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1A: EDITORIAL: Our last month... by V. Vale. RE/SEARCH's rarest Artists Book Box: BRUCE CONNER (3 copies). New Mike Watt Zines. What We've Done; Where We've Been.
1B. Intv w/Nick Zedd Pt 3 by Zora Burden
1C. Finally Back in Print: RE/Search T-Shirts: W.S. Burroughs, Mr Death, RE/Search Logo (red on black). New from RE/Search: Charles Gatewood pocket book! Mike Watt Zine! Monte Cazazza Zine (2nd printing!).
1D. TOP 10 RE/Search Beverages
2. The Counter Culture Hour: Sat APR 9, 2016 4:30pm.
2b: RE/Search Conversations Podcast Series: New Podcast!
3. FORTHCOMING EVENTS: Send Us Suggestions!...
4. OUR PAST LIFE: Books we've been given, etc.
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1A. V. Vale Editorial: BRUCE CONNER Artists Book. Mike Watt Zines. Our Life.
"We've recently produced our first "Artists Book Box" on BRUCE CONNER: an extremely limited edition of three copies (we're keeping one copy), entirely handmade, featuring interviews and conversations which V. Vale recorded from 1979 to just before Bruce died in 2008. Also included are original color prints; photos of Bruce Conner by V. Vale. None of this material has ever been seen before; the text runs about a hundred pages. Approximately 350 hours of artist labor were involved in producing this rare ARTIST'S BOOK. Our friend Luis Delgado valued this handmade artist's book at $4,000 (but, we price it at $2,000!). We know a number of major museums are planning huge Bruce Conner retrospectives soon. So, if anyone knows an institution interested in this handmade production, let us know! Or, support your favorite counter-culture publisher by donating a copy to your local art museum or rare books library – maybe they'll name a new wing after you. (See your accountant for possible tax incentives!) This is likely to be the rarest RE/Search book ever published..." The RE/Search Bruce Conner Box includes ALL the Conner contributions to Search & Destroy and RE/Search: Search&Destroy #6,7,8,9,10,11, the PRANKS hardback, and the new Bruce Conner Artists Book. Price: $2,000 USD. If interested, write: info@researchpubs.com
We don't know why we did it, but we just watched (4) feature films in (2) days. And (3) of them were "new."
The first was a sunlit noir 2016 made-in-Los Angeles feature appropriately (and poignantly) titled TOO LATE. The first-time filmmaker, Dennis Hauck, shot 5 or 6 20-minute-plus reels of 35mm film WITHOUT EDITING, and pieced them together—again with NO EDITING (well, except for the titles, perhaps). He picked actors he already knew and tailored the dialogue to each. The result: a tour de force of power, mystery and mnemonic scarification…The film cuts deep grooves into the mind of the viewer, and is it because there was NO EDITING?!? Beautifully filmed, great music, and it all speeds by so fast you go: "What—it's the End?!?" You do watch the whole film with a deep feeling of dread. So, it's in the tradition of the best film noir, a genre which may be the "best" genre of them all...
Three hours later we were watching I SAW THE LIGHT. We've always liked Hank Williams but didn't know much about his life and were never completist about his songs, so... But the real draw was the actor Tom Hiddleston, whom we had watched on YouTube reading from our very own Search & Destroy #10 J.G. Ballard interview! Any actor intelligent enough to choose this particular section (promoting the new J.G. Ballard film, High Rise, in which Mr. Hiddleston stars) seemed worth "checking out," and we were not disappointed. Somehow Mr. H. not only looks like—but sounds like—the original country singer who died in 1953. Throughout the whole film, we're hearing him sing (and play guitar too, it looks like) a wide gamut of original Hank Williams songs, and the closing credits confirm he was truly singing the songs. (Uh, doesn't that take genuine musical talent, in addition to the obvious acting talent?) Guess it doesn't matter if he was born and raised in England; with the proper coaching, a Southern accent and a Hank Williams emotive vocal singing style can be totally mastered for a movie... Recommended as an example of mind-bogglingly virtuosic acting... or was it temporary reincarnation?!?
The next afternoon we saw THE FIRST MONDAY IN MAY, a documentary on NYC's Metropolitan Museum of Art partnering with Vogue magazine's Anna Wintour to pull off one of the Met's most well-attended fashion-as-art exhibition. Naturally, the first question dealt with is: Is Fashion 'Art'? The answer, predictably, is Yes, but there's an enormous To Do checklist to pull off such a theatrical, wowsville, performance art panorama known as the Met's big annual fundraiser. Even though we had (guilty pleasure) long ago read The Devil Wears Prada and been duly prejudiced against Anna Wintour, we found ourselves admiring and agreeing with the "real" Anna Wintour as she instantly made decisions and recommendations faster than the speed of thought. We could watch her for hours! Some people just have it… and most don't!
