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Volume 23, Issue Number 10 November 6–12, 2013

STUDY GUIDE

Questions

for The Stranger, Volume 23, Issue 10

1. The news section in this week’s Stranger was published late in the evening on Election Day, after the first wave of results came in and well after the usual printer’s deadline. This means that the few stories in the paper that deal directly with election results were published without the usual careful copyediting to which most Stranger pieces—believe it or not—are subjected. How many errors can you find in the news section this week? How many of them are typographical? How many are the usual profound errors in judgment?

2a. Compare the election results with The Stranger’s endorsements. Did any of The Stranger’s favored candidates or causes survive the election?

2b. Why or why not?

2c. On a scale of irrelevant to barely relevant, where do you believe The Stranger stands in post-election Seattle?

3. Speaking of irrelevance, CIENNA MADRID and PAUL CONSTANT expend hundreds of words in a tedious review of a Katy Perry album that other outlets reviewed weeks ago. On a lined piece of notebook paper, please list every Seattle band that could have benefited from the exposure that this two-page masturbatory “humorous” review squandered. Now ask one of the musicians you listed how they feel about this review. How many expletives did s/he utter in a single breath? Too many? Not enough?

4. Meanwhile, MATT FIKSE-VERKERK and BRENDAN KILEY contribute a feature story explaining a new surveillance program from the Seattle Police Department that could potentially track every person in the downtown Seattle area via their cellular phone. This “wireless mesh network” seems to be plagiarized directly from Christopher Nolan’s 2008 film The Dark Knight. Now that Seattleites have been informed that the Seattle Police Department may have designs on spying on everyone in the area, do you believe anyone will care? Why or why not?

5. Which piece do you believe to be more outrageous: the surveillance report referred to in item 4, or the I, Anonymous written by a Seattleite who serves his or her foodie friends marked-down food from the discount sections of grocery stores? If you chose the latter, how does it feel being a frivolous millennial with no sense of civic responsibility? Make one case for your continued existence, if you can.

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LAST DAYS

The Week in Review

BY

DAVID SCHMADER

MONDAY, OCTOBER 28 This week of ambitious smuggling, legal whiplash, and the news-making smell of cat pee kicks off with an awful scene in Seattle, where just after 6 a.m. on Capitol Hill, a man was found dead in the street after being run over by a Metro bus The location: Pine Street between 11th and 12th, mere feet from the police precinct. The man in the street: 23-year-old Peter Cooper. “The determination of the cause and manner of Cooper’s death is pending further investigation,” the Seattle Times will report. “Seattle police are investigating the possibility that Cooper, who was found dead after being hit by a bus on Capitol Hill, may have been down in the street before the bus got there.”

•• Meanwhile in Texas: Filibustering prochoice senator Wendy Davis and many other Lone Star feminists rejoiced as a federal judge ruled that the new abortion restrictions passed by the Texas legislature are unconstitutional and halted implementation of the law, which would’ve banned abortions after 20 weeks of pregnancy and forced a third of the state’s abortion providers to close. “District Judge Lee Yeakel wrote that the regulations violated the rights of abortion doctors to do what they think is best for their patients and would unreasonably restrict a woman’s access to abortion clinics,” reports the Associated Press. However, state attorney general Greg Abbott, a conservative with designs on the gubernatorial mansion, “was expected to file an emergency appeal of Yeakel’s order to the

CONSIDER THE CUT-RATE OYSTER

I can’t afford all these fancy places that are moving into my neighborhood. I also can’t afford to buy organic all that often, and when I have a nice group of people over to eat food that didn’t cost me all that much because I can shop the markdown or 50-percent-off sections, I just hope they don’t get all mad because it’s not grass-fed, glutenfree, non-phthalate, or non-PBA, or whatever else it’s supposed to be in my middle-class subset. The thing is, you can’t afford any of that stuff either— while you’ve been Instagramming your braised lamb cheek and sweet-potatoand-shaved-fennel croquettes and telling me (for the 16th fucking time) that I need to go to Mamnoon, right after I told you I have $500 in student loan bills to pay back each month, your rent just went up. I’m all for great food, but for once, can we just go to Pho Bac on Rainier instead?

Anonymous

5th Circuit Court of Appeals in New Orleans.” (He’ll get to it tomorrow.)

Ask Rand Paul

TUESDAY, OCTOBER 29 The week continues in Estill Springs, Tennessee, where today a 65-year-old man is free on a $125,000 bond after allegedly firing his shotgun at teens who were toilet-papering a neighbor’s yard. Details come from the Times Free Press, which reports the blessedly nonfatal hubbub went down on the evening of October 20, when a group of teens decided to toilet-paper the lawn of Huntland High School principal Ken Bishop. It was all fun and games until the shenanigans caught the eye of Dale Bryant Farris, a 65-year-old neighbor of Principal Bishop, who allegedly grabbed his shotgun and began shooting at the teens, one of whom was hit in the foot, knee, hand, thigh, and torso. “He got peppered pretty good,” said Franklin County Sheriff’s Office spokesman Sergeant Chris Guess of the 15-year-old victim. “The problem is they were not on his [Farris’s] property and they were not doing anything to his property.” Farris faces charges of aggravated assault and reckless endangerment; the principal declined to press charges against the teens.

Dear Rand Paul, I recently purchased a home, and I am looking to improve it. Any ideas?

Janice, Fremont

Dear Janice,

Thanks for writing, happy to help. Home improvement is the process of renovating or making additions to one’s home. Building materials and hardware for home improvement projects are typically purchased at home improvement stores.

Dear Rand Paul, Washington, DC, is quite a leap from Kentucky. What do you miss most about your home state?

Dear Omar,

WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 30 In lighter news, the week continues in the nostrils of a bunch of Dell computer users, who were shocked to discover that their Latitude 6430u Ultrabooks came preloaded with the smell of cat pee. “Customers first raised the issue with Dell’s high-end business laptop in June,” reports the BBC, citing the number of users who initially blamed their cats . “In September, a customer known as Malioz raised a concern that the cause of the problem could be to do with the polymer used in the laptop plastics, and asked whether chemicals causing the smell could be a health hazard.” After investigating the claims, Dell announced the smell was neither a biological contaminant nor detrimental to users’ health, but simply a problem in the manufacturing process (that, to confirm, involves no cats). “If you order an E6430u now, it will not have the issue,” said Dell support technician SteveB, adding that owners of existing cat-piss computers should send their laptops in for replacement palm rests.

THURSDAY, OCTOBER 31 The week continues with Halloween, which Last Days will ignore in favor of two stories of ambitious alleged drug smuggling. Story number one comes from 35 feet beneath the US/Mexico border in California, where DEA agents found “one of the most sophisticated underground drug smuggling passageways ever discovered, complete with electricity, ventilation and an electronic rail system,” reports the New York Times . “The tunnel, which was shut down Wednesday night after several weeks of surveillance, took about a year to build, the authorities said. Three people were taken into

Omar, West Seattle

Thanks for writing, happy to help. Kentucky is known as the “Bluegrass State,” a nickname based on the bluegrass found in many of its pastures because of the fertile soil. Kentucky is also home to the highest per capita number of deer and turkey in the United States, the largest free-ranging

elk herd east of the Mississippi River, and the nation’s most productive coalfield. Kentucky is also known for horse racing, bourbon distilleries, automobile manufacturing, tobacco, bluegrass music, and college basketball.

Dear Rand Paul, Your answers appear to be plagiarized wholesale from Wikipedia. What’s up? Jason, Ballard

Dear Jason,

Thanks for writing, happy to help. Wikipedia is a registered trademark of the not-for-profit Wikimedia Foundation, which has created a family of freecontent projects that are built by user contributions. Most of Wikipedia’s text and many of its images are dual-licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Sharealike 3.0 Unported License (CC-BY-SA) and the GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL). Contributions remain the property of their creators, while the CC-BY-SA and GFDL licenses ensure the content is freely distributable and reproducible.

custody, and federal agents seized eight tons of marijuana and 325 pounds of cocaine they said was connected to the investigation.” Meanwhile in Canada, a woman was arrested today at Montreal’s Trudeau International Airport, after a scan of her luggage revealed three pumpkins stuffed with what the Canadian Border Services Agency believes to be nearly two kilograms of cocaine.

•• Meanwhile in Texas, Senator Wendy Davis and many other Lone Star feminists gaped in horror as “three days after a federal judge blocked a new Texas law that threatened to shut down many of the state’s abortion clinics, the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit, in New Orleans, reversed the decision, saying the rule should take effect while the case is argued in the months to come,” as the New York Times reports. “With Thursday’s ruling by the Fifth Circuit, it appeared likely that the issue will eventually be decided by the Supreme Court, part of the continuing battles over how much states may restrict the right to abortion granted by Roe v. Wade in 1973.”

FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 1 The week continues in California, where this morning a man took his semiautomatic rifle to Los Angeles International Airport and started shooting—killing a Transportation Security

Administration employee, wounding two other people, and freaking out thousands. The suspected gunman: 23-year-old Paul Ciancia, who was taken into custody after being pursued and shot by the Los Angeles Airport Police. “Ciancia wrote in a signed note he carried with him to the airport that he targeted TSA officials and ‘made the conscious decision to try to kill’ because he wanted to ‘instill fear in your traitorous minds,’ according to a federal affidavit outlining the charges against him,” reports ABC News. Charged with the murder of a federal officer and commission of violence at an international airport, Ciancia could be subject to the death penalty. Stay tuned.

SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 2 Nothing happened today, unless you count the midair collision of two small planes over Superior, Wisconsin. Silver lining: The planes were full of skydivers, all nine of whom extricated themselves from the wreckage and parachuted safely to the ground. (Both pilots made it out alive, too.)

SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 3 Nothing happened today, unless you count the attempted blowjob at HUMP!, The Stranger’s annual amateur porn fest, which you can read about in Loose Lips on page 27. HUMP! continues this weekend at On the Boards.

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Why McGinn Lost

The Empire Struck Back, but the Rebels Also Put Up a Shitty Fight

BY DOMINIC HOLDEN

Only 43 percent of voters had picked Mike McGinn as of election night, officially making the “most progressive mayor in America” a one-term phenomenon. That may be surprising to

outsiders. Since McGinn took the reins of city hall in 2009, deep in the pit of the recession, crime has dropped significantly, workers have filled potholes speedily, and downtown has boomed, while the unemployment rate dropped well below the state average.

But locals saw McGinn stumble—and even face-plant on his own key issues.

As of election night, state senator Ed Murray became the mayor-elect with 56 percent of voters, a horde of endorsements, and enough money on his side to outspend McGinn by more than 50 percent.

While Murray used that wide cast of supporters to demonstrate that he could unify Seattle, he hammered on McGinn’s acrimonious style and ineffective leadership.

Four years ago, McGinn had run on the promise to put a light-rail extension on the ballot within two years, stay clear of the controversial deep-bore tunnel, bring bicycling inside the mainstream, and make Seattle more equitable for people of color and the poor. Instead? Light rail never materialized in any election. He unsuccessfully fought the tunnel anyway, to his detriment, while, even more detrimentally, he failed to present a viable transportation alternative. And bicycle lanes, ironically, became a whipping boy for all the city’s traffic frustrations. Worst of all, McGinn stood by haplessly with a lame police chief while Seattle Police Department officers punched, kicked, shot, and killed racial minorities. Once the US Department of Justice forced the city into a court settlement to fix SPD, McGinn’s fate seemed sealed.

McGinn became toxic even to much of his base, which could neither defend his missteps nor cite many concrete accomplishments.

Election Night Winners and Losers!

BY

WINNERS

• Kshama Sawant. At press time, the Socialist Alternative candidate was losing to Seattle City Council incumbent Richard Conlin 46 to 54. Sawant may have fallen short of winning a cushy leather seat at the city council dais, but there’s no question that she framed the public debate. For all the hype over her socialist label, Sawant’s greatest strength was her focus on policy, putting forth a specific lefty agenda that helped her build momentum among union members and even some Democrats—two denominations that normally vote en bloc for whomever their overlords recommend. She

Lacking a list of big victories, McGinn and his supporters couldn’t change the conversation from his style back to policy. In the end, this mayor’s race was about style—about whether or not people liked McGinn. And they didn’t like him.

McGinn was the poster boy of a leftist insurgency against the conventional power brokers at city hall. The Seattle Metropolitan Chamber of Commerce and the Downtown Seattle Association, whose memberships serve as a roster of centrist business interests, backed his opponents four years ago. They lost access to city hall.

In nerdy parlance, the empire came to strike back this year. Indeed, Murray’s staff was the same crew who worked for former mayor Greg Nickels, and Murray’s donors, too, looked like an invitation list to a cocktail party of Seattle’s old gentry.

There is zero doubt that the conservative wing of the city council, the Seattle Times, and downtown business lobbies attempted to sabotage McGinn’s term from the outset. For example, council members froze his transit plan (a direct attempt to stop lightrail planning). But McGinn also sabotaged himself. For instance, one of his first acts as mayor was a hastily called press conference in which he hopped off his bicycle and announced a multimillion-dollar ballot measure to fund a seawall replacement. Had he consulted council members? No. Was his estimated cost of the seawall correct? No. Was this how to work with your new colleagues? D’oh.

Fair or not, it is always a mayor’s job to pick the lock of those relationships. Instead, he slammed the door.

protested with striking fast-food workers. She waved signs with picketing taxi drivers. She got arrested while protesting bank foreclosures in South Park. In focusing on platforms instead of platitudes, she also managed to inject her primary cause—a citywide $15 minimum wage—into the mayor’s race. In the end, Conlin out-fundraised Sawant two-to-one. He also had 16 years of name recognition to go on. But 46 percent of the vote is an amazing number for a fucking socialist. If you think this is the last you’ve heard from Kshama Sawant, then you haven’t been paying attention.

• Minimum-wage workers. SeaTac’s $15 minimum wage initiative won with 54 percent of the vote, changing the political conversation in Washington and all but guaranteeing a higher-than-state minimum wage will soon come to Seattle.

• Districts. By nearly a two-thirds majority, according to election night results, voters passed a measure that requires the city council to be

McGinn even botched obvious alliances. Seattle City Attorney Pete Holmes, who used to sit on the city’s police discipline oversight panel, wasn’t even invited to the mayor’s press conference announcing a sweeping police reform plan. McGinn ignored Holmes’s advice on a new police monitor. Holmes endorsed Murray.

But as much as McGinn lost, Murray won. He brought grassroots enthusiasm as the leader on gay marriage in the state legislature, which gave him a warmth that softened his negative tactics. Murray made regular appeals to wealthy, conservative blocs for votes, and Murray’s campaign and independent PACs collectively spent more than $1 million. One PAC broke the law by hiding donations (they settled with election officials).

Murray used dog whistles to blast light rail and bicycle lane projects by calling them “unproductive wars between the various modes

elected by seven districts and two-at large seats.

• Mike O’Brien, the nicest, most liberal politician in Seattle, beat his block-headed challenger Albert Shen 64 to 35. Frankly, we’d be happy if O’Brien was running the whole goddamn city.

• Big media corporations, whose local TV stations raked in around $30 million in I-522 advertising alone! We should run a GMOlabeling initiative every year, if only to keep TV news journalists employed.

• Sue Peters, who was beating corporatefunded Suzanne Dale Estey 51 to 48 at press time, even though a rich-as-fuck outside PAC that put all its corporate-reform eggs in Suzanne Dale Estey’s basket ran a $100,000 dishonest smear campaign against Peters.

LOSERS

• Tim Eyman. With most counties reporting, the Make-It-Easier-for-Tim-Eyman-to-Run-

of transportation.” One Murray fundraiser was focused entirely on opposing bicycle lanes on Westlake, and Murray repeatedly claimed bicycle lanes were dangerous.

Even after polls showed Murray leading by 20 points, the kicks kept coming. Murray’s backers ran deeply deceptive smear pieces; one commercial claimed McGinn ignored domestic violence when he actually increased DV funding, and another suggested McGinn was behind “top down” economic philosophy. Murray was relentless about blaming McGinn for a downtown crime “crisis,” when crime is mostly down in downtown. It was the sort of framing that showed the Murray team would play as dirty as necessary to win. Murray never laid out a unique vision for the city, but with McGinn fumbling, he never had to. And he may have fought hard enough in this campaign that he’s already scared off any serious challengers in the future.

Initiatives Initiative 517 was soundly rejected by a 60 to 40 point margin.

• Mainstream campaign polling, because McGinn would’ve lost by a cavernously huge margin if the last handful of nearly identical polls—some showed him losing by more than 20 points—were any reasonable measure of the electorate. Instead he lost against state senator Ed Murray by 13 points.

• Seattle poors, who lost out on public campaign financing (it failed 46 to 54 percent), which would’ve helped dispel the influence of big money in local elections. Maybe if all of us poors learned to work harder—thereby earning more money—we could buy political influence like real Americans!

• The Stranger Election Control Board, which lost virtually every race we gave a shit about. That’s it—we’re all going into investment banking so that we can actually have some say in these money-soaked elections.

SOURCES SAY

• At an Ed-Murray-for-mayor press conference held the day before the general election, former city council member Peter Steinbrueck claimed that Seattle is suffering a public safety “crisis epidemic” of “crisis proportions” on Mayor Mike McGinn’s watch. But that’s absolutely false. The K3 police beat in which Steinbrueck stood, Pioneer Square, has seen a 24 percent drop in major crimes compared to this time last year. In the adjacent K2 beat, in the International District, those crimes have dropped 27 percent since this time last year. Violent crime is down by one-third in Belltown during McGinn’s term in office. And citywide, crime is at a 35-year low. In the two beats downtown where crime is up this year, it’s up far less than crime is down in other parts of downtown (one beat is up 16 percent and the other 1 percent). The net crime rate across downtown is down, down, down. Seems like Steinbrueck is more interested in fearmongering than facts

• Proving that even the best of organizations can make poor choices (abort! Abort!), Planned Parenthood Votes Northwest—the state lobbying arm for the women’s reproductive rights group— hired a private firm to call 25,000 voters in Seattle and spent more than $19,000 this year, encouraging people to vote for state senator Ed Murray for mayor. The

Senator Plans Bill to Save Medical Pot

Will Fight Attempts to Gut Patients’ Rights

BY BEN LIVINGSTON

L

ast month, medical marijuana supporters were aghast when a legislative work group released its draft recommendation that the state repeal pot-growing rights for the sick and dying, slash possession limits, and force doctors to register cannabis patients in a state database. If enacted by the legislature, such a bill would all but eliminate Washington State’s voter-enacted medical cannabis law.

But Senator Jeanne Kohl-Welles (DQueen Anne), the state’s longest-serving pro-pot elected official, says patients need to speak up before the legislature meets in January, and a hearing the state is holding next week is critical to pushing back. “The liquor control board isn’t doing anything by rule,” she insists. “They’re not coming out with a bill.”

Kohl-Welles says she will likely introduce a bill that could explicitly protect the medical marijuana law, allow home growing by patients, and encourage recreational pot stores (the stores allowed by Initiative 502, which

problem? Mayor Mike McGinn also has a 100 percent pro-choice rating, and PP Votes NW has a track record of staying out of local races that don’t involve an antichoice candidate, rightly choosing instead to focus their time and energy tipping races in swing districts where a Democrat could help pass the Reproductive Parity Act and hold back GOP bills. While it’s understandable that the organization wants to return favors to Murray, who backed them up in the state legislature, actively campaigning against a pro-choice candidate damages trust in the group and raises doubts about the wisdom of how it spends limited resources

• Did you receive a phone call from America’s filthiest sex advice columnist last week? The Stranger’s Dan Savage recorded a robocall for Seattle City Council candidate Kshama Sawant that went out to thousands of Seattle voters. (So did Tim Harris, director of the homeless newspaper Real Change, and Washington State Labor Council vice president Nicole Grant.)

• Doubling down on her totally unsupported assertion that SeaTac’s $15-an-hour minimum wage initiative would “devastate” immigrant-owned businesses, Seattle Times editorial columnist Sharon Pian Chan highlighted the plight of James Shin, the owner of the Quality Inn SeaTac, on November 1. If the initiative passes, Pian Chan insisted, Shin will have to declare bankruptcy: “He’s done the math.” Except Pian Chan hadn’t done the math. With fewer than 30 employees, Shin’s hotel would actually be exempt from the initiative’s provisions. Oops.

passed last year) to sell marijuana grown specifically for medical purposes, such as lowTHC, high-CBD varieties. She says that her bill, which she expects can pass, will likely include language to “tighten up” regulations on health-care professionals who authorize medical cannabis—an issue many elected officials consider a loosey-goosey problem within the current medical marijuana industry.

It may also include a voluntary registry for patients who want to avoid the steep taxes on recreational cannabis. This could allay concerns that medical pot producers will

The liquor board wants to ban home growing.

unfairly compete with the new recreational system by selling untaxed, unregulated pot.

Kohl-Welles hopes to appease many factions in the often-divided medical cannabis community. Preparing people for the state hearing next week, she says, “It doesn’t help to just hurl insults. It’s helpful for people to provide constructive feedback.”

More than 400 people are expected to pack a public hearing on the proposal to gut the medical marijuana law. It is scheduled for Wednesday, November 13, at 6 p.m. at Worthington Center, 5300 Pacific Avenue in Olympia.

The Four Horsemen of the Buspocalypse

If Metro Is Forced to Cut

645,000 Hours of Bus Service, King County Voters Know Who to Blame BY GOLDY

We were fucked. Totally fucked. Throughout the shitshow that was our last legislative session, constituents here in King County had only one small request: the authority to tax ourselves to stave off a projected 17 percent cut in Metro bus service. Starved of sales tax revenue (thanks, Great Recession!), King County executive Dow Constantine and the mayors of every city in the county—Democrats and Republicans alike—joined forces to plead for a 1.5 percent motor vehicle excise tax (MVET) local option, an annual tax on the value of your car. The proceeds would be split 60/40 between Metro and local road maintenance.

West Seattle, Burien, White Center, North Seattle, and downtown Seattle.

Other service reductions have yet to be specified, but the scale would be unprecedented.

Metro estimates that up to 600,000 additional hours would be cut across all areas of the county—up to 17 percent of all bus service hours—resulting in a loss of 14 million rides annually. Seventy-four routes would be eliminated (about 35 percent of all Metro routes) and another 107 routes would have their services reduced or revised. Only 33 routes would remain unchanged, but those would likely become more crowded.

“It’s pretty startling,” says Constantine. Metro estimates that these cuts, which would be phased in over 16 months, would put an additional 30,000 cars a day back onto county and city roads, increasing commutes between West Seattle and downtown, for example, by between 10 and 15 minutes each way.

The request easily passed the Democrat-controlled house. But thanks to the treachery of Republican-turned-Democratturned-self-serving-asshole Rodney Tom and his Republican-dominated so-called “Bipartisan Majority Coalition Caucus,” our local MVET option was held hostage to a doomed highway-funding bill: “Once the transit crowd gets what they consider they want,” Tom cynically told the Seattle Times back in July, “the road package gets torpedoed.”

These cuts would put an additional 30,000 cars a day back onto roads.

Unable to secure enough Republican votes to pass a proposed 10.5-cent-per-gallon hike in the state gas tax, the transportation funding package died, and with it, so did the MVET to save bus service.

But as satisfying as it may be to blame this debacle on the dysfunction of Olympia, voter outrage would be more effectively focused closer to home. First, there is Senator Tom, who represents parts of Medina, Bellevue, and Kirkland. But the Republican majority that blocked the MVET includes three other state senators whose King County constituents would be adversely affected by the MVET option’s failure: Senators Andy Hill (R-Redmond), Joe Fain (R-Auburn), and Steve Litzow (R-Mercer Island).

Senators Tom, Hill, Fain, and Litzow: the Four Horsemen of Buspocalypse.

These senators have the power to break the gridlock when the legislature reconvenes.

Governor Jay Inslee has proposed a special session later this month to pass a transportation funding package. If they refuse to support the package, their constituents will know exactly who to blame for longer commutes.

“Eastside riders get cut more,” explains King County Council member Larry Phillips. Metro’s least efficient routes run through the Horsemen’s districts, and under Metro’s current formula, those are the routes that will be cut and reduced the most. “Those four are frightened of the backlash,” says Phillips.

Not that Seattle routes would be spared. Barring at least the promise of additional revenue, the first cuts will hit in June 2014, when state funds dry up for Alaskan Way Viaduct mitigation service. That’s 150 trips a day—about 9,000 daily seats, 17,000 daily riders, and 45,000 service hours—cut between

Both Constantine and Phillips believe that Governor Inslee’s proposed special session is our last best chance for Olympia to act. Once we get into next year’s regular legislative session, bus funding will get “all wrapped up in everybody’s individual agendas and election-year politics,” warns Constantine. “It will be dramatically more difficult.” If lawmakers approve the MVET in a special session this month, the county might go to voters for approval as soon as an April special election.

Barring that, both Constantine and the council are prepared to go to voters with a different funding package under the county’s existing authority as a “transportation benefit district.” This package would likely include up to a $100 flat-rate car tab (as opposed to the more progressive MVET) and a 0.2 percent increase in the sales tax. It would be a less stable revenue source than an MVET, and may have more difficulty getting past voters, but it would generate a similar amount of money. And perhaps best of all, it would free Metro from the senate Republicans’ usual hostage-taking tactics by exercising what Phillips calls “the threat of self-sufficiency.”

“We’ve had the wrong mentality,” elaborates Constantine. “We went to Olympia hat in hand.” But Republicans need Seattle voters to help pass a hike in the gas tax a helluva lot more than Seattle voters need the statewide transportation package that tax would fund, says Constantine.

