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Tentacle Sessions 37: Philip K. Dick Birthday Party, with Erik Davis
Sunday, 15 December 2002
7PM doors, show at 7:30PM
$5-$10
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Next Sunday, Tentacle Sessions features writer/scholar
ERIK DAVIS
Exploring the Cult of
Philip K. Dick
"There is no route out of the maze. The maze shifts as you move through it,
because it is alive." -Saint Phil
Come celebrate Philip K. Dick's birthday with a lecture-performance by
techgnostic scholar Erik Davis. Treating Dick as the supreme visionary of
California's crazy-wise spiritual imagination, Davis will explore the
connections between Dick's pulp mindfucks and today's increasingly surreal
and disturbing political and religious landscape. The second half of the
program will feature a rare 3D holographic recording of Brother Lance, Arch
Dickon in Anaheim's Holy Church of VALIS, delivering a sermon on Saint Phil
versus the Media Archons.
Erik Davis (www.techgnosis.com) is the author of TECHGNOSIS: Myth, Magic and
Mysticism in the Age of Information. He has written for Spin, Gnosis, Wired,
Details, Fringeware Review, Rolling Stone, Lingua Franca, The Nation, and
The Village Voice. He appeared in the Reality Checked Tentacle Session at
the beginning of 2002, and will help usher out '02 with this celebration of
Philip K. Dick's life and work, 20 years after the visionary science fiction
writer's untimely death.
Philip K. Dick was a writer whose career largely centered in the Bay Area,
where he produced such landmark works of science fiction as THE MAN IN THE
HIGH CASTLE, TIME OUT OF JOINT, and UBIK. He also wrote a number of literary
or mainstream novels such as CONFESSIONS OF A CRAP ARTIST and THE
TRANSMIGRATION OF TIMOTHY ARCHER. Since his death, his stories have been
adapted into a number of films, including BLADE RUNNER, TOTAL RECALL,
MINORITY REPORT, BARJO, IMPOSTER, and SCREAMERS. His reputation, once
largely confined to the genre ghetto, has broken through into mainstream
culture and is frequently cited in the editorial pages of the New York Times
and others attempting to make sense of the world we live in.
Join us in commemorating this signal visionary artist with a witty and fun
homage presented by an engaging, adroit, and inspired acolyte. Both hardcore
and newby PKDians will be in attendance. Birthday cakes may happen. Now
wait for last year as the penultimate Tentacle Session opens a crack in
space or an eye in the sky in this time out of joint where even you could
win the solar lottery - if not three stigmata of Palmer Eldritch.
(Unteleported Dick-heads may count 7 title references in that last sentence
alone.)
7-10 PM, $5-10. Doors open at 7, show begins at 7:30. Seating is limited,
so come early or risk a night on the town with Mission blade runners, Doctor
Bloodmoney, or the gameplayers of Titan.
Books by PKD and Erik Davis will be available for sale courtesy of
Borderlands Books (www.borderlands-books.com)
The Tentacles Sessions are a production of Laughing Squid
coming in February 2003: The Return of Hal Robins!
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SPANGANGA
3376 19th St. betw Mission & Capp Sts.
San Francisco
415-821-1102
http://www.spanganga.org
BART to 16th St.; 14 Mission bus to 19th St.; venue is between Mission and
Capp St. on 19th; off-street parking on 21st St. at Bartlett St.
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