blunders in technology.

my printer is terrible, so today I put all the stuff for issue six on my USB drive and headed over to my grandma's house to print it all out. her USB port was broken.

I promise it'll get printed sometime soon.

sincerest apologies,
c.h.

swiftly now.

my family took a trip to the kern river last weekend.
lots of hiking and swimming ensued, here are some photos.

if you listen hard to silence, you'll hear thunder deep inside.

"the inscription above the door announced that we had thrown off the shackles of the bosses and organized ourselves; we were a collective"

coup d'état has been collectivized! (if you didn't know already)
we were a collective before, y'know, with all that collecting everyone else's work and making a zine out of it. but now I've decided to essentially expand coup d'état as a platform for working together with other zines and collectives to produce more cool shit than ever before. an example of this? well, recently friends nolan and matt sent me a copy of their zine CHANGE TIME and asked me if I could print it for them due to the fact that they lacked the funds to do it themselves. I, of course, happily agreed to help them out with their endeavor and printed off 25 copies for them. see? we worked collectively to produce something we all wanted. want to help out in your own way? please do! need advice about creating zines or anything else? ask! we're all here to help each other out! join the coup d'état collective.

I'll make lethargy my enemy....
it's been about three months since an issue of coup has been released and I intend to change that asap. I've gotten a few submissions from various people (thanks if you submitted something!) and at this point I'm just looking for time to put it all together. after that, it's just a matter of printing, which is a task in and of itself. If you have some free time, come help me print!

issue six includes interviews with cody of Sabertooth Zombie, jason of Kid Dynamite and veganTHIS! as well as various other articles, poems, photos etc.

in other news!
troy and other members of the KSPC free lunch collective need your help! the following is communiqué sent out by them:

Dear you.

A few of us at KSPC are embarking on a project that will twist this universe beyond its wildest imagination.

We will release live sets recorded by bands that perform at the station. The releases will come in either CD, tape, or vinyl format (limited to about 30-50 for each group). Each release will be accompanied by a collection of donated art from the local and global community. It will all be compiled into a lunch box or brown paper bag.

The releases will be handed out for free by the band, as well as shipped to different participants throughout the world. All who receive the luxury of our anti-product will be instructed to 1) burn the record to their computer, 2) contribute some piece of work to the box, and 3) mail/give the recording to someone else. The locations will be tracked on the blog, and the FREE LUNCH will continue to grow larger as time moves on (assuming we make it past 2012).

This is being done to directly confront record labels and all forms of intellectual property!


check out more information at http://kspcfreelunch.blogspot.com

email creations to kspcfreelunch@gmail.com




Thank you for your time.
God Bless.
KSPC FREE LUNCH COLLECTIVE

in other, other news
check out joey's blog!
unholyvictory.blogspot.com


THAT'S ALL FOR NOW!
STAY TUNED FOR MORE UPDATES!

WOW.

the show WENT OFF on saturday! no lie. things got off to sort of a slow start, not many people showed up on time, but I suppose that was to be expected. around 5:30 bedros and klaus and friends appeared in my front yard, baring gifts of steamed vegetables apparently prepared by bedros' mum. it ruled. everyone was chillin' when more kids started arriving, kids I'd never met before, HOW EXCITING! that's what I love about this community; music (specifically punk rock in this instance) destroys all borders that would otherwise prevent things like that from happening. but trust is granted to total strangers, so much so that we allow them to wander into our backyards. it's a beautiful thing. this community gives me hope for humanity. around six, jessie and colton showed up to play their set, by now there were about 30 or so kids hanging around. everyone took their seats on the lawn to focus on what turned out to be an AWESOME couple of sets.
everyone was enjoying listening to them while nomin' on the delicious vegan food provided by those who brought dishes (bedros, alex & ashley, ian, nicki and a buncha others). jessie and colton's set ended around seven and by then sheeeep had finished setting up and began to play. the only adjectives I can use to describe them is weird and fucking rad.
after sheeeep came burn idols, who fucking ripped it up, as usual.
I took the liberty of climbing on my roof and shooting a couple of videos of their set, so ya'll could experience it.


by the time burn idols finished up, about 40 or so more kids were milling around my backyard, probably more people than have ever been back there. next up was a nation sleeps. before their set I explained why we were having the show (see next video). ANS played and got an awessssooome response from everyone in the crowd, so stoked about that :D



ANS split a set with the kingsford run, who's intrepid journey from cimi valley out to my house definitely didn't get the recognition it deserved. I mean, that's FUCKING FAR! and for them to do that just to play a couple of songs! I mean wow! such rad dudes. I <3 'em.


all we know played next and they were received extremely well, which they more than deserve. they work soo soo hard and don't receive allot in return for it. I love you guys <3 the only thing that went wrong during their set was me getting elbowed in the face, which resulted in a deeeep gash in the crease of my nose. at least I'll have a souvenir to remember my show by.




after all we know was amongst wolves (more rad dudes) who split a set with offtrack (even more rad dudes) at the last minute. both bands kicked out the jams. it was tiiiiiiight.




badmouth finished up the bands playing on the grass and, as always, they smashed. you guys ruleeeeeeeEeeeEeeeEeEeEeE


after running around like a chicken with it's head cut off, trying to move the damn P.A. (thanks by the way, santino!) up to the patio, creatures started their set behind my garage. (I'm still looking for photos of this, please lemme know if you have any) it rullllled.

