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Tomorrow!! The Sads @ JRNL Gallery

Aaron Rose, Dan Monick, David Scott Stone and Aska Matsumiya are The Sads. Our live shows are rare, so this is a special invite. We will be performing a “silent show” at JRNL Gallery this Thursday night. The silent performance consists of a single fifteen minute composition in which our instruments will be fed into a sound board and routed into 40 separate sets of headphones for the audience to wear. Hence a silent show! The room will be silent, but the headphones will be full of a beautiful new song we wrote especially for this. So if you’re in New York on Thursday the 29th please come see us!!

Silencio!!
The SADS Silent Show
Thursday, Nov 29th, 2007 @ 9:00 PM
The JRNL Gallery
168 North First Street
Brooklyn, NY 11211

Jaana Jatyri Jammin Jammer!

Well, if you like keeping track, but don't actually like keeping up with the 'keeping' part of keeping track, now you've got this to help you out:

www.trendstop.com
www.trendstop.com
www.trendstop.com
For realler than really reals.
And they decode it all, too.

Also in fucked up whale news:

Japan is going to resume its Humpback Whale hunting...

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2007/11/071119-humpback-video-ap.html
CAUTION: VIDEO IS GNARLY

Take some action:
www.thepetitionsite.com/takeaction

This is actually serious.

I don't think that we have ever posted something like this on here yet, but between the fact that that this blog's favorite blogging subject, Chris Johanson, sent this to me, or the fact that it said "The message below, from James Taylor, was sent to you by..." and it was sent by Chris, or— really I'm beating around the bush on the bottom line because it is so fucking stomach turningly gnarly. Please read below and consider clicking the link to send a petition. These are heavy days, and inactive silence just gets them heavier.

"The message below, from James Taylor, was sent to you by
http://www.nrdcactionfund.org


Dear Friend,

The U.S. Navy wants to put a training range for lethal
mid-frequency sonar right next to a key migratory route for
endangered right whales -- off the coast of Cape Hatteras, North
Carolina.

Click here and tell the Navy not to put its proposed sonar range
next to the right whale's migratory route:

http://www.nrdcactionfund.org/whales_nc_action

I grew up in North Carolina. My father served in the Navy while
we lived there, and I have sailed up and down the Eastern
seaboard many times. Like so many people, I love the wild beauty
of the North Carolina coast, including its magnificent whales.

So I find it mind-boggling that our government would choose this
sensitive environment as the training ground for a type of sonar
that can kill whales.

The Navy's new Atlantic Undersea Warfare Training Range would
create a 500-square-mile hub of sonar activity -- assaulting
whales, dolphins and other marine life with a year-round barrage
of deafening sound.

That barrage would occur without apparent interruption -- even
during the peak, annual migration of the North Atlantic right
whale, one of the most endangered whale species on Earth.

Only about 300 of these whales are believed to exist.

Given what we know about the dangers of sonar, can we stay
silent while our military bombards the world's last right whales
with this deadly noise?

Click here to protect the world's last right whales from deadly
sonar:
http://www.nrdcactionfund.org/whales_nc_action

The Navy itself has admitted that sonar can kill whales. Around
the world -- from Hawaii to the Canary Islands -- whales have
been found stranded or dying following their encounters with
naval sonar. And scientists have demonstrated that intense noise
puts right whales in additional danger of being struck and
killed by ships.

It's even happened in North Carolina! Thirty seven whales of
three different species beached themselves on the shores of the
Outer Banks following sonar exercises in 2005. Yet the Navy is
planning to build its new testing range just south of where the
mass stranding occurred.

If you and I wait for more pictures of dying whales on the
beaches of North Carolina it will be too late.

No one is asking the Navy to compromise its training or its
readiness. Certainly, I'm not. I'm from a naval family. I fully
appreciate the Navy's vital mission.

But we are asking the Navy to find a place and a time for
training that is less likely to torture and kill some of the
most magnificent creatures on Earth. Taking that simple
precaution is the sensible and moral thing to do.

Right whales should not have to die for military practice.

Please join me and the NRDC Action Fund in demanding that the
Navy consider less sensitive locations for its new sonar
training range and the deadly noise it will produce.

