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Lilly Nowhere Late
04:59 / 22.05.04
More Lilly nostalgia for lost angeles: I once spent the most enthralling evening on a rooftop in loftland. A movie-set design friend of a friend was having a birthday party and so went along on a fine summer evening. My friend, the world's best photographer, and I weaved lots of fresh gardenia's in our hair and strolled about demurely followed by a whispered chorus of voices asking, "who are they? What is that wonderful scent." We then made up a new comic book style story called Gardenia Girls about a group of friends who were just normal girls by day, but at night, went all around LA and brought such an air of mystery and intrigue to boring parties that all were saved from encroaching ennuii.
Roof parties in LA are the best. Especially if there are a couple of giant mastiffs to hand and a little imagination.
I wonder what ever happened to the nice man who's birthday that was? In another life, I would've married him...
 
 
HCE
23:12 / 23.05.04
I love the smell of gardenias and must remember to wear flowers more often. What a charming story, though I wonder whether mastiffs can give meaningful consent.

The loft party was wonderful and it was a pleasure to meet h3r. I hope my rambling wasn't too incoherent, I do tend to rant a bit when it comes around to the fight for art. I got distracted, but wanted to learn more about the auditory element that accompanied the photographs.
 
 
h3r
20:01 / 04.06.04
the LA pulse moves out into the desert or the forest for saturday night-sunday...

any takers?
little semi private outdoors party..anniversary of HIgher Ground, a former monthly full moon event..now only once a year...
always the most amazing locations
directions to be disclosed late tonight or tomorrow morning, its under 2hrs driving time from LA.....
PM me if interested
I'll definitely be going since I am doing a little ambient performance thing...

also: nice to meet u too fred, i think both of us rambled on a bit about the meaning/function of art in modern society and that was perfectly fine!
 
 
HCE
21:31 / 21.06.04


Barb-eque at my place this Sunday, all are welcome, please send PM for directions, etc.
 
 
HCE
19:24 / 23.07.04
OK, backyard movie night, Sunday 7-10pm. Screening Jia Zhang-Ke's Unknown Pleasures.

Lame review here: http://www.slantmagazine.com/film/film_review.asp?ID=484
 
 
HCE
23:47 / 08.09.04
Movie night again, this Sunday, why do I bother, who knows, hello h3r.
 
 
Mystery Gypt
20:14 / 13.09.04
POSTING AN EMAIL:
****
SYNAPSE: TONIGHT! featuring Dream Electric, Trichrome and Remote Viewing

Hello. Hope you are doing great. It is Monday once again and we have another excellent audiovisual lineup in store for you tonight at our biweekly multimedia lounge Synapse. We are excited to present a live performance from Dream Electric, DJ sets from Trichrome and resident Sariah Storm, and the debut of an exciting new project I am a part of called REMOTE VIEWING. Remote Viewing goes on at 10:30pm.

REMOTE VIEWING is a postdigital electro dub trio featuring Steve Nalepa (laptop), John von Seggern (laptop/bass), and Matt Piper (synthesis) with live realtime visuals from Thomas Williams (Biomorphica). Expect glitchy ambient deep dub transmissions from outer space. This remote vision explores rhizomatic connections, atmospheric vibrations and advanced operations of intelligence.

Cnfusd: "I'm experiencing broplems. I want see the Remote Viewing and I try to locate, but I fail. What I can do??"

