from Julian Cope’s website:
“Why Be Bleak When You Could Be Blake?” So concluded Coil’s John Balance in a 1996 letter to the Archdrude. In honour of William Blake’s 250th anniversary, Head Heritage is proud to offer this iconic and Utopian call-to-arms. Available printed in white on a high quality black t-shirt.
Meet some of the characters from Adam Leith Gollner’s upcoming book “The Fruit Hunters: A Story of Nature, Adventure, Commerce, and Obsession.”
For more info visit
The Fruit Hunters website:
http://www.thefruithunters.com
Adam Leith Gollner website:
http://www.adamgollner.com/
Hey remember that f.e.y venue “apocalyptic opposite-igloo” show in Portland, OR that we wrote about here back in October? The one with Diane Cluck and Anders Griffen? Larissa and Tiger — the founders of the traveling f.e.y venue — sent us that panoramic picture up top (click it for the widescreen version) to give us an idea of what went down. Judging from the full collection of snaps they’ve got up on their Flickr page, it looks like a high time was had by all.
And oh yeah: They’re gonna do another one! Larissa writes:
should be in march
looks like it’ll be a music/video/sculpture collaboration
inspired by haeckel‘s biological drawings
Which sounds awesome. In the meantime, check out this massive online archive of plates from Haeckel’s Kunstformen der Natur.
The Goldbear Academy here in Los Angeles hosted a wild party last Saturday where the Entrance Band played and everybody came dressed up as their spirit animal. It should come as little surprise that Arthur’s esteemed fashion editor Alia Penner was representing with some fresh art works, including the totem piece that you see above. More of Alia’s images from the show, plus a collaboration with Miss McKenzie Kay, after the jump.
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Will, the proprietor of the biblio-blog A Journey Round My Skull, describes his online venture as “unhealthy book fetishism from a reader, collector, and amateur historian of forgotten literature.” Which is pretty accurate though we’re gonna politely disagree on the unhealthy part. Last we checked, preserving and disseminating gorgeous “avant garde for the poor,” arcane children’s literature and bizarre Japanese woodblock prints (like the awesome Utagawa Kuniyoshi piece up above) didn’t lead to the diabetes or rickets or anything like that. And it actually makes us feel pretty hale and hearty. Check out more of Will’s picks after the jump, with links to his original blog posts.
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Essential reading from Diggers founder and international bohemian icon Emmett Grogan, now back in print courtesy of New York Review of Books Classics:
Ringolevio is a classic American story of self-invention by one of the more mysterious and alluring figures to emerge in the 1960s. Emmett Grogan grew up on New York City’s mean streets, getting hooked on heroin before he was in his teens, kicking the habit and winning a scholarship to a swanky Manhattan private school, pursuing a highly profitable sideline as a Park Avenue burglar, then skipping town to enjoy the dolce vita in Italy. It’s a hard-boiled, sometimes hard-to-believe, wildly entertaining tale that takes a totally unexpected turn when Grogan washes up in sixties San Francisco and becomes a leader of the anarchist group known as the Diggers. The Diggers, devoted to street theater, direct action, and distributing free food, were in the thick of the legendary Summer of Love, and soon Grogan is struggling with the naive narcissism of the hippies, the marketing of revolution as a brand, dogmatic radicals, and false prophets like tripster Timothy Leary. Above all, however, he struggles with himself.
Ringolevio is an enigmatic portrait of a man and his times to set beside Hunter S. Thompson’s stories of fear and loathing, Norman Mailer’s The Armies of the Night, or the recent Chronicles of Bob Dylan, who dedicated his 1978 album Street Legal to the memory of Emmett Grogan.
Read Peter Coyote’s introduction to the 1990 edition here.
Montague Phantom Brain Exchange #11
Wednesday, November 26th, 9pm Five Bucks!
at the Rendezvous
78 3rd St
Turners Falls, MA 01376Flaherty,Voigt, & Karetnick Trio
Blue Shift
lecture on Tongue Theory by Byron Coley
comedy by Shawn Smith
AlterDestiny DJsread on:
Come get stuffed on this eve of thanks. Welcome our wmass ex-pats
home, and revel in plugging & unplugging our phantom brains with lost
theories, druggy beats, flopping tongues, & harmolodic reveilles.Headlining our celebration this month will be the Flaherty, Voigt, &
Karetnick Trio, a cell of new england freedom fighters that have been
waging a guerilla campaign to spread around the urgent sound. From
west, former wmass representative Karetnick will lay out a
multidirectional pulse from the kit & various percussion. From the
east, bostonian Voigt will masterfully operate the thumpstaff with
abandon. From the south, hartford yeoman, good sir Flaherty will
launch lightning bolts from his saxophones. All three of these dudes
have fat dossiers on their work in jazz & improvised music circles,
and have collaborated independently with such artists as: Joe McPhee,
Raphe Malik, Chick Corea, Thurston Moore, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Keith
Jarrett, Bill T. Jones, Chris Corsano, Daniel Carter, Cliff White,
Sabir Mateen, Assif Tsahar, Tuli Kupferberg, Jemeel Moondoc. To
understate, “this should be a pretty sweet set.”
http://www.yod.com/hatedmusic.html
http://art-energy.org/johnmusician.html
http://www.myspace.com/benjaminkaretnickBlue Shift is solo artist Cybele Collins, a former happy-valleyite,
she’s now reppin’ Providence with her hi-intensity violin shreddage.
Her string science is equal parts howling brutality & swooning fancy.
Check this vid of her in Antwerp:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IPJtYTN1YRsArchivist of the obscure and insane, poet, critic, and Deerfield
slayer, Byron Coley will be presenting a lecture discussing Richard
Meltzer’s ‘Tongue Theory’ outlined in the 1970 book, “The Aesthetics
of Rock.” We have been assured that the fruits of Coley’s research
are of an adequately fermented paste. Here are the cliffsnotes:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Aesthetics_of_Rockex-Squidlaunch guitarist & co-editor of the infamous Drug Salad zine,
Shawn Smith will be rocking our very first microphone devoted to ten
minutes of comedy. This could become a regular feature of the Phantom
Brain Exchange or fall into disuse, now the pressure is on.Twixt sets will be The AlterDestiny DJs – G-field’s Low Power FM duo
Ben Mocro & Andujar Rule, an indestructable tag team spinning the
sounds of space and the blood in yr skull.Track & post weirdo events in wmass & vicinity:
http://happyninvalley.blogspot.com/I’ll be taking a break over December, but will return in January for
our one-year anniversary! Until then, I’ve found the harshest noise
act ever: open up 4 to 8 windows of this website, crank, & listen:
http://www.myspace.com/officialdavidcookMontague Phantom Brain Exchange is a place where bodied & disembodied
brains & nonbrains can safely gather to deconstruct solutions & create
problems while soaking in an envigorating bath of provocative
entertainments. Last wednesday of every month, 9pm to midnight, at the
Rendezvous (bar with food!) 78 3rd St Turners Falls, MA. A typical
evening will include 2 – 3 performing acts, a 15 minute lecture and a
DJ.
Artist, writer and LA Weekly art critic Doug Harvey’s solo retrospective at Los Angeles Valley College closes tomorrow, and tonight he’s going to be projecting a collection of moldy slides that he curated out of his hoarding neighbor’s garbage. Or as he describes it on his blog: “[it’s] a stochastically linked collaboration between the original vacation photographer, crazy hoarder dude, the mold, and me – plus the found and improvised soundtrack elements.”
Rhizomatic Transmission, my new selection of found moldy slides, will be projected on Tuesday November 25th at 8 PM in Room 103 of the Art Building at Los Angeles Valley College, located near the corner of Fulton Ave and Oxnard Rd, at the NW corner of the LAVC campus. The gallery will be open between 6 and 9 for viewing of my solo retrospective Untidy: The Worlds of Doug Harvey, which closes the next day. Images and more information on my blog: Weird Hours and Moldy Slides
BTW: If you plan on visiting the gallery before then, or on the 26th, beware of the weird hours: Monday – Thursday 11 AM -2 PM & 6 PM – 9 PM.
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