i was wondering if Hook was going to take this out on the road… he played Joy Division’s classic Unknown Pleasures album in its entirety in Manchester to celebrate (???) Ian Curtis’ untimely demise thirty years ago. this is one not to miss if only for its historic value alone. (tickets available here this morning with presale password UNKNOWN.)
sneak preview of Life During Wartime, a new film by Todd Solondz @ Cinefamily/Silent Movie Theatre for FREE!!!! (RSVP here) Solondz and Paul Reubens aka Pee Wee Herman will be there after for a Q+A
The New Pornographers, The Dodos, Imaad Wasif @ Henry Fonda Theater
WTTD pal Courtney Cruz is reprising her Star Wars burlesque with the Fempire Strikes Back @ the Music Box Hollywood. last one sold out, so get tickets before you go. (check out pics from Courtney Cruz’s Fetish Girls and Video Game Girls here)
Carlos Ramos, Becca and Mark Covell have a threesome @ Copro Gallery from 8:00 – 11:30 p.m
everything looks good ‘On Paper’ (yes, it’s a lame joke, but i’m hungover and it’s all i got right now) with a group show at George Billis Gallery LA from 6.30 to 10pm
a whole buncha peeps do custom-painted Buff Monster toys at Giant Robot 2 from 6.30 to 10pm
it’s an Alternative Press Magazine 25th anniversary party group swinger show kind of thing with a grip of artists @ Merry Karnowsky Gallery from 8-11pm
be sure to dress all in black (seriously, they won’t let you in otherwise) for Christ Vs Warhol at Bar Sinister – i’ve been digging this band, they sound a lot like early Siouxsie
SUNDAY, JULY 11th
Spain vs Netherlands in the World Cup Final Match! yeah, i could care less too. but i do love a party! Crewest is having a World Cup party. sponsored by Asahi, Jarritos, Roaring Lion energy drink and Fox Sports Español, doors open at 11am with kickoff at 11.30, and check out the Sweet Things opening while you’re there. (About the Exhibit: Sweet Things is a female urban art group show focusing on canvases, prints, photography, illustration and merchandise of 8-10 mid-career female urban artists, as well as legendary, internationally-recognized female artists. Explorations of graffiti, urban illustration, tattoo art, portraiture and fashion will be emphasized. Curated by: Indie184 and Queen Andrea. Exhibiting Artists: Aiko, Martha Cooper, Gillian Goldstein, Motel7, Koralie, Mickey, Jules Muck, Klor, Queen Andrea and Indie184. Featured Artist: Sherm.)
Early show and a late show – Special Cinefamily Fundraiser: 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea w/live score by Stephin Merritt of The Magnetic Fields @ Cinefamily (this looks fucking rad)
Part Time Punks with Full Frontal, Manicorn @ The Echo
Concrete Blonde celebrates twenty years of Bloodletting at Henry Fonda – Music Box in Hollywood by making me feel really fucking old playing the album in full. Flametal and Shok open (tix here)
WTTD pal Courtney Cruz and her Devil’s Playground gets all kinky AGAIN with the sequel to her Fetish Girls Burlesque downtown at Bordello Bar – check out some naughty pics from the first Fetish Girls Burlesque show in our galleries here (three thumbs WAY up if you know what i mean from j. satan)
Meltdown’s gallery is having s fund raiser for Downtown Dog Rescue with a group show of more than fifty artists doing portraits of cute widdle doggies, including works from Chet Zar, Nicole Bruckman, Christopher Umana and about fifty more
this actually went public last night, but regardless the Vader Project in Hollywood on Melrose looks fantastic with more than a hundred art-ed up Darth Vader helmets from pretty much every relevant underground artist ever. there’s a catalog signing at two pm.
LeBasse opens for Yoskay Yamamoto’s ‘Familiar Strangers’ show in Culver City
Gary Baseman’s ‘Giggle and Pop’ show from noon until four at the La Brea tar pits with his “Tar Pit Girls” – i like him but he’s a little skeevy, too…
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