DgtlCut: "Check out a live Remote Viewing dub session from just last week, late night vibrations detected in the Mt Washington area:"
http://tinyurl.com/5ao94

Hope to see you tonight!

best,
Steve

Monday, September 13 2004
@ Monroe's
8623 Melrose at Huntley
9pm - 2am
FREE

SYNAPSE ----------September 13th
+music to tickle your neurons+

a multimedia lounge.

with.\\\\

L.I.V.E

Dream Electric

Remote Viewing (Terpsichore)

DJ

Trichome (E.L.M Conceptions)

with Resident\\\\ Sariah Storm


LIVE VISUALS

Thomas Willimas
Thomas has been VJing for almost a decade with his own blend of organic 3D animation and abstract, surreal imagery. Thomas came to LA about a year ago, from the San Francisco underground, where he formed several VJ groups, including Dimension 7, UV99, and REVfx. He has played countless shows with artists such as Ornette Coleman, George Clinton, Goldie, and Crystal Method. After 2 years of technological chrysalis, he has emerged from hibernation and performed his maiden voyage in LA last weekend with Element, a fusion of Chinese String and Flute virtuosos and southern Californian funkerati. More of his art can be seen at www.biomorphica.com.

www.biomorphica.com


@ Monroe's
8623 Melrose at Huntley
9 - 2
FREE

presenting.= live.dj.vj.experiments in sight+sound
 
 
HCE
19:09 / 14.09.04
It never fails. I always check this thread a day too late.
 
 
Lilly Nowhere Late
06:24 / 22.10.04
Here is an event that I would go to if I were in LA:
http://www.knittingfactory.com/calendar/event_descrip.cfm?event_num=48315&room=12

Now if this link doesn't work, it is a performance by Robin Guthrie in November at the Knitting Factory.

His stuff is so lush.
 
 
ijuburyutsu
15:45 / 24.11.04
Mulgrew Miller and Steve Nelson at the Jazz Bakery, November 26-28 (http://www.jazzbakery.org/).

Saw MM sometime last year, and I haven't been that excited about a pianist in recent memory. Highly recommended. Don't know much about Steve Nelson, but says he's "one of the preeminent modernist vibes-men." I'd go if I had money. Why don't you, and tell me about it.
 
 
HCE
16:37 / 26.11.04
Curse the overpriced jazz bakery.

orpheancircus.com

When are we going to the 99c store show? I'm all atwitter.
 
 
HCE
22:57 / 03.12.04
Ok, so the play is tonight. I've been. simplification without loss of rigour has been. But what about you? Have you been? Have you thought of being? If not, why not? Why not tonight? Why not very soon? You needn't be alone, no.
 
 
HCE
20:57 / 07.12.04
And here's an endorsement:

What the orphean circus exactly is, was a mystery to me. Having heard about it from my invincible friend {nightclub dwight}, and heard her many converts extol the virtues of the unique brand of fun only found at the Orphean circus, I really wasn't sure what to expect from it. Was it a circus? A play? A party? Moreover, you might also say that the whole affair was a bit hyped up. In my own little corner of the world, this thing became as big as "The Matrix 2" or "Episode 1: the Phantom Movie" or "Paris Hilton/Nicole Lenz Munching Rug as filmed by Simon Rex"--so you can understand my resultant skepticism. See, it's simply impossible for these huge spectacles to really live up to the overwhelming hype, as cool as it is watching Nicole Lenz eat Paris out, in the end it's really not the life-changing experience you expected as you were downloading it for 3 days on the file-sharing network of your choice.

So I expected the same from the Orphean Circus, which was finally explained to me over some sausages and beer at the nearby Lowenbrau. It is a musical, directed and concieved and written and choreographed by a childhood friend Ken, who apparently has a healthy dose of superstar charm, smiting the hearts of those unlucky enough to be in the path of his ravenous war machine of charm as it marches towards the Carolina coast. A lamented, "If it's a musical, I'm probably gonna be bored." I myself wondered along with A if i was going to be bored--since musicals tend to do that to me, no matter how many times you catch me singing showtunes in the shower. And truth be told, it's the evidence room, which means it's a small time local play directed by hip silverlake citizens and only cared about by the guy that covers "Stage" for the LA Weekly and the 3 non-actors that actually read his articles.

