MY OLD HAT
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I HAVE BEEN THINKING ABOUT MY OLD HAT> VERY MUCH SO RECENTLY> AFTER I SENT
AWAY THE MOST GULLY ONE> TO SPREAD MY w.o.rod.s, i have not been recieving
very ...
15 years ago
Tuesday, December 29, 2009
Monday, December 28, 2009
Saturday, December 26, 2009
Thursday, December 24, 2009
oh you silly google voice
A message to my google phone from joanna and luke kelly:
Now read the transcript:
Now read the transcript:
Friday, December 18, 2009
Thursday, December 17, 2009
old hat's alien diety w. alan wrote an open letter to mary kate olson twins.
W. Alan Yankovic's Blog
Learn about me through my Old Hat
OPEN LETTER TO MARY KATE OLSON TWINS
DEARES T INTERNET
I WAS READING THE COMMENTS ON MY OLD HAT NEWS. IT SEEMS MARY KATE OLSON TWINS WAS UPSET. HERE IS WHAT SHE SAID:
I WAS READING THE COMMENTS ON MY OLD HAT NEWS. IT SEEMS MARY KATE OLSON TWINS WAS UPSET. HERE IS WHAT SHE SAID:
I was there and I walked out as did half of the room: Old Hat was terrible. To talk out of one’s ass about music as presented in this article is horseshit. Mr. Armento not only completely ignores the third band that played but poorly critiques the wonderful performance by Rockwood Revival and praises the shitty imitation of The Moldy Peaches that is Old Hat. Old Hat was annoying and certainly not witty. Rockwood Revival beautifully arranged classic songs and the setting at Northeast Kingdom offered an appropriate atmosphere. The den felt like pappy’s livingroom with loved ones sitting around on the floor, where songs like “cripple creek” should be played. Fuck shitty paintings and fuck Dominic the Donkey.I UNDERSTAND. I TRIED TO WRITE BACK< BUT I WAS MODERATe. so here is my opened letter response
DEAR MARY KATE OLSON
I AM MY OLD HAT’S ALIEN DEITY W ALAN YANKOVIC
I HAVE WRITTEN MAN SONGS FOR THE OLD HAT. MY ENGLISH IS NOT SUCH THAT GOOD. I AM ALWAYS A RECONSTRUCTIONIST OF THE LANGUAGE FROM THE MANY EMAILS THAT ARE DELIVIRED TO MY EDOORS. PLEASE DO NOT BLAME MY OLD HAT. IT IS ONLY TO BE BLAMED FOR THE BAD OF THE SONGS, BECAUSE I WRITE THEM ALL AND THEN SEND THEM TO THEM IN AN EMIAL
my old hat is not the witty, and is certainly the annoying.theyare not the classic arrangement of the rockwood music hall of williams burg. my old hat is here to present you with all this hideous on the earth that you might recognize with your puny threed dimensional minds that each human benig is a union of the witty and the not the witty. the annoying and the not the annoying. if you cannot confront the annoying and the not the witty that is concealed within my old hat, then how will you come to terms to deal with the annoying that is within you? will you do it through passive aggressive messing boards, or will you find you’re own w.a.y.? becase let me tell you, i have seen you watch my old hat and you are very annoying. the way your face twssts with fear when you see something you are not comfortable with annoys me.
I UNDERSTAND WHY YOU ARE UPSET. I HAVE WRITTEN SONGS ABOUT YOUR WONDER FUL HOUSE TELEVIOSIN SERIES, IT IS CALLED “JAM FRANCISCO” AND I REQUESTED THAT MY OLD HAT NOT PLAY THE SONG ON THAT EVENING BECAUSE I SENT YOU TO THEIR PERFORMANCE AND I DIDN T WANT YOU TO BE EMBARASSED. I REALIZE NOW THAT THIS WAS BEING MASSIVE AGGRESSIVE BY NEGLECTING YOUR VAIN DESIRES TO HEAR THE OLD HAT SING ABOUT YOU. I KNOW YOU WILL NOT COME TO ANOTHER SHOW, BUT IF YOU EVER DO, JUST TELL MY OLD HAT AND THEY WILL PLAY MANY SONGS ABOUT YOU IN MY LITERATURE “90′S AGAIN” AND “JAM FRANCISCO (MENTIONED ABOVE]’
AS FOR THE CRIPPLE CREEK, I THINK IT IS VERY ASSIVE AGGRESSIVE OF YOU TO BRING IT UP IN THIS MANOR. THE PROPPER TERMS ARE `THIS ABLED CREEEK`. AS FOR THE FUCKING OF THE SHITTY PAINTING AND OF DONKEYS NAMED DOMINIC, I WOULD NOT DO SUCH THINGS, BUT IF THEY MAKE YOUR BOAT A FLOATER, DROP IT IN THE CAN AND FUCK THE DONKEY. YOU HUMANS MUST ALL EMBRACE YOUR DESIRES HOWEVER NEEDED. DO NOT DENY YOUR SIRE THE DONKEY OR THE PAINTING
I HOPE that you learn to experience TRUE LOVE through some W.A.Y. mine is not THE ONLY W.A.Y., but it works. PLEASE FIND YOUR OWN W.A.Y. AND FOLLOW IT SUCH THAT YOU MAY TRANSFORM YOURSELF INTO THE ALIEN CHILD GODDESS THAT ONCE WAS YOU
IN YOUR W.A.Y.,
W ALAN YANKOVIC
PLEASE SEND ME A GMAIL
w.alanyankovic@gmail.com
cheese on bread on japan!
Moorworks 最新のリリースは 12.26のクリスマス翌日に送り出す、爽快痛快 Twee なメガネポップスを奏でる５人組 “Cheese On Bread” のニューアルバム The Search For Colonel Mustard をリリースします！
これぞ Twee Pop なインディーアメリカンロック、メロコアやスカ、アメリカンポップの良いところだけを寄せ集めた初期衝動突破型バンド、眼鏡率100％のアメリカ産 5人組チーズ・オン・ブレッド。スウィートな女性ヴォーカルとアコースティックを軸としたサウンドは、インディー・ポップと少しオタク経由の可愛らしさが 奇跡的にブレンドしたネオ・アコースティックの現在進行形。
味わい深く、勢いだけで突っ走っていたファーストの反省を生かした真摯な作り。知的でユーモアに溢れ、尚且つダンサンブル、カントリーとシンセ・ ポップがビーチ・ボーイズのハーモニーによって見事にロックに昇華。アコースティックを基調にした楽曲を大事にした多彩なアレンジと温かいメロディーをお 届け致します！
http://moorworks.com/news/2009/12/09/twee-%E3%81%AA-cheese-on-bread/
Wednesday, December 16, 2009
Wednesday, December 9, 2009
old hat gets first ever review!
