Sherman Mailer Benefit show Mon 16th & midnight "THE ROOM" screening

[Sherman]

NOV. 12th Sherman Mailer
(Updated NOV 12th)

SHERMAN MAILER
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(Info on all these events Below)


FEATURED EVENTS
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*SAVE THE (941 THEATER)
*PRINCE RAMA “THE ROOM” HERMIT THRUSHES & MORE FUNDRAISER
*FOUND FOOTAGE FESTIVAL
*MIDWIVES COLLECTIVE SHOW-EL VIAJE
*ARMCHAIRS, UNIVOX & MORE SHOW


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This weekend shows!!!!!!

NOV 13th

DEATH PANEL

Punk / Folk / Pop

Charles Latham wields an acid tongue and a poison pen, crafting social
criticism and brutal self-analysis into three and a half minute
ramshackle pop songs. His songs are often exercises in duality: he
finds humor in horror and horror in humor, the profane in beauty and
beauty in the profane. In a live performance, his audience often
laughs and smiles, but he rarely does. His lofi home recordings
compliment the harsh honesty of his lyrics; his guitar buzzes and
rings, and his snarling voice leaps, cracks and cries. Originally from
Washington, DC, Charles Latham began playing music professionally
while living in Brighton, England as a student. The UK’s folk/punk or
“antifolk” scene adopted him as one of their own: Latham was the only
non British act to perform at the 2004 Winter Antifolk Fest in London.
It wasnt long until he was playing frequent gigs in Brighton and
London. In 2005, Latham was voted “Best of Sussex” by a panel of
judges at the Sussex Battle of the Bands, winning the grand prize.
After returning to the States, Charles Latham completed his first full
length album, “Pretty Mouth” in the spring of 2006; the album is a
collection of home recordings captured on an 8 track in various
locations in the UK and at his home near DC. The album was self
released, and has been met with enthusiastic acclaim in both the US
and UK. Several songs from the album, including “Memorabilia” and “My
Perfect Church”, have received frequent airplay on college radio;
“Nice (to me)” is currently a featured song on NPR. “Boot Hill” is
listed as one of the top “Songs of the Times” on Neil Young’s Living
With War site. A non album track, “The Internet Sexual Predator
Talking Blues”, a song about the scandal surrounding (ex) Congressman
Mark Foley, was given 3.5 out of 5 stars by Pitchfork. Since releasing
“Pretty Mouth”, Latham has played frequent shows in the US, including
many shows in the Raleigh/Durham area of NC, where he lived from 2005
to 2007. In late 2006, Latham created Antifolk SouthEast, a loose
collective of folk/punk musicians in the Raleigh/Durham area, and
coproduced the Antifolk SouthEast Winter Extravaganza 2007, a showcase
of musicians in the collective, and the first festival of its kind in
the area. The event was sold out. Latham has been a featured performer
in the Fortified Antifolk Festivals in New York City since 2007.
Recently, Latham relocated to Philadelphia, PA. Before leaving North
Carolina, he released a limited edition LP, “Beltline”. “Legend: The
Best of Charles Latham”, a collection of songs from his various
releases, is currently available as a digital album through iTunes
worldwide. Latham continues to write, record and perform.

http://www.myspace.com/sircharleslatham



LAUREN ADAMS

Folk / Pop Punk / Bluegrass

Missionaries are murderers. All social reformers are dangerous. And
people who are seeking service can be very, very violent, aggressive.
They are. If you are in the grip of a good man, it is difficult to
escape. You are imprisoned. And he is doing everything for your sake.
And whatsoever he is doing, he is trying to find a way through you to
his own heaven. You are just the eans. And this is the most immoral
act in the world, to treat a man as a means. I call it the most
immoral act, the greatest sin, to treat a man as a means. Every man is
an end in himself!”
Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh from “Until You Die”

http://www.myspace.com/25728969

GLC Locust 45th 7pm $3-5









NOV 16th

FIRE MUSEUM RECORDS AND SHERMAN ARTS PRESENT

PRINCE RAMA’S GEAR FUNDRAISER
They had all their gear stolen when they played Phila.

