I’m out in the PAC NW this week, hanging out at the Olympia Film Festival and doing some talks. My 2001 Super 8 film, NOSTALGIA, will be showing at the festival Sunday, November 10 at 4:00 PM as part of a series of International Film Shorts presented by The Rachel Corrie Foundation. http://olympiafilmsociety.org/international-experimental-shorts-presented-by-rachel-corrie-foundation/ It stars [...]
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I’m excited to finally be playing music in my new home, NYC, and am lucky to be in this band with two badasses, Gaylen (from BEER GARDEN/DIRTY MARQUEE) and Leanna from Chattanooga’s legendary TWAT SAUCE. We are called EXTRA FEELER and have been playing out a bunch. We recorded a demo a couple weeks [...]
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Folks have been writing to ask, “I heard you, like, joined Black Flag or something? WTF?!?” At last the full story can be told! I hitchhiked to Taylor, Texas with a bass guitar to persuade Greg Ginn to let me try out for Black Flag. You can read about it here in the April issue [...]
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I get nervous when the number of bands I am in drops below 5 or 6 so I have joined a new band here in Brooklyn with Gaylen (ex-Beer Garden/Dirty Marquee) and Leanna from Chatanooga’s legendary TWAT SAUCE. We are called EXTRA FEELER and are playing with SHELLSHAG and TREPANNING this Saturday, Feb 16 at [...]
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[poster by Mike Taylor] Scam #9/ Monkey Vision Release Party! Wayfarer’s Gallery, 1109 Dekalb Ave. Myrtle/Broadway J Tuesday, Dec. 18th, 8pm Free! We’re stoked to announce the dual release of Erick Lyle’s Scam #9 and Mike Taylor’s new Monkey Vision comic. To celebrate in this season of celebration, we’re going to join forces with [...]
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If you’re a reader of this site and happen to be around Japan this coming week, please do come and say hi. I will be giving several talks in Japan. (If you read Japanese, this might help you find the events.) What I know of the itinerary is this: Dec 2 Nagonuma (rural Hokkaido) [...]
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As part of Barry McGee‘s current retrospective at Berkeley Museum, I will be appearing October 19 to talk about my life in underground publishing. I’ll try to chart a course from SCAM #1 through Turd-Filled Donut to Streetopia in 30 minutes. Come wish me luck… or check out the great band following me, TITS, featuring [...]
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To celebrate the release of SCAM #9: THE STORY OF BLACK FLAG’S DAMAGED I will be making some appearances on the West Coast this coming week. First, I will go to Olympia to read at one of my favorite venues of all, the Olympia Timberland Public Library. I will be giving a slide show and [...]
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Here at last is the long awaited new issue of SCAM, the story of the making of my favorite record ever, Black Flag’s classic first LP, Damaged. Based on an expanded version of a story I wrote for the LA Weekly last winter to celebrate the record’s 30th anniversary, the zine includes primary interviews with [...]
If you happen to be around the Pacific Northwest this week, my new band, KNIFE IN THE EYE, will be playing some of our first shows, to kick off my summer vacation. Come celebrate the 21st anniversary of the release of SCAM #1 (and some other holiday) with us on July 4th in Portland, or [...]
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