Lots of movies this week. My favorites this week are Bugs @ Victrola, Derrick May, and Pop Surrealism in LA. I won't be able to make it to LA, though. Many of you also know that db is moving to New York City in November. He is having a big party this weekend. Unfortunately I couldn't figure out whether it would be okay to post it in this week's edition.
One last thing: Some readers have approached me and mentioned that they haven't received any PV letters lately. Please let me know if you don't receive my letters. I send them out every Friday. But two weeks ago I was forced by Yahoo's new system to switch over to a new delivery system that might not work as reliably as I was hoping. Also big thanks to Dougal, who runs a business that provides hosting and email services and offered to provide a free mailing list server for the use of Party Volcano. I might to take him up on his offer but for now I am giving the current implementation another chance.
Friday, 10/22
3:00 PM Bugs @ Victrola
4:00 PM? Portland Decompression Weekend (10/22-10/24)
5:30 PM Lost & Found: Media Archeology @ Northwest Film Forum (10/21-10/31)
7:00 PM Fall 2004 China Documentary Film Series (10/18-10/24)
8:00 PM The Blonds (Los Rubios) at Conworks
10:00 PM MOJO @ THE LAVA LOUNGE
Saturday, 10/23
11:00 AM Art Detour
Noon Films from the 2004 National Film Challenge @ Nectar Lounge
3:00 PM The Political Art of Steve Brodner @ University Book Store
7:00 PM Pop Surrealism @ La Luz De Jesus Gallery in Los Angeles
8:00 PM Art Detour Closing Party @ CoCA
9:00 PM Quasi Nada, Fato Criminal, Suntzu Sound DJ's @ Nectar.
9:00 PM "Creature Feature" @ The Funhouse
9:00 PM DERRICK MAY @ Chop Suey
Sunday, 10/24
8:00 PM Oracle Performance Video Viewing Benefit in Pioneer Square.
Thursday, 10/28
8:00 PM ALL STORIES ARE FICTION @ ACT Theatre.
Friday, 10/22
Bugs @ Victrola
Gromphadorhina Portentosa and Parthenocissus Quinquefolia are back in town!
This sounds like a weird event and maybe it is. But it's a great one. After having been collecting bugs and insects over 22 years Don Ehlen can call himself a proud owner of over 5400 specimens. I have been to two of his Bugs and Beer events here in Seattle in the last two years. It was amazing and I learned a ton about insects. Did you know that scorpions glow green under black light? Don was demonstrating it with one of his big scorpion pets. There was also a Black Widow waiting for food in a different box and a bunch of stick bugs and leaf bugs to play with. Incredible!
Hi Folks!
Just a note to let you know that I will be displaying my insect
collection at Victrola Coffee, 415 15th E, 568-2086, on Capitol Hill on
October 22ed from 3 to 8pm. (I'll probably stay later than that). Come
by and say "Hi".....
Please pass this invite along to anyone who you think might be interested.
For those of you who may not know, I will bring 30 drawers with about
3000 specimens. This is a world-wide collection that I have assembled
over the last 23 years.
I look forward to seeing you!
Don
What would be a blurb about Don’s Bugs and Pony show without reminding you to stock up your collection of Giant Madagascar Hissing Cockroaches. I just checked Topline Wholesale Distributing Company's website and I am pleased to inform you that the price hasn't changed in two years: 300 Live Giant Hissers for only $224.95!
Giant Madagascar Hissing Cockroaches: http://www.topline-2000.com/roach/rhsale.html
Don Ehlen can be contacted at insectsafari@webtv.net .
Portland Decompression Weekend (10/22-10/24)
Fall from the Playa... a deCompression
October 22nd-24th
A radically self expressive, radically inclusive, leave no trace,
community event.
Announcing the Portland decompression. This will be a weekend long
decompression located on an incredible 90 acre farm 30 minutes from
downtown Portland. This will be my first event as regional and it's
shaping up to be a good one. It's been 2 years since Portland has had any
real gathering like this, and the Portland communities first ever weekend
long event.
Tickets are now on sale for the Portland Decompression, Oct 22nd - 24th.
This is also the launch of our regional website
http://www.burningmanportland.com. Tickets are only $10 but limited to
300 tickets presale. This event will sell out, so get your tickets early
if you plan on attending.
We're burning a 25 foot man, who'll be standing on top of a wooden dome.
