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I leave Washington DC in just 10 days to relocate to Portland, OR.
I'm starting to get choked up, thinking about all of my friends here, all of the people I love. My stomping grounds, my watering holes, my sacred places.
Breathing heavy, heart pounding.
These moments are amplified as I watch the sand drop through the hourglass.
I'm taking myself, everything I've built, everything I've become, and planting it somewhere new in the hopes that I will continue to grow stronger and be nurtured.
I want to wrap my arms around DC and kiss it on the forehead.
I'll breathe my last goodbyes into the Chesapeake air over the next week.
Then it is time to be delivered into this brave new world I've chosen
and bloom brightly.
| Start Time: | Friday, July 3, 2009 at 8:00pm |
| End Time: | Saturday, July 4, 2009 at 12:00am |
| Location: | First Floor (Electric Stage) |
| Street: | 55 M Street, SE |
| City/Town: | Washington, DC |
Come prove that DCers DO dance!
DJ lineup includes:
Beatnik Betty (Bethany Moore)
Stitch n Eye-V (Endy Mageto & Elina Clavelli)
Mistake The Sauce (Ajay Gupta)
ShamWow
DJ cAPSLOCK (Chris Walke)
special guest appearance by the ghost of DJ Amitai
DOOMLAUT is an revolutionary fashion and music cult founded after members of the Vienna Actionist League of Anti-Fascist Higher Evolutionaries were deported to arts-and-crafts re-education camps by the Von Trapp family in Great Night Club Purge of 616 (as related in the recently unearthed deleted scenes of the anti-burlesque propaganda film, "The Sound of Music"). Members are known for their identical clothing and their mass marriage to each other in the largest recorded act of public bigamy, as well as occasional stretches in prison.
They have infiltrated the highest levels of the government and the lowest levels of youth culture, promising to unravel capitalist space-time and construct vast Cabaret Temples on the ashes of collapsed banks. Federal agents suspect them of having orchestrated the recent Greek anarchist riots as well as the fabrication of charges of assaulting a prostitute against government informant Boy George.
They should be considered armed and fashionable and approached with caution and dancing.
Friends and Lovers
September 20 natives may have a large circle of friends but trust only those closest to them. They are highly sexual but never let this trait dominate. Rather, they appreciate the partnership of a marriage that goes beyond sexual attraction. They make every effort to keep a committed relationship exciting.
Career and Finances
September 20 people are career-oriented and may train for many years to perfect their professional skills. They have no problem adhering to the ritual of repetition. People born on this date can operate on a tight budget but want more than a regular salary provides.
Dreams and Goals
People born on this date often put their plans into action early. They see achievement as a long process. September 20 men and women show amazing single-mindedness about goals. They will gladly sacrifice their social lives, and even their personal lives, in order to make their dreams come true.
Uranus is the oddball of the solar system. For starters, it rolls along its side -- on its equator -- instead of spinning upright in its orbit the way planets typically do. Uranus is also in retrograde for more than half of the year. This means it is only direct for two weeks, and is retrograde for about five months out of every Earth year.
Astrologically, Uranus liberates you from the shackles of convention and applies pressure to change whatever is stagnant in your life. Uranus rules electromagnetic energy and is like a lightning storm that creates chaos as it cleans the air, revealing a fresh new world once the storm has cleared.
But when Uranus is retrograde, expect the unexpected. Wonderful and startling surprises are very possible. This retrograde may set your wild side free, or it could make a notoriously outgoing person uncharacteristically shy.
To know exactly what to expect, review the placement of Uranus in your birth chart. If Uranus is direct in a chart, intuitive and inventive impulses flow on a regular basis. However, when Uranus is retrograde in a birth chart, rebellious urges tend to bottle up and then burst forth, seemingly out of nowhere. A retrograde period seems to reawaken freedom urges within individuals, causing them to suddenly and unconsciously rebel against any ruts or confinement in life. Is Uranus retrograde in your birth chart? Should you be on guard against your own rebellious tendencies in the following months to come?
-- astrology.com
I gave some back issues of 'Nylon' magazine to the 16 year old girl that lives in the 1st floor apartment upstairs so she and her friends can look through them for the fashion and music. I played mentor and 'big sister' to her a few times over the last few months of living in this house. She would sometimes come knock on my apartment door, asking for a tarot card reading, or if I knew how to help her get back into her apartment after locking herself out and forgetting the keys. She's a sweet girl growing up in a tough world. She wants to be a fashion designer when she grows up. I told her she can design my red carpet wardrobe when I become famous.
I go through ups and downs of confidence and fear. Excitement and anxiety. Am I making the right decision? It is a feeling, a calling, an unignorable urge to go to the Northwest and establish my roots there. We are living in tough times, in a confusing recession, and I am letting go of the life I built in DC, which I felt has both rewarded me and wore me down, and re-root somewhere that feels more nourishing, despite a tough economy.
