Friday 4/16/04
6:00 PM "HYPER-GRAPHIA" @ JEM Studios
8:00 PM Plan B Benefit Party @ CoCA
9:00 PM? Club Temptation Opening
9:00 PM? Last Globalista at Tost.
9:00 PM The 5th Annual Gathering of the Ram
Midnight Reel Big Deal at the Majestic Bay Theatres
Saturday 4/17/04
9:00 AM Phinney neighborhood wide garage sale.
2:00 PM private afternoon party/exhibition.
6:00 PM Portraits of Ladies & Ghost Banquet Servers
9:00 PM Monkey Wrench Puppet Lab @ Rendezvous-Jewel Box Theatre
10:00 PM GMP's "Medical Mystery" Party @ The Double Header
Sunday 4/18/04
7:00 PM Tracy + the Plastics
Wednesday 4/21/04
8:00 PM First Annual Moisture Festival
Thursday 4/22/04
8:00 PM Soirée Francophone au Baltic Room
Friday 4/16/04
"HYPER-GRAPHIA" @ JEM Studios
I like events at JEM Studios:
"HYPER-GRAPHIA"
Gallery opening, Music and Performance!
6012 12th Avenue South, Seattle, WA 98108
Friday, April 16th, Gallery Opening & Celebration at JEM Art Center
Reception and Exhibit 6-8pm
Entertainment starts at 8pm
Music & Performance by:
-Degenerate Arts Ensemble
-Henry Hanks
-Strike Anywhere Productions
-DJs Derek Fischer and the Perfect Cyn
Artists showing include: Seb Chevrel (installation), Carli Castellani
(mixed media), Caroline Kapp (3D photography), Heater Fassio
(photography/painting), Brian McWatters (installation), Jennifer Sutton
(painting), Gabe Kean (mixed media/installation), John Ohannesian
(painting), and Keith Martini (classical guitar)
DIRECTIONS:
From I-5, take the Michigan Street exit. Take a left on Michigan, and
then a left on 12th Ave. S to 6012 12th S.
Entrance is next to All City Coffee.
$10 cover donation to help with future events
Plan B Benefit Party @ CoCA
You probably read in the Stranger about it. Kathryn is trying to help Plan B to get back on their feet:
Plan B recently went on tour post-SXSW and ran into some bad luck--$16,000 worth of their equipment was stolen from their van and they were already poor as dirt. I'd like to help them. Their story by Leigh Gable is below.
Thanks,
Kathryn Bertram
Leigh Gable from Plan B can tell the whole story:
Maybe it's just where I am as I write this--courtroom
201 waiting for the municipal court to bend me over a
barrel--but ultimately making music is a doomed
undertaking. In a sea of fool's errands, this last Plan
B tour was more doomed than most. Our tour van came
shuddering out of a wrecking yard the day before we
left, we were all broke, and if it hadn't been for the
SXSW showcase we wouldn't even have had gas money
anyway.
We shouldn't have made it as far as we did without a
disaster. By San Francisco we'd frozen going over
mountain passes at night with no heat in the van,
overheated in Arizona, and slept in a crack hotel in
Tucson, and an even more disturbing hotel in Tijuana.
By San Francisco a weird feeling of invulnerability set
in.
Tired, we let our guard down after a show.
Between 3 a.m. and 8 a.m. on the 3/31/04 some junkies
smashed a random tinted window and found a gold mine.
Matt lost a one-of-a-kind collection of rare soul and
funk 45's he's been collecting for 10 years, I lost all
the raw footage to a short film I'd written and
directed, James lost his new album. Then there's gear:
a bass amp, a mixer, a midi-brain, chords and cables,
headphones, stuff all of us have painstakingly accrued
via 10 years' worth of shitty jobs. (My jobs at least
have been shitty, I don't know about the other guys.)
James and I spent the day combing pawnshops while Matt
cruised the record shops on Haight. At night we skulked
around the Mission posing as prospective buyers of
stolen goods. Futile of course, but it felt good to do
something, to fantasize about seeing someone walking
down the street with a mixer, or a miniDV camera,
anything.
