it's time for me to order some then. is there any on ebay? have to check it out when I get home...

On ebay there's just one from an italian seller (no, it's not my account :D), 99 Euros. Bah.
That amazon thing is annoying.

already rising prices? quick

I think the seller is just trying to get some easy money..on the other hand, that's the only copy on the whole ebay, if the searching engine isn't playing trics on me...

the search engine from ebay is just a trick-machine from time to time, I hate that thing

I don't know if anyone mentioned it but David Byrne did a write up on his blog about the show.

http://journal.davidbyrne.com/

http://journal.davidbyrne.com/2009/0...Csseldorf.html

The start of our European tour. We arrive at an ungodly hour in the morning, having only slept a few hours, at best, on the flight. Most of us sit like zombies wolfing down the amazing breakfast spread at our hotel. Some of us agree to meet at 1pm to get out and about.
There’s a Sonic Youth exhibit called “Sensational Fix” at the local museum. It’s got the expected album covers and music paraphernalia, but given that it’s Sonic Youth, the show is split between their art collections and their own work. As such it’s a taste of their world — friends, influences, connections, collaborations and accumulated collections of artwork and ephemera. (I’ve heard that Thurston and some of the others are obsessively rabid record collectors — especially obscure “out” stuff like old Sun Ra vinyl and Japanese noise bands — but that trove might have to wait for some other venue to see the light of day.)
There is work by their pals Richard Prince, Raymond Pettibon, Tony Oursler, Mike Kelley and Rita Ackermann — some of which was used for record covers; work by those who inspired them — a video of John Cage on “What’s My Line?”, Ginsberg photos of his Beat pals, William Burroughs’ gunshot art; and some of their own videos, paintings, collages and installations. Here’s a lovely walk-in room that Christian Marclay did — the floor littered to a few inches thickness with old vinyl. For a record lover, the experience is a kind of sacrilege — and that’s the point.

 

The exhibit posits Sonic Youth more as an art/media collective than simply as a band — which is probably accurate, though most people know them through their more accessible recordings, of course. But this is closer to how they must see themselves — as the hyphenate legacy of both the Beat and performance art worlds, and the wacky fringes of pop culture — death metal, freaky cults, underground comics, vinyl junkies and the dark side of Madonna and Karen Carpenter. What’s nice about it is the thread that ties together the art world with the pop music world with the Beat poets and a million others — and it stretches through time, backwards, forwards and sideways. It’s also a world of fandom — in a way, Sonic Youth are impresarios presenting the work of others that they love.
I might be imagining it, but it seems to me that in Europe, the mixing of pop culture and high art — as evidenced in this show, put on in a big, state-run museum, as opposed to an alternative art space — is more accepted as an idea than in the US. It could explain why the show originated here, and might only reach the US after traveling elsewhere for a while. Here, it seems that Sonic Youth can be perceived as an arts collective that happens to occasionally make accessible recordings, rather than as a pop band that dabbles in art.

I was just informed by amazon that they can't fill my order for the sensational fix book that i placed a month ago. if anyone has any leads on a copy, please let me know. I know that three of my poster designs are in the book because a friend sent me snapshots. So, clearly I'd love to have a copy of the book. Thanks for any help you guys might be able to give me.

http://www.londonnet.co.uk/listings/...icestersquare/

give them a call

Sonic Youth etc.: Sensational Fix
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=30qCOZ0UqNQ

thanks!

yes

If only the exhibition came to Portugal... There's a museum in Porto that is the most well-suited to receive it, the Serralves contemporary art museum:
http://www.serralves.pt/select_lang.php?id=en

the exhibition is really great!!!

Here I am at CA2M Madrid being photographed while I photograph some jumping Spaniards.
It really was loads of fun.
And yes the exhibition is truly wonderful... I pretty much spent the whole day there absorbing the work and atmosphere, which was punctuated by the velvet throat of Julie Cafritz continually proclaiming "Fuck You!".
Good times.

I agreed! Bring Sensational Fix to Porto!

So anyone got the red/blue vinyl 2nd edition then?

Where is it available for purchase online at?

maybe these were posted already??

oh man I would pee myself if I came across these on the street! super collector items!

There's a few on us ebay right now for $55.
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll...m=400111290521
How is the book???

Great! Totally worth the 55$, really.

That's 25$ cheaper than what the SY store sells them for... go for it.

I was surprised to see em that cheap. I ordered one immediately actually.

Does it span sy's entire career, or is it more current stuff?

It covers everything.

it is all-encompassing and it is amazing.

Fuckkkkkkktyeahhhhhh!!!!

There's still 3 up on that ebay bin...surprised no others have hit it...the description seems a little confused though.

Here you have some (low) quality video picks from my visit to the Móstoles (Madrid) edition.

Such a GREAT exhibition.

http://youtu.be/OV6W_XlaFmc