This just fell in my mailbox:
Don’t miss another excellent opportunity to catch your
local circus punk marching band at the Hideout (1354
W. Wabansia Ave.) this Wednesday, March 29th. All
the big nerds in town will be there. The music starts
around 10pm. We’re looking forward to it, and hope
you are as well.
Mucca Pazza –
File under: Punk Circus Marching Band
Or: Nerd-Core
See slide trombones, marching drums, accordions and other romantic icons wielded by musicians with the purpose of making music, instigating spontaneous dancing, loss of bladder control, and horn honking. You may find it sexy if you like uniforms or anything dork-ass.
http://www.mucca-pazza.org
http://www.myspace.com/muccapazza
Get your teeny tiny polkadot bikini out and’ get jiggy with it and
‘T.H.O.N.G’s BioBurlesque
(Butts, Boobs and Bio-ethics)’
$15 bucks cash money at the door
where: YOGA NOW 742 N. LaSalle st.
when: Friday March 31st doors open 8:30pm, show starts 9:30pm
More info and nice photo at the T.H.O.N.G. website
Sometimes you just have to test some new software on the old content management system.
- sometimes it works
- sometimes it works well
- sometimes it doesn’t
Sometimes it does all sorts of wack shit.
The Pilsen Photo Group will be having a mid run opening Tonight from 6pm till 11pm at the Mercury Cafe.
The Mercury Cafe
1505 w. Chicago
Chicago il 60622
The show will running through the 31st.
Viewing Hours:
Monday – Friday 7am-9pm
Saturday 9am-8pm
Sunday 9am-6pm
UPDATE:
(The ironcoder package that included FFMinator is no longer available. Harrington is now selling a product called MondoMouse that provides raise-on-mouse and some focus-on-mouse functions like resize)
It’s actually autoraise on mouseover, which is almost as good. Get it here, get the true story of the Iron Coder contest that generated it here. It’s no where near what i want for OS X but it works as a stop gap. If you hover your mouse over a portion of a window, it raises it to the top (ok, ok, and gives it focus, IE makes it ready for input be it mouse or keyboard). Without FFMinator you’ve got to click on the window to raise it and get focus in OS X. No this isn’t for everyone, as a matter of fact it’s almost suicidal on a twelve inch laptop screen, but if you need it, yo know who you are…
What I really want is either the timing control for focus and raise i had in Linux (focus followed mouse instantly, auto raise had a lag=great for typing in terminals that were partially obscured, a trick I lifted from Ben) or the system that was availible in one version of Win95 with the powertools add on (where autoraise only happened when you hovered on the windows title bar, letting you deftly sort windows). At the least it should support partial seconds for the twitch reflexed among us.
Damn it, OS X is almost 6 years old! Where’s the real Focus/raise tools? Has Aqua killed the X Windows star?
So while John congratulates himself on being named an almost tenable Internet Global Microbrand by the guy who first codified the concept (Yeah, John), and I kick myself for missing Dave and La Band Sans Fin yet again, this marching band plays the Skylark without even putting a flyer in the vestibule to announce the show. No one at the Lark could even tell me their name, resorting to “stutter mumble murfle” followed by “they’re a marching band”. Think of them as your well above average everyday AfroArabianCryptoCaribean performance artists and ecstatic purveyors of James Brownian motion Mariachi-nated in Klezmer Cartoon themes with Hearts of Beef and just a hint of Zappa, all served up in real fiber free post modern self cooking satire shell, and lavishly garnished with thrift-store marching-band uniforms and a dollop of cheerleaders. They totally fucking rocked.
(Prog Rock isn’t dead, you just have to dress up funny, make fun of your chops, throw in a bunch of dance moves to your theatrics, graft the whole mess on top of some pre or post rock genre and VOILA! You’re Hip! This isn’t necessarily negative criticism of the band (they were great), it is endemic of all the new prog rock that I’ve seen in the past year or so. Most of the new bands did poor screen scrapes of the Residents, or throw a dance beat under everything they do.)
40 minutes after they played I finally got their name: Mucca Pazza (italian for mad cow). Check out their mp3’s, but be warned, they don’t do the band justice, the mad colliding dynamics of the various units matching, posing and dancing don’t come through. Check them out at the Hideout on the 29th.
(Oh yeah, they bill themselves as “Astounding Circus Punk Marching Band” instead of “prog rock ethnic fusion.” They’re still great.)
Somewhere in here there was a moral about self promotion, but I forgot it.
Continue reading ‘Got Mucca Pazza?’
Well no. But John Unger did inspire a piece by Visual Resistance now in the Whitney Biennial:
Several months back, John Unger proposed an open-source art project called American Guernica. The idea was to put Picasso’s painting on billboards throught the US as a protest against the current wars being waged by the US. While billboard space is probably out of our range, working on this Whitney installation has gotten VR folks talking about using Guernica images on the street in New York. If you’re interested, drop us a line. I’d especially like to talk to talented graphic designers who can transform some of the figures into ready-to-cut stencil templates using Illustrator.
Published by ffej March 2, 2006
in Blog.
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