Salem Collo-Julin

I’m feeling like the guy at 1:12 right now:

but it’s going to be okay.

Today, I will Stream of Consciousness post all day for my fiend Russell’s benefit & thought that others may like to see one side of our conversation in progress …

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JR, I can’t believe they allowed you to bring your computron with you. Is this some sort of spa experience that you were ashamed to be honest about? & what does it say about our friendship that you feel you would make more cool points with me by being at the Unlearning A Lifetime of Fun Program rather than by being at Canyon Hills Resting Spa Quarry for Lovely Ladies & Gentlemen? I mean, you are correct, but that is beside the point. Let’s make the most of it…S

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“This brief introductory letter may come to you as a big surprise, but I believe it is only a day that people meet and become great friends and business partners.” – spam

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I mean really explicit. (you should also check out Beer Can Hill’s interview series to give you insight on your new tattoo community!)

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“She also mentions a British Vogue feature on ‘new ways’ to carry your handbag (in your mouth? Up your butt?).“

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Cherry [my pet tortoise] is very much like my daughter; I’m very close with her. I’ve had her eight years. She’s not the brightest, but she knows me and we cuddle.  – Ron Jeremy

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Don’t even tell me we’re not going to rock! just help me build a playlist for a SLUDGE NIGHT. (ps we get to see these lovely ladies next week here in chgo, you should be jealous, mmhmm):

THE PACK A.D. (chgo readers contact me directly if you would like to go with, show is next monday night july 27 at that weird place across from tuman’s)

xox!

also I just loaded a crapload of photos onto my flickr page. but really, go read the gosh darned newsletter first. http://www.flickr.com/photos/hollohulo/

tupac!

Holy crap, you wouldn’t believe the arduous journey it took to bring you this newsletter. Please do me a favor and at least go read it, even if you can’t afford to buy anything right now. Jesus H, indeed.

Let’s Re-Make’s new book is available for free as a PDF. As always, if you have the dough, you should spread it around to your friends, but if you need some coaxing, check out the entry from the group Section 8. Yet of course another thing I’ll have to ask B&B about next time we’re all chatting — is there a group in the outer norrebro that is actively reading my mind and took the Cats & Ghosts project into a better direction? Well, good. Translation – I’m not the only one influenced by Louis Wain. Awesome.

Some optional events:

Monday 6/8, evening, enter the forest of blistering light and love with bands, performers, and excess hugs at No Coast. Here’s the fantasm of PR from the inbox –

FINGERS
Monday, June 8th 2009
7:30pm
at No Coast – 1500 W 17th St.

always limp-wristed, never backhanded

ANXIOUS TO TAKE YOU TO THE BACK ROOM GAY VAUDEVILLE OF YESTERYEAR, A VISION OF CAVES AND PARADISES WE HAVE IMAGINED INTO REALITY. WE BRING YOU A NIGHT OF PERFORMANCES IN THE STRUGGLE AND THE SPLENDOR OF QUEERTRANSFEMINIST BODIES, A RAINBOW OF HALLUCINATED AHISTORICAL REENACTMENT. OUR FINGERS ACT DEFTLY, SLIGHT OF HAND AND SLIGHT OF WEIGHT, SHADOW GAMES, PALMISTRY AND CARPAL FEELINGS. WE PRESENT A WHOLE SORDID SMORGASBORD OF INTUITIVE MAGICAL PRACTICE:

Dewayne Slightweight’s The Kinship Structure of Ferns, a 30-minute psychedelic solo opera with projected drawings, is a hermit’s inquiry into the nature of kinship and it’s collective hope and despair.

Edie Fake rises up for The Count, vampiric gay tales from the crypt. A recounting of what his unearthly life has been below. An account of the ghost rivers that run beneath us. A 20-minute countdown of our times together until all the night candlelight is burnt. Tabulation. Reiteration. Reincarnation.

Silky Shoemaker’s Arranging the Object is a gladhanded play (with video) about the terrible weight of loving, knowing, and holding it in your arms,with inspiration drawn from late night radio, ecstatic camp, and Lily Tomlin(!)

Owen Brightman does double duty, traveling lightly with two short pieces. Sado-Magical stages bondage escapism and rope tricks the finesse into knotty suspense. If your right leg should cause you to stumble is an harlequinade of stilted vignettes and gentle balance.

Scott Tankersley delves deep in Hark the Haunted Hallways!, a 20-minute sonic excursion into the glorious, hungry catacombs of the (butt)hole.

Joined at the wrist to the musical accompaniment of Jail, Vanessa and Megan, together as Learned Helplessness, a band, twangy and morose, out of tune. Pancake makeup.

TO YOU, FROM THESE FINGERS, A GIFT:
DIVINE EXTRAVAGANCE, SCENIC OVERLOOKING, FARCE, FANTASY, FANCY FACADE, CABARETS OF DECADENCE, CABINETS OF CURIOSITY, PASTICHE, REVELRY, OASIS, MIRAGE.
METOPIA, YOUTOPIA, WETOPIA.
YOU ARE IN GOOD HANDS!

