Hi everyone! We made it through Mardi Gras, and only a week later, we've gotten
> it together enough to send out our February email!
> 
> -Movie Nights
> -New Blog
> -Robbery
> -Expansion
> -Iron Rail Benefit Events
> -LP Crates
> 
> MOVIES MOVIES MOVIES MOVIES MOVIES MOVIES MOVIES MOVIES MOVIES MOVIES
> All Movies Begin on Tuesdays at 8pm and are FREE and entertaining.
> TUESDAY FEB 12
> BUBBA HO-TEP (2003)
> Elvis Presley is an elderly resident in an East Texas rest home; seems he
> switched identities with an impersonator years before his "death" and then
> missed his chance to switch back. The King teams up with Jack, a fellow nursing
> home resident who thinks he's John F. Kennedy, and the two old codgers prepare
> to battle an evil Egyptian entity that's chosen their long-term care facility
> as its happy hunting grounds.
> TUES FEB 19
> HARLAN COUNTY, USA (1976)
> Director Barbara Kopple's film about the 1973 coal miners' strike in Harlan
> County, Ky., won a Best Documentary Oscar and was selected for the National
> Film Registry. Highlighting the struggles of families living in shacks with no
> indoor plumbing and enduring hazardous working conditions, the film details the
> conflict between the Eastover Mining Co. and the laborers determined to join
> the United Mine Workers of America.
> THUES FEB 26
> KOYAANISQATSI: Life Out of Balance (1983)
> Koyaanisqatsi, which marks Godfrey Reggio's (a New Orleanian) debut as a film
> director and producer, is the first installment of the Qatsi trilogy. The title
> is a Hopi Indian word meaning "life out of balance." Created between 1975 and
> 1982, the film is an apocalyptic vision of the collision of two different
> worlds -- urban life and technology versus the environment, with no dialog or
> plot whatsoever. Philip Glass composed the film's hypnotic musical score.
> 
> BLOG BLOG BLOG BLOG BLOG BLOG BLOG BLOG BLOG BLOG BLOG BLOG BLOG BLOG
> You can see inside the melted, irradiated brains of Iron Rail collective
> members by looking at our new blog about the store:
> http://ironrail.blogspot.com
> The Blog can also be accessed through a link on the frontpage of our website,
> www.ironrail.org
> 
> ROBBED ROBBED ROBBED ROBBED ROBBED ROBBED ROBBED ROBBED ROBBED ROBBED
> We were also recently ROBBED at night while the store was closed. It wasn't
> devastating, but it does really suck to loose money when we are running on such
> a tight budget. Does anyone want to help us out by giving us a safe or
> something? A drop box? I don't know. What do you think? Also, please let us
> know if you know who did this, and please tell people not to rob volunteer-run
> spaces dedicated to serving the community. What's wrong with people sometimes?
> Thanks!
> 
> EXPAND EXPAND EXPAND EXPAND EXPAND EXPAND EXPAND EXPAND EXPAND EXPAND
> We're working on a pretty massive expansion of the store that will almost
> double our size, give us a whole new, comfortable reading room and we will have
> a computer lab with TEN computers. We need money! And lumber! And sheet rock!
> Can anyone help out? We will also have a building party to build new the new
> room within a couple of months.
> 
> BENEFITS and EVENTS BENEFITS and EVENTS BENEFITS and EVENTS BENEFITS and EVENTS
> We're throwing a benefit on February 22nd at the Dragon's Den to help raise a
> little cash. There will be live sets from THE SILENT GAME, PARTY TIME, and
> MAGIC LEGS (Lafayette). The doors open at 5pm, the show starts at 6 or 6:30pm,
> and the music ends to make way for the Nomadic Bellydancers at 8pm! Come out
> early. Let's have some lentil soup and a falafel together for 4pm.
> MARCH EVENTS
> March 01 - BLAIR + CROCKER acoustic show, Iron Rail benefit, at the store
> March 10 - MADELINE + NANA GRIZOL (ex-NEUTRAL MILK HOTEL) acoustic Iron Rail
> benefit at the store
> March 17 - Peter Young afternoon lecture at Iron Rail ()
> March 26 - CAPTAIN CHAOS (Chris Clavin) acoustic Iron Rail benefit at the store
> 
> LP CRATES LP CRATES LP CRATES LP CRATES LP CRATES LP CRATES LP CRATES
> We need some crates or some kind of sturdy boxes to bring out the Iron Rail
> stock of vinyl to some shows. Being able to sell stuff at more shows will help
> us make up for the robbery losses, so if anyone can help out, please get in
> touch with us at nolabookcollective@hotmail.com
> 
> Bring back your overdue books PLEASE! We won't hate you, or fine you into the
> poor house, we just like getting our books back so others can enjoy them as
> well.
> 
> Thanks everyone!
> We are a radical library, bookstore, reading room and record rack serving New Orleans, Louisiana. We are an all-volunteer collective supporting radical and alternative discourse and action. This list will serve as our annoucements newsletter. Visit us at Decatur & Marigny: 511 Marigny New Orleans, LA 70117 http://www.ironrail.org http://www.myspace.com/ironrail

