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THE LOWDOWNLOW:

THURSDAY, AUGUST 16, 2012, 7PM:

SLAKE: LOS ANGELES--A CITY AND ITS STORIES presents

 Author JOSEPH MATTSON with SPECIAL MUSICAL GUESTS:

GABRIEL HART (Jail Weddings) w/AMANDA FRANCES (Crooked Cowboy)

ALEX MASLANSKY (Horse Thieves)

KURT MANGUM (Belt Vs. Knife)

 for
SLAKE AFTER DARK at
Atwater Crossing
3245 Casitas Ave.
Atwater Village, 90039

This will be Mattson's last public appearance for a while as he and lovely fiancee Devri (multi-talented analog photographer featured in SLAKE #s 2 "Crossing Over" and 4 "Dirt") prepare to welcome their first child. AND SO let this be a blow-up of a blowout celebration as Mattson tears through a retrospective of his work thus far, including selections from the story collection EAT HELL, his novel EMPTY THE SUN, excerpts from his various contributions to SLAKE, slices from THE SPEED CHRONICLES, and a preview of his novel-in-progress HEXICO, plus a few surprises!

Bookending the event will be LIVE music from ALEX MASLANSKY/HORSE THIEVES and GABRIEL HART (Jail Weddings) & AMANDA FRANCES (Crooked Cowboy), with musical accompaniment during the reading by KURT MANGUM/BELT VS. KNIFE!

CONJUGAL LOVE DATE TONIGHT IN ECHO PARK WITH JAIL WEDDINGS AND JOSEPH MATTSON!
JOSEPH MATTSON has written liner notes for the new JAIL WEDDINGS Four Future Standards extended play vinyl 12" and digipak CD—liner notes full-back-of-album-style in the jazz/folk/blues/psychedelic tradition, but pushing the content of what it means to listen to a record and live music—get the record HERE direct from the label, Neurotic Yell Records—AND TONIGHT Mattson will be introducing the band with a special reading from the liner notes before their set LIVE at Echo Country Outpost in Echo Park/Los Angeles! 
JAIL WEDDINGSTHE ABIGAILSCLAIRE MCKEOWN 
Echo Country Outpost1770 Glendale Blvd., Edendale, California, 90026   

 

SLAKE: Los Angeles, A City & Its Stories thumbs its bootstraps once again to blow the minds of Southern California, this time the outlaw eyes are set on idyllic/misunderstood lovely/vulnerable Pasadena, days of parrots and roses, little-old-lady-and-gangster-deep--catch SLAKE editors & contributors at Vroman's Bookstore, Vroman's proclaiming honor badge of "Southern California's Oldest & Largest Independent Bookstore"--since the 1890s, mofos! So pay homage all, reading for/from SLAKE Issue 4, "Dirt":

DAVE WHITE
LYNELL GEORGE
JOSEPH MATTSON
ERIN AUBRY KAPLAN
R.S. CARLSON
SAM SLOVICK


--TALES OF SEX, SADNESS, SLAG & OTHER "DIRTY" THINGS!

RSVP if you'd like at www.slake.la!

Friday, July 20, 2012, 7:30PM
VROMAN'S BOOKSTORE
695 E. Colorado Blvd.
Pasadena CA 91101

The gentle scoundrel GABRIEL HART -- semi-infamous leader, formerly, of THE STARVATIONS, and, mainmost currently, JAIL WEDDINGS -- has written a book, THE INTRUSION, forthcoming TBA, but TODAY Mr. Hart will be joining JOSEPH MATTSON at Beyond Baroque in Venice at 2pm. Damn.

GET THERE:

Beyond Baroque presents:

JOSEPH MATTSON (The Speed Chronicles, Empty the Sun, Eat Hell) is featured guest of THE GREAT BEYOND reading series hosted by JESSICA CEBALLOS, at BEYOND BAROQUE in Venice! *with SPECIAL GUEST GABE HART of JAIL WEDDINGS!
Sunday, July 15, 2pm 681 Venice Bl. Venice, CA 90291
www.beyondbaroque.org   

STORIES BOOKS in Echo Park presents: AKASHIC BOOKS POWERHOUSE EVENT!

*NATHAN LARSON ("The Nervous System")

*JOE MENO ("Office Girl")

*JOSEPH MATTSON ("The Speed Chronicles")

LIVE, IN-PERSON!

[Exciting new novelist NATHAN LARSON is an accomplished musician--formerly of the legendary art-punk outfit Shudder to Think--longtime/current film composer--Boys Don't Cry--Dirty Pretty Things--The Messenger--www.nathanlarson.net * JOE MENO is the bestselling, award-winning author of "Hairstyles of the Damned" and "Demons in the Spring" and several more--former editor of PUNK PLANET--also a playwright--www.joemeno.com * JOSEPH MATTSON is the author of LA cult classics "Eat Hell" and "Empty the Sun," a novel which comes with a soundtrack by SIX ORGANS OF ADMITTANCE--Mattson is a current DCA COLA fellow/individual artist grantee--www.emptythesun.com]

Stories Books & Cafe, 1716 Sunset Blvd, Echo Park/Los Angeles, CA, 90026
www.storiesla.com

Legendary Los Angeles literary institution BEYOND BAROQUE presents author JOSEPH MATTSON (Empty the Sun, Eat Hell) as the featured guest of THE GREAT BEYOND reading series hosted by JESSICA CEBALLOS; MATTSON will be appearing with his latest, THE SPEED CHRONICLES (Akashic Books)!