That night we saw on the big screen a film we had missed when it first screened—and now we are convinced Stanley Kubrick was a genius, auteur, and in The Pantheon of original-vision filmmakers—BARRY LYNDON, from 1973. Almost four hours long! It was like living through War and Peace. What an achievement: one amazingly-lit painterly scene after another, almost without end. The descriptive term "big hair" seems laughingly inadequate here. The struggle of one man against a rigid societal structure with rigid rules and codes is relentless, and that one man is in the end undone by his own ambition and lack of anger management… yet… it's hard not to admire the poor bloke as he tries so hard to… well, what WAS he striving for?!? True love? (I don't think so.) Upper-class, high-society acceptance? Maybe. Kubrick got the most amazing performances out of the actors, who never achieved such stellar accomplishments ever again. Yet… the film is a masterpiece and so the actors remain deified for their performances captured on celluloid. They can die with clear consciences…
() We also saw MAGMA; they are now one of our favorite bands of all time, as they dare to present a completely parallel-world vision to us earthlings. A film on Magma is being made; to support their indigegoogo campaign go to www.themusicofmagma.com
() We also saw FAUST do a unique semi-improvisatory performance at a new favorite venue: The Chapel. The Flamin' Groovies are present a 50-year-anniversary show there on Thu April —recommended by RE/Search!
() And, tonight we are scheduled to see Iggy Pop at The Masonic—amazing, impossible yet… Next month we will give a report!
() We also produced two limited editions of a zine on MIKE WATT, whom we interviewed several times in the past four months. The first featured (4) signed 4x6" color prints, Edition 2 features a color photograph (real print) cover. This is on our website: www.researchpubs.com
1B. Intv w Nick Zedd (NYC Punk Icon) by Zora Burden, done Jan 2016. Part 3:
Zora Burden: Have you been teaching at all? What is your opinion of academia and the art world?
Nick Zedd: I briefly "taught" a couple of film classes in Mexico City a few years ago. One was a "History of Transgression in Film" where I showed movies from my collection. The other was a filmmaking class where nobody spoke English and I couldn't speak Spanish (it didn't matter since we had a translator). The students made some movies…so it was a good experience.
I was kind of terrified to be in a small room with a bunch of people who couldn't speak English—the idea of doing something like that seemed both presumptuous and ludicrous… much scarier than making a movie, or going on tour and showing stuff to audiences!
But I've always felt that it's good to try things you're afraid to do… it's empowering... and the fact that I got paid in cash made it worth it! I was sorry when it ended.
For some reason schools never want to hire me. I tried for years to get a job at NYU's film school—it was like hitting a brick wall. I was a substitute teacher a couple of times at NYU—they had a complete collection of my films and Underground Film Bulletins there. But the administration refused to hire me. Same thing with The New School. They had a lot of mediocre filmmakers teaching there, but they would never hire me. I still don't understand why.
Many film students in Mexico City have demanded that their administrators hire me—they've even signed petitions asking for it. But it never happens. I guess it's all politics. So my opinion of academia is that it's SHIT.
ZB: How do you think capitalism and commercialism has devalued art and affected the art we see today?
NZ: Through commodification. The monetary value is more important than the content nowadays.
ZB: Do you feel your work is as appreciated as it should be in academia or otherwise?
NZ: No.
ZB: Why do you feel you're not acknowledged or appreciated, when your work clearly has had a major impact on film and culture?
NZ: I have no idea. It's a complete mystery to me.
ZB: What's the real story behind the creation of the term "Cinema of Transgression"?
NZ: I thought it up in 1979 before any of the other filmmakers [of transgression] started making movies. Then I used the term in 1984, in my magazine—in an editorial I wrote using a pseudonym, Orion Jericho—to get attention for all of us.
ZB: I've always wanted to ask if you think the guerrilla filmmaker in John Water's Cecil B DeMented was inspired by you...
NZ: It was, but John Waters won't admit it! He introduced me to the lead actor once when I was projecting movies in a nightclub.
ZB: Will you talk about the creation of your first film, They Eat Scum? What was the filming of this like… for you? How did it affect your future film work?
NZ: It was my first feature, shot in Super-8mm. I wrote a treatment, then a full-length screenplay in 1978. It affected my future work by teaching me the mechanics of screenwriting… learning to work with available materials (and limited funds) on my own schedule… working with unpaid non-actors (and a few real actors who I got through casting calls).
I used anyone who was available to get this movie done—including my parents! I persuaded them to drive up to NYC after giving my brother's pet poodle a crazy haircut and a green dye job. They appear in the film as unconscious extras [!]. My father did some stunt work in a chase scene, too. I met punk rockers in bars, clothing or record stores and got some to be in the movie. We shot a couple of scenes in a barn in Connecticut (or maybe it was Pennsylvania)…
I already had experience directing my father in a scene in an 8mm film I made as a teenager in Maryland eight years earlier—I was making short movies when I was twelve years old! When I was fourteen, I wrote screenplays and directed non-actors in Adelphi, Maryland before moving to New York in 1976.
