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"Earth: Too Big to Fail?" by Rebecca Solnit
From TomDispatch.com:
Terminator 2009
Judgment Days in Copenhagen
By Rebecca SolnitFor Isaac Francisco Solnit, born December 17, 2009
It’s clear now that, from her immovable titanium bangs to her chaotic approximation of human speech, Sarah Palin is a Terminator cyborg sent from the future to destroy something — but what? It could be the Republican Party she’ll ravage by herding the fundamentalists and extremists into a place where sane fiscal conservatives and swing voters can’t follow. Or maybe she was sent to destroy civilization at this crucial moment by preaching the gospel of climate-change denial, abetted by tools like the Washington Post, which ran a factually outrageous editorial by her on the subject earlier this month. No one (even her, undoubtedly) knows, but we do know that this month we all hover on the brink.
I’ve had the great Hollywood epic Terminator 2: Judgment Day on my mind ever since I watched it in a hotel room in New Orleans a few weeks ago with the Superdome visible out the window. In 1991, at the time of its release, T2 was supposedly about a terrible future; now, it seems situated in an oddly comfortable past…
Today, 4-7pm, Hollywood: LA Ladies Choir leads free-admission benefit for Children of the Night at Space 15 twenty
LA LADIES CHOIR
presents
TAKE MY TREASURES
all proceeds go to
Children of the Night
4-7pm Saturday December 19
Space15 twenty
1520 Cahuenga Blvd
90028
featuring
SILENT AUCTION: Donated treasures, from Flea’s bass guitar with his original drawings, Bauhaus, Tom Petty, Kevin Willis, Lauren Dukoss, Jess Holzworth, Kime Buzzelli, Alia Penner, Will Lemon III, Billy Idol, Lucky Dragons, original sketches from Where the Wild Things Are film and more to be announced
RAFFLE: Family Bookstore, Amoeba Music, Miranda July, Atherton Lin, Annakim, Dallas Clayton, Manimal Records, Elf Cafe, City Sip Wine Shop, Acupuncture by Leona Marrs, Bedford Falls, Miss KK, Warner Bros. boxsets and dresses from LA Ladies Choir
Plus Baked goods (by Mooi, Trails Cafe, Kevin and Daisy Mae) and a Polaroid Santa Booth!!!!
With DJ Will Lemon III and Ana Alderon
And the LA Ladies Choir performing Christmas Carols!
Poster by Alia Penner
Children of the Night is a private, non-profit, tax-exempt organization founded in 1979. They are dedicated to assisting children between the ages of 11 and 17 who are forced to prostitute on the streets for food to eat and a place to sleep. Since 1979 they have rescued girls and boys from prostitution and the domination of vicious pimps. And they provide all programs with the support of private donations.
More info here: childrenofthenight.org
Map For An Other LA
The Llano Del Rio working group’s “Map For An Other LA” (pictured above) is now available free.
The full-color, two-sided map sites and describes locations that support, dream, act and aid in the creation of an other Los Angeles. Beekeepers, greywater operators, hacker spaces, cooperatives, collectives, art spaces, radical places, gardens, swimming holes, cooking collectives, think tanks etc….
Two ways to get the map:
1) If you live in LA County simply email us your postal address and we’ll drop one in the mail for you free (till postage $ runs out)
Contact llanodelrio(at)gmail.com
2) Maps have been delivered to the following and ever-expanding distribution nodes. Pick up a copy or two at these locations around town:
Machine Project
Farmlab
TOW
Bicycle Kitchen
Bike Oven
Echo Park Film Center
Sea and Space
Materials and Applications
Barf Space
We’ll be expanding our distribution universe (to the valley and Westside especially) so keep an eye out.
The Diggers Papers No. 34: "DIGGERS WELCOME"
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About these documents:
Pretty self-explanatory.
Previously posted Diggers Papers:
http://www.arthurmag.com/contributors/diggers
About this series:
Arthur Magazine is proud to present scans of essential documents produced by and about the San Francisco Diggers, who were in many ways the epicentral actors in the Haight-Ashbury during the epic, wildly imaginative period from late ’66 through ’67. The Diggers’ ideas and activities are essential counter-cultural history, sure, but they are also especially relevant to the current era, for reasons that should be obvious to the gentle Arthur reader.