“We want to help them govern by continuing to be part of the team,” insists Constantine, but “if we have to go it alone, I don’t think we’ll hesitate to do so.”

And that’s a threat that Tom, Hill, Fain, and Litzow would be wise to heed.

GREEN PROVIDERS

YOU ARE A ROGUEA YOU AREDEVICE A

A New Apparatus Capable of Spying on You Has Been Installed Throughout Downtown Seattle. Very Few Citizens Know What It Is, and Officials Don’t Want to Talk About It.

BY MATT FIKSE-VERKERK AND BRENDAN KILEY

If you’re walking around downtown Seattle, look up: You’ll see off-white boxes, each one about a foot tall with vertical antennae, attached to utility poles. If you’re walking around downtown while looking at a smartphone, you will probably see at least one—and more likely two or three—Wi-Fi networks named after intersections: “4th&Seneca,” “4th&Union,” “4th&University,” and so on. That is how you can see the Seattle Police Department’s new wireless mesh network, bought from a California-based company called Aruba Networks, whose clients include the Department of Defense, school districts in Canada, oil-mining interests in China, and telecommunications companies in Saudi Arabia.

The question is: How well can this mesh network see you?

How accurately can it geo-locate and track the movements of your phone, laptop, or any other wireless device by its MAC address (its

“media access control address”—nothing to do with Macintosh— which is analogous to a device’s thumbprint)? Can the network send that information to a database, allowing the SPD to reconstruct who was where at any given time, on any given day, without a warrant? Can the network see you now?

The SPD declined to answer more than a dozen questions from The Stranger, including whether the network is operational, who has access to its data, what it might be used for, and whether the SPD has used it (or intends to use it) to geo-locate people’s devices via their MAC addresses or other identifiers.

Seattle Police detective Monty Moss, one of the leaders of the mesh-network project—one part of a $2.7 million effort, paid for by the Department of Homeland Security—wrote in an e-mail that the department “is not comfortable answering policy questions when

we do not yet have a policy.” But, Detective Moss added, the SPD “is actively collaborating with the mayor’s office, city council, law department, and the ACLU on a use policy.”

The ACLU, at least, begs to differ: “Actively collaborating” is not how they would put it.

Jamela Debelak, technology and liberty director of the Seattle office, says the ACLU submitted policy-use suggestions months ago and has been waiting for a response.

Detective Moss also added that the mesh network would not be used for “surveillance purposes… without City Council’s approval and the appropriate court authorization.”

Note that he didn’t say the mesh network couldn’t be used for the surveillance functions we asked about, only that it wouldn’t—at least until certain people in power say it can. That’s the equivalent of a “trust us” and a handshake.

His answer is inadequate for other reasons as well. First, the city council passed an ordinance earlier this year stating that any potential surveillance equipment must submit protocols to the city council for public review and approval within 30 days of its acquisition and implementation. This mesh network has been around longer than that, as confirmed by Cascade Networks, Inc., which helped install it. Still, the SPD says it doesn’t

mystery, along with conflicting rulings over the appropriate law enforcement access standards for both prospective and historical location data, has created a messy, inconsistent legal landscape where even judges in the same district may require law enforcement to meet different standards to compel location data.

In other words, law enforcement has new tools—powerful tools. We didn’t ask for them, but they’re here. And nobody knows the rules for how they should be used.

This isn’t the first time the SPD has purchased surveillance equipment (or, as they might put it, public-safety equipment that happens to have powerful surveillance capabilities) without telling the rest of the city. There was the drones controversy this past winter, when the public and elected officials discovered that the SPD had bought two unmanned aerial vehicles with the capacity to spy on citizens. There was an uproar, and a few SPD officers embarked on a mea culpa tour of community meetings where they answered questions and endured (sometimes raucous) criticism.

have a policy for its use yet. Mayor McGinn’s office says it expects to see draft protocols sometime in December—nearly nine months late, according to the new ordinance.

Second, and more importantly, this mesh network is part of a whole new arsenal of surveillance technologies that are moving faster than the laws that govern them are being written. As Stephanie K. Pell (former counsel to the House Judiciary Committee) and Christopher Soghoian (senior policy analyst at the ACLU) wrote in a 2012 essay for the Berkeley Technology Law Journal:

The use of location information by law enforcement agencies is common and becoming more so as technological improvements enable collection of more accurate and precise location data. The legal mystery surrounding the proper law enforcement access standard for prospective location data remains unsolved. This

In February, Mayor Mike McGinn announced he was grounding the drones, but a new mayor could change his mind. Those SPD drones are sitting somewhere right now on SPD property. Meanwhile, the SPD was also dealing with the port-camera surveillance scandal. That kicked off in late January, when people in West Seattle began wondering aloud about the 30 cameras that had appeared unannounced on utility poles along the waterfront. The West Seattle neighborhood blog (westseattleblog.com) sent questions to city utility companies, and the utilities in turn pointed at SPD, which eventually admitted that it had purchased and installed 30 surveillance cameras with federal money for “port security.” That resulted in an additional uproar and another mea culpa tour, much like they did with the drones, during which officers repeated that they should have done a better job of educating the public about what they were up to with the cameras on Alki. (Strangely, the Port of Seattle and the US Coast Guard didn’t seem very involved in this “port security” project—their names only appear in a few cursory places in the budgets and contracts. The SPD is clearly the driving agency behind the project. For example, their early tests of sample Aruba products—beginning with a temporary Aruba mesh network set up in Pioneer Square for Mardi Gras in 2009—didn’t have anything to do with the port whatsoever.)

The cameras attracted the controversy, but they were only part of the project. In fact, the 30 pole-mounted cameras on Alki that caused the uproar cost $82,682—just 3 percent of the project’s $2.7 million Homeland Security–funded budget. The project’s full title was “port security video surveillance system with wireless mesh network.” People raised a fuss about the cameras.

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But what about the mesh network?

Detective Moss and Assistant Chief Paul McDonagh mentioned the downtown mesh network during those surveillance-camera community meetings, saying it would help cops and firefighters talk to each other by providing a wireless network for their exclusive use, with the potential for others to use overlaid networks handled by the same equipment. (Two-way radios already allow police officers to talk to each other, but officers still use wireless networks to access data, such as the information an officer looks for by running your license plate number when you’ve been pulled over.)

As Brian Magnuson of Cascade Networks, Inc., which helped install the Aruba system, explained the possible use of such a system: “A normal cell-phone network is a beautiful thing right up until the time you really need it—say you’ve just had an earthquake or a large storm, and then what happens? Everybody picks up their phone and overloads the system.” The network is most vulnerable precisely when it’s most needed. A mesh network could be a powerful tool for streaming video from surveillance cameras or squad car dash-cams across the network, allowing officers “real-time situational awareness” even when other communication systems have been overloaded, as Detective Moss explained in those community meetings.

But the Aruba mesh network is not just for talking, it’s also for tracking.

After reviewing Aruba’s technical literature, as well as talking to IT directors and systems administrators around the country who work with Aruba products, it’s clear that their networks are adept at seeing all the devices that move through their coverage area and visually mapping the locations of those devices in real time for the system administrators’ convenience. In fact, one of Aruba’s major selling points is its ability to locate “rogue” or “unassociated” devices— that is, any device that hasn’t been authorized by (and maybe hasn’t even asked to be part of) the network.

Which is to say, your device. The cell phone in your pocket, for instance.

The user’s guide for one of Aruba’s recent software products states: “The wireless network has a wealth of information about unassociated and associated devices.” That software includes “a location engine that calculates associated and unassociated device location every 30 seconds by default… The last 1,000 historical locations are stored for each MAC address.”

For now, Seattle’s mesh network is concentrated in the downtown area. But the SPD has indicated in PowerPoint presentations—also acquired by The Stranger that it hopes to eventually have “citywide deployment” of the system that, again, has potential surveillance capabilities that the SPD declined to answer questions about. That could give a whole new meaning to the phrase “real-time situational awareness.”

So how does Aruba’s mesh network actually function?

Each of those off-white boxes you see downtown is a wireless access point (AP) with four radios inside it that work to shove giant amounts of data to, through, and around the network, easily handling bandwidth-hog uses such as sending live, high-resolution video to or from moving vehicles. Because this grid of APs forms a latticelike mesh, it works like the internet itself, routing traffic around bottlenecks and “self-healing” by sending traffic around components that fail.

As Brian Magnuson at Cascade Networks explains: “When you have 10 people talking to an AP , no problem. If you have 50, that’s

a problem.” Aruba’s mesh solution is innovative—instead of building a few high-powered, herculean APs designed to withstand an immense amount of traffic, Aruba sprinkles a broad area with lots of lower-powered APs and lets them figure out the best way to route all the data by talking to each other.

Aruba’s technology is considered cuttingedge because its systems are easy to roll out, administer, and integrate with other systems, and its operating system visualizes what’s happening on the network in a simple, user-friendly digital map. The company is one of many firms in the networking business, but, according to the tech-ranking firm Gartner, Aruba ranks second (just behind Cisco) in “completeness of vision” and third in “ability to execute” for its clever ways of getting around technical hurdles.

Take Candlestick Park, the San Francisco 49ers football stadium, which, Magnuson says, is just finishing up an Aruba mesh network installation. The stadium has highintensity cellular service needs—70,000 people can converge there for a single event in

The NSA and other federal spying organizations have at least some oversight, but local law enforcement doesn’t.

one of the most high-tech cities in America, full of high-powered, newfangled devices.

“Aruba’s solution was ingenious,” Magnuson says. It put 640 low-power APs under the stadium’s seats to diffuse the data load. “If you’re at the stadium and trying to talk to an AP,” Magnuson says, “you’re probably sitting on it!”

Another one of Aruba’s selling points is its ability to detect rogue devices—strangers to the system. Its promotional “case studies” trumpet this capability, including one report about Cabela’s hunting and sporting goods chain, which is an Aruba client: “Because Cabela’s stores are in central shopping areas, the company captures huge quantities of rogue data—as many as 20,000 events per day, mostly from neighboring businesses.”

Aruba’s network is identifying and distinguishing which devices are allowed on the Cabela’s network and which are within the coverage area but are just passing through.

The case study also describes how Cabela’s Aruba network was able to locate a lost price-scanner gun in a large warehouse by mapping its location, as well as track employees by the devices they were carrying.

It’s one thing for a privately owned company to register devices it already owns with a network. It’s another for a local police department to scale up that technology to blanket an entire downtown—or an entire city.

Aruba also sells a software product called “Analytics and Location Engine 1.0.” According to a document Aruba has created about the product, ALE “calculates the location of associated and unassociated wifi devices… even though a device has not associated to the network, information about it is available. This includes the MAC address, location, and RSSI information.” ALE’s default setting is anonymous, which “allows for unique user tracking without knowing who the individual user is.” But, Aruba adds in the next sentence, “optionally the anonymization can be disabled for richer analytics and user behavior tracking.” The network has the ability to see who you are—how deeply it looks is up to whoever’s using it.

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(The Aruba technology, as far as we know, does not automatically associate a given MAC address with the name on the device’s account. But figuring out who owns the account—by asking a cell-phone company, for example—would not be difficult for a lawenforcement agency.)

Geo-location seems to be an area of intense interest for Aruba. Last week, the Oregonian announced that Aruba had purchased a Portland mapping startup called Meridian, which, according to the article, has developed software that “pinpoints a smartphone’s location inside a venue, relying either on GPS technology or with localized wireless networks.” The technology, the article says, “helps people find their way within large buildings, such as malls, stadiums, or airports and enables marketing directed at a phone’s precise location.”

How does that geo-location work? Devices in the network’s coverage area are “heard” by more than one radio in those APs (the off-white boxes). Once the network hears a device from multiple APs, it can compare the strength and timing of the signal to locate where the device is. This is classic triangulation, and users of Aruba’s

The Questions

The Stranger Asked SPD That They Declined to Answer

1. Aruba installations typically include the following software/OS and components. Which of these is the city of Seattle using (or planning to use) in the system?

AirWave Management Platform (AMP) RAPIDS rogue identification

Visual RF mapping module

TotalWatch RF spectrum analyzer

ALE Analytics and Location Engine (API)

2. What are some of the current and potential uses of the mesh network, besides transmitting video from cameras? (I know you’ve answered this at public meetings, but I wonder if the department has a specific operational protocol.)

3. Does the department use, or plan to use, the capability of the mesh network to geo-locate wireless devices (cell phones, laptops, anything with a MAC address)?

4. Has the SPD performed any tests, either in the pilot projects (Mardi Gras, fireworks) or in conjunction with the newly installed system, of device location capabilities?

5. Has the city performed any searches for specific devices (either affiliated with the network or rogue) via MAC addresses or other device identifier? If so, what were the results of those tests?

6. What is the operational status of the mesh network? The WAPs can be seen actively broadcasting SSIDs downtown. That means AirWave is running now, correct?

7. Does the SPD consider the mesh network itself, apart from the camera components, subject to the city council’s surveillance ordinance (124142)?

AirWave software—as in the Cabela’s example—report that their systems are able to locate devices to within a few feet.

In the case of large, outdoor installations where APs are more spread out, the ability to know what devices are passing through is useful—especially, perhaps, to policing agencies, which could log that data for long-term storage. As networking products and their uses continue to evolve, they will only compound the “legal mystery” around how this technology could and should be used that Pell and Soghoian described in their Berkeley Technology Law Journal piece. Aruba’s mesh network is state-of-the-art, but something significantly smarter and more sensitive will surely be on the market this time next year. And who knows how much better the software will get.

An official spokesperson for Aruba wrote in an e-mail that the company could not answer The Stranger’s questions because they pertained “to a new product announcement” that would not happen until Thanksgiving.

“Aruba’s technology,” the spokesperson added, “is designed for indoor (not outdoor) usage and is for consumer apps where they opt in.” This is in direct contradiction to

8. At a public forum, Assistant Chief McDonagh said that none of the components of this system would be connected to the Washington State Fusion Center. But the RFP and contracts all show that connection built into the system. What is the current status of that decision (to not connect to the fusion center), and is it codified anywhere in documentation?

9. Has the SPD provided protocols for the use of the mesh network to the city council, and is there any plan to include provisions about the use of the network to locate physical devices?

10. Has the SPD obtained any opinions from the city attorney (or other counsel) about the need to obtain warrants based on information obtained through the mesh network, in terms of tracking device metadata, device location, or other aspects of the mesh network functionality?

11. Who manages the data in the network and the associated control software? Is that managed in-house by SPD, DoIT, or is there a third party or contractor who manages it?

12. Does the SPD log or retain any information from the operation of the system and, if so, for how long? Is there a department protocol established for that yet?

13. Are there any after-action reports/ write-ups either from the department or provided to the department after the Mardi Gras or Fourth of July pilot projects? Would the SPD be willing to share those?

14. With regard to the PSGP08 grant itself, what amount of grant funds remain unspent? And the RFP details the purchase of six “marine grade motion stabilized” cameras. Have those been purchased yet? Is it still the plan to purchase six?

15. How far up the chain of command was this project approved?

16. Someone sent me a screenshot of a smartphone downtown (attached below). Are the networks named after intersections (“4th&Seneca,” etc.) WAPs for the Aruba mesh network?

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Aruba’s own user’s manuals, as well as the fact that the Seattle Police Department installed an outdoor Aruba mesh network earlier this year.

One engineer familiar with Aruba products and similar systems—who requested anonymity—confirmed that the mesh network and its software are powerful tools. “But like anything,” the engineer said, it “can be used inappropriately… You can easily see how a user might abuse this ability (network admin has a crush on user X, monitors user X’s location specifically).”

As was widely reported earlier this year, such alleged abuses within the NSA have included a man who spied on nine women over a five-year period, a woman who spied on prospective boyfriends, a man who spied on his girlfriend, a husband who spied on his wife, and even a man who spied on his exgirlfriend “on his first day of access to the NSA’s surveillance system,” according to the Washington Post. The practice was so common within the NSA, it got its own classification: “LOVEINT.”

Other Aruba clients—such as a university IT director, a university vice president, and systems administrators—around the country confirmed it wouldn’t be difficult to use the mesh network to track the movement of devices by their MAC addresses, and that building a historical database of their movements would be relatively trivial from a data-storage perspective.

As Bruce Burton, an information technology manager at the University of Cincinnati (which uses an Aruba network), put it in an e-mail: “This mesh network will have the capability to track devices (MAC addresses) throughout the city.”

Not that the SPD would do that—but we don’t know. “We definitely feel like the public doesn’t have a handle on what the capabilities are,” says Debelak of the ACLU. “We’re not even sure the police department does.” It all depends on what the SPD says when it releases its mesh-network protocols.

“They’re long overdue,” says Lee Colleton, a systems administrator at Google who is also a member of the Seattle Privacy Coalition, a grassroots group that formed in response to SPD’s drone and surveillancecamera controversies. “If we don’t deal with this kind of thing now, and establish norms and policies, we’ll find ourselves in an unpleasant situation down the road that will be harder to change.”

The city is already full of surveillance equipment. The Seattle Department of Transportation, for example, uses licenseplate scanners, sensors embedded in the pavement, and other mechanisms to monitor individual vehicles and help estimate traffic volume and wait time. “But as soon as that data is extrapolated,” says Adiam Emery of SDOT, “it’s gone.” They couldn’t turn it over to a judge if they tried.

Not that license-plate scanners have always been so reliable. Doug Honig of the ACLU remembers a story he heard from a former staffer a couple of years ago about automatic license-plate readers on police cars in Spokane. Automatic license-plate readers “will read a chain-link fence as XXXXX,” Honig says, “which at the time also matched the license plate of a stolen car in Mississippi, resulting in a number of false alerts to pull over the fence.”

Seattle’s mesh network is only one instance in a trend of Homeland Security funding domestic surveillance equipment. Earlier this month, the New York Times ran a story about a $7 million Homeland Security grant earmarked for “port security”—just like the SPD’s mesh-network funding—in Oakland.

“But instead,” the Times reports, “the money is going to a police initiative that will collect and analyze reams of surveillance data from around town—from gunshotdetection sensors in the barrios of East Oakland to license plate readers mounted on police cars patrolling the city’s upscale hills.”

The Oakland “port security” project, which the Times reports was formerly known as the “Domain Awareness Center,” will “electronically gather data around the clock from a variety of sensors and databases, analyze that data, and display some of the information on a bank of giant monitors.” The Times doesn’t detail what kind of “sensors and databases” the federally funded “port security” project will pay for, but perhaps it’s something like Seattle’s mesh network with its ability to ping, log, and visually map the movement of devices in and out of its coverage area.

Which brings up some corollary issues, ones with implications much larger than the SPD’s ability to call up a given time on a given day and see whether you were at work, at home, at someone’s else home, at a bar, or at a political demonstration: What does it mean when money from a federal agency like the Department of Homeland Security is being funneled to local police departments like SPD to purchase and use high-powered surveillance gear?

For federal surveillance projects, the NSA and other federal spying organizations have at least some oversight—as flawed as it may be—from the Federal International Surveillance Court (also known as the FISA court) and the US Congress. But local law enforcement doesn’t have that kind of oversight and, in Seattle at least, has been buying and installing DHS-funded surveillance equipment without explaining what it’s up to. The city council’s surveillance ordinance earlier this year was an attempt to provide local oversight on that kind of policing, but it has proven toothless.

It’s reasonable to assume that locally gleaned information will be shared with other organizations, including federal ones.

An SPD diagram of the mesh network, for example, shows its information heading to institutions large and small, including the King County Sheriff’s Office, the US Coast Guard, and our local fusion center.

Fusion centers, if you’re unfamiliar with the term, are information-sharing hubs, defined by the Department of Homeland Security as “focal points” for the “receipt, analysis, gathering, and sharing” of surveillance information.

If federally funded, locally built surveillance systems with little to no oversight can dump their information in a fusion center— think of it as a gun show for surveillance, where agencies freely swap information with little restriction or oversight—that could allow federal agencies such as the FBI and the NSA to do an end-run around any limitations set by Congress or the FISA court.

If that’s their strategy in Seattle, Oakland, and elsewhere, it’s an ingenious one— instead of maintaining a few high-powered, herculean surveillance agencies designed to digest an immense amount of traffic and political scrutiny, the federal government could sprinkle an entire nation with lots of lowpowered surveillance nodes and let them figure out the best way to route the data by talking to each other. By diffusing the way the information flows, they can make it flow more efficiently.

It’s an innovative solution—much like the Aruba mesh network itself.

The Department of Homeland Security has not responded to requests for comment.

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The downside: They’re all on the prohibitively-expensive-to-many HBO. So cheers to SIFF for their HBO Documentary series, featuring free (yes, free!) screenings of new HBO docs before they even make their pay-per-view premieres. First up: Ellen Goosenberg’s Crisis Hotline: Veterans Press 1, which investigates the heart-crushing epidemic of suicide among US war veterans. (SIFF Cinema Uptown, 511 Queen Anne Ave N, siff.net, 7 pm, free) DAVID SCHMADER

Lindy West and Anna Holmes

BOOKS

One of the highlights of my so-called “career” at The Stranger is that I got to sit across from Lindy West, who would shout funny things at my head all day long. Now that Lindy’s at Jezebel.com, everybody has gotten to know the pleasure of having her hilarious, brilliant exclamations whizzing toward their craniums. With the Jezebel editor Anna Holmes, Lindy has helped change the way we talk about women on the internet. Tonight, they’re reading from The Book of Jezebel, an encyclopedia written by many contributors to Gawker’s influential feminist site. (Town Hall, 1119 Eighth Ave, townhallseattle.org, 7:30 pm, $5) PAUL CONSTANT

Barsuk Records 15th

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MUSIC

It’s Barsuk’s 15th birthday! And they’re throwing one hell of a quinceañera. Nada Surf kick off the celebration tonight by playing their phenomenal album Let Go. Over the next four nights, we’ll be treated to performances by the Long Winters (performing When I Pretend to Fall), Jesse Sykes & the Sweet Hereafter (performing Reckless Burning), Ra Ra Riot, David Bazan—deep breath—Chris Walla, Phantogram, Menomena, Say Hi, Rocky Votolato, the Prom, and so many more! Phew! And to further remind us that they’re the nicest label in town, the proceeds from all ticket sales will be donated to Gilda’s Club Seattle. You’re the best, Barsuk. (Various venues, see full schedule at barsuk.com/xv) MEGAN SELING

‘Russia Rising: Votes for Freedom’ ART/POLITICS

In 2012, the School of Visual Arts in New York put together a big, striking exhibition of protest posters by 30 artists from around the world responding to the third-term election of Vladimir Putin. The posters were installed upright like picket signs, standing like an army of dissenting bodies. Since then, conditions haven’t improved for defenders of rights like, say, not being imprisoned for reporting the news or speaking your mind (a graphically great poster depicts the Pussy Riot–ers in birdcages using nothing but lines and circles). Cornish has expanded on the original show, which already included Cornish grads. (Cornish Main Gallery, 1000 Lenora St, cornish.edu/exhibitions, noon–5 pm, free, through December 20) JEN GRAVES

Morton Subotnick and Lillevan

Bauhaus in Ballard CHOW

ART/MUSIC

Morton Subotnick’s Buchla synthesizer compositions from the ’60s still sound innovative today. Their insectoid, alien timbres and shockingly unpredictable dynamics can be heard in the output of many of the world’s boldest producers of abstract electronica from the ’90s onward. Tonight’s program, “From Silver Apples of the Moon to a Sky of Cloudless Sulphur,” offers a career retrospective of the 80-year-old Subotnick’s pioneering electronic music, augmented by the granulated, microcosmic imagery of German visual artist Lillevan. (Town Hall, 1119 Eighth Ave, townhallseattle.org, 7:30 pm, $17 adv/$20 DOS, all ages) DAVE SEGAL

David Sedaris BOOKS

If you’ve read even one David Sedaris essay and possess a funny bone in your body, you’re already a fan. But it’s one thing to enjoy the man’s work and quite another to hear him recite it. His wry, effeminate voice adds layers of understated humor and humanity to his darker essays, prompting you to laugh at new sections and dwell thoughtfully on others. The effect is like watching a circus clown deliver a classy eulogy—you can’t help but leave a Sedaris reading with a grin on your face and a paranoid new awareness of your own mortality. (Benaroya Hall, 200 University St, seattlesymphony.org, 8 pm, $43–$52, all ages) CIENNA MADRID

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Chris Hadfield

SCIENCE

This spring, Canadian astronaut Chris Hadfield became an internet sensation with his cover of David Bowie’s “Space Oddity.” The video was perfect for YouTube: a real astronaut in a real spaceship, drifting here and there in zero gravity as he strummed a guitar and looked longingly at Earth. It was if the tune, first released in 1969, was made for this moment. “This is ground control to Major Tom, you’ve really made the grade…” Hadfield became popular on the news form of our times, Twitter—he has almost a million followers. He will read tonight from his new memoir, An Astronaut’s Guide to Life on Earth (Town Hall, 1119 Eighth Ave, townhallseattle.org, 7:30 pm, $5) CHARLES MUDEDE

present but unseen, like the way the weight of a head changes the shape of a pillow over time. The phrase What we have done. itself is a demonstration of the condition: Styled with a period, it comes across as a finished thought in the past tense, referring to something that already exists, a closed set. But “what we have done” grows every moment, and who could remember all that they’ve done, and who could know all we’ve done? We don’t even know each other.

What we have done. has an implied twin phrase, the more common “what have we done.” One sounds accomplished, the other despairing. The exhibition is also divided in two: one section containing The living (the leavings of the animals), and the other section the pillows, towels, and newsprint rolls.

The pillows were slept on, and only by acrobats and/or ornithologists.

