“COMMAND PERFORMANCE”
The Arthur Magazine Email Bulletin
No. 0033
February 16, 2006 4:21pm
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1. ONLY 9 DAYS ‘TIL FEB. 25-26 ARTHURBALL FESTIVAL IN LOS ANGELES.
We highly highly HIGHLY recommend buying tickets IN ADVANCE for this because:
1) It may sell out ahead of the day of show.
2) Day-of-show tickets will cost more than advance tickets.
3) If you buy tix on day-of-show you’ll have to wait in TWO lines (one to buy tickets, one to get into the venues), which may in turn mean that you miss something you really wanted to check out!
If you wanna buy tickets in person, you’ll need to go to one of the four Southland stores where they’re available: Benway in Venice, The Brat Store in Santa Monica, Fingerprints in Long Beach and Sea Level in Echo Park. If you don’t want to leave the comfort of your computer, we’re still selling one-day and two-day passes through Ticketweb (which, btw, is MUCH cheaper than Ticketmaster) by phone at 1.866.468.3399 or by intermagic at
In case you haven’t checked the lineup lately, let us tell you about some of the additions to the Sunday show: EARTHLESS, an epic mota/krautrock trio from San Diego; a screening of Ira Cohen’s legendary “The Invasion of Thunderbolt Pagoda”; and Captain Beefheart & the Magic Band alumnus/genius guitarist MORIS TEPPER, whose band (according to Moris’s website and reports from people we trust who were at recent shows) currently features someone you won’t believe on bass. (There are some other surprise appearances scheduled throughout the weekend that we can’t announce but that will make complete sense when they happen and you can probably figure out ahead of time if you use your noggin.) Anyways all the announceable ArthurBall info is up at
http:/w/ww.arthurmag.com
And no, you don’t have to dress up for the Ball but it would be better if you did. If you need some ideas: the motorbike saddhu look is still cool, and the Person in White Flowing Robe is eternal.
Also see item No. 6 of this email bulletin for inspiration.
2. TONIGHT (THURS.) AT LITTLE JOY IN ECHO PARK.
**** 8 PM / Little Joy / 1477 Sunset Blvd. LA , CA 90026 / 21+ ****
LA RECORD, THE JOUNRAL OF AESTHETICS AND POLITICS, and good ol’ ARTHUR present our weekly Echo Park Social(ist) Aid & Pleasure Club at the Little Joy bar in Echo Park. No cover, music provided by LARecord and Arthur deejays (tonight’s featured dj is a just-engaged lovebird couple! — author TRINIE DALTON & artist MATT GREENE! — who will start battling at 930pm!), lots of interesting people to mingle with, and, of course, reasonably priced adult beverages. Help the LARecord people celebrate their six-month anniversary! Dress up or bring roses and cake — it’s more fun that way. And don’t be shy — introduce yourself to the DJs and they’ll tell you who everybody is.
3. NEW ISSUE OF ARTHUR OUT NEXT WEEK IN THE REAL WORLD… BUT AVAILABLE NOW VIA THE INTERCAVE AS A DOWNLOADABLE FOUR-PART LOW-MEG PDF!
Just go to arthurmag.com — it’s a quickie download if you have the DSL and if you’d rather read something designed to be a large, tactile, portable paper product on a low-radiation-emitting, too-small, energy-chewing electronic screen instead!
4. ARTHUR AT SXSW.
Arthur Magazine and Press Here present:
T H E * H A P P E N I N G
Sponsored by: Pabst Blue Ribbon, Built By Wendy, Domino Recording Co.,
Monkey Drive Screen Printing, Cherry Tree Records, Kick Ball Records and more..
MARCH 18th Noon to 8 PM
THE FRENCH LEGATION MUSEUM
802 SAN MARCOS STREET
http://www.frenchlegationmuseum.org/
The Magic Numbers
Witch (feat. J Mascis and members of Feathers)
Mazarin (feat. members of Blood Feathers)
Gris Gris
Mike Wexler
Lavender Diamond
Nethers
Archie Bronson Outfit
Colossal Yes
Tralala
Muldoons (Mini-Set)
Death Vessel (Mini-Set)
Plus more guests to be announced.
