this is a fun one from last year

7/2/08

LA, friday, July 4th

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OOGA BOOGA | 943 N. Broadway #203 | Los Angeles, CA 90012 | 213.617.1105
www.oogaboogastore.com | Tues-Sat 12-7, Sun 12-5 | info@oogaboogastore.com
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1. Friday afternoon 4th of July party!
2. Clothing sale extended, up to 60% off!
++++++++++++++++++JULY 4TH AT OOGA BOOGA!++++++++++++++++++
Please come to the Ooga Booga courtyard to celebrate July 4th this
Friday afternoon from 3-7pm! With music by:
Tony aka Teenage Moms (members of Mika Miko & Finally Punk!)
All Neon Like (members of Vomit Bomb!)
DJ Heather Gram (of Surfside Slashers!)
+new window installation by LittleChan (Jasmine Little and Jamie Chan!)
+vegan hot dog bbq by Kate Hall & Jennifer Clavin!
FREE! Everyone welcome! 3-7pm!
for more info:
www.oogaboogastore.com/news
www.myspace.com/mikamiko | www.myspace.com/finallypunk
www.myspace.com/allneonlikemusic | www.myspace.com/surfsideslashers
+++++++++++++++++CLOTHING SALE EXTENDED!++++++++++++++++++
We're extending our clothing sale to this month too, with additional markdowns starting Friday! Up to 60% off! And new summer styles are in by Mociun, Keep Company, and more! www.oogaboogastore.com/shop/clothing
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they are...

HERE
More shots of these tomorrow, but in the meantime, the shirts have arrived!

up now at 2nd Cannons, Los Angeles

Up now at 2nd Cannons Publications
510 Bernard St.
Los Angeles, CA 90012
Tel: 323 267-0650
www.2ndcannons.com
Brendan Fowler
Untitled (Summer 2008)
June 21 - August 2, 2008
opening reception June 21, 7pm
Disaster performance at 9pm
(the opening already happened)

Also, related notes, 2nd Cannons shares the same building as David Kordansky Gallery and the newly anointed Mesler&Hug Gallery (formerly Daniel Hug Gallery) which currently has an excellent two person show by Uri Aran and Ara Dymond.

Contemporary Readymade Situation #1

Today we're going to begin a new series on the ANPQuarterly blog called Contemporary Readymade Situation. For this, the first installment, we are going to provide you with two angles. If you are ever at a loss, you can copy this:

6/21/08

Elliot Krumping In Slow Motion

Love vanquishes time. To lovers, a moment can be eternity, eternity can be the tick of a clock.

Devin Flynn Is A Genius

6////08

I think he's jamming Autechre, right?

06/04/08

Final Product // ATTIGO TT from Scott Hobbs on Vimeo.
I am not co-signing this, but I'm not NOT co-signing this. I'm putting it up because I saw it and was kind of like "oh, I guess this is the future... maybe?" Retrofuture? ...remember the first time you saw DJ Q-Bert doing crazy routines? ...Or maybe you didn't see Q-Bert —he was kind of the most major turntablism guy, the Jordan of tunrtablism, I think. For sure very charming and undeniably virtuosic. undeniably a true artist... but the wide open window on turtablism may in fact have closed by the time the documentary Scratch opened in 2002 (or 2003?)... anyways... or remember the first time you saw Ryan Sheckler crying on MTV? I'm just thinking that this could be one of those "I know that, but I didn't know to think that that version of that could exist" moments for us all. Drop the beat!

Misha Mengelberg + Han Bennink

Misha Mengelberg : piano Han Bennink : drums
Live at the Bimhuis, Amsterdam, Netherlands, September 2, 2004.

Who Loves Pancakes???!!!!

May 28, 2008

Somehow I totally missed this guy's whole thing until now.


