Welcome to V. Vale's RE/Search Newsletter #164, September 2017 Part 1
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Table of contents
1. EDITORIAL: We're experimenting (still) with 2-part newsletter ...
1A. MEET V. Vale at NYArtBookFair Thu-Sun Sept 21-24 in white "Zines Tent": RE/Search table
1B. Incredibly Strange Films
1C. Terminal Punk
1D. New OFFS T-shirts!
1E. Vale Bio-Comic by Krusty Wheatfield
1F. Ana Barrado feature in "Black & White" magazine
1G. R.I.P. Paul Grady, our neighbor
1H. Oct 11-15 RECOMBINANT A/V Festival at Gray Area
2: RE/Search Conversations Podcast Series on researchpubs.com or iTunes
3. FORTHCOMING EVENTS: NY Art Book Fair Sept 21-24 at PS1
4. Sponsors (Check 'em out! - they make this newsletter possible!)
1: Editorial by V. Vale
We're experimenting (again) with sending out newsletter in 2 installments - so it's more instantly "readable" instead of instantly "file-able." Please send feedback. Disclaimer: There are a small number of repeated entries, mostly having to do with administrative info and forthcoming events that we are involved in!
1A: Meet RE/Search at New York Art Book Fair
**NEW YORK** Thu-Sun Sept 21-24 Meet V. Vale RE/Search at the amazing New York Art Book Fair (white "Small Press" tent; NYABF). MoMA PS1, 22-25 Jackson Ave on 46th Ave, Long Island City, Queens. People from all over the world converge, meet, and get to "hang out"! If you are attending, please email us if you want us to bring you something rare or out-of-print, or a certain size T-shirt to save for you, or whatever—and save expensive shipping charges! write info@researchpubs.com or text v. vale: 415-730-2075 For more info go to:
https://www.printedmatter.org/events/597
RE/SEARCH #6/7: Industrial Culture Handbook HARDBACK
RE/SEARCH #6/7: Industrial Culture Handbook HARDBACK
1B: Incredibly Strange Films back in print
Incredibly Strange Films is at long-last re-released in an 8x10" paperback version suitable for the new age of short-run digital book printing. Upon reading, the book seems not only FUN but amazingly relevant for today's new generation of independent filmmakers and videomakers. All kinds of suggestions and inspirations are geared toward inspiring all its readers at least want to make a film! $25 plus $5 ship ($22 ship overseas air).
1C: Terminal Punk: the last philosophy you will need
Terminal Punk: Philosophy of Punk. 7th edition by V. Vale (interviews, quotes, etc: why "Punk" is the last philosophy you'll ever need; it may even help you survive the apocalypse!). The new 7th edition zine may be had for a mere $10 plus $5 shipping, or come by our office and score your copy! You might also want to score a rare RE/Search T-shirt; we're already running out of the "small" and XL sizes! Other options are our William S. Burroughs T-shirt (M,L only), and our Mr. Death T-shirt (S,M,L,XL). In letters section below see a long review of Terminal Punk by Inga.
1D: Offs t-shirts now available!
NEW: OFFS T-SHIRTS ("Johnny Too Bad") white design on black. M,L,XL, XXL: just 2 copies each! Very Limited Printing; $30 each. Contact RE/Search at info@researchpubs.com
1E: New comic tells Vale's life story
V. Vale Bio-Comic. SEARCH FOR WEIRD by Krusty Wheatfield: on V. Vale's life/biography). Excellent drawings! $10 plus $5 shipping ($10 overseas shipping).
