— Ohh so nice listening to “modem radio” Live from the new Tijuana Media Lab, and a friend is sending us relic tracks from one of our favorite Praha bands/musicians Naceva circa 2001, “Mole V.” is asking us thru chat if we can send some of those german work pants (huh??) to SF… meanwhile we’re looking for some fresh ostblok tracks to send to TJ, and here we are babbling on FB… “Syraenia” texts that she flies back to Mexico from Munich 2morrw, and we’re thinking she could be listening to modem radio and should meet the cybercholitos in DF, but don’t know if she has access to a “bio-port” currently… meanwhile sending info to a shadow puppet compa (who once staged a recent Skinny Puppies revival tour with magnificent Balinese-style goblin backdrops) in LAlaland – the capital of the Military Entertainmet Complex – about the rockin rapper Puppetmastaz playing a Btown show ( 13.

((( ))) One of the 12th Jihvala doc festival themes this year is about going beneath the surface, a way of using film to x-ray, penetrate or unveil its subjects and reveal their (often hidden and/or dangerous) contents… Much material for one of our key angles for XLt analysis: humans caught and transformed in the scanner of the mass media frenzy… For us, as we develop new themes and tactical responses to its often fragmenting, disfiguring and disembodying assault… (((

If ever there was a rhizome ready to sprout everywhere… THE REALLY REALLY FREE MARKET, ready for DIY franchising NOW !! Try ONE in YOur Neighborhood TODAY !!! … And if you live near DOLORES PARK… Btw: anybody checking the hits on RRFM at wikipedia?? Bet this one’s gonna explode over the next weeks… Spread […]

:: In Riga:: > 16-25.10 > (RIXC’s) ART+COMMUNICATION 2008 Spectropia : X International festival for new media culture :: In Praha:: > 22-24.10 > CIANT Gallery’s RESET Vol.1 – “Open Spectrum” + Evolutionary Nights :: In Jihlava :: > 24-29.10 > The Jihlava International Documentary Film Festival :: In Berlin:: > 25.10 > Freigeist -KurzfilmFestival in Offene Uni Berlin > 25.10 > Grand Opening of Czentrifuga silkscreen studio/gallery (Fleischerei crew) > 25.10 > Cargo Cult in L.u.x with Eat Prunes (Es)+ djs Hanuman and Mr Dread

cont… Note: 2nite’s the final night of Globale fest and Moviemento Kino’s been quite a nice spot to mix with the thinking global peeps… Final program tonight includes “Finally We Got The News”, “Drum Beats Detroit II” ( montage of text, musik, and film in collaboration with Labor B ), and Boom: The Sound Of Eviction by SF’s Whispered Media. XLt analysis : From “We are Winning” to “What Would it Mean to Win?” to … Oliver Ressler and Zanny Begg’s film “What Would It Mean To Win?

Two great events happening this week in Berlin : Kreuztanbul, which began on monday ( 13-17.10 ), and Globale 08 Film Festival starting 2nite ( 15.10-21.10 ) !!! … Xlt reports coming soon…. Added: 17.10 : Mercen Dede aka dj Arkin Allen, the master ethnotronic-fusionist from Istanbul/Montreal plays TONIGHT at SO36 also with the band Ayyuka … for the closing party of Kreutzanbul…Don’t MISS IT ! _ _ _ Globale Film Festival Highlights: While there’s always a broad range of issues at Globale 08 – now in its 7th year – from Migration, G8 and Protest, Feeding the World, Gentrification + Lifestyle Apartheid… There aren’t many Doc festivals that can put a focus on Labor issues which does not then become a very specialized interest for those highly dedicated people who strategize against the sausage-making day-to-day of life in the exploitative grinds and traps and precarities.

Warning: This is not an endorsement for Any prezidential puppet/monster show. - – - And well to be fair and balanced, we feel it would be necessary to provide these links to the latest news item regarding the “Palin Pilot”. And here’s Part 1 made some year(s?) ago: “Bush Pilot“. Both with eng. subtitles. _ _ _ We were about to do an in-depth analysis on TACTICAL voting as a follow-up to our piece on Ground Noise and Static ( below) but maybe it will suffice to say:

Orwell’s dystopian scenarios have simultaneously become both a ubiquitous cliche and a gross understatement; the new technological landscape has perhaps become Big Brother’s ultimate wet dream. Citizens willfully participate in their own surveillable trails and profiles via cubicled labor often disguised as daily ritual leisure and entertainment. Now obsessive – compulsive knowledge-as-power and immediate connectedness to everywhere and nowhere is also a direct feed * to state and corporate eyes + controls, as if a sudden metamorphosis of television’s virtualizing scars became overnight a tattoo and bar code parasite upon the inner and outer mind, private and public and industrial spheres.

Stills from Submedia Tv + Pepperspray Productions’ NEW Film “Ground Noise And Static” ” Either the Crumbs or the Batons are on the table for the new democratic process, depending on where you stand. Not surprisingly the gloves are off… Not between those four spineless politico pimps (you see twaddling about on tv and around the net), but between our future and the last relics of that foul electoral charade.” psychomedia analyst through the telepresent glass darkly — The Republicrat Dating Game

:: Coming Soon :: :: 2nite! :: 4.10 > Creole Musik Wettbewerb in der Werkstatt der Kulturen mit Romenca, Polkaholix und dj Yuriy Gurzhi ( Rotfront + Russendisco) 4.10 > Vernissage von Leonard Konopelski – Plakate, Pigasus Gallery (more here) 4.10 > BalkanBeats mit Robert Soko in Pavillion im Volkspark Friedrichshain :: those days ahead :: 11.10 > Freiheit Statt Angst/Freedom Not Fear – International Day Of Action mit Radio 1984 – covering LiVE from Berlin 11.10 > AK Kraak Nr.

[ UK Guardian’s Steve Bell ] You know those bad dreams where the really horrible part starts to loop in slow motion… Yep, they really are so desperate they’re gonna try and steal $700 billion twice in broad daylight! WAKE UP! This is more than just a bad dream! They are trying to pitch it like SOMETHING Has To Be Done, and yeah, something has to be done… they’ve left an 8 fucking yearlong mess, but the answers could range from anything from sending Paulson - “the Sachman” - and his Washington Wall Street crony crew out into the Pacific in a dingy without a paddle and a dozen cans of tuna fish until they find the island Elba or Alcatraz … to setting up a real rescue plan that involves restructuring the world’s most suspicious and volatile enterprise with safeguards against crackheads with yachts and calculators and dim NeoCon bulbs.

Kirsten Brydum 1983-2008 To honor Kirsten’s work on the waking dream of a Really Really Free Market, we hope the parallels and analysis below will give courage to any and all to see that those who attempt to prolong the atrocities of Wall Street ( -run politics) must be held accountable otherwise they will continue to be in our faces with extraordinarily idiotic, self-serving and vicious demands that have very real and immediate impacts on neighborhoods from the 9th Ward to Sadr City to Juarez to your backyard.