Dock Ellis & The LSD No-No by James Blagden.

via Joshua Frankel

Just found my new fave wrong material: Concrete Clouds YAY!!!!

By the mid-nineties, the British media had woken up to the fact that the nation contained two societies: the traditional leisure culture of alcohol and entertainment (speactator sports, TV) versus the more participatory of all-night dancing and Ecstasy…

The question, then, is this: has rave proved itself a form of mass bohemia, or is it merely a futuristic update of traditional youth leisure, where the fun-crazed weekend redeems the drudgery of the working week?

…Rejecting the idea that this is simply escapism, a safety valve for the tensions generated by capitalist work patterns, Melechi argues that rave supersedes the old model of subcultural activity as resistance through rituals. Where earlier style-terrorist subcultures like mod and punk were exhibitionist, a kick in the eye of straight society, rave is a form of collective disappearance, an investment in pleasure that shouldn’t be written off as a mere retreat or disengagement. (Antonio Melechi, The Ecstasy of Dissapearance)

…raving as safety valve versus raving as opting out…

Ecstasy can just as easily be a counterrevolutionary force as it can fuel a hunger for change. For it’s too tempting to take the easy option: simply repeating the experience, installing yourself permanently in rave’s virtual reality pleasuredome.
-Simon Reynolds, Generation Ecstasy: Into the world of techno and rave culture. In Cultural Resistance Reader, Rave as Counterculture and Spiritual Revolution

Plywood, likely from
the roof system of
the house, is blown
into a tree
approximately 30
feet from the house

and other cool shit, at the Towns County Sheriff’s Office News

“THOSE ABOUT TO DIE SALUTE YOU”
from the latin “Moritori te selutant”, attributed to prisoners addressing Emperor Claudius prior to the naumachia to which they had been fated. –52 AD

HISTORY
In times of economic difficulty, Roman emperors would host violent spectator sports to placate the masses. The bloodiest and most decadent of these was the NAUMACHIA; prisoners were forced to engage in full-on naval warfare within a flooded Roman amphitheater. Variations were re-popularized in empires throughout European history, always coinciding with instances of over-indulgence at the brink of financial and societal collapse.

EVENT
On august 13th I will be flooding one of the remaining structures from the former World’s Fairgrounds in Flushing Meadows Corona Park and hosting a Naumachia.
Art dignitaries (and a bunch of other random degenerates) will be forced to battle from boats representing the five boroughs of New York City. All of the boats are made directly from materials recovered from the abandoned World’s Fair Ice Rink and trash from the park.

The Naumachia will include work by Jade Townsend and Kitty Joe Sainte-Marie and performances by Lara Allen and Rebecca Goyette. There will be a pre game show featuring HELL BENT HOOKER

When: 6 to 9:30 PM

Where: 7 train to Mets Stadium/Willets Point. Walk down the boardwalk into the park and follow signs to the Queens Museum of Art (behind the Unisphere).

The event and the booze is free but there is a mandatory toga dress code strictly enforced. It also never hurts to bring your own flask as free booze runs out fast.

Duke Riley

Also see Staging a Naval Battle at the Queens World’s Fair Site – WSJ.com

Thu Tran’s Food Party premiers on IFC (Independent Film Channel) and there is a big party at Monkeytown (of course) to celebrate!

Big Party for first episode of Food Party airing on IFC

HI EVERYONE!

Our first episode of Food Party will be airing
TUESDAY JUNE 9th at 11:15PM
on THE INDEPENDENT FILM CHANNEL (cable tv)

To celebrate, we will be having a party at our favorite screening spot in Williamsburg Brooklyn :

MONKEYTOWN
58 North 3rd Street (btwn Kent and Wythe)
10:30 PM, (come early)
more info at http://monkeytownhq.com/6_9_09LATE.html

Come join us, this place rules because they’ve supported us for years, they have 4 giant projector screens on all four walls of their screening room, and they also have a slamming sound system! We will be screening the show in real time what is being broadcasted on America’s cable-enhanced televisions!

Please RSVP early, seating is limited at this place!

http://www.monkeytownhq.com/reservations.html

I LOVE you guys,
Love, Thu

PS, Spread the word!

–
www.foodparty.tv
www.ifc.com/food-party/
www.thutranthutran.com
www.youtube.com/user/thutranthutran

- via vvork

Also on the radio, Justin Rancourt and Chuck Yatsuk at Kate Werble Gallery with Trent Wolbe Happy Hour at FMU. Ahh, FMU… brings me back to hard core on Sundays and that Jewish Skinhead kid at Stuy.

Any way, listen to Rancourt / Yatsuk right here: