DEVO, MONGOLOID, & RE/SEARCH...

Even when I am drowning in newsletters, PR, blog posts, and infojunk... even when I want to throw it all away and never email with anyone, ever, again...when I think I've wasted the entirety of my adult life (plus some of my youth and childhood) obsessing over small press and underground publication... even then, I read the RE/Search newsletter. I am reminded again why any of this matters to me. I am inspired by what people have done, are still doing, will do, in the realms of culture and media.

Plus it gives me that juicy little frisson of Bay Area old-school punk pagan industrial primitive goodness. You can take the girl out of the West Oakland warehouse, but ya can't take the West Oakland warehouse outta the girl, even when she moves back home to Oregon...

Anyway, back to the business at hand. This episode, RE/Search and friends were off celebrating the limited edition re-release of their seminal Industrial Culture Handbook, and ended up capturing some home video of an improptu performance: DEVO co-founder Gerald V. Casale singing "Mongoloid" with V. Vale on piano. !!

To receive the newsletter, send mail to info@researchpubs.com. For more about RE/Search, check www.researchpubs.com -- and buy some books!  --Miss T. McBrown

 

Comments

[Ninah Pixie]

Thanks for posting this! I'm laffing so hard I think I'll bust a gut...