(Steven Lawlor-Jones on set of “The Thing With No Face”, photo by Stee McMorris)
October was a month of Parties, November is a month of Projects. This November, I worked too hard on the Projects and didn’t tell you all about the Parties. Sorry! But here are some parties and events and happenings and things going on, and you’ll love the projects we are doing…
NEWZ
-our new website!
The Witchworks Films website has had a lovely (partial, tiny, in progress) facelift by Garabed Setrakian of Setravision! Now when you’re checking the Scene Spy, you can also check out our videos page, our current projects page with news on what we are up to, our future wishes page with ways to get involved in the Witchworks dream, and our About Us page with all kinds of buttons to social media so you can contact, send fan letters to or hire anybody on the Witchworks team!
-politics!
Get the money out of the politics. We have crowdsourcing now. We can do anything! Get the signatures!
Check out www.PassMassAmendment.org they are totally making this possible. They didn’t get enough signatures this year, but watch out, weirdly human corporations!
Pass Mass Amendment – About the Ballot Initiative
www.passmassamendment.org
-this list!
In October there was a free Scene Spy every Thursday, and I figured a lot of people would sign up to be $1 Patreon supporters and I would just move the Spy over to Patreon, and keep doing weekly Spies but charge a dollar. Well, I didn’t find any new supporters (click here to be my $1 supporter!) but I did get asked to do about a million video projects. So I’m going to keep doing the Spy because I want to help the community and I like the good karma, but I’m NOT going to charge for it and it’s NOT going to be every week. For now. Basically I’ll put out a spy whenever I’m excited about What’s Going On, around one a month, and if I get enough Dreamers on board sending me a dollar, or other people showing interest in the Spy, it will go back to a more frequent thing.
But it’s still free! Free free free!
-videos by us!
Stee did a short documentary about women’s metal bands, “Sirens of Doomsday”. Check it out!
Stee did a performance video for Tom Tipton, where he strangely turned into Andy Warhol. It’s all a single shot, very 1960s documentary, and Tom brought back the 60s for a little minute, check it out.
We shot another gear test video/Thing With No Face video with Jaime Devine, Steven Lawlor-Jones and Farasha. It’s insane. I’m still editing it. There will be mind-bending CGI. You shall cower before the thing with no face! I’m editing the video as we speak, but when it’s done it’ll be up here.
Stee wrote a short sci-fi thing called “Strange Harvest”! It’s scary as fuck! She is scouting locations and designing props and raising money already, and will be casting before you know it, so WATCH OUT! Put your entire life on hold so Stee can make you a superstar, at some unspecified time SOON. But she will only be casting ONE woman and ONE man. And it’s going to be deeply, dreadfully horrifying.
-recent videos by our friends!
Our own Alex Stinson worked on this, which recently got on SyFy: Dark Haul
Brian Viglione’s “Feelin’ Bad For Dracula”
Tom tipton unboxes things: thing 1 thing 2 thing 3
Mike and Sophia made this a million ago but it’s good: Aquaman’s lament
Ugly boy. We do not know the members of Die Antwoord personally, but we are huge fans of them. Don’t give in and become a sewer clown just because you are ugly. Plenty of women love ugly men. Yo-landi from Die Antwoord prefers them exclusively!
-other name-dropping!
The Emperor of Humanity has a facebook presence now!
You missed our superstar Katie Coriander at her shows on November 15th and November 21st at Out of the Blue Too and Cuisine En Locale, because I didn’t do any Scene Spies this month until just now. This is the fault of sapient dinosaurs. Go back in time and see her shows. Or just see her upcoming shows December 1st (Zuzu) and 10th (Midway Café) and January 8th (TT’s)
The art of asking. Omg if you’re an artist anywhere ever, you’ve asked yourself at least once: How can I have success and fame fall (relatively) easily into my lap while having a wonderful, fulfilling, joyous time of it all and being true to myself, just like Amanda Palmer? Of course the first answer is it helps to have an upper middle class education, manners, attitude, contacts and privileges. Obviously. But already assuming we already do or don’t have those things, how can we leverage what we’ve got and launch ourselves into a bliss-world of ultimate satisfaction? By asking, aka busking! Entertain people really well, and THEN say “yes please may I have a dollar?” in just the right way. It’s not just the entertaining, it’s also the asking. Which can be completely utopian in itself and create bliss worlds of fans with couch forts. Yes yes, I must get this book. I think it is good even though I haven’t read it, because Amanda is so good at “spiritual busking” that it MUST be good! Please beam this book into my brain immediately.
