Last week was hectic and so is this week. I forgot to mention ConWorks Opening Gala (Fri), Unsung (Sun), and Dana’s Imaginary Wedding (Sun), and Amon Tobin (Thu). ConWorks usually spam me with three emails a week before something important is happening. Later I read in the Stranger that the board fired Matt Richter and maybe that’s why I didn’t get any emails that week. Maybe they fired me too as a member of their press club?
In either way I think I would have downgraded Ergonomicon at ConWorks anyways. (Red flag: “design as a vehicle to explore the ergonomics of desire”.) This week we will have more reviews of music related events thanks to the submission of our new PV reporter Hastro Gould (not his real name of course).
I also got a bunch of emails to which I am responding to in our Letters to the Editor. My favorite this week are kozy kino and Love Life @ Mirabeau Room on Sat. There are still Tsunami Benefits out there, which sounds a little bit outdated. ARISTOCRATS is having one on Friday but they didn’t make the list.
Friday, 2/25
9:00 PM Veit Helmer's Tuvalu @ das kozy kino
Saturday, 2/26
9:00 PM Love Life : Do you wanna Dance ??
9:00 PM? 4th Annual Sound Off!@ EMP (MUSIC)
9:00 PM? Sage Francis @ Showbox
9:30 PM BOLLYWOOD @ Baltic Room
Monday, 2/28
9:00 PM? Monday Bhangra @ Baltic Room
9:00 PM? A Girl Called Eddy @ Tractor tavern
Wednesday 3/2
7:00 PM Film Screening of Rare 1960’s Electric Arts @ SAM
11:00 PM Members Only @ Baltic Room (DANCE)
Thursday 3/3
7:00 PM "knock-off" @ SOIL
8:00 PM Soirée Francophone à ‘Sea Sound Lounge’ - Deep Room
Friday, 2/25
Veit Helmer's Tuvalu @ das kozy kino
Kozy Kino moves to a different night this week' Friday Feb. 25th,
we will screen Veit Helmer's Tuvalu' an eccentric and beautiful film
set largely in a dilapidated bathhouse (in Sophia, Bulgaria) which is
in physical and financial ruin (the attendant accepts buttons as currency).
It is difficult to miss the stylistic similarities to the films of Jean-Pierre
Jeunet (Delicatessan, City of Lost Children, Amelie). The cinematography is
gorgeous and surreal (the film is hand-tinted in monochromatics), the sets are
bizarre, post-apocalyptic landscapes and/or designed with anachronistic detail, and the acting is so expressive as to be reminiscent of the silent era' and they are cuter than a kitten and a ball of yarn. And like Jeunet's films, the viewer is easily
entranced by a beautiful and dreamlike story and comes out of the experience with
a feeling that life is full of magic and visual poetry.
Screw your cynicism if you think this last description sounds sappy. Jeunet-haters
should be strapped to antique dentist chairs and forced to watch Con Air and early
70's structuralist videos for days on end! Whoops sorry, I didn't mean that.
Also apologies for showing ANOTHER German directed film. I actually thought
that it was French. Vorsicht! Kozy Kino-goers should know that the proprietor is
a closeted Deutschephile and there will undoubtedly be more German films in the future.
Drink special: How do you feel about the White Russian?
The Kozy Kino is an underground cinema that infuses diverse film programming
with thematic beverage service. Every second and fourth FRIDAY evening,
we throw down the homemade cushions, fire up the video beamer and
concoct delicious refreshments to wash down the freshly popped corn.
Each featured film is a forgotten wonder of cinema' coupled with shorts
and inspirational drink specials. It's a cheap night of uninstitutionalized
quality entertainment and a fine example of underground economy.
The Kozy Kino is located at 1809 Minor Ave. (between Stewart and Howell) right
around the corner from the Rebar. It is also somebody's loft space but don't
let that put you off. Although it's an intimate experience (read: seating is
limited), it's the sort of thing that this town needs more of (e.g. the speakeasy,
the peoples' kitchen, the Sunday sermon, the peoples' underground surgical theater, etc.).
Help breathe some life into this 'theme park of a city' now and start your own!
questions? contact: inphaseprod@yahoo.com
Friday Feb. 25th, 9pm
1809 Minor Ave.
Entrance ' $1 - one U.S. dollar.
Saturday, 2/26
Love Life : Do you wanna Dance ??
I talked to Wazhma yesterday to invite her to the Blue Flamingo and she told me that she had been lying in bed sick for the last few days. But there is no doubt that she will be up on her feet again for the big event at Mirabeau Room:
Getting tired of the same old same old beats? All you want to do is boogie down rather than standing around as if it was a high school dance? The Mirabeau room is having me host a dance night Saturday Feb 26th. My good friends Dj Kippy (Platinum Records) and Dj Naz will be rocking the house with all beats and grooves to make you shake it... shake it... shake it like a rock star... so come out and get your groove on with world beats, 80's, Dance, Brit Pop and more cause it is strictly about the music and having a good time.
For those of you who are unsure of your shaking abilities ... come out and just have some fun and we will help you find your groove.
And to make things a little more interesting.. if you bring two people I have not met before your first drink is on me!
Mirabeau Room
529 Queen Anne AV N
Doors open 9pm ends when you just can't boogie no more ;)
http://www.evite.com/pages/invite/viewInvite.jsp?event=IFIJBLVRSKIMQZKAXDDU
4th Annual Sound Off!@ EMP (MUSIC)
Recommended by Hastro Gould:
4th Annual Sound Off!
Opportunity Rocks
Sound Off! is the Pacific Northwest's biggest battle of the bands for musicians 21 and under. A launching pad for musical careers, Sound Off! helped previous contestants Idiot Pilot and Schoolyard Heroes ink recording contracts with record labels. This year’s lineup is just as promising, with nine talented bands from all around the Northwest.
Bands will compete for some amazing rewards. Prizes include an opening slot for the multi-platinum Presidents of the USA at one of their local shows in 2005, time in a recording studio, an opportunity to perform at Bumbershoot 2005, production of a demo CD thanks to Discmakers, guaranteed radio airplay on 107.7 The End’s The Young & The Restless and much more!
More info: http://www.emplive.com/visit/special/soundOff_2005.asp
Sage Francis @ Showbox
Recommended by Hastro Gould:
If you wanna checkout some underground hip hop here's your chance.
More info & free downloads: http://www.southern.net/southern/band/SAGEF/
BOLLYWOOD @ Baltic Room
Sat Sri Akal - Namaste - Salaam - What Up To all the party people.
Note: There are 2 lists for this event; this is evite list #1.
New Party Pics at: http://groups.msn.com/IHeartShiva2/shoebox.msnw
BOLLYWOOD @ Baltic Room :
I hope you all had a great time at the Peace, Love & Harmony Valentines Party on Feb 12th with our special guest DJ Sandeep Kumar from LA.
The 4th Saturday is coming up and its time again for the Bollywood party. Get ready to groove to some Boombastic Bhangra Hop, Basmati Beatz and surely some HOT Hindi remixes.
We have your favorite DJs:
> Manpreet Singh (Bhangra & Desi Hip Hop remixes)
> Peter Madril (Bollywood & Bhangra)
> Anup Shastri (Bollywood, Hindi & Indi Pop favorites)
Live Music:
William Gilchrist (Tablas) & Ravi Singh (Dhol).
Specials:
> All Ladies FREE till 11pm.
Baltic Room
1207 Pine Street
Monday, 2/28
Monday Bhangra @ Baltic Room
Join in for the weekly Monday night Bhangra party. It’s the Bhangra hardcore who have made this the longest standing weekly South Asian music event in the history of Seattle. Been there for nearly 30 months with 120+ Mondays registered.....Chak De Phate!!
Baltic Room
1207 Pine Street
A Girl Called Eddy @ Tractor tavern
Recommended by Hastro Gould:
Sings melancholic songs of heartbreak and love. Her self titled album is produced by Richard Hawley of pulp. I loved his hidden gem of an album "Late night final" so I am recommending this show
Tractor Tavern in "Ballard".
Wednesday 3/2
Film Screening of Rare 1960’s Electric Arts
Recommended by Hastro Gould:
At Seattle Art Museum’s Auditorium
7.00 pm: DJ EZ-ACTION spins 1960’s lounge, yé-yé and exotica in the SAM Lobby
7.30 pm: screening begins
FREE; $5 suggested donation
SEATTLE ART MUSEUM AND COMMUNITY PARTNERS DORKBOT-SEA, CENTER ON CONTEMPORARY ART (CoCA) PRESENT FILM SCREENING OF RARE 1960's ELECTRIC ARTS FOOTAGE
More info:
http://www.cocaseattle.org/
http://www.dorkbot.org/dorkbotsea/events-electricarts.shtml
Members Only @ Baltic Room (DANCE)
Recommended by Hastro Gould:
where: Baltic Room
when: 11pm
Spinning a mix of Brit Pop, Indie, electroclash & dance. One of the better dance nights in Seattle and only $3. Worth it & wear your dancing shoes. Also the party does not get going until after 11pm so don't even bother turning up before that.
