Please join me and “Peace, Loving” (Whitehaus Family Records) for an intimate evening of experimental music at Bobo Gallery. I’ll be joined by a some interesting collaborators, and debuting lots of new material.
Here is an excerpt about Peace, Loving from the Boston Phoenix. It sounds like a wild time…
“The sprawling Peace, Loving finish the night off with a finale that combines collage and improv action. A dude in Carhart rakes a handsaw over a 2×4 with a bunch of rusty chimes hanging from it. An ancient record player spins around inaudibly. Crickets and wind and running-creek sounds materialize from hand-held tape recorders. The band play on with a tribal, musty old battered upright bass and a guitar. Someone’s shaking the entire sculpture, and it looks as if an old video camera hanging on some twine were about to come crashing down. It seems half the crowd has gotten involved by the time the thing wraps up — at which point Ellis invites everyone in the room over to Whitehaus later…”
Friday, February 5th, 2010 | 6pm-8pm | This is a free event
Greendrinks is proud to host two monks from the Buddhist order Nipponzan Myohoji, an order solely focused on working for world peace. Each of these monks have walked thousands of miles on Peace Walks and are currently finishing the Great Smoky Mountains Peace Pagoda, the third such pagoda in the US which will be about 100 feet high and visible from I-40, about 1 hour’s drive west of Asheville. Come learn about this noble cause and expand your cultural horizons.
If you’ve seen Plucky Walker before, you haven’t seen Plucky Walker at all. Since the last show, I’ve been locked in my bedroom, writing furiously. I’ve put together almost an hour of new material over the past six weeks, most of it damn-near brilliant.* Now I’m ready to emerge from the laboratory and unleash my creations on the world.
This is not your average hip hop show, folks. Ask anyone who saw the last installment. Costume changes, narrative interludes, a beat cornucopia served by DJ Michael Tangelo—and of course, the dozen characters who live in Plucky Walker’s head, each with their own distinctive voice.
This is my labor of love, folks. No one will be disappointed, whether they’re a true head, an art kid, or a random Bobo bystander. And if you saw it last time, remember—this time it’s a brand new experience, more immersive and engaging than the last.
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Abu Disarray will be playing two raw-boned sets on the wheels of steel—everything from crunked Hip Hop to the latest in Juke, Bmore, and Ghettobass madness. If I get my way, he might even throw on some Aquawonkstep. You will dance, or you will die trying not to.
Second Skin examines people whose lives have been transformed by virtual worlds in online games such as World of Warcraft, Everquest, Everquest II and Second Life.
The documentary follows a group of online gamers whose lives are
intensely woven together inside and outside the virtual worlds, a
couple whose lives have changed since meeting online, and an avid
player whose life spins out of control due to his addiction to playing
MMOs. It also presents disabled players who have been given voice and
mobility in the virtual world and explores the controversial world of
Chinese gold farming and presents astonishing facts about online gaming.
Modeled after traditional Balinese and Javanese gamelan orchestras, the GamelaTron is an amalgamation of traditional instruments with a suite of percussive sound makers. MIDI sequences control 117 robotic striking mechanisms that produce intricately woven and rhythmic sound. Performances follow an arc similar to classic Indonesian gatherings, where stories from great epics, such as the Ramayana, are told and settings given in words that are continued in music.
Sunday January 24th | 4-7pm | Tickets $10 at the door
The Mystik Mountain Krewe presents the 2nd Annual Creole Cookoff Fundraiser
Come celebrate the cuisine of the Big Easy and help raise funds needed to make Asheville’s Mardi Gras Parade and Celebration happen!! Great food, New Orleans music, and a Half and Half Raffle will be held (and possibly a Silent Auction, items forthcoming). Dishes include many New Orleans favorites, and much much more!
Sugar, Dirt, & Relics: Mixed Media Work of Bridget Conn
Opening reception, Friday January 15, 7:00-11:00PM
Nature was dirty. Food couldn’t grow on trees. Breakfast was cupcakes.
This upbringing actually propelled me into a state of curiosity later in life, pushed me into a mode of conservation and sustainability, into a yearning for tradition. Birds at my feeder, plants I grew up with never knowing their names, fruits I never tasted, cycles and seasons I depend on are all part of these curiosities, and a basis for art-making. more
Monday December 21st | Doors 8pm | This event is free
Kipper & Bobo Gallery proudly present this masterpiece of the melodramatic: Tommy Wiseau’s The Room.
The Room has been cited by some critics as one of the worst films ever made, and has been called “the Citizen Kane of bad movies.” After a brief run in Los Angeles, the film went on to develop a cult following and continues to have midnight screenings around the United States and the United Kingdom.
From the Writer/Director/Producer/Star:
“The Room” is an American film about love, passion, betrayal and lies. It’s what happens in real life. You could be with your loving woman and all of a sudden BOOM! She’s in bed with your best friend or a family member. “The Room” depicts the depths of friendships and relationships in one’s life and realizes life’s real most asked question:
“Can you ever really trust anyone?”
… Are you ready to see reflections of your life?
“Four Stars” -Brian Cowan (Who The !@#% Is Brian Cowan????)
“Tommy Wiseau’s The Room is the greatest movies of all time.” -Kipper
“-a film so spectacularly awful and inept that it exerts a perverse fascination over the viewer, along with a fair share of unintentional laughs.” -Ken Hanke, The Mountain Xpress
Please join me and “Peace, Loving” (Whitehaus Family Records) for an intimate evening of experimental music at Bobo Gallery. I’ll be joined by a some interesting collaborators, and debuting lots of new material.
