Events for 1/6 to 1/12/2006

Not the most exciting week. But not the worst either. The highlights are: DJ Superjew's opening, Return of the Living Elvii, 14/48.
This week's computer corner is about the ugliest dog in the world.

Friday, 1/6
7:00 PM Marianne Goldin art show @ Fremont Coffee Co.
7:00 PM Maniacal Leakage @ OkOk Gallery
8:00 PM 14/48 @ CHAC
9:00 PM Copy (DJ from Portland) @ LoFi

Saturday, 1/7
8:00 PM "Evidence" Opening at CoCA
8:00 PM 2006 Elvis Invitationals @ EMP

Wednesday, 1/11
8:00 PM Kassys (Amsterdam/theater & film) @ On the Boards
7:00 PM Independent Exposure @ Central Cinema

Friday, 1/6

Marianne Goldin art show @ Fremont Coffee Co.

Marianne (DJ Superjew) writes:

Hi all,

Well the Cult of Youth reader #1 is on the precipice of printing, and I
have an art show coming up first Friday (Jan 6th) I would love to see
you all at. This one's in Fremont, the Fremont Coffee co, which upstages
its coffeehouse name quite a bit since its a whole honkin' house. Anyhow
the show will be great, getting some press already, and seeing you guys
will just make it so much better. And we're going to stay open from
7 11pm so you can come by late. Oh yeah, and COY #1 will be available
for only $5.

More info: www.cultofyouth.com

This is dedicated to the one I like
A show of works on paper inspired by the Cult of Youth Project
By Marianne L. Goldin

New works on paper, mylar, and mixed media are presented in the
spacious and stately Fremont Coffee Co. maison, inviting you to visit
my late-night world of voyeurism into my peers' lifestyles. This show
is dedicated to the wet-behind-the-ears, the green ones, boundless
energy, beginner's luck, atavistic beauty, and the noncommittal
qualities of youth. My compositions are serendipitous in the most
basic sense of creative expression, and live hidden lives sequestered
away from my other, commercial, tangible pieces. Washes of miasmatic
ink on mylar overlay pastiche of collage, handmade paper, and
letterforms. Beautiful young women and adolescent youth are linked
through visual cues in the same manner that the difference between 16
and 23 seems like a heartbeat.

"This is dedicated to the one I like" is a collection of images
included in, or inspired by, the Cult of Youth Project (The Cult of
Youth Reader Volume One - January 2006 "Traveling Beyond Our Means"
issue, will be available at the opening at a discounted price.) The
primary function of The Cult of Youth Project is to publish and curate
a literary/arts journal focusing on its target age group of 13-30, in
effect giving a voice to the under-represented opinions and talents of
this age group. The first volume (80 pages, silk-screened slip-cover)
features articles, travel-logs, photojournalistic inquiries,
illustrations, and photography.

Opening: Friday, January 6, 2006 7:00pm - 11:00pm
Through January 30, 2006

Fremont Coffee Co.
459 N 36th Street
Seattle, WA 98103
http://www.fremontcoffee.net/

Marianne.goldin@gmail.com
www.cultofyouth.com
Show image: http://static.flickr.com/43/76018618_c90f12fc53_o.jpg

Maniacal Leakage @ OkOk Gallery

OkOk Gallery presents:
MANIACAL LEAKAGE

An exhibition featuring James Short and Robert Hardgrave

Robert Hardgrave http://farmerbobsfarm.com/
James Short http://argyleplaids.com/

Friday January 6th, 2006
7 - 10 pm

709 Broadway East
Seattle WA 98102
206.322.7523

14/48 @ CHAC

Hi and happy New Year from your good friends and great lovers at 14/48,
the world’s quickest theater festival. Hey, guess what time it is again…

One World Theatre and 3 Card Monty present

14/48
the world’s quickest theater festival
www.1448fest.com
(Named Best Arts 2005 by Seattle Magazine)

RETURNS THIS WEEKEND
at the
Capitol Hill Arts Center

January 6 14
Fridays and Saturdays at 8 pm and 10:30 pm
Tickets are $14.48 and are available through www.1448fest.com or by
calling (800) 838 3006

Welcome back to the world’s quickest theater festival, presenting 14
world premiere short plays conceived, written, designed, scored,
rehearsed, and presented in 48 hours.

The combination of deadline, talent, speed, nerves, and genius
inspiration served to strip away the creative inhibitions from more traditional
theater, proving that sometimes the first idea is the best.

This winter, the festival is thrilled to be continuing our venue tour
of Seattle's Capitol Hill, moving into the stunning, charming, spacious,
and heated Capitol Hill Arts Center.

"Of all Seattle's theatrical oddities, 14/48 is probably the oddest. It
has been going on since 1997. The longevity itself is a peculiarity for
an event that is wild, unpredictable, desperate and exhausting." Joe
Addock, Seattle Post Intelligencer

"A punishing artistic exercise in speed and endurance." Brendan Kiley,
The Stranger

"The best argument for going to see 14/48 is that it can only exist in
a city like Seattle." Gianni Truzzi, Seattle Post Intelligencer

"Some of the most fun I’ve ever had in a theater." –John
Longenbaugh, Seattle Weekly

Xom

14/48 @ Capitol Hill Arts Center
www.1448fest.com

Copy (DJ from Portland) @ LoFi

Hanafi writes:

This is a sleeper event on Friday the 6th at Lofi : 9PM, 429 B Eastlake Ave. E.

Copy, an electronic DJ out of Portland (but he's from Seattle) is doing his Seattle album release party there. Its available on vinyl as well. I've already got mine! I haven't seen any promo on the event, so I've considered it my civic duty to inform the masses. But hey, Don't believe me! Here's what *Music for Robots* had to say about him last week.

Copy Mobius Beard

Copy A Slight But Delicious Warble.

http://homepage.mac.com/tinyrobots/.Public/mark/a_slight_but_delicious_warble.mp3

This song is fucking dope. Copy is coming seemingly out of nowhere (well, Portland, Oregon..the poster is from NYC) with this debut, and it's very good. It's got beats and synth and all these things you've grown to love from the wonderful Audio Dregs label. It's a thick, deep sound with hot action. The main melody is quite pretty, and the beat is one that could definitely work on the dancefloor. On the rest of the record, there are lots of similar sounds, but it's all very well done, and there's even some Ratatat sounding elements which I found to be particularly awesome.

I think this is a good record for this Thursday it's an exciting day. So on days like this I want my music to share in my excitement and eagerness. So let's get to it, ok?

And randomly, a quick google search reveals that the title of this song may have been culled from Pitchfork review of the Conet Project. That would totally be the case if Copy/Marius Libman had ever heard of Pitchfork. So, one can guess it's just a super weird coincidence. I'm really confused he is not from Europe or Japan with that Isolee, Yellow Magic Orchestra and 8 bit sound. Lets try make him famous.

Lofi : 9PM, 429 B Eastlake Ave. E.

Saturday, 1/7

"Evidence" Opening at CoCA

I haven't been to CoCA in a while and I am wondering when they started charging $5 to get in. The art won't be worth the money, but the five bucks might be justified by the music performance by that Crackpot guy. Although they might suck too, in which case you would have spent $5 on crappy art and shitty DJs.
Let's hope for the better:

"Evidence": Photographs by Mateo Zapata Zachai

Curated by Daniel Kany

and

"SPA@CoCA

": Seattle Print Arts

Curated by Deborah Paine

8:30 9:30pm Mannfried Funk will perform classical solo cello sonatas
9:30 midnight DJs Crackle & Pop will spin a party groove

Evidence

Photographs by Mateo Zapata Zachai

Curated by Daniel Kany

Exhibition: January 7 February 5, 2006

Evidence features 20 photographs from the Yale trained Zachai's 3,000 negative series of "portraits." Many of these images show recently emptied dinner tables, plates and vacated chairs. Zachai insistently finds grace and respect in what might seem to be a voyeuristic grasp at the ephemeral presence of those who have moved on. Zachai, on the faculty of the Photography Center NW, shows beautiful finesse in these B/W prints of ostensibly gritty subjects.

Evidence received a fantastic review by The Stranger's Robinson Devore: "The Crime of Dining," Jan 5/2006, p. 20.

SPA@CoCA
Seattle Print Arts
Curated by Deborah Paine & SPA
Exhibition: January 7 February 5, 2006

In its seventh year as the leading organization for fine art prints, Seattle Print Arts (SPA) presents an exhibition of works by member artists: SPA@CoCA. SPA is an association of artists, arts professionals and collectors interested in the expanding field of print arts and print media. SPA artists work in a variety of traditional and innovative techniques: from etchings and woodcuts to the cutting edge. SPA@CoCA presents an unusual opportunity to see a broad cross section of print works on paper created by Seattle artists.

Opening reception: Saturday, January 7th, 8pm Midnight at CoCA Seattle,
410 Dexter Ave N, 98109, $5 suggested
http://cocaseattle.org

2006 Elvis Invitationals @ EMP

Marlow writes:

It is with incredible humility that I announce my acceptance to judge this years 10th Anniversary of the Elvis Invitationals, Seattle's own amateur Elvis Impersonator Contest (or as we like to call them "Elvis Tribute Artists".)

