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By admin, on February 19th, 2012%
Like fighters in a boxing match, raucous Seattle music writer Chris Estey goes ‘toe to toe’ with cagey music maverick Calvin Johnson about beards and other mysteries of life in the new film, Have You Ever Had a Beard?
A study in contrasts, this film compares the lyric heavy songwriting of Calvin Johnson . . . → Read More: Have You Ever Had a Beard? – A New Movie Featuring Calvin Johnson of K Records/Beat Happening to Premiere Friday February 24th at Hollywood Theatre in Portland and March 5 at Northwest Film Forum in Seattle
By admin, on January 25th, 2012%
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Here’s the Youtube description:
http://StarWarsUncut.com
In 2009, Casey Pugh asked thousands of Internet users to remake “Star Wars: A New Hope” into a fan film, 15 seconds at a time. Contributors were allowed to recreate scenes from Star Wars however they wanted. Within just a few months SWU grew into a wild success. . . . → Read More: Star Wars Uncut: Director’s Cut
By admin, on January 15th, 2012%
Vincent Price was an actor whose range exceeded the horror movie roles that made his name (and paid the bills). His performance as Oscar Wilde in the one-man play Diversions and Delights was especially memorable. Here, on BBC-TV in 1982, he reprises Wilde reciting “The Harlot’s House.” It’s a minor poem, but Price plays . . . → Read More: The Harlot’s House – Vincent Price Performs Oscar Wilde, By John Siscoe
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By admin, on November 25th, 2011%
Best Reunion Concerts of 2011:
1. Confidentials and Thin Man at Dante’s (Portland), April 1 2. Fastbacks at West Seattle Summer Fest, July 8 3. Rats and Stiphnoyds at Star Theater (Portland), November 17
Two Movies You May Have Missed in 2011:
1. The Oregonian (Creepy surrealism from Seattle filmmakers)
2. Take Me . . . → Read More: Best Reunion Concerts of 2011 & Two Movies You May Have Missed, By Ben Easher
By admin, on November 24th, 2011%
On Thanksgiving Eve I ventured out to Seattle’s University District to Landmark Theater’s Varsity Theater to view The Other F Word. The movie is a documentary about punk rockers (mostly from California) and what it’s like for the ultimate rebels to be fathers.
The movie begins with Art Alexakis (Everclear), Fat Mike (NOFX), Jim . . . → Read More: The Other F Word – A Movie About Aging Punk Rockers and What Fatherhood Means to Them, By Holly Homan
By admin, on October 29th, 2011%
U2 has posted three clips of “From the Sky Down,” a documentary chronicling the recording of “Achtung Baby,” the band’s pivotal seventh studio album which was released in 1991. This film will be included in the Uber and Super Deluxe 20th Anniversary Editions of Achtung Baby, available November 1. Clips are below with a . . . → Read More: U2 Posts “From the Sky Down” Clips
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By admin, on August 26th, 2011%
Yes, I know “Kim the Waitress” was a Green Pajamas song, famously covered by Material Issue, but the version I always liked best was Sister Psychic’s off of “Surrender You Freak.” I couldn’t find that version complete, on the net, but there is a soundclip at Allmusic.com and probably a few other places. I . . . → Read More: Alisa Allapach – Kim the Waitress – Mc Cheesy Commercial
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