LYRICS:

Internet Dream

"Man this internet's something else"

[Verse]

Cuttin' it close
Let the dishes turn green
Everyone chasin' their
Internet dream

Some like it hot
In a triple X funk
Winnin' the auction
Turnin' money to junk

Cappin' the flag
In a virtual dash
Skippin' your wedding
To play in a match

[Chorus]

Shut all the blinds
You mighta been seen
Sittin' alone
With your internet dream

Winning the race
For your digital fix
Living your life
With a clickity-click
(Repeat)

"So every day I swear
I'm gonna go to bed at like eleven.
And all of a sudden its 4AM . . .
And I was just watching Youtube and
reading Wikipedia for five hours.
It's like MAN . . . you ask me the
next day. I can't even remember
what I was doin. Crazy."

[Verse ]

[Chorus]

"I was talkin to my mom the other day
And she's like 'Oh,
My computer's been acting up again!'
So I'm thinkin she got a virus
or something . . .
And I'm like 'ok what's wrong?'
And she's like 'You know that bar that
you type the website in! It disappeared!
I can never remember how to get it back!'
I'm like 'ok Mom. We did this last week.'
I love my Mom and Dad. "

[Chorus X 2]




and then something happened with him and Dr.Pepper?

Keep LA this weeeeeeeekend

Humans of LA: Keep Sidewalk Sample Sale this weekend.
Una from Keep says "It's kind of a sale meets party, plus a chance to check out our new office in Chinatown."
Should be a bunch of fun:
Shoes for $20 and less. (!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!)
Free drinks! Djs include Barr (full disclosure, this is me), Wendy Yao, and Nate Harrington.
May 31 Sat 10 am - 6 pm
June 1 Sun 12 - 5 pm
Keep
418A Bamboo Lane
LA, CA 90012
p. 213 620 0148

David Horvitz part zillion

Was anyone having David Horvitz withdrawl?
New levels David- ness HERE .
Thank you David.

this is pretty much it

So, I can't figure out how to embed it, but THIS VIDEO is documentation of a show that Car Clutch (my band with Ethan Swan) played on our tour a few weeks ago. I mention this because it is the same tour for which I posted all the tour posters a few weeks back and because it was pretty much a dream bill... and and and also this video was made by Joey, who made the dog video below and who's videos I am obsessed with. You can find this video and a really telling first-trip-since-moving-away-from-home documentation/autobiographical video on his BLOG .
Thank you Joey.
And thank you Ethan for finding his blog!

ten dog dog dog dog dog dog dog dog dog dog

Let's Count Dogs! from wavyisland on Vimeo.

Video by the AMAZING Joey.

Tobin Yelland/Hamburger Eyes Slideshow and Lecture this Sunday!!

"In The House!”
Tobin Yelland Slideshow + Talk
Sunday May 18th at Photo Epicenter, San Francisco

Photographer and Filmmaker Tobin Yelland’s work features the day-to-day experiences of many different characters playing out their sexuality and aggression with youthful invincibility. Since the age of fifteen, Yelland has been steadily documenting the shadowy existence of youth and its vestiges in day-to-day life. In conjunction with the Being True Photo Exhibition, Tobin will be showing and talking about his work Sunday May 18th at Photo Epicenter. See a sample of Tobin’s work at http://www.tobinyelland.com

Slideshow will run approx 1 hr. and starts promptly at noon on Sunday, May 18th.
HAMBURGER EYES
Photo Epicenter
26 Lilac St.
San Francisco CA 94110
http://www.photoepicenter.com

Go! Go! Go!

Car Clutch Wescoast Tour 08

Full disclosure: As Aaron goes through Harmony's archive in Nashville, and Ed gets ready for his art show in Copenhagen, my other band with Ethan Swan, Car Clutch, is going on a westcoast tour starting this week and it is mostly with Rob Barber from High Places' other band, URXED. "Broken Dance Music"? "Bangers"? Ethan calls them dark bangers.
Dark Bangers.
You are intensely invite to each show!







