I'll make it short: You have to go to Roq La Rue!
Friday, 3/12
6:00 PM "POP ROCKS" @ Roq La Rue
7:15 PM kamikaze! @ Benaroya Hall
8:00 PM Idiot Wind 2.0 @
8:00 PM Where Has Eternity Gone @ ConWorks
9:00 PM? MOJO @ THE LAVA LOUNGE
Saturday, 3/13
6:00 PM ToST TWO-YEAR ANNIVERSARY BASH
6:00 PM "Ballard" Art Walk @ Amada Luna
6:00 PM Club Schmooze BBQ
6:00 PM COUPLING II @ Crawl Space Gallery
6:00 PM Guerrilla Masquerade Party #12: 'The Stuff of Legends'
6:45 PM kamikaze! @ Seattle Opera House
7:00 PM RAWA @ Seattle U Pigott Auditorium
7:30 PM Opening Night: 9th Annual Seattle Jewish Film Festival
9:00 PM Hot Rods & Fast Chicks @ The Catwalk
9:30 PM Shameless @ Alibi Room
Thursday 3/18
3:15 PM Free Liquor/ Free Theater - HUNG
10:00 PM "OBSTACLE" @ lo_fi
Friday, 3/12
"POP ROCKS" @ Roq La Rue
This is my favorite event. Jim Blanchard's sticker paintings are simply brilliant. According to Emily ("sock puppet") Hall he is not making those anymore.
Unfortunately, Blanchard has abandoned his amazing "stickerpaintings"--I would have given a kidney for one--but his new work, large-scale portraits of '60s- and '70s-era celebrities, promises to be pretty good, too.
The official press release is relatively long. So let me quote The Stranger again. They provide a good summary:
San Francisco-based super-artist Rene Garcia Jr. began his career as an animator in the Bay Area and Berlin, but more recently he found a medium very close to his heart: glitter. In the same way his showmate this month, the insanely talented Jim Blanchard, creates stunning images out of stickers, Garcia uses glue and glitter to dazzle pop-culture portraits of strippers, the '70s, hot rods, rock stars, and, um, Carmen Miranda. He's also done some really cool shit with wood and vinyl, including close-ups of icons like Mick Jagger (that's all mine) and Johnny Cash.
Roq la Rue, 2316 Second Ave, 374-8977, 7-10 pm, free.
WWW.ROQLARUE.COM
http://thestranger.com/2004-03-11/stranger_suggests.html
http://thestranger.com/2004-03-11/visualarts_listings.html
kamikaze! @ Benaroya Hall
Kamikaze is "a series of guerrilla music performances, strategic disturbances, and public absurdity":
kamikaze n. & a. L19. [Jap. = divine wind, f. as KAMI + kaze wind.] A n. 1 In Japanese tradition, the gale that destroyed the fleet of invading Mongols in 1281. L19. 2 In aircraft, usu. loaded with explosives, making a deliberate suicidal crash on an enemy target; a suicidal pilot or plane. M20. 3 Surfing A deliberately taken wipeout. M20. 4 Music A disruptive public performance often involving slide whistles. E21.
Benaroya Hall (3rd & University), 7:15 pm, free.
http://www.openmusicworkshop.org/pages/kamikaze.html
http://thestranger.com/current/concerts.html
Idiot Wind 2.0 @ ConWorks
Matthew Richter (Executive Director of ConWorks) writes:
Hey gang. Here it comes! The debut of Idiot Wind, 2.0! The weirdest
channeling-John-Lennon-for-Republican-causes documentary of the year,
Where Has Eternity Gone! Beautiful people making beautiful music
TONIGHT with Kuma, Mercir, and TransPacific! The stunningly intricate
Sonic Absorption show in the gallery! And of course, the ConBar for
your alcoholic pleasure.
Come on down to Seattle's favorite arts amusement park (tm) for an day
or an evening of Suspension, eight weeks of contemporary arts
programming in our Theater, Cinema, Music stage, Visual Art Gallery,
and Resource Center, all centered on the theme Suspension. See you down
here soon.
Idiot Wind 2.0
seattle's only non-curated performance forum
Friday and Saturday
March 12-13 at 8 pm
$7 / $5 for Members / Free for Performers
Idiot Wind is finally back, after a decade-long hiatus. The idea is
simple: suspend all curatorial influence for a night. Give anyone who
walks through the door and signs up on a list seven minutes in front of
an audience. It’s an instant and non-curated look at what Seattle’s
performance scene has cooking. Seasoned pro’s test out new material and
unknown performance artists come out of the woodwork to entertain (and
probably terrify) us all.
Performers, you're encouraged to arrive a minimum of 30 minutes before curtain to sign up for the evening. The evening is first-come-first-performed, and there is time for a total of roughly 12 performances. Each performer (or group of performers) has 7 minutes in front of the audience (including set-up and clean-up) and is free to perform absolutely anything they like.
Read all about it at http://www.thestranger.com/2004-03-04/theater_news.html
Consolidated Works
http://www.conworks.org
Where Has Eternity Gone @ ConWorks
More about this movie:
Death has apparently pushed the politics of John Lennon farther to the
right and dampened his songwriting abilities. This is the true story of
two Internet preachers who channel the soul of John Lennon in order to
defeat Al Gore and Hilary Clinton in 2000 in order to save the Kingdom
of God from destruction. For more information on this film, please see
http://www.barneysnow.co.uk/where/where1.htm
WHERE HAS ETERNITY GONE is just under an hour long. There will be two
supplemental films playing with it:
KING OF THE JEWS (18 minutes) by Jay Rosenblatt
http://www.jayrosenblattfilms.com/king.html
ARMOR OF GOD (13 minutes) by Brett Ingram and Jim Haverkamp
http://www.brighteyepictures.com/productions.html
Movie Website:
http://www.barneysnow.co.uk/
To hear some of John Lennon's new songs, hit the link "Songs from
Beyond 2" on the Polleys' website:
http://members.fortunecity.com/spiritist/
Consolidated Works
http://www.conworks.org
March 12-14
Friday - Sunday at 8 pm
$7 / $5 for Members
MOJO @ THE LAVA LOUNGE
Chris writes:
MOJO (a weekly night of mod sounds - new and old)
Featuring DJ CHRISPO (spinning Soul, 60's British & American rock, Brit-Pop, Garage Rock and Psychedelia)
THE LAVA LOUNGE
2226 2nd Ave. (in Belltown)
WWW.UFOAUGOGO.COM
Saturday, 3/13
ToST TWO-YEAR ANNIVERSARY BASH
Happy birthday, ToST!
Thank you for your incredible support these last 2 years. You've helped
ToST become established as a vital part of the Seattle music scene,
where many of the city's best musicians (along with national acts) come to
perform.
Without your continued support + passion for the local live music and
DJ scene, we would never have made it to our second birthday.
As a way of saying thanks, we invite you to celebrate with owners Tanea
+ Tim Stephens + the ToST staff.............
@ the ToST TWO-YEAR ANNIVERSARY BASH
SATURDAY . MARCH 13 . 6-8 PM
+++ a chance to experience our remodeled sexy new space, featuring a
larger new lounging area with luvseats + more, improved dance space +
upgraded sound-proofing
+++ FREE entertainment by guest DJ
+++ FREE appetizer buffet
+++ FREE ToST t-shirts, featuring original artwork by ToST curator
Timothy Stackpole, given to the first ten patrons
+++ FREE raffle tickets for a chance to win door prizes
+++ happy hour drink specials
ToST, 513 north thirty-sixth street in Fremont.
http://www.tostlounge.com/
"Ballard" Art Walk @ Amada Luna
Amada Luna writes:
Come join us this Saturday for art walk. We will be featuring Nana Kuo’s pottery and Linda Johnston’s kites. We will also continue showing Faryn Davis’s beautiful art...
Amada Luna, 5317 Ballard Ave NW. 6-10pm.
