Fine Line: June, 2008

Don’t fergetabout the Mount Righteous CD Release Paaaartaaay tonight at Rubber Gloves. Details below.

Artwork Courtesy of the Boy-Child

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I’m sure I’ll be adding to this, so check back.

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AllGood Cafe
Friday – Heartstring Stranglers – Find FineLineLive.com at this show!
Saturday – Jo Carol Pierce

Club Dada
Thursday – Salim Nourallah / The Cut*Off / The Felons
Friday – Hard Night’s Day / Kung Fu Girls
Saturday – Ryan Parker / A Valient Effort / Charlie Oxford / The Liking Strikes

Double Wide
Thursday – Telethon / The Rape Ape / Blixaboy
Friday – The Backsliders (CD Release) / Dragna (CD Release) / Binary Sunrise
Saturday – The Von Ehrics / Hit & Run

Red Blood Club
Sunday, June 8th
BBQ w/Truck Stop Junkies / Tennessee George & Wagontrash / Saddle Tramp / Caroline Danielsons
Booze – BBQ – Raffles – Door Prizes – General Hoopla
4 pm

Fallout Lounge
Thursday – Lost Generation w/Wanz Dover
Friday – The Fever w/DJ El Macho & DJ C MacPhie

Nasher Summer Garden Series
Saturday – Havana NRG

City Tavern
Friday – The Dirt Blazers / Homespun Remedies
Saturday – The Slack / Escort Service / Epitas (CD Release)

Opening Bell
Thursday – Jimmy Baldwin / Nancy Apple / Glenna Bell
Friday – Chris Holt / Molly Venter
Saturday – Elle / Tim Scott / April Geesbreght

The Loft
Thursday – Detroit Cobras
Saturday – Helio Sequence / Smile Smile / Calhoun

Poor David’s Pub
Friday – Joe Ely / Luke Rainwater
Saturday – Bob Schneider / Nathan Johnson

Lee Harvey’s
Thursday – DJ MC 900 Ft. Jesus
Friday – DJ Chikki G / Leo Hull
Saturday – DJ Sista Whitenoise / Truck Stop Junkies
Sunday – DJ EZ Eddie D

The Palladium
Thursday – Ladytron / Datarock

House of Blues
Thursday – Augustana / Wild Sweet Orange / Paddy Casey
Friday – The Fabulous Thunderbirds / Big Daddy Alright

Saturday, June 7th
House of Dang – and/or gallery

Show #17: – Cory Arcangel + Olia Lialina and Dragan Espenschied

June 7th – July 19th
Opening Reception June 7th, 6pm-9pm with all artists in attendance

Walk through with the artists at 7:30
Performance by Tree Wave and Farah at 8:00

Cory Arcangel is a computer artist, performer, and curator who lives and works in Brooklyn. His work centers on his love of personal computers and the internet. He is the co-founder for the Beige Programming Ensemble. Current interests include C.S.N.&Y., CSS, RSS, GCC, C++, HTML, XML, and TEX. His work has shown in the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, The Guggenheim Museum, New York, the Museum of Modern Art, New York, The Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, Musee d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Space 1026, Philly, the Migros Museum, Zurich, Team Gallery, New York, and Thaddaeus Ropac Gallery, Paris/Salzburg and on his homepage.

Based in Stuttgart, Germany, artists Olia Lialina and Dragan Espenschied are inspired by the messages, animation, and changing iconography of the internet. In their recent exhibition Online Newspapers in Madison Square Park, the artists displayed digital reproductions of online newspapers covered with now technologically out-dated web graphics and animation. The Internet is a vast network of both the symbolic and banal; Lialina and Dragan examine the language of the public domain, its evolution and aesthetics. A pioneer of net art, Olia Lialina has lectured, curated and exhibited around the world, she currently teaches at Merz Akademie in Stuttgart. Dragan Espenschied is an artist, musician, and programmer who won the 2001 Media Award from Zentrum f�r Kunst und Medien in Karlsruhe. Both artists have given lectures and exhibited their work at galleries and museums including, ABC Gallery, Moscow; Sonar, Barcelona; VertexList gallery, New York; RX gallery, San Francisco; SECESSION, Austria; and the New Museum, New York