Folk and Frenzy at the Den
The four members of Old Hat. — Photo courtesy of the artists
Friday night at the Northeast Kingdom Den started with a folk revival trio and was followed by a quartet of rowdy self-professed misfits that would likely revel in being called immune to categorization – which they certainly are.
First up, Holly Overton, Brian Chillemi, and Nick Chiericozzi (each of different bands) have put together a group they call Rockwood Revival. Ms. Overton, vocalist and guitarist of the wonderful duo Feather & Folly, said the gig at NE Kingdom would be their first together. Rockwood Revival’s game is traditional folk – Seeger, Sainte-Marie, Woody Guthrie – a bit of a leap from the softer dreamlike tunes she normally plays.
And it mostly works. The arrangements were great, especially Mr. Chiericozzi on mandolin, and the occasional dulcimer from Mr. Chillemi. After a brief instrumental number, they opened with "Cripple Creek," which hit all the right instrumental beats, but came just short on the harmonies – damned if they kept getting close, but Mr. Chillemi ran into some pitch problems, and it never quite found its stride.
There are also some spatial limitations here. The Den is a perfect venue for intimate acoustic sets, but with its lack of amplification, it can be death for anything high-tempo/multi-instrument. So Ms. Overton’s great voice, try though she might to boom it above the din, was often drowned out. This is especially unfortunate in a song like "Cindy," where we lose much of the verse-switching and harmonies.
They close with the old Woody Guthrie number "Goin’ Down the Road Feelin’ Bad," though, and it’s their strongest of the night. It’s a more laid-back tune, Mr. Chillemi throws on the harmonica holder, and here they find the right balance of mellow and twang.
The second act of the night is Old Hat, and what can one say? Two men and two women take the stage and proceed to give us songs divined from their spiritual leader W. Alan Yankovic (who has a blog, and unconfirmed connection to the musical parodist of similar name).
Songs in Friday night’s set included "Dominic the Donkey," "Uncle Pat’s Pig Roast," and "Fucking Morphine," which was described as "the song about the time we took drugs and nothing happened." They take breaks in between songs to auction off a macabre painting, and end up taking a collection from the audience – twice, because they weren’t satisfied with the results of the first go-around.
All this, and the music itself was fun, spectacularly entertaining, and very often witty. I don’t know that I’ve ever seen someone play the acoustic bass with intensity, but that is what Old Hat’s bassist Preston Spurlock did. Besides being a talented musician, his violent outbursts with and towards this usually-docile instrument were perhaps the most entertaining part of the show. I don’t know if his rage-fueled bass-playing was part of the act, or just part of an artist’s passion in the moment – I don’t care, it was fucking fun.
These musicians (the others are Dibson Hoffweiler on guitar, Deenah Vollmer on mandolin, and Fran Agnone on drums) smile out the side of their mouths throughout the set, as though they’re getting away with something. Indeed, at one point Hoffweiler – their sort-of lead man – remarked that they must be doing something wrong, because not nearly enough people had walked out yet.
http://bushwickbk.com/2009/12/09/folk-and-frenzy-at-the-den/
Monday, December 7, 2009
i forgot to mention that the new yorker mentioned old hat and kung fu crime wave last week
VARIETY SHOW TELETHON BASH
The Debutante Hour, a lively female vocal trio whose members play the accordion, the cello, and the drums, needs money to record a new album, so they’re putting on a show, with performances by other bands, jugglers, puppeteers, opera singers, and comedians. (The roster includes Jonathan Wood Vincent, the Wowz, Phoebe Kreutz, Old Hat, Kung Fu Crime Wave, Rachel Feinstein, Michael Richter, Victor Varnado, Herb Scher, Marti Newland, Sweet Soubrette, Grits and Harmony, and the Orange Teardrops.) Donations will be accepted on twenty old—allegedly Soviet—rotary phones, and there will be a silent auction for such prizes as a private show in the winner’s living room, cupcakes baked by the Debutantes, and a canoe trip with the group down the Gowanus Canal. (Ukrainian National Home, 140 Second Ave., between St. Marks Pl. and 9th St. 212-529-6287. Dec. 5 at 7.)
Sunday, December 6, 2009
Wednesday, December 2, 2009
!!! ! ! ! ! ! !machine project at the moma! ! ! ! ! ! ! !! ! ! !
EVENTS
Special Exhibition Programs | Bauhaus Lab
Walking Tables and Wrestling Foals: A Hands-on Workshop and Musical Performance
Friday, December 4, 2009, 2:00 p.m. –8:00 p.m.
In conjunction with the exhibition Bauhaus 1919–1933: Workshops for Modernity (November 8, 2009–January 25, 2010), Bauhaus Lab is a new interactive space that reimagines the historic Bauhaus classrooms in which students and teachers of many forms of art experimented with innovative pedagogical approaches. Led by artists, educators, and art historians, an ongoing series of hands-on art-making workshops offers participants of all ages the opportunity to engage in techniques and processes integral to the Bauhaus, such as drawing, collage, graphic design, color theory, and mechanical construction.
Join Machine Project for a day of woodworking, mechanical mayhem, and cute baby horses. Participants collaborate with artist Douglas Repetto in manufacturing a herd of “foals”—simple walking tables—small tables that actually "walk" across the floor—handmade from scrap wood and basic mechanical parts. The foal-building workshop is a humorous take on issues central to the Bauhaus movement, including the relationships between form and function and between craft and mass production. At the end of the afternoon the foals are let loose in MoMA's Education and Research Building. Musicians from the experimental chamber ensemble WetInk provide musical accompaniment with improvisations informed by the movements and intersections of the foals. Poet Joshua Beckman reads traditional ceremonial foal poems of his own devising. Foal pandemonium or peaceful frolic? There's only one way to find out! Workshop participants and audience members may adopt a foal. Take-home foal-building plans are available.
