Oh well! So. All is well. No. All is grand! I resigned from one of jobs today. Woo hoo! I’ll be going down the river this summer. Yay!
Okay, so. Lots of good fun things have happened lately. Much partying and carrying on. I haven’t spent any money on anything except laundry in 2 days. I did my laundry.
Here are some pics from Ed Zipco’s photoshoot party at the Brooklyn Industries Gallery in which he constructed a human slingshot with a mattress landing pad. Also pics from the Sweville show and the Miss Rockaway benefit art show opening Also, a small surprise asshole splasher manifesto that appeared on the ground.
Check out the flickr gallery here
Ahahaha. From the Skewville Orchard Street Art Gallery Closing Party! See the whole thing here.
More pics from the Skewville show here.
Also, the Miss Rockaway Benefit Art Show at Ad Hoc Gallery
ed & kat
Very disgruntled art show organizers!
The fellow they call “Hot Jamie” and hot Todd
Skewtown & Chevin. We’ll miss you on Orchard!!
Chevin, Todd & Brandy Gump.
Kristine, Adam & girl I don’t know.
Brandy & Cubby performing.
Chevin & Thaddeus
Seeliemonsta.
The great Stark.
And then that promised splasher manifesto pic. Thought this was kind of funny:
Tonight I learned to tune a guitar. Last night at Ashley and (Bonfire) Madigan and Jane LeCroy’s birthday party I sang the night away and it was fun. Thursday’s Miss Rockaway Armada benefit show went very well. There are still some amazing pieces left, so if you haven’t seen the show, look at it on flickr here. Anyway, tonight I made myself tune a guitar that I brought home from Todd’s house to play. I wasn’t quite getting it perfect so he called me on the phone and listened to me tuning and we figured it out. That was pretty nice. Also, I slept till 3 and then rode my bike in the rain to coney island for the marching band thing and grub at coney island. but they did grub early so i missed it. it was a nice ride anyway.
NYC->Philly to see Dark Dark Dark (missing them with all my heart, and not just because they took Todd away, I wince at the departure of Marshall and Nona and George) at Fancy House->DC for NCOR->Philly to drop Josh off at NotSquat, 2nd visit to Finley at Fancy House->NYC to Todd’s then biked up to my house. Whew! And a 3hr boat meeting I called into. Now trying to go to bed. I need to get better at tearing my eyes from the screen.
Here’s a pic of Marshall. I miss you guys so much already.
Be there tonight!!! Will be amazing!
it’s at 95 dobbin st, ps.
from le nonsense:
XXXXX SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 10 XXXXX
Benefit Show
Come out and show support for Andy Stepanian, a NYC activist serving
three years in prison for organizing and attending animal rights
protests, and the Earth First journal, a radical environmental
magazine in financial crisis.
With: Ghostmice playing with members of Japanther, Evan Greer,
Griffin and the True Believers, and Brook Pridemore. Come early for
yummy vegan food, sweets, and drinks. See some great bands, and help
activists and radical resources in need of funds.
The Arm
281 North 7th Street, between Havermeyer and Meeker, Williamsburg,
Brooklyn
5p; $7-10 suggested donation
http://www.andystepanian.com/
http://www.shac7.com
http://www.earthfirstjournal.org/
Thanks to everyone who came to the Justseeds fire sale last night and Todd’s bday party. It was rad. Thanks to Wooster for posting it and to Visual Resistance for workin so hard. Thanks to Dark Dark Dark from Minneapolis & the Miss Rockaway Armada for playing a slammin show!
so. there’s a lot of good commentary out there on the repeatedly dismaying state of the union address. the highlight was probably nancy pelosi standing there. does that make you think about feminist essentialism? i understand why it could. still, i will always advocate for people with the lived experience of race and gender oppression to be moved into positions of power with the hope that they change the structures they are entering. i just don’t trust oppressors to make excellent decisions for oppressed people. i think sometimes we need to speak for ourselves. of course this raises the question of women entering fundamentally oppressive and horrific institutions, which i would argue ought to be torn down, rather than have more women or people of color joining the ranks of the oppressors. so, when considering whether an institution, like an art museum or top government positions, or universities ought to have more women and people of color in leadership positions the answer is ‘yes.’ when considering whether to have more women and people of color prison guards at guantanamo or more women and people of color CEOs or arms manufacturers the answer is ‘no.’ it takes some case by case assessment of course. condi is a good example of how representatives of oppressed people can be put into positions of power and simply be tokens. that’s not acceptable either. but in the end we can be sure that people of color and women coming from the lived experience of race and gender oppression will do a better job of explaining that experience and understanding it than those who have not come from these places. therefore, onward nancy pelosi.
(rambling. apologies. it’s late)
This will definitely be worth checking out. Mike Houston is the shit. This summer he came to Minneapolis and built a barrel raft for the bicycle powered ferris wheel and haul out the amazing barnstormers sound system piece which consisted of a zillion speakers all hand detailed and made out of crazy stuff like washing machines, tires, dressers and good old wooden boxes.
CANNONBALL PRESS
Treasure of the Black and White Brigand
A Tale of Lost Loot Spanning the Centuries, told in woodcuts
January 16th – February 10th, 2007
OPENING RECEPTION:
THURSDAY, January 18th, 6-8pm
David Krut Projects
526 West 26th Street, #816
New York, NY 10001
212.255.3094
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