One path leads to despair and utter hopelessness,
the other to total extinction.

Let us pray that we have the wisdom to choose correctly.

SPAZ Brunch
returns
as an outdo' potluck renegade.

10:23 - 3:23
show up early

* Bouncy Castle
* BBQ
* DOUBLE DUTCH
* S.P.A.Z. Soundsystem
with Spukkin' Faceship; Dave Synth; Mega-Bitch; and someone whose spoken name requires (or causes) auto-disembowelment.

...at our new beachfront property in SF:
"Tire Beach," where 24th Street meets the Bay. Click here for directions

Bring food (cooked or not), beverages, dancin' shoes, slingshots...

If someone could bring a MAYPOLE & a goat it would be great.

PANdemonium (Satyr-demonium?)

March 22nd-28th 2008

Free D.I.Y. Campout/Music Festival

Location: Camp One Jackson State Park, California
(http://www.noyopacific.com/camponejacksonstate.html)

Friday, July 27th, follow the Critical Mass Soundsystem to the end of the ride...

At this super-secret location, there will be food and drinks provided (but bring yr own to share too!), a bigger soundsystem, and some special performances.... and it's all FREE !

* The Sprockettes are on a PacNW Tour and will put on their show and performance (They're a bicycle dance troupe from Portland, look 'em up if you don't know em already)

*Cyclecide Rodeo Productions will present a special routine entitled "The Nutstrippers" !!!

* thee Grand Medicine Show ov Liars and Thieves Family Style Shivs 
and Tonic Company

* More D.J.'s than you can shake a broken spoke at.... including but not limited to Killsbury Deadboy, Binnie, Spukkin Faceship, Oddio Dysentery, Deadpedal, and Uncle Ouija. (More TBA)

This Renegade will start early and big! So don't be late! And this party can go all nite for those hardcore enuf to handle it!

For those who don't already know, the C.M. bike ride will start at Justin 'Pee-Wee' Hermann Plaza at about 6:PM... come and enjoy the fun. If you for some strange reason don't have a bike, then call 1-800-HUM-NUMB or 510-BAD-SMUT the afternoon of the event, and info will be posted.

atop my favorite coffee shop. houston, tx

This paper was originally presented by tobias v as an informal talk at the Rebelstar Activist Retreat, Crescent Beach, BC, Canada on November 26th, 2001. (http://www.shrumtribe.com/text/musikalresistance01.htm)

Musikal Resistance: A Short History (I)

History.

Rave Culture began at the juncture of several political social movements.

i) Jamaican Dub Soundsystem Culture of the 70s/80s
ii) UK Traveller Culture (ex-hippies); Punks; New Agers; also a centuries old tradition of Carnival on the Common Lands
iii) Austin, Texas, 1986: the impact of Ecstasy
iv) Continuation of Chicago Disco into house music; the rise of gay culture and the Funk Movement
v) Detroit: the artistic-social backlash to the failed modernist city-project resulted in Detroit techno and rap.
vi) The late 80s in the UK saw the rise of Acid House music (Chicago house with a 303 overtop, the combining of Chicago dance culture with UK rebellion), which took on new social importance due to its context: “dj’ed,” on turntables, mixed by djs with pitch controls (this is a new thing!), in illegal spaces: occupations of warehouses, farmlands, public and private spaces.

In the UK and in North America, the theories of anarchist Hakim Bey came into prominence. Bey was highly influenced by French theorists Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari, who were active as radical professors during the May 68 revolution in France. Bey took the theories of Deleuze and Guattari, along with a bunch of others including Fourier, William Burroughs, and many anarchists, and turned them into two main (for the point of this lecture) practical ideas.

A Big Hang-over
Life on this planet isn't as agreeable as it could be. Something obviously went wrong on spaceship Earth, but what? Maybe it was a fundamental mistake when nature (or whatever it was) came up with the idea "Man." Why should an animal walk on two feet and start thinking?

[From The Temporary Autonomous Zone, ontological Anarchy, Poetic Terrorism by Hakim Bey]

 THE CONCEPT OF THE TAZ arises first out of a critique of Revolution, and an appreciation of the Insurrection. The former labels the latter a failure; but for us uprising represents a far more interesting possibility, from the standard of a psychology of liberation, than all the "successful" revolutions of bourgeoisie, communists, fascists, etc.

The second generating force behind the TAZ springs from the historical development I call "the closure of the map." The last bit of Earth unclaimed by any nation-state was eaten up in 1899. Ours is the first century without terra incognita, without a frontier. Nationality is the highest principle of world governance--not one speck of rock in the South Seas can be left open, not one remote valley, not even the Moon and planets. This is the apotheosis of "territorial gangsterism." Not one square inch of Earth goes unpoliced or untaxed...in theory.