A Few Questions Re: Gigs4U
Tuesday, March 3, 2015 10:24 — 0 Comments
Okay, full disclosure: I have NO IDEA if this service will be helpful, but it seemed interesting and I thought it better to engage than to ignore. Ed Beeson gave some of his time to answer a few questions about Gigs4U, an online service meant to connect musicians with venues, and this is what we talked about. What is the overall aim for the app? What is it going to take over the course of the next 12 months for it to be as successful as you’d like it to be? Our overall aim is to provide a link between […]
Stay Black and Die
Tuesday, March 3, 2015 10:08 — 0 Comments
“I don’t have to do nothing but eat, drink, stay black, and die.†–Langston Hughes, “Necessity†(1951).Â
THE CAP-SAC!!!!!
Monday, March 2, 2015 11:55 — 1 Comment
When I have the winter doldrums, I’m like many people: I like a free gift! And when I’m looking for a free gift, I often find myself wandering with some friends over to Central Cinema for Moviecat Trivia, a monthly game created and hosted by Jess Aceti and Brian Kirk. The treasures given out to winners range from old VHS horror movies to bowling trophies, but often they give away something COMPLETELY AND UTTERLY AMAZING. What is it, you ask? Let me answer your question with a question: What do you get when you combine a cap and a sac? […]
A Better Law of Gravity – Jim Brantingham
Monday, March 2, 2015 11:45 — 0 Comments
–taken from “A Member of the Wedding†By Carson McCullers Rain runs in rivers from the brim Of a hopelessly soaked hat. Water falls from his cardboard sign– “Anything helps. God Bless.†That plea, copied on so many Brown and ragged box ends, Could be dripping down Any wet leaf in any green forest. “A better law of gravity†Would not let this trace Of a human, this shadow, Fall so far from the grace Of a warm, dry room.
Oma at Night – Bob Sykora
Wednesday, February 25, 2015 10:27 — 0 Comments
Something’s missing in Los Angeles. The nights swollen blue with busyness. Not animals, not smells, not shrieks across glowing pastures. Just bus rides, so many bus rides, and the dripping headache of the factory: sewing, folding, sewing, folding. There’s no room for ghosts in all the noise, all the machines. No spooks in alarm clocks and televisions and microwave ovens. Midnight never smiles or takes shapes and goes meddling in the barn, rousing the horses. Dawn comes before any ogres can take her away. No need to tie down the moon to keep the night from ending.
Quarreler, vol. 2: Caleb Powell
Monday, February 23, 2015 14:06 — 1 Comment
I Think You’re Totally Wrong: A Quarrel, by David Shields and Caleb Powell is fresh off the Knopf presses. It’s a book in the form of one extended and contentious dialogue. Over the course of a weekend at a remote cabin tucked into the Cascade Mountains, Shields and Powell argue Life versus Art, testing the limits of civilized conversation and the boundaries of the self. The Monarch Review had the chance to talk with both Quarrelers individually about the making of both the book, and the adaptation of the book into a film directed by James Franco. This is the second of […]
Big In Japan – Tennis Pro
Thursday, February 19, 2015 11:40 — 0 Comments
Tennis Pro has a movie. What band doesn’t want a movie? And there’s is damn good. The movie – titled Big in Japan – makes its U.S. theatrical debut Friday, Feb. 20th at Seattle’s NW Film Forum. Tickets are available here. And a preview for the film is here: Want more? Here is a description of the film by the band: “A struggling Seattle Rock band, Tennis Pro, take one last shot at making it big as they embark on a comical musical odyssey in Tokyo with hopes to prevent their day jobs from becoming their careers. Making its theatrical premiere in […]
Retirement – Richard Hartwell
Wednesday, February 18, 2015 15:01 — 1 Comment
Old men pacing inside maws of open garages,
#CapHillPSA
Wednesday, February 18, 2015 13:40 — 0 Comments
#CapHillPSA aims to shed light on the changing Capitol Hill neighborhood and offer works by artists with messages stopping violence, acceptance of others and stopping the aggression towards folks who may appear different. Check out their event slated for tomorrow (Thursday Feb. 19th here). I had a chance to chat with organizers Courtney Sheehan and Yonnas T. Getahun.Â
Three Songs To The Head vol. 26
Tuesday, February 17, 2015 12:49 — 0 Comments
Hello and welcome back to Three Songs to the Head where we share three songs that moved us, three songs we love, three songs we can’t get out of our heads! Today, we’re featuring Snuff Redux, Sisters and My Cartoon Heart. Enjoy!
The answer isn't poetry, but rather language
- Richard Kenney
Book Release and Reading Feb. 6
January 6th, 2016
Hello fellow readers, travelers and Monarchians! Our first book, Traveling Light, written by Seattle author, Jim Brantingham, is now for sale! And we will be throwing a release party for it Feb. 6 at 6pm in Ravenna Third Place Books (on the corner of 65th and 20th NE). Jim will be reading from the book and there will be guest readers accompanying him. Space is limited, so we suggest you come early. Books can be bought through this link here or at Ravenna Third Place Books (which just ordered it’s second wave of books). We are super excited for this release and […]
