Amor de Cosmos in Lotusland by Rubaboo

Amor de Cosmos in Lotusland
by
Rubaboo

released by MungBeat!
a 4-song EP in MungBeing 19: Maps

www.mungbeing.com/issue_19.html

Sunset on the mountain. Orcas in the Strait. Bears under douglas fir trees.
Memory is the center of everything.
Once again.

1. UFO Over Ross Bay Cemetery
2. Amor de Cosmos
3. Lotusland Suite
4. Everywhere's the Same in the End

Rubaboo is an experimental music, sound and visual art collective based in Victoria, British Columbia, consisting of Chelsea, Cousin Nelle, jody franklin and Stefan Kunz. Rubaboo takes its name from the rustic and hearty stew of bear grease and peas made and eaten by voyageurs on their long journeys through the Canadian hinterland. Realistic Barnyard Friends is their debut recording, an intuitive, fully-improvised, one take per track concept album of 15 song sketches and electroacoustic audio experiments recorded in February 2008. The songs expose the "Sinister Conspiracy" of Farmer Joe "Old McDonald" Brown and the revolutionary response to his manipulative machinations by a cabal of communist cocks and hens, and explores the intervention of a helper monkey friend from Africa and his mystical god-pal the Secret Goat. Their follow-up EP Amor de Cosmos in Lotusland is a tribute to the languid culture of the British Columbia coast.

www.myspace.com/rubaboo

MungBeing 18: Intuition

The eighteenth issue of MungBeing Magazine... feels right somehow, you know?
www.mungbeing.com

=== Features ===

* "Innerviews" with regular MungBeing contributors - intuitive artist
Kim Richardson and our resident puzzle constructor Jim Bumgardner

* Claudio Parentela's eXTra finGer interview with artist Jayson Musson

=== Visual Art & Comics ===

* New works from Ian Pyper, Callie Danae Hirsch, Luke Ramsey, Nelly
Sanchez, mckenzee, Liz Parkinson, Muayad Muhsin, Matt Bray, Albert
Schweitzer and Ashley Reaks

* Krzysztof Wlodarski, Elsa Dax, Michael Hafftka, Jacqueline Jones and
Jayson Musson all make their MungBeing debuts this issue

=== Music ===

* The MungBeat! Podcast expands through a new collaboration with the
001 Collective Family. This issue features 10 songs including tracks
from Real Live Tigers, Parade Parade, Secret Owl Society, Tinyfolk,
James Eric, Dustin and the Furniture, Existential Hero, A Drum and an
Open Window, A Wonderful and Evacuee

* PLUS a song from alternative classical pianist Frances Mai-Ling

* PLUS two songs from Ashley Reaks' forthcoming CD "Melancholia"

=== Lit ===

* essays by Michael Dickinson, Alobar Greywalker and Buzzsaw

* prose by Jennifer Chesler, R.S. Deese, and Jenna Humphrey

* poetry by SJ Chambers, J. Bradley and Allegra C. Chesnut

=== Lit Review ===

* jody franklin on "The Terror Of Loch Ness" by Che Elias with
illustrations by Michael Hafftka

* SJ Chambers on the "Surreal Adventures Of Edgar Alan Poo" by Dwight L.
MacPherson and Thomas Boatwright

* Zay Thompson explores neo-tribalism and the philosophies of Daniel
Quinn's "My Ishmael"

All this plus babies, puzzles, more Barber's Closet recipes and J. Edgar
Hoover!

MungBeing is an online bimonthly magazine published under a Creative
Commons license to ensure that information and creativity continue to
flourish and thrive in our new society.

Enjoy!

Mark, jody and Starchy
Editors
www.mungbeing.com

MungBeing 17: Home

The seventeenth issue of MungBeing Magazine brings home some delightfully creative art and literature for your year-end enjoyment.
www.mungbeing.com/issue_17.html

=== Features ===

* Iraqi artist Muayad Muhsin speaks of home and the inspiration behind his painting "Rachel"

* an interview with Athens-based artist and "Third Culture Kid" William Serapa

* The second half of Ian Donnell Arbuckle's screenplay "Sometimes When You Fall"

* Claudio Parentela interviews artist Josh Taylor

=== Visual Art & Comics ===

* New works from Dave Ortega, Callie Danae Hirsch, Michael Dickinson, Songmi Huff, Josh Taylor, Muayad Muhsin, Kim Richardson, jody franklin, Ashley Reaks, William Serapa, Michael O'Briant, Lyosha Kuznetsov, Albert Schweitzer, Nelly Sanchez, Liz Parkinson, Claudio Parentela, M.C. Kinnon, Ira Joel Haber, mckenzee and Mark Givens

=== Music ===

* "This Is Home" by David Greenberger and Chandler Travis, recorded by The Chandler Travis Philharmonic

* "Shanti" by Heidi Morgan

=== Lit ===

* essays by Nicole Caputo, Buzzsaw and Andrew Hessel

* poetry by Brianne Fung, Heidi Morgan, Jennifer Chesler, and Frances Mai-Ling

* prose by Augustinos Touloupis, Mermaid, David "Starchy" Grant, Jennifer Chesler, Michael Dickinson and jody franklin

=== Recipes ===

* "Cornbread of Joy & Sorrow" from mckenzee and "Fig Roll Soup" from Rik Albatros

All this plus a new "Things I've Learned About Babies", a new game called MungBitums, new contributions from new contributors, and a bagful of seasonal delights to warm your hearth and home.

