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Little Wings this saturday night!

This Saturday night at 1 am, Little Wings will be playing a special show at the Silent Movie Theatre, following an evening of Christopher Walken (Communion! best of clips! Chris dancing!). Bring 3 bucks to throw in the hat!
If you don't know the great music of Little Wings I don't know what to say except I feel sorry for you.

In case you missed it:

Peter Relic read a story he'd composed the night before that his dad had told him about a high school sports-star who was mauled in a boxing match. It was delivered with full re-enacted action sequences. Then Douglas Messerli read a few stories about his own high school experiences, one that featured another high school sport star, who was perhaps also in the closet.




A few days later we launched Punk House, a book of photographs by Abby Banks, covering some of the shabbiest habitats across America. Foot Village played and managed to get progressively more mental, which seemed impossible after the mental level of the first second.

Tuesday, Duesday

This Tuesday, February 19, 2008, the guys from dublab.com will be at family from noon until nine playing records in the shop. If you aren't fully aware, Dublab is a really great online radio station based out of here (Los Angeles) that has been around for several years and happens to be run by extremely awesome people. They've had people/bands like Animal Collective, John Wiese, High Places, and so many more do in studio sessions and once a week they do a live "feed" (it's mostly pre-recorded sets otherwise). So no stress if you don't live in LA or can't come because you can listen online at their website. They have even manage to get me to play some records Tuesday, exciting.
www.dublab.com
www.dublab.com
www.dublab.com

::update:: here is the schedule for tomorrow, and ahn do owns every eric b & rakim record, so watch out:

1-2:30pm - Michael Stock (Part Time Punks)
2:30-3pm - Ale
3-4pm - Kozy
4-5pm - Nate (me, the guy who authored this blog/post)
5-6pm - matthewdavid
6-7:30pm - frosty
7:30-8:30pm - Anh Do
8:30-9pm - Ale

(our clock spins on pacific standard time)

THIS WEEKEND, WOW

There will also be a donkey basketball game & dunk tank in addition to all the art and stuff at the one-year anniversary art opening, so please dress accordingly, please.

Last one I Swear.

One more art show preview-Will Sweeney's piece "Tombs of the Blind Dead".

ANNIVERSARY ART SHOW - SPOILER ALERT

As if it couldn't be topped, in addition to all the art on display at the Thank You opening, DJ's Cole M.G.N., Roy Tatum, & Nathan Harrington have just been added to lull you into a false sense of security by playing everything from loft classics to all those new bassline songs Roy just downloaded, oh wow.

Anniversary Art Show - Sneak Preview!

For our one-year anniversary, we'll be hosting a colossal in-store art show, featuring 26 artists that have supported and inspired the store. The show is titled 'Thank You', and that goes out to you!

Opening Feb 28, 8pm - March 31

Original works by:

Geoff Mcfetridge
Aaron Rose
Will Oldham
Joanne Oldham
Dave Eggers
Paper Rad
Ian Svenonius
Mike Mills
Jordan Crane
Cheryl Dunn
Shary Boyle
Phil Elverum
Ashley Macomber
Sammy Harkham
Andrew Jeffrey Wright
Simon Evans / Sarah Lannan
Matt Brinkman
Lori D
Ron Rege Jr
Kyle Field
Will Sweeney
Trinie Dalton
Sumi Ink Club
Cayce Cole
Mudboy
CF
Vanessa Davis

Each artist will be showing up to three original pieces, the entire show to be snugly arranged to fit the work into the limited space.

Ron Rege Jr



Ashley Macomber



Joanne Oldham



Simon Evans and Sarah Lannan

This Wednesday:

February 13, Wednesday 7:30pm
Launch of Punk House with Foot Village Live. Free.

In Punk House Abby Banks photographs anarchist warehouses, tree houses, workshops, artists’ studios, self-sufficient farms, hobo squats, community centers, basement bike shops, speakeasies, and all varieties of communal living spaces. Over 300 images of fifty houses in twenty-five cities in the US. With an introduction by Thurston Moore.

Abby will be giving a DVD presentation and Foot Village will perform live.

Mudboy + Megafuckers

Here's some photos from the window installation party. More photos of the installation itself coming soon.



Mudboy had this crazy light that he swung around. Very spooky. He performed in what had been his bedroom for the past 10 days. We'll miss him.



Amanda, a fellow Kramer, has started a catering company with Diva, specialising in organic raw vegan desserts called 'Crops and Rawbers'. She served previews and they were delicious. For more info - myspace.com/cropsandrawbers
Amanda will wear this apron to your special event.



Nobody enjoys organic raw vegan desserts like Cali Dewitt.



Megafuckers were doing star jumps and stretches out the back before they played. True story.





Don't forget about the Launch of Punk House with Foot Village on Wednesday night!

Peter Relic's Reading Series Begins

Arthur Magazine Presents Acclaimed Poet and Essayist Douglas Messerli reading with Writer and Rap Scholar Peter Relic
Thursday feb 7 at 8pm

Douglas Messerli is the founder, operator and editor of Green Integer Books (www.greeninteger.com), a truly awesome independent publishing company that keeps in print early novels by Knut Hamsun, poetry by Ko Un, and assorted notable writings that "may appear necessary to bring society into a slight tremolo of confusion and fright at least." Which is not to say that joy and humor are not also part of his agenda. Messerli will be reading for the first time from his cultural memoir, My Year.

Peter Relic is an Arthur Magazine contributing editor. Tonight he will be conducting a dramatic reenactment of what happened inside the smoky and underlit boxing ring of the Cleveland Armory one winter night in 1956.

who are these people?

I'm not a terrifically political man, nor am I even allowed to vote, yet if I were an American, Miranda July would have inspired me with this:

I'd like to think all the people who follow my work are radical, political firecrackers. But those of you who are don't need any encouragement from me. Instead I will focus my efforts on the demographic who, like me in 1996, feels completely disconnected from life, nevermind their country. I'm hoping that there aren't very many of you, in this day and age. You people are hard to encourage, because all the political arguments will mean nothing to you. I just spent the last hour typing up my case for Obama, but you won't even read it, you'll skip ahead to something that seems subtler or less cliche, I know you. (And those of you who will read it, who are perhaps torn between Obama and Clinton, are well tended to by better writers.) So nevermind all that.

Here's why you should vote: you are going to really love it, the whole strange procedure. You get to walk right into a building that you would never normally be allowed in, often an elementary school. You can pause in the hallway to look at all the weird school-art and feel the eerie vibe of hundreds of kids living their endless kid lives right nearby. Then you follow the arrows to the voting room and look at the faces of the volunteers - who are these people? There is a hush of secrecy, the voting booth is clunky, the whole thing seems fake somehow. You consider filling in all the bubbles, like you did on the SATs. But you don't. You vote. You walk back outside feeling like you just gave blood or something, lightheaded from citizenry. You are wearing a sticker that says "I Voted" and you wish you could continue to get stickers like this throughout the day: I Ate Dinner, I Went To Sleep, I Got Out Of Bed, I Went To Work.
But alas, it is just this one thing that we all do together, savor it.

I tried to find an easy link for you to locate your polling place, but the best thing to do is just type the name of your city + "where do I vote" into google. If you're not registered, then you can't vote in the primaries, but register right now so you can vote in November.

pps: non-american subscribers: sorry. for everything. we are working on it.