Click here now and tell the Navy to do the right thing:

http://www.nrdcactionfund.org/whales_nc_action

I hope you'll also help us build nationwide opposition to the
Navy's proposal by forwarding this message to anyone you know
who cares about whales.

Let's not wait for whales to start dying in North Carolina.
Please speak out now.

Sincerely,

James Taylor
NRDC Action Fund"

http://www.nrdcactionfund.org/whales_nc_action

it is goin' down

in case you didn't know what to get into this saturday:


double double boom (4 booms)

jamming

For anyone keeping score, I'm sorry that I haven't posted in so long. The last two weeks we have been in full on deadline for the next ANPQ (#9 which will be out very early next month to subscribers and then to locations a little later— go Casey Holland!! It looks so good!) and simultaneously I was really really wiped out with the 2007 fall flu at the same time. Double bad boom.
But that was the last two weeks.
I actually saw this a few weeks back, and I'm not sure if you have all seen it yet, or if maybe it is already gone from the world, but how craze is this KT Tunstall/iTunes/Starbucks marketing plan?

The idea is that rather than buying the KT Tunstall CD when you are buying your coffee—which is of course the moment at which you would feel most reminded or inspired to buy it—you can pay full price for this giant plastic holographic coupon for the entire album as an iTunes download. Its totally amazing for the environment, too, because it doesn't involve plastic CDs or cases or even the paper inserts, there's just this giant piece of holographic plastic which will remind you to get the thing that you paid for on iTunes when you get home, unless you lost it or threw it away before then.
I think that this says that we are living in the future and we're not fully sure what that means yet, so on the way to the ideas that will stick we're trying out a lot of ideas that we'll forget because they didn't work at all.
I hope that this blog entry in some way helps us to remember that this idea existed in the market place even after it is deemed a bad idea and canceled in the near future.

VASF Art Show

I just realized that we never posted any photos of the art show at the RVCA store in SF.
Here are some snapshots from the day after the opening party last week. Epic.



Oh, and by the way...ANP Quarterly Number 9 goes to the printer tomorrow!!

That's All Folks!

Yesterday they allowed my delinquent little butt onto the Warner Brothers lot in Burbank to supervise the final sound mix on the Beautiful Losers documentary. Yes, I said FINAL sound mix, and that means it will be coming out soon!

Money Mark was on hand to make sure we didn't screw up his music.

Yes, as in Clint. Gnarly.

This is the room we worked in. It's hard to see in the photo, but this is a massive full size movie theatre! Those little meters off in the distance are actually massive television screens! It was like being on the bridge of a huge movie making spaceship.

Other amazing films mixed on this stage include...Purple Rain...

...and The Right Stuff! Some seriously stiff competition.

RVCA Gallery SF Grand Opening show...

The RVCA store on Haight and Ashbury in San Francisco, California.

There were two Stews: Stew and Bizarro Stew.

Phil only used this much white out. That shit is toxic.

Phil drew some artwork all over this young filly...

Stecyck was there too...

Can you see through her shirt?

Marsea got scratched.

Leo had just ridden up from Southern California on a Vespa scooter.

Downstairs, Josh and Megan were getting pornographic. (in my mind)

Then some assholes ran their boat into the Golden Gate bridge causing a giant oil spill that will fuck up all the ocean and beaches for hundreds of miles, and further causing this woman to cry.

Cops threatened to close the joint down...

Police, we love them and their service to society.

Aaron drove up on a Vespa too, all the way from the OC.

Blood on the store floor. Good Night.

Meeting for the new issue, Day One.

Although we will all put this issue on hiatus to visit San Francisco...

IF

If you're in San Francsisco, this is on thursday

RVCA is proud to present “Family Tree”, featuring the work of R.Pimple (b. mcgee), Phil Frost, Craig Stecyk and Pushead. Opening reception November 8th from 7pm at VASF. Tommy Guerrero will perform live.
VASF
1485 Haight St.
San Francisco, CA

and if you're in New York,
This is on Saturday (heads up: amazing art at really great prices for an amazing cause)



Small Works for Big Change
To Benefit the Work of the Sylvia Rivera Law Project
Sara Meltzer Gallery
525-531 West 26th Street
Saturday, November 10. 4-9pm
Auction Closes at 8:15pm
An evening of art, music, and performance.
To view the catalog, visit: http://srlp.org/documents/smallworkscatalouge2007.pdf
This November 10th, the Sylvia Rivera Law Project will be hosting its 3rd Annual Small Works for Big Change, where incredible works of art will be sold to the highest bidders in order to raise funds to support our fight for gender self-determination.