We've got 4 stages of music and performance. I've posted it to the
extranet calendar and the bman calendar. Hope to see you all there.
Thanks,
BenD
Portland Regional Contact
http://www.burningmanportland.com.
http://massiveburn.org
Lost & Found: Media Archeology @ Northwest Film Forum (10/21-10/31)
Lost & Found: Media Archeology
October 21 – 31 at the Northwest Film Forum
For more information, please visit nwfilmforum.org or testpatternsite.org
Testpattern and NW Film Forum present Lost & Found: Media Archeology, a series showcasing new work from filmmakers, musicians, writers, and visual artists that promotes and defines media archeology as innovative contemporary practice. Scavenged from the vast archives of the past and captured in the multiple present, Lost & Found offers compelling new entries into the field, from the exotic and far-flung to the ephemeral and intimate. Highlights include a program of extremely rare (but toweringly influential) short films by one of the 20th Century’s most compelling artists, Joseph Cornell, and the Seattle Premiere of BODYSONG, an epic story of love and death told entirely through found footage and featuring an ambitious score by Radiohead’s Johnny Greenwood. Perhaps the highest recommendation goes to the two short film programs (2nd Generation: Found Footage Films on Oct. 24 and Sublime Frequencies Showcase on Oct. 30), which bring together such respected and exc! iting artists as Jay Rosenblatt, Matt McCormick and Bill Morrison (DECASIA). 2nd Generation will also feature a rare screening of Lewis Klahr’s PONY GLASS (aka “The Secret Life of Jimmy Olsen”).
October 22 & 23 Friday at 8pm, Saturday at 7pm
ARCHEOLOGY OF THE UNREAL: Rare Films by Joseph Cornell
Introduced by Susan Rosenberg, Associate Curator of Contemporary Art, Seattle Art Museum.
October 23 Saturday at 9:00 pm
TERRAIN
A showcase of collaborative works from writers, filmmakers and sound artists that travels through landscapes past and present. ÊPart I features four writers responding to short films, both old and new, with original compositions to be read as live accompaniment. ÊNovelists Matthew Stadler and essayist Diana George work with archival footage, while poets Melanie Noel and Fionn Meade respond to contemporary field works from artists Rob Zverina and §. ÊPart II features a performance by special guests from The Phonographers Union utilizing various field recordings to improvise new compositions.
October 24, Sunday at 7 & 9 pm
2ND GENERATION: Found Footage Films
2ND GENERATION brings together a variety of short films in which artists have re-edited and re-contextualized existing footage thrifted from Hollywood movies, documentaries, educational films, commercials, and whatever else they could get their hands on. The program includes recent works from both local and national filmmakers, including Lewis Klahr, Bill Morrison, Jay Rosenblatt, Matt McCormick, Tony Gault, Elizabeth Henry, Karl Lind, Aaron Valdez, Sebastian Del Castillo, Mark Brunke, and Melody Owen. Most of the films in this program have never before been screened in Seattle, and some of the participating filmmakers are scheduled to attend.
Oct. 22-27
Cinema Mastermind Dennis Nyback presents:
Karl Rove PARANOIA Series
World-renowned archivist and demented cinema mastermind Dennis Nyback invites you to spend this election season with NWFF, reveling in the most paranoid moments ever committed to celluloid. Dedicated to Republican party political operative Karl Rove, the series explores the various cultural positions fear has occupied in American society since the early days of film—spanning such territory as panic-filled educational films (featuring the work of the prolific Sid Davis), Hollywood thrillers and hyperbolic political propaganda.
OCT 22 Fri at 7:15, 9:30pm
I KNOW WHY YOU’RE AFRAID
(Various, USA, 40s-70s, 16mm, 90 min.)
A program showcasing such traumatizing educational films as DEATH ZONES (1974), THE STORY OF MENSTRUATION (1946), CAUGHT IN A RIP-OFF (1974) and MECHANIZED DEATH (1961).
OCT 23 Sat at 7:15, 9:45pm
THE PARALLAX VIEW
(Alan J. Pakula, USA, 1974, 16mm, 102 min.)
Alan Pakula’s classic conspiracy thriller stars Warren Beatty as a reporter who stumbles onto a gigantic cover-up involving the mysterious Parallax Corporation.
OCT 24 Sun at 7:15, 9:45pm
DRUG AND BOOZE EDUCATIONALS
(Various, USA, 50s-70s, 16mm, 90 min.)
