Celebrate the end of the nightmare that is tax day with an evening of warrior chants, tambourine tosses, and adrenaline rushes : the formidable all-female psych-rock sextet Effi Briest, the bratty forest hijinks of Nymph, and fellow New York shredders Columboid and Vaz.
Effi Briest + Vaz + Nymph + Columboid
Wednesday, April 15th, 8pm
Death by Audio
49 South 2nd Street
Brooklyn, NY 11201
Cheap!!!
April 13 — György Lukács
Marxist philosopher, cultural theorist, social critic, likely dupe of Stalinist counter-revolution.
APRIL 13, 2009 HOLIDAYS AND FESTIVALS
* Meme Appreciation Day.
* Revolutionary Tricks of History Day
ALSO ON APRIL 13 IN HISTORY…
1743 — American politician Thomas Jefferson born, Shadwell, Virginia
1828 — Josephine Butler born, Glendale, Northumberland
1885 — Marxist philosopher György Lukács born, Budapest, Hungary.
1906 — Samuel Beckett, Irish writer, born, Dublin.
1909 — American writer Eudora Welty born, Jackson, Missippi.
1912 — Too poor to book the Titanic, Theodore Dreiser waits for another ship.
1919 — Eugene Debs imprisoned for opposition to WWI.
1945 — Belsen and Buchenwald nazi concentration camps liberated.
Excerpted from The 2009 Autonomedia Calendar of Jubilee Saints: Radical Heroes for the New Millennium by James Koehnline and the Autonomedia Collective
It was two days before Christmas and my girlfriend was crying about some Christmas baggage. I needed to get out of the house.
There was a place at the top of my town called Jumpoff Rock where an Indian maiden jumped to her death for the love of her brave. It was said that if you went up there at night you might see the ghost of this Indian girl. 
I figured it would be best to get out of the house, blow the stink off and hopefully see a ghost. It was a long drive up the curvy mountain road.The girl claimed carsickness but when we crested the ridge and saw the little town shimmering in the valley below winking under the light snow shower, she stopped crying.
There was a cop parked in the Jumpoff lot. Woopwoop. He hit the whirlilghts. I pulled over.
I asked if it was alright if I came up here. All the cop said was “sixty dollars.” He repeated the figure. I looked him over, trying to figure out if I knew him, who his relatives were. He was a big fat bastard, with his chin slopped over the collar of his bulletproof vest. I could tell by the way he talked through his nose that he was from somewhere else.
Up until that time because I had enjoyed small town immunity, as my dad sells building supply. After donuts, building supply is the thing cops love the most. On any given weekend, 90 percent of off-duty cops are re-paving their yard, shoring up the aboveground, or leveling the doublewide.
This was some new guy, though. An outsider, a yankee even. He asked me to step out of the car as he made a visual inspection, blinding us with his maglite. He poked through through the detritus of a recent kayaking trip left in the back of the truck; life jackets, helmets and pizza boxes.
What was I doing up here? “I live here,” I said. I explained that I had come up to Jumpoff Rock to see the ghost. No big deal. The cop told me that I had to come back in the daytime. I told him that the thing about fucking ghosts is that they don’t come out in the day. I asked this policeman why he stopped me. He informed me that my crime was “cursing on his highway”.
I notified the cop that this road is our road and if he wasn’t going to charge me with anything then I had the right to get in my car and leave. I knew my rights. He bodychecked me into the car and asked me what I thought my rights were.
I told him that my first right was that he was going to back the fuck up off me, and then I pushed him hard enough to back him up, but not hard enough to hurt him, which proved to be a not so smart move.
“Assault on a Police Officer” coupled with “First Degree Highway Cursing” is a major crime. My advice: If ever in the course of the game you must tackle the referee, stick him good. The penalty is going to be the same.
I passed the rest of the night at the “cop disco” with several young men dancing me through various submission holds, snow falling through the strobes. The more I complained the more fun they had.
Then they searched my truck for three hours. As I was frosted away in the back of the police car, I realized that despite all the documents written by learned judges and all the wars fought to guarantee the right of Americans to go about their business without fear of unreasonable searches and seizures, your rights are fleeting things to be snatched away by a junior college flunky at any time.
Around the time they finally found the joint hidden in the little buoy of my floating keychain, I suddenly realized how one might bring up the whole “having your rights” thing to a cop without pissing him off.
Sew your rights into your clothes so you will always have them with you.
April 8 — ANNETTE RUBINSTEIN
New York Marxist School co-founder, radical educator.
APRIL 12, 2009 HOLIDAYS AND FESTIVALS
*Christian Easter
*Guatemala: Cuchumatan Indians have ceremony to preserve corn from frost by using prayers to chase the frost into a crack in the mountain and sealing the crack with mortar.
ALSO ON APRIL 12 IN HISTORY…
1790 — Richard Steele publishes first issue of The Tatler
1961 — Russian cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin is first man to orbit Earth.
1971 — Women’s peace march on Pentagon, Washington, D.C.
1975 — Black American dancer Josephine Baker dies, Paris, France.
1981 — First U.S. Space shuttle launched.
1988 — Harvard University patents gene-altered mouse.
1989 — Yippie activist Abbie Hoffman commits suicide, New Hope, Pennsylvania.
