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"Command Performance" No. 000163

The Arthur Magazine Email Bulletin

October 6, 2009

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1. A TRIBUTE TO A GREAT 20TH CENTURY AMERICAN MYSTIC

This is special. David Katznelson remembers his late friend Lionel Ziprin: one of the great Kabbalist/bohemians of last 50 years, a poet, greeting card writer, white magus, husband of the woman Dylan's "Visions of Johanna" is based on, and safekeeper of hours of lost sacred music sung by his grandfather, Rabbi Naftali Zvi Margolies Abulafia, and recorded by Harry Smith. Read it here: http://bit.ly/zi7Jr

2. TOMORROW (WED.) NIGHT: LINDA PERHACS SINGS IN PUBLIC, IN LOS ANGELES

This is special too. Promo text: “This evening of experimental exploration is the first-ever public performance by enigmatic folk singer Linda Perhacs, whose legendary 1970 album Parallelograms is an uncanny, ruminative masterpiece of psychedelia. She is joined by an eclectic mix of artists, who chime in with projected artwork, film, dance and musical interpretations of her work. Perhacs and her collaborators also highlight ideas from the book that inspired Parallelograms: the Theosophist manifesto Thought-Forms, written by Annie Besant in 1901...” More info: http://www.arthurmag.com/2009/10/06/tomorrow-wed-linda-perhacs-live-in-los-angeles-at-redcat

3. LANGUAGE EXTINCTION

Arthur Magazine Correspondent Camilla Padgitt-Coles reports:

"Of approximately 6,000 languages currently spoken on Earth, many are not yet recorded, and less than half are being taught by elders to children of the next generation. Every two weeks or so an elder dies, and with them another language vanishes from the face of the planet. In Africa, 80% of the continent’s 2,000 languages are still unnamed, unwritten, and disappearing faster than they can be traced. At this rate, over half of the world’s languages may disappear within the 21st Century..."
Continue reading at Arthurmag:  http://bit.ly/XHnet

4. MOSS GRAFFITI...LIVING WALLS...

Arthur Magazine Correspondent Camilla Padgitt-Coles reports:  "[Recently] I had the pleasure of attending Lord Whimsy’s (Arthur-sponsored) Terrarium Workshop in Philly. Among many other pieces of invaluable botanical information, he shared one of the most inventive graffiti-making methods that I’ve ever encountered; using cheap ingredients (found moss, water and buttermilk or beer), it is possible to blend up a moss-spreading concoction that can be painted with a brush onto any stone surface (such as a garden wall, walkway or even the exterior of your home) to create the living design of your wildest imagination. If it has always been your dream to have living walls, this could be the start of something beautiful..." Continue reading at Arthurmag:  http://www.arthurmag.com/2009/09/23/lord-whimsy-on-painting-with-moss

5. THIS SAT (OCT 10) IN SAN FRANCISCO

Remember... The Second Annual Frisco Freakout Psychedelic Dance Party is THIS SATURDAY, OCTOBER 10, 2009, 2 to 2 at Thee Parkside in San Francisco ...

THEE SCHEDULE:

DOORS OPEN AT 1:30PM!

12:30AM: LIQUORBALL

11:15PM: MAGIC LANTERN

10PM: ASSEMBLE HEAD IN SUNBURST SOUND

9PM: CITAY

8PM: BARN OWL

7PM: SUN ARAW

6PM: WOODEN SHJIPS

5PM: LUMERIANS

4PM: 3 LEAFS

3PM: POWELL ST. JOHN & THE ALIENS

2PM: HEAVY HILLS

Thee Parkside: 1600 17th St  San Francisco, CA 94107

Tickets are only $15 and available now from thee venue

Proceeds go to Creativity Explored! http://www.creativityexplored.org

MORE INFLOW:

http://www.friscofreakout.com

http://www.myspace.com/friscofreakout

http://www.secretserpents.com

The official poster for this year's Frisco Freakout is entirely hand drawn and inked by the legendary Alan Forbes.

Forbes and Secret Serpents are working with Monolith Press to hand-silkscreen a limited run of this mindwarping poster in a large format, hand-numbered and signed by the artist, which we will have available at the festival.

HEAVY LODE is also proud to present "FRISCO FREAKOUT 10-11-08" - a LIVE compilation of the best of the First Annual Frisco Freakout Psychedelic Dance Party - featuring all your favorites from those golden days of your misspent youth: Earthless, Wooden Shjips, Assemble Head in Sunburst Sound, Crystal Antlers, Greg Ashley, The Bad Trips, Art Lessing & The Flower Vato, Sequin Trails, and Ascended Master - 60 minutes of the First Annual Frisco Freakout LIVE on limited edition bootleg cassette. Also available at this year's festival.