Alright, so the stage is set. I'm a pessimist, and I have an unfounded, irrational, and unfair lack of respect for the local play scene. This is gonna suck. We arrived at the Evidence Room right at 9:30 (The second of 2 nightly shows) and paid $15 for my ticket. I looked at the program, scanned the crowd, looked at some of the regalia, headshots, and waited for the house to open. Briefly reminisced about the first play i saw at the evidence room, a year ago featuring none other than shut the fuck up charles.

I took my seat, and the house was full. I mean, it was really packed with people, and it wasn't opening night. The stage and its surroundings were covered in paraphenalia from the "99 Cent Only" store, the same geniuses that brought you "Low Prices are born here and raised elsewhere", which might just be the greatest marketing slogan ever dreamed up. I was then told that the 99 cent only store actually sponsors the Orphean Circus by providing the costume crew free reign with any and all of the products they carry. As a result, the whole set, and costume is constructed with raw materials found at the NNCOS. Awesome.

The curtain is drawn, and a man resembling a clown in a latex apron welcomes us to "Ninety Nice Cent Only Village" and literally "blah blah blah hardy har's" a brilliant 2 minute soliliquy. Charming Ken's charming musical sets the stage with a refreshing amount of absurdity and a healthy encouragement of audience participation. As we meet more and more of the townsfolk and listen to their wonderfully melodic songs, we hoot and holler and throw up the goat horns (or at least i was), and most of all laugh. Strangely reminiscent of the Rocky Horror Picture Show, though not in that "stank ass UC Theater/People that need to move on with life" kind of way, the music is fun, the people are fun, the Orphean Circus is fun.

At least it's fun until the Peace Squad Shows up.



Because at that points, all bets are off. Fun begins to lose all meaning--this is a whole new level of fun. From their entrance in NNCOS shopping carts, to their opening song, to their awesome costumes, to their side-rending introductions, it is both a musical foray into "next level fun" and the late 60's/early 70's, as well as a visual stampede only executable using NNCOS materials. I'm telling you, my life practically ended when they came on stage, mouth agape, eyes fixed, and in literal awe.

And then i actually died when the peace squad performed their cover of Shin Seung Hoon's "Like a Romeo", which is a korean pop song of considerable stature from the late 90's. The singing, choreography, overall execution was straight out of CaYo Top 10--these white guys in vinyl chaps and big vinyl butterfly collars in the middle of echo park, were singing and dancing and harmonizing a song so well that if i closed my eyes, i could see the highlighted bangs of channel 18 flopping to and fro--and when i opened my eyes, i saw 9 white guys, in echo park, singing in korean. It was a spectacle. A life changing moment-the one I never got from all of the overhyped bullshit messes that preceded the orphean circus. The one i never got from downloading paris hilton porn. My cup ran over. My heart nearly burst. I was in love again at the evidence room.

There was more of the circus after that moment, and it was all certainly memorable--the beach ball curtain calls, the uber-70's-cute anti war song, the hokey resolution, i mean, it was fun. But in a room full of supercars, there can only be one porsche 959, and it was "Like a Romeo."
 
 
HCE
00:20 / 29.01.05
Recently Seen:

LHASA
FUCKING CHAMPS (well, ok, I saw the Bad Dudes and didn't stay for the FC)

Bands coming to LA:

XIU XIU
MOUNTAIN GOATS
JOANNA NEWSOM
MISSION OF BURMA

See? LA is not exactly a WASTELAND, OK?
 
 
HCE
16:31 / 16.02.05
Let's breathe some life into this thing!

Going to see the Klaus Nomi documentary tonight at the Nuart, Marriage of Maria Braun (my favorite of his films) tomorrow at the New Beverly, and there's an Iranian film fest at UCLA, it seems, though I haven't got the details on that yet. The Xiu Xiu show is still coming up, and SLINT!!! are going to be in town!

It is like heaven for rock fans.