Hi there. Welcome to the Iron Rail Bookstore December
e-mail update!
 
Found Vs. Post Secret
December 5th, 7pm @ Iron Rail
$10
$40 VIP
Join us for a night of magic and mischief! FOUND
Magazine (http://foundmagazine.com) and PostSecret
(http://postsecret.com) clash in a battle of the
titans. Davy shares sparkling brand-new finds, Frank
shares powerful postcards from his bag of secrets, and
Peter plays ridiculous songs based on FOUND notes and
PostSecrets. Additional mayhem guaranteed!
 
VIP guests - please arrive early for a special
reception from 5:30 pm to 6:30 pm with Davy Rothbart
and Frank Warren. You will also receive priority
seating and a bag of FOUND and PostSecret treasures.
 
This event will benefit Hopeline and The Neighborhood
Story Project.
 
More info and to buy tickets online:
http://foundvspostsecret.com/
http://foundvspostsecret.com/in/new_orleans_LA
 
You can also buy the $10 general admission tickets at
the Iron Rail any time we are open. You can also buy FOUND Magazine at the Iron
Rail, and we should have POST SECRET in stock by Monday.
 
Call 267-760-1648 or 212-868-4444 for more
information. And Come! It's going to be super cool!
 
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We have Iron Rail t-shirts available for a limited
time, for only $5.00. Get one!
 
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December Movie Nights
*All Movies Begin at 8pm on Tuesday nights*
 
December 4th
Dead Alive
Peter Jackson proves that if gory is funny, then
excessive gory is downright hysterical. As our hapless
hero wades through an ankle-deep puddle of blood and
entrails, brandishing a lawnmower like a portable
Cuisinart at the climax of this zombie-fest, you'll
either be screaming with laughter or fleeing in
disgust. Timothy Balme stars as the shy mama's boy
Lionel, whose controlling shrew of a mother (Elizabeth
Moody) starts rotting away, literally, with a vague
supernatural disease. Mother dies but refuses to stay
down, rising as a flesh-eating zombie infecting
everyone she bites. Lionel tries to hide her in the
basement, but the victims keep piling up and finally
break out when Lionel's blackmailing uncle (a
grotesque, leering Ian Watkin) throws a party in the
house. It's snack time as the guests become undead
hors d'oeuvres and rise again as hungry soldiers of
the new zombie army marching on Lionel and his girl
Pacquita (the lovely Diana Penalver). New Zealand
goremeister Jackson pulls out all stops in this truly
outrageous sanguinary comedy, from gross-out gags of
oozing puss and rotting body parts at a formal dinner
to slapstick antics as Lionel tries to keep his
flesh-hungry mother sedated during the funeral to the
final Freudian showdown between a now-monstrous mother
and the newly liberated Lionel. If you like your
horror with a sense of humor or your comedy with
gristle, then wade through this taboo-busting bucket
of blood. --Sean Axmaker 
 
December 11th
Female Trouble
A riotously funny bad-taste epic from director John Waters, Baltimore's "Prince
of Puke," this sick classic tells the depraved life story of obese criminal
Dawn Davenport (Divine), from her bad-girl youth as a go-go dancer on
Baltimore's infamous Block to her death in the electric chair. Mink Stole is
terrific as Dawn's bratty daughter Taffy, conceived following a romp on a
junkyard mattress with a fat derelict in soiled underpants (also played by
Divine). Mary Vivian Pearce and David Lochary co-star as crazed owners of a
beauty-parlor who are convinced that "crime equals beauty," and they take Dawn
under their wings, forcing her to mainline liquid eyeliner to enhance her
appeal. Edith Massey steals the film as Dawn's obsessive neighbor, Ida, who
wants her nephew to be gay (because heterosexuals lead "sick and boring lives")
and throws acid in Dawn's face when she marries him. A hilariously appalling
film, Female Trouble is just as disgusting and far funnier than Waters'
previous Pink Flamingos, if not as notorious.
 
