This looks like a pre-Halloween erruption to me. My absolute favorite is the free Genuis Award party on Friday. But start the evening at Roq La Rue with Monsters a Go Go. End the evening at the mysterious Rocktail party if you are a lucky owner of a backstage pass for this private party.
Friday, 10/15
6:00 PM Monsters a Go Go @ Roq La Rue
8:00 PM Seattle Gay & Lesbian Film Festival: Eating Out (Opening Night)
9:00 PM The Genius Awards @ Western Bridge
10:00 PM RISE: A Night of Exquisite House Music @ Aristocrat's
Saturday, 10/16
Noon GMP documentary @ Cinerama
1:00 PM? Youth Amputee Program
4:00 PM Rehearsals for Wanna-be Zombies in Building 67 at Sand Point.
5:00 PM South Asian program @ Seattle's Lesbian and Gay Film Festival
8:00 PM Zero Day @ ConWorks.
8:00 PM Bring Your Weird Friend Party @ Studio 7
9:00 PM? Globalista & DJ ANSHUL CD RELEASE PARTY @ DJ ANSHUL, CD RELEASE PARTY.
11:00 PM Fetish Freak Show @ NocNoc
Thursday, 10/2
7:30 PM LOST & FOUND: MEDIA ARCHEOLOGY at NW Film Forum
8:00 PM Soire Francophone a Chapel
Friday, 10/15
Monsters a Go Go @ Roq La Rue
Start your long Friday evening here!
Roq La Rue Gallery
presents
Monsters a Go Go
A Group Spookshow Spectacular!
Featuring work by Shag, Camille Rose Garcia, Lisa Petrucci, Liz McGrath, Jim Blanchard, Andrew Brandou (AKA Howdy Pardner), Miles Thompson, Moira Hahn, Daniel Du Plessis, Joe Vollan, Pooch, Luke Chueh, The Pizz, Ryan Bubnis, Joshua Petker, Dave Burke, Mike Maas, and Joe Vaux.
THIS Friday October 15th 6-10pm
Ah, Halloween... can you dig it,boys and ghouls? We go batty for our favorite time of year here at the Roq, and so we gravely bring you the spooktacular group extravaganza "Monsters A Go Go," deadicated to the delightfully creepy, morbidly kooky, and wickedly amusing. 18 artists stepped up to the plate to produce a mind boggling array of paintings and sculptures in tribute to the devil's holiday. Freaky tiki's, demon hot rods, beatnik werewolves, surf creatures, and big eyed THINGS all have a home here at Roq la Rue this October. You don't want to miss it!
Drag your bloody knuckles down to the opening soiree!
Rain City Hearse Club will be on hand at the opening with some of the more fetching coaches from their impressive fleet.
Spooky, surfy sounds provided by the ghastly DJ Creepy Crawler.
Ghoulish treats and the usual gruesome brew.
Appropriate funerary attire requested.
All ages welcome, but undead crawling severed hands will need adult supervision.
More info at http://www.roqlarue.com
Seattle Gay & Lesbian Film Festival: Eating Out (Opening Night)
The Seattle Lesbian and Gay Film Festival provides the opportunity to celebrate our diverse lives and identities through the powerful mediums of film and video. This year we are proud to offer the biggest festival yet – and with 64 different programs in 4 venues over 7 days you will find many films that will stimulate and titillate; enrich and entertain. As is says on the bag, Freshly Seasoned... with just enough spice!
The movie for the opening night is Eating Out. It sounds terrible. Why do you want to watch this?
Eating Out (Opening Night)
Friday, October 15, 8:00pm
Take one part teen sex comedy, one part sexploitation, one part madcap farce, and add a huge injection of wild one-liners and you have Q. Allan Brocka’s amazing feature debut. Brocka expertly mixes conventional film genres to create a new hybrid sex comedy that will take you from hysterical laughter to titillating arousal (and back again) in mere minutes.
Caleb is a hunky sensitive straight guy with a bent toward aggressive girls. When he sees Gwen at a party in the process of loudly dumping her newly gay boyfriend, he is instantly smitten. There’s just one problem: Gwen likes her boys straight in the sheets, but gay on the streets. So, Caleb’s roommate Kyle (Jim Verraros of “American Idol”) hatches a plan: turn this metrosexual into a homosexual and Gwen will pounce. Pounce she does—all over the idea that Caleb should date her very sexy roommate Marc, who also happens to be the man of Kyle’s dreams. So it’s full-steam ahead with the plan, but soon enough the sexual confusion and tension boils to the surface; climaxing in one of the hottest and most unique three-way phone sex scenes you will ever see. With everyone awash in sexual orientation confusion, how far can this plan possibly go?