Club Schmooze BBQ
Remember Rob Dolin? Two weeks ago I was downgrading Club Schmooze @ SODO on Sat 2/28. I felt that $25 was a steep cover charge for schmoozing on a Saturday that had much better events to offer. The following weekend he was trying to get rid of the booze by having a BBQ. That didn't seem to work either so he decided to postpone it to this weekend:
BBQ moved to Saturday, March 13
In case you were planning to attend the BBQ this afternoon, but have not RSVP'd, please note that the BBQ has moved to next Saturday. There are too many great events going on this evening. You can find the new RSVP at: http://www.evite.com/robdolin@hotmail.com/20040313. (If you RSVP'd and got this yesterday, please excuse the duplicate.)
Unfortunately not much has changed. There are still too many events that are more appealing than this BBQ. I'll keep you posted...
Rob's Condo Community Room
1415 2nd Ave.,
http://www.evite.com/pub/robdolin/20040313
www.wuxx.com/schmooze
Schmooze pix:
http://www.drmichaelevents.com/gallery/sleepless
http://wuxx.sharepoint.bcentral.com/pix
COUPLING II @ Crawl Space Gallery
The Strange Company writes:
Hey Party Volcano,
We'd love to invite you to a spectacular event happening this Saturday,
March 13th. Read on below!
xoxoxo
Strange Company
Strange Company presents
COUPLING II: Love Fests & Fist Fights
20 artists + 1 month + $50 + 1 gallery + 1 auction = COUPLING II
COUPLING II is the culmination of a month-long collaboration between 10
pairs of artists. Each couple includes one current University of
Washington art student and one Seattle artist. Applicants to the
project were chosen, matched up, and funded by the arts organization
known as StrangeCo.
StrangeCo. was formed by UW MFA candidates in 2002 with the mission of
encouraging dialogue between art students at the UW and the larger UW
art community through events and exhibitions. This, the second annual
COUPLING project, is largely funded by StrangeCo's previous event,
WORKS ON YOU, an auction of artist-designed wearables.
March 13 - April 4, 2004
Crawl Space Gallery
504 E. Denny Way (near Olive, behind wooden fence)
Open Saturdays and Sundays, 12pm-5pm
Opening Reception and Auction
Saturday, March 13, 6pm-9pm
Guerrilla Masquerade Party #12: 'The Stuff of Legends'
I recently found this description about Guerrilla Masquerade Party:
Guerrilla Masquerade Party is a monthly event consisting of large groups of people dressed in costumes of all sorts, arriving unannounced at various locations (most often bars). The agenda of GMP is simply to dress up and have fun. Nothing political, nothing complicated. We just want to add a little variety to Seattle's nitelife, and a little chaos while we're at it.
This months it's about 'The Stuff of Legends':
Hey Guerrillas!
From the mythologies of ancient Greece, China, and Egypt, to the
folklore and urban legends of America, humankind has been driven to
create myths, legends, folklore and superstitions to explain the
unexplainable or to protect themselves from that which they didn't
understand. After a full year of taking over unsuspecting bars in
Seattle, GMP is developing its own mythology of sorts. Stories, both
true and embellished, are circulating about us -- that strange group
that appears just one nite a month dressed in wacky costumes.
So at 10pm on Saturday, March 13th, GMP will celebrate the legends of
history with our 12th party -- "GMP: The Stuff of Legends"
Hobbits, elves and orcs will emerge from Middle Earth to raise their
glasses, toasting along with toga clad Greek Gods and stunning
Egyptian Goddesses. Unicorns, monsters, and dragons will prance
around some lucky bar, while leprechauns and fairies dance underfoot.
And don't be surprised if there are sightings of BigFoot, the Loch
Ness Monster, or the Chupacabra. Don't worry. Hercules will keep us
all safe.
We hear Paul Bunyan and Johnny Appleseed may show up -- rumor is
they've been spending a lot of time together.
Be careful of that woman with the beehive, though. We heard it's full
of spider eggs that could hatch any time. And if Richard Gere shows
up don't mention the unfortunate gerbil incident -- it's just not
polite. The alligators in the sewer will take care of the poor thing,
anyway. And any blood can just be cleaned up with a little Coca-Cola.
Since the party's on the 13th of the month, be sure to wear plenty of
lucky horseshoes, and don't even think about opening your umbrella
inside the bar. Dirty Bunny has promised to bring a couple rabbit's
feet. We can only hope he doesn't step on a crack with either of
them. Knock on wood.