Baltic Room
1207 Pine Street
Thursday 3/3
"knock-off" @ SOIL
It’s Art Walk Thursday again and this time SOIL has put together a press release that has more information than only the list of the artists. Last month we interpreted their weak announcement as lack of confident in the success of their show and we advised our readers to not waste any time and avoid SOIL – a pretty straight forward and clean downgrade.
This month there is definitely no lack of confidence. The art is still crap, though, as you can see in exhibit 1 and 2.
In March SOIL's Main Gallery features : "knock-off"
a collaboration by Nina Zingale and Gina Rymarcsuk
knock-off is an installation of interrelated elements which initiated
from the collaborators 72-day excursion to Italy in 2003. Responding to the unique environment in Rome and its abundant souvenir trade, the artists, Nina Zingale and Gina Rymarcsuk, documented artifacts and later manipulated images of small figurines of religious and historic figures found at souvenir shops and outdoor street vendors. Their work playfully investigates, in a mix of scale and digital media, the notion of identity--religious, cultural and national--co-existing with commerce and consumption.
Zingale and Rymarcsuk borrowed the curbside Fotobooth's ability to produce passport photos and then staged selected souvenirs into photo-ID poses (clustering them together in four repeated images). Later they enlarged the images, reproducing
them into B&W posters and installed them in temporary outdoor sites. From the
moment each of these figures was initially documented, they have gone through
a series of permutations imposed by the artists.
This process of transformation is elemental in this work. The transformations mirror
the reality of Michelangelo's David being reduced to a commonplace four inch plastic
figurine, displaced from Florence to a vendor's stand in Rome, to a curio cabinet
in suburban USA. This interplay of past and present ideologies, conflated into
small mass-produced figurines, explores the concepts of transformation
and displacement.
knock-off is the first opportunity to exhibit this collaboration in the US.
SOIL Gallery
112 3rd Ave. S
Seattle, WA 98104
(206) 264 8061
www.soilart.org
Exhibit 1: http://pg.photos.yahoo.com/ph/partyvolcano/detail?.dir=/2f39&.dnm=d299.jpg
Exhibit 2: http://pg.photos.yahoo.com/ph/partyvolcano/detail?.dir=/2f39&.dnm=7f62.jpg
Soirée Francophone à ‘Sea Sound Lounge’ - Deep Room
Salut,
La prochaine soirée francophone est en préparation, et elle se déroulera à ‘Sea Sound Lounge’ le Jeudi 3 March. La chambre privée nous sera réservée, et l’entrée sera gratuite (habituellement $10) si vous répondez positivement a cette invitation ; nous devrons fournir la liste des noms, donc assurez vous que le votre s’y trouve. N’hésitez pas a amenez vos amis francophones, ils sont toujours les bienvenus.
Pour les nouveaux, notre groupe est formé de jeunes francophones sympas de tous horizons qui se retrouvent pour passer de bons moments. On se rencontre une fois par mois dans un bar différent à Seattle.
Vous pouvez accéder aux photos de la dernière soirée à cette adresse : http://groups.msn.com/francophonedeseattle
A Bientôt,
Wissam Tabbara
(206)778-9477
Sea Sound Lounge - Deep Room
115 Blanchard St Belltown
http://www.evite.com/pages/invite/viewInvite.jsp?event=XIPENWAXOJAVRYCBWBXL
Letters to the Editor
RE: Last Globalista at The Mirabeau Room (2/19)
Yo, party Volcano, love what you're doing, but you should get educated about things before you talk about them. Don't mean to sound harsh, but Darek and your comments about the Mirabeau Room are off base. I gave Darek his first DJ gig in Seattle way back when and am a huge supporter of what he does. We are canceling his night because very, very few people were attending it. That does of course mean less bar sales, but it also means people aren't excited about the night. And we aren't replacing it with all Bollywood. In fact, even the nights that used to be all Bollywood are now expanding to include a wider array of music - still Bollywood but also Bhangra, Bhangra-hop, hip-hop and other fun dance music. The other Saturdays will have no Bollywood, but will have a a South Asian flavor with Asian Massive, Bhangra, Hip-hop, Dancehall, and lots of other great dance music from around the world. They will be more high energ! y than Globalista and hopefully attract more people. National and international DJ's will be appearing throughout the month, and there will be changing themes. You should really check it out, and be knowledgeable before you cut something down. What you are doing is great, but if your information is wrong it is sort of worthless don't you think?
