“COMMAND PERFORMANCE”
The Arthur Magazine Email Bulletin
No. 0059
November 17, 02006
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1. WHEN *ISN”T* MERCURY IN RETROGRADE IS WHAT I WANT TO KNOW.
2. NEW ISSUE OF ARTHUR ON ITS WAY TO *YOU*.
Getting it ready for you now… Erik Davis profiles JOANNA NEWSOM at serious length (12,000 words!), with exclusive photos of her geniushood by Eden Bakti… ALAN MOORE expounds on 25,000 years of pornography… a talk with CHUCK DUKOWSKI about the deeper issues surrounding all-ages shows… Kyp Malone of TV ON THE RADIO talks about military recruiters… New Herbalist Molly Frances on the roots of Christmas… Dave Reeves on GUNS… Douglas Rushkoff on ROBERT ANTON WILSON… Byron Coley & Thurston Moore on oodles of noodles… a full-page of PShaw… and a bunch of other unspeakable surprises… See the cover now at
3. SATURDAY: JOHN LURIE MEETS HIS PUBLIC.
We are informed that John Lurie’s new art book, “Learn to Draw” (Koenig Press) will be making its US debut at the first annual Printed Matter NY Art Book Fair. The fair takes place at the old Dia Beacon Space at 548 West 22nd Street in New York City. We are further informed that JOHN LURIE HIMSELF will be signing copies of his book on Saturday, November 18 between 3-4PM. Admission is FREE. Fun fact: Some of the images in this book were first published in the pages of Arthur magazine.
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4. SATURDAY: SHOPTALK & MORE WITH LIVING THEATER CO-FOUNDER JUDITH MALINA & HANON REZNIKOV.
We are told that as part the “Coffee House Chronicles” series, Judith Malina and Hanon Reznikov will talk with all comers about The Living Theatre’s long odyssey on Saturday, November 18 from 3-5pm at LaMama ETC, 74 East 4th Street in New York City. Admission FREE. Fun fact: The Living Theater are the subject of the next Arthur/Bastet DVD, Ira Cohen’s “Paradise Now,” due next year.
5. SUNDAY: FAIRLY INCREDIBLE FREE MUSIC NIGHT AT MOUNTAIN BAR.
Sun Nov. 19
Arthur Presents an Ovrcast Production
* Psychic Paramount
* Residual Echoes
* Jack Rose
* Peter Walker
FREE
21 & up
Doors 8pm
Mountain Bar of Chinatown in Los Angeles
473 Gin Ling Way
Los Angeles, 90012
(213) 625-7500
6. LOTS OF FLASHY ARTHUR NIGHTS PIX UP AT THE OL’ ICE CREAM MAN SITE.
Nice nice NICE photos of Comets on Fire, Boris, Devendra Banhart, Fiery Furnaces, Be Your Own Pet, Sun Ra Arkestra, Tav Falco & Panther Burns, Living Sisters, OM, Bert Jansch, Espers, Six Organs of Admittance, White Magic, Heartless Bastards, Kyp Malone of Tv on the Radio, Howlin Hex and Ruthann Friedman performing at Arthur Nights. Yes a festival with this lineup actually happened, here’s some photographic evidence for the skeptics:
http://www.icecreamman.com/projects/article_1385.shtml
7. FAIR WARNING.
We have under 90 copies left of the universally acclaimed Ira Cohen “Invasion of Thunderbolt” DVD we released in June. We only made 1000 and we honestly don’t know yet when we are going to be able to make more. Okay? Please don’t say we didn’t warn you.
Info:
http://www.arthurmag.com/store/dvds.php
8. IF YOU THOUGHT DEREK JENSEN WAS EXAGGERATING JUST A TAD IN HIS APOCALYPTIC INTERVIEW IN ARTHUR 23, PART 2
Check out “The Darkening Sea: Carbon Emissions and the Ocean” by one of America’s best journalists, Elizabeth Kolbert, in this week’s issue of The New Yorker.
