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Melissa Auf der Maur from Smashing Pumpkins and Hole Signs OOOM

Published on April 8, 2010 1 Comment
Apr ’10
24
5:00 pm

Please note! This event was originally scheduled to start at 6pm. It has been rescheduled for an hour earlier, to start at 5pm.

Melissa Auf der Maur (MAdM) was a member, songwriter and bass player of Hole from 1994-1999, culminating in the Grammy and Billboard nominated album “Celebrity Skin.” In 2000 she joined the Smashing Pumpkins for their farewell world tour. She has toured and collaborated with bands and members of QOTSA, Marilyn Manson, The Cure, Indochine, NIN, Muse, Ryan Adams, Ric Ocasek and more.

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“OUT OF OUR MINDS” (OOOM ) is a multi-medium release that includes album, film, comic, and photo collection. It is MAdM’s upcoming album, and it is the key component of her independently produced 21st century concept album – a multi-media experience that beyond the rock album, includes a short film with an original score and a comic book. The film portion premiered at Sundance film festival 2009.

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OOOM ALBUM: 12 track follow-up solo album. Guest Stars: Glenn Danzig, members of NIN, Helmet / Battles and Priestess. OOOM Film: 28min, H-D. Color, Fueled on Solar Power, directed by Tony Stone (“Severed Ways”). Original score to the film by MAdM and the Entrance Band. OOOM COMIC: Illustrated by the young and exceptionally talented Jack Forbes from Brooklyn, NY.

For more info: http://xmadmx.com/

“Work In Progress” Meet-Up

Published on April 1, 2010 0 Comments
Apr ’10
28
7:00 pm

Join us for our monthly get-together entitled “Work In Progress.” The idea is to provides feedback, community and work space. You can bring whatever you’re working on, whether it’s a zine, a comic, or some other project. We’ll provide the space and time, you provide the help for each other. This monthly event will take shape however it needs to. It will meet on the last Wednesday of every month here at Quimby’s from 7pm-8:30pm.

Here’s what we’re hoping “Work In Progress” will offer:

-Feedback. You can bring what you’re working on and get the feedback you need from other like-minded people. Maybe you need this feedback to be in the form of an informal discussion or you need it be in the form of a workshop. Or maybe you need it to be in some other format that will take shape at that moment. Or maybe there’s something else entirely different that you need help with. Perhaps you need to find somebody who can talk to you about finding a a good printer. Or maybe you want to ask other creators how they perform their work once they’ve written it. Who knows what? This is truly a “Work In Progress” that will organically take shape based on the people that attend it. You yourself may be helpful to someone else if you possess the know-how for something they need.

-Creative networking and community. Yes, this sounds super cheesy, but still. Here’s your chance to meet other people who are in your writing/art/general creative community. Who knows what can happen? Maybe you’ll find some other social misfit like yourself. Maybe you’ll meet a future collaborator or a friend. Maybe you’ll form a collective with some folks you meet. Maybe you’ll publish something with someone you meet. This will be exciting to see who meets who and what alliances are made. We meet so many great people that come through Quimby’s. It’s time for all of you to meet each other.

-Work space and designated time. Maybe you need to leave your house to get some work done. Maybe you need a designated time and place to force you to actually get some creative work done. Are you one of those people that if you were left to your on devices you’d never get anything done? You’ve got all these good ideas but you never do anything with them. Maybe this is the inspirational kick in the pants you need. Or maybe you just need to be surrounded by other people while you work, because for you, working alone at home is less fun. And unlike working at coffee shops, you won’t feel weird about talking to people you don’t know.

So maybe you’ve noticed that it’s not quite a workshop, not quite a skillshare, not quite an open house, and yet it can be all three. See you there!

Chicago author Josh Wilker reads from Cardboard Gods

Published on March 31, 2010 0 Comments
Apr ’10
29
7:00 pm

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Cardboard Gods is the memoir of Josh Wilker, a brilliant writer who has marked the stages of his life through the baseball cards he collected as a child.  While it is rooted in a life obsessed with baseball, Cardboard Gods is much more than just a baseball book; it’s a touching family saga that perfectly captures an era, the late 1970s. Like Nick Hornby or Chuck Klosterman, Wilker finds something very large in the seemingly small.

