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You Are Her
Riot Grrrl and Underground Female Zines of the 1990sOpening Friday, November 20th 2009, from 7-9pm 766 Valencia between 18th/19th, San Francisco Goteblüd salutes an incredible period of self-publishing. On display are nearly 700 creative and inspiring publications that shook the world, including Riot Grrrl zines, Riot Boy zines, Not Riot Grrrl zines and mainstream magazines. Also available is a listening station devoted to cassettes. The entire contents of "You Are Her" are available for reading and listening. This show is interactive! A photocopier is onsite.The show is open during store hours - Saturdays and Sundays (only) from 12-5pm, 11/21/09 through mid-January 2010. ( Publications included in the show. )
- The weekend was, as usual, busy. It started out on Friday with a trip to Shibuya to go to an Izakaya (Japanese style bar in case I haven't explained that before) with some people that I met at a party last weekend.
- The Friday night meeting was OK but I'm not much of an izakaya type of guy. You get a private room with all the people you are with, so that's cool, but I didn't really know a lot of the people and the table setting was not exactly conducive to a lot of conversation with everyone. I pretty much just talked to the people on either side of me the whole night. Luckily they were cool. I got invited out by both of them again but I have yet to set any times because I am busy with plans until at least next month at this point.
- I got home late and went to sleep even later on Friday yet I still managed to wake up at around 8am on Saturday. Saturday was good because I set about working on the menu items for Thanksgiving. I ended up trying out the braised green beans, the stuffed onions and the sweet potato biscuits. The results? I am going to use one out of the three on my actual thanksgiving menu. I guess this means I need to go back to the menu drawing board.
- The green beans were OK but not spectacular so I think I am going to drop them for a different type of green vegetable. I was thinking of going with a creamed spinach or something like that. The stuffed onions were actually really tasty but I ran into trouble with them because, although tasty, the stuffed part is too much like, well, stuffing to no get lost in the normal thanksgiving fare that includes stuffing. The sweet potato biscuits stay though. The taste was good but I think I am going to have to modify the recipe as I am sure my choice of potato affected how it should actually come out. They didn't rise nearly enough. However, beyond that, they are keepers. I am going to hopefully get the recipe fixed up to work with satsuma imo sometime soon.
- Saturday evening I went out the the Japan Fetish Ball, which is a once yearly event. This year, it was at the Christon Cafe in Shinjuku (as opposed to the Shibuya one that it was in last year) and it was a lot of fun. I'll probably write up a bit about the evening on an increasingly rare update of
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- I got home really late, 8am or so Sunday morning and managed to sleep for about three hours before waking up. I mostly just sat around in a kind of tired daze watching videos on youtube and playing GTA4. At around 5pm or so I went out to get food and pick up a few things I needed around the house.
- I got back home around 6 or so and started making dinner. Really I tested out the biscuits again and just made a few other things on the side to eat with biscuits. I ended up with more pumpkin salad and chicken cutlets in a sour cream and garlic sauce. Not a bad combo I'd say. Same trouble with the biscuits though. They just don't rise like I imagine they should. Maybe I am rolling the dough out too thinly?
- I fell asleep around 11pm and that was OK but I still haven't recovered yet so I'm sleepy again today. Probably after a few more missions in GTA4 I'll be heading to bed early again tonight.
I haven't posted in over 3 weeks which I think is the longest I've left it since I started on lj. No, the journal is not dead, but I did go and do things- San Francisco, the Midwest, back to Australia, a whole heap of student visa confusion, etc. Still I think I did not do enough. for the whole year, I think I haven't done enough, and I am regretting that. I have, however, read a whole heap of books since I moved in August. Some are my own, some I pulled from the massive bookshelf left behind for safekeeping by the girl who moved out. a partial list: Cannery Row John Steinbeck Hell's Angels Hunter S. Thompson A Confederacy of Dunces John Kennedy O Toole (there was a sale on Penguin Classics at kinokuyina. I read my dad's copy of Confederacy of Dunces as a kid after he fell asleep on Alitalia back from Rome. He didn't want me reading it because it was too "adult", but on re-reading, there was so much left implied through dialogue that went over my head as a 12 year old. The part about the health inspector, the cat, and the hot dog cart is just as funny on repeated readings.) Manhattan Transfer John Dos Passos* The Handmaid's Tale Margaret Atwood* Oryx and Crake Margaret Atwood* Platform Michel Houellebecq* Watership Downs Richard Adams* (*these are all from F.s bookshelf. generally I don't like novels. generally I don't like fiction except for genre fiction and A Confederacy of Dunces, but I'm trying to broaden my reading. awww, bunnies.) Sister Carrie Theodore Dreiser The Man With the Golden Arm Nelson Algren Undoing Gender Judith Butler Cycler Lauren McLaughlin Thinking Through Skin Sarah Ahmed and Jackie Stacy, eds. and right now I have The Politics of Life Itself: Boimedicine, Power, and Subjectivity in the Twenty-first Century by Nicholas Rose, Black Monk Time, a biography of Phil Spector, and an autobiography by J.D. Salinger's daughter on the go. oh, and I read a thrift shop/op shop book on how to bake your own bread, written in 1972 and full of mainstream-hippie obsessions about additives in bread, more as a cultural artefact because it's much too hot here to bake bread.