We'll let you know the location of the party the week before -- to
try to keep it a secret from the bar itself.
See you then! Who knows? Maybe you'll get lucky.
Guerrilla Masquerade Party
Here is some information about the location:
This Saturday, March 13th, GMP will be taking our legendary selves up to 15th and Mercer to invade Canterbury Ales and Eats at 10pm. Although the front of the bar is a little small, the back room opens up into a huge space full of pool tables and young punks preparing for a career in alcoholism. Let's give them something fun to tell their friends Sunday morning while they nurse their hangovers.
The exact address of the Canterbury is 534 15th Ave. East.
http://www.gmpseattle.com/
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/GMPSeattle/
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/GMPSeattleChat/
http://www.evite.com/pages/gt/events/view.jsp?event=TWVJGKGDGVBRAATACRGX
www.gmpseattle.com
RAWA @ Seattle U Pigott Auditorium
Wazhma (Retail Therapy) is from Afghanistan. She is pointing out this event:
For 26 years the women of RAWA (Revolutionary Association of the Women of Afghanistan) have committed themselves to empowering all Afghan Women and peacefully building a free and secular democracy in Afghanistan. They were active in opposing the Soviet occupation of Afghanistan, fighting against the atrocities during the civil war, exposing the Taliban, and now fighting the warlord-filled government with a vision for real democracy. RAWA also challenges the common representation of 'Third World' women, particularly Muslim women, as passive victims of oppression--instead showing the active resistance that Afghan women have been engaging in for over 3 decades.
On March 13th we are proud to welcome & host Ms. Sahar Saba, a member RAWA, at Seattle University's Pigott Auditorium. This is a unique opportunity, as RAWA members usually do not speak in the Northwest. Ms. Saba will be speaking about the history of Afghanistan, the work of RAWA, and of particular value to U.S. audiences, the status of women after 'liberation'. She will also be able to give a sharp picture of the reality of life in Afghanistan right now.
For more information on RAWA, you can visit the following websites:
http://www.rawa.org
http://www.yesmagazine.org/Reviews/brodsky.htm .
The event will also include a live performance with special musical guests.
Tickets can be purchased at:
Retail Therapy
905 E Pike ST (at Broadway)
Seattle Wa 98122
or securely through pay pal online by clicking on the above link
$8 advance
$5 with student ID
$10 at the Door.
All funds are being donated to RAWA. Please come hear a new perspective and support a great cause.
Seattle U Pigott Auditorium
900 Broadway
Saturday, March 13, 7:00pm
Cost: $8.00 per person
http://www.evite.com/pages/invite/viewInvite.jsp?event=DCIOGVDZHRFHRKDLUULH
Opening Night: 9th Annual Seattle Jewish Film Festival
OPENING NIGHT GALA
Champagne Dessert Reception
With Special Guest, Director Neil Weisbrod!
THE FIRST ISRAELI IN SPACE
Israel 2003, 70 min English/Hebrew w/subtitles
Director: Neil Weisbrod
West Coast Premier!
7:30 PM, SATURDAY MARCH 13, CINERAMA
The story of Ilan Ramon—child of a Holocaust survivor, heroic Air Force pilot, Israel’s first
astronaut, and ambassador of good will—is a profile in courage. If space is the final frontier, then those who explore it are our advance scouts, not for one tribe but for all humanity. Ilan and six others lost their lives when the space shuttle Challenger disintegrated 16 minutes before it was scheduled to land. Based on the footage of the Israeli film crew that followed him for over 4 years as an astronaut-in-training at the NASA Facility in Houston, this is an extraordinarily rewarding film.
Opening Gala: http://www.ajcseattle.org/SJFF04/events.html
Schedule: http://www.ajcseattle.org/SJFF04/schedule.html
Hot Rods & Fast Chicks @ The Catwalk
Cleo writes:
Hi everyone. I just wanted to let you know that BurningHearts
Burlesque will be guests at the next "Big Wheel Bingo", with "Pastor Kalib", at Rendezvous next Tues March 9th. Show starts at 8:00pm, and you can play big wheel bingo and win tickets to our next big event "Hot Rods & Fast
Chicks", as well as other fabulous prizes. Miss Goody Goody, & Kitten Daggers will perform for you, and Mistress Violet will be spinning.