Featuring such films as DRUGS: KILLERS OR DILLERS (1972) by Matt Groening and Tim Smith and THE LAST DATE (1949) starring Dick York, this is a collection of classroom films designed to scare you sober.
OCT 25 Mon at 7, 9:15pm
TERRORISM LIGHT AND DARK
(Various, USA, 40s-70s, 16mm, 90 min.)
A look at terrorism, from a chilling informational documentary about the Japanese internment camps of WWII to shockingly offensive Porky Pig cartoons, from the annals of pre-9/11 American film history.
OCT 26 Tues at 7, 9:15pm
BACK BY POPULAR DEMAND!
FUCK THE REPUBLICAN PARTY!
(Various, USA, 40s-70s, 16mm, 90 min.)
Secrets from the right wing’s own propaganda films, showing how little things have changed since the 1940s. Including THE DAY BUSINESS DIED (1974), one of the most paranoid documents the corporate world has ever produced.
OCT 27 Wed at 7, 9:30pm
THE DAY THE FISH CAME OUT
(Michael Caccoyannis, Greece/USA, 1967, 16mm, 109 min.)
Greek auteur Michael Caccoyannis’ musical comedy about nuclear annihilation is now known as one of the most bizarre head trips produced in the 60s, featuring wild music, outlandish costumes and a very young Candice Bergen. NOT AVAILABLE ON VIDEO
Northwest Film Forum
The Blonds (Los Rubios) at Conworks
Consolidated Works is thrilled to be showing the Northwest Premiere of
Albertina Carri's ecstatically-received quasi-documentary feature The Blonds
(Los Rubios) as part of our "Id-Ego-Video" film series. The film will play
from Oct. 22 - 24, Fri - Sun at 8pm at ConWorks - 500 Boren Ave N, in South
Lake Union between Pike and Pine. For more information, please visit us
online at www.conworks.org.
Fri.-Sun., Oct. 22-24 at 8pm
The Blonds
(Albertina Carri, Argentina, 2003, 89 min.)
Orphaned nearly two decades earlier by Argentina’s brutal military
dictatorship, filmmaker Albertina Carri sets out to reconstruct the lives of
her activist parents, but finds that traditional documentary methods are
wholly inadequate. Instead, Carri has created an unclassifiable hybrid of
documentary and fiction (with claymation interludes thrown in the mix) that
brilliantly illustrates the destructive power of the state, which has so
fully erased all traces of these two lives that the only way to tell their
story is to rebuild it, from the very beginning.
Consolidated Works.
www.wmm.com/theblonds
Fall 2004 China Documentary Film Series (10/18-10/24)
Fall 2004 China Documentary Film Series.
First movie:
San Yuan Li . 7:00-9:00 PM, A102 Physics-Astronomy Auditorium.
Directors: Ou Ning and Cao Fei, 44 minutes, 2003 (Black & White). This is a case study of a typical Chinese village in the process of the urbanization. This film looks at San Yuan Li Village, rethinking the depth of its history, the confrontation and reconciliation between the process of modernization, and the patriarchal clan system, as well as the rural community system in Guangdong. Sponsors: The China Studies Program and the East Asia Center. Free and Open to the Public.
Second movie, Shown in succession:
The Sun In Winter. 7:00-9:00 PM, A102 Physics-Astronomy Auditorium. Director: Zhao Gang, 76 minutes, 2002. At the end of the 20th century, the political system as adopted in rural areas of China finally experiences democratic autonomy in a modern sense, after having undergone several different systems over the years: the household responsibility system, the local autonomy system, the people’s commune system and household contract responsibility system. The setting is winter in the year of the tiger when the revised Villager’s Committee Organization Law enabled three thousand villagers of Dongpuo village to become elected representatives of the Villager’s Committee. This film follows Dongpuo for three years, offering a compelling case study and window into the farmers’ experience of democracy in their village. Sponsors: The China Studies Program and the East Asia Center. Free and Open to the Public.
October 23
A Student’s Village. 7:00-9:00 PM, A102 Physics-Astronomy Auditorium. Director: Wei Xin, 100 minutes, 2002. In a remote mountainous area of northwestern Yunnan, lies a small ‘student village’ built by the locals to ensure their children attend school. This piece shows the determination and energy of the locals in assuring a good education and future for the next generation. Sponsors: The China Studies Program and the East Asia Center. Free and Open to the Public.
