Yearly Archives for 2007
ELECTRIC MILES DAVIS W/ COSEY ON GUITAR – 'IFE'
Arthur No. 5
ARTHUR NO. 5 (with David Cross on the cover as crazed jingoist god-blessed S.U.V.-driving soccer mom) IS SOLD OUT. This was the issue we published back in June 2003 when oh 90% of the USA was in favor of invading Iraq. Yep. They’re gone forever, peacenik fanboy. That said, you can download the entire issue in PDF (11mb) here:
Contents: Photographer Lauren Klain captures DAVID CROSS on his way to a Clear Channel war rally… Jonathan Shainin speaks with CHRIS HEDGES about the truths not being told about war…ALAN MOORE comments on what the US and UK governments have been up to lately….The fabulous GLAMericans are spotlit by Steffie Nelson… and DAVID BYRNE writes about his life during wartime.
KRISTINE MCKENNA on the Tower of Protest, a Vietnam-era action on Sunset Blvd by celebrated artists. With photos by CHARLES BRITTIN…
Righteous poetry by MICHAEL BROWNSTEIN, CHARLES POTTS and AMY TRUSSELL…
Art and comics by Steve Andersen, Tauno Blisted & Mac McGill, Robbie Conal, John Coulthart, Godspeed You! Black Emperor, Bill Griffith, Megan Kelso with Ron Rege, Peter Kuper, David Lasky, Sharon Rudahl, Patti Smith & Jem Cohen, art spiegelman and Carol Swain.
MICHAEL MOORCOCK on the fate of empires; DANIEL PINCHBECK on why he’s glad George Bush is president; and new Arthur film columnist PAUL CULLUM asks “Is George Bush addicted to cocaine?” as he examines “Horns and Halos,” “Journeys with George,” “Uncle Saddam,” “What I’ve Learned About U.S. Foreign Policy: The War Against the Third World” and “Unprecedented: The 2000 Presidential Election.”
ARTHUR EMAIL BULLETIN No. 0076 (archives post)
“COMMAND PERFORMANCE”
The Arthur Magazine Email Bulletin
No. 0076
May 23, 02007
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1. DIGITALIS CELEBRATES CD-R CULTURE, GOES ON THREE-DAY MINDBENDER IN L.A.
“After four years of cranking out cds and cdrs, it seemed like it was time to finally put together a live event celebrating digitalis and the entire cd-r culture that has sprouted over the past half-decade. thanks to grant capes and the good folks at echo curio the opportunity to put on such an event presented itself. initially conceived as an exhibition, the project grew into what it’s become today. the line-up of the festival is as follows (it is subject to change, but this is basically it):
digitalis and phantom limb present..
BOTTLING SMOKE
a 3-day event of art & music
may 25th-27th
los angeles, california
Echo Curio (in echo park):
1519 Sunset Ave, Los Angeles, California 90026
Mr. T’s Bowl (in highland park):
5621 1/2 Figueroa Ave, Highland Park, California
Friday, May 25th at the Echo Curio (FREE, $5 suggested donation)
9pm Antique Brothers
10pm Ilyas Ahmed
11pm Sea Zombies (new project from john xela & brad rose w/ special guests jefre cantu-ledesma & gregg kowalsky)
Midnight Pocohaunted
Saturday May 26th at the Echo Curio (FREE, $5 suggested donation)
Noon – Metal Rouge
1pm – Changeling
2pm Mike Tamburo and Matt McDowell
3pm The Alps
4pm The North Sea (first ever live appearance)
5pm Xela
Saturday May 26th at Mr. T’s Bowl ($8 cover, cash only day of show)
8:30pm Robedoor
9pm Thousands
10pm Ghosting
11pm Starving Weirdos
Midnight Tarentel
1am Heavy Winged
Sunday May 27th at the Echo Curio (FREE, $5 suggested donation)
Noon The Holy See
12:45pm The White Rainbow
1:30pm Valet
2:15pm Gregg Kowalsky
3pm Theo Angell
3:45pm Dan Brown (from hall of fame)
4:30pm (VxPxC)
5:30pm Agilvsga (first ever live appearance)
6:30pm Nick Castro
“most of this event will take place at echo curio. all performances there are FREE to the public. one show, on saturday night, will take place at mr. t’s bowl. this show will cost around $8. it’s pretty hard to beat that.”