My argument with a heroin dealer on Valencia turned
theological. "NO, I don't believe in god," I told him.
He proved that god exists using Plato's prime mover
argument. I countered that Plato had an antiquated
conception of time. It didn't get any of our stuff back.
We must have passed the patch of broken glass on the
sidewalk 10 times. To borrow a phrase from our friend
Pedro Beas in Tijuana, "It's the most anti-poetic thing
you'll ever see."
Leigh Gable
Plan B Benefit Party
Friday, April 16th, 8 p.m. --
@ Center on Contemporary Art (CoCA)
430 Dexter Ave., Seattle
Club Temptation Opening
Nathalie writes:
Party Volcano!
Thanks ahead for letting your readers know about next week's two rather unusual opening nights ;-)
Here are the details:
Opening Night at Club Temptation
This Friday "the Dentists" open their doors (and zippers)! Seattle's very own dentists-turned-sexy-dancers, Beau and Shawn, are launching their new male dance revue, TEMPTATION. Friday the 16th is boy's night, with a special invitation for our lads from the Seattle Men's Chorus, and Saturday April
17th is Girl's Night Out! With a special appearance from our friends at Toys in Babeland, Saturday is sure to be a straight woman's paradise! Come early, opening nights are sure to sell out!
For more information:
P: (206) 372-4595
W: www.seattletemptation.com
E: nmmnino@hotmail.com
Last Globalista at Tost.
A German saying suggests: "Everything comes to an end except for sausage" (because it has two ends). I might have to add now "Everything comes to an end except for sausage and Globalista". This Friday is the last show at Tost. But it will re-open at the new Mirabeau Room on Queen Anne. James writes:
Ladies And Gentlemen, Friends, Fiends and Franz.
Our last show at Tost . . . who would have thought it would come. I am
certainly feeling bittersweet about this show.
We have been performing there for over a year and have had so many
truly beautiful moments; in fact even occasional complete evenings of
beauty. We will be trying for that this Friday night.
Next week we will be playing at a brand new larger club called the
Mirabeau Room in Lower Queen Anne, opening our nights there with a show
featuring DJ Cheb I Sabbah.
But before we get there we are going to have one last big bash at Tost.
It will be a night presented with the South Asian independent film
organization,Tasveer, and will have as its primary theme retro-bollywood
theme. We will have live visuals from The Now Device all night long plus
we will start the evening with a showing of classic bollywood
clips—with English translations.
Of course it is our last Globalista night at Tost so we will be
celebrating that with a mix of some of the fabulous music we have played in
the past year. Expect, some samba, a morsel of meringue, a bit of
bhangra, a helping of afro-house, a dollop of ‘Amr Diab, a dose of
dancehall, and maybe yes a cut of Cure (c’mon Darek just that one track for
James . . .) and likely a selection of other surprises.
Yours truly, James Whetzel, on throat singing, electro-sarod, darbouka
and tabla.
Deepayan Da on tabla and tayar
DJs:
Darek Mazzone
Anshul & Anup.
It should be a mighty fine time. I hope to see all of you, especially
those of you I haven’t seen in some time. Finest wishes musical and otherwise,
James W.
Tost, 513 N. 36th, $8. 547-0240.
The 5th Annual Gathering of the Ram
This event has nothing to do with those hippie Oracle gatherings. But lots of Burning Man people will show up:
The 5th Annual Gathering of the Ram
A Burning City, post apocalyptic Seattle
Friday, April 16th
14 DJ's spinnin' house, hip-hop, jungle, nu skool
breaks and live turntablism with MC battles, Hula
Hoop-Off, SSP Wrestling, DJ scratch competition and
fire battles!!!
2 Locations
Venue 1, 9pm-2am
Capitol Hill Arts Center, 1621 12th
Level 1- The Fallout Shelter
Level 2- The Combat Arena
Venue 2, 12am-6am
Oseao, 1402 Pike
AfterBurn- The official after hours for the Ram just 2
1/2 blocks from the CHAC!!!
Produced by Shapeshifter and Static Factory Media
Sponsered by Tost Lounge, Zion's Gate Records,
Buddhaful, and our fellow burners.