Hope all is well.
Ciao
xo
Cleo
Here are the details:
BurningHearts Burlesque
presents
Hot Rods & Fast Chicks
w/ Drag Strip Riot w The Go Go Ghouls
The Lovely Ladies of BurningHearts Burlesque
w/ special Guests
White Knuckle Ride
Candy Whiplash
Glitzkrieg
& The Rotten Eggs
The show features Go Go Dancers, Sizzlin' Striptease, & Rockin' Roll Insanity!
Sat. March 13th
The Catwalk - 172 S. Washington / Pioneer Square
Advanced Tix: $10.00 / $15.00 @ the door
Tickets: www.catwalk.net / info: www.seattleburlesque.com
Shameless @ Alibi Room
Who's Shameless this Saturday the 13th?
Answer: Kris Moon!!!
The Alibi bunker will be opening this Saturday the 13th at 9:30 for those in need of a refuge from the mad, mad world.
9:30->10:15: the perfect cyn
10:15->11:00: Derek Fisher
11:00->11:45: Recess
11:45->12:30: Kris Moon (DJ)
12:30->1:15: Kris Moon (Live)
1:15->When Joe kicks us out: Cyn, Derek, Kris tag team wressling contest
Don't get any funny notions about organization from this set
list...although
we'll do our best to stick to it, sometimes we start drinking
and...well, we
just keep drinking.
$0 (Save your $, buy yourself a drink...it's Saturday night after all!)
Rock On!
Alibi Room
85 Pike Street
Seattle, WA
(206) 623-3180
FREE!
www.simplyshameless.com
nwtekno:
http://www.nwtekno.org/vb/showthread.php?s=124943c983cd3caa1f1987241307cca7
Thursday 3/18
Free Liquor/ Free Theater - HUNG
Korby writes:
Free Liquor/ Free Theater - HUNG
It's true. This is no joke. You can have both on Thursday March 18th.
Here's the deal: Seattle School was asked by Consolidated Works to write an original piece for their Suspension series. We were to write a musical work based on the theme of suspension. The result is HUNG - A Suspened Concerto for Audience.
The short explanation is this. Seattle School members wear referee jerseys and coaches whistles. Throughout the 45 minute show, we will pull audience members onstage to perform simple acts of suspension, most of them being grade-school-level playground and recess activities, i.e., a ping pong game, blowing a feather, blowling bubbles, playing four square, poofing up a big parachute (yes - we got one), etc.
Throughout the show, we will be recording the entire proceedings into three loopers, which are played back into the room. Your natural giddy reactions, exclamations, etc will be the audio quotioent of the piece. The entire 45 minute playground performance will be suspended in time.
We would like to formally ask you to participate in this work, as an audience plant. What does that mean? Simply that you e-mail us back saying you're in, and we'll put you on the guest list, and you get in for free. You will be our audience plants. THERE IS NO REHEARSAL. You will be the first round of people we get up to do activities. After that, we will deplete the audience of the "normals" (i.e., the non-plants. Ya know - the people who aren't as drop dead gorgeous as you are...).
There is no rehearsal for any of this. HOWEVER: we do need your name in advance for the guest list (elsewise it's $5 to get in).
How does the FREE LIQUOR figure in? Mike Min wanted to pass around jello shots during the show, because 1) it is suspended liquor and 2) we wanna juice people up for the giddy playground activities. However, we went round and round with ConWorks about doing this, and unfortunately the WA State Liquor Control board would frown on all our ideas.
So. If you sign up to be an audience plant, we will tell you a secret location (basically a streetcorner near ConWorks) where you can meet at Mike's car beforehand to get juiced up on some vodka jello shots we made. The booze is actually the biggest item in the budget. We're looking for rowdy little kids, and the best way to get adult to act like that is to get 'em high on the sauce.
Free Booze! Free Theater! Free Recess! Where else can you get that? Only with SEATTLE SCHOOL.
E-mail me back if you're in and we'll put your name down. For the full list of playground activities, see below. You don't have to sign up for any activity, but if ya wanna claim one now, we'll reserve it for you.