It's going nowhere!
Seattle Gay & Lesbian Film Festival: Oct 15-21
http://www.seattlequeerfilm.com/04/welcome.htm
http://www.seattlequeerfilm.com/04/schedule.htm
The Genius Awards @ Western Bridge
Next stop: Genius Awards. My favorite for this week!
The Genius Awards
A Singular Multimedia Arts Event
ART. MUSIC. FREE.
The Genius Awards are given each year to
The Stranger's picks for 4 of Seattle's best minds in Visual Art, Theater, Literature, and Film.
The event features the works of these artists, presented together in a multimedia showcase and collective celebration.
Full Bars / Free Food / Film Lounge / Lucky Strike VIP Tent
Live Performances by:
Bugz in the Attic (UK)
(http://www.bugzintheattic.net)
Sientific American
(Saturday Knights cancelled)
Suntzu Sound DJ's AC Lewis, Atlee, & J-Justice
(http://www.suntzusound.com)
...rumors of special performances by Genius Awards winners.....
The easiest way would be
Ride the FREE Genius Awards Bus:
includes:
Special screening of Stranger short films
Running from
BAUHAUS
and back all night
first trip @ 8:30
Running every 30 minutes
OR you could drive.
Western Bridge is located 5 minutes south of downtown Seattle.
What is Western Bridge?
Western Bridge is a new, nonprofit space dedicated to contemporary art. The facility is a renovated 10,000 square foot warehouse in Seattle’s industrial district that weaves private and public spaces in an interlocking composition that is unmatched in Seattle.
Friday, October 15th 2004
Western Bridge
1421 4th Avenue South
9pm / FREE / 21+
http://promotions.thestranger.com/genius/
http://www.westernbridge.org/
RISE: A Night of Exquisite House Music @ Aristocrat's
Bryan writes:
Could you post the following event in this week's listing? I'm
helping promote some local DJs. Thanks in advance for your help.
Here's the event information:
Event: RISE: A Night of Exquisite House Music
DJs:
DJ Flip (beatpushers/SEA) - Hard/Funky/Filtered/Disco House
Monica M (beatpushers/SEA) - Ethnic Groove House
Daniel P (NoStatic/Soiree) - Soulful House
illscience (Toronto) - Funky Deep House
Aristocrat's, 4th Ave S & S Main St, Seattle, WA
Date: Friday, Oct 15, 2004
Time: 10PM - 2AM
Age: 21+
Cost: FREE
Saturday, 10/16
GMP documentary @ Cinerama
The Guerrilla Masquerade Party wants you:
Hey Guerrillas!
Until now, GMP has never really taken the first letter of our name
too seriously. Sure, we invade bars and restaurants in wild and
wonderful costumes, but we've never taken it to it's logical
conclusion: Full Military gear.
At 11:45 AM on Saturday, October 16th, we're going to THAT extreme.
True to our Guerrilla nature, we'll be donning camoflauge & uniforms
and doing some serious takeovers of Cinerama and some Belltown area
bars.
Army, Navy, Air Force, Marines, The National Guard... Hell, even the
Coast Guard is fair game. Why stop at US military options? The whole
world is full of men and women in uniform. And don't forget uniforms
of the past! A civil war ensemble would be perfect. And, of course,
camoflauge offers a plethora of opportunities for great costumes.
Why Cinerama, you ask? The GMP Documentary has been accepted to the
Seattle Gay & Lesbian Film Festival, and will be screening at Noon on
Saturday, October 16th on the biggest movie screen in Seattle. Could
we really miss this opportunity to see our faces blown up bigger than
life? Could we pass on devouring popcorn and sipping from flasks
we've snuck into the theater? Could we really ignore the hard work of
the filmmakers, and this opportunity for more exposure (and possible
financial backing for a full-length feature)? I think not.
So Guerrillas, WE WANT YOU! Be all that you can be! This will not be
an Army of One, and we won't be looking for any weapons of mass
destruction. But we will be filling as many seats as possible at
Cinerama, then spending the afternoon invading Belltown bars.
Here is the attack plan:
11:30 HOURS : Convene at the downtown Top Pot Donuts (2124 5th Ave)
for some chow.
11:45 HOURS : Invade Cinerama (2100 4th Ave) and secure seats for the
film festival. The short films start at NOON and run a total of about
71 minutes.
