Can you DIG IT if you know it’s real?
SOURCE: comicsbeat.com
COMICS: PHILOSOPHY AND PRACTICE
While many noteworthy comics events are taking place this weekend, the not notable—and perhaps the most notable in recent comics history—is taking place at the University of Chicago’s new $114 million Reva and David Logan Center for the Arts: the Comics: Philosophy and Practice symposium organized by Hilary Chute. The lineup?
Lynda Barry, Alison Bechdel, Ivan Brunetti, Charles Burns, Daniel Clowes, R. Crumb, Phoebe Gloeckner, Justin Green, Ben Katchor, Aline Kominsky-Crumb, Francoise Mouly, Gary Panter, Joe Sacco, Seth, Art Spiegelman, Carol Tyler, and Chris Ware
Sob, sob. Everyone. (Except the Hernandez Bros., but then someone had to be left behind in case there was an earthquake, just like the Secretary of Agriculture.)
The Chicago Tribune has a preview that engenders even more sobs about missing out:The rock scene had Woodstock. The jazz world famously gathered on the steps of a Harlem brownstone in 1958 for Esquire photographer Art Kane. In the 1920s, New York literati met at the Algonquin Round Table.
“It feels historic,” Bechdel said. “I realize how grandiose that might sound to someone who doesn’t know much about comics, but that’s the word that keeps coming to me. The whole thing just blows my mind.”
“It feels like a once-in-a-lifetime gathering of an entire art form,” said Paul Hornschemeier, a young, Evanston-based alternative cartoonist and illustrator acclaimed for his graphic novels. “I’m just not sure when they were putting it together if they realized how much genius they assembled. That hall only fits, what, 500?”
As the story notes, it fits only 474 people.
BUTYAY the internet makes all things possible and the sessions will be live streamed! And hopefully archived for history. Not archived, the epic coffee breaks and dinner talk. Seriously, had we known this was taking place we would have ditched C2E2 (not that we don’t love you, C2E2) and gone to this. But instead we’ll just be glued to our livestreaming webcasts and the many reports of epic epicness doubtless to come.
BTW did we mention the event is FREE to attend (but long sold out)? God bless academia and educational grants.
Hanging out with Little Dragon on a sunny California afternoon (Taken with instagram)
MY EARS ARE NOT READY FOR THIS
Bernie
Directed by Richard Linklater
2011
Saw this on a whim after director Robert Downey, Sr. recommended it in a Q&A session I went to. Didn’t see the trailer, didn’t know anything about it, didn’t even know it was a Linklater film. It was great, though. Recommended if you’re a fan of Christopher Guest type movies.
A bit late on this, but I came across these photos of my grandmother as a young lady in the Philippines. She passed away last January from cancer but was a strong woman and I would like to remember her in this light. You’re appreciated, moms!
also this is happening next week (Taken with instagram)
Brattle gets it
Tom Wilson, BIFF from Back to the Future gets asked a lot of questions. So he wrote a card that he can give out that answers them all.
Via /Film
Coffee Break For Heroes & Villains Vol. 21: MCA Tribute
Tracklist:
1. Interview (1987)
2. Transit Cop (Demo from Tim Sommer’s “Noise the Show”) (1981)
3. Cooky Puss (1983)
4. Hold It Now, Hit It (World Premiere on Mr. Magic’s Rap Attack on WBLS) (1986) (Thank you Will C.)
5. So What’cha Want (IDF Promo / Israeli Defence Force radio station) (1995)
6. Jimmy James (1992)
7. ?uestlove (The Roots) on The Beastie Boys @ Rock Hall 2012 Inductions
8. Party’s Getting Rough (snippet) (1985)
9. Beastie Groove (1985)
10. Super Disco Breakin’ (1998)
11. Sure Shot (1994)
12. Soba Violence (Aglio e Olio Japanese bonus) (1995)
13. Skills To Pay The Bills (b-side) (1992)
14. Sucker MC’s feat. Doug E. Fresh from Hip Hop Honors (2004)
15. Something’s Got To Give (1992)
16. Mr. Magic’s Rap Attack on WBLS intro (1986 / 87)
17. Slow And Low (1986)
18. Four Fly Guys feat. The Beastie Boys - Hurricane (1994)
19. The Vibes (b-side) (1994)
20. Resolution Time (b-side) (1994)
21. Interview May 1998 in Lisbon
22. Egg Man (1989)
23. Egg Raid On Mojo (1982)
24. Drum Machine - MCA And Burzootie (1985)
25. Dope Little Song (b-side) (1994)
26. The Rat Cage (2007)
27. Interview May 1998 in Lisbon
28. Bodhisattva Vow (1994)
29. Ask For Janice (1989)
30. Full Clout aka Shake Your Rump (demo) (1988?)
31. So What ‘Cha Want (Soul Assassin Remix feat B-Real) (1992)
32. Interview May 1998 in Lisbon
33. Scenario (demo) - This is their Schoolly D tribute.
34. Interview May 1998 in Lisbon
35. Shambala (1994)
36. Get It Together (A.B.A. Remix) feat. Q-Tip (1994)
37. I’m Down (Unreleased Licensed To Ill sessions) (1986)
38. I Don’t Know feat. Miho Hatori of Cibo Matto (1998)
(via Ego Trip)
A Tribe Called Kitten - Midnight Meowrauders. (The 100th Kitten Cover!)
(Source: fyeahkikomizuhara, via zmikol-deactivated20120609)
These Are Powerful Hours
Great approach to a timeless game of debauchery and time keeping. These Are Powerful Hours is your one stop source for hours of eclectic power hour mixes we all crave, but are too drunk to compile. Let the hours begin.
thanks sway
Hate to hype up something I haven’t seen yet, but this photo is single-handedly making me want to see the new Harmony Korine movie. Propers to them for shooting it in the Tampa/St. Pete area, too.
James Franco as Alien with Brit (Ashley Benson) and Candy (Vanessa Hudgens).
(Source: springbreakersfilm)
TIME FOR LIVIN’
In light of MCA/Adam Yauch’s career, this weekend make sure to not only fight for your right to party, but also responsibly fight for peace, independent cinema, and the current state of the New York Knicks.