Workshop: 2:00–6:00 p.m.
Performance: 7:00–8:00 p.m.
In conjunction with the exhibition Bauhaus 1919–1933: Workshops for Modernity
Most workshops are free and on a first-come, first-served basis.
Spaces are limited for each program. Though we cannot guarantee your place in advance, participants will be admitted on a first-come, first-served basis, beginning twenty minutes prior to the start of each workshop. For each program, spaces are limited to twenty participants. Programs are open to individual participants; school groups cannot be accommodated.
Download the Bauhaus Lab brochure in PDF format (Adobe Acrobat required)
This program is free and participation is on a drop-in first-come, first-served basis. All materials are provided. Open to ages fifteen and up.
Join Machine Project for a day of woodworking, mechanical mayhem, and cute baby horses. Participants collaborate with artist Douglas Repetto in manufacturing a herd of “foals”—simple walking tables—small tables that actually "walk" across the floor—handmade from scrap wood and basic mechanical parts. The foal-building workshop is a humorous take on issues central to the Bauhaus movement, including the relationships between form and function and between craft and mass production. At the end of the afternoon the foals are let loose in MoMA's Education and Research Building. Musicians from the experimental chamber ensemble WetInk provide musical accompaniment with improvisations informed by the movements and intersections of the foals. Poet Joshua Beckman reads traditional ceremonial foal poems of his own devising. Foal pandemonium or peaceful frolic? There's only one way to find out! Workshop participants and audience members may adopt a foal. Take-home foal-building plans are available.
Workshop: 2:00–6:00 p.m.
Performance: 7:00–8:00 p.m.
In conjunction with the exhibition Bauhaus 1919–1933: Workshops for Modernity
Most workshops are free and on a first-come, first-served basis.
Spaces are limited for each program. Though we cannot guarantee your place in advance, participants will be admitted on a first-come, first-served basis, beginning twenty minutes prior to the start of each workshop. For each program, spaces are limited to twenty participants. Programs are open to individual participants; school groups cannot be accommodated.
Download the Bauhaus Lab brochure in PDF format (Adobe Acrobat required)
This program is free and participation is on a drop-in first-come, first-served basis. All materials are provided. Open to ages fifteen and up.
http://www.moma.org/visit/
Tuesday, December 1, 2009
velvet underground at the nypl. omg. can't wait.
LIVE from the NYPL
The Velvet Underground with Lou Reed, Maureen ‘Moe’ Tucker, Doug Yule & David Frickeat 7:00 PM Celeste Bartos Forum Stephen A. Schwarzman Building 5th Avenue and 42nd Street (directions) SOLD OUT. Tickets may be available at the door. $25 general admission and $15 library donors, students and seniors with valid identification." SAVE $10 on every LIVE ticket All LIVE from the NYPL events are general admission. Arrive early for best seat selection. Box office opens 2 hours before the event and doors open 45 minutes before the event. Management reserves the right to refuse admission to latecomers. |  The Art and Soul of The Velvet Underground SOLD OUT. Tickets may be available at the door.In the historic ferment of Sixties rock, the Velvet Underground were the perfect band in the right city, New York, at a crucial time. For five years – 1965 to 1970 – singer-songwriter and guitarist Lou Reed, bassist and viola player John Cale, guitarist Sterling Morrison and drummer Maureen Tucker, with the German vocalist Nico and bassist Doug Yule (who replaced Cale in 1968), broadcast the real life of their home town – the sex, drugs and art; the furious street energies, hidden pleasures and desperate romance – in an unprecedented pop music of vivid storytelling and transgressive excitement. On stage and on their four influential studio albums, the Velvets invented the many futures of rock – punk, drone, free improvisation, lyric candor – in songs and performances that made the group notorious, with the pivotal help of their early manager and mentor, Andy Warhol. Legendary status came later, after the group broke up and Reed and Cale went on to bold prolific solo careers. Today, the Velvet Underground are the stars they always deserved to be, with a rich and still mysterious story that continues to unfold: in the new visual collection, The Velvet Underground: New York Art, and tonight, in this unprecedented reunion of Reed, Tucker and Yule-the words,music and rhythm of The Velvet Underground. $25 general admission and $15 library donors, students and seniors with valid identification." SAVE $10 on every LIVE ticket |
Monday, November 30, 2009
Wednesday, November 18, 2009
i am a proud housemate
my wonderful housemate Marina Libel just recieved a glowing review in the new york times!
read it here!
read it here!
Sunday, November 15, 2009
Saturday, November 14, 2009
dec. 5 The Brooklyn Comics and Graphics Festival
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The Brooklyn Comics and Graphics Festival
A gathering of the best of contemporary graphic art
Saturday December 5th 2009: 11 AM - 7 PM
Our Lady of Consolation Church
184 Metropolitan Ave.
Williamsburg, Brooklyn
www.comicsandgraphicsfest.com
Free admission
New York has long been the hub of contemporary graphics and comics publishing, and Brooklyn the borough of choice for many of the city’s best cartoonists and graphic artists. Bringing together an international cast of cartoonists, illustrators, designers, and printmakers, The Brooklyn Comics and Graphics Festival , founded by local bookstore Desert Island and local publisher PictureBox, is the first festival to serve this vibrant community.
The Brooklyn Comics and Graphics Festival will consist of 4 components:
- Over 50 exhibitors selling their zines, comics, books, prints and posters in a bustling market-style environment
- Signings, panel discussions and lectures by prominent artists
- Exhibition of vintage comic book artwork
- An evening of musical performances
In the cozy basement of Our Lady of Consolation Church, exhibitors will display and sell their unique wares. Exhibitors include leading graphic book publisher Drawn & Quarterly of Montreal; famed French screenprint publisher Le Dernier Cri; artist’s book publisher Nieves of Zurich, Switzerland; Italian art book publisher Corraini; master printer David Sandlin; and tons of individual artists and publishers from Brooklyn.
