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RE/Search Newsletter #171, Dec 2017 Part 2
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Table of contents
0. Nick Zedd needs our help!
1: Forthcoming events part 2
2: BOOKS/ZINES/PRINT/FILMS/MUSIC/Etc:
3: Recommended links
5: Letters from readers
6: Sponsors (Check ’em out! – they make this newsletter possible!)
1: Forthcoming events part 2
2: BOOKS/ZINES/PRINT/FILMS/MUSIC/Etc:
3: Recommended links
5: Letters from readers
6: Sponsors (Check ’em out! – they make this newsletter possible!)
0. Nick Zedd
() Nick Zedd in Mexico City –
in danger of eviction!
sign his petition on FB for his and his family’s predicament (search for “Nick Zedd” on FB)
He writes this:
I have been held prisoner in Hotel Virreyes in Mexico City for the last week in my room with Zerak my son and his mother Monica.
The security put a padlock on the front door of the building, shut off our electricity and cut the hot water, gas and internet.
This after informing all of the tenants to get out with only 2 weeks notice. We have paid the rent on time every month for the past two years.
I finally found a modem in one of the halls to enable me to send this.
People have been smuggling food water and medicine to us from the street which we pull up with a rope.
All of this has been reported on my Facebook wall and from my Twitter feed by an intern who I gave my passwords to, who lives in the outside world.
Carlos Slim and the Selina corporation are apparently trying to starve us out. There is an Amnesty International petition up to pressure Hote Virreyes, Selina and Carlos Slim to stop harrassing and sequestering us. Maybe you could sign it and forward it. The Mexican police have apparently been paid off or are afraid to stand up to Caros Slim or the Salina hotel chain. No journalists have had the balls to report this story but social media is disseminating it. Every other tenant in the hotel has given up and left. They all turned out to be cowards, even though they could have been represented by our lawyer too.
Perhaps you would like to cover our story?
It would be very cool if you could get someone to sneak into the hotel to interview us while we’re being held hostage. Maybe you can get a drone camera or a rope ladder.
Exclusive.
Resist!
Nick Zedd
SUC. HOTEL VIRREYES
Jose Ma. Izazaga No 8
Room 204
Col. Centro
Delegacion Cuauhtemoc
C.P. 06080
Mexico, DF
1. FORTHCOMING EVENTS PART 2: (San Francisco unless Otherwise Noted)
NOTE: Watch next newsletter for Zora Burden’s interview with Messer Chups (Sveltlana Zombierella)! Sorry, Zora, we did NOT have time to edit it!
() $ Tue Dec 12 Castro: Rick Prelinger’s Lost Landscapes of San Francisco (rare short films)
() ? Wed Dec 13, 730-1030pm Canessa Gallery, 708 Montgomery/Washington St: Michael Gendreau, Thomas Dimuzio, Wayne Grim/Rachel Smith (music event)
() $ Wed Dec 13, 10pm Alamo Drafthouse: Der Fan (1982) from Berlin courtesy curation of #jacquelinecastel
() $ Wed Dec 13 Roxie Theater: French Noir Xmas films!
() $ Thur Dec 14, 7pm: Roxie Cinema, “Roxie Mixtape” group film show, including “Project Y” (1983, 10 min) by Marian “RE/Search” Wallace. Roxie Mixtape is a new local-shorts film series curated by the Roxie staff. “Project Y” is an experimental faux-narrative inspired by Jean-Luc Godard, with an analog-generated&edited industrial sound track. 3117 16th St, San Francisco, CA 94103. RE/Search will appear in person! http://www.roxie.com/ai1ec_event/roxie-mixtape-4/?instance_id=24414
() $ Thur Dec 14, 730pm Paul Clipson’s world premiere, Black Field, Exploratorium, Pier 15
() $ Sat-Sun Dec 16-17 Roxie Theater: Bruce Conner Films. Sat 5pm, Sun 4:30pm. Check Roxie schedule Dec 15-17 for Dennis Hopper films, too—We’d like to see ’em ALL!!!
Dec 15: 930pm: Blue Velvet.
