Monthly Archives for March 2009
DAILY MAGPIE – March 13th through 15th, PSYCH FEST II in AUSTIN, TX
Wooden Shjips
Black Angels
A Place to Bury Strangers
Dead Meadow
The Warlocks
Sky Sunlight Saxon (singer of legendary 60s garage band The Seeds)
Indian Jewelry
The Strange Boys
Golden Animals
and many others…
Come on the 13th to see Austin’s cult psychedelic heroes The Golden Dawn (childhood friends of Roky Erickson) as they perform their 1968 album “Power Plant” from start to finish.
Date & Time: March 13th, 14th and 15th (Go here to see a full schedule and show times)
Venue: RADIO ROOM (AUSTIN, TX)
Location: 508 E. 6th St. / Austin, Texas 78701
Cost: $15 for one day (All ages!)
Friday morning music: Kermit sings "Once in a Lifetime"
13-year-olds with "ADHD" testify re transcendental meditation
This Sat: The First Poppy Seed See-in
Arthur presents
THE FIRST POPPY SEED SEE-IN
Saturday, March 7, 2009
4 pm
Eat Records
124 Meserole Avenue
Greenpoint, Brooklyn, New York
At the First Poppy Seed See-in we will gather together to look into what is called “the hidden dimension of the public sphere.”
For free distribution at the event will be the famous Poppy Seed Programmes: 200 pamphlets containing poppy seeds and illustrated by Michael Curtis Hilde with integral texts by Arthur “Weedeater” columnist/blogger Nance Klehm. Here’s an excerpt from her text:
“The hidden dimension of a public sphere is the sphere of imagination. How we locate disorder and remedy it is how we imagine our body and mind.”
Also available will be silkscreened prints of the Arthurdesh poster signed by artist Arik Roper. Posters are $5.
Come eat, drink, pick up poppies, talk and listen to records– support autonomous local businesses like Eat Records, haven to thinkers, practitioners, artists and free people alike– re-imagine, see-in.
Organized by Michael Curtis Hilde. Poster artwork by MCH.
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If you can’t make it to Eat Records this Saturday, we are setting aside 70 poppy seed-loaded Arthurdesh programs for sale online. These are for sale only in US ($6 postpaid) and Can ($8 postpaid).
Paypal your order to
editor@arthurmag.com.
First come, first seeded.
Indulging in Roughhousing
Plucked from the SkateDaily blog:
Skateboarders in Poway will have to register and be fingerprinted before using the Skate Park.
The city council voted in favor of the new high tech entry system Tuesday night. Skaters will have to press a thumb pad on a turnstile. If a scanner matches a skateboarder’s print to the one given in a new, free registration process, they’ll be allowed in. A security camera will record the entry.
Full article at MSNBC.
Whenever I’m confronted with this sort of thing, I like to ask myself: would a tennis player suffer the same indignities in pursuit of their recreation?
Or, would I submit my kid to this bullshit? What exactly is to be gained by treating children as untrustworthy, uncontrollable criminals?
It will cost taxpayers 50 grand, by the way.
“Go fuck yourselves, San Diego.” – Ron Burgundy
Theresa Columbus' Twinkling Transmodern Manifestos
Baltimore’s 6th Annual Transmodern Festival promises “four days of avant performance, installation, sound, film, mayhem, ecstacy and radical culture” from April 2-5, and you can believe it. Some of this year’s performers includ Dan Deacon, Jenny Graf (of Metalux & Harrius), veteran songster Liz Downing, performance poet Lauren Bender, filmmaker Anne McGuire’s musical duo with Wobbly and bonvivant Rahne Alexander. Hot stuff indeed.
For anyone without plane fare to Baltimore to catch the proceedings, do yourself a solid and check out these amazing texts by unclassifiable performer Theresa Columbus (and their accompanying intro by Catherine Pancake). Here are a couple teaser excerpts to whet your clicking finger:
“Do the things, seek the people, that give you the drive. Give togetherness ridiculous amounts of time and planning, also encourage each other to work like crazy. Align with forces of change and optimism.”
“Joy in politics, I can’t state it overtly, but we know who needs to be heard more, intuitively. Help those people be heard more and improve their communication; the good work needs to be heard and it is a sin to not hear the good work that is unmade when it just needs the slightest push and desire. We need to fill our ears and eyes with it, so we need to see that it exists.”
“It’s not tacky to be a feminist! It can be the most sexy, fun luscious thing in the world. Being on tour and eating breakfast in a diner… yum. Feed each other, pour for each other, juice each other up.”
Coming soon…
C & D are in the building with a sack of cds, dvds, vinyl, books and plants and will be posting their “reviews” of new music sometime tonight supposedly… We’re told that Bull Tonguers Byron Coley and Thurston Moore will be posting new stuff shortly as well… Meanwhile, Alia Penner has been appointed Arthur’s new Psychedelic Healing Visions Correspondent… Charles Potts has accepted the position of Poetry Curator for Arthur… My recent interview with comics artist RICK VEITCH, intended for the special dream theme issue of Arthur that we never got to publish, No. 33, will be posted here next week… If all of that doesn’t do it for ya, follow Arthur at twitter.com/arthurmagazine. Good day!
The SITUATION
How much THC does Afgooey Super Melt REALLY have?
Over at the March 4, 2009 East Bay Express:
The Manhattan Project of Marijuana
If pot is truly medicine, shouldn’t it be standardized? Analytical Labs wants to test the potency and safety of Cali cannabis.
By David Downs
At downtown Oakland’s Harborside Health Center, the hairy green buds have numbers. The new nomenclature beckons viewers from within seven gleaming glass display cases. Antiseptic white placards boast authoritative black digits. Each stands erect next to a Petri dish of high-octane “White Rhino” or “Afgooey Super Melt.” They read: 7 percent, 11 percent, 18 percent, or 21 percent. Even 80 percent.
“80 percent THC?” asks a potential customer. He’s referring to delta-9-tetrahydrocannabinol — the main psychoactive ingredient in marijuana.
“That’s a concentrate,” reminds Stephen DeAngelo, proud owner of the three-year-old collective. DeAngelo’s facility boasts 20,000 members and grossed more than $10 million last year. Even amid the recession, lines are a constant phenomenon and DeAngelo is looking to double his space. Hundreds of new customers sign up monthly, attracted partly by the immaculate facility: its savvy, well-paid “budtenders” and $40, eighth-ounce pot dosages. But part of the appeal is the new placards — the result of a disruptive new service by Harborside’s partners at the Analytical Laboratory Project.
“For the first time in the 3,000-year history of human cannabis consumption, consumers will be provided a scientific assessment of the safety and potency of products prior to ingesting them,” DeAngelo announced in December.
In the months since, DeAngelo’s patrons have enjoyed mankind’s most detailed product information thanks to the country’s first commercial marijuana lab. Arrest and jail remain a constant worry for him and the lab’s two owners. But they believe that if pot is truly medicine, it needs quality assurance and dosage information. The Analytical Laboratory Project wants to be the source of that information. The lab’s ultimate goal is to provide testing for half of the 300 dispensaries in California.
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