Giant Robot Store and GR2 News
So much going on. That's Castleforte who'll be at Giant Robot LA on sunday 2-4pm. Read more just a bit lower! If it's not a great art show at Giant Robot SF starring Sean Chao and Ming Ong “Forget Me Not”, which looks awesome. Really. Then it's the events at Giant Robot 2 in LA. Ulises Farinas “Other Places” on Saturday. Check out his drawings. Crazy line work, ala the superheroes of drawing. No kidding. See? This is one of the easy ones. They get way more intense. But on Sunday. 2-4 at Giant Robot is another event. GR hosts fun stuff, we hope and this one is cool. Imagine making crazy characters from paper. What could be more fun. You'll get to check it out and hopefully purchase one of his books. This isn't one that you'll sit and read and have it pick up dust, this is an activity and it's family and friend fun. Serious.
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Just plowed through two obsessively, almost freakishly thorough nonfiction publications about punk rock. The first is Marcus Gray's Route 19 Revisited: The Clash and London Calling, a 2009 import which has been released for U.S. distribution by Soft Skull Press. The six lengthy chapters can be broken down into four categories: (1) the band's formation, (2) the recording of the double album, (3) song-by-song breakdowns, and (4) packaging, reception, and aftermath. The entirety adds up to more than two inches of text-filled pages…
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Holidays Giant Robot style happens in January. There's food, and this year, the balance of food was quite great actually and the gift exchange even better. Aaron Brown above made the deviled eggs in that round hippy bowl.
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