Sunday, July 15, 2pm681 Venice Bl. Venice, CA 90291
www.beyondbaroque.org

Come on over!

Dear Friends, 
In summer, 2011, I was awarded a prestigious DCA COLA (City of Los Angeles) Individual Artist Fellowship for the 2011-2012 grant cycle to research and start writing my novel-in-progress, Hexico. A re-envisioning of the United States and northern Mexico, in Hexico, the Mexican-American war was averted, the 1848 Mexican Cession of the southwestern states never happened, and the present-day border between Mexico and the U.S. is the continental divide—the border itself a strip of land presently war-torn, ungovernable, mythically known as HEXICO, and where a beautiful ex-circus sideshow strongman T-girl prostitute is on the run to after experiencing a natural, biological auto-prodantry sex change and is impregnated by a chupacabra.

While this ambitious novel will remain in progress for a bit, for the closing of the COLA grant cycle I will be presenting an excerpt TONIGHT--Friday, June 29, 2012, 8:30pm (sharp!) at the one and only, the incredible and always FREE legendary summer concert series Grand Performances at California Plaza, downtown Los Angeles.
Friday, June 29, 2012, 8:30pm: HEXICO by Joseph Mattson excerpted at GRAND PERFORMANCES at California Plaza350 S. Grand Ave.
Los Angeles, CA 90071*followed by performances by Paul Outlaw and Raphael Xavier!
Cheers,Joseph


 

PEN Center USA and Hollywood Forever proudly present:WONDERLAND AVENUEA reading from the classic rock memoir of the late Danny Sugerman, former manager of The Doors and Iggy Pop.FEATURING JOHN DENSMORE of THE DOORS, Actor JULIAN SANDS, Actor/Comedian/Author RICHARD LEWIS, Actor JAKE WEBER, Author JOSEPH MATTSON, and Legendary Disc Jockey JIM LADD!Los Angeles, CA: Los Angeles, CA: PEN Center USA will present a reading of Danny Sugerman’s memoir, WONDERLAND AVENUE: TALES OF GLAMOUR & EXCESS, in the Masonic Lodge at the Hollywood Forever Cemetery in Los Angeles on June 22, 2012. Doors will open at 8 PM for a cocktail reception in the lodge’s Eastern Star Room. The reading will begin at 9 PM and will feature the drummer of The Doors, John Densmore; comedian, actor, and author Richard Lewis; author Joseph Mattson (The Speed Chronicles, Eat Hell, Empty The Sun); Julian Sands (The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, Leaving Las Vegas); and Jake Weber (Medium, Dawn of the Dead, Meet Joe Black). Legendary disc jockey Jim Ladd will host the reading.

William Burroughs, author of NAKED LUNCH, described Sugerman’s classic rock memoir this way: “Danny Sugerman spent his youth in Hollywood’s rock ’n’ roll fast lane, following the example of his mentor and idol, Jim Morrison. Although he crashed at age twenty-one, Sugerman ultimately survived and has given this savagely engrossing account of his wild misadventures. WONDERLAND AVENUE shatters the myth of glamour of hard drugs and hard living. A most entertaining and informative book.”

Danny Sugerman was born in Beverly Hills in 1954 and raised in Los Angeles. He began working for The Doors opening fan mail and was still working for the band when Jim Morrison died in Paris. He went on to manage The Doors and, for a period of time, the careers of Iggy Pop and The Doors' keyboardist Ray Manzarek. Sugerman also worked as a freelance writer for music magazines in the US and abroad. He coauthored NO ONE HERE GETS OUT ALIVE and was the author of THE DOORS: THE ILLUSTRATED HISTORY, THE DOORS: COMPLETE LYRICS, and APPETITE FOR DESTRUCTION: THE DAYS OF GUNS 'N' ROSES. Danny passed away at the age of 50 on January 5, 2005, after a prolonged battle with lung cancer.

WONDERLAND AVENUE is Danny’s tale, a cult classic, a rock ’n’ roll CATCHER IN THE RYE. Big, brawling, excessive, scandalous, irreverent, and entertaining, it chronicles the 60s dream gone-to-rot and the early life of a Hollywood Wild Child who was just brilliant at being bad.
PEN Center USA, a literary nonprofit based in Beverly Hills, has a membership of more than 600 professional writers. PEN Center USA strives to protect the rights of writers around the world, to stimulate interest in the written word, and to foster a vital literary community among the diverse writers living in the western United States. PEN Center USA has a long, successful history planning literary events in and around Los Angeles; special programming has taken place at the Hammer, Hotel Café, Largo at the Coronet, the Echo, Actor’s Gang, the Saban Theatre, the Pacific Design Center, and the Beverly Hills Hotel.

Tickets for WONDERLAND AVENUE are $15 and can be purchased online at http://hollywoodforever.ticketfly.com/.

For more information on this event, please contact Michelle Meyering, Director of Programs and Events at PEN Center USA: michelle@penusa.org

THANKS!