2015 vampire calendar by Rob Fitz! It’s out! Our own Jaime Devine is in it! Get one for Xistmas!
-fan support!
We’ve also got a feature and a TV show we could do, but we need more encouragement! Watch our existing videos and comment on them! Tell us what you like! Subscribe to our Witchworks channel! Like Witchworks on Facebook! Like Earth Heart on Facebook! Check out the different parts of the Witchworks website, and leave comments! Go to our Patreon pages and check out the free stuff! Leave comments! Tell your friends about this list, and go to the events on it and have fun! Tell media outlets about us! Get interviewed for my Patreon video! Come to the Dreamer Salons and meet people!
If you haven’t seen the videos Stee and I made for Tom Doesn’t Care, Ugly or NSA Song, check ‘em out on YouTube for free!
EVENTZEZ!!!!
Mon 24th
6-9pm The Opus Affair! This is where all the Dreamers go! Aaaaaaaaaa!!!!
Learn more + RSVP: http://www.opusaffair.org/calendar/opus-affair-november-bos-2014/
Wed 26th
9pm Goth thanksgiving thing at TTs
DARK MEET Wednesday November 26 – A Thanksgiving Eve Celebration
Coming up on Wednesday November 26:
DARK MEET
A very special Thanksgiving Eve Celebration.
DJs Chris Ewen (Xmortis/“HEROES”) and James Cuddyer – DJ Static (Cere Mony) spin a cornucopia of music you’ll really be able to sink your teeth into, but won’t leave you stuffed. Lounge Bartendrix Teresa Niedzwiecki (Terri) will help you wash it all down with her delicious cocktail concoctions. Your Hostess: Xtine Santackas.
Open at 9pm. 18+. $5.
TT The Bear’s Place Inc 10 Brookline Street, Cambridge MA (in Central Square), USA. 617-492-0082 http://www.ttthebears.com/
Xmortis on Facebook:
https://www.facebook.com/xmortis
“HEROES” on Facebook:
http://www.facebook.com/pages/HEROES/58011712778?ref=ts
CEREMONY on Facebook:
https://www.facebook.com/ceremonyboston?fref=ts
Thu 27th
National Day of Mourning. Yes it is Thanksgiving. As we celebrate family and togetherness, many Native American allies pause to consider the injustices of our past in the founding of this nation. “For what does settler imply, if not a willingness to settle for a meal of human flesh?”
Since 1970, Native Americans have gathered at noon on Cole’s Hill in Plymouth to commemorate a National Day of Mourning on the US thanksgiving holiday. Many Native Americans do not celebrate the arrival of the Pilgrims and other Europeean settlers. Thanksgiving day is a reminder of the genocide of millions of Native people, the theft of Native lands, and the relentless assault on Native culture. Participants in National Day of Mourning honor Native ancestors and the struggles of Native peoples to survive today. It is a day of remembrance and spiritual connection as well as a protest of the racism and oppression that Native Americans continue to experience.
Join us as we dedicate the 45th National Day of Mourning to our brother, Native political prisoner Leonard Peltier. Add your voice to the millions world-wide who demand his freedom. Help us in our struggle to create a true awaren of Native peoples and demonstrate the unity of Indigenous peoples internationally. Help shatter the untrue glass image of the Pilgrims and the unjust system based on racism, sexism, homophobia and war.
United American Indians of New England/LPSG
Best contact method via email: info@uaine.org
http://www.uaine.org/
facebook group: United American Indians of New England
Absolutely No Drugs or Alcohol Allowed
Pot-luck Social to Follow
Basic Schedule outline with tentative times:
12 noon prayers (no photos during this time plz) at Cole’s Hill (the hill above Plymouth Rock)
12:20pm Native speakers
2pm march with rallies by plymouth rock and the site of the Metacomet historical marker
3-5pm indoor potluck social
Friday 28th
9:30am-6pm THANGsgiving at the Armory
New music, invented instruments, free-range dance and thought-speech. Practiced yet spontaneous moves, musicians playing with feeling, world premiers of original scores, other performative thangs.