They Eat Scum was my first feature which played to paying audiences. In 1979, after premiering it at OP Screen and Max's Kansas City, I was flown out to San Francisco where I showed it at Target Video and at another punk club. It was a lot easier to find places to show underground movies back then.
ZB: I like that your family were included in your work. How did they feel about the content of your films? Had they ever seen any of them?
NZ: I never showed them my movies. My films attacked and ridiculed their values and beliefs (which I had rejected). I had enough problems getting along with them—they didn't deserve added discomfort! And I didn't care what they thought, anyway.
In the end, we had a kind of truce. It's only since my parents died, and I've assumed the role of parent, that I began to understand them—in ways that I didn't expect.
ZB: What literature inspired you as a youth—or even now? What literature and films do you feel are most transgressive or extreme, according to your own definitions?
NZ: When I was a kid, there was Mad Magazine, E.C. comics, Ray Bradbury, Robert A. Heinlein, H.G. Wells, and underground comics. Will Eisner, Steve Ditko, Al Williamson, Neal Adams, Jack Kirby and Möbius were favorite comic artists. Later I read Nietzsche, Marx, the Marquis De Sade, Wilhelm Reich, Charles Bukowski, Baudelaire, William S. Burroughs, Bertrand Russell, Robert Ingersoll, Henry Miller, Gore Vidal, Robert Anton Wilson, Anton Szandor LaVey, Aleister Crowley, Guy Debord, Oscar Wilde, Howard Zinn, Webster Griffin Tarpley, Major General Smedley Butler and Ian F. Svenonius; all transgressive outsiders in their own ways.
ZB: Is your work more social and political criticism, or meant to act as a form of cultural warfare?
NZ: My work is an antioxidant virus triggering cognitive dissonance and transcendent thinking, while initiating a higher state of consciousness known as xenomorphosis. It's subversive, insurgent, hermetic and an antidote to the Simulacrusphere enveloping us. Call it edutainment.
ZB: Will you mention the films which were inspired by your work that you didn't get credit for?
NZ: Natural Born Killers, Bad Lieutenant, Pulp Fiction, Cecil B. Demented, etc.
ZB: For many people who know your work, you're considered an iconoclastic antihero in that you've stayed true to your artistic vision, unorthodox beliefs and convictions—and really sacrificed for them. Looking back, would you do anything different?
NZ: No; I had to be true to myself. That means: no compromise.
ZB: Would you rather be despised for your work, or admired?
NZ: It depends upon who we're talking about—as far as spectators go. I can't analyze or begin to know the individual minds of audience members. What I make, I do for myself. It's a process of discovery shared with the public. The spectator can react however he or she chooses.
ZB: What was the most unusual anecdote while working on a film—in regards to actors, props or set design?
NZ: I shot a video in 2006 of my penis being sucked by Rev Jen, using an old VHS camera with a feature allowing me to distort the image into two mirrors reversed. I hand-held the camera and filmed my cock being sucked along with shots of Rev masturbating. I was able to get very weird mutations of our naked bodies fucking with that camera. I later integrated this into the three-screen movie Whoregasm and Smiling Faces Tell Lies, shot in 16mm.
I also shot a sequence in 2003 in the same bed, holding the camera while Rev Jen's pet Chihuahua (Rev Jen Jr) licked my erect penis. That was the final shot in I Was a Quality of Life Violation. A lot of people seemed to be shocked and outraged by that movie, which is rarely screened.
ZB: What was the ideal reaction from an audience you would have wanted?
NZ: A riot, maybe!
ZB: How did you fund your films over time?
NZ: Sweeping floors in a woodshop, driving a cab, stealing film from a counter in an airport once. Showing movies in nightclubs and other odd jobs. The Bogus Man was commissioned by a guy named Rafik who owned a theater and wanted to include a movie by me in a show he was doing in 1980.
The only time I ever got a grant was in 1999 from The Chicago Underground Film Festival to complete Ecstasy In Entropy. I've been rejected for grant funding by NYSCA and cultural foundations run by governments in Germany and Austria. I've never received a penny from any government agency for a film. They prefer mundane shit by pedestrian filmmakers—who always get the money. I tried KickStarter once and it didn't work (I didn't know enough rich people).
ZB: Do you feel there's more artistic freedom and inspiration when working with smaller budgets? What was the biggest budget you've worked with, and did it make a difference?
NZ: It forces you to put your body and soul into it. Nobody interferes with what you do when you don't owe money to someone. The biggest budget I worked with didn't make any difference. It was still a struggle, but I did it my way.
ZB: Did you desire commercial or mainstream recognition for your films?
NZ: At first I did, but it never happened. The only exception is when I've seen my ideas stolen by Hollywood filmmakers. But they never acknowledge the ideas they take from me, so it doesn't really count as recognition.
