Boyd Rice

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Boyd Rice : biography

December 16, 1956 –

Biography

Rice became widely known through his involvement in V. Vale’s RE/Search books. He is profiled in RE/Search #6/7: Industrial Culture Handbook and Pranks!.Juno, Andrea (Editor), Ballard, J. G. (Editor), Re/Search #11: Pranks (1987) ISBN 0-940642-10-7 In Pranks, Rice described his experience in 1976 when he tried to give President Ford’s wife, Betty Ford, a skinned sheep’s head on a silver platter. In this interview, he emphasized the consensus nature of reality and the havoc that can be wreaked by refusing to play by the collective rules that dictate most people’s perception of the external world.

In the mid-1980s Rice became close friends with Anton LaVey, founder and High Priest of the Church of Satan, and was made a Priest, then later a Magister in the Council of Nine of the Church. The two admired much of the same music and shared a similar misanthropic outlook. Each had been inspired by Might is Right in fashioning various works: LaVey in his seminal Satanic Bible and Rice in several recordings.

Rice’s Social Darwinist outlook eventually led to him founding the Social Darwinist think tank called The Abraxas Foundation, along with co-founder Nikolas Schreck, named after the ancient Gnostic god Abraxas. The organization promotes authoritarianism, totalitarianism, misanthropism, and elitism, is antidemocratic, and has some philosophical overlap with the Church of Satan. During an interview with Christian talk show host Bob Larson, Rice described the basic philosophy of the foundation as being "The strong rule the weak, and the clever rule the strong".

Rice has documented the writings of Charles Manson in his role as contributing editor of The Manson File. Rice was a featured guest on Talk Back, a radio program hosted by the Evangelical Christian Bob Larson.name=SNAKEOIL>, Snake Oil magazine (1994) In total, Rice made five appearances on Larson’s program.

Although Rice was sometimes reported to possess the world’s largest Barbie collection, he confessed in a 2003 interview with Brian M. Clark to owning only a few.From The Black Pimp Speaks, 2003 interview with Boyd Rice appearing in Rated Rookie magazine No. 6, 2004. Viewable online:

In 2000, along with Tracy Twyman, editor of Dagobert’s Revenge, Rice filmed a special on the Rennes-le-Chateau for the program In Search of… on Fox television. (The segment was later included in the 2002 version of In Search of… on the Sci Fi Channel.) Rice has done extensive research into Gnosticism as well as Grail legends and Merovingian lore, sharing this research in Dagobert’s Revenge and The Vessel of God.

Rice was involved in creating a Tiki bar called Tiki Boyd’s at the East Coast Bar in Denver, Colorado. Rice decorated the entire establishment out of his own pocket due to his fondness of Tiki culture, asking an open tab at the bar in return. Boyd has long expressed a love of Tiki culture, in contrast to the other elements of his public persona.

Tiki Boyd’s was given its name in his honor. Due to disagreements between Rice and the owners, Rice pulled out of the deal and reclaimed all of his Tiki decorations. The future of the bar as it remains now is uncertain. Rice plans to re-establish another Tiki Bar elsewhere in Denver.

Performance

  • Live in Osaka (DVD), features concert performance from Osaka, Japan, in 1989, with Michael Moynihan, Tony Wakeford, Douglas P., and Rose McDowall. Also includes Rice-made films Invocation (One) and Black Sun

Writings

Over the years, Boyd Rice’s writings have been translated into at least six languages.Biography of "No", Heartworm Press His collected writings were published in 2008 by Creation Press. A French language edition followed on Camion Noir.

In 2009, his book No was published. This was widely regarded as a book defining Rice’s personal philosophy. Rice defined the book as merely a "laundry list" of things he didn’t believe in. He later stated in an interview with WFMU’s Beware of the Blog, "sometimes the things you don’t believe are more important than what you do believe".