New EP, new album in progress, December Europe tour: HOWLIN RAIN NEWS
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Nov 28, ’10
11:39 AM
Keith Richards on the Living Theatre troupe
From Keith Richards’ Life, page 221:
“Anita [Pallenberg] and I went to Rome that spring and summer [1967], between the bust and the trials, where Anita played in Barbarella, with Jane Fonda, directed by Jane’s husband Roger Vadim. Anita’s Roman world centered around the Living Theatre, the famous anarchist-pacifist troupe run by Judith Malina and Julian Beck, which had been around for years but was coming into its own in this period of activism and street demos. The Living Theatre was particularly insane, hard-core, its players often getting arrested on indecency charges—they had a play ["Paradise Now"] in which they recited lists of social taboos at the audience, for which they usually got a night in the slammer. Their main actor, a handsome black man named Rufus Collins, was a friend of Robert Fraser, and they were a part of the Andy Warhol and Gerard Malanga connection. And so it all went round in a little avant-garde elite, as often as not drawn together by a taste for drugs, of which the LT was a center. And drugs were not copious in those days. The Living Theatre was intense, but it had glamour. There were all those beautiful people attached, like Donyale Luna, who was the first famous black model in America, and Nico and all those girls who were hovering around. Donyale Luna was with one of the guys from the theater. Talk about a tiger, a leopard, one of the most sinuous chicks I’ve ever seen. Not that I tried or anything. She obviously had her own agenda. And all backlit by the beauty of Rome, which gave it an added intensity…”
“PARADISE NOW: The Living Theatre in Amerika” dvd is available for $29.95 postpaid now from The Arthur Store
Nov 19, ’10
9:49 AM
NECESSARY VIEWING
Nov 18, ’10
7:03 PM
NOW COULTHART 2011 CALENDAR NOW
“A full colour calendar comprising all-new artwork in a psychedelic interpretation of Through the Looking-Glass and what Alice found there. The 1860s collide with the 1960s in lurid efflorescence!”
More: johncoulthart.com
Nov 17, ’10
12:23 PM
A SIMPLE SUGGESTION
From the Upriver/Downriver newsletter Number 10, circa 1991…
“Things That Really Work”
by Gary Snyder
DON’T MOVE!
Without further rhetoric or utopian scheming, I have a simple suggestion that if followed would begin to bring wilderness, farmers, people, and the economies back. That is: don’t move. Stay still. Once you find a place that feels halfway right, and it seems time, settle down with a vow not to move any more. Then, take a look at one place on earth, one circle of people, on realm of beings over time, conviviality and maintenance will improve. School boards and planning commissions will have better people on them, and larger and more widely concerned audiences will be attending. Small environmental issues will be attended to. More voters will turn out, because local issues at least make a difference, can be won—and national scale politics too might improve, with enough folks getting out there. People begin to really notice the plants, birds, stars, when they see themselves as members of a place. Not only do they begin to work the soil, they go out hiking, explore the back country or the beach, get on the Freddies’ ass for mismanaging Peoples’ land, and doing that as locals counts! Early settlers, old folks, are valued and respected, we make an effort to learn their stories and pass it on to our children, who will live here too. We look deeply back in time to the original inhabitants, and far ahead to our own descendants, in the mind of knowing a context, with its own kind of tools, boots, songs. Mainstream thinkers have overlooked it: real people stay put. And when things are coasting along ok, they can also take off and travel, there’s no delight like swapping stories downstream. Don’t Move! I’d say this really works because here on our side of the Sierra, Yuba river country, we can begin to see some fruits of a mere fifteen years’ inhabitation, it looks good.
Gary Snyder: wikipedia
Nov 13, ’10
9:55 PM
ANOTHER GREEN WORLD, INDEED
More from/on contemporary artist Alexander Ross at the ever-wonderful A Journey Round My Skull
Nov 11, ’10
3:12 PM
This Sat, Nov 13 10pm: MASAKI BATOH (of GHOST), WHITE MAGIC (solo) in Pioneertown – FREE, ALL AGES
Masaki Batoh: http://www.dragcity.com/artists/masaki-batoh
Ghost: http://www.dragcity.com/artists/ghost
White Magic: http://www.dragcity.com/artists/white-magic
Nov 9, ’10
10:20 PM
Ever get that feeling?
Arthur compilation/mixtape curated by editor Jay Babcock, available as pay-what-thou-wilt (starting at $4.20) digital download, here: http://www.arthurmag.com/blackout
Nov 9, ’10
9:17 PM
DEER’S LEG BONE
From http://blog.etsy.com/article/11032/:
Canadian native Catherine Thompson, a self-proclaimed semi-nomadic musician, makes many things from the remains of animals. This episode of Etsy’s Process video series takes you on a journey with her as she transforms a deer’s leg bone into a flute amidst the prairies of Saskatchewan.
Nov 3, ’10
8:36 PM