ZB: Will you quote or choose an excerpt from your "Extremist Manifesto"? How does it differ from the "Transgression Manifesto"? Have your thoughts changed on this?
NZ: My thoughts regarding both of them haven't changed. There's also the "Theory of Xenomorphosis." You can choose!
ZB: Okay; I chose these as my favorite highlights from the "Extremist Manifesto":
“Now that contemporary art, a system that stands for privilege, nepotism and political connections is finally dying, get out of the fucking way.
"We who have been locked out of your galleries, museums and art holes… ignored, reviled and cast aside for having convictions (and belonging to the wrong class) are the voice of the future. We spit on the fashionable insignificance of today’s culture. We puke on moderation, a generation’s fashionable irony and deliberately-boring contemporary art. We shit on your chronic timidity and your tamed and domesticated notion of what art can be.
"The time has come for a rupture, a break, and an honest method of digging our way out of the manure of contemporary art. Your system is spineless and must be replaced.
"Those who are proud of being imperceptible are lost… Today’s gatekeepers remind us that painting is dead—and if that’s the case, then so must be photography, movies, music, writing, sculpture, performance and all human creativity. The logical implication of curatorial culture’s hierarchical dominance is the negation and replacement of the individual with a neutered clone.
"Academia’s curatorial class, we are told, are god-like. They determine history. Their choices are showered upon us from above. The fact that breakthroughs in history are the exclusive domain of the AMATEUR (a lone individual who invents and innovates) is beyond the double-think reality tunnel of the insulated curator…
"Ours is the art of bad taste, which blots out and destroys your system of lies and self-delusion... We are for accelerated evolution. This supersedes revolution. We are extremists utilizing provocation, enlightenment, hate and love. We will unite opposites." [© Nick Zedd 3/6/2013]
1C. We need YOU to order books direct from us to help us keep going! (www.researchpubs.com)
() Finally back in print: RE/Search T-Shirts! The W.S. Burroughs T-shirt; Mr Death T-shirt; RE/Search LOGO (red on black) T-shirt. Specify size: S,M,L,XL. For Photos Go to: http://www.researchpubs.com/shop/wsb-shirt/
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() Order the new RE/Search pocketbook on CHARLES GATEWOOD, a pioneer of avant-garde photography. This biography includes an essay by Julia Helaine. Our intern Meg de Recat did much of the editing; Jane Knoll did a final pass..
() Order the new Mike Watt Zine Edition 2 with color-photograph cover: $20 plus $5 shipping (or $10 ship foreign): http://www.researchpubs.com/shop/mike-watt-zine-wcolor-photo-cover-limited/
() On www.researchpubs.com we recently put up a new piano improv by V. Vale, "Song for Esther": "Old-Timey tune."
() We offer a 2nd printing of the 64-page MONTE CAZAZZA zine. Price just $12 (plus $5 shipping; just PayPal $17 to: info@researchpubs.com). Monte Cazazza is one of the big mysteries in the RE/Search canon, and we think it is a miracle he has survived to this day, integrity more-or-less intact! NOTE: Overseas orders $15 SHIPPING (total $27). CALIF residents add 8.75% tax ($2.19 tax, total $19.19). Note: USPS just raised foreign shipping rates 50%; yikes!!
() We just made 8 copies of a zine on Diane di Prima - $10 each plus $5 shipping or $10 overseas shipping. Just PayPal $15 or $20 to: info@researchpubs.com - be sure to include your address!
() We made a zine on LSD MUSEUM's Mark McCloud. We only made 20 copies and they are $20 each (includes handmade blotter acid print) plus $5 shipping or $10 overseas shipping. Just PayPal $25 or $30 to: info@researchpubs.com - be sure to include your address! Only (2) left.
() We offer a 2nd printing of the McKenzie Wark zine with handmade silkscreen suitable for framing. $20 plus $5 shipping or $10 overseas shipping. Just PayPal $25 or $30 to: info@researchpubs.com - be sure to include your address!
() Four V. VALE PIANO IMPROVISATIONS available for listening on bandcamp NOW. One features amazing guitarist Will Rogers! https://researchpubs.bandcamp.com
() FINALLY: the newest RE/Search Pocketbook is in stock: Charles Gatewood! Hot off the press. Includes photos of W.S. Burroughs plus other photos of POI (People of Interest). $20 PayPal to: info@researchpubs.com ($30 overseas).
() PENNY RIMBAUD. CRASS proto-Punk co-founder (with Gee Vaucher), performer-philosopher-poet-writer-bread-maker, Penny has a lot to say about how to navigate through our increasingly-confusing media-sedated and pharmaceutical-sedated world. $14.99 plus $5 ship ($10 overseas). NOTE: We also have other RE/Search Pocketbooks: ED HARDY, Lydia Lunch, Henry Rollins each $14.99 plus $5 ship, etc.
