Author Archives for Jay Babcock

GOES WELL WITH BUTTER

BLACKOUT, Arthur’s new 49-minute mixtape specially sequenced to accompany (or simulate) a human-plant interaction, is now available.

50-SECOND TEASER TOKE:
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TRACK LIST:

1. MOON DUO “Into the Trees” (from the Escape LP on Woodsist)
2. WHITE HILLS “Three Quarters” (from the White Hills LP on Thrill Jockey)
3. WHITE NOISE SOUND “Sunset” (from the White Noise Sound LP on Alive Naturalsound)
4. LORDS OF FALCONRY “Osiron” (from Lords of Falconry on Holy Mountain)
5. ENDLESS BOOGIE “Pack Your Bags” (from the Full House Head LP on No Quarter)
6. MASTERS OF REALITY “Johnny’s Dream” (from the Pine/Cross’d Over LP)
7. MESSAGES “Tambura” (from the After Before LP on De Stijl)
8. ENUMCLAW “Harmonic Convergence” (from the Opening of the Dawn LP)

BLACKOUT is available only as a digital download, featuring Arik Roper artwork, additional art and text, and eight 192kpbs mp3s sequenced and mixed with blacking you out in mind.

Pay what thou wilt, starting at $4.20.

All proceeds go towards keeping the Arthur community garden alive through the fall season. Details here, travelers: BLACKOUT info and order page

Sat Oct 16, Providence RI 6pm: TRINIE DALTON reading from SWEET TOMB – FREE

Above: Sweet Tomb cover by Matt Greene

Author and longtime Arthur contributor Trinie Dalton writes:

Hello Providence!

I’ll be coming out this Saturday, October 16th, for a reading at Ada Books. I hope you can join me. 6pm. I’ll be reading with Madras Press editor, Sumanth Prubhaker.

http://ada-books.com

Madras Press is a great new small press that publishes novella-length books:
http://www.madraspress.com/news

See you there, and thanks for helping to spread the word—if you’re not in Providence but know someone who might like to come, please kindly forward this note.

Trinie Dalton blog: http://sweet-tomb.blogspot.com

Your friend,
Trinie

"YONIC CLONIC AND THE END OF THE UNIVERSE" by Lala Albert

Lala Albert lives in Brooklyn where she does art and comics at night and on the weekends. During the week she works as the textile designer/whatever-else-they-need-her-for at a small fashion company in Manhattan.

http://plslala.com/

Halloween in Austin, Texas

AUSTIN PSYCH FEST 4

This Spring, The Black Angels and The Reverberation Appreciation Society curate and present the 4th annual Austin Psych Fest, to be held the weekend of April 29 – May 1 2011. Fans can sign up for the newsletter on austinpsychfest.com for the latest info as it becomes available.

AUSTIN PSYCH FEST 3 FILM TRAILER

Alta Real Pictures is busy putting the finishing touches on the APF3 concert film, featuring some of the best performances from the 2010 festival. The Pirate Studio captured audio of the entire festival on their HD live rig and are mixing the recordings for this DVD release and it sounds KILLER. A limited edition vinyl LP will also be available to accompany the film. All of these items and digital audio will be available for purchase in Winter 2010.

Check out the Austin Psych Fest 3 trailer on director Oswald James’ Vimeo page.


HALLOWEEN AT THE MOHAWK – SATURDAY OCT 30th

The Reverberation Appreciation Society and Laced with Romance vintage are hosting a Halloween rock and roll costume party at The Mohawk, doubling as the APF3 screening party and a launch party for Laced with Romance’s new online store. Wear your costume, we’re gonna get crazy! Here’s what’s going down:

The night starts early with the premiere screening of Austin Psych Fest 3 by Alta Real Pictures at 7:00, followed by live music on two stages from…

The Wooden Shjips (San Francisco, California) myspace
The Growlers (Costa Mesa, California) myspace
Mondo Drag (Davenport, Iowa) myspace
Rayon Beach (Austin, Texas) myspace

DJ MARKUS – spinning the finest vintage grooves from the past and present all night.

