Archives for July 2006
fried ears, tired boy
30 July 2006 | Uncategorized | No Comments
Well, the live remote broadcast from our Andaz night at the Fez on KBOO was a super success. We had a packed, raging party. People were coming in all night saying, “I heard this on the radio.” Thank you so much to Chihiro and the KBOO staff and Michael and the Fez [...]
All Hipsters are not created equal
24 July 2006 | Uncategorized | No Comments
I’ve been thinking about one of my past posts a lot lately. The one attempting to castigate “hipsters” for their limited range of musical interest, especially when it comes to international music. There is a lot of dissing of “hipsters” these days, usually by other hipsters. If I’m going to be criticizing [...]
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Harakiri
14 July 2006 | Uncategorized | No Comments
Saw “Harakiri” aka “Seppuku” last night; another film in the NW Film Center’s Samurai series. Once again it starred Tatsuya Nakadai who played a role with a very different tone despite being an equally disillusioned character. He is the man. I feel like he used an octave lower voice for this role [...]
thank you DJ Blackmarks and Soulsalaam and you the people!
10 July 2006 | Uncategorized | No Comments
6/10/06
It was a long, hot summer day and we want to thank DJ Blackmarks and Soulsalaam for taking the stage and performing at Atlas. Thank you also to everyone who came out and poured ritual libations of sweat on to the dancefloor. Soulsalaam is moving to Brazil and we wish him all [...]
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Listening to old music can be kill(!)er
10 July 2006 | Uncategorized | No Comments
I’m not necessarily talking about music that’s any more than a year or two old, just things that have lain around unappreciated only to become alive with a single airing. Music and books both are merely physical objects until experienced and made alive in the spiritual dimension of the individual (Or until they [...]
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Kill!
8 July 2006 | Uncategorized | No Comments
7/8/06
Well, that’s the name of the film anyway. Kill! “is a 1968 film directed by Kihachi Okamoto, written by Akira Murao, Kihachi Okamoto, and Shugoro Yamamoto and starring Tatsuya Nakadai” according to the Wiki. It’s the first film in the NW Film Center’s Samurai series that we’ve been able to make. Quite [...]