For more information, contact eacenter@u.washington.edu, (206) 543-6938
MOJO @ THE LAVA LOUNGE
FRIDAY OCTOBER 22 10:00PM
October 22 MOJO
(a weekly night of rock & mod sounds - new and old)
Featuring
DJ CHRISPO
THE LAVA LOUNGE
2226 2nd Ave. (in Belltown)
Saturday, 10/23
Art Detour
It's that time again for
ArtDetour Seattle!
The Tour Continues
Sat, October 23rd: Downtown Seattle, Belltown, Pioneer Square
Sun, October 24th: Westlake, Capitol Hill, Mt. Baker
Catch the FREE tour bus at CoCA 11 AM Both Days
Quasi Nada, Fato Criminal, Suntzu Sound DJ's @ Nectar.
James Whetzel writes:
Bonsoir Monsieur Volcano,
Just in case you don't get this from any other source, here is a cool
shop Quasi Nada is doing with a Brazilian hip hop group. It will be
going down at Nectar in Fremont on Saturday the 23rd.
Quasi Nada will be playing Saturday October 23rd w/ special guests Fato
Criminal, hip-hop group from Sao Paulo.
This is Fato Criminal's first time in the U.S. and their only show in
Seattle, so don't miss this special event.
And check out the great new venue, Nectar in Fremont.
What: Quasi Nada, Fato Criminal, Suntzu Sound DJ's
When: Saturday Oct. 23rd 9PM
Where: Nectar, 412 N. 36th St., Fremont (2 blks W. of Tost)
Films from the 2004 National Film Challenge @ Nectar Lounge
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
SEATTLEWOOD FILMMAKERS SCREEN NATIONAL FILM CHALLENGE ENTRIES!
Bring your own banana and enjoy some music and short films!
Seattle, WA. - October 16, 2004 - On Saturday, October 23rd,
Seattlewood will be hosting a screening of two short films produced for
the 2004 National Film Challenge at Nectar Lounge in Fremont, Seattle.
Over the weekend of October 1-4, two filmmaking teams helmed by local
filmmakers Andy McCone and David Wilson were given a line of dialogue,
a genre, a character and a prop; all of which were to be used in the
creation of a 4-8 minute short film which was to be written, shot,
edited and scored over the course of the weekend. The result is two
shorts entitled Vice 11 and Where There's Smoke... Both films are
competing against 160 other teams from around the country and several
locations outside the USA.
The two teams, code-named Gidget Takes Back The Night and Tibetan
Sunrise, were comprised of of over fifty local filmmakers and actors
from every corner of the Seattle filmmaking community. Wiggly World,
911 Media, IFP, IndieClub, members as well as graduates, faculty and
current students of The Seattle Film Institute and Seattle Central
Community College made up the teams. In addition, music for the
projects was donated by local musical acts Two Loons for Tea and The
Trey Gunn Band.
On October 23rd, Seattlewood will be holding a party to celebrate the
hard work of the filmmakers and to celebrate the generosity of all who
helped make these productions possible. At 1 & 3pm there will be a
screening of both films. In between screenings Two Loons for Tea will
perform as well as a very special, as yet to be announced musical
performer. In addition, there will be an ongoing screening of selected
short films by the filmmakers who participated on the two teams. There
will also be door prizes and an art auction.
krk nordenstrom, producer of the Seattlewood teams says, "There is a
huge amount of filmmaking talent in Seattle. After I put out the call
to some friends to participate in this, the response was so
overwhelming I had to put together two teams! Both teams are comprised
of members, students and faculty from all the various filmmaking
organizations in town; 911 Media, The Seattle Film Institute, Indie
Club, Wiggly World, IFP, Seattle Central Community College and
individuals simply interested in making films. Our goal was to
galvanize the filmmaking community in town by bringing as many people
together from as many different backgrounds and experience levels as
possible and hopefully show the competition's organizers just what our
rainy little town is made of. We ended up with two very strong films
and everyone involved had a great experience! I think we stand a good
chance of getting at least one of our films into the t! op ten which will
be distributed internationally on a DVD."
The event will be held at Nectar Lounge in Fremont from 12pm until 5pm.
The cover is $8.
412 N. 36th St, Seattle WA 98103.
http://www.nectarlounge.com.
Two Loons for Tea will be performing between the screenings.
http://www.twoloons.com.
