Wow Cool will be in the back corner of Indy Island at II-621 (or AA-621, depending on where you look) at Heroes Con. So, that’s near the right hand art stage and the info booth. Look for the t-shirt tree and the spaceman and a big Wow Cool logo. See you there! - Marc Arsenault
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Yup, we will have new shirts from Marc Arsenault and Simon Gane at HeroesCon this weekend. But, just to recap, first, there will also be: Ian Lynam’s Parallel Strokes, Marc Arsenault’s new Book “Adventures in Excitement”, new CDs from Offset Needle Radius and nickname: Rebel, lots of books by Simon Gane and Steven Cerio. So come look for the Wow Cool sign and the spaceman in Indie Island, where Marc will be drawing pictures and Joshua Baker will be making music.
OK, T-shirts. Each is available in sizes S, M, L, XL. They are on super high-quality 100% cotton shirts. They will be very reasonably priced. First up, brand new from Vertigo’s Vinyl Underground artist Simon Gane, is this super-stylish 2-sided promotional shirt for his book with Ian Lynam and Kim Fern: Sap.
And, even more confusing is this also stylish number from Marc Arsenault made especially for this event. Let them know you’ll never be retconned again!
And there will be much, much more at the show, free stickers, garage sale specials, costumed surprises, tigers, Brown Cuts Neighbors, The Doris book, a big box of “last copies” going back years… See you there!
The Wow Cool crew (Marc and Josh) will be at the Heck Yeah Coffee Hub after 8pm for what looks like a fairly awesome show. Calabai Yau, Megafaun, and Yardwork. See you there!
It’s done! 28 pages of fun. (or 32 in the special edition, which also comes with a tape and other goodies). Go to Heroes Con next weekend to get yours!
OK. I’ve finally had a [minor] breakthrough on setting up the new Wow Cool online shop [7 months in the making!] So I feel a little more confident to do this announcement thing. Wow Cool is moving back to California and regular operation after nearly a decade of slagging off in New York and Tennessee. By August, 2008, there will be a new Wow Cool office somewhere in Santa Clara County, the web shop will be gloriously relaunched, and hopefully I can make a preliminary announcement about new releases [music, books, video] that will be rolling out. Stay tuned, dear reader. Buy me a drink at the Hilton bar during Heroes Con if you want more dirt. Or just stop by the table.
Thank you everyone,
–Marc Arsenault
ps. I am actively seeking an intern. Other employment opportunities may follow.
Two weeks until Heroes Con! I am so not ready. But there is some great stuff starting to pile up for the show. There will be debuts of new T-Shirts by me (Marc Arsenault) and Simon Gane (Arnie, Paris, Vinyl Underground), Joshua Baker of Notes from the Lighthouse zine and God Hates Computers and many other bands will be helping out at the table. He’s planning a superhero day for us. So, uh, look out.
We just received a big box of Ian Lynam’s amazing Parallel Strokes book and will have those at the show. I’m frantically working on getting a Brown Cuts Neighbors sampler DVD and my new comic collection “Adventures In Excitement” ready. As before. Wish me luck! More updates coming soon, and hopefully more blogging here, been too busy just fixing bits of the thing that went wobbly after an upgrade.
I am completely not kidding. You must get The Near Complete Essential Hembeck Archives Omnibus
Find out more about this awesome book and learn how to get a hyper-customized edition direct from Fred Hembeck here.
Yes its time to get rid of a bunch of stuff. Academia makes me go to Big Apple. Help me have more money and less things.
THIS SUNDAY JUNE 8
FROM 2 - 4PM SHARP
@ 51 3RD STREET TROY NY 12180
+ SOME KIND OF MUSICAL PERFORMANCE at 4pm! Show up and buy your way into an improvised band.
So heres the stuff:
* electronics of various kinds in various states of working (some working, some need a little work, and others are best used for parts)
* a few pieces of furniture
* some instruments
I do not have detailed list of what is available. Can’t respond to individual requests about gear. Come to the sale.
