We are the heretics and the hysterical.
Halloween is our holiday.

Below are thirteen opportunities to live out loud.

Friday:
1| Charlottesville : 10pm : Free
2| Critical Mass : 7pm : Free
3| Time Up! Halloween : 9pm : $5
4| BassBot : Pumpkin Pie : 8pm : $20
5| MotherF*cker : At Roxy : 10pm : $20

Saturday:
1| Black Label Bike Kill : 12pm : Free
2| Cynth-O-Matic : 1pm to 5pm : Free
3| Thomas Beale :: Honey Space : 8pm : Free
4| Rubulad : Blood Feast! : 10pm : $10
5| The Start of Gypsy Fest

Sunday:
1| Penumbra : Secret : Free
2| The Warriors : 10pm : $15

Halloween Night:
1| The Ash Masquerade

Friday |__________________________

1| Charlottesville : Free
This Friday, on the eve of the eve of the eve of Halloween
ComplacentNation and Brooklyn Media Lab brings:

Charlottesville

A masquerade mash-up of southern decadence and Yankee doodle.
Featuring Mason-Dixon specialty drinks and live brass and
electro beats. At the Crime Lab of the ComplacentNation,
nestled in a dark corner of Dumbo, Brooklyn.
Public invites are extremely limited. Ask for an invite at:
http://www.complacent.org/charlottesville

2| Critical Mass
The age old tradition of taking over the streets on two
wheels comes to its culmination with the ultra-festive
Halloween ride. Costume your bike and yourself and meet at
Union Sq., Washington Sq. or Tompkins Sq. at 7pm sharp. The
best costume wins a “get out of jail free” card.

3| Time Up! : Halloween Party
Times Up is hosting an after party for the end of the
Critical Mass ride. Donate $5 or more at the door and get
music from Rude Mechanical Orchestra and DJ Suggested D. 49
East Houston St. @ Mott. from 9pm through late.

4| BassBot : Pumpkin Pie
This Halloween event features a huge slate of dj’s ranging
from techno to drum & bass including our new favorite, DJ
Courage. It’s at 69 West 14th St. 8pm through 4am. ($20)
Details: http://www.bassbot.net

5| Motherf*cker : Halloween Whore
If you like to spend money ($20 cover), MF! is hosting their
annual Halloween party at Roxy. 515 W 18th St. The music
will be good, the crowd will be fun and the drinks will have
you saying “Motherf*cker! That’s expensive!”
Details: http://www.motherfuckernyc.com/

Saturday |__________________________

1| Black Label Bike Kill
Guerilla bike bludgeoning at its best, the annual Bike Kill
features tall bike jousting, two wheel orgy, a dirty
mattress and an elegant mix of cheap liquor and good natured
violence. We like it rough.
Details:
http://www.freenyc.net/archives/2005/10/bike_kill_05.html

2| Cynth-O-Matic
We met Cynthia von Buhler a few years ago on the streets of
the Meat Packing district and became a massive fan of her
kinetic sculpture. Saturday is the last day of her latest
show and is worth a visit if you like human detritus and
coin mechanisms.
Details: http://cvbspace.com/art_gallery/

3| Thomas Beale :: Honey Space
Our close friend and astonishingly talented wood artist
brings this sculpture show opening/Halloween party at the
Tucker Robbins Gallery in LIC. Dj’s provide dance music,
Micky Western and The Jugtown pirates provide the Vermont
back-woods-funk. Plus exquisite woodland costumes by C-Spot
Designs. The show is free and so are drinks but you *must*
bring a piece of natural found wood in order to be admitted.
Directions and details: http://tuckerrobbins.com/beale/

4| Rubulad : Blood Feast!
A costume frenzy, featuring Luminescent Orchestrii, Haunted
Pussy, Repoman, Dj Shakey, Jason BK and many many others.
Probably the most fun you will have this weekend. Come in
costume or don’t come at all.
10pm, $10 at 338 Flushing Ave. Brooklyn.
Map and directions at: http://www.complacent.org/rubuladmap/

5| The Start of Gypsy Fest
If you like fiddles, accordions and mustached men, you’ll
love gypsy fest. NYC has an exploding gypsy music scene and
this festival features that talent along with others flown
in from across the planet. There are a dozen events in a
dozen venues, all loud, reckless and drunky.
Details: http://www.nygypsyfest.com/

Sunday |__________________________

1| Penumbra : Free : 3am till way later
This party is a secret. All I can tell you is have a
costume and be at one of the events above and you might find
an invite. Music featuring dub, lounge, electro, beefy
beats and hip-hop in a beautiful Brooklyn space.

2| The Warriors @ Supreme Trading
The old school New York gangland film epic is being relived
Sunday at Supreme Trading. Dress as your favorite gang and
come out and play. With Afrika Bambaataa, Tim Sweeny and
Dan Selzer. 213 N. 8th St. Williamsburg. $15 with RSVP to
warriorshalloween@yahoo.com

Monday |__________________________

1| The Ash Masquerade
Have you felt it? Our nation is cursed. From the second
hurricane to the second war to the fall of the second tower,
our nation is cursed with fiasco. We have only seconds left.