Lots more infos:
http://www.digitalisindustries.com/fest.html
http://www.myspace.com/bottledsmokefestival2007
2. ARTHUR NO. 5 (“HOORAY FOR EMPIRE! – USA #1 WITH A BULLET” cover w/ David Cross as crazed jingoist god-blessed S.U.V.-driving soccer Mom) IS SOLD OUT. This was the issue we published back in June 2003 when oh 90% of the USA was in favor of invading Iraq. Yep. They’re gone forever, peacenik fanboy. That said, you can download the entire issue in PDF (11mb) here:
http://www.arthurmag.com/pdfs/arthur5.pdf
3. DID YOU KNOW?
There were draft resistance communes in the USA during the Vietnam War.
4. ARTHUR RETURNS IN JULY
“There is no other periodical I look more forward to arriving than the new Arthur”
Rick Rubin
“Arthur is really something singular and much-needed”
Dave Eggers
“The American counterculture’s answer to the New Yorker”
The Guardian
“The central voice of the new scene”
Will Hermes, The New York Times, 2006
“[Arthur’s first 25 issues featured] an admirable chunk of visionary muckraking and alternative journalism… This was not Spin or Blender’s flashy, tastemaking colleague. More like its anarchist brother.” – Audra Schroeder, Austin Chronicle, 2007
“Arthur was oversized, free, colorful, patchouli-scented but whip-smart, unapologetically political, sometimes silly, often anarchist and always willing to listen to voices way, way outside the mainstream. Above all, it was prophetic, usually about two years ahead of the rest of the country in its loves and obsessions.” – Keach Hagey, Village Voice, 2007
“[Arthur] has been busy streaming the revelations and imperatives of the New New Age into pop culture, where the kids can get at it… Arthur has become the place where the ideas meet the music; where Derek Jensen’s freefall apocalyptics can sit with total aptness beside a piece on nouveau hippie swooners Brightblack Morning Light. The same issue begins with a column about mint tea and ends with a list of ‘sensitive weapons’ (e.g., shotgun shells taped to the end of a BB-gun barrel) for use when the grid collapses and Devendra Banhart fans are called upon to defend their homes and woolly hats…. Arthur has saturated itself in the ’60s, via features on the Weather Underground, the MC5, the 1967 March on the Pentagon, and also in the post-psychedelic slant of the music coverage. But there’s nothing regressive here. From the freaky folkers to the acid rockers, Arthur bands have their eyes on the advancing historical horizon…” – James Parker, Boston Phoenix, 2006
It’s true: if you SUBSCRIBE TO ARTHUR RIGHT NOW, we really will send you a free Arthur CD. We need your cash! Info:
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5. COULD WE HAVE SOME PEACE AND HARMONY PLEASE
As you know, Arthur Magazine and L.A. Record present
The Echo Park Social(ist) and Pleasure Club
at Little Joy
1477 Sunset Blvd., Los Angeles
Thursday, May 24
AND EVERY THURSDAY NIGHT
9:30pm-last call
This week’s deejays:
930: PETER ‘DOC’ ALBERTS
11: JASON MCGUIRE, ATTORNEY AT LARGE
1230: MS. JESSICA ESPELETA
Last week jay babcock played this stuff, tho’ not exactly in this order:
Soft Machine – “Hope for Happiness”
Latin Playboys – “Viva La Raza”
Akron/Family – “Blessing Force”
Tim Maia – “Energia Racional”
Tim Buckley – “Hong Kong Bar”
Howlin Rain – “Calling Lightening With a Scythe”
Goon Moon – “Every Lionhearted Christian”
Frank Sinatra – “One Note Samba (Samba de Uma Nota So)”
Amadou and Mariam – “Djagneba”
Nina Simone – “Rich Girl”
Queens of the Stone Age – “Make It Wit Chu”
Tim Maia – “Rational Culture”
Then COURTNEY SHANKS and ZACH COWIE played some songs from people like:
bob dylan
gene clark
the velvet underground
led zeppelin
chuck berry