HERMIT THRUSHES

Thrash / Folk / Experimental



http://www.myspace.com/hermitthrushes



STRAND OF OAKS

Folk/ Indie



Strand of Oaks is Timothy Showalter, an Indiana Mennonite turned
Pennsylvania Hebrew Dayschool teacher who even drives the school bus
for extra cash (and has sing-alongs with the pupils as they ease on
down the road). It’s like a scene from “Behind the Music” if the weed-
soaked Tom Petty was your busdriver, and in this case the metaphors,
spread throughout nine tracks, are to be taken quite literally. Leave
Ruin is Strand of Oaks’ hometown deathbed-confession hymnal, the
soundtrack of an Exodus. It’s been back roads and parenthetical side
streets for Showalter since he left his ruin of small town America. As
a Hoosier transplant, he landed in the fertile musical soil of
Northeastern Pennsylvania with a few key twists of fate that would
turn his tragedy into trajectory. While escaping a relationship gone
worse, Showalter returned home to a house burned down, leaving all of
his earthly possessions charred in flames. Spending nights in downtown
hotels and on park benches with a borrowed guitar, he began to face
the proverbial demons. Like any good roller coaster ride there came an
upside, as inspiration grew like weeds within the rubble; songs led to
shows, which led to tours of the US and UK with Jason Anderson and
Kimya Dawson. Leave Ruin took shape shortly thereafter while touring
and collaborating with Lou Rogai (Lewis & Clarke). Taking cues from
such luminaries as Neil Young (On the Beach era) and a burgeoning
Springsteen, Showalter extends his musical gesture and searches to
find modesty in the midst of confusion, addressing insecurities and
settling existential debt with a simple and beautiful delivery. The
personification of a Midwestern Grandfather’s advice, his songs smack
with hard truth and poignant severity, from child-like naivete to
heart worn wisdom… sparse guitar, hammond, rhodes and wooden
instruments support an atmosphere that is tender and raw, at times
uncomfortable, shockingly candid, and unforgettable.

www.myspace.com/strandofoaks




TINMOUTH

Pop



http://www.myspace.com/tinmouthy



THE ROOM (New Cult Classic considered one of the best worst films
ever)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yCj8sPCWfUw

The Room is a 2003 independent film written and directed by its star,
Tommy Wiseau, who is also credited on screen as both the movie’s
producer and executive producer. The principal cast includes Wiseau,
Juliette Danielle, Greg Sestero, Philip Haldiman, Carolyn Minnott, and
Robyn Paris. The Room tells the melodramatic story of a love triangle
between a man, his future wife, and his best friend. Without any
studio support, Wiseau spent over $7 million on production and
marketing for the film. Wiseau promotes the film as a black comedy and
insists that its humor is actually intentional, although cast members
have publicly disputed these claims[1] and many audience members
generally view the film as a poorly-made drama.[2][3] The Room has
been cited by some critics as one of the worst films ever made,[4][5]
and has been called “the Citizen Kane of bad movies.”[6][7] After a
brief run in Los Angeles, the film went on to develop a cult following
and continues to have midnight screenings around the United States and
the United Kingdom.
The Room is the story of a love triangle between a kind-hearted man
named Johnny (Wiseau), his fiancée Lisa (Danielle), and his best
friend Mark (Sestero). At the beginning of the film, Lisa has become
dissatisfied with Johnny, confiding to her best friend Michelle
(Paris) and her mother Claudette (Minnott) that she finds him boring.
Lisa seduces Mark, and they begin an affair that continues throughout
the film, even as Mark more than once tries to break it off. Lisa
stays with Johnny because he is a successful banker who has promised
to buy her a house. As the wedding date approaches and Johnny’s clout
at his bank slips, Lisa gets closer to leaving Johnny for Mark. The
film has several subplots involving secondary characters. A
neighboring college student named Denny (Haldiman) — whom Johnny
supports and loves like a son — has a mysterious run-in with a drug
dealer and struggles with his attraction to Lisa; Claudette, Lisa’s
mother, deals with real estate problems, failed relationships, and
breast cancer (although she nonchalantly announces she has this
condition near the beginning of the film, it’s never mentioned again);
Michelle’s boyfriend Mike (Mike Holmes) is shamed by Lisa and
Claudette walking in on him with Michelle in Johnny and Lisa’s living
room. All of these subplots are introduced and quickly forgotten. When
Lisa throws Johnny a surprise birthday party, she flaunts her affair
in front of Johnny, and Johnny and Mark get into not one but two
altercations. Johnny has also attached a tape recorder to the
telephone, recording an intimate call between his fiancée and Mark.
Claiming that he doesn’t have a friend in the world, Johnny locks
himself in his bathroom until everyone has left. When he comes out, he
destroys his apartment, finds the handgun he took from Denny’s drug
dealer Chris-R, and commits suicide with a gunshot to the head. Lisa
and Mark discover Johnny’s corpse soon afterwards, and Denny is not
far behind. Mark blames Johnny’s death on Lisa. Denny blames Johnny’s
death on Lisa and Mark, urging them to leave him alone with the corpse
so he can say farewell, but as the film closes, Lisa and Mark remain
with Denny as police sirens grow louder.
NATIONAL MECHANICS
3rd st between Market and Chesnut
fundraiser for Prince Rama’s (a band that had lots of gear stolen when
they played Phila.) 9pm.
Also screening cult favorite “THE ROOM”
Film at 12 MIDNIGHT