(the color flyers were made by Ethan)
Car Clutch...A-Ron will not be with us, though, so jam the tracks after the A-Ron jam to hear what it sounds like...
Urxed

Los Angeles tonight 5/3

so, after you go to the Hamburger Eyes show at Hope Gallery (Echo Park BLVD right by Showpony, etc)....


please come to this David Horvitz situation. Full disclosure, I'm performing, but the really exciting part will be David's art and the Infinite Body performance... (HE RULES!!!!!!!) and the some sort of Lucky Dragons thing that they are going to do from tokyo?




there is more stuff tomorrow, too.... but we'll get to that tomorrow... vague...

In Case You Missed This...

Mika Miko & No Age live at the LA Public Library!!

ESPO's Fullbright Scholarship in Dublin

Stephen Powers (aka ESPO) received a Fullbright last year to go over to Dublin, Ireland for a public art project. The project description reads as follows:

Mr. Powers will combine his painting, writing, and publishing skills to collaborate with young adults aged 15 - 17 in Belfast's Shankill Road and Dublin's Fatima Mansion to create art work that will depict their lives and times and publish a magazine to share it with the public. According to Mr. Powers, "the Shankill Road and Fatima Mansions have the most incredible resources of rich histories, enduring legacies and resolute personalities that I have ever seen. I look forward to teaching the youth how to convert those resources into work for a lifetime."

He's been there for the last month working, beautifying the streets in ways only he could! Above is some evidence.

Check out the new Barry McGee "Art Talk" on VBS

Deanna Templeton Tonight!!!

Mollusk Surf Shop, Venice presents "California Dreams and Realities". The photography of Deanna Templeton and paintings of Alexis Amann. Opening reception this Saturday night April 19th from 7-10pm.

Music by The Tyde.

Mollusk Surf Shop
1600 Pacific Ave
Venice, Ca 90291
http://www.mollusksurfshop.com/venice/

Brendan Fowler Show at Rivington Arms

Starting tonight for the next two weeks, ANP Quarterly editor Brendan Fowler will be having an art show at Rivington Arms Gallery in New York. The show is called "last Disaster / first BARR" and runs through April 19th. Brendan's music project Disaster will be performing live during the run of the exhibition. Check www.rivingtonarms.com for info. Go Barr!!!

Kim Gordon Art Show!!

Stijn Huijts used to be the museum director of the Het Domein museum in Holland that showed works by Ed Templeton, Barry McGee, Clare Rojas and others way before the rest of the world took notice. He's a big supporter human. Well he's just moved to a new museum and his first show is by none other than artist/musician/ANP Quarterly friend Kim Gordon!

Yes...this show is in Europe (sorry), but if anyone happens to find themselves anywhere near Holland it might be worth your while to go check this out. Judging from the invitation it looks like it's gonna be pretty epic.
Opens April 18th through June 15th.
www.glaspaleis.nl

ANP Quarterly presents Harmony Korine / Mister Lonely exhibition with DJ Nate Harrington and performance by The Sads at agnes b store this Friday!!

Don't miss this!!

Required Reading II

Taipei Times, Wednesday April 2nd, 2008
China warns of threat of Tibetan `suicide squads'

As Beijing accuses, Tibetan leaders reaffirmed their commitment to nonviolence and the head of India's soccer team refused to carry the torch

AGENCIES, BEIJING, LONDON, NEW DELHI AND PARIS
Wednesday, Apr 02, 2008
China yesterday accused Tibetan independence forces of planning to use suicide squads to trigger bloody attacks.
The accusation was the latest in a series from Chinese officials blaming recent violence and unrest in Tibet on followers of the Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama.
"To our knowledge, the next plan of the Tibetan independence forces is to organize suicide squads to launch violent attacks," Public Security Bureau spokesman Wu Heping (吳和平) said yesterday. "They claimed that they fear neither bloodshed nor sacrifice."
Beijing accuses the Dalai Lama and his supporters of orchestrating anti-government riots in Lhasa on March 14 as part of a campaign to sabotage the Beijing Olympics in August and promote Tibetan independence.
The 72-year-old Nobel Peace Prize winner has denied the charge, condemning the violence and urging an independent international investigation into the unrest and its underlying causes.
The self-proclaimed Tibetan government-in-exile quickly denied Beijing's charges.
"Tibetan exiles are 100 percent committed to nonviolence. There is no question of suicide attacks. But we fear that Chinese might masquerade as Tibetans and plan such attacks to give bad publicity to Tibetans," said Samdhong Rinpoche, prime minister of the government- in-exile in Dharmsala, India.
"There is absolutely no doubt in our mind that we want to follow the nonviolent path," he said.
China's campaign against the Dalai Lama has been underscored in recent days with showings of decades-old propaganda films on state TV portraying Tibetan society as cruel and primitive before the 1950 invasion by Chinese troops.
The government has sought to portray life as fast returning to normal in the Tibetan capital of Lhasa -- the scene of the deadliest violence -- although its landmark Buddhist monasteries of Jokhang, Drepung and Sera were closed and surrounded by troops, tour operators said.