MungBeing is an online bimonthly magazine published under a Creative Commons license to ensure that information and creativity continue to flourish and thrive in our new society.

Enjoy!

Mark, jody and Starchy
Editors
www.mungbeing.com

***

Direct Links To My Contributions

new work of short fiction "It's A Wonderful Life www.mungbeing.com/issue_17.html
new gallery of sketchbook drawings "In My Neighborhood" www.mungbeing.com/issue_17.html

MungBeing 16: Design

This issue of MungBeing Magazine notices how design influences the art we create, how the art is designed, how artists perceive design, and how we perceive other things that are designed well.

www.mungbeing.com

=== Features ===

* An interview with legendary font designer Ray Larabie

* Inspirations from an Octahedron by Gwen Fisher

* Claudio Parentela interviews Kris Chau

* Sometimes When You Fall, a screenplay by Ian Donnell Arbuckle

* Sculptural works by James Hill

=== Visual Art & Comics ===

* Beautiful works by Michael Uhlenkott, Andrew Taggart, jody franklin & Jane Martin, Albert Schweitzer, Joey Haley, Claudio Parentela, Matt Bray, Bruce New, Songmi Huff, Callie Danae Hirsch

* New contributions from Chloe Lewis, Salam Omar, Dave Ortega, Nelly Sanchez and James Hill

* Comics by Claudio Parentela, James Jajac, Dave Ortega, mckenzee and Mark Givens

=== Music ===

* music from the forthcoming "Barcode Rain-cloud" by SubAtomic - an exclusive premiere in MungBeat!

=== Lit ===

* poetry by R.S. Deese, SJ Chambers, Frances Mai-Ling

* essays and prose by mckenzee, Buzzsaw, Dave Carpenter, Robert Dayton and Virginia M. Mohlere

All this plus quotable quotes, drinkable drinks, commenty comments and designer designs

MungBeing is an online bimonthly magazine published under a Creative Commons license, a shroud of secrecy, and a strict design plan.

Mark, jody and Starchy
Editors
www.mungbeing.com

Support Michael Dickinson - Artist May Go To Jail

Michael Dickinson, a Stuckist artist in Turkey and a frequent contributor to MungBeing, may be jailed for displaying art depicting Turkey's Prime Minister receiving a blue ribbon from George W. Bush in a piece entitled "Best in Show". We at MungBeing throw our support fully behind an artist's right of free expression. The Turkish courts, however, may not agree. Michael's court date is October 8th, 2007. I'm writing to ask if you would be willing to draft a letter of support on behalf of Michael Dickinson, specifically addressing his validity as an artist and the art-worthiness of his work. These letters are intended to be used as part of Mr. Dickinson's defense to demonstrate to the court the value and import we place on artistic inquiry and an artist's right to self expression.

There are several informational links at the end of this email including an excellent in-depth interview with Michael Dickinson (featuring the artwork in question, "Best in Show") in issue nine of MungBeing.

If you are able to write a letter of support, please email a copy to: michael.dickinson@my.mungbeing.com
Please include your name, occupation, and contact information in your
correspondence.

Here's how Michael describes this unfortunate situation: "[I was] called to court again unexpectedly a couple of weeks ago, when a cop rang my doorbell and handed me a summons to appear in court on 25 April at 11.30 in connection with the collages I made last year depicting Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan in the role of a dog, controlled and feted by American President George W Bush.

I was surprised, thinking all that stuff had finished after my arrest and prolonged detainment in police custody last year.

In my defense I said that the collages were not meant as a personal attack on the Prime Minister, but his position, and the fact that President Bush considers him a useful friend and ally. Turkish soil is home to American nuclear bombs at the US airbase at Diyarbakir.

I said that I was an artist(?) and did not usually plan my collages, but acted on inspiration at the time of making, often as a reaction to news of what is happening in the world, particularly Iraq.

When the judge asked me to describe what I was trying to say in my 2 collage pictures of Erdogan in the role of America's dog, I said that it was up to the viewer to make his own interpretation; a visual artist shouldn't need to explain in words. Pictures are for eyes. Words (spoken) are for ears.

I said that over the years I'd made countless collage pictures of President GW Bush and Tony Blair in much more unflattering roles without persecution. In the Western/European world, artists are allowed to express their feelings in their works.

The trial has been adjourned until 8th October. During that time the court will seek the opinion of a number of Turkish university professors as to whether my collages are 'art' or crime.

In the meantime I'm 'free'."