Info 1-888-556-9333
www.staticfactory.org/ram
tickets are going fast/presale suggested
Reel Big Deal at the Majestic Bay Theatres
At Midnight on Friday April 16, 2004, Artist Trust will debut its first Annual Reel Big Deal at the Majestic Bay Theatres in Ballard! The Reel Big Deal will feature a selection of short work by Artist Trust grant recipients and artist members, including Iole Allessandrini , Aaron Bourget , Stefan Gruber, Beth Harrington, John Helde , Wes Kim , Pat Moriarity, Danielle Morgan, Heather Dew Oaksen, Mark O'Connell, Matt Wilkins and Jim Woodring.
Tickets are $10 General Admission, $25 Reserved Admission, and $50 Patron Admission. All proceeds from admissions and concessions benefit Artist Trust! For more information or to order advance tickets (strongly encouraged), call David Miller at 206-467-8734 ext. 16 or email david@artisttrust.org.
http://www.artisttrust.org/events/default.html
Poster: http://www.artisttrust.org/events/Reel-movie-poster.gif
Saturday 4/17/04
Phinney neighborhood wide garage sale.
Gates writes:
Phinney neighborhood wide garage sale this Saturday.
The SV's will be having a fundraiser yard sale next to Anna Lange's
Pretty Parlor at 67th and Greenwood Ave. North. 9am-4pm! More stuff
than you can shake a stick at.
Private afternoon party/exhibition
I met Fedra at Jordan's fabulous Halloween party 2003. We were drinking wine (I think it was wine) from a dead panda bear (I think he was dead). She is having a photo opening and she better gets started with filling up her panda bears:
Hello,
You and a guess are invited to a private afternoon party/exhibition on Saturday, April 17,2004, from 2pm to 7pm.
The gathering will be hosted in an artistic environment with black & white photography, you will share the afternoon with wine, food, and conversation.
Join us in a musical atmosphere. Just imagine, a nice afternoon, a glass of wine on the left hand and sound of Frank Sinatra on the right ear... I am
Fedra, your host.
Location: 2027 Eastlake Ave E. Apt #206
(Lakeside Apartments) next to Sarafina Restaurant on Eastlake.....
206-890-5925
Portraits of Ladies & Ghost Banquet Servers
You might think that I would happily downgrade an event that is about ceramic artwork by using the old (but in most of the cases accurate) "painted flowerpot" argument. But you would be wrong. Saya's work is exceptional. When I went to Jim Blanchard's "POP ROCKS" show at Roq La Rue on 3/21 this year the gallery next door was having an opening as well. While I was loading up on snacks there (Roq La Rue doesn't offer snacks anymore - 0 Snack Stars!) I also scanned the room for any interesting art and my mind was going like this: "Crap, Crap, Crap, Crap... oh, this one is really good. The chips too..." It turned out that the only pieces I liked were Saya's ceramic sculptures. My best way to describe her art is that she makes little people that have their own personality.
opening on Saturday - April 17th
6:00 - 9:00 p.m.
ceramic artwork by David Traylor and
saya moriyasu
Portraits of Ladies
&
Ghost Banquet Servers
(lots of new ghosts and ladies)
on display
April 17 - May 4
(note: ending date is different than it was listed in Art Access)
square room
(art . interiors . necessities)
1316 east pike
(just up and across from Elysian Brewing)
267-7120
hours: tues - sat 11:00 - 7:00
sunday 12:00 - 5:00
square room features original artwork by owners Brian McGuffey and Leif Holland, locally handcrafted jewelry, fine furniture, décor for home and garden, and natural bath products and candles.
http://www.artaccess.com/galleries.cgi?m=1&g=187
http://homepage.mac.com/saya
Monkey Wrench Puppet Lab @ Rendezvous-Jewel Box Theatre
Five bucks sounds cheap. It's our "Best Buy" recommendation for this week.
Puppet Lab is an evening of experimental puppetry from the twisted Geniuses at Monkey Wrench. This is an opportunity for us to play with new forms and new ideas in front of an unsuspecting audience. This time our puppets are abstract and original; literary and licentious; political and subversive.