12:00 HOURS : Watch the films (and watch Phillip, Bebet, Thomas,
Brandi, and Keri win the BEST LOCAL SHORT award)
13:30 HOURS : Convoy to overtake Kelly's Bar (2236 3rd Ave) to begin
an afternoon of militant partying and celebration.
Dismissed!
General Dirty Bunny
Guerrilla Masquerade Party
For more info on the documentary, and to pick up your own copy:
http://www.gmpseattle.com/documentary/
For more info on the Film Festival, including ticket info:
http://www.seattlequeerfilm.com/
For a map and full info on Saturday's operation:
http://www.gmpseattle.com/main.html
Youth Amputee Program
Youth Amputee Program, Oct 16th, free. You can probably imagine the challenge of being a young person without normal limbs. If you know someone, help him become active in sports with information and education for parents and caregivers as well.
Our CDO (Chief Discipline Officer) checks in:
I agree this would be a challenge for young people, but in some circles they might find ready acceptance. I remember when I was hanging out many years ago with the Seattle S&M crowd--going to various parties, dungeons, socials, and so on. There was one young, attractive woman in the group, who's hand had been amputated at the wrist. She dated both men and women; and she was very popular because people always wanted her to fist them with the stump.
http://www.amputee-coalition.org/youth_biofit.html
Rehearsals for Wanna-be Zombies in Building 67 at Sand Point.
THRILLER DANCERS NEEDED!
There will be a mass reinactment of Michael Jackson's Thriller dance, direct from the video
at the Circus Contraption Halloween party on oct. 29th. We have done this in
the past as a small group, but this year we've decided to invite everyone
who isn't too cool to make an ass of themselves prancing around like a
zombie to learn the dance and be in the zombie chorus with us. The party is
in a large hangar out at Sand Point Naval Base and the bill also includes
the Circus Contraption Band, the Infernal Noise Brigade, Rubberboy (a
contortionist from San Francisco), and aerial acrobatics, among other
things.
I hope that the funky and shameless among you will put on your dancing shoes
and get ready to shake it zombie style. Hopefully there will be A LOT of
people. The more zombies the better!
Rehearsals for wanna-be zombies will be in building 67 at Sand Point at 4:00
on Saturday the 16th, 4:00 on Saturday the 23rd and 7:00 on Thursday the
28th, the night before the gig. Please plan on coming to all three
rehearsals if possible. The dance is moderately difficult - anyone with two
left feet and a little dedication can do it, and if you have had any dance
experience it will be easy.
To find the building go north on Sand Point way until you eventually get to
the Naval Base on your right. Go in the main gates and turn left
immediately. Follow that road a bit and the Circus Contraption rehearsal
space will be on the right after a big parking lot and before you go under a
bridge. There is a big garage door. Listen for those funky beats.
Building 67 at Sand Point at 4:00 on Saturday the 16th, 4:00 on Saturday the 23rd and 7:00 on Thursday the 28th, the night before the gig.
contact saribreznau@hotmail.com with questions.
South Asian program @ Seattle's Lesbian and Gay Film Festival
KHUSH CINEMA
Move over Bollywood! Despite lingering stigmas and the threat of violent
repercussions, it’s the queers that are generating a new dynamic
independent cinematic tradition. In EVERYTHING, a young gay South Asian
man negotiates culture, prejudice, and identity, while MINI MOVIES is a
Bollywood epic on speed! A young COOLIE GYAL comes out to her parents, and
a sous-chef’s fantasies come to life in the colorful song-and-dance
montage SOMEONE LIKE YOU (CHUTNEY EDIT). Winner of many international film
festival awards and banned in India until recently, THE PINK MIRROR
(GULABI AAINA) is witness to the happiness, jealousies, passions and
anguish of two drag queens as they compete for the attention of a handsome
hunk. Please join us for a post-screening discussion with filmmaker
Harjant Gill, moderated by members of Trikone-NW, a group of queer South
Asians in Seattle. http://www.seattlequeerfilm.com
NW Film Forum Cinema
1515 12th Ave, between Pike and Pine
Saturday, October 16, 5:00pm
Zero Day @ ConWorks.
Every time I read this kind of art gibberish I get cautious. Good art events and movies don't need fogging explanations:
Adam Hart’s film series presents films exploring how the presence of a
camera changes instinctual processes; a series of documentaries,
faux-documentaries and hybrids that remove all distinction between the
two.
Well, this one sure doesn't look like a winner:
Oct. 15-17, Fri-Sun at 8pm
Zero Day
(Ben Coccio, USA, 2003, 92 min.)