Featured guests include the renowned artists Gabrielle Bell, R. O. Blechman, Charles Burns, C.F., Kim Deitch, Ben Katchor, Michael Kupperman, Mark Newgarden, Gary Panter, Ron Rege Jr., Peter Saul, Dash Shaw, R. Sikoryak, Jillian Tamaki, and Lauren Weinstein, among others.
The commerce portion of the Festival is partnered with an active panel and lecture program nearby at Secret Project Robot gallery, down the street at 210 Kent Ave. This mini-symposium will run from 1 to 6 pm and is being overseen by noted comics critic Bill Kartalopolous. Also at Secret Project Robot will be an intimate exhibition of original comic book pages from 1950s romance, western and science fiction comic books, curated by PictureBox’s Dan Nadel.
Finally, at the end of the day visitors can troop over to Death by Audio at 49 S. 2nd Street, for an evening of musical performances by cartoonists, organized by Paper Route, and including performances by Boogie Boarder, Ambergris, Scary Mansion, Nick Gazin, and many others.
Desert Island and PictureBox present:
The Brooklyn Comics and Graphics Festival
A gathering of the best of contemporary graphic art
Saturday December 5th 2009: 11 AM - 7 PM
Our Lady of Consolation Church
184 Metropolitan Ave.
Williamsburg, Brooklyn
www.comicsandgraphicsfest.com
Free admission
New York has long been the hub of contemporary graphics and comics publishing, and Brooklyn the borough of choice for many of the city’s best cartoonists and graphic artists. Bringing together an international cast of cartoonists, illustrators, designers, and printmakers, The Brooklyn Comics and Graphics Festival , founded by local bookstore Desert Island and local publisher PictureBox, is the first festival to serve this vibrant community.
The Brooklyn Comics and Graphics Festival will consist of 4 components:
- Over 50 exhibitors selling their zines, comics, books, prints and posters in a bustling market-style environment
- Signings, panel discussions and lectures by prominent artists
- Exhibition of vintage comic book artwork
- An evening of musical performances
In the cozy basement of Our Lady of Consolation Church, exhibitors will display and sell their unique wares. Exhibitors include leading graphic book publisher Drawn & Quarterly of Montreal; famed French screenprint publisher Le Dernier Cri; artist’s book publisher Nieves of Zurich, Switzerland; Italian art book publisher Corraini; master printer David Sandlin; and tons of individual artists and publishers from Brooklyn.
Featured guests include the renowned artists Gabrielle Bell, R. O. Blechman, Charles Burns, C.F., Kim Deitch, Ben Katchor, Michael Kupperman, Mark Newgarden, Gary Panter, Ron Rege Jr., Peter Saul, Dash Shaw, R. Sikoryak, Jillian Tamaki, and Lauren Weinstein, among others.
The commerce portion of the Festival is partnered with an active panel and lecture program nearby at Secret Project Robot gallery, down the street at 210 Kent Ave. This mini-symposium will run from 1 to 6 pm and is being overseen by noted comics critic Bill Kartalopolous. Also at Secret Project Robot will be an intimate exhibition of original comic book pages from 1950s romance, western and science fiction comic books, curated by PictureBox’s Dan Nadel.
Finally, at the end of the day visitors can troop over to Death by Audio at 49 S. 2nd Street, for an evening of musical performances by cartoonists, organized by Paper Route, and including performances by Boogie Boarder, Ambergris, Scary Mansion, Nick Gazin, and many others.
The Brooklyn Comics and Graphics Festival
Exhibitors and Artists:
Our Lady of Consolation Church
184 Metropolitan Ave .
Williamsburg, Brooklyn
11 AM – 7 PM
Panel Discussions, Lectures & Art Exhibition:
Secret Project Robot
128 River @ corner of Metropolitan Ave.
Williamsburg, Brooklyn
1 PM – 6 PM
Musical Performances:
Death by Audio
49 S. 2nd St Between Kent & Wythe
Williamsburg, Brooklyn
9 PM onward
Exhibitors and Artists:
Our Lady of Consolation Church
184 Metropolitan Ave .
Williamsburg, Brooklyn
11 AM – 7 PM
Panel Discussions, Lectures & Art Exhibition:
Secret Project Robot
128 River @ corner of Metropolitan Ave.
Williamsburg, Brooklyn
1 PM – 6 PM
Musical Performances:
Death by Audio
49 S. 2nd St Between Kent & Wythe
Williamsburg, Brooklyn
9 PM onward
Poster image by Charles Burns
Thursday, November 12, 2009
i'll be in LA, but you should go to this
All proceeds from the night will go toward production costs of The Bushwick Book Club compilation CD to be released in January 2010.
Tuesday, December 1st, 8pm
Goodbye Blue Monday
1087 Broadway (JMZ to Myrtle or J to Kosciusko)
www.myspace.com/
See below for the full list of songwriters:
Anna Leuchtenberger likes to make all sorts of stuff! She can be spotted at the bimonthly Puppet Playlist, and she loves improvising (songs, lyrics, stories, recipes). She's always open to last-minute collaborations with strange/nice people who've got ideas and plans, so give her a ring.
Ben Krieger reads, makes music and raises his daughter. He operates within various, interwoven underworlds of power and corruption."
Dave Novak writes songs for his band Habit Trail, a project of folky dirt which has followed him from Indonesia to Portland, Oregon to New York, and which is close to its 20-year anniversary. The most recent release Drifting On Off Of The Shoulder is available on Deterioration Tapes; the next album will be released on 12" vinyl in Winter 2009.
Dibson T. Hoffweiler - The latest in a long line of quirky anti-folk ingenues, including Beck, Adam Green and Jeffrey Lewis, Dibs applies that time-honored tradition of off-beat songwriting to his own private world of sugar factories, laundry baskets and ducks.
Jonathan Wood Vincent is the most expensive green tea at the tea cup, but you can buy him at the same price as all the other teas if you order him to go. His music resists depicting some formative moments. These involve psychiatric wards, duels, knots, cock fighters, sewing, brow beating, bead sweating, wet needles, truth, groceries, and ritual smooth skin. He was awarded The Nobel Prize for Cheerful Sincerity in 1997. You can dribble on his music at myspace.com/jonathanwvincent or just give him a call at 202-316-3280 for a friendly chat.
