, it's just my nature. I am not really like most people, I don't question these things anymore. Why do most people live life on confused autopilot? My life has been marred by enough weirdness imposing itself from outer awareness to have shook off the ghost-trance most piece of shit regular people live under. Which leaves me to my own devices on the margins of culture, which is fine. Better a stray cat then a slave.

King Gary :: What is the craziest thing you where ever arrested for ???
Bood Samel :: As an adult I have only been arrested for graffiti related crimes and breaking a window.

King Gary :: What is the difference between Magic and Magick ???
Semantics and interpretation. Aleister Crowley started the whole spelling magic with a K bit.

King Gary :: Explain in great detail exactly what you love about Bitchslicer ???
Bood Samel :: I love the juxtaposition between the driving, serious sounding music and the absolute retarded low-brow silly potty humor of the lyrics and visual content. I love that its completely silly yet manages to piss so many people off. It also manages to piss off a group of people I think should be exterminated so its double plus good. The extreme lefty style of anarchists that interfere with other peoples art and music should all be killed. Don't even spare the women 'cause none of them are particularly attractive. National anarchists and post-right anarchists are ok though. Musically Bitchslicer is often actually catchy which is rare in metal. The riffs get stuck in my head. Porn of the dead pops up in my mind a lot lately. Also its funny that people take it seriously on the other end, that they identify with what they think is a pro-misogyny theme. Also its cool that Bitchslicer is whatever you want it to be, not just metal. I like that its also noise, country, and punk at times.

King Gary :: What are your favorite horror movies ???
Bood Samel :: A few off the top of my head would be the stendhal syndrome, hellraiser 2, nightbreed, communion (for obvious reasons), prophecy, and the silence of the lambs related movies. I like more weird fucked up movies then horror per say. Like clockwork orange, Caligula, stuff by Felini, shit like that.

King Gary :: Off the top of your head, how many times do you think you have seen the original Texas Chainsaw Massacre ???
Bood Samel :: Once or twice.

King Gary :: What are your favorite metal albums ???
Bood Samel :: Gwar- scumdogs of the universe, America must be destroyed, slayer- south of heaven, seasons in the abyss, deicide- serpents of the light, emperor- in the nightshade eclipse, amebix- arise, neurosis- everything from enemy of the sun and on, cannibal corpse- butchered at birth, satyricon nemesis divina, storm- nordavind, bloodduster- yeest, brujeria- matando gueros, nile- amongst the catacombs of nefren-ka, iron maiden- seventh son of a seventh son, anthrax- persistence of time, attack of the killer B's, sepultura- roots, chaos AD.

King Gary :: What are your favorite non-metal albums ???
Bood Samel :: I'll say a few of my favorite non-metal bands. Death in june, der blutharsch, NON/Boyd Rice, coil, current 93, haus arafna, wu-tang clan, thirstin' howl, Roy Orbison, the swans, the moon lay hidden beneath a cloud, kirlian camera, the knife, misfits, GG Allin. Johnny Cash, Leonard Cohen, rudimentary peni, crass, the skabs, amber asylum, crash worship, and joy division. I mostly listen to noise, electronica and neo-folk though, with a sprinkling of punk, metal, and hip-hop.

King Gary :: Would you have sex with a dead body (gender of your choice) ???
Bood Samel :: Only if it was in a ritual context and I could eat pieces of it afterwards. Ideally I would like it to be a small, petite dark haired girl.

King Gary :: Would you eat human flesh outside of a ritual context ???
Bood Samel :: Yes I would I am sexually turned on by the idea of cannibalism.

King Gary :: Are there sex magick rituals or rituals of any other beliefs, that involve sex with dead ???
Bood Samel :: Yes in left hand path tantric sects there are rites that involve such matters. Check out the book AGHORA: at the left hand of God.

King Gary :: Remember when we lived in west philly, and you brought home a dead rottweiler and buried it behind the house to gain spiritual strength in another plane of existence, did it work ??? (and please elaborate)
Bood Samel :: No because I never did anything with it. I had come the idea of summon the spirits of dangerous animals and told Bryan Babylon about it. He came over when I was drunk telling me that he found a dead dog shot in the head (so it was obviously a fighting dog) and being drunk it seemed like a good idea. Upon sobering up however it was just a mess and really I had no use at the time for a spectral dog to attack people. Maybe I should check it out though?

King Gary :: If you could afford a Realdoll, would you give up dating ???
Bood Samel :: Realdolls don't have cars.

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- King Gary (www.Bitchslicer.com)