Publicity kit shows a lot of damn gall.Byline: BUZZWORTHY The Register-Guard The prize for the week's most inventive media kit goes to Professor Gall. Its creativity easily could have been buried under a hulking hulk·ing also hulk·y adj. Unwieldy or bulky; massive. hulking Adjective big and ungainly Adj. 1. heap of horseshoes and four-leaf clovers four-leaf clover n. A clover leaf having four leaflets instead of the normal three, considered to be an omen of good luck. , were it not for a vigilant reading public. The Portland band is at Diablo's on Saturday, touring in support of its "Intravenous Delusion delusion, false belief based upon a misinterpretation of reality. It is not, like a hallucination, a false sensory perception, or like an illusion, a distorted perception. " release. In the kit, the CD was taped to a foam tray, as you would find meat at a grocery store. Next to the CD: a fake syringe syringe /sy·ringe/ (si-rinj´) (sir´inj) an instrument for injecting liquids into or withdrawing them from any vessel or cavity. and a baggie of glitter dust, with instructions to pump your metaphoric bloodstream full of this klezmer-heavy, crazed craze v. crazed, craz·ing, craz·es v.tr. 1. To cause to become mentally deranged or obsessed; make insane. 2. To produce a network of fine cracks in the surface or glaze of. v. , freak-folk, art rock. Sid and Fancy are Saturday's headliners, and the roaming Glenwood Rebel Rovers will stroll through the Downtown Lounge for some Irish tunes before and after the other bands. You won't have to look too far to find Irish music in town, or at least people getting into the spirit by having a party that has nothing to do with Ireland - other than the whiskey whiskey [from the Gaelic for "water of life"], spirituous liquor distilled from a fermented mash of grains, usually rye, barley, oats, wheat, or corn. Inferior whiskeys are made from potatoes, beets, and other roots. or the Guinness. Like the Irish, Jews know a thing or two about persecution. Sean Altman's variety show Jewmongous will be in town to make light of all things traumatic in Hebrew history. Altman is careful to go easy on the facts in order to ensure an environment where Jews can laugh at themselves and gentiles won't feel guilty laughing beside them. Jewmongous is at Sam Bond's for an early show on Thursday. In the world of dance, Viver Brasil brings its energetic Afro-Brazilian show to the McDonald today. Probably nothing in town this week could be further from the way most Americans celebrate St. Patrick's St. Patrick's or Saint Patrick's may refer to:
Another winner is the movie "Venus," opening today at the Bijou. It's about two aging actors who spend time with a much younger, rude and trashy woman who nonetheless teaches the old goats something about life. See www.registerguard .com/ticketfiles to view and hear some Ticket extras. |
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