Over n out
Jason
Hell, just listen to Dandelion Radio. They are great.
All June nickname: Rebel will be on the awesome Mark Whitby show - listen online to Dandelion Radio.
In the meanwhile Marc Arsenault and Joshua Baker will be carrying some portable recording equipment to the Charlotte Hilton in two weeks to try to record some sort of source material for the new proper nickname: Rebel record. You can find us at the bar or at Heroes Con.
Wish us luck!
nickname: Rebel on Last.fm
Visit nickname: Rebel’s MySpaceship
Been trying to find the style for a new draw on an old old script for a promotional mini that I’m doing as a split release with Poopsheet. discovered that my old pad of bristol was a bit too old and had sucked up some moisture or something as ink is bleeding on it more than I like. So, blew through those last 3 sheets with some style sketches… that were more doodle than anything thought out. This one had a great logo in outline that got pretty thoroughly ruined by filling it. Looking at the drawing today, I think it is supposed to be Ed Brubaker.
Dig if you will an amazing event going down at St Marks Church in NYC.
((im playing “function generator bass and samples” in BUNNYBRAINS tomorrow, friday))
This is part of a festival that starts tonight I’ve forwarded part of the email about it below, but even if u cant catch us, theres plenty of stuff going down so go to free103’s website to get all the dates n acts n stuff.
Cheers,
Jason
NOISE! 2008
May 8, 2008: 10 p.m. – May 11, 2008: 1 a.m. at Ontological Theater, St. Mark’s Church, 131 E. 10th St., Manhattan, NY $10 admission; free video and audio online.
Noise! is a sound performance festival started in 2005. free103point9 curates for the second year. Each year the “Incubator” program at Ontological Theater hosts a Noise! festival, a three-night multi-arts event designed to promote interest in new forms of sound art.
The festival will feature short compositions and performances by established and emerging artists.
Each evening opens with a Radio 4×4 as the audience enters the theater.
Radio 4×4 is a free103point9 collaborative radio transmission performance. Four simultaneous audio performances are separately sent through FM transmitters to radios positioned throughout a performance space. Each radio receives only one of the signals, so that the audience becomes an active collaborator in the performance, “mixing” the audio feeds by moving about the space among the four signals. Other artists will perform each evening. Tianna Kennedy, Tom Roe, and Damian Catera will curate each evening. Streamed live on free103point9 Online Radio.
Thursday, May 8
Curated by Tianna Kennedy
Opens with Radio 4×4 with Tianna Kennedy + Mark Anderson + Jordi Wheeler + Tyler Nolan
Lith (Jordi Wheeler)
Diamond Terrifier (featuring Sam Hillmer from the Zs)
Dome Theater (Forrest Gillespie directing “Fucked for Real”)
Friday, May 9
Curated by Tom Roe
Opens with Radio 4×4 with Giancarlo Bracchi + Tom Roe + Slink Moss + Michael Garafalo.
Bunnybrains
Michael Garafalo (Latitude/Longitude)
Giancarlo Bracchi
Tom Roe
Saturday, May 10
Curated by Damian Catera
Opens with Radio 4×4 with Damian Catera + () + Tom Roe + John Baird
Skyline
Damian Catera
Andrea Parkins
The full 23 minute video of what happened when the artist Wafaa Bilal visited Troy, New York is online to view now. Music by nickname: Rebel and My Survival Kit, Gov’t Mule and Fugazi.
Hudson Mohawk Indymedia has produced a definitive account of the whirlwind of events surrounding Wafaa Bilal’s controversial art exhibit, “Virtual Jihadi.”
“Art (does not equal) Terrorism” goes beyond the sound bites to find out what happened when an Iraqi artist came to Troy, NY only to be censored–not once, but twice.
First, Wafaa Bilal was chased off campus after his artwork was mis-characterized as terrorist propaganda by undergraduate bloggers.
When the exhibition was given refuge by The Sanctuary for Independent Media, the city government responded by shutting down the space.