December 18th
Good Copy Bad Copy
Good Copy Bad Copy is a documentary about copyright
and culture in the context of the Internet, directed
by Andreas Johnsen, Ralf Christensen, and Henrik
Moltke. It features interviews with many people with
various perspectives on copyright, including copyright
lawyers, music producers and controversial music
artists such as Girl Talk and Danger Mouse. The
interviews with artists reveal an emerging
understanding of digital works and the obstacle to
their authoring copyright presents. It features music
by RJD2, Track72, Phoenicia, John Tejada, REQ, Shex,
Santogold, Rex Lawson, Dr. Victor Olaiya, Pharfar,
Girl Talk, Danger Mouse, Mikkel Meyer, Gnarls Barkley,
De La Soul, and NWA.
 
December 25th
International "Steal Baby Jesus from Nativity Scenes" Day (no movie today,
sorry.)
 
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You know, we got tons of new books at the Bookfair,
and have also gotten in dozens of other new books just
in time to get your grandma the Assata auto-biography
or Derrick Jensen's new 2 volume set of
anti-civilization writing, Endgame, for Christmas! Or
to get your loved ones 2008 Slingshot Organizers
before they are all sold out! We also have lots of
great books about New Orleans, in case you love this
city as much as we do.
 
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And finally, bring back your overdue books, pretty please.
We won't kill you. We promise. We might even hug you.
But not because we love you, because we love our
books... Sorry.
 
Friends?
-Iron Rail Books & Library
We are a radical library, bookstore, reading room and record rack serving New Orleans, Louisiana. We are an all-volunteer collective supporting radical and alternative discourse and action. This list will serve as our annoucements newsletter. Visit us at Decatur & Marigny: 511 Marigny New Orleans, LA 70117 http://www.ironrail.org http://www.myspace.com/ironrail

-November Movie Nights -Green Scare Event -Policing Forum -New Books -Slingshot Organizers -NOLA Bookfair Nov. 10th -Iron Rail Bookfair Event -VoodooFest Flyering

Here's what you'll find in this e-mail:
-November Movie Nights
-Green Scare Event
-Policing Forum
-New Books
-Slingshot Organizers
-NOLA Bookfair Nov. 10th
-Iron Rail Bookfair Event
-VoodooFest Flyering

New Books
Oh my god! We have SO MANY new, awesome books! We've
got Naomi Klein's new book "The Shock Doctrine" for $8
off the cover price. We've stocked tons of books from
AK Press and other distributors recently, and almost
all of them are being sold below the cover price. New
Derrick Jensen books, The History of the Mahknovist
movement, A Problem of Memory (which is partially
about the experience of an anarchist working at
Douglass High in New Orleans), Assata, Hot Damn and
Hell Yeah vegan cookbook, and tons more. We've also
gotten some new zines in that are excellent and well
worth the $1 price. Seriously, come down and buy a
great book and support your local infoshop!

2008 Slingshot Organizers
We just got in a whole ton of 2008 Slingshot
Organizers. Birthday presents, chistmas presents?
These things are perfect! Small ones are $6 and big,
spiral bound ones are $10. We have every color! What
the heck is a Slingshot Organizer? Find out here:
http://slingshot.tao.ca/organizer.php

NOLA Bookfair and Reading Event at Iron Rail
The N.O. Bookfair (http://www.nolabookfair.org) is happening
on November 10th. We'll be there tabling!

Bookfair ZINE EXTRAVAGANZA: Noon to 3pm. Iron Rail
Bookstore/Aboveground Zine
Library, 511 Marigny. Nov. 10th. Readings from zinesters such as
Shelley
Jackson (Chainbreaker), Ethan Clark (Chihuahua and Pitbull), as well as
the
authors of Mylxine, The Nose Knows, and Making Stuff and Doing Things.
There
will also be a screening of Microcosm Publishing's zine documentary, A
Hundred
Dollars and a T-shirt.

Flyering at Voodoo Fest
We are going to be flyering for the Iron Rail and the
Bookfair/Reading Event at VoodooFest on Friday,
October 26th. We'd love your help. Write us an e-mail
if you can help out.