() Volume 4 of our "Punk and Tech" series is "Screw the System" (with a great essay on J.G. Ballard by Jack Sargeant), 300 copies. $30 plus $5 shipping or $25 shipping overseas; PayPal the amount to: info@researchpubs.com
() One of our "Punk and Tech" volumes is DATING A.I. by a Russian genius (under a pseudonym). It's the funniest (yet "scientific") guide to A.I. www.researchpubs.com
1D: TOP 10 RE/Search BEVERAGES! (((Dreadful and only salvaged by the interesting #10. Hey Californians: drink real drinks, and while you're at it, eat some roast animal flesh.)))
1. Water. San Francisco water is great from the tap; in Los Angeles drink bottled water!
2. Orange Juice with Extra Pulp from Trader Joe's
3. Berry-flavored Water from Trader Joe's
4. Acai Juice from Costco (thanks, Jon Randolph)
5. Blueberry Juice from Trader Joe's
6. Pellegrino Blood Orange soda in cans from Trader Joe's
7. Strawberry-Banana Smoothie from Trader Joe's
8. Homemade smoothies (OJ, EdenSoy "Original Extra" Soy Milk, bananas, frozen or fresh strawberries, blueberries, whatever you can find, fresh or frozen)
9. Lagunitas IPA with the dog on the box, from Costco
10. The rosé from Jerry Casale's [DEVO] wine label, www.thefiftybyfifty.com
2. Counter Culture Hour - Sat APR 9, 2016 4:30pm Pacific Time Watch for it this month as Channel 29 re-airs our shows frequently.
The Counter Culture Hour (aka RE/SEARCH TV) is also simulcast ON-LINE as well as on cable access San Francisco Channel 29 – 4:30pm Pacific Time, now EVERY Saturday! - see this link at broadcast time: http://www.bavc.org/channel29 You need a fairly decent internet connection and computer to "get it." USA west coast: 4:30 PM Sat APR 9, 2016 USA; east coast: 7:30 PM Sat APR 9, 2016. Tokyo: 8:30 AM Sun, APR 10, 2016 If you cannot get this online email us at info@researchpubs.com See RE/Search channel on youtube: "researchpubs"
2b. RE/Search Conversations: podcast series
Most of us are too busy to sit down and watch a "TV show," so now you can listen to some of the conversations that happen around the table at the RE/Search headquarters. For Daniel Miller Part 1 go to: http://www.researchpubs.com/2016/03/research-conversations-6-daniel-miller-part-1/
For Jarett Kobek's podcast-visit http://www.researchpubs.com/category/podcast/ as well as at the Apple podcast 'store' (they're free and available to all who can find them). Here's the link to the offerings to date (Penny Rimbaud, Rudy Rucker, Lyle Tuttle):
https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/re-search-conversations/id1071988559
3. FORTHCOMING EVENTS (San Francisco unless Otherwise Noted)
() $ http://www.thrillpeddlers.com - our favorite local Grand Guignol Theatre Company at the Hypnodrome - support live local theatre!
() Support the Roxie Theater: great programming EVERY NIGHT (our opinion). http://www.roxie.com Thur nites at the Castro Theater feature NOIR films (our favorite) programmed by The Roxie.
() S.F. EVENTS to Check Out Regularly: Long Now Foundation. Goethe Institute. The List (Punk Rock). Dorkbot. Bottom of the Hill. INdependent. Thee Parkside. The Chapel. Brick & Mortar. ATA Gallery (last "underground" film place?) Terminal: http://fierysummons.blogspot.com/
() **LOS ANGELES** Sun March 6 11-6pm, RE/SEARCH attended the L.A. Zinefest (thanks, Rhea Tepp!) at 650 S. Spring St. RE/Search had a table next to Alice Bags. http://lazinefest.com/about/ At 6:30pm V. Vale had a Live Conversation with Alice Bags at the Last Bookstore, 2 blocks from the L.A. ZineFest.
() $ Thu March 31, The Masonic: Iggy Pop with Josh Hommes (Queens of the Stone Age; Eagles of Death Metal)! Extremely catchy new songs written in a heartbeat.
() $ Thu Mar 31, 8pm: Anthony Buchanan films at Oddball Cinema!
() FREE NOW til Apr 17 Crissy Field: Annie Liebovitz Photos-of-Women Show
() FREE Fri Apr 1, 6pm Last Gasp Anniversary Art Show at 111 Minna St
() $? Fri April 1, 8pm: **LOS ANGELES** Beyond Baroque announces that Mike Watt may appear in person (not yet confirmed) and Mike Watt's new book will be present. www.beyondbaroque.org
() $ Sat Apr 2, 8pm Anne McGuire performs at Victoria Theater http://www.sfcinematheque.org/screenings/crossroads-2016-april-1-3/
() FREE Wed Apr 6 7pm Tony Serra at City Lights bookstore; new novel!
