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March 31, 2005
Strange Birth
SAJ2 photographic contributor Maud Larsson is currently displaying her haunting and beautiful photographs at The Grant Museum of Comparative Anatomy at UCL, Gower St, London, until 3rd May 2005.
The images are of specimens from the Grant collection and are displayed in situ. The museum itself is one of London's hidden treasures; a wonderful jumble of bone, hair and pickled flesh that retains the authentic whiff of its Victorian origins.
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March 30, 2005
SAJ2 Covers
Get a glimpse of our new cover:
Front image captured by Alison Gill.
Rear image found on the streets of Los Angeles by Doug Harvey.
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March 29, 2005
Frankenstein Now & Forever
Typocrat’s debut release, an English-language edition of Baladi’s Frankenstein Now and Forever, is out now in comic book stores across North America, and will be available to buy in the UK next Thursday.
A launch party will be held on Thursday - hope to see some UK people there.
Continue for more info
Launch party: Frankenstein Now and Forever
Next Thursday, March 31st, at:
The Horse Hospital,
Colonnade, Bloomsbury
London, WC1N 1HX
United Kingdom
Nearest tube: Russell Square, Piccadilly Line
Buses: 7, 59, 68, 91, 168, 188
7:30pm until late, Free entry
Books will be selling at a special discounted price and Alex Baladi will be
present and signing them.
Movies playing will include:
Thomas Edison’s short Frankenstein, dir. J. Searle Dawley, 1910
Andy Warhol’s Flesh For Frankenstein, dir. Paul Morrissey, 1973
Music will be supplied by Shackney Radio (South Hackney Institute of
Technology Radio):
www.southhackneyradio.co.uk
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March 25, 2005
Sauntering cephalopods!
A pair of bipedal octopi over at Nature journal. Be sure to view the films.
Via Gyrus
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March 24, 2005
Strange Attractor Journal Two
Finally, over a year after the first edition and following several days and very long nights of intensive labour from the SAJ crew, Journal Two is ready. It has been delivered to the printers - all 432 pages of it - and should be back in mid-April.
Alison Hutchinson and myself are very proud of this new edition: it's a monster alright, but we love it! Taking off where J1 ended, it leads us into some entirely new territory, while revisiting areas that may be familiar in surprising new ways.
The highlights are too numerous to mention, but it features work from both veteran authors and some who will be new to you. We travel from an18th century alchemical lab to the mountains of present day Nepal, via ancient Peru, Halifax and the remains of a ruined future London. En route we encounter charlatans and visonaries, poets, madmen, phantom assailants, fungal sentiences, voodoo priestesses, surrealists, fantasists and trickster deities. By the time you've digested it all we'll hopefully be ready with another one.
Because of the increased girth and resulting postage increases, the price has had to go up to £14 inc p&p, but I hope that you'll find this reasonable.
As before, the first 200 copies sold will be in beautiful collectors' editions, hand stamped and numbered by us. Unexpectedly I found an extra box of Journal One with collectors' covers, about 20. Now's the last chance you'll get to order one, please email me separately about these so that I can keep track of numbers.
There will be a launch event sometime in late April, details to be announced nearer the time.
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Info & Ordering
Features a full contents list and downloadable PDF samples
And when you've made the right decision, you can pre-order copies
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March 17, 2005
Mugged by Squid!
“They took his camera, his necklace, his dive computer and gave him some nice bites around the back of his neck...”
This from a fantastic article about the Humboldt squid at Monterey County Weekly
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March 13, 2005
Dreamflesh Journal call for submissions
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March 10, 2005
Homenaje: Madrid One Year On
On the 15th March 2005, Madrid, Spain will see the launch of its official "Homenaje", (Homage), CD Album, a tribute to the spirit and energy of the people who live in the city.
The music on the CD invites the listener to take a look and interpret the spirit of the city since 110304. The CD Album will be available to buy from the official Homenaje Madrid website as of 15.03.05.
The CD features artists including: Gintas K, Leafcutter John, Silvania, Francisco Lopez, Tim Hecker, Jansky Noise, Solypsis, Hamish Binns, Jaap Blonk, Wolfmangler, Rec_Overflow and many more.
url: http://www.110304.com.es
As an expat (Mancunican) living in Madrid this last year I was shocked by what went on, so I decided to make a Homage CD / Album dedicate to the people and the spirit of the City. On the CD I tried to pull all sorts of music in mostly from Spain but also by other nationals who live here and who were directly effected by what has happend in the City including the Bombings.