The event will be held at the Sara Meltzer Gallery at 525-531 West 26th Street and will feature over 40 works. Artist’s work to be featured at this event include Richard Aldrich, Sadie Benning, Ginger Brooks Takahashi, a. k. burns, Leidy Churchman, Jocelyn Davis, Stephanie Diamond, Donnie & Travis, William Downs, Celeste Dupuy-Spencer, Edie Fake, Daphne Fitzpatrick, Brendan Fowler, Eve Fowler, Chitra Ganesh, Andrea Geyer, Mariam Ghani, Sam Gordon, Jonah Groeneboer, Emma Hedditch, Sharon Hayes, Roni Horn, Miranda July, Matt Keegan, Alex Klein, Shaun El C. Leonardo, Marget Long, Adam Putnam, Sigrid Sandström, Allison Smith, Shinique Smith, Michelle Snyder, Christopher Spinelli, Wu Ingrid Tsang, Abby Walton and Travis Boyer, Fred Wilson and more!
The event will also feature music by DJ Tikka Masala and DJ Designer Imposter and incredible performances by Tara Mateik, The Collective Opera Company, Wu Ingrid Tsang and Kalup Linzy. The event is one night only and the bidding ends at 8:15pm, so don’t miss your opportunity to take work home with you that night.

All proceeds will go towards supporting the work of the Sylvia Rivera Law Project (SRLP). SRLP provides free legal services to low-income transgender communities and transgender communities of color. We also educate the public about trans oppression and support community organizing work that fights for the rights of our communities. SRLP has assisted over 800 clients facing violence and discrimination in prisons, juvenile justice facilities, shelters, educational institutions and at the hands of the police since its inception in 2002. SRLP also trains judges, health professionals, and other community organizations on how to provide respectful and affirming services.

For more information about the event please visit http://srlp.org/index.php?sec09A&page=smallworks3 or contact Ryder Diaz at (212) 337-8550 x.111. To make a donation or for more information about SRLP, please visit www.srlp.org.

Taqueria El Granjenal

While on the subject of signs, some of my favorite hand-painted signs are around the corner from the RVCA offices in Costa Mesa. Taqueria El Granjenal really went the extra mile with their painterly depictions of food and happy customers. They make a great burrito too!

Hero Worship: Part II

This is a photo of Louis Federico. He was one of the best sign-painters in Los Angeles. From his early roots as a car pin-striper in the 1960's, to his work later in life executing the freshest lettering styles around, he was certainly a master. I had the honor and privilege of working with Louis a few times over the last couple of years and every time he was a total inspiration. Sadly, he passed away a few weeks ago and will be surely missed. he was one of the last of a dying breed.

Noah, Patrick and Sammy

I first became friends with Noah in highschool, but then I didn't see him that much for a few years when I moved to NY after graduating and he moved to Boston... but in that time I became friends with Patrick—who was living in San Francisco, but whose girlfriend at the time, Beth, was going to school in New York—and Sammy, who was living in New York and hanging out in similar circles… I think Patrick and Sammy must have became friends as soon as Patrick moved to New York through skateboard stuff. I started seeing Noah a lot more recently in the last two years through music stuff and when he was staying with me after his band's last tour ended in New York a few weeks ago he said, “You’re friends with Patrick O’Dell, right? He made a video for me with this guy Sammy.”
A) I’m a big fan of all these guys, and B) and it is always beautiful to see your friends become friends.



PANDA BEAR “Comfy in Nautica” Directed by Patrick O’Dell and Sammy Salganik


Also, there is a great Behind The Scenes kind of report on Patrick’s Epic Website, HERE.


(Side notes: I have never met Clark Hassler, the guy who is skating in the video… I am kind of a fan of his and I always feel shy. And I haven’t heard from Beth in years, but I hope she is doing well. She is really a sweet person. And Sammy made the last Krooked video for Mark Gonzales, “Gnar Gnar,” and a new one, the title of which I don’t know, but it just premiered last night in the city (halloween) and its beautiful!))