Justin Giampaoli reviews Julia Gfrörer’s Flesh and Bone at Poopsheet. Insightful as always! http://poopsheetfoundation.com/forums/reviews/731-flesh-and-bone-by-julia-gfrorer
Read moreHeavy Hand and Lemon Styles make best of 2010 list.
Justin Giampaoli has created a pretty awesome best of 2010 list (including work by Patrick Keck whom I like a lot). Heavy Hand by Chris Cilla and Lemon Styles by David King both got flattering praise as well as Sparkplug in general. ...
Read morePhilip Barrett’s Matter Summer Special on 365 Zines a year.
One of my favorite blogs just reviewed Philip Barrett’s Matter Summer Special. 365 Zines a Year is a really cool combination of review and personal blog. Take a look: http://365zines.blogspot.com/2010/12/matter-summer-special.html
Read moreHellen Jo in Bust Magazine this month!
Hellen Jo just got a bunch of love from Bust Magazine: Make sure to read about the amazingness.
Read moreFlesh and Bone on Village Voice’s 2010’s Best Comics and Graphic Novels
Julia Gfrorer’s Flesh and Bone made Village Voice’s 2010’s Best Comics and Graphic Novels. It is pretty awesome. http://www.villagevoice.com/2010-12-15/art/2010-s-best-comics-and-graphic-novels/
Read moreThe Heavy Hand at BookGasm
A really great, thought out review of Chris Cilla’s the Heavy Hand, reviewed by Alan Cranis at Bookgasm: http://www.bookgasm.com/reviews/comics/the-heavy-hand/
Read moreCaptain Beefheart – Best Batch Yet
Former Magic Band drummer Robert Williams posted this to his MySpace blog this morning. It is an astounding performance. If you can wrap your head around it, then you might get a bit why people can get so crazy about the music of Captain Beefheart. I love how chunky the bass is in this.
Read moreShort Time Work
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Read moreR.I.P. Don Van Vliet – Captain Beefheart
It might be going too far to say that none of this (Wow Cool, Brown Cuts Neighbors, etc….) wouldn’t be here without Captain Beefheart and his Magic Band… but it wouldn’t be going very far from the truth. I tend to spend much of my casual thinking time thinking in music...
Read moreAndrice Arp and Allie Tiedeman at Artisan Holiday Market this Saturday
Andrice Arp will be selling my little magnet guys, prints, wallets, paintings, catnip toys etc. at the Art Department’s Artisan Holiday Market this weekend, again sharing a table with Allie Tiedeman. Allie has handmade cold-process soap, hand-crocheted washcloths and perfume solids...
Read moreRobert Sergel’s Eschews reviewed at Daily Cross Hatch
Sara Morean gives a long good review to Robert Sergel’s series Eschew at the The Daily Cross Hatch: http://thedailycrosshatch.com/2010/12/16/eschew-1-2-by-robert-sergel/
Read moreInkstuds Crashes Into Chris Cilla
http://www.inkstuds.org/?p=3275 The ever informative Inkstuds brings you an interview with the one and only Chris Cilla, creator of The Heavy Hand.
Read moreMerry X-Mas Buddy, And Welcome Back to Earth
I’m afraid we are going to be a little light on posts as 2010 comes to a close, so continuing the christmas theme, we present here the first part of the full length “Sleigh Bells in Schenectady” video by Brown Cuts Neighbors. The shorter version, which was screened at, and is...
Read moreSo amazing.
I’m really looking forward to this movie.
Read moreHave yourself a Zombie Little Christmas
Ringing in the tide of the yule a couple of the weeks early with this most glorious of outtakes (number the ninth) from the photo sessions for the Psycho Nurse! 2011 Calendar – covering thee full year of the rabbit from January 2011 through January 2012. Psycho Nurse! received a lovely...
Read moreI’m the Cover Story in the New Cupertino News
I seem to be a big deal. Hello to all those on the Apple Campus wondering who this smiling fellow is. Yes, the newest issue of Cupertino California’s The C – Cupertino Magazine, features yours truly, Marc Arsenault on the cover. It can be picked up at various locations around town...
Read moreThis Saturday Sparkplug in Portland at Indie Lit Roadshow!
This Saturday Dec. 11th in Portland Virginia and Emily will be coordinating the Sparkplug table and selling books at the Indie Lit Roadshow REDEFINE magazine and PILOT BOOKS are teaming up to bring you an afternoon of literary readings, music, and a pop-up book shop just in time for the...
Read moreSparkplug In California this Weekend.
Sparkplug’ll be traveling to the South to got to two shows around the Bay Area. On Saturday Dec. 11th in Berkeley, CA the East Bay Alternative Press Book Fair will be going from 10am-4pm at the Berkeley City College (2050 Center St. in Berkeley, CA). This show looks to be seriously awesome...
Read moreThis Weekend In Seattle: Chris Cilla IN THE HOUSE Zak Sally crashes into a swamp!
Dec. 11th 6-9pm: Zak Sally, Jason T. Miles, Max Clottfelter, Chris Cilla and more will be at the Fantagraphics Bookstore in Seattle, Wa for the Medieval Thinkers show and 4th anniversary of the Bookstore. Mark your social calendars in indelible ink! Saturday, December 11 marks the 4th...
Read more‘Sound Sculptor’ Susan Philipsz wins Turner Prize
2010 really is the year sound art broke. I predict that Susan Philipsz will be the ‘next Susan Boyle’; and her sales of Scottish folksong CDs will make that £25,000 Turner prize money look like small change. Currently her recordings are only available to listen to in the environments...
Read moreAdult Swim’s Video for Flying Lotus’ Zodiac Sh!t
Hey, I like it. Cosmogramma deserved to get nods on every Grammy they makes. You can find Flying Lotus on thee Twitter, thee MySpaceship and on his own site.
Read moreJason Martin TONIGHT at The Gershwin Hotel
John Torreano Variety Hour – Tuesday December 7th, 8pm, $10 John Torreano was last seen at the Gershwin in February 2000 with his show Sex, Love, Art and Things In-Between. He is back as monologist and MC for the show on December 7, in the Large Room, starting at 8:00. He will be presenting his...
Read moreMusic Monday: Nuisance – Attractive Nuisance demo
It’s not a big secret that I am a huge fan of Nuisance. I booked them twice for shows in Western Massachusetts. Once at a spectacularly disastrous warehouse show in Florence (at the Arts & Industry building, now home to Ecstatic Peace/Father Yod, then the home to Wow Cool, Al Columbia...
Read moreFlesh and Bone on Graphic Novel Reporter’s 2010 Favorites
Scroll down to see a cool recommendation for Julia Gfrörer’s Flesh & Bone by Peter Gutierrez: http://graphicnovelreporter.com/content/gnrs-2010-favorites-best-list
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