blue cheer
doug sahm
tom t hall
doug ashdown
betty davis
can
fairport convention
They’re sorry for any bummers the technical difficulty caused, but are sure they were all erased by how hard JASON MOORE killed it with his set directly after, which consisted of the following, maybe not in this exact order:
Don’t Put No Headstones On My Grave-Charlie Rich
Nobody’s Butt but Yours Babe-Blowfly
Give Back the Key to My Heart-Doug Sahm & Texas Tornados
Keep it Going-Delaney Bramlett
Let it Rock(live)-Rolling Stones
Country Roads-Merry Clayton
Tenessee Jed-Grateful Dead
Ophelia-The Band
Keep on Steppin’-Fatback Band
Feel Good-Ike and Tina
Let’s Work Together-Canned Heat
You Got a Good Thing-Little Sonny
Trouble No More-Allman Brothers Band
Let’s take it to the Stage-Funkadelic
Ramblin’ Rose-Ted Taylor
Feelin’ Allright-Joe Cocker
I’ll Be Creepin’-Free
Keep on Growing-Derek & the Dominoes
Robert Palmer-Sailing Shoes
We’re Gonna Groove-Led Zeppelin
Faith to Arise-Terry Reid
Cancel Everything-Ron Wood
It’s a Long Long Way-Elder Hightower/Sister Massey
Feel like Goin’ Home-Charlie Rich
6. AND YOU WILL KNOW THEM BY THEIR GAIT
From the May 22 New York Times on a dude who runs a popular NYC store selling police hats:
Although police agencies from various countries may wear different hats, Mr. Vega, a longtime observer of officers, said that there are qualities common to members of nearly all forces, no matter how far-flung. He said he has about an 80 percent success rate in spotting [non-uniformed] officers based on the way they walk and talk.
“I know the swagger,” he said. “In their eyes you can see it.”
We’ll grow more,
Spawn of Arthur
Los Angeles, California
Delia Gonzalez & Gavin Russom in Santa Barbara
“Tomorrow Belongs to Me”
Delia Gonzalez & Gavin Russom
April 28 – June 24, 2007
Santa Barbara Contemporary Arts Forum – Bloom Room
653 Paseo Nuevo
Santa Barbara, CA 93101
Free
“In their sculptures and installations, Gonzalez and Russom explore the forces of magic on earth via simple modular forms made in Formica. The sculptures are often arranged to suggest a range of images, from minimal sculpture to failed architectural experiments to vanity mirrors. The duo also embed analog synthesizers that play meditative, repetitive sound, based on the settings of knobs on controls panel built into each of the works.”
Photos from the deep.
from “The Deep: The Extraordinary Creatures of the Abyss” by Claire Nouvian (University of Chicago Press, 2007)
“Featuring 220 color photographs of deep ocean species, some photographed for the first time.”
Work by MIN KIM.
from atmgallery
“Expanding Folds of Uncertainty”
“Inevitability of unpredictable outcomes”
“There is a place where things grow with blood of your heart”
Work by GORDON TERRY
GORDON TERRY
The Conscious Reconciliation of Opposing Forces
April 27 – May 26, 2007
atm gallery
619 b west 27th street new york, ny 10001
tel: 212.375.0349 gallery hours: tues -sat 11pm to 6pm & by appointment
Mr. Iboga, Mysterious Crop Formations, and the Approach of 2012
Study for One Thousand Years of Lost History
Cross Sections of Higher Solids Intersecting Our Space
A SUPERNATURAL RIOT OF ASTROLOGY, MYSTERY CULTS AND STRANGE MACHINES
Thrift Store Movie Night III at the Hammer
Above: a still from Animal Charm’s “Moving Day”
Thrift Store Movie Night III
7 p.m., Wednesday May 23
UCLA Department of Art Event at
UCLA Hammer Museum, Gallery 6
FREE
“For the third year, the UCLA Hammer Museum and the UCLA Department of Art welcome L.A. Weekly art critic Doug Harvey and other archivists of found media for the presentation of films, videos and slides rescued from the obscurity of thrift stores, swap meets and dumpsters.