`TROUBLE-MAKERS'
Meanwhile, China's top newspaper said yesterday that protesters seeking to upset the Olympics would only offend China's Games-loving citizens, as the Olympic torch began a global relay sure to trigger further demonstrations.
Even before the Olympic torch arrived in Beijing on Monday, it drew protests from critics of China's restrictions on dissidents and the media, its policies on Sudan's Darfur region, and a security crackdown in Tibet.
With the torch now on a 130-day trek across the world from the Chinese capital, more demonstrations abroad are certain.
But the People's Daily said "trouble-makers" had misjudged the country's mood.
"A few clouds will not cover the sun's radiance and a few trouble-makers will not hold back the world's expectations for the Beijing Olympic Games," the paper said.
"If some think that the warm-hearted aspirations and passionate expectations of the Chinese people present an opportunity to get up to some tricks and `pollute' the Beijing Olympics, they have made a big miscalculation," it said.
IOC MEETING
International Olympic Committee (IOC) president Jacques Rogge expected to meet senior Chinese government figures, possibly including Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao (溫家寶), in the next week as the Olympic movement attempts to ease international tensions surrounding the Games.
Rogge is expected to arrive in Beijing at the end of this week as the IOC makes its last formal visit to the city before the Games and it is hoped he will meet Wen.
While the main focus of Rogge's visit will be the formal operational aspects of China's preparations, a meeting with the premier would offer Rogge the opportunity to discuss the broader implications of recent events in Tibet.
The IOC has come under increased international pressure to try to exert influence on the Chinese government since security forces stamped out demonstrations in Lhasa and surrounding regions in the middle of last month.
Rogge has said in recent weeks that as a sporting organization the IOC is powerless to exert any influence, while also claiming the Games will be a force for good in China, a position that suggests he believes the IOC is not without leverage.
He has failed, however, to satisfy critics who point to the IOC's promise, made in 2001 when China was awarded the Games, that the human-rights situation would improve as a result of hosting the Olympics.
In Calcutta, the captain of India's soccer team, Bhaichung Bhutia, said he would refuse to carry the Beijing Olympic torch during its run through the Indian capital later this month in protest over China's crackdown in Tibet.
"It's a great honor that I have been chosen to carry the torch, but at the same time I am sorry to inform that it is not possible for me to take part in the torch run for personal reasons," Bhutia said yesterday.
Bhutia, among the first athletes to refuse to run with the torch, said he faxed his decision to the IOA on Monday.
"I strongly denounce the repression and torture unleashed by the Chinese authorities in Tibet," said Bhutia, who is a Buddhist.
"This time the Olympics are going to be held in China. I don't want to carry this torch" he said. "I have many Tibetan friends and I have taken this decision to show my solidarity with them."
Amnesty International said yesterday that China's rights record was getting worse because of, not despite, the Olympics as it bids to present a united front by cracking down on dissent.
Amnesty said it was increasingly unlikely the Games would improve rights in China and urged the IOC and world leaders to speak out publicly against violations.
Politicians risk being implicated in a "conspiracy of silence" if they fail to address issues such as the Chinese government's crackdown in Tibet, the London-based group said in the new report.
It also contained fresh criticism of the IOC.
"Unless the Chinese authorities take steps to redress the situation urgently, a positive human rights legacy for the Beijing Olympics looks increasingly beyond reach," the report said.
A pre-Olympic crackdown on critics -- who the report says are targeted "in an apparent attempt to portray a `stable' or `harmonious' image to the world by August 2008" -- had "deepened not lessened because of the Olympics," Amnesty chief Irene Khan said.
Meanwhile, French Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner said yesterday that he expected he and his EU counterparts would jointly invite the Dalai Lama to visit Brussels soon.