Maria Sonevytsky was handstand champion of the first grade. Her prowess for physically demanding feats of grace made her a natural accordion player. She's squeezed with the Main Squeeze Orchestra, Anti Social Music and various NYC groups. Her current band is The Debutante Hour, an accordion, cello and drum power trio she formed w/ Susan Hwang in 2007.
Susan Hwang plays accordion and write songs about zombies, books, books about zombies, parking, her mother and the Devil himself. She plays in accordion/drum/cello power trio, The Debutante Hour.
Sweet Soubrette features the vocals and ukulele playing of NYC's Ellia Bisker, whose songwriting has been described as "Liz Phair meets Leonard Cohen." She performs frequently in NYC and Brooklyn with her band, and is working on her second album, "Days and Nights," scheduled for release in 2010.
Victor Varnado Victor Varnado is a filmmaker and comedian who has appeared on Late Night with Conan O'Brien and My name is Earl. His upcoming Comedy Special The Awkward Kings will begin airing on Comedy Central in February. Currently he he has two cats, Ding Sing and Patty.
Dan Costello: "Dan Costello knows how to make an impression. Fusing folk and hip-hop, his unmistakable songs convey an unforgiving sense of the world, life, love, and getting arrested for hanging flyers on a lamppost. Straight-up!" - Dan Dipollito (Attention Driver)
Liv Carrow: Idiosyncratic guitar playing, navel gazing, highly biographical, cathartic lyricism, obnoxious punning, moot metaphor, unabashed self-consciousness, and run-on sentences of self-promotion are qualities nary as compelling as in the case of NYC's Liv Carrow.
Laura Brenneman: Smart, funny and engaging; she sounds like the love-child of Stephen Sondheim and Joni Mitchell, raised by Muppets.
Joe Crow Ryan: Also known as "The Greatest Living Subway Musician in New york City," he sounds like Mr. Rogers doing a Louis Prima impersonation, but it depends on the song...."
Rachel Devlin: Rachel is a singer-songwriter in Brooklyn who collaborates with many local musicians including Dan Costello. She most recently graced the stage of the 2009 OJ All Day Festival.
Buffie Roseanne: Local singer-songwriter with a powerful, soul-inspired style. If you have a soul, her voice will draw it out.
Phoebe Kreutz: "Phoebe Kreutz's chanteusey delivery and comic writing were genuinely funny." - The New York Times "No matter how often her lyrics may shock and offend, she is endearingly cute and wise." - Queens Amongst Idiots (U.K.) "Musically, her simple song structures are lifted to near-genius level by her clear, bright vocals and vivid personality...as melancholy as they are witty." - Sandman (U.K.)Rachel Devlin: Rachel is a singer-songwriter in Brooklyn who collaborates with many local musicians including Dan Costello. She most recently graced the stage of the 2009 OJ All Day Festival.
Buffie Roseanne: Local singer-songwriter with a powerful, soul-inspired style. If you have a soul, her voice will draw it out.
Corn Mo: Corn Mo is an accordion-playing rock giant. He performs solo and also with his awesome band, .357 Lover. He's toured with Polyphonic Spree and David Bowie. He's toured a lot with They Might Be Giants, Ben Folds and David Cross.
Wednesday, November 11, 2009
the debutante hour presents a telethon bash! (with old hat and kung fu crime wave and so many more!)
Accordions! Magic! Juggling! Opera! Puppetry! Rock! Bluegrass! Comedy! Comedic, magic rock puppetry, juggling operatic accordions on bluegrass!
The Debutante Hour, America's favorite accordion/drum/cello power trio, presents a Variety Show Telethon Bash with 20 old Soviet rotary phones and a silent auction to raise funds for their new record. Piano virtuoso and composer, Jonathan Wood Vincent (myspace.com/thintapwoodsapone ) is the anti-Welk MC for this night of obscenely varied variety held at the Ukrainian National Home in the East Village. This night brings together the harmonizing, witty folk-rock of The Wowz, the emmy-winning songwriting of Phoebe Kreutz and new cult phenomenon, Old Hat. All this and magic too.
Saturday, December 5th, 7pm - 12:30am
Ukrainian National Home
140 2nd Ave
New York, NY 10003-8364
(212) 529-6287
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Rachel Feinstein, NY comedian who has appeared on Comedy Central, done voice over work for cartoon network's "Venture Brothers" and just recorded her first half-hour Comedy Central special (http://rachel-feinstein.com/)
Victor Varnado Victor Varnado is a filmmaker and comedian who has appeared on Late Night with Conan O'Brien and My name is Earl. His upcoming Comedy Special The Awkward Kings will begin airing on Comedy Central in February. Currently he he has two cats, Ding Sing and Patty.
Herb Scher of Herb Scher and the Key Lime Pie Revue and also the acclaimed Susan and Herb Show will dazzle with magic tricks, juggling and old vaudeville style humor. (http://www.myspace.com/
Kung Fu CrimeWave (http://www.myspace.com/
Annie from Opera on Tap, will sing an aria while we drink (http://www.operaontap.com/)
Homemade troupe The Orange Teardrops (Claudio Finni Galdiolo and Amy Kohn) perform a micro-puppet-show, made especially for The Debutante Hour for one night only, this night! (www.amykohn.com)
Sweet Soubrette features the vocals and ukulele playing of NYC's Ellia Bisker, whose songwriting has been described as "Liz Phair meets Leonard Cohen." She performs frequently in NYC and Brooklyn with her band, and is working on her second album, "Days and Nights," scheduled for release in 2010.
Grits and Harmony: Toby King, Casey King and Maria Sonevytsky bring bluegrass to the city.
Marti Newland, NY operatic diva
*** more acts to be announced!**
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THE DEBUTANTE HOUR BIO (www.thedebutantehour.com, myspace.com/debutantehour)
The Debutante Hour keeps its musical roots in American country, blues and vaudeville while letting their lyrics run the gamut from absurd to sublime. Susan Hwang and Maria Sonevytsky switch fluidly between accordion/keys and hobo drum kit while Mia Pixley holds it down on the cello as the unconventional power trio harmonizes about planning, worldviews and works of literature, with the occasional swerve into a Carpathian mountain stomp.