The event is being organized by Seattlewood.com
http://www.seattlewood.com
For more information on The National Film Challenge:
http://www.filmchallenge.com
The Political Art of Steve Brodner @ University Book Store
FANTAGRAPHICS BOOKS
PRESS RELEASE:
WHO: STEVE BRODNER, The New Yorker's most outrageous political
caricaturist and the most savage editorial cartoonist/illustrator to
work in the United States.
WHAT: Live ‘Chalk Talk’ art demonstration and discussion on
how to draw the 2004 candidates, as well as signing
copies of his new book
FREEDOM FRIES:
The Political Art of Steve Brodner
WHEN: 3:00pm, Saturday, October 23rd
WHERE: University Book Store
4326 University Way NE
Seattle, WA 98105
Phone: (206) 634-3400
THIS IS A FREE EVENT
FREEDOM FRIES: The Political Art of Steve Brodner is Brodner's absurdly
nightmarish journey through the last 30 years of American Politics.
His pitiless illustrations, cartoons, comic strips and illustrated
reportages have appeared in ESQUIRE, THE NEW YORKER, ROLLING STONE,
SPORTS ILLUSTRATED, TIME, NEWSWEEK, THE NEW YORK TIMES, as well as most
other major magazines and papers in North America. Every line and
splash of color is an exquisite treat for the eyes.
For further information call Eric Reynolds, 206.524.1967 x218
Pop Surrealism @ La Luz De Jesus Gallery in Los Angeles
This opening is unfortunately in Los Angeles. I am a big fan of Mark Ryden and Marion Peck and I am bummed that I won't be able to see their work. Well, I will probably buy the book then. Let me also add that I am happy for Kirsten (Roq La Rue) because this will get her name out:
From Last Gasp and Ignition Publishing
“ Pop Surrealism – The Rise Of Underground Art “
Edited by Kirsten Anderson
With essays by Robert Williams, Carlo McCormick, and Larry Reid
Book signing this Saturday, Oct 23rd at
La Luz De Jesus Gallery in Los Angeles 7-11pm!
Artists in attendance: Mark Ryden, Marion Peck, Todd Schorr, Anthony Ausgang, The Pizz, and Lisa Petrucci!
“Pop Surrealism” is the first book to offer a comprehensive survey of the Lowbrow/Pop Surrealism art movement. With it’s origins in the 1960s hot rod culture and underground comics, Pop Surrealism/Lowbrow art has expanded into the most vilified, vital and exciting movement in contemporary art. Artists featured are:
Anthony Ausgang, Glenn Barr, Tim Biskup, Kalynn Campbell, The Clayton Brothers, Joe Coleman, Camille Rose Garcia, Alex Gross, Don Ed Hardy, Charles Krafft, Liz McGrath, Scott Musgrove, Niagara, Marion Peck, Lisa Petrucci, The Pizz, Mark Ryden, Isabel Samaras, Todd Schorr, Shag, Eric White, Robert Williams, and XNO.
Featuring over 150 full color images.
Come get your book signed and meet the artists!
Books are also available through Last Gasp: http://www.lastgasp.com/d/23467/
Or at assorted galleries and museum shops.
La Luz de Jesus 4633 Hollywood Blvd LA, CA 90027 (323) YRU-POOP
Art Detour Closing Party @ CoCA
Dino Martini writes:
Hello.. just a note about one of our events this Saturday, in conjunction with Art Detour. Thanks for your great listings and getting the word out to inform our area of events not to miss!
Saturday, Oct. 23rd, CoCA is pleased to present a night with the great, DJ Vitamin D, for the 05 Art Detour closing party! Vitamin D will provide the sounds, Baci will provide the tasty catered food and our CoCA bar will be “Shaking and stirring” for your martini pleasures! It’s a night of French themed food, martini’s and one of Seattle’s most popular DJ’s. All this for the best price in Seattle, free! Bring your body ready to dance, your appetite for wine-roasted chicken breast roulade’s and your love for martini’s! Doors open at 8 pm, 21+ w/ID, cash bar. Current gallery show, the 2004 CoCA Annual juried by Ken Lum.
Center on Contemporary Art
410 Dexter Avenue North
Www.cocaseattle.org
"Creature Feature" @ The Funhouse
BurningHearts presents
"Creature Feature"
Sat. Oct 23rd
Sizzlin' Striptease! Rockin' Roll Insanity! Costume Contest! & More!