Dec 16: 6pm: Bruce Conner Films. 9pm: True Romance
Dec 17: 4:30pm Bruce Conner Films; 830pm: Out of the Blue.) www.roxie.com
() FREE Tue Dec 19, 5pm Main Library/Koret Auditorium presents recent film by Jon Jost. https://sfpl.org/index.php?pg=1030369301
() FREE Wed Dec 20, 6-8pm, SF Main Library Koret Auditorium: S.F. Punk Film Series – Shorts & Clips from 1977-1980 including Mindy Bagdon’s “Louder Faster Shorter” which Search & Destroy helped make
() $15 Wed Dec 20, 830pm MIKE WATT & The Secondmen at Bottom of the Hill!
() $ Fri Dec 22, 9pm Amnesia, 853 Valencia/19th St presents Jean Caffeine!
() $ Sun Dec 31 Mr Lucky [now living on East Coast] plays Bimbo’s, 6 blocks from the RE/Search office!
() FREE Sat Jan 6 **NEW YORK CITY** Marlborough Gallery hosts a gallery show featuring Survival Research Laboratories (SRL) Mark Pauline and crew in person. RE/Search plants to attend — meet us there! 40 West 57th St, NY 10019. tel 212-541-4900. Mon-Sat 10-5:30pm.
() $ Gray Area Jan 9, 7pm Ryoji Ikeda live set!
() Now through Jan 28, 2018: BAMPFA **BERKELEY** Miyoko Ito Art Show! Also, Jan 17-May 6 BAMPFA has a huge show titled “Way Bay” of Bay Area artists like Bruce Conner, Joan Brown, Jay DeFeo, Richard Diebenkorn, and many others — a must-see! www.bampfa.org
() Now through Jan 28, 2018: BAMPFA **BERKELEY** Miyoko Ito Art Show!
() Free Wed Jan 31, 7pm City Lights Bookstore Jen Pelly from NYC presents her 33-1/3 book on The Raincoats – live conversation with Greil Marcus!
PERENNIAL FORTHCOMINGs to CHECK OUT:
() Support the Roxie Theater: great programming EVERY NIGHT (our opinion). http://www.roxie.com
() Castro Theater: a beautiful Film Palace! Amazing built-into-the-walls pipe organ often played before shows, so get there early… () The Balboa, too! Go OUT to the movies! See films with others & buy popcorn! It’s FUN! () The Embarcadero Theaters: walking distance from RE/Search office. We often go here!
() S.F./BAY AREA EVENTS to Google Regularly: The Long Now Foundation. Goethe Institute. The List (Punk Rock). Dorkbot. Bottom of the Hill. The INdependent. Thee Parkside. The Chapel. Brick & Mortar. ATA Gallery (last “underground” film place?). Mule Gallery. Live Worms Gallery on Grant Avenue. The Lab under Dena Beard. Southern Exposure Gallery under Patricia Maloney. SF Cinematheque under Antonella Bonfanti. Gray Area on Mission St/23rd St: very avant-garde programming; go to their website.
1C. Terminal Punk by V. Vale (interviews, quotes, etc: why “Punk” is the last philosophy you’ll ever need; it may even help you survive the apocalypse!). The new 7th edition zine (yes, we keep trying to “improve” it) may be had for a mere $10 plus $5 shipping, or come by our office and score your copy! You might also want to score a rare RE/Search T-shirt; we’re already running out of the “small” and XL sizes! Other options are our William S. Burroughs T-shirt (M,L only), and our Mr. Death T-shirt (S,M,L,XL).
1D. V. Vale Bio-Comic. SEARCH FOR WEIRD by Krusty Wheatfield: on V. Vale’s life/biography). Excellent drawings! $10 plus $5 shipping ($10 overseas shipping). Krusty’s SECOND comic: Search for Weird Issue #1 on “The Roots of Search & Destroy” now available for $5 plus $4 s&h.
2. RE/Search Conversations: podcast series
Most of us are too busy to sit down and watch a “TV show,” so now (while you’re driving, gardening, walking) you can listen to some of the conversations that happen around the table at the RE/Search office.
Newest Podcast: Wolf Eyes The extremely well-read “Psych Jazz” band-of-outsiders improvised a compelling performance with guest musicians at The Peacock Lounge, 552 Haight St. Thanks to Decker for all hospitalities extended.
