the reality tunnel

** HELP US CELEBRATE OUR 1 YR ANNIVERSARY WITH THIS AWESOME SHOW **

Saturday, March 3rd @ 8pm @ Landlocked Music - $5 - ALL-AGES!

Charalambides (Kranky)
- http://www.wholly-other.com/
- http://www.kranky.net/
Primordial Undermind (ex-Crystallized Movements, Vienna, Austria)
- http://www.myspace.com/primordialundermind
The Ten Thousand Things (Bloomingtopia)
- http://myspace.com/things10thousand

To say that the words “unique” and “singular” are over-used in describing
music is to state the obvious. To apply these words to the sounds created
by the various duo/trio configurations of the Texas group Charalambides
over the last decade plus would be understatement. To be sure there are
numerous antecedents to their music; to deny this of any artist’s work
would be akin to saying that they are deaf. But they have surely broken
new ground in the primitive / folk / mystic / improv / psych valley in
which they toil. As Marcus Boon wrote in The Wire; “…here is a truly
21st century experimental ethnic music that explores quietness and
stasis… in the same way that musicians in the second half of the 20th
century discovered amplification, noise and speed.”

Primordial Undermind is led by ex-Crystalized Movements guitarist Eric
Arn. Active for more than a decade in different forms and in different
cities. Dark, spiritual, yin-and-yang paisley… These aren’t just
burnouts playing loud, distorted psych. They’re paranoid burnouts playing
loud, distorted psych. Behold the swirling madness and tranquility. From
streams of molten electric guitar sputtering geysers of fluid ectoplasm
into the air, to high desert country influenced elements left to blister
and bleach in the sun… so utterly gorgeous in places it’s like a long
view of paradise.

The Ten Thousand Things is a common phrase found in Taoist and Buddhist
writings to connote the material diversity of the universe. It represents
the dynamic interconnection and simultaneous unity and diversity of
everything in the universe. Lao Tzu, for example, writes in the Tao Te
Ching:
Tao produced the One. / The One produced the two.
The two produced the three. / And the three produced the ten
thousand things.
The Ten Thousand Things is also the pen-name for Wes Covey. He is a kind
soul who is into finger-picked guitar loops, drones and eastern
instrumentation. This will be his debut performance so please be kind.

MP3:
Charalambides - Spring -
http://www.brainwashed.com/common/sounds/mp3/charalambides-spring.mp3
Primordial Undermind - Akaknow -
http://www.latinobuggerveil.com/ejmp3s/Akaknow.mp3

We stayed in a hotel last night, under really random circumstances.  A friend of friends from DC was at the show.  She had recently moved to Las Creces to work as a union organizer doing community and university outreach in an attempt to improve wages and working conditions for workers at the state university in New Mexico.  The union had put her up in a local hotel and she shared it with us.  She was telling us a little about the work that she did and how she had encountered something called colonias, which are exploitative real estate sold largely to immigrants that are totally without hookups to electrical, water, and sewer grids.  The first thing I found was this FAQ by the Texas state government that describes more about Colonias.

Who: The IU Progressive Librarian’s Guild hosts a
What: Free screening of the documentary “Race: The Power of an Illusion” –
What is this thing we call ‘race’? Where’d the idea come from? What are
the patterns of human variation? And if race isn’t biological, what is
it? How do our social institutions ‘make’ race?
When: Thursday, February 22nd, 7PM
Where: Wylie Hall, Room 005

We will be showing two parts of this documentary series:

“The Story We Tell” — uncovers the roots of the race concept in North
America, the 19th century science that legitimated it, and how it came
to be held so fiercely in the western imagination. The episode is an
eye-opening tale of how race served to rationalize, even justify,
American social inequalities as “natural.”

“The House We Live In” — asks, If race is not biology, what is it?
This episode uncovers how race resides not in nature but in politics,
economics and culture. It reveals how our social institutions “make”
race by disproportionately channeling resources, power, status and
wealth to white people.

See http://www.pbs.org/race for more information about these films!

“By far the best documentary series on race of the last decade.” –
Troy Duster, former president, American Sociological Association

We will be hosting our first poetry slam of the year at 7pm in the
IMUG. Starbucks has helped us out with a cash prize. This slam is open
to anyone feeling the need to bless the Bloomington hip hop masses with
their creativity. Please come early to register (6:30ish).

We will be hosting our first poetry slam of the year at 7pm in the
IMUG. Starbucks has helped us out with a cash prize. This slam is open
to anyone feeling the need to bless the Bloomington hip hop masses with
their creativity. Please come early to register (6:30ish).

Hip Hop Congress teams up with Union Board for this Black History Month
Speech from famed author and former Editor of the Source. Kitwana has
written several books about race and hip hop, was involved with the
“Bible of Hip Hop” during it’s Golden years, and is currently involved
in his own lecture series.