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Get Lost Calendar of Events

Events begin at 7pm and are Free!
Get Lost Travel Books presents authors and slide shows weekly in the mezzanine of our store.

May 21, 2008
WEDNESDAY>> GUADALAJARA:

Known as Mexico’s second city, Guadalajara has a revolutionary past and is currently one of the country’s most vibrant cities culturally and economically. The Guggenheim Foundation is building its first Latin American museum in the city. Guadalajara’s mild spring like climate and proximity to many important archeological sites as well as the Tequila region make it a delightful spot for travelers loooking for an off the beaten path perspective of Mexico. Bruce Whipperman has written numerous Moon handbooks about different regions of Mexico and will also be covering Oaxaca in his presentation.

June 4, 2008
Erick Lyle's On the Lower Frequencies is at once a manual, a memoir and a history of creative resistance and fun in a world run rotten with poverty and war. Whether handing out fake starbucks coupons for free coffee, dropping flyers on mall-goer's heads that say "aren't you glad this isn't a bomb?" or having punk shows in laundromats, Lyle (formerly known as Iggy Scam) has shown the world over the years that you can resist consumerism and have fun and have a sense of humor at the same time.

Scam, an icon of the samizdat zine scene of the 1990's, is equally at home on mainstream radio, where he has done several commentaries for This American Life. His "Secret History" traces the evolution of cities, for sure, and of neighborhoods, and of dissent, but also of his own thinking under the pressure of experience, from his early focus on the more outre forms of resistance, through more contemplative times as he becomes preoccupied with the passage of time and starts to articulate an affirmative vision of the type of society he'd like to live in and fight for. In writing, for example, on Reagan's death he feels relief that came from realizing that by the time Reagan had actually died, his teenage rage had ceased being the motivating factor in his life, that what keeps him going is the sense of what he wishes the world actually looked like, inter alia, public art, squats, free breakfast programs, illegal peace demos in san francisco, punk holidays (joey ramone day, in which people gather and do a secret santa exchange of mixtapes), even a booklist.