I hope you can join us, Saturday, January 7th at 8pm at Experience Music Project.
Elvis would be 70 years old this year. RIP.

http://www.emplive.org/visit/calendar/index.asp?m=1&y=2006&d=7
For more info see http://ElvisInvitationals.SeattleDreamHomes.com

Wednesday, 1/11

Kassys (Amsterdam/theater & film) @ On the Boards

This one costs $22, in other words there is a certain amount of risk involved. The Stranger likes it but that doesn't mean anything anymore since most of their good writers have left:

Hey Party V,

We’re really excited about the show opening at On the Boards next week. If you like experimental theater and independent film, you won’t want to miss Dutch company Kassys Wed Sun (Jan 11 15). Their half live theater, half film piece “Kommer” is described as quirky, hilarious, touching, and brilliant.

“With a subtle style and an absurd touch (Kassys) makes the everyday extra ordinary. It is all brilliantly brought into vision." De Volkskrant, October 2003
Check out the Stranger Suggests:
http://www.thestranger.com/seattle/Suggests

Kassys (Amsterdam/theater & film)
Kommer
January 11 15, 8pm
$22
How do we deal with unfathomable grief? By surrounding ourselves with friends? Dead flowers? Easy listening music? A tender and hilarious portrayal of human fragility rendered in 50% theater and 50% film, Kommer displays the beauty of human success and failure while exposing the “little angles” of large human suffering.

More info and tickets at www.ontheboards.org
or call the box office 206.217.9888, Tue Fri, noon 6pm
On the Boards is located at 100 W Roy St in lower Queen Anne.

Independent Exposure @ Central Cinema

This is in the ghetto close to where I live. Don't forget to bring your gun!

On Thursday we had a little confrontation between gang members and the police at 23rd and Alder. Some punks fired a gun at a police officer, which in return called in his colleauges that turned that block upside down. We could hear the helicoper until midnight.

Hi Party Volcano,

On Wednesday 11 January, the Independent Exposure screening series returns again to Seattle’s Central Cinema with a program of short films & videos. Here’s a review of the program from this week’s Stranger:

Independent Exposure screens at The Central Cinema, Seattle's only movie dinner theater. Central Cinema offers beer & wine plus a full menu available at all shows with waiter service in the theater. This screening series is presented by Microcinema International, Central Cinema and Emerald Reels, and will continue on the 2nd Wednesday of each month with a new program each month.

* Independent Exposure

The monthly short film and video series returns to Central Cinema with 60 minutes of new programming. There are a few intriguing experimental shorts, including a Swiss film called Kunstdefinitionen (“Definitions of Art”), in which various bizarre characters emerge from snow globes to discourse on the definition of art (all of which are, of course, wildly off the mark), and Spam letter + google image search = video entertainment, a sort of automatic writing for the internet age that does exactly what it proposes (every word from an e mail about a supposedly enormous inheritance is set to an image suggested by Google) but somehow fails to live up to its promise.

The best of the batch, however, are three documentaries: Starlet, an unsettling meta documentary in which the earnest audition interviews from a gaggle of would be starlets become the film itself; The Beautiful and the Fine, about a soft spoken and misty eyed “bio collector” who refers to his carnivorous plants as “fellow travelers”; and Undressing My Mother, an Irish film about a middle aged woman’s unsentimental but emotional assessment of her own body.

Annie Wagner from The Stranger

Central Cinema
1411 21st Avenue (21st & Union)
Wednesday 11 January, 7pm & 9pm, $5
http://www.emeraldreels.com/ie

Don Volcano's Computer Corner

As a dog owner I have learned to differentiate between beautiful and ugly dogs. This one is an ugly dog. In fact it won the award for the World's Ugliest Dog 2005:

Sam (World's Ugliest Dog 2005)
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/nationworld/2002446724_dog20.html

Doesn't that make you curious about Sam?

Sam is a 14 year old purebred Chinese Crested hairless. He is the 2005 winner of the World’s Ugliest Dog, a contest held at the Sonoma Marin Fair in Petaluma, Calif. This win is Sam's third. One doesn't have to wonder why. His ugliness is hard to beat. His proud owner is Susie Lockheed. She welcomed Sam into her home as a rescue after an animal shelter marked him as un adoptable.

You can find more at Wikipedia:

Wikipedia on Sam
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sam_(dog)

He even has his own website, which also shows some other ugly dogs:

Sam the Man and other ugly dogs.
http://sam-the-man.net/

Unfortunately Sam died in 2005...

Next week we'll talk computers: I fill you in on the exotic world of USB drives!

Don Volcano