4th Annual FERAL HOUSE / PROCESS MEDIA WINTER SOLSTICE CELEBRATION
Book Release, Signing and Sale – Saturday, Dec 8, 2012 7-10 PM

Drink & Snack with:
* Adam Parfrey discoursing on Secret Societies, Cults and Conspiracy!
* Sean Tejaratchi previewing his coming Craphound / Feral House book on Unhappy People!
* Shambhalla Institute talks about Shamanic Gardening (their long-anticipated Process Media book).
* Erik Knutzen and Kelly Coyne will talk about new Urban Homestead inventions and discoveries!
* Mark Edward reveals cold-reading scams that gave him Psychic Blues.
* Hear ’60s French Pop Girls, the subject of an upcoming Feral House book!

Get a 20% discount on all Feral House and Process Media books.

Feral House / Process Media
Third Annual Winter Solstice Celebration
20% on ALL Feral House and Process Media titles!

“Ritual America” is clearly the first comprehensive American treatment of the examination of the secrets subtly stored away for those who are on the inside and those looking in from the outside…. It is created to challenge every fiber of your critical thinking and wonder.”
-Loren Coleman

“…[Process Media’s] books on supposed ‘fringe’ type characters are in fact memoirs of the true innovators-those truly bound for the stratosphere without commercial concerns.”
-Plastic Crimewave

“I rank Feral House, a small press with a taste for the outrageous, among the most valuable in America.”
-Richard Kostelanetz, Rain Taxi

FERAL HOUSE WEBSITE    PROCESS MEDIA WEBSITE

Braaaaainsgiving Zombie Party with author, Matt Mogk  Signing “Everything You Wanted to Know about Zombies” & “That’s Not Your Mommy Anymore”  

Wednesday, November 23, 2011  7 – 9 PM

THE MOST COMPREHENSIVE ZOMBIE HANDBOOK EVER PUBLISHED!

Zombie expert Matt Mogk, founder and head of the Zombie Research Society, busts popular myths and answers all your raging questions about the living dead with a lecture, slide show & other paraphernalia on zombie 101.

Q. How can I increase my chances of survival? A. One simple step is to keep away from other people. Without people there can be no zombies. Q. What is the connection between the Voodoo zombie and the flesh-eating zombie of popular culture? A. Other than a shared name, absolutely nothing. Q. Will zombies actually eat me, or will they just bite and chew? A. Research suggests the neuromuscular activity required for swallowing may be too complex for a zombie. Q. Will we see any warning signs before the dead rise? A. Unfortunately, entire populations could be infected with the zombie sickness before anyone even knows there’s a problem. Q. How come Zombie Awareness Month is in May and not October? A. Unlike witches and vampires, zombies are not otherworldly creatures. They are made of flesh and blood. Don’t forget to wear your gray ribbon. * Many more questions about zombies-including why not all of them are undead-are answered inside the book, published by Simon and Schuster 

Click here for Matt Mogk video presentation

When I found out that Los Angeles punk rock legend and personal friend, Alice Bag was about to release her first book, “Violence Girl,” through Feral House, I asked her if she would be interested in doing a double book signing event at La Luz de Jesus Gallery with photographer and friend Dawn Wirth who had just self published “The Bags – Hollywood Forever“  with previously unseen photos of Alice’s group taken in 1978.  I had suggested to Alice that I’d love to play bass with her if she were to perform some songs.  The night before the event, we rehearsed three songs along with Lysa Flores.

A crowd of people showed up to see Alice, filling the gallery spaces and part of the store. After the reading and performance, a long line formed for the book signing portion of the event. Alice and Dawn kept busy for two hours signing books and chatting with fans.

Alice was a trailblazer in the early punk era and her experiences growing up in East Los Angeles, being woman in the Los Angeles punk scene, and her life after as an activist, mother and teacher are documented in her book which actually started off as a blog, Diary of A Bad Housewife. Alice’s contact with friends and fans via her blog inspired her to write this book which is not only an interesting read for fans of the early Los Angeles punk scene, but a powerful and empowering read for young people, women and Hispanics no matter what music of choice!

Here’s some video of the event – shot by my girlfriend Samantha on an iPod Touch. It was a honor to play with Alice!

Marion Peck & Mark Ryden
A Valentine’s Day Signing Party!

Signing their recently published “Animal Love Summer” & “Snow Yak”

Monday, February 14th, 5-7 PM
La Luz de Jesus Gallery
Soap Plant / Wacko
4633 Hollywood Blvd.
Los Angeles CA 90027
323-666-7667
www.laluzdejesus.com
info@laluzdejesus.com

La Luz de Jesus presents a special double-header Valentine’s Day art-book event featuring Mark Ryden and Marion Peck signing their most recent monographs. Come early! Please note: in-store purchase ONLY will be eligible for signing so leave all your other Ryden and Peck goodies at home – there will be plenty of stuff available at La Luz de Jesus / Soap Plant / Wacko for your signing desires!

Mark Ryden’s “Snow Yak”
Traverse Mark Ryden’s vast wintry landscapes into the frigid domain of the majestic Snow Yak. Images from Ryden’s acclaimed Japanese “Snow Yak” Show are reproduced in large 11″ x 14″ format, and include many detail images and drawings. In this set of work, Ryden paints with a pallet of subtle whites and greys to create mysterious scenes of soft snow, clouds, and fur. The inhabitants of this wintry world are bare angelic figures and their companion woolly snow yaks. The works were originally shown at the prestigious Tomio Koyama Gallery in Tokyo in February 2009. This book features all of the works, as well as photographs of the work on display and of Ryden’s trip through Japan. Mark Ryden came to preeminence in the 1990s. With his masterful technique and disquieting content, he became a leader in the revitalization of painting, combining accessibility, craftsmanship and technique with socio-cultural relevance and emotional resonance. His work has been exhibited in museums and finer galleries worldwide. $28.00, Hardcover: 68 pages, published by Last Gasp; Bilingual edition, Language: English, ISBN-13: 978-0867197372, Product Dimensions: 11.2 x 14.8 x 0.6 inches.

