TEMPORARY SERVICES

Here's the myspace bulletin that I read from "little gary floyd" (!):

Dear Dick Friends,
The Dicks are up for the AUSTIN MUSIC HALL OF FAME!!
I know most of you do not live in Austin ,or even Texas. It doesn't matter. It will take a few seconds for you to vote....its done on line with the big music mag in Austin..THE AUSTIN CHRONICAL---
its a ballot
you can scroll to the bottom of the page
check the Dicks over

you do have to fill out a name and address thing...its not a spam--its just o people don't cheat
it would mean a lot to the dicks---
pleasedo this for us.....
go to:

http://www. austinchronicle. com/

love
little gary floyd

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Go here to vote: http://www.austinchronicle.com/feedback/musicpoll/08/

Need a primer on the Dicks? Get our booklet! Go here: http://www.halfletterpress.com/store/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=2&products_id=49

Thanks!!

Several exciting things to announce. First, all three members of Temporary Services will be in Austin, Texas for our first presentation in that state. We hope some of you can join us, or will tell your Texan friends. Here is our schedule and what we are doing:

* Thursday, November 13, 5 - 6:30 PM. Free lecture in room ART 1.120 at the University of Texas, Austin.
* Saturday, November 15, 7 - 9 PM. Book release at DOMY Books, 913 E Cesar Chavez. Austin
* Sunday, November 16, 4 - 6 PM, Opening at testsite, 502 W. 33rd St. Austin

For testsite 08.5, Temporary Services will investigate two aspects of the state's cultural and political history that embody its radical independence: the development of punk music in Austin during the early 1980s, and the speeches of Barbara Jordan, the great, late United States representative from Texas.



Temporary Services will apply these dual interests to a new series of banners. Fabricated from discarded plastic bags, these recycled textiles are part of our ongoing investigation into new uses for plastic bags: Personal Plastic. Quotes drawn from politician Barbara Jordan and Texas punk lyrics are featured on a series of banners that will hang inside testsite's exhibition space. A big selection of our publications will also be on view, along with photos from Personal Plastic showing how those horrible plastic shopping bags accumulate in our homes and cities.


Download: test_site_bklt.pdf

We also produced a new poster with a text by testsite's invited curator Harper Montgomery, and two new Temporary Conversations interview booklets. One booklet interviews members of the Texas band The Dicks (Gary Floyd and Buxf Parrot) with additional contributions from Austin Chronicle writer Margaret Moser, photographer Bill Daniel, Tim Kerr and more. The second booklet features a massive interview with Austin-based musician and artist Tim Kerr from such great bands at the Big Boys, Poison 13, Lord High Fixers and MonkeyWrench.

Each of these 32-page booklets are available for sale in our new online store:


The Dicks


Tim Kerr

If you haven't visited our store, or if you visited when our server was down, please have a look! We offer our new book Public Phenomena, from our new press, plus lots of other items by Temporary Services and our network of friends. When you purchase directly from us, your support helps us print new things. One of those new things will be a massive interview booklet with Jean Toche from Guerrilla Art Action Group. We expect to release that in December but need to generate some funds to do it. Please consider supporting publications like this. If you would like to distribute copies of these books or purchase them for your students, please let us know so that we can offer you wholesale or discounted prices. All purchases come with some kind of freebie, so if you buy the new interview booklets, you'll also get the new Texas poster and probably some other stuff.

Thank you for reading,

Temporary Services
(Brett Bloom, Salem Collo-Julin, Marc Fischer)
servers@temporaryservices.org
http://www.temporaryservices.org/
http://www.halfletterpress.com/

A couple quotes from these great cultural heroes:

"We want to be in control of our lives. Whether we are jungle fighters, craftsmen, company men, gamesmen, we want to be in control. And when the government erodes that control, we are not comfortable."
- Barbara Jordan

"When you come back with no arms or legs, then you can say war is fun"
- The Dicks ("I Hope You Get Drafted")

"We Got Soul. Let's Take Control!"
- The Big Boys

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