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"avant-garde art, as a minority culture, must attack and deny the majority culture to which it is opposed" (poggioli 108). 1. centipede are Rev. Michael J. Lieberman (centipede m.l.) on drums and G Leung, esq. (centipede g.) on guitar. originally inspired by captain beefheart & his magic band, centipede are the rightful heirs to the historical avant-garde; nobody who has heard the band thinks what they make is actually music. 2. they recently provided a track for alice et dorval: an ownable art experiment and have recorded an e.p., we stole the bitch's time slot. also available is their debut full-length, nancy reagan flipbook, which includes a flipbook of nancy waving with one hand and holding an american flag (before it was cool) in the other. 3. they have recently added a keyboard player named bricky (centipede b.). 4. they have since added another guitar player named mike (centipede m.r.). word on the street is that they're looking for a conductor. 5. centipedes b. and m.r. have split and the group is on indefinite hiatus. discography we stole the ____'s time slot (cs) monoculture 005 nancy reagan flipbook (cd) monoculture 006 click here and enter the official centipede webpage click here and read the centipede letters: the continuing correspondence of centipedes m.l. and g. works cited poggioli, renato. the theory of the avant-garde. new york: harper and row, 1971.
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