big deck sundays @ beachcomber & tiki bar

The line up for this Sunday, August 5th's edition of BIG DECK SUNDAYS @ Beachcomber & Tiki Bar is:

DWRECK & JAY STONE (deep and jackin' house tag)

JEFF TRITT (tech-house)

BRANDON ANDREWS (cool house)

PAUL B (deep and funky house)

[listed in playing order]

Doors open at 7pm, Music starts at 8pm.

Jay and I asked for the early slot since most of our friends work rather early on Monday mornings, plus you can catch an awesome sunset while we play along the gorgeous Cuyahoga River on the East Bank of the Flats.

Beachcomber & Tiki Bar
1146 Old River Road
216-566-9400

No Cover!

3 stooges pie fight/film fest rescheduled

Due to rain!

The new date is August 18th, 2007. Scroll down to read the rest of the info, which remains the same.

househeads anonymous

These are the Twelve Steps to House as defined by Househeads Anonymous:

1. We admitted we were powerless over House—that our lives had become unmanageable without it.
2. Came to believe that a Power greater than ourselves could restore us to sanity... namely House music.
3. Made a decision to turn our will and our lives over to the care of Jack as we understood Him and his Box.
4. Made a searching and fearless inventory of our Vinyl Crates.
5. Admitted to Jack, to ourselves, and to other dancers the exact nature of our love for House Beats.
6. Were entirely ready to have Jack remove all bad music from our lives.
7. Humbly asked Him to remove our shyness and let our freak flag fly on the dancefloor.
8. Made a list of all House DJs we had missed, and became willing to make it to their next show.
9. Made direct amends to dance wherever possible, except when to do so would injure other dancers like in a breakdancing circle or something.
10. Continued to take personal inventory of our past favorite fly-by-night genres and when we were wrong promptly admitted it.
11. Sought through dancing and spinning to improve our conscious contact with Jack as we understood Him, praying only for knowledge of His Will for us and the power to dance like a silly goose.
12. Having had a spiritual awakening as the result of these steps, we tried to carry this message to non-househeads, and to practice these principles in all our affairs.

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"Hi, my name is Derek and I've liked house music for about 20 years."

brushes with greatness: patti smith

Okay, so here's my kick ass story about the Patti Smith concert at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as part of yesterday's The Early Show on CBS. I wake up at 3:30am and get down to the Rock Hall at 5am... well, I think I was actually a few minutes late for work as usual, but seeing as the other production assistants didn't show up yet, nobody noticed. So somewhere around 5:30am I take this big bag of garbage from the stage area in front of the Rock Hall down to the back loading dock. Mind you, it's absolutely pouring rain and totally dark, especially behind the Rock Hall. So, I'm standing in the back with this huge bag of garbage over my shoulder and up pulls this big black limousine. I look around and notice that I'm the only one in that area of the Rock Hall grounds. Out of the limo comes the driver and then Patti's assistant, and then the rock legend herself pops out of the backseat. She gets out wearing her signature little black hat and she looks around and then looks at me and then says, "Hello! Good morning." I said, "Hello," and just thought to myself: how cool is that that this gritty folk punk rock superstar would actually say hello to a guy carrying a huge bag of garbage in the pouring rain at 5:30am? I love her forever now.
I Tivo-ed all the CBS morning shows yesterday, because I figured I'd be running around in the background somewhere, and sure enough during the 5:30am-6am show I was doing just that.
Anyhow, after her mini-concert she gets off the stage and goes behind the stage and steps on one of these big dolly's that the stagehands use to compile and move all the big pieces of the stage. Patti doesn't notice or care that this giant dolly is on wheels. So, she climbs onto this thing to greet people and sign autographs and have her picture taken by amateur photographers and the press, so I realize this platform she's on could possibly start to roll away or at worst she could get hurt, so I'm bracing the dolly and locking it with my arms together with one of the metal bike-rack-looking crowd barrier things. I'm like a foot away from her and she says hello again to me, not realizing I'm making sure she's safe from harm's way and I notice this guy with no legs in a wheelchair. Well, actually, during the concert I was asking people to move out of his way so he could see... including some woman in a suit who looked at me with a death look and then proceeded to enter the VIP area to show me how special she was. In any event, the guy in the wheelchair was clutching a black and white promo photograph of Patti and a Sharpie. So, after she was done with giving autographs she announces to the crowd that she has to leave. I say, "Excuse me, Patti... but can you sign this guy in the wheelchair's photo?" And she's like, "Of course, Honey." And she goes over to him and they talk for a minute and she asks what his name is so that she can personalize the autograph. And he says, "Well, today is my birthday, so can you write Happy Birthday?" She does him one better. She signs the photograph and then proceeds to sing him the Happy Birthday song. He was glowing.
Patti Smith is a class act. I give her major props for being such an awesome person.
So, again, I Tivo-ed the CBS Early Show and was so excited that my film teacher, Cindy Penter, and her husband Gordon, and her friend Frank were filmed in the crowd like at least three times. Here's a still:

patti smith | rock hall | friday 7.27.07

It’s another plus for Cleveland—we’re in the national spotlight again!

