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We've all seen the average homeless man talking about how chemtrails are turning everyone into tools of the illuminati while masturbating on the subway, or had a neighbor who only ate raw food and used the power of crystals to ward off aliens. Those are little leagues. This is the thread where we present and discuss the worst of the worst, the craziest of the crazies, those who would make the people above stop and say '... seek help you crazy person.' Whether a famous person who lost it, or a complete unknown who happened to document them, present them to us and let's horrify each others. Be careful, though, when you look into the abyss of madness, it stares back at you and leaves you cringing. To start off, here is Ricardo Lopez. 'I am the Angel of Death' 1996 was a scary time. A computer had beaten a man to chessmaster for the first time. The 'Macarena' was everywhere. France was testing a new atomic bomb. Bosnia was all over the news. Alanis Morissette won a grammy. Dreadful all around. And at the very beginning of that year, Bjork was almost topping the charts with 'It's Oh So Quiet', maybe her most twee video, directed by Spike Jones http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TEC4nZ-yga8 Comes in Ricardo Lopez. A real innovator with a vision who had a vlog before it was even a word. Sadly, that vision was Bjork's lifeless body, her face decomposed by acid so they could be married in the afterlife together. Because he couldn't stand the fact that she was, to quote him, 'loving a ni****. Her own fault.' Over a few months, he proceeded to document his descent into madness, his plans to kill Bjork and we got to witness an honest to goodness absolute madman's descent into an absolute psychotic break that makes Colonel Kurtz look sane. It all culminated in his suicide tape, complete with full face paint, and blowing his brains out on a cardboard sign that said 'The Best of Me'. I could write more about it, but if an image is worth a 1,000 words, how much more so a video. This is a three minutes condensed version of it: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nAq5aZSnf1k There was a documentary called 'The Diaries of Ricardo Lopez'. Sadly, part 3 to 5 and 7, but you can still watch part 1: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g0AzCRwctaU Part 2 Part 6 (final) I wish I could find the rest of it. Hopefully I can and will update the OP with it, but between the first video and all these 
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Personally I stalked Alanis Morisette, but to each his own.
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Wait... This was...before Declare Independence? Oh god. Now I'm terrified of the rabbit hole that is her discography.
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To be fair though, who hasn't made plans to seduce Bjork that seem crazy in retrospect. Ralph Totorici had a microchip implanted in his penis. quote:Tortorici had been born with a defective urethra, and had undergone a series of operations to correct it. As his delusions intensified, he became convinced that during the last of these operations, the government had placed a tracking device in his body. In August 1992, when Tortorici was 24 years old, he went to the University Health Center at SUNY-Albany and complained that a microchip had been implanted in his penis. He dedicded he wanted to talk to the president about it. quote:On Dec. 14, 1994, 26-year-old psychology student Ralph Tortorici walked into an ancient Greek history class on the campus of the State University of New York (SUNY) in Albany. Hidden under his clothes, he had a hunting knife and a high-powered rifle. As the doors closed behind him, he announced that he was taking the class hostage. He ended up shooting one of the students but it wasn't fatal: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/front...ph/summary.html Also MTV made a documentary about Steve-O's breakdown after Jackass. He spent months just sitting around huffing nitrous constantly. For some reason he paid his bodyguard to videotape him the whole time, so there's all this footage of him laughing and ranting incoherently, while occasionally trashing his apartment and breaking all his possessions.
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little munchkin posted:To be fair though, who hasn't made plans to seduce Bjork that seem crazy in retrospect. I'm not convinced you even can seduce Bjork without being crazy.
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The Bible posted:I'm not convinced you even can seduce Bjork without being crazy. Well, no. Anything your average unmediated homeless person would call crazy is her vanilla, her comfort food.
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OMG JC a Bomb! posted:Personally I stalked Alanis Morisette, but to each his own. Did you do it
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Twee as gently caress posted:We've all seen the average homeless man talking about how chemtrails are turning everyone into tools of the illuminati while masturbating on the subway, or had a neighbor who only ate raw food and used the power of crystals to ward off aliens. Those are little leagues. This is actually one of the most infamous celebrity stalker/nutjob cases. Apparently before killing himself he tried to send Bjork a mailbomb.
