Just a sunny week or so ago, with my head in the clouds I shuffled from the woman’s section of Value Village heading to the mens pant department, rack. There in the middle of where the bahama shirts and Cosby sweaters meet in some outlandish attic-throw-away-bottleneck, stood an oddly tall man yelling “Who sings this song” as a question to the four or five lonely men idling over the idea of buying Paco Jeans. My path was bringing up the rear, and like the rest of the men in front of me I had no business answering this mans question. Working my way quietly through the blazer jackets I entered the pants department, rack. Personally, I never find anything there, well maybe once or twice. The oddly tall man found me, finding nothing. Looking down at me from across the pants rack he suddenly yelled,
“What song is that?”
“I don’t know” I said nervously, as all of the men now behind the oddly tall man looked on at me, with a sort of gleeful appreciation.
Quickly he boomed, “I hear a voice, and that voice sounds like Stevie Nicks, that tells me that it must be Fleetwood Mac.”
Quietly now, we stared at each other oafishly.
This guy. Yeah, you might have heard of him. He goes by the name Unknown Hinson and the thought of him even seeing this post frightens the hell out of me. Calling himself the “king of country western-troubadours” might be a little much, but I can say he puts on a hell of a live show. He sports chops that are like god damn rabbits on his face and I don’t think he has teeth. Regardless of his physical appearance his songs are quite good, and, like much of country western mumbo jumbo, they’re about love, guns and well, loving guns, I think. He also moonlights for this program called Adult Swim, lending his southern drawl to the show Squidbillies.
The ho down will be happening at The Earl tonight night at 9pm. It’s $15 for tickets but free if you bring meat loaf. Kidding.
So I found this flyer on the cork board at the bottom of our stairs and, in spite of my inability to find anything to back up the fact that this show is happening, I will not feign away any opportunity for people to experience hipster, pseudo-lowbrow-esque art. Hayley Gaberlavage is presenting a slew of her inspired work starting next month at Octane Coffee. The show runs from the 1st to the 29th, so I guess that this is a leap year? Anyway, I love her website and the fact that she has an Address Book vCard available for download. Here is a bit about her:
Hayley Gaberlavage is inspired by a love for fashion, furniture and modern art. Her contemporary approach to a subject matter results in a unique interpretation of figures, abstracts and landscapes. Oftentimes, her paintings move from the representational to the abstract; a three-dimensional object becomes a simple two-dimensional pattern. Her experimentation with color relationships complements these abstractions. Ultimately, each work is playful, alive, and unique.
If you’re in Atlanta tonight, consider stopping by the Plaza Theatre from 8-11 for Tyson McAdoo’s art show, The Death of Me. The show celebrates the release of his new book, the first 1,000 copies of which are being distributed mostly through his hands or by way of the interweb.
I, for one, totally dig his semi-surreal (and don’t forget sexy) illustrations of heavily tattooed, Barbie-doll-figured women. And I don’t need to be reminded of how unrealistic that is because, duh!, I already knew that.
The Details:
Hosted By: Tyson McAdoo
When: Tuesday Jan 15, 2008
at 8:00 PM
Where: The Plaza Theatre
1049 Ponce De Leon Ave
Atlanta, Georgia 30306
United States
Jesus Christ Superstar—presented by The Little 5 Points Rockstar Orchestra—is coming to Atlanta’s premier “rock opera house”, 7 Stages Theatre. The show is a tribute to the original 1970 recording and takes place December 13 – 15 at 8pm on all three nights. If this is anything like it was last year, I wouldn’t be able to tell. Because I didn’t go.
More info here.
It’s that time again. On December 14, our best buddies—It’s Elephant’s—will be popping their top over at The Drunken Unicorn. I know that it has been a while since any of you hipsters made it as far from home as Ponce and, since I know that everyone would just waste away this evening otherwise, here is an opportunity to have some fun, for once.
Here is the line-up:
Admission is $7, doors at 9.
One or two old friends of ours are putting together an art auction at Lenny’s on December 15th. The show will feature the work of more than twenty local Atlanta artists with the proceeds going to support the Atlanta Food Bank. Regrettably, the only artist’s name that I’m able to recognize is Mikey Jenkins, who used to tattoo at Sacred Heart and who now presently works at Memorial Tattoo. I can be shameless sometimes, I know.
Anyway, if art isn’t your bag, they will also have some live bands playing: Slow Motion Crash, Imma Williams, Mice in Cars, and more. So go support some of city’s homegrown, local talent and—how could I almost forget—drink some free Pabst.
From the MySpace page of A Moonshine Christmas:
Urbn Pop Studios and Lenny’s Bar Brings you A Moonshine Christmas art show. Un noël d’alcool de contrebande Une enchères silencieuses à benifit l’atlanta foodbank. 15 decembre. Redneck Translation: A silent auction to benefit the Atlanta Foodbank. December 15. December 15th at 7:00pm Lenny’s opens it’s doors to us for a silent art auction and food drive. The door charge is $5.00 with no food donation, and $3.00 with a minimum of two cans of food. This will be a 21 and up show. Join Us for Live art, Live Music and a Good Cause. Lennys Bar 486 Decatur Street Dynamic Properties Atlanta, GA 30312 404-577-7721 Please e-mail us @ lildemonartcompany@gmail.com
Our friends, It’s Elephant’s, are playing along with Fox Trotsky, Baak Gwai, and The Long Shadows tonight at 141 Moreland Ave. The show is all ages, costs nothing, and starts at nine. See you there, fuckers.
For more info, send a text message to Brent Jay at 404 358 6159; it will make him happy.
Here are some directions:
141 Moreland Ave. (Atlanta)
770 337 4847
141 Moreland Ave. SE, Atlanta, GA
Take I-20 east from 75/85 to second Moreland Ave. exit (60B). The house is half a mile down on the left; please park in the empty lot next door. It is exactly 1 mile south from Little 5 Points.
One the date above, universal legend and super hot beach comber, Zach Hinkle will bring his band Cherokee back home to Athens Ga. This particular band, at the end of its post New York city move, Athens Reign of gold was made up of most of It’s Elephant’s as the backing band. There is some sort of Temple of the Dog nod when it concerns the players of these two bands and various others. At this moment, we are not sure who will be playing but nonetheless if you are into good music and are not to much of a puss to drive to Athens, get into it.
For shits and giggles, here is the Temple of the Dog relation tree; to the best of my knowledge.
The Letters Organize Monroe Drive
Beget
The Letters Organize (dead rhythm machine)
The Letters Organize Another Broken Vehicle
Beget
Engineering Cherokee Black Volt
Beget
It’s Elephant’s
Beget
Murdock
Goodnight.