I'm afraid, but so many people reassure me that it is a journey that I will not regret. For every naysayer, I find 10x more encouragement, kindness, generosity, and open-arms from the Portland community as I reach out to bridge my journey across this country over the next three weeks. Though they say jobs are hard to come by in Portland right now, I have received some professional career interest, tips, and advice from many solid people I've reached out to either in person or over the internet. They tell me that I will be able to make it work, that it might take a little while and I may have to pull some not-so-great part-time jobs together for the first couple of months if that full-time position doesn't pan out right away, and that I will not only survive, but THRIVE, in my new home.
This is a huge undertaking. Its taking every bit of courage that ever existed in my being.
I pray that the Universe take care of me, protect me, and lead me where I am destined to go.
I'm psyched for my relocation. Packing the truck up and leaving July 15. Should arrive in PDX around July 20.
Now heading into its ninth year, the Washington DC chapter of the ACF has expanded the scope of the festival to include electro-acoustic compositions, free jazz, noise rock, electronic drone and experimental folk, as well as live video and film programs, presented year round.
The festival puts out a fancy-schmancy program, which folds out into about the size of The City Paper.
I'm charged with coordinating the adspace sales, which are as follows:
backcover -- $200.
full page -- $100
half -- $75
quarter-- $50
Interested in promoting your band, business, artwork, restaurant, etc?
Please email me at bethany.aradia@gmail.com to coordinate.
I can also share more detailed mock-up/spec information.
Sonic Circuits is a 501c3 nonprofit.
and how spiritual it is
wtf
I'm troubled in my heart by the bitterness I will be leaving behind here, however.
Betrayal. Abuse. Backstabbing. Lost hopes. Forgotten ideals. Broken promises.
Friendships gone wrong. Lovers became insane. Heroes turned corrupt.
I salvaged and healed all that I could. I found the strength to let go of things I could not.
I became the scapegoat in some situations. I play that role well, I suppose, although not willingly.
Whatever you are scared of, intimidated by, whatever makes you nervous and unsettled,
it is easy to project on to me. It is easy to hate me for things that I have nothing to do with.
It is easy to twist my face, words, actions, into something other than they are.
It is easy to use me as the dartboard for which all can toss their mental debris.
I want others to have a clear mind as much if not more than they do,
but I never thought I would be a martyr for the cause this way.
I never thought I would be the cursed one to carry the sins and fears of everyone to lighten their burden.
I gave myself freely, and I understand my role as a catalyst in this world, whether I asked for the part or not.
But still, the weight is heavy as I try to carry all of your hatred on my back.
It is a long haul out West where I will start anew.
I will carry this burden over fields, deserts, and mountains,
and I will unload it into the rivers of Oregon,
I will unload it into the ocean where the saltwater will heal.
I carry this burden as far as I can, for you, because I loved you,
and even as you hate me, I carry the weight, I accept my fate.
- Music:Moratorium :: Alanis Morissette
http://thesegentlemen.blogspot.com/2009/0
After my performance with Dead Violets at Queering Sound Fest, held at Pyramid Atlantic on Saturday evening, I scooted down the street to my friend Meg's birthday gathering in her apartment. I brought my Tarot Cards by her request and ended up giving readings to several people at her party. As it turns out, two of those I gave readings to are from the above-mentioned blogger team.
The readings made such an impression on them, they blogged about the evening.
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| Date: | Saturday, June 6, 2009 |
| Time: | 7:00pm - 10:00pm |
| Location: | Pyramid Atlantic |
| Street: | 8230 Georgia Avenue |
| City/Town: | Silver Spring, MD |
Compact discs, recordings, publications and other merchandise from contributors will be available for sale.
Admission is $5.00 each night and available at the door. Doors open 30 minutes before performance.
Pyramid Atlantic is located a three blocks south of the Silver Spring Metro (Red Line); Gated parking is available for free in front of the building. Please enter on Ripley Street, side entrance.
SATURDAY, JUNE 6 _ PERFORMERS + DIGITAL CONTRIBUTORS
BLK w/ BEAR is a full-band effort of JS Adams [prepared vinyl + turntables + loops], Doug Poplin [cello + effects] and PD Sexton [bass + source electronics + effects]. Audio performances include both temporal turntable installations and laptop compositions utilizing forced looping technique of altered vinyl recordings and media decay, along with manipulated voice synthesis, looped cello and bass guitar, and deconstructive turntablism. BLK w/ BEAR recordings have accompanied film/video projects in NYC and London, as well as BBC television programming. Selections from the internationally-acclaimed Wish for a World without Hurt collaboration with London's Rothko were used in the Discovery's Channel's Emmy-nominated The Flight that Fought Back production; the film was also broadcast in the UK, Russia, Japan and Germany. BLK w/ BEAR's newest recordings include the LDWR.net free download planned for the 2009 Long Division with Remainders’ 14 versions of the same EP box set collection; Ultra-red’s What is the sound of the war on the poor? advocacy project; and Trace Recordings’ TEN compilation.
