Odds and Ends: from Portland With Love
04/30/2010 05:28 PM
My friend and fellow filmmaker, Karl Lind, curates a series of screenings titled “Odds and Ends”. This time those folks up north (Seattle) wanted to showcase Portland filmmakers.
I am honored to have my music video for Steve Kilbey & Martin Kennedy’s “All Is One”, included among such a batch of talents. So if you don’t have anything to do on Sunday evening in Seattle, join us at Northwest Film Forum.
This image is from the amazing music video for Ramona Falls by Stefan Nadelman. I was actually going to make a video very similar to this but he beat me to it!
I am honored to have my music video for Steve Kilbey & Martin Kennedy’s “All Is One”, included among such a batch of talents. So if you don’t have anything to do on Sunday evening in Seattle, join us at Northwest Film Forum.
This image is from the amazing music video for Ramona Falls by Stefan Nadelman. I was actually going to make a video very similar to this but he beat me to it!
The Church
04/21/2010 05:33 PM
Once I was at a summer camp at St. Mary’s College, the future institution for my first bachelors degree. I’m no catholic but it was to make mum happy.
Anyhow, it was at the summer camp in Notre Dame, Indiana in 1988, that I first fell in love with The Church and they changed my life forever. I had heard “Under The Milky Way” and liked the dark evocative sound of it. I was a music junkie and was on a hunt for the perfect band. Up to the summer of ’88, my fave band was a-ha, but they were maybe not complex enough? Besides, they were pretty well-known at the time and I liked the underdogs.
My roomie from Chicago had a cassette of Starfish. I put it into my walkman the first night I was getting ready to fall asleep. Within first minute of “Destination”, I knew I had found my band. The atmosphere their music created - and that melancholy, comforting voice and those lyrics!
Well, I could go on but I’ll end up with a novel.
So fast forward to present day. The Church is now 30 years old! Cant help feeling old, myself. So many implications... but anyhow, somehow I ended up interviewing Steve Kilbey. For a shy, clumsy, social idiot like me - what a disaster! And then we thought the whole bloody interview didn’t get recorded. I carried that weight as I witnessed another incredible live set by The Church.
Don’t want to bore you anymore, so here are the links to the review, the interview and the photo link in the review...
Concert Review
Interview
Anyhow, it was at the summer camp in Notre Dame, Indiana in 1988, that I first fell in love with The Church and they changed my life forever. I had heard “Under The Milky Way” and liked the dark evocative sound of it. I was a music junkie and was on a hunt for the perfect band. Up to the summer of ’88, my fave band was a-ha, but they were maybe not complex enough? Besides, they were pretty well-known at the time and I liked the underdogs.
My roomie from Chicago had a cassette of Starfish. I put it into my walkman the first night I was getting ready to fall asleep. Within first minute of “Destination”, I knew I had found my band. The atmosphere their music created - and that melancholy, comforting voice and those lyrics!
Well, I could go on but I’ll end up with a novel.
So fast forward to present day. The Church is now 30 years old! Cant help feeling old, myself. So many implications... but anyhow, somehow I ended up interviewing Steve Kilbey. For a shy, clumsy, social idiot like me - what a disaster! And then we thought the whole bloody interview didn’t get recorded. I carried that weight as I witnessed another incredible live set by The Church.
Don’t want to bore you anymore, so here are the links to the review, the interview and the photo link in the review...
Concert Review
Interview
March Rock
04/01/2010 11:00 AM
Just when I was enjoying spring-like winter weather, spring snuck in to spoil the unusualness of the season.
With warmer weather comes more and more choice-y concerts.
Started the month off with long-waited return of the young quartet from Scotland: We Were Promised JetpacKs at Doug Fir. While they still rocked the “basement", somehow the magic of their first show felt dissipated. You can read Christina’s review.
Next up, those black leather clad-trio from Cali: Black Rebel Motorcycle Club at The Wonder Ballroom. Their popularity has steadily grown since I first saw them about 6 years ago. Though I had to escape the claustrophobic sauna, we should be so lucky to have got on the list. Eddie’s review
Then a dismal turnout for Canada’s We Say Party! You Say Die! at Doug Fir but that didn’t stop from turning the place into a party. I also wrote up a review on their latest album. And here’s what Rob had to say about the show.
It was a second time in less than a year A Place to Bury Strangers came to town, opening up for The Big Pink.
Somehow at a conversation one night, Ameena and I decided that we should try to interview APTBS. I just fumbled with my brand new zoom h4n audio recorder and let Ameena ask all the hard questions.
Finally to close off the rockin’ month, went across the river to downtown at Berbati’s to catch Norwegian shoe-gazers: Serena-Maneesh. A young band from NY, The Depreciation Guild opened up for them as well as a local band who used to be called Church until The Church gave them ultimatum. All three bands were worth my time, even if I didn’t get too excited.
Serena-Maneesh were very gracious in front only about 50 people and did not give a second rate show. Even if their new album’s not good as their first and I felt something was lacking, can’t help to like people who are humble. Rob is still working on the review.
With warmer weather comes more and more choice-y concerts.
Started the month off with long-waited return of the young quartet from Scotland: We Were Promised JetpacKs at Doug Fir. While they still rocked the “basement", somehow the magic of their first show felt dissipated. You can read Christina’s review.
Next up, those black leather clad-trio from Cali: Black Rebel Motorcycle Club at The Wonder Ballroom. Their popularity has steadily grown since I first saw them about 6 years ago. Though I had to escape the claustrophobic sauna, we should be so lucky to have got on the list. Eddie’s review
Then a dismal turnout for Canada’s We Say Party! You Say Die! at Doug Fir but that didn’t stop from turning the place into a party. I also wrote up a review on their latest album. And here’s what Rob had to say about the show.
It was a second time in less than a year A Place to Bury Strangers came to town, opening up for The Big Pink.
Somehow at a conversation one night, Ameena and I decided that we should try to interview APTBS. I just fumbled with my brand new zoom h4n audio recorder and let Ameena ask all the hard questions.
Finally to close off the rockin’ month, went across the river to downtown at Berbati’s to catch Norwegian shoe-gazers: Serena-Maneesh. A young band from NY, The Depreciation Guild opened up for them as well as a local band who used to be called Church until The Church gave them ultimatum. All three bands were worth my time, even if I didn’t get too excited.
Serena-Maneesh were very gracious in front only about 50 people and did not give a second rate show. Even if their new album’s not good as their first and I felt something was lacking, can’t help to like people who are humble. Rob is still working on the review.