Safe Streets, Strong Communities event Oct. 27th
We think Safe Streets is great and want to let you
know about something they are doing:
"Safe Streets and the Center for Constitutional Rights
(CCR) are convening a community event to examine the
role of Policing in the reconstruction of New Orleans.
A panel of national jurists will hear the case of New
Orleans Reconstruction and the law enforcement
centered policies and practices in four distinct but
interrelated issue areas:
· Policing and Housing
· Policing and Education
· Policing and Labor
· Policing and Mental Health
It is our hope that this event will move our
conversation and our work forward by integrating these
issues and helping us form a comprehensive approach to
resolving them. Most importantly, we want to ground
the conversation in the root causes- racism, the
Prison Industrial Complex, poverty and the
post-incarceration marginalization and exclusion of
poor people of color. To RSVP, or if you have
questions, please contact Ursula
Price(ursula@safestreetsnola.org) or Rosana Cruz
(rosana@safestreetsnola.org)."

Green Scare Event:
If you think Halloween is scary, try the GREEN SCARE.
Brenna Bell, an environmental lawyer and community activist from
Portland, OR
will be joining the National Lawyer's Guild of Loyola to discuss the
"Green
Scare." In 2002, Congressional hearings on "The Threat of
Eco-Terrorism"
launched a federal crackdown on environmental activists. Over the last
five
years, dozens have been indicted and arrested on charges of conspiracy,
arson
and property damage. What has been the effect of the Green Scare on
the
environmental movement in the Northwest? What are the legal and
constitutional
concerns? Why is it crucial we understand the Green Scare for our work
for
environmental justice in the South? Monday, October 29 at 3:30 p.m. in
Room
401 of the Loyola Law School (7214 St. Charles Avenue, entrance on
Broadway).
Snacks provided.

November Movie Nights - All Movies on Tuesdays at 8pm
Idiocracy (2005) To test its top secret Human Hibernation Project, the
Pentagon
picks the most average Americans it can find -- an Army private ( Luke
Wilson)
and a prostitute (Maya Rudolph) -- and sends them to the year 2505
after a
series of freak events. But when they arrive, they find a civilization
so
dumbed-down that they're the smartest people around. Mike Judge and
Etan Cohen
("Beavis and Butthead") reteamed for this futuristic farce.

Polyester (1981) Francine Fishpaw (Divine) is a troubled housewife
trapped in
suburban Baltimore. Her philandering husband runs a sleazy movie
theater, and
her daughter performs lewd dances in her high school cafeteria for
money. Add
to that a son who's a predatory foot fetishist (and serial foot
stomper) , a
best friend who's a 65 year old 'debutante' and a suicidal family pet,
and what
you have -- in spades -- is another entry in the bizarre works of
director John
Waters. Originally presented in theaters in "Odorama" with scratch and
sniff
'odorama cards. No we don't have those.

Love and Anarchy (1973) In pre-World War II Italy, the employees of a
popular
bordello realize that a new arrival (Giancarlo Giannini, who won a Best
Actor
award at Cannes for his portrayal) is planning to assassinate
Mussolini. When
one of the girls (Lina Polito) falls in love with the man, she's torn
between
saving him and saving her country. This is the film that put Italian
director
Lina Wertmueller on the map of world cinema.

Un Poquito de Tanta Verdad (A Little Bit of So Much Truth) (2007)
In the summer of 2006, a broad-based, non-violent, popular uprising
exploded in
the southern Mexican state of Oaxaca. Some compared it to the Paris
Commune,
while others called it the first Latin American revolution of the 21st
century.
But it was the people's use of the media that truly made history in
Oaxaca. A
90-minute documentary, A Little Bit of So Much Truth captures the
unprecedented
media phenomenon that emerged when tens of thousands of school
teachers,
housewives, indigenous communities, health workers, farmers, and
students took
14 radio stations and one TV station into their own hands, using them
to
organize, mobilize, and ultimately defend their grassroots struggle for
social,
cultural, and economic justice.

Our library catalog is online and searchable at
http://www.librarything.com/catalog.php?view=ironrail

Have a fun ass Halloween!!!
Up the Witches,
Iron RailWe are a radical library, bookstore, reading room and record
rack serving New Orleans, Louisiana. We are an all-volunteer collective
supporting radical and alternative discourse and action. This list will
serve as our annoucements newsletter. Visit us at Decatur & Marigny:
511 Marigny New Orleans, LA 70117 http://www.ironrail.org
http://www.myspace.com/ironrail

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