PLEASE NOTE: Our building is in foreclosure. Six months from now, the gallery and studio space may no longer exist! SIXTH ANNUAL SSCA MEMBERS' EXHIBITION
Opening Night Reception: SATURDAY, November 14, 7:00 – 10:00 pmMusic by Jon Davis, John Keston, and Tim Glenn -- Live Jazz Ensemble Six years ago, a rag-tag group of artists took over an abandoned police sub-station and declared themselves a co-op. No one thought that the experiment would last. The organization had no permanent endowment, no paid staff, and no outside source of funding. Six years later, the Stevens Square Center for the Arts (SSCA) has transformed that ugly water-damaged storefront into a functioning gallery –one that has quickly emerged as one of the city’s most exciting venues for non-commercial art. “Sometimes seeing something is as important as talking about it,” says founding member Zachary Korb. “Actually going up in the space, it lets you sort of envision what the possibilities are.” In the midst of an economic recession that has forced many long-running galleries to shutter their doors, the SSCA Gallery is not only surviving, but thriving. In 2009, the art center hosted 12 major exhibitions, as well as the Twin Cities Zine Festival, and a Community Forum. Coming at the end of the SSCA’s busiest season ever, the Sixth Annual SSCA Members’ Exhibition is a showcase for the member-artists whose hard work and dedication have kept the gallery functioning. While other exhibits are usually based on a theme, the Members’ show is a truly open exhibition, featuring broad sampling of styles and materials. From the life-sized oil paintings and charcoal drawings of J.M. Culver, to the scrambled portraits of painter Samuel Bjorgum, the Sixth Annual SSCA Members’ Exhibition is a showcase for a group of emerging artists who you can expect to hear more from in the near future. FEATURING ARTWORK BY: • Erik Farseth • Erika Hammerschmidt • Faye Buffington Howell • Guntis Kupers • J.M. Culver • Karin Knudsen • Margot Dedrick • Patricia Barnes • Samuel Bjorgum • Terrance Davis • Trish Brock The Sixth Annual SSCA Members’ Exhibition will be on view from Sunday, November 15 – December 6, 2009. This event is free, and open to the public. There will be an opening night reception on Saturday, November 14 from 7:00 – 10:00 pm.
Cross-posted from Facebook: walktheplank spent Friday the 13th seeing Dark Dark Dark and Tete a Tete performing at the Fashion Sabbath at the Bedlam Theatre. The fashion show was very Gypsy-bicycle-punk-meets- Rhoda-the-Fairy-Princess-at-the-Renaissance-F estival. The oversized Eighties eyeglasses trend has GOT to stop!
Hey fellow bloggers, I know I haven't posted in a loooong time (35 weeks according to the announcement when I logged in). I almost deleted my journal recently, but my husband told me to hold off on that idea. I'm glad he did. I guess I've always been the type to make quick (and often times rash) decisions. There are many of you that I want to maintain contact with and share my silly and sometimes tragic stories with. I've been doing my journals on paper lately because I wanted the privacy for some of my thoughts. I'll just keep this one brief for now, but expect me to be blogging. Here, there, whereverywhere? Somewhere, I guess is my point. Somewhere in this here internet of tubes and wires. Everyone over here is doing A-ok. Talk soon!
I have to say, that I regret the fact that either my constant exhaustion, or frantic daily grind has made my posts to livejournal lacking. Somehow it's easier to some the day up with one sentance on facebook lately. My house closes on the 20th. We should be moved in by the 1st of December. I'm beyond stoked. No more fuckin' slumlord assholes ever, yo! I'm going to have a library/record room in the new house. With custom shelving. This will be my early birthday present. I ridiculously excited because two of our really good friends, Haley and Booger, are moving to the area the first part of December. It will be fantastic to have other ex traveling kids/now responsible adults to mingle with. I actually have shit to look forward to. It's excellent.
