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DAILY MAGPIE – Jan. 25 – Zebulon
What? ESP-disk is back in busy-ness, whoda thunkit, right? right. Enjoy a night of Bernard Stollman’s legendary precedent definings with intergenerational ahead-of-their-timers TOTEM>, Alan Sondheim, Okkyung Lee and Nate Wooley. Additional music by DJ Whistle Punk and your free cd. 21+
Date and Time: Sunday, Jan. 25th, 8PM
Venue: Zebulon
Address: 258 Wythe, Brooklyn
Directions: L to Bedford, J/M/Z to Marcy
Price: Free
The ESP-disk webbed home: http://espdisk.com/catalog/Front.html
MAGPIE DAILY – January 24 – Showpaper Benefit
Showpaper Benefit with Asa Ransom, Sigmund Droid, the Muggabears, and Nymph @ 92Y Tribeca, 8pm, $7-20 sliding-scale donation
The Showpaper has been covering all-ages shows in the NYC and tri-state area for almost two years and has turned into a huge success. It’s a simple formula, and a magnificent idea: a huge list of all-ages d.i.y. shows, absurdist horoscopes, a hipster-kid “I saw you” section and consistently rad artwork printed every two weeks and distributed to coffee shops/venues/etc. to keep your broke, (possibly underage?) ass in the loop.
But printing 10,000 copies without any advertising or other commercial support isn’t easy. Showpaper stays afloat because of volunteers, donations, and revenues made at the benefit shows that they throw every two weeks. Help the Showpaper help you by coming out to 92Y Tribeca and checking out Asa Ransom, Sigmund Droid, the Muggabears, and Nymph.
DAILY MAGPIE – January 24th – NOSTALGIA’S NO GOOD
L’KEG Gallery is a not-for-profit, volunteer run space that also supports and distributes records, crafts, zines and other local publications in the area. This time they’re showcasing many years of accumulated flier art, video footage and photography from L.A.-based projects and venues including legendary punk club The Smell as well as Sean Carnage, Videothing, Club Ding-a-Ling and many more. On top of this, you get to see Blue Jungle play live (think Magik Markers with an echo of The Cramps influence).
Date & Time: Saturday, January 24th – 8PM
Venue: L’KEG Gallery (LA.)
Location: 311 Glendale Boulevard / Los Angeles, CA 90026
Price: $5
Another Muskogee Riposte
“Okie From Muskogee,” as performed by the Grateful Dead and The Beach Boys, an alliance of long-haired hippies who are likely all taking trips on LSD. Perhaps wearing sandals, even. From their performance at the Fillmore East on April 27, 1971.
"Okie from Muskogee" by Merle Haggard? How bout "Hippie From Olema" by the Youngbloods
HIPPIE FROM OLEMA
Jessie Colin Young / Youngbloods
Well i’m proud to be a hippie from olema
Where we’re friendly to the squares and all the straights
We still take in strangers if they’re ragged
We can’t think of anyone to hate
We don’t watch commercials in olema
We don’t buy the plastic crap they sell
We still wear our hair long like folks used to
And we bathe often, therefore we don’t smell
Well i’m proud to be a hippie from olema
Where we’re friendly to the squares and all the straights
We still take in strangers if they’re ragged
We can’t think of anyone to hate
We don’t throw our beer cans on the highway
We don’t slide a man because he’s black
We don’t spill our oil out in the ocean
’Cause we love birds and fish too much for that
And i’m proud to be a hippie from olema
Where we’re friendly to the squares and all the straights
We still take in strangers if they’re Haggard
In Olema, california, planet earth
(thanks to Kevin of Currituck Co. for the tip!)
"Meanwhile, in reality…" HFS!!!: Jeff Lint's THE CATERER NO. 3 (excerpted in Arthur No. 17) reprinted in new edition!
