Next week I am going to Europe for two weeks - Amsterdam and Hamburg to be exact. My girlfriend said that I have to leave the laptop at home and that's why I want to take a little break from Party Volcano. I will send out the next issue on Fri 4/7.
This week's list is short. But I have found some god ones. My favorite is probably DAE on Sat. I like Mamafest and Krakt (Rebar on Sat). Roq al Rue's "Triple Threat" looks also pretty good and that's almost the whole list.
This week's Computer Corner will finally present the ultimate "web site about nothing". The funny part is that it is unintentionally useless. But you should judge for yourself.
Well, this is it for the next three weeks or so.
Let me know what I have missed.
Friday, 3/10
6:00 PM "Triple Threat" @ Roq la Rue
8:00 PM COMPUTER @ ON THE BOARDS
Saturday 3/11
10:00 AM Mamafest @ Snoqualmie West
7:00 PM Seattle Jewish Film Festival
8:00 PM Degenerate Art Ensemble's Cuckoo Crow @ Moore Theatre
10:00 PM SUPERHO KRIS MOON AT REBAR (Krakt)
Sunday, 3/12
4:00 PM Inner Image @ les Egoistes Salon
Friday, 3/10
"Triple Threat" @ Roq la Rue
Our next show “Triple Threat” opens this Friday, March 10th 6-10pm. Featuring the work of Ryan Heshka, Brian Despain, and Davey (aka Dave Wong), this show illustrates in different way the conflict between technology and nature, with a heavy dose of pop surrealistic and science fiction flavor. All the artists will be in attendance and DJ Vodka Twist will provide the musical ambience. (See more info and images below!) This show is going to be fantastic! The show will be online soon. Contact us to be put on a preview list.
COMPUTER @ ON THE BOARDS
Sara writes:
Hi party V –
Here’s an email from the company performing in our studio this Wed, Mar 8 thru Sun, Mar 12… it should be a totally wild, funny, strange show! You should see how much candy their loading backstage. Also – following the opening night performance we’re heading to the Mirabeau Room (lower Queen Anne) for a post-show celebration. Hope you can make it!
-Sara
Here are the details:
High Kindergarten Performance Group Presents
COMPUTER
At ON THE BOARDS
Wed, Mar 8 through Sun, Mar 12, 8pm
Tickets $18 General / $12 Student / $12 Opening night rush
Call: 206.217.9888 / www.ontheboards.org
A performance work for six actors and director.
“Dull, pretentious nonsense.” – The Stranger
Featuring Aaron Allshouse, Matt Fontaine, Rachel Hynes, Andy Loviska, Tamara Paris, Mike Pham and SS Stansbury.
What are the social and spiritual ramifications of computers? What is identity in a world where human beings are represented by data, freely available in cyberspace? Are we all just bits of information, floating freely, unmoored from history, truth or meaning?
HKPG does not set out to answer these questions, or to explore them or even touch on them in any way. Computers are possibly the most boring topic ever known.
Instead, HKPG gives you a series of maddening, inscrutable performance actions, along with the usual poorly sung songs, childish humor, sick fascination with torture and violence, and moments of indescribable beauty and wonder. Also, we have included hours of full frontal male nudity.
Among those who have seen HKPG’s work in the past, 25% found it uniquely thought-provoking, 25% were confused but interested, a further 25% were stoned and thought it was sketch comedy, and the remaining 25% wanted to strangle us for wasting their time. We hope you’re part of the 25%. If not, well, goodbye eighteen dollars.
Boys, look like you're having fun, but don't have any.
- Lawrence Welk
Saturday 3/11
Mamafest @ Snoqualmie West
Guess what? Mamafest: Ride for the Cure, sponsored by The Summit and K2, is SATURDAY at the Summit at Snoqualmie West! YAY!!! it's going to be the greatest ever!
We wanted to let you know about all the cool stuff going on - here are the facts. Below has more details.
Live music, demos, slopestyle competition, HUGE raffle, tons of free giveaways, beer garden, after party - all in the name of raising funds and awareness for breast cancer!
First off, the Mamafest slopestyle competition begins around 10:30. Event Registration is inside Stan's from 8:30 to 10. $30 for Ams and $40 for Pros. Check out some skiers and snowboarders show of their skills. Grand prizes include season's passes, gift certificates, skis and snowboards.
Mamafest 2006 will feature amazing local music from Mon Free(winners of the Experience Music Project�s Sound Off Competition 2005), Speaker Speaker, and The Hollow Points , along with a most excellent after party with DJ Mullet and DJ Colby B until 9pm.