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An Acrobat’s Pillow

DThe Strict Art of What’s

Not There

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own low in the museum in a highceilinged room with pretty wood floors, the overhead lights have gone a little green. The room is nearly empty. It’s the largest in the Henry Art Gallery, built for long vistas and big sculptures that would bust the walls of lesser rooms, but right now, it looks like a school gymnasium put to some nebulous after-hours use. Four enormous rolls of industrial newsprint sit on the floor. Also on the floor: five tightly plastic-wrapped piles of folded white towels, two purple pillows, two light-blue pillows. One wall has two doors. Another wall is studded with three lightbulbs. That’s all, and in no way all.

There’s a handout with a map at the entrance containing necessary words. About the color-coded pillows, it says, “Pillows that have only been slept on by acrobats” (purple) and “Pillows that have only been slept on by Ornithologists” (light-blue). The piles of plastic-wrapped towels are titled Anyone. Their medium is “Bed linen in weekly rotation by a linen service.” They sit unopened here, in between uses future and past. How clean are clean towels? The handout is important because it embodies the idea that you must “take the word of” the artist, Jason Dodge; he uses the medium of language to fill in what’s there even if you can’t see it. The pillows were slept on, and only by acrobats and/or ornithologists. A local hotel does, really, bring new piles of plasticwrapped towels to the gallery every few days and take the old piles back to be used. The rolls of newsprint are borrowed from the Seattle Times, and one by one, over the duration of the art show, each roll will be taken back to the factory to become newspapers, leaving empty spots in the gallery.

Dodge arranged all this by asking acrobats, ornithologists, a local hotel, and the Seattle Times to play along. One imagines these

conversations were interesting. Another conversation: Dodge arranged for a local farm to bring animals into the Henry for a residency. You won’t see them—nobody did, except those directly involved, and no photos were taken. When the animals left, the museum removed their bio-matter (you cannot just have shit sitting out in an art museum), but kept their scuff marks and bits of straw and dirt all across the floor. There’s an idyllic, romantic emptiness here, with a certain faint, untraceable scent: one way to represent what happens when artless living creatures get their turn in the frame of art. Museums and galleries can be cold and disappointing places. Dodge’s requirements can be strict: Even a catnap by someone other than the ornithologist—her husband, mistaking one pillow in their bed for another, one imagines—and that pillow is null and void. Are acrobats or ornithologists more likely to dream of flying?

These unspoken conversations are part of the art, too, the ones that happened as people were drying themselves off in hotel rooms or drivers were hauling newsprint back toward the factory, or every draft of the stories that appeared in those papers, or the photographs that didn’t run but that the photographer wished had. The objects in the galleries are parts of stories shared by the artist, the subject, the sculptor, and you, imagining what’s happening the way you might envision your own version of the specific world of any given novel. The future itself assembles, written down in black and white and photographed, rising up on the surfaces of these big blank rolls and going out into ears and mouths and the crawl spaces of new thoughts. All these spoken and unspoken conversations rise up around the objects in great clouds of narrative. Dodge calls the newspaper piece What we have done., and that’s also the title of the whole museum exhibition: Jason Dodge: What we have done. The handout refers to this as “the artist’s first comprehensive exhibition in North America.” Dodge is American, born in 1969 in Newton, Pennsylvania, now living in Berlin. Comprehensive is a funny word in Dodgeworld. There are eight pieces here, not including several shown previously in Seattle (at Western Bridge). If What we have done. is “comprehensive,” it’s only in the way that any of Dodge’s sculptures is comprehensive—as a complete and specific simple object that cannot be exchanged with any other, but imaginatively unbounded, with so many parts

There’s a wall between the two sides, with two doors, and each door is actually two doors—you open one to find yourself faceto-face with the back of another door, so each time you go through, the act of going out a door switches you instead into going in one. Furthering the doublemania, the doors turn out to be slightly different sizes, a fact not at first apparent, which results in another mental twinning: what something actually looks like, and what you think it looks like. That paragraph was more fun to write (and, one hopes, to read) than the art was to interact with in the gallery.

There are only two other pieces, made of lightbulbs and a bell. They hang on a wall at the exhibition’s midpoint, casting light on both sides. One is two bulbs facing each other very close in, forming a little witticism, a perfect visual phrase. The other is A signal bell tuned to C inside a wall, marked by lights. Yes, the bell is really in there. No, you cannot hear it.

ART

The Balancing Act

The Affordable

Art

Fair Fights for a Future in Seattle

BY JEN GRAVES

The Affordable Art Fair in Seattle—the only US location for the UK-based franchise besides New York—survived its first year, and round two is upon us. Best about last year: The artists represented by galleries in Seattle and Portland looked great, particularly compared to the pap that came from elsewhere. No matter how little bad art costs, it’s not affordable. Prices are limited to $100 to $10,000, though a $20,000 vintage photograph was found at last year’s event, and most of the art was in the $1,000 to $5,000 range, which mostly excludes those with less than a rent payment to spend. Fairs survive by charging dealers for the booths, and the dealers must sell enough art—or make enough connections—to justify the rental. It’s always a gamble.

This year, 49 galleries are coming to Seattle’s Affordable Art Fair, compared to 45

• A short, round man was hunched over a set of oil pastels last week making a copy of Nikolai Nikanorovich Dubovskoi’s 1899 painting Seascape with Figures in the Frye Art Museum’s permanent collection gallery. He had permission to stay all day. He was a hobbyist painter from Tacoma who just really, really liked Nikolai Nikanorovich Dubovskoi, one of the 19th-century Russian painters who called themselves the Wanderers. “We try not to advertise this sort of thing, but we do make allowances,” a security guard said. Allowances should always be made for love connections between obscure Tacomans and obscure Russians.

• Highlights of Satori Group’s haunted Spookhaus the day after Halloween included actor Kate Sumpter losing her shit on a mattress covered in bedbugs, performance artist Alice Gosti staring with dead eyes and bloody mouth at a bunch of TVs, and a woman chained to a chair while a man with a roaring chain saw taunted her (and then turned his attention on you). In terms of freaky thrills, it totally hit the spot. The only problem was how short it was, and the long line to get in. Satori: Please do it again next year, with more rooms and more nights to see it. You’ve clearly tapped a nerve. Or opened a vein. Or whatever.

• A sneak peek at Kathy Liao’s paintings at CORE Gallery this past weekend revealed breakthrough after breakthrough. The Seattle-based, Taiwan-born painter has been hard at work these last few years calibrating color, size, and stroke for her standstill, emotionally intense scenes. I’m Home includes a humongous swimming pool, a small dark hallway, and an old woman seated on her bed trying so, so hard to remember. The official opening is at Thursday’s Pioneer Square Art Walk

• Opening day at Ada’s Technical Books, the newly relocated science bookshop, was a raging success, with people packing in densely. And what a space! Go look: 425 15th Ave E, next to Coastal Kitchen. On Twitter, Jeopardy! champion/local author Tom Nissley called it a “cathedral.”

• After breaking ground in February, 12th Avenue Arts reached its $4.6 million capital campaign goal. The building—to include two performing arts venues and 88 affordable apartments—is scheduled to open in October 2014.

• This year’s most popular Halloween costume was sexy senate hearing

last year. The fuller story, unfortunately, is that some of the best regional dealers will be notably absent: Platform Gallery, Prole Drift, SEASON, M.I.A, Traver, PDX Contemporary, and Fourteen30 Contemporary are not returning. The local lineup does include James Harris Gallery, Linda Hodges, ArtXchange, Blindfold, Foster/White, G. Gibson, Abmeyer + Wood, Gallery IMA, and a few others.

One dealer who isn’t coming back said he felt the fair was smoothly run—a comment echoed by every dealer interviewed last year—he just didn’t make any sales.

“I’d love for it to do well,” he said (he asked to remain nameless). “I just can’t afford to support it.” This year, he hopes to showcase his artists’ works at Mexico City and New York fairs instead. He’s betting that even if nothing sells in those cities, the broader exposure will be worth the trips.

As Susan Grover and Richard Thurston of Grover/Thurston Gallery in Pioneer Square explained last year, why open a second space when they run a gallery every day in Seattle? If the event were a draw, maybe—and Affordable Art Fair is trying to become one by offering more than just a convention of white-walled booths. This year’s handful of potentially cool side events includes a Recent Graduates Exhibition for emerging artists curated by LxWxH founder/artist Sharon Arnold; an artist talk by Whiting Tennis; a conversation with Seattle artist Jean Bradbury about her recent time in a Syrian refugee camp making art with youth; and a workshop on Art Display 101 by Artech. Founder Will Ramsay says the Fair anticipates 10,000 guests this year, with, he pitches, “something there for everyone.”

BOOKS

Rookie Turns Two Every Girl I Know Is

Reading This Teenager Stuff

BY ANNA MINARD

What is so magnetic about Rookie?

The online magazine, started by teen fashion blogger Tavi Gevinson and run by a stable of editors and contributors of all ages, says of itself, simply: “Rookie is a website for teenage girls.” So why, then, is Rookie’s work—essays, interviews, art projects, playlists—some of my favorite contemporary media? Why does nearly every twenty- or thirtysomething woman I know read Rookie on a regular basis? There’s nothing else quite like it, on the web or in the world.

authors, all of whom go by just their first names, as if we’re all friends here. Topics run from “Black Girl Lessons” to sexism in gaming culture to “a report from both sides of the male gaze” by a trans author named Tyler to interviews with Carrie Brownstein, Neil deGrasse Tyson, and female boxer Claressa Shields. And it manages to somehow be casually radically feminist, if that’s possible. Maybe it’s “for teenage girls,” but there’s no holding back on politics and sex and blood. You can flip through less than 20 pages, and

Yearbook Two drops the words “patriarchy” and “cunt”—without any fanfare and in very appropriate contexts—and adds a note before an article on periods that says, “This article is for anyone who gets their period, regardless of gender.” (That piece is illustrated in part with a picture of a bloody finger.)

There is still, even now, a dearth of media made by women for women, and for Rookie, a website whose editor in chief is, let’s remember, 17 years old, to be so ready to pick up that mantle and run with it, and then to be so complex and intersectional? It’s a minor miracle. The book and the site feel like a riot, a celebration, overflowing with advice and hero worship and a sort of road map to your own agency, no matter what age or gender you are.

Now they’re having a party in Seattle to celebrate Yearbook Two, and it’s the most Rookie-ish thing you can imagine, retro and creative and participatory and accessible and fun. Gevinson and some local Rookie contributors are gonna hang out at the Vera Project for three hours, in conjunction with local small press festival Short Run, to talk and sign books and have a zine workshop. Obviously: GO TO THIS THING. No one is making media like this, and I, for one, am ravenous for more of it, whether it’s in person, online, or on paper.

PREVIEW

Rookie Reading Party

Sat Nov 9, Vera

Project, 1 pm, free

Take the newest physical book they’ve put out, Rookie Yearbook Two (Drawn and Quarterly, $29.95), basically a greatest hits compilation from the past year. About the size of a magazine but three times as thick, it’s a talisman of modern young feminism. The cover image is of two androgynous humans, one giving the other a haircut—let’s subvert the gender binary, and by the way, let’s hang out and do each other’s hair! Inside, pages are ringed in images of sequins, flowers, drawings of M.I.A., sliced up photos of Grace Jones. It feels like a thoughtful and inherently feminine object, and to hold it is to love it.

Inside are essays by the site’s various

BOOKS

The Odd Couple

Spartan and Les Sar’zine Prove There’s No Single Literary

Aesthetic

BY PAUL CONSTANT

J

ust looking at these two local literary magazines, it’s hard to imagine two more aesthetically opposed publications. The first print edition of the online magazine Spartan is minimalism personified: neat and trim, with the title in a plain black font running down the pure white cover. There are

THEATRE OFF JACKSON 409 7th Ave S WRITTEN BY Scot “Sgt Rigsby” Augustson

DONALD FAGEN (of STEELY DAN) with ROSS REYNOLDS

Eminent Hipsters

Viking

“… Eminent Hipsters is a convincing testimonial to the honing effect of a lifelong devotion to the culture of misfits, weirdos, and cranks.” – Rolling Stone.

Donald Fagen appears Thursday, November 7 at 7:30 p.m. at Town Hall Seattle. Co-presented with the TOWN HALL ARTS & CULTURE Series. $5 tickets are available at the door starting at 6:30 p.m., or in advance via www.townhallseattle.org

DANIEL ALARCÓN

At Night We Walk in Circles

Riverhead

“… At Night We Walk in Circles is a breathtaking novel, intimate and sweeping, about the capriciousness of fate and how its ultimate brutality can come in the form of absence and longing.” – Shelf Awareness

Daniel Alarcón is also the author of Lost City Radio andWar By Candlelight.

Daniel Alarcón reads Tuesday, November 12 at 7 p.m.

no illustrations; the 20 stories are all tidily justified and look as close as possible to a plain Word document. On the back cover, you’ll find the magazine’s motto—“Minimalist Prose. No Strays.”—and nothing else.

Spartan bears no visual relation to the seventh issue of Les Sar’zine, which is colorful and elaborate and tries to overwhelm the reader at every opportunity. Sar’zine, the house magazine of local writing collective Les Sardines, doesn’t look like a book so much as a tiny bookshelf, a golden cardboard box about the size of your palm, filled with six small, colorful pamphlets. Each of the pamphlets is made up of a single folded piece of paper and contains a single story or a few poems and at least one illustration by David Mecklenburg. Stacked together on a nightstand, Spartan and Les Sar’zine are so mismatched that they could practically headline a funny cop movie together.

But if you ignore the aesthetic trappings, the two books have a lot in common. They’re both devoted to the underserved art of short fiction (most of the stories wouldn’t even fill a single-spaced sheet of paper). They’re both enthusiastic supporters of new talent. And they share similar tastes in fiction—you could transplant several of these stories from one magazine to the other without jarring any readers.

Mostly, what we have here are small moments of great importance. In Spartan, Tara Deal’s “Meditations on Dilettantism” tells the story of a woman who is thinking about taking up gold-leafing as a hobby. As she waits for her leafing kit to arrive in the mail, she thinks of her grandmother, “who was desperate for solace and distraction after her husband died” and took up ceramics as a hobby. “She churned out figurines of maidens and cowboys and sparrows and squirrels that were cookie jars,” handing the ceramic figures to friends and family in a desperate attempt to slough off grief. We never find out what loss is inspiring our narrator to take up leafing, of all hobbies, but the grief is still floating there, too huge to even mention.

They’re not all delicately drawn, realistic portraits. Fred Longworth’s “Sharks” envisions a world where “The sharks are everywhere. They perch on the parapets of office buildings. They leap onto the counters at drive-through windows of fast-food places.

They hide in the bathwater and terrorize little children.” (The narrator concludes, “I think there are too damn many of them!” The obvious always sounds truer with an exclamation point tacked on it.) In a small percentage of these stories, the symbolism gets to be a bit too much for three pages to handle, but it’s on the whole a stellar display of talent.

The narrator of “Skill Certification,” Maeve Stephenson’s story in Les Sar’zine, could be a close cousin of the storyteller in “Meditations on Dilettantism.” She’s hiking alone in the wilderness after a bad breakup, noticing every time other hikers eye her suspiciously—doesn’t she know hiking alone is dangerous for a woman?—and thinking disheartening things about how to survive a bear attack while telling herself overdramatic things like “I will die alone in the ChelanSawtooth Wilderness of a busted heart.”

Sar’zine tosses itself further into experimental and abstract territory than Spartan Ada Ludenow’s suite of poems “Naked” unfolds into a series of stanzas about items of clothing (a sweater inspires the thought that “Love is itchy, blue and comprehensive, and/ your arms contain me”) before opening to a “centerfold” portrait of a naked woman and a poem that begins, “We weave and we wear out. This is the procession of new days.” When you tear something down to its barest components, the truth shines through. Together, Spartan and Sar’zine are evidence that the truth comes in all shapes and sizes.

MBY BRENDAN KILEY

ost reviews of 25 Saints dwell on its first few seconds, when playwright Joshua Rollins lays out his story’s awful stakes. The lights come up on the interior of a run-down shack, cluttered with gas masks

and other telltale meth-making gear. A reggae version of John Denver’s “Country Roads” plays for a few quiet bars before the door bangs open and four people charge through: two young men carrying a sheriff’s deputy, and a screaming young woman. They’re all panicked, shouting, and covered in blood. The young men wrestle with the wounded deputy before shoving him into a large wooden chest and beating him with a hammer until he stops moving. They slam the lid closed and sit on it, panting. One turns to the other and says: “So. Now what?”

That question is the rest of the play— Rollins could’ve used alternate title. The three young people deliberate about what to do (burn the body or trapped in. In fact, position, which is the play’s essential weakness—but the tensions are high and the lead performances are urgent, making that flaw easy to overlook. (Azeotrope is performing 25 Saints Winter, Adam Rapp’s play about two young American men who get wrapped up in a love triangle with a sex worker in Amsterdam.)

The central presence in ally an absence—a young man who racked up major debts with local meth kingpins, knocked up his girlfriend, and blew up a

He’s a man trying to do good in bad circumstances.

meth lab before disappearing. His brother, Charlie, has dropped out of college to return and save the lives his brother abandoned. Charlie looks after the girlfriend, Sammy, and cooks meth to pay off the debt with his brother’s also-indebted friend Tuck, a veteran whose hand was blown off after he petted a dog that insurgents had sewn a bomb into. 25 Saints does not spare any tragic details.

Tim Gouran plays Charlie as a man trying to do good in bad circumstances and struggling to keep himself in one piece while the contradictions in his life are trying to tear him apart. In one sense he’s noble, having sacrificed himself to save the lives of others caught up in his brother’s mess—but that socalled nobility involves dropping out of college, cooking meth for some evil bosses, falling in love with his brother’s ex-girlfriend, and now thinking of how to dispose of the body of a deputy. (The deputy had raped Sammy, further confounding any attempt to sort out what justice should look like in the world of this play.) Charlie is a complicated man, and Gouran’s performance seethes with conflicted energy trying to contain itself.

Sammy is another ball of conflicts, and Libby Barnard’s performance oscillates between pugnacious defiance and such hurt that she can’t bring herself to look anyone in the eye. Unfortunately, Rollins gives Sammy some incongruously florid passages. In one scene, as she fantasizes with Charlie about running away to Virginia Beach, she says: “Go to sleep with the smell of the ocean. Wake up to the smell of bread… the sun will burn all our scars away.” Barnard sells it fairly well, but that moment puts a pin in the conundrum of this production—the lead actors give good performances, but it sometimes feels like they’re making the best of uneven material.

(11/6) Town Music: Enso String Quartet

Opera Composers’ String Quartets

(11/6) Scholar in Residence

Dr. David Montgomery Stories From My Pet Rocks

(11/7) Simon Singh ‘The Simpsons & Their Mathematical Secrets’

(11/7) Donald Fagen of Steely Dan with Ross Reynolds ‘Eminent Hipsters’

(11/7) ‘The Book of Jezebel’ Anna Holmes & Lindy West

(11/8) Elliott Bay Book Co. Elizabeth Gilbert

(11/8)EthanCasey&BillSteigerwald 2 Authors, 2 Road Trips, 2 Americas

(11/9) Morton Subotnick & Lillevan ‘From Silver Apples of the Moon to a Sky of Cloudless Sulphur’

(11/10) Fifth Annual Seattle Slack Key Festival

11/11

Lester Brown ‘BreakingNewGround’onFoodSecurity

Double Feature! (11/11) Reclaiming Prosperity Greg LeRoy: Good Jobs First

(11/11) Robert McChesney & John Nichols ‘Dollarocracy’

(11/12) Mark Halperin & John Heilemann Game Change 2012

(11/12) Chris Hadfield ‘An Astronaut’s Guide to Life on Earth’

(11/13) King County Mental Health & Substance Abuse Legislative Forum

Double Feature! (11/13) Peter Baker

The Real Bush/Cheney Dynamic

(11/13) David Folkenflik ‘Murdoch’s World’

Double Feature! (11/14) Peggy Kelsey Conversations with Afghan Women

(11/14) Joe Sacco: ‘The Great War’

“Sea le trapeze act Duo Madrona has never been be er, in a routine that makes hanging

in tandem by elbow, arm and ankle look easy and sexy.”

— The Sea le Times

ART

Museums

FRYE ART MUSEUM

On the occasion of the 150th anniversary of his birth and the 120th anniversary of his American debut, Munich Secession cofounder Franz von Stuck—the painter of Sin—is celebrated in the first monographic exhibition in the United States dedicated to his accomplishments. Free. Tues-Sun. Through Feb 2. 704 Terry Ave, 622-9250.

HENRY ART GALLERY

Jason Dodge’s sculptures: See review, page 27. $10 suggested. Wed-Sun. Through Jan 26. 4100 15th Ave NE, 543-2280.

SEATTLE ART MUSEUM

Peru: Kingdoms of the Sun and Moon: The museum turns its focus southward to Peru this season, with a great big sparkling exhibition of rarely seen sculpture, painting, and textiles surveying 3,000 years of patrimony, from the Incas to the viceroys and the saints. $20. Wed-Sun. Through Jan 5. 1300 First Ave 625-8900.

Gallery

Openings

301 STOREFRONT

GALLERY

Faded Glory: Bold yet mysterious paintings from Laura Castellanos, and photographs by Juan Alonso revisiting his upbringing in Havana. Free. Wed-Sat. Through Nov 30. 301 Occidental Ave S

BHERD STUDIOS

Spectral Menagerie: Joe Vollan and Megan Shore : Paintings of the afterworld of the animal kingdom. Like the kind of afterworld where cats wearing tweed outfits dance around burning pentagrams. Free. Wed-Fri. Through Dec 10. 312 N 85th St 234-8348.

FOSTER/WHITE GALLERY

Guy Laramée: Islands: Lush topographical sculptures carved from hardbound books. Free. Tues-Sat. Through Nov 30. 220 Third Ave S, 622-2833.

FRANCINE SEDERS

GALLERY

Knijff lives in Amsterdam. Free. Reception Fri Nov 8, 6-8 pm. Thurs Nov 7. 1203A 2nd Ave, 467-4927.

ROQ LA RUE

Marco Mazzoni, Lindsey Carr: Paintings that feature formally garbed and posed animals by Carr, darkly surreal paintings by Mazzoni, and faces without eyes surrounded by butterflies, that sort of thing. Free. Reception Thurs Nov, 6-9 pm. Wed-Sat. Through Nov 30. 532 1st Ave S, 374-8977.

SOIL

Suitcase: Featuring three Swiss artists who carry their work, quite literally, in suitcases. In the back space of the gallery, Julia Freeman shows a new side to her theatrical constructions: a series of collaged photographs she calls Good Manners and Great Understandings Free. Reception Thurs Nov 7, 6-8 pm. Thurs-Sat. Through Nov 30. 112 Third Ave S, 264-8061.

STONINGTON GALLERY

Robert Davidson: Thinking Abstract : Formline design in contemporary incarnations. Free. Nov 7-26. 125 S Jackson St, 405-4040.

THRESHOLD GALLERY AT MITHUN

Eric Nation : Sculptural yet functional furniture as well as purely sculptural sculpture. Free. Reception Thurs Nov 7, 5-7 pm. Mon-Fri. Through Dec 24. 1201 Alaskan Way #200, 623-3344.

Continuing Exhibitions

Jackie Barnette, Elizabeth Sandvig, Marita Dingus: A trio of expressive abstractions, figurations, and conglomerations, respectively. Free. Reception Sun Nov 10, 2-4 pm. TuesSun. Through Nov 30. 6701 Greenwood Ave N, 782-0355.

GALLERY4CULTURE

John Feodorov: Emergence : Acrylics in dialogue with the artist’s Native American ancestry, drawing from contemporary imagery to create a bleak modern mythology. Free. Reception Thurs Nov 7, 6-8 pm. Mon-Fri. Through Nov 27. 101 Prefontaine Pl S, 296-7580.

GROVER/THURSTON

GALLERY

Fay Jones: New paintings by the beloved longtime Seattle artist, this time inspired by the films of great French director Jean Renoir, whose works include The Rules of the Game and Grand Illusion Free. Tues-Sat. Through Dec 21. 319 Third Ave S, 223-0816.

JAMES HARRIS GALLERY

Am I Not a Man and a Brother?

Am I Not a Woman and a Sister?: A small show of photo work by African artists who turn the camera on themselves, using costumes, props, and projections to express ideas of cultural and personal identity. Participating photographer Mohau Modisaking will speak at the gallery Thurs Nov 7 at 6:30 pm. Roy Dowell: Painting, sculpture, collage, all patterned with glyphic flatness. Free. Wed-Sat. Through Nov 27. 604 Second Ave, 903-6220.

LXWXH

Julia Hensley: Star Systems: Abstract collage paintings “inspired by the universe and technology” (and what else is there besides the universe and technology?). Free. Sat. Through Nov 30. 6007 12th Ave S

MIA GALLERY

Sofie Knijff: Translations: How should a fine artist picture a child? It’s a question that’s come up in every era. Knijff takes formally posed photographic portraits of children all over the world, offering her own answers. The children live in South Africa, India, Mali, and Brazil, among other places.

Seattle. So no bananas. Artists will include Kesey/Pollock, Eleanor Petry, Lauren Max, Andrew Waits, Megumi Arai, and 2013 Stranger Genius Award winner Rodrigo Valenzuela. AXIS Pioneer Square 308 1st Avenue S. $10 and a potluck dish. Sat Nov 9 at 6 pm. visualart@thestranger.com

READINGS

Thurs 11/7

CHEAP WINE AND POETRY

Poets Frances McCue, Johnny Horton, and Erin Malone read poetry at this raucous event. The raucousness probably has to do in part with the wine, which is sold for only one dollar a cup. Hugo House, 1634 11th Ave, 322-7030. Free. 7 pm.

