2014 — The Monarch Review — Page 24
Spek’s Bout That Action
Thursday, January 30, 2014 12:53 — 0 Comments
Not even 48 hours ago, Seattle MC and Producer, Spekulation, put out a song remixing an interview Seahawk running back Marshawn Lynch did with Deion Sanders. In the time since, it’s received over 100,000 hits. This is the second time going viral in about a year for Spek – the first being his Bitter Barista web site. For those of you who haven’t heard the song yet before, or if you want it, like the rest of the country, over and over again, here it is via Spek’s Soundcloud page. Enjoy!
Evan Flory-Barnes On The 2014 Grammy’s
Thursday, January 30, 2014 12:47 — 2 Comments
Evan Flory-Barnes, bassist and composer extrodinaire, played with his band The Teaching on Macklemore and Ryan Lewis’ The Heist. As a result, he was invited to the Grammys last weekend to take part in the festivities and to celebrate the record. We sat down to talk with Evan about his experience at the awards show and his thoughts on the whole spectacle.
Band In Seattle: Ayron Jones and Sir Mix A Lot
Wednesday, January 29, 2014 15:49 — 0 Comments
Every Saturday night at 11PM on KSTW (Channel 11 in the Emerald City), Band In Seattle broadcasts their newest episode. This week the  TV show, which features local musicians’ music and interviews, will present Ayron Jones and his mentor Sir Mix A Lot. To get a little insight into the program, we asked BIS founder Conrad Denke about what’s coming up this week.
The Frenchman and the Stranger – Saladin Ambar
Wednesday, January 29, 2014 12:29 — 0 Comments
I’ve never been with a man, what that I didn’t come to know him. You don’t lose a man over years. Not the way a man loses a woman. The good and the not so good. You remember a man. And so I know what I knew, and who he and the other was. But it ain’t hardly worth telling now. Not now that they way on up and respected like. But my memory is good and hard, and to me in my youth, back there in that day, why, I broke those men. The way a woman breaks a […]
Somebody Might See You Standing There – Stephen Morehead
Tuesday, January 28, 2014 12:33 — 9 Comments
Here’s the reason why the top of the mug is a circle: Because every time you take a sip of coffee, it centers you. It brings you back to one spot. The epicenter. The dot in the middle of the page of math homework where lines intersect. It’s the ganglion that allows us to bow our head and bring ourselves together before the nerve tendrils relax and uncurl out to our surroundings and, from there, into the world. That’s why, at the cafe inside the hospital where I work, I drink coffee all day long—because working customer service to several […]
Remembering Myself Reading Derridà – Hege Lepri
Monday, January 27, 2014 11:35 — 0 Comments
“This is just the beginning,†my father says, handing me two of the boxes from his vantage-point half-way up the ladder. The stuffy smell of mould and dust creates an aura around the boxes. The brown cardboard is turning grey and green in certain spots. I’ve spent weeks worrying about this chore. Old nightmares have returned to ride me across the night sky. Though gentler and more forgiving than they used to, they have me worried.
GOODBYE PORK PIE HAT – Kris Faatz
Monday, January 27, 2014 11:29 — 2 Comments
When the man died, he took it with him. He took the throaty coffee-and-cream sound of his tenor horn and the blackstrap molasses flow of his clarinet. Those were from the great years. He took the breathy rasp of that same horn and the fragile squeak of that same clarinet. Those were from the last years. He took the breath he couldn’t catch anymore and the legs that wouldn’t hold him up and the last sour whiff of the liquor he drank. And he took the muscles in his hands and the slow steady beat of his heart, and he […]
Rainier Road Trip – John Davis
Thursday, January 23, 2014 10:29 — 0 Comments
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Inspiration and Perversity in Cumbaya – Ahsan Butt
Tuesday, January 21, 2014 11:29 — 0 Comments
It had all the makings of a night that would fall through. The logistics were becoming more complicated by the second. Last minute costume shopping had been a bust. The hour long commute to the party was beginning (*maybe*) an hour late. So while we huddled around the passenger-side window of a cab pleading with the driver to let all 5 of us in — against the literal law, but in the spirit of the compassionate Virgin, who was hanging from his rear-view mirror — the prospect of driving through Quito to costume-lessly attend a Halloween party whose host I didn’t know lost any […]
The Monarch Drinks With Charles Mudede
Monday, January 20, 2014 10:56 — 1 Comment
Housed in one of the old brick and stone buildings that is vintage Pioneer Square, E. Smith Mercantile recalls the settlers that migrated to the Pacific Northwest more than a century ago. Its design pays homage to this piece of Northwest history, with a general store in front and a small bar in the back. Making my way through the dimly-lit maze of perfume bottles and tea tins, blocks of soap and leather bags, I find Charles Mudede seated at the bar, looking over the drinks list. Mudede is thinking of reviewing the place for The Stranger, where he is […]
The answer isn't poetry, but rather language
- Richard Kenney
