Afa's alternative to noise performance series presents therefore in a night of extended music, a evening that blurs the lines between live performance and in the studio experimentation. On Monday, February 3, the AFA Gallery will be turned into a lab where the artists are seen in a production/assembly mode versus the more popular posturing/enterntainment approach. Complaints of "this doesn't sound anything like their record" will not apply this night. Rather, this is exactly what the record is going to sound like! Please attend and support and encourage therefore as they assemble the tracks for their upcoming release L.G.F.C.A.

The experimental duo originated in Lewisburg, PA, as Michael Kaufman and Wayne Feldman. therefore's improvised punk aesthetic lends itself to a unique sound that could last for microseconds or months. They previously appeared at Afa in October of 2001, playing for 8 uninterrupted hours.

Scranton Times Tribune : Universe Centers Around Olyphant

I've been meaning to blog this for over a month, now. Not since I saw it in the paper; no. Since I found it left-behind in the copier at work.....

OLYPHANT -- Where is the center of the universe? In Olyphant, of course.

Well, at least according to one man who has devoted many years studying the mystifying connections between the small borough, ancient Egypt, UFOs and portals into other dimensions.

John Peruka, a retired chemist, moved to Olyphant in the mid-1970s and immediately sensed that there was something strange about the town. In particular, he noticed there was an unusually high concentration of churches -- beautiful, magnificently constructed churches -- all surrounding a former synagogue.

At first, Mr. Peruka said Olyphant appears like any other small town in America. It has a bank, a high-rise apartment building for the elderly, a borough hall, and the usual small businesses lining the main street. Nothing seems amiss, everything is in order, and in its in place. An ordinary town in an ordinary place where ordinary people go about their daily business.

But beneath this false veneer is a hidden world, Mr. Peruka contends. A world of incredible secrets -- the secret forces that control the residents of Olyphant, he said.

These secret forces date back to ancient Egyptian beliefs. The Egyptians worshipped the seven stars of the Orion constellation. Their belief was that their god-kings or pharaohs came from Orion and after death their souls went back to the constellation.

Here's the original map

UPDATE 01/03/2005: Archived portions of the Olyphant story can be found at the Internet Wayback Machine's Archive of TruthTrek.net.