...my dear friend [ removed per request ] was arrested in Olympia as part of the continuing Homeland Security witch hunt known collectively as "The Green Scare".

The good news is, they appear to be handling this in standard criminal court rather than whisking him off to some secret indefinite detention as they have with so many other innocent people. So that means he can have a lawyer, and we know where he is, and we can hold a benefit performance for his legal fees. It's not much, but it's something. Handled correctly, it may hopefully raise awareness locally that all of this is even happening.

Our dear friend Ogo has organized this first fundraiser show, to take place this coming Monday the 11th at Plan B. Try My Cabbage, DJ Fukumup, and Killingsworth will be covering the dance party end of things; and I've been asked to organize a Ritual Performance. -- Noah Mickens

Monday, August 11th

A Benefit for Those Recently Abducted under the Green Scare

Beats via:
Try My Cabbage
Fukumup
Killingsworth

Death Trance via:
Anansi (feat. members of Disjunct & Power Circus)
Secret Guest(s)

+ a Ritual Butoh Performance of bondage and liberation featuring members of Nequaquam Vacuum, Power Circus, Societas Insomnia, and cast members from this year's Water in the Desert Festival

Plan B
1305 SE 8th
Portland
21+ 9pm $5-infinity (suggested donation)

more info:
http://greenscare.org
http://breakthechains.info

hope to seeya there,
xoz

these are the ones i was waiting for, from the incomparable petr sorfa.

i'll spare you the exorbitant post this time, check out the slideshows for backstage prep, the actual show, as well as the army of shambling zombies, making their way over from everett station lofts...

xoz

by the way, we need more zombie volunteers...

The Day of the Zombie has finally arrived. Though you cower in basements and attics, they seem to see you through worm-eaten eye sockets, and you can hear the exposed bones of their fingertips scraping away at your flimsy barricades. Endless legions of undead shamble toward you in full force, an unstoppable apocalyptic swarm of ravenous corpses after just one thing: your flesh.

Friday, July 25, check your pulse at the door and join the Undeath March, a blood-drenched mob of zombies which will assail downtown Portland, OR with an unforgettable evening of horrific participatory street theatre. Beginning around 7 pm, zombies will assemble at the Everett Station Lofts (NW 6th and Everett). All are welcome to show up in full zombie attire (bloody wounds, ripped clothing, guts hanging out) though a team of dedicated Zombie Masters will help transform the living into flesh-craving corpses.

If you would like to help turn humans into zombies, send us a message! (www. myspace.

com/dayofthezombie)

At approximately 8pm, the Undeath March of Portland begins! Prodded along by a special marching band from beyond the grave, we will shamble through downtown Portland, transforming participating humans into zombies and driving all else before us in terror, until our horde arrives at the doors of Dante’s Inferno, for a special evening dedicated to the unliving abominations in the audience. Undead in full attire gain admittance for $10, while the living must pay…$15.

*Dan Abbott’s DAY OF THE ZOMBIE, the undead rock opera (http://www.
myspace.

com/dayofthezombie)

*Zombie Burlesque from THE VAUDEVILLAINS
(http://www.
myspace.

com/theantizee)

*Corpse-reviving beats and nefarious activities from CHICKENHED DJs CARNY JERKWATER and FUKEMUP.

(http://www.
chickenhed.

us)

Dante’s Inferno
1 SW 3rd & Burnside
21+/ 9pm
$10 for zombies ($15 for the living)

^^^ ^^^ ^^^
DAY OF THE ZOMBIE

Ten years in the making, this full theatrical performance of Dan Abbott's zombie rock opera Day of the Zombie rises from the grave Friday the 25th. Written amongst the thriving mutant underground of Oakland, CA; including members of Hobo Gobbelins, Clan ov thee Bleeding Eye, International Maggot Theater, Nommo Ogo, Extra Action Marching Band, and legions of related projects; Day of the Zombie has been presented as a band show and as a radio drama, toured alongside Thee 999 Eyes Ov Endless Dream, and premiered as a musical play co-directed by Abbott and Noah Mickens in 2006 at Someday Lounge.

The plot involves mad scientists, super-computers gone awry, and the destruction of human civilization, all within the first ten minutes of show. And then the real fun starts. Think of it as a more down-home version of Jesus Christ Superstar, with enough balls to tackle the best part of that story—the Ressurection. It's an all-singing, all-dancing, all-consuming deathfest.

Brains.

CAST
JACK, Dobro: Zombie Dan Abbott
MIRIAM: Meghann Rose
DR.

MCKELVEY: Noah Mickens
NARRATOR, Accordion: Chains
THE NETWORK: Nico Bella
Flute, VOICE OF DOOM: J Lieber
Drums: Nolon Ashley
Cello: Uxepi Ipexu

And an entire chorus line of bloodthirsty zombies and the radioactive mutant children who fear them.

More About CHICKENHED:

Chickenhed are a marauding band of party fiends and conceptual terrorists who cannot be handily summarized. From festivals to warehouses to the open streets, Chickenhed leaves no turn unstoned with their wild-eyed nihilistic quasi-religion of beats and beatings.

DJ CARNY JERKWATER
"Carny Jerkwater has been throwing down party music and eating brains
all over the northwest music scene for the past several
GRAAAAHHHHHH!1"

DJ FUKUMUP
"fukenhed goooood fuckenbrains rwraaaaarrrrwww wrrraaawrrrr wraaarrwwwwrrr yyuuummmmrwwwarrrwwrrrrr"

friday july 11 @ pocket sandwich @ 5245 ne 15 @ basement @ 9:00 : peter j woods (milwaukie) xdugef (LA) douglas ferguson (austin) whispers for wolves (baltimore) eternal tapestry, instinct control, yellow crystal star, cult of zir.

cult of zir will feature noise cellist uxepi ipexu, and butoh courtesy of meghann rose and ms joints. we go on @ 9:30

donations welcome to get our out of town guests down the road...

xoz

Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law.
[Please forward to any relevant lists/folks]

Please join the members of Sekhet-Maat Lodge, O.T.O, in celebrating
the Sun in Cancer with Fr. Khabs Kaos and Sr. Aletheia Mnemonicas'
original eucharistic rite of Dionysus Zagreus on Saturday, June 21st,
2008 ev.

The evening will begin with the doors opening at 7:30pm, the ritual
will begin PROMPTLY at 8pm (no late admittance). Our lodge is located
at: 1409 SE Stark, PDX.

All attendees are asked to bring a dish of food to supplement our