() $ Thu Apr 7, 8pm Flamin Groovies 50th Anniv at The Chapel www.thechapelsef.com
() FREE? Fri Apr 8. Indoor SRL Show; for details go to srl.org !
() $ Sat Apr 9 Southern Exposure welcomes a New Executive Director, Patricia Maloney! https://www.soex.org/civicrm/event/register?id=7&reset=1 You can view auction and artist listings and... https://www.soex.org/auction/avant-garden#edit-group_artists
() $ Sun Apr 10 **LOS ANGELES** Joey Skaggs film ART OF THE PRANK premieres - to make a reservation email info@artoftheprank-themovie.com
() FREE **LOS ANGELES** Sat-Sun April 9-10, all day. Los Angeles Times Book Fair on USC Campus. RE/Search hopes to have a table shared with Yes Press!
() FREE Mon Apr 11, 4pm, SF Main Library, Koret Auditorium, 100 Larkin/Market St. Anne Waldman, Will Alexander, etc celebrate BOB KAUFMAN!
() $ Thu Apr 14 730pm Dead Sailor Girls & Sugar Ponies at The Lost Church, 65 Capp St, SF http://www.thedeadsailorgirls.com/
() FREE Fri Apr 15 John Waters curates "Home Improvements" art show at Fraenkel Lab, 1632 Market St
() $ Sat Apr 16 Chatterbox Resurrection at Thee Parkside, 1600 17th St, SF
() FREE Tue Apr 19, 630pm Goethe Institute presents Martina Gross program about Elsa Knight Thompson. RE/search plans to attend!
() $ Thu-Sun Gray Area Festival Art & Technology - RE/Search recommends!
() Fri Apr 22, 9pm: Warfield: C.C. Catch and Bad Boys [guilty pleasure: C.C. Catch did one of our favorite songs, "Smokey Joe's Cafe." Long ago we got all her vinyl LPs from Germany, et al.]
() $ Thur May 5, Castro Theatre: Jesse Moss's Burt Reynolds movie: "The Bandit" jessemoss.com (Thanks, Nick Moss!)
() FREE? Wed Nov 3-Sat Nov 12, 2016 Dada World Fair 2016 at City Lights Bookstore (Plan ahead to come to San Francisco!)
4. OUR PAST LIFE: What We've Received, Liked, Experienced:
() The most Visually Beautiful Book of 2015! (Also, crammed full of ideas and philosophical provocations.) New JG Ballardiana Book! "DEEP ENDS 2015, Rick McGrath's 300-page, copiously illustrated in COLOR & B&W, new anthology of criticism, history, interviews, etc., about J. G. Ballard, is now available on eBay..." (said David Pringle). Ana Barrado photos! Google to find? https://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=10153327380963167&id=6940778166
- https://www.facebook.com/theterminalpress
() Zines and other gifts received are listed in links below or the letters section when possible.
() Zaha Hadid died 3/31/16? R.I.P. One of our favorite living architects.
() One of our favorite small zines (produced by a kind of outlier-genius) is Desert Oracle—subscribe online from DESERTORACLE.COM Or send $6 for a sample copy to PO Box 1735, Joshua Tree, CA 92252. 'Nuff said! (Don't want to wreck the town, but a lot of up-and-coming artists seem to have been moving there...)
() We were given so many zines at the Los Angeles Art Book Fair and L.A. Zine Fest that it seems overwhelming to try to list and review them all now, but soon ... NOTHING beats reading handmade zines by "real" people.
5. LINKS (Send Us Some!)
() http://augustnation.com/vale/ - V. Vale intv from 5 or more years ago. Succinct.
() New on DVD: V. VALE appears in INDUSTRIAL SOUNDTRACK for the Urban Decay - 52 min. plus 30 min. of bonus material - order from www.industrialsoundtrack.com - beautiful production - the fillmmaker was only 19 when she began this big project; she and her father visited RE/Search headquarters a couple months ago! Support "indie media"!
() Tom Hiddleston [great voice] reads a section of Search & Destroy #10's interview with JG Ballard—1978 - prophetic!!) which I commissioned. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_btFFnxeFIg Note that Search&Destroy#10 is STILL available from me for $20 – please order it, see it for yourself, own an "original" S&D, and support RE/Search's continuance—all at the same time! http://www.researchpubs.com/shop/punk-search-destroy-10-w-s-burroughs-j-g-ballard-russ-meyer-sex-pistols-2/
() fast-forward to find the V. Vale "spoken words" on this Punk Rock "panel": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_EeRAxdDdbE&feature=youtu.be
() Our adopted son from Japan, Yoshi Yubai, did his first article (in Japanese) on Gee Vaucher: http://jp.vice.com/art/yoshitsugu-yubai-series-01-gee-vaucher.