The evening includes excerpts from recent and upcoming programs by the Coalition for
Cinematic Conservation and Preservation at the Echo Park Film Center, possibly including
an educational filmstrip on the wonders of the banana, vintage Asian and Indian music
videos, the classic “ABC of S*x Education for Trainables,” and a selection from NY
artist Brian Bellott’s DVD collection of found photographs!
This year’s guest curators include Animal Charm, whose disturbing and hilarious video
jams bring Bruce Conner’s loopy aesthetics into the digital era with such mind boggling
deconstructions as “Slow Gin Soul Stallion,” “Pet Programming” and the amazing “Stuffing.” Animal Charm will debut several brand new works at this screening!
Also presenting will be Brooklyn’s Found Footage Festival, hosted by curators Geoff Haas,
Joe Pickett and/or Nick Prueher, who will provide their unique observations and
commentary on found video obscurities ranging from the world’s worst telemarketers
“John & Johnny” to Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger’s scintillating take on Brazilian culture in
1983’s “Carnival in Rio.” FFF will also be presenting a new full length program at the M Bar – 1253 N. Vine Street (at Fountain Avenue) in West Hollywood on May 24, 25, & 26.
The best way to regulate greenhouse gases.
From Technology Review (May/June 2007)
Global-Warming Myths
It’s time to move forward on regulating greenhouse gases and here’s a regulatory plan that makes sense.
By Hoff Stauffer
The debate on global warming is burdened with unfortunate misconceptions that inhibit progress in moving forward.
One misconception is that “draconian measures” would be required to mitigate global warming. This is simply not so, if we implement a prudent program right away. Such a program would include four major strategies: increased energy efficiency (in buildings, autos, and appliances), coal mitigation (which includes increased use of solar, wind, geothermal, and perhaps nuclear power, as well as carbon capture and sequestration for coal-fired power plants), the development of new biofuels (such as cellulosic ethanol), and reversal of deforestation. These strategies can stabilize atmospheric concentrations of greenhouse gases at acceptable levels and for acceptable economic costs.
Another misconception is that it would be better to wait to take action until technology provides new options. In fact, we need to start reducing emissions right away. If we delay, the world will face a dreadful dilemma: the choice between adopting draconian measures and passing the “tipping point beyond which it will be impossible to avoid climate change with far-ranging undesirable consequences,” as the NASA climate scientist James Hansen puts it.
Another misconception is that a cap-and-trade system is the best approach to controlling the various greenhouse gases. Such a system sets a cap on total emissions and distributes emission allowances (or permits to emit) to market participants. These participants must buy allowances if they don’t have enough, and they may sell them if they have an excess. Such a system has helped reduce sulfur and nitrogen emissions from power plants in the United States.
But there are major problems with relying too heavily on this approach. The biggest is that it is too hard to figure out the economic and environmental effects. Prudent people do not want to risk unacceptable economic consequences. Other prudent people do not want to risk accomplishing too little. A politically acceptable compromise might take a long time and would probably tilt too far toward economic prudence, failing to achieve the necessary reductions.
Performance standards are a simpler approach. They would directly regulate the pollutants from new sources of emissions, such as power plants and autos, and mandate greater efficiency for new appliances and buildings. Performance standards can be implemented right away, without fear of unforeseen adverse economic consequences. They alone would result in major emission reductions over time. Such reductions could then be complemented by whatever additional help a cap-and-trade system provides.
Hoff Stauffer is the managing director of the Wingaersheek Research Group, which focuses primarily on global climate change. He previously worked at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.
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