The Cavern
Thursday – Fancy Fist / Elle Laporte / Lalagray – ZOO: The Video DJ Upstairs
Friday – Alpha Rev / Sounds Under the Radio / The Soldier Thread
Saturday – Deadman / Flat People / Collin Herring
Sunday – Ricki Derek

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Steven Collins has endured a lot of personal pain these past couple of years. His life, and his music, have taken many winding roads that led to a move to Austin, numerous new songs and a whole new band. Regardless of the changes, one thing remains the same—Steve is an amazing singer/songwriter/performer.

Saturday, June 7th
The Cavern
Deadman / Flat People / Collin Herring
SPLENDID Show!
Doors at 9 pm – $6.00 – 21+

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Zubar
Friday – DJ Select
Saturday – One (Electronic Filled Eve)

Granada Theater
Friday – The Vanished / Darby / Mother’s Anthem / We Heart the Violence
Saturday – Rocky Athas / Lightning & Nitzinger / Randy Pavlock (What you have here is some good ol’ real rock’n'roll)

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SPCA of Texas Pet Flix Film Festival

Unique and one-of-a-kind, the SPCA of Texas� Pet Flix Film Festival is an exciting and entertaining event that focuses on making our furry friends famous! What started out as a small film festival has now turned into a well-recognized community event, drawing pet and film enthusiasts from across Texas and surrounding states as well as filmmakers from California and New York. Films entered into the festival showcase animals of all types and consist of a wide variety of genres including dramas, mysteries, parodies, music videos and comedies, to name a few. The finalists� films will be shown at the festival and prizes will be presented to the top three winners as chosen by celebrity judges.

The first and only humane organization that hosts this type of event, The SPCA of Texas is one of the country�s largest humane organizations that provides services for more than 30,000 homeless and abused animals each year and provides citizens of the Dallas Metroplex with low-cost veterinarian services. All event proceeds will benefit the programs and services of the SPCA. For more information on Pet Flix, visit www.petflix.org.

Sunday, June 8th
Granada Theater
Doors at 5 pm – $10.00

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Lakewood Bar & Grill
Thursday – Sparrowbox / Aton / Champa
Friday – John Priest / Southbound Lane / Darryl Lee Rush

Barley House
Friday – Zapruder Sequence
Saturday – The Slow Burners / Sunday Drive
Sunday – The Sunday Night Drinking Club w/Dave Little / Chris Holt / Danny Balis and more

Update! – White Rock Coffee
Friday – Darren Furr (Anden)
Saturday – Michael Earhart

Love & War (Plano)
Thursday – Sisters Morales
Friday – Jason Carrell
Saturday – Owen Temple
Sunday – Shiner Sunday w/Rusty Wier / Randy Hopper

Obzeet
Thursday – Colin Boyd

Hank’s
Thursday – Aaron Watson

Love & War (Grapevine)
Friday – Brian “the Beerman” Houser

Summer kicks off Texas-style this weekend with a blow-out pool party with Larry Joe Taylor.

Tonight, Thursday, June 5th
Austin Ranch Pool Party
Performing: Larry Joe Taylor
8 pm – $10.00
Happy Hour & Appetizers 7:30
Beach Attire!
Austin Ranch
Silverlake Saloon (Red Awning)
Grapevine, Texas 75065

Andy’s
Friday – We Are Villians / RTB2 / White Walls

Art Six Coffee House
Thursday – Tim Miller

Dan’s Silverleaf
Thursday – Clint Strong
Friday – Stumptone
Saturday Matthew & the Arrogant Sea / Florene / Daniel Folmer
Sunday – 3 on Sunday – Born for Hard Luck” (a short profile of Arthur “Peg Leg Sam” Jackson), Target Video’s 1977 live footage of LA punk band The Screamers, and a compilation of early Black Sabbath live performances – Free
Monday – Paul Slavens

Hailey’s
Friday – Singer / History at our Disposal / Zest of Yore
Saturday – Unwed Sailor / Sybris / The Demigs
Sunday – DJ Wild in the Streets / The Broken Letters / Dust Congress

Oh that’s the way, uh-huh uh-huh I like it….uh-huh, uh-huh

Some of my other favorite Denton kiddies, Mount Righteous, finished-up When the Music Starts with John Congelton at the helm and all the M.R. kids writin’ and performin’. To celebrate, a party at Rubber Gloves was a no-brainer.

