When they weren’t busy trying to establish a Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Machines, F.T.Marinetti and his fellow perplexing Futurists of the early 20th century were thumbing their noses at whatever seemed conventional, even sleep and music. Two brief tales of their offbeat activities from articles which appeared in the Brooklyn Daily Eagle.

From January 7, 1925:

From October 26, 1913: