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Carl Macki in the bush of poetry ghosts.
Louise Brooks at the Victoria, and the Rafael
Terry Ehret: Reading in Forestville
from Terry Ehret
"I invite you all to Forestville on November 16 when I’ll be reading new work from my upcoming book, Lucky Break.
"I’m going to focus on short lyric and narrative prose pieces. Hope you can come! Here are the details."
Thursday, November 16 at 7 PM:
Quicksilver Mine Co.
6671 Front St. (Hwy. 116)
Downtown Forestville .
Terry Ehret presents “Portraits, Vignettes, and Fables: Little Poems in Prose.”
Deaf Dog Farewell Reading-- "Waking the Dog."
Dear Literary Folk,
As you probably have heard, sadly, Deaf Dog Coffee in Petaluma has
gone bankrupt, and the founder, owner, roaster, and poet Ron Salisbury is
facing serious financial troubles--a series of unfortunate events,
including last New Year's Day flood, which proved impossible to recover
from.
Ron has been a good friend to poets and to the community, and I thought
it would be nice for those of us in the writing community who have
enjoyed Deaf Dog coffee or who have read their work at the cafe, to
come together for a final farewell. Ron says he'd like it to be a
celebration, rather like an old fashioned Irish wake.
And so, we're calling it
Copperfield's Bookstore in Petaluma will be the host. The date is
Friday, November 17, 6:30-8:30 PM.
I'm working on the PR right now. If you think you'd like to be one of
the featured readers, and you have a poem about coffee, dogs, or both
(or any poem that suits the occasion), please let me know by e-mail.
Terry Ehret
http://mailto:tehret99@comcast.net
Les Bienvenillantes Will Visit Our Shores
from The Book Standard
French Book Rights Sold in US and UK
October 26, 2006
By Kimberly Maul
"Rights for Les Bienvenillantes, by first-time author Jonathan Littell, one of the books that captured attention at the Frankfurt Book Fair, have been sold in the U.K. to Chatto & Windus and U.S. to HarperCollins. The 900-page novel, written in French, is already a bestseller in France and was the subject of a week-long auction for rights.
"It is reported that HarperCollins paid a substantial sum for Les Bienvenillantes, which means “The Kindly Ones,” and will publish it in spring 2008. . ."
more
rockpaperscissors collective Street Scare
We hope you are all working hard on your costume to wear to the Street Scare Sunday. We're getting ready here, but there are just a few final thing we need to make this event a success.
-PUMPKINS! We have some, but we want them to be free to everyone who can't afford one. So bring an extra one to donate!
-GRILLABLES! Again, we want to spread the love of food. So bring something to grill and share.
-FOLDING TABLES! If you have any at your disposable, we'd love to borrow them.
Saturday we will be at RPS from 1pm on making signs, collecting donations, and thinking about food. Come join us!
If you have any tables, please email or call us ahead of time so we can arrange a pick-up.
xoxorps
Beck's Top Ten Album Covers
from VH1 (MTV News)
The Beatles' "Rubber Soul" (1965), and "Revolver" (1966); France Gall's "Baby Pop" (1966), Os Mutantes' "Os Mutantes" (1968), and "Mutantes" (1969); Captain Beefheart's "Trout Mask Replica" (1969), The Rolling Stones' "Sticky Fingers" (1971),
Toncho Pilatos' "Toncho Pilatos" (1971),
Pool-Pah's "The Flasher," David Bowie's "Low" (1977);
more, in the beck's own words
The Hold Steady in the Onion
The Hold Steady
Interviewed by Christopher Bahn, Noel Murray
October 18th, 2006
AVC: How much of the songs' subjects do you work out together?
TK: Craig is solely responsible for the lyrics, and it's a privilege to work with someone like Craig, because it makes my job easier. I think on this record, he had been constantly writing from the time we finished Separation Sunday, so he had a really clear idea what he wanted the songs to be about. So I tried to get into that too, by focusing on areas of my playing as a guitarist that were kind of out of my comfort zone. I tried to come up with song ideas that were going to force me to go to that place.
Obviously, you try never to make the same record twice, and I think with this one, we went into writing songs a little more deliberately. But at the same time, we write really quickly, and we always have. Especially since Craig and I have worked together for so long. It's five guys drinking beer in a shitty rehearsal space in Brooklyn, banging out rock songs. I wish there were a more artistic, creative explanation for what we're doing, but that's the God's honest truth.
CF: For the lyrics, I have words in these notebooks. I try to write a little bit every day, just free-writing, and then I go back and find out what's going to work for the song. I figure out, given the riff, what the meter and the vocal line is, and then I go through these books to find the lyrics. I don't think anyone really knows what the lyrics are until we record.
AVC: Not even you?
Spoon: "Trouble Minx" Progress Report
Spoon news, October 23 2006
"The good news: Britt Daniel solo show next Thursday, November 2
at the Parish, Austin. Tickets on sale here
"The other good news: instrumental Britt Daniel / Brian Reitzel music --
and one new Spoon song in upcoming movie -- "Stranger Than Fiction (trailer)."
Soundtrack out Nov 7, and movie opens Nov 10th.
The old news: Spoon still recording LP6, Trouble Minx, daily
Spoon still arguing over album title daily. Songs in progress:
"Don't Make Me a Target"
"My Little Japanese Cigarette Case"
"Kindness Kills Them"
"Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga"
"Black Like Me"
"The Way You Said, Yeah He Did"
"Eddie's Ragga"
"The album is coming together with much force and energy as we work on it every day here in the currently amazing clime of Austin, Tecas under the careful eye of a very good wizard, Mike McCarthy.
love to awl
www.spoontheband.com
On "Noise Floor (Rarities 1998-2005)" -- just out,
Bright Eyes covers Spoon's "Spent on Rainy Days."
http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=A4zkbu3xdan7k
Susan Griffin at Watershed
Susan Griffin has been added to the
11th Annual
WATERSHED ENVIRONMENTAL POETRY FESTIVAL
Saturday, October 28, Noon-6 PM
Atrium and Auditorium
Berkeley City College
2050 Center Street, Berkeley
one-half block west of downtown Berkeley BART
Pilot Scott Tracy: "We Cut Loose"
PILOT SCOTT TRACY
"We Cut Loose!"
a new album on Alternative Tentacles
OUR EDITORIAL recommendation:
"We Cut Loose" is indeed unrestrained. The songs are very high minded, energetically delivered, and composed with an urgency that may be mesmerizing. Healthy hyper. They do a cover of a Smith's song. I loved it!
An exuberant Wesley Willis sings, "Pilot Scott Tracy." before the band
takes off in "UFO."
Listen over and over again.
from Alternative Tentacles comes this informative press release
"Combine the imagery and decadence of mid-century air travel with the
energetic excesses of new wave/punk music, and you come close to the
roots of Pilot Scott Tracy. Started by Scott Causey Stanton and Tracy
Cox, first as a duo, and later a six-piece, Pilot Scott Tracy emerged
from the ashes of The Causey Way in 2001. The Causey Way, a
sometimes-band, sometimes-religious-cult, converted Jello Biafra in
1997, and subsequently released two albums on Alternative Tentacles
Records.
"Pilot Scott Tracy’s music and performances are animated by
the same frenetic “Causey Way” energy, but their sound, with their
line-up, has developed. The band now features Scott (former member of
Plaid Girl, This Bike Is A Pipebomb, Man or Astroman, and The Causey
Way) on vocals and guitar, Miss Tracy (Causey Way) on vocals and moog,
Chris “Captain Kick Ass” Boland (Plaid Girl, Neutronic, Man or
Astroman) on vocals and guitar, Miss Susan (Plaid Girl, Causey Way) on
vocals and bass, Jody “Bayou Joe” Bilinski (Causey Way, Mooney Suzuki)
on drums, and Lady Christa (Pink Panic) on organ.
Previous Scott/Tracy on AT:
order direct at:http://alternativetentacles.com
Causey Way · With Loving And Open Arms
virus231 (1999)
09: "Institutional Man" by Causey Way (1:53) - MP3 (1.8 MB)
02: "Sweat" by Causey Way (2:38) - MP3 (2.4 MB)
Causey Way · Causey vs. Everything
virus246 (2001)
09: "Spend Time" by Causey Way (0:00) - MP3 (2.0 MB)
08: "Jesus Loves You" by Causey Way (0:00) - MP3 (1.9 MB)
02: "Geo Logical Lust" by Causey Way (0:00) - MP3 (2.9 MB)
01: "Te Como Vivo" by Causey Way (0:00) - MP3 (2.8 MB)
Get in touch for review copies, interview requests, etc.
George "Opprobrium" Chen
Publicity for Alternative Tentacles Records
PO Box 419092, San Francisco, CA 94141-9092
phn: 510.596.8981 fax: 510.596.8982
www.alternativetentacles.com
press@alternativetentacles.com
Bones Video
"Bones" Video
The new video for “Bones”, directed by Tim Burton, will premiere very soon on MTV. Check back with thekillersmusic.com throughout the week for more updates.
The new video for “Bones”, directed by Tim Burton, will premiere very soon on MTV. Check back with thekillersmusic.com throughout the week for more updates.
A PEN for this: Here, Bullet
Here, Bullet, a poetic account of the Iraqi War. Opinions are widespread, and ranging--like blood on sands of the sandy seashores where this book is partly set. Good or bad, that may be an excellent thing!
"The verse in this book is not good, but it is, in a cultural moment that includes Cindy Sheehan, timely."--Publishers Weekly
"His début collection, “Here, Bullet,” is more sandy than muddy, has plenty of blood (as well as “Grease guns, pistols, RPGs” and “all the fucks and goddamns / and Jesus Christs of the wounded”), and offers its share of sweetness, in the form of date palms, chai tea, and off-hours prostitutes observed through the lenses of high-powered binoculars."
--Dana Goodyear, New Yorker
"I have just finished reading it cover to cover, and it is one of the finest collections of poetry--especially pertaining to warfare--I have ever read."
--Jon Burrows amazon.com
Received Beatrice Hawley Award (2005)from Alice James Books.
See wikipedia for bio.
Bookslut review.
From the Fishouse audio of Brian Turner reading
To arrange a reading or event with Brian Turner, please contact Alison Granucci at Blue Flower Arts.
Media: for review copies, press kits, or to arrange an interview, television/radio appearance, or other feature, please contact April Ossmann or Lacy Simons at Alice James Books.
The title poem of this volume was also published in American War Poetry:An Anthology, Edited by Lorrie Goldensohn (Columbia Univ. Press) http://www.columbia.edu/cu/cup/catalog/data/023113/0231133103.HTM
"The verse in this book is not good, but it is, in a cultural moment that includes Cindy Sheehan, timely."--Publishers Weekly
"His début collection, “Here, Bullet,” is more sandy than muddy, has plenty of blood (as well as “Grease guns, pistols, RPGs” and “all the fucks and goddamns / and Jesus Christs of the wounded”), and offers its share of sweetness, in the form of date palms, chai tea, and off-hours prostitutes observed through the lenses of high-powered binoculars."
--Dana Goodyear, New Yorker
"I have just finished reading it cover to cover, and it is one of the finest collections of poetry--especially pertaining to warfare--I have ever read."
--Jon Burrows amazon.com
Received Beatrice Hawley Award (2005)from Alice James Books.
See wikipedia for bio.
Bookslut review.
From the Fishouse audio of Brian Turner reading
To arrange a reading or event with Brian Turner, please contact Alison Granucci at Blue Flower Arts.
Media: for review copies, press kits, or to arrange an interview, television/radio appearance, or other feature, please contact April Ossmann or Lacy Simons at Alice James Books.
The title poem of this volume was also published in American War Poetry:An Anthology, Edited by Lorrie Goldensohn (Columbia Univ. Press) http://www.columbia.edu/cu/cup/catalog/data/023113/0231133103.HTM
DNA is Mesoderming Draculae
27 Oct 2006 10pm - 4am.
REMEDY deep house. hiphop
$10 advance
"Creature Feature" Halloween Party!
Main Room:
Mark Farina (OM) -- 4 hour set!
Julius Papp (Neodisco)
Lounge:
Daniela
DJ Add 1
Costumes encouraged!
28 Oct 2006
DNA Lounge &
SF Weekly present
POP ROXX
indie. rock. gothic.
electro. new wave.
mod. bastard pop.
9pm - after hours.
$7.
Main Room:
Audrock (Loaded)
Miz Margo (Dark Sparkle)
Kid Hack (Future)
Chan Chan (Loaded / Beauty Bar)
Coffin Draggers (performing live at midnight)
Lounge:
Adrian & Mysterious D (Bootie)
Party Ben (Bootie / Live 105)
Midnight show with Foxy Cotton.
Encapsulated: October 22nd
from SF Station
Description
CAPSULE: A Street Festival for Design
The fourth CAPSULE Street Festival for Design hits the street Sunday, Oct. 22, in Hayes Valley.
This all day event features 110 of the Bay Area’s and West Coast’s most
interesting designers, showcasing and selling their clothing, hats, bags, jewelry, house-wares, and more.
Come and enjoy a day in the sun, on the Hayes Valley Green. The festival
is on Octavia St. between Hayes St. and Fell St.
more
Pilot Scott Tracy: "We Cut Loose"
from Alternative Tentacles comes this informative press release
press@alternativetentacles.com --
"PILOT SCOTT TRACY is a band that has a new album called "We Cut Loose!"
on a record label called Alternative Tentacles. Some of them may be
familiar to you being players in independent music institutions like
CAUSEY WAY, THIS BIKE IS A PIPE BOMB, MOONEY SUZUKI, and MAN OR
ASTROMAN. If not, read on anyway, and cotton to your physical
manifestation of said album, "We Cut Loose!" and imagine these are the
liner notes. Which they are not...
"Combine the imagery and decadence of mid-century air travel with the
energetic excesses of new wave/punk music, and you come close to the
roots of Pilot Scott Tracy. Started by Scott Causey Stanton and Tracy
Cox, first as a duo, and later a six-piece, Pilot Scott Tracy emerged
from the ashes of The Causey Way in 2001. The Causey Way, a
sometimes-band, sometimes-religious-cult, converted Jello Biafra in
1997, and subsequently released two albums on Alternative Tentacles
Records.
"Pilot Scott Tracy’s music and performances are animated by
the same frenetic “Causey Way” energy, but their sound, with their
line-up, has developed. The band now features Scott (former member of
Plaid Girl, This Bike Is A Pipebomb, Man or Astroman, and The Causey
Way) on vocals and guitar, Miss Tracy (Causey Way) on vocals and moog,
Chris “Captain Kick Ass” Boland (Plaid Girl, Neutronic, Man or
Astroman) on vocals and guitar, Miss Susan (Plaid Girl, Causey Way) on
vocals and bass, Jody “Bayou Joe” Bilinski (Causey Way, Mooney Suzuki)
on drums, and Lady Christa (Pink Panic) on organ.
"Their music, described by one critic as “aggressively homo” is
sometimes raw, sometimes pretty, sometimes serious, sometimes silly.
Their diverse fan base might best embody the musical trainwreck of
early punk and new wave that is Pilot Scott Tracy: It all began when
Mark Mothersbaugh of Devo gave Scott and Tracy a personal tour of the
Devo headquarters, schooling them on vintage keyboards, equipment, and
sounds.