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then later Monday night go to Danny’s for Peace Party night to benefit the Unlympics!

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& Tuesday — if you are free in the afternoon, you must come to the south side and see the fabulous ART LAND! 3–5 pm, Tues 6/9/09. in Sherman Park, most likely by 52nd & Loomis. Look for the cardboard cannons shooting out free t-shirts for kids, the R/Z=made tower of power, Miss Adams’ 4-foot all-seeing eyes, and M’s magic crazy clown boat that will scare the bejeezus out of all of the Sherman Park geese (voted #2 on last year’s Libby Art Club Bully Map of the neighborhood)

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& as always if you’re on my side of town, you’re welcome to stop by and check out the extreme home makeover in progress! R/Z/M/L & J (but a ton of work from M, yay) all toiled and troubled, boiled & bubbled on my apt while I was away. Still a couple of things to organize, but boy, did they work wonders. Bawling ensued, of course, no potato chip casserole necessary.

oh, these are the scars he will bear for life.

I’ve been too busy lately to poop out all kinds of uninformed nonsense here, but I will say:

The internet-based counters that supposedly keep track of my “listening habits” could never really get it right. My ears have been filled with the following all week:

“Into My Arms”, about 1 minute worth (by Nick Cave & a piano),

followed by as many versions of “Tin Soldier” by Small Faces as I can find on vinyl & web video (see previous post),

with a healthy dose of beeps and honks of Is It Spring Yet drivers,

sprinkled with a liberal dash of Pugs (or any other furry cute domesticated animal) Making Sounds With Their Mouths videos

boiling in an undercurrent of Hollohulo stomach-based belching.

Also I will need to throw a record playing party soon. Life is complicated & records are not.

thanks & that is all

i have too much work to do on every single project i’m involved in. but it’s ok. just need to make time to go hang out in situations “where you can get your goddamned bush stimulus already” (thanks to gentle correspondent #1 for that).

But it’s doubly OK because WE DON’T MAKE DISTINCTION OF PRIVILEGE BETWEEN ART & OTHER CREATIVE ENDEAVORS:

aah! bi bim bop! i love everybody and everything! snorketls!

Uno:

Dos:

We’re doing the FREE STORE again. Spread the word like hot butter on toast.

Everything is Coming to You
You Better Get Ready

The Free Store in PULLMAN

two afternoons of fun and free stuff!

More info: contact hollo hulo
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WHAT?

The Free Store is just that — a store where everything is absolutely free to take. It happens on an irregular basis (usually every few months or so) and travels to a variety of publicly accessible spots around Chicagoland.

Each store features stuff — everything from books and clothing to mechanical parts and cans of food — given to the organizers by people who didn’t need or want it anymore. Visitors can come and take anything they want. No reciprocation is expected. Visitors are also welcome to bring stuff to the store that they want to give away.

“The Free Store” (that’s our name, and you can use it too) is an ongoing project and traveling spectacle coordinated by artists Salem Collo-Julin, Melinda Fries, Zena Sakowski, and Rob Kelly. It’s our goal to host a free store in each neighborhood in the Chicagoland area, city and suburbs … someday. We’ve been at it for two years and we’re coming to you next.

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WHEN:
Come by and get your mom something nice!

Saturday, May 10, 2008 from Noon – 6 pm
Sunday, May 11, 2008 from Noon – 4 pm

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WHERE:

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WHAT’S GOING TO HAPPEN?

Feel free to bring stuff to give away.
Be prepared to take stuff home!

We already have furniture, clothes, shoes, books, music, and wooden water skis. Of course, it’s all first come, first served. But don’t fret! More stuff always arrives during the course of the store. You never know what will show up.

We’re going to have a BBQ going both afternoons so feel free to bring food/beverage to eat, drink, and share with others.
The Hotel site, which is under restoration, will be open for viewing during the Free Store.

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DIRECTIONS TO THE PULLMAN STATE HISTORIC SITE
and information about the neighborhood:
http://www.pullman-museum.org

The Pullman State Historic Site and Hotel Florence is located at 11111 South Forrestville.

Drivers:
The Pullman State Historic Site is easily accessible from Interstate 94, using either exit 66A (111th Street) or 66B (115th Street). Take a left before the viaduct – it’s a huge building, you can’t miss it! Parking is available on Forrestville in front of the Hotel and throughout the neighborhood.

By Public Transit:
The Metra Electric train stations at 111th Street and 115th Street are within a short walking distance. The Chicago South Shore and South Bend commuter rail also stops at the 115th Street station.
The Chicago Transit Authority (CTA) bus route #111 provides direct service to Pullman and connects with the CTA Red Line at 95th/Dan Ryan station.

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TO HELP: Best way to help us is to bring your own stuff down to Pullman on the day(s) of

and/or volunteer to be available to drive others home after their shopping is done.

If you have a car, truck, or van and strong bodies available for bringing pick-ups down to Pullman the week of the Free Store, or transporting others and their stuff back home, please contact us.

More Free Stores to follow this season. Please join us for the fun in Pullman!

Thanks to Erika Mikkalo, Shari Parker, and the Pullman State Historic Site for their help this round.