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V. Vale's RE Search newsletter Wired (blog) 1. MESSAGE FROM YOUR EDITOR: It’s always a pleasure to have LYDIA LUNCH as a houseguest, however briefly (and last night’s stay was brief). Her seminal NO WAVE band TEENAGE JESUS AND THE JERKS played Thur Oct 8, 9pm, at Slim’s 9th/Folsom St, S.F. We were still jetlagged from our voyage to Germany and made it to Slim’s around 10pm, just in time to catch an intense, wall-of-sound finale of solid noise and intense female screaming-into-the-microphone from BURMESE. Sadly, we missed TITTS, a local all-female group — one of their members, Kim, had met me about eleven years ago when I gave a lecture at CCA (California College of Art) in Oakland. Our friend Johannes from monochrom (Austrian art-philosophy-technology collective) had arrived earlier and mercifully had saved us a table on the left side near the stage (it’s getting harder to stand up for hours at music clubs). BURMESE cleared the stage and we saw a red Fender guitar placed against a Fender Twin Reverb amp in the center, a deep snare drum and high cymbal set up stage left, and a big bass amp on the right. TEENAGE JESUS AND THE JERKS hit the stage — the current incarnation includes Jim Sclavunos on drum & cymbal (he played standing up), and Al Kizys on bass — both in Yes Men-style suits, flanking LYDIA LUNCH in a black cocktail dress. Jim, who’s about 6′3, started the set hitting his deep snare drum exceptionally hard (drum, right hand; cymbal, left hand) and the intense, minimalist, Dadaist, archetypal Punk Rock set began. The scales fell from our eyes, and we realized this is what Punk Rock was in stark outline form — and we thought, “WE could play guitar like this. WE could play drums like this. It’s very simple. But it’s also very precise. And that’s what makes it exciting.” The 23-minute set was over in little over a heartbeat. We felt this was the skeleton archetype of Punk Rock. The show got us to thinking, What exactly is/was Punk Rock? During the early years, SEARCH & DESTROY magazine tried to map out the philosophical parameters, which remarkably resemble the description of Luis Bunuel films printed in last month’s newsletter — i.e., PUNK IS CHARACTERIZED BY: In its 36th year, Trinity Chamber Concerts’ mission is to present solo and small ensemble works from ancient to modern by Bay Area performers. Trinity is dedicated to cultivating a diverse program of performances that expands the possibilities of what is considered chamber music, and in doing so have included familiar works from the established Baroque, Classical, Romantic and 20th Century repertoire alongside seldom-performed works from the past and works of contemporary composers and improvisers. () SUN NOV 8, 1pm. FREE. AMIRI BARAKA (LeRoi Jones) IN PERSON! SF Public Library, Main Branch, Koret Auditorium, 100 Larkin St. () LOS ANGELES, Sun OCT 11, 8pm: monochrom in Los Angeles: “Reach Out And Touch Face: A Rant About Failing.” Johannes Grenzfurthner will give a lecture/performance at Machine Project (1200 D North Alvarado, Los Angeles, CA 90026). () SAN DIEGO, Fri OCT 16. monochrom in San Diego: Context Hacking: Some Examples of How to Mess with Art, the Media System, Law and the Market. 9255 Towne Center Drive, Suite 400, San Diego, CA 92121. If you’re in San Diego, try to experience the Recombinant Media Lab installation at U.C. San Diego curated by Naut Humon — it’s free (10-screen, 16-channel sound). Email naut@recombinantmedialabs.org for an appointment. () HAWAII INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL, Oct 17, 7pm & OCT 24, 1030AM - World Premiere of San Francisco filmmaker Emiko Mori’s ED HARDY: TATTOO THE WORLD, a documentary. Hopefully it will premiere in San Francisco soon! 4. What We’ve Attended/What We’ve Been Reading/Seeing/Listening to/What We’ve Been Sent () FRI OCT 9 SAVAGE REPUBLIC played the Part-Time Punks festival (along with the RAINCOATS, a U.K. 70s female Punk band) at the Mezzanine, 444 Jessie St/5th St, S.F. We wanted to attend but were just too jet-lagged…Reportedly Viv Albertine (Slits) and members of Gang of Four and Section 25 were present to deejay and ??? So, we stayed home and wrote this newsletter! SAVAGE REPUBLIC is now one of our favorite bands and we urge readers to support their tours and recordings… you will not be disappointed! () Essen, Germany: The site of the BMX conference 2009 - Body Modification Exchange. The most extreme shows we’ve ever seen. Find out more about BMX on the Counter Culture Hour this month in Stephan’s interview. (See 2 above.) Took place at a *utopian* venue — Imperfekt Haus — a real estate mogul’s tax write off - a place for international artists to live, work (rent-free studios in most cases), and show to the public. Could this happen in the U.S.A.?? Could this happen in real-estate-greed-dominated San Francisco? Everyone knows that realtors are the Enemy of Artists. And Artists are the ritual sacrifice: they move into terrible neighborhoods for the “lower rents,” get killed and robbed, then realtors come in to gentrify and make their blood money sky-high profits. |