…yeah, yeah, i know! hey, don’t blame me!

Seriously though, what gives???

The 3rd Annual Seattle Power Tool Race & Derby 2008 took place on Saturday (6-28). The event was part of Artopia in Georgetown. HazardFactory hosted the event. Their claim of faster tools, bigger air, more chaos, and more stupid (huh) turned out to be true. Check out the smashing and crashing that went down.

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Culturemob was proud to be a co-sponsor of the event!

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That’s right, you heard me. IFCT is giving away 6 pairs of free tickets to CultureMob readers.

The International Fest of Cinema and Technology will be screening a wide variety of foreign film shorts on the 4th of July weekend.

Where: Northwest Film Forum
Price: $6, $3 students
When: 12:30pm Sat 7.05.08 http://culturemob.com/events/121650
When: 2:00pm Sun 7.06.08 http://culturemob.com/events/121651

News this good bears repeating. IFCT is giving away 6 pairs of free tickets to CultureMob readers. These tickets are good for any of the screenings over the weekend. These passes will go to the first people who respond to admin@ifct.org. If you are one of the ticket winners, the festival will write you back with confirmation. Your free tickets will then be held for pickup at the festival reception area at the Northwest Film Forum. The films are highly unique, spanning various genres ranging from experimental to animation to sci-fi. Most of these shorts have never before been seen in the United States! This year the festival also takes place in Washington DC, Los Angeles, Melbourne, The Philippines and Florida. The Seattle fest will be taking place at the Northwest Film Forum 1515 12th Ave, July 5th and 6th. Check out the website at www.ifct.org/seattle.html

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Seattle based group “Manooghi Hi” perfoms in Fremont Sunday June 22nd at the Fremont Fair Rocket Stage 11:30am (event page) and at ToST 6pm (event page). Manooghi Hi welcomes back renowned Indian vocalist Mehnaz from Mumbai for summer performances to support their release of “Hi” beginning at the Fremont Fair.

Other members include: Mark Nichols, Todd Fogelsonger, Jimmy Thomas, John Hollis and Ava Chakravarti. I talked to the band about their upcoming shows and other news. Then I made a video of it here.

The band describes their music as an “ethnic mix of rock, pop, soul, and theatrical whimsy” which “Mehnaz’s clear, trilingual, rhythmic voice” creates “a sound that crosses many boundaries.” You can check out their music and get the latest about Manooghi Hi on their myspace page.

Manooghi Hi’s Fremont Fair event page and the ToST event page at culturemob.com

Head Like A Kite CD Release Party at Neumos June 26th for Free! Doors open at 8pm. So now that you know, you won’t want to miss it. Head Like A Kite just released their CD this Tuesday June 17th. The CD is called There Is Loud Laughter Everywhere (Mush) and it’s awesome.

We told you all about it a few days ago right here. We also told you we’d continue with the Culturemob exclusive interview with Dave Einmo of HLAK. So here it is Mr Fox Mulder, the truth you’ve been looking for.

Now you know how Dave came up with the name Head Like A Kite. A special shout out to the drummer Trent Moorman.

Speaking of the CD release party, special guests will include:

Smoosh
Foscil
DJ set by Glue
DJ set by Graig Markel of The Animals At Night
& MC Troy Nelson

Motorik plays live at the Blue Moon Tavern this Friday 6/20/08 for Free. They’re joined by Holy Name Dropouts and 3-Way Switch. Click here for more details.

I’ve seen this band at Skylark, Sunset Tavern and even the Nectar Lounge. It don’t matter where they play cuz they always bring the heat.

Motorik is a term coined by music journalists to describe the 4/4 beat often used by some so-called “Krautrock” bands such as Neu! and Kraftwerk (promoting the official CD release of Neu!’s back-catalogue, Klaus Dinger stated he called it the “Apache beat”).[1] The word “Motorik” means “motor skill” in German. - wikipedia

catch motorik at the blue moon tavern

I finally saw the Incredible Hulk and it was a smash. I mean that literally. Mr. Green got all up in the evil hulk-like monsters face and mixed it up old school style. The Hulk came to theaters everywhere to kick ass and chew bubble-gum. And he was all out of bubble-gum.

