2015 — The Monarch Review — Page 13
A Sandwich For Brett Hamil
Wednesday, February 25, 2015 22:28 — 3 Comments
I love making sandwiches. I love making sandwiches and I think I’m really good at it. I also like talking with interesting people. In this column, I make sandwiches and talk with interesting people.
Oma at Night – Bob Sykora
Wednesday, February 25, 2015 10:27 — 0 Comments
Something’s missing in Los Angeles. The nights swollen blue with busyness. Not animals, not smells, not shrieks across glowing pastures. Just bus rides, so many bus rides, and the dripping headache of the factory: sewing, folding, sewing, folding. There’s no room for ghosts in all the noise, all the machines. No spooks in alarm clocks and televisions and microwave ovens. Midnight never smiles or takes shapes and goes meddling in the barn, rousing the horses. Dawn comes before any ogres can take her away. No need to tie down the moon to keep the night from ending.
Quarreler, vol. 2: Caleb Powell
Monday, February 23, 2015 14:06 — 1 Comment
I Think You’re Totally Wrong: A Quarrel, by David Shields and Caleb Powell is fresh off the Knopf presses. It’s a book in the form of one extended and contentious dialogue. Over the course of a weekend at a remote cabin tucked into the Cascade Mountains, Shields and Powell argue Life versus Art, testing the limits of civilized conversation and the boundaries of the self. The Monarch Review had the chance to talk with both Quarrelers individually about the making of both the book, and the adaptation of the book into a film directed by James Franco. This is the second of […]
Big In Japan – Tennis Pro
Thursday, February 19, 2015 11:40 — 0 Comments
Tennis Pro has a movie. What band doesn’t want a movie? And there’s is damn good. The movie – titled Big in Japan – makes its U.S. theatrical debut Friday, Feb. 20th at Seattle’s NW Film Forum. Tickets are available here. And a preview for the film is here: Want more? Here is a description of the film by the band: “A struggling Seattle Rock band, Tennis Pro, take one last shot at making it big as they embark on a comical musical odyssey in Tokyo with hopes to prevent their day jobs from becoming their careers. Making its theatrical premiere in […]
Retirement – Richard Hartwell
Wednesday, February 18, 2015 15:01 — 1 Comment
Old men pacing inside maws of open garages,
#CapHillPSA
Wednesday, February 18, 2015 13:40 — 0 Comments
#CapHillPSA aims to shed light on the changing Capitol Hill neighborhood and offer works by artists with messages stopping violence, acceptance of others and stopping the aggression towards folks who may appear different. Check out their event slated for tomorrow (Thursday Feb. 19th here). I had a chance to chat with organizers Courtney Sheehan and Yonnas T. Getahun.Â
Three Songs To The Head vol. 26
Tuesday, February 17, 2015 12:49 — 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 Snuff Redux, Sisters and My Cartoon Heart. Enjoy!
Yoko Feinman
Monday, February 16, 2015 13:24 — 0 Comments
Yoko Feinman (perhaps the best name in all of art) has a warm, loving and cute aesthetic that can melt a frozen heart or stoke an already warm one. She is blessed with a keen sense of curiosity and a bubbly personality on the page. I am happy here to display some of Yoko’s new pieces and to chat with her about her inspirations, how she works and what’s next for the D.C.ian turned Canadian. Jake Uitti: You sit down, pencils and water colors and paper in front of you. You look at the blank page. What are your first […]
Kristen Rau One Night Only!
Friday, February 13, 2015 13:28 — 1 Comment
The improvisor Kristen Rau will be playing tonight at Unexpected Productions at 10pm. Traveling all the way from Chicago, Ill-A-Noise, this international woman of mystery will be gliding over the dimly-lit stage performing film noir prompts, crying baby prompts, smoking mom prompts and, inevitably, pretending she’s a flamingo fishing spawning trout from the stream after a shrimp cocktail appetizer. In other words, KRISTEN IS A BADASS IMPROVISOR AND CHECK HER OUT TONIGHT! Here is but a small sample of her work you can indulge in:
Bustle – Brittany Cagle
Thursday, February 12, 2015 10:01 — 0 Comments
Old age is flesh close to the bone, the shrunk spine, bruises spidering and eyes cupped by purple crescents. A flight of bees swarm deep in the chest, dark, disturbed, restless— but what? The tongue cannot filter words out of the buzzing and begins to braid itself.
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