WITH THE HEALTH CARE REFORM BILL FLOUNDERING, IT'S NICE TO SEE PEOPLE DEVOTING TIME AND ENERGY TO MUCH MORE PRESSING CONCERNS From Salon: "Great moments in American labor history: The Viagra Strike
What do we want? Four-hour erections! When do we want them? Now!
Great moments in American labor history:
1892: An attempt by Andrew Carnegie and Henry Clay Frick to break a steelworkers union led to a pitched gun battle between strikers and Pinkerton security forces in Homestead, Pennsylvania.
1894: 3000 employees of the Pullman Palace Car Company went on strike to protest a 30 percent wage cut.
1913: Silk mill workers in Paterson, New Jersey led by the International Workers of the World go on strike seeking eight-hour days and better working conditions.
1937: The Great Flint Sit-Down Strike led to the first labor agreement between General Motors and the United Auto Workers.
2009: The employees of the Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority (SEPTA) end a strike after convincing the bosses to increase Viagra coverage: (Found via Jim Edwards' BNET Pharma blog.)
The Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority has agreed to cover almost all of its rising health-care costs, and to increase coverage for Pfizer's (PFE) Viagra and other erectile dysfunction treatments, the Philadelphia Daily News reports. Workers are unhappy that their health insurance plan only covers about 10 pills a month.
- Andrew Leonard, "Great moments in labor history: The Viagra strike," Salon
- Yesterday I went to the local high class supermarket in a search for turkey. Last year, when I wasn't cooking thanksgiving dinner, they had butterballs there. This year, they had these miniature baby turkeys from Spain. We are talking a 4lb turkey here people! that's enough for like 4 people at most.
- In my disappointment I bought a 1/4 slice of kabocha and a bottle of cranberry juice and went on my way. I had planned on doing something with those when I got home but I totally forgot what it was and didn't actually do anything with either of them. Instead I ate a salad that I topped with bacon and fried scallions. That was pretty good.
- So, in order to get my mind off of the great turkey search I broke down and ordered a turkey online from someone called "The Meat Guy", who is Japan based. He was sold out of butterballs but he had a slightly bigger, differently branded turkey for the same price so I went with that. I also bought a kilo of uncased sausage as I need it for my stuff onions and have yet to see it in any store anywhere..
- I guess I am going to start trying out the recipes for Thanksgiving sometimes soon. I'm excited to try the sweet potato biscuits but if they come out bad I'm going to switch to normal buttermilk biscuits. The green bean thing is similar for me. Bacon in Japan is generally much thicker than American bacon, leaving it thick and only half crispable. Hopefully I'll be able to work around that or I'll be making more substitutions. As for the stuffed onions I'm going to a test run with ground pork and see how that goes.
- Actually, now that I think about it, I could probably just make my own sausage from ground pork if I could somehow find pork that was fatty enough. Maybe I've got a project for the weekend?
Ok, People keep asking when the book is coming out so here it is. Not available until March, but it’s never too early to pre-order. And check out the new low cover price since we’ve done away with the pretentious hard cover edition. ;)  (Photo by awesome local photographer Myleen Hollero) You can order direct from Chelsea Green. Or from the bookstore of your choice (like your neighborhood worker-cooperative perhaps) For some reason, Amazon is the only place that is posting the blurbs (though I have a few more now) and they are pretty good. OK, self-promotion time is over (for the day).
Two of my ghost paintings will be up this Friday at Gallery 1313's fundraising show Is Your Love Supernatural?. The show is hosted by In My Bed Magazine.  That's Friday the 13th, at famed Gallery 1313 in Parkdale, 1313 Queen St West, Toronto. Want to know more? Great, because we just did an interview with In My Bed, and it's up on the IT³ blog, here: http://imtrying.net/?p=151If you want to know which ghost paintings are in the show, you'll have to come and find out. See you Friday!
- I didn't do a whole lot yesterday. It was just a relax at home and play more GTA4 type of evening. It wasn't a bad night though. I need to have a few relaxing nights during the week or I never recover from my hectic weekends. That seems weird, most people are relaxing on the weekends right?
