Wednesday, January 16, 2008

Gang of Souls



GANG OF SOULS: A GENERATION OF BEAT POETS
"GANG OF SOULS (1989) is Maria Beatty's engaging documentary exploring the insights and influences of the American Beat Poets. The film conveys their consciousness and sensibility through candid interviews with William Burroughs, Allen Ginsberg, Diane Di Prima, among others. Designed as a tribute to them and to their spirit of artistic freedom, Gang of Souls also weaves in additional commentary from contemporary musicians, poets and writers such as Marianne Faithfull, Richard Hell, Lydia Lunch and Henry Rollins. The film seeks to truly capture the magic of the Beat generation and it's continuing legacy. It brilliantly expands upon how the poets reached new levels of creativity and inspired unprecedented social change." This sixty minute documentary (Bleu) is due out March 18th.

SUGGESTED RETAIL DVD: $19.95








Face the Book: Guardian article

This was posted by Jeff Triano on Facebook.
Tom Hodgkinson The Guardian, Monday January 14 2008
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"This article appeared in the Guardian on Monday January 14 2008 on p6 of the G2 comment & features section.
It was last updated at 09:36 on January 16 2008. The following correction was printed in the Guardian's Corrections and clarifications column, Wednesday January 16 2008.

"The US intelligence community's enthusiasm for hi-tech innovation after 9/11 and the creation of In-Q-Tel, its venture capital fund, in 1999 were anachronistically linked in the article below. Since 9/11 happened in 2001 it could not have led to the setting up of In-Q-Tel two years earlier.

"I despise Facebook. This enormously successful American business describes itself as "a social utility that connects you with the people around you". But hang on. Why on God's earth would I need a computer to connect with the people around me? Why should my relationships be mediated through the imagination of a bunch of supergeeks in California? What was wrong with the pub?

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Monday, January 14, 2008

DEERHOOF, FAUN FABLES

DEERHOOF AND THE LOVELY FAUN FABLES
GRACE PETALUMA'S PHOENIX THEATER
ON FEBRUARY 23RD AT 8PM.
TICKETS ARE A MERE TWELVE DOLLARS,
IN ADVANCE OR AT THE DOOR.

http: //www.phoenixtheatre.com

DEERHOOF AND FAUN FABLES FEB 23 AT PHOENIX THEATER PETALUMA

Post Script

"Reason, or the ratio of all we have already known, is not the same that it shall be when we know more." --William Blake