Calvin and Andre are two sweet-looking, slightly aloof young men
attending an average suburban high school, from reasonably supportive
and loving households. But these friends have devised a terrifying,
gruesome assault on their school.
“**** - A Masterpiece” –J.R. Jones, THE CHICAGO READER
Consolidated Works
contemporary arts center
http://www.conworks.org
$7 / $5 for Members
Bring Your Weird Friend Party @ Studio 7
The Second Annual bring Your Weird Friend Party!
Sat. Oct 16th / Doors open @ 8:00pm
Admission is FREE!!
Live Music by: The Dead Vampires, Betty X, & Church of Hate
Live Performances by The Lovely Ladies of BurningHearts Burlesque
PV reporter Gates Ballard's comment:
it's FREE, so you can't beat that, but the venue screwed some people I know out of a $500 deposit for a party that never happened there (due to sutdio 7 not having their liquor/fire permit shit together). So enjoy the free show, piss on their floor.
Free Party Next Saturday the 16th of October @ Studio 7 -
http://www.studioseven.us/forum/location.php110 South Horton
Seattle, WA, 98134 / STUDIO SEVEN is located in Southern Seattle, north of
the West Seattle Bridge and east of 1st Street, at the corner of Occidental
and Horton. The entrance is on Occidental, under the silver spinning 7 sign
www.burningheartsburlesque.com
Globalista & DJ ANSHUL CD RELEASE PARTY @ DJ ANSHUL, CD RELEASE PARTY.
Globalista moves to Saturday:
Beginning October 16, Seattle’s only Modern Global Dance Music showcase,
Globalista, moves to Saturday nights at Queen Anne’s beautiful
nightclub, The Mirabeau Room.
Globalista showcases the latest dance music from around the world.
Bollywood, AfroBeat, Brazilian, and Dancehall all get their due, along
with Modern Global Grooves that are hot, infectious, and irresistible,
whatever their origins or categories.
Organized by Darek Mazzone, host of the popular radio programs Wo’Pop
(90.3 KEXP, Tuesdays 6-9pm) and Planet Beat (94.9 KUOW, Sundays 9-10pm),
Globalista features local DJs Advent, Anshul and Gringo Starr, with live
percussion by tabla virtuoso Deepayan Acharjya. Expect special guests
each month.
Mazzone and Mirabeau Room owner David Meinert are also focused on
bringing global artists to Seattle, from established talents like DJ
Cheb I Sabbah to fresh-faced newbies like Argentinian singer/scenester
Federico Aubele, who wowed a recent Mirabeau Room audience with his
6-piece band, buoyant afro and romantic down-tempo grooviness.
DJ Anshul will be giving away his debut CD. Contact
shellzee21@yahoo.com for more info.
Mirabeau Room, 529 Queen Anne Ave N
Saturday October 16
Fetish Freak Show @ NocNoc
Scott (not Uncle Daddy, though) writes:
Attention all you perverted freaks (that means all of you, there are
pictures to prove it), come to NocNoc (1516 2nd Ave. between Pike and
Pine) on Saturday October 16th if you want to see me fit through a
tennis racquet (again), I'll even dress up all sexy for ya. I'll do some
other tricks too, but in general it's going to be a fully fledged
Fetish Freak Show!
I hope to see you there, please forward this invite to others that might
be interested too. Hey, if I am abusing my privileges on your stoopid
email list, remove me, and I'll just never go to another one of your
events again, so nanny nanny boo boo. :-)
Thanks!
~scott
Just for fun, here are some snippets from the email threads where we
Are planning this thing:
Act 1: Animal trainers
Scene 1: Pony show featuring Poe and models as ponies.
Scene 2: Tiger trainer (Cate), models as naughty tigers.
Act 2: Medical Oddities
Scene 1: Doctor (Matt) and Nurse (April), re-animated Mummy (??),
Siamese Sisters/Creepy Siamese dolls (Ali?) and (Molly?)
Scene 2: Piercing performance (Bardo)
Act 3: Human Feats
Scene 1 and 2: **contortionist act (scott) and a juggling act**
The event is on Saturday Oct. 16th with the first act at 11 pm, 12 pm,
and one at 1 am.
~ Dancing Girls/Cage Dancers/Stage Dancers ~
Will be dancing either in a cage, on the sides of the stage or on
the floor.
--Firebr! eathers (OUTSIDE only): Delany Lane, OPEN
--Fetish Clowns: Me(Spanky the Fetish Clown), Michelle, Laina,
Heather
Michelle and I will work out an act, everyone else will be in
character and be mischievious & sexy. Think of naughty clown things
to do, but please keep in mind some people get extremely freaked-out
by clowns and cut them a wide-berth. ;)
--OUCHY THE CLOWN-ish look-a like: Community Bob
--Creepy clown Ballon guy(roaming): Beny The Balloon Guy!!!