Show your Northeast Ohio spirit as CBS’ The Early Show broadcasts their morning show LIVE on a huge stage in front of the Rock and Roll Hall of
Fame and Museum --rain or shine-- on Friday, July 27 from 7- 9am.

Come down to the Rock Hall before work for an all-star line up including weatherman and feature reporter Dave Price and Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Inductee Patti Smith who will perform a free mini-concert to end the show.

Consider taking public transit with your co-workers to come down to the Rock Hall. Take RTA’s Waterfront Line to North Coast Station on E. 9th
Street or the B-Line Trolley to E. 9th and Lakeside.

Parking will be available for $6 at the Port Authority lot (behind the Browns stadium/Science Center) starting at 6:30 a.m.

The Rock Hall will be open early immediately following the Early Show broadcast at 9 a.m.

Show up at the Early Show’s live appearance with a homemade “Cleveland+” sign and you could win:

1. a two-pack of Browns tickets (vs. Cincinnati) - Sept. 16
2. a two-pack of Indians tickets (vs. Detroit, 5 rows behind home plate)- Sept. 17
3. a two-pack of Indians tickets (vs. Detroit, 5 rows behind home plate) - Sept. 17

Winners will be chosen randomly. All showgoers carrying homemade Cleveland+ signs or shirts bearing Cleveland+ can visit the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum for free immediately following the broadcast at 9 a.m. on July 27, 2007. No other offers apply. Offer good until noon of July 27, 2007 only.

We’ll see you soon! (Can’t make it? At least tune in on WOIO).

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Thanks to Doug Burkhart for hooking me up with a temporary job with CBS News for this broadcast.

photos from taste of tremont

3 stooges pie fight and film fest

Please bring your own aluminum pie plates and whipped cream to fill them with. DO NOT bring shaving cream.

something dada

aminals at doubting thomas

Aminals -- As art exhibits go, this one's pretty wild -- or at least undomesticated. Pretension and polish are nowhere to be found in this offbeat, animal-themed collection of works by local artists, organized by Clevelander Shawn Mishak. Depth too is scarce, but at least there's an intellectual path through the zoo: that we humans aren't much different from our beastly neighbors. Josh Banaszak draws the connection most clearly in "Pregnant." Painting crudely on untreated plywood, he depicts a nude, pregnant woman in profile, neck to stomach. Her breasts and belly are swollen to bursting, but the pink circle representing her womb is what grabs your attention. Scrawled over it is the word "mammalian," making the point that gestation and live birth are traits common to countless species. Mandy Szostek illustrates our remove from nature and pays sarcastic homage to our media obsession in "Modern Urban Totemic Animism," a totem pole-like structure formed from televisions. But the real zingers are the charms on the wall: Instead of statuettes, there are a cigarette box, a prescription-pill container, and a Red Bull can -- gods, indeed. Jeff Pasek takes the most poetic tack, seeking animal equivalents for human tendencies. One discovery is "Sleep Cycle," the show's most beautiful painting, in which monarch butterflies, stuck in a treeless, orange-tinted landscape, find rest in dangling from mysterious white lines. They can't sleep without a little external assistance, and neither can most of us. Until August 13 at Doubting Thomas Gallery, 856 Jefferson Avenue, Cleveland, 330-687-3355. -- Zachary Lewis

bear essentials: review of aminals art show

Bear Essentials

A bunchy of party animals take over an art gallery.

By Cris Glaser

Shawn Mishak teams up with seven other local painters, sculptors, and videographers to capture a playful side of the wild kingdom in Aminals, now on view at Doubting Thomas Gallery. “I wanted to do a show that wasn’t a realist show,” says Mishak, who curates the 30-piece exhibit. “I didn’t want a bird-sitting-in-a-branch kind of thing.”