Finally got it together to put the Rebel sound up on Last.fm. There is the mini 5-song version of the R is For Riot EP available as free downloads. You can get the whole 10 song thing for free, of course, as one big 30MB download. The MySpaceship has 3 more tunes. The n:R cover of a Sexual Milkshake song is still available as part of a Teen Beat Records tribute called Relax Brother, Relax up on the Internet Archive. Two more cover tunes are on the old DeptEx Sounds page, for you completists. There, that’s it, that’s all of them. Now you know. Now you know… there is a hell.
I hate to beg, but, you know, vote for me. Can’t resist a contest. I put Radiohead through a dub grinder. I’m pretty happy with it… actually prefer it to the original. Hard to touch that vocal. I guess given time and inclination it could have been seriously sliced and diced.
Thanks to anyone who has been visiting lately. What started as the Wow Cool event feed some 6-odd years ago has taken on a new life this last year. Right now I’m just way too buried in various projects–including rebuilding WowCool.com proper and getting the shop to make sense (and getting friendly with WordPress 2.5 and getting a proper theme on this thing). I’ve got a half-dozen major-report-type entries about half done… those will have to wait. I’ll be staying well away from the net in general. Time for a break. Hopefully I’ll sneak some art up here during April. Anyway, look for the whole new Wow Cool experience sometime in May, and come say hi at Heroes Con in June.
–Marc Arsenault
OK, it’s out there to hear. As I’ve been blathering on about here, I spent February recording a new nickname: Rebel joint for the RPM Challenge. You can now hear that whole thing on the RPM Jukebox. Also up there and well worth a listen are the contributions from Rebel guest guitarist Rev. Joshua Baker recording as Not Square with Zero and Kamikaze Heart Matthew Loiacano.
In other news, nickname: Rebel and Wow Cool main guy Marc Arsenault (me) is laying down the guitar as part of Thee Froggss for a benefit for the Pilot Light in Knoxville, Tennessee. Also appearing, the mighty GUNN CLUUB and the GERRMMS - April, 1 2008 at The Pilot Light 106 E Jackson Ave, Knoxville, 37915 Cost : $5.00
If you were planning on checking out the new 23 minute documentary by Hudson Mohawk Indymedia about the recent events surrounding Wafaa Bilal’s controversial art exhibit, “Virtual Jihadi”, be advised that the venue has changed…. the screening will now be at: The Daily Grind, 46 3rd St. in Troy. The times will remain 7 and 8 pm.
“Art Not Terrorism” goes beyond the sound bites to find out what happened when an Iraqi artist came to Troy, NY only to be censored–not once, but twice. First, Wafaa Bilal was chased off campus after his artwork was mis-characterized as terrorist propaganda by undergraduate bloggers. When the exhibition was given refuge by The Sanctuary for Independent Media, the city government responded by shutting down the space.
This short documentary by the award-winning producers of “Independent Media in a Time of War” asks: what was so troubling about this artist’s message that University and City officials decided that we would all be better off not hearing it?
View the trailer.
Overview of the situation from earlier in the engineroom
Bonus goodness - the film has some music by nickname: Rebel and My Survival Kit in it!
Troy, New York’s WRPI - 91.5 FM begins the new series Colony Collapse Radio, Wednesday, March 26 at 10AM. Tune in to hear about the bees and buzzings, collapsings and swarmings. CCD Radio is a seven show series inspired by the longstanding buzz between humans and bee creatures, brought to you by EE Miller and Ryder Cooley. Tune in Wednesdays 10am -12pm, WRPI 91.5 (New York Capital Region), streaming from WRPI.org more information & podcasts available through their blog: colonycollapsedisorder.wordpress.com. Of special note on the show are pieces by Wow Cool pals Dara Greenwald (April 2nd show), Wafaa Bilal (who you’ve read about here recently, on the April 16th show), and our own Jason Martin (Brown Cuts Neighbors, Bunny Brains, Evolution Revolution on April 30th).