I hope to hear from you soon and thank you for your support,
Mark Givens
Editor-in-Chief,
MungBeing Magazine

Informational links:
www.counterpunch.org/dickins...006.html
June 8, 2006: The Bush's Dog Case
Criminal Collage By MICHAEL DICKINSON

www.counterpunch.org/dickins...006.html
July 26, 2006: "Sorry, We Thought You Were Israeli!"
Arrested in Istanbul By MICHAEL DICKINSON

www.counterpunch.org/dickins...007.html
May 2, 2007: Criminalizing Art
Trouble in Turkey By MICHAEL DICKINSON

www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/new...5651.ece
June 17, 2006: Satire that could land British artist in a Turkish jail
By Dalya Alberge, Arts Correspondent, and Suna Erdem in Istanbul


www.mungbeing.com/issue_3_info.html
MungBeing Magazine
Information About Michael Dickinson

www.mungbeing.com/issue_9.html
August, 2006: Outspoken
a conversation with Michael Dickinson by David "Starchy" Grant

www.stuckism.com/Dickinson/Turkey.html
Stuckism coverage and information

Alvin & The Chipmunks In Black Rock City

www.gamasutra.com/php-bin/news_index.php

"Brash Entertainment has announced that this December will see the release of a new Alvin and the Chipmunks rhythm/music game, set to be released alongside the forthcoming film, featuring the Chipmunks playing Blink 182 and REM songs at venues from Burning Man to the ultimate 'Rockathonapalooza.' Brash says the game will follow Alvin, Simon, and Theodore as they work their way, Guitar Hero style, from smaller venues like school proms to Burning Man and forest arenas to Rockathonapalooza.The publisher says the rhythm game will feature some 40 cult and chart-topping songs from several decades like Blink 182's All The Small Things, Run DMC's It's Tricky and REM's Shiny Happy People all performed in Chipmunk style."


Curiously, this is generating no discussion, no controversy, anywhere.

Let's get this straight...

Burners are opposed to demonstrations of helpful, innovative "green" technologies on the playa by corporations that are not allowed to do any selling or branding, yet they're tolerant of what would seem to be the crass commercial exploitation of Burning Man for a mass-market product tied to a major Hollywood movie and major-label music releases?

Very strange.

I guess I'm starting to really get out of touch with the Burning Man community.

MungBeing 15: Authenticity

This issue of MungBeing Magazine finds us gazing deep into the eyes of authenticity to decide whether truthfulness is a necessary quality, goodness a component at all, and how far back one must count to designate that something is 'genuine'.

www.mungbeing.com

=== Features ===

* John Darnielle of the Mountain Goats writes about covering Furniture Huschle songs

* Autobiographical comic artist Joe "Peepshow" Matt bares it all to jody franklin

* Mark Givens sits down with indie rock sensations The Henry Clay People

* Claudio Parentela interviews psychedelic dreamscape painter Maura Holden

* Alex Minoff discusses authenticity in African music and rock, specifically with the band Extra Golden

=== Visual Art & Comics ===

* Galleries by Matt Bray, Owen Plummer & Andrew Dick, Gus Fink, Rachel Haywire, Bruce New, and Luke Ramsey & Jim Stoten plus new contributors Crystal Bretschger, Skinny Gaviar, Ira Joel Haber, Jessica Hill, Maura Holden, Songmi Huff, and Adonis Massad

* Comics by Claudio Parentela, James Jajac, Joel Huschle and Mark Givens

=== Music ===

* songs by The Henry Clay People and Furniture Huschle

=== Lit ===

* poetry by Frances Mai-Ling, Brad and Rik Albatros

* essays and prose by Ian Donnell Arbuckle, David "Starchy" Grant, Buzzsaw, Kevin Ausmus, Amy Frushour Kelly, Zay Thompson, Jennifer Chesler, SJ Chambers, and Tim Miller

All this plus a whole swingin' batch of cocktail recipes, some craft ideas, a few authentic bits of ranting, and the usual variety of fun-filled fodder.

MungBeing is an online bimonthly magazine published under a Creative Commons license and it ain't nuthin' but the real thing, baby.

Mark, jody and Starchy
Editors
MungBeing

www.mungbeing.com

July Fourth Toilet Videos On YouTube

Finally! You can see me in action on video, on the 'net! We reached back into our July Fourth Toilet archives and pulled out some gems. Here are a few of the best.

Cosmic Metharthasis, November 2003
Perhaps our best performance ever, an all-improvised, ritualistic, experimental acid skronk set. Me: Witchy figure with shiny suit, pink sash, blonde wig, goat hoof rattle.

www.youtube.com/v/jWz7HjHyiHU

The Unicorn, April 2000
I'm the Unicorn.

www.youtube.com/v/heolWmZEVhs

Deep Sea Diver, April 2000
You can see my sweaty mug screeching into the mic as part of the chorus. Song "Deep Sea Diver" is from our 2002 album Something For Everyone

www.youtube.com/v/u-IZq_V2czg

More on our YouTube page, including our onstage encounter with the legendary songwriter Paul Williams!

youtube.com/user/JulyFourthToilet