The night promises to challenge all that you ever believed about puppetry.
This is puppetry-in-the-raw, puppets without precedent, puppets on a precipice.
Monkey Wrench is a cluster of Seattle area puppeteers who are working to expand the public’s definition of puppetry by bringing their blend of the surprising, the bizarre and the artistically excellent to audiences around the Puget Sound. Monkey Wrench is the group responsible for Frankenocchio, The Mermaid who Broke my Fucking Heart, and the upcoming Halfpenny Opera.
At the Rendezvous-Jewel Box Theatre
2322 2nd Avenue. Seattle, WA.
(206) 441-5823
Friday and Saturday April 16 & 17
Performance at 9:00 SHARP. Adults 21 and over ONLY. ID required.
Tickets $5.00. Only Five Bucks! We are accepting NO reservations.
For information, call producer Joshua Okrent at 528-7799.
GMP's "Medical Mystery" Party @ The Double Header
Another crazy GMP event:
Did your doctor throw up their hands at the bizarre list of symptoms you're exhibiting? Did all your bloodwork come back as 'normal', but you're still coughing up blood? Is there an unexplained shadow in your head X-ray? Were you born with a conjoined twin, or an extra chromosome? Do you pop pills every day to combat the strange voices that tell you to kill Regis Philbin and Kelly Ripa? Do you wear a surgical mask to protect yourself from invisible microbes?
If you answered yes to any of these questions, the next GMP is for you. Who are we kidding, the next GMP is for everyone. And this month's theme is "Medical Mystery".
At 10pm on Saturday, April 17th we'll be transforming the Double Header (407 2nd Ave) into an Emergency room. The Double Header is a spacious, often empty bar down in Pioneer Square, just around the corner from the Catwalk. We'll show up with our own medical professionals and injured, performing surgery on the bar and dispensing prescriptions to anyone with the proper insurance coverage. Not on the GMP Insurance Plan? I'm afraid you're going to have to wait in the clinic.
Our doctors and nurses may have more patients than they can deal with, and all the blood may be too much for some. Plenty of gauze is a must. Our numbers are sure to include a talented team of forensic investigators, and a coroner to take care of the bodies (and body parts). Plus, in case anyone dies under suspicious circumstances, we'll need someone to do an autopsy.
Research will certainly need to be done on blood and DNA samples, so someone better bring some test tubes and pipettes. And if you have a spare centrifuge, we could use it.
Need some inspiration? Check out the TV shows 'CSI', 'Scrubs', 'Nip/Tuck', or 'ER'. Or rent the Dutch mini-series 'The Kingdom'. You're sure to be inspired by Udo Kier's performance.
So get your costume together, Guerrilla. We need you in the ER STAT!
Dirty Bunny adds:
We've been hearing about some pretty sick costumes, and can't wait to see what you all have hidden under your scrubs. We've confirmed with Clinic's own Naughty Nurse Brigade that they'll be on hand to help out with any clown pox vaccinations you need, and I'm sure they'd be happy to perform breast, testicular, and prostate exams for anyone in need. Get your own costume ready (or bloody) and join us for "Medical Mystery".
The Double Header is located at 407 2nd Ave,
on the corner of 2nd Ave and South Washington St
in Pioneer Square
http://www.gmpseattle.com/main.html
http://www.gmpseattle.com/gallery/
Sunday 4/18/04
Tracy + the Plastics
I don’t like Anna Oxygen but the rest seems interesting to me. What else do you want to do on a Sunday evening?
911 Media Arts Center and Consolidated Works present:
Tracy + the Plastics
with The King Cobra and Anna Oxygen
911 Media Arts Center and Consolidated Works are combining forces to present Tracy + the Plastics on Sunday, April 18th, 8pm, at Consolidated Works, 500 Boren Ave. North. Opening will be Olympia’s The King Cobra, and Seattle performer Anna Oxygen. Doors open at 6pm, performance starts at 7pm, for this all-ages show.
