Impossible Shapes/ Sam Amidon/ Fern Knight/ Greg Weeks (from the Espers), The Baird Sisters (Meg and Laura of The Espers), Scott McMicken (of Dr. Dog), Danbert Nobacon (of Chumbawamba), Jana Hunter/ Peter and The Wolf/ Castanets/ Pwrfl Power/ Birdie Busch. Red Heart The Ticker/, Amy Pickard/ David Dondero/ Buried Beds, Joshua Marcus, The Weeds, The Boats/ Impossible Shapes/ Wes Matthau/ Birdie Busch/ Soft People/ Carl Johns/ Pepi Ginsberg/ Kilroy/ Univox/ Ken Kweeder/ Tianenamin Squared/ Lil Hospital/ Lux Perpetua/ The Extraodinaires/ Chapin Sisters/ Margillian/ Normal Love, Z's/ Collette Columbirch/ Yarrows/ French Quarter/ Anton Sword/ Pwrfl Power/ Strand of Oaks/ The Spinning Leaves/ Larkin Grimm, Peasant/ Armchairs/ Brown Recluse Sings/ Hunter Gatherer/ Noa Babayof/ Tavo Carbone/ Joe Jack Talcum (Dead Milkmen)/ Physics of Meaning/ Agent Moosehead/ Snow Caps/ Sea Trio/ Br'er/ The Spinning Leaves/ Power Animal/ B.J Snowden/ David First/ Busman's Holiday/ Joey Mariano/ Eric Carbonara/ White Hinterland/ Corndawg/ Ramona Cordova/ Jesse Sparhawk/ Animal Style/ Anni Rossi/ BeatBeat Whisper/ Alexander Turnquist/ Trolleyvox/ Soltero/ W-S Burn/ Avarus/ West Philadelphia Orchestra/ Pepi Ginsberg/ Deadfolk
BOB CARLTON covering DANIEL JOHNSTON "Worried Shoes"
TABITHA & NORA covering THE SHAGGS
I have posted a bunch of videos from recent show at The Green Line Cafe.
Videos include
(There is one video posted for each act, More on the site
http://www.youtube.com/greenlineshermanshow)
FOLKLORE
HORNS OF HAPPINESS
ARMCHAIRS
RAVENS AND VULTURES
TAVO CARBONE
THEATER FIRE
DEADFOLK
BIRDLIPS
(Also check out Favorites for old show archive)
Videos here include
BROWN RECLUSE SINGS
WHITE HINTERLAND
POWER ANIMAL
BUSMANS REVENGE
FRENCH QUARTER
PWRFL POWER
CIRCLES
BIRDIE BUSCH
LILLIE RUTH BUSSEY
W-S BURN
WOODWOSE
CHAPIN SISTERS
BURIED BEDS
LUX PERPETUA
STRAND OF OAKS
EMILY LACEY
ALEXANDER TURNQUIST
PAST SHOW VIDEOS
POWER ANIMAL
FRENCH QUARTER
BUSMAN'S HOLIDAY
SHERMAN ARTS MUSIC PICKS
Every so often I like to recommend a few music acts to check out. Many of these acts have played, or will be playing as part The Green Line Cafe music series. (http://www.shermanarts.org/events.html) Come see them there, or anywhere else they are playing, or give a listen, or buy some music if you enjoy it.
Strand of Oaks is Timothy Showalter, an Indiana Mennonite turned Pennsylvania Hebrew Dayschool teacher who even drives the school bus for extra cash (and has sing-alongs with the pupils as they ease on down the road). It's like a scene from "Behind the Music" if the weed-soaked Tom Petty was your busdriver, and in this case the metaphors, spread throughout nine tracks, are to be taken quite literally.
Leave Ruin is Strand of Oaks' hometown deathbed-confession hymnal, the soundtrack of an Exodus. It's been back roads and parenthetical side streets for Showalter since he left his ruin of small town America. As a Hoosier transplant, he landed in the fertile musical soil of Northeastern Pennsylvania with a few key twists of fate that would turn his tragedy into trajectory.