Josh expertly shares his classic observations about his central artifacts, the baseball cards, while setting up the poignant tales of his youth.  He uses the magical bubble-blowing powers of journeyman Kurt Bevacqua to shed light on the weakening of the powerful childhood bond with his older brother; he considers the doomed utopian back-to-the-land dreams of his hippie parents against the backdrop of inimitable 1970s baseball figures such as “Designated Pinch Runner” Herb Washington and Mark “The Bird” Fidrych; he writes about an imagined correspondence with his favorite player, Carl Yastrzemski.  Cardboard Gods is both the perfect book for baseball fans and a great read for anyone compelled by the question, “What if what’s gone can return?”

“Josh Wilker’s Cardboard Gods is a poignant and vivid account of how and why he accessed baseball cards as a survival tool while negotiating a 1970s childhood marked by changing mores and confusing mixed messages.  This is a story of brotherly love, survival of the also-ran, and the hope that quickens a kid’s heartbeat each time he rips open a fresh pack of baseball cards, gets a whiff of bubble gum, and, holding his breath, sees who he’s got as opposed to who and what he needs.  If you love the writing of Dave Eggers or Augusten Burroughs, you just may love Josh Wilker’s Cardboard Gods, too.  I did.”
–Wally Lamb, New York Times bestselling author of She’s Come Undone and The Hour I First Believed

“Josh Wilker writes as beautifully about baseball and life as anyone ever has.”
–Rob Neyer, ESPN

For more info: http://cardboardgods.net/cardboard-gods-the-book/

Librarian Zinesters and Zine Librarians at Quimby’s

Published on March 31, 2010 0 Comments
Apr ’10
23
7:00 pm

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Four card-catalog-holding librarians will ride into Quimbys on their book carts, zines in hands on April 23rd. These self-professed print culture nerd zinesters will read at what promises to be an entertaining evening stereotype busting. What, you thought all librarians shushed? Well, shush to you.

Zinesters reading include:

Celia Perez, author of the perzine I Dreamed I Was Assertive and mamazine Roots & Wings;

Library school student Jami Thompson of the long-running No Better Voice;

Lower East Side Librarian Winter Solstice Shout Out and Reading Log publisher Jenna Freedman

Nell Taylor, zine contributor and Executive Director of the Chicago Underground Library

There may even be limited references to Boolean operators. You won’t want to miss this chance to get your library geek on!

For more info: http://zinelibraries.info/2010/03/28/zine-librarians-zine-reading-at-quimbys

Patrick Wensink and Michael Allen Rose

Published on March 31, 2010 0 Comments
Apr ’10
24
7:00 pm

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Yes, there will be (a) Sex Dungeon for Sale! at Quimby’s. The book with that title, that is.

Combine an optimistic realtor selling a home with a sexual playground, a kindergartener convinced he’s actually French, and something called “Chicken Soup for the Kidnapper’s Soul,” and you get Patrick Wensink’s hilarious collection of short stories titled Sex Dungeon for Sale! (Eraserhead Press). Join Patrick Wensink as he reads from this new book.

Sex Dungeon for Sale! takes these bold characters and a few other outrageous situations to create an unforgettable and quick literary ride. While keeping an eye focused on the surreal, but both feet firmly planted in reality, these stories dissect a modern world so strange you have to laugh. Wensink’s punchy style is perfect for the brevity-obsessed Twitter generation, but saves room in his utility belt of brief tales for humor, humanity and an extra helping of WTF?.

“A deliciously dark and funny book” –Louisville Courier-Journal

“Unputdownable” –The Next Best Book

“Wensink’s evident writerly talents make this an auspicious debut.” –James Greer, author of Artificial Light and The Failure

“Sex Dungeon for Sale!  takes facets of everyday American life and twists them until they gag out comedic gold.” -Joey Goebel, author of Torture the Artist and The Anomalies

Also joining the bill is Chicago’s playwright Michael Allen Rose, who will read from his RoShamBo Theatre production Attack Ships on Fire.

For more info: http://www.patrickwensink.com