So finally this CD together contains field recordings of Madrid, local Punk, experimental and music concrete from the likes of Franscico Lopez and well many, many more, the CD is a snap-shot of the City and the last 12 months....
We are trying indirectly i.e outside of Spain to promote the Album for tomorrow 1 year after 11M, and wonder if you can help. The Homenaje CD will be in manufacture on the 15th March 2005, this is the first day after the official 3 days of mourning here in Madrid, we expect to have copies within about 2-3 weeks of this date, but we will start pre-selling the CD on our website as of the 15th
Tomorrow we have interviews on Radio in Madrid, and air-play on several Spanish stations, I'd appreciate it if you could mention the CD album today / tomorrow to anyone or on your web-pages, or if you know anyone in press or on radio please spread the word about the project to them!
The album is a double, with well over 120 min. electronic, punk, noise, and everything else inbetween, for euro 11.03 plus postage, i think this is deal no matter where you are!!!
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March 08, 2005
Theatre Of The Eternal Drone
from the Cube...
Cube Microplex, Bristol: 18.03.05
@ The Cube Microplex: Dove Street South, Bristol BS2 8JB.
with special guests Kosmische + The Amal Gamal Ensemble + Grok
8pm / £5
Enter the dream house! We'll take you by the hand through a world of minimilist mantras and galactic intervals, Velvet distortion and isolationist drones in a monumental evening of statis, film and live performance.
Tonight we're joined by London's legendary krautrock utopia, the KOSMISCHE CLUB, who'll man the decks with deep sound (NEU!, CAN, POPOL VUH, FAUST) from the outer reaches of the Kosmos.
They bring the notorious AMAL GAMAL ENSEMBLE in tow featuring Stephen Thrower (MATMOS / CYCLOBE / COIL), Dave Knight (ARKKON/LYDIA LUNCH) and Karl Blake (SHOCKHEADED PETERS) among its members, whose hypnotic and hermetic blend of wild improvisation, kraut rock and melody will transport you along the cosmic autobahn. Earlier in the evening GROK will be performing a live improvised soundtrack of drones, tones and arpeggiated motorisms.
Come drone with us.
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March 03, 2005
SAJ2 Flyers Online
We are now putting the finishing touches to Strange Attractor Journal Two, which will be available via this site from mid-April. We're still not ready to take advance orders,but shall be doing so in the next couple of weeks.
In the meantime flyers, featuring mould art found by Doug Harvey, will be circulating as of this weekend. If you live outside London, UK, and would be happy to distribute some for us as you go about your rounds, please get in touch via the usual channels.
As a special preview, you can view the rear artwork, for a full contents listing.
Please note that this is not the cover art; that can remain a surprise for you all!
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March 02, 2005
Mink Pelican vs Steeple Remove
Komsische show on Resonance FM 01.03.05
Man From Uranus * Medical Report
Chrome Hoof * Crystallisation Unit
Steeple Remove * Dans la Solitude des Grands Rayons Lumineux
Mother Sky (out take?) * Can
Robert Wyatt * Pigs
Psychic TV * Unclean
Butthole Surfers * Whirling Hall of Knives
Chrome Hoof * Nordic Curse
W Cleon Skonsen * LSD: Battle for the Mind (excerpts) diluted with:
Steeple Remove * Monster Movies
Steeple Remove * Vital Sassoon
Thai Elephant Orchestra * Ganesha Triumphant
Grok * Sickness
Man From Uranus vs Adrian Benson * Space Jewellery 3
Amon Duul * Love Is Peace
03.03.05 Steeple Remove play The Corsica Studios, 5 Elephant Rd, Elephant & Castle SE17, London, UK.
05.05.05 Chrome Hoof play Kosmsiche Klub at Barden's Boudoir, 38-44 Stoke Newington Rd, N16, London, UK.
07.05.05 Man from Uranus and Adrian Brodie (featuring guest Mink Pelican) play The Spitz at Spitalfields market, London, UK.
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Stimulating
Electrode implants in the brain have been shown to regulate depression, says
Forbes Magazine
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