The first Jackalope single is now out: The Hero by Myriad Creatures, who are currently tearing up a storm in Berlin. Check it out using the embedded player below. This digital only release will be distributed by The Orchard with PR handled by Quite Great. The track was produced and mixed by Joe Dworniak with mastering by Poppy Weinberger. You can find it on iTunes

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With the B-side, No Show From Rilo:

Myriad Creatures – No Show From Rilo
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Jackalope’s Myriad Creatures are currently on tour in Berlin. See more at their myspace.

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this is the full text from our phone conversation with John Zerzan…

hello

hi john can you hear us? its ed here, sorry for calling you late… how are you doing

good

we’ve got a few of us here, John who you met the other day, Jamie my brother here also… sorry we didn’t get a chance to talk when you were over here…

yep that day in oxford

how was your trip to leicester?

yep good, and the gathering near Barcelona, that was really cool, there were about 100 people there, an
anti-civilisation meeting, and i found out about another one coming up in a week in Valencia, so gee i guess things are popping over there

we get the sense that there is a bit of a wave growing regarding these views - would you agree with that?

i sure hope so, there are some signs of growing interest, its not a groundswell yet, it seems to me there is a deepening of interest - these ideas have always been interesting and met with curiosity like wow that’s a crazy way to look at it.. which is fine, but what i’ve seen lately is its become a lot more relevant, and that maybe its going to be breaking through a bit more into the public arena
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We spoke on the phone with Michael T Klare in February 2006.

JL Hi Michael

MK A pleasure to talk to you ….

JL Very good of you to let us talk to you, just for your information we have about 5 of us over here in the room, John (myself), Jamie, Tom, James and Ed…. We have a bunch crazy questions for you about oil. What we are trying to do is less of an interview and more of a discussion, we’re trying to talk to a lot of great minds from around the world about the kinds of things that don’t get talked about much in the press… Jamie found your book and thought it was pretty good… so Jamie why don’t you take it away….

JPC - Hi Michale, I’m Jamie the best good looking in the room… Could you comment on President Bush’s state of the Union Address where he said he would cut imported oil by 75% by 2050…

MK - there’s been a lot of discussion about this, I think that Bush is responding to a growing public uneasiness about this, the public is worried about high prices, hearing about peak oil, there worried about terrorism and worried that the govt isn’t doing enough about all this, so Bush is being something of an opportunist here responding to the genuine public concern about the issue, the media hasn’t really caught on.

As everyone who has looked at his proposals has said, there really isn’t enough meat there to achieve anything in the time that he states. He’s not calling for the type of initiatives that could make a difference to America’s consumptive behaviour. Unless you can compel Americans to drive less, and use less gasoline, every other measure is trivial in comparison… if you keep driving SUV’x with huge tanks of gas nothing else is really going to make a difference, and he didn’t call for any conservation measures like raising the minimum fuel emissions from cars. And secondly you cannot distinguish when the refinery sends out refined gasoline, where that gasoline has come from, whether the Middle East, US, Canada Latin America it all gets mixed up- you can’t just state you are going to cut out the parts from the Middle East - that’s just ridiculous. none of this amounts to anything but the impression that the President is paying attention to people’s concerns about this.
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It was a balmy summer day when Ed, Jamie and John drove down to interview Professor James Lovelock, or Jim as he prefers to be known, at his home-cum-nature-reserve on the Cornish boarder near Launceston. Jim has turned his abode and the land around it into a wonderful nature reserve, where the land has been allowed, as far as possible, to revert to its natural state. Through the meadows and woodlands, Jim maintains a series of paths, and at his suggestion we wandered around these talking for several hours on a range of pressing subjects. We were there to get a measure of this great man, and the full sprawling interview is outlined at this link. However, we also thought that it might be useful for those of you who are pressed for time (so little time, so little time, so little sense of what time really is) to summarise our impressions of the man.
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Video for Creel Commission. Hear more with the Retrospective on Last FM.