Check it:

Friday, June 6th
Rubber Gloves
Mount Righteous CD Release / Fishboy / Death! to the Doom Riders
Doors at 9 pm – $6- $8

Rubber Gloves
Thursday – Homegrown Thursdays – Pet Hospital / Orange Peel Sunshine / The Faith
Friday – Mount Righteous CD Release / Fishboy / Death! to Doom Riders
Saturday – The Destro / The Ocean / Lair of the Minotaur

8.0
Thursday – Tejas Brothers / The Derailers

1919 Hemphill
Saturday – Zanzibar Snails / The Great Tyrant / Mistress / Nouns Group

The Aardvark
Thursday – Television City / Hollow Eye / American Aquarium / Nicholas Altobelli
Saturday – The Drams / Telegraph Canyon / Calhoun

The Fairmount
Saturday – Austin Collins / Macon Greyson / Brian Wright / Sally Jaye

Fred’s
Thursday – Hank Hankshaw
Friday – Champa
Sunday – Magee Payne / Kurt South

Lola’s
Friday – Dax Riggs / John Barrett’s Bass Drum of Death
Sunday – Addnerim / Sweetooth / Four Days to Burn – BBQ – Gore Gore Girls Showing – Dave Karnes later on

The Moon Bar
Friday – Jason Davis / Seed
Saturday – Stoogeaphilia / Unizen / Great American Novel

Scat Lounge
Thursday – Johnny Reno
Friday – Rosana Eckert
Saturday – Carla Norris-Hopkins Jazz Quartet

White Elephant
Thursday – Luke Olson
Friday – Johnny Solinger
Saturday – Terry Rasor – 2 pm
Sunday – Casey Thompson / Greg Reichel / Travis Linville

Woody’s Tavern
Friday – Joey Green / 3 Rivers Alice
Saturday – Walt Wilkins / Eliza Gibson

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In-Stores

Bill’s Records
Saturday – Lara Lenhoff / Wicked Brew / Christian Ross – 2:30 pm – Free

Good Records
Thursday – Wild Sweet Orange – 6 pm – Free CANCELED (thanks Jeff!)

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Radio…

Friday

89.3 KNON – Rocket Radio – “underground electronic and dark music from the North Texas area and around the world”
Midnight ’til 4 am

Saturday

KTCU 88.7 – Radio Sputnik
Tune in at noon!

89.3 KNON – The Dungeon – hard rock, punk, metal and lots from our local unsigned bands
Midnight ’til 4 am

Sunday

The Local Show on KDGE 102.1 The Edge with the always hot ‘n hunky Chris Ryan – Tune in at 9:00 PM

The Front Porch on 99.5 The Wolf with the better ‘n buttah Justin Frazell – 6:00 PM

The Good Show on KTCU – 88.7 FM with my fave 3 2 stooges Tom U. Tony Diaz – starts at 9:00 PM.

90.1 at Night with my mentor Paul Slavens – 8-10 PM

Uncut with DJ Steve Nice – The absolute best in local Rap/Hip-hop/R&B 11 PM – K104 FM

89.3 KNON – Pagan Holiday- Open playlist, call in your requests! Lots of Indi and local rock.
Midnight ’til 4 am

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Artsy-Fartsy

I’m going to defer to my dear friend over at the Sub-Rosa for all your art-going needs. The chick knows her sh*t. Use her site often.

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Ed. Note: Check out the spankin’ new Deep Ellum Media site. Lots of cool stuff a’comin’ over there.

Guest speaker begins at 9 p.m. at Space – Live Webcast Here on The Fine Line.
“The power of serving others in your community through the arts.”

