Unfortunately for me, Amy Denio [also] doesn’t appear to be part of the show. That’s how I heard of this band, originally. She was playing with this group on tour for a while and I missed it. By all that’s holy, you should get to see Amy Denio play before you die. But, I’ve gotten off topic …
Johanna Kunin, who played with Loch Lomond at Doug Fir a while ago, will be back in town on the 22nd. She’s at the Mississippi Studios with Shelly Short.
“For Harry and the Potters, this is our first tour where the bulk of venues that we’ll be playing are rock clubs rather than libraries. There was something really special about performing in libraries, but we’re hoping this summer, that we can create something equally special by performing in these more normal show spaces.
At this point in our career, we’ve played over 450 shows and we’ve come to realize that a show can only be as awesome and amazing as the audience will allow. So when we conceived this idea of Unlimited Enthusiasm, we thought that we should include the audience in the planning of the actual events!”
And:
“We’re talking about a DIY summer camp, complete with songs about being a wizard! Giant monsters! Cool big videos! Rock and roll aerobics! Inflatable monkeys! Dancing sock puppets! Going bananas! Circus tents! Jumping! Yelling! More jumping!”
“07/21/08 Portland, OR Wonder Ballroom
Time: 7:00pm. Admission: $12. Age restrictions: All Ages. Buy tickets. Address: 128 NE Russell. With special guests, Jason Anderson and the Best!”
And, tickets are already available, but for the love of all that’s holy you should buy your tickets from the ticket box at the Wonder Ballroom not from evil ticket monopolies. For the creatives, you can volunteer to help make things happen, too!
“Æther Emporium aims to provide a onestop resource and archive for all things Steampunk. These pages are also inclusive of items and of genres on the fringe of Steampunk. Speculative fiction, Neo-Victorianism, Dieselpunk etc.”
“The Portland Permaculture Institute is located within the city limits of Portland, Oregon. The site includes vegetable gardens, food forests, rainwater collection, gathering spaces, and ponds.”
“The Period Events & Entertainments Re-Creation Society, Inc., is a Nonprofit Corporation dedicated to remembering, researching, and re-creating the performing arts of the past.”
A friend mentioned this to me in passing and I wasn’t able to find information about it until last night someone handed me a little flyer for it, so here it is:
Water in the Desert Festival
Art, Ritual, Performance & Ecology
A free event
July 26, 2008
Peninsula Park
N. Ainsworth & N. Albina
Portland, OR 97217
For more information, contact:
info@waterinthedesertfestival.org
503 289 3499
On Sat, May 30th, there’s a “special electronic erotic ball” with Pan!zen Soundsystem and Subversive Soundsystem in the main hall of the Mt Tabor Legacy, which will have “penty of bass and wood floors to stomp on!”
This is part of something called the “Electronic Body Movement: Red-Zone”, but it’s really this “special electronic erotic ball” part which makes me wonder how much electricity there will be and just how they use it to move bodies. Maybe this is an event where wearing something that’s a natural insulator, like PVC, isn’t just a fashion statement, but a safety device?
It’s sliding scale from $5 – $15 which is pretty reasonable, since, after all, you’ll probably have spent a whole lot of money on that PVC, won’t you?
There’s also live experimental electronic entertainment every 2nd and 4th Thursdays for free in the Mt Tabor Legacy Lounge called the Subversive Zone, with 4 acts each night and a collective jam at the end. (I actually went to this last night, but couldn’t stay for the whole thing. But, it was loud, noisy and fun!)
Too funny for words, because, you know, zombies groan and moan …
The First Ever Annual PDX Zombie Prom is going to be tomorrow night at the Mt Tabor Legacy at 8pm. There’s a couple of bands and some DJs but also prom photos, zombie corsages for sale and a costume contest. It’s $10 advance and $15 at the door.
“Ridiculous, of course, but I really was afraid, mostly of my own ignorance and prejudices. I had never been to something like this before, and I didn’t know how to act. I badly wanted to be invisible.”
“In the universe there are many energy fields which we cannot normally perceive. Some energies have a spiritual source which act upon a person’s soul. However, this “soul” does not exist ab initio as orthodox Christianity teaches; it has to be brought into existence by a process of guided self-observation. However, this is rarely achieved owing to man’s unique ability to be distracted from spiritual matters by everyday trivia.”
“If Keats’s philosophy is correct, then any intense experience — even letting your life rot away after a failed relationship, or enduring the agony of heroin withdrawal, or dying young of tuberculosis — is precious. … Each goes into making you into a unique being.”
“We need the design world (particularly industrial design) to stop talking big and start doing good; to put the problem-solving skills on which we pride ourselves to work on some of the biggest global issues; to design for health, poverty, homelessness, e
Personally, I belong to an ultra-secret counter FSM movement and proudly, but secretly, call myself a Pestofarian. After all, the secret is in the sauce.
“pancake breakfast is a one-person indy-folk act that’s sounds like fancy shouting, elegant strumming and the nifty chirps of a 1977 kimball swinger 400 organ. it’s like watching an episode of hee haw and the lawrence welk show at the same time.”
