A."Q" Quintero, Molly McIntyre, Laura Smoot.
(@gaybigaygay march 08)
Influences
80's love songs, our friends music, liz phair, joni mitchell, needing to escape the 9-5 work week, japanese punk, kimya dawson, david bowie, heartbreak, prince, global warming, 1st grade journals, cadillaca, beat happening, sad winter days, happy spring days, other geminis
maple rabbit is a 3-person, all-keyboard video band that prefers their
cuteness with edge, their politics with glitz and stop-motion, and their
drum machines with careful harmonies. expect matching outfits, melodies
that will stick with you for days, and lyrics about everything from school
picture day to the end of the world.
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i am putting on a show with 3 acts and wanted to see if MR could perform. Its sept 23 at Balcony (10 & arch) I am insure if there will be pay since we have a guarantee with the touring acts. Let me know asap since we are booking 1st come 1st serve.
SILAS HOWARD, (writer, director, and musician), co-directed his first feature, By Hook Or By Crook, with Harry Dodge. The indie classic was a 2002 SUNDANCE FILM FESTIVAL premiere and five-time Best Feature winner, distributed on Wolfe video and continuing to air on the Sundance Channel.
Howard's screenplay, Exactly Like You, (co-written with Nina Landey), is a Nantucket Screenwriters Colony fellow and finalist for the 2005 Sundance Filmmaker's lab. Duly Noted, producer Effie T. Brown's company (In The Cut, Real Women, Rocket Science) picked up Exactly Like You in 2007. The project was selected for the 2007 Film Independent Directors Lab and Fast Track Program with the Los Angeles Film Festival. Howard's first short documentary, What I Love About Dying, premiered at the 2006 Sundance Film Festival.
For eight years, Howard toured nationally and internationally with his band, Tribe 8. The notorious punk band released four full-length recordings on Alternative Tentacles and was featured in Rolling Stone, The Village Voice, Interview, Billboard, Elle and The Los Angeles Times.
Howard's music videos have aired on MTV and LOGO, as did his first short musical, How do I Say This? (2008), co-directed with Michael Bodie and made for MTV. Howard's writing is featured in the anthologies, "Without a Net: Growing Up Working Class" and "Live Through This ", as well as the artists' journal, "LTTR."
Howard received an MFA in directing at UCLA and was awarded the Kovler Family Fellowship in Film & Television, the Wasserman Film Production award and twice, the Motion Picture Association of America award. Howard was twice nominated for a Rockefeller award.
He teaches in the literature and visual arts department at UCSD.
Breedlove, ex-Tribe 8 singer/lyricist, 1990-2005, is author of the novel Godspeed, now a short film, featuring Adroc of the Beastie Boys and Leslie Mah of Tribe 8. A feature length script went to the second round at the Outfest Screenwriter’s Lab and awaits production. His new book, Lynnee Breedlove’s One Freak Show is out on Manic D Press in September. He is currently writing a political memoir with his mother, How I Became an American Anarchist: from Hitler and Obama in 70 Years. He has been touring comedy solo shows on gender for five years in six languages on two continents.His writing can be found in Good Advice for Trendy Young People; Word Warriors; and Lips, Tits, Hips, Power.
Rise Above: the Tribe 8 Documentary chronicles the lives of the band Tribe 8, which Silas and Lynnee founded with Leslie Mah in 1990, Tribe was winner of the 2005 Heritage Award for Creativity by the SFLGBT Pride Committee.
For more info check
http://www.facebook.com/pages/The-Mighty-Real-TourMyspace.com/lynnbreedloveSilashoward.com
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sorry i missed your show up in maine. it wasn't the best night for me. i heard through the grapevine that the house show was a good one! made me happy. sorry again maybe cross paths soon either philly, here, or elsewhere
Come join us Friday May 15th @ 9:00 PM @ Club Risque! All Out Friday Night featuring Dive, Even The Res, and Spy The Thinker - $10 gets you into the show upstairs and the gentleman's club downstairs. For updates check www.myspace.com/risquelive.
Maple Rabbit's and Kittens are awesomne creatures of the world and want to date a group of highly stylized Pony's (or so I hear). Why don't you shut up? Or even better, make some awesome electronic music with sweet melodies and bumpin beats. Yeah, that sounds more like it...
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