Call for submissions: My Baby Rides the Short Bus – an upcoming anthology to be published by PM Press (Winter, 2009)
[This book is being co-edited by my eldest son's mother. If you've had experiences that you would like to share that could enrich this project, then I urge you to contribute. - Marc]
We are seeking submissions from a diverse group of parents raising special needs kids who feel marginalized by their subculture status (economics, lifestyle, orientation, religion/atheism) and underrepresented in print.
Got tips on how to stay sane during the IEP process when you don’t believe in the system to begin with? Felt you had to hide you radical political books while the Early Intervention Folks come over? Found yourself stuck a mainstream world of special needs parenting that you don’t fit into?
Submit your stories to a upcoming anthology that features writing from parents in the know about what it’s like to raise “special needs” kids — with no sugar coating or the ‘you will dream new dreams’ kind of crap we’re subjected to by mainstream media. Unfortunately we can’t pay, but all contributors will receive two copies of the book.
Topics we would like to see covered include (but are not limited to):
Experiences with helpful or clueless doctors
· How not to leave your politics at the door and still work the system
· Care providers and how they help us (when they show up)
Community support or lack thereof
· The asinine things people say you
· Challenging people’s assumptions
Keeping yourself sane while caring for your kid’s needs
· The politics of inclusion
· Fighting city hall/demanding more access & services
· Kids with special needs growing older
Alternatives to group homes and institutions
· Politics behind professional care-giving
Alterative treatments: the good, the bad, or the rip-off
*Also, we’re seeking suggestions for good resources/services state-by-state or on the national level. Please send those to the email listed below.
Send 2,000 to 5,000 word submissions by May 15th 2008 or questions to: shortbusbook@yahoo.com Essays must be typed, double-spaced, and paginated. Please include your address, phone number, email address, and a short bio on the last page.
Editors: Yantra Bertelli, Jennifer Silverman and Sarah Talbot, who are parents of “special needs” kids.
Wow Cool will be at the Heroes Convention in Charlotte, North Carolina, June 20-22, 2008. There will be a few new debuts, lots of stuff by Simon Gane, Steve Cerio and myself, music, comics, shirts, etc. I’m hoping to spend most of my time drawing sketches of 70s Marvel monsters for the kids (or, failing that, for Frank Santoro). Updates to come in this space. You can look for the new shop and some other fun web stuff to go up well before then (hey, the Interweb is hard). Thanks.
–Marc Arsenault
George Tabb Benefit, Thursday March 13 at 10pm with Mike Watt + the Missingmen at Safari Sam’s, 5214 W. Sunset Blvd., Hollywood, CA, (323) 666-7267. Visit MySpace.com/HelpGeorgeTabb.
I have to admit to being way clueless. My apartment in Brooklyn is a scant 4 3/4 miles away from the World Trade Center, in a neighborhood heavily populated by firefighters, and apart from some vague sense that, ‘yeah, the air after 911 was probably pretty bad and I’m sure some people are a little sick’, I haven’t given it a whole lot of thought (given that I only live there part time and moved in over a year and a half after 911, I’d probably miss a little, but c’mon!). Randomly today I see a bulletin from Mike Watt in my rarely visited MySpaceship about the benefit show, and first I’m thinkin’, ‘I didn’t know George was sick’, I read a little and it’s ‘I didn’t know George lived in New York’ (somewhere in there is, ‘we both worked at MaximumRockNRoll and even though we met once or twice I dodn’t really know George’), and then I’m sucked into a new scary world.
Simple version: George lived downtown during 911 and shortly after that he got sick… and then he got very sick, and found out that not only was there not much help available for anything beyond a runny nose, but the possibility that a causal link existed was denied in the interest of homeland security. Read his whole story at MySpace.com/HelpGeorgeTabb. As always George dishes things up in a clear, direct and honest human voice. For more on the human wreckage caused by the attacks in the years since, see these pieces in CBS News, The Village Voice, and Discover Magazine.
Back in the nonreal world, you should also give a visit to George’s YouTube channel, which contains many fine installments from his punk TV joint Destroy Television.
