“COMMAND PERFORMANCE”
The Arthur Magazine Email Bulletin
No. 0094
17 October 02007
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1. FAREWELL, SRI CHINMOY

Excerpts from the New York Times obituary:

“Sri Chinmoy, the genial Indian-born spiritual leader who used strenuous exercise and art to spread his message of world harmony and inner peace, died Thursday at his home in Jamaica, Queens, where he ran a meditation center. He was 76. The cause was a heart attack, said representatives of his organization, the Sri Chinmoy Center.

“Mr. Chinmoy spread his philosophy through his own way of life, exercising and creating art and music. He drew attention by power-lifting pickup trucks and public figures like Muhammad Ali and Sting. He said he had drawn 16 million “peace birds.” He slept only 90 minutes a day, he said, and when he was not traveling to perform in concerts and spread his message, spent the rest of the time meditating, playing music, exercising and making art. His followers said he had written 1,500 books, 115,000 poems and 20,000 songs, created 200,000 paintings and had given almost 800 peace concerts.

“Drawing upon Hindu principles, Mr. Chinmoy advocated a spiritual path to God through prayer and meditation. He emphasized “love, devotion and surrender” and recommended that his disciples nurture their spirituality by taking on seemingly impossible physical challenges.

“In the 1970’s, Mr. Chinmoy was a guru to several prominent musicians, including the guitarist John McLaughlin, who for a time ran the Mahavishnu Orchestra, a name given it by Mr. Chinmoy, as well as the bandleader Carlos Santana, the singer Roberta Flack and the saxophonist Clarence Clemons.

“Mr. Chinmoy gathered with his disciples at a private clay tennis court off 164th Street that doubled as a verdant meditation site known as Aspiration Ground. He built a worldwide network of meditation centers and had more than 7,000 disciples.

“Sri Chinmoy Kumar Ghose was born a Hindu in 1931 in what is now Bangladesh. From the age of 12, he lived in an ashram. He said he idolized the track star Jesse Owens. Mr. Chinmoy immigrated to New York in 1964 to work as a clerk at the Indian Consulate. He opened a meditation center in Queens with a philosophy of celibacy, vegetarianism and meditation and attracted hundreds of followers, many settling near his two-story home on 149th Street.

“To achieve spiritual enlightenment, he advocated extreme physical activity, including weight lifting, distance running and swimming. After a knee injury ended his own running, in his 60s, Mr. Chinmoy began lifting weights and within several years could shoulder-press more than 7,000 pounds on a special lifting apparatus. He publicly lifted heavy objects including airplanes, schoolhouses and pickup trucks, to help increase awareness of the need for humanitarian aid.

“He also lifted more than 8,000 people since 1988, including world peace figures like Nelson Mandela and Desmond Tutu. He hoisted the Rev. Jesse Jackson, Eddie Murphy, Susan Sarandon and Yoko Ono. Mr. Chinmoy lifted 20 Nobel laureates and a team of sumo wrestlers. He lifted Sid Caesar and a (reformed) headhunter from Borneo, and picked up Representative Gary L. Ackerman, a Democrat, and Representative Benjamin Gilman, a Republican at the same time.”

More: http://www.arthurmag.com/magpie/?p=2326

2. FAREWELL LADY JAYE, GONE FAR TOO SOON

“Lady Jaye Breyer P-Orridge died suddenly on Tuesday 9th October 2007 at home in Brooklyn, New York from a previously undiagnosed heart condition which is thought to have been connected with her long-term battle with stomach cancer. Lady Jaye collapsed and died in the arms of her heartbroken ‘other half’ Genesis Breyer P-Orridge.”

More: http://www.arthurmag.com/magpie/?p=2325

3. LET’S HELP A WONDERFUL FRIEND IN L.A. THIS THURSDAY NIGHT

BENEFIT FOR KIME BUZZELLI
“A fundraiser to benefit the quick healing of our wonderful friend”
Entrance, Winter Flowers, The Long Lost, Lavender Diamond, Blank Blue, Animal Magik plus Special Guests
DJ sets by: The Dublab Soundsystem
Thursday, October 18
8pm / $10 minimum donation / 18+
The EchoPlex
1154 Glendale Blvd.
90026

More: http://www.arthurmag.com/magpie/?p=2299

4. HEY LET’S GO TO THE BIG CIRCUIT BENDING EVENT IN L.A. THIS SATURDAY NIGHT

BEND THIS TIMES THREE
OCT 20, 9PM at IL CORRAL
662 no. heliotrope dr
90004

“Like last year we are having video projections and a toy raffle. We are also having a circuit bending workshop at 1pm. This year we are having Evil Moisture (Andy Bolus) from France play the show.

