Welcome to V. Vale's RE/Search Newsletter #173, January 2018 Part 2
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Table of contents
1: Great SRL Show in NYC Jan 6, 2018: Marlborough Contemporary
2: Forthcoming events
3: RE/Search Conversations podcast
4: Our past life: BOOKS/ZINES/PRINT/FILMS/MUSIC/Etc
5: Recommended links
6: Quotations
7: Letters from readers
8: Sponsors (Check 'em out! - they make this newsletter possible!)
1: Great SRL gallery show in New York!
Marlborough Gallery Show, Saturday Jan 6, 2018 545 West 25th St/11th Ave, NY 10001. tel 212-463-8634. Exhibition hours: Mon-Sat 10-5:30pm
Despite extremely cold weather (-20 degrees?) SRL pulled off an exciting show in a brutally challenging environment! Amazingly, all the machines tested outside in the snow worked. Inside the white-cube walls, the “volume” could get menacingly loud, so bright-orange earplugs were given free to each attendee, who was required to sign a liability waiver! Each person was also given a free SRL sticker as a souvenir. The Marlborough Gallery workers were super-supportive, competent and friendly (we met a few: Leo who curated the show, Alexa, Robert and Kristina). There are great photos and videos on Instagram (look for k0re, @survivalresearchlabs, etc, and also FaceBook, YouTube any more.
2: Forthcoming events
() $ SFMOMA: Rauschenberg, Walker Evans, lots more. We recommend starting at the 7th floor and working your way down - lots to see; well worth a visit… The cafe offers delicious, reasonably-priced gourmet food, and the SFMOMA Bookstore is nonpareil; so much to want to buy!
() Thursday, January 18, The Chapel WES ANDERSON Soundtracks Live:
7:30pm: The Music of Rushmore
10:30pm: The Music of The Royal Tenenbaums
Join an all-star group of musicians under the direction of Marc Capelle as they pay tribute to the soundtracks of Wes Anderson's most beloved films. 2 SHOWS!
• The Music of Rushmore: A Live Performance of the Soundtrack (7:30 PM)
Peter Asher (Peter & Gordon), Tom Ayres (Persephone’s Bees), Allyson Baker (Dirty Ghosts), Andy Cabic (Vetiver), Toby Dammit (Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds), Bart Davenport, Karina Denike (Dance Hall Crashers), Devin Hoff (The Nels Cline Singers), Yuka C.Honda (Cibo Matto), Cyril Jordan and Roy Loney (The Flamin’ Groovies), Jon Langford (The Mekons), Thao Nguyen (Thao & The Get Down Stay Down), John Roderick (The Long Winters), Todd Roper (Cake), Pete Straus, Chris Von Sneidern, Laura Weinbach (Foxtails Brigade), a string quartet featuring Dina Maccabee, Helen Newby, Alisa Rose, and Irene Sazer, and a horn/reed section featuring Carroll Ashby, Sheldon Brown, Ben Goldberg, Tom Griesser, Scott Larson, and Amber Lamprecht. Kelley Stoltz JUST ADDED!
•The Music of The Royal Tenenbaums: A Live Performance of the Soundtrack (10:30 PM) Peter Asher (Peter & Gordon), Tom Ayres (Persephone’s Bees), Allyson Baker (Dirty Ghosts), Toby Dammit (Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds), Bart Davenport, Karina Denike (Dance Hall Crashers), Hether Fortune (Wax Idols), Devin Hoff (The Nels Cline Singers), Yuka C.Honda (Cibo Matto), Cyril Jordan and Roy Loney (The Flamin’ Groovies), Jon Langford (The Mekons), Thao Nguyen (Thao & The Get Down Stay Down), John Roderick (The Long Winters), Todd Roper (Cake), Kurt Stevenson, a string quartet featuring Dina Maccabee, Helen Newby, Alisa Rose, and Irene Sazer, and a horn/reed section featuring Carroll Ashby, Sheldon Brown, Ben Goldberg, Tom Griesser, Scott Larson, and Amber Lamprecht and more!
() Fri Jan 19 **LONDON** JG Ballard: This Is The Way, Step Inside. ICA, The Mall, SW1Y 5AH. (If we could, we’d be there!!) "A screening of short film adaptations exploring Ballard’s 20th Century preoccupation with the machine vs. the 21st Century obsession with the digital towards an anthropological take on disembodiment, honing in on how Ballard perceives both the body, and the human condition.
"In conversation will be filmmakers Simon Barker, Jason Wood and Harley Cokeliss, plus Ballard scholar Dr. Jeanette Baxter (The Anglia Ruskin Centre for Science Fiction and Fantasy).
JG Ballard in Crash! (Harley Cokeliss, 1971): “I think the "key image of the 20th century is the man in the motor car. It sums up everything: the elements of speed, drama, aggression, the junction of advertising and consumer goods with the technological landscape. The sense of violence and desire, power and energy; the shared experience of moving together through an elaborately signalled landscape.