The display’s centerpiece consists of a 5-foot-10-inch plastic teddy bear stuffed with an assortment of miniature bears, which Mishak purchased at various shops around town. “If I had had more money, I would have ordered the same size and color,” he says. “But I’m tickled how it turned out.” Nearby, filmmaker Mandy Szostek’s totem pole is made of TVs that simultaneously screen creature features, while Robert Ritchie contributes handmade earrings shaped like chicken feet. Patrons can also check out a documentary about aquatic life -- which features Mishak’s droll narration. The exhibit includes plenty of paintings of animals in atypical settings -- like a dodo bird nursing a beer and a zebra sitting on a toilet, perusing a newspaper. “It’s my immaturity,” says Mishak. “I tend to drift toward ridiculous, conceptual stuff.”

Date/Time: Every Friday and Saturday 6:00pm-9:00pm from Friday, July 20th until Saturday, August 4th. Also open this Sunday afternoon for the Taste of Tremont.

Doubting Thomas

856 Jefferson Ave.
Cleveland, OH 44113
Phone: 216-241-7800

tek-know? presents 3 channels (poland)

Sat Aug 11th
Tek-Know presents
3 Channels (Poland)

$5 18+

Touch Supper Club
2710 Lorain Ave
Cleveland, Ohio 44113



3 Channels are Deeop (Grzegorz Demianczuk) and Ketiov (Wojciech Taranczuk). Their acquaintance began in 2003 when Ketiov started to spin his first records in clubs like Sonar and Taras Caffe and Deeop was already widely known for his enormous records collection and participation in every party in the city of Stettin.

In late 2003 they organized their first mutual party at Mezzoforte club, which appeared to be a huge success. Logically the became resident dj's there, which gave them a chance to organize their own parties simply named "Electronic House". The idea was to promote new dance music completely different from what was played in most of the polish clubs at the time. The "Electronic House" parties had the privilege to welcome such people as: Tom Clark, Dub Taylor, John Tejada, Antonelli Electr, Wighnomy Brothers, Todd Bodine, Matthias Tanzmann and Duplex 100.

In September 2003 they broadcasted their first radio show called "Session" at the local ABC Radio alongside with their old mate Vitek. After a year "Session" evolved into the 3 Channels project. Later the radio show was broadcasted under the name of "Plastelina" and could be heard ever Thursday from 6 pm to 7 pm. "Plastelina" has no sound limits and has one goal, which is to promote modern electronic music from down tempo to electronic, tech-house or techno music.
After half a year of co-operation with Votchik 3 channels decided to star producing... They released their 2 first records on Trenton ("Split EP" and "Superficial") then followed by 1 EP on each Trapez and Crosstown Rebel which showed a more minimal side of their work!

All these releases showed that 3 Channels could be versatile artists and collected a lot of good reviews all over the world on medias like BBC or the popular Anjas Schneider's radio show "Dance Under The Blue Moon"... They are now starting to do remixes for people such as Jacek Sienkiewicz, Maetrik, Richard Bartz, Codec'n Flexor and are releasing new productions on labels like Trenton, Crosstown Rebels, Trapez and Resopal.

also playing:
Truck Stop Tourist - Tek-Know
Randomseed - Tek-Know
SNL (Stone & Leone) - Deepinit / Tek-Know
along with John K & The Funk Detective

Tek-Know Web::http://www.tekknow.experimedia.net - Tek-Know on the Web
Tek-Know Infoline::216.539.7485
Touch:: 216.631.5200

modern urban totemic animism

Here's a quick video promo for our multi-media installation at Doubting Thomas. On exhibit through August 4th on Fridays, and Saturdays... but also this Sunday during the Taste of Tremont.

taste of tremont 2007

Mandy and I are actually throwing a little art shindig at Edison's for this event.

Where:

Sidewalk in front of
Edison's Pub
2373 Professor St.
Cleveland, Ohio 44113
http://www.edisonspub.com/


Live performance poetry:

The Poet Known as Bill

DJs:

Charles from the Black Lodge
d3r3k
Jason Stone
Paul B.
Stout XTC
Uzi

Possibly setting up a tent to do Wallpaper Visuals... we'll see.

No cover.
All ages.

Sunday July 22nd, 2007
The Taste of Tremont runs from 1pm to 8pm, but
we'll be playing music from Noon to 6pm.

photos from doubting thomas and asterisk

Part of the monthly Tremont Art Walk, Doubting Thomas' opening this past Friday included a video/sculpture piece entitled "Modern Urban Totemic Animism," a collaboration between Mandy (pictured), composer Craig Bourne (pictured), videographer Eric Wahl, and myself. We made a TV totem pole, showing different video pieces we made in each of the five televisions. Mandy also included some jewelry with found objects, some paintings on a mirror, a furbee wearing an amulet of the urbilataria, or the common ancestor, also known as an ancient worm. The whole piece was surrounded by a big pile of feathers scattered all around. The entire show at the gallery is "Animals." It will be showing for the next few weeks, so please try and stop down to Doubting Thomas.