P.S. ConWorks is videotaping the event, and we're being used for a documentary on The Day In The Life of a Curator for Jen Stippich, the Musical Curator for ConWorks.
Meet Ya By The Jungle Gym at 3:15,
Korby Sears
Seattle School
206-923-1339
Cheers!
korbys@earthlink.net
www.seattleschool.net
"OBSTACLE" @ lo_fi
A nite of Electronica-driven Wordbeat-Hip-hop-jazz-Nu Funk & Soul.
Here's the line up:
Chris "C.D."Littlefield-(Karl Denson's Tiny Univ.,Das
Rut,Jumbalaya) -Trumpet & effects
Davis Martin (Mak Tub,Das Rut,Jumbalaya) Electric Drums
Steve Scalfati (Das Rut,Reggie Watts Band,Samo) Keys
Mark Cardenas (206 Rib Shack Orch.,Darrius Willrich Band,Phat
Sidy Smokehouse) Keys
Dj "Maga Bo":from Brazil (U.S.A./Brazil)Spinning World Beat Hip-
Hop,Electronica,Samples & Loops
Dj gLoRy B! (Daily Planet -WorldLY Grooves & Remedy-Universal Groove
Therapy KBCS 91.3fm) Spinning world beats & Universal grooves
10pm @ lo_fi performance gallery
429b eastlake
Cold Lava
STRIPJOINT! @ The Segway in "Ballard" (Sat, 3/6/2004)
We've got a lot of responses. This doesn't happen that much so please allow me to quote all of them:
Hello Party Volcano,
I am a member of Circus Contraption, the group putting on the
Stripjoint party this weekend. You are correct in calling our states nudity/alcohol laws puritanical. We have had calls from the cops, city attorney, "concerned citizens groups" and many others reminding us of the laws and letting us know that there is nothing they would like better than an excuse to shut down our event. Therefore, we are going to be kept quite busy keeping all genitals, nipples, and ass cracks under cover all night.
It's a damn shame, since we have a small army of sweet young things that have been preparing their routines for weeks. Fortunately, there is still a lot that can be communicated in a thong and bra.
Thanks for helping get the word out,
Sari Breznau
'Loud Jacket' Russ is correcting Ron Jeremy as follows:
I hope I don't seem like someone who revels in correcting others
(since this will mark the second time in a week that I've seen fit to
critique one of your statements in "Party Volcano"), but again I feel
the need to 'set the record straight.' As far as I know the
prohibition against serving alcohol in strip clubs is a matter of
county law, not state law (though I'll be the first to admit that the
state's booze laws are overly strict and terribly antiquated). Both
King County and Pierce County adopted ordinances back in the 1970s or
80s prohibiting alcohol in strip clubs. So there may be other counties
in the state where this is not the case (though I don't know off-hand
which ones they are). I believe that the sponsors of these ordinances
had the woolly idea that such restrictions would reduce business and
eventually drive out the strip clubs. Instead, all they did was to
lower the age of the customers and performers ! from 21 to 18--the
puritan's worst nightmare!
So how was the show? We've got two comments. This one is from an unknown source:
I went and got there early. Doors opened half hour late. It was apparently anticipated to be a "happening", judging by the mile-long line waiting outside. Got bored after half an hour, left by 10:30; Lame and silly. A bunch of girls in burlesque costumes doing mock burlesque striptease. Boys too. No nudity, not humorous enough to be campish. Microphone failed so no one could hear the M/C, terrible DJ sound system, impossible sight lines. The crowd was a bunch of mom's and dad's from west seattle. I was the hippest and youngest person there.
I ran into Steven Stone at a party last weekend and asked him to send me his Cold Lava report:
I waited in line for twenty minutes (thankfully I had brought along a
beer). After a while, news came down the line that they were at max
capacity and were only letting people in as others left. I bailed for a
party on the eastside (oh god, did I really just admit that?). Take
away: Fan of the show and not of the fundraiser.
It seems to me that despite the confusion about Washington's liquor and nudity laws everybody (except for probably me) wanted to get in. So what did we learn? - Sex sells. Those who didn't get in should consider themselves lucky because it looks like the show was lame. Have a great weekend!
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