Enter Funny Button for a night of reuniting and ritual!

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/ Horsetail /

Lori Goldston (of Lori Goldston) is joined by fellow musician and friend, Jaison Scott, to help educate in what black metal really is. Lou Reed & Metallica are enveloped and forever trapped in the harshest marshmallow peeps.

[http://www.lorigoldston.com/]

/ Mega Bog /

Returning from an extended west coast / southwest tour of the US with what? We don't now. Mystery, magic, marshmallow peeps.

[http://megabog.com/]

/ Scorpio Scorpio Scorpio /

Corey J. Brewer pushes his multi-genre crooning beyond our limits of comprehension and further into the void of darkness. Soul-screaming marshmallow peeps. 

[http://scorpioscorpioscorpio.bandcamp.com/]

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$5

4543 8th Ave NE, U-district

Treats will be served.

MARCH 1, THURSDAY AT 7PM
Sex+Money: A National Search for Human Worth
(Joel Angyal, 2011, USA, DVD, 92 min)
This is a documentary about domestic sex trafficking of minors and the modern-day abolitionist movement fighting to stop it. Since September 2009, the filmmakers have traveled to over 30 states and conducted more than 75 interviews with federal agents, victims, politicians, activists, psychologists and porn-stars, among others.

www.nwfilmforum.org

MARCH 2–8, FRIDAY–THURSDAY AT 7, 9PM (PLUS SATURDAY AND SUNDAY AT 3 & 5PM)

Seattle Premiere!

Windfall

(Laura Israel, 2010, USA, 35mm, 81 min) The realities of modern rural life, energy production and the environmental movement clash in unexpected ways. This new documentary chronicles the upheaval visited on Meredith, New York, when an industrial wind farm takes up residence. Filmmaker Laura Israel, a part-time Meredith resident, interviewed locals on both sides of the divided community: those who have turned their land over to the 400-foot-high turbines to offset falling agricultural profits, and those for whom the noise and aesthetic blight outweigh any positive impact on the local economy. Turns out it’s not easy being green.

NORTHWEST FILM FORUM PRESENTS

MARCH 5, MONDAY AT 7PM
Sponsored by Easy Street Records
Post-screening performance by Calvin Johnson!
Directors in attendance!
Have You Ever Had a Beard?
(Kathy Wolf and Pat Thomas, 2011, USA, DVD, 35 min)
Like a title weight bout, raucous music writer Chris Estey goes "toe to toe" with cagey music maverick Calvin Johnson about important subjects such as beards and other mysteries of life. Have You Ever Had a Beard? is a study in contrasts, comparing the lyric heavy songwriting of Calvin Johnson against the the ebullient music journalism of Chris Estey.  Meeting for the first time, both men perform at the Columbia City Theatre—a Seattle stage that’s played host to everyone from Bessie Smith to Jimi Hendrix since it's opening in 1910.

Standing at ground zero of a series of music movements that include Rriot Grrl and Grunge, singer/songwriter Calvin Johnson and his label K Records spawned a music scene unrivalled in the indie world. Both raconteur and sensitive artist, Calvin’s deep baritone booms across a generation of inspired vinyl.  However this film documents Calvin performing his new work, singing solo as he spits literary bop prosody in the form of three songs.  

In contrast, bearish Chris Estey, with his boisterous laughter and almost irrepressible need to be self-confessional, reads stories from his life, each memory spurred by a song on his favorite album, “Phil Ochs’ Greatest Hits.”  In parallel tangents, his life story unfurls from mobile homes to LA flops, all to the soundtrack of Ochs’ seminal album. Afterwards the two men compare notes, observations and platitudes about music, personal behavior and the experience of having facial hair, in what could be characterized as less an interview than a philosophical boxing match.

More info & tickets at nwfilmforum.org

MARCH 6–8, TUESDAY–THURSDAY AT 7, 9PM

Seattle Premiere!

Sponsored by Easy Street Records