Tons of prizes will be given away for the super mega HUGE raffle at 1:45 and 3:45 - thousands (like almost 20k) of dollars worth of donations from Car Toys, our Snowboard, Ski, clothing and outdoor gear sponsors, Bumbershoot passes, restaurant gift certificates plus soooo much more!
See the K2 Snowboarding Alliance team and other pros hanging out.
Winterstick Snowboards and Mamafest have teamed up to offer Mamafest supporters an excellent deal on a brand new Tantra Snowboard for only $200! Click for an order form.
Also, Evo in Freemont is raffleing off a Salomon board for mamafest. I heard there is like 5 bucks in the raffle jar. Go down there, buy a raffle ticket, get an I Love Boobs sticker, and you could win.
And finally- the pledge drive is still happening. Top fundraiser's (announced at the event) get a free Ride snowboard. If you raise $100, you get a super super awesome Mamafest sweatshirt. Click for a pledge form.
Well, that's it. It's going to be great and we hope to see you there!
xoxox -Mamafest
Snoqualmie West
Seattle Jewish Film Festival
They are showing " Live and Become " at the Museum of History & Industry (MOHAI) .
LIVE AND BECOME is a sweeping epic told through the intense intimacy of one boy's survival amidst the Ethiopian famine of the 1980's. The film begins in a crowded Sudanese refugee camp, as American and Israel forces airlift thousands of Ethiopian Jews (called Falashas) to the Holy Land in a secret mission dubbed "Operation Moses." An African mother colludes to place her 7-year-old non-Jewish son among the evacuees in hopes of saving him from a grim fate. Young Solomon (Moshe Agazai) is swept away to Tel Aviv and taken in by a French Sephardic family. Renamed "Schlomo" by his adoptive parents and forced to conceal his true identity, salvation slowly gives way to the inner emotional decay. As a teenager circa 1989, Schlomo (now played by Mosche Abebe) falls in love, but the romance only underscores the tension and deceit of his feigned life. The film's powerful concluding chapter centers on Schlomo as an adult (Sirak M. Sabahat) and his bold actions toward self-healing. Winner of the Audience Award at the 2005 Berlin International Film Festival, as well as Audience Award Winner at Boston, Washington D.C. and Palm Beach Jewish Film Festivals.
http://www.ajcseattle.org/2006/SJFF06.htm
http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/3263
MOHAI: http://www.seattlehistory.org/
Degenerate Art Ensemble's Cuckoo Crow @ Moore Theatre
Degenerate Art Ensemble's
Cuckoo Crow
March 11 @ 8 pm
The Moore Theatre
Degenerate Art Ensemble's latest multi-media
project, Cuckoo Crow, offers a comical and
horrific contemporary fable told through
powerful live music, dance, physical theater
and animation.
New Multi-Media Work
Two Years in the Making
Cuckoo Crow brings together a team of
dancers, costume artists, set designers, instrument
makers and composers to create a strange new
mythical landscape full of beauty,
struggle and humor.
Artistic Director Haruko Nishimura's vision
is realized through musician/performers
Joshua Kohl, Josh Stewart, Ambrose Nortness,
Paris Hurley and Paurl Walsh, while breathtaking
hand drawn animation by Stefan Gruber bring
Elizabeth Jameson's unique and inspired
original costumes to life.
Acclaim for Degenerate Art Ensemble
"(Degenerate Art Ensemble's dancer/choreographer)
Haruko Nishimura gave a performance that sparkled
with the looseness of an improvisation, all the while
maintaining the control of a master."
San Francisco Bay Guardian
"This music and movement ensemble create work
outside of all music and dance conventions, telling
surreal stories filled with sweetness, power and humor.
The unexpected is accomplished and a mysterious
mythology emerges."
Berliner Morgenpost (Berlin)
The Moore Theatre
http://www.degenerateartensemble.com
SUPERHO KRIS MOON AT REBAR (KRAKT)
There is a new event called Krakt every 2nd Saturday at the Rebar.
Kristina writes:
Hey PV,
Okay, well this is us: http://www.myspace.com/krakt . We’re a techno monthly at re-bar where the motto is: leave your chin stroker at home, check your pretension at the door, drink some booze and get crazy dammit!! there are enough “heady” nights in seattle, so we’re the yang to the yin. We’ve gotten a reputation for hard techno, but that’s not entirely true. All types of techno fly from minimal to ripping. I also drop in a lot of older acid house and sometimes tech-house and electro. But the brand is entirely in-your-face, so I can see why people think we’re hard techno.
Anyway, we’re just some humble djs creating an old school atmosphere (think Detroit parties circa 1994 - dark and danceable) for as cheap as possible. $3 usually unless we bring someone in from out of town, but this city has a lot of locals that are just as good as anyone we could bring in... and $3 on a Saturday is a pretty good deal. Paul and I make nothing on the night. cover just pays for promotion, the guest dj, and part of the t-shirts.
