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Learn to "neutralize bureaucracy," etc at Werner Herzog's $1450/weekend Rogue Film School seminar

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From http://www.roguefilmschool.com/about.asp:

1. The Rogue Film School will be in the form of weekend seminars held by Werner Herzog in person at varying locations and at infrequent intervals.

2. The number of participants will be limited.

3. Locations and dates will be announced on this website and Werner Herzog’s website: http://www.wernerherzog.com approximately 12 weeks in advance.

4. The Rogue Film School will not teach anything technical related to film-making. For this purpose, please enroll at your local film school.

5. The Rogue Film School is about a way of life. It is about a climate, the excitement that makes film possible. It will be about poetry, films, music, images, literature.

6. The focus of the seminars will be a dialogue with Werner Herzog, in which the participants will have their voice with their projects, their questions, their aspirations.

7. Excerpts of films will be discussed, which could include your submitted films; they may be shown and discussed as well. Depending on the materials, the attention will revolve around essential questions: how does music function in film? How do you narrate a story? (This will certainly depart from the brainless teachings of three-act-screenplays). How do you sensitize an audience? How is space created and understood by an audience? How do you produce and edit a film? How do you create illumination and an ecstasy of truth?

8. Related, but more practical subjects, will be the art of lockpicking. Traveling on foot. The exhilaration of being shot at unsuccessfully. The athletic side of filmmaking. The creation of your own shooting permits. The neutralization of bureaucracy. Guerrilla tactics.Self reliance.

9. Censorship will be enforced. There will be no talk of shamans, of yoga classes, nutritional values, herbal teas, discovering your Boundaries, and Inner Growth.

10. Related, but more reflective, will be a reading list: if possible, read Virgil’s “Georgics”, read “Hemingway’s “The short happy life of Francis Macomber”, The Poetic Edda, translated by Lee M. Hollander (in particular the Prophecy of the Seeress), Bernal Diaz del Castillo “True History of the Conquest of New Spain”.

11. Follow your vision. Form secretive Rogue Cells everywhere. At the same time, be not afraid of solitude.

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At the end of the seminar, each participant will receive a certificate of participation and a signed copy of Werner Herzog’s “Conquest of the Useless”.

Thursday night – Skeletons at ZEBULON in Brooklyn, NY

Skeletons “Ripper aka The Pillows” Live from Skeletons, Inc. on Vimeo.

Skeletons play music that doesn’t fit into its own skin – it is tapping into something out of this time, place, solar system, galaxy. Tomorrow is their last performance before a European tour, with a live light show by Ivy Meadows.

Thursday, October 15th, 9PM
Zebulon
258 Wythe Ave. / Brooklyn, NY 11211
Free as always.

Today's Autonomedia Saint — Violeta Parra

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OCTOBER 14 — VIOLETA PARRA
Great Chilean folk singer, cultural rebel, suicide.

OCTOBER 14, 2009 HOLIDAYS AND FESTIVALS
Yorkshire, England: BLESSING THE FISH HARVEST.

ALSO ON OCTOBER 14 IN HISTORY…
1859 — Direct Action anarchist bandit Ravachol born, Saint Chamond, France.
1894 — Poet e.e. cummings born, Cambridge, Massachusetts.
1917 — Chilean folk singer, culture hero Violeta Parra born, San Carlos, Ñuble.
1964 — Civil rights leader Martin Luther King, Jr. awarded Nobel Peace Prize.
1982 — Direct Action blows up Litton Systems plant in Toronto, Canada.
1991 — Burmese opposition figure Aung San Suu Kyi wins Nobel Peace Prize.

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

NEW SLOW, MASSIVE, HEAVY METAL

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Shrinebuilder’s “Pyramid of the Moon” (7 minutes, 35 seconds) has been posted on Shrinebuilder’s myspace page

SHRINEBUILDER is:
Al Cisneros (Sleep, Om)
Wino (St. Vitus, The Obsessed, Spirit Caravan, The Hidden Hand)
Scott Kelly (Neurosis)
Dale Crover (Melvins)

Note: Al Cisneros’ 2009 Arthur CD “Transmissions From Sinai” is now available from the Arthur Store for $12US postpaid. Also, a few copies of Arthur No. 9, which featured Wino on the cover, are still available from the Arthur Store as well.

"Fire In My Bones" preview No. 3 of 3: "Storm Thru Mississippi" by Henry Green (1951)

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Stream: [audio:http://www.arthurmag.com/magpie/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/03-Storm-Thru-Mississippi.mp3%5D

Download: “Storm Thru Mississippi” – Henry Green (1951) (mp3)

Here is the second of three songs we’re presenting this week from the forthcoming, eagerly awaited Fire In My Bones: Raw, Rare & Otherworldly African-American Gospel, 1944-2007, a stunning 80-song, triple-CD set compiled by Mike McGonigal of Yeti Magazine fame. Most of the songs on Fire are sourced from independent regional labels, and almost none have ever been widely available. These are some genuine lost treasures of American devotional music, folks. Mike has done some serious collecting, culling, and sequencing on this set, and we’re all the lucky beneficiaries.