Required Reading!

Beijing orchestrating Tibet riots
Canada Free Press[Friday, March 21, 2008 10:20
Brit spies confirm Dalai Lama's report of staged violence

By Gordon Thomas

London, March 20 - Britain's GCHQ, the government communications agency
that electronically monitors half the world from space, has confirmed
the claim by the Dalai Lama that agents of the Chinese People's
Liberation Army, the PLA, posing as monks, triggered the riots that have
left hundreds of Tibetans dead or injured.

GCHQ analysts believe the decision was deliberately calculated by the
Beijing leadership to provide an excuse to stamp out the simmering
unrest in the region, which is already attracting unwelcome world
attention in the run-up to the Olympic Games this summer.

For weeks there has been growing resentment in Lhasa, Tibet's capital,
against minor actions taken by the Chinese authorities.

Increasingly, monks have led acts of civil disobedience, demanding the
right to perform traditional incense burning rituals. With their demands
go cries for the return of the Dalai Lama, the 14th to hold the high
spiritual office.

Committed to teaching the tenets of his moral authority---peace and
compassion---the Dalai Lama was 14 when the PLA invaded Tibet in 1950
and he was forced to flee to India from where he has run a relentless
campaign against the harshness of Chinese rule.

But critics have objected to his attraction to film stars. Newspaper
magnate Rupert Murdoch has called him: "A very political monk in Gucci
shoes."

Discovering that his supporters inside Tibet and China would become even
more active in the months approaching the Olympic Games this summer,
British intelligence officers in Beijing learned the ruling regime would
seek an excuse to move and crush the present unrest.

That fear was publicly expressed by the Dalai Lama. GCHQ's satellites,
geo-positioned in space, were tasked to closely monitor the situation.

The doughnut-shaped complex, near Cheltenham racecourse, is set in the
pleasant Cotswolds in the west of England. Seven thousand employees
include the best electronic experts and analysts in the world. Between
them they speak more than 150 languages. At their disposal are 10,000
computers, many of which have been specially built for their work.

The images they downloaded from the satellites provided confirmation the
Chinese used agent provocateurs to start riots, which gave the PLA the
excuse to move on Lhasa to kill and wound over the past week.

What the Beijing regime had not expected was how the riots would spread,
not only across Tibet, but also to Sichuan, Quighai and Gansu provinces,
turning a large area of western China into a battle zone.

The Dalai Lama has called it "cultural genocide" and has offered to
resign as head of the protests against Chinese rule in order to bring
peace. The current unrest began on March 10, marking the anniversary of
the 1959 Uprising against Chinese rule.

However, his followers are not listening to his "message of compassion."
Many of them are young, unemployed and dispossessed and reject his
philosophy of non-violence, believing the only hope for change is the
radical action they are now carrying out.

For Beijing, the urgent need to find a solution to the uprising is one
of growing embarrassment. In two weeks time, the national celebrations
for the Olympic Games start with the traditional torch relay. The torch
bearers are scheduled to pass through Tibet. But the torch could find
itself being carried by runners past burning buildings and temples.

A sign of this urgency is that the Chinese prime minister has now said
he is prepared to hold talks with the Dalai Lama. Just before this
announcement, Britain's Prime Minister Gordon Brown declared he would
meet the Dalai Lama, who is to visit London next month. This is the
first time either leader has proposed to meet the Dalai Lama.

If You Happen To Be in Paris....

This is some serious business!!



galerie du jour agnès b.
44 rue Quincampoix, Paris.
Wed -Sat, 12-7

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www.agnesb.com
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