[atlantaprog] [eyedrum-announcement-list] November 15– November 21, 2006

Eyedrum events November 15– November 21, 2006


New Gallery Hours:  Friday 3 - 8:00pm, Saturday and Sunday 1 – 6:00pm

Members are admitted free to all events!
Set aside Friday, December 1st...beginning at 5:00pm Eyedrum is hosting a holiday bash! 
More info next week!
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This week’s events: (more info below or click on the link)

Wednesday November 15  9:00pm  $5
Info Demo 2.5

Thursday November 16  7:30pm $20/$10 students,seniors, artists
Concert for School of the Americas Watch

Friday November 17  8:00pm  $4
Language Harm

Saturday November 18  8:00pm $10
Garage Comedy with Val Myers

Monday November 20  8:00pm $10
Islands, Subtitle, Blueprint

Tuesday November 21  9:00pm  $5
 Fifth Planet Press book release party

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November 15  Wednesday

Info Demo 2.5
“The Sin I’m In”
Multimedia performance
9:00pm
$3

Rapture or no Rapture, the Info Demons present

INFO DEMO VERSION 2.5
“The SIN I’m In”
What is sin? Who says? Why is it so much fun? Would it be so much fun if it weren’t sin? Which came first – the apple or the snake? Where is the sin in sincere? 

SEE!
Seaberg Acrobatic Poetry on the 7 Deadlies!
A Guided Tour of Dante’s HELL and who’s there NOW!
Sacrilegious Raunch ‘n’ Roll!
Preachin’, Prayin’ and Poetizin’!
Who wins the valuable Guess What’s in the Boxes prizes!

xoTEM
www.eyedrum.org
November 16   Thursday

Concert for School of the Americas Watch
Music
7:30pm
$20/$10 seniors, students, artists
"This is the singin'est movement since Civil Rights," says Pete Seeger, who has many times participated in the SOAW movement.
Q: Why are all these world class musicians donating their time and talents to this movement? A: They are part of the SOAW Musicians' Collective headed to Columbus for the weekend of November 17-20. 

MUSIC by:

Holly Near

Chestnut Brothers

Chris Chandler

Colleen Kattau

Anne Feeney

Charlie King & Karen Brandow

Jose Saavedra

Elise Witt

David Rovics

SONiA & Disappear Fear

Prince Myshkins

emma's revolution

Work o' the Weavers

and more

EMCEES:
Dave Lippman & Elise Witt

SPEAKERS from School of Americas Watch
SOA Watch seeks to close the US Army School of the Americas, under whatever name it is called, through vigils and fasts, demonstrations and nonviolent protest, as well as media and legislative work. On November 16, 1989, six Jesuit priests, their co-worker and her teenage daughter were massacred in El Salvador. A U.S. Congressional Task Force reported that those responsible were trained at the U.S. Army School of the Americas (SOA) at Ft. Benning, Georgia. In 1990 SOA Watch began in a tiny apartment outside the main gate of Ft. Benning. While starting with a small group, SOA Watch quickly drew upon the knowledge and experience of many in the U.S. who had worked with the people of Latin America in the 1970's and 80's. Today, the SOA Watch movement is a large, diverse, grassroots movement rooted in solidarity with the people of Latin America. The goal of SOA Watch is to close the SOA and to change U.S. foreign policy in Latin America by educating the public, lobbying Congress and participating in creative, nonviolent resistance. The Pentagon has responded to the growing movement and Congress' near closure of the SOA with a PR campaign to give the SOA a new image. In an attempt to disassociate the school with its horrific past, the SOA was renamed the Western Hemisphere Institute for Security Cooperation in January of 2001.
Advance tickets available at Charis Books and More, 1189 Euclid Ave. in Little 5 Points, Atlanta GA 30307 
(404) 524-0304

November 17   Friday

Language Harm
Literature
8:00pm
$4
For the annual unthemed Language Harm this year the APG is hoping to have a much larger reading and bring in special guest poets from around the southeast and possibly the whole country. 