Part of the First Tuesday Speaker Series, Deep Ellum invites locals making a difference in the neighborhood to come and talk to us about experiences, history and current projects. Past guests have included Jeff Liles, Alex Bevil from Town2 Project with Brian Gibb from The Public Trust, The Dallas Police Department, Katherine Seale of Preservation Dallas, and Barry Annino with representatives of Deep Ellum Foundation.

This time we will have Hal Samples of Hal Samples Gallery and Space Studios. This should be a great night of not only art appreciation but also civic and community issues.
This should be an exciting event and all are invited to arrive early for a sample of what Space Studios offers the neighborhood.

At 6:30 we’ll gather for a yoga session (a donation to the instructor is requested and just so you know… I hear it’s beginner friendly which is great because the last time I tried to touch my toes was high-school gym class and yes I’ll be there)

And then at 8 p.m. we’ll have a little meditation session just to cool off before the speaker series starts up.

Next Meeting

6/10 July Alley
6/17 Sons of Hermann Hall (Crime Watch with DPD)
6/24 Monica’s (Suzanne to confirm)
7/1 Prophet Bar with guest speaker Russell Hobbs
7/8 St Pete’s (Kevin to confirm)
7/15 Crime watch meeting at Reno’s Chop Shop

Stuff happening out & about:

June 5 The Restarts at Red Blood Club
June 6 Backsliders and Dragna CD Release party at Double Wide
June 6 Nightmare of You at Prophet Bar
June 7 Studio Fling Goes Green Show
June 7 Dallas Historical Society presents Picnic in the Park in Fair Park
June 7 Preservation Dallas presents the Downtown Tour
June 7 Life in Deep Ellum – Wishful Wings Foundation benefit
June 11 Riddle of Steel at Double Wide
June 13 Frog Eyes at Club Dada
June 13 Lovie Beach Party at Space Studio
June 14 Pluto is Not a Planet a group show at Hal Samples Gallery
June 14 Cathey Miller solo exhibit at Kettle Art
June 20 The Fleshtones at Double Wide
June 20 The Art of Skateboarding at Southside & Lamar
June 21 Times New Vikings at Club Dada
June 26 Local Heart Show at Prophet Bar
June 27 Town hall with the Mayor at Sons of Hermann Hall
June 27 Jim Suhler at All Good Cafe
June 28 Doug Burr and Kristy Kruger at All Good Cafe

events chosen due to impact on neighborhood, national touring artists, involvement with DEEP and DEA and those events which support humanitarian, social, environmental and charitable interests)
News in Deep Ellum:

taken from Tiffany’s posts on SaveDeepEllum.org “Deep Ellum was highlighted on Channel 8 for ranking once again in the Preservation Dallas 2008 Most Endangered Historic Places. Big thanks to Katherine Seale for speaking on behalf of Deep Ellum and the history of the Knights of the Pythias Landmark on Elm.
See the news spot here.

Art on the Green Line at Deep Ellum Finally some news on the large scale art project planned for the Deep Ellum Dart Rail Station. Congrats to Reel FX and many thanks for keeping art in Ellum! See more on the project at Unfair Park, click here.

Also at the Baylor Dart Station: Artist Karen Blesson has created windscreen collages honoring Deep Ellum history and the local neighborhood arts. more”

So the girl-child has a birthday coming up next month and all she’s talked about for like the last 5 years is how much she wants a Pug.

Since she’s moving into her first apartment this weekend, which has me feeling a little nervous and weepy, I gave in to her incessant pleas and her wish has been granted.

We are still working on a firm name. He’s this teeny-tiny puppy with a gargantuan belly. Therefore, I immediately dubbed him “Mister McFatty.” The girl-child was leaning towards Milton, which complements my name, “Mister Milton McFatty.”

It’s been “Gus-Gus” the past 10 hours or so, named after that lovable big-bellied mouse in Cinderella. It seems to be sticking….oh…and it’s been a real joy picking up about 2-tons of puppy-poo, found in every nook and cranny of this Austin hotel room…sigh…how the hell does this little guy generate so much poop? No wonder that belly is so bloated.