Featuring The Lovely Ladies of BurningHearts w/ Live music by The Dead
Vampires & The Sacred Truths
9:00pm / $10 / 21 & Up
Look what I found in my inbox this week:
Dear Party Volcano:
I am already sick of burlesque, and "naughty clowns." I hope we get a rash
of pixie-themed hula hoop parties or nerf acrobatics club nights or
something *diffferent* next.
-suki
I couldn't agree more...
The Funhouse, 206 5th Ave N.
www.seattleburlesque.com
DERRICK MAY @ Chop Suey
I was introduced to Derrick May maybe four years ago and at that time I was in one of my phases in which I decided that the only music worth listening to was music composed by Johann Sebastian Bach. I think I might have even narrowed it further down to music by Bach and performed by Glenn Gould. Anyway, after listening to some tracks to Derrick May I warmed up to the idea that it might be worth listening to other kinds of music. His work is pretty interesting and $12 is dirt cheap. I know he is some sort of pioneer of Electronica music. But it would be a stretch for me to write something about that. But I would be happy to write about Bach's Art of the Fugue if you twisted my arm.
10.23 Saturday Chop Suey and Decibel Fest Present
DERRICK MAY THE INNOVATOR (Transmat Recs, Detroit)
Jerry Abstract (Fixelplix/Shitkatapult/Decibel)
Nordic Soul (Decibel, Dreaming in Stereo)
Chop Suey
$13 adv.
9pm doors
Sunday, 10/24
Oracle Performance Video Viewing Benefit in Pioneer Square.
If it's yellow, let it mellow:
Oracle Performance Video Viewing Benefit
Sunday October 24th, 2004
Pioneer Square in Seattle, WA
Please join us for a special viewing of the videos of three past Oracle Gathering Midnight Performances:
Atlantis, Ocean Deep, Faery Magick
Projected on a 10ft x 20ft screen and in Bose sound to benefit the upcoming Nov. 20th Space Traveler Midnight Performance:
< ~ The Device ~ >
an electronic space opera
Gather for complimentary wine and snacks at 7pm
Videos begin at 8pm (1/2 hr. each)
Free DVD copy of all three performances!!
with full admission, plus refreshments & other entertainment!
If it's brown, flush it down:
$5 All Past Performers* (includes DVD)
$5 Half Admission (without DVD)
$10 Full Admission (includes DVD)
*Past performers try to RSVP:
pxi@oraclegatherings.com
more info at: www.oraclegatherings.com (click on the space traveler card!)
Thursday, 10/28
ALL STORIES ARE FICTION @ ACT Theatre.
Mr. md writes:
Dear Party Volcano,
Wanted to let you know about shows I'm doing next weekend, October 28th-30th
at ACT Theatre. Called ALL STORIES ARE FICTION, they're three different
monologues created off-the-cuff.
Keep up your great work,
md
The stories for the three nights concern:
Thursday, October 28th:
WEDDINGS AND OTHER COMMON DISASTERS
(Wherein a blessed event is experienced, dissected and, hopefully,
survived.)
Friday, October 29th:
THE BLACK-HEARTED PEOPLE OF BROOKLYN
(Stories of a mysterious and unknowable land, from Coney Island to the
docks
of Red Hook, and all that lies between.)
Saturday, October 30th:
THE DEAD ARE JUST LIKE US
(A parlor for speaking with those who may no longer be with us, and for all
they¹ve left behind.)
If any of these tickle your fancy please let folks know about them--they
should be fun.
ACT Theatre
October 28, 29, 30
8pm
Full details are available at:
http://acttheatre.org/plays_special_mikedaisey.htm
Letters to the Editor
RE: Submitting events for PV
Many of our readers like Kenny are wondering how to post events for this list:
hello,
i've subscribed to your list for a while. thanks for the work you do in putting it out. how does one get an event posted on it?
kenny
Hi Kenny,
just send me an email with the description - What, where, when, how much, and most importantly: Why. (Coca has been getting better in delivering at least three answers out of five.) Deadline is Thursdays at noon.
No guarantees, though. In the past I it has happened a few times where I had to downgrade events suggested by loyal readers. But if you have been reading my letters you know the (positively negative) style. My downgrades are reasonable.
Please send me your event!
Cheers,
- PV
RE: Goodbye Old Friend
Dear Party Volcano,
I have some important news that you may, or may not, want to share with your readers. I'm sure this comes as a great shock, so, please call me if you need to talk- it doesn't matter how late.