October 31st, we save ourselves.

We’ve constructed four demon effigies representing the
curses that plague this nation: greed, patriarchy,
complacency and the mass-media-whore. These demons will
do battle. These demons will control you. These demons
will be excised, in the street through a renegade ritual
following the parade.

Expect music and monkey chants, fire and brimstone,
brown-bag-liquor and back-pack-beats, plus surprises we
can’t mention. To be a part of this ritual, or to watch
the street spectacle after the parade visit our website
for full details:

http://www.concreterituals.com/

or call: (212) 502-7970 or (212) 696 8999
after 7pm on Halloween night.

1| TwoThousand Moments of Silence
2| To the Freedom Fighter, Rosa Parks
3| Tonight: Ash Masquerade Meet @ Bar 13 7pm

1 |________________________________

The Iraq war has now claimed the lives of 2,000 American soldiers along with tens of thousands of innocent civilians and tragic injury to countless others.

The horrific scale of this debacle has already been made clear and we won’t press the point here. But at this morbid milestone take a moment of silence and ask yourself, “How can I live with integrity within a nation gone awry?”

The American Friends Service Committee & United for Peace and Justice are listing six hundred community vigils to mark this occasion.

Details:
http://www.afsc.org/2000/

2 |_______________________________

To Rosa Parks,

Your visionary strength has inspired millions. Thank you for fighting for the freedoms that I try not to take for
granted. Your life is one shining answer to the question of how to live with integrity within a nation gone awry. Rest in peace.

- William Etundi Jr.
Complacent Nation

If you don’t know the full history of who Rosa Parks was and the movement she sparked, refresh your knowledge here:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosa_Parks

3 |_______________________________

A Reminder:
7pm - 9pm Tonight come to Bar 13 to be a part of:

The Ash Masquerade

Halloween - New York City - A Renegade Parade. Be a part of a night of fire and brimstone and elaborate walking effigies. We bring the battling tribes, brown-bag-liquor, big brass bands and back-pack stereos. You bring the nefarious energy, your elaborate costume and others like you.

To parade with us on the 31st come to our artist meeting where we will go over the plan of action, performance aspects, costumes and the big surprise at the end. This is less a meeting and more of a pre-performance party.

Everyone is welcome, regardless of experience.

Come to:
Bar Thirteen : 35 East 13th St. @ University Place
Wednesday, October 26th : 7pm to 9pm

Details:
http://www.concreterituals.com

Come late if you need to.
Two for one drink specials, just for us.

Details on the actual event for the 31st
will be made public later in the week.

To the Danger Makers,
You are invited to join The Concrete Rituals.
www.ConcreteRituals.com

You probably already know this, but we’re fucked. It’s not
the type of fucked that can be fixed by voting, blogging,
protesting, donating, or drinking until delirious. We’ve
tried all that. We’re still fucked. This goes deeper.

Our nation is cursed.

It all became clear after the second hurricane hit, after
the second war erupted, after the second tower fell. It all
became clear in the path of the H2, in the glare of the
Jackson trial, in the face of the new Pope. It all became
clear in the seconds after the second election. We are a
nation crumbling under the curse of fiasco. Despite many
attempts to turn it around we continue to fail fantastically.
So now it’s time to try something wildly different.

Welcome to the Concrete Rituals.

>From Halloween Night to Fat Tuesday we will be hosting one
hundred twenty one nights of art, ritual and wild abandon to
lift the fiasco from this cursed nation. These rituals will
be tiny and vast, sincere and preposterous, beautiful and
drastic and all in the streets. Anyone can create a ritual
and we hope everyone will.

This is how we save ourselves.

The start of this is obvious. Halloween. New York City. A
Renegade Parade. A night of fire and brimstone and
elaborate walking effigies. We bring the battling tribes,
brown-bag-liquor, big brass bands and back-pack stereos.
You bring the nefarious energy, your elaborate costume and
others like you.

Our first ritual will be:
The Ash Masquerade, October 31st

This is not just a party, or a passive night of performance
watching. You are invited to be with us, in the NYC
Halloween parade and on to an undisclosed after-location.
You are the artstar and the street is your stage.

For the artist call see:
www.ConcreteRituals.com

To parade with us come to our artist meeting where we will
go over the plan of action, performance aspects, costumes
and the big surprise at the end. This is less a meeting and
more of a pre-performance party.

Everyone is welcome, regardless of experience.

Come to:
Bar Thirteen : 35 East 13th St. @ University Place
Wednesday, October 26th : 7pm to 9pm

Come late if you need to.
Two for one drink specials, just for us.

More details on this project will be posted next week.
You are the danger makers and this is your era.