Also available – “Snow Yak Postcard Microportfolio”

Marion Peck’s “Animal Love Summer”
Animal Love Summer is the first full monograph for painter Marion Peck. One of the leading ladies of pop surrealism, Peck populates her dreamlike paintings with strange, cute creatures. As her magical and bucolic landscapes unfold, an uneasy melancholy fills the air — the birds are chirping, but the sounds are not quite right. The viewer pauses and questions the reality Peck has created, as well as one’s own. Themes of hope, despair, mystery, nostalgia, love and death recur throughout Peck’s work alongside motifs of dreams, big-eyed animals, natural landscapes,doe-eyed children, royalty and peasantry. With references ranging from Pieter Bruegel to Holly Hobbie, Marion Peck mines the depths of art history, popular culture and the human experience for her meticulous scenes. While peasants dance in a painting of the same name, their son leers at a corralled ass while the evening’s dinner runs around with its head cut off. In her painting “F*ck You,” a nod to François Gérard’s 1804 “Portrait de Mme Tallien,” an elegant royal is anything but, as she tells us how she really feels. Peck looks beyond the subconscious, reminding us that the waking world is never quite as it seems. And with her dark sense of humor and irrepressible optimism, she assures us that while life can be ominous, tragic, even deceptive, it is also beautiful, magical and alive with hope. $29.95, Hardcover, 128 pages, published by Last Gasp, Language: English, ISBN-13:978-0867197419, Product Dimensions: 11.7 x 9.3 x 0.5 inches.

Thursday, December 9, 2011  6 – 9 pm
La Luz de Jesus / Soap Plant
4633 Hollywood Blvd.
Los Angeles, CA.  90027
www.laluzdejesus.com
info@laluzdejesus.com

• Have a bicycle-powered margarita or smoothie c/o Natural Kitchen’s Deborah Eden Tull.

• View mad professor Mel Gordon’s rare footage of the Weimar-period priestess of depravity, Anita Berber.

• See original art of the first Jewish superhero, “Funnyman“, by Superman’s Siegel and Shuster.

• Have your I Ching thrown and interpreted by the fabulous “Secret Source” author Maja D’Aoust.

• Ogle all the new, amazing, celebrated, and banned Feral House and Process titles.

• Kelly Coyne and Erik Knutzen (“The Urban Homestead”)
• Adam Parfrey (“Secret and Suppressed II”, “Apocalypse Culture”)
• Cletus Nelson (“Depression 2.0”)
• Louis Sahagun (“Master of the Mysteries”)
• Secret Guests (shhh)

Topless Summer Love Girls – A Gentleman’s Guide to Women, Relationships, and Breasts” by Leslie Cabaraga – Book signing – Live Music –  Burlesque Show – Party!

Saturday, Dec. 4, 6 – 9 pm

La Luz de Jesus Gallery
4633 Hollywood Blvd.
Los Angeles CA 90027
323-666-7667
www.laluzdejesus.com
info@laluzdejesus.com

“Topless Summer Love Girls” is a zany, pop culture commentary on growing up male in the era of Playboy, feminism, and swimsuit editions. Arming men with new insights into themselves and the eternal battle between the sexes, this hilarious and sexy book filled with hundreds of titillating photos of half-naked women is a passionate and unapologetic examination of men, women, and breasts.

Come join author Leslie Cabaraga – and enjoy live Western Swing music from Will Ryan and the Cactus County Cowboys – see the Controversial Port-O-Bra and burlesque by Eliza Bane plus free beer and margaritas!

“Topless Summer Love Girls” is a lavishly-illustrated, full-color, high-quality coffee-table-sized book. It’s a crazy compendium of dirty pictures, anatomical charts, bad cartoons, fake news clippings, spurious essays, hysterical sidebars, funny jokes, satirical essays, pseudo-scientific studies, and weird theories about women and breasts. It s also filled with great art–some created especially for this book, and some rarely seen–by some of the best illustrators and cartoonists of today and yesterday such as Charles Dana Gibson, H. T. Webster, Chas. Addams, Al Capp, Will Eisner, Mitch O Connell, Bill Presing, Shane Glines, Ragnar, Alex Nino, Milton Knight, Victor Juhasz, and Rian Hughes.

“Topless Summer Love Girls” is a serious mix of satire, outrageous assertions, outright lies and intelligent, sensitive, searching observations on men, women, and breasts. It s a men s empowerment book for men who would never ever pick up a men s empowerment book and who are not afraid to laugh at themselves.

“Topless Summer Love Girls” contains not only page-after-page of sumptuous color photos of topless girls sunning themselves on the beaches of Spain and the South of France, but it’s got excellent advice for men on dating and making the best choice in women, sexual relationships with women and women’s wiles, warnings about marriage, fatherhood, and divorce; and what every man should know about feminism. In short, it’s got everything a modern guy needs to survive love in the 21st Century.

* Paperback: 272 pages
* Publisher: Iconoclassics; First edition (November 10, 2010)
* Language: English
* ISBN-10: 096576284X
* ISBN-13: 978-0965762847
* Product Dimensions: 10.9 x 8.4 x 0.9 inches

www.toplesslovegirls.com