view the complete photo album here:
http://www.bubbleshare.com/album/199098/overview

edit:

There's two reviews about the show in this week's issue of Scene Magazine and online that mention Mandy and the TV totem pole.

rest in doggy heaven, keiko

art site: shannon english

Here's a site that my best friend Shannon English created a few years ago to showcase her paintings and sculptures. She's had shows in Tremont, Chicago, and Florida and also has had work in the silent auctions at Cleveland Public Theater. She's done acting in Chicago, and stand up comedy and improv in Cleveland as well. She's multi-talented, for sure! Check out some of her older work here: http://www.angelfire.com/id/shannonenglish/



She still makes great art, but her latest passion is surfing! She's been getting into jewelry making of late, and she also plays guitar! What doesn't she do?!

blog alert: art addict

You might be familiar with Valerie Tyler if you've clicked through the links on the left side of this page (these do not appear if you're reading the feedburner version: through the link on myspace, or if you clicked my sig line on the cnl). Valerie's is the last (because I have them in alphabetical order) but definitely not least. I got to see her jewelry designs in person at her booth during the Clifton Arts Festival and I was very impressed at the amount and quality of her work. Her presentation was also very professional. You'd think she's been doing this forever as a full-time job or something. Well, she recently started an art blog, and although she's told me about it, I really didn't remember to check it out until today, and again, I'm highly impressed! Check it out yourself here: http://artaddict.wordpress.com/

blog alert: random(blog)

Just realized that Tek-Know?'s Paul "Random(seed)" Swetz has joined the blogosphere. Check it.

secret technology works

All kinds of weird stuff here (including the hypnotizing mascots).

evil hypnotizing mascots

no end in sight

essay by jamie lee curtis on reality tv

friday: art in tremont and house at touch

This Friday is gonna be another action packed one!!!

Come check out the video/sculpture art installation me and Mandy and Craig and Eric collaborated on at the

Doubting Thomas Gallery in Tremont
856 Jefferson
216.351.3558
6pm to 10pm
Free wine and hor d'vourves!
no cover

THEN:

Follow us over to the
Touch Supper Club
2710 Lorain Ave. in Ohio City
for some killer HOUSE
all the way from the land of Chicago:
Soul Foundation: Brian Gardner and Jevon Jackson
making a stop in the 216 for their LOVESLAP! TOUR
plus the funky fresh ass-shakin' selections of
the incredible Noah D
as well as the deep and jackin' duo SnL: Stone and Leone
as well as C U Friday residents:
Mike Metz and Graph!
$5 cover

family affair 6 photos

Click title link above to see the album.

tek-know? lineup for family affair 6

--Friday 7.06.07--

4:00-6:00pm - DAN MOORE (canton)

6:00-7:00pm - VITRUVIUS & RELATIVITY (LIVE PA) (cleveland)

7:00-8:30pm - VINNY BRICKS (cincinnati)

8:30-9:15pm - BOX aka JEREMY BIBLE (LIVE PA) (also on main as 1/2 of spec.dev) (canton)

9:15-10:00pm - HALF ADDER (LIVE PA) (also on main as 1/2 of spec.dev) (canton)

10:00-11:00pm - JUSTIN HARTMAN aka CLOUDTEN (cleveland)

11:00pm-12:30am - CHAD DOLIS (akron)

12:30-1:30am - RANDOM(SEED) (cleveland)

1:30-2:30am - ELEVEN:11 (cincinnati)

2:30-3:30am - JOHN K (cleveland)

3:30-4:30am - DJ MEGHAN (cleveland)

4:30-5:30am - AZURE BLUE (LIVE PA) (detroit)

5:30-6:30am - WATARU (LIVE PA) (detroit)


--Saturday 7.07.07--

Noon-3:00pm - TEK-KNOW LUNCHTIME TAG (feat: crew,friends and family)

3:00-4:00pm - SYNAPTIC TRIGGER (springfield/dayton)

4:00-5:00pm - DWRECK (cleveland)

5:00-6:00pm - ELYSIUM (SOLO SET: also on main w/ STEEL CITY FUNK)

6:00-7:00pm - ANDRE LEONE (SOLO SET: also on main as 1/2 of SNL)

7:00-8:00pm - GRAPH (cleveland)

8:00-9:00pm - BRANDON ANDREWS (cleveland)

9:00-10:00pm - JIMI TSANG (cleveland)

10:00-11:00pm - FUNK DETECTIVE (cleveland)

11:00pm-2:00am - DETROIT TECHNO MILITIA feat: Darkcube, T. Linder, Dj Seoul, Dan Lucas & Neil Valenzuela (detroit)

2:00-3:00am - ANDY JAMES (SOLO SET: also on main as 1/2 of TRUCKSTOP TOURIST)

3:00-4:00am - CRAIG KUNA (san francisco)

4:00-5:00am - MOKE vs. UZI (cleveland)

5:00-6:30am - 1 AUXY (SOLO SET: also on main as 1/2 of TRUCKSTOP TOURIST)

* Main Stage Lineup will be forthcoming in the next day or 2!!!!!


