Jamie’s 15 minutes

Most of you modblog regulars remember Jamie from the recent post showing the gaping wound in her arm being fingered. Well, aside from her interest in creating new orifices to fondle, she’s also fond of body modification history, as she made evident with her quick and flawless answers to my trivia questions.

As the winner of the trivia, she get’s another 15 minutes of modblog fame. So without any further ado, here’s Jamie!

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For several more pictures and some words from jamie, Keep on keeping on.

I’m Jamie Mayhem. I’m part of the suspension team called Ritual Arisings, we’re based out of the Detroit, MI area. I’m also into performance art and modeling. Turn-ons include- boys and girls with lots of mods, latex clothing, medical devices, zombies, riot grrrls, and people that look good covered in blood.

Most of my tattoos were done by Chris McNeill, who now owns Rebel City Tattoo in Cleveland, OH.

Some of the photos here are suspension pics, some are modeling pics that showed some of my ink. The forearm suspension is from Dallas SusCon, it’s what led to the pic of the hole in my arm that was recently Modblogged. The tandem suspension is with BIOHAZARD.

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Answers to the trivia…

First off thanks to everyone who took the time to try and answer the trivia questions. I read each and every response, even after our winner was found, just to see who knew what and if there were any common misconceptions. I love body modifications and I love knowing where we (as the bod mod community) came from. I hope that the younger readers will see these questions and develop a yearning for more knowledge on our past, present and future.

I have left Jamie’s answers as she wrote them in italics, and added a bit to some in regular type, I have also added hyperlinks for more information.

-What does Muzak (the generic elevator music company) have to do with body piercing?

Wealthy Muzak executive Richard Simonton had a private life that involved participating in gay BDSM culture under the pseudonym Doug Malloy. He had multiple genital piercings and wrote a short autobiography called “The Adventures of a Piercing Freak.” He advanced Jim Ward the money to start Gauntlet, and is considered one of the pioneers of the resurgence of modern body piercing.

For a great interview with the man known as Doug Malloy (as well as for an all around good read) be sure to pick up the book Modern Primitives.

-What modern body modifier first made a name for himself by wholesaling CBR’s for under 4 bucks when Gauntlet was still charging around 20?

That would be Steve Haworth.

-What is Fakir Musafar’s birth name?

Fakir was born Roland Loomis.

-What does PFIQ stand for?

PFIQ is the common name for a publication known as Piercing Fans International Quarterly, which was published by Jim Ward.

-Name at least one of Erik Sprague’s aliases besides “The Lizardman”.

Eric Sprague uses the alias ‘thelizardman23′ for many online community and file sharing sites.

One answer I hadn’t considered, but got a lot was Lizard Skynard, his new band. Other possible answers would be Amago or Spidergod5. I think there may be a few others as well, but to quote the lizard himself, “If there is any doubt, then use Lizardman.”

-What does “TSD” stand for ?

TSD stands for Traumatic Stress Discipline, a suspension group. TSD originally stood for Traumatic Stress Disciples. However when a newscast misquoted it as Traumatic Stress Discipline the members decided to keep that name.

-What was Todd Bertrang formally arrested for?

The formal charges were: Child Porn, Obscenity, Conspiracy to Violate FGM Laws, and Felon in Possession of a Firearm. Todd Bertrang was a mod artist who performed genital cuttings. FBI agents posed as a wealthy Arabian couple looking to have their daughters’ genitals modified and offered 20 million dollars, to which he responded with “I’ll think about it.” The FBI raided his home, where they found “obscene photographs” (photos of his mod work), “child pornography”, and a gun. Because of this, he and his partner were put in prison.

This article Shannon wrote years ago gives good detail as to the events that went down.

-What is a RABbit?

A reader and participant in the newsgroup rec.arts.bodyart is known as a RABbit.

Before BME became an interactive community site, the best place on the net to discuss body mods was rec.arts.bodyart. One of these days I plan to do a feature on the old group, I just need to get some more replies from members.

-Who’s collection of photos, were the basis of the Shawn Porter Collection?

The Jack Yount Collection was the basis of the Shawn Porter collection.

-Who was the primary photographer of the BME trading cards and the Modcon books?

Philip Barbosa was the primary photographer.

-What bodmod artist worked with Dee Snyder to design the piercings seen in the movie “Strangeland”?

Piercing “design” for the movie was done by the then New York-based body modification artist Keith Alexander.

-What was BME’s original url?

bme.FreeQ.com

Bonus Question:

In the acronym DFWC, which stands for ‘Don’t Fuck With Chuck”, who is Chuck?

Allen Falkner, of course 🙂

This (as was pointed out by some in the comments) was a fairly easy trivia. However, lot’s of readers had no clue, which is why I feel it is important to get this info out there. I hope to do these trivias about once a month. If anyone has any suggestions for questions, as always, feel free to shoot me an email using the link next to my picture below this post.


BME Trivia

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As an “old fart” by the piercing industries standard, I have a high appreciation for things in the modern history of body modification.  In talking with lots of young piercers and modification fans I am often shock and saddened by their total lack of knowledge (and to some degree lack of caring) about  where this community came from. This is why I try and do From The Vault features to show readers some of what happened pre-modblog.

Anyhow, I used to post these trivias on my iam page, with random prizes and I thought it would be fun to post them here occasionally as well.  I don’t have much in the way of a prize to offer, but whomever gets all the answers in first (or in the event no one gets them all right whoever gets the most correct this weekend) can either have a feature on themselves, or an artist or friend of their choice on modblog.

For the questions, keep on keeping on.

-What does Muzak (the generic elevator music company) have to do with body piercing?

-What modern body modifier first made a name for himself by wholesaling CBR’s for under 4 bucks when Gauntlet was still charging around 20?

-What is Fakir Musafar’s birth name?

-What does PFIQ stand for?

-Name at least one of Erik Sprague’s aliases besides “The lizardman”.

-What does “TSD” stand for ?

-What was Todd Bertrang formally arrested for?

-What is a RABbit?

-Who’s collection of photos, were the basis of the Shawn Porter Collection?

-Who was the primary photographer of the BME trading cards and the Modcon books?

-What bodmod artist worked with Dee Snyder to design the piercings seen in the movie “Strangeland”?

-What was BME’s original url?

Bonus Question:

In the acronym DFWC, which stands for ‘Don’t Fuck With Chuck”, who is Chuck?

Email your answers to [email protected]

PLEASE DO NOT POST ANSWERS IN THE COMMENTS!!!!!!