2014 — The Monarch Review — Page 5
Brett Hamil: My Crazy Addiction
Friday, October 24, 2014 10:18 — 0 Comments
Comedian Brett Hamil is in the middle of a hilarious race to the finish line. He is posting a new audio sketch every day leading up to the recoding dates of his next album, slated for Nov. 6-8.
Three Songs To The Head vol. 17
Wednesday, October 22, 2014 12:09 — 0 Comments
Hello and welcome back to Three Songs to the Head where we share three songs that moved us, three songs we love, three songs we can’t get out of our heads! Today, we’re featuring Thunderpussy, KAIROS and Tangerine. Enjoy!
An Interview with Susie Lee on Siren
Wednesday, October 22, 2014 10:03 — 0 Comments
Siren is a new dating app invented by Seattle’s Susie Lee (pictured above with Bill Clinton). Siren, she says, is “inspired by real life dynamics. There are a few key principles: people can’t have fun if they don’t feel safe; women value personal agency in physical and digital space, and both men and women want opportunities for hints of personalities to shine to discover each other.”
The Monarch Stoop Sessions 1.2 (Full Video)
Tuesday, October 21, 2014 10:47 — 0 Comments
A few months ago, the beautiful Watt sisters of Seattle Living Room Shows and Seattle Secret Shows came together with The Monarch to put together the first-ever Stoop Sessions. The sunny afternoon featured the music of Kris Orlowski, Ravenna Woods, Evan Flory-Barnes, Joel Myers and Caleb Thompson. The day was filmed by Tos Fackenthall and the video was edited by Jonathan Baab. Very graciously, American Music in Fremont helped to support the event, as well. Here, now, we have the 24-minute video of the day to share with you. We hope you enjoy it as much as we did!Â
Two Super Important Questions For Stephanie Drury
Tuesday, October 21, 2014 10:30 — 6 Comments
The Monarch’s religion expert, Stephanie Drury, was nice enough to answer a couple of questions for us regarding one of our favorite topics, Mark Driscoll, the dangerous egomaniac who famously resigned from the Mars Hill church last week.Â
On The Road With Dave Bazan and PSQ – Andrew Joslyn
Monday, October 20, 2014 12:22 — 0 Comments
I woke up this morning in Fort Stockton, Texas. The Super 8 Motel room’s air was cool, and smelled faintly of dried vomit (by-product of a previous tenant). Our cockroach companion still lay cooling himself in the porcelain tub, where we left him last night. I couldn’t stop thinking about him for an hour as I was falling asleep last night – between dreaming that my bedsheets were infested with a swarm of cockroaches, or that I was transforming into a 5 foot bug myself (in Kafka ‘Metamorphosis’ style), I had a hard time letting myself drift off. Despite all […]
BREAKING UP WITH REBECCA HOOGS: A NEW APPRECIATION FOR SELF-STORAGE
Monday, October 20, 2014 12:02 — 0 Comments
In the title poem of her collection, Self-Storage (Stephen F. Austin State University Press, 2012), Rebecca Hoogs writes, “It’s unreal the way I keep returning to places/like this one, distant from where I live/and in ruins, yet where I live.†She’s speaking of Hadrian’s Villa, the 2nd century Roman emperor’s country estate.
Hollow Earth Radio – Jared Harkness
Friday, October 17, 2014 10:00 — 0 Comments
I remember where I first heard about Hollow Earth Radio. I had recently met a woman named Tiffany who was running a house-venue called the Dearborn House, and she had posted on Myspace about some friends who were starting an Internet radio station with a focus on local music, super independent off-the-radar type bands and strange and experimental sounds. I had never given Internet radio much thought, but this station, despite that, seemed to hit on all my interests. I would tune in at work all the time just to see what they were playing. I remember discovering local bands […]
Brett Hamil: Millennium Baby Conservative Child Prodigy
Friday, October 17, 2014 9:44 — 1 Comment
Comedian Brett Hamil is in the middle of a hilarious race to the finish line. He is posting a new audio sketch every day leading up to the recoding dates of his next album, slated for Nov. 6-8.Â
An Interview with poet Ed Skoog
Thursday, October 16, 2014 9:10 — 0 Comments
Ed Skoog is one of Seattle’s masterful poets – in fact, his book Rough Day just won the Washington State Book Award in Poetry. Lucky for the city, Ed, immediately after winning the award, has a show (this Friday!) and the Hugo House along side some other talented writers, Ru Freeman, Elissa Washuta and Dean Young. We had a chance to catch up with Ed and ask him how the city inspires his work, what he makes of his award and what he epects for the Friday show.
What am I?
Bioluminescent eye
That sees by the shine
Of its own light. Lies
Blind me. I am the seventh human sense
And my stepchild,
Consequence;
Scientists can't find me.
Januswise I make us men;
Glamour
Was my image then—
Remind me:
The awful fall up off all fours
From the forest
To the hours…
Tick, Tock: Divine me.
-- Richard Kenney
