New Lower Topanga slideshows w/ music by Doug Lewis and DJ Lyf

New pics uploaded to the Lower Topanga Photo Archive

http://brasstackspress.esmartdesign.com/misc.html#Lower_Topanga_Photo_Archive

There are about a dozen more from pro photographer David Blattel, circa 2002 (I mixed them in with the ones that were already there — sorry!):

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And a few cool surf shots from recent years by J. Murph:

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Penny-Ante: Three @ Stories Books & Cafe

Penny-Ante: Three event @ Stories Books & Cafe in Echo Park (9-15-09)

Flyer 1

Flyer 2

Toylit

Toylit’s poem

Mick Farren

Mick Farren

Tearist (w/ Douglas from BIRTH! and Bestial Mouths)

Julia Holter

Sharon Cheslow and Julia Holter

Echo Park cowboy

(pics by Pablo Capra)

NEW BOOK: “Rohloff’s Snake Pit” by Chris Rohloff (as told to Pablo Capra) and Toylit (illus.)

From “The Snake Pit”

The Snake Pit… was basically the armpit of Malibu. If Malibu had a hood, Topanga and The Snake Pit would be it.

As kids, we were proud to call our neighborhood The Snake Pit because we were all dirt-rat, creeker degenerates. So it was pretty cool!

The Snake Pit was a place that the surrounding community didn’t want to have too much contact with. Even to the police, it said, “Keep out!” Police and firemen tried to avoid going there as much as possible because there was weird stuff that happened down there back in the ’60s and ’70s. Everybody knew about Charles Manson’s connection to The Snake Pit, and that they shouldn’t deal with those people. The Manson Family lived across the street from us. I was three or four years old, and I’d be on the dirt road playing with their kids.

(c) Brass Tacks Press
www.lifeasapoet.com

(See Toylit’s drawings on the website!)

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Belongings of former resident James Mathers (a.k.a. Toylit) found in trailer

James’s psycho-iridescent mattress

From Obliterature by Toylit

“That moment the artist began to trust the dream he was living in… surrendering over tea.”

Pablo’s trailer (a.k.a. Timeship Medusa)

Formerly parked in Lower Topanga, this trailer was immortalized in the comic Voyage of the Timeship Medusa by Toylit…

Pablo is learning about Venice gangs

Click to find out what VXIII stands for?

New Lower Topanga pics added to the Brass Tacks Press archive

Robert Campbell and Pablo Capra looking over Robert’s graphic novel Floating in 2002.
Click to see the rest of the Lower Topanga pics by David Blattel.

Mark’s birthday party

Where Brass Tacks Press came from…

“Malibu Song” is a 2006 documentary film about the Lower Topanga artists community with Herb Bermann, Baretta, Pablo Capra, James Mathers, Colina Rentmeester, Tool, Carole Winter, Norton Wisdom, and others. Directed by Natalie Lettner and Werner Hanak.

Penny-Ante #3…

…will include 3 Brass Tacks Press poets: Robert Campbell, Pablo Capra, and Toylit!
Pre-order a copy from the Penny-Ante website.

Full list of contributors:

Release party info below:

Another party for Andy

The breed of the neighbor’s dog has a unique mane, and is used for hunting lions in Africa.

Rags visits and destroys the remote control

Pyramids without Points (Pablo’s old punk band)

Sunset over Lincoln Blvd.

Headquarters