Today's Autonomedia Jubilee Saint — ROBERTO BOLANO

April 28 — Roberto Bolaño
Chilean novelist, nomad, cultural iconoclast.

APRIL 28, 2009 HOLIDAYS AND FESTIVALS
*Charles, Louisiana: Contraband Days Pirate Festival honors Lafitte.

ALSO ON APRIL 28 IN HISTORY…

1192 — Hashshashin assassinate Conrad of Montferrat, King of Jerusalem.
1789 — Mutiny breaks out aboard British ship H.M.S. Bounty.
1874 — Journalist Karl Krauss born, Jicin, Bohemia, Austria-Hungary.
1953 — Brilliant Chilean novelist Roberto Bolaño born, Santiago, Chile.
1960 — Dutch council communist & astronomer Anton Pannekoek dies, Wageningen.
1967 — World boxing great Muhammad Ali refuses U.S. army induction.
1977 — Baader-Meinhof Red Brigades terrorists get life sentences, Germany.

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

Roadburn: "A time and place to get high en mass [sic] and bask in the heaviness"

Whether you’re looking for leaks and bootlegs from across the spectrum of doom and stoner rock, or you simply want to peruse Photoshopped images of topless, winged women wielding a variety of Renaissance Faire weapons, Doomed To Be Stoned In A Sludge Swamp is the audioblog for you.

Sludge Swamp is a collaborative affair, and right now their contributors are commemorating last weekend’s Roadburn Festival — an annual Dutch gathering focused on the hard rock underground, well known among European burners as a “time and place to get high en mass [sic] and bask in the heaviness,” to quote from its MySpace profile — by uploading live sets from Roadburns past.

Right now the archive includes recordings from Witch, Sunn O))), The Melvins, Om, Wolves in the Throne Room, Brant Bjork & The Bros, Masters of Reality, Hawkwind and Earthless (along with loads of lesser knowns) for your downloading pleasure.

Check out the full list of sets available by clicking here.

"New Treehouses of the World" by Pete Nolan (2009)

Anonymous, Tee Pee Treehouse, Eastern Pennsylvania. Made almost entirely of recycled materials.

Tee Pee Treehouse, interior. Rafters recycled from a nearby 100-year-old barn.

“New Treehouses of the World”, TreeHouse Workshop founder Pete Nelson’s fifth book, shows us how he constructs some of his own architectural creations, then brings us on a tour of some of the most breathtaking woodland habitations around the world. On shelves in May. Full sneak-preview on the LA Times website.

Visit Pete Nelson’s blog for information on house-building workshops and other upcoming TreeHouse Workshop projects.

Today's Autonomedia Jubilee Saint – AUGUST WILSON

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April 27 — August Wilson
Noted Black American playwright, social critic.

APRIL 27, 2009 HOLIDAYS AND FESTIVALS
*Festival of Art Sabotage

ALSO ON APRIL 27 IN HISTORY…
1521 — Portuguese explorer Ferdinand Megellan killed Phillipines.
1759 — Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin born, London England.
1882 — Philosopher Ralph Waldo Emerson dies, Concord, Massachusetts.
1945 — Premier Black American playwright August Wilson born, Pittsburgh, PA.
1963 — Cuban leader Fidel Castro visits Moscow, Soviet Union.

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

Today's Autonomedia Jubilee Saint — JULIUS AUGUSTUS WAYLAND

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April 26 — Julius Augustus Wayland
Agrarian socialist, pacifist, Appeal to Reason publisher.

APRIL 26, 2009 HOLIDAYS AND FESTIVALS
*Festival of Individual Sovereignty

ALSO ON APRIL 26 IN HISTORY…
1607 — English Jamestown colonists make landfall near Port Henry, Virginia
1854 — Appeal to Reason publisher J.A. Wayland born, Versailles, Indiana.
1889 — Language philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein born, Vienna, Austria.
1905 — French surrealist filmmaker Jean Vigo born, Paris, France.
1937 — Fascists condust first-ever aerial massacre of civilians, Guernica, Spain.
1968 — John Heartfield (Helmut Herzfeld) dies, East Berlin, Germany.
1986 — Chernobyl nuclear disaster occurs, Ukraine, USSR.

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

April 26th – MV + EE at Kung-fu Necktie in Philly


The first time I saw MV + EE was at the Arthurdesh benefit at 3A.M., where those who had stayed til the end shuffled out of the room visibly stunned after their full-on raw psychedelic performance. If you’re in Fishtown this weekend, take the advice of Baby Huey and get mellow one more time… then go to Kung-fu Necktie, where Matt Valentine and Erika Elder will surely proceed to blow your lid.

Sunday, April 26th, 8PM
Kung-fu Necktie
1248 North Front Street / Philadelphia, PA 19122
$10

This show is 21+

Today's Autonomedia Jubilee Saint — JANE JACOBS


April 25 — JANE JACOBS
American-born urban activist, alternative city-planner, writer.

APRIL 25, 2009 HOLIDAYS AND FESTIVALS
*Ancient Rome: Robigalia, Sacrificial rite to placate the God of Mildew.

ALSO ON APRIL 25 IN HISTORY…
1719 — Daniel Defoe’s Robinson Crusoe first published.
1943 — LSD accidently discoversed by swiss chemist Albert Hoffman.
1944 — Krazy Kat cartoonist Geroge Herriman dies, Hollywood, California.
1964 — “Little Mermaid” statue loses head to saw in Copenhagen harbor.
2006 — Urban activist, writer, Jane Jacobs dies, Toronto, Canada.

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

Nieves Retrospective thru May 23rd at Printed Matter in New York, NY

Do you dream of a room filled with one-of-a-kind zines and art books made by amazing people, where you are free to spend long, contented afternoons perusing at your leisure? Consider Printed Matter your fantasy library. Currently on view is a collection of 100 + titles by Swiss publisher Nieves, ranging from “limited edition, photocopied zines, to more-formally recognized hardcover, perfect-bound and offset books.”

Included in Nieves’ catalog are works by Wesley Willis, Harmony Korine, Chris Johanson/Jo Jackson, Taro Hirano, David Shrigley, Maya Hayuk, Ira Cohen, Thurston Moore and many, many others…

On view April 4th – May 23rd
Printed Matter
195 Tenth Avenue New York, NY 10011

For more info & hours, go here.