Sincerely, Scott Greer (Uncle Daddy)
Dear Friends,
It is with great sadness that I inform you of the passage of my housemate, and arch-nemesis, J.K. Rat. The late-night hum of passing cars no longer gives way to J.K.'s signature "SCRITCH...SCRITCHSCRITCH...SCRITCHY-SCRITCHSCRITCH".
He left this note-
Well...you finally got me. That was some game, though! Damn- tell Bobbie Fischer to suck my pointy dick!! Ha ha. But, ah....well, I guess it doesn't matter anymore. I knew it had to end sometime, but not this way- not like this... Do me a favor. I need you to get rid of something. In the SW corner of the attic, you'll find my bed. It's a cigar box, next to a wooden, thread-spool table. There is some porno under the bed (and a few gay porn mags- THAT AREN'T MINE), and I need you to remove this stuff before somebody else finds it.
I guess that's it. Well, um..I know you think you won, but I peed in your ceiling.
See you on the other side, Motherfucker.
JKR
J.K. Rat will soon return as a fey little coin purse for the uber-fashionable Chris Von Sneidern, thanks to the handiwork of artisan K.D. Schill. He leaves behind 14 common-law wives, 746 children, and 3,423 grandchildren. R.I.P.
J.K. Rat:
http://pg.photos.yahoo.com/ph/partyvolcano/detail?.dir=2f39&.dnm=b3ef.jpg
Cold Lava
Stranger Genius Award Party (10/15/2004)
Did you go to the Genius Award party last Friday? The address that I found on the Stranger's website was wrong. The public party was okay. I was invited to the pre-party and I was impressed with the snacks - 6 Snack Stars! Being a total snack whore I am not ashamed to admit that if those snacks are the outcome of millions of people dying from smoking Lucky Strikes cigarettes I am all for it! I was told that they actually cut back on the snacks this year. Last year they had cook stations with individual chefs that would cook what lobster you would pick.
The Film Genius guy was pretty funny. I didn't know that he has his cameras made by specialists, because he throws them from buildings. He doesn't expect them to survive the impact but he needs the film. (I am assuming he puts films into his cameras before thworing them down buildings.) His funny comment after receiving the $5000 award: "Five thousand dollar is nothing. Mind you, I make movies. It will take off the edge of my monthly bills. I wish I were a poet or actor. Then $5000 would acutally mean something to me. But I'll take it anyways."
You could see that he was totally joking and I am sure that he is appreciating this little pocket money.
Let me mention one negative aspect of this event: $8 for a weak Gin Tonic.
That was not necessary!
DJ Superjew in Paris (10/11 - 10/18/2004)
another installment from DJ Superjew's Paris travels...
my host robert has very graciously explained the ins and the outs of the
city, and of peripherally legal expat life, and the luxury paid
squatting life. i sometimes have illusions of staying here as i have
joked with coworkers (but would never do--my practical self being the
point). i am spending too much money on overpriced street food, and
nothing is self-fucking-evident. i am enjoying my existence here,
particularly circulating amongst the locals, but it is reminiscent of a
slight panic attack and i still haven't been to the musee d'orsay or the
louvre (which bothers me not too much)
at present i am staying with my seattle acquaintance chaya who has an
efficiency flat in the 5th arrondissement, in the heart of montmartre.
if the image sourced from this name inflames a nostalgic, bohemian image
in your mind, it is not for naught, for the city is very accepting of
the more ecelctic types/the more decadent types/ of ornament without
function, of rides on the metro in the morning with your last night's
velvet blazer and faux pashmina; brandishing fresh marks from a parisian
and looking forward to that baguette with cheese from some street vendor
in the 18th. and none of the dirty looks.
explicit porn in the news booth next to mademoiselle home magazine.
ad hoc white russians with vodka and half sour milk
speaking in frenchisms and tri-directional translation (think, "i have 22 years")
quadrilinguists with vapid exteriors
taking horse pills up the nez
taking a free ride
and an overly paid ride
heroin as commonly accepted party drug
and cocaine as taboo
sleeping without a blanket some nights
but its worth it, totally is
and what is the difference between "strawberries" and "strawberries of
the forest?"
and what of pastic, cassis, pernod, and absinthe?
another thing. the people here, and pardon me if i am being slightly
xenophobic, are very much caracatures of themselves. think grapes and
pain du campaigne and a little camembert and an oilcloth.
oh well its almost midnite and i must be making my way home. until next update,
cheers
superjew
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