The group formed as a duo in 2007 when Maria Sonevytsky and Susan Hwang joined songwriting forces and fashion sensibilities. In addition to playing their favorite NYC venues, they toured Far East Asia (South Korea, Japan) and Europe (Germany, Poland, Czech Republic, Ukraine, Italy, UK). Mia Pixley joined them in 2008 and has added to a fuller sound and irrepressible energy. Together, they’ve received rave reviews for their engaging and enthralling live performances. They will charm the hell out of you. I’m serious. They’ll sing and play until you’re completely hell-free.
Tuesday, November 3, 2009
my housemate marina's play opens next week "SHE TURNED ON THE LIGHT"
Dear Friends,
I'm very excited to let you know that I will be performing in a one-woman show at La MaMa for two weekends in November, the 13th to the 22nd. It's a play I helped the writer-director develop that primarily explores the relationship between an older woman and a younger one (along with a few other characters, all of which I play), and how the burdens of love and history/war/immigration affect them.
You should come check it out! The info is below and at www.sheturnedonthelight.com
I'm very excited to let you know that I will be performing in a one-woman show at La MaMa for two weekends in November, the 13th to the 22nd. It's a play I helped the writer-director develop that primarily explores the relationship between an older woman and a younger one (along with a few other characters, all of which I play), and how the burdens of love and history/war/immigration affect them.
You should come check it out! The info is below and at www.sheturnedonthelight.com
.
Love,
Marina Libel
La MaMa E.T.C. presents
SHE TURNED ON THE LIGHT
Written and directed by Wendy Woodson
Performed by Marina Libel
Set and lighting design by Kathy Couch
Costume design by Suzanne Dougan
A tour-de-force monologue with physical theater that explores how memory, fantasy and reality loop and merge between women separated by age and history.
Nov. 13 to 22, 2009
Fri. and Sat. at 10pm
Sun. at 5:30pm
La MaMa E.T.C.
(The Club)
74A E. 4th Street NYC
www.sheturnedonthelight.com
Tickets $15
($10 students and seniors)
Box office (212) 475-7710
Online ticketing at www.lamama.org
my friend nell wrote this lovely article, read it!
New York, New York
Window Shopping
Never mind all that gloomy talk of falling real-estate prices. For many renters, even a heavily mortgaged apartment is the stuff of daydreams. NELL BOESCHENSTEIN checks the listings for her future.http://www.themorningnews.org/archives/new_york_new_york/window_shopping.php
Monday, October 26, 2009
Sunday, October 25, 2009
halloween wonder cabinet
& the Humanities Initiative at NYU
present an all-day
Halloween Wonder Cabinet
Curated by Lawrence Weschler
SATURDAY OCTOBER 31, 11 am till 9:30 pm
NYU'S CANTOR FILM CENTER
36 EAST 8TH STREET, NYC
* Free and Open to the Public *
Every once in a while, Lawrence Weschler, the director of the New York Institute for the Humanities, and author, among others, of the Pulitzer-nominated Mr. Wilson’s Cabinet of Wonder (a work of “magic-realist nonfiction” arising out of an investigation of the premodern roots of the postmodern Museum of Jurassic Technology in Los Angeles), gets it into his head to contrive a day of sublimely odd, wonderflecked and just plain cool presentations, braided one after the next in a thematic order intermittently evident to himself, if no one else. This year, he proposes to do so on Saturday October 31, which is to say Halloween. As you will see from the program below, the first half of the day will focus generally on the stellar, the planetary, the cosmological and the astronomic. Later in the day, presentations will begin to morph into a consideration of the experience itself of drop-jawed amazement. Toward the end of the procession, attention will turn to things somewhat more infinitesimal: the molecular basis of smell, insect camouflage, and (to round out the day, Halloween after all) the downright hallucinogenic.
SESSION I
11:00 am A celebratory fanfare by avant garde, downtown (and well nigh breathless) saxophone player COLIN STETSON
11:10 am LAURIE ANDERSON, the celebrated performance artist and hipster sage, will dilate on her days, a few seasons back, as visiting artist-in-residence with the good folks at NASA. (Note: She will be replacing the previously announced bead-artist Liza Lou in this slot.)
11:45 am Filmmaker and photographic archivist MICHAEL BENSON will be evoking the entire universe as seen from the point of view of the Hubble and other deep space observatories, subject of his latest book, Far Out, which in turn follows on from his last, the critically celebrated, Beyond, which took the same sort of survey of the photographic legacy of interplanetary space probes.
{a short break}
SESSION II
1:45 pm The eminent film and sound editor WALTER MURCH (Apocalypse Now, The Unbearable Lightness of Being, The English Patient, The Conversation, etc.) will reveal a whole other side of his famously overbrimming curiosity, which is to say his excavation and systematic rehabilitation of a long discredited theory as to the placement of planets and moons in relation to the bodies around which they orbit, a formula which turns out to accurately predict 85% of such orbits, and which, when properly rejiggered, turns out to coincide with the formula for the Pythagorean octave (talk about the music of the spheres!).
3:00 pm DAVID WILSON, the MacArthur winning Jurassic Technologist himself, will evoke the Russian mystical origins of the Soviet space program, subject of a trilogy of heartrendingly lovely short films, a full decade in the making, currently coming to closure at the fourteen-seat Borzoi Theater atop his LA museum.
4:00 pm A rarely screened short, filmed during the last months of the Khrushchevite Thaw, in which the Soviet master
PAVEL KOGAN trains a hidden camera on a succession of common Russians at the Hermitage Museum in Leningrad, as they gaze, positively awestruck, at Leonardo’s rendition of a Virgin and Child. That film will in turn be coupled with an uncanny set of recent shorts in which JOSH MELNICK trains a highspeed high-definition excruciatingly slow-motion digital camera upon wayfarers on the New York city subway, staring, positively dumbstruck, at nothing in particular.
