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clothe the naked animals
Feb. 6th, 2014 01:00 pmThis week's Found Sound is very special, in that it's a record I never knew existed and was very pleased to find.
Like many hipsters my age, I devoured RE:Search's series of books on Incredibly Strange Music, Incredibly Strange Films, and Pranks. The Pranks book, while in hindsight jampacked with pretentious attention-addicts, did deliver useful data on many of America's most creative minds, one of which is Alan Abel, who found out early on that people love a good story much more than they love the truth and will pretty much go out of their way to keep a good story going in the face of all evidence to the contrary. In a great interview they detail many of Abel's great media hoaxes, but the one that started it all was S.I.N.A., The Society for Indecency to Naked Animals.
This purportedly real group existed to clothe the otherwise indecently naked animals that roamed freely throughout our world, naked as jaybirds. As a media sensation in early 60s NYC, it attracted the attention of TV and print sources, who cheerfully ran with the crazy story. Abel would later go on to fake a school for panhandlers, hoax Watergate's 'Deep Throat', faked his own death, and staged a mass faint-in on the Phil Donahue show. He's still hoaxting today, so look out! I had no idea there was an LP for S.I.N.A., and was pleased as punch to find it tucked away in the "comedy" bin.
Like many hipsters my age, I devoured RE:Search's series of books on Incredibly Strange Music, Incredibly Strange Films, and Pranks. The Pranks book, while in hindsight jampacked with pretentious attention-addicts, did deliver useful data on many of America's most creative minds, one of which is Alan Abel, who found out early on that people love a good story much more than they love the truth and will pretty much go out of their way to keep a good story going in the face of all evidence to the contrary. In a great interview they detail many of Abel's great media hoaxes, but the one that started it all was S.I.N.A., The Society for Indecency to Naked Animals.
This purportedly real group existed to clothe the otherwise indecently naked animals that roamed freely throughout our world, naked as jaybirds. As a media sensation in early 60s NYC, it attracted the attention of TV and print sources, who cheerfully ran with the crazy story. Abel would later go on to fake a school for panhandlers, hoax Watergate's 'Deep Throat', faked his own death, and staged a mass faint-in on the Phil Donahue show. He's still hoaxting today, so look out! I had no idea there was an LP for S.I.N.A., and was pleased as punch to find it tucked away in the "comedy" bin.
