Monthly Archives for August 2009

Today’s Autonomedia Jubilee Saint — ALAIN ROBBE-GRILLET

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AUGUST 18 – ALAIN ROBBE-GRILLET
French proponent of the “noveau roman,” filmmaker.

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August 18, 2009 HOLIDAYS AND FESTIVALS
Wales: Ancient Bardic TOURNEY OF DRUIDS. Group singing, processions,
musical & literary competitions, awarding of bardic degrees.

ALSO ON AUGUST 18 IN HISTORY…
1587 — Virginia Dare, first English child born in North America, born in North America.
1812 — Lady Ludd leads corn market riots at Leeds, England.
1922 — Alain Robbe-Grillet, French “nouveau roman” writer, born, Brest.
1977 — Black rights activist Steve Biko arrested, South Africa.

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Author Jared Diamond in a recent interview with The Financial Times:

“If we continue to operate non-sustainably, then in 50 or 60 years, the US and Japan and Europe will be in bad shape. But my friends in the highlands of New Guinea will be fine. Some of my friends made stone tools when they were children and they could just go back to what their ancestors were doing for 46,000 years. New Guinea highlanders are not doomed.”

Today’s Autonomedia Jubilee Saint – MARCUS GARVEY

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AUGUST 17 — Marcus Garvey
Jamaican-American “Back to Africa” revolutionary.

August 17, 2009 HOLIDAYS AND FESTIVALS
China: FEAST OF THE HUNGRY GHOSTS. Wide variety of offerings for those
who died orphans, paupers or beggars, & those who died far from home.
Those lonesome & desolate souls may return to inhabit leaves & grasses,
& spread plagues. If offerings are made, they may stay away.

ALSO ON AUGUST 17 IN HISTORY…
1887 — “Back to Africa” Marcus Josiah Garvey born, St. Ann’s Bay, Jamaica.
1892 — “Come up and see me sometime” Mae West born, Brooklyn, New York.
1955 — Emmett Till killed for “talking to a white woman,” Money, Mississippi.

'44 PRESIDENTS' by MZA & Maria Sputnik

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Forty Four Presidents by MZA & Maria Sputnik. Available in hardcover from Garrett County Press.

A brief illustrated history of the U.S. presidency told by the presidents themselves in the style favored by modern social networking web sites, Forty Four Presidents imagines 220 years of presidential succession pancaked into a single moment — documented simultaneously by each commander-in-chief in status updates designed for easy consumption by their Facebook friends. Each status update is accompanied by a jaunty, high-contrast profile picture intended to reflect something of the essential personality (and hotness) of the president.

Today's Autonomedia Jubilee Saint – TINA MODOTTI


AUGUST 16 — TINA MODOTTI
Italian-born radical photographer and model, active in
Mexican workersʼ struggles and revolutionary politics.

August 16, 2009 HOLIDAYS AND FESTIVALS
Tutbury Castle, England: FESTIVAL OF THE MINSTRELS.

ALSO ON AUGUST 16 IN HISTORY…
1617 — First of many African slaves delivered to Virginia, sparking local economy.
1896 — Radical photographer and model Tina Modotti born, Udine, Italy.
1911 — Alternative economist E. F. Schumacher born, Bonn, Germany.
1936 — Jesse Owens leaves Berlin Olympics with four gold medals.
1962 — Libertarian and anarchist publications banned in Castro’s Cuba.
1977 — Elvis Presley dies, drugged, on the crapper… or so we’re told….
1987 — The Harmonic Convergence, remember? C’mon, you remember!

Lightning Bolt "Earthly Delights"

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October 13th 2009 sees the release of the new album “Earthly Delights”. gatefold packed 3 sided LP, CD(still around!) and whatever download where-ever.

destined to be leaked onto the internet by……hmmm. take a guess, maybe august 31? early september? you tell me. but i think the art of this one is good. get the LP!

songs.
1. Sound Guardians
2. Nation of Boar
3. Colossus
4. The Sublime Freak
5. Flooded Chamber
6. Funny Farm
7. Rain on Lake i’m Swimming in
8. S.O.S
9. Transmissionary

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