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little munchkin posted:Also MTV made a documentary about Steve-O's breakdown after Jackass. He spent months just sitting around huffing nitrous constantly. For some reason he paid his bodyguard to videotape him the whole time, so there's all this footage of him laughing and ranting incoherently, while occasionally trashing his apartment and breaking all his possessions. And by constantly, you mean *constantly*. Steve-O actually got quick enough at replacing those cartridges to where he'd try to breathe nothing but nitrous for an extended period. Huff nitrous, hold breath, swap cartridge, exhale, huff nitrous. There's shots of him walking through his apartment to the tune of a constant jingling noise, with spent nitrous cartridges littering the floor like shell casings from a mounted machine gun emplacement after a particularly lengthy firefight. It's an amazing story, and I've got an enormous amount of respect for the guy in how he's turned it around since then. The documentary's titled "Steve-O: Demise and Rise" and he pulls absolutely no punches in the depiction of himself during his worst times. Some of the shots of him in the throes of it are terrifying.
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kazmeyer posted:And by constantly, you mean *constantly*. Steve-O actually got quick enough at replacing those cartridges to where he'd try to breathe nothing but nitrous for an extended period. Huff nitrous, hold breath, swap cartridge, exhale, huff nitrous. There's shots of him walking through his apartment to the tune of a constant jingling noise, with spent nitrous cartridges littering the floor like shell casings from a mounted machine gun emplacement after a particularly lengthy firefight. How do you even live through something like that?
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The Casualty posted:
Sangamon's principle?
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The Casualty posted:
The simple answer is, he very nearly didn't.
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moller posted:Sangamon's principle? Everyone gushes about Snow Crash but Zodiac is my favourite.
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The Casualty posted:
Nitrous is scary. I had a fried who was doing it, he kept loading up new canisters of it, one after another, saying he was, "About to break through". His face started turning blue so I tried taking it away from him but he started yelling and attempting to become physically violent(but didn't really have much motor control so I just yanked it from him). Even what's thought to be a relatively innocuous drug can be pretty scary in the wrong hands. He was a smart guy, just had an addictive personality. He wound up struggling with heroin addiction for a while and lost every job he had over like a five year period. I think he's finally got his life back together.
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The Casualty posted:
Being Steve-O. kazmeyer posted:The documentary's titled "Steve-O: Demise and Rise" and he pulls absolutely no punches in the depiction of himself during his worst times. Some of the shots of him in the throes of it are terrifying. And this is also on Youtube in its entirety. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=52xA85EJIhY Oh yeah, and Wikipedia on Ricardo Lopez (stalker). Wikipedia posted:After the suicide of Lopez, Björk spoke out publicly and expressed grief for Lopez and sent flowers and a card to Lopez's family.[4] Björk also increased security on her son, Sindri, who was escorted to school with a minder.[5] In her few public comments on this event, Björk later said it was hard emotionally and it disrupted her life and work in London, explaining in part why she chose to leave the UK scene for good, reject her cute image, and began to write more personally with her album Homogenic. J.theYellow fucked around with this message at Mar 22, 2013 around 18:43 |
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VanSandman posted:Well, no. Anything your average unmediated homeless person would call crazy is her vanilla, her comfort food. I always felt like Bjork is the kind of person that would crap in her hand, fling it at you, then ponder the universe right afterward. Then maybe write a song. Sort of like a cuter, musically gifted version of Diogenes.
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Twee as gently caress posted:I wish I could find the rest of it. Hopefully I can and will update the OP with it, but between the first video and all these This is a remake of the suicide vid. Nicely worksafe if your boss is cool with dolls spurting red paint. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z6f4F-TeWk0 Less funny live action version below   http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=54d_1333752609 "Warning - Item Bjorks stalker shoots himself in the mouth might contain content that is not suitable for all ages." Oh, really? :| Rogz fucked around with this message at Mar 22, 2013 around 21:39 |
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Twee as gently caress posted:It all culminated in his suicide tape, complete with full face paint, and blowing his brains out on a cardboard sign that said 'The Best of Me'. This doesn't even happen, the gun he used was too low a caliber to blow his brains out like that. It's still disturbing, you can hear him groan in pain leading into a death rattle, followed by a rushing water sound that's no doubt blood pouring out. It sounded like he didn't die instantly, he was probably alive for a few agonizing seconds after he fired the gun. Does anyone know what he yells as he pulls the trigger? To me it sounds like he's yelling "Victory!"