Anyhow, watch our events over at the Mirabeau....we try to stay creative and fresh.
David Meinert
David,
I actually like what you have been doing with the Mirabeau Room and my comment was actually not unfriendly towards Mirabeau’s attitude or concepts. (You know how a PV downgrade looks like, don’t you?) If you go back and read our review from last week you will find that it was more about Darek in the Little Shop of Horror (the blood from the finger being his DJ gigs and KEXP shows, featuring "Bollywood" as the flower-monster that is taking over the shop as it uncontrollably grows).
I did write that "a bar like Mirabeau Room makes money primarily by selling booze" and I have a hunch that it was that comment that pissed you off – and the fact that you don’t want to see Mirabeau being labeled as the next Bollywood place in town, which would be not great for business.
At least at the time when the review was written I looked up the calendar page of the Mirabeau Room and I found that Bollywood and Bhangra was the main theme on Saturdays (RITMO on 2/5 and 2/19: "Bollywood to Latin House, Bhangra-Hop to Hip-Hop", THE BOLLYWOOD PROJECT on 2/12 etc.). The tone of the announcement did change lately, though, as I saw today in your announcement of LOVELIFE, which is one of this week’s recommended events.
You mentioned that at the end only few people were attending Globalista nights, which is not what I have heard from people that went recently. I am sure Last Globalista made you happy – it was packed.
As mentioned before, I don’t really have a problem with Mirabeau Room. You guys run a business and you need to flexible and change the program according to the forces of supply and demand.
And you know what?: That’s totally okay with me.
So no more Bollywood, ey? (Blink, blink.)
Best regards,
Don Volcano.
RE: Unsung at the Twilight Exit ( 2/20/2005)
Dear Party Volcano,
I usually enjoy reading your publication, however I must comment on
several glaring omissions this week:
1. The premiere of "Unsung!" at the Twilight Exit on Sunday Feb 20th
has been announced by myself, and the promoter of the event. This
movie is a significant piece in the topography of Seattle Indie Music
History, and the screening of it is a pertinent event for inclusion in
your index.
2. While entertaining, perhaps you should leave City Chickens 101 and
Seattle Bike Expo to Seattle Spin? I've always relied on the Party
Volcano for opportunities to do bad things to my body, not good
things.
3. Can we please expand our coverage outside modern dance and fire
dancing events in Georgetown? In addition, since this is a three-day
weekend, Sunday (and Monday) have been omitted, which seems an error.
Cordially yours,
SuperJew
Dear Superjew,
Last week was a tough one. I knew about Unsung and I almost included it - especially because you promised to come, get drunk, and sing Karaoke. You wrote:
So, yes. do you miss me yet? wondering where my secret bat cave is?
well...why don't you join me at the screening for the ultra-special
director's cut of UNSUNG! rare opportunity to see me smashed! at the
twilight exit this SUNDAY FEB 20th. you may catch me doing a karaoke
rendition of a spice girls song if the karaoke nazi doesn't boot my fine
ass off the bandstand. or, you may catch me proselytizing about the joys
of sobriety as i'm drinking a very, very stiff twilight(tm) grayhound.
more details: http://www.livejournal.com/users/atonal/216751.html
cheers to you with a glass of cheap house chianti!
superjew
Did I want to see you get drunk and sing karaoke? Of course!
But the movie itself would have probably been a downgrade candidate. I would have rather gone to City Chickens 101 than watched Unsung. I think in a perfect world I would have liked you to get drunk at City Chickens 101 and sing Karaoke. Unfortunately you can't have everything.
The other sad truth is that I didn't really have many good events to write about. My secret favorite for last week was a private party - Russ's Blue Flamingo Co-Op Nights.
Please accept our apologies for not mentioning Unsung and listing too many silly Seattle Spin events. Do I have to fall on my knees and beg you for writing a Cold Lava Report of your drunken Unsung night (assuming you remember anything)? – because I would!
Cheers,
Don Volcano.