1F: Ana Barrado in "Black & White"
Ana Barrado is featured in the August issue of "Black & White" magazine - rush to your newstand to find an issue! We just bought the last one from Smoke Signals in San Francisco (Sept 5). For just $9.95 you get over a dozen stunning photos along with a great introductory essay on Ana by Michael DiGregorio, and a lengthy interview. Ana's article is appropriately sub-titled, "The Woman Who Fell to Earth," and cites J.G. Ballard and RE/Search, dubbing her "an exquisite visual subversive." DiGregorio points out her "sense of whim; her appetite for absurdia wedded to human-built exaggeration; the glimpses of dark humor revealed within her Back to the Futurist meditation." On the cover is listed: "Ana Barrado: Disturbed Modernity." (And this is just one of the several super-well-produced, photo-illustrated articles in the large-format glossy magazine.)
1G: R.I.P. Paul Grady, punk doorman and Beat photographer
R.I.P. Paul Grady, sometime (teen-aged) doorman at Savoy Tivoli back in early Punk days working for Gerry & Olga (GO Productions), more recently working at Vesuvio's - also as doorman. Also did a stint at the fabled Enrico's on Broadway in the kitchen. A long-time North Beach resident, photographer of later Beats and North Beach scenes, lived on Romolo Alley and was V. Vale's neighbor. Died Sept. 4, 2017.
1H: RECOMBINANT Festival at Gray Area, Oct 11-15
Oct 11-15 RECOMBINANT Festival at Gray Area, 2665 Mission/23rd St, SF www.recombinantfestival.com
Your excuse to visit San Francisco is right here: 5 days of international films, concerts, installations, PANELS (talks w/Erik Davis, V. Vale, OTHER CINEMA Craig Baldwin presents Nth Dimension. MARTIN REV of SUICIDE. There is too much to list right now; go to the website above. Remember that CINECHAMBER Spatial Panorama Programs are in 10 screen 360 degree image and sound surround: "VR mindset without the headset." RE/Search will attend!!
2: New episodes: RE/Search Conversations podcast
Most of us are too busy to sit down and watch a "TV show," so now (while you're driving, gardening, walking) you can listen to some of the conversations that happen around the table at the RE/Search office.
Most recent: archivist Robert Conway, who is working with Bruce Conner's estate.
Coming up soon: Peter Sempel, German experimental documentarian from Hamburg, who visits San Francisco periodically, often to show his films at The Goethe Institute
AND author Sumeet Banerji and record producer Jerry Connolly, shooting the s#!+ at the RE/Search office with V. Vale (warning: over 2 hours long!).
Go to our website podcast page to see a full list. All are also available free of charge at the iTunes podcast "store" under "RE/Search Conversations."
Please send us feedback if you listen to these podcasts so we'll know someone out there is listening!!
Here are links to a few others that are available:
Christopher Coppola [filmmaker]
Thorsten Schutte [director of Frank Zappa documentary "Eat That Question"
Mike Watt [bass-player/ musician]
Daniel Miller [synth musician/ DJ]
Diane diPrima [Beat poet]
3: FORTHCOMING EVENTS (San Francisco unless Otherwise Noted)
() $ Wed Sept 6 Balboa: Judex. RE/Search plans to attend – meet us there!!!
() FREE Thu Sept 7 Ellen Ullman: new book, Life in Code, at City Lights Bookstore
() FREE Mon Sept 11 Jarett Kobek at City Lights Bookstore
() FREE **NEW YORK** Mon Sept 11, SVA Theatre, 333 W. 23rd St, NYC: Joey Skaggs (featured in our PRANKS book) showing "Art of the Prank" feature film. RSVP Not Required. Q&A afterwards; bring your questions!
() FREE Sat Sept 16, 10-6:30pm Anarchist Book Fair: RE/Search will have a table; hooray, thanks to Jen (if you can volunteer to help set up, take down, be a room monitor, please call 510-910-5627)! Omni Commons, 4799 Shattuck/48th St near #24 freeway, Oakland
http://www.bayareaanarchistbookfair.com
Facebook event: https://www.facebook.com/events/1775963852663292/
Try parking Shattuck Ave and 55th or 56th St.