CHRIS KIMBALL

The America’s Test Kitchen Cooking School Cookbook is a beautiful, thick, richly illustrated guide that

readings@thestranger.com

CORE Kathy Liao: I’m Home : This show of new works represents a breakthrough for the Seattlebased, Taiwan-born painter who’s been hard at work the last few years. Her bright, streaky paintings have hit a peak of emotional intensity and technical skill that’s a thrill to see. It makes perfect sense that this show is called I’m Home. Free. Reception Thurs Nov 7, 6-9 pm Wed-Sat. Through Nov 30. 117 Prefontaine Place S, 467-4444.

Events

AFFORDABLE ART FAIR

See preview, page 27. Check the website for special workshops and talks. Exhibition Hall, 305 Harrison St, Seattle Center. affordableartfair.com. $10. Thurs Nov 7, 11 am-5 pm; Fri Nov 8 and Sat Nov 9, 11 am-7 pm; Sun Nov 10, 11 am-5 pm.

ARTIST TALK BY NANDIPHA MNTAMBO

Nandipha Mntambo is the second South African artist to speak this week in Seattle. The first, Mohau Modisakeng, is at James Harris Gallery Thursday (see listing), and they’re traveling together, each providing rare insight into the complex issues involved in making art in postcolonial Africa. Mntambo’s work is especially about representing female bodies. Seattle Art Museum, 1300 First Ave, 625-8900. seattleartmuseum.org. $10. Fri Nov 8, 6:30-7:30 pm.

ARTIST TRUST’S 2013 AWARDS PARTY

Dance performances, storytelling, a cash bar, and after-hours mingling at Seattle’s weirdestshaped museum to celebrate the recipients of Artist Trust’s 2013 grants. EMP Museum 325 Fifth Avenue N, 770-2702. artisttrust.org. $50. Fri Nov 8, 6:30-8:30 pm.

COCA MARATHON/ AUCTION

The annual painting marathon and sale, benefiting future exhibitions. CoCA Georgetown, 5701 Sixth Ave S, Plaza Ste 258, 728-1980. cocaseattle.org/index.htm. Free. Thurs-Fri. Through Nov 8. SLIDELUCK SEATTLE 10 Digitally projected slideshow, potluck dinner. The theme: locally sourced materials. Everything it takes to put on this event must come from within 150 miles of

$5. 7:30 pm.

Fri 11/8

DAVID HENRY, JOE HENRY The Henry brothers read their new biography Furious Cool: Richard Pryor and the World That Made Him University Book Store 4326 University Way NE, 6343400. bookstore.washington.edu. Free. 7 pm.

Sat 11/9

THE ROOKIE YEARBOOK TWO RELEASE PARTY See preview, page 29. Vera Project Republican St and Warren Ave N, 956-8372. theveraproject.org. Free. 1 pm.

TOM NISSLEY, KEN JENNINGS Nissley is the local author of a new book titled A Reader’s Book of Days: True Tales from the Lives and Works of Writers for Every Day of the Year. Jennings is the local author of Because I Said So!: The Truth Behind the Myths, Tales, and Warnings Every Generation Passes Down to Its Kids. Both men are Jeopardy! champions. Third Place Books 17171 Bothell Way NE, 3663333. thirdplacebooks.com. Free. 7 pm.

Mon 11/11

SCOTT LYNCH Republic of Thieves is a fantasy book by an author who George R. R. Martin has lovingly recommended to his fans. University Book Store, 4326 University Way NE, 634-3400. bookstore. washington.edu. Free. 7 pm. JOHN NICHOLS AND ROBERT MCCHESNEY Dollarocracy is subtitled How the Money and Media Election Complex is Destroying America This sounds like a book that everyone should be talking about in November, just as the terrible machine is lurching back to life for the 2016 presidential elections. Town Hall 1119 Eighth Ave, 652-4255. townhallseattle. org. $5. 7:30 pm. DAVID SEDARIS See Stranger Suggests, page 25. Benaroya Hall 200 University St, 215-4800. seattlesymphony. org. $43-$52. 8 pm.

Tues 11/12

Group gives us a peek of a three new scripts (by Mallery Avidon, Martyna Majok, and Spike Friedman) with some curatorial work of the room by dancer/choreographer Alice Gosti, as well as a bar. Inscape, 815 Airport Way S. satori-group.com. $5. ThursSun. See website for complete schedule.

RED LIGHT WINTER & 25 SAINTS

See review, page 30. Azeotrope at ACT Theatre, 700 E Union St, 292-7676. acttheatre.org. $30. Thurs-Fri at 7:30 pm, Sat at 2 and 7:30 pm, Sun at 2 pm. Through Nov 24.

A VERY MERRY UNAUTHORIZED CHILDREN’S SCIENTOLOGY PAGEANT

The infamous satirical musical about L. Ron Hubbard that uses children’s Christmas-pageant tropes to tackle Scientology. Directed by Douglas Willott, starring actual children. Balagan Theatre at Erickson Theater Off Broadway 1524 Harvard Ave, 329-1050. balagantheatre.org. Thurs-Sat at 8 pm, Sun at 2 pm. Through Dec 21.

Dance

KYLIAN + PITE

“Seattle audiences have learned to love Crystal Pite’s dreamscapes—which can enchant, baffle, and terrify as quickly as a dream itself—through On the Boards, which has presented several of her works in recent years. In 2011, her meditation on puppetry and Frankenstein, Dark Matters, blew audiences away (it’s the kind of show people still talk about), and her swan-dive into Shakespeare the following year with The Tempest Replica seemed to usher in a new kind of live storytelling, like a hybrid of dance and theater, but an improvement on both. Now Pacific Northwest Ballet is getting in on the act with Pite’s insect colony–inspired Emergence PNB will also introduce Seattle to Jiri Kylian’s Forgotten Land, set to music by Benjamin Britten, and revive audience favorites Petite Mort and Sechs Tänze.” (Brendan Kiley) McCaw Hall 321 Mercer St, 441-2424. pnb.org. $28$120. Fri at 7:30 pm, Sat at 2 and 7:30 pm. Through Nov 17.

CHRIS HADFIELD An Astronaut’s Guide to Life on Earth is a book written by an astronaut. Town Hall 1119 Eighth Ave, 634-3400. townhallseattle.org. Free. 7:30 pm. MARK HALPERIN, JOHN HEILEMANN It’s time for a second helping of Halperin and Heilemann’s gossipy, insidery account of the 2012 presidential campaign. Get ready to learn more about Mitt Romney than is humanly healthy. Town Hall, 1119 Eighth Ave, 652-4255. townhallseattle.org. $5. 7:30 pm.

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KAIRA ROOS AND HER MUUMUU JUMPSUIT

Kaira Roos’s wildly shimmering hot-pants ensemble is the fashion equivalent of a lightning bolt, its ingredients list including angles and futurism and cropped undershirts and planar surfaces and metallic finishes and pig leather. Kaira designed the outfit independently, but she is currently an assistant designer at Dolce Vita, a local and fancy-ish footwear company, so she knows lots about this last material— like that it’s common in shoe linings, and is quickly identifiable by its visible pores “Even the faux versions come painted with mock little dots to represent hair follicles,” she says, and that is weird to think about.

Developing this look along with others in her mini-line, verla.viv, Kaira drew inspiration from vintage apparel: a pair

of jogging shorts made from raw-cut leather and left unlined, for instance. The thought that someone might’ve once actually jogged in these is both shocking and wonderful. More of Kaira’s design details summon a tropical glamour. Draped sleeves look like windsurfing sails, wedge shoes are lacquered with teeny seashells, and fabrics in screechy colors like neon coral recall mid-century Hawaiian barkcloth prints.

In her portfolio, Kaira’s models stand on mounds of beach sand in a white photography studio, in tribute to Francesco Scavullo’s famous 1973 fashion portrait of the hairy-thighed Mick Jagger. (Jagger wears silver perv shorts while gripping a scoop-and-pail play set, and the expression clamped on his face is a little cruel and a little bored, suggesting these actions are a normal part of his routine.)

Kaira’s greatest work is a bizarrely imaginative one-piece garment patterned with gilded crests, swirling medallions, and other splendorous ’90s-era relics. To construct the look, she began with a floor-length muumuu. Worth noting: According to dubious internet lore, the word originates from mu’umu’u, which means “amputated” in Hawaiian, and the loosefitting dresses are a symbolic reminder of the leprosy rampant during the Hawaiian missionary period.

Kaira picked the gown for its delicate polyester, and she installed ribbed ankle cuffs and a low-slung crotch to encourage the fabric to fall in liquidy swirls. “It’s ridiculous,” says Kaira, describing the finished muumuu jumpsuit, which clearly has its own shit going on. After you’ve put it on, you should just let it take you wherever it needs to go.

CHOW

It’s Pronounced “Market”

Ethan Stowell’s Latest Restaurant Is Not Like

BY BETHANY JEAN CLEMENT

The restaurant named mkt. is Ethan Stowell’s seventh in Seattle—or eighth, if you count Ballard Pizza Company, or ninth, if you count his original and now-long-defunct Union,

or tenth or eleventh, if you count his hamburger and crepe outlets at Safeco Field. His main half-dozen places—Tavolàta, How to Cook a Wolf, Anchovies & Olives, Staple & Fancy, Rione XIII, and Bar Cotto—are all stylish, urbane rooms serving his trademark rustic Italian. Across the board, the pasta is excellent (all made fresh, thanks to the extruder in the basement of Tavolàta), the vegetable dishes are exceptionally good, the meats and fish are very well-handled, and it all has a local/ seasonal/very-well-sourced bent. Some have questioned the lack of variation—but if a man loves Italian food, and he is masterful at assembling great teams of people to make it, and by this he prospers, why should he not follow his heart (rather than, as some might, opening a Tibetan dumpling shop, a Greek place, a tavern, a bakery, a seafood place, and something

mkt.

pan-Asian instead)? Along the way, he was named a 2008 Best New Chef by Food & Wine, then a Best New Chef All-Star this year, and was thrice nominated for a James Beard award. And so Ethan Stowell made one restaurant after another, each more or less in the same image, and the people rejoiced as one came to their own neighborhood, and it was good.

2108 N 55th St, 812-1580

ethanstowellrestaurants.com/mkt

mkt. is different. Stowell fans will know this when they see that there is only one pasta on the menu (unheard of!). mkt. is smaller: 28 seats in a streamlined, shotgunstyle space in Green Lake’s Tangletown, with slate-colored walls and handsome handmade chairs. The sole flourish—metal letters spelling out food words in the back corner—seems a little overdone (and could make you want “goat,” “geoduck,” or other things on the wall and

firm, sweet, perfectly cooked. Same with four large scallops ($21): gently golden-butterbrowned on top instead of hard-seared, so the texture could be heavenly all the way through. The scallops were so good, it almost didn’t matter that their bed of small white beans had an undercooked pastiness and the bits of smoked pork shank among them were tasteless—a strange mistake in the context of the otherwise highly attentive work being done here.

Everything at mkt. is meant to share, the solicitous (if occasionally a little slow) servers tell you—and almost everything’s portioned to be easily shared four ways, obviating those awkward, insincere oh-no-YOU-haveit moments. Chicken-fried quail ($16) was

If

the idea of grilled lamb tongue is unhorrifying to you, you should absolutely order it.

one exception; the bird was split in two, but you’d want to have a full half of it anyway, because the combination of crispy breading and delicate, slightly gamey meat is pretty much unbeatable. It comes with an elevated version of picnic-style potato salad and a roasted plum sauce for barbecue-esque dipping (which is a great idea, though the quail’s so good, you might not get around to dipping it).

If the idea of grilled lamb tongue ($13) is unhorrifying to you, you should absolutely order it. The flavor and texture both fall somewhere between long-braised lamb shank and dirty-rich organ meat; it’s dark and delicious, and it especially benefits from the smokiness of the wood-fired grill. It came with firm, pretty baby beets, grilled bread, and a drift of fresh horseradish.

His Others

not on the menu). There’s a roll-up garage door and the currently-required-by-upscalerestaurant-law wood-fired grill. In the long, narrow, open kitchen, you will find chef Joe Ritchie, who’s worked with Jerry Traunfeld at the Herbfarm and Poppy. He is joined by Monica Dimas, whose résumé is also impressive: Monsoon, Spinasse, Le Pichet, Campagne. mkt. feels like a neighborhood place, with its funny shape and arm’s-lengthaway kitchen, and it feels like their place. Stowell says the menu is different on purpose: In order to branch out, he gave Ritchie free rein. “The neighborhood’s been digging it so far,” he says.

mkt.’s zucchini fritters ($9) are very diggable. They’re extremely light, ungreasy, almost cloud-like little orbs, with lemon zest and thyme and the right amount of salt in them, served with herby oil for dipping (any left over should definitely be saved for the complimentary Tall Grass bread). Four larger-sized grilled shrimp ($14) leaning against a fennel-celery salad were exemplary:

As with other Stowellian restaurants, vegetables are anything but an afterthought. A tagine ($12) was generously full of especially firm, tasty ones—the potatoes actually managed to be exciting—with medjool dates, all in a drinkable sauce. A dish of smoked chanterelle and hen-of-the-wood mushrooms ($12)—seasoned simply with thyme and sauced with the giant glowing yolk of a beautiful duck egg—was phenomenal. And that one pasta dish, right now anyway, is a roasted porcini and ricotta ravioli in a mushroom broth ($15). It is as good as any plate of pasta that any Ethan Stowell restaurant has ever put out, and that is saying something.

(It’s worth noting that Stowell’s next two restaurants, already in the works, will be different, too: Red Cow will be more French, with a specialty of steak frites, and Noyer will be, excitingly, a small-size redux of his original, haute, great Union. Both will be in the lovely former Crémant/June/Restaurant Bea space, in Madrona, which is also exciting.)

The name mkt., absurdly, is supposed to be pronounced “market,” with the “m” and the “k” and the “t” standing for “Meridian, the traditional name for the neighborhood; the historic Keystone Building it’s housed in; and Tangletown, as the area is now known,” according to a press release. If the name feels overthought, that’s all right; the food at mkt. feels like a labor of love.

Specials

DRIKNING WITH CHARLSE MUDEDE

BY CHARLES MUDEDE

HEDGES FAMILY ESTATE GOES EAST TO THE MONEY

In August 2009, a group of very angry Africans brought the body of an unconscious man to the doorstep of a police station in Guangzhou, China, and demanded justice. The unconscious man was a Nigerian named Emmanuel Okoro. He, like many Africans in this port city, was a trader struggling to make ends meet. Depending on who you ask or which report you read, Guangzhou has between 30,000 and 200,000 black Africans who primarily run small local and export businesses. Many of these Africans are not in the country legally, as visas usually last for only three months. Okoro’s papers were not in order when the police burst into his operation at Tangqi Foreign Trade Clothes Plaza. Not wanting to be caught and deported, he jumped out of a second-story window and landed on his head. His bleeding body was picked up by other African traders and taken to the police station. Though China makes billions from African markets (a point Robert Neuwirth makes in his book Stealth of Nations), it has a reputation for treating Africans in Guangzhou like total shit. This week, the popular Washington State winery Hedges Family Estate sent out a super-cheerful e-mail stating that it was looking “east to China” with the hope of tapping into “its growing market for quality wine.” China’s upper middle class is rapidly expanding and has lots of extra cash to spend on things like shark-fin soup, art from galleries in New York City and London, and wine from all over the world. So how is this Washington company entering this exciting, new, and potentially lucrative market?

“Hedges Family Estate’s new importer, Area 16, [is] based out of Guangzhou.” Yes, the same city where 200 Africans protested the brutally unfair treatment of African traders by local officials. And the situation is not improving. “Race relations [are] deteriorating in the southern Chinese metropolis of Guangzhou,” reported Time in June 2012, “after a Nigerian man died apparently in police custody. Chinese media did acknowledge the event, unlike other instances when news blackouts follow sensitive stories. But the reports were rather limited in describing the protests by somewhere between 100 and 500 Africans living in Guangzhou.” In short, Hedges Family Estate is entering a market that’s seriously complicated by unresolved labor and political issues.

“It’s not right what is happening in Guangzhou,” wrote Hedges’s head of sales and marketing, Christophe Hedges, when I requested a comment from the winery about the bad situation it was walking into. “We will still sell wine there. I hope that such racism will end. We sell wine in the USA, and we have awful racism here…” Fair enough, but at least the US has democratic institutions to formally address racism and labor exploitation. No such institutions exist in China. That said, I actually do admire Hedges Family Estate because of their popular brand CMS (a cheap but poshtasting wine—I drank two glasses of it while composing this column at my desk).

Thurs 11/7

THE PAINTED TABLE DINNER

Time-travel back to the great Painted Table with original chef Emily Moore, who’ll make classics from the original menu while current Library Bistro chef Chris Lobkovich creates updated versions to serve side by side. It’s pricey, but the menu sounds excellent. Library Bistro, 92 Madison St, 624-3646. librarybistro. com. $150. 6 pm.

Sun 11/10

BUBBLES & BIVALVES

Frank’s throws a party with unlimited oysters on the half-shell (!) plus two drink tickets included in the price of admission, plus learn how to shuck ‘em yourself and possibly win a bottle of champagne.

Frank’s Oyster House & Champagne Parlor ,

2614 NE 55th St, 2146518. franksoysterhouse. com. $45. 2:30-5:30 pm.

Tues 11/12

FREE CHOWDER AT DUKE’S

Celebrate Greg Nickels–instigated International Chowder Day with a bowl of free clam chowder at any Duke’s location. All Duke’s locations . dukeschowderhouse.com. Free!

LIOCO WINE TASTING

Lauren Feldman and Shawn Mead—both formerly of Campagne/Cafe Campagne—invite you to their new Fremont cafe/ wine shop (where its polar opposite, Herfy’s, used to be) for a tasting of Lioco wine (from California, but “Prepare to be surprised”), with probably great snacks included. Vif, 4401 Fremont Ave N, 557-7357. vifseattle. com. $15. 6:30 pm.

MEANS WE RECOMMEND IT.

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TACO CHAMPIONS

Asked why he decided to open 14 Carrot Taco Stand in Eastlake after working as a CFO of a health-care company and the president of corporate development at WatchGuard Technologies, Miles Doga replied, “I’m hungry!” After Daly’s burgers closed, there was nowhere to eat for cheap in his neighborhood at night. He tried to persuade the owner of the 14 Carrot Cafe to extend the popular brunch spot’s hours. She suggested he sell tacos out of the cafe’s kitchen on Thursday, Friday, and Saturday nights. Miles wasn’t the first—Cormac Mahoney ran his Tako Truk out of the space with much success, going on to start his restaurant, Madison Park Conservatory, which is pretty much the opposite of a taco truck. “He was doing fancy stuff, like octopus tacos,” Miles said.

The chef, Miles’s cousin Ryan Henson, isn’t keeping it strictly simple: He makes tacos with bulgogi beef, baby back ribs, falafel, and turkey, plus you can get sliders, ribs, hot dogs, and specials like bulgogi beef cheesesteaks. If you finish 10 tacos in a sitting, you get to name a type of taco. One woman ate 15 tacos, named a taco after her son, then came back the next day and named another taco after her daughter. “We should probably have a statue of her made,” said Miles. “No one’s eaten a whole rack of ribs yet. Maybe the prize for that should be a trophy.” SARAH GALVIN

MUSIC

“Roar” and

the Search for Meaning

A Conversation About Prism and Katy Perry’s Pantheistic Quest to Wear Your Skin Like a Suit

BY CIENNA MADRID AND PAUL CONSTANT

1. ROAR

PAUL CONSTANT: Katy Perry has always been a singles artist. You’d have to be a total dick to deny the appeal of “Firework” or “California Gurls.” So why does “Roar” feel so deflated? Worse yet, why is “Roar” the best thing on this album?

CIENNA MADRID: Perhaps because Perry finally hit puberty? Now, instead of squirting whipped cream, her mechanicalnipple bras will squirt expired milk and tax forms. I actually like “Roar.” Perry’s voice is best when she’s scream-singing—it’s fullthroated, it’s husky, and it makes you want to scream-sing along. We don’t get enough of that on this album.

PC: But it doesn’t even have the abandon of her other full-throated songs. You listen to Katy Perry’s singles for that wordless ejaculation at the end of the chorus: The “Make ’em go aaaaah aaaaaay aaaaaay” in “Firework” or that weird “aaieeau-eow-eow” in “California Gurls.” Here, it’s a more restrained “oooahoh-oh-oh-oh-oh-ohheoh.” It ends in a choke, not a bellow.

2. LEGENDARY LOVERS

CM: Really, her most egregious misstep is embracing ballads instead of the clubbier pop hits that made Teenage Dream so fantastic. Without a punchy beat behind her, it’s more obvious that her pedantic lyrics—basically just clichés running together in a semi-coherent stream—don’t even rhyme. Take the first two lines of “Legendary Lovers”: “Under a silver moon, tropical temperature/I feel my lotus bloom, come closer.” Later on in the song, she rhymes “legendary” with “legendary.” This is what giving up sounds like.

PC: This song just makes me feel gross.

a pretty good line for a pop song, but “Boy, you make me feel exotic yeah” is a terrible follow-through.

5. UNCONDITIONALLY

PC: Un-con-dish-SHAUN-ul! Un-con-dishSHAUN-ul-lee!

CM: Katy Perry is teaching an entire generation how to pronounce words wrong.

6. DARK HORSE (FEAT. JUICY J)

CM: This is supposed to be one of the “darker” songs—we know because it has the word “dark” in the title, and features heavy bass and Juicy J from Three 6 Mafia—but the theme’s the same as most other songs: love ’n’ sex.

PC: To be fair, Katy Perry has always been about mixed signals. “Firework,” her supposed gay pride and anti-teen-suicide anthem, is about being beautiful for a second and then exploding into nothingness.

CM: Instead of lotus blossoms and birthday balloons, this time we get forbidden magic, birds in a cage, a perfect storm, the requisite dark horse, a Jeffrey Dahmer dinner, pie, a knight in shining armor, drugs, and a roller coaster. ALL STUFFED INTO ONE THREE-MINUTE SONG ABOUT LOVE.

7. THIS IS HOW WE DO

WHAT'S CRAPPENING?

• In a startling turn of events, the resurrected Detroit proto-punk band Death—minus the sadly departed guitarist David Hackney—killed it Friday night at Chop Suey on Día de los Muertos. Death ripped through 14 fiery songs and had Seattle’s usually placid gig-goers freaking out from the second they walked onstage. Call it a comeback.

• Seattle psych-rock sextet Midday Veil are in negotiations for a deal with England’s excellent Rocket Recordings (Goat, GNOD). In other Midday Veil/England news, they look likely to be performing at the Liverpool International Festival of Psychedelia in September 2014.

• This weekend’s M.I.A. show in NYC opened with a live video address from Julian Assange, the notorious WikiLeaks founder who appeared via Skype to praise M.I.A. as “the most courageous woman working in Western music, no exception.” To retaliate, Miley Cyrus will open her NYC show by shooting Edward Snowden out of a glitter cannon.

The all-you-can-worship-spirituality-buffet talk about auras and magic and karma and cleansing rivers and saying names like scriptures makes me feel like I’m listening to a Scientology indoctrination tape.

CM: Also, the sitar. Nothing screams cultural appropriation like sitar.

3. BIRTHDAY

CM: I do appreciate how Perry can walk the line of chaste flirt and sexy seductress. This song is all about birthday sex. “So let me get you in your birthday suit/It’s time to bring out the big, big, big, big, big, big balloons” she croons. Meanwhile, while making the media rounds promoting Prism, she’s been shaking her bobble-head sadly, blinking her great big blue eyes, and talking about what a shame it is that other pop starlets can’t keep their clothes on. (This is the woman who posed nude in cotton-candy clouds on the cover of Teenage Dream AND is seemingly topless on the cover of Prism.)

Nothing screams cultural appropriation like sitar.

PC: This is maybe the second-best song on the album, just because it has a nice Prince vibe to it. Unfortunately, it’s post–Jehovah’s Witness Prince.

4. WALKING ON AIR

CM: This song sounds like a drag-queen club anthem. It’s not terrible, but I’ve listened to it no less than 20 times, and it has never once gotten stuck in my head.

PC: “You’re reading me like erotica” is

PC: It’s no secret that I’m a Ke$ha man. And part of Ke$ha’s appeal, to me, is that she seems to wallow in her lifestyle and image, in the same way that punk musicians lived their lyrics, back when punk still mattered. Unlike Madonna or Lady Gaga, who are always putting on and taking off images, Ke$ha is all about one continuous legend, which feels refreshingly authentic. “This Is How We Do” is the trashy Ke$ha-style party track on this album, and I just don’t buy it. In the middle of the song, Perry gives a shout-out to “all you kids buying bottle service with your rent money.” I expected the next line to be something about blowing your trust fund on a new scooter. It just feels like the Christian high schooler wearing a fake nose ring to give off a renegade air.

CM: The song feels like a Miley Cyrus ripoff—as if someone reminded Perry that she’s about to turn 30, and that’s about double the age of her fans, so she should scramble to relate to them before they start counting the lines on her face like rings on a tree.

PC: I’m also unhappy with the line “gettin’ my nails did all Japanese-y.” Considering Perry is on the record as wanting to tear the skin off a Japanese person and then wear it “like Versace.”

8. INTERNATIONAL SMILE

CM: I’d listen to it on repeat if I had to undergo minor dental surgery. Much like getting punched in the stomach distracts your attention away from a headache, this song might lessen the pain of a root canal by comparison.