9. WE LIKE TO MEET NEW PEOPLE.
Won’t you join us at Little Joy in the Echo Park district of Los Angeles for another session of
The Echo Park Social(ist) & Pleasure Club
every Thursday night
9:55pm-close
at
Little Joy
1477 Sunset Blvd in Echo Park
FREE
21 & up
At recent EPSCs, this music was played for the enjoyment of all:
///Jay Babcock set – Nov 9\\\
Dominique Cravic & Les Primitifs du Futur feat. Robert Crumb – Fox Musette
Dominique Cravic & Les Primitifs du Futur feat. Robert Crumb – Portrait d’ un 78 tard
Tim Buckley – Move With Me
Selda – Meydan Sizindir
Tony Allen – Road Safety
Curtis Mayfield – Future Shock
Silver Apples – I Don’t Care What the People Say
Yo La Tengo – Nuclear War [Sun Ra cover/children’s choir version]
The Good The Bad and The Queen – History Song
Dirty Pretty Things – Bang Bang You’re Dead
Nick Oliveri & Mondo Generator – All the Way Down
Creedence Clearwater Revival – Fortunate Son
Sade – Why Can’t We Live Together
Mighty Baby – A Jug of Love
Ginger Baker [feat. Fela Kuti] – Tiwa (It’s Our Own)
Wind – track 1 off “Seasons” [’71]
///Richard Pleuger set- Nov 9\\\
The Mystic Tide – Mystery Ship
Xu Xu Fang – Seven Days
Truth And Janey – My Mind
German Oak – Raid Over Düsseldorf
Lucifer’s Friend – Ride In The Sky
The Mystic Tide – Frustration
J.A. Caesar
Mott The Hoople – Thunderbuck Ram
T. Rex – Calling All Destroyers
Truth And Janey – Under My Thumb
Dr. Feelgood – She Does It Right
Buffalo – Sunshine (Come My Way)
Metallica – Leper Messiah
Chrome – TV As Eyes
The Sonics – The Witch (Live ‘ 72)
Dr. Feelgood – Rollin’ and Tumblin’
Hawkwind – Motorhead
Francoise Hardy – Le Soir
Xu Xu Fang – Good Times
The Dovers – She’s Not Just Anybody
German Oak – Shadows Of War
///Peter Relic set – Nov 9\\\
mikey d and l.a. possee “coming in the house”
just ice “cold gettin dumb”
boogie down productions “jimmy”
ray cash feat. yummy “da bomb”
dj quik “pitch in on a party”
mystikal “shake ya azz”
tone loc “i got it going on”
twin hype “do it to tha crowd”
three 6 mafia “ridin spinners”
killer mike feat. whyte chocolate “for the no no”
epmd “so whatcha sayin”
nas “memory lane”
incredible bongo band “let there be drums”
bone thugs’n’harmony “teach the world”
///Aaron Aldoriso set – Nov 16\\\
phew – closed
pink floyd – see emily play
dead moon – dead moon night
spacemen 3 – rollercoaster
traffic sound – lux
galaxie 500 – another day
the beach boys – slip on through
john phillips – drum
the clean – anything can happen
wire – map ref 41N 93W
mayo thompson – dear betty baby
leigh stephens – another dose of life
thinking fellers union local 282 – cup of dreams
siouxsie and the banshees – happy house
the byrds – everybody’s been burned
the moles – wires
la dusseldorf – dusseldorf
gal costa – cinema olympia
the jesus and mary chain – never understand
judy henske and jerry yester – raider
bridget st. john – every day
royal trux – you’re gonna lose
yoko ono – don’t worry kyoko (mummy’s only looking for her hand in the snow)
the fall – eat y’self fitter
bobby charles – i must be in a good place now
lee hazlewood – my autumn’s done come
///Mark Frohman & Molly Frances set – Nov 16\\\
funkadelic free your mind
weird war AK-47
sly stone luv n haight
dr john I been hoodooed
tommy james gotta get back to you
junior wells & buddy guy snatch it back and hold it
the sonics louie louie
the stooges rubber legs
rock erikson two-headed dog
glass candy hang on to yourself
the cramps garbage man
lou reed gimme some good times
Blue Oyster Cult Transmaniacon
richard hell down at the rock and roll club
patti smith poppies
essential logic bod’s message
burning spear african postman
the clash one more time dub version
culture black starliner
the clash version city
burning spear columbus
rolling stones heaven
alan vega jukebox baby
the chromatics the wanderer
paul mcartney and wings nineteen hundred and eighty five
gogogo airheart when the flesh hits
weird war if you can’t beat em bite em
the clash ghetto defendant / innoculated city
red krayola duke of newcastle
sly stone runnin away
chromatics in the city
john phillips let it bleed, guinevere
10. APPEAL: FREE THE GANGSTER MACAQUE 15.
On January 11, 2006, The Daily Mirror of England reported that “A city police force is struggling to contain a marauding band of terrifying, glue-sniffing ‘gangster monkeys.’ Wild macaques have been stealing bags of glue from addicts, getting high and launching attacks in Phnom Penh, Cambodia…The crazed beasts have been biting people and stealing laundry…. Deputy governor of the city’s Daun Penh district Pich Socheata, said: ‘We have to remove the nasty creatures from the city. They grab glue bags from street kids, climb up into the trees and sniff it up.’ Officials have so far ‘detained’ 15 macaques.”
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