there’s been a lot of black flag video uploaded in the last year. many of these clips are mislabeled or undated. my information is corrected as best as possible given spot hasn’t written his book yet:
keith/greg/chuck/migdol, I Don’t Care, probably Wurm-hole, hermosa bch, Dec. 1977…
keith/greg/chuck/robo, White Minority, polliwog park, manhattan bch, July 22, 1979…
The Cairo Museum features a display case filled with ancient statues of brewers like this one, titled "Woman brewing and straining beer."
Beer was the every day food-beverage of royalty and common folk alike. To go without was considered a terrible impoverishment. According to J.H. Breasted, in Ancient Records of Egypt, Part Four, a Pharaoh named Tefnakhte was once forced to evade attackers for a prolonged period of time. Upon his eventual surrender, he described the hardships of his refuge: I have not sat in the beer-hall, nor has the harp been played for me; but I have eaten bread in hunger, and I have drunk water in thirst. The horror of it all.
The term 'beer-hall' was used interchangeably with the notion of a convivial get-together, a place, or an occasion for beer drinking.
Though it was drunk routinely for nourishment, beer was also a catalyst for exceptional banquets and good times. Entertainment during a beer-hall consisted of storytelling, music of flutes, oboes and harps, singing and recitation. Dancing and acrobatics were performed by scantily dressed young women. And according to an account in Ancient Wine, a book by Patrick McGovern, 'Dwarves were always popular,' as were wrestlers.
Herodotus, considered the world's first historian, described such a scene in his Histories II:
When they have finished eating, a man bears round a wooden figure of a dead body in a coffin, made as like the reality as may be both by painting and carving, and measuring about a cubit or two cubits each way; and this he shows to each of those who are drinking together, saying: "When thou lookest upon this, drink and be merry, for thou shalt be such as this when thou art dead." Thus they do at their carousals.
Ethan Miller (featured on Arthur No. 24 cover) writes:
INTERNATIONAL PSYCH WARRIORS, SAVAGE JAMS, BROKEN ROCK & BATTERED SOUL COMP! UP ON NEWLY UNLEASHED HOWLIN RAIN BLOG!
Hello Friends! I have got my blog up and running and it will serve you with music, Bootlegs and live material from Howlin Rain and beyond as well as pictures, rants, and general good dope. To prove that this blog is not simply some cracker ass bullshit about my feelings or the music industry or the price of gas I have cut right to the chase and posted a devastating International psych comp that was compiled for me by the legendary promoter/agent/business man/international psych scholar John Fitzgerald. One mind-crushing heavy jam after the next. You are sure to enjoy! I will continue to post Howlin Rain songs and complete live shows for download on the blog in the near future. visit: http://silvercurrant.blogspot.com/
Which independent/autonomous labels will be able to ramp up their digital sales quickly enough to ride out the effects of the accelerating retailer/distributor implosion? That is the real question now.
More info on the evolving disaster from Greg Kot at the Chicago Tribune, who has been doing the best reporting on this that I have seen. Read Kot’s latest here. Excerpts, and a bit more, after the jump. Continue reading →
Centre Culturel Tjibaou (Jean Marie Tjibaou Cultural Center)
Rue des Accords de Matignon, Tina, BP 378
98845 Noumea
New Caledonia
Renzo Piano Building Workshop 1998
The Centre Culturel Tjibaou, dedicated to Jean-Marie Tjibaou who died in 1989 while leading the fight for his country’s autonomy from the French government, is devoted to the cultural origins and search for identity of the native Kanak people of New Caledonia and the South Pacific. In the native tongue of Jean-Marie Tjibaou, pije language, it is also known as Ngan Jila – meaning cultural center.
The Center itself is similar to that of the villages in which the Kanak tribes live; a series of huts (or case in French) which distinguish the different functions and hierarchies of the tribes (les tribus) and a central alley along which the huts are dispersed. More specifically, the Cultural Center is composed of three ‘villages’ made up of ten ‘Great Houses’ of varying sizes and functions (exhibition spaces, multimedia library, cafeteria, conference and lecture rooms). The ‘Great Houses’ are linked by a long, gently curving enclosed walkway, reminiscent of the ceremonial alley of the traditional Kanak village…
Chicago indie powerhouse Touch and Go cuts distribution service, staff
Touch and Go Records, a pillar of the Chicago music scene and independent music worldwide, announced Wednesday that it is drastically shrinking its business, cutting ties with 20 independent labels and laying off an unspecified number of employees.
“The current state of the economy has reached the point where we can no longer afford” to provide manufacturing and distribution services for the labels, including stalwarts such as Chicago-based Drag City, All Natural, Overcoat. Flameshovel and Atavistic Records; Merge in North Carolina,; and Kill Rock Stars in the Pacific Northwest, said Touch and Go founder Corey Rusk.
The move could drastically hamper the ability of these labels to get their new releases into retail outlets in a timely manner, and could affect their ability to stay solvent during the current economic downturn.
Touch and Go will continue to operate as a label; it has released more than 400 records in the last 28 years including more than 100 on its Quarterstick subsidiary. But the decision to cut distribution will force Rusk to shrink his staff of about 25 people. He would not give specifics in a phone interview Wednesday, but said the decision was “painful for everybody involved.” Several employees reported being “blindsided” by the announcement.
In the last Depression, neighborhoods routinedly banded together to physically resist landlords, banks and their tools (police or hired thugs) from carrying out evictions on anyone on the block. Yesterday the NYTimes reported on efforts by Acorn and others (including the brave ‘n’ bright Rep. Marcy Kaptur of Ohio, who you can watch in the clip above, given a full fucking right on four-minute speech on the House floor) to organize resistance to foreclosure evictions on homesteaders, using 21c tools.
Keep in mind that many of the evictions that are happening now, and are likely to keep on happening, are on foreclosures of questionable legality; the entity doing the eviction often doesn’t have the paperwork in legal order because the mortgages have been sold and re-sold and packaged so many times in the market that it is difficult to figure who owns what, and what its value is. Or so I’m told.)
The New York Times – February 18, 2009
Effort Takes Shape to Support Families Facing Foreclosure
By FERNANDA SANTOS
As resistance to foreclosure evictions grows among homeowners, community leaders and some law enforcement officials, a broad civil disobedience campaign is starting in New York and other cities to support families who refuse orders to vacate their homes.
The community organizing group Acorn unveiled the campaign with a spirited rally on Friday at a Brooklyn church and will roll it out in at least 22 other cities in the coming weeks. Through phone trees, Web pages and text-messaging networks, the effort will connect families facing eviction with volunteers who will stand at their side as officers arrive, even if it means risking arrest. Continue reading →
Williamsburg’s resident former-Italian bakery, now-comic and artists’ book store Desert Island is hosting a free opening for “I Saw You: Comics Inspired by Real-Life Missed Connections” edited by Julia Wertz as well as comic books by over a dozen other cartoonists including Gabrielle Bell, Sam Henderson and Neil Swaab. On top of this, enjoy perusing the treasure trove of comics, zines, silkscreened artwork, and other bounty regularly available in the store for you to drool over.
Date & Time: Friday, February 20th, 7-9PM
Venue: DESERT ISLAND (BROOKLYN)
Location: 540 Metropolitan Ave / Brooklyn, NY 11211
Price: Free
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