Bumbershoot seems to be the only game in town this week. There is of course Burning Man. But if you are one of those people like me, who thinks that Burning Man is all about spending a week in the desert doing drugs and other people that do drugs, well, then you'll probably put your "I am lame" cap on and go to Bumbershoot - like I will!
Fri, 9/2
4:00 PM Bumbershoot
6:00 PM wish/alchemy @ CoCA
Sun, 9/4
3:30 PM Geek Like Me @ Bumbershoot
7:00 PM D. Travers Scott @ Bumbershoot's Starbucks Literary Stage
Thu, 9/8
6:30 PM MACALS: Susan Robb
Fri, 9/2
Bumbershoot
I ran into David K. at the visual art opening on Wednesday and I told him: "I looked at the program but it's all crap. I paid eighteen fucking dollars!" David K. disagreed: "Are you crazy? There are tons of good bands playing." He knows obviously more about music than I do. That's why I asked him to compile a list for you. Here is what he writes:
Make sure to check out Flatstock in the centerhouse.
It's the rock poster show/sale. Amazing stuff from
many great artists. Everyday till 9:00 or 10:00 pm.
Must see's are in all caps:
FRIDAY:
The Mainstage in Memorial Stadium
THE DONNAS
6:15 pm - 7:15 pm @ The Mainstage
THE NEW YORK DOLLS
7:45 pm - 9:00 pm @ The Mainstage
GARBAGE
9:30 pm - 10:45 pm @ The Mainstage
Skerik's Syncopated Taint Septet
6:45 pm - 8:00 pm @ Best Buy Bumbrella Stage
Maktub
8:45 pm - 10:15 pm @ Best Buy Bumbrella Stage
Mavis Staples
7:45 pm - 9:00 pm @ Miller Lite Blues Stage
The Sound Transit Backyard Stage on the Broad Street Lawn
RUBY DEE & HER SNAKE HANDLERS (recently voted best
band in Seattle)
1:00 pm - 2:00 pm @ The Sound Transit Backyard Stage
M. Ward
8:30 pm - 9:45 pm @ The Sound Transit Backyard Stage
Toasted Head Northwest Court Lounge
The Garfield High School Jazz Combo
12:30 pm - 1:30 pm @ Toasted Head Northwest Court Lounge
Stan Ridgway
8:00 pm - 9:30 pm @ Toasted Head Northwest Court Lounge
EMP Sky Church sponsored by ASCAP
The Gruff Mummies
12:15 pm - 1:15 pm @ EMP Sky Church
Sub-Motive
1:45 pm - 2:45 pm @ EMP Sky Church
Anna Oxygen
3:15 pm - 4:15 pm @ EMP Sky Church
SMOOSH
4:45 pm - 5:45 pm @ EMP Sky Church
Razrez
6:15 pm - 7:15 pm @ EMP Sky Church
Akimbo
7:45 pm - 8:30 pm @ EMP Sky Church
The Ruby Doe
9:00 pm - 10:00 pm @ EMP Sky Church
SATURDAY:
Citizen Cope
2:15 pm - 3:45 pm @ The Mainstage
McCaw Hall sponsored by Boeing
Charlie Hunter Trio
2:00 pm - 3:15 pm @ McCaw Hall
Bill Frisell with Tony Scherr & Kenny Wollesen
3:45 pm - 5:00 pm @ McCaw Hall
Smart: Dave Eggers, Sarah Vowell, Daniel Handler
(Lemony Snicket), Mike Doughty, and the Transatlantic
Orchestra in a Benefit for 826 Seattle
8:00 pm - 10:00 pm @ McCaw Hall
Hidden In Plain View
4:00 pm - 4:45 pm @ 107.7 The End What's Next Stage
Visqueen
5:30 pm - 6:30 pm @ 107.7 The End What's Next Stage
Harvey Danger
7:15 pm - 8:15 pm @ 107.7 The End What's Next Stage
Minus The Bear
9:00 pm - 10:00 pm @ 107.7 The End What's Next Stage
Alpha Yaya Diallo
4:45 pm - 6:15 pm @ Best Buy Bumbrella Stage
DIGABLE PLANETS
9:15 pm - 10:30 pm @ Best Buy Bumbrella Stage
MAVIS STAPLES
2:15 pm - 3:30 pm @ Miller Lite Blues Stage
BILLY JOE SHAVER
7:15 pm - 8:30 pm @ The Sound Transit Backyard Stage
Tift Merritt
9:15 pm - 10:30 pm @ The Sound Transit Backyard Stage