Tracy + the Plastics is an electronic art/new media punk band conceived of and performed by lesbian feminist video artist Wynne Greenwood, originally from Washington State. The Tracy and the Plastics sound is a stumbling fury of sampled drums with insistent bass loops, weary keyboard melodies and strong, unapologetic vocals. Their second full-length CD, “Culture for Pigeon,” will be released in April; their first CD released two years ago, “Muscler’s Guide to Videonics,” garnered rave reviews world-wide. www.tracyandtheplastics.com/
Part basement punk show, part video installation, and part one-woman play, Tracy + the Plastics are comprised of Greenwood and her virtual alter egos, Nikki (the keyboard player) and Cola (the drummer). Greenwood takes the forms of all three band members, in flesh and blood and in video image. She sings live as Tracy, while interacting with the other band members on the video screen behind her.
Opening for Tracy + the Plastics are The King Cobra. Descending on high from Olympia, WA, this angular punk trio (Rachel Carns, Tara Jane O'Neil, and Betsy Kwo) blends demented devo worship, no-wave metal, and math rock, playing dense walls of discordant guitar and staccato vocals beneath a quaking avalanche of drums. “They come at you like their moniker suggests - like a hissing snake with venom on its breath and murder in its heart!” www.thekingcobra.net/
Rounding out the bill is Seattle’s Anna Oxygen. Once labeled “aerobic pop with a tragic soul,” Oxygen’s music – blippy dance beats and Casio synths – sounds like it was made by discarded toys salvaged by a pop savant. Twisting her work around an interactive live show, Anna Oxygen has the voice, and a knack for solid songwriting, that is as close to teenage emotional apocalypse as it gets. http://annaoxygen.com/
Sunday, April 18, 7pm (all ages show)
at Consolidated Works, 500 Boren Ave N., Seattle
$10 (general admission) / $8 (911 + Con Works members)
www.tracyandtheplastics.com/
www.thekingcobra.net/
http://annaoxygen.com/
www.conworks.org
www.911media.org
Wednesday 4/21/04
First Annual Moisture Festival
Segue writes:
The First Annual Moisture Festival with a Plethora of Performing Groups and Individuals next week in Seattle's Fremont District under Chumleigh's 'Just Right' Big Top. If you can't find something you like in this lineup, you wouldn't know talent if it came up and bit you in the ass...
Go to http://www.moisturefestival.com/ for ALL the Gory Details!
April 21st-25th
In Chumleigh's Medium Big Top Circus Tent
(at the Parking Lot where outdoor movies are shown)
Corner of 35th St. and Phinney Ave N
Wednesday April 21 8pm $7
Opening Night Party
Swing Dance with The Honky Tonk Revue (Hank Williams Tribute) and Zazou Evangeline
Thursday 4/22/04
Soirée Francophone au Baltic Room
Wissam writes:
Salut,
La prochaine soirée francophone est en préparation, et elle se déroulera au ‘Baltic Room’ le Jeudi 22 Avril. Cet endroit culte de Seattle renferme une ambiance sombre, chaleureuse, et plutôt classy. La mezzanine qui se situe au premier étage nous sera réservée, et l’entrée sera gratuite (habituellement $5) 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 Jeudi,
Wissam Tabbara
http://www.evite.com/pages/invite/viewInvite.jsp?event=EVBBYLUCZQAOIRTVBUXL
Cold Lava
At Risk Youth (3/26/2004)
The evite said: "Are you a rebel or a teacher’s pet? Let us know on Friday night at At-Risk Youth!" I replied with one of my made up traumatic stories from my childhood that I often use: "It was one of those cold winters in Finland and it was truly not fun looking for dead squirrels in the forest next to our school. My buddy and I both had left our flutes at home and our punishment was collecting dead animals..."
The party was at a house in downtown, which had been taken over by several young people. I learned that the management changed last September and allowed squatting the apartments as long as they leave by April 2004. The place looked pretty trashed. There was graffiti everywhere and at some point during the evening somebody decided to roll a big wheel down the stairs and let it crash into the ceiling.