Ed Norton (aka Ali) vs. Tim Roth (aka Foreman) with William Hurt as the unlikely Don King. Throw in the extremely talented Liv Tyler and you have yourself a remake of the “Rumble in the Jungle”

A classic comic book story!

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Seattle band Head Like A Kite will release their CD titled “There Is Loud Laughter Everywhere” June 17th (tomorrow).

I met with Dave Einmo from the band to talk about the release, his music cohort Trent and how they got the name Head Like A Kite.

Tune in later this week where I’ll follow up with the full length interview.
Here’s a teaser of our conversation:

Head Like a Kite is hosting a CD Release party at Neumos on Thursday June 26th. Dig this, the show is FREE!!!
Doors open at 8pm.

See event details at Culturemob.

The line up includes:
Head Like A Kite
Smoosh
Foscil
Glue
The Animals At Night
MC Troy Nelson (KEXP)

I found out that the Twitterrific application is coming to the iPhone. This is gonna change the way you or your friends or your kids communicate forever. Twitter is the product of Iconfactory, which won an Apple Design Award by the way. The Twitter concept is fairly new to me, but I ain’t that savvy. Twitter is the creation of the people from the offices of Obvious. Twitter is a way to transfer information in real time. Like I tend to twitter about the stuff I’m doing. People who “follow” me can receive a news feed about that. Endless usage really. Twitterrific is an app that connects you to twitter. You can post “tweets” and connect to others via phone internet…whatever. I’m not aware of a PC app for this but I know it’s available for Mac users.

Now it has an interface on iPhone too? Triumph or Tragedy right? America and perhaps other parts of the globe, loves to tell people what they’re doing. It’s a fundamental shift I tell ya! Have you noticed that when the smoking ban was initiated a few years back; smart phones and texting skyrocketed? Hey, I’m just sayin’!

This morning I read an article about Twitterrific on Macworld written by Dan Moren. Dan breaks down his thoughts about the pros and cons of this application.
http://www.macworld.com/article/133968/2008/06/iphone_twitterrifc.html

It was an informative article and it seems to me that we are about to witness a major shift in behavior.

Culturemob now has a Twitter, AIM and MSN account for you to send us your feedback. My colleague Brummel wrote a blog about it.

When I first started to listen to the Molly Shannon Molly Shannon CD You Think Yr The Doctor, I Think I’m The Sheriff (Fir Traders Union), I had quickly summed this up as a creative artsy collection of songs. After listening the the entire works, I realized it was not that simple.

Photo by Kyle M. Peterson

For example, I can hear a multitude of influences (Modest Mouse, Sage, Rebecca Moore, the late Jeff Buckley, Peter Gabriel…etc). Yet they remain uniquely original in their delivery. So far my favorite track is Alice Liddell. The cello towards the end transforms the dynamics of this track to something you only hear in dreams. The album is a mixture of ambiance, roots, folk, soundtrack. It’s well thought out and tastefully done. The vocal styles vary throughout the music which makes it very interesting to listen too. On Emilie du Chatelet, I was reminded of Jeff Buckley (as previously mentioned). This too was pulled off respectfully.

Molly Shannon Molly Shannon isn’t trying to full anyone with this album. There are no gimmicks or killer hooks to speak of. What you get is a chance to look inside the creative engine of two seemingly creative artists. They push you and pull you in all sorts of directions. It sounds like theme songs to the most amazing dream you ever had in your life. This was my first time hearing MSMS. It won’t be my last! Release info for the CD is vague so you’ll have to do your own research.

There was a rumor that MSMS had a myspace music page but when I went to myspace.com/mollyshannonmollyshannon there was nothing there. To find out more about them, you should go to mollyshannonmollyshannon.com…um…well, going there will tell you more about MSMS so be prepared. Hey, I think they’re damn fun! Just like cats.

I tend to talk about artists that have an event coming up in the city. As it turns out, I have no information on any upcoming events. So instead, i thought I’d point you to the latest movie by their namesake Molly Shannon at Culutremob.com. Turns out Molly Shannon hasn’t released a film this year yet. Dang!

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