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I don't know if he's not considered 'crazy' enough, but Lee 'Scratch' Perry has always seemed to be one of those 'out there' types. He was one of the early originators (if not the originator) of reggae sound. His production work with Bob Marley is basically what people associate with reggae music and he also happened to be batshit insane. "Some people are only here to collect property. I am here with my suitcase to collect only the good brains." He would also baptise visitors to his house with a garden hose, worshipped bananas, ate money, burnt down his studio in response to his wife taking their kids and leaving, accused the head of the label he was signed to of being a vampire and responsible for Marley's death, hooked a microphone up to a coconut tree because it contained 'the living African heartbeat' amongst other things. His approach to production and music was also interesting...he'd fire guns and use recordings of babies crying for use in songs, and would wipe the tape heads with t-shirts.
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A relative of mine was caught stalking Mandy Patinkin, turns out she has schizophrenia. These facts were only found out through a cease and desist letter sent from his lawyer, she maintained her job and mask of sanity for many years. It was pretty intense actually, she had notebooks full of information on him, including what times he dropped off and picked up his kids.
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I can't pass up the opportunity to bring up Francis E. Dec's Gangster Computer God Worldwide Secret Containment Policy, who I believe I first found through this forum.
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Seems crazy at a glance, actually perfectly sane and onto something major. http://www.myspace.com/scrypnosis http://www.scribd.com/doc/240399/Th...nterface-humans quote:What I hope to achieve with this book is for you to come to the conclusion that the human mind really is a computer and thus the use of an EULA is completely rational and viable, as well as the concepts of interfacing humans for higher datatransfer and better controls in gaming and data transmission from humans to computers. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Af0r4sO_MQ You can program humans just like you program computers. There's a 42-point puzzle encoded in the book of Matthew that proves that the Torah is a linguistic viral bomb that was deliberately corrupted by the people who wrote it down.....
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The Bible posted:I'm not convinced you even can seduce Bjork without being crazy. I used to find craziness sexy in a woman. As I grew older and had multiple horrible experiences, Bjork is going to have do without me.
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The Protagonist posted:I can't pass up the opportunity to bring up Francis E. Dec's Gangster Computer God Worldwide Secret Containment Policy, who I believe I first found through this forum. I can't stop laughing at this. The voice is just so delightful.
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Perdido posted:I don't know if he's not considered 'crazy' enough, but Lee 'Scratch' Perry has always seemed to be one of those 'out there' types. There is a *very* fine line between artistic genius and utter madness, sometimes. I used to work as a stage rigger, back in the 90s, and one of the dudes I met was Beck, maybe about 6 months before he really blew up famous, and holy poo poo was that boy off his tree. The guy was as utterly barmy as his stage persona suggested. But at the same time, he was probably close to the most creatively interesting guy getting mainstream air at the time. Frank Black from the Pixies often claimed that the reason he as in a band was because if he wasn't in the public spotlight the UFOs where going to grab him, and Kim Deal (backup singer, bassist, later to become even more famous via her post-pixies career) was reputedly even barmier. Captain beefhart was astonishingly crazy, and along with Zappa (Who was however, despite the public persona, remarkably sane) practically invented stoner prog, and on it goes. And thats not even getting into the visual arts and poetry people who are completely bonkers to the very last man.
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ZombyDog posted:Everyone gushes about Snow Crash but Zodiac is my favourite.
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duck monster posted:Captain beefhart was astonishingly crazy, and along with Zappa (Who was however, despite the public persona, remarkably sane) practically invented stoner prog, and on it goes. The recording of "Trout Mask Replica" is one for the books. Captain Beefheart played a really interesting style of groaning blues... kind of like Tom Waits, except way weirder. His albums are great, but Trout Mask Replica is a piece of work. Cited often as a favorite album of critics, Trout Mask Replica sounds like a mix between a distorted guitar, a schizophrenic with a microphone, waffles in a freezer, and a ridiculous out-of-sync delta jugband. The album was meticulously written and recorded over a period of months where the ol' Captain kept his musicians locked up, eating cans of beans. He recorded all of his vocals in another room, sometimes through a telephone, and without any monitors. All he could hear was the dull bass notes through a wall. When asked why he did it this way, he stated "That's what they do before a commando raid, isn't it?" He wrote most of the album on a piano, which he could not play, with zero musical training. He tapped at keys until he found something he liked, and then someone else recorded the tappings. It's an album that really takes fifteen or twenty or two hundred listens to 'get', but once it clicks, it's pretty magnificent. Although each song sounds like a cacophony of weird, they are meticulously written. There's a boxset floating around where you can listen to some Trout Mask Replica studio time, and hearing some of the songs like Frownland slowed down halfway is mind-blowing. The random weird notes, drum beats, and noises were... meant to be. Check it out if you want to hear what liquid insanity sounds like. Yes, we all had the same reaction the first time we turned it on; a combination of "what the gently caress," "what the gently caress is this," "who the gently caress calls this music," and "why the gently caress?" OniKun fucked around with this message at Mar 23, 2013 around 01:12 |
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One of the craziest beliefs I've encountered happens to be eerily popular: that when you die, the world will disappear. Yeah, it's ninth grade philosophy, but I can't tell you how many times I've encountered some variant on "the world exists only in my perception of it, and when that perception ends, so will the world." Or, alternatively, some riff on "I don't know if I'm the only real person and everyone is robots/actors/computer programs/etc." How loving weird.