Henry Green’s “Storm Thru Mississippi” is from the set’s opening disk, “The Wicked Shall Cease from Troubling.” From the liner notes: “[‘Storm’] was issued as a single on realtor Steve Chandler’s Chicago-based Chance label. The song, subtitled ‘Storm Thru Tupelo,’ might be about the devastating 1930s flood described in John Lee Hooker’s ‘Tupelo.’ Regardless, it’s one of many gospel songs which make an Old Testament styled interpretation of contemporary ‘extreme weather’ events.”

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Fire In My Bones: Raw, Rare & Otherworldly African-American Gospel, 1944-2007 is being released on October 27, 2009 by the good people of Tompkins Square Records of New York City. You can pre-order now from Amazon.

Previously:
“How Long” by Sister Ola Mae Terrell (1948)
“Don’t Let Him Ride” by the Mississippi Nightingales (1971)

"Google 'broccoli casserole' and make the first recipe you find. I guarantee it will be disappointing."

WHAT WE ARE LOSING: Part 55 (maybe) in an occasional series…

A recent thinkpiece from Cook’s Illustrated magazine publisher Chris Kimball at the New York Times:

“…The shuttering of Gourmet reminds us that in a click-or-die advertising marketplace, one ruled by a million instant pundits, where an anonymous Twitter comment might be seen to pack more resonance and useful content than an article that reflects a lifetime of experience, xperts are not created from the top down but from the bottom up. They can no longer be coronated; their voices have to be deemed essential to the lives of their customers. That leaves, I think, little room for the thoughtful, considered editorial with which Gourmet delighted its readers for almost seven decades.

“To survive, those of us who believe that inexperience rarely leads to wisdom need to swim against the tide, better define our brands, prove our worth, ask to be paid for what we do, and refuse to climb aboard this ship of fools, the one where everyone has an equal voice. Google ‘broccoli casserole’ and make the first recipe you find. I guarantee it will be disappointing. The world needs fewer opinions and more thoughtful expertise — the kind that comes from real experience, the hard-won blood-on-the-floor kind. I like my reporters, my pilots, my pundits, my doctors, my teachers and my cooking instructors to have graduated from the school of hard knocks.”

TODAY— Sat, Oct. 10, 2pm-2am: FRISCO FREAKOUT! – ALL AGES, ALL MINDS, ALL DAY

… A HEAVY LODE ELECTRONIC TRANSMISSION …
… FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE … OCTOBER 5, 2009 …

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Remember … The Second Annual Frisco Freakout Psychedelic Dance Party is THIS SATURDAY, OCTOBER 10, 2009, 2 to 2 at Thee Parkside in San Francisco …

THEE SCHEDULE:

DOORS OPEN AT 1:30PM!

12:30AM LIQUORBALL
11:15PM MAGIC LANTERN
10PM ASSEMBLE HEAD IN SUNBURST SOUND
9PM CITAY
8PM BARN OWL
7PM SUN ARAW
6PM WOODEN SHJIPS
5PM LUMERIANS
4PM 3 LEAFS
3PM POWELL ST. JOHN & THE ALIENS
2:00PM HEAVY HILLS

Thee Parkside: 1600 17th St San Francisco, CA 94107
Tickets are only $15 and available now from thee venue
Proceeds go to Creativity Explored! http://www.creativityexplored.org

MORE INFLOW:
http://www.friscofreakout.com
http://www.myspace.com/friscofreakout
http://www.secretserpents.com

The official poster for this year’s Frisco Freakout is entirely hand drawn and inked by the legendary Alan Forbes.

Forbes and Secret Serpents are working with Monolith Press to hand-silkscreen a limited run of this mindwarping poster in a large format, hand-numbered and signed by the artist, which we will have available at the festival.

HEAVY LODE is also proud to present “FRISCO FREAKOUT 10-11-08” – a LIVE compilation of the best of the First Annual Frisco Freakout Psychedelic Dance Party – featuring all your favorites from those golden days of your misspent youth: Earthless, Wooden Shjips, Assemble Head in Sunburst Sound, Crystal Antlers, Greg Ashley, The Bad Trips, Art Lessing & The Flower Vato, Sequin Trails, and Ascended Master – 60 minutes of the First Annual Frisco Freakout LIVE on limited edition bootleg cassette. Also available at this year’s festival.

The Frisco Freakout is brought to you by the letter F … and by the good people at the following fine establishments:

KUSF-FM http://www.kusf.org
ARTHUR MAGAZINE http://www.arthurmag.com
AQUARIUS RECORDS http://www.aquariusrecords.org

in conjunction with
HEAVY LODE