Pranks, Punk and Industrial Culture from V. Vale

V. Vale’s Pranks 2 is original, unique, and provocative. A sequel to Pranks! originally published in 1987, the current volume brings the possibilities of cultural subversion up-to-date with the inclusion of people like computer hacker Marc Powell. Underlying the rationale for reporting on pranks is the Situationist model of the “society of the spectacle,” or the spectacular commodity society as articulated by theorists like Fredy Perlman and Guy Debord.
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() Thur Nov 8, 6pm RE/Search at Camerawork – 657 Mission Street, Second Floor (bet. 3rd St/New Montgomery St), San Francisco, CA 94105-4104. TEL: 415 512 2020

V. Vale, founder of Search & Destroy and RE/Search magazines, in conversation with photographer, and author of Punk ’77, James Stark. There will be a one-night photo show of photographic prints (for sale) from Punk ’77 – books can be autographed. $5 Public, $2 Students/Seniors, Free for Camerawork Members – http://www.sfcamerawork.org/

Eugene Robinson, front man for the band Oxbow, reads from his new book: Fight: Or, Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About A-ss-Kicking but Were Afraid You’d Get Your A-ss Kicked for Asking.

V.Vale will attend the screening of Meditate and Destroy (feature documentary on Dharma Punx author, Noah Levine) and Death Row Art Star (a short film by Aron Ranen); San Francisco on wed – Nov. 14th, 6:30pm @ the Victoria Theatre, 16th St/Capp St in San Francisco.

http://blog.myspace.com/meditateanddestroy

You can view the film trailer here: www.meditateanddestroy.com

Saturday 2pm 11-3-07
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Roz Rezabek, Debi Sou and Buddy drop by. They’ve been in town for some underpublicized shows organized by “Ted” of Mabuhay Records who said he was a soundman at the Mabuhay – he was 19, a doorman there, getting bored, and another older soundman suggested he learn, and he did. (Alledgedly he tried to set up a last minute table at the DirkFest but Kathy Peck got mad at him and made him stop.) He put a big show together for Halloween at the Mab (Oct 31), another show the next night at Annie’s Social Club, and tonight (Sun. Nov4) – a benefit for Johnny Genocide who has cancer, at Lennon Studios on Dore Alley (3-10pm). However, nobody came to the shows – mainly just the people who came with the bands who played. Supposedly it was all publicized on MySpace, but …
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CounterCulture Hour podcast featuring Johannes of monochrom, all the way from Vienna, Austria.