EMP Sky Church sponsored by ASCAP
Infomatik
12:15 pm - 1:15 pm @ EMP Sky Church
Mercir
1:45 pm - 2:45 pm @ EMP Sky Church
Viva Voce
3:15 pm - 4:15 pm @ EMP Sky Church
IQU
6:45 pm - 9:00 pm @ EMP Sky Church
Junkie XL
9:00 pm - 11:00 pm @ EMP Sky Church
Seattle goga - "Girl On Girl Action"
5:00 pm - 6:00 pm @ Theatre Puget Sound Stage
Lauren Weedman - "Wreckage"
6:30 pm - 8:00 pm @ Theatre Puget Sound Stage
Office Experiments #4
2:00 pm - 2:45 pm @ Ink Spot Sponsored by Starbucks
Guerilla Poster Making (Beautiful Angle)
3:00 pm - 3:45 pm @ Ink Spot Sponsored by Starbucks
Office Translations "Q"
4:00 pm - 4:45 pm @ Ink Spot Sponsored by Starbucks
Haiku Workshop
5:00 pm - 5:45 pm @ Ink Spot Sponsored by Starbucks
Japanese Stab Binding
6:00 pm - 6:45 pm @ Ink Spot Sponsored by Starbucks
SUNDAY:
The Mainstage in Memorial Stadium
The Pharcyde
12:15 pm - 1:15 pm @ The Mainstage
Talib Kweli
1:45 pm - 2:45 pm @ The Mainstage
Common
3:15 pm - 4:15 pm @ The Mainstage
Marc Broussard
8:15 pm - 9:15 pm @ The Mainstage
ELVIS COSTELLO
9:45 pm - 11:00 pm @ The Mainstage
McCaw Hall sponsored by Boeing
Bo Diddley
3:00 pm - 4:15 pm @ McCaw Hall
Jesse Sykes & The Sweet Hereafter
7:30 pm - 8:15 pm @ McCaw Hall
SON VOLT
8:45 pm - 10:15 pm @ McCaw Hall
Schoolyard Heroes
4:00 pm - 4:45 pm @ 107.7 The End What's Next Stage
Pretty Girls Make Graves
7:00 pm - 8:00 pm @ 107.7 The End What's Next Stage
Wheedle's Groove
1:45 pm - 3:30 pm @ Miller Lite Blues Stage
BILLY PRESTON
8:15 pm - 9:45 pm @ Miller Lite Blues Stage
Hothouse Flowers
9:00 pm - 10:30 pm @ The Sound Transit Backyard Stage
JUANA MOLINA
8:15 pm - 9:15 pm @ Toasted Head Northwest Court
Lounge
EMP Sky Church sponsored by ASCAP
Dolorean
12:30 pm - 1:30 pm @ EMP Sky Church
Math and Physics Club
2:00 pm - 2:45 pm @ EMP Sky Church
John Wesley Harding & Friends: Songs of Misfortune
4:15 pm - 5:30 pm @ Bagley Wright Theatre
Lauren Weedman - "Wreckage"
3:00 pm - 4:30 pm @ Theatre Puget Sound Stage
MONDAY:
The Mainstage in Memorial Stadium
The Decemberists
12:30 pm - 1:45 pm @ The Mainstage
Dashboard Confessional
2:15 pm - 3:30 pm @ The Mainstage
MUDHONEY
8:00 pm - 9:00 pm @ The Mainstage
IGGY & THE STOOGES
9:30 pm - 11:00 pm @ The Mainstage
107.7 The End What's Next Stage sponsored by Xbox at
the Exhibition Hall
Aqueduct
2:45 pm - 3:45 pm @ 107.7 The End What's Next Stage
EARLIMART
4:30 pm - 5:30 pm @ 107.7 The End What's Next Stage
TED LEO & THE PHARMACISTS
6:15 pm - 7:15 pm @ 107.7 The End What's Next Stage
Flogging Molly
8:00 pm - 9:15 pm @ 107.7 The End What's Next Stage
LOS AMIGOS INVISIBLES
3:00 pm - 4:15 pm @ Best Buy Bumbrella Stage
Brazilian Girls
6:45 pm - 8:00 pm @ Best Buy Bumbrella Stage
Michael Franti & Spearhead
8:45 pm - 10:15 pm @ Best Buy Bumbrella Stage
BUCKWHEAT ZYDECO
8:00 pm - 9:30 pm @ Miller Lite Blues Stage
The Bradbury Press
12:45 pm - 2:00 pm @ The Sound Transit Backyard Stage
The Be Good Tanyas
2:45 pm - 4:00 pm @ The Sound Transit Backyard Stage
EMP Sky Church sponsored by ASCAP
Post Stardom Depression
12:15 pm - 1:15 pm @ EMP Sky Church
CharmingSnakes
1:45 pm - 2:45 pm @ EMP Sky Church
Idiot Pilot
4:45 pm - 5:45 pm @ EMP Sky Church
Kinski
6:15 pm - 7:15 pm @ EMP Sky Church
Bagley Wright Theatre
Buttrock Suites