--Juggling/Plate Twirling/Mime: Lizard aka Mrs. Wilson
--Fire Spinning: Dyslexia
--Siamese Sisters/Creepy Siamese dolls: Ali and Molly
What would be a Fetish Freak show without creepy clowns and fire dancers? What about burlesque vampires? I am wondering whether it is too early to downgrade this genre. But I can assure you that in a year from now we all will be sick of burlesque performances if the trend holds.
NocNoc (1516 2nd Ave. between Pike an Pine) on Saturday October 16th, 11pm.
Thursday, 10/21
LOST & FOUND: MEDIA ARCHEOLOGY at NW Film Forum
Fionn writes:
hey party volcano,
an event worth attending. this is an upcoming event i'm involved with
that includes Climax Golden Twins, Sientific American, Jesse Paul Miller
and Matthew Stadler among others. should be fun and worth you while,
includes a great live set of music, readings, some great imagery, oh and
a bar as well.
best, fionn
Let's see:
LOST & FOUND: MEDIA ARCHEOLOGY at NW Film Forum - Oct.21-31 - including
Terrain (w/ The Phonographers Union), Archeology of the Unreal: Rare
Joseph Cornell Films, Sublime Frequencies Showcase, and 2nd Generation
Films (with such renowned filmmakers as Bill Morrison, Matt McCormick,
and Jay Rosenblatt) visit http://testpatternsite.org
LOST & FOUND: MEDIA ARCHEOLOGY
This special evening of live music, performance, reading, and cinema
features some of the Northwest's best and brightest! Critically
acclaimed band Climax Golden Twins unveils a live set from their
hauntingly beautiful new album Highly Bred & Sweetly Tempered,
accompanied by depression era footage from the 30s and 40s; electronic
artist Sientific American excavates the city with signs, maps, and urban
detours in a new media work; New York artist Lucy Raven premieres her
short film A Crisis Passed in Sleep, a study in personal archeology;
writers Matthew Stadler, Diana George, Melanie Noel, and Fionn Meade
read new works commissioned in response to short films by Rob Zverina,
James Thomas as well as archival footage from the NW Film Forum
archives; Now Device edits and remixes the evening's performances; and
local genius Jesse Paul Miller teams with Climax Golden Twins and
special guests to end the evening with a multi-media, hi-fi/lo-fi
excursion not to be missed!
OPENING NIGHT EVENT, October 21 - 7:30pm, $12 advance tickets at
http://www.nwfilmforum.org
Buy advance tickets now at http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/475
Soire Francophone a Chapel
You have to try their Mango Margaritas!
Salut,
J’espère que vous avez passés un bon été. Nos soirées francophones vont
commencer en 21 Octobre à Chapel. Notez bien que vous allez recevoir
les invitations de info@CultureTheory.com. Ceci est le dernier email de
info@evite.com. Comme toujours, les soirées sont gratuites.
Vous pouvez accéder l’invitation à la soirée prochaine à
http://www.CultureTheory.com/_Francophone
A Bientôt,
Wissam
(206)778-9477
http://www.evite.com/pages/invite/viewInvite.jsp?inviteId=DLPHCXCBRTPZZSEBUPJE
Cold Lava
DJ Superjew in Paris (10/11/2004)
This is a little cold lava report from DJ Superjew, who is visiting the Old World.
hello dear seattle (&c.) kittens!
my first two days of paris brought lots of sleep deprivation, experience
in what the brits call "self catering", and the requisite public
drunkeness. i've learned many interesting things.
1. pernod (pastis) and red wine are always the cheapest things on the menu.
2. a tomato costs .33 euro
3. a lovely warm baguette costs 1.25 euro
4. cheese costs about the same
5. american-ukrainians like me love this kind of shit
so you can imagine what i will be eating for a while!
our host, robert cluesman, has graciously put us up for several nights
and is arranging for us to stay with some friend the rest of the time.
tonight he is DJing some new wave typical seattle hybrid fare at a
little bar...I understand that most young parisians are crazy about
franz ferdinand, BRMC, and not much else (save for the occasional euro
techno fix).
other than that,! i am working off my jetlag and trying to acclimate to
the different temperament, and also getting rid of my ugly american
aspects. bonne chance!
i'm still trying to figure out how i'm going to get photos online, but i
may have a method in a few days. i'll keep you in the know!
cheers
marianne
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