PLAY IT SAFE: GET ON THE LIST
E-mail: rsvp.thehappening@gmail.com
5. ALICE COLTRANE // Sat, Feb 18 at 8pm // Royce Hall, UCLA
This Saturday the 68-year-old pianist-organist-harpist-composer-spiritualist-bandleader Alice Coltrane will play an EXTREMELY rare gig, joined by son Ravi on saxophone, Reggie Workman on bass and Jeff “Tain” Watts on drums. Prepare for an encounter with this true avatar of Universal Consciousness. Dwight Trible and his group will open. Incredibly, this show is not yet sold out. Tickets are $45, 35 & 25. Call 310.825.2101 or buy online at
http://www.uclalive.org/Event.asp?Event_ID=276
6. INTERVIEW WITH THE FUGS – MAY 12, 1967 – THE BERKELEY BARB.
The Fugs are a rock group from New York’s Lower East Side and provide a sort of nucleus for underground music—producing best-selling albums without getting any radio air play (tunes like “Kill for Peace” and “River of Shit” make broadcast difficult). Two of the Fugs, Ed Sanders and Tuli Kupferberg, bothpoets as well as musicians, are interviewed here by Richard Ogar of The
Berkeley Barb.
Ogar: Would you consider the San Francisco rock scene revolutionary?
Kupferberg: I consider rock and roll revolutionary. I consider the Stones and The Beatles very important revolutionaries.
Ogar: But how lasting are its effects? Is it really making a significant change in society?
Kupferberg: Well, you have to compare it to what went before, and what went before was a kind of very primitive and narrow kind of rock music. And before that you had the lindy hop and the fox-trot. So things really have gotten better. This kind of revolution occurs in spurts and it has defeats. So you have to judge this against the whole history of the human race, and there are grounds for optimism. Like, now, I think the Beatles and Stones era—the traditional rock and roll era—has ended and we’re headed into what will be a very creative and at first confusing period in music.
Ogar: What about the dancing associated with rock and roll? Is this a liberating force?
Kupferberg: Sure. Anyone who really dances would never ask that question. By dancing, I mean orgiastic kind of dancing, where you get into a kind of contact with your own body and your own feelings that most people don’t have. If everybody could dance the way I’m talking about, then the revolution would be accomplished.
Ogar: I take it you’re not as optimistic as Tuli seems to be about the possibility of radical socio-political change in America?
Sanders: My motto is “Fuck God in the ass.” I don’t have any faith at all in the efficacy of politics. I don’t know what’s going to happen. I’m political—I vote and hustle and hike, fight and scream. Non-violently. I don’t know what to do. We just try. I assume that what people want is a transformation of the society, right? They want to set up a new type of government, a new type of methods for doing almost everything, from handling the A&P to handling the problems of war and peace—so how is it done? I read everything I can read, and I go to all the demonstrations, and nobody’s even set up a cabinet they ought to set up some sort of rebel cabinet and issue big decrees all the time about where it is they’re pissed off. I don’t know. The way to do it is really be militant, man, and get after them, the bastards.
Ogar: What about loving your enemy to death?
Sanders: Love is a strong force if used by a whole bunch of people. Love vibrations have to be simple. Love energy is like it melts rather than discriminates, and that’s all right. But ..I don’t see how you could disrupt the war machinery with love, because human beings are, like, abstracted from the war machine. That’s the way they’ve developed it through electronics and computers. The further away an idea or an institution is from the human mind, the harder it is to dissolve it with love. It’s like trying to make love to an electricity cable, because that’s what it is, it’s all electricity on cards and memory units. If you don’t have any love targets, you know, your love vectors can’t grope in on somebody and try to transform them.
Assalaamu alaikum,
The Arthur People
Los Angeles, California
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