Made the plunge. Wow… is it almost one AM? Anyway, feel free to friend us on the MySpaceship or fan us on the Facebook. See this post, if you are not sure what a nickname: Rebel is.
Be seeing you.
fognozzle is one of 35-odd noise acts doing 15 minute sets each at the International Noise Conference in San Francisco, California on April 11, 2008. I haven’t been in the band in nearly 15 years, and won’t be at this show, but it sounds like a lot of fun.
Long time Wow Cool Compañero Ian Lynam’s awesome new book, Parallel Strokes, just came out and is available now via the book website: http://parallelstrokes.com/
Parallel Strokes is a collection of interviews with twenty-plus contemporary typeface designers, graffiti writers, and lettering artists around the world. The book is introduced with a comprehensive essay charting the history of graffiti, its relation to type design, and how the two practices relate in the wider context of lettering.
Include conversations with pan-European type design collective Underware, Japanese type designer Akira Kobayashi, American graffiti writer and fine artist Barry McGee/Twist, German graffiti writers Daim and Seak, American lettering artist, graphic designer and design educator Ed Fella, among others. Parallel Strokes is an enquiry into the history, context, and development of lettering today, both culturally approved and illicit.
The result of six years of research in the combined arts of lettering, graffiti, and typeface design, Parallel Strokes is a collection of interviews some of the best letterform creators in the world today.
Chaz Bojorquez talks about the origins of barrio graffiti in Los Angeles and the evolution of the craft. Fellow Angeleno, vernacular graphic designer Ed Fella, speaks about his history in lettering and how he earned the title “The King of Zing” in Detroit design and illustration circles. Famed Japanese type designer Akira Kobayashi discusses Roman and Japanese letterforms while showcasing a lifetime of type design work. European graffiti writers Daim, Seak, and Delta share their thoughts on dimensional graffiti lettering while American graffiti writer Mike Giant talks about vernacular lettering, typeface design, and the evolution of graffiti handstyles.
Parallel Strokes is richly illustrated throughout, featuring copious previously unpublished work by the interviewed artists, as well as supplementary illustrations and photographs detailing contemporary and historical trends in graffiti and type design.
The first 100 orders come with a two color 17″ x 20″ Parallel Strokes poster printed using recycled paper and soy inks at Portland, Oregon’s Pinball Publishing. Parallel Strokes is 244 pages thick and available for $25 with free shipping worldwide.
Also be sure to read Ian’s articles for PingMag.
It’s starting to look like the more exciting Coney Island exhibit that the Brooklyn Museum is hosting right now is the one in the blog by curator Patrick Amsellem. And I’m not just saying that because they picked one of my photos to run in it. Yes, I am beyond flattered, but I’ve long made seasonal treks down to the boardwalk and am worried to see how they might be changing it. I just hope we’re left with more than a bunch of photos and our own Coney Islands of the mind.
See all my Brooklyn photos on flickr here, which are pretty heavy on the Coney action. I have a great roll or two somewhere of the summer that C.I. stayed open extra long because all the schools were closed for asbestos abatement. Gotta find those.
OK. I just spent the month of February taking the RPM Challenge-record an album of at least 10 songs or 35 minutes in 29 days. Easy, right? Except I’m down in Knoxville and the band (Brown Cuts Neighbors, nickname: Rebel, anyone!) is now scattered to the four corners. I was talked into this mad venture by the Rev. Joshua Baker (God Hates Computers, Chased and Smashed, childhood friend) who is in a similar boat up in Maine. We’re both also trying to figure out how new digital audio deals work on our respective underpowered laptops. The very last tune I finished was the one we had worked on together, and probably the most successful - check out Ouroboos (4MB MP3). If this sounds at all like something you want to hear, you can have the whole thing for free (30MB zipped MP3 files and cover in PDF). It’s called R is for Riot and is by nickname: Rebel. There are just 10 songs. It’s 21 minutes. A few songs have words, they concern micronations with solar powered submarines, lab accidents, Ernest O. Lawrence, and tactful ways to tell someone they’re being cheated on. I got done just in the proverbial nick… getting it in the mail 9 minutes before deadline. nickname: Rebel RPM Page | Josh’s Not Square with Zero RPM Page
What I learned
- Get a taller drum throne. I cannot believe how much my legs hurt.