PC: Let’s see what other cultures we can murder and eat! How about all of them? Let’s just eat all of them.

9. GHOST

PC: I know we sound like haters, so let me just say that I loved Perry’s concert documentary Part of Me and I’d recommend it to anyone. This song feels like brand maintenance. It acknowledges Perry’s divorce from Russell Brand (“You sent a text” is obviously a callback to how Brand reportedly divorced her), and it pushes her personal story. Personally, I just can’t be bothered to give a shit. Part of Me was the perfect mix of entertainment and

• The universe’s biggest Duran Duran fan—Seattle’s Andy “Durandy” Golub— will soon find his life’s work in print. After amassing a storage unit full of D2 memorabilia (as seen in the documentary American Collectors), Durandy is publishing a book chronicling Duran Duran’s career through select posters from his archive, which will see the light of day by the end of the month.

• Overheard at the Canterbury on October 31: “It’s SO SAD this place is closing— the castle-y exterior made me want to come here since I was a little kid.” “Well, at least you’re here on the last Halloween, dressed as a princess.”

• During Slayer’s two-song encore at WaMu Theater on Friday (they played “Angel of Death” and “South of Heaven”), two right-side-up crosses, plus a giant banner that said “Hanneman, 1964–2013, Still Reigning,” decorated the stage. This tribute to Jeff Hanneman—who died of liver failure in May—seemed a little awkward, as the banner was designed to look like a Heineken beer label.

• R. Kelly fans were outraged last week after waiting three hours for his appearance at the Monroe Civic Center in Louisiana, only to witness a performance by what was reported to be an impersonator named (wait for it) R. Jelly. Fans reportedly paid $150 to see the Trapped in the Closet genius at a promo party for his upcoming record, titled (wait for it) Black Panties, and booed whoever it was off the stage after four minutes.

THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 7TH

DELHI 2 DUBLIN HOSTED BY DJ PRASHANT

FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 8TH

UNIVERSE PEOPLE CROOKED VEILS // GIBRALTAR

SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 9TH

“ROCK THE HOUSE” BENEFIT FOR RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE

C.F.O. // CHIMESTONE // DJ KURT BLOCH (FASTBACKS)

SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 10TH

EXOHXO

CLOUD PERSON // DAY LABORERS & PETTY INTELLECTUALS // SPANISH FOR 100

WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 13TH

CRYPTS

POP 1280 (NY/SACRED BONES) // HAUNTED HORSES // CLAYFACE (OLY)

THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 14TH

XVIII EYES (LP RELEASE) SHIPS // BLUE LIGHT CURTAIN

emotion. This album is too much of the latter and not enough of the former.

10. LOVE ME

CM: This song is one of the most cohesive and honest on Prism. It’s probably about John Mayer; nevertheless, the message is relatable and affirming. “Sometimes I wish my skin was a costume/That I could just unzip, and strip/But who I am is who I’m meant to be/And it’s who you are in love, in love with.” The message would sing stronger if every song weren’t about cajoling or seducing a man into loving you, but still.

PC: Again with pulling off and wearing skin! Someone’s a Silence of the Lambs fan.

11. THIS MOMENT

PC: Is this song more like a fart in an elevator or a warm spot in a public pool?

12. DOUBLE RAINBOW

PC: Of all the many plodding ballads on this album, I guess this is my favorite. But that’s not saying much; an ’80s synth-pop show-dragger inspired by a wildly popular YouTube video starring a weeping hippie is at best an amusing oddity.

13. BY THE GRACE OF GOD

CM: There’s been a lot of speculation that Perry is getting back to her Christian roots and shrewdly remaking herself as a more modest pop icon in contrast to the twerkers out there. Perhaps that’s so. However, this song, much like “Love Me,” is clearly another autobiographical autopsy of Perry’s crumbled marriage. The lyrics “by the grace of God” feel more like using common vernacular as a reaffirmation of personal strength than a pledge of allegiance to a white Sky King.

12/21

SUEY HOLIDAY PARTY, HE WHOSE OX IS GORED 12/22 HATTERS FOR HIRE

PC: Yeah, the autobiographical songs are the worst. You know what Ke$ha’s autobiographical songs are about? Having sex with motherfucking ghosts in haunted hotel rooms. And I refuse to believe Perry would tie herself down to one religion. That’s why this album worships at least 230 individual gods and demigods at various points in its lyrical journey; she doesn’t want to alienate anyone.

14. SPIRITUAL

CM: Likewise, “spiritual” is all about sex on an altar, so I doubt it was penned to pander to Christian parents. Also, it invokes witchcraft. So.

PC: Dear Wiccans: You are a valuable demographic, and I look forward to seeing you represented on future earnings reports.

—Regards, Katy Perry

15. IT TAKES TWO

CM: This is the best song on Prism. It thunders in like a rock anthem and it’s all about taking responsibility for yourself and your actions. This song gives me hope that Perry will be able to pump out satisfying hits in the future, instead of the perfunctory turds that overwhelm this album.

PC: I sincerely wonder if I’ll be able to love Perry in the same way ever again.

16. CHOOSE YOUR BATTLES

PC: I have nothing to say about this song. CM: Overwrought. She should’ve ended on “It Takes Two.”

PC: I met this person online who earnestly thinks that Perry, a vocal Obama supporter, named her album Prism in order to obfuscate the Google searches of people who might want to learn more about PRISM, the NSA’s once-secret blanket wiretapping program. I think that’s symbolic of the way most people look at Perry: Everyone wants to find something hidden underneath, some agenda that puts everything in perspective, when really, she probably just picked “prism” because it’s a pretty word that sounds nice.

Happy Birthday, Barsuk!

Talking About the Past, Present, and Future with Seattle’s Nicest Record Label

BY MEGAN SELING

That “nice guys finish last” cliché is such bullshit, and Barusk Records proves it. For 15 years, the Seattle-based record label has worked hard to be an artist-friendly label, and they’ve been able to survive and adapt in an ever-changing, often-tumultuous environment without sacrificing their ultimate goal of putting out good music made by good people. That’s no small feat! To celebrate their 15th anniversary, the label has gathered together bands and musicians from both the present and the past for a four-night party, featuring performances from Nada Surf, the Long Winters, Jesse Sykes, Rocky Votolato, Say Hi, and more.

Barsuk Anniversary Celebration

everyone’s a critic now; everyone can have an immediate opinion on Facebook and Twitter. It’s crazy! I’ve had this idea I’ve been talking about for a while—I mean, I could never do it because I just don’t have time, but it would be so great to have a blog that only reviews records that have been out for at least a year, instead of trying to support the idea that newness should be equated with goodness.

Nov 7–10, various venues, schedule and tickets at barsuk.com/xv

I spoke with label cofounder Josh Rosenfield about Barsuk’s past and future, because even though they already have 15 years in the bag, they don’t have any plans to stop anytime soon.

Obviously you have the big successes that everyone’s familiar with, but Barsuk has this underappreciated side. Bands like the Prom, they came and they went, but they were so fucking great. Do you have any favorite bands like that? I do indeed. And some of them are playing on these anniversary shows, coincidentally. I was very, very excited when the Prom confirmed because I feel the same way that you do about them. Similarly, Sunset Valley—I love Sunset Valley. They were around for a while, but they just never developed a big fan base for a variety of reasons. The records that they put out—in fact, most of them are not on Barsuk—are so good. I think their album Ice Pond remains one of the best things that we’ve ever released.

There’s only so much a label and a publicist can do to promote a record, and sometimes people just don’t grasp on to it. How does that feel, from a personal perspective, when you love a record and it’s just not doing well? I would go crazy. I would take it personally and scream, “Fuck everything, you’re all insane!” [Laughs] I have had that feeling on occasion. It’s more difficult now to keep people’s attention on a new band long enough to fall in love with it, and I think a lot of it has to do with the internet. There’s a fetishization of newness that the internet has helped transmit throughout our culture—the feeling that things need to be immediate. And it’s extremely frustrating, to answer your question, when there’s something that, for whatever reason, just doesn’t get that cultural traction. A month after an album comes out, unless Pitchfork gave it ‘best new music,’ it gets really, really hard for it to stick with people, you know? It just gets lost in the shuffle. That is both frustrating from a business perspective and really heartbreaking because the records were put out by people we love making music we love, so that’s tough.

And record labels are still so important. You’re curating something that makes it easier for people to find music they might like. There’s been this antirecord-label attitude, with Bandcamp and the ease for bands to do it themselves, but people forget how important it can be to be a part of the community. Do you feel that artists have wrongfully shunned you guys? What we do, and what we have always done, is try to provide a really great service to artists we love—artists whose music we love and artists we love as people. I don’t think that really fits with the way record label people in

“The stuff that we like is getting popular! The nerds are winning!”

general think of themselves, and certainly it doesn’t fit with the perception of record labels. I’m taking a long path to answer your question—I don’t feel shunned if an artist wants to go try that. The artists that do realize that it’s a lot of work, but if they want to do that work, then more power to ’em. I, in general, don’t spend a lot of time worrying about whether what we do is valid, and I’m really proud of the catalog of music that we’ve put out.

We’ve been spending a lot of time looking back, but some of the members of the roster—Yellow Ostrich, Cymbals Eat Guitars, Big Scary, Maps & Atlases—these are artists that came up in this new era, where the chances that somebody making interesting pop music is going to become a mainstream cultural icon are so incredibly slim. There was a period there after Death Cab started to get big—it was like “Whoa, the stuff that we like is getting popular! The nerds are winning!” [Laughs]

It seems like modern fans aren’t allowing bonds to grow with new music the way they did a decade ago, which is a bummer. Maybe part of the blame falls on the fact that

I’m really proud of the musicians and music that we’ve been associated with over the years, but, looking forward, I’m really proud of the way we’re operating now and the way we’ve adapted to the industry.

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Monqui Presents CASS MCCOMBS Michael Hurley 21+

THE BESNARD LAKES Elephant Stone All Ages THURSDAY 14 NOVEMBER

TURQUOISE JEEP NighTraiN All Ages FRIDAY 15 NOVEMBER

Funky in Your One-Piece Tour THE POLISH AMBASSADOR FEAT. VISUALS BY LIMINUS Splatinum, Wildlight All Ages SATURDAY 16 NOVEMBER

The Crocodile & ReignCity present LATYRX

The Staxx Brothers DJ Funkscribe 21+ THURSDAY 21 NOVEMBER THE MEAT PUPPETS

The World Takes (DJ Bonebrake from X) All Ages

Wednesday Nov 20th DELTRON 3030! Sunday Dec 8th ANDREA GIBSON

& COMING EVERY TUESDAY LIQUID COURAGE KARAOKE 11/9 SOLD OUT THE FRATELLIS 11/22 HELMET 11/23 BAND OF HEATHENS 11/26 JON HOPKINS 11/29 NACHO PICASSO & AVATAR DARKO 11/30 VINTAGE REGGAE NIGHT 12/1 CRASH KINGS 12/3 CHURCH OF MISERY, SAVIOURS, WIZARD RIFLE 12/4 MOWGLI’S 12/5 LISSIE 12/7 THE WHITE BUFFALO 12/10 JAKE MILLER 12/12 MIDLAKE 12/13 & 12/14 PICKWICK 12/19 SALLIE FORD & THE SOUND OUTSIDE 12/20 MY GOODNESS 12/26 WAX 12/27 BLACK BREATH 1/11 AUSTIN JENCKES 1/17 WOODEN SHJIPS 5/3 WE ARE SCIENTIST Friday Dec 27th BLACK BREATH

MY PHILOSOPHY

NACHO PICASSO’S HIGH & MIGHTY, SWAGFEST, 100S

“People always asking if I sold out? No/Bro, I still feel alone in a sold-out show.”

—Nacho Picasso

Last week, Nacho Picasso, Seattle’s preeminent prince of darkness (Moor Gang protocol is devil horns down, though) released his much-anticipated latest album, High & Mighty. Consciously and clearly poised to take his movement to a national platform big enough to hold Nacho’s outsize personality, Mighty’s varied sound and (high on) lean and (hilariously) mean rhymes make for an ideal jumpingon point for new listeners. Even better, it rewards longtime listeners with new depth (the somewhat autographical “Alpha Jerk,” for instance), new lows/heights of ignorance (as on the Too Short–esque “Duck Tales”), stickier hooks (peep that #rare Auto-Tune Nacho on “Real/Fake”)— just altogether stronger, more fleshed-out songwriting than ever before, period.

As usual, it’s Nacho’s house, and the proceedings aren’t cluttered with guests. There’s a verse from Nacho’s Moor cochair Jarv Dee, and subtle chorus assistance from 10isee Williams and young Raider Key Nyata. There are definitely new names in the credits, though—to date, the bulk of Nacho’s output has been well handled by Blue Sky Black Death, Raised byy Wolves, and Eric G; here, Nacho enlists established industry rap journeymen like Swiff D, League of Starz, Dahi Beats, and Cardiak on the boards—not to mention Jake One and the OG Vitamin D. (Seattle’s RBW, Swish, and Crispy clock in as well.)

As a whole, Mighty’s sound is a touch crisper and cleaner than usual, a bit more of a radio-ready take on his emotive, darkcloud-rap vibe—but fear not, as Nacho doesn’t suffer for the polish a bit. Rather, Mighty rates with his best and arguably is just that—making it an undeniable highwater mark for the growing dark-wave rap scene flourishing amongst legions of local rap listeners who are perhaps not as enchanted with all the earnest positivity that’s low-key become this scene’s trademark.

As for your weekend: Friday the 8th, DJ Swervewon is doing the latest edition of his Swagfest night at Neumos, this time “Swagfest 4 Charity”—with 100 percent of proceeds to go to Children’s Hospital. Canadian rap-battle league King of the Dot lands at Nectar on Saturday the 9th, with performances from Mic Phenom, ILLxChris (FKA AyeLogics), and Brainstorm; be aware it’s an early turn-up, starting at 1 p.m. Sunday the 10th, Harlem’s A$AP Ferg and the rest of the A$AP Mob, along with rising Californian acts Joey Fatts Aston Matthews and 100s all hit Neumos for the Turnt & Burnt tour. Berkley’s 100s might be the best reason to get there early, as his high-powered pimp-rap debut tape, Ice Cold Perm, was one of the best underground discoveries of 2012; slide in after doors and peep the rapper with the silkiest perm this side of Bone Thugs. May the curlbag worn under the snapback never come back into fashion via these Tumblr kids— save that thing for the turkey, homie.

THIS WEEK AT LO-FI

PERFORMANCE GALLERY 429B EASTLAKE AVE. EAST, SEATTLE

11/7 SORTED--INDIE, DANCE-PUNK, AND NU DISCO 11/8 EMERALD CITY SOUL CLUB WEEKENDER! 11/9 EMERALD CITY SOUL CLUB WEEKENDER! 11/10 MAMMA’S CAVE : BIRD CLOUD (NASHVILLE, TN), NOT A REAL FLAG (MEMBERS OF CORESPONDENCE AND GRAVEY GRIME GIRLS) BAKELIGHT 78, GUESTS $7 11/11 MAMA’S CAVE PRESENTS: CRYSTAL ANTLERS, THIS BLINDING LIGHT, KINGDOM OF THE HOLY SUN, DJS $8 11/12 STOP BITING W/ OHMEGA WATTS, AC LEWIS, INTROCUT & WD4D

ILLEST ALUMNI RECORDS PRESENTS: THE QUALITY CONTROL TOUR STARRING OVERTIME & ILLEST UMINATI

11/11 MICHAEL SHRIEVE’S SPELLBINDER

11/12 ENEMATIC CINEMATIC (MOVIE & PODCAST) TUE 11/12

11/22 MONSTER MAGNET 11/23 WIRE 11/27 NIGHTMARES ON WAX 11/29 NADASTROM 11/30 SANDRIDER 12/6 EL TEN ELEVEN 12/13 PERE UBU 12/14 THE MOONDOGGIES + THE MALDIVES 12/17 RUSTIE 12/20 DEEP SEA DIVER 12/21 ROSE WINDOWS 12/27 & 12/28 BUILT TO SPILL 12/30 & 12/31 STRFKR 1/17 TRIBAL SEEDS 1/22 DARKSIDE 1/24 YUCK 2/14 KARMIN 3/1 NICKI BLUHM & THE GRAMBLERS 4/17 GODFLESH

CRYSTAL BALL READING ROOM

MONDAY 11/18

TUESDAY 11/19

COMING UP: 11/6 RAC (SOLD OUT) 11/7 JK POP! 11/12 CROCODILES 11/15 THOSE DARLINS 11/18 DALEY 11/19 PAPA 11/20 NOBUNNY 11/21 EARTH 11/22 SHELBY EARL 11/23 PAWS 11/24 MIKEY DAVIS 11/29 PINK BEAD 12/1 BRENDAN CANNING 12/6 BASIA BULAT + CATE LE BON 12/8 LEE RANALDO AND THE DUST 12/10 GAVIN TUREK 12/12 WILL HOGE 12/13 ERIN MCKEOWN 12/14 KING KRULE (SOLD OUT) 2/11 DELOREAN

SUNDAY 11/17

THURSDAY 12/12

DUB POLICE NORTH AMERICAN TOUR FT. CASPA + TROLLEY SNATCHA + SUBSCAPE + J KENZO

GIFT UH GAB SUNDAY 11/17

THUNDERCAT KINGDOM CRUMBS

SOUND CHECK

INTERVIEWS BY TRENT MOORMAN

HAUNTED HORSES LIFT THE SIMULACRUM’S VEIL

Haunted Horses’ album Watcher roves its eyes down tight catacomb passages. Elements of industrial and experimental noise cast post-rock, death-psych shadows. Corroded loops seep in and cycle under veiled, moaning vocals. There is a possessed tension to the songs—a dissonance that’s by design. Deranged arrangements anesthetize, then spike and surge through vocalist/ guitarist Colin Dawson, leaving him no choice but to scream. Drummer Myke Pelly cleaves with primal precision, heavy as hell. For Pelly, see also: Bolontiku, a group of nine Mayan underworld gods—his drumming speaks of them. The making of Watcher brought a third Haunted Horse to the fold, bassist Troy Ayala (of Stickers). Bass added to the Pelly-Dawson battery renders volume levels that you feel in your intestines. Despite Watcher’s clawing, maddened tones, the Seattle-based three wield volume well—no one’s being executed or tortured. Watcher wants autonomy. It wants those held down to stand up; oppressors overthrown. Haunted Horses recently returned from a monthlong, cross-country tour. We met at 1 a.m. in the furnace room under a house in Shoreline. A single, uncovered lightbulb hung. We all stood.

How was the tour? Colin Dawson: We wandered into the woods with strangers looking for shrines in Pennsylvania. We made children cry in Indianapolis. We saw people fuck during a set in Minneapolis [laughs]. And there was this Lynch-esque venue in Baltimore, complete with a small person perched on a stool to cook, as roaches scattered in every direction.

Troy Ayala: I joined because I bring the vibes, and Colin and me are joined at the brain.

What do you all do to find your sounds? Where did you record Watcher? Who produced? CD: We love to lock ourselves away and experiment. The process can be time-consuming, as well as misleading. The album was recorded at Crybaby Studios by Justin Wilmore. He was great to work with, fast, and a good outside ear. He allowed us to experiment more with creating the overall feeling of the record. Mixing is always the hardest part for us—we depend on a lot of different, carefully placed sounds.

MP: This was the first time I ever mixed anything. I remember opening up Adobe Audition for the first time and being like, “I’m totally going to fuck this up,” but everything seemed to work out fine. It helps to know what everything is supposed to sound like. Also, planning everything around release dates and tours can be a daunting task.

Why the title Watcher? Who’s the watcher? What are they watching? CD: The album is a concept, most of which is from the point of view of the watcher. The watcher is guiding the uprooting of a society that has grown archaic due to its symbols and beliefs.

Lots of bleakness in the lyrics. Death, suffering. What pulls you this way? CD: Most of the imagery in the album should definitely be read into. It’s not meant to be a horror story. I see it as something beautiful and enlightening. This, in a sense, is a development of metaphors

At what point driving west does Hardee’s turn back into Carl’s Jr.? Which is better? CD: The name changed back around Idaho. We hate both.

Is it true somebody found a dead rat in the stairway of the building where you were staying in New York, clipped off a bunch of its hair, and smoked it? Is smoking rat hair a thing? CD: We slept amongst the rats for many nights. It seems that rat hair is abundant in all street drugs in New York. Athletic junkies run around with their limbs thrusting in all directions. [Thrusts his limbs in all directions.] Like Nicolas Cage in Vampire’s Kiss [laughs].

What brought about Troy’s addition to the band and the evolution to a three-piece? CD: I had been playing with him in our other band, Stickers, and knew that only he would complete what we were trying to accomplish. He is Lord Dad; the evolution was inevitable.

Myke Pelly: We kinda wanted to step up the loud/heaviness factor, so adding bass to the mix seemed like the logical answer.

through lifting the veil off a simulacrum. The story is intentionally written as reactionary and revolutionary.

Talk about your song “The Void.”

How are you getting sounds there? CD: A couple of years ago, I found a tone generator in a small shop in Portland called Really Cool Stuff. It makes the craziest noises, but has also destroyed some amps in the process. “The Void” is a shift in the consciousness of the record—something new and strange was needed to depict that feeling.

Lyrically in “The Void,” what’s happening? “Waxing the watcher moves the moon/Whispers to the parish one by one/Burn the gods…” CD: In the timeline of the album’s story, this is when the people of the town abandon the dogmas that had restrained them from themselves.

What’s next? CD: We’re currently overwhelmed with ideas for the next record, so we’ll be putting that together over the next few months. We’ll also be recording an EP. MP: Writing. Recording. Next-leveling. Staying away from rat hair…

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UP&COMING

Lose your general vibe of "sweatpants" every night this week!

For the full music calendar, see page 49 or visit thestranger.com/music For ticket on-sale announcements, follow twitter.com/seashows

Wednesday 11/6

Of Montreal, La Luz (Neumos) See Underage, page 52.

Thursday 11/7

Barsuk Records Anniversary: Nada Surf, Mates of State, the Prom (Showbox at the Market) See Stranger Suggests, page 25, and preview, page 41.

Circuit Vine, Lightning Kills Eagle, Acionyx, Two Heads Is Twice as Many Teeth

(Blue Moon Tavern) Seattle duo Two Heads Is Twice as Many Teeth might be the area’s only “8-bit thrash metal” band. Marshall McLaughlin and Ryan Olson have hit on a fresh, exciting approach to heavy music, infusing their songs with brutal, jagged dynamics and those zany video-game noises that will never stop charming folks of a certain age and nerdy disposition. (I imagine their fans throwing devil horns while holding NES consoles.) That the two decided to start the project after Olson’s stormy karaoke rendition of the Sweet’s “Ballroom Blitz” makes their story all the more adorable. You should check out their cyclonic chaos at soundcloud.com/firebreathinghorses. Start with “Pink Penguin” or “Centaurantula” for maximum WTFness. DAVE SEGAL

Deerhoof, LXMP, Jarv Dee (Vera Project) I love this kind of show like I love ordering the two most opposite items on the menu. Do I want a pizza appetizer before my pizza comes? NO, I’ll take an ice-cream sundae to start off with, duh. So then, tonight we have Deerhoof, the Bay Area’s

patternless pop experiment—since 1994, they’ve put out 11 very different albums (nine of them on Kill Rock Stars, making them the longest-running KRS band), zigzagging away from an identifiable sound like manic elven children throwing genres and instruments at the wall with glee. Then we have the talented Seattle/Kingdom Crumbs/Cloud Nice/Moor Gang rapper Jarv Dee, bringing his brand of highvoiced, laid-back, smoky dopamine to balance out the headliners’ ADHD. With the synthesizer meltdown that is Warsaw duo LXMP. EMILY NOKES

Friday 11/8

Iska Dhaaf, You Are Plural (Fremont Abbey Arts Center) See Underage, page 52.

Tim Hecker, Christopher Bissonnette (Chapel Performance Space) See Data Breaker, page 53.

Slow Year, Chants, Cock & Swan, DJAO, Little Weather (Electric Tea Garden) See Data Breaker, page 53.

Swagfest 4 Charity: DJ Swervewon (Neumos) See My Philosophy, page 43.

Barsuk Anniversary Celebration: Minor Alps, the Long Winters (Neptune) Minor Alps—indie-pop goddess Juliana Hatfield (Blake Babies, Some Girls) and Nada Surf guitarist/vocalist Matthew Caws—signed to Seattle’s Barsuk Records in a move that makes all kinds of sense for all involved parties. Those familiar with both musicians’ pedigrees won’t be surprised by the dulcet tunefulness abounding on their new debut full-

length, Get There. Hatfield and Caws’s breezy, soft voices mesh incredibly well, and their melodies cruise and bubble with insouciance. Minor Alps create instantly catchy, quality songs and execute them deftly, with few frills. It’s nothing new, but it’s as reliably satisfying as shopping at your favorite vintage clothing shop. DAVE SEGAL See also preview, page 41.

