approximate infinite daydream

Thanks to everyone who came to the primer event and helped to make it a huge success!  If you missed it no worries, we still have some books left and well have a .pdf for all the nerds up soon too.

Also a note: the show in Kutztown PA has been canceled. But not to worry, a new show in PA is being organized right now, details TBA soon.

Don’t miss the next show at the BMA May 29th.

VLOND (formerly Bear & Pieces)

Comeback Ranch

Jared Paolini

details here 

BRING YOU TICONDEROGA PENCILS!!

“In 1972 I was in the south of France. I had eaten some bad fish and was in consequence rather ill. As I lay in bed I had a strange recurring vision, there, before me, was a concrete building like a hotel or council block. I could see into the rooms, each of which was continually scanned by an electronic eye. In the rooms were people, everyone of them preoccupied. In one room a person was looking into a mirror and in another a couple were making love but lovelessly, in a third a composer was listening to music through earphones. Around him there were banks of electronic equipment. But all was silence. Like everyone in his place he had been neutralized, made grey and anonymous. The scene was for me one of ordered desolation. It was as if I were looking into a place which had no heart. Next day when I felt better, I was on the beach sunbathing and suddenly a poem popped into my head. It started out ‘I am the proprietor of the Penguin Cafe, I will tell you things at random’ and it went on about how the quality of randomness, spontaneity, surprise, unexpectedness and irrationality in our lives is a very precious thing. And if you suppress that to have a nice orderly life, you kill off what’s most important. Whereas in the Penguin Cafe your unconscious can just be. It’s acceptable there, and that’s how everybody is. There is an acceptance there that has to do with living the present with no fear in ourselves” 

-Simon Jeffres (of Penguin Café Orchestra)

“Exotica is ultramodern even as it makes a fetish of the archaic. You can have your cake and eat it too, harnessing the powers of modernity to escape from it. The excitement of escape merges with the excitement of the present moment that permits it. Exotica offers the ground for imagined escape, but it is at the same time the ground under our own feet, the un- known breaking into the known, appearing suddenly and strangely in its midst.”

-Phil Ford from Taboo:Time and Belief in Exotica