Costume contest MC’d by KUT’s Laurie Gallardo. Contest prizes include $500 in gift certificates to Laced with Romance, 2 weekend passes for Fun Fun Fun Fest, 2 VIP passes to Austin Psych Fest 4, vouchers for free pizza from Hoboken Pies, haircuts from Bird’s Barbershop and much more.

All that plus vintage clothing, jewelry and artwork for sale from Laced with Romance, Big Rig, Rima Hyena Jewelry, Via Christa Chains and Rachel Staggs Photography.

The evening will also bring a Halloween photo booth (with props for people who “forgot” their costume), palm reading, art installations by M. Lawrence Mcoy and Art Power Collective, visuals to enhance your musical experience, drink specials and some surprises in the works.

10.00 tickets are on sale right now on austinpsychfest.com. Tickets will be $13.00 at the door

Brought to you by The Reverberation Appreciation Society, Laced With Romance, Bleach Online, Bird’s Barbershop, Hoboken Pie, The Pirate Studio and the Art Power Collective.


CHRISTIAN BLAND AND THE REVELATORS – THE LOST ALBUM

If you haven’t checked out Christian Bland’s (lead guitarist for The Black Angels) new album with his side project you’re missing out. The limited edition vinyl is available on austinpsychfest.com, click here for a free download of “I See You”.

The Reverberation Appreciation Society is proud to present Christian Bland and The Revelators – The Lost Album

Limited edition of 333 numbered 120 gram vinyl LPs, with packaging designed and printed by Christian Bland. Includes a screen printed poster insert also designed, signed and numbered by Christian.

Ships Oct 1st. Comes with a 320 KBPS, .AIFF or WAV digital album download.

That’s it for now friends. Thank you for your support.

THE REVERBERATION APPRECIATION SOCIETY

austinpsychfest.com

HALLOWEEN AT THE MOHAWK – Saturday – Oct 30th, 2010

AUSTIN PSYCH FEST 4 – April 29 – May 1, 2011

A Poem from Dennis Mahagin


Spill
by Dennis Mahagin

In my sweetest dream,
you are tattooing my trussed white ass
as flour-dusted pizza dough on a heart-shaped cutting board,
while your twin sister stands under the birthday pinata pony
lactating Milk Duds, Red Hots and Candy Corn—
the pony, lactating, that is, not your
sister, and then you softly whisper:

Aren’t you forgetting something mister?
 —pushing a bolus button at the base of my testicles
like a toaster lever, ‘till that prodigious penis it

pops right up,
and Sis is able to toss her lime green hula hoop
as a horseshoe bulls eye smack dab on the pulsating
purple head, while clapping out the funky rhythm
for the first verse of “Mickey” the cheerleader song.

I’ve told you already
about the eye patch and permanent
palm prints on my pasty forehead, that came from playing
Patty Cake and Rock-Paper-Scissors with a paranoid
schizophrenic Three Stooges fan in Washington Park;

I let you know about our previous life together
as Appalachian flower children riding astral planes
made from my magic carpet tongue sparks
flogging your flint rock nipples.

I’ve given you the password to my heart
in all its anagrammatic permutations; but you seem
to insist this is nothing but a start; so herewith, at
last comes the story of my first puppy—
an Airedale named Chipper

who could jump
five feet into the air
to kiss my cheek, and then spin
and spin, like Brian Boitano,
all the way back down
to the ground.

This Sat, SF 130pm: FRISCO FREAKOUT – all ages, $15

From http://www.friscofreakout.com:

FRISCO FREAKOUT 2010 LINEUP: HOWLIN RAIN, SIC ALPS, GREG ASHLEY, WOODEN SHJIPS, CARLTON MELTON, ASSEMBLE HEAD in SUNBURST SOUND, WHITE MANNA, STRANGERS FAMILY BAND, JEFFERTITTI’S NILE, MASS AT DAWN, YOUNG PRISMS, and GLITTER WIZARD

DJs STEPHAN DONOVAN (STRANGE ENLIGHTENMENTS), JANTINE B (KUSF), DARRAGH SKELTON (ELECTRIC STEW), DUKE OF WINDSOR, and ADAM FURTADO (REGION OF INSANITY)

Our Secret Serpents-curated art gallery will feature work from Alan Forbes, David D’Andrea, Stacie Willoughby, and Marq Spusta — and select artists from our beneficiary, Creativity Explored. Frisco Freakout 2010 will be on Saturday, October 16, 2010, at Thee Parkside in San Francisco. Tickets $15. Doors 1:30 pm.

