FIREBALL OUTBURST

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From Space Weather News:

“FIREBALL OUTBURST: This morning, Sept. 9th, a surprising flurry of fireballs lit up the sky over eastern parts of the United States. All-sky cameras at the Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama, recorded 25+ meteors, most as bright as Jupiter or Venus. A preliminary analysis by NASA astronomers suggests this is an outburst of “September Perseids,” a little-known shower that has erupted this way three times in the past century. Although the show is almost certainly over, sky watchers are advised to be on the lookout for more fireballs tonight and in the nights ahead; the September Perseids are not well understood and they could surprise us again.

“Visit spaceweather.com for more information and updates to this developing story.”


Sunday poem: "The crooked inheritance" by Marge Piercy

The crooked inheritance

A short neck like my mother
long legs like my father
my grandmother’s cataract of hair
and my grandmother’s cataracts
my father’s glaucoma
my mother’s stout heart
my father’s quick temper
my mother’s curiosity
my father’s rationality
my mother’s fulsome breasts
my father’s narrow feet

Yet only my grandmother saw in me
a remembrance of children past
You have a good quick mind like Moishe.
Your grandfather zecher l’vrocho
had a gift for languages too.
Rivka also had weak eyes
and a delicate stomach.
You can run as fast as Feygeleh.
You know that means little bird?

I was a nest of fledglings chirping
hunger and a future of flight
to her, but to my parents,
the misshapen duckling
who failed to make flesh
their dreams of belonging:
a miraculous blond angel
who would do everything
right they had failed.
Instead they got a black
haired poet who ran away.

Marge Piercy


MERCURY REV music video festival…

“Chasing a Bee” (1991) …

“Something for Joey” (featuring Ron Jeremy [!?!]) (1993)…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yiwNhizdwT8&feature=related

“Bronx Cheer” (1993) …
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6JQ_oxYEQpA&feature=related

“Opus 40” …

“Goddess on a Highway”

“Nite and Fog” (totally kabbalistic!) …
http://audiotube.com/file/2095-mercury-rev-nite-and-fog.html

“The Dark Is Rising”…

“In a Funny Way”…


BLOCK PARTY AT MONSTER ISLAND

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Monster Island Block Party
Saturday September 6th, 2008
If it rains no worries, we’ll make it a building party..
No Matter what All-day 2 to 10pm

WE’RE SO EXCITED WE CAN’T SLEEP AT NIGHT! WE HOPE YOU CAN MAKE IT!!!!!!!
***Special Art Preview on Thursday September 4th from 8 to 10 pm
“We=Trouble: This is the best thing that ever happend”
&
“Symbiosis in Exotica”
One of the Stories of the beginingof Monster Island
Once upon a time from the sea of monster, rose an island surrounded by a pink jungle inhabitted by only a cat. Kitty lived there in peace until the mighty earth started to shake. From hence grew a state of pandemonium Monsters and Men arose from the sea and battled over caves, forrest, mountains and moon until soon they grew sleepy from heavy armour and too much beer. They slept for centuries and awoke to a beatiful building painted by stars and mermaids… From this time they have lived harmoniously and divided the land into equal parts calling them Kayrock Screenprinting, LiveWith Animals, Secret Project Robot, The O-Cropolis, Todd P. NYC, And Mollusk the Surf Shop. They were so happy that they began inviting their friends in once a year, in September, for a big party!
SCHEDULE: FROM THE MOUNTAINS TO THE FORREST TO THE CAVES TO THE STREET!

Times are real Times
2pm Red Dawn II
2:30 Trilateral Commission
3 Gimmie Five
3:30 Psychothriller
4 Raul De Nieves (art Performance)
5:30 Oneida
6:30 Surprise Band…
7:30 Micki Pellorano (art Performance)
8 Ex Models

Golden Triangle inside or out depending on the time

9:30ishpm Oneida Records new Record Downstairs in Their Studio (limited to 20 tickets…first come first serve)

DJ’s Throughout the day

Inside at Live With Animals: The K-Holes and Temptation (throughout the day)

Downstairs in the caves -Todd P. NYC sound studios- musicians play in their studios all day…

2 art openings- In Live With Animals “Symbiosis in Exotica” and in Secret Project Robot “We=Trouble: this is the best thing that ever happend”

BBQ by Mollusk Surf Shop