Introducing our blog-on-the-side. Featuring heavy contributions by Whitney and Catherine C.

Hey yo to everyone on the best coast!
1) I miss you 2) Maggie Foster’s wonderful Beneath a Passive Surface art-video show, featuring our JME in Myspace: Tropical Feelings, is screening this Friday! Here’s the info:

Ice on the High

December 3-5
Thursday Dec. 3- 7:30pm Staged Reading of Ginsberg’s HOWL
Friday Dec. 4- 11-5 day viewing; Performances and video 6:30-10pm
Saturday Dec. 5- 11-5 day viewing; evening performance 6:30-10pm

West Berkeley’s Pacific Basin Building presents,
“Ice on the High” a feral art/music event for three nights and two days in the first week of December. Ice on the High is part of a growing wave of temporal upstart art exhibitions, concerts, and events taking the San Francisco Bay Area by storm. All the artists presented are experimenting with this new context for the first time. The economic downslide has led us to create new spaces for art/music. We consider this an antidote in the face of disaster. Pacific Basin is a mixed-use artists/architects’ building with empty storefronts and this art/music program will fill the space. It is our hope that the arts will bring new possibility to our West Berkeley project.

Ricardo Rivera Luciano Chessa and Terry Berlier Eric Ullman Josh Churchill A.K. Burns Catherine Czacki Kim Anno Joshua Kit Clayton Deville Cohen Maggie Foster David Horvitz and Lukas Geronimas Lev Kalman and Whitney Horn Kamau Patton Marcia Scott Ashley Bellouin Ben Bracken Beulah Baker is Lana Voronina Danishta Rivero Darwinsbitch Seth Horvitz and Chuck Johnson Aida Gamez Joshua Clayton Tina Takemoto Eg Crichton Elliot Anderson Liz Walsh David Coll Heather Gordon’s Amy Balkin Jackie Francis Stephanie Johnson Leonie Guyer Joyce Burstein Lauren Marsden Catherine Sherwood Jill Poesner Kim Nelson Bruno Fazzolari Alicia Escott

Pacific Basin Building, 1643-45 San Pablo Avenue, Berkeley, CA at the corner of Virginia Street

Very excited to finally announce the overwhelmingly nice details of next Friday, September 18th’s screening of “Blondes in the Jungle and Friends,“ a program named so because not only are all the contributors friends, but also because their videos and films are v friendly with the movie - in terms of thematics, looks, feelings, vibes, moments, moods, etc.

Info below, soon to be linked out.

Too much!
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Friday September 18th @ 171 LOMBARDY ST @ VARICK AVE

:: A BENEFIT FOR SHOWPAPER

:: screening of BLONDES IN THE JUNGLE by Ball Deep International - PLUS films/videos by TV Carnage, Tyler Coburn, Sara Blaylock, Steve Snell, Liz Magic Laser, Erik Seidenglanz, Catherine Czacki and Carolina Silva @ 8:15pm

:: LEMONADE
:::: Small Black
:::::: MNDR

:: dj 20JazzFunkGreats and other special guest djs on the roof patio

:: roof patio bbq all night

| 171 LOMBARDY ST @ VARICK AVE |
171 Lombardy St @ Varick Ave | Greenpoint, Brooklyn
L-Graham, G-Nassau, B48-Nassau/Van Dam | 8pm | all ages | $8

171 LOMBARDY ST @ VARICK AVE is a wonderful, big (but cozy) new space in a dramatic location w/ a beautiful roof patio overlooking the Midtown skyline, the Greenpoint industrial district & the Kosciusko Bridge -PLUS- it’s air conditioned & heated & has a killer soundsystem & good acoustics & great dance floor lights & no neighbors.

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Some images from the And Friends

Catherine Czacki

Steve Snell

Tyler Coburn

TV Carnage

Carolina Silva

Sara Blaylock

Liz Magic Laser

Erik Seidenglanz

Please compare/contrast Family JazZ, the ‘mazing short by friends Brendan and Mike, with Halloween Face: Episode 5, by me and Whit…

I know. CRAZILY, B + M had never seen Halloween Face when they conceived this! It wasn’t till Libby showed up to shoot that she was like, “You guys know I’ve played a teen in the future before?” I don’t know quite what it is about Libby that suggests lite-dystopia family drama, but I could see like 10 more of these.

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THOUGHT: A couple years out now, I’m pretty proud of the Halloween Face project. Like a lot of TV shows it takes a couple eps to hit its stride, and the finale’s inevitably a bit of a let down - but those middle episodes are fucking solid.

RE-UPPED: Lecture Part 2 tonight!

Wed Jul 8 and Wed Jul 22 Catherine Czacki lectures on portals at 7:30 at Harris Lieberman.

Also coffee libations (yo: including free coffee and readings) every Tuesday at 11am for the rest of the month.

Phew. Just as Fader’s unwieldy* redesign threatens to kill whats left of my internet buzz, Yao Ming’s back!

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*Srlsy, can’t we somehow still access Fader the old way?

FLY:
Daily Candy: The Weekend Guide
Philadelphia City Paper: The Agenda

FLYER:

FLYEST:

Thanks for the awesome time, Philladelphia!
L

Alright. Truth? Ada Egloff taught me how to dress when I was 17. Soo…Daily Candy, Philadelphia City Paper, Uwishunu, um…Teen Vogue…Paper…I knoooowwww!! Right?!

We’re v siked about screening Blondes in the Jungle at Ada’s new Philly shop Oma this Friday. There’ll be $2 beers and wines (I’m thinking maybe even some sparkling wines) and a definitely warm, fun vibe. Plus music. Speaking of which, it’s been a minute since I’ve pushed the Blondes Inspirational Mix, at you right? Enjoy.

Oh and thanks to B. for sending me this today (I think cuz of its obvious Blonvergent qualities, right?) – way weirder/better than the blurb might suggest.

Been meaning to post this - it’s a swirly-alternative mix I played at a rooftop party this day last month and on WHFR a few weeks ago. I like it I mean it’s sorta an exercise in obviousness, which I’m really into these days.

Lev Leviev: e-LEV-ate Me Later

When I think of the 5 or 6 people that would enjoy this mix most, it’s the same people that check this blog regularly. So if you’re reading this and it’s May, this is literally for you.

Oh and it’s also dedicated to the Lakers who either win easily or make an embarrassing mess.

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