Robbers, Vegan Goodies, Housemate Call-Out, and Evil Twin Booking Agency update

Tonight/Tomorrow:

Halloween Critical Mass in NYC, Rubulad... tomorrow we'll go to a cool art exhibit and the anti-war march. I believe our new friend Lara will be joining Liz and I on our adventure. Sunday night we're going to see our Seripop friends Chloe and yannick's band AIDS WOLF and Old Time Relijun

Lost Film Fest update.

I just had some awesome shows opening for Gogol Bordello. What a dream!! I think the only thing that could top that would be opening for Manu Chao...Maybe some day. I've never presented LFF in front of such a large crowd of people but the shows went over well, and I made some new friends. I'll be doing Lost Film Fest again in the near future at this awesome club in Baltimore called Sonar. I'm definitely going to start to have to use a mic at large concerts like that... John Macavoy, boy genius and arch archivist has started to work on documenting the history of the Lost Film Fest and Evil Twin Booking Agency. I can't believe all this stuff I'm doing with film is almost 10 years old. holy moly! The other day, I had an awesome show in Blacksburg, VA at Virginia Tech. Sallie, Anthony, Dan, and Devin pulled the show together without a hitch. Old friends Sascha and Madigan were on tour with the Icarus Project and happened to be in town. It was great to have them there.

I have 3 LFF shows coming up close by Nov 5-7. I'm pretty excited because a documentary film crew (jaded multimedia) will be following Liz and I around trying to gain some insight into what the hell we're doing (do we even know?) Hopefully they will figure it out. Here are the dates/locations. Please spread the word. Bring friends!

Nov 5 Mon
Philadelphia, PA @ Bubblehouse. | 3404 Sansom St. | 9pm | admission by donation | all ages

Nov 6 Tue
Brooklyn, NY @ The Change You Want To See | 84 Havemeyer St. | 7:30pm | dontation $5-10 sliding scale | http://notanalternative.net/wordpress/

Nov 7 Wed
Doylestown, PA @ Siren Records | 22 s. Main St. | doors 6pm | $6 | http://www.sirenrecords.com/

I'll post the European tourdates as they become clear. There's also a chance I'll be doing 2 midwest dates at Loyola and Oberlin after the west coast tour if all goes according to plan. If not I'll go there in the spring. The next couple of months is going to be pretty crazy: Green Fest in San Francisco, traveling down the west coast doing Lost Film Fest and spreading Raw Revolution bars around, Doing Lost Film Fest shows in the midwest, Thanksgiving with my family, Touring Europe with lost Film Fest doing stuff with IDFA, the EU cultural capital, and activist spaces. I'm dying to do the film fest at Mariatchi (Manu Chao's neighborhood bar) in Barcelona.. I can only dream.. I'll be coming back to the trial as well as the perils and travails of living in wild west Philadelphia...

Robbers and such

We have a trial in late December with the guy who robbed us at gunpoint. The guy is still in jail. His bail was set at $150,000 so he's not getting out anytime soon. I'm having so many conflicting emotions about the whole thing, and honestly I'm feeling a bit of sympathy for the guy who robbed us, though I have to remind myself that he used a gun on us, and really clocked Liz hard on the back of the head and me in the face. He also totally fucked up that weekend I'd been preparing for the past 4-6 months. So what that he go my wallet... The gun could have gone off when he pistol whipped us... He could have just used a shoe, or a zucchini covered in shoe polish, or something to keep it non-lethal. The gun will get him 5 years for each instance he used it. I feel strange contributing to the prison industrial complex, which in my view is tantamount to modern slavery. I'm still trying to sort out my feelings over this. It doesn't help that the robbers friends have still been harassing Liz and I on the street, so we're keeping a low profile until the case is tried and over with. What's next? Oy vey! Any decision we would have made with how to deal with the situation would have sucked.

veggiemobile back in Action

Later today we're stopping off at the HQ of one of my clients so I can discuss our plans for Sundance (I'm going to be running their marketing campaign at the film festival again this year). Were also going over all my expenses from the last several months. I'm also pretty excited to take the new Veggiemobile up to NYC (I finally got this thing back after almost a month of being jerked around. My new friend Tracy, referree extraordinaire of the Charm City Rollergirls risked life and limb to get that thing back to Philly (THANK YOU!!!). It's really anticlimactic that I have it now, but C'est la Vie..eh?"

Greenwashing and Film Fests

So, there are all these "green lounges" popping up at the Sundance Film Festival. All these marketing agencies are trying to hock environmental products and turn them into chic totems for wealthy jet setters. It's pretty awful to me that one would try to ruin something cool and good like organic, fair trade, and natural products by laying the veil of "hip" over them, essentially turning it into a shallow fly by night trend. Organic, fair trade, and vegan were cool all along without the help of some of these clowns who are interested in nothing other than making celebrity gift bags. It really detracts from the state of permanence that these types of terms need in the cultural zeitgeist. It also blatantly ignores the point that good food should be for everyone, not just the rich. Last year I was going to do a green lounge, but decided not to after realizing that it would have been like flushing time and money in the toilet, and also, a lot more could be done to get the word out by interacting with my fellow proles, rather than being sequestered to an exclusive venue. the story is that after Lost Film Fest was sponsored for years by an organic beverage company, the owner decide to hire me to do grassroots publicity and marketing to launch one of their beverages at Sundance, then they hired me to manage all their cultural events and such, sponsorships of bands, films, activist and art projects, tech projects, etc. Over the past year I've been doing similar outreach for TV B Gone, and nowadays Raw Revolution. It feels good to get this stuff out into the world to people who will appreciate companies with an ethical approach to doing it's thing.

Housemate-Age

FYI. I'm still looking for another suitable housemate (vegan, nonsmoker, pet free). If any of my friends know someone suitable please feel free to get them in touch. I'm being super picky, but I'd love to find an interesting person.

Evil Twin Booking Stuff

For 2008 we're adding a ton of awesome stuff to our Evil Twin Booking Agency roster:

We do need some help with layout, so if you're an indesign whiz, and close to Philly, please get in touch.

Okay, that's it for an update. When the hell am I ever going to get any sleep around here?

yours in vegan goodness
lovest Scott