The Stranger Suggests
July 12 - July 19
Circus Contraption's 'Grand American Traveling Dime Museum'
(CIRCUS) This is your last chance to peer inside Circus Contraption's extraordinarily delightful cabinet of curiosities—clairvoyant aerialists, acrobatic devils, singing fetuses—before they cart the show off to New York City. Tonight's is a preview with discounted tickets—$15. (Magnuson Community Center Auditorium, Magnuson Park, Building 47, 7400 Sand Point Way NE, 442-2004. Thurs–Sun through July 23, 8 pm, $20–$23, www.brownpapertickets.com, mature content.)
Rebecca Brown, Trimpin, Robyn O'Neil
(ART & LITERATURE) On the evening of the day that the Trimpin: Klompen exhibit opens, local being/beacon of light/literature Rebecca Brown reads a whole new work. From her own mouth: "It is a new short story. A dark American tale inspired by the Robyn O'Neil show that's set up there [at the Frye] at this moment." Do not miss the musical art of Trimpin, the epic drawings of O'Neil, and the rhythmic prose of Rebecca Brown. (Frye Art Museum, 704 Terry Ave, 622-9250. 6–10 pm, free.)
Filastine
(CD RELEASE PARTY) Putting out music on Jace "DJ/rupture" Clayton's excellent Soot label is worth celebrating. So that's what Filastine's gonna do tonight, with Orkestar Zirkonium (brass and drum unit featuring Circus Contraption and Infernal Noise Brigade members), DJ Michito, and Poison Ring supporting. The CD in question, Burn It, displays Filastine's finesse with polyglot beat derangement and nonexploitative ethnodelic instrumentation. Filastine possesses skills that can unleash anarchic energy. (Lo_Fi Performance Gallery, 429 Eastlake Ave E, www.lofiseattle.org. 10 pm, $5, 21+.)
'Police Beat'
(CONFLICT OF INTEREST) If you gave Flannery O'Connor a Cinemascope camera, a moratorium on God, and free rein of Seattle, the resulting movie would be not unlike Police Beat. The city in Police Beat is wetter, riper, and brighter than the Seattle you know. There's a moment when the hero, a bike cop, smiles, and the music quickens, and everyone in the audience is lifted out of their seats. I defy you not to love this movie, and I'm not just saying that because Charles Mudede is sitting next to me. (Varsity, 4329 University Way NE, 781-5755. See Movie Times, p. 87, for details.)
'Who Killed the Electric Car?'
(FILM) So, Annie Wagner, did you like the movie? "Yes." Why? "Well, there are these annoying people who owned this electric car, the EV1. Rich people, like Mel Gibson, and eager activists who want them back. See, GM rolled out the cars to great fanfare and then it took them back and said it wanted to squish them." Squish them? "GM didn't say 'squish.' It said 'we're going to put them in this parking lot.'" Wait, why did GM recall the cars? "Well, that's what the movie's about." (See Movie Times, p. 87, for details.)
Slide Crawl 2
(ART) What would happen if artists reviewed themselves? If when they spoke in public, they talked about their fears instead of their intentions? At an artist-run collective like Crawl Space, real, serious, open conversation about art is a definite possibility, and might even happen at Slide Crawl 2, the second installment of a relaxed quarterly slide show. This one's featured artists are Cat Clifford, Tony Weathers, and Portland's Stephen Slappe. (Crawl Space Gallery, 504 E Denny Way #1, 322-5752. 7:30 pm, donation suggested.)
Punk-Rock Film Fest
(FUNDRAISER) In the same way I'd rather buy a Real Change newspaper than hand a crumpled bill to some jerko in front of Jack in the Box, a fundraiser should give something BACK to you. Tonight's benefit—for The Rambler, a new film by supertalented local punks and filmmakers Calvin Lee Reeder and Brady Hall—is sure to put the "fun" back in "fundraiser." For a mere $5 donation, you get a screening of THREE amazing new short films (Piledriver, Little Farm, Kite Flyers) and live music by THREE new bands—mishy-mashups featuring members of the Intelligence, the Pulses, and Holy Ghost Revival—all hosted by Jerkbeast. (Rendezvous, 2322 Second Ave, 441-5823. 10:30 pm, $5.)
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