() () Yoshi Yubai Vice-Japan 2nd feature is on RE/Search contributor, photographer Ana Barrado - her Las Vegas series.
http://jp.vice.com/art/yoshitsugu-yubai-series-02-ana-barrado
() photographs: www.danielleneu.com
() from Ed H: http://observer.com/2016/03/theres-more-to-the-art-of-tattoo-legend-don-ed-hardy-than-t-shirts/
MoMA Plans a Fall Show Centered on Francis Picabia - The ...
www.nytimes.com/.../moma-plans-a-fall-show-centere...
"This movie went to Kickstarter to get funding and is set to be released in April! Not sure when/ if it'll show here in HI but I'd assume it'll be shown up and down the West Coast, there's a clip in the link of their preview. http://www.dirtyoldwedge.com
() from Chris T:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1g6izQcDNNA High Rise. http://www.theguardian.com/film/2016/mar/06/ben-wheatley-interview-high-rise-jg-ballard-mark-kermode
() from V in London: "William S. Burroughs Prayer Candle. Saint by GrannysHopeChest. https://www.etsy.com/listing/258957505/william-s-burroughs-prayer-candle-saint?ref=shop_home_active_6
- huge archive of rare punk vinyl up for auction: http://www.thevinylfactory.com/vinyl-factory-news/rare-punk-vinyl-auction/
- http://heyevent.uk/event/bnfy5ljymfzlma/mentored-by-a-madman-the-william-burroughs-experiment
() The GOAT FAMILY have a 3rd record out: www.goatfamily.com
thegoatfamily.bandcamp.com
() "tomatoes are good especially for the prostate (cooked & raw). oatmeal is always good, esp steel cut oats... How sweet is a sweet potato?
https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10153932372264054 johnny strike@att.net http://www.amazon.com/The-Exploding-Memoir-Johnny-Strike-ebook/dp/B0141DKLMS "
() "William S Burroughs saw Trump coming in 1961": https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=AOhEkOLuyEU " - Graham Rae
() New DEVO book announced—check out
devobook.net ClubDEVO.com Devo-Obsesso.com
() Hi Vale! Here is the L.A. Weekly Article I was telling you about. Here is a video a did with Allison Wolfe and Alice Bag, along with a song we did together! FUN STUFF!!! — Rhea Tepp"
() https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6sUsLn7v_wI
() Michael Giordano's new record: https://300micsrecordings.bandcamp.com
() New Lynn Hershman huge $70 monograph: www.lynnhershman.com
() "Hello Vale, I thought I'd send you a field recording I made last night of myself on guitar as Uneasy Chairs and my friend Wilson Shook on saxophone playing live at Gallery 1412 here in Seattle. It's one of my favorite performances to date, improvised as usual, free-noise-jazz-experimental vein.
Free to download and stream here: https://uneasychairs.bandcamp.com/album/with-wilson-shook-2
"Cheers, take care, Patrick G"
() huge archive of rare punk vinyl up for auction: http://www.thevinylfactory.com/vinyl-factory-news/rare-punk-vinyl-auction/
() Sent by Kent B: "Burn your possessions! http://pitchfork.com/news/64164-malcolm-mclaren-and-vivienne-westwoods-son-joe-corre-to-burn-7-million-of-punk-memorabilia/ "It's the IDEAS that matter, not the collectibles"
() Sent by Steven Gray: "Hi Vale, Have you seen this? It's a catalogue of everything Burroughs ever wrote, published, etc. It's from 2013. 112 pages. I think it was 1980 when we saw him at Keystone Korner (with John Giorno).
() Sent by Beverly P: "Watch this!!!
"Geoengineering is creating Calif drought and increase in autism!!!!!!!! Get scared. “They” are killing the world by engineering the atmosphere."
() Sent by Martina G:
http://www.goethe.de/ins/us/saf/ver/en15298470v.htm
6. QUOTATIONS
() "the future came wearing/ the look of the past"—Susan Stewart, Red Rover, p. 22
() "War profiteering has many means, including/ the sale of poems against war."
"Those who destroy the garden and poison/ the well think that streets/ will be named for them in the future."—ibid., p. 49
() "There is something the birds know/ and sing,/ sing of/ without end."—op. cit., p. 37
() "a name for something/ even if it wasn't/ there, was not yet/ here."—op. cit., p. 31
() "A burn is cured with ice,/ which makes a burn/ then burn."—op. cit., p. 25
7. LETTERS FROM READERS:
() http://www.full-stop.net/ "V: came across this somehow; I was reading Larissa Pham... the one about how names tag you. But the reason I sent this to you was because it seems very well organized. I thought you might be interested in expanding or branching...