"Everything is there: the speed and violence of our age; the strange love affair with the machine, with its own death.”
https://www.facebook.com/events/158872048199048/
() Berkeley Jan 19, 7-10pm, CWB, Art House, 2905 Shattuck
() Sat Jan 20, Roxie Theater, Cats of Istanbul film
() Sun Jan 21 Independent: Flesheaters with Chris Desjardins
() Tue Jan 23, Wed Jan 24, Fri Jan 26 THE CHAPEL, 777 Valencia St: Peter Murphy(Bauhaus) plays 3 full-album concerts, each different (Note: Feb 15-16, Peter Murphy plays with David J!!)
Tuesday, Jan.23 – 9pm (Should the World Fail to Fall Apart)
Wednesday, Jan. 24 – 9pm (Should the World Fail to Fall Apart)
Friday, Jan. 26 – 9pm (Love Hysteria
() Peter Murphy also performs Jan 27-Feb 11 (he has a residency at The Chapel). Feb 15-Fri Feb 16, Peter Murphy plays with David J (Mr Moonlight)!!!
() Thur-Sun Jan 25-28 YBCA Screening Room: rare Arturo Ripstein (Mexico) subversive films. Five decades of filmmaking!
() Thur-Sat Jan 25-Feb 3 CASTRO Theater Film Noir Festival. Jello Biafra will attend! Every night is worth seeing!
() 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 Jenn Pelly from NYC presents her 33-1/3 book on The Raincoats (readings, movies, ephemera) - live conversation with Greil Marcus!
() Free Feb 2. 7pm **OAKLAND** Jen Pelly from NYC presents her 33-1/3 book on The Raincoats at EM Wolfman.
() FREE **BERKELEY** Feb 3, 7-10pm Desperate Living Room (John Waters tribute art show), Somewhere Else Art Space, 1212 San Pablo. Also: art show on Feb 4, 6-10pm.
() $ Fri Feb 23, The Chapel: Thurston Moore! ‘Nuff said!
() Free **OAKLAND** Fri March 2, 6-9pm, Classic Cars West Gallery, 411 26th St: Melek Zertal opening
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.
3: RE/Search Conversations
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.
New 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
Nate: https://twitter.com/ffwolfcone
John: https://twitter.com/olsonpower
https://www.facebook.com/wolfeyesinc/
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"
Mike Watt [bass-player/ musician]
Daniel Miller [synth musician/ DJ]
Diane diPrima [Beat poet]
4: Our past life: BOOKS / ZINES / PRINT / FILMS / MUSIC / Etc
Highly recommend The Disaster Artist; very funny!
The highlight of the month was going to NYC to see Survival Research Labs at the Marlborough Gallery on Jan 6 (-20 degrees) semi-outdoor show! We went to the after-show dinner at Ru Paul’s former penthouse at the 6th floor of the Jane Hotel and hung out with Paul L and Edward S. and the SRL crew. Came back Jan 8 and saw the (2) Blade Runner films at the Castro Jan 12 (great wide screen). Another local highlight was seeing the Music of Twin Peaks evening at The Chapel featuring Marc Capelle’s Red Room Orchestra with Toby Dammit, et al. on Sat Jan 13 (costumes! dancing! cast members!). We’ve been reading our Dieter Rams hardback (slowly) and on the trip finished Henning Mankell’s Firewall (2002).
5: Links (send us some!)
() "Token Promises" – 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¢
() V. Vale on "radio" or podcast: Alea Balzer NTS2 facebook: https://www.facebook.com/LuciferOverLA/
() https://www.wnycstudios.org/story/patti-smith-never-wanted-to-be-famous/
() If there is just one magazine you subscribe to, let it be Jack Rabid’s Big Takeover. The recent Chrissie Hynde interviews are just stellar! Each issue is chock-full of trustworthy “opinions” and informed reviews; not to mention classic interviews that stand the test of time. Google and subscribe!
() http://www.nationmultimedia.com/detail/lifestyle/30334593
() https://www.artsy.net/article/artsy-editorial-artist-builds-high-tech-robots-attack
6: Quotations
“There’s no budget like no budget” — Simon de Boer, Amsterdam chef/artist
7: Letters from readers
() "All the best to you in 2018.Here's my latest jams for you to add to your soundtrack for the apocalypse!
https://alphastare.bandcamp.com/album/december-31-2017
"Hope you enjoy. I go on a European tour with Turn Me On Dead Man in February but after that I hope to come a visit you guys! Cheers! Jeff Klukowski”
() "Hello Vale, I help run a small label out of San Francisco called Discontinuous Innovation Inc. Currently we are trying to find some info on an obscure San Francisco new wave group called “the Dave”. The only information we have been able to find is the name of one of their releases “Lois” and that they are from 83 - 85 era. If you could give us any other information it would be greatly appreciated. Thanks,Toyota Avalon“ - can any readers help? write us at:[email protected]
() “Hello! Hope you are great. Finally here are the links to this show:
https://www.nts.live/shows/lucifer-over-london/episodes/lucifer-over-la-goals-of-life-with-vvale-11th-december-2017
(excuse the awful pixalated image, I don't know why nts did that and have asked them to fix it)
Also the show is up on iTunes under Lucifer Over Los Angeles.
https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/lucifer-over-los-angeles/id1140871360?mt=2
Thank you again! —Alea Balzer"
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The end, for now
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January 2018 Part 2 RE/Search Newsletter #173 written by V. Vale & other contributors. RE/Search website powered by Laughing Squid.