This weekend's weather is not looking good, but my former partner in the carpentry business is willing to help me build the (not very)grandstand I need to accommodate a crowd, so the summer film season chez dwight will be starting again in a few weeks. Summer, spring, winter, whatever. I'm going to try to hold off screening Women on the Verge until tomatoes are in season, so I can serve gazpacho, but I'm getting heavy pressure from certain quarters, so no promises.
 
 
Scrubb is on a downward spiral
17:02 / 18.02.05
You weren't wrong about the weather. Gah.

Dwight summer film season - sounds ace!
 
 
HCE
00:00 / 19.02.05
You have my personal apology. The next week's not looking good. It may sound silly, but I really am sorry.
 
 
Scrubb is on a downward spiral
02:32 / 21.02.05
Apology quite accepted, thank-you!

But Jesus - hideous hideous weather. All of my socks are damp.
 
 
ijuburyutsu
22:40 / 24.02.05
Love the weather. Nothing like a good wash. I'll go see the Mountain Goats, of course.
 
 
HCE
20:40 / 31.03.05
grant morrison at meltdown comics tonight

http://www.meltcomics.com/
 
 
diz
04:58 / 01.04.05
oh, NOW you tell us. sheesh... =P
 
 
HCE
06:37 / 01.04.05
Sorry! Didn't learn about it myself until quite late...
 
 
Scrubb is on a downward spiral
23:03 / 19.04.05
Dudes - am heading off to see Listing Ship next Tuesday night (26th) at the Parlour Club, West Hollywood. Have heard jolly good reports from other chums who have seen them. Join me! Dwight, anyone?

Oh, and nearly forgot to mention: it's a Pirate Night (but I'm sure they'll be welcoming to you black-clad, sai-wielding stealthy types too)
 
 
HCE
00:05 / 20.04.05
I didn't realize I was invited, and therefore I completely missed it.

Next event?
 
 
Scrubb is on a downward spiral
15:16 / 20.04.05
You haven't missed it - it's next Tuesday. Come! (Thought I'd sent you an email about this but clearly haven't; bah ineffectual brain).
 
 
HCE
16:27 / 20.04.05
Your post does state the date pretty clearly -- I think I got mixed up as a result of what I've seen elsewhere. The date, time, and location are all perfect, I will see you there.
 
 
HCE
16:07 / 04.06.05
I keep having this weird fantasy that all of a sudden this huge group of Los Angelenos will discover Barbelith.

Then I realize that might be nightmarish.
----------------

A Decade of Iranian Animation - The '70s
Spotlight on World Animation
73 min.

Iranian cinema has made a big splash in recent years, but rarely have animated films from Iran been shown outside that country. We present ten seminal animated films produced in Iran in the decade of the '70s.

Sat, Jun 18
4:45 pm
DGA Theatre 2
$10.00

Directors Guild of America (DGA)
7920 Sunset Blvd.
Los Angeles, CA 90046

Parking is available for $5 in the DGA parking garage (Sunset @ Hayworth).

http://www.lafilmfest.com/film_spotlight.php#
 
 
Azrael
20:47 / 16.06.05
Hi everyone,
this is my first post and I thought since there is a cry for LA peeps, I would throw this out.

An amazing masquerade ball is scheduled for july the 8th. Even better, the belly dancing troup Desert Sin will be performing. They just finished their show last month called "le Musée des Femmes". I sincerely hope that some of you caught that. It was amazing.
Anyway, for any takers here is the URL...

http://www.labyrinthmasquerade.com

...and you will see me there in a very intricate druidic attire, watch for the light.
 
 
HCE
01:43 / 22.06.05
Aha! A sign of life!

Welcome, I look forward to hearing more about what you're up around town. I'm afraid I won't be able to make it on the 8th, but do check back in with your review of the show -- might be able to catch them the next time they come around.
 