Cold Lava
Unsung @ Twilight Exit ( 2/20/2005)
DJ Superjew was so kind to us her Cold Lava Report of Unsung which elegantly transforms into a review of Blue Flamingo Nights:
It was my original intent to attend the entirety of the screening of
"Unsung!" at the Twilight Exit of Sunday Feb 20th...however as they
say that "making plans is the surest way to make god laugh" and thus
it went after a fitful disco nap and haphazard climb against the
Seattle concerete-basalt hills in the trusty city slicker heels.
I found my way surely, blindly, much like the protagonist in
"Steppenwolf", to the Madmen's Magic Theater-- the secret Speakeasy of
the Blue Flamingo. Noticeably absent from his megalomaniacal hosting
duties was the gracious Russ Scheidelman, ringman for the
aforementioned clandestine spot. Instead, the series of "Blue Flamingo
Co-op" nights (the first of which I was to attend) was staffed by the
many color of denizens in our city. Those oddfellows; magnetically
drawn to this abode of the eclectic, underage, overage, alcoholic,
on-the-wagon, and those generally misaligned with polite society set.
As anyone who's visited a proper speakeasy, you know about the
importance of "the password" or a kind of passkey, (in this case, a
well-hidden buzzer, and a key thrown from a window above) to filter in
your very specific and easily-frightened crowd. These are events of a
delicious, delirious, and dubious nature, ones where the younger set
is introduced to the seemingly-harmless older set, and sometimes eats
the latter alive; or is eaten alive. But perhaps I make this out to be
too much of a melodramatic falling-from-grace scene when it is but a
dervish of a party?
The mood of the event was set with impunity by the welcoming gentlemen
in sportcoats, and various other attendants in what appeared to be
only ceremonial turkish cleric costumes. Refreshing tonics were served
(Pimm's cups with fresh cucumber, the eponymous Blue Flamingo Martini,
etc) and various moods of music both experimental and catchy from the
likes of Jean Michel Jarre, Plastic Bertrand, Electric Six and
Elastica. Rare alternative music videos and video montages were
projected juxtaposed with midcentury-modern black and white telly sets
coloured with theatrical filters and showing the best in Chien
Andalou, Metropolis, and other crazed expermintalia of the prognostic
20s.
The co-op atmosphere was in full-swing with our creatively-dressed
volunteer bartender, rotating barbacks, barrage of
deejays and supportive dancefloor superstars, excitable gay boys,
scheming artists, questionable swarmy types, exhibitionists and their
voyeuristic photogs, and the new dance, "sop up the spilled drink with
paper towels twist". A steady flow of all ages, creeds, and careers
came through the door that night, all equally charmed, boozed,
titillated, and disturbed by the end of our strange evening. If you
get the word, come next weekend. I'll be spinning the late-nite shift.
xoxo,
Superjew
www.mariannegoldin.com
GMP’s MONSTERS OF ROCK ( 2/19/2005)
Happy Presidents Day, Guerrillas!
For those of you who missed Monsters of Rock! Saturday night, you
missed a crazy time. Everyone from an asphyxiated, naked Michael
Hutchence to a demonic Elvis were there. Cher and Madonna stopped by,
and the karaoke stage was shared by Bjork, Axel Rose & Slash, and
Flava Flav. The Crescent really didn't know what hit them, though we
kinda fit in with the regular crew of misfits that it attracts. I'm
not sure how everyone else's evening ended, but Dirty Bunny ended up
dancing at Galerias, then stumbling over to Taco Bell with Courtney
Love, Ashley Simpson, and his boyfriend.
Tons of photos of the night have been posted to the GMP Gallery.
Check them out at: http://www.gmpseattle.com/gallery/
As is their tradition, the folks behind Santarchy will be throwing
'The Brides of March' on the 12th of next month, and we'll be sure to
send you info as we get it... so start looking for a wedding dress now.
And stay tuned for info about the next GMP, coming soon...
dirty bunny
Guerrilla Masquerade Party
http://www.gmpseattle.com/
Don Volcano’s Computer Corner
Inspired by last weeks cover of The Stranger that shows a portrait of Michael Jackson layed out in cereals (see http://www.thestranger.com/2005-02-17/bigcover.html) I would like to send you a link to a movie that is quite impressive. This is a very detailed, complete reenactment of Michael Jackson’s music video Thriller.
Lego Thriller
http://www.koreus.com/files/200408/lego_thriller.html
Enjoy,
Don Volcano.
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