- I spent my entire lunch break yesterday planning Joe's Tokyo Thanksgiving meal out as best I could and I came up with the following so far. I owe a lot of the ideas and a few of the recipes to my Cook's Country subscription, which was graciously gifted to me by uberconfused . Thanks again!! :
Turkey w/herb butter and gravy
Cornbread and bacon stuffing
Stuffed onions (pork sausage/apple/cheese)
Mashed potatoes with kabocha puree
Caramelized carrots with herbs
Bacon braised green beans
Sweet Potato biscuits
Apple Pie
Pumpkin Pie
It kind of feels like I'm missing something in there but maybe not. Anyone have any suggestions to round it out? - I didn't work on my mask at all yesterday. It was sitting there just itching to be worked on but I never actually picked it up and did anything with it. I think I have to find a few more reference pictures before I can continue. That and pick up some feathers and fur to see the thickness of everything on how I should adjust the mask accordingly.
- It appears as though I am going to be going to Osaka in two weeks for the Tokyo Decadance. There is a bus rented by the promoter so why not? I'm hoping to debut the mask there. More than anything, I think the idea of loading up a bus with 30 or so club kids and driving to another part of the country sounds like a fun enterprise. Probably that will be more fun than the event itself.
- Oh yeah, the shoot for the music video is done! There is apparently video of me from the Halloween Tokyo Decadance using the the same mask for the video and that video is apparently spectacular so that is going to be used instead of doing a new shoot with a green screen. That works for me as I don't have to do the makeup again and it saves time for everyone involved.
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We've been asked to curate some classic old zines to go along with an upcoming show at the Berkeley Art Museum called Zine Mart. Many new zine makers will be on hand selling their stuff, while some choice Bay Area zine history will be on display. Click the image for more information:  Also, this is an official pre-announcement... Coming soon to Goteblüd: YOU ARE HER
Riot Grrrl and Underground Female Zines of the 1990s This show will open Friday, 11/20/09 from 7-9pm and continue during normal business hours Sat/Sun 12-5pm through mid-January. Many seminal zines of the era will be on display and available for reading. A listening area with a tape deck - featuring many important cassettes of the time - will be accessible as well. There will be a photocopier on-site for public use. Look for an official announcement next week!
- I totally forgot to post something yesterday but it was because I am really busy at work for some reason. I keep getting work piled on top of me because the other guy is busy on some presentation translation that they didn't give him enough time to do. Anyway, that leaves me with less time to write up stuff, which is lame.
- I'm sure I had something to talk about yesterday but I don't remember what it was. It wasn't that I did anything exciting on Monday though. I spent the night at home cooking up random stuff and starting on my next mask.
- Speaking of the next mask, I've decided it's going to be one of those Hieronymous Bosch-esque crow-man demons. You know, body of a man, head of a crow with teeth? No? You don't know? Well, I would post a picture but I can't seem to find on of the example I am talking about. This leads me to believe I imagined this entirely or I've mistaken the artist. Either way, maybe you get the idea.
- I spent a lot of last night sculpting the mask. Actually, because a large portion of it will be covered with fur/feathers I am probably really close to being done with it. I think once i get the details around the beak and the teeth put in it'll be mostly done. Then from there I will figure out the area around the eyes and that will pretty much cover it..
- I've decided that this year I am actually going to celebrate Thanksgiving. I haven't had a proper Thanksgiving meal in years and years so I've decided to invite people to my apartment for Thanksgiving and cook something. I don't actually know how to cook a Turkey but I am anxious to try cooking one with the "butter under the skin" method I've seen people doing. That just seems awesome.
I was taking pictures of the bands playing at the DNA Lounge on Sunday night, and one of the bad metal band's fans (His Mother) told the security people that I was obviously a pedophile because I was taking pictures, of her 18 nyear old son, while he was on stage, playing with the band he was in that she probably paid for in order to get his band publicity... People are sooooo incredibly stupid... His band was actually somewhat interesting in a speed metal way, anb since we got in for free because of "indie cred" in the first place, we really were just hanging out and killing time... But I stayed and took pictures because it was fun... The DNA Lounge security was totally laughing about the situation too. Seriously... I was so humored by the situation, and incredulous that the "situation" happened that the people I was with spent the rest of the evening laughing... And since when did 18-year-olds who paid to be on display playing bad music become pedophelia-fodder? I call this situation the "Jeune Bonnet Ramsey of Rock" moment of my vacation...
Eddie Argos: "I used to think that this song 'The Passenger' was about Iggy Pop riding around on the bus. Iggy looks like a guy who never learned how to drive... But I later found out that I was wrong. It's not about riding the bus. It's actually about Iggy doing heroin with David Bowie in the back of a big black limousine.
Which I couldn’t relate to at all. And my dad can't relate to. And the band can't relate to that -they all know how to drive a car.
So we decided to write a new version of the song."
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