Friday, July 25, 2008

And Thank You For Being a Friend.


R.I.P Estelle Getty
7/25/1923 - 7/22/2008

Sunday, July 20, 2008

Highways of Gold.

I just got home from a month in Europe with Jaguar Love, the tour started in Sweden.

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Where the sunsets at 3AM.


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And rises at 4AM.

We stayed at a hostel in a very quaint little town.

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Quite, Calm, Simple, a great way to start the tour.

Saturday, July 19, 2008

Tuesday, July 15, 2008

Male Odor Monsters.



Male Odor Monsters
A group exhibition featuring original works by:
Brian Chippendale

Matthew Thurber

C.F.

Carlos Gonzales

Wednesday, July 16, 7pm - August 5

Hope Gallery - 1547 Echo Park Ave 90026

Featuring four artists known for their visionary work in comics, this show presents new pieces that explore collage, watercolour, silkscreen, acrylic, and crayon, with the same inventiveness of form as their narrative work.

A founding member of Providence's Fort Thunder collective, Brian Chippendale was included in the 2002 Whitney Biennial (as Forcefield), and shown at Deitch Projects (Panic Room, 2006), and D'Amelio Terras (2006). He has published two graphic novels with PictureBox, Ninja (2006), and Maggots (2007). He is also drummer in the band Lightning Bolt, and has collaborated on projects with musicians such as Bjork, Thurston Moore, and the Boredoms.

Matthew Thurber is the creator of the ongoing comic book series, '1800-Mice' (PictureBox), and has had work included in the anthologies Kramer's Ergot, and the Ganzfeld. As a performer he has appeared as Ambergris at The Hammer Museum in Los Angeles, and as Saxophonist in Soiled Mattress and The Springs, shared bills with Gang Gang Dance and No Age.

C.F. is the alias of Christopher Forgues, creator of the serialised graphic novel 'Powr Mastrs' (PictureBox). His work has appeared in exhibitions at Loyal Gallery (Stockholm), The Watari Museum of Contemporary Art (Watari, Japan), and New Image Art (Los Angeles). Under his musical moniker Kites, he has several recordings with Load Records.

Author of the xeroxed comics, Slime Freak, and Rat's Cocoon, Carlos Gonzales' work featured in Kramer's Ergot 6. His musical project, Russian Tsarlag has released cassette tapes on the Unskilled Labor label.

Hope gallery is jointly curated by the bookstore 'Family', and the record label 'Teenage Teardrops'. familylosangeles.com teenageteardrops.com

Hope Gallery
hopegalleryla@gmail.com
323 782 9221

Slaughter of the Soul.




Here is the set list from the NYC show....thanks Brendan.

01. Slaughter Of The Soul
02. Cold
03. Terminal Spirit Disease
04. Raped By The Light Of Christ
05. Under A Serpent Sun
06. Windows
07. World Of Lies
08. The Burning Darkness
09. The Swarm
10. Forever Blind
11. Nausea
12. The Beautiful Wound
13. Suicide Nation
14. All Life Ends
15. Need
16. Blinded By Fear
17. The Flames Of The End


FUCK ME ITS GONNA BE GOOD.

LA, JULY 27TH....GET SOME!!!!!

Sunday, July 6, 2008

Dead Souls.

Ian Curtis' Gravestone Missing



"It's not really how we want to kick off our holiday weekend, but we just got the sad news that the gravestone of Joy Division's Ian Curtis has been stolen. The headstone simply read "Ian Curtis. 18-5-80. Love Will Tear Us Apart."

BBC Manchester reports that it was stolen from Macclesfield Cemetery sometime between Tuesday afternoon and Wednesday morning; and Chesire police are asking people to contact them if they have any information. You can do so here.

A police spokesperson told BBC "There is no CCTV in the area and there are no apparent leads as to who is responsible for the theft. This is a very unusual theft and I am confident that someone locally will have knowledge about who is responsible or where the memorial stone is at present."