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Mein Eyes! posted:One of the craziest beliefs I've encountered happens to be eerily popular: that when you die, the world will disappear. Yeah, it's ninth grade philosophy, but I can't tell you how many times I've encountered some variant on "the world exists only in my perception of it, and when that perception ends, so will the world." Or, alternatively, some riff on "I don't know if I'm the only real person and everyone is robots/actors/computer programs/etc." I had similar belief when I was young (as early as 8) that if you ever you ever figured out the meaning of life or the answer to attain higher knowledge of the universe you'd die instantly or the world would unmake itself and you'd go to a higher dimension or heaven. The video to Radiohead's Just was an uncanny reminder of this train of thought. Good time to mention David Icke. A man who's devoted his time to revealing our prominent rulers as reptilian shape-shifters from space, his conspiracy theories seem like they've been pulled from various sci-fi novels. To many viewings of They Live / V if you ask me.
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There are two great crazies that the Internet has incubated. The first is Gene Ray, otherwise known as the Time Cube Guy. Pretty self-explanatory. The second is humanbeing151, an individual so obsessed with meeting Puff Daddy that he apparently filled thousands of notebooks with the sentence "Please Diddy give me a chance" or some variation thereof repeated millions of times. Most of his hundreds of videos are lost, and there was some uncertainty as to whether the account was a hoax, but the single-mindedness of the guy suggests that he was really mentally ill.
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Mein Eyes! posted:One of the craziest beliefs I've encountered happens to be eerily popular: that when you die, the world will disappear. Yeah, it's ninth grade philosophy, but I can't tell you how many times I've encountered some variant on "the world exists only in my perception of it, and when that perception ends, so will the world." Or, alternatively, some riff on "I don't know if I'm the only real person and everyone is robots/actors/computer programs/etc."
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Although the best way to interact with a real solipsist is to punch them repeatedly in the face until they leave the vicinity. Do not engage them in any other fashion.
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I really remember that short clip of him staring at the camera. That has to be one of the most iconic "mad" looks.
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Mystery Steve posted:Good time to mention David Icke. Didn't he also make a whole lot of bizarre claims that pedophile rings ran rampant in the British entertainment industry, with the possible protection of Parliament and others in government?
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QCIC posted:There are two great crazies that the Internet has incubated. The first is Gene Ray, otherwise known as the Time Cube Guy. Pretty self-explanatory.
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Kerry Johnson, a straight, married female masker. Anything involving "unmasking" is particularly horrifying. most of these are mildly and very very creepyhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1x_78vS6tYU http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VfEi60YPGEg http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BVviHTzrh1k http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7qIw9YThlEY
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Elysiume posted:That's know as solipsism. Didn't the guy who wrote that Amazon.com-published novel about dragons follow this poo poo too?
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Drunken Lullabies posted:Kerry Johnson, a straight, married female masker. Anything involving "unmasking" is particularly horrifying. Dear god.
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J.theYellow posted:And this is also on Youtube in its entirety. I remember seeing this when it came out and man, there are some parts of it that are still hard to watch. 
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eschaton posted:Didn't he also make a whole lot of bizarre claims that pedophile rings ran rampant in the British entertainment industry, with the possible protection of Parliament and others in government? Yeah and once they'd molested some unsuspecting orphan or member of a Blue Peter dance troupe they'd unhook their jaws and devour them whole.
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