While escaping a relationship gone worse, Showalter returned home to a house burned down, leaving all of his earthly possessions charred in flames. Spending nights in downtown hotels and on park benches with a borrowed guitar, he began to face the proverbial demons. Like any good roller coaster ride there came an upside, as inspiration grew like weeds within the rubble; songs led to shows, which led to tours of the US and UK with Jason Anderson and Kimya Dawson. Leave Ruin took shape shortly thereafter while touring and collaborating with Lou Rogai (Lewis & Clarke).
Taking cues from such luminaries as Neil Young (On the Beach era) and a burgeoning Springsteen, Showalter extends his musical gesture and searches to find modesty in the midst of confusion, addressing insecurities and settling existential debt with a simple and beautiful delivery. The personification of a Midwestern Grandfather's advice, his songs smack with hard truth and poignant severity, from child-like naivete to heart worn wisdom... sparse guitar, hammond, rhodes and wooden instruments support an atmosphere that is tender and raw, at times uncomfortable, shockingly candid, and unforgettable.
THE ROOM (New Cult Classic considered one of the best worst films ever)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yCj8sPCWfUw
The Room is a 2003 independent film written and directed by its star, Tommy Wiseau, who is also credited on screen as both the movie's producer and executive producer. The principal cast includes Wiseau, Juliette Danielle, Greg Sestero, Philip Haldiman, Carolyn Minnott, and Robyn Paris. The Room tells the melodramatic story of a love triangle between a man, his future wife, and his best friend.
Without any studio support, Wiseau spent over $7 million on production and marketing for the film. Wiseau promotes the film as a black comedy and insists that its humor is actually intentional, although cast members have publicly disputed these claims[1] and many audience members generally view the film as a poorly-made drama.[2][3]
The Room has been cited by some critics as one of the worst films ever made,[4][5] and has been called "the Citizen Kane of bad movies."[6][7] 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.
The Room is the story of a love triangle between a kind-hearted man named Johnny (Wiseau), his fiancée Lisa (Danielle), and his best friend Mark (Sestero).
At the beginning of the film, Lisa has become dissatisfied with Johnny, confiding to her best friend Michelle (Paris) and her mother Claudette (Minnott) that she finds him boring. Lisa seduces Mark, and they begin an affair that continues throughout the film, even as Mark more than once tries to break it off.
Lisa stays with Johnny because he is a successful banker who has promised to buy her a house. As the wedding date approaches and Johnny’s clout at his bank slips, Lisa gets closer to leaving Johnny for Mark.
The film has several subplots involving secondary characters. A neighboring college student named Denny (Haldiman) — whom Johnny supports and loves like a son — has a mysterious run-in with a drug dealer and struggles with his attraction to Lisa; Claudette, Lisa's mother, deals with real estate problems, failed relationships, and breast cancer (although she nonchalantly announces she has this condition near the beginning of the film, it's never mentioned again); Michelle’s boyfriend Mike (Mike Holmes) is shamed by Lisa and Claudette walking in on him with Michelle in Johnny and Lisa’s living room. All of these subplots are introduced and quickly forgotten.
When Lisa throws Johnny a surprise birthday party, she flaunts her affair in front of Johnny, and Johnny and Mark get into not one but two altercations. Johnny has also attached a tape recorder to the telephone, recording an intimate call between his fiancée and Mark. Claiming that he doesn’t have a friend in the world, Johnny locks himself in his bathroom until everyone has left. When he comes out, he destroys his apartment, finds the handgun he took from Denny's drug dealer Chris-R, and commits suicide with a gunshot to the head.
Lisa and Mark discover Johnny’s corpse soon afterwards, and Denny is not far behind. Mark blames Johnny's death on Lisa. Denny blames Johnny’s death on Lisa and Mark, urging them to leave him alone with the corpse so he can say farewell, but as the film closes, Lisa and Mark remain with Denny as police sirens grow louder.