Excerpted from The 2009 Autonomedia Calendar of Jubilee Saints: Radical Heroes for the New Millennium by James Koehnline and the Autonomedia Collective
From oddmusic.com:
Sea Organ – musical instrument played by the sea
MP3: Listen to some sounds of the Sea Organ
The musical Sea Organ (morske orgulje) is located on the shores of Zadar, Croatia, and is the world’s first musical pipe organ that is played by the sea. Simple and elegant steps, carved in white stone, were built on the quayside. Underneath, there are 35 musically tuned tubes with whistle openings on the sidewalk. The movement of the sea pushes air through, and – depending on the size and velocity of the wave – musical chords are played. The waves create random harmonic sounds.
This masterpiece of acoustics and architecture was created by expert Dalmatian stone carvers and architect Nikola Basic in 2005, who recently received the European Prize for Urban Public Space for this project. Many tourists come to listen to this unique aerophone, and enjoy unforgettable sunsets with a view of nearby islands. Famed director Alfred Hitchcock said that the most beautiful sunset in the world can be seen from precisely this spot on the Zadar quay…
hipped to this by asa osborne!
April 11 — ATTILA JOZSEF
Prominent Hungarian surrealist poet, libertarian communist.
APRIL 11, 2009 HOLIDAYS AND FESTIVALS
*Festival of Unmediated Play
*Prophet’s Birthday
ALSO ON APRIL 11 IN HISTORY…
1722 — Christopher Smart, dotty Brit poet, born, Shipbourne, Kent.
1905 — Surrealist poet Atilla Jozsef born, Ferencvaros, Budapest, Hungary.
1908 — Left communist, literary radical Jean Malaquais born, Warsaw, Poland
1926 — American horticulturist Luther Burbank dies, Santa Rosa, California.
1961 — Nazi henchman Adolph Eichmann goes on trial, Jerusalem, Israel.
Excerpted from The 2009 Autonomedia Calendar of Jubilee Saints: Radical Heroes for the New Millennium by James Koehnline and the Autonomedia Collective
A steady stream of micro-news has been filtering in today about the reoccupation of 65 Fifth Avenue by students of The New School for Social Research. The best stuff out there at the moment can be found here, via the New York Times CityRoom blog:
[…] students at the scene described a tumultuous situation in which protesters were pepper-sprayed before being placed in handcuffs and loaded by police officers into the back of a white van, around 11:30 a.m. Mr. Browne said it was “untrue that pepper spray or mace were used in effectuating the arrests.”
A video (see above) shot by a freelance journalist, Brandon Jourdan of Brooklyn, showed about a half-dozen police officers standing near the door on 14th Street when it was pushed open from inside. The footage then shows officers shaking cans of pepper spray as they hold the door back, spraying inside the corridor, and then slamming the door shut. The footage showed an officer, a few moments later, lunging toward Mr. Jourdan’s camera, before swerving toward a young man standing on the street shouting. In the footage, the officer pushed the man’s face and knocked him to the ground before arresting him.
NY1.com reports:
Police have arrested 19 New School students who took over a university building in Union Square this morning, demanding the resignation of the university’s president and vice president and asking for more say in school policy. About 60 students from New School in Exile and the Radical Students Union had barricaded themselves inside the graduate faculty building at 65 Fifth Avenue between 13th and 14th Streets. […]
ArthurMag.com contributor and New School student Andy Folk was on scene showing his support:
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ruMQM4_bQQ
“Our demand for them to resign is consistent with the faculty’s ‘no confidence’ vote in Bob Kerrey,” said student Andy Folk. “That demand was not met. Other demands were met, such as starting a socially-responsible investment committee, which Bob Kerrey is trying to bury in red tape. So, we need to show him by force and civil disobedience that students have a right over the school that they pay money for. This is just a demonstration of students taking back their space.”
Other sources to check out are Student Activism website. Also worth checking TWITTER SEARCH for the most recent occupation chatter.
UPDATE 7PM: Head down to Union Square South at 10PM tonight to show your support!
Friday, April 10th, 9pm door
Echo Curio – The Echo Park Curiosity Shop and Art Gallery
1519 Sunset Blvd. Echo Park, CA 90026
A five buck donation is asked to support the space and artists
Mark Delong is a Canadian artist who has shown paintings and sculptures in galleries all over the world. His comics and art have been published by Nieves and most recently, TV Books. Here’s a couple comics from his new book, The Only Clock on the Ship.
April 10 — WINONA BEAMER
Hawaiian native culture expert, folk activist, hula dancer.
APRIL 10, 2009 HOLIDAYS AND FESTIVALS
* Christian GOOD FRIDAY.
* Florence, Italy: EXPLOSION OF THE CAR. A large wooden carfull of fireworks and explosives sits in the piazza. A wire runs to the cathedral. A dove-shaped rocket is ignited at the altar, runs along the wire and explodes the car.
ALSO ON APRIL 9 IN HISTORY…
1841 — Horace Greeley’s New York Tribune begins publication.
1866 — American Society for Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (ASPCA) founded.
1919 — Mexican revolutionary hero Emiliano Zapata dies, Chinameca, Mexico.
1959 — Utopian architect Frank Lloyd Wright dies, Taliesin West, Arizona.
1981 — UN approves world treaty assuring no civilians should be attacked with “napalm, mines or booby-traps.” Defeated by U.S. veto.
2008 — Hawaiianist Winona Kapuailohiamanonokalani Desha Beamer dies, Maui.
All information courtesy of The 2009 Autonomedia Calendar of Jubilee Saints: Radical Heroes for the New Millennium by James Koehnline and the Autonomedia Collective
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