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Alert! Alert! Michel Gondry Event Cancelled!
Due to last minute circucmstances beyond our control (cough Green Lantern cough), the Michel Gondry Event scheduled at Quimby’s Bookstore on Saturday, March 14th has been cancelled.
We apologize for any inconvenience this causes, including getting your hopes up and everything. We’re just as bummed as you are, I assure you!
XOXO,
Quimby’s Bookstore
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CANCELLED!! Michel Gondry at Quimby's
Due to last minute circucmstances beyond our control, the Michel Gondry Event scheduled at Quimby’s Bookstore on Saturday, March 14th has been cancelled.
We apologize for any inconvenience this causes, including getting your hopes up and everything. We’re just as bummed as you are, I assure you!
XOXO,
Quimby’s Bookstore
Join leading filmmaker Michel Gondry as he signs his new memoir You’ll Like This Flim Because Your in It at Quimby’s
Michel Gondry’s debut book is a functional memoir of his quest to put the tools of filmmaking in the hands of as many people as possible. At New York’s Deitch Projects, in February and March of 2008, Gondry emulated the heroic example of his characters, constructing a do-it-yourself film studio in which any visitor could assemble their own film from extant plot summaries and rent the results. His aim: “I intend to prove that people can enjoy their time without being part of the commercial system and serving it…Ultimately, I am hoping to create a network of creativity and communication that is guaranteed to be free and independent from any commercial institution.” This book chronicles Gondry’s journey towards what he calls “The Be Kind Rewind Protocol”, and serves as an inspirational guide to creativity and the art of having fun.
Michel Gondry is the filmmaker of the features Human Nature, the Oscar-winning Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, The Science of Sleep, Dave Chapelle’s Block Party, and Be Kind Rewind. He has created groundbreaking videos for artists including the White Stripes, Bjork, The Chemical Brothers and Daft Punk. Gondry is also the author of a comic book, We Lost the War But Not the Battle, published by PictureBox. He lives in Brooklyn, New York.
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Jon Ginoli founding member of Pansy Division reads!
Join Jon Ginoli the lead singer and founding member of the first openly gay punk band, Pansy Division as he reads and signs his new memoir Deflowered: My Life in Pansy Division.
Jon Ginoli sets off on a journey of self-discovery and musical passion to become the founding member of Pansy Division, the first out and proud queer core punk rock band to hit the semi-big time. Set against the changing decades of music, we follow the band from their inception in San Francisco, to their search for a music label and a permanent drummer to their current status as indie rock icons. We see the highs–touring with Green Day–and the lows–homophobic fans–of striving for acceptance and success in the world of rock. Replete with the requisite tales of sex, drugs, groupies, band fights and label battles, this rollicking memoir is also an impassioned account of staying true to the artistic vision of queer rock’n’roll.
Jon Ginoli is a guitarist, singer, songwriter and founding member of Pansy Division, a punk rock band whose cd’s include Undressed, Deflowered, Wish I’d Taken Pictures, and more. An Illinois native, he’s played both dive bars and arenas, and his favorite color is purple. When not on tour with the band he lives and works in San Francisco.
More info:
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Oyez Review Event
This is a reading/launch party for Oyez Review. Oyez Review is an award-winning literary magazine published annually by Roosevelt University’s Creative Writing Program. It features poetry, fiction, and creative nonfiction, and a portfolio of artwork.
Some of the editors as well as a couple of the contributors of Oyez review will be reading poems and excepts from stories.
more info at www.roosevelt.edu/oyezreview
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Quimby’s Top Ten Best Sellers For the Week of Feb 22nd – Feb 28th, 2009
1. Butt #25 Fantastic Magazine for Homosexuals $9.90
2. Journal of Aesthetics and Protest #6 $17.00
3. Roy Orbison in Clingfilm by Ulrich Haarburste $10.00
4. I Saw You: Comics Inspired by Real Life Missed Connections by Julia Wertz (Three Rivers Press) $12.95
5. Public Phenomena (Temporary Services) $15.00
6. Roctober #46 $4.00
7. Giant Robot #58 $4.99
8. McSweeney’s #30 $15.00
9. Experimental Geography: Radical Approaches To Landscape Cartography and Urbanism by Nato Thompson (Melville) $29.95
10. Watchmen by Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons (Vertigo) $19.99 -
New Stuff 2/28/09
Well February is done. Tonight we’ll be at an off site event for the Nation Guide to the Nation. So come say “Hi” if you’re in the North side area.
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Quimby's History Made: A Marriage Proposal!
Saturday, February 21st sure was a memorable evening here at Quimby’s. Living Proof zinester Andrew Mall asked his girlfriend to marry him during his reading! And she said yes! Thanks to Aaron Cynic of Diatribe Media and Billy Da Bunny Roberts of Loop Distro for organizing and hosting a good ol’ fashioned Old School Zine Reading featuring Matt Fagan (Meniscus), ReyRey (Stream of Consciousness) and more!
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Not at Quimby's, But Cool Anyway and You Should Totally Go: Comic Art Battle hosted by Ezra Clayton Daniels
Here’s Ezra’s announcement about this FREE event he’s hosting this Thursday (2/26) at Pistol Bazaar Vintage — if you have any questions beyond this, his site is here:
Free entertainment is becoming a more highly valued commodity, and as free entertainment goes, this week’s Comic Art Battle will surely be hard to beat!
Featuring:
Richard Lee – www.loftysofty.com
Steve Krakow – www.plasticcrimewave.com
Nate Beaty – www.natebeaty.com
Grant Reynolds – www.myspace.com/grantreynolds
Aaron Renier – www.aaronrenier.comAnd probably some special guests!
Thursday (it might rain, but it’s supposed to be warm!), February 26th
@ Pistol Bazaar Vintage, 1717 W. Chicago Ave.
Doors at 6pm, Battle starts 7pm Complimentary cocktails and munchies.
All vintage will be 20% off.FREE!
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New Quimby's Bookmarks! Hot Off the Press!
I know many of you are fans of the little bookmarks we make with illustrations by different artists, so without further ado I introduce our newest bookmark designed by Leif Goldberg. For those of you unaware of Leif’s work he is the brain behind National Waste, maker of those awesome silk screened calendars we get every year, and one of the mighty muscles behind the infamous Paper Rodeo. So next time your in the store scoop one up and keep your collection complete!
I wonder if any of you can name all the artists who have made bookmarks for us?
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Quimby’s Top Ten Best Sellers For the Week of Feb 15th – Feb 21st, 2009
1. Cabinet #32 $12.00
2. Make #7 Fall 08 Win 09 $4.95
3. Make a Zine by Bill Brent and Joe Biel (Microcosm) $7.00
4. Pinups #8 Juanjo and Tony $14.00
5. Bitch #42 $5.95
6. Dwelling Portably 1980 – 89 by Bert Davis and Holly Davis (Microcosm) $8.00
7. XLR8R Presents Vis-Ed Vol 1 $4.99
8. Mojo Mar 09 #183 $9.99
9. Boys Club #2 by Matt Furie $4.95
10. Omnivores Dilemma: Natural History of Four Meals by Michael Pollan (Penguin) $16.00