The lineup is:

Evil Moisture
Xdugef
Univac
Igor Amokian
Phillip Stearns
Rocker Parlour
Caveat Emptor

All the info: http://www.arthurmag.com/magpie/?p=2337

5. AND LET’S GO TO HEAR BLACK PANTHER PARTY ARTIST/MINISTER OF CULTURE EMORY DOUGLAS SPEAK AT HIS RETROSPECTIVE’S OPENING THIS SUNDAY AFTERNOON IN L.A.

“Black Panther: The Revolutionary Art of Emory Douglas traces the searing graphic art made by Emory Douglas (b. 1943) while he worked as Minister of Culture for the Black Panther Party from 1967 until its discontinuation in the early 1980s. The Black Panthers cultivated a strong graphic identity for their group and their politics during this period, bringing their concerns to the public through newspapers, posters, and pamphlets that can often be described as angry, militant, and incendiary.

“The graphic production of Douglas reveals an unmistakable humanism, representing a populace that had been denied access to the American dream but who were emerging from segregation and proudly fighting to assert their rights to the American dream of equality for all. Douglas’s work gave potent visual form to the plight of urban mothers and to the humanitarian work undertaken by the Black Panthers to bring social services to their communities.

“The graphic work that Douglas created for print can also be seen within the context of Bay Area visual production from this period, revealing a kinship at times to work by artists such as Peter Saul or R. Crumb, while also serving as a stark antidote to the hedonism embodied in the posters promoting psychedelic rock across the Bay….

“Organized by artist and MOCA Ahmanson Curatorial Fellow Sam Durant with MOCA Chief Curator Paul Schimmel, this compelling exhibition presents approximately 150 of Emory Douglas’s most influential works. In place of a catalogue, the exhibition will be accompanied by a monographic book on the work of Emory Douglas, edited by Sam Durant and published in February 2007 by Rizzoli.”

Sunday, Oct 21 3pm:
“Emory Douglas will discuss the graphic art that he created for the Black Panther Party during the late 1960s through the early ’80s. Following his talk, Douglas will sign copies of the exhibition’s accompanying publicationr.”
Exhibition at the MOCA Pacific Design Center.
All the info: http://www.arthurmag.com/magpie/?p=2333

6. WE SHOULD GET TICKETS FOR THE VALERIE PROJECT IN S.F. AND L.A. IN EARLY NOVEMBER

“THE VALERIE PROJECT is a rarely-screened film from the Czech New Wave presented with live music by some of the heroes of the new folk/psychedelic movement. Jaromil Jires’ VALERIE AND HER WEEK OF WONDERS (1970) is a haunting, psychedelic vision which plunges the beautiful heroine Valerie into a phantasmagoric world of vampires, the dark arts and dreamy free love. At once terrifying and beautiful, this feast for the eyes is accompanied by a lush, orchestral and acid-charged new live score performed by a nine-piece ensemble including members of Espers, Fursaxa and Fern Knight. The sound goes off and the amps get cranked (do harps need amps?) [Yes—Editor]. Don’t miss this rare opportunity to see The Valerie Project on the one-time-only West Coast tour with this gorgeous, newly struck 35mm print.”

Presented by Arthur Magazine and Aquarius Records on Thursday, November 1 at 8pm at The Castro Theatre in San Francisco

Presented by Drag City, Arthur Magazine and Cinespia on Sunday November 4 at 6pm & 9pm and Monday November 5 at 8pm at Silent Movie Theatre in L.A.

All the info: http://www.arthurmag.com/magpie/?p=2329

7. AND IF WE’RE IN LONDON ON OCTOBER 26, WE SHOULD DEFINITELY CHECK OUT ALAN MOORE, MICHAEL MOORCOCK AND IAIN SINCLAIR

FRIDAY, OCT 26 630pm: “London Lip: a celebration of the paperback publication of London: City of Disappearances. Witness a rare urban excursion from the legendary Northampton magus of the graphic novel ALAN MOORE and the Texas-exiled creator of the multiverse, author of Mother London, MICHAEL MOORCOCK. A conversation refereed by the book’s editor, IAIN SINCLAIR. Readings from Moore, Moorcock, Sinclair. Interventions from performance-artists-poets Brian Catling and Kirsten Norrie.
All the info: http://www.arthurmag.com/magpie/?p=2332

8. WHAT A RELIEF THAT WE ORDERED “THE INVASION OF THUNDERBOLT” DVD BEFORE IT WAS SOLD OUT AGAIN

Celebrated internationally for more than 35 years, Ira Cohen’s legendary 1968 film The Invasion of Thunderbolt Pagoda is now available as a fully restored director’s cut DVD. Featuring more than two hours of ritual hallucination and primordial sounds, Invasion is a psychedelic bullet to your third eye.

