Family Books and Aaron Rose present: Three Films About Sister Corita

Sunday, July 12 at 8pm

Once a month Family hosts a night at the Silent Movie Theatre, called ‘Family Sundays’ - we bring in one of our favorite people to curate and introduce a night of films. This time around, it’s artist/filmmaker/writer/musician/curator Aaron Rose, founder of NYC’s Alleged Gallery, co-editor of the art mag ANP Quarterly, player in The Sads, and director of the documentary short Become A Microscope, based on the life of Sister Corita (1918-1986), a teacher, political activist and perhaps one of the most innovative and unusual pop artists of the 1960s.

Become A Microscope, shot on location in 2009 on the campus of Immaculate Heart High School in Los Angeles, serves as a living document of the inspiration she spread to the many people throughout her life– and, as the title suggests, the importance of looking at the world “small pieces at a time”. The screening of Become A Microscope will be followed other two archival films on Sister Corita: Mary’s Day (1964) by Baylis Glascock, and Survival With Style (1966) by Cal Bernstein, Alex Singer and Haskell Wexler. Both of these rare films will be screened from their original 16mm prints, and Mary’s Day will feature a live score by special musical guests (These will be very special!) Co-presented by The Corita Art Center - Family

Silent Movie Theatre
611 N Fairfax Avenue
Los Angeles, 90036

I’m cruising through Baller’s eve on East Village Radio this wednesday 10-12.  Maybe previewing new Brother Reade?

If y’oun’t know, dudes do a oh-so-official southern rap show at EVR, and have been for years.  Get Familiar.

You can go to East village radio online and listen.

Loon appears on the english version of Al-Jazeera, discussing his conversion to Islam.

Side note: Al-jazeera needs to step up their terrifying production value game, there’s no motion graphics, ticker tape at the bottom, or airplane noise sound design.  BORRRRRRRIINNNNNNNGGGGG…

via The month in…Bass music, a new column from FACT Magazine.

One of the last month’s best releases was currently incarcerated grime producer Maniac’s instrumental CD New Age Grime. Maniac’s been one of grime’s most watched producers since making ‘Bow E3′ for Wiley’s Playtime is Over album, and predictably he can pull off dubstep better than most dubstep producers: tracks like ‘Wreckage’ are massive wobblers, but they’re miles more inventive and avant-garde than most tracks of that ilk: they’re more Jakes than Caspa, if you know what I mean

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Charlie Ahearn the director of The Deadly Art of Survival and Wild Style has a Flickr account.

Clips from the 1994 documentary Wildwood, NJ. Thanks to Krissie for telling me about it, she grew up here, those are actually her payphones at the end where the girl is talking about killing the other girl, “She had a gun at my back”. I wish a documentary would surface from 1994 Winston-Salem, NC.

MIA directed Rye Rye. At top is the final, the other is unedited dance footage. If you ask Desert Eagles he prefers the Ye directed Drake video.

-studioplus updates!

Jacob Ciocci (Paper Rad) and Fortress of Amplitude - Video Screening and Performance

Wednesday, July 1, 7pm FREE
Family
436 N. Fairfax Ave.

Jacob Ciocci will present a new 20-minute mix of original videos and animations, and perform ‘I Let My Nightmares Go’ featuring video and dance moves that grapple with mental demons, web 2.0, G.O.D., 21st-century breakdown, real lies and fake truths, cartoon violence, and awareness bracelets.

David Wightman will perform as Fortress of Amplitude, a guitar wielding minstrel from another time and place. Accompanied by a blast beat playing drum machine, He will execute a musical composition focusing on fantasy, repetition and ecstacy.

Jacob Ciocci is a founding member of the east coast art collective Paper Rad. His work is concerned with the relationships between popular culture, technology and notions of transcendence. In his paintings, comics, performances, net art and videos, contemporary and recently forgotten cultural symbols confront one another inside a frenzied cartoon universe that is simultaneously celebratory and critical.

David Wightman lives in San Diego, California where he is a PhD candidate in music composition at UCSD. There he teaches a course on the music, history and culture of Heavy Metal.

paperrad.org
myspace.com/fortressofamplitude

An introduction to Jonny Olson by Dean via noagela.blogspot.com

I met this kid named Jonny Olsen when i was in high school. He skated for this cool skate shop in the valley called Oneeighteen (Paul Rodriguez rode for them too, when he was like 12). We would hang out and skate and go see bands play, then I moved out of my parents house with some friends to Hollywood, and he would come and stay with us and just hang out. I started a job at a vegan thai restaurant called Vegan Express (which was the FIRST of all the vegan thai places in Los Angeles, all the other places stole the same basic recipes, I used to have bands play there and well, that is a whole other story) and soon after I got Jonny a job there too. Jonny fell in love with Thai culture through the restaurant, I mean everything about it, the food, the clothes, the language, the girls and the music, especially the music. He went one year to visit and came back with a wooden flute type instrument called a Khaen and played it literally every minute of every day when he wasn’t working or sleeping. Then he moved to Thailand to study the instrument and was gone for about two years. He came back and was pretty much a pro, he recorded a record out there, started a project called Master BAJ (Bad Ass Jonny) and soon he went back to live in Thailand and then Laos. In the last two years or so Jonny has become a huge success in Thailand and Laos and performs for thousands of people over there, he is a Pop Star.

[Above] are some of his videos that are very unique and crazy and mind blowing and just, i don’t really know how to describe them, you just have to see them, this is beyond next level heaviness, beyond beyond even!

Mika Miko - I Got A Lot (New New New)

A fantastic video directed by Lana Kim and Randy Randall. The vinyl version of Mika Miko’s latest record “We Be Xuxa” is currently sold out but a colored vinyl reup is coming soon. CD’s are available, check with PPM often.

Shhh, a quick picture I took when they were setting up for the shoot.

A friend of mine just sent over this Daddy Cool video saying how its his favorite right now. I had to look them up cause I had never heard of them. I had heard of “Daddy Cool” by 70s Pop / Disco German star Boney M. though. Then I found out that 1950s Doo Wop group The Rays also had a song called “Daddy Cool” and that Daddy Cool named their band after it. Finally, Placebo and Peaches have both done covers of Boney M’s “Daddy Cool”.

So there you go, I guess we have a Daddy Cool shootout.