THE DEPARTMENT OF BAD IDEAS

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the suicide magnets/ dick neff summer TOUR schedule

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7/15 NYC (Turner)@ FerryLand 18 Java St. 2nd Floor brooklyn ny 11222
7/16 East Hampton Mass (Jeff Hartford)
7/17 Providence RI (Eli Human Beast)
7/18 Buffalo (Jillian)
7/19 Cleveland (Jon Emeralds)
7/20 Clinton/Detroit (Tom Usaisamonster)
7/21 day off on Toms farm
7/22 Madison GOOD STYLE SHOP
7/23 Kansas City (Craig Condition)
7/24 St. Louis (Larva Lou/Mr.Weaver)
7/25 MURFEESBORO TN (LAUREN PLUM) @MEOW MANOR
7/26 Nashville (Leslie KEFFER)@ BETTYS
7/27 Atlanta (Robbie Kee/Matt Pony Bones) at the Goat farm
7/28 Chapel Hill (Ethan All Day)ALL DAY RECS 112A E Main St Carboro NC
7/29 Richmond (Gary Head Molt/Leo Positivland) Sprout 1 N. Morris St
7/30 Baltimore (Kirby) @ THE Bank
7/31 Philadelphia (HOME) @ Bookspace W/Embarker and Night Burger

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a funeral ceremony

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A CERTAIN DRAMATIC EXTENSION OF LONELINESS THAT IS HARD TO QUIT.
A CERTAIN EXTENSION OF FUCK YOU THAT IS HARD TO QUIT.
A FENCE MADE YOU ALMOST TERRIFYINGLY BORED AND TEARY EYED DURING THE SOUND-CHECK [SHELTER][BOX]
A TRICKLE DOWN OF THE UNICORN MOTIF, STRIATED LONG LAYERS OF RIPS: THE LITTLE SCENE HAS BECOME STRIATED.

ENTERS THE LITTLE IDEA.

she looks around and decides on a 'Subtraction Pretended'
her effort is to open up a path to all possible imperfection ( a lie obviously):

she says, "Come now all manner of freaks, truly, and not the palatable ones, i can assure u. Dreaming of Holocausts, u grandpas become wretched with hate? Step away please, u have become tired. U have given up drinking. U don't care at all."

THE ASSEMBLY REPLIES.
"Gaze makes the war, not us. Gentle but existed, here is a noble effort, a start, tho u say it makes little to no difference? Gaze has a war built in it already: eyes meet or don't meet, mean accolades or dismissal, a flicker, a dot or a dash, a one or a zero?"

OVERHEARD 'NOBODY PUTS BABY IN A CORNER'

she says, "I am a guinea pig wearing a diaper. Doppelgangers make me weary. I am a pinball machine played so well that a surprising multitude of balls appear. These are extras, they make room for the death of the originals.

SET MATERIALS (SMILING DEATH FEAST): 3 SHOTS OF JACK, A TACO SHELL SNORTING TOOL.

2011-04-18T09:55:00.001-07:00

UNTITLED MOVING PICTURE NO. 1, 2010

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Micro-Show #8 - the Suicide Magnets from Breathmint on Vimeo.

Suicide Magnets at INC2011

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Suicide Magnets - live @ INC Philly 2010 from Breathmint on Vimeo.

Suicide Magnets at INC2010

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The Suicide Magnets live on February 10, 2010 @ SMArts

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INC 2009 from NOISEBLOID

the golden peoples game

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chris corsano, wolf eyes djing, rat bastard

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Nautical Almanac

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atsushi, atsushi, atsushi & elle

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CLOTHES

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Alex Nagle hair did

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the suicide magnets perform at the Z Radio night (marvelous)

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the golden peoples game pre game

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dinosaur amputatation no.1, 2010

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Government Sponsored Suicide Magnets
The ugly ones jump off a tall tower with a gift shop below, which has multiple memorial makings for sale. One may plan in advance for witnesses to the ceremonial purging. This planning intends to mediate all/most of the suffering experienced by bereavement. No guilt or questioning! No wondering what else could have been done! No nasty mess to clean up! The purged and descending "corpse to be" falls nicely into a rectangular pit dug below the scaffolding, which is not in direct sight of the gift shop.

old pictures

2010-10-12T06:58:00.000-07:00

Mulitplicity Dance: Indignation (public 3rd)

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Laughter, God has brought me laughter

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The sound of an unbridled mouth in the holy place.

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_________________
sisters of the low cross
projects for work times
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puzzle
tidy up
ball games
husbandry
all books
churches
(song)

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one more brick of hash thru ur storefront window
everybody got they own ballerina tip toe
bouncing around my eye like a stag in the snow
so its one more brick of hash thru ur storefront window

you give me your popcorn smile
and the number 11 pop tempo say 'reconcile'
but I say 'wrecking style'
(wrecking style, wrecking style, wrecking style, hey hey hey)

let us go collecting tonight, but only Noah so
still time to make things right, before its time to go
God knows it's fight or flight, before the whole thing blows
well it blows

you give me your popcorn smile
and the number 11 pop tempo say 'reconcile'
but I say 'wrecking style'
(wrecking style, wrecking style, wrecking style, hey hey hey)

On Love: I'm gonna miss playing the comedy pouch

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The Golden People:
A game for at least 4 persons

At first. I chose playmates (actors) based on hair length (sufficient for hot curlers). Actors were assigned gender roles which were not the same as their own everyday ones, thhe gender act meant to challenge the actor and the audience, a bit. Our goal was to play in the murky middle ground of semi-androgyny, the place where I believe the original Golden Girls actor Bea Arthur hung out. We aim to tease this place out and expand it as we use it for a playground. We ask: how do costuming elements such as jewlery and makeup influence readings of the characters as feminine? What happens when these things are removed? We wonder, how do costume details such as fit, drape, textile and color influence the gender reading of the characters? By this game we come to realize that there are a whole set of performative gestures which accompany these aspects of costuming. We notice that traditionally male actor bodies tend to occupy these garments in a much more comfortable way, resorting very quickly to occupying them as dude clothes. and we are interested to watch this sort of "nesting ritual" in which very traditionally female garment shapes are expanded and occupied. Intended to be humorous.

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memorial no.3, 2010

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PIECES

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Action

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2009-12-06T14:10:00.000-08:00

SLOW MO
GERM SHOW
a group show at
germ books
norris/frankford ave philadelphia
thru January 24, 2009
curated by April Glaser

featuring
Eliot Klein
April Glaser
Lindsay Kovnat
Wendy Jane Hyatt
Bobos
Heather Clarke

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Begin

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we want a quiet revolution and one with no meaning. we have our doubts and shall remain so. a battleground must forever defend the battleground state: "an overwhelming question on your plate" ...if the contents are clear and manageable, strive to resist managing them. This for the sake of the quiet revolution.
We are the sisters of the low cross.
wombs are shelters and fat bellies birth and defend our perimeter, don't mind our genitalia, however its form. we will sit down to a fire of our own making. In a loose gathering, gentle making our fence, and wearing each others clothes. Here and here, it seems we welcome. don't fish, and are not caught. But perimeters must be maintained, semi-permiable. Into the long morning with our medicines, hold our hand. We stand loose, we stay.
you can kill your own ideas and mine. The detritus of these deaths makes the sanctuary for adaptation. Here is the thing: no leader to fuck shit up... put things into things into things. rip and layer, also whatever. thoughts on thoughts for years and they will not leave, a history here is made mountainous...learn to tend it. Almost nothing really discarded, I have watched this proccess long/// We like the trash. We are the sisters of the low cross.