1:00 pm - 2:00 pm @ Bagley Wright Theatre
Swivel Presents: The Indiscretions Road Show featuring
Aimee Bender, Vendela Vida, Ali Davis, Ellen Forney,
and Lauren Weedman
3:00 pm - 4:15 pm @ Bagley Wright Theatre
Have fun!
David
If you do decide to go this year check out the visual arts exhibition. It's pretty good. I liked the Outside In room the best. The wall with the little machines that move grass is my favorite.
Outside In – a group exhibition in which eight artists and/or creative partnerships from the Northwest and across the US explore the environment and our relationship to it using a wide variety of “unnatural” – i.e. technology focused – media. Outside In is curated by Kate Seekings of dorkbot and People Doing Strange Things With Electricity I & II fame.
wish/alchemy @ CoCA
Two-part exhibition, wish/alchemy, opens at CoCA this Friday, Sept 2: 6pm-11pm
Alchemy is a sound installation by Seattle-based artists, Christine Wallers and Steve Peters. Within the piece, 12 large bowls hang on thin cords from CoCA’s rafters. The bowls, made of spun yellow brass, have attached transducers which transmit sound directly into the metal, causing them to resonate. Heard clearly in the first bowl, the voices (which are wishes for change in the world) are electronically transformed into increasingly pure, abstract tones as they flow through the space in a quiet wave and gradually subside into silence.
Alchemy is part of In Resonance, a sound-based art exhibition curated by Fionn Meade and Rob Millis that is part of this year’s Bumbershoot Arts Festival.
Wish is an accompanying group show, inspired by the aspirations of Alchemy. Curated by Jim O’Donnell, wish features works by: Jonathan Gitelson, Blake Haygood, Rashid Johnson, Miranda Lichtenstein, Kelly Mark, Jillian Mcdonald, Lilly McElroy, and Melissa Pauw. Love, enlightenment, employment, privacy, fame – wishes offer glimpses of hope and possibilities for things to be better, or just different, than what they are now.
Wish/alchemy runs through October 9, 2005.
CoCA.
Sun, 9/4
Geek Like Me @ Bumbershoot
Kris was an extra at this movie:
Greetings!
I was an extra in this film! If anyone sees it, would you let me know the film is? Unfortunately, I can't make it on Sunday, hopefully it will screen again. Have a wonderful weekend!
:) Kris
John Vechey writes:
"Geek Like Me" will be showing at Bumbershoot's 1 Reel Film Festival on Sunday, Sept. 4th at 3:30 p.m.
Friends, Romans, Countrymen, Comrades, and Citizens,
It is on this day, August 25th of the year 2005 that I write to you to announce the Vechey Directed films that will be appearing in this years 1 Reel Film Festival at Bumbershoot.
Playing first, on Sunday, September 4th at 3:30 will be Geek Like Me. Shot last fall on 35mm, Geek is the story about two people trying to change themselves for love.
On Monday, September 5th, also at 3:30 will be my entry into the 1 Reel Film Challenge. Shot on High Def, the challenge is a collection of shorts done by 10 different directors, all trying to answer the question: "Are you fuckin' kiddin' me?"
I am very excited and proud of both shorts. The cast and crews on both were a-list, both were written by Winda Benedetti, and both were directed by... ME!!!!!
