[ONGOING] BOX 20: Coded Secrets / FYEO
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Hi friends,
Take out your decoder rings. All info in this message is encoded to skirt various intelligences, flesh-born and artificial, while providing the crucial brain messages you need (and deserve) to bring your person/brain matter/clothing to various spaces in “Get Caught Reading Month,” aka “National Good Car-Keeping Month,” aka M-A-Y.
Mark your calendars now.
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On May X, be sure to purchase a book at Bottom Feeder Books at 6pm. While there, you will also see a film program.
Linguist, poet, and artist David Hanauer premieres a new short film, “The Holyland Project: A Physical Poem about the Sacred Body,” made with yrs truly and Bright Archives.
Also, I will screen two films. 1) I photographed every _____ I own, and I will show you them. 2) Excursions in Japan.
Erin Mallea, Robert Buncher, and Olga Yakimenko will also show wonderful work.
Not to be missed. Bonus: it will cost you nothing and it will mean everything to us.
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Two days later, descend to the Pittsburgh Cultural Trust’s secret bunker, The Peirce Studio, to see How Things Are (Brian Riordan and myself) open for the truly phenomenal Exceptet, a new music septet from NYC. Present $0 (or a donation of your choosing) and utter the password (“Hi, is this where the show is? ***** Oh, great. Downstairs? I’m looking forward to it. ***** What? I can’t take a beverage in here? Oh, no worries. ***** Thanks!”) to be let in.
The following text has been encoded so that only ethical entities can read it. Consider yourself blessed if you can make it out.
S e c r e t t i m e a n d l o c a t i o n :
Monday, May 12 at 7pm
Peirce Studio at the Trust Arts Education Center
805 Liberty Avenue, Pittsburgh, PA 15222
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Everything about America right now is a tough pill to swallow, including the Tough Pill music series, but only because America prizes broad word searches as policy.
Mambo dogface to the banana patch.
I can’t even tell you who else is playing this show, aside from How Things Are.
In its very truly great manners of Ludwig van Beethoven very heroically
Years from now, they’ll say, “You’d had to have been there.” But where? The Government Center on Thursday the Fifteenth at Eight P.M.
The donation is $10-15, but you will not be turned away for lack of funds. Music is enough.
An Admission of Guilt
Real talk. I’m not proud of this, but I released an album that I made with artificial intelligence. Of the record, a friend commented, “You need to listen to this wrathful golden throated bible crooner right now what hell hath David Bernabo wrought.” I’ve never known this friend to lie.
Narc’ing on Friends
A few friends are up to things.
John Miller, who co-directed Moundsville with me, hit #7 on the New York Times Nonfiction Best Sellers list for his book on Baltimore Orioles manager Earl Weaver.
Percussionist Tim Barnes is releasing two new recordings on his Quakebasket label, via Drag City. Four years ago, he was diagnosed with early onset Alzheimer’s, and these recordings, I believe, are from the last few years. Joining Tim are many of his friends, who also happen to be very good musicians, led by Ken (Bundy) Brown: Oren Ambarchi, Robert Carlos Lange, Douglas McCombs, Rob Mazurek, Jim O’Rourke, Chad Taylor, Thollem, among others. Tim’s been a big help in my creative life, hosting me thrice at his Dreamland venue in Louisville, introducing me to some of my favorite records, and always being one of the sweetest folks.
Currently reading S.H. Fernando Jr.’s The Chronicles of DOOM: Unraveling Rap's Masked Iconoclast while thinking about personas. Also, I’m a last minute addition to Experimental Guitar Night on Wednesday (two days from now) at Kingfly. 7:30. Be square.
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