Going to the End – P. M. Merlot
Monday, March 3, 2014 11:08 — 1 Comment
I’m on the right street, but the wrong funeral home. If I were thinking clearly, I would turn my car around and head in the opposite direction. Instead, I drive to the second funeral home I know in my father’s hometown. Like the first parking lot, it’s as stark looking as this winter day. I have forty-five minutes left before I miss it all. Part of me wants to. I hate funerals. At the end I am exhausted. I go when I have to. Losing nearly all morning clarity, which is never optimum, I call my parents. I know that […]
An Interview With Rodrigo Valenzuela
Thursday, February 27, 2014 11:22 — 0 Comments
Rodrigo Valenzuela is a visual artist based in Seattle, WA. He recently won The Stranger’s Genius Award for his work. We here at The Monarch got a chance to catch up with Valenzuela to talk about his new exhibit at at Bryan Ohno Gallery, beginning March 6th. Jake Uitti: The presentation of your new works is called “Goal Keeper” – it has the obvious connotation of someone with aims who works to meet those aims. But it also has the soccer/sports connotation I can’t help but think about. Was this intentional in any way, or am I crazy and […]
Island Visitation – William Ford
Wednesday, February 26, 2014 13:33 — 0 Comments
Yellowing alders drift
One Super Important Question For Julia Massey and the Five Finger Discount
Wednesday, February 26, 2014 13:20 — 0 Comments
Julia Massey and the Five Finger Discount are all about stardust. They also love magic. And they love to play music! This is why their upcoming appearance at the Timber Outdoor Music Festival in Carnation, WA is so beautiful. Fits them like a glove. We got a chance to reach out to Julia, Dom and Geoff and ask them One Super Important Question about the upcoming summer festival.
Band In Seattle: Cody Beebe and the Crooks and Spoonshine
Tuesday, February 25, 2014 12:41 — 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 Cody Beebe and the Crooks and Spoonshine. To get a little insight into the program, we asked BIS founder Conrad Denke about what’s coming up this week. Jake Uitti: What’s special about this week’s episode with Cody Beebe and the Crooks and Spoonshine? Conrad Denke: This week on Band in Seattle, two very different, but equally extraordinary bands, are featured: Cody Beebe and the Crooks and Spoonshine. We interviewed Cody and his […]
Sean De Tore On Hangin Tuff Episode #3 With Jarv Dee
Tuesday, February 25, 2014 12:32 — 0 Comments
Welcome to the new mini-series where we ask five Seattle folk their thoughts on the new music interview and variety show, Hangin Tuff, presented by Bobbi Rich. This week, Sean De Tore, host of the mixtape Podcast, talks about episode #3 featuring Jarv Dee. Enjoy!
One Super Important Question For Shaun Scott
Thursday, February 20, 2014 16:10 — 1 Comment
Shaun Scott might be our favorite Seattle filmmaker. A Stranger Genius Award Nominee, writer of several Drinks With features and all-around great guy, Scott was recently commissioned by the WA State Dream Act coalition to make a short film. Amidst many other project, Scott completed the film, which was so well done (partly because it features one of our favorite producers, Spekulation) that we wanted to reach out to him and ask One Super Important Question.Â
TONIC MONEY – Sean Hammer
Thursday, February 20, 2014 12:29 — 0 Comments
He sat on the toilet, ostensibly taking a shit but really drinking a gin and tonic, thinking to himself that he could write like Henry Chinaski, if he really wanted to. So after wiping he did just that, he brought his gin and tonic to his desk and sipped while he typed, sometimes one-handed. He took a thirty-minute break to look at pornography and refill his drink and masturbate to no effect; probably because of the gin. Then he typed for another two hours before his eyes started to hurt from the brightness of the screen and he sucked on […]
I Heard a Baby Crying – Paul Luikart
Thursday, February 20, 2014 10:22 — 0 Comments
I woke in the middle of the night to the sound of a baby crying. I’d thrown on my robe and jumped into my slippers—wrong-footed—and had already begun to heat water on the stove for her bottle when I rubbed my eyes and remembered I lived alone. I walked through my apartment touching things, touching everything I own—laptop, backpack, laundry baskets—and then, for a long time, watched the snow fall on the street. When I slid back into my sheets, I listened to the radiator purr and the old building pop as it settled on its haunches, thick concrete walls […]
What am I?
Bioluminescent eye
That sees by the shine
Of its own light. Lies
Blind me. I am the seventh human sense
And my stepchild,
Consequence;
Scientists can't find me.
Januswise I make us men;
Glamour
Was my image then—
Remind me:
The awful fall up off all fours
From the forest
To the hours…
Tick, Tock: Divine me.
-- 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 […]
