~ happy bastille day….the angry red planet is celebrating along with stereolab, air, brigitte bardot, and, of course, the vidal band. tout le monde, descendez…

~ time to get ready for the convention at www.d2kla.org

~ are you looking for the photos of the new home for the southern california institute of architecture? in seven weeks, this building (*link removed) will be converted into the most intense, ‘avant garde’ graduate and under-graduate architectural school in downtown l.a., if not the world….

~ it might be late for a countdown, but there are now less than four hours until the first showing, at midnight, of ‘x-men’ in los angeles.

~ the mazda 323 still lies dead in the road.

~ yes. the angry red mazda made it through the second smog check. last month’s ‘nox’ emission was 1873; today’s was only 5. the bastard at ‘rocket smog’ tried to charge me for another test, though i was entitled to a ‘free’ one, since the last one was a failure. in the end, i had to pay $8.25 for something about which i am not sure; i didn’t get anything in return. damn this arcane system. despite my daily use of one of them, cars are still abominable.

~ today’s mail also brought issue number 12 from ‘the assassin and the whiner’. i suggest that you immediately send $1 to carrie for your copy; find carrie’s address in the ‘zine contacts’ page of the angry red planet.

~ the angry red planet just received its invitation to the ‘te gusta?’ exhibition, which features ian lynam of migraine fame, along with kinya hamada and eric mast, in the show promises ‘web animations, paintings, and stuffed animal craziness’. the show runs 2 june-27 june at space1026, philadelphia. assorted websites on the invitation:
   space1026.com
   mumbleboy.com
   milkyelephant.com

~ the angry red planet extends the wish of a happy 42nd birthday to the artist now known as prince. join us in our celebrations on napster.

~ finally available is the second of the angry red planet scene reports; the photo journal of the auto tours can seen here, and some of the highlights are still readable in last week’s log.