Wolf Eyes podcast: https://simplecast.com/s/464dccae
Coming up soon: performance artist. Linda Montano, who is featured in RE/Search Publications’ book Angry Women, discusses persona-based art, escaping reality, performance art, and gender exploration, among many other topics.
Recent episodes: Peter Sempel, German experimental documentarian from Hamburg, who visits San Francisco periodically, often to show his films at The Goethe Institute
AND author Sumeet Banerji [The Ice Party] and record producer Jerry Connolly, shooting the s#!+ at the RE/Search office with V. Vale (warning: over 2 hours long!).
Go to our website podcast page to see a full list. All are also available free of charge at the iTunes podcast “store” under “RE/Search Conversations.”
Please send us feedback if you listen to these podcasts so we’ll know someone out there is listening!!
Here are links to a few others that are available:
Christopher Coppola [filmmaker]
Thorsten Schutte [director of Frank Zappa documentary “Eat That Question”
Thorsten Schutte [director of Frank Zappa documentary “Eat That Question”
Mike Watt [bass-player/ musician]
Daniel Miller [synth musician/ DJ]
Diane diPrima [Beat poet]
2: BOOKS/ZINES/PRINT/FILMS/MUSIC/Etc:
() Nov Benoit from France gave us Love Is Colder Than Death: The Life & Times of Rainer Werner Fassbinder by Robert Katz, and A Youth in Babylon: Confessions of a Trash-Film King by David F. Friedman – Thanks Benoit!
() Fri Dec 1 The Lab hosted Alex Hacke and Danielle de Picciotto (instagram: danielle_de_picciotto ) and Kal Spelletich — “everyone” was there; ’twas super-fun!
() Sat Dec 2, 2017 visited Moe’s Bookstore (Hi, Stanley (who worked on our Kathy Acker book, Great Expectations) and got Man Ray Portraits, Lee Miller in Fashion, and Mary Ann Caws’s The Surrealist Look. The first two were stellar!
() Sat Dec 2, 4pm saw amazing, unexpectedly-transportive live performance: Old First Presbyterian Church, 1751 Sacramento St/Van Ness: Piedmont East Bay Children’s Choir and other choirs (all under 21 years of age). Thanks Paul L!
() Mon Dec 11, 2017 111 Minna St. party for Ron Turner/Last Gasp’s new publication: Who Killed Hunter S. Thompson? – lotsa people autographed the book including Winston Smith, Dan O’Neill, & Ben Fong-Torres. Saw a very educational 90-minute film on HST’s gonzo life, with participants Johnny Depp, Jimmy Carter, George McGovern, Ralph Steadman, et al.
() Tue Dec 12 saw Guillermo del Toro’s new film Shape of Water at the Embarcadero Theater (walking distance from RE/Search headquarters).
3: Links (send us some!)
() “Token Promises” — latest electronic soundscape offering from La Mère (Marian “RE/Search” Wallace). On bandcamp at this link: https://lamere1.bandcamp.com/. Take a listen for free — or download to your phone — for 99¢
() “Once Upon A Time” — the 2nd latest electronic soundscape offering from La Mère. On bandcamp at this link: https://lamere1.bandcamp.com/. Take a listen for free — or download to your phone — for 99¢
() from anonymous: Ha this is cool – they burned this giant trump prop on the street
And they made this rotating trump swastika prop too
() Danielle Neu Photographer recent print bibliography:
Willem Dafoe in Dazed Winter 2017
Chanel New World Order in Pop, Fall/Winter 2017
Leather Prowler in Dazed, Fall 2017
Noon Magazine (Editorial) Spring/Summer 2017 (instagram: @_danielleneu_
() from Gary C: https://www.pri.org/stories/2014-02-04/history-modern-world-told-everyday-throwaway-ephemera
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() from Kevin O’Malley: “Good to see you yesterday and connect on Burroughs. Here is Green Ghost book I was speaking about:
“And would love to read your new intro you wrote about Burroughs. —K”
() new MDK (from Berlin) album out! (google to find) Instagram: @funksoulbrozza
4: Quotations:
() “Change the World Through Design” (our latest philosophical challenge. Our previous challenge was: “Change the World Through Punk Rock”)
() “Be Perfectionist—but Finish Projects!”
