hollowday cheer

December 21, 2004 on 3:28 pm | In Happenings | No Comments

Your Lordships,
It is incumbent upon me to in-form you of possible magnetick disturbances in your area of residence. See listings below for more details.

While trilobite-in-the-mud evolutionists will claim that the biological characteristics of organisms differentiate over time according to certain basic laws of nature, few seem willing to admit the possibility that the “laws” themselves are evolving, beneath our very probing probosci.
However, my good Madam, with Maxwell’s Daemons biting at our ankles, we will bi-ambulate forth to our regular place of worship in order to attempt to channel the space-time ripples emanating from the center of the Earth (as our stunted Cartesian consciousnesses seem incapable of conceiving of the world other than spherical in dimension — the flat-earthers may be closer to the truth than we ever suspected — we will assume the convenience of the concept of a center), where intra-terrestrials modify their flying-saucer-time-machines. (Was Alfred Jarry an Hollow Earth ex-patriate? — discuss)
Pay close attention to the subtle quotidian signs: the ductwork designs in Denny’s and the logos on 60’s cooking appliances; the notebook diaries of autistics and the MRI’s of schizophrenics. All expressions of the externalized forces of molecular dynamism.

Bickett Gallery, Raleigh, Wednesday Night Prayer Meeting, 10 pm. Be sure to re-set your watch after attending due to possible temporal anomalies. CDs are free, or $5 donation if you want to put motion to the ocean of Capital.

Dec 22: Stone Cold
–though we will probably do our best not to adhere to the implication of that title in terms of the relation between substances imbibed and our economy of perception.
Stone Cold, fresh from our odyssey to Times Square and environs (now more symptomatic of the very demise of civilization than ever), where we did battle with krunchpunk christian youth anarcho-bank-card-babies doing manson-family-esque sing-alongs to Neuter Milk Hotel songs on the one hand and BigTown free jazz chopmeisters on the other. While somewhere in-between or outside of that, rude a.m. awakenings to Merzbowic assaults.
Mike Isenberg — drums (you remember Mike from Kolyma, Olympus Mons, the original Strange, Artificial Inseminary School, Viroid Stew, The Numen, Judge Schreber’s Avian Choir, and suchlike beasts). Neil Vendrick — sample recodifying (aka LoopRoad, of Another Tombstone Dream, That Obscure Object of Disdain and also of Viroid Stew). Myselves — alto sax-o-moanad, guitar, bass-clarionette, ‘bone.

Dec 29: Razor Wire Safety Net + Isaac Trogdon & others
Isaac Bigsby Trogdon bringin tha noize, just off the boat from Deutschland — here only long enough to renounce citizenship. To any country. Possible other guests include his co-Southern-Man-conspirator John McCusker on guitar and cold-sides/three stigmata man Zeke Graves on electro-noise & sample recoding. Forgot to ask him about that the other night. Whaddya say, Zeke? Christopher Thurston on basses. Brian Donohoe on drums. Myselves on other stuff.

Other near future occurrences are beyond even our power to foretell. Ask again later.

Synaestherely,
The Ventriloquizer DL
Extemporal Research Investigator
Retroactive Dynamics, Inc. (an affiliate of the Thomas Carlyle Group)
“I used to wonder about now and then — I think the distance will never get here.” (apologies to Langston Hughes)