"I completely read the newsletter; pick up some things from it to follow… March 2016 was one of the best ones... Billy"
() Dear Vale, I just wanted to write and say I woke up on a sunny blue sky Sunday morning here in Seattle (rarity) and was reading the latest newsletter in bed on my phone and somehow ended up on your Bandcamp page. I just wanted to say I absolutely love your piano music and downloaded all of the pieces as soon as I could. Lately I've been enduring some severe upheavals and challenges having me in a dark state of mind and I rarely listen to new music much less buy it, but your piano pieces are so beautiful, warm and transported me to another place that I considered it a must-have. I look forward to re-listening deeper repeatedly. Thank you —
Patrick Gundran/ Uneasy Chairs"
() "I have got another collectible Boxed vinyl set of SPK live..from the Germans.. The machine– just keeps rolling..."—Sinan Revell
() "V. Vale & RE, the Intvs Pts. I&II w/ Nick Zedd are brilliantly essential & devoid of pretentious diversions. Zedd speaks in 1st person for a grand swath of the American underground. I can hardly wait for Part III. With respect & admiration, Tav Falco"
() "The 31st Annual April Fools’ Day Parade will begin at Fifth Avenue and 59th Street at 12 noon, Friday, April 1, 2016. Rain or shine, the parade will march down Fifth Avenue to Washington Square Park...
Says parade organizer Joey Skaggs, "It's a mystery to me how we continue to enable fools to make fools of us."
Visit http://artoftheprank-themovie.com for more information.
() Bruce Geduldig died March 7, 2016. R.I.P.
() "Every year Bruce Sterling has a "state of the world" conversation on The Well. You can see it publicly here (it's long and frequently updating): http://www.well.com/conf/inkwell.vue/topics/487/Bruce-Sterling-Jon-Lebkowsky-Sta-page04.html
"Bruce said: "*Why doesn't some rich ex-punk in San Francisco give V. Vale $20K and get it over with? I'm one of the only financial supporters of this legendary voice of Bay Area Bohemia, which is visibly dwindling away, just like Kerouac drowning his sorrows, as posh Googlers climb the Special Bus with their pants pockets bursting with cash! Why am I, some Texo-Serbian-Italian gypsy scholar, pay-palling this faithfully every goddamn year just so I can watch his own town methodically prune his scene to pieces? It seems absurd." (((And while you're at it, buy Vale some goddamn barbecue.)))
"And someone called Felicity O'Meara said: "Everyone should subscribe to Vale's newsletter. It's important."
() "Dear Vale,
"Many thanks for having me and Jamie and Patricia over a few months ago, I enjoyed the conversation and hope we can continue it somehow... I'm including a link to an 8 min video of mine, it might explain what I am researching, better than I was able to :) It's about self-destruction and suicide = the chemical panopticon. Lydia Lunch did the voice over.
Seroquel®, HD video and CGI animation, 8 min (2014)
https://vimeo.com/150294897
PW: INSIDER09
Best, Sidsel Meineche Hansen"
() Michael Jang (who gave us Punk Photography for Search & Destroy) – check him out; he wrote us: "Not sure if you're also posting or linking the video on Facebook or wherever. I'm on Facebook (we're friends) and also on Instagram : @michaeljangsf I usually post a lot of 70's Punk stuff on both."—Michael Jang, San Franciscan
https://www.sfmoma.org/watch/michael-jang-night-sex-pistols-broke/
()"Here's the website for Rachel Sussman's Oldest Living Things in the World.
Here's the trailer for the Bob Kaufman film, and a couple related articles:
Director Billy Woodberry’s poetic take on the life and work of beat poet Bob Kaufman.
Billy Woodberry on Bob Kaufman
There are two stories to tell here. The first concerns Woodberry, whose return from an apparent wilderness prompts several questions: where has he been, what has he been doing, why hasn’t he made more films, etc.? Rising to prominence as a leading figure of what is now known as the L.A. Rebellion—an ensemble of African and African American filmmakers studying at UCLA between the late 1960s and late 1980s—Woodberry is still best known for directing Bless Their Little Hearts(1984), a low-key drama about a financially embattled family in Watts, L.A., which the Library of Congress selected in 2013 for preservation in the National Film Registry.
I haven't heard about it playing locally yet. " — Mikl Em of The Interval (Long Now Foundation)
() "Hi Vale; Did you know that Bruce Geduldig is dying? It is his birthday today, But he has been unconscious since 3 days. Liver failure, and was denied /not eligible anymore for transplant couple of months ago @ San Francisco hospital. I just talked to his mom, and she fears he will not make it thru the day….Just wanted you to know.—Babeth M. VanLoo" [yes, Bruce died. R.I.P.]
() "Read about the time I performed with Faust in Death Valley and got included on their record at http://www.faust-pages.com/publications/jhp.ferrara.longdistance.html
and watch a video of the event here https://vimeo.com/39437129 (you can hear my performance beginning at 10:49 in the video clip)... —Ferrara Brain Pan"
() "I have been lucky to have this cover published in Witness with a spread in the middle. It is both available online and in hard copy. If you scroll down the contributors list near the bottom you will find my name and a link to the photos. http://witness.blackmountaininstitute.org/issues/vol-xxix-no-1-spring-2016/ – Bobby Neel Adams http://www.bobbyneeladams.com
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