VJ POPPINS aka Renee Shaw is an installation and performance artist who embraces the phenomenon of synaesthesia. Drawing from archival footage, VJ Poppins manipulates video output through live, spontaneous editing. Like a DJ, she scratches through multiple layers of moving images searching for that perfect mix to create visual juxtapositions and non-linear narratives. VJ Poppins believes identity is a mix of visuals, narratives, genders, complex codes, data and race, commercial and institutional information. VJ Poppins is interested in the intersections of cultural synchronism between personal and communal narratives, identity, and experiences; performance is an attempt to synthesize a community of diverse interests and enthusiasms in this canonical and hierarchical world in which cultures are meshed. She borrows from everywhere trying to form new adjacencies, claiming new mixes, and forging new identities that are not fixed.
DEAD VIOLETS is a noise behemoth, a drone core juggernaut, an ominous transatlantic storm cloud, a black as bile, three headed beast. Dead Violets is Jeffrey Surak, Bethany Moore and Sweden’s Thomas Ekelund (Dead Letters Spell Out Dead Words). For Queering Sound, Dead Violets will be a duo of Surak (noises) and Moore (voice + sound poetry). Surak (aka Violet) is a veteran experimenter from Washington, D.C. Since the early 1980s, he has explored the netherworld between improvisation and composition to create something between the two auditory realms of experimental music. He has also contributed to the soundtrack for Bruce La Bruce's queer zombie film, Otto: Or, Up With Dead People. Bethany Moore has been writing poetry, stories, and songs since early childhood. A practicing Wiccan for many years, she enjoys using her voice and words to convey her observations and experiences. Much of her work explores issues of human despair, spiritual journeying and emotional analysis.
GRAPEFRUIT EXPERIMENT is a semi-open music project with Carey Sargent and Wendy Hsu as core members [2/3 of Pinko Communoids and founding members of HzCollective]. Wendy works with electric guitar and accordion, preparing them with found objects such as alligator clips, paper clips, and clothespins, and playing them with effect pedals, bows, brushes, mallets, and other percussive objects. Carey is a percussive noise maker, encouraging tones to rise and sing from wood, metal, skin and plastics that are more used to being struck.
ELITE BARBARIAN is the work of Benjamin Page. Selections from his album, It's only when you get to the end that it all makes sense [Front and Follow], are set to video for Queering Sound. Moving between static moods and beat-waves, from reflective abstraction to moments of searing intensity, this record is the result of improvisations using hardware synths and samplers. Ben is also half of Rocket Number 9 with his brother Tom, whom are both part of innovative London instrumentalists, Rothko.
NICK LOPATA lives in lovely Takoma Park, Maryland. He has been creating and editing video for Blowoff, the popular deejay event thrown by Bob Mould and Richard Morel at Washington DC's 9:30 club, and now hosted in NYC, San Francisco, Provincetown, Atlanta and Chicago. Nick has created videos set to music by Elite Barbarian for this year's Queering Sound. In addition to his video work, Nick's other projects include photography, lighting design, and a local independent film, "The Saferoom."
click on the track called 'St Vitus Dance Avant Garde Remix'
listen to awesome remixedness ...
St. Vitus Dance is a Dead Violets track imported from Sweden and available only on cassette tape.
A friend picked up a copy at our show saturday night and remixed it with another file he found of my a capella singing voice.
sounds pretty neat. enjoy.
awww shucks i got a great recording of our performance saturday night sent to me.
chopping it up into 5 tracks now...
WHO WANTS TO HEAR?!?!?!?
thanks to all those who came out tonight.
i can't wait to see pictures & video, and hear the room recording as well.
w000000000t!
And this Saturday at Artomatic, the mutation will be complete and SLUG BAIT will amplify those frequencies for you to absorb. We are hot on the heels of discipline. We are very friendly. We would very much like to see you this Saturday at Artomatic and sing sweetly in your ear.
Details:
SONIC CIRCUITS SHOWCASE AT ARTOMATIC
SATURDAY MAY 30
4pm-1am
55 M Street SE, Washington DC
Artomatic (http://www.artomatic.org/) is a month-long multimedia arts event that draws together visual artists, musicians and performers and brings their work to the community. Artomatic is free and open to everyone. The event is being held in a building that is atop the Navy Yard Metro Station on Artomatic’s Cabaret Stage 2nd flr.
Summer is here, so why not wallow in despair? This will be the premiere performance of SLUG BAIT, and is scheduled to occur at midnight. But of course we advise you to enjoy the whole damned thing beginning at 4pm. The lineup includes:
Robert Blake Highway - Kingdom of Sharks - Sean Peoples - Layne Garrett - Dave Vosh/Logan Mitchell Sr
Nine Strings - Fast Forty - RDK - Soft Pieces - BLK w/ BEAR - Pilesar - The Angus Brainpan
Tone Ghosting - Twenty-first Century Chamber Ensemble - Second Land - Kuschty Rye Ergot - Slug Bait
...are you ready boys? .....are you ready girls?
poetry reading at 9pm,
then singing with Slug Bait in the Sonic Circuits installation at 12-midnight.
FREE SHOW! Come check it out.
55 M ST SE WASHINGTON DC; TAKE METRO - NAVY YARD, WEST ENTRANCE
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