5:00 pm A similar pairing, as in the above, this time two vantages of life on earth; the first in which the renowned avant garde filmmaker PETER HUTTON, of Bard College, trains his attention on the play of light dappling an Icelandic fjord; and the second in which MATT COOLIDGE, of LA’s Center for Land Use Interpretation (sister institution to David Wilson’s Museum of Jurassic Technology) trains his camera out the side of a helicopter for a jaw-dropping twenty-minute single-take survey of Houston’s petrochemical channel, arguably the most ecstatically industrialized swath of real estate in the world.
{a short break}
SESSION III
6:30 pm New York Times scent critic CHANDLER BURR (The Emperor of Scent and The Perfect Scent: A Year inside the Perfume Industry in Paris and New York), singing the Nose Fantastic, which is to say plumbing the still mindboggling mysteries involved in how it is that we smell anything at all (complete with blotter-swatch demonstrations).
7:30 pm Entomologist Extraordinaire MAY BERENBAUM of the University of Illinois, Champagne-Urbana (Ninety Nine Gnats, Nits and Mibblers; Bugs in the System; and The Earwig’s Tale: A Modern Bestiary of Multi-Legged Legends), who in honor of the evening’s festivities will consider Insects that Ape Shit (which is to say exceptionally novel, if creepy, insect disguises).
8:30 pm HAMILTON MORRIS, the disconcertingly enterprising young pharmacopia correspondent of Vice Magazine, will round out the evening by reporting on all manner of oddities (penis mushrooms, Amazonian frog sweat, etc.) that he has ingested and that you might want to avoid.
Please check back for any program updates,
and note that times listed above are approximate at best.
and note that times listed above are approximate at best.
For further information, press inquiries, and to arrange interviews with any of the participants,
contact the New York Institute for the Humanities at 212.998.2101 or nyih.info@nyu.edu
contact the New York Institute for the Humanities at 212.998.2101 or nyih.info@nyu.edu
The NYU Humanities Initiative sponsors research, collaborative teaching, confences, working groups, and outreach by way of fostering a university-wide community in the humanities at NYU. Launched in 2007, its mission replaces and significantly expands that of the former Humanities Council. For further information on the Humanities Initiative, please visit www.humanitiesinitiative.org or call 212.998.2190
The New York Institute for the Humanities at NYU was established in 1976 for promoting the exchange of ideas between academics, professionals, politicians, diplomats, writers, journalists, musicians, painters, and other artists in New York City--and between all of them and the city. It currently comprises 220 fellows. Throughout the year, the NYIH organizes numerous public events and symposia. For further information, please visit www.nyih.as.nyu.edu or call 212.998.2101.
http://nyih.as.nyu.edu/object/io_1255636967929.html
Thursday, October 22, 2009
more information than you wanted about intimate huggabroomstik tomorrow
Hey, Party People.
Brook Pridemore here.
Since February 2009, I have had the good fortune of keeping time for
one of my favorite bands on the AFNY circuit. A group that manages to
straddle psychedelia, classic rock, prog, folk and punk, while
managing to maintain its' own distinct sound, Huggabroomstik have been
around since like 1999, employing a revolving-door lineup that's
included forty or fifty (at various times) of the best New York
songwriters around.
Huggabroomstik have released five albums thus far, all of which whup a
cheetah's ass with a belt sander. This Friday, October 23rd, I am
pleased to announce that Brooklyn Tea Party will play host to a
landmark event in the long, weird Huggahistory, when the band converge
on the BTP stage to record Intimate Huggabroomstik-the band's live
album of all new songs.
Take as a template Nighthawks at the Diner, Tom Waits' "live" album
that was actually a conceit: Waits and band were performing new
material in front of an invite-only audience. Consider then the
members of Huggabroomstik your surrogate Waits, and you the fan a
member of the invite-only audience.
Consider this email your invitation. And get your ass down here.
Here's the Details:
Intimate Huggabroomstik recording party
Friday October 23rd
Brooklyn Tea Party
175 Stockholm St. #303
L Train to Dekalb (or M to Central)
No cover, but bring a few bucks to throw in the hat.
Get here at 8 to "meet and greet" the band.
Recording starts at Ten SHARP. Due to the nature of the performance,
the door will be locked at ten for the duration of the show, and the
doorbell will be disabled. If you're not in the apartment at ten,
you're shit out of luck.
Look: If the keyboard player's not onstage when we lock the door,
then no keyboard. Sorry, keyboard player. So be in here by ten.
We would like you to shout and sing along to the end of the new Hugga
classic, "O.U.R. 6." Here's a tutorial video made by our own Neil
Kelly.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?
And also, a weird Muppets video that makes me think of Huggabroomstik.
We should probably be covering this song.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?
See you Friday!
xoxo
b
Brook Pridemore here.
Since February 2009, I have had the good fortune of keeping time for
one of my favorite bands on the AFNY circuit. A group that manages to
straddle psychedelia, classic rock, prog, folk and punk, while
managing to maintain its' own distinct sound, Huggabroomstik have been
around since like 1999, employing a revolving-door lineup that's
included forty or fifty (at various times) of the best New York
songwriters around.
Huggabroomstik have released five albums thus far, all of which whup a
cheetah's ass with a belt sander. This Friday, October 23rd, I am
pleased to announce that Brooklyn Tea Party will play host to a
landmark event in the long, weird Huggahistory, when the band converge
on the BTP stage to record Intimate Huggabroomstik-the band's live
album of all new songs.
Take as a template Nighthawks at the Diner, Tom Waits' "live" album
that was actually a conceit: Waits and band were performing new
material in front of an invite-only audience. Consider then the
members of Huggabroomstik your surrogate Waits, and you the fan a
member of the invite-only audience.
Consider this email your invitation. And get your ass down here.
Here's the Details:
Intimate Huggabroomstik recording party
Friday October 23rd
Brooklyn Tea Party
175 Stockholm St. #303
L Train to Dekalb (or M to Central)
No cover, but bring a few bucks to throw in the hat.
Get here at 8 to "meet and greet" the band.
Recording starts at Ten SHARP. Due to the nature of the performance,
the door will be locked at ten for the duration of the show, and the
doorbell will be disabled. If you're not in the apartment at ten,
you're shit out of luck.
