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Love's Supreme Desire xxx c/o Bloobird, 634 Edna st., SF CA 94127 Tel-A-Fool
events & info line/Fax: 415-333-9549, E-mail: bloobird@sirius.com Howdy,
thanks for expressing an interest in the Love's Supreme Desire xxx collective.
What's going on here? What are we about? How do you fit in? Well, the collective
got started officially on August 1, 1995, following a big adventure that I
had in the Southwest. After three years of being artistically closed-down,
depressed, hopeless, cynical, and bitchy, I found out about the Global Peace
Walk 95, which was a bunch of people walking from the UN in New York City
to UN Plaza in San Francisco to commemorate the UN's fiftieth anniversary
and as a prayer offering for global peace. I had just been laid-off from a
really crappy job at a bank(!) and so I decided that this was the sort of
uplifting project and road-trip that I needed to shake up my beige and farty
life. I joined the Peace Walk in Taos, New Mexico and on the first night
I had an intense spiritual experience in a Native American sweat lodge. I
also had other adventures on the Peace Walk that motivated me to devote my
life to the pursuit of Global Peace. I know, you're thinking, "Oh God, another
New Age Flake from Marin." But I'm not from Marin. And besides, this is no
joke, I did have a transformative experience that I won't go into here, but
if you're interested, we'll talk. I like to discuss spiritual matters because
they motivate me more than anything else. Having been the only openly gay
person on the walk, I was happy to hang with my tribe, the Radical Faeries,
later that year at the national Rainbow Family of Light gathering. I'd been
hanging with the Faeries since 1992 but this was my first time at a gathering
of Faeries, and I loved it exceedingly. We played, laughed, touched, dragged,
drugged, frolicked and sillified ourselves the whole time and it was incredibly
liberating for me. On the way back to San Francisco, I began discussing with
my friend Nicholas Jordan the idea of a collective of artists, a mutually-supportive
environment where we could be free to create, free to be our liberated selves,
and thus encourage liberation, peace and love to blossom forth in the general
community. We envisioned theatrical productions, recording studios, live-work
space, you name it. We don't have any of those things, but the collective
has inspired a few projects and things are in the works. For instance, we
have the monthly LSD Tabloid, which is a callboard and events newsletter.
Anyone who would like to participate in or suggest a project for collaboration
with others can do so by checking out the LSD Tabloid. If you'd like to subscribe,
please consider a donation of two first class stamps for each issue desired.
You can mail your stamps to me, Bloobird, at 634 Edna St., SF CA 94127. Or
if you'd like to receive a text-only version via the internet, send me a "subscribe
LSD Tabloid" message at . If you'd like to announce a gig or suggest a new
project, simply contact me by the fifteenth of each month with the pertinent
information. It's a free service to the artistic community, but what you
can do to help out is to distribute copies far and wide as you can afford,
or to donate stamps. What we have here is a network, really, more than a
collective, at least at this point, so whatever we can all do to help, well,
helps. We also publish a zine called LSDXXX, which comes out whenever it
damn well gets finished. The first one is sold-out and we are currently working
on the second one, which we hope to complete some day. We are always accepting
submissions of all kinds for the zine, the more far out the better, but please,
no fighting words. We are trying to build bridges after a long period of
seeing them burn down in the community at large. We have other things going
on and more on the horizon, but the idea I'm trying to get across here is
that YOU are an important part of the LSDXXX collective. Not because we want
you to send money. Things can and do happen with nary a penny whatsoever.
But your active involvement is very important and welcome. In these days of
funding cutbacks, we artists can survive and thrive by supporting one another's
dreams and visions. Peace, Bloobird