Sweet Nothings 580
Cat.: Uncategorized29. November 2005
1| Sweet Nothings
2| Aesthetic : Ash Masquerade : Nothing but Fire
3| Sedition : Reverend Billy : Buy Nothing
4| Decadence : Chimera : Friday : Pay Nothing
5| More Decadence : New Years Eve
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In the coming holiday season there is much to give thanks for: the candied yams, consumer riots, gregarious family, and spiked eggnog but it’s the sweet nothings that we savor the most.
At every moment possible step away from the fervor of Kris Kringle and Aunt Gladys, turn your head to the open night sky and be thankful for our context within the cosmos. We are simply sweet nothings and our time here is temporary. Thank your deity for that.
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Aesthetic : Ash Masquerade: The Video
On October 31st 2005, Complacent Nation and the Fiasco Crew brought the first of the Concrete Rituals to the streets of New York City. The event, The Ash Masquerade, roused souls in the dark warm night with a touch of fire, a dash of liquor and a heavy dose of ritualized riot.
It all started innocently enough: a street corner in Manhattan, costumed creatures and a dragon made of money. But as the procession began, the liquor poured, the fires started and the crowd began to grow wild. We ended on a forgotten block in the darkest corner of west Chelsea - a couple hundred souls and the chants that united us. This is when the ritual struck, the money burned and the night lit up with cathartic and riotous clamor.
See the video and images here:
http://www.complacent.org/ash
More to come?
Yes. Much more.
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Sedition : Reverend Billy : Buy Nothing Day
This holiday weekend Reverend Billy is continuing his consumerism exorcism. Join the annual BUY NOTHING DAY ACTION – We will tour the Devil Corporations starting from the Plaza Hotel at 5th Avenue and 57th Street, 12 Noon on Friday November 25th. Wear your marching shoes and bring a tambourine! Email bnd@Revbilly.com if you would like to be on the inside of this necessary interruption of the absurd, violent economy
Then on Sunday:
Buy Nothing Sunday Revival 2005
Sunday, November 27, 7PM
St. Mark’s-in-the-Bowery
131 East 10th Street, at 2nd Avenue
New York City, New York
$10 - no one turned away
Rev Blessing: “Back away, children, back away from the product! Got a hurricane in it! Got a war in it! You buy it and oh the Devil got you…” Reverend Billy and The Stop Shopping Gospel Choir, in their farewell worship before the month-long 5,000 mile Shopocalypse Tour.
Details: http://www.revbilly.com
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Some in our family of event makers have been discussing doing smaller free events in our houses and lofts. The party below is one of these. Expect good people, cheap drinks, shaking music in an intimate setting.
Chimera : Friday : Free
A life form consisting of two or more elements of different
genetic material.
presented by Nine90
Friday Nov. 25th
10pm through 6am
(yes, it’s free)
Two rooms of mixed and matched audio collaborations and hybrids, featuring - 3-way tag team genre mash sets by the pure fire crew: Criterion, Peter Gunn, Reagonomics vs. the Banned Beats Crew: Amok, Madaro, Driver plus DJ’s JasonBK, Chrome, CX Kidtronik. Expect techno to hip-hop to breakcore and more…
Laptop/Liveset/Live Instrument Room Featuring evolving cross-pollinated sound mutations by: Power Circus, The Daiquiri Umbrellas, MMe Dan Yell, SQE, Rhiannon and more…
bar by Miss Elixir featuring unusual homemade concoctions
@ NINE90
990 Bedford Avenue, corner of Dekalb
Bed-Sty, Brooklyn
closest train G @ Bedford/Nostrand
* Do not forward this invite out to other public lists. *
* Only bring the people you know and love. *
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Decadence Continued : New Years Eve
To be honest, we’ve never been a fan of New Years Eve. The night usually bunches together in this creeping desperation for love, hope and life change. Instead we usually find pathetic drunkenness and others clinging to the illusion of stumbling our way into a brighter future.
While I’d prefer to escape to some tropical island on that night, we find ourselves trapped in the city and determined to make something interesting happen. What that interesting thing is we are working on now and it’s shaping up nicely.
Keep posted to the Complacent Nation e-mail list for further details.