November 18  Saturday

Garage comedy with Val Myers
Performance/comedy
8:00pm
$10

GARAGE COMEDY
A night of film, music, & comedic performance!
http://www.garagecomedy.com
You might recognize Val Myers from Turner South's (double) Emmy winning hit show, Junkin.' Val is also the creator of Garagecomedy.com The Show in addition to being one of the show's main performers. 
http://www.myspace.com/valmyers
Asheville native Duncan Trussell will be appearing with his dummy Li'l Hobo. Duncan has been on tour all over the US with his pal Joe Rogan as well as acting in commercials, television, and film. 
http://www.myspace.com/artisticterrorism
Johnny Pemberton, "the bat boy of comedy," did on-camera web interviews of American Idol contestants. You might have seen him as Corn Boy in Belle & Sebastian's latest music video. 
http://www.myspace.com/justmynipples
Ryan Flynn is the man behind the alt-comedy/performance art scene Party Scammers. You can see him on The Chelsea Handler Show, Dismissed, The Big Urban Myth Show, The Man Show, and more. 
http://www.myspace.com/theryanflynn
The Explorers Club, six hip young cats from Charleston, South Carolina, reincarnate the Beach Boys' good vibes & put a chokehold on psych-rock. Forever stuck in the Sixties, The Explorers Club is sure to blow your mind. These are the kids who you thought were losers in high school, but are now dating your crush. 
http://www.myspace.com/explorersclub


November 20   Monday

Islands
Subtitle
Blueprint
Music
8:00pm
$10
Islands sprouted out of the kindred x-ray vision of Nick Diamonds and J‘aime Tambeur, two rag-tag youths from the weird side of the tracks. Previously, they‘d worked together in sludge-crust band "the unicorns" and, after some time apart, met up in L.A. on the set of Woody Allen‘s film "Melinda Melinda Melinda". Unexpectedly, they‘d both been separately cast in the pivotal "restaurant" scene, in small "walk-on" roles opposite each other. Their fierce competitive spirits kept the two from getting too close, but once the final cut of the film surfaced and they found both of their parts had been left on the cutting room floor, their dormant friendship had been rekindled, cloaked in mutual pity and despondency. After much deliberation, they agreed to return to the snowy climes of Montreal and jump headfirst into the often heartbreaking world of music.
This time they‘d be exploring a music best catalogued as "other", in what seemed a tribute to the timeless sound of great pop music, combining rhythms and sounds of cultures in the southern and eastern hemispheres, as well as a dash of "rap". "Return to the Sea" herein referred to as "their classic album" was recorded in the sweaty month of July while Islands was still a couple of lonely icebergs, not yet an archipelago. So local friends, including Richard Reed Parry, Regine Chassagne, Tim Kingsbury, Sarah Neufeld, Dan Boeckner, Spencer Krug, and l‘il Mikey Feurstack lent their valiant efforts to the recording process.
When their classic album was finished, Nick and J‘aime set out on a search for the most exciting musicians in existence. On their travels, they encountered Patrice Agbokou, the Togo born bass player with the gift of "finger magic". Patrice‘s impressive resume, which included a short stint as Prince‘s bass player at age of 12, helped cinch the deal.
Next to join were the magnificent Chow brothers, Alex and Sebastian, known to many as the 1993 and 1994 "World Super-NES-Fest" champions. Between the two of them, they play every instrument ever created, but are known to be particularly deadly on "Mario Paint Music Maker", which they play quite competently in the band.
Islands wouldn‘t be complete without their resident heartbreaker Patrick Gregoire, breathing new life into the aforementioned classic album via his sexy bass clarinet (often foolishly mistaken for a saxophone), sometimes used as a stick with which to shake girls off.
The group also boasts the genetically musical mustachioed James R. Guthrie, grandson to Woody and nephew to Arlo, and two of LA‘s finest rappers Subtitle (Giovanni Marks) and Busdriver (Regan Farquhar). Other guests sometimes peek out from corners. 

$10 DAY OF SHOW / DOORS OPEN AT 9PM

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November 21  Tuesday

Fifth Planet Press Book Release Party
Literature/Music
9:00pm
$5

Fifth Planet Press Book Release Party!