- That old saying, never mix the same day… oh yeah. These actually sound ok a day or 2 later.
- I’m not loosing my mind now that there are just a few days left… that already happened yesterday.
- Always record every take, even the practice warm up one. Some things are hard to nail. Had two perfect solo runs lost to time. All the ones I got down… eh.
- I have recorded none of the songs I wrote or planned in the first week.
Thanks,
Marc Arsenault
http://wowcool.com/engine
I’ll post every few entries on my RPM Blog here as they build up during this long desperate month of recording… Just 17 days left.
Obscure Functions of the RPM Challenge
I pretty quickly realized that this would be where I finally cut my teeth on Logic Studio 8. I know fuck-all about it now, but expect to be an expert in four weeks time. Another thing I’ve discovered is that this was the perfect excuse to finally dig through and try out all those free apps, plug-ins and samples I’d been downloading for months. A kind of constructive procrastination. After all, I am making some sounds! Only a few seconds may make it into the final piece, but the extra spice will add some serious flavor.
That’s why I have all those outputs
Found a good use for all those output channels on my MOTU Ultralite… wishing I had another set of monitor speakers to plug into them. One set to monitor what I’ve played and one set to listen to what I’m doing. All of it through one set just really doesn’t give me the separation I want. Oh, sure, I could go to headphones or play through an amp… but, you know…
Learning all sorts of fun things from Logic. The tuner is super useful. Imagine! plodding on…
This has been a pretty big month for me for newsstand exposure. I’ve got photos of Cary, NC’s White Tiger Martial Arts in the latest TKD-TaeKwonDo Times and many of the shots of the Tiger Claw Elite Champions’ performance at last year’s Disney’s Martial Arts Festival that I posted about a couple months ago in the latest Kung Fu Tai Chi magazine. Less visible, I did a feature article (with even more photos) of White Tiger in the martial arts newsletter I co-edit - Tiger Claw’s Clawmarks (hey, I’ll still take a circulation of 17,000… sadly a lot better than most of the comicbooks I’ve worked on). If you’re into the martial arts, check these things out. If you’re here for the weird art and music, there’s more of that on the way.
Yes folks, its all about me. But heck, I don’t do these around town too often anymore… so dig this:
Two sets: one set electric guitar freakout improv, and the other solo acoustic guitar and voice (that means singing a bunch of new songs and re-worked covers such as my hybrid deer/human dylan song)
Total run time: 8pm to 930ish. Short intermission in there somewhere. Gonna flip a coin right before show to decide which set goes first.
Details:
Thursday, February 28, 2008
POINT 5 (also occasinally referred to as CDFI)
383.5 Madison Ave
Albany, NY 12202
- just a little ways down from Lark street going in the direction of Albanys old red light district, now the Empire State Plaza. Thats what theyre callin it these days.
Cheers,
Jason
Just a half-hour to go and then album frenzy kicks in. Stay tuned for updates.
Johnny Flatline returns, in a typical adventure… all fantasies, lies, imagination, backstory and wasted rationalizations. Realized here in an adult form not seen before. He returns in 2009 in Quarter a tale of Pinball, deceit and Lust. This was drawn tonight for Jeremy Adolphson’s 4×6-Art project, where he gets artists to create original works on 4×6 note cards. He has well over 500 now… I promised to do one about 18 months ago… not too bad.
My band, nickname: Rebel, will have a new album for 2008. OK, it’s really going to be a solo joint, but I’m feeling the Rebel vibe. The basic pitch is, you have 29 days in February to record an album of new music… at least 10 songs or 35 minutes. Comics have 24 Hour Comics day, aspiring authors have National Novel Writing Month and there is also Album Writing Month in February for all those songwriter types with a goal of 14 (and a half) songs in the shortest month of the year. For home recordists, indy producers, garage bands… and anyone else with a tape deck or computer, there is the RPM Challenge.
