DEEP RED INTERNATIONAL FESTIVAL OF FANTASTIC FILM 2009! PORTLAND, OR, APRIL 24-25 AND SEATTLE, WA, MAY 8-9!

With my partner Chris Bavota and several very kind people we're inaugurating the first Deep Red International Festival of Fantastic Film in Portland, OR, on April 24-25 and Seattle, WA, May 8-9. We've got a great lineup including:

Grimm Love (with screenwriter TS Faull in attendance in Seattle)
Deadgirl
Black Devil Doll (with Jonathan Lewis in attendance in Portland)
Inglorious Bastards (original)
Plague Town (with director David Gregory in attendance in Portland)
Bad Biology
Zombie Girl: The Movie

and some great shorts including & Teller and a special performance by 3 Leg Torso opening night in Portland!

Come visit!

www.deepredfilmfest.com

Applied Space

Through an invitation from longtime friend Tad Reedy, I was asked to join some folks at the house of Applied Space, an internet radio show production venue, tended to by the fine hostness of Frank Jenkins. Also laying out crazy wax was Nathan Hamlett, aka Maldek, who turned out to have composed music for a girlfriend of my filmmaker buddy Chris Sivertson. Itsy bitsy teeny weeny planet! It was a very eclectic night of sounds and I got turned on to a couple cool pieces including an split album side by Yellow Swans.


Nathan Hamlett aka Maldek, Tad Reedy, Branden, Shade Rupe, Frank Jenkins at Applied Space.

Stuff afoot!

So, since June...

Went and spent a little over three weeks in the NW and had an amazing time. My friend Mark Schomburg is out in OR and we hung out a bunch. He used to run an artists' warehouse I lived in. I really loved waking up to crickets and wind moving through trees rather than construction and fire engine sirens. Been seeing a bunch of bands lately:

She & Him
Spiritualized
Om
Devo / Tom Tom Club
Radiohead (twice)
Madonna
Department of Eagles (their very first live show!)
Grizzly Bear
The Residents (tonight!)

Next week is Sunn O))) at the Knitting Factory which I'm really excited about. I'm going to be missing Brightblack Morning Light which sucks. I've been playing their last two albums repeatedly for awhile now.

Finishing up Dark Stars!!! Almost there!!! So excited to get this thing out in the world!

Amazing dental problems. Teeth are just too expensive.

Efterklang and Slaraffenland at the Knitting Factory, May 28, 2008

My friend Karl turned me on to Efterklang summer 2006 by sending me the amazing track 'Swarming' in an email. I went to their site and found Grizzly Bear at the top of their list, and then caught my first Grizzly show in Sept. 2006. Love how this stuff goes down. The band just toured through America and Chris Taylor of Grizzly Bear joined the band onstage for a couple songs. Caspar Clausen, the lead of Efterklang, took a picture with this girl's camera who was standing next to me. Was a pretty great exciting show and the band had a great time.

Shade at Eli Roth's The Greats of Roth film festival at the New Beverly

and the

Texas Frightmare Weekend in Grapevine, Tx, Feb. 21-24

If you're around the New Beverly theater on Feb. 17 or Feb. 20, I'll be at the screening of Torso, Pieces, and Mother's Day. I'll also be checking out the Texas Frightmare Weekend and hanging with some cool cats down there, in addition to grooving around Austin for a few days at the Drafthouse.