Mad Professor, General Levy, Joe Ariwa (Nectar) How do we get to Burial’s dubstep? We must begin with three important Jamaicans: the electrician King Tubby, the eccentric Lee “Scratch” Perry, and the genius Scientist. The period these three dominated, the golden age of dub, lasted between the late ’60s and early ’80s. The next important moment leading to Burial is defined by the UK-based and Guyana-born Mad Professor, the founder and builder of the world-famous Ariwa studio. In the third moment (early ’90s to early ’00s), dub goes global. (Mad Professor also plays a leading role in this period—check out his version of Massive Attack’s Protection No Protection.) At the end of all that, Burial, the king of dubstep (one of Jamaican dub’s descendants), appears and rules the world. It is no accident that Massive Attack planned for Burial to do a version one of their albums—they wanted to echo Mad Professor’s dazzling version of Protection CHARLES MUDEDE

Combichrist, the Break Up, Savok, V.O.M., Omega Brai (Highline) The first time I heard Combichrist was three years ago when the Norwegian industrial band opened for the spectacle that is a Rammstein live performance. And even after the foam semen had dried off the fans’ faces, the fireworks had exploded all around me, and every single “Du Hast” had been chanted, the pulsating beat, intense visuals, and catchy yet dark choruses of the opening band were enough for me to remember to make it a point to catch Combichrist whenever they came back through town. Luckily for the Highline, this time around there won’t be any messy fake jizz. KEVIN DIERS

Weed, Vats, Thee Samedi (Heartland) If I were to compare the band Weed

to a drug more suited to their moniker (my editor hates that word, and I have never, ever used it, so let me get it out of my system: monikermonikermoniker), I’d say the Vancouver foursome’s tense sound is more Adderall, whiskey, and carving your name into a detention-room desk. Fine, those aren’t really all drugs, but my point is their abrasive garage tactics might make hippies pout, but would probably please J Mascis. That’s my roundabout way of saying they are awesome. With Thee Samedi, the musical equivalent of a snakeskin jacket decorated with Gories, Gun Club, and Cramps patches (see also: Charlie Manson samples), and danceable, moderately paced punk band Vats. EMILY NOKES

Saturday 11/9

King of the Dot Rap Battle: Mic Phenom, ILLxChris, Brainstorm (Nectar) See My Philosophy, page 43.

Morton Subotnick and Lillevan (Town Hall) This is awesome. Morton Subotnick is an electronic-music legend, the codeveloper of the original Buchla synthesizer, and the writer of the 1967 classic Silver Apples of the Moon. Berlin-based video artist Lillevan is cofounder of the visual/audio group Rechenzentrum. Together, in a program called From Silver Apples of the Moon to a Sky of Cloudless Sulphur, they’ll span 50 years of Subotnick’s experiments, analog to digital and back and forth again, electronica-time collapsing in on itself in loops. JEN GRAVES See also Stranger Suggests, page 25, and Data Breaker, page 53.

Tender Forever, Slashed Tires, Everybody Weekend, HalfBreed, Wynne Greenwood (Heartland) Wynne Greenwood is the artist/mad scientist behind the 3-in-one conceptual-art band Tracy and the Plastics, in which she performed as frontwoman Tracy (and also via video projection as her “bandmates” Nikki and Cola), and her shows and music videos came off like a twisted, modernized take on Jem and the Holograms. Since the “group” disbanded in 2006, Greenwood pulled the plug on the

91.3 KBCS WELCOMES STEVE SMITH and VITAL INFORMATION

TUE, NOV 5 - WED, NOV 6

A formidable jazz/fusion juggernaut... “Vital Information is one of improvised music’s best-kept secrets, the tunes are adventurous and they always groove.” - Jazz Times

RACHELLE FERRELL

THU, NOV 7 - SUN, NOV 10

Ferrell has made her mark not as a straightahead jazz singer and pianist, but as a crossover artist who is equally at home with gospel, pop, classical music and jazz.

TAJ MAHAL TRIO

FRI, NOV 22 - SUN, DEC 1

(CLOSED ON MON, NOV 25TH & THANKSGIVING) Composer and multi-instrumentalist, Mahal is a two-time Grammy winner and one of the most influential America blues and roots artists of the past half-century.

ELDAR

TUE, DEC 3 - WED, DEC 4

“He’s a (piano) genius beyond most young people I’ve heard.” - Dave Brubeck

ANGIE STONE

THU, DEC 5 - SUN, DEC 8

Neo-soul singer/songwriter with over 5 million albums sold worldwide and ten singles on the R&B charts

projector and released an album last year under her name called A Fire to Keep You Warm. I am excited to see what she has been concocting since retiring Tracy and company. Also joining the bill are the trombonefriendly Slashed Tires’ celebration of freaks that may very well be the most underrated DIY band in Seattle, and everyone loves the NW dreamboat-pop of HalfBreed and the sincerely lovelorn indie rock of Portland’s Tender Forever. BREE MCKENNA

The Lonely Forest, Cumulus, BellaMaine (Neptune) I have listened to the new Lonely Forest record, Adding Up the Wasted Hours, dozens of times over the last several weeks, and I can confidently say that it is the best Lonely Forest record to date. We Sing the Body Electric is hard to beat—it was a huge-sounding and wonderful mess of noises and layers (claustrophobic is a characteristic I often like when it comes to pop music), while their last release, Arrows, was on the opposite end of that spectrum. It was lighter and more nuanced. Adding Up the Wasted Hours, though, has found a balance of the two—experimental sounds and Karl Blau’s saxophone make songs like “Left Hand Man” and “Warm/Happy” sound lush without feeling cluttered. One more reason to make sure you get the Neptune tonight: Thanks to a production snafu, for now this show is the only place you can grab a physical copy of the record. MEGAN SELING

Sunday 11/10

A$AP FERG, Joey Fatts & Aston Matthew, 100s (Neumos) A$AP Ferg, along with Rocky and the rest of the A$AP Mob, are some of the most popular “alt/ internet-rappers” today, but it’s mostly because of their colossal levels of swagger-jackin’. From their appropriation of the word “trill” (which Houston’s UGK first popularized in like 1992) and basically every other aspect of Texas rap despite hailing from Harlem, New York, to their recycling of Lil B “The BasedGod’s” signature cadence, repetitive hooks, and beat selections (if the first time you heard a Clams Casino beat was on Live.Love.A$AP, you have some homework to

do, son), to titling his overhyped debut album Trap Lord when Gucci Mane had previously released Trap God and Trap God 2 within the last two years, there isn’t one original aspect of A$AP Ferg’s music or style. That won’t stop this show from being packed full of Pyrex shorts and $80 Hood By Air T-shirt wearing hypebeasts who think they’re “supporting underground rap” because they don’t listen to Rick Ross. MIKE RAMOS See also My Philosophy, page 25.

Barsuk Anniversary Celebration: Ra Ra Riot, Aqueduct

(Sunset) You guys! Look! [Wildly waves arms around in the air like wacky wavy inflatable arm guy] It’s Aqueduct! The electronically inclined, self-loathing, hook-filled pop band was once a beloved fixture of the local music scene—playing with U.S.E, Modest Mouse, the Lashes, and more—but over the last few years, their presence has been as frustratingly unreliable as AT&T’s cell phone service during SXSW. The last record Aqueduct released was Or Give Me Death in 2007, for chrissakes! The band is coming out of hiding, though, to help Barsuk celebrate its 15th anniversary with labelmates Ra Ra Riot. Hooray! You won’t find a better party on a Sunday night. For more Barsuk love, see my interview with label cofounder Josh Rosenfield, page 41, and Stranger Suggests, page 25. MEGAN SELING

Monday 11/11

Crystal Antlers, This Blinding Light, Kingdom of the Holy Sun (Lo-Fi) Back in those dark years when I dwelled in Orange County (2007–2008), Crystal Antlers were one of the best live acts in the area. The Long Beach troupe whipped up a ferocious yet tuneful frenzy onstage;

every gig was an imperfect Sonics/Stooges storm of garage-rock bedlam. But their latest album, Nothing Is Real, finds Crystal Antlers down to three members (they used to sport six) and presenting a more tamed, college-rock-ready sound. Let’s hope they still retain some of their earlier wildness onstage tonight. Locals This Blinding Light take rock on a mystical, tranceinducing trip with a throbbing, relentless attack that will have Hawkwind and Spacemen 3 fans freaking. Seattle’s Kingdom of the Holy Sun ply a more blissful, snaky strain of psychedelia that’s akin to a soundtrack for an opium-den orgy. DAVE SEGAL

Tuesday 11/12

Toro Y Moi, Classixx

(Showbox at the Market) The dubiously named Chazwick Bundick, the man behind Toro y Moi, emerged from the equally dubious-sounding “chillwave” scene a few years ago. Characterized by lofi production, foggy electronics, and a general vibe of “sweatpants,” chillwave didn’t really lift off as a genre. On his latest records, though, Chaz has taken a favorable turn into immaculate-sounding disco and R&B. Gooey bass lines, slinky keyboards, and pleasantly awkward falsetto: It’s make-out music for stoned programmers and nostalgic nerds. Opening tonight are LA duo Classixx, who alternate between sunny dance funk and a few gorgeous ’80s throwback synth ballads. Cop the track “I’ll Get You” and hear why they may just steal the show. KYLE FLECK

Selena Gomez (KeyArena) I’m not going to bother to try and sell you on the generous attributes of Ms. Gomez—if you’re not already a fan, you’re hopeless. “Come & Get It” is a goddamn masterpiece. I dare you to listen to “Love

11.7 Thursday (Reggae) TWO STORY ZORI

CD Release Party “Feel The Fiyah” Tribal Order, Valley Green

$7 adv / $10 dos, 8pm doors, 21+

11.8 Friday (Dub)

MAD PROFESSOR

with RAGGA MC’S GENERAL LEVY, JOE ARIWA, Mighty High, Selecta Element, Ras Chiba, Dubchamp

$15 adv / $18 dos, 8pm doors, 21+

11.9 Saturday (Hip-Hop Battle)

KING OF THE DOT

Hip Hop Battle League: Sun Tzu vs Fredo, Hipnosis vs Stuey Newton, Vokab vs Emery + More

$15 adv, 1pm doors, all ages, 21+ bar w/ ID

11.9 Saturday (Reggae/Ska/Dance)

YOGOMAN BURNING BAND

Georgetown Orbits, Skablins, Coldnote

$7 adv, $10 dos, 9pm Show, 21+

11.10 Sunday (Bluegrass / Acousic Jam)

THE STUDENT LOAN

Science! w/ Brian and the Ballentines

$5 adv / $8 dos, 8pm, 21+

11.13 Wednesday (Hip-Hop) RITTZ with SNOW THA PRODUCT, & JARREN BENTON

Hosted by Neema & DJ Gerze

plus AD / Dirtay & Jay Barz

$15 adv / $20 Door, 8pm

You like a Love Song” without hitting re-peat-peatpeat-peat-peat-peat. “Slow Down” is anything but slow—it’ll make your booty bounce so hard you’ll be sore for days. If anything, Gomez’s only flaw is loving that hack, the Biebs, who’s turned into a full-throated shithead now that his testicles have fully dropped. BUT: If he’s the magic ingredient needed to keep sweet Selena stocked with heartbreak pop-song fodder for the next 20 years, so be it.

CIENNA MADRID

The Besnard Lakes, Elephant Stone (Crocodile) The Besnard Lakes are one of many seemingly interchangeable, quasi-psychedelic pop bands in the Secretly Canadian/Jagjaguwar/Dead Oceans family of labels. On their 2010 album, The Besnard Lakes Are the Roaring Night, the Montreal band evokes the forlorn dignity of Low, but with a greater propensity for shoegaze guitar textures. Their new full-length, Until in Excess, Imperceptible UFO, is shrouded in more reverb and features more grandiose song structures. Its best song, “Colour Yr Lights In,” sounds like an end-credits lighter-raiser for a Hollywood romance flick. Overall, though, UFO’s a bit dozy. If I were Robert Christgau, I’d give it a B-. On their 2013 self-titled album, Elephant Stone make classic, textbook psych pop, as derived from the Beatles circa Revolver through Magical Mystery Tour, all lightly accented with sitar and tablas and leader Rishi Dhir’s smooth, high vocals. As reverent replications go, Elephant Stone’s a gas. DAVE SEGAL

Overkill, Kreator, Warbringer (El Corazón) Everyone who was disappointed because they were ripe and ready to get their thrash on at Sepultura at Neumos on November 4 (the show was canceled due to passport/visa issues) should do some hot neck yoga and go bang some head at this show instead. East Coast classic thrash metallers Overkill (with original vocalist Bobby Blitz) released their 16th studio album, The Electric Age, in 2012, which charted higher than any other Overkill album since the early ’90s. German thrash masters Kreator also released a new album last year called Phantom Antichrist. If you want to get super dorked, also watch the 2006 documentary Get Thrashed (now on Netflix!) and remember why you always loved your metal played at such breakneck speeds. KELLY O

GET BLASTED, GO DANCING

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WED 11/6

LIVE BARBOZA RAC, MNDR, $15

CHOP SUEY Acapulco Lips, Gang Cult, Red Ribbon, $6

CONOR BYRNE Broomdust Blues Jam, free

HIGHWAY 99 Dean Reichert, 8 pm, $7

JAZZ ALLEY Steve Smith, 7:30 pm, $22.50

NECTAR Grant Farm & Huckle, Buzz Brump, $20

a NEUMOS Of Montreal, La Luz, 8 pm, $18

NEW ORLEANS Legacy Band, Clarence Acox

a PARAMOUNT

THEATRE Jonas Brothers

PIES & PINTS Live Rotating Bands: Guests, 8:30 pm

RENDEZVOUS My Cartoon Heart, Stranger on Mars, 9:30 pm

SEAMONSTER Jacques

Willis

SUNSET TAVERN Low Hums, Pentagraham Crackers, Temple Echoes, $6

TOWN HALL Enso String Quartet, 7:30 pm, $80/$85

TRACTOR TAVERN Dutch Hare, Supercrow, Andy Fitts , $6

a TRIPLE DOOR Garfield High School Jazz Band, 7:30 pm, $8-$16

VITO’S Ronnie Pierce

DJ

BALTIC ROOM Crunk: DJ Henski, Marty Mar, Blue Eyed Soul, Bgeezy, guests

CONTOUR Rotation: Guests

THE EAGLE VJDJ Andy J

ELECTRIC TEA GARDEN

Passage: Jayms Nylon, Joey Webb, guests

HAVANA SoulShift: Peter Evans, Devlin Jenkins, Richard Everhard, $1

LAST SUPPER CLUB Vibe

Wednesday: Jame$Ervin, DT, Contagious

MOE BAR The Hump: DJ Darwin, DJ Swervewon, guests, 10:30 pm, free

NEIGHBOURS Undergrad: Guest DJs, 18+, $5/$8 SEE SOUND LOUNGE Fade: DJ Chinkyeye, DJ Christyle

THURS 11/7

LIVE

2 BIT SALOON Johnny Hoffman and the Residents, Whiskey Radio, Chay and the Hostages, Rowe

BLACK LODGE Nekrofilth, Trepanation, Old Skin, Burn Pile

BLUE MOON TAVERN Circuit Vine , Lightning Kills Eagle, Acionyx, Two Heads Is Twice as Many Teeth

CAN CAN Vince Mira COLUMBIA CITY THEATER

Cabin Project, Not a Real Flag, Robb Benson, $6/$8

CONOR BYRNE The Town Pants, the Bog Hoppers, $10

DARRELL’S TAVERN Southern Fried: School of Rock, $7

DISTRICT LOUNGE Cassia

DeMayo Quintet, 8 pm, free a EL CORAZON Mayday Parade, 6:30 pm, $22/$25

HIGH DIVE Eternal Fair, Parlours, Lanford Black, $7

HIGHLINE A Heart in the Stillness, Blackpool Astronomy, Sacred Signs, 9:30 pm, $8

HIGHWAY 99 Brian Lee & the Orbiters, 8 pm, $7

JAZZ ALLEY Rachelle Ferrell, 7:30 pm, $26.50

LUCID The Hang: Caffeine, 9:30 pm, free

NECTAR Two Story Zori, Tribal Order, Valley Green, 8 pm, $7

NEUMOS Radiation City, Tomten, Smokey Brights a PONCHO CONCERT HALL Kneebody, $9-$18

THE ROYAL ROOM The Jelly Rollers, 8 pm a SHOWBOX AT THE MARKET Nada Surf, Mates of State, the Prom, $15/$20

SUNSET TAVERN The Cliks

TRACTOR TAVERN Dead Winter Carpenters, the Warren G. Hardings, $10

TRIPLE DOOR Wesley Stace, Casey Neil, $20 a VERA PROJECT

THE CAPITOL HILL PIZZA WITCH

Iknow sometimes after a long night of booze-cruisin’ around the Hill, all you can think about is a nice, hot slice of cheesy pizza. Man, oh man—pizza would be SO GOOD to eat on your walk home! I’m warning you, though: If you run into this pizza witch (sometimes dressed as an adult baby), and s/he offers you a free slice, DO NOT TAKE IT!!! I know, you’re drunk, and s/he says, “IT’S FREE!” but I’m telling you: DON’T TAKE IT. It’s a trick! A really evil and ancient witchy trick… KELLY O

= Recommended

Deerhoof, LXMP, Jarv Dee, 7:30 pm, $16/$18

VITO’S The Tim Kennedy Trio, Casey MacGill, 5:30 pm, free

DJ

BALTIC ROOM Revolution:

DonnaTella Howe, Olivia LaGarce, guests

CONTOUR Covert Ops, guests, 10 pm, Free

THE EAGLE Nasty: DJ King of Pants, Nark

HAVANA DJ Sad Bastard, DJ Nitty Gritty

LO-FI Noctum Caro

MOE BAR Chuch: Phospho, Mars One, Sosal, free

NEIGHBOURS Jet Set Thursdays: Guest DJs

NEIGHBOURS UNDERGROUND The Lowdown: DJ Lightray, $3

SEE SOUND LOUNGE DJ Flave, Sativa Sound System, Jameson Just, Tony Goods, $5 after 10:30 pm

THERAPY LOUNGE

DUH.: DJ Omar, guests

TRINITY Rise Over Run, DJ Christyle, Johnny Fever, DJ Nicon, Sean Majors, B Geezy, guests, free

THE WOODS Pure

Thursdays: Omar Valadez, MMars, Chris T, 10 pm, free

FRI

11/8

LIVE

2 BIT SALOON Space

Cretins , the Lucky Boys, P.r.o.b.l.e.m.s.

BLACK LODGE The Pharmacy, Bad Lovers

BLUE MOON TAVERN Yonder, $6

BOGART’S Friends of Cesar Romero, 9:30 pm, $6

CAFE RACER The Gallow Swings, Tomb of Ligeia a CHAPEL

PERFORMANCE SPACE

Tim Hecker, Christopher Bissonnette

CHOP SUEY Crooked Veils, Universe People, Gibraltar

COLUMBIA CITY THEATER

Clearly Beloved , Ashia, Bucharest Drinking Team

CONOR BYRNE Cahalen Morrison, guests, $8

CROCODILE Cass McCombs, Michael Hurley

DARRELL’S TAVERN Radio Telescope , No Crown Trees And Timber , $7

a EL CORAZON Mega Ran with K-Murdock, D & D Sluggers, guests, 8 pm; Rain Light Fade, Maklak , guests, 8 pm

ELECTRIC TEA GARDEN

Slow Year, Chants, Cock & Swan , DJAO, Little Weather

a FREMONT ABBEY

Iska Dhaaf, Hanna Benn, You Are Plural, Tomo Nakayama

HEARTLAND Weed, Vats, Thee Samedi , 8 pm

HIGH DIVE The Happy Campers, 9:30 pm, $8

HIGHLINE Combichrist, the Break Up, Savok, V.O.M., Omega Brai, $15/$20

HIGHWAY 99 the Strange Kind, Vaudeville Etiquette, 8 pm, $13

JAZZ ALLEY Rachelle Ferrell, 9:30 pm, $26.50

NECTAR Mad Professor, General Levy, Joe Ariwa, Mighty High, Selecta Element, Ras Chiba, $15

NEPTUNE THEATRE The Long Winters, David Bazan, Minor Alps, Sunset Valley, 7:30 pm, $15/$20

RENDEZVOUS Pierce and Thompson, 10 pm

a THE ROYAL ROOM

Piano Royale, 5:30 pm, Ranger and the Re-Arrangers, 8 pm SEAMONSTER Funky 2 Death, 10 pm, free a SHOWBOX AT THE MARKET Minus the Bear , Constant Lovers, Slow Bird,

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8 pm, $22.50/$25

SKYLARK CAFE & CLUB

Butchers 4 Butterflies, the Guardians , 8 pm, $7

SLIM’S LAST CHANCE Billy

Dwayne and the Creepers, the Scotch Tops, Red Sun

Revue

STUDIO SEVEN Dada, High Freq , 7:30 pm, $15/$18

SUNSET TAVERN The Handsome Family, Wilde Wood, Annie Ford Band, $12

TIM’S TAVERN Tim Fantastic and the Styrofoam Meat Trays , Uninvited , Sir Mark the Poet

TRACTOR TAVERN Cowboy Mouth, Goodbyemotel, $16/$18

a TRIPLE DOOR LeRoy Bell and His Only Friends, 8 pm, $30/$35

WAID’S Curse of the North , Lb!, Argonaut, Gladiators Eat Fire

THE WHITE RABBIT Passion Party , Shubzilla, AKA & the Heart Hurt Goods, Philharmonic, $6

DJ

BALTIC ROOM Dirty Work: Rotating DJs including Sean Majors, BGeezy, Mikey Mars, Sir Kuts, guests

BARBOZA Just Got Paid: 100proof, $5 after 11:30 pm

CENTURY BALLROOM

Century Tango: DJ Anton

CONTOUR Afterhours, 2 am

CUFF C&W Dancing: DJ Harmonix, DJ Stacey, 7 pm;

TGIF: Guest DJs, 11 pm, $5

THE EAGLE Kim Ann Foxman, Nark, Riff-Raff, $9

ELECTRIC TEA GARDEN

Digging Deep: Ramiro, Jeromy Nail, Derrick Deepvibez

FUEL DJ Headache, guests

HAVANA Rotating DJs:

DV One, Soul One, Curtis, Nostalgia B, Sean Cee, $5

LAST SUPPER CLUB Madness: Guests

NEIGHBOURS UNDERGROUND Caliente Celebra: DJ Polo, Efren

THERAPY LOUNGE Rapture: Guests, $3 after 11 pm

TRINITY Tyler, DJ Phase, DJ Nug, guests, $10

WILDROSE Lezbro: L.A. Kendall, Tony Burns, 9 pm, $3

THE WOODS Deep/Funky/ Disco/House: Guest DJs

SAT 11/9

LIVE

2 BIT

SALOON Primal Times, Urine Idiot , Industry People

BLUE MOON TAVERN Autumn Electric, the Great HIatum, Planes on Paper, $6 CAFE RACER Syrinx Effect, Kate and Naomi, Metrilodia COLUMBIA CITY THEATER Quinn DeVeaux & the Blue Beat Review, $12 CONOR BYRNE 1uppers, the Fentons, Miller & Sasser a CROCODILE The Fratellis, the Ceremonies, 8 pm, $16

DARRELL’S TAVERN Dion Vox, Purr Gato, Civilx, $8 a EL CORAZON Rebels Revolt, Nycole, Under the Bodhi Tree, guests, 4:30 pm, $20, Rare Monk, 8 pm

ELECTRIC TEA GARDEN

Drop: Phil Western, Manos, Kadeejah Streets, Rhines, Night Train, $10 after 10:30 pm

EMPTY SEA STUDIOS Johnson, Miller & Dermody, 8 pm, $20/$24

HARD ROCK CAFE Late September Dogs , $10/$13

a HEARTLAND Tender Forever, Slashed Tires , Everybody Weekend, Half Breed, Wynne Greenwood, 8 pm

HIGH DIVE A Breakthrough in Field Studies, Jupe Jupe In Cahoots , Gems, 8 pm, $8

HIGHLINE Scale the Summit, the Reign of Kindo, Jolly, guests, 10 pm, $10

HIGHWAY 99 Doctorfunk 8 pm, $15

SATURDAY 11/9

A QUEEN CALLED MOOKIE AND HER THUMPING GLITORIS

I understand. You splooged your big Halloween wad all over the holiday’s scary face (oh! The whimsy!), and now you are left sitting there, twiddling your thumbs, staring down a long bleak hallway of November, worrying how the hell you’ll even survive. I am fond of calling this particular time of year the Stupid November Dead Zone of Huge Incredible Suckness. Everything sort of winds down, and thoughts turn to reflections upon serious life stuff—a time to regroup, take stock, and examine one’s life choices. But since none of us has any intention of doing stupid shit like that, we’re going to get blasted, go dancing, and focus on what’s really important—getting blasted, going dancing, and Queen Mookie Queen Mookie arrived upon our salty shores a mere four years ago, and baby, you noticed. (She describes her unique aesthetic as “an amalgam of Westwood

JAZZ ALLEY Rachelle Ferrell, 9:30 pm, $26.50

a JONES PLAYHOUSE Dave Douglas, Cuong Vu Trio, 7:30 pm, $12/$20

a MOORE THEATRE Seattle Rock Orchestra Plays Pink Floyd: Zach Davidson, Aaron Daniel, V. Contreras, guests

NECTAR Yogoman Burning Band , the Georgetown Orbits, Skablins, $7

a NEPTUNE THEATRE The Lonely Forest , Cumulus, BellaMaine, $16.50/$18

NEUMOS Phantogram, Menomena, Maps & Atlases, Yellow Ostrich, Cymbals Eat Guitars, Say Hi, $15 / $20

QUEEN CITY GRILL Faith Beattie, Bayly, Totusek, Guity, free

RENDEZVOUS Jody Ellen, Duke Evers Band, 10 pm

THE ROYAL ROOM The Bushwick Book Club Presents: Jack Straw’s Read and Destroy

SEAMONSTER Ari Joshua Trio, Porkchop Express, Every 10 pm, free

a SHOWBOX AT THE MARKET Red Fang, Helms Alee, guests, 8 pm, $20/$23 SHOWBOX SODO Tedashii, Andy Mineo, Derek Minor, 7 pm, $19.50/$25

SKYLARK CAFE & CLUB The F-Holes, On the Make, 8 pm, $7

SLIM’S LAST CHANCE Green River Thrillers, Kled , Pouch STUDIO SEVEN Arkona, Blood and Thunder, Hallows Descent, guests, 7 pm, $12/$15

SUNSET TAVERN Hillstomp, Lonesome Shack , Lonebird, 10 pm, $10

TIM’S TAVERN Joe Buck, Viva Le Vox, Load Levelers, Mean Street Meanie, $8 a TOWN HALL Morton Subotnick and Lillevan

TRACTOR TAVERN Cowboy Mouth, the Cringe, $16/$18

a TRIPLE DOOR LeRoy Bell and His Only Friends, 8 pm, $30/$35

VITO’S Kareem Kandi, 9:30 pm

THE WHITE RABBIT Awfully

Sudden , Marmot Vs. Mammoth, Mrs. Howl, $6

DJ

BALTIC ROOM Good Saturdays: Guest DJs

BARBOZA Inferno: Guests, 10:30 pm

CONTOUR Europa Night: Misha Grin, Gil

CUFF Sensorium: DJ Almond

Brown

HAVANA Rotating DJs: DV One, Soul One, Curtis, Nostalgia B, Sean Cee, $5

HEARTLAND CAFE

& BENBOW ROOM

Candylandia: DJ Cotton Candy, DJ Christophett, DJ

Deep Parris, free

LO-FI Emerald City Soul

Club: Kenny Mac, Gene Balk, Marc Muller, George Gell, Mike “MP3s Forever” Nipper, guests, 9 pm, $10

MOE BAR Panther Down: DJ N8, Anthony Diamond, free

NEIGHBOURS Powermix: DJ Randy Schlager

NEIGHBOURS UNDERGROUND DJ Chance, DJ Eternal Darkness

PONY Glitoris: Queen Mookie, Devil Eyes:

TRINITY ((SUB)): Guy, VSOP, Jason Lemaitre, guests, $15/free before 10 pm

VERMILLION Flux: DJ

Res , guests, free

THE WOODS Hiphop/R&B/ Funk/Soul/Disco: Guest DJs

SUN 11/10

LIVE

BARBOZA Diego Garcia, 8 pm, $12

BLUE MOON TAVERN J.P. and the Geminis, 8 pm, free

bag lady, techno tribal princess, and lady clown,” and, well, yes. Exactly. She’s impossible to miss.) She was making noise in New York City back then, but she, like the rest of us, visited Seattle and fell instantly and insanely in love with it. More importantly, she recognized an immediate need for more “glitter and cunt”! (So colorful with the turn of phrase, that Mookie!) She hungered to create an event “where a showgirl can let her hair down and lose her fucking mind,” and so! Glitoris was born. The Queen spins underground ’80s/’90s dance music and an amuse-bouche of current techno, minimal, and rare gems. It’s one of Pony’s funnest nights, and it’s going to help us plow through this November suckness together. You are encouraged to dress for the occasion. Pony, 9 pm, free, 21+.

