Aug 13, 2009
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At the jump is the latest Arthur Bulletin, sent out to all bulletin subscribers via email this afternoon.
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“Command Performance” No. 159
The Arthur Magazine Email Bulletin
August 13, 2009
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1. GRATITUDE!
Arthur pays its bills with merchandise sales, advertising revenue and donations. With merch sales and ad revenues severely depressed because of the Great Contraction, Arthur is more dependent on donations than ever before. So, let’s all give a big hearty round of gratitudinal salutes to Christopher Sousa, Jennifer Schad, Ariana Moore, Liza Berdnik and Paul Lovelace, all recent donors to Arthur Magazine via our fiscal sponsorship through the arts non-profit Fractured Atlas, which allows donations of any size to be made to Arthur to be tax deductible. Thank you all, sincerely!
2. SATURDAY AUGUST 15, 2009 ALL NITE ALL AGES DIY DISCO DANCEPARTY!!! PUBLICIST live! with guest vocalist IAN SVENONIUS!
Plus DJs Ian Svenonius, Justin Miller (DFA)
& Jacques Renault (Runaway)
Video installation by Alison Childs (Donuts!)
Free vegan spacecakes!
Market Hotel
1142 Myrtle Ave. @ Broadway, Brooklyn, NY 11206
Midnite – 6am
$10
ARTHUR MAGAZINE & GALAXIE are excited to present a rare live appearance (THE ONLY U.S. DATE!) of TRANS AM drummer Sebastian Thomson’s solo electro project called PUBLICIST this coming Saturday at Market Hotel. His set features guest vocalisms by Ian Svenonius (Soft Focus, Chain & The Gang, Scene Creamers, Make-Up, etc.). You may recognize Sebastian from other acts such as Weird War. He loves making music with his friends but he also loves to make music on his own. As he once said “I love making music with my friends but I also love making music on my own.”
Ian will be DJing for the first hour or so from his collection of soul, funk, boogie & disco 45s. Galaxie residents Justin Miller & Jacques Renault will join Ian on the decks for an all-night, all-ages afterhours disco danceparty at Market Hotel in Brooklyn. We’ll also have a laser-like video installation courtesy of Galaxie resident video artist Alison Childs and free vegan spacecakes. Doors are at midnite and we’ll go til 6am!!
3. DARK STATS!
Bob Herbert in the August 10, 2009 New York Times: “The percentage of young American men who are actually working is the lowest it has been in the 61 years of record-keeping, according to the Center for Labor Market Studies at Northeastern University in Boston.
“Only 65 of every 100 men aged 20 through 24 years old were working on any given day in the first six months of this year. In the age group 25 through 34 years old, traditionally a prime age range for getting married and starting a family, just 81 of 100 men were employed.
“For male teenagers, the numbers were disastrous: only 28 of every 100 males were employed in the 16- through 19-year-old age group. For minority teenagers, forget about it. The numbers are beyond scary; they’re catastrophic.
“This should be the biggest story in the United States. When joblessness reaches these kinds of extremes, it doesn’t just damage individual families; it corrodes entire communities, fosters a sense of hopelessness and leads to disorder.
“…A truer picture of the employment crisis emerges when you combine the number of people who are officially counted as jobless with those who are working part time because they can’t find full-time work and those in the so-called labor market reserve — people who are not actively looking for work (because they have become discouraged, for example) but would take a job if one became available. The tally from those three categories is a mind-boggling 30 million Americans — 19 percent of the overall work force.”
4. MORE DARK STATS!
From August 12, 2009 New York Times:
“Although about a third of the students who earned bachelor’s degrees in 2007-8 graduated with no debt, nearly the same as four years earlier, the average amount students borrow has increased, according to a policy brief released Tuesday by the College Board.
“For bachelor’s degree recipients who did borrow, the median loan debt was $19,999, up 5 percent from $18,973 four years earlier, adjusted for inflation. The data, the latest available, come from the federal Department of Education’s National Postsecondary Student Aid Study, which is conducted every four years.
“About 6 percent of those who completed a degree or certificate — and 10 percent of those who received a bachelor’s degree — borrowed more than $40,000, the brief said.
“But the brief does not include parents’ borrowing, credit-card debt, informal loans from relatives or friends, or loans for graduate school.
“‘We are asking people to bear more and more of the cost of higher education through borrowing, since neither state spending, need-based aid, or family incomes have kept up with the costs,’ said Lauren Asher, president of the Project on Student Debt, a nonprofit research group.
5. DAN DEACON COMMUNE TOURBUS AND PHILOSOPHY SHORT DOC!
Here’s a short doc poached off pitchfork,on DAN DEACON’s current tourbus/commune sitch. Nice! Loaded up for you on arthurmag along with recentish interview with the Dan himself by Arthur Mag’s Jay Babcock. Good music + smarts + fun + commune-ity-style living/eating/working/thinking = a good model, a great way forward through these grim/stoopid times:
http://www.arthurmag.com/2009/08/13/8792/
6. URBAN FORAGING WITH ARTHUR ‘WEEDEATER’ COLUMNIST NANCE KLEHM IN PHILLY RESULTS!
We walked one block in two hours. We found lambs’ quarters, amarath, yellow wood sorrel, red clover, queen anne’s lace, mugwort, evening primrose, plaintain (both lance leafed and broad leafed), sweet annie, poplar, dandelion, yellow dock, burdock, poor man’s pepper, mullein, a solanaceae Nance is working on idenitifying, poision ivy and hops. All of these plants have medicinal value, and almost all of them were edible. all were growing wild in disturbed soil, disused grassy lots, or in “crack gardens” (Nance’s term) amidst concrete and refuse. See photos of the forage, and the salad we ate from what we found, here:
http://www.arthurmag.com/2009/08/10/pix-from-yesterdays-urban-forage-with-nance-klehm-in-phillys-fishtown-neighborhood/
7. HUBCAP PRAYER WHEELl!
“Hubcap Prayer Wheel is a high-quality vinyl decal that depicts the most popular mantra in Buddhism, Om Mani Padme Hum. Long ago in Tibet, people began inscribing this mantra onto prayer wheels that were turned by hand, water, or wind. With every spin of the wheel, the prayer spread through the universe. By affixing our decal to your hubcap, you can convert your car into a mobile prayer wheel. With Om Mani Padme Hum revolving as you drive, you can help ease your karma while radiating wisdom and compassion into your life and into the world. Hubcap Prayer Wheel converts your car into a prayer wheel so you erase bad karma and radiate positive energy while you drive.” Check it out at:
http://www.urbandreamscape.com/hubcapprayerwheel/index.html
8. BRILLIANT ANIMATED SHORT ILLUSTRATING TIMOTHY LEARY’S EIGHT-CIRCUIT MODEL OF HUMAN CONSCIOUSNESS!
From animator Marc Ngui: “Totem Pill is inspired by Robert Anton Wilson’s description of Timothy Leary’s Eight-Circuit Model of Human Consciousness. The model addresses the question of how and why the mind evolved into an organ of consciousness. Beginning with a single celled organism, each system of consciousness is created as an emergent phenomenon of the previous system in an ever more complex networking process, leading towards a godlike state existing in all time-space with the possibility of engaging with other time spaces. The model is a creation myth, a cosmic blueprint, and fertile territory for the imagination.” Watch it:
http://www.arthurmag.com/2009/08/08/totem-pill-by-marc-ngui
9. ARTHUR COMICS AND ANIMATION!
Arthur Comics is edited by Jason Leivian of the excellent Portland, Oregon-based store/space/whatsit Floating World Comics. Here’s what he’s wrangled for us all recently. All of these are archived at http://www.arthurmag.com/contributors/comics/ or you can look at em individually by clicking on the links below:
‘44 PRESIDENTS’ by MZA & Maria Sputnik
‘ENSIGN SMURF’ pt. 1 by Stanley Lieber
‘SLAPSTICK’ by Jason Overby
‘POP GUN WAR 2: Chain Letter’ by Farel Dalrymple
‘CHAMELEON CITY’ by Léo Quiévreux
‘IMPORTANT COMICS’ byDina Kelberman
New images from Céline Guichard
‘JUNK SPIRALS’ animation by Hooliganship
‘THE SMALLEST INTERVAL’ by David King
10. ARTHUR MUSIC (MP3 DOWNLOADS, STREAMS and an ITUNES PODCAST!
All of these are archived at http://www.arthurmag.com/contributors/mp3/. You can also subscribe to Arthur Music’s iTunes Podcast at itpc://feeds.feedburner.com/arthurmag. Or you can listen to individual tracks by clicking on the links below:
Majestic rock n roll: MASTERS OF REALITY – “King Richard TLH” off forthcoming album
Right-on rock n roll for your earholioes: MEERCAZ – “Troubled Hand”
Late afternoon sundazed beach music: LITTLE WINGS – “Sandy Babe” off forthcoming album
Night music: HOPE SANDOVAL & THE WARM INVENTIONS – “Blanchard” off forthcoming album
“Uniquely squelchy bottom end music”: SUNBURNED HAND OF THE MAN – “Serpent’s Wish” off No Magic Man
Heavy “Primal Dead”: The Grateful Dead – Avalon Ballroom, San Francisco, CA – 1968-10-12
Whiskey-drinkin’ giddown music: JACK ROSE AND THE BLACK TWIGS -“Little Sadie” off new album
Blazing disco party rock: THE BLACK CROWES – “I Ain’t Hiding” off forthcoming double album
Vintage ‘76 Weserbergland groove music: HARMONIA & ENO – “Vamos Companeros” off forthcoming reissue
Rejuvenating wake-up blast rock music: DINOSAUR JR “I Want You to Know” off new album
Evening hypnodrone: MOUNTAINS – “Choral”
A 56-minute Grateful Dead Mix made especially for Arthur readers by GREG DAVIS
Fried out beautiful doom blues: HEADDRESS -“The Lost White Brother” from new album
Iraqi folk music: SALAAM – “Hadha Mu Insaaf Minnek”
Narcotic night music: CHEVAL SOMBRE – “Little Bit of Heaven”
THE ENTRANCE BAND – “Lookout!” – opening psych-blues jam off their loonnnnng-awaited new lp….
And that-that-that-that’s all folks,
Arthur Amarath Pesto Maker-Eaters
Fishtown * Greenpoint * Marfa * Atwater Village * wherever you are