Wednesday, February 03, 2010
Woh, look at this, a Wednesday update thing. A rarity.
We stopped by a couple of the three hundred residencies happening this month and we can safely say once again that Los Angeles is the luckiest city on the planet. Not only did we get a not-so-surprising surprise show by Warpaint on Monday at The Echo following a fantastic performance by this month's resident Useless Keys (pictured above), but we get to have to choose between Mia Doi Todd and Ferraby Lionheart on Tuesdays at Spaceland and the Bootleg, respectively. And we haven't even got to Thursdays with Imaad Wasif yet. Oh, woe is us.
We also dropped by Demetri Martin's intimate show at UCBT where he was trying out new material for his Comedy Central show "Important Things" (season 2 premieres tomorrow). The best jokes of the night (spoiler alert) came during his list of breakup lines accompanied, of course, by the three guitar chords he knows. Best breakup line of the night: "Are you being followed? Because I've been seeing people behind your back." Oh, Demetri, you funny. See him tonight on Kimmel or if you lineup early on Friday you might be able to get in standby for the second of these sold-out "test audience" shows.
We've been making it a point to try and make it out to more theatre, comedy theatre, dance, performance art, and art/photo shows to balance out the music, which like anything, can get quite tedious. Two major art show highlights in January were Alex Prager's opening last weekend and the "He-Man Tribute" over at 1988. The line for the "He-Man" opening stretched several blocks down Melrose, indicating we weren't the only ones who aspired to be amongst the Masters of the Universe one day. See highlights here... On the theatre front, Joanna Murray-Smith's "The Female of the Species" debuts tonight at the Geffen Playhouse. It stars Annette Bening as the sharp-tongued feminist writer Margot Mason and a great cast that includes David Arquette, Merritt Wever, Julian Sands, and Mireille Enos who admittedly was the actor that drew us to this play (mainly because she's married to Alan Ruck who of course played Cameron in "Ferris Bueller's Day Off," one of the greatest movies of all time.) "The Female of the Species" runs through 3/14. Purchase tickets here.
And since we can't resist the chance of having three forms of woh/woe/woah in this post, our beloved Woah Hunx plays with two fun PDX bands Rob Walmart and White Fang tomorrow at Dig In. Like whoa. Make that four.
Chuck Dukowski, Mimi Starr, Kyle Mabson, Kimberly Wyatt, and our ex-wife Sherilyn Fenn celebrate birthdays this week. Hug them if you see them around town.