FINALLLLLLLY, rotting out set up and after a great deal of suspense, dedicated their set to chris (aptly dressed in LeBron James nike dunks, brown dickies shorts and an american flag) and began to play. needless to say SHIT WENT OFFFFFF. it was too much fun. they played a couple of new songs off of their 7" Vandalized and all the old ones. ending their set, they played you're done letting chris take the mic. chris was lovin' life at this point. after being threatened with having the cops called, we got the OK for them to play one more song, which turned out to be a cover of minor threat. a great way to end the night.






that night ruled. too much fun was had.

OH! I almost completely forgot to mention! the show marked the release of issue numero 5 of the zine. check the myspace for more deets. :]

p.s. thanks to evan, nicki and melissa for their photos !

wheeww.

last night ruled, period. it was the combination of my two favorite things; nature and music. I really hope they book more shows at the cabin, come summer time. I would be sooo happy. 

here's some footy I took of the day and badmouth:

5/30/09 from

and here's some of suedehead that nick took:

sick!

grab on.

the four day memorial weekend was one of my favorites thus far in 2009. friday was spent around the house, followed by saturday doing much of the same. that is until I went to help my aunt move, which I thought would be an entirely strenuous and boring experience. I was proven extremely wrong though when I happened upon an 8mm film projector, which, when I asked about, I was told I could have. with that added to my collection of random media junk, I'll finally be able to play my 8mm film captured by my 8mm camera. rad. alsssso, I met one of my cousins tenants who was extremely cool. not only was she a stencil artist and into extremely good music, she also rode fixed! I find it fascinating meeting fascinating people on off chances. 

saturday turned out alright, but the epitome of the weekend was definitely sunday. it began by having Laura, Zach and April come over to help cook for Food Not Bombs Pomona. we danced and cooked and cooked and danced, life ruled at this point. after serving Zach and April headed out and me and Laura stuck around my house, enthralled in deep conversation until she had to leave. this is where I thought my night was going to end.....but no. shortly after Laura left, Joey texted me asking if I had any interest in riding the route of the L.A. marathon early in the morning. not wanting to miss out on what sounded like a promising chance for fun, I happily agreed. Joey picked me up at 10 p.m., which is when I found out that the ride started at 3 a.m. I was already exhausted from cooking and serving that day, but I said what the hell. what ensued was a night of pure insanity. the following video no where near does it justice. 

oh, also, come out to my house for this:


more deets later.

blahblahblahnumerocinco.

The long anticipated release of issue #55.....wait no....I mean issue #5 will be soon! The only thing is, I still need a good deal of material to fill it up er else it'll look pretty barren. So go ahead and submit something! A picture, a painting, your feelings, what you ate for lunch today....anything really! go ahead! yeah! woooooh! 

also, the photo you're looking at on the side is a great band called baby's breath. check 'em ou at http://www.myspace.com/babysbreathpunk

As if I don't spend enough time on the computer already.

This blog is intended to provide you with updates about The Coup (d'état zine) as well as provide me with an outlet to post the rather uninteresting  shit that I happen to find interesting. Also, this'll most likely be used as a photo journal to chronicle the adventures of my friends and I.

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First order of business! NEWS!

well, the Claremont Anarchist Collective hosted it's first conference at Pitzer College last week and after tabling this event, I've decided to expand into the world of distro-ing. What does this mean? hmmmmm, well, I'm not quite sure myself. I mostly want to just use it as an excuse to add 'distro' to the end of the coup d'état name 'cos I think it sounds cool. plus, I'd like to use it as a way to table at shows and more events like the CAC's conference. I suppose what distro-ing really means is that if your band, zine etc. would like to have it's stuff on the table along with mine, I would be more than happy to do so. SOOO, get in contact with me! I especially would like stuff that's from out of town that would be otherwise difficult to come by. 

I want to mention something VERY IMPORTANT right now, though. if you're interested in having me sell your stuff, I'm still up for doing that. although I do ask that you keep anything you'd have me sell within a very reasonable amount. remember guys, this is punk rock and we're kids, we don't have allot of money to begin with.

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speaking of the anarchist conference,

check out these photos I took of restrained

playing the benefit

show for the conference the night before.

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cool, so that was the first post. I'll be sure to update this quite frequently, so be sure to check back! oh, by the way, my name's cameron. what's yours?