If you know of someone that would be interested, please forward this email. I love you all and desire world peace.
-John
D. Travers Scott @ Starbucks Literary Stage
Trav wrote this really funny book about five brothers that are quintuples. Shortly before their father dies he lets them know that one of them is actually not their brother.
I hate readings. I recently starting reading books again after a 20 year break and I am having a hard time sitting on a chair watching somebody doing something I had successfully avoided for 2 decades. But I did go to Trav's reading of "One of These Things is Not Like the Other" last month and I liked it a lot. I did not like the other guy, who was reading from his book, that seemed to be a collection of whining stories about living in a big city (Vancouver) and that the lasagna at his favorite restaurant is always too salty - that kind of wimpy complainer stuff.
Either way, I am looking forward to seeing some of my eighteen fucking bucks at work at Trav's performance!
D. Travers Scott
Sunday, 7:00 pm - 7:30 pm @ Starbucks Literary Stage
Travers presents an original multimedia performance of his new novel
One of These Things is Not Like the Other. Of the book, Instinct
magazine says "Maybe it is like "Sesame Street" written by Clive
Barker, directed by David Lynch and starring Crispin Glover as Elmo."
The story, a "backwoods noir" featuring suicide, homicide, fratricide,
and incest, is not for kids or the faint-hearted.
artist web site: http://home.comcast.net/~dtraversscott/one/
Thu, 10/8
MACALS: Susan Robb
Susan Robb is giving a talk at the Microsoft Art Collection Artist Lecture Series (MACALS):
Susan Robb's work crosses disciplines employing video, photography, performance, sound, sculpture, site-specific installation and new media, often questioning modes of authority while exploring the intersection between nature and culture.
She has received numerous awards including a Stranger "Genius Award", an Artist Trust Fellowship, and a Pollock-Krasner Foundation grant. She received a BFA and a BA from Syracuse University, New York and an MFA from the University of Washington, Seattle, where for the past two years she has been a visiting professor teaching installation art.
Microsoft Redmond Campus
Building 33 Conference Center
Reception before and during program
6:30 - 7:30 PM
For driving directions to Building 33, please call 425.706.0033. For more information, please call 425.722.6591.
Letters to the Editor
Senor Party,
I must protest. I know that Soil has not been the most exciting venue in the past, and yet...
This month’s show is better than half the galleries around town, and the upcoming show might not suck either. So.... Relax already with the crap-o-meter...
Xo,
Steve
Dear Steve,
Hmm, what I saw in the press release didn't pass the 10 second test.
Did they just send me crappy pictures?
Speaking of pictures - not of crappy ones, though - I apologize for not mentioning the opening of your show at Design Commission. Your show did pass the 10 second test when I read about it!
Steven Miller's photographs from Japan reveal a quiet, ironic take on an iconoclastic country. Like a dreamy version of Martin Parr, Miller used his plastic Holga camera and a 60-year-old panoramic camera to highlight the comical nature of Gothic Lolitas, Yamambas, and robotic school children.
Opening Reception:
Thursday
September 1, 2005
6 – 10 PM
Presented by Design Commission, a design studio showcasing work with an emphasis on imagery and subject matter that speaks to our understanding of the language of design.
Design Commission
119 Prefontaine Pl S
Seattle, WA 9804
206.223.7709
designcommission.com
You are actually not the first one that tells me that Soil's art doesn't stink anymore.
I tell you what: I'll go next time, try to find a parking spot between the crackheads, etc. just to see their "art". But if the next show does suck I will write a downgrade that will be so harsh that some of our readers might consider calling Amnesty International.
They better have some snacks for me too! (As you know: it's all about the snacks.)
Your hungry
Don Volcano
Don Volcano's Computer Corner
This one is a surprise, because I got it from Seattle Spin:
Resource: City-wide happy hours by Seven Nights, a search engine of Seattle's dining deals. Keeping track of this city's happy hours is like keeping track of words written in a stream. Whenever someone publishes a list of Best of Seattle's Happy Hours, it's already out of date in two weeks. Here's a web site that keeps track of this moving target.
It's actually pretty good:
Seattle's Happy Hours
http://www.sevennites.com/
If you are impatient try this one:
Happy Hours Now!
http://www.sevennites.com/results.php?day[]=Thursday&hour[]=22-22
Cheers,
Don Volcano
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