SUNDAY 11/10

QUEEN OF THE BRUNCH

A few months back, I reported that “the throbbing drag empire” that is Julia’s was throwing its tiara into the popular drag brunch ring. Since then, it has dazzled me no fewer than four times with outstanding performances and outrageous costumes. (Oh, the costumes!) The show is fresh each week, with new numbers and performers, but always maintains the general theme of Priscilla Queen of the Desert, so there’s plenty of ABBA and ping-pong balls flying around. It’s hosted by the wonderfully talented Isaac Scott and Kristie Champagne (I love them both more with every performance—keep your eye on these two), and, frankly, I’m addicted to it. Join me today for my fix. Julia’s, 1:30 pm, $10/$20 VIP, all ages.

LAKE CITY RECORD SHOW

Sunday November 17th - 10am-4pm

Albums, 45's, 78's, Sheet Music, Memorabilia, 8-tracks, Posters, etc.

FREE ADMISSION!

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FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 22ND

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DEERHOOF, LXMP, JARV DEE

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KEYBOARD KID, VERY, SPECIAL GUESTS, TELLEZ THA FORMULA, STREET LOGIC, YOSEPH AMARE $10

FRIDAY NOVEMBER 22 | 7:30 PM

TAKE WARNING & THE VERA PROJECT PRESENTS POLAR BEAR CLUB, CITIZEN, DIAMOND YOUTH, SAINTHOOD

NOV

CITIZEN, DIAMOND YOUTH, SAINTHOOD REPS, AFTERWORDS ALL AGES - 7:00 PM

FRIDAY NOV 22 @ THE SUNSET @DADBONER (AKA KARL WELZEIN) W/ SPECIAL GUESTS MATT BRAUNGER, BRETT HAMIL, MARCO COLLINS 21+ ONLY - 9:30 PM

TUE DEC 10 @ EL CORAZON LOUNGE THE FLATLINERS

LIVING WITH LIONS, SUNDOWNER (CHRIS FROM THE LAWRENCE ARMS), POKE DA SQUID ALL AGES (BAR W/ ID) 7:00 PM

SATURDAY DEC 14 @ EL CORAZON AMERICAN NIGHTMARE (GIVE UP THE GHOST) ALL AGES (BAR W/ ID) 7:00 PM

TICKETS @ WWW.ELCORAZONSEATTLE.COM OR EL CORAZON BOX OFFICE. TICKETFLY TICKETS SOLD OUT. FRIDAY DEC 20 & SATURDAY DEC 21 @ EL CORAZON “TAKE WARNING, EL CORAZON THE STRANGER & KEXP 90.3 FM PRESENT: A FAMILY X-MAS” TWO NIGHTS WITH X & THE BLASTERS 21+ ONLY - 7:00 PM

HENDRIX PRESENTS JIMI HENDRIX TRIBUTE CONCERT $20

WEDNESDAY 11/6

THURSDAY 11/7 TAKE WARNING PRESENTS THE CLIKS WITH HOT PEACH AND THE ADARNA $8 • 9PM

FRIDAY 11/8 TRACTOR PRESENTS THE HANDSOME FAMILY WITH WILDE WOOD AND ANNIE FORD BAND $12 ADV • 10PM

SATURDAY 11/9

HILLSTOMP WITH LONESOME SHACK AND LONEBIRD $10 • 10PM

SUNDAY 11/10

BARSUK 15 YEAR PARTY WITH RA RA RIOT AND AQUEDUCT $12 ADV • 9:30PM TUE 11/12 THE MELODIC WITH “BARN” AND MATT BISHOP FROM HEY MARSEILLES

$7 • 8:30PM ALWAYS ALL AGES

CAFE RACER The Racer Sessions

CHOP SUEY Exohxo , Cloud Person , Day Laborers and Petty Intellectuals , 8 pm, $7

COLUMBIA CITY THEATER

Zubatto Syndicate, Moraine , Syrinx Effect, 8 pm, $8/$10

a EL CORAZON Bobaflex, 7:30 pm, $10/$12

HIGH DIVE Tigers in the Tank, Dearly Departed, Jesse Solomon, 8 pm, $7

HIGHLINE Butchers 4 Butterflies, Gleem, $7 HIGHWAY 99 Jumaane Smith, 7 pm, $10

JAZZ ALLEY Rachelle Ferrell, 7:30 pm, $26.50

LO-FI Bird Cloud, Bakelite 78, $7

BY

a MEANY HALL Bill Frisell’s Big Sur Quintet, 7:30 pm, $12/$20

NEUMOS A$AP FERG, Joey Fatts & Aston Matthew, 100s, 8 pm, $20

THE ROYAL ROOM Cornish Contemporary Big Band, Scrape, 6:30 pm SEAMONSTER The Bergamot a SKYLARK CAFE & CLUB Brother’s Curse, 3 pm, $5 a STUDIO SEVEN Mapholder, Lachlan Willis, guests, 6:45 pm; Critical, Da Grinders, RKP, Kalita, guests, 6:45 pm SUNSET TAVERN Ra Ra Riot, Aqueduct, 9:30 pm, $12/$15 TRACTOR TAVERN Jesse Sykes & the Sweet Hereafter, Rocky Votolato,

WEDNESDAY 11/6

OF MONTREAL, LA LUZ

Kevin Barnes loves to remind you that he’s a very clever songwriter, and when the of Montreal frontman is at the top of his game, he can create some of the most delightful indie-pop music that you’ll ever hear. With panache and surreal lyrics that can double as an SAT vocab study guide, Barnes’s best albums often sound effortlessly accomplished. But if you’re anything like me, your interest in of Montreal may have started to wane about four albums ago, when Barnes’s bloated alter ego, Georgie Fruit, started showing up and contributing puzzlingly overwrought funk jams. Thankfully, of Montreal’s latest release, Lousy with Sylvianbriar, is a return to form (of sorts). Barnes has narrowed his focus and slowed down his pace slightly, resulting in a rustic psych-lite record that’s more relaxed than you might be used to, taking cues from late-’60s songwriters like Donovan and Gram Parsons. I’ll be eager to see how Barnes and company’s zany live antics treat such an uncluttered collection of new songs. Tonight is also a homecoming show for the barreling doo-wop/surf titans La Luz, who have been opening for of Montreal on this US tour. Neumos, 8 pm, $18.

FRIDAY 11/8

ISKA DHAAF, YOU ARE PLURAL You Are Plural make propulsive and shadowy music. Using an unlikely combination of cellos and Wurlitzer organ, the Olympia band tends to flicker and dash like an animal’s eye-shine in a darkened forest. Rapidly scintillating, yet pulsating with a nocturnal intensity, my favorite songs of theirs are brisk, energizing, and defiantly hopeful. You Are Plural open tonight for Iska Dhaaf, a booming Seattle duo (made up of ex–Mad Rad member Nate Quiroga and Mt. St. Helens Vietnam Band’s Benjamin Verdoes) that spent three years solidifying their sonorous and caustic craft before finally erupting in the past few months. Celebrating the release of a new 7-inch, they will be playing an intimate set with accompaniment from a string quartet Fremont Abbey Arts Center, 7 pm, $8–$16.

pm, $5

TRIPLE DOOR Musicquarium: Free Funk Union, free

BAR DJ Plantkiller, 8 pm, free CONOR BYRNE Get the Spins: Guest DJs, free CONTOUR Manic Mondays

HAVANA DJ Jay Battle, free THE HIDEOUT Introcut, guests, free

LO-FI Jam Jam: Zion’s Gate, Sound Selecta, Element, Mista Chatman , $5 MOE BAR Minted Mondays: DJ Swervewon, 100proof, Sean Cee, Blueyedsoul, free

NEIGHBOURS

UNDERGROUND SIN: DJ Keanu, 18+, free

PONY Dirty Deeds

Q NIGHTCLUB Electric Penetration, 6 pm, free; Reflect, 8 pm, free

TUES 11/12

LIVE

DJ BALTIC ROOM Jam Jam: Zion’s Gate Sound, $5

BARBOZA Crocodiles, 8 pm, $10

CAFE RACER Jacobs Posse

CONOR BYRNE Ol’ Time

Social: the Tallboys , 9 pm

CROCODILE The Besnard Lakes, Elephant Stone a EL CORAZON Overkill, Kreator, Warbringer, 7:30 pm, $24/$27

ELECTRIC TEA GARDEN

Monktail Creative Music Concern, DJ Shonuph, free

a FREMONT ABBEY The Round: Mark Pickerel, Tom Eddy, guests

HIGH DIVE Lorin Walker Madsen & the Hustlers, Waxing Hearts, Hand in the Attic, 8 pm, $6

HIGHLINE Vaz, Glose, the Great Goddamn, Burien

JAZZ ALLEY Jeff Kashiwa, 7:30 pm, $10

a KEYARENA Selena Gomez, 8 pm, $25-$65

THE ROYAL ROOM Benefit for Bike Works: Guests, 8 pm

SEAMONSTER McTuff Trio, 10 pm, free

FRIDAY 11/8

MEET THE BEATLESS MASTER, TIM HECKER

Ilike how this bear is all like, “Cool logo.” I agree. It has a hairy, cuddly, Dr. Seuss meets Where the Wild Things Are feel to it that I have a newfound appreciation for. AARON HUFFMAN

of Montreal w/La Luz Wed Nov 6, Neumos

a SHOWBOX AT THE MARKET Toro Y Moi, Classixx, 8:30 pm, $25

SUNSET TAVERN The Melodic, 8:30 pm, $7

TRACTOR TAVERN Slaid Cleaves, 8 pm, $18/$20

DJ

BALTIC ROOM Drum & Bass Tuesdays: Guests BLUE MOON TAVERN

BY DAVE SEGAL

Montreal-based musician Tim Hecker has gradually bloomed into one of the world’s foremost ambient-music auteurs. His last two albums—2011’s Ravedeath, 1972 and this year’s Virgins—especially have elevated his profile to lofty heights for someone whose music is mostly beatless. The tracks on the former record move with the magisterial grace of a holy-minimalist composer’s work, conjuring a somber nobility and morose beauty. But Virgins is the one, the full-length that’s earned the most accolades, and justifiably so. It sounds more modern and digital than Ravedeath, but also possesses a greater dynamic range and a more interesting tonal palette. Virgins crystallizes and boldfaces all of his best traits, and in tracks like “Virginal II,” he reveals a rarely heard chaotic, maximalist side. It’s his most exciting collection yet, and it bodes well for this performance with fellow Canuck ambient artist Christopher Bissonnette, which will be heard in immersound, a 6.1 channel installation conceived by France Jobin. Chapel Performance Space, 7:30 pm, $15, all ages.

HUSH HUSH HAILS NEW RELEASES BY SLOW YEAR, CHANTS

Alex Ruder’s Hush Hush Records has been accelerating its activity this year, and tonight the local label showcases four artists working wonders in the atmospheric beatmaking department. Seattle’s Slow Year (Edward Haller and Brian Binning) have a new, seven-track self-titled release that sensitively pushes those night-bus

DJ Country Mike, A.D.M., guests, 8 pm, free

THE EAGLE Pitstop: DJ Nark

HAVANA Hoot and Howl

LO-FI Introcut, guests, $5

MERCURY Die: Black Maru, Major Tom, $5

NEIGHBOURS UNDERGROUND Vicious Dolls: DJ Rachael, 9 pm, $5

WILDROSE Taco Tuesday: Guest DJs

buttons. They make gracefully dawdling electronic music that’s halo’d with tender, melancholic synth auroras and marbled with erratic, Burial-esque percussion Also with a new release on HH is Chants (Madison, Wisconsin, producer Jordan Cohen). His I Feel Like I Feel It album delves into intimate, soulful bass music à la James Blake, but laced with field recordings and smartly selected sampled vocals of many timbres. With Cock & Swan, DJAO, and Little Weather Electric Tea Garden, 9 pm, $5, 21+.

SATURDAY 11/9

ELECTRONIC-MUSIC PIONEER MORTON

SUBOTNICK AND LILLEVAN

Morton Subotnick’s extraterrestrial Buchla synthesizer realizations from the ’60s and ’70s laid the foundation for much challenging electronic music in subsequent decades. In works like Silver Apples of the Moon (the Thriller of avant-garde synth music in terms of sales), The Wild Bull, Touch, Sidewinder, and Until Spring, Subotnick created a vast, cryptic vocabulary of otherworldly timbres and bold, feinting dynamics. For example, there’s a discombobulating passage on side 2 of Silver Apples that sounds like experimental techno—25 years before the fact. Subotnick especially had an impact on IDM musicians’ propensity to scramble listeners’ sense of time and space This event—which will span 50 years of Subotnick’s career—will be accompanied by the high-definition, microcosmic graphics of German visual artist Lillevan (of Rechenzentrum). It’s probably going to be the musical event of the year for many high-IQ’d people. Town Hall, 7:30 pm, $17 adv/$20 DOS, all ages.

FILM

Film Review Revue

Thor: The Dark World dir. Alan Taylor Wide release

You can’t explain the plot of Thor: The Dark World without getting trapped in a Tolkien-ish morass of ridiculous-sounding words. See, thousands of years ago, there was a dark elf named Malekith who used an unstoppable zombie warrior named Kurse and an evil, drippy CGI space-substance called Aether to battle Odin’s father, Bor, on the day when the nine realms of the world tree Yggdrasil aligned in something called the Convergence. Now, as the Convergence is beginning again, the Aether has infected Jane Foster, the earthly love interest of Odin’s son Thor, and Malekith has returned to destroy the nine worlds. See? It basically sounds like a garbage stew of words plucked from Norse mythology, a bad Dungeons & Dragons campaign, and the liner notes of a Led Zeppelin album.

But the good news is that there’s a lot of fun here, too. Besides the obvious joys of watching medieval battles between gleaming golden Asgardian soldiers and a bunch of goblins armed with rocket launchers, The Dark World is booby-trapped with funny gags, entertaining fights, and a pair of charming actors who add a human element to the fantasy trappings. Tom Hiddleston as Loki, imprisoned on Asgard after trying to take over the world in The Avengers, and Chris Hemsworth as the arrogant-but-caring Thor have to team up to stop Malekith, and their half-brotherly rivalry is pointed enough to make us forget about the tremendous cast that’s otherwise wasted. (Tip to Hollywood: Don’t cast Idris Elba and give him nothing to do, and also don’t cast Christopher Eccleston as the main bad guy if the dark elf in question doesn’t have a personality besides KILL EVERYTHING.)

A whole lot of stuff happens, and a fair amount of it is entertaining, resulting in a Marvel movie that’s not as good as the very best of the Iron Man and Avengers films, but

hour and a half, McConaughey’s exceptional performance is riveting enough. Well into a remarkable career renaissance thanks to Magic Mike and Mud, McConaughey’s perhaps the best he’s ever been here. He’s nearly matched by, of all people, Jared Leto in the role of Woodroof’s transgender business partner, Rayon. A couple clunky showboating scenes aside, Leto inhabits the role comfortably and believably. Still, this is McConaughey’s show. As vital as Woodroof’s story is, director JeanMarc Vallée overreaches—attempting to tie the AIDS crisis, gay rights, and the evil of Big Pharma into one touching Hallmark story. He should’ve been content with letting McConaughey shine.

NED LANNAMANN

How I Live

Now

dir. Kevin Macdonald Varsity Theatre

The only appropriate time to fantasize about your entire family’s death is during puberty. Teen fantasies are consumed with romantic, melodramatic catastrophes: car accidents, shipwrecks, kidnappings, all starring the teens themselves and perhaps a mysterious love interest. Few films present this beautiful complexity of a newly formed adult brain hopped up on hormones, yet still filtering the world through the experiences of a child, better than How I Live Now.

that’s at least a huge improvement over the first Thor movie. PAUL CONSTANT

Dallas Buyers Club

dir. Jean-Marc Vallée

Harvard Exit

In addition to being an electrician and a part-time rodeo bull rider, Ron Woodroof was also a career partier—a thorough user of drugs and a prolific fucker of women. When he contracted AIDS in 1986, the disease was still, in the public’s eye, very much limited to the realm of gay men. Woodroof overcame not only his deeply ingrained homophobia but, for many years, the disease itself: He smuggled in unapproved medications from Mexico, Japan, and elsewhere, selling them to HIVpositive patients while the FDA remained in Big Pharma’s thrall.

It’s an interesting story, but the real meat of Dallas Buyers Club is Matthew McConaughey’s performance. As Woodroof, McConaughey dropped 50 pounds, filtering

his Texas good-ol’-boy schtick through Woodroof’s wiry bigotry and rage. In the early stages of Dallas Buyers Club, McConaughey emanates a palpable sense of menace—this is not a heroic man by any means. Of course, Woodroof undergoes the familiar Hollywood biopic transformation, nobly suffering from his illness and learning to not be such a jerk to gay men in the process.

The movie sputters at the end, as it attempts to draw tears from the audience while remaining true to the facts. It doesn’t do either of those things very well, but for the first

Daisy is an American teen (played by Saoirse Ronan) who’s sent to stay with distant relatives in the English countryside. She resents it. The bitchy New Yorker is pin-thin, heavily made-up, and needlessly strict about germs and food in the way of a young woman

trying to control her emotions through her environment. Slowly Daisy warms to farm life with the help of her cousins, 14-year-old Isaac (Tom Holland), his younger sister Piper (Harley Bird), and Edmond (George MacKay), the eldest sibling and Daisy’s burgeoning love interest. They swim, they picnic, Daisy falls in love.

Then a nuclear air strike hits London. Ash rains from the sky, signaling the start of World War III.

“I am a fucking curse,” Daisy moans after the air strike, in the way that only teenagers can manipulate a national disaster to reflect their own importance. Within days, troops descend and forcibly separate the cousins by gender, who vow to reunite at the farm. The first half of How I Live Now is shot through a golden lens of idyllic youth; the second half is a thrillingly grim coming-of-age story. Daisy’s earnest escape plot hasn’t prepared her for the realities of a war-torn country, and it becomes increasingly clear that even as she pushes Piper on a death march towards home, there’s no guarantee what, or who, they’ll find when they return. Even if you dislike war films, the superior child acting in How I Live Now makes it riveting, emotional, and well worth a few

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FILM SHORTS

LIMITED RUN

GHOSTS OF JEJU

An exposé of the conduct of the American military during the Korean War, and a look at its continued presence on the peninsula. Part of Keystone’s great, ongoing, and free “Movies That Matter” series. Keystone Church, Fri Nov 8 at 7 pm.

HARRY DEAN STANTON: PARTLY FICTION

A documentary about the prolific actor who has appeared in Paris, Texas Repo Man Wild at Heart, and about a hundred other films. You may not recognize the name, but you’ll probably know the face. The film contains interviews from David Lynch, Wim Wenders, and Kris Kristofferson, all of whom have worked with Stanton in the past. Northwest Film Forum, Fri-Sun 7, 9 pm, Mon 9 pm, Tues 7, 9 pm.

HAUSU

Hausu is the legendary psychedelic ghost story from Japan about a group of schoolgirls who venture into the wrong house. Blasts of crazy animation (both stop-motion and ink) rub up against live-action plot twists that will bend your brain. Unless you’ve seen Hausu, you’ve never seen anything like Hausu. (DAVID SCHMADER) Central Cinema, Fri-Tues 8:30 pm.

HOME ALONE

The Christmas classic with the most acts of torture per minute. Harvard Exit, Sat Nov 9 at midnight.

LA MAISON DE LA RADIO

From the documentarian who made the great To Be and to Have (chronicling a year in the life of a rural French schoolhouse) comes this new doc capturing the day-to-day world of Radio France, aka “the French NPR.” Varsity, Fri 7:20 pm, Sat-Sun 2:15, 7:20 pm, Mon-Tues 7:20 pm.

LEONARD PART 6

A Hecklevision screening of the ridiculously bad Bill Cosby spy movie that, among many other things, suggests Cos might have a serious wet-and-messy fetish. Featuring a preshow assortment of Cosby shorts and

HUMPY’S COURT

Last week, I was doing a lot of judging: Not only did I harshly judge some of the new fall TV shows you should—and should not—be watching, I also judged myself. (Verdict: I’m awesome sauce!) HOWEVER! If I learned anything from all this excess judging, it’s that I’m terrific at judging. In fact, I’m so terrific at judging, I’m setting up a side business where people can e-mail me descriptions of their crimes, and I’ll judge them… for a nominal fee, of course. (Legal disclaimer: Wm.™ Steven Humphrey knows absolutely nothing about the legal system. Run!)

Anyway, I’ll call it “The Humpy’s Court,” and it’ll go something like this…

“Dear Judge Wm.™ Steven Humpy: Sometimes, I get really angry at the person driving next to me when their lane is ending and they want to merge in front of me, and…”

GUILTY!! (Hammering gavel!) YOU ARE GUILTY OF NOT ALLOWING A ZIPPER MERGE! Traffic experts agree that if we fill up all lanes of traffic (including the merge lane) we’ll all get where we’re going a helluva lot faster. But it doesn’t work without the zipper merge! When the lane next to you ends, you let that person merge in front, and the person behind him merge in the rear. That sounds dirty, but it’s called THE ZIPPER MERGE, and it works. And if you’re not doing it, you are… GUILTY!! (Please remit the $50 penalty in addition to your $25 question fee to the e-mail address below.)

Let’s do some more, shall we? How about some TV show questions?

“Dear Judge Wm.™ Steven Humpy: I’m ashamed to admit that I really enjoy the

an audience “Cosby Cosplay” sweater contest. Central Cinema, Thurs Nov 7 at 8 pm.

MANHATTAN

Manhattan is not about a city; it’s about a space defined by culture, art, writing, music, and film. When Woody Allen’s Isaac takes his final, bittersweet stab at romance, he is spurred on not by true love, but by imagining the second movement of Mozart’s “Jupiter” symphony, Louis Armstrong’s recording of “Potatohead Blues,” Swedish movies, “Sentimental Education” by Flaubert, Marlon Brando, Frank Sinatra, and “those incredible apples and pears by Cezanne”—in that order. Anyone who can’t live without the arts shouldn’t live without seeing this movie. (JEN GRAVES) Central Cinema, Fri-Sat 7 pm, Sun 3 pm, Mon-Tues 7 pm.

