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BIKE RACK!

A year ago, a light bulb lit in our brains. As active bike riders, we wanted to see more clustered bike parking in our downtown. With the support of the Downtown Business Association and the generous governmental hurdling assistance of Dan Rivoire of the SLO County Bike Coalition, we finally scored an eight-slotted bike rack directly in the front of our store and Coalition Skate Shop. Easy parking and we have a bike pump at the front counter to keep you floating high on inflated tires. The rack is dedicated to Richard Fox, a well loved member of the SLO Bike Club who passed away in late 2009.

Al Jarnow gets his due

Celestial Navigations:
The Short Films of Al Jarnow
1968-1987, Al Jarnow, USA, 90 min.

Tens of millions of people have seen these films. Nobody knows who made them.

Curled up on our couches in the wee hours of the morning, in reruns, and nostalgic You Tube forwards, filmmaker Al Jarnow has touched our lives and changed the way we look at the world without us ever knowing. Beginning with his work for a certain public television show that featured a big yellow bird, Al Jarnow captured life’s scientific minutia and boiled it down for easy consumption between cookie eating monsters and counting vampires. Coupling time-lapse, stop motion, and cel animation with simple objects found in every day life, Jarnow deconstructed the world for an entire generation.

From the third floor of his Long Island gingerbread home, his mind wandered beyond the confines of educational programming. Delving into New York’s avant-garde film scene alongside Harry Smith, Jonas Mekas and Stan Brakhage, Jarnow created a body of awe-inspiring films that remain in the collections of MOMA and Pompideau Center.

Employing the archival skills honed during the excavation of over 40 full-length albums, Celestial Navigations marks The Numero Group’s first foray into the world of cinema. The 45 films collected have been transferred and color corrected from the original 16mm prints, along with fully remastered sound. Special features include a 30-minute documentary on Jarnow’s creative process, as well as film playlists designed for both children and adults alike. The deluxe package includes a 60-page book loaded to the gills with essays, ephemera, storyboards, photos, and a complete film index, all housed in the iconic Numero slipcase.


In-Store: Devil Makes Three’s Pete Bernhard

Pete Bernhard in-store performance on February 19th @ 5:30pm 2010

You’d think once out of the limelight of Devil Makes Three, vocalist Pete Bernhard would want to rest his voice. Nope. He focuses on songs that he felt needed drums and weren’t suited for the all-acoustic old-country/blues/punk outfit The Devil Makes Three. His solo set has a no-holds- barred feel about it and lyrical fearlessness that one only finds in the truly liberated – feeling no pressure of fitting into a mold. There’s folk, funky New Orleans soul, blues, rock and other genres craft fully melded into a seamless and natural combination that is, like The Devil Makes Three, extremely difficult to place into a single genre.

Sometime back, Pete stepped on to our in-store stage with Devil Makes Three, but on February 19th 2010, he will honor us with solo performance. Since DMT sell out shows most time they play in town, you may want to get here early.