The Frisco Freakout is brought to you by the letter F ... and by the good people at the following fine establishments:

KUSF-FM http://www.kusf.org

ARTHUR MAGAZINE http://www.arthurmag.com

AQUARIUS RECORDS http://www.aquariusrecords.org

in conjunction with HEAVY LODE

6. JUST IN TIME FOR HALLOWEEN



Above: Aemen Bell gathers mugwort (photo: Erin Merriman)

Arthur presents

Wildcrafting Magical Elixirs

a workshop with Aemen Bell

Sunday, October 18

3pm

Learn how to create and use your very own simple and edible potions! Using beautiful crystals, moon cycles and  magical plants from your own backyard, herbalist Aemen Bell will show you how to play with the friendly energies of Mother Nature, and you will leave with your own Magical Elixir! We will explore and explain recipes to enhance Love, Dreaming, and more. Don't worry: you don't need to have any witchy experience—just come with an open mind, a little common sense, and a willingness to use your own very powerful imagination.

Space is limited to 24 attendees. Workshop tickets are available for $10 in advance, $12 day-of-workshop, as space permits. Reserve space in advance by

* sending $10 per guest via PayPal to editor@arthurmag.com, or

* handing cold hard cash to Jay or Brooke at 2037 Frankford; arrange ahead of time via email to editor@arthurmag.com

This workshop will be held indoors at 2037 Frankford Avenue in Fishtown (Philadelphia, PA 19125).

Aemen Bell is a Brooklyn-based herbalist, artist, writer, and unlicensed pet detective. She has been making potions since she first took an empty shampoo bottle out of the bathroom trash at age 4 and filled it with mud, rocks, and cat hair. She apprenticed under the lovely, patient and eternally knowledgeable Lata Kennedy of Flower Power Herbs and Roots in New York City's East Village.  Aemen's own line of Magical Elixirs, Praecantrix, is currently sold throughout the New York and Pennsylvania areas, and online at AemenBell.com.  She has been showing her art publicly in New York City since 2000, and her photographs were recently featured in the art book They Be We.

More info: http://bit.ly/2fKXCn

7. SPEAKING OF LIQUORBALL... A JOURNEY INSIDE THE 'FUGE...

Grady Runyon plays guitar in Liquorball, who will be playing this weekend at the Frsico Freakout, and used to play guitar in the great Monoshock. Grady also runs a by-all-accounts great record store in ventura, California called Grady's Record Refuge. Here's a short video documentary on Grady's store (also known as "The 'Fuge") and, inevitably, his life philosophy: http://bit.ly/1MDR2V

8. BEAUTIFUL MUSIC TO LISTEN TO ON YOUR HOME CONFUSER

a. Gorgeous, timeless new ESPERS: "Caroline" from these Philly psych-folk-rockers' album "III" out October 20. mp3, stream here: http://bit.ly/qqLXU

b. New MV & EE loper for yer ears offa the forthcoming BARN NOVA album—mp3, stream here: http://www.arthurmag.com/2009/09/17/mvee

c. “How Long” by Sister Ola Mae Terrell (1948), extremely raw gospel from the long-awaited Mike McGonigal [Yeti Magazine]-curated 3xCD set "Fire In My Bones" out momentarily: http://bit.ly/jVFtP

9. ALAN MOORE NEWS

Noted comics author and frequent Arthur contributor ALAN MOORE has got some exciting new stuff coming down the chute. Out now, we think, is  25,000 Years of Erotic Freedom, a hardcover book from Abrams adapted from Alan's essay "Bog Venus Versus Nazi Cock-Ring: Some Thoughts Concerning Pornography," originally published three years (!) ago in the now sold-out  Arthur No. 25. More info on this guy here: http://www.arthurmag.com/2009/10/03/coming-soon-2

Even more exciting is this past week's official announcement from Alan that he is starting a new, specifically underground magazine called DODGEM LOGIC, to debut in the UK in November. It's local, it's underground, and it's well-outfitted with lifer contributors—the way culture is supposed to be! Here's the press release, and the first issue's cover: http://bit.ly/KoMM4

10. DID SOMEBODY HERE SAY...COMICS?

New Pete Toms comic. Anyone else write their thesis paper about Hollywood slasher movies?  Well even if you didn’t you’re still gonna dig Pete’s latest. Check it here: http://www.arthurmag.com/2009/09/24/new-pete-toms-comic-slashr

A scene from DUNE by ascended master Paul Pope (who illo'd cover of Arthur No. 18 and portraited the Polyphonic Spree's leader guy in Arthur No. 3). Check it here: http://www.arthurmag.com/2009/10/01/paul-popes-dune

It’s part 2 of "GWC" by Jesse Moynihan!  Impossible distances become...possible. Check it here: http://www.arthurmag.com/2009/10/02/gwc-pt-2-by-jesse-moynihan

12. MAYBE MAKING FRIENDS WITH THE EMPIRE IS KIND OF STUPID...

The new Derrick Jensen short film by Franklin Lopez: http://bit.ly/BHRrn

Dodging 'em,

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