NATIONAL MECHANICS
3rd st between Market and Chesnut
fundraiser for Prince Rama's (a band that had lots of gear stolen when they played Phila.) 9pm.
Also screening cult favorite "THE ROOM"
Film at 12 MIDNIGHT
NOV 21st PART OF OUTSIDER FEST
Bosnian Hospice Hand Jive a new play by Marc Sand (Broken Hipsters)
Presented by: The 11th Toe Players
Writer: Marc Sand
Director: David Weisberg
Synopsis: The Bosnian Hospice Hand Jive is a dark comedy about Paisley and Melody Golden--sisters with very different views of the world. Paisley is an idealistic international studies grad student, and her sister Melody is the CEO of a coal mining company. Both are trying to figure out if altruism really exists, and whether koalas are coming to kill us all.
Friday, Nov 20 and Saturday, Nov 21
Philadelphia, PA
Shubin Theatre
407 Bainbridge Street
8PM both nights
$10
Advance tickets available online: www.smarttix.com
DEC 4th JIM ANDERSON (Acres of Diamonds)/ MOUSE/ MATT LANDIS
DEC 5th KELSEY BULKIN/ CHRIS BONN/ AUSTIN LUCAS/ MIKE HALE
DEC 11th MUSIC AND MENTORSHIP PROGRAM
DEC 12th THE BAD ACRONYM/ DARREN AND THE STORIES/ TURTLE SOUP/ SPIRIT AND DUST
DEC 17th SAM KASSEL/ FLYING WITH INSTRUMENTS/ TBA
DEC 18th LITTLE FLOWER
DEC 19th THE BREAK MISSION/ CHRIS BRUNI/ TBA
JAN 9th THE SILENCE KIT/ JOSH AND PETE BAND/ TBA
JAN 15th ELIZA (Buried Beds) AND ANDREW DUO/ TBA/ TBA
JAN 16TH RADIOLORIANS/ TBA/ TBA
JAN 23rd NORTHERN VALENTINE/ C.J BOYD/ SENSORY HORE/ THE NEW HEAVEN AND NEW EARTH
JAN 30th FAUX SLANG/ TBA/ TBA
Sherman Arts Shows at Green Line Cafe Locust St.'s Friend Space (Top 40)
Sherman Arts Shows at Green Line Cafe Locust St. has 1510 friends.
Rich, the new shows look great! I'm gonna try to make it out to a few for sure. I'm psyched on that Pineapple Explode show. Power Animal stayed at their house in Tennessee back in March and got our van stuck in the mud on the front lawn.. good people. I'll be in touch. -Chris
A Screening of City of Photos (2005) by Nishtha Jain
Brickbat Books 709 South Fourth Street, Philadelphia Saturday, April 25th 8PM $5
Synopsis:
City of Photos explores the little known ethos of neighborhood photo studios in Indian cities, discovering entire imaginary worlds in the smallest of spaces. Tiny, shabby studios that appear to be stuck in a time warp turn out to be places throbbing with energy. As full of surprises as the people who frequent these studios are the backdrops they enjoy posing against and the props they choose. These afford fascinating glimpses into individual fantasies and popular tastes. Yet beneath the fun and games runs an undercurrent of foreboding. Not everyone enjoys being photographed; not every backdrop is beautiful; not all photos are taken on happy occasions. The cities in which these stories unfold themselves become backdrops, their gritty urban reality a counterpoint to the photo palaces. Desires, memories and stories, all so deeply linked to the photographic experience, come together as part of a personal journey into the city of photos.
"The film is lyrical, thoughtful and thought-provoking. There is a synergy here between the visuals, the commentary and the suggestive sound track that is rare in documentary. Jain manages the irony of using the moving image to capture the image that is already still with equanimity and a certain grace, treating the viewer almost as a photographic plate upon which her impressions are recorded." - Arshia Sattar, Openspace
This screening is a benefit for Asha for Education.
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