Dan Layne stopped by the store today and gave a short demonstration on the Bend Matrix. It is some kind of crazy sequencer that sends audio signals out to different speakers. So armed with an array of eight little speakers, a circuit bent drum machine and hand built tonal generator Dan proceeded to rock out the back of the store with crazy tones and cycling beats! Excellent!
Check out videos of similar Bend Matrix action
Join us for a reading by three people associated with the Guild of Outsider Writers.
The Performers:
Justin Hyde – Author of Down Where the Hummingbird goes to Die, which won the 2007 Jack Micheline Memorial poetry prize
David Blaine – Chief Poetry editor, Guild of Outsider Writers
Pat King – Guild of Outsider Writers founding member and Chief Bad Mojo
More info at: http://www.outsiderwriters.org/
Lloyd Dangle will perform his 20 Years of Troubletown humorous slide show floor show and sign copies of his book Troubletown Told You So, Comics that Could’ve Saved Us From This Mess.
Troubletown, by Lloyd Dangle, was first published in the San Francisco Bay Guardian in 1988 and has since grown to become a widely syndicated cartoon feature in alternative newsweeklies and lefty political magazines.
Lloyd’s cartoons and illustrations have appeared in over 100 magazines and newspapers of every type from the crusty corporate mainstream to the bleeding, subcommercial edge. Lloyd’s work has been featured in publications including American Lawyer, Cosmopolitan, Entertainment Weekly, San Francisco Chronicle, Shape, Sierra, Mother Jones, The Nation, The New York Times, Outside, Time Magazine, Utne Reader, Village Voice and Wired. His drawings also adorn the packaging of Airborne effervescent cold remedy, which the company claims has been one fastest-selling products in retail history.
Lloyd was also the first cartoonist assigned to cover the Republican National Convention in New York City armed with nothing but a pen and a blank sketchbook, the resulting cartoon was selected for Houghton-Mifflin’s series, The Best American Comics. When not on the road covering bizarre and dangerous political events, he works out of his converted garage in Oakland, California.
Lloyd Dangle grew up in Michigan and, after getting a BFA from the University of Michigan School of Art, tossed it all out the window to draw cartoons for Michael Moore’s (much praised and reviled) muckraking newspaper, the Michigan Voice. He moved to New York City during the go-go 80’s and worked for several magazines and newspapers, including the Village Voice when it was still at the height of its powers. He landed a cartoon feature at upscale Manhattan, Inc. Magazine, lampooning the high-living antics of Wall Street’s youthful elite (some things are timeless). After landlord larceny caused Dangle’s apartment building to collapse (literally), he moved to San Francisco and secured his well-earned underground hipster cred, roaming the Mission District, and befriending Robert and Aline Crumb, appearing in their classic depressive übercomic, Weirdo.
He lives in Oakland, California, with his wife, Hae Yuon Kim, and their son, Oscar.
DR. REVOLT and Gary Panter Appearance and signing of The Lost Ones
Steve Niles teams up with four visual artists to bring you a graphic novel that will challenge what you think about time and space travel. DR. REVOLT, an original member of the historic New York City graffiti crew The Rolling Thunder Writers, Gary Panter, an illustrator known for his surreal and raw style, Morning Breath, Brooklyn-based art and design duo, and emerging painter/fashion designer Kime Buzzelli – each bring a remarkable and unique drawing style to the project.
“The Lost Ones” tells the story of Duncan, Roxy, Rasheed and Cynthia, who leave their Earth and get swept up in an epic intergalactic adventure. What starts out as a harmless day of extreme planet jumping turns into a mind-blowing, white-knuckle race for their lives to get back home. Collector’s and paperback editions of “The Lost Ones” will be available for free in early July 2008 at select comic book stores nationwide.
Wicker Park Fest is in effect….so all the regulars are staying out of the hood. But if you are a brave one we got some hot new stuff here to reward you for dealing with the gladiator sandal wearing masses.
Join Quimby’s for the Orphan Schlitz Reading Series III hosted by Marc Arcuri. Performers will read short stories and poetry.
With:
Marc Arcuri-SlopArtist, Musician, Fashion Editor, Hipster, Degenerate, Entertainer
Dan Gleason-Writer, Artist, Renegade
Ted McClelland-Author of book HORSEPLAYERS: LIFE AT THE TRACK
1. Believer #55 Music Issue $10.00
2. Rough Guide To Bicycle Maintenance $2.00
3. Bigfoot I Not Dead by Graham Roumieu (Plume) $15.00
4. Bust Aug/Sep 08 $4.99
5. Heeb #17 $5.99
6. N Plus 1 Pamphlet Series #2 $9.00
7. Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism by Naomi Klein (Picador) $16.00
8. Found #4 $5.00
9. When You Are Engulfed in Flames by David Sedaris (Little Brown & Co.) $25.99
10. Save My Life by Cody Hudson (Upper Playground) $19.95
The Literary Writer’s Network presents a reading for debut novelist Stephanie Kuehnert, reading from her book I Wanna Be Your Joey Ramone. A Q&A and book signing will follow the reading.
STEPHANIE KUEHNERT got her start writing bad poetry about unrequited love and razor blades in eighth grade. In high school, she discovered punk rock and produced several D.I.Y. feminist zines. Stephanie received her MFA in creative writing from Columbia College Chicago. She currently resides in Forest Park, IL. This novel is her first. Visit her website at www.stephaniekuehnert.com.
I Wanna Be Your Joey Ramone is a raw, edgy, emotional novel about growing up punk and living to tell.
The Clash. Social Distortion. Dead Kennedys. Patti Smith. The Ramones.
Punk rock is in Emily Black’s blood. Her mother, Louisa, hit the road to follow the incendiary music scene when Emily was four months old and never came back.
Now Emily’s all grown up with a punk band of her own, determined to find the tune that will bring her mother home. Because if Louisa really is following the music, shouldn’t it lead her right back to Emily?
About the Literary Writer’s Network:
LWN is an organization dedicated to literary excellence through the advancement and promotion of emerging and creative non-fiction writers. LWN seeks to help writers understand the literary publishing landscape, offers them a community with other writers and provides them with opportunities to further develop and refine their artistry. LWN is dedicated specifically to the art of literary prose and offers a bimonthly writing groups and quarterly reading series. We also publish the literary magazine 10,000 Tons of Black Ink that strives to give new and burgeoning literary artists a forum for quality publication.
We’ll been a week but here you go two weeks worth of new stuff. Hopefully the rain hasn’t ruined Pitchfork too much! These festival weekends are always awesome; it is so great to see all our people’s who stop in once or twice a summer. So “Holler” if you’re in town!
1. Butt #23 Fantastic Magazine for Homosexuals $9.90
2. Watchmen TPB by Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons (Vertigo) $19.99
3. Giant Robot #54 $4.99
4. No One Belongs Here More Than You by Miranda July (Scribner) $14.00
5. Proximity #1 Chicago Issue $10.00
6. Do It Yourself Screenprinting How to Turn Your Home into a T-shirt Factory by John Isaacson (Microcosm)
7. Doris #25 $2.00
8. Believer #55 Music Issue $10.00
9. Crap Hound #7 Church and State Part One
10. The Match #106 $3.00
