Rock Steady with Greggycrisco's WHORACLE!!!

That's right, I said "Rock Steady" and also used triple exclamation points. And What?

We got a treat for you, New York effin' City.

In 2 weeks (mark your calendar) our good friend and L.A. artist Gregory Barnett brings his "normal" to our space with WHORACLE, a crystallization of the current phase of his process. i.e.- stuff he drew/painted/made



RECEPTION - HANG OUT, GAZE, DRINK
Opening reception for WHORACLE is Friday, April 15 at 8pm. stop by, meet the man. Seriously, I've known him for years - the dude is always exploding with ass-clowney Greg-ness. Ya needs ta come. FREE

PERFORMANCE
He's also blessing us with a performance on Saturday night (April 16 at 9pm) and will be joined by various local artists (Kim Almquist, FeleciaMaria, Stan Apps, Diane Tomasi and Gorgas.) Now THAT is gonna freekin rock.
Greg's Dance Company, DANCEGOOD.DAMNIT!!!, has previously brought notorious shows to L.A.'s Highways theater. He will be performing a few solo pieces for us right here in Red Hook at Everbrite Mercantile Co. FREE

MOVEMENT CLASS
And to top it off: Monday he will be teaching an all level interdisciplinary performance workshop, KINK STRETCH. So iffin you're the type who needs to move, you won't want to miss this. Monday, April 18... 2pm to 5pm. $10 suggested donation

I would be remiss in my duties as Media Flack if I didn't present you with Greg's own (intentionally pretentious and unapolagetic) words:

WHORACLE

A pantheon of jovial hermaphrodites, transcendental pornography and vulnerability propaganda secure a sex-positive sanctuary asking and allowing us to reconnect with the all-but-forgotten Sacred Whore. Los Angeles- based interdisciplinary artist Gregory Barnett premieres WHORACLE, a collection of arts & crafts and drawings addressing and reversing our society's unnecessary shame towards sex culture and it's ignorance regarding screwing as a conduit for enlightenment and ascension. Countering a culture obsessed with homogenized and airbrushed titillation but horrified by a gaping blood-letting cunt, Barnett's decidedly affirming collection of newfound deities and impromptu, scrawled mantras attempt to balance our skewed misunderstanding of f*cking and loving.

 - gb xxx ooo penis

San Pedro Confidential

on the prowl. searchin for shwag.


what time is it, Pedro?


come back. we still miss you

Obsess-a-mundo (plus OPEN early Valentines Day)

OK. We open early Valentines Day... 8AM til whenever. (Normally we're closed Monday, but we're enabling your Love Holiday crackheadedness.)

In other news: Mollie reworked the layout of the checkout area. It's now an actual L-shaped desk/showcase arrangement - more of a standard setup

In fact, we ripped apart and reworked the entire store this past weekend. We freed up a lot of space in the middle and are heading to The Hinterlands to fill it back up with product (and new display cases and a few upright arcade games and... ???? stuff)

Here below, this classic old-ish showcase from Erin Weckerle hasn't seen active service since way back when her store was in Fort Greene on DeKalb. That was long before that street was flooded with stuff. Erin's a "pointer". I'm sure her current phase of exploration will be as interesting and ahead of the curve as her retail phase was.

Mollie filled the bitchen case with bitchen stuff. The display case proudly soldiers on.


She has also started to put stuff in my new big flat case. It is now oiled and stained and lined with gray velvet. I love it when a non-existent plan comes together... swiftly and out of the ether.


and now: far too much visual coverage of one damn thing





you don't understand. I been dickin the dog on this project for like FOUR MONTHS!

Closed every Wednesday to March 2nd

Temporary schedule change.

Our normal store hours are Wednesday thru Sundays, 11am - 7pm. Closed Monday and Tuesday

But for the next 3 weeks we'll also be closed Wednesdays.

Even though the store is closed during the day, we'll still be having YOGA WEDNESDAY NIGHTS with Felecia Maria.


We're back to the normal Wednesday store hours the second week of March.

BEHOOOOOLLLLLLD!!!

The LAST rolls of Kodachrome developed.

600 feet of (Double) Super 8 film - about a half hour of footage, mostly of Snowpocalypse 2010 in Red Hook Brooklyn.

Must do some film-to-digital transfer and upload soon.

got me some wood

So, this flat showcase display has been sans-glass since we opened the store in October. Mollie had given up long ago grousing to me about finishing it - that is how slacky I've been about this particular task.

Some wild hair must have crawled up my ass yesterday because I walked around the corner to Coffey Street and finally ordered some plate glass from Buddy at B.C. Glass.



I also got a new top for the old Sodafine showcase that Erin Weckerle sold us. I had accidentally shattered it last week... I didn't mind because it was scratched up pretty badly. (not pictured here)

But this new showcase (with no glass) had been sitting around being used as a "table". Also it has these unsupported spindly log-like fence posts for legs... super crappy.

When we were initially building out the store, I decided to use "found" components from Lowes. We briefly floated the idea of sourcing reclaimed wood for some High Concept sustainable blah blah "green" blah eco-conscious blah.

But then I asked myself "What is sustainable?"

Does sustainable mean that trucking some former warehouse/barn/farm-house lumber in from upstate or Michigan or the South somehow magically makes us ethical and conscious... or just plain sanctimonious and pretentious.

I eventually concluded that sourcing whatever I could find at Lowes (via their highly-optimized supply chain) and muscling tons of it over to Red Hook on my handy convertible handcart/dolly was the easiest, cheapest method. It was also sort of interesting to see what could be created from such generic, average materials.

Anyway, this piece-o-crap fence-post legged showcase thing. FINALLY got some glass in it today and I rediscovered some backyard logs and twigs that Kim had used for our Desolate Winterland Christmas window display.



so I super-crappified the legs with somewhat structural triangulation in a rough cobby frontier-style that would look perfectly at home in a Baja California clapboard shack. My "concept" here is "How would a lazy, crazy drunken Indian with no skills or sense of pride build this?"

I'm sorry... I think it's spelled "Injun".

I suppose I'll oil this up tomorrow and line it with velvet.

This bad boy opens up on heavy duty drawer slides. Hopefully no one leans on it in full-open position or it might topple right over like the Flintstone's car fully loaded with Brontosaurus ribs.


I hate when that happens.

And on the other side of the store: Another log for the new children's clothing section, made to appear as if it is lashed together with rope. My concept for this display is "WHAT THE F*CK?!!?"





Now Mollie has gotta jam some stuff inside of all this new showcase real estate.

bitchen stuff.

new years all over again

Welcoming in the Slant year with Style and Grace...

who's yer daddy?