Did you know that one inspiration for Chuck Palahniuk’s novel Fight Club was the author’s time in the Cacophony Society? You can hear about that this evening (9/23) at 7:30pm PT during “Chuck Palahniuk and the SF Cacophony Society: Creating Culture from Mayhem,” a live event at San Francisco Castro Theatre that will also be streamed live here. What the hell is the Cacophony Society, you ask? Don’t fret, you may already be a member. Launched in 1986, the Cacophony Society is a highly-influential, “randomly gathered network of free spirits united in the pursuit of experiences beyond the pale of mainstream society.” This underground collective of pranksters, culture jammers, and thrill-seekers birthed Burning Man, pioneered urban exploration, and freaked out the squares with their proto-flash mobs of SantaCon. BB pal John Law, Carrie Galbraith, and Kevin Evans have finally revealed the hidden history of this (semi-)secret society in a beautiful new book, “Tales of the San Francisco Cacophony Society.”
Tonight, join Palahniuk, Law, and Galbraith for a panel moderated by my old friend Brad Wieners, and plenty of other shenanigans.
Event details here at the Commonwealth Club site