All Ages! All Day!

DMTV: The Unclothed Man in the 35th Century A.D. – Oct. 13, Holocene

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KLxFegbyWwQ

The Unclothed Man in the 35th Century A.D (2009) – This original animated web series is based on graphic novelist and comic book artist Dash Shaw’s latest book of the same title. In the future, a man pretends to be a droid model so hea can pose nude for academic figure drawing. Shaw’s animation has been widely praised for its eclectic style, innovative design and emotional depth.

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"Paws" by Pete Toms

Pete Toms is back with part 2 of PAWS, which he describes as a horror comic about watching TV.

The comic is essentially a horror comic about a guy that only experiences the outside world through television trying to sell an autobiographical screenplay. It has all the same themes as my other comics, how people choose identity roles, the media’s effect on memory, how we mythologize our personalities, but this one has a lot more dogs and possibly werewolves, and jokes about how creepy sitcom laugh-tracks are.

I’m doing the same stuff as always, drawing at night, using my natural jazz dancing ability to put my kids through college during the day.

Here’s a great interview Pete did with Escape from Suicide Wolf Forest where he shares the harrowing details of joining a street gang at age 8.

DMTV: "Apeiron" – Oct. 13th at Holocene, PDX

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dGxZ4K-J5YE

Apeiron (1996) – Eurico Coelho depicts a modern technological labyrinth where society has surrendered to the cold lamps of their computer screens. The entirety of this ten minute film was animated on a Commodore Amiga 4000, giving the film a completely fresh aesthetic that has outlived the technology with which it was created.

Floating World Animation Fest returns with a new name and trippier mission. We’ve dug even deeper into the vaults of psychedelic animation to curate a heroic dose of visionary video art for this year’s animation fest.

For our fourth annual animation fest it was time to focus on what we liked best from previous shows and continue to seek out films that really embrace the infinite mysteries that resonate with us. The result is DMTV, a program that goes further into experimental realms of video art and abstract visuals.

Rounding out the evening are two of my favorite local bands, Atole and Nice Nice who will perform with live visuals mixed by e*Rock.

LISTING INFORMATION:

WHO: Atole, Nice Nice; films by: Barry Doupe, Michael Robinson, James Mercer, Eurico Coelho, Jacob Ciocci, Milton Croissant, David O’Reilly, Dash Shaw, Dalibor Baric, Kihachiro Kawamoto, Max Hattler, Jesus Rivera, Max Capacity and more!

WHAT: FWC’s 4th annual animation fest & live music by Atole, Nice Nice

WHEN: Wednesday, October 13th, 8pm – 1am

WHERE: Holocene, 1001 SE Morrison St.

COST: $7 at door, $5 advance tickets at Floating World, 21+

DMTV trailer – Floating World Animation Fest, Holocene, Oct. 13th 2010 from Floating World Comics on Vimeo.

Oct. 8 Autonomedia Jubilee Saint – Jacques Derrida


OCTOBER 8 — JACQUES DERRIDA
French Deconstruction theorist, human-rights activist.

ALSO ON OCTOBER 8 IN HISTORY…
1820 — Haitian despot Henri Christophe, former slave, shoots himself.
1871 — Mrs. O’Leary’s cow kicks over a lantern, igniting the great Chicago Fire.
1933 — “Sanctuary” movement founder James Corbett born, Casper, Wyoming.
1967 — Revolutionist Ernesto “Che” Guevara dies, Bolivian highlands.
1969 — Haymarket police statue bombed again, Chicago, Illinois.
2004 — Philosopher, deconstruction-theorist Jacques Derrida dies, Paris, France.

Excerpted from The 2009 Autonomedia Calendar of Jubilee Saints: Radical Heroes for the New Millennium by James Koehnline and the Autonomedia Collective