Baffled? Perhaps the promo text for “The Caterer” No. 3 reprint, from Floating World Comics, the comic book’s publisher, will help:
Described by Alan Moore as “the holy barnacle of failure”, The Caterer dragged [former publisher] Pearl Comics into a legal hell when its hero spent the whole of Issue 9 on a killing spree in Disneyland. The smirking Jack Marsden became a cult figure and role model for enigmatic idiots in the mid-70s. His style and catchphrases were such an insider code that hundreds of people got beaten up by baffled or enraged onlookers.
Floating World Comics has teamed with Lint biographer Steve Aylett to present a reprint of Issue 3: this stand-out issue includes the beginning of Marsden’s goat obsession, a fierce appearance by the ghostly Hoston Pete, a great example of the Marsden ‘stillness’ and no less than four classic Marsden hallucinations. The leaning Chief Bayard’s preoccupation with our hero results in the violent deaths of six people, and Jack delivers his infamous ‘lipstick for dogs’ diatribe.
Grant Morrison's SEAGUY returns April 1
Promo copy from the publisher:
SEAGUY: THE SLAVES OF MICKEY EYE #1
Written by Grant Morrison
Art and cover by Cameron StewartIn Seaguy’s cartoon future world, everyone is a Super Hero and no one dies. It’s absolutely perfect…Or is it?
In this follow-up to the cult 2004 miniseries, Seaguy resurfaces with a sinister new partner, a hatred of the sea and a rebel restlessness he can’t explain. Why are Doc Hero and his ex-archenemy Silvan Niltoid, the Alien from Planet Earth, whispering strange equations? Why is Death so useless? And can that really be the ghost of Chubby Da Choona mumbling uncanny warnings and dire prophecies of ultimate catastrophe?
When the grotesque powers lurking behind the corporation known as Mickey Eye and the Happy Group attempt to erase Seaguy’s entire existence, can he possibly get it together in time to save a world so far gone it can’t even imagine the horror lying in wait? Find out here in Morrison’s own personal reframing of the Super Hero concept for the 21st century.
On sale April 1 • 1 of 3 • 40 pg, FC, $3.99 US
Grant Morrison discussed SEAGUY (and the proverbial ‘whole lot more’) in an epic, cover feature interview with Jay Babcock in Arthur No. 12…which featured a cover by SEAGUY illustrator/co-creator Cameron Stewart, that is now the frontpage for Grant’s own website.
Copies of Arthur No. 12 are available via mail order from the Arthur store.
Daily Magpie – Tonight at The Smell
It’s a cavalcade of long-form guitar wailing tonight — Tuesday January 20, 2009 — at The Smell in downtown Los Angeles as Fuck Yeah Fest presents the epic heaviness of dopesmoking intergalactic Viking war historians ANCESTORS alongside the equally sprawling winter beach party jams of the LBC’s MAGIC LANTERN*. You can read all about the Magic Lantern guys over at the LA Record, who of course have been down with their “uninterrupted jammage” for some time.
Headliners Crystal Antlers manage to convey their squealy-squally guitar messages in a shorter format, but they make up for brevity with a second drummer who stands up and pretty much only plays a snare. We’re not quite sure what Slang Chickens are up to, but according to their M’Space page they really like ZZ Top, which is maybe a good sign.
As is the custom at The Smell, anybody of any age is welcome, as long as they got $5. Things get going at 9pm.
*While we’re on the subject, we just wanna say that the side project from ML’s Cameron Stallones, Sun Araw, is truly on some other shit with its queasy New Age tropical dub meltdowns and y’all should not be sleeping on that 2008 Beach Head album.
DAILY MAGPIE – January 22 – THE ECHO (all ages!)
Come one come all to this ALL AGES show (hello teenagers!) and bask in the sunshine-y pre-summer feelings of HIGH PLACES with friends INFINITE BODY and HECUBA.
Date & Time: January 22nd, 2009 – 8PM
Venue: THE ECHO (L.A.)
Address: 1822 Sunset Blvd. / Los Angeles, CA 90026
Price: $8 in advance / $10 at the door
Go to http://www.attheecho.com for more info
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