In freakout post punk party mode in my identity as the voice and melody of nickname: Rebel I have taken the challenge, as has Wow Cool recording artist Rev. Joshua Baker (Chased and Smashed, God Hates, Computers, Kilauea, etc.)… hopefully more will jump on board and pump out the hits. Stay tuned for updates from the studio.
Do you want to play?
Simon is the subject in the third in this years series of holiday interview by Tom Spurgeon at his Excellent The Comics Reporter site. Tom talks to Simon about everything from his early anarcho-minicomics to his current success with Paris and Vinyl Underground.
5 years till the end of days party
FRIDAY DEC. 21ST at 51 3rd st. TROY, NEW YORK
SCIENTIFIC MAPS
ROSS GOLDSTEIN
JASON MARTIN
With special guest: DJ JESSE STILES
9pm b.y.o.b.
December 21st, 2007 marks the beginning of the 5 year countdown to a 2012 Armageddon, long ago foretold by Mayan soothsayers as “the end of man”. The forces of fate will converge this Friday in the city of Troy, NY at 51 3rd street as musicians, artists, and heathens make merry to mark the beginning of the end.
SCIENTIFIC MAPS headline this extravaganza of sight and sound. Part anglophile pop, part clever wordplay, The Maps create a sonic concoction that makes the listener wonder: “what if Ray and Dave Davies HAD strangled each other on stage? Would they be up in heaven listening to The Shins?”
ROSS GOLDSTEIN is a man with a band, playing cosmic space cowboy
ballads that marry Bowie with Gram Parsons. A fuzzy rocket of
keyboard pop takes off for the stratosphere.
JASON MARTIN opens the show with deconstructed pop, pedals, and effects. A Hudson Valley veteran of the scene, Martin’s performances promise to be unpredictable and engaging.
After the bands, the dance machine that is DJ Jesse StIles comes
online. Expect to sweat.
At long last I’ve managed to go through some more of my shots from the intense photo-overload in Florida last month. Some of my favorites are these from the Disney Martial Arts Festival night-time show performance by the Tiger Claw Elite Champions. Now I’m off to Raleigh-Durham in the morning for more martial arts action and to hopefully catch a Bryan Lee O’Malley’s book signing.
You can also watch the whole thing on YouTube.
More info at TigerClawElite.com.
So, yeah, I’m always the last to know it seems. I heard from about the last person I would expect to hear from that Lance Hahn had died. That news disturbed me and colored these last few day more than I would have thought possible. I only knew Lance a little bit, but liked him an awful lot. About 13 years back when we were both shitworkers at MaximumRockNRoll, he was one of the few people I’d talk to a bunch around the MRR house. I guess most people knew Lance just through his music. He played two of the most memorable shows I ever saw. I caught Cringer at ABC No Rio with Citizen Fish (I think it was Cringer’s last tour) I was just blown away by the whole thing. They had changed a lot since that first awesomely sing-along-to-able (if a little goofy) 7″. It’s a show that people still talk about. There may have been many other J Church shows I was at, but the one at UC Berkeley, In some glorified hallway, called (I think, just) The Golden Bear, really stood out. A great night. In the years since everything has drifted to places none of us would have guessed. It seemed like every time I heard some news about Lance it was bad. (House burning down… things like that) He always seemed to be upbeat and just the epitome of the non-defeatist punk spirit that few of us can ever say we keep going like that.
There’s a memorial gathering for Lance tonight in Austin, more info on his site. His MySpace page is still weirdly out there also. Say hi.
The Big Telephones by Jason Martin (1991)
If you’re in Albany, New York tonight (October 22, 2007) see Jason (Wolfman) Martin thump the bass for BunnyBrains at Valentine’s (Downstairs) 17 New Scotland Ave. 6 bucks. Show starts early at 6:30 PM. Also on the bill are AIDS Wolf (from Canada), Grab Ass Cowboys, and Aux Raus.
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