Saturday, June 13, 2009

Thursday, June 11, 2009

Tuesday, June 09, 2009

Tuesday, June 02, 2009

Artomatic June 6 at 9pm 2nd floor stage




YES! ROCK AND ROLL CAN SAVE US! YES!
we have come to testify: YES, WE BELIEVE IN ROCK AND ROLL! we've come to TAKE ROCK BACK from the IVY LEAGUE SLUMMERS and the BROOKLYN VEGAN TRUST FUND KIDS! we're TAKING IT BACK from FOX TELEVISION, AT&T, WALMART, LIVE NATION, GOLDMAN SACHS, and CHINA! we're TAKING IT BACK so we can GIVE IT TO YOU! because WE KNOW YOU ROCK! and SO DO WE! COME TO ARTOMATIC ON SATURDAY JUNE 6TH ON THE SECOND FLOOR AT 9PM obetrol


Wednesday, May 27, 2009

Billy Name and The Mole People



It wouldn't have been The Factory without Billy Name. Billy Name was the pragmatist. He did the silk screens. He put the foil up on the walls. He painted the bathroom silver (he lived in the bathroom for over a year).


The cover of the Velvet's second album (White Light / White Heat) is a photo that Billy took of a tattoo on a biker's arm. The cover looks black, but it's actually a really low exposure photo (this was Lou's idea)

Next Saturday night we're gonna Give the Kids What They Want. And they want the Green Fuzz. They like it Chopped and Dropped. You know, You Have This Strange Effect On Me... And I Like It. And that's because the Kingdom of Heaven is Within You. I mean, I'm not from Brooklyn, I'm not from Queens. Know what I mean?



Monday, May 25, 2009

Sunday, May 17, 2009

Friday, May 15, 2009

STICK ENEMIES IN FRONT OF DAYTIME T.V.

HEREWITH annual May missive message from I, Mark E. Smith
on this day of celebration/reformation:

ANOTHER year has passed - rapidly for some, too slowly for I,
one-legged yet again.
And yet, things re: The Fall improve, our new label, although young, are coping just about with 'The Fall".
Yea, in a Castleford studio built on gravel the group cracked down some odd things.
The main concern to avoid the much-ripped off already 'Imperial'.
Our next record will be something that scum like that choke on.
We will not be playing 'I.O.W.' 'FEST' either but will play the Mojo sick-trio.

STICK ENEMIES IN FRONT OF DAYTIME T.V.
AVOID GERMAN-BERT'S MOCK ART EXHIBITION IN L.S.W.

I love you all but i cannot embrace you all/
-As of last year,
your dearest pal-

MARK E. SMITH
for 'The Fall'
2009

As I type this in the swirling gales of consequence I wish you, my pals, all the very best.
MAY THEIR INSIDIOUS RAPPINGS DISINTEGRATE INTO THE FOREGROUND

Monday, May 11, 2009

Dream


Last night I dreamed my laptop was soaked in water. I tipped it and water drained out. I thought "I have to let this dry out before I use it".

This morning a friend sent this photo to me. No text, just the photo.

Sunday, April 26, 2009

San Francisco

My first day in SF. Morning walk to City Lights Books. A pilgrimage. Bought Frank O'Hara's Lunch Poems, William Carlos Williams Paterson. Then $4 dim sum at a place where the menu was all Chinese. Ridiculous hills, low rumble of the cable car cables, ocean smell, Tenderloin panhandlers in the California sunshine. Why weren't you satisfied with this, Jack Kerouac?

Friday, April 03, 2009

Wish You Were Here

Dear Dad-
It's raining today, just like it was a year ago when you died. Last night I parked on the same street I parked on a year ago, that night when I got the phone call from Brendan and stood on the steps of a rowhouse in the rain. I passed that house last night and it gave me the chills.

I've learned a lot since that night. I've learned that when you say goodbye to someone, it might be the last time you ever see them. I've learned that much of life is sound and fury, signifying nothing. And that death don't have no mercy in this land.

I have plenty to be grateful for but I wish you were here.

Wendell Jones
July 21, 1937-April 3, 2008

Monday, March 30, 2009

Friday, March 20, 2009

Spring Fever

The White House gets a garden!