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MK: You did a booklet in the style of ''Awake''. There was also a golden altar--didn't that reference the altar at the Universal World Church, which is a strange charismatic church where they mix Christian and UFO beliefs?
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The following is an excerpt from an interview between Los Angeles based artists Mike Kelley and Jim Shaw.  This dialog is published identically in the books ''Mike Kelley: Interviews, Conversations, and Chit-chat, 1986-2004''<ref>
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{{cite book
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| last = Kelley
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| first = Mike
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| year        = 2005
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| title      = Mike Kelley: interviews, conversations, and chit-chat, 1986-2004
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| publisher  = JRP/Ringier
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| pages      = 279
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| accessdate = 2012-04-02
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| isbn= 3905701006
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| url        = http://books.google.com/books?id=uzSgQeJVfeEC&dq
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}}</ref> and "Jim Shaw:Everything Must Go, 1974-1999".
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<blockquote>MK: You did a booklet in the style of ''Awake''. There was also a golden altar--didn't that reference the altar at the Universal World Church, which is a strange charismatic church where they mix Christian and UFO beliefs?
  
JS: Yes, the church run by Dr. Jaggers and Miss Velma--that was a part of it. When I went to a service there they had a booklet about meetings with UFOs; the motherships were supposed to be seraphim and the smaller ones cherubim. Watching them on TV every week certainly influenced me.
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JS: Yes, the church run by Dr. Jaggers and Miss Velma--that was a part of it. When I went to a service there they had a booklet about meetings with UFOs; the motherships were supposed to be seraphim and the smaller ones cherubim. Watching them on TV every week certainly influenced me.</blockquote>
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==References==
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{{Reflist}}
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[[Category: O. L. Jaggers in Print]]
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[[Category: Universal World Church in Print]]

Revision as of 19:15, 2 April 2012

The following is an excerpt from an interview between Los Angeles based artists Mike Kelley and Jim Shaw. This dialog is published identically in the books Mike Kelley: Interviews, Conversations, and Chit-chat, 1986-2004[1] and "Jim Shaw:Everything Must Go, 1974-1999".

MK: You did a booklet in the style of Awake. There was also a golden altar--didn't that reference the altar at the Universal World Church, which is a strange charismatic church where they mix Christian and UFO beliefs? JS: Yes, the church run by Dr. Jaggers and Miss Velma--that was a part of it. When I went to a service there they had a booklet about meetings with UFOs; the motherships were supposed to be seraphim and the smaller ones cherubim. Watching them on TV every week certainly influenced me.

References

  1. Kelley, Mike (2005). Mike Kelley: interviews, conversations, and chit-chat, 1986-2004. JRP/Ringier. pp. 279. ISBN 3905701006. Retrieved 2012-04-02.