Family Affair 6 is a three day festival of music, love, peace, joy, and fun!!!!!
Info line: 614.470.0714
venue: 5255 Frost Rd ( County Rd 58 )
Coolville Ohio, 45723-8071



$35 Presale, $50 at the door.

3 Day 2 Night Camping Event

Mark the date on your calendar July 6, 7, & 8... 2007. You are needed to make this event a reality. Family Affair is DIY in it's scope and purpose. Of course the midwest's finest DJ's/Selectors/Producers/Dancers and artist will represent alongside other National, International, and Outernational artists in a venue TBA in Coolville, Ohio.



http://www.myspace.com/undagroundpeacesociety
http://www.freepowerboards.com/familyaffair/
http://familyaffairfest.com/

40 days to find my purpose in life

This has already been one of those years. One of those years where I make really big, important changes to my behavior, to my choices, to myself. I've learned a lot. I've lost a lot. I've gained a lot. I've made a few new friends, or rather spent more quality time with a select few and really made a conscious decision to get to know them better. Some of those friends, I realized, need to not be a part of my life any longer. It's the best for them, and it's the best for me. This has something to do with that whole, "never end the question, never question the end" that's been my bi-line for this blog recently. To digress for a moment, I should credit the author of those lines: Peter from Chicago, who sadly passed away a few years ago. I spent a weekend in Chicago for the Summer Solstice Festival at the contemporary museum of art there in the Summer of 2000. My friend Jeff introduced me to Peter, who revealed some personal knowledge to me during one of those days. He shared "The Rules" with me. These were a set of rules for living that he and a few of his friends concocted. I can't remember all of "The Rules" although, I remember writing them down on the back of one of my notebooks for school, which is somewhere in my basement, but I can't find it. So, anyhow, these are the ones I can remember (and they might not be word for word as Peter had said them):

Do everything in life with all the passion of your soul.

Always play naked in the rain.

Never end the question.

Never question the end.

But, Jeff remembers them as:

Do everything with all the Energy and Passion your Aura has to offer.

Always run naked in the rain.

Never end the Question.

Never question the End.

And there are one or two other ones that we cannot remember at this time. Maybe we never will. So, in any event... I've thought about those rules for the past six years and tried to apply them to my life wherever possible. So, the other day I'm at my uncle Bob's wake (he, my father's youngest brother, died of pancreatic cancer quite suddenly at the age of 53) and my aunt starts talking to me about the Bible and she shared with me that Galatians quote that I posted a few days ago. And then on Friday morning, we had the funeral mass, which was the first time I'd been to church in quite a while and it was extra comforting since it was held at St. Francis de Sales... the church that I had attended, read the readings at, and been an altar boy at during grade school. I felt extremely honored to be asked by my dad and Aunt Ruthanne to be a pall bearer. After the funeral, our family met at a local restaurant and while we were about to leave after lunch, my Aunt Anne was handing out multiple copies of this book, The Purpose Driven Life by Rick Warren. She asked that after we read it, we sign our name on the inside of the book cover and pass it on to another family member and ask them to do the same. I thought, what a sweet idea. Then, at future family gatherings and holidays we'll have something else to talk about and we'll hopefully all be on more of the same "page," if you will (excuse my awful attempt at humor, it doesn't get much deeper than puns I'm sorry to divulge.) So, this book is pretty cool, although the religiousness is a bit overbearing or at least heavy-handed at times, but heck, if it'll help me figure out some of this thing called life, then I'm all about it. You're supposed to read one chapter a day and reflect on it all day. It's supposed to help you find the purpose of your life. Sounds good to me, actually, since I've been wondering what this whole thing (my life) was about for quite some years now. I've found an online copy, so if you want to check it out, Google "The Purpose Driven Life" and click the first link (the one with books.google.com in the URL). I'll let you know what I think about this whole thing (the book) in about 38 more days.

gravity well movement @ ingenuity festival 2007

galatians 5:22-23

Galatians 5:22-23

22But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness,
23gentleness and self-control.

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(for Val)