Performing, author Chris Leo's Vague Angels

with love from Atlanta's own Blue Hour
57 Octaves Below the Middle C Buzzed by the Bee (or Really How I Lost This Place) is a jaunty exploration of the romance of paradox and, inextricably converse, the paradox of romance. New York City tour guide Steven Schecker is on a smoke break with fellow tour guides debating the etymologies, chronologies, and mysteries of everything as it relates to New York City (as in everything) when he spots his girlfriend's mother across the street and the two take off by foot and by tour bus around the city in which the city is presented as metaphor for his girlfriend/her daughter and her daughter/his girlfriend functions as a metaphor for the city and the two continue to spiral together and swap polarities until a dramatic conclusion over cocktails at happy hour is a given. 

Words by Chris Leo:
Chris Leo, the mythical troubador flaneur who scored higher on the New York City tour guide exam than anyone else in the city -- neither Philip Lopate nor Speed Levitch can claim this -- is also responsible for the novels White Pigeons and We Pulse in Pink, the children's book Coomoococklemungmung illustrated by Buenos Aires' Francesca Massai, and over ten albums over the past two decades with bands like The Van Pelt, The Lapse, and currently, Vague Angels. Though hailing from the Leo New Jersey art dynasty (brother of Ted, Dan, and Amy), when not on tour he divides his time between Manhattan and Cupra Marittima, Italy. 


Drawings by Marcellus Hall:
Marcellus Hall's illustrations have graced the pages of The New Yorker, Time magazine, The Wall Street Journal, The Atlantic Monthly, and The New York Times. His first cover for The New Yorker was published in 2005. He has won recognition from American Illustration, The Society of Illustrators, and Communication Arts. Marcellus Hall created the comic strip Bill Dogbreath for alternative weekly newspapers in the 1990s. He contributed an 8-page illustrated narrative to the literary journal Open City #18 and has self- published booklets of writings and drawings including 2003's "Legends of the Infinite City - Drawings of New York." As a songwriter and singer Marcellus Hall has fronted bands Railroad Jerk and White Hassle, releasing albums and touring Europe, Japan, and North America. An exhibit of his illustrations and sketches was held at the Rhode Island School of Design in 2005 and his illustrated tour diaries can be found on the web. In 2004 he wrote and illustrated a weeklong journal for Slate.com. 




In The Galleries:

Large Galleries:

Martha Whittington
“three fold”

three-fold: an installation by Martha Whittington.
Through November 25th.
Artist talk on November 7 at 7PM.




Miscellany

October’s Podcast
We devoted lots of time to a revisiting of the Atlanta underground/ indie scene of the early/mid 1980s, with previously unreleased recordings by 86, Pillowtexans, Vietnam and Amalgamated Cliff Divers; there's a show at Eyedrum on Oct. 7th that has lots of people from these bands performing for the first time in many years. After the retro fix, we played a few songs by Tunnels, Acid Mothers Temple and Hubcap City, all recorded live at Eyedrum in the past month. We closed with Tuna Helpers (performing Oct. 11th) and a short piece by avant garde luminary Jack Smith. If you don’t know what all the podcast fuss is about, a podcast is simply an audio file that you can listen to on your computer or portable mp3 player. For those of you who are familiar with podcasting, please click on podcast. (http://www.eyedrum.org/radioshow.xml ) You can also just download the whole show (right click on "download") although be forewarned that the file is over 50 MB in size. If you’re having trouble, respond to this email… we can help! 

September’s Podcast
Click here for the feed or download the show here!
It features lots of Table of the Elements stuff! Tony Conrad, Rhys Chatham, Ruins, all in anticipation / remembrance of the festival happening this weekend at Eyedrum. Also featured were Hubcap City, A.C.M.E., Arthur Doyle, Go! and Tunnels, all recorded at previous Eyedrum engagements and returning to town in September. Check it out!
August’s podcast: August’s show is now available and features performances by Jonathan Kane, Rising Appalachia, Bent Frequency, Daniel Clay, Tiptons Saxophone Quartet and others. The upcoming 5-day Table Of The Elements festival (Labor Day weekend) gave us a chance to play some Rhys Chatham, Tony Conrad and Sun Agustin. Finally, the Eyedrum visual arts crew came in to talk about art shows past, present and future, the Warhol grant, and the state of Eyedrum as a gallery in general. A special edition of this podcast that should not be missed! 




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