Holidays are over for Paris, LA nevertheless our logic is to entertain as much as we can the idea of liberty and pleasure . So here is miscellaneous great stuff P/LA’s  friends distilled while we were away. We though it’d be nice to share it to keep the holiday spirit alive while going back to work!

 

Love always,

–dp

 

 

(photo via in light of tomorrow)

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LISTENING TO MY TROUBLE MIND

 

The Gaslamp Killer

My Troubled Mind EP

[Brainfeeder, 2009]

1. Intro A
2. Anything Worse
3. Turk Mex
4. Intro B
5. Baiafro
6. Ruskie Electric
7. Birthday Music

My Troubled Mind ultimately portrays the eccentricity and multiple personalities of the wildest DJ in Los Angeles. Raw drum breaks glide over the deep sample palette of GLK’s prestigious world psych/funk collection, making the My Troubled Mind EP a true voyage into sound. The Gaslamp Killer experiments with freak-out sound effects and analog delays, married with analog synth lines provided by close friend and collaborator Computer Jay. The result is a truly remarkable audio experience, meshing perfectly with the unclassifiable sonic aesthetic of Brainfeeder. –Kevin Marques Moo (alphapuprecords.com)

 

 

 

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READING THE COMING INSURRECTION

 

 

 

The Invisible Committee

The Coming Insurrection

[semiotext(e), 2009]

 

“It’s useless to wait—for a breakthrough, for the revolution, the nuclear apocalypse or a social movement. To go on waiting is madness. The catastrophe is not coming, it is here. We are already situated within the collapse of a civilization. It is within this reality the me must choose sides.”

 

The Coming Insurrection is an eloquent call to arms arising from the recent waves of social contestation in France and Europe. Written by the anonymous Invisible Committee in the vein of Guy Debord—and with comparable elegance—it has been proclaimed a manual for terrorism by the French government (who recently arrested its alleged authors). One of its members more adequately described the group as “the name given to a collective voice bent on denouncing contemporary cynicism and reality.” The Coming Insurrection is a strategic prescription for an emergent war-machine to “spread anarchy and live communism.”

 

 

 

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SEEING HELLO GOODBYE THANK YOU, AGAIN

 

 

 

HELLO GOODBYE THANK YOU, AGAIN

Richard Artschwager, Belgium, Johnny Cash, elles, Hans-Peter Feldmann, Wojciech Gilewicz, David Hammons, Bertrand Lavier, George Lois, Gustav Metzger, Oscar Tuazon, Josip Vanista, B. Wurtz, Klaus Wyborny

A group show currated by Anthony Huberman at castillo/corrales

65 rue Rebéval, Paris 20

from August 10 to September 26, 2009

 

There was another exhibition like this one two years ago, and there will be another one two years from now, and then again two years after that, and so on. Like a biennial. It is a biennial. And always with the same curator, like Muenster, kind of.

 

nb: The gallery will be closed from Friday, August 14, to Wednesday, September 2

 

 

 

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WISHING HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO OOGA BOOGA

 

 

Ooga Booga — the only store in LA offering a perculiar selection of books, zines, clothes, art and music, and founded by the genius Wendy Yao — happened to turn five during the summer!!!

 

HAPPY BIRTHDAY OOGA BOOGA & LONG LIFE TO YOU!!!!