J. Hoberman in the Mar. 16, 2006 Village Voice: “Part ‘Dr. Strange,’ part ‘Inauguration of the Pleasure Dome,’ ['The Invasion of Thunderbolt Pagoda' is] so High ’60s that you emerge from its 20-minute vision perched full-lotus on a cloud of incense, chatting with a white rabbit and smoking a banana…. ‘Invasion’ is a languidly opiated costume ball in which an assortment of masked and painted bohos, some sporting outsize elf ears, loll about a candlelit, Mylar-lined set, blowing soap bubbles and nibbling majoon. …In lieu of action, Cohen uses all manner of superimposition and prismatic image-splitting; his big effect, however, is the deliquescent Mylar reflection. What saves ‘Invasion’ from preciosity is the vague menace of Angus MacLise’s improvised pan-piping, tabla-tapping, creature-yipping score. Although this masterpiece of Tibetan-Moroccan-Druidic trance music was reissued on CD several years ago, it truly blossoms in conjunction with the exotic smorgasbord served at Cohen’s psychedelicatessen.”

An initial printing of 1,000 copies was released in 2006 and sold out quickly. A second printing of 1,000 copies is now available. Arthur has fewer than 100 copies of the second printing in stock, and a third printing is not planned at this time. All the info here: http://www.arthurmag.com/index.php

9. WHAT THE DEEJAYS PLAYED AT THE LAST-EVER ARTHUR-PRESENTED “ECHO PARK SOCIAL(IST) & PLEASURE CLUB” OCT. 4 AT LITTLE JOY

Jeremy Yoder
Carmina Burana Fantasy – Sandy Bull, Reversible Sabbath – Ruins, Sweet No 1 – Boris w/ Michio Kurihara, Echoh Air – The Psychic Paramount, Indian Bones – Dead Meadow, Love Buzz – Shocking Blue, Kuntz – Butthole Surfers, Track from Humming Moon Drip (title in Japanese) – OLAibi, Oh Light Of My Heart – Ayuo, Mystic Prism – White Rainbow, Utopia #1 – Amon Duul II, Dance, California – Wooden Shjips, Fugue In D Minor – Egg, Suspiria – Goblin, Who Needs The Peace Corps? – Frank Zappa, Real Bad Job – John Maus, Giggy Smile – Faust, Gibli – Niagara, Wars of Armageddon – Funkadelic

Dana with Derrick from Entrance:

down home girl – the rolling stones, yes, i’m ready – barbara mason, love her madly – the doors, 3/5 of a mile – jefferson airplan, i want you (she’s so heavy) – the beatles, 25th century schizoid man – king crimson, forever my queen – pentagram, freakout requiem II – amon duul II, well, well, well ( Live ) – john lennon + yoko ono, revolution blues – neil young, milk cow blues – dead moon, vagabond of the western world – thin lizzy, levitation – thirteen floor elevators, kaleidescope- kaleidescope, amphetamine gazelle – mad river,hang on to a dream – gandalf, hard coming love – the united states of america, domino – van morrison, beautiful deceiver – shagrat, kanama – turkish psychedelic garage compilation, fruit & icebergs – blue cheer, too much to dream – the electric prunes, sagar (the ocean) – ananda shankar, cold embrace – sam gopal, ain’t no sunshine- bill whithers, silver springs – fleetwood mac
do you like gospel music- the makeup, i’m a flirt- r kelly.

Daniel Tures:
budgie – breadfan, sopwith camel – hello hello, roky erickson – the wind and more, mr. bloe – grooving with mr. bloe, nrbq – rocket no. 9, alex chilton – the singer not the song, flaming groovies – golden clouds, felice taylor – I can feel your love, le robin orchestral – sex machine, brenton wood – gimme a little sign, lizzy mercier descloux – funky stuff, chocolate watch band – in the past, fun boy three – our lips are sealed, captain funkaho – my 2600, cold crush brothers – punk rock rap, warren zevon – wanted dead or alive, ed sanders – manson will escape, shadows of knight – shake, and willie nelson – night life.

Thank you Joe McGuire, the countless deejays who spun for beer, and everybody else who made the last two years so much fun.

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11. IT FINALLY HAPPENED: ISRAELI PRESIDENT CONSULTS WITH DAVID LYNCH ON DEFENSE POLICY
Meditation is “like a giant flak jacket” says director.
All the info: http://www.arthurmag.com/magpie/?p=2336

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