() “Whenever there’s people, there’s Hierarchy!”
5: Letters from readers
[Amy & Adam Naworal bought a “bunch” of RE/Search books recently [THANK YOU!!!], and sent a note on FB:]
“All of these are repurchases due to loss and/or theft over the years;; I’ve been reading RE/Search books since my early teens. The sole exception is Memoirs of a Sword Swallower, which I hunted down but never could find before! Thanks for all the years of excellent books, V. Vale! (and thanks to my folks for not paying all that much attention to what I was reading and buying in high school XD)”
6. **SPONSORS** (Without them you would NOT be receiving this newsletter – Please go to their websites!) Here, a personal thanks to Dave S and to Paul L. And this newsletter would not exist without Andrew B. and Emily.
If you would like to be a sponsor, a year costs $144; we ask for a 6-month minimum of $72.1. BEYOND BAROQUE: Only bookstore in L.A. with a complete stock of RE/SEARCH BOOKS! Please patronize them… (Also, we hope there are still some RE/Search titles at The Pop-Hop in L.A.; thanks, Rhea Tepp!) RE/Search books now at bozomag‘s store!2. V. Vale’s RE/Search Newsletter is cordially sponsored by “Beyond the Beyond. http://archive.wired.com/beyond_the_beyond http://brucesterling.tumblr.com @bruces http://flickr.com/brucesterling “Information Wants To Be Free WE MEAN IT MAN! $0$0$0$0$0$0$0$0$0$0 (x6/30/16)
If you would like to be a sponsor, a year costs $144; we ask for a 6-month minimum of $72.1. BEYOND BAROQUE: Only bookstore in L.A. with a complete stock of RE/SEARCH BOOKS! Please patronize them… (Also, we hope there are still some RE/Search titles at The Pop-Hop in L.A.; thanks, Rhea Tepp!) RE/Search books now at bozomag‘s store!2. V. Vale’s RE/Search Newsletter is cordially sponsored by “Beyond the Beyond. http://archive.wired.com/beyond_the_beyond http://brucesterling.tumblr.com @bruces http://flickr.com/brucesterling “Information Wants To Be Free WE MEAN IT MAN! $0$0$0$0$0$0$0$0$0$0 (x6/30/16)
3. “Hicks Metal Design & Production: Supporting creativity in the Bay Area since 1994” (x4-30-18)
4. We Heard You Like Books accepts the dominance of RE/Search in all matters, but here’s our website anyway: weheardyoulikebooks.com (The Ice Party) (x4-30-18)
5. DRYLAND: Los Angeles Underground Art & Writing—uniquely based in South Central L.A. Poetry, fiction, nonfiction, reviews, interviews. https://drylandlit.org/ (x10-31-17)
5. What’s CBD and how is it related to harm reduction and vaping? To learn more, visit our blog at http://CascadiaVape.com To purchase CBD and Kava supplements visit http://CascadiaVape.net (x/end1/18)
6. Support & visit NYC Gallerist Margaret Lee! 47 Canal (gallery). (x/end1/18)
7. WorkshopSF, located in Western Addition, offers creative, affordable DIY classes for adults, taught by awesome local artists, woodworkers, and makers, since 2009. [x/end1/18) http://www.workshopsf.org/ (x03/18)
8. Uncertain is a post-industrial musick project by Florian-Ayala Fauna (2007 on), influenced by the Occult and work of artists like Coil, Current 93, Aleister Crowley (the esoteric tradition). https://uncertain.bandcamp.com (x03/18)
9. Paul M. Hertzmann, Inc. Vintage Photographs, POB 40447 SF CA 94140; pmhi@hertzmann.net, www.hertzmann.net (x10/30/18)
10. realvalueproductions.com a San Francisco music production company creates original music for YOUR films/videos, CD’s, et al: http://www.realvalueproductions.com/utopia-or-oblivion/ (x5/31/18)
11. Paul L. many many thanks!! Also, thanks much to Dave S. and Billy H.
The end, for now
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