 
Mystery Gypt
22:34 / 06.07.05

two things on one night; the discerning weird-art hopper can probably make it to both:

“GARY LEE BOAS: NEW YORK SEX 1979-85” U.S. PREMIERE EXHIBITION
OPENING: SATURDAY, JULY 8, 6:00-8:00pm

Karyn Lovegrove Gallery
6150 Wilshire Blvd. #8
Los Angeles, CA 90048
Tel: 323.255.1755
http://karynlovegrovegallery.com

Exhibition Dates: July 9 – August 7, 2005
Opening Reception: Saturday July 9, 2005. 6.00-8.00pm
*Artist will be in attendance*

Gary Lee Boas will open the first U.S. exhibition of his photographs from his new book “GARY LEE BOAS: NEW YORK SEX 1979-85” Saturday, July 8, at Karyn Lovegrove Gallery in Los Angeles.

* * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *

ADAM PARFREY AND THE FERAL HOUSE ARCHIVES EXHIBITION
OPENING RECEPTION FRIDAY JULY 8, 2005 7pm to 11pm

Ghettogloss Gallery
2380 Glendale Blvd. Los Angeles, CA 90039
tel: 323 912 0008
Exhibition Dates: July 8 – August 8, 2005


ADAM PARFREY AND GHETTOGLOSS will be exhibiting a show different from all others—the epic unveiling of the Feral House archives. Adam Parfrey is known as the man who dives into the forbidden and explores every taboo corner he can find, then with grinning pride, trumpets the newfound enlightenment through his winsome book publishing company, Feral House. This tendency has resulted in a lawsuit by a former deputy director of the FBI, death threats from Black Metal satanists and extreme Christians alike, critical acclaim from Charles Manson and Gore Vidal, and a very unique collection of art, pop culture ephemera, political propaganda and occult artifacts.

Finally, with a little nudging from friend and owner of Ghettogloss, Fiora, he is opening his treasure chest, blowing the dust off his collectibles, and making many of them available to the public for sale. This is a rare moment in time to obtain, or at least view, these impressive antiquities, most never before exhibited.

Featured works: Anti-American Propaganda of Muslim Fundamentalism, including pro Bin Laden propaganda posters; original paintings and drawings and original magazines featured in the book “It's a Man's World: Men’s Adventure Magazines, The Postwar Pulps”; "Sots Art" paintings—Russian art from the '70s and '80s which combines Socialist icons such as Lenin or Stalin with American corporate iconography such as McDonalds or even Kotex; illustrations used in the 1991 book “Tortures and Torments of the Christian Martyrs,” by artists Daniel Clowes, Bill Ward, Peter Bagge, Sarita Vendetta and others; signed prints by Jack Kevorkian, "Dr. Death"; Red China revolutionary propaganda art; work by emerging underground artists; and more.
 
 
h3r
23:59 / 08.07.05
Wow. I've been gone frome Barbelith for a like a year...and I'm amazed to see that NOW LA DOES HAVE A PULSE! all these messages and member numbers soared from 2000 to 5000!!! a few more 'lithers in LA now?

heres a pulse for u:
guerilla art party in Venice Beach at my loft
friday july15th

live music, food,etc

see a flyer here

glad to be back.
 
 
h3r
23:28 / 10.07.05
Adam Parfrey is known as the man who dives into the forbidden and explores every taboo corner he can find

that sounds like a good show! UNfortunately I couldnt make it last night ;(
How was it? Review please!
 
 
HCE
22:11 / 13.07.05
Damn! I'd have loved to have seen the Gary Lee Boas show. Hello h3r! Long time no see. I will definitely try to make it on Friday night.
 
 
h3r
17:24 / 14.07.05
yeah plz come!
sorry i missed rumblefish in your backyard, it's one of my favorite movies, but I have another obligatiopn on saturday evenings... i should quit a few of those cults i'm in
see u tomorrow!
 
 
h3r
17:24 / 08.08.05
this friday Aug 12 theres a screening of David Lynch's DUNE @ the Aero theatre.
starts @ 7:30.
i'm rounding up some people to go see it together. possibly have dinner before.
any LA'lithers up for it?
 
  

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