We send out monthly emails in the voice of KRAKT, offensive humor at it’s best. Check out the myspace page and see if it’s something you’d be into. The current krakt website is just a filler, the first full version should be up in a week or so. You can see how it’s coming along at krakt.net/new.
Thanks for chatting,
kristina
I like it. Welcome to Party Volcano!
KRIS MOON DO REBAR.
NO FOREPLAY.
VIOLATE ORIFICES.
CREAM TECHNO.
MAKE YOU SLEEP IN WETSPOT.
WAKE UP IN KRUSTY AFTERMATH.
KRAKT NOT COMPLAIN. NEED COMPETITION.
ENCOURAGE HO BEHAVIOR.
FLUFFERS: KRISTINA CHILDS AND PAUL EDWARDS
KRAKT. 2ND SATURDAYS AT REBAR.
3 BUCKS. CHEAP BOOZE. LOW MORALS.
http://www.dbfestival.com
http://www.oseao.com
http://www.krakt.net
Sunday, 3/12
Inner Image @ les Egoistes Salon
Rebecca Luke writes:
Please join us for our next les Egoistes Salon at Waking Life Massage.
Massage therapist Kari May and personal trainer Bobby Oliver will be on hand to show how their services impact the "inner image", ultimately effecting our outer image.
Rebecca will be sharing her new favorite spring trends and colors of the season. You will have an opportunity to have "one on one" time with Kari, Bobby and Rebecca. We are also cooking up some more "healthy goodies" to surprise you with. Champagne and light snacks will top off the whole experience. Space is limited to ten guests.
Waking Life is a massage studio and retail store. For more information, log on to www.wakinglifemassage.com
Bobby Oliver is an experienced personal trainer with his own private gym, Next Level, located in Magnolia. For more information about personal training call 206.284.2252.
For more information about this event, the les Egoistes Salon series, or les Egosites image consulting please call 206.324.4851. Or e-mail, info@lesegosites.com.
Waking Life Massage
1118 NE 47th
http://www.evite.com/pages/invite/viewInvite.jsp?event=MKYWYGKVAPVSQVFNPILY
www.lesegoistes.com
Future Lava
As mentioned in the intro I am taking a break but I will be back in the first week of April. So let me just throw everything that I have together in this little section called Future Lava.
Fri 3/17: PANTHEOGENIC, a Night with TempleWhore
http://www.evite.com/pages/invite/viewInvite.jsp?event=PQFKXSREZSTOBSDPUZSZ
Tue 3/21 : Moisture Festival
http://www.moisturefestival.com
Sat 3/25: GMP #24 : TROPICARAOKE
http://www.gmpseattle.com/
Fri 3/31: Seattle Arab & Iranian Film Festival
www.saiff.com.
Don Volcano’s Computer Corner.
Here is a little follow up on Microsoft's iPod package from last week:
If Microsoft re-designed the iPod package
http://www.arctic.org/~patrick/misc/ms-ipod-parody.wmv
A PV reader informed me that the video was actually created by the group at Microsoft that does packaging. It was apparently an inside joke that leaked.. And this is one of those cases where they weren't happy it did.
Okay, here is the web site that I have promised you. If Seinfeld is a "show about nothing" then this site is a "web page about nothing:
Live Flight Tracking
http://flightaware.com
Don't get me wrong, I think this is a brilliant site. Unfortunately it's completely useless - unless you are taking flight lessons for the purpose of kidnapping an airplane and fly it into US landmark buildings. Let's start with exhibit #1.
A Day in United States Airspace
http://flightaware.com/analysis/map_day.rvt
I bet you want to see A Day in United States Airspace in action:
All Flights Movie
http://flightaware.com/analysis/allflights_movie.rvt
Let's move on to exhibit #2. I have always wondered how our own little airport here in Seattle is doing. I wish there was a graph that would show me exactly the distribution of departures and arrivals at SEA. Today is my lucky day, because I found it at Flight Aware:
Seattle Tacoma Int'l (KSEA) [Seattle, WA]
http://flightaware.com/analysis/graphs/airport/KSEA
I would have never expected the results: The flight activity goes down at night and comes back every morning.
This is all useless data presented in the most professional way. I know that the people at Flight Aware have been spending many hours to get it up running at this level of quality. Are they at least making any money? That brings us to our last exhibit. I guess they sell ads like this one:
Zuluworks kneeboards - A safe pilot's best friend.
www.zuluworks.com
What is a kneeboard? Is this a joke?
Well, I am leaving Seattle next Tuesday and I am sure my plane will leave traces somewhere on FlightAware.com .
Take care,
Don Volcano
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