"PST balances that clean, queer sense of sound with a raucous
and dirty rock and roll that has attracted a growing legion of heavy
metal fans. The singer from Pantera became a fan at a show in Chicago,
and ended up loading out the band’s equipment. The bass player of
White Zombie is among PST’s biggest fans.
"Punk icon Jello Biafra likes PST so much, he not only puts out their music, but schedules his own
engagement calendar around PST’s performances.
"And of course, the legendary Wesley Willis, the band’s dear friend and artistic muse, even
wrote a song for them, titled, appropriately, “Pilot Scott Tracy.” In
short, if you like music, you’ll like Pilot Scott Tracy."
Get in touch for review copies, interview requests, etc.
George "Opprobrium" Chen
Publicity for Alternative Tentacles Records
PO Box 419092, San Francisco, CA 94141-9092
phn: 510.596.8981 fax: 510.596.8982
www.alternativetentacles.com
AIM: georgezum
http://www.last.fm/user/geochen/
Orhan Pamuk Wins Nobel Prize
from http://www.themillionsblog.com/2006/10/orhan-pamuk-wins-nobel-prize.html
"
It's official. Turkish writer Orhan Pamuk has won the Nobel Prize for Literature. As the Lit Saloon had noted, Pamuk had fallen somewhat out of favor with the oddsmakers leading up to the announcement, though he has been considered a likely winner for years. Pamuk is perhaps best known in recent years for being accused by Turkish courts of insulting "Turkishness" based on comments he made in interviews. Those charges were later dropped, but not until after his case became a cause celeb for free speech around the world." more
WATERSHED ENVIRONMENTAL POETRY FESTIVAL
11th Annual
WATERSHED ENVIRONMENTAL POETRY FESTIVAL
Saturday, October 28, Noon-6 PM
Atrium and Auditorium
Berkeley City College
2050 Center Street, Berkeley
(one-half block west of downtown Berkeley BART)
10 AM -- Opening Creek Walk, with poetry writing and reading led by Chris Olander, readings by participating poets and artists, talks by Watershed restoration experts. Meet on the UC Berkeley Campus, Oxford and Center Streets.
All events free and open to all.
For more information and festival schedule, visit www.poetryflash.org.
FESTIVAL PARTICIPANTSWATERSHED ENVIRONMENTAL POETRY FESTIVAL
Saturday, October 28, Noon-6 PM
Atrium and Auditorium
Berkeley City College
2050 Center Street, Berkeley
(one-half block west of downtown Berkeley BART)
10 AM -- Opening Creek Walk, with poetry writing and reading led by Chris Olander, readings by participating poets and artists, talks by Watershed restoration experts. Meet on the UC Berkeley Campus, Oxford and Center Streets.
All events free and open to all.
For more information and festival schedule, visit www.poetryflash.org.
Featured poets: California Poet Laureate Al Young, Lewis MacAdams, Maya Khosla, Chris Olander, Albert Flynn DeSilver, John Oliver Simon, Richard Silberg.
Student and youth poets from Poetry Inside Out, California Poets in the Schools, and River of Words.
Music: Smooth Toad with G.P. Skratz, Andy Dinsmoor, and Bob Ernst.
Creek Walk and Poetry Workshop presenters: poet/percussionist Avotcja, poet Kim Shuck, dancer Patricia Bulitt, poet/activist Lewis MacAdams, Ecology Center's Kirk Lumpkin, EcoCity Builder's Kirstin Miller, led by Chris Olander.
ENVIRONMENTAL PRESENTATIONS
"Nature Through Artists' Eyes" with renowned natural history photographer David Liittschwager, winner of the Biodiversity Leadership Award , noted Bolinas artist Arthur Okamura, Professor Emeritus at CCA, and poets Maya Khosla and Albert Flynn DeSilver
"Ecological Design and the Poetry of Place--Strawberry Creek Downtown" with Kirstin Miller and Richard Register of EcoCity Builders, poet Lewis MacAdams of Friends of the LA River, and Gus Yates of Citizens for a Strawberry Creek Plaza
"Sustainable Living" led by Kirk Lumpkin of the Ecology Center.
The Moth On Story Tour: San Francisco
THE MOTH STORY TOUR:
URBAN STORYTELLING
presented by TNT
featuring Andy Borowitz, Jonathan Ames, Edgar Oliver,
URBAN STORYTELLING
presented by TNT
featuring Andy Borowitz, Jonathan Ames, Edgar Oliver,
Sherman "O.T." Powell, Steve Osborne, Adam Gopnik, & Joyce Maynard
Thursday, October 19
$21 - Doors 7, Show 8 - Seated!
The Moth is a New York based non-profit arts organization dedicated to the art of storytelling.
Thursday, October 19
$21 - Doors 7, Show 8 - Seated!
The Moth is a New York based non-profit arts organization dedicated to the art of storytelling.
Celebrating its 10 th season, The Moth is simple, old-fashioned storytelling on thoroughly modern
themes by wildly divergent raconteurs. Featuring true stories, told to live audiences,
each show is cast with six carefully selected individuals, who have been coached to share tales from their lives
and times with no script and no notes.
The Great American Music Hall is located at:
859 O'Farrell Street
San Francisco, CA 94109
The Great American Music Hall is located at:
859 O'Farrell Street
San Francisco, CA 94109
New Lit Generation
Small Press Distribution
NEW LIT GENERATION
PARTY & READING
Saturday, November 4, 2006, 1-4PM
Maxine Chernoff, Josesph Lease,
Lateef McLeod, Julian T. Brolaski,
Emily Fong and Arianna Kandell
POETRY TRADING POST
(Trade in a poem or story for a free book!)
SPD warehouse
1341 7th St. (off Gilman),
Berkeley
1-4pm
Free & Open to the Public
Join college & high school students
and teachers from all over the Bay Area
for a party,reading & celebration
of independent literature!
Laura Moriarty
Deputy Director
Small Press Distribution
(510) 524-1668
laura@spdbooks.org
Thanks to the Walter & Elise Haas Fund,
The Marin Community Foundation and
the Friends of SPD for their support.
Victor Moscoso Lecture
Thursday October 12, 2006
Reception 6:30 Lecture 7:30
American Institute of Graphic Artists (AIGA)
Watermark Press, 950 Tennessee Street
San Francisco
RSVP: 415.626.6008
Victor Moscoso
Graphic Design from the Psychedelic Sixties
Victor Moscoso’s posters are as illegible now as they were in 1967 when
they appeared across the city promoting San Francisco’s legendary rock
shows. They’re also just as electrifying. Moscoso’s posters did for
graphic design what bands like the Grateful Dead, Jefferson Airplane, and
Big Brother and The Holding Company did for rock music: they turned up
the volume and broke all the rules. In the mid-1960s, Moscoso stumbled
into a San Francisco teeming with hippies, hallucinogenic drugs and a
rock-and-roll culture that was unlike anything that had gone before. It
was the perfect environment to invent a new art form: the psychedelic
poster. With vibrating colors, stylized, nearly illegible type and
attention-getting but hard to read design, Moscoso turned the rules on their
head and created a body of work that altered the language of a
generation.
COST: $10 AIGA Members/$20/$15 Students
hardly strictly bluegrass schedule
schedule hardlystrictlybluegrass
Fri Oct 6 (10:30am - Noon & 3pm - 6pm) The morning (10:30 - noon) is a special educational program for local schools (and the general public) as part of the Daniel Pearl Foundation Music Days. |
| Banjo Stage |
| Sat Oct 7 (11am - 7pm) | ||
|---|---|---|
| Banjo Stage | Star Stage |
| Rooster Stage | Arrow Stage
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| Porch Stage |
| Sun Oct 8 (11am - 7pm) | ||
|---|---|---|
| Banjo Stage | Star Stage
|
Rooster Stage
| Arrow Stage |
Porch Stage
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http://www.hardlystrictlybluegrass.com/2006/schedule.cgi?show=day
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