Seattle Pillow Fight Club
#1 - The first rule of Pillow Fight Club is, you do not talk about Pillow Fight Club.
#2 - The second rule of Pillow Fight Club is, you DO NOT talk about Pillow Fight Club.
The Seattle Pillow Fight Club invites anyone to participate in scheduled pillow fights which take place at various locations around Seattle, usually tourist attractions. The effect to the strangers on the street is a random pillow fight. You can check the tribe.com pillow fight group to find out when and where the next pillow fight will be. I can tell you first hand that it's pretty fun and it doesn't require any group membership obligations other than to show up at the location at the right time with a pillow. Join in a pillow fight this Saturday, March 29.
DATE: Saturday March 29Th RAIN OR SHINE.
TIME: 3:15pm
PLACE: Pike Place Market, corner of Pike and Pine. IN THE STREET, in front of the place that throws the fish.
AFTERMATH GATHERING: The Whiskey Bar (just in time for happy hour!) 2000 Second Ave. (206) 443-4490 Bring cash if you want to drink, because they don't accept credit cards.
*NO FEATHER PILLOWS, PLEASE** Apparently, there was a mess made at one of the recent pillow fights which caused concern that a seemingly harmless act of performance art was littering our fair city with feathers. More information about Saturday's Pillow Fight here.
Dead Baby Bikes International Independent Film Festival
There is still time to submit an entry for the first annual Dead Baby Bikes International Independent Film Festival. Entries are due April 1, which does not give you much time to get a film together at this point in time, but your film can be short and sweet (2-5 minutes, please). Anyone is eligible to submit an entry. What are the rules and guidelines? Anything goes so feel free to spread your wings and go for it, just make it bicycle related. Oh, and do not use copyright music in your soundtrack, and please submit your entry in miniDV format, dammit. I'm not being pushy about the format, the flier says "dammit," so I'm just reiterating. This is a great opportunity to show your masterpiece at the first ever event of this festival, so years from now you can say, "I was there at the very beginning, man!" So far, all entries will be shown at the festival. You can mail or drop off your entry at:
The Church of Bicycle Jesus
4341 15Th Ave. S.
Seattle, WA, 98108
Please contact Terry if you have questions about the festival and entry submissions.
The festival will take place on May 1 at the Underground Events Center which is in Belltown next to Cyclops. The Underground Events Center is the same location as the Punk Rock Flea Market, 2407 First Avenue (map).
More information on the Dead Baby Bikes website.
Danger Bees & Charts and Maps at the Comet
I have been waiting for an oportunity to post that video on my blog for a long time. Thanks, Danger Bees! Charts and Maps will also be playing at the Comet on March 19. For a lengthy explanation of both bands' style of music, see the flier below. Normally I would mock this type of introspection on a band flier, but this time I find it totally adorable. I mean, they're from LA, they can't help it.
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Event: This is a Process of a Still Life, Danger Bees, Charts & Maps, Brier Rose
Location: Comet Tavern (map)
Date and Time: March 19, 8pm
Price: ??
Sunday Night's View of Seattle
Girls Rock! The Movie || In Theaters March 7
Girls Rock! The Movie is a documentary about a camp for girls that teaches them how to play rock and roll, then the girls get to perform in front of an audience.
Since the camp first started in Portland seven years ago with a handful of students, it has grown tremendously to a year-round program with three sessions in the summer. Now they’ve gone international, with camps popping up in places as different as Mufreesboro, Tennessee and Sweden. What follows is a list of those camps who have aligned themselves with the Portland camp under the Girls Rock Camp Alliance banner, at which girls can expect a similar experience and curriculum.
Girls Rock Camp seems to be grooming little girls into becoming their own little Sleater-Kinneys. It looks like a great film to me. Directed by Arne Johnson and Shane KingWatch, the documentary shows the insecurities these young girls have going into the camp (one girl admittedly hates herself) and the empowerment they learn in the camp that it's fine to "sweat like a pig, scream like a banshee, wail on their instruments with complete and utter abandon, and that it is '100% okay to be exactly who you are.'" I wish I had learned those valuable life lessons a lot sooner in life. I especially wish I had learned them at a rock and roll camp!
The fact that this camp originated in Portland, with another camp coming to Seattle, makes me love the Northwest even more than I already do.
Location: SIFF Cinema (at the Nesholm Family Lecture Hall at McCaw Hall 321 Mercer Street, Seattle Center)
Show Dates: March 7 - 20 (show times and buy tickets here)
Price: SIFF Members $8, Non-Members $10
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Reefer Madness The Musical
Even though this doesn't happen in real life when people smoke marijuana, the reality of what happens to people when they smoke pot would be far too boring to make a movie about, unless you like watching someone play video games all day. The fact that this movie is so far fetched has inspired Reefer Madness to become... a musical! RK Productions has brought to Seattle Reefer Madness: The Musical, running February 22 - March 22. From the Reefer Madness: The Musical press release:
Too Shocking!
The year is 1936: FDR is in the White House, Duke Ellington is playing the Jazz Clubs; Gone with the Wind sits on everyone's nightstand and Our Gang plays on the goggle box. The unsuspecting nation sleeps easy while a leafy green assassin lurks in the shadows, feeding on America's seedy underbelly of filth and degradation. Marihuana is that assassin: a violent narcotic, and unspeakable scourge; the real public enemy number 1!
REEFER MADNESS: THE MUSICAL depicts the tale of Jimmy Harper, an exemplary, upstanding lad tragically ravaged and twisted into a hedonistic and murderous weed fiend. YOU WILL BE SHOCKED as the reefer seduces him into a world filled with sadistically wild orgies, junkie zombies, homicide, and the devil himself!
***REEFER MADNESS is a highly stylized and satirical political commentary. It contains adult humor, religious parody, drug use, as well as suggested violence and sexual explicitness. It may prove TOO SHOCKING for some audiences! ***
Location: Live Girls! Theater (map)
Show Dates: March 6-8, 13 -15, 20-22
Time: 7:30pm, Saturdays 7:30pm and 10:30pm
Price: $20 (buy tickets online)
