Nov 6, 2008

FRIDAY~ TONIGHT~STUDIO ONE GALLERY!!!




Added to out list for next Friday is film artist Jake Gillespie.

Wine starts at 700pm
Readings soon after


John Sakkis's most recent chapbooks include Gary Gygax (Cy Gist Press), Rude Girl (Duration Press), The Moveable Ones (Transmission Press) and the forthcoming post-bulletin (Taxt). With Angelos Sakkis he translates the work of Athenian multimedia artist/poet Demothenes Agrafiotis, their translation of Agrafiotis's Chinese Notebook forthcoming from Ugly Duckling Presse. He is from Concord, CA and currently lives in the Lower Haight, SF where he curates the BOTH BOTH Reading Series. He works for Small Press Distribution.


Lorelei Lee is a student, writer, and porn performer. Her writing has appeared in Transfer, Graphite, and $pread Magazine. She recently completed a national tour with the Sex Workers’ Art Show, and has been featured in reading series such as Sizzle, Here Comes Everybody, and the Bay Area Poetry Marathon. She performed in The 2008 National Queer Arts Festival, and will be reading at Intersection for The Arts as part of this fall’s Lit Quake.

Jake Gillespie is a painter and new media artist originally from Nebraska. He recently moved to Oakland, CA with his wife. He is cofounder of Tugboat Gallery, a nonprofit art gallery in Lincoln, NE. His work has shown in museums and galleries in Omaha, Kansas City, Chicago, Syracuse and is forthcoming in Portland, OR and Oakland, CA.


Graham Foust is the author of three collections of poems: As in Every Deafness (Flood Editions, 2003), Leave the Room to Itself (Ahsahta Press, 2003), and Necessary Stranger (Flood Editions, 2007). He directs the MFA Program in Creative Writing at Saint Mary’s College of California and lives in Oakland with his family.

Nov 5, 2008

Happy Election Day Crew...

Julia's to Divis block party in front of The Independent to 40oz's to the Castro to sapping in front of The Bar to disco dancing to txt messages to phone calls to photos to cab to home to "yes we did" to hugs and smiles and honks and piggy back rides and holding hands and pats and licks and relief and sleep...

roll call: Lauren, Julia, me, Brett, brother, Cat, Castro, Kelsey








PROUD

Nov 4, 2008

Oct 31, 2008


okay so...

Happy Halloween!

tonight it's looking like:

D-Structure "family only" (yay, i'm family!) (don't say "yay") pre-party for the opening...(i guess they turned the gallery into a "cathedral")

and then off to...

Sara L.'s for records and booze and Rodney Koeneke!!!

and then off to...

Julia and Lauren's for Halloween bash...

and then possibly John's warehouse thing in SOMA...

and maybe i'll dress as Robert Palmer to fit in with the girls (who are going to look just...hmmm...just really good)...


and there will be pictures and kisses and punch and candy and dance and drink...


Oct 30, 2008

...

SFIST LINKED MY BLOG TODAY!

can you spot where?

Crystal Castles...

are a YouTube band...fun to listen to in the office, not so much on a cold Wednesday night at the Independent...

i don't know...it was really fun going to Bean Bag before the show, beers were drunk and pills were popped (the latter not by me)...it was cute, i felt like my old raver self circa 1996...haven't talked that much about "e" in over a decade...but then the show...whatever...i'll put it to you like this...if it was a show it was a shitty one...unless you count a DJ spinning tech-House a "show"...cause that's kind of what Crystal Castles are all about...tech-House...if this was a "party" (where you would expect to hear tech-House) it would have been a lame one...everyone was standing around looking at the stage...but nothing was really happening on stage besides Alice Glass chirping into a mic/jumping around with a strobe light...um, boring...

the old school raver in me is bitter...i'm sorry but it's just too fucking early to repackage House music and call it Electro or "Rave"...i like House music but not as a show...i like dancing to good House but not watching it spun on a stage...tech-House treated as spectacle is baffling...maybe i was just the oldest person there (but i wasn't)...maybe everyone forgot about the 90's (but they didn't)...maybe House music has such a corny connotation to the majority of 20'somethings that in order to sell it to the urban masses they need to call it Electro (but they shouldn't, cause it's not)...

the friends on pills looked slightly bored, didn't know you could be bored on "e" but they seemed it...i felt bad for them...we hugged our cute little e-tards goodbye about 4 songs (records) in...

on the other hand the opening band,Lymbyc Systym, were inspiring...twin brothers (?), one on drums (he was really ON drums) and one on keyboard/macbook...they played a seemless 45 minute set of huge landscape'y instrumental rock...it reminded me of Antarctica without the vocals...the sound was fucking head knocking, and layered, and hard, and gorgeous...kind of had that Boards of Canada time-lapse photography feel to it, like watching a flower blossom in slow motion on fast forward...i didn't want it to end...the crowd was polite but not necessarily enthusiastic...

here's a Lymbyc Systym live

spread the word!!

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Mills College Department of English Announces Its Annual Professional Survival Day

Date: November 23rd (Sunday)
Time: 9:30 a.m. - 4:00 p.m.
Location: Mills College Campus

Each year, the English Department's Place for Writers presents a Professional Survival Day, free and open to the public. Writers, editors, publishers, teachers, and alumnae discuss a variety of publishing opportunities, careers in teaching and academia, and other information useful to emerging writers and scholars. Professional Survival Day encourages networking opportunities among students from Mills and other Bay Area writing programs, professors, publishers, and publishing writers.

Panels will include information on publishing fiction, creative nonfiction and poetry, teaching in and out of academia, a chance to speak with agents about pitching your book, how to go d.i.y. - self-publishing, starting a reading series, and many more exciting and useful topics!

This year's speakers include Elmaz Abinader, Chad Arnold, Mary Burger, Joshua Clover, Emma Shaw Crane, Steve Dickison, Felicia Eth from Felicia Eth Literary Representation, Tomás Galguera, David Horton, Scott Inguito, Kevin Killian, Aya de Leon, Jennifer Mattson from Andrea Brown Literary Agency, Edissa Nichols, Cornelia Nixon, Elise Proulx from Frederick Hill Bonnie Nadell Agency, Carolina de Robertis, John Sakkis, Juliana Spahr, Aimee Suzara, Michelle Tea, Kara Wittman,

Professional Survival Day is free and open to the public. For more information or to view a full schedule, please contact: kbeler@mills.edu.