THE MOTEL LIFE

A terminally ill woman leaves her boys with 500 bucks and a rifle. The boys grow up in the ugly city of Reno. The older boy is a writer, and the younger one is an artist. The younger brother looks up to the older one, who has spent a little time in a mental hospital. One night, the older brother, Jerry Lee (Stephen Dorff), accidentally kills a boy with his old and big American car. After the hit, Jerry runs to his younger brother, Frank (Emile Hirsch). The two leave town with no idea of what to do or where to go. While in the middle of nowhere (snowy mountains, cold trees, frozen lakes), Jerry Lee decides it’s best to abandon Frank, burn the car (he uses branches and gasoline), return to Reno, and shoot his leg while sitting on a bench by an icy river. As for Frank, who returns to Reno on a bus, he not only becomes consumed with guilt about the crime his brother committed, but also locates the home and family of the dead boy. As the story progress, we now and then visit earlier times in Frank’s life—a time when he was a teenager and receiving advice from a car salesman (Kris Kristofferson), or a when he was dating a melancholy but beautiful woman (Dakota Fanning). Animations that capture Frank’s artistic visions/ dreams also interrupt the slow flow of this sensitive but sleepy film. Motel attempts to achieve the condition of a moody or atmospheric pop tune. Indeed, the film is based on a novel by the lead singer and songwriter, Willy Vlautin, of the Portland-based alt-country band Richmond

new Fox show Sleepy Hollow… am I just being…”

GUILTY!! (Hammering gavel!) YOU ARE GUILTY OF ENJOYING A GUILTY PLEASURE! And of course that’s acceptable. Yes, Sleepy Hollow (Fox, Mondays, 9 pm) is a colonload of totally insane horror and sci-fi tropes that often make zero sense when lumped together… but it’s still totally fun. So go ahead and enjoy it, and if you don’t like Sleepy Hollow? Sue me! (Actually, you shouldn’t, because I’ll just throw your case out of court. Twenty-five dollars, please!)

“Dear Judge Wm.™ Steven Humpy: I’m really enjoying that Andy Samberg show Brooklyn Nine-Nine…”

GUILTY!! (Hammering gavel!) YOU ARE GUILTY OF REALLY ENJOYING THAT ANDY SAMBERG SHOW BROOKLYN NINE-NINE (Fox, Tuesdays, 8:30 pm)! And why not? The creators of Brooklyn are the same guys who brought you Parks and Recreation—so they know how to deliver a solid comedy. And I predict it’s just going to get better over time—so keep watching it! (That’ll be $85 for wasting my time.)

“Dear Judge Wm.™ Steven Humpy: You know that show The Crazy Ones…” GUILTY!! (Hammering gavel!) YOU ARE GUILTY OF MENTIONING THAT TERRIBLE SHOW, AND I DON’T CARE IF IT DOES STAR BUFFY AND ROBIN WILLIAMS!! I also don’t care if the latest episode of The Crazy Ones is slightly less terrible than its previous episodes, because it’s still TERRIBLE! Don’t watch this show! And just for mentioning it, I hereby sentence you to one year of hard labor at my house. (Which includes, but is not limited to, exfoliating my toe knuckles. Oh… and that’ll be $25, please.)

GUILTY AS CHARGED.

steve@thestranger.com

FESTIVE

Running at SIFF Cinema Uptown from November 9–11, the “Men Behaving Badly” mini-fest involves a quartet of beloved ’70s films, each presented on a freshly restored digital print and “featuring troubled men dealing with tumultuous circumstances as best they can,” says SIFF. It’s a nice wide net, capable of snagging virtually every movie ever made, from Birth of a Nation to The Dark Knight Rises, and SIFF has narrowed it down to a good, strong, aesthetically harmonious four.

Hard Times (1975)

The directorial debut of Walter “The Warriors” Hill stars Charles Bronson as a bare-knuckle boxer slugging his way through the Depression in New Orleans, and James Coburn as his well-meaning but down-on-his-luck promoter.

I’ve never seen it, but Roger Ebert calls it “a powerful, brutal film containing a definitive Charles Bronson performance.”

Five Easy Pieces (1970)

Bob Rafaelson directs Jack Nicholson to one of his best performances in this spare, gritty, and wry drama about a prodigal son of privilege chasing vague romance as an oil worker before being called home for a reckoning with his dying father. What you’ll remember most: the great supporting performance by the late Karen Black, who creates a weird ’70s sexpot like no other.

The Last Detail (1973)

Another Jack Nicholson joint,

this one directed by Hal Ashby (fresh off Harold and Maude ), and following the last free hours of a young midshipman (Randy Quaid) en route to a military prison under the supervision of Officer Nicholson, who’s determined to show the kid a good time. Another spare, gritty, wry drama packed with lived-in performances, powered by a script by Robert Towne, which reportedly featured more than 300 F-bombs in the opening scene alone.

The Last Picture Show (1971)

A poetic black-and-white portrait of 1950s Texas idleness set to a Hank Williams soundtrack, Peter Bogdanovich’s The Last Picture Show remains a miracle of American filmmaking. Not only does it improve upon its source material (Larry McMurtry’s acclaimed novel), the film draws career-best performances from every member of its vast cast. While the men (Jeff Bridges, Timothy Bottoms, Ben Johnson) behave badly, the women act brilliantly; it’s hard to think of another film so dense with rich female performances. Cloris Leachman, Ellen Burstyn, Cybill Shepard, and the late, great Eileen Brennan all do work that will take your breath away. If you’ve never seen The Last Picture Show, you must. (DAVID SCHMADER)

Men Behaving Badly runs Nov 9–11 at SIFF Cinema Uptown, 511 Queen Anne Ave N. Full info at siff.net.

Fontaine. The Motel Life is a sad song about sad brothers, a sad girlfriend, and a sad city in a sad world. (CHARLES MUDEDE) Grand Illusion, Fri 8 pm, Sat-Sun 4, 6, 8 pm, Mon-Tues 7, 9 pm.

PARADISE: HOPE

Enrolled in a summer weight-loss camp, 13-yearold Melanie attracts the attention of a much older man, the camp’s doctor, in Paradise: Hope. Sure, their romantic encounters are creepy, but they’re thrilling too, and they’re cut with pleasant images of exercise sessions, friends chatting, orderly white rooms, and clean green forests. Though the doctor keeps slipping away, Melanie clamps her heart on to him. She has her giddy moments, but just as easily gives way to an exhausted sadness. It’s a profound story, with scenes that are sweet and soul-crushing at the same time. (MARTI JONJAK) SIFF Cinema Uptown, Fri 4:45 pm, Sat-Sun 2:15 pm, Mon-Tues 4:45 pm.

THE PIANO

Jane Campion’s Oscar-winning romance about a mute woman, her daughter, her lover, and her beach piano. This is part of a series examining the legacy of films from 20 years ago. Grand Illusion, Thurs Nov 7 at 6:30 pm.

REMINGTON AND THE CURSE OF THE ZOMBADINGS

A young Filipino boy who calls everyone a homo finally goes too far, calling a drag queen a homo—in a graveyard, while she’s grieving—and promptly receives a curse from her lips that turns him gay. A morality tale? I guess. I mean, sure, it’s useful to teach young kids not to go around calling everyone a homo, but if the “punishment” for this is set up as “You will become gay! And you don’t want THAT!” doesn’t it kinda defeat the intent of the morality tale? Anyway, this all proceeds to what the plot summary optimistically describes as “a satirical send-up of homophobia and zombie horror.” In sum: ??!?!?!? (ELI SANDERS) SIFF Cinema Uptown, Fri-Sat at 10 pm.

SEATTLE SHORTS FILM FESTIVAL

“The Best of the Briefs” features 25 short films selected from more than 1,000 submissions. SIFF Film Center, Sat 11:30, 2:15, 4 pm.

TOSCA

A cinematic rebroadcast of a performance of the Puccini opera, originally seen at the Royal Opera House in London. Guild 45th, Thurs 7 pm, Sun 11 am.

TWO OF A KIND

Not to be confused with the Olsen twins’ TV series by the same name, this noir from 1951 stars Edmond O’Brien as a crooked lawyer and Lizabeth Scott as his sultry accomplice in fraud. Presented on 35 mm. Seattle Art Museum, Thurs Nov 7 at 7:30 pm.

UCLA FESTIVAL OF PRESERVATION

While the rest of us focus our attention on ever-stupider entertainments on ever-smaller screens, the good folks at the UCLA Film and Television Archive devote themselves to preserving and restoring culturally significant films and television programs of yesteryear. This biennial festival showcases some of the archive’s pristine restorations and preservation achievements in glorious 35 mm. Highlights from this program of forgotten classics include Gun Crazy, The Chase, and That Cold Day in the Park Northwest Film Forum, Fri-Tues. For full schedule and showtimes, see nwfilmforum.org.

THE VISITOR

Tons more reviews online! thestranger.com/film

An Italian-produced sci-fi horror film from 1979 that attempted to rip off The Omen, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, and several other American blockbusters, and which idiosyncratically stars American film directors Sam Peckinpah and John Huston. In English. Grand Illusion, Fri-Sat at 10 pm.

NOW PLAYING

IS LOST

ALL

The nearly wordless All Is Lost focuses, with exhausting intensity, on a single man. (In the closing credits, he’s listed only as “Our Man.”) He’s played by Robert Redford—wrinkled, presumably, from both years and water. When a yacht he’s sailing hits a shipping container in the middle of the Indian Ocean, water rushes into his cabin with startling speed; everything that follows charts his attempts to stay alive. Grim and quiet and melancholy, All Is Lost is tough and relentless—but perhaps the most impressive thing about it is that Redford and writer/director J.C. Chandor make this story as exciting and as touching as it is harrowing. (ERIK HENRIKSEN)

DIANA If you love, love , LOVE Princess Diana—no judgment—you will want to see Diana, and you will probably enjoy it, and you will cry at the

end. Naomi Watts’s lack of resemblance in the title role is distracting at first, but she gets the chin-down smile just right, and she’s graceful and—sorry, super-fans—appropriately, essentially boring. The movie concerns the last few years of Diana’s life; the fairy-tale wedding is long past and the princess is lonely in her palace, as established by her waking alone in her fancy bed, jogging alone across the manicured grounds, and making toast alone in an echoing kitchen. She has any material thing she could possibly want (including a billion gilt picture frames), but she rarely gets to see her children. Enter a handsome heart surgeon (Naveen Andrews, of Lost fame); even though he smokes cigarettes and eats junk food, he is highly principled, we know, because he repeatedly says so. Also, he likes jazz; as he and Diana fall in love, the lines about jazz are among the film’s most painful (it’s about improvisation). Diana slowly marches to its forgone conclusion, with German director Oliver Hirschbiegel maintaining a formal style that allows for only the most hackneyed version of romance. Still, it’s terribly sad, these cutout characters and what they are put through. Even if you don’t love Diana, you might cry, too. (BETHANY JEAN CLEMENT)

ENDER’S GAME

What we have here is an adaptation that can’t quite comprehend the moral grays of its source material, but it’s also a movie that’s willing to bring up some uncomfortable truths that other CGI-heavy blockbusters refuse to discuss at all. If you’re not familiar with the plot by now, you’re simply not paying attention: Ender Wiggin (Asa Butterfield) is a brilliant young man who is recruited to the upper echelons of the Earth’s defense corps, participating in an increasingly difficult series of combat simulations to prove his readiness to battle the insectoid aliens who attacked us the first time. Harrison Ford is Colonel Graff, the man who sees a tactical genius in Wiggin just waiting to burst forth. Wiggin’s fellow soldiers Bernard, Dink, Bean, Bonzo and, most notably, Petra (Hailee Steinfeld) all figure into the shaping of Wiggin in one way or another. Only a couple of the actors are terrible (Abigail Breslin’s Valentine is the biggest stinker), but nobody is especially great, either. Ford’s gruff old man routine is beyond threadbare these days, and Butterfield doesn’t seem to find either the child or the sociopath inside Wiggin. (PAUL CONSTANT)

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SUPERIOR COURT OF WASHINGTON COUNTY OF KING

In re the Parentage of: Callie Jean Sutton, Child, Jeffrey Fosie, Petitioner And Respondent: Cori J. Sutton, Mother TO THE RESPONDENT: CORI J. SUTTON

1. The petitioner has started an action in the above court requesting that there be a determination of parentage. Additional requests, if any, are stated in the petition, a copy of which is attached.

2. You must respond to this summons and petition by filing a written response with the clerk of the court and by serving a copy of your response on the person signing this summons.

If you do not file and serve your written response within 20 days (60 days if you are served outside of the state of Washington) after the date this summons was served on you, exclusive of the date of service, the court may, without further notice to you, enter a default judgment against you ordering the relief requested in the petition. If you serve a notice of appearance on the undersigned person, you are entitled to notice before an order of default may be entered.

3. Your written response to the summons and petition must be on form WPF PS 01.0300, Response to Petition for Establishment of Parentage (RSP). Information about how to get this form may be obtained by contacting the clerk of the court, by contacting the Administrative Office of the Courts at (360) 705-5328, or from the Internet at the Washington State Courts homepage: http://www.courts.wa.gov/forms

4. If this action has not been filed with the court, you may demand that the petitioner file this action with the court. If you do so, the demand must be in writing and must be served upon the person signing this summons. Within 14 days after you serve the demand, the petitioner must file this action with the court, or the service on you of this summons will be void.

5. If you wish to seek the advice of an attorney in this matter, you should do so promptly so that your written response, if any, may be served on time.

6. One method of serving a copy of your response on the petitioner is to send it by certified mail with return receipt requested.

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FREE WILL ASTROLOGY

BY ROB BREZSNY

For the Week of Nov 6

ARIES (March 21–April 19): I’m not a big fan of fear. It gets far more attention than it deserves. The media and entertainment industries practically worship it, and many of us allow ourselves to be riddled with toxic amounts of the stuff. Having said that, though, I do want to put in a good word for fear. Now and then, it keeps us from doing stupid things. It prods us to be wiser and act with more integrity. It forces us to see the truth when we might prefer to wallow in delusion. Now is one of those times for you, Aries. Thank your fear for helping to wake you up.

TAURUS (April 20–May 20): “Poetry might be defined as the clear expression of mixed feelings,” wrote W.H. Auden. If that’s true, then your job is to be a poet right now. You seem to be awash in a hubbub of paradoxical inclinations, complete with conflicting desires and mismatched truths. There’s no shame or blame in that. But you do have a responsibility to communicate your complexity with honesty and precision. If you can manage that, people will treat you with affection and give you extra slack. They might even thank you.

GEMINI (May 21–June 20): What can you do to improve your flow? Are there obstructions in your environment that keep you from having a more fluidic rhythm? Do you harbor negative beliefs that make it harder for life to bestow its natural blessings on you? Now is the time to take care of glitches like these, Gemini. You have more power than usual to eliminate constrictions and dissolve fixations. Your intuition will be strong when you use it to drum up graceful luck for your personal use. Be aggressive. Be bold. Be lyrical. It’s high time for you to slip into a smooth groove.

CANCER (June 21–July 22): In the beginning of his novel The White Castle, Orhan Pamuk offers this meditation: “To imagine that a person who intrigues us has access to a way of life unknown and all the more attractive for its mystery, to believe that we will begin to live only through the love of that person—what else is this but the birth of great passion?” How do you respond to this provocative statement, Cancerian? Here are my thoughts: On the one hand, maybe it’s not healthy for you to fantasize that a special someone can give you what you can’t give yourself. On the other hand, believing this is true may inspire you to take an intriguing risk that would catalyze invigorating transformations. Which is it? Now is a good time to

ruminate on these matters.

LEO (July 23–Aug 22): Canadians Tommy Larkin and Stephen Goosney are biological brothers, but they were adopted by different families when they were young. They lost touch for almost 30 years. Once they began looking for each other, it didn’t take long to be reunited. Nor did they have to travel far to celebrate. It turns out that they were living across the street from each other, in the same small town in Newfoundland. I foresee a metaphorically similar experience in your future, Leo. When you get reconnected to your past, you will find that it has been closer than you realized.

VIRGO (Aug 23–Sept 22): This will be an excellent week for you to talk with yourself—or rather, with yourselves. I’m envisioning in-depth conversations between your inner saint and your inner evil twin… between the hard worker and the lover of creature comforts… between the eagerto-please servant of the greater good and the self-sufficient smarty who’s dedicated to personal success. I think that in at least some of these confabs, you should speak every word out loud. You should gesture with your hands and express colorful body language. It’s prime time for your different sub-personalities to get to know each other better.

LIBRA (Sept 23–Oct 22): In the coming week you will probably have more luck than usual if you play keno, craps, blackjack, bingo, or roulette. People who owe you money will be inclined to pay you back, so you might want to give them a nudge. I won’t be surprised if you find a $20 bill lying on the sidewalk or if a store cashier accidentally gives you way too much change. In the wake of these tendencies, your main assignment is to be alert for opportunities to increase your cash flow. For example, if you wake up in the middle of the night with an idea for boosting your financial fortunes, I hope you will have a pen and notebook by the bed to write it down.

SCORPIO (Oct 23–Nov 21): “Not for all the whiskey in heaven,” begins a poem by Charles Bernstein. “Not for all the flies in Vermont. Not for all the tears in the basement. Not for a million trips to Mars. Not for all the fire in hell. Not for all the blue in the sky.” Can you guess what he’s driving at? Those are the things he will gladly do without in order to serve his passion. “No, never, I’ll never stop loving you,” he concludes. According to my understanding of your astrological cycle, Scorpio, now is a good time for you to make a comparable pledge. What is the one passion you promise to devote yourself to above all others? And what are you willing to live without in order to focus on that passion? Be extravagant, pure, wild, and explicit.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov 22–Dec 21): Dmitri Razumikhin is a character in Fyodor Dos-

toyevsky’s novel Crime and Punishment His surname is derived from the Russian word for “reason.” At one point he makes a drunken speech that includes these observations: “It’s by talking nonsense that one gets to the truth! Not one single truth has ever been arrived at without people first having talked a dozen reams of nonsense, even ten dozen reams of it.” Let’s make this a centerpiece of your current strategy, Sagittarius. Just assume that in order to ferret out the core insights that will fuel your next transformations, you may need to speak and hear a lot of babble.

CAPRICORN (Dec 22–Jan 19): At the 2013 Grammy Awards, actor Neil Patrick Harris introduced the band fun. this way: “As legendary gangster rap icon Katharine Hepburn once said, if you follow all the rules, you miss all the fun.” Everything about that vignette is a template for the approach you can use now with great success. You should gravitate toward festive events and convivial gatherings. Whenever possible, you should sponsor, activate, and pave the way for fun. Toward that end, it’s totally permissible for you to tell amusing stories that aren’t exactly factual and that bend the rules not quite to the breaking point.

AQUARIUS (Jan 20–Feb 18): Some spiritual traditions regard the ego as a bad thing. They imply it’s the source of suffering—a chronically infected pustule that must be regularly lanced and drained. I understand this argument. The ego has probably been the single most destructive force in the history of civilization. But I also think it’s our sacred duty to redeem and rehabilitate it. After all, we often need our egos in order to get important things done. Our egos give us the confidence to push through difficulties. They motivate us to work hard to achieve our dreams. Your assignment, Aquarius, is to beautify your ego as you strengthen it. Build your self-esteem without stirring up arrogance. Love yourself brilliantly, not neurotically. Express your talents in ways that stimulate others to express their talents.

PISCES (Feb 19–March 20): Dr. Seuss wrote his children’s books in English, but he liked to stretch the limits of his native tongue. “You’ll be surprised what there is to be found once you go beyond ‘Z’ and start poking around,” he said. One of the extra letters he found out there was “yuzz,” which he used to spell the made-up word “yuzz-a-ma-tuzz.” I recommend that you take after Seuss—not only in the way you speak, but also in the ways you work, play, love, dream, and seek adventure. It’s time to explore the territory beyond your comfort zone.

Homework: Make two fresh promises to yourself: one that’s easy to keep, and one that’s at the edge of your capacity to live up to.

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SAVAGE LOVE

Senior Kinkster BY DAN SAVAGE

I am a kinky, youthful 72-year-old guy. I grew up in the Pleistocene era, when there was virtually no way to meet a kinky woman. I’ve had two vanilla marriages, and three months ago I ended a four-year vanilla relationship with the best woman I’ve ever met. I just couldn’t take not being a BDSM person anymore, and I broke up with this wonderful woman so I could do BDSM. I’ve had some fun, but no candidate for a possible LTR has come along. In the meantime, my most recent ex (I’ll call her “Mel”) and I have both been bereft over our split. It is like a death, and we grieve it every day. But I need the BDSM lifestyle, and I figured that sooner or later I would meet someone else and get over Mel.

you’re a good slave—then ask Mel to order you to have vanilla sex.

As for books, WHIP, both Price and I recommend The Ultimate Guide to Kink: BDSM, Role Play and the Erotic Edge (Cleis Press, 2012), an informative collection of essays by a diverse group of writers that was edited by the indispensable Tristan Taormino. And if you’re hoping Mel will join you at public fetish events—parties and contests and street festivals—get her a copy of Mollena Williams and Lee Harrington’s Playing Well with Others: Your Field Guide to Discovering, Exploring and Navigating the Kink, Leather and BDSM Communities

Two days ago, Mel called me and said she wants me back. She says she’s willing to do what I need if it will make it possible for us to be together. Since I am a switch, it would be perfectly acceptable to me to have her abuse and torture me. I am functioning as a Dom in the BDSM world at the moment, since there are so few female switches around and virtually all female subs turn green at the idea of being with a switch. Also, the competition for female dominants is fierce, and it’s too much for me— especially at age 72. However, if I had to choose to be one or the other, I would choose to be a sub to a dominant woman. Can Mel be that woman? Is it possible for a vanilla person to adapt to BDSM? Also, she does have a few weirdo fantasies of her own, such as making it with a chimp. But she stresses these are not very intensely compelling, as mine are. If it is possible for her to make this change, are there any good books on this?

Wants Helpful Insight, Please! P.S. My son turned me on to your column recently!

“Good for you for being honest about the importance of kink in your life,” says Joan Price, author of Naked at Our Age: Talking Out Loud About Senior Sex. “At our age, we often realize that life is too short for bad sex. Sometimes it takes a series of unfulfilling relationships to make sexy, silver-haired folks like us say, ‘If not now, when?’”

And if not Mel, who?

You’re a new reader, WHIP, so you missed this insight the first ten thousand times it appeared in my column: You’ll meet two kinds of people at leather/fetish/BDSM contests, play parties, and street festivals: people who were always kinky— men and women who’ve been jacking/jilling off about their kinks since they hit puberty—and formerly vanilla people who fell in love with someone who was kinky, gave their partners’ kinks a try (sometimes to save the relationship), and grew to love their partners’ kinks.

So Mel may be able to “adapt” to BDSM. Price agrees: “Yes, it’s absolutely possible for your vanilla lady to shift into kinky sex, especially since she’s in love with you. Whether she’s doing it just to please you or she’s open to kinks herself, give her a chance.”

But you’re going to need to take it slow, WHIP, and you’ll need to use your words.

“Tell her what turns you on,” says Price. “Whisper your fantasies into her ear, share erotica or porn featuring your favorite activities. Solicit her fantasies about dominating you, if she has them, or suggest some scenes to her and see what she responds to. Once she’s ready and willing, start with small steps rather than full-blown scenes, so she can ease into this new world.”

And if all goes well—if Mel isn’t traumatized or disgusted by BDSM sex, if she enjoys dominating you or is GGG enough to go there for you on a regular basis—don’t be a stupid, selfish kinkster, WHIP. By which I mean to say: Don’t neglect Mel’s desire for vanilla sex. If it helps to think of vanilla sex as a horrible ordeal that you have to submit to—vanilla is a service you provide to Mel, your Dom, because

Joan Price blogs about sex and aging at NakedAtOurAge. com. Follow her on Twitter @JoanPrice.

I’m a bisexual or pansexual or omnisexual—or whatever the kids are calling us these days—woman in a monogamish marriage to a great, GGG straight man. Both of us are in our early 30s. Since getting married, we’ve traveled around the world and done whatever the hell we wanted. It was a crazy exciting life, but we decided it was time to stop living paycheck to paycheck, so we came back to the States. We recently bought a house, and we were planning to have a kid next year. But now my husband says that he’s not ready. He says there are things he wants to do that he will never ever get to do if we have kids now. I asked him for a time frame, and he said that he couldn’t answer that. What he has said to me is: “We’ve always said we’d never be one of those couples that stop adventuring because we have a nest and kids and stuff.” This might be a deal breaker for me. I want to be a mom. I’m ready. I don’t want my husband to feel resentment that he never got to live the life he wanted—more travel? More crazy sexual adventures?—because I stuck him with a kid, but at the same time, he can’t even give me a time frame. I love him dearly. He’s my best friend, he’s hot, he’s a wonderful person and funny as hell. They don’t make many men like him. What should I do?

Childless H

First, get to a couples counselor. Second, relay this message to your husband from me: Travel and adventure—sexual and otherwise—don’t have to stop after you become parents. They do become more difficult, logistically speaking, and you won’t be able to go adventuring on impulse anymore. But you can have adventures, dude, as a couple and as individuals. (It’s good for married people, including parents, to spend time apart.) It’s true, however, that most parents do stop adventuring—but that’s usually because they were ready to stop adventuring or they weren’t that adventurous in the first place. You can do it differently. Pro tip: It’s easier to make time for adventuring if you have one kid. And traveling with a small child— even taking off to live in a foreign country for a year or two—is a lot easier than Parentlandia propaganda would have you believe. You’re an adventurous person—you and your wife are adventurous people—and adventurous people can choose to be adventurous parents.

DEAR

READERS: You were probably expecting me to comment on that “making it with a chimp” detail in WHIP’s letter. But I had nothing to say except “Really? Holy crap. Chimp fantasies? Damn.”

This week on the Savage Lovecast: Do bisexuals need a new label? Savagelovecast.com.

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