Monthly Archives: June 2004

Oh! oh! Also, last night, at Best of the Northwest Film Fest, saw a Vancouver, BC narrative mini-feature, Why the Anderson Children Didn’t Come To Dinner, directed by Jamie Travis. Three glum, chubby but malnourished-looking children live with their obsessive-compulsive … Continue reading →

Have you ever seen a class of slightly fatigued kindergartners, hushed with love as their teacher reads them fairy tales? Yeah, that was the Joanna Newsom show. Berbati’s is a Portland venue notorious for its invasive constant din during sets. … Continue reading →

Gracias, Shines, for mixing “Face to Face” into this (even if you sampled it years before Ms. On+On went Underground). It’s just that, we never knew. (But they did.)

Ratatat’s remix album, feat Brooklyn Zoo, leaves hot-chills with its locomotive properties. Faves: a funeral-organ version of Ghost & Jadakiss’ “Run”; “Fix Up Look Sharp” (whose original success was based on spaces in beats), whips by in a tilt-a-whirl of … Continue reading →

Scissor Girls live, 1995, Laramie, Wyoming: nuclear. Scissor Girls in Laramie ’05 would likely end the same, but ’95 was three years before the murder of Matthew Shepard, before the town got talking about things, before the diagnosis was gangrene. … Continue reading →