Look: If the keyboard player's not onstage when we lock the door,
then no keyboard. Sorry, keyboard player. So be in here by ten.
We would like you to shout and sing along to the end of the new Hugga
classic, "O.U.R. 6." Here's a tutorial video made by our own Neil
Kelly.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?
And also, a weird Muppets video that makes me think of Huggabroomstik.
We should probably be covering this song.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?
See you Friday!
xoxo
b
Tuesday, October 20, 2009
Sunday, October 18, 2009
OLD HAT AT GOODBYE BLUE MONDAY MONDAY OCTOBER 26
monday october 26th
@ Goodbye Blue Monday
1087 broadway
nyc
8 mike nicolai
8:45 susan hwang
9:30 you're so pretty
10:15 old hat
11:00 jack lewis/fisherman three
@ Goodbye Blue Monday
1087 broadway
nyc
8 mike nicolai
8:45 susan hwang
9:30 you're so pretty
10:15 old hat
11:00 jack lewis/fisherman three
Tuesday, October 13, 2009
all these emerging writers happen to be my friends. let's go hear them read at the nypl tonight.
Periodically Speaking: Literary-Magazine Editors Introduce Emerging Writers at The New York Public Library New York, NY—The Council of Literary Magazines and Presses [clmp] and The New York Public Library present Periodically Speaking, a reading series providing a major venue for emerging writers to present their work while emphasizing the diversity of America's literary magazines and the magazine collections of The New York Public Library. Each event presents writers from three influential literary magazines—one poet, one fiction writer, one nonfiction writer—introduced by their editors. Program I Tuesday, October 13th, 6 - 7:30 pm DeWitt Wallace Periodical Room, The New York Public Library, Stephen A. Schwarzman Building at Fifth Avenue and 42nd (Please use Fifth Avenue entrance; admittance is free) Vestal Review Vestal Review, America's first magazine exclusively devoted to flash fiction (complete stories of no more than 500 words), began as a quarterly eZine in March of 2000. We now publish twice a year in print; some of the stories from these editions may be read on our webzine as well. We pay our contributors and nominate for web-based and print awards, including the Pushcart prize. For more information about submitting, obtaining past print issues or subscribing, please look us up at: http://vestalreview.net. Editors Mark Budman and Susan O'Neill introduce fiction writer Lincoln Michel. Low Rent In 2008 Low Rent was founded with belief that those heavy, incredibly large journals of fiction and poetry were really great, but smaller, sillier-sized journals would be better (and cheaper). Based in Brooklyn, editors Bill Hughes, Jason Koo, and Robert Liddell tirelessly attempt to curate collections of two stories and six poems by new and emerging writers from all over the world. When you can find them, a copy of Low Rent can be had for a very small price, a few dollars—as though the recession might've always been in style. Editor Jason Koo introduces poet Leigh Stein. Tin House Tin House is a ten-year-old bi-coastal (Brooklyn, New York and Portland, Oregon) literary magazine. Tin House has been honored in Best American Short Stories, Best American Essays, Best American Poetry, O'Henry Prize Stories, the Pushcart Prize Anthology and numerous other anthologies. Editor Rob Spillman introduces nonfiction writer Montana Wojczuk. Mark the next Periodically Speaking programs on your calendar: Tuesday, November 10th, and Tuesday, December 8th. We're featuring editors from the publications Salamander, 32 Poems, Confrontation and more. This series is made possible in part by support from the New York State Council for the Arts, a state agency; The New York City Department of Cultural Affairs; The National Endowment for the Arts; The New York Public Library; and Friends of [ clmp ], a diverse group of individuals committed to supporting independent literary publishing. |
Tuesday, October 6, 2009
Monday, October 5, 2009
Saturday, October 3, 2009
Thursday, October 1, 2009
Monday, September 28, 2009
Tuesday, September 22, 2009
e.l. doctorow at book court tonight!
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TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 22 – 7PM
E.L. DOCTOROW – HOMER & LANGLEY
Homer and Langley Collyer are brothers–the one blind and deeply intuitive, the other damaged into madness, or perhaps greatness, by mustard gas in the Great War. They live as recluses in their once grand Fifth Avenue mansion, scavenging the city streets for things they think they can use, hoarding the daily newspapers as research for Langley’s proposed dateless newspaper whose reportage will be as prophecy. Yet the epic events of the century play out in the lives of the two brothers–wars, political movements, technological advances–and even though they want nothing more than to shut out the world, history seems to pass through their cluttered house in the persons of immigrants, prostitutes, society women, government agents, gangsters, jazz musicians . . . and their housebound lives are fraught with odyssean peril as they struggle to survive and create meaning for themselves.
Brilliantly conceived, gorgeously written, this mesmerizing narrative, a free imaginative rendering of the lives of New York’s fabled Collyer brothers, is a family story with the resonance of myth, an astonishing masterwork unlike any that have come before from this great writer.
163 court st. brooklyn
Monday, September 21, 2009
the tamiment library's flickr page
that is joe hill's original last will. and i scanned it.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/tamiment/collections/72157600984900765/
Kung Fu Crime Wave, Schwervon!, Elastic No-No Band and Joe Crow Ryan this Thursdy!
THURSDAY SEPTEMBER 24th: Justin Remer's (of Elastic No-No Band) Birthday Party!!
INSIDE STAGE:
Schwervon!:"Party/ Folk Noise/ Punk band Schwervon! make cute fun out of the Big Black blueprint."
-Village Voice (Thurs Sept. 24th, 9pm)
-Village Voice (Thurs Sept. 24th, 9pm)
Kung Fu Crime Wave: In their own words, "What a good band." (Thurs, Sept. 24th 10pm)
Elastic No-No Band: It's music, which often recalls in its content (the song "cheese fries") and quirkiness, a more polished and pop version of the unforgettable early Ween. " - The Deli Magazine (Thurs, Sept 24th 11pm)
Also Playing: Joe Crow Ryan: Part wild man, part blues man, part joyful man with a long past.....Joe Crow Ryan often plays on subway platforms as well as venues.
BACKYARD STAGE:
Dan Smith is a little Langhorne Slim and Nick Cave spewing raw monologues.
*Other acts TBA.
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