() **NEW YORK** Thu-Sun Sept 21-24 Meet RE/Search at the amazing New York Art Book Fair (NYABF). MoMA PS1, 22-25 Jackson Ave on 46th Ave, Long Island City, Queens. People from all over the world converge, meet, and get to "hang out"! If you are attending, please email us if you want us to bring you something rare or out-of-print or whatever—and save expensive shipping charges! write info@researchpubs.com or text v. vale: 415-730-2075 For more info go to:
https://www.printedmatter.org/events/597
() $ Thu Sept 21 PSYCHIC TV at INdependent ('nuff said! RE/Search has to miss the show 'cuz we'll be in New York at the NYABF. Oddly enough, last September 2016 we saw Psychic TV in Brooklyn, playing with Lydia Lunch.)
() FREE Thu Sept 21 Francis Ford Coppola signs his new book, Live Cinema..., at City Lights Bookstore!
() "FREE" Sun Oct 1 Chris Hardman (Antenna Theater) SkyHeart Over The Golden Gate www.magicbussf.com
() $ Wed Oct 4 HANS-JOACHIM ROEDELIUS of Cluster at The Chapel ('nuff said!)
() $ Sat Oct 7 Matt Groening & Lynda Barry #BerkeleyTalks. 101 Zellerbach Hall, UC Berkeley
() $ Sat Oct 7, 730pm Jean Caffeine & Penelope Houston w/Tom Heyman) & Mary Lawler play The Lost Church, 65 Capp St (15th-16th St/Mission-S. Van Ness)
() $ Oct 11-15 RECOMBINANT FESTIVAL 2017 at Gray Area: When The Summer (of Love) turns into The Fall of Love. Cinechamber Panoramic Premieres. www.recombinantfestival.com HIGHLY RECOMMENDED; RE/Search will attend!
() Thu Oct 12 on: Anthony Huberman's MECHANISMS show at CCA Wattis Institute, www.wattis.org/program
() $ Sat-Sun Oct 14-15, L.A.'s Ace Hotel, David Lynch's Festival of Disruption http://www.dazeddigital.com/music/article/36124/1/david-lynch-s-festival-of-disruption-is-returning
() $ Mon Oct 16 ZOLA JESUS at Starline Social Club, Oakland
() $? Wed Oct 18 (rare) Huncke footage at the Beat Museum
() $ Fri-Sun Oct 20-22 Experience a RED KRAYOLA (Mayo Thompson) recording session at The Lab! https://www.facebook.com/events/107385566623817/
() FREE Sun Oct 22 Adobe Books 3pm-8pm party for Yoshi Yubai's PHOTO book published by tinysplendor.com Max & Sanaa. (Yoshi is RE/Search's adopted son from Japan). RE/Search will have a (small) book table too; just a few titles!
() FREE Sun Nov 12, 1-6pm Punk-Metal Flea Market at DNA Lounge: RE/Search will have a table; meet us!
PERENNIAL FORTHCOMINGs to CHECK OUT:
() $$ Berkeley BAMPFA Films are over; but this is included here as a historical 60s filmography of interest! http://bampfa.org/program/hippie-modernism-cinema-and-counterculture
() Support the Roxie Theater: great programming EVERY NIGHT (our opinion). http://www.roxie.com Also support the Castro Theater: a beautiful Film Palace! (Balboa, too!) Go OUT to the movies! See films with others & buy popcorn! It's FUN!
() S.F./BAY AREA EVENTS to Google Regularly: Long Now Foundation. Goethe Institute. The List (Punk Rock). Dorkbot. Bottom of the Hill. The INdependent. Thee Parkside. The Chapel. Brick & Mortar. ATA Gallery (last "underground" film place?). Mule Gallery. The Lab under Dena Beard. Southern Exposure Gallery under Patricia Maloney. SF Cinematheque under Antonella Bonfanti.
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The end, for now
Abby the cat
September 2017 Part 1 RE/Search Newsletter #164 written by V. Vale & other contributors. RE/Search website powered by Laughing Squid.
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