Today's Autonomedia Jubilee Saint – THEODOR ADORNO


SEPTEMBER 11 — THEODOR ADORNO
Frankfurt School theoretician, negative dialectician.

SEPTEMBER 11, 2009 HOLIDAYS AND FESTIVALS
ENKUTATASH, ETHIOPIAN NEW YEAR, 1999. Diocletian New Year, 1722.
Hungary: HARVEST FESTIVAL. WRENCH IN THE WORKS DAY.

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ALSO ON SEPTEMBER 11 IN HISTORY…
1836 — Hashish-eater dropout Fitz Hugh Ludlow born, Hartford, Connecticut.
1885 — British novelist D. H. Lawrence born, Eastwood, Nottinghamshire.
1903 — Frankfurt Schooler Theodor Adorno born, Frankfurt am Main, Germany.
1976 — New York City cop killed defusing bomb set by Croatian Freedom Fighters.
2001 — Terrorist attacks on New York City and Pentagon leave 3000 dead,
leading to so-called “War on Terror,” a putatively endless campaign.

Today's Autonomedia Jubilee Saint – STEPHEN J. GOULD


SEPTEMBER 10 — STEPHEN JAY GOULD
American Marxist paleontologist, writer,
theorist of “punctuated equilibrium” evolution.

SEPTEMBER 10, 2009 HOLIDAYS AND FESTIVALS
Old Japan: FESTIVAL OF THE POETS.

ALSO ON SEPTEMBER 10 IN HISTORY…
1676 — British Digger leader Gerrard Winstanley dies, London, England.
1797 — Anarchist, feminist Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin dies, London, England.
1895 — Melville Herskovits, pioneer of African-American studies, born.
1897 — French critic, philosopher Georges Bataille born, Billom, Puy-de-Dôme.
1901 — Emma Goldman arrested in alleged link to McKinley assassin.
1928 —Extraordinary folksinger Yma Sumac born, Ichocan, Peru.
1941 — American Marxist paleontologist Stephen Jay Gould born, New York City.

'44 PRESIDENTS' by MZA & Maria Sputnik

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Forty Four Presidents by MZA & Maria Sputnik.  Available in hardcover from Garrett County Press.

A brief illustrated history of the U.S. presidency told by the presidents themselves in the style favored by modern social networking web sites, Forty Four Presidents imagines 220 years of presidential succession pancaked into a single moment — documented simultaneously by each commander-in-chief in status updates designed for easy consumption by their Facebook friends. Each status update is accompanied by a jaunty, high-contrast profile picture intended to reflect something of the essential personality (and hotness) of the president.

'GWC' pt. 1 by Jesse Moynihan

Jesse Moynihan self published 2 books in 2005, and ran a strip in the Philadelphia Weekly for a year and 1/2.  He’s been featured in Meathaus and Canicola anthologies.  This year, Bodega put out a larger volume of his work called Follow Me.  Vice Magazine said about it:  “Basically this comic is a vision into hell. I can’t think about it anymore, it’s given me nightmares.”

Meanwhile Jesse has been plugging away every Thursday on his webcomic, Forming, which is a sprawling account of human origins, transgender aliens, and ripped gods.

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"The rich get richer, the poor are getting poorer… ka bOOM, KA BOOM, KA BOOM!!!" (Time Zone featuring Afrika Bambaataa and John Lydon, 1984)

“World Destruction” by Time Zone

Afrika Bambaataa: vocals
John Lydon: vocals
Bernie Worrell: organ
Nicky Skopelitis: guitar
Aiyb Dieng: drums
Bill Laswell: bass, production

Truly one of the greatest videos ever made, for one of the most visionary songs of the time… it still singes!

Video link courtesy Peter Vogl!

Lost, live TIM BUCKLEY: "I Can't Leave You Loving Me" (March 6, 1967)

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Stream: [audio:http://www.arthurmag.com/magpie/wp-content/uploads/2009/09/16-I-Cant-Leave-You-Loving-Me.mp3%5D

Download: “I Can’t Leave You Loving Me” – Tim Buckley (live, NYC, March 6, 1967) (mp3)

Here’s a live, stunning blister-on-the-fingers rendition of a previously unreleased Tim Buckley composition (or is it an adaptation of a traditional song? info please…), one of six such apparently abandoned tunes available for the first time ever on Live At The Folklore Center, NYC, March 6th, 1967 released a coupla weeks ago via the good folk at Tompkins Square Records of New York City. Who woulda thunk in 2009 that there was still some unreleased Buckley lurking in the archives? We are blessed…

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'44 PRESIDENTS' by MZA & Maria Sputnik

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Forty Four Presidents by MZA & Maria Sputnik.  Available in hardcover from Garrett County Press.

A brief illustrated history of the U.S. presidency told by the presidents themselves in the style favored by modern social networking web sites, Forty Four Presidents imagines 220 years of presidential succession pancaked into a single moment — documented simultaneously by each commander-in-chief in status updates designed for easy consumption by their Facebook friends. Each status update is accompanied by a jaunty, high-contrast profile picture intended to reflect something of the essential personality (and hotness) of the president.

Today's Autonomedia Jubilee Saint – PAUL GOODMAN


SEPTEMBER 9 — PAUL GOODMAN
Prolific anarchist critic, novelist, man of letters.

SEPTEMBER 9, 2009 HOLIDAYS AND FESTIVALS
Geneva, Switzerland: FLOWER AND GARDEN FESTIVAL.

ALSO ON SEPTEMBER 9 IN HISTORY…
1828 — Christian anarchist writer Leo Tolstoy born, Yasnay Polyana, Russia.
1869 — Anarchist, Haymarket martyr Louis Lingg born, Mannheim, Germany.
1898 —French symbolist poet Stéphane Mallarmé dies, Valvins, France.
1911 — Anarchist, alternativist writer Paul Goodman born, New York, New York.
1971 — Prisoner revolt at Attica Prison, New York, guards held hostage.
1981 — Plowshare 8 hammer 12 nose cones at GE plant, King of Prussia, PA.

New music premiere: "Waiting for the D Train" by Yoko Ono Plastic Ono Band

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Stream: [audio:http://www.arthurmag.com/magpie/wp-content/uploads/2009/09/01-Waiting-For-The-D-Train.mp3%5D

Wailing tough-funk first cut off Between My Head and the Sky, the new Yoko Ono Plastic Ono Band studio album out September 22, 2009 through Chimera Music of New York City.

Yoko Ono Plastic Ono Band is:

Yoko Ono: vocals
Sean Lennon: acoustic and electric guitars, piano, keyboards, bass, drums, percussion
Keigo “Cornelius” Oyamada: guitars, bass, Tenorion, programming, percussion
Hirotaka “Shimmy” Shimizu: guitars, percussion
Yuko “mi-gu” Araki: drums, percussion
Shahzad Ismaily: guitars, bass, drums, percussion
Yuka Honda: Pro-tools editing, sampler, e. piano, organ, percussion
Michael Leonhart: trumpet, vibraphone, percussion
Erik Friedlander: cello
Daniel Carter: tenor saxophone, flute
Indigo Street: guitar

Yoko Ono Plastic Ono Band official website: http://www.YOPOB.com

Yoko headlined the second night of ArthurFest in 2005, and was interviewed at length by Arthur “Bull Tongue” columnists Byron Coley & Thurston Moore (and photographed by Eden Batki) in Arthur No. 26 (Sep 2007). (Read the whole article here.)

Also! Yoko does a great wisdom-flow on Twitter: twitter.com/yokoono

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