As it turned out! there were many parties in that building. It was interesting to watch the process of one party dying on the second floor while another one was picking up momentum on a different floor, because a punk band decided to start their set.
All in all a memorable evening.
http://www.evite.com/pages/invite/viewInvite.jsp?event=RDBYCISKBGSMSKQTYJFS
R.I.P- Rest in Pieces @ Seattle Art Museum (3/27/04)
Cowbelly went to R.I.P- Rest in Pieces at the Seattle Art Museum on 3/27 and here is her Cold Lava report:
The event details read: "REST IN PIECES: A PORTRAIT OF JOE COLEMAN is an entertaining and informative film about Coleman, an artist whose stunning, chaotic and colorful works of art provide biting social commentary." Coleman is a New York painter who creates insanely detailed and intricate ‘biographies on canvas’ of serial killers and other folks who have committed macabre acts in their lifetimes. He glorifies the weak, the malformed, the ‘freak-show acts’, and refers to himself as a freak multiple times in the movie.
It was not Coleman’s subject matter that I found disturbing, it was the whole premise he seemed to base his beliefs on. He starts out the film preaching in front of an unseen audience in a church about how the mentally deranged and physically deformed circus show freaks, and the murderers and rapists of the world are helping nature out, because the planet is pissed off at human beings and trying to get rid of us, so, therefore, the killers are helping the planet out by, well, killing people. But if the guy spent even a tiny bit of time studying the theory of evolution he would realize that the people he is glorifying are an attempt by natural selection to rid itself of the weaker/mutant genes- NOT the people they harm. For the rest of the film I couldn’t take the guy seriously.
He goes off in so many different directions I can’t help but think he is painfully confused. And the sad thing is he has a few really strong things going for him: he makes a great martyr, has a compelling masochistic streak, and somehow is just dim enough to garner sympathy for his ‘artistic plight’. But he distracts the viewer with so many weird and dumb things that just don’t make sense (chewing up live mice, blowing himself up with dynamite, talking to his dead baby), that he just ended up making my eyes roll. Not once, but many times.
This is unfortunate, because he is really a very talented painter. But he needs to stick with what works for him: masochism, martyrdom and that sad, sappy quality he pulls off so well. I gave this film 2 party volcano stars.
But 3 stars went to the Q & A with the artist afterward when someone asked him if he was from the south. He DRESSES like he is from the south, and gosh darn it, SOUNDS like he is from the south, but nope, he was born and raised and still lives in, New York. Did I mention something about being confused? Hmmm, ……ok, whatever.
Lara & Dan's Housewarming Party (3/27/2004)
Lara and Dan just bought a new home in "Frellard" as they call that little area between Fremont and Ballard. The suggested dress code was "swank cocktail attire" but the hosts forgot to tell everybody to bring booze for cocktails. As the result we all had to improvise getting drunk with wine - which turned out not to be as difficult as expected.
The food was amazing and deserves 4.5 Party Volcano Snack Stars. The fact that the Naked Sushi performance was not happening (because they ran out of sushi) actually added 0.5 stars. As Emily Hall has pointed out "There are easier ways to see a naked girl, and there are much easier ways to get sushi." That alone would offer enough reasons for downgrading Naked Sushi at a private party.
But I have a personal attachment to Naked Sushi: When I saw my first Naked Sushi performance at the Brick House party I accidentally talke! d to the guy that was about to hold the Naked Sushi ceremony. He was so full of himself that he said he invented Naked Sushi. I thought: "What a coincidence. I invented fish!" Naked sushi is a tradition coming from Japan and it is older that the dirt under his fingernails. Even if this gentleman was the first who swung fish at Burning Man. It should not entitle him to being the inventor of Naked Sushi.
The Naked Sushi ceremony was ridiculous. The guy was hairy and not even naked. The "inventor" was swinging candles for over fifteen minutes and bored everybody to tears. Finally he placed a bunch of sushi on the hairy guy. But by then I had already lost my appetite.
http://www.evite.com/pages/invite/viewInvite.jsp?event=VGNZUEWJSAQTJRAPYYPQ
Naked Sushi: http://www.thestranger.com/2003-11-20/chow2.html
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