Most of the documents that we are presenting are broadsides originally published on a Gestetner machine owned and operated in the Haight by the novelist/poet Chester Anderson and his protege/sidekick Claude Hayward, who used the name “Communication Company,” or more commonly, “Com/Co.” According to Claude, these broadsides were then “handed out on the street, page by page, super hot media, because the reader trusted the source, which was another freaky looking hippie who had handed it to him/her.”
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The Diggers Papers No. 33: "WHAT IS THE DIGGERS?"
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About this document:
Pretty self-explanatory: “We come to Haight-Ashbury, where many of us gather together, to start a flow of love.”
Previously posted Diggers Papers:
http://www.arthurmag.com/contributors/diggers
About this series:
Arthur Magazine is proud to present scans of essential documents produced by and about the San Francisco Diggers, who were in many ways the epicentral actors in the Haight-Ashbury during the epic, wildly imaginative period from late ’66 through ’67. The Diggers’ ideas and activities are essential counter-cultural history, sure, but they are also especially relevant to the current era, for reasons that should be obvious to the gentle Arthur reader.
Most of the documents that we are presenting are broadsides originally published on a Gestetner machine owned and operated in the Haight by the novelist/poet Chester Anderson and his protege/sidekick Claude Hayward, who used the name “Communication Company,” or more commonly, “Com/Co.” According to Claude, these broadsides were then “handed out on the street, page by page, super hot media, because the reader trusted the source, which was another freaky looking hippie who had handed it to him/her.”
Donate
You can be a patron of this series by making a tax-deductible donation to Arthur Magazine via our fiscal sponsor, Fractured Atlas: info here
TONIGHT @ The Arm in Williamsburg – Brooklyn, NY – Screening of Two Films by John Cohen – 8pm
Hermitage Film Program No. 8
Featuring Two Films by John Cohen – Filmmaker in Person
Friday December 18th, 8pm at The ArmThe High Lonesome Sound -1963 30 min B&W
Songs of church-goers, miners, and farmers of eastern Kentucky express the joys and sorrows of life among the rural poor. This classic film evocatively illustrates how music and religion help Appalachians maintain their dignity and traditions in the face of change and hardship.
The End of an Old Song -1970 27 min B&W
Filmed in the mountains of North Carolina, this documentary revisits the region where English folklorist Cecil Sharp collected British ballads in the early 1900s. It contrasts the nature of the ballad singers with the presence of the juke box: although the lyrical tradition has changed, the singing style continues. Features Dillard Chandler, who sings with rare intensity and style.
Please join us Friday December 18th at The Arm, located at 281 N7th St. Between Havemeyer and Brooklyn. (www.thearmnyc.com)
$7 admission. John’s book “There is No Eye” will be available for sale, along with a select group of books from the shelves of hermitage.
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W5qGwhQl_B8
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Joann Sfar's SERGE GAINSBOURG biopic: trailer and excerpt
GAINSBOURG (VIE HEROIQUE) – Bande annonce sélectionné dans Bandes annonces
Featuring Éris Elmosnino (Serge Gainsbourg), Lucy Gordon (Jane Birkin), Laetitia Casta (Brigitte Bardot), Anna Mouglalis (Juliette Gréco), Sara Forestier (France Gall), Mylène Jampanoï (Bambou), Orphée Silard (Charlotte Gainsbourg), Lucile Vezier (Kate Barry), Claude Chabrol (as L’Editeur de Gainsbourg) and Kacey Mottet Klein as young Serge.
Joann Sfar is a pretty great French cartoonist/author. Some of his work has been translated into English. More info: http://www.firstsecondbooks.com/sfar.html
"YANTRA" (1957) and "LAPIS" (1966) by James Whitney
'MY FAVORITE THINGS' by Mark Delong
Mark DeLong is a self-taught artist working in sculpture, video, drawing and painting. He lives in Vancouver B.C., Canada. Sbooky Booky, his first monograph, includes most of the drawings, comics and paintings he’s made over the past few years.
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