suggested donation, 2$/hour
THE PROGRAM:
9:30 to 10:30 am– movement music warm-up led by Joe Burgio; open for participation by performers and the public
10:30 am to 6 pm– performances:
Walter Wright nohtv.wordpress.com
Douglas Urbank
Matt Samolis and Dei Xhrist aka Xchristishoe dxchrist.wordpress.com https://soundcloud.com/birdorgan
John Minigan
Lou Bunk loubunk.com
Matt Samolis www.mattsamolis.org
Max Lord and Sara June www.lordandjune.com
Andrea Pensado with Andreita https://soundcloud.com/andrea-pensado www.andreapensado.com
Joe Burgio Paul Kafka-Gibbons Ému
Callie Chapman Zoe Dance
Randy Winchester
Mitch Ahern
Inedit Joe Burgio Andrea Pensado Randy Winchester Walter Wright et al
Jenifer Gelineau Eggs Eggs
Lynn Frederiksen and Paul Kafka-Gibbons
Dei Xhrist
8pm “David Boobie” This is what you wish American Horror Story really was like.
Black Friday is approaching once again, which means it’s time for the glorious return to Cambridge of Bowie-flavored striptease. “Niki Stardust and the Total Blam Blams” (aka Niki Luparelli and The Gold Diggers) bring back to OBERON their lascivious tribute to David Bowie and the female form.
There will be from twenty-two to twenty-five songs performed live over the course of the night, from ballads like “Life on Mars” to rockers like “Modern Love.” The band, “Niki Stardust and the Total Blam Blams,” comprises Brooks “Shields” Milgate on keyboard, Olga Supernova on violin, Gin Murphy on tenor sax, Johnny English on alto sax, Miss Christine on bass, Fanny Fandango on backup vocals, and of course Niki “Stardust” Luparelli on lead vocals, sass, and boobs. The dancers—representing both traditional burlesque and the edgier, campier neo-burlesque style—are all wham bam thank you ma’am.
FEATURING
*Aerials* by Fonda Feeling
*Burlesque* by
Lipstick Criminals
Fem Bones
Allix Mortis
Bettysioux Tailor
Malice N Wonderland
Kid Vicious
****DAVID BOWIE COSTUME CONTEST! $100 Prize!*****
So, on Black Friday, rather than pushing through the market square, driving like a demon from station to station, and running wild through a million dead-end streets in search of Christmas bargains, you should instead spit in the eyes of fools, put on your red shoes, and run to the centre of things—Club Oberon, that is—where each table offers a seat with the clearest view, and femme fatales emerge from shadows, disrobing to the best of Bowie, all night long.
18+ to Enter
21+ to Drink
Tickets are $25-$45 and can be purchased at www.cluboberon.com or at the ticket link above
Saturday November 29th
7pm BACKWATER at Somerville theatre
I have a scary feeling we’re going to have to widen the seats a little bit as all of us recover from our post-Thanksgiving gluttony turkey fest, but dammit, there’s movies to be screened!
We’ve got a fantastic feature for your viewing pleasure this November. Chris Schrack’s BACK WATER is a terrific example of what you can do with a smart idea and limited means.
Cass and Mark (Liana Werner-Gray and Justin Tully respectively) are out to enjoy a weekend at the secluded lakeside Cass used to enjoy as a little girl. Their idyllic time away is shattered when they hear a cry for help in the wilderness. Torn over whether to seek them out or leave well enough alone, Mark’s good samaritan side kicks in while Cass gives up the ghost early. Separately they encounter a lone fisherman with a suspicious lack of equipment and the town’s sheriff that seems to have questionable motives for patrolling the woods. It comes as no surprise then that later in the night Mark and Cass find themselves attacked by and on the run from an unseen assailant. With their car disabled and their supplies strewn about the campsite, the duo are forced to hideout in order to survive the night.
Sounds like something you’ve seen a thousand times before, right? Wrong. Back Water takes some wild turns from the midpoint on, and Scrack does a terrific job between ramping up your adrenaline and keeping you on the edge of your seat with moments of nailbiting tension.
As always, we’ll have a presentation of short films before the feature, including Stephen Martin’s DEAD HEARTS, which isa fantastic and whimsical little horror comedy that plays out EXACTLY what you believe a Wes Anderson horror movie would.
The night starts at 7Pm in the Somerville Theater Microcinema, next to the Museum of Bad Art.
9pm Old School Game Show at Somerville Theatre
Are you ready to melt some faces like a Gremlin in a microwave oven?!?… Then throw on your favorite Iron Maiden T shirt, grab that Flying V and head on over to… Old School Game Show’s “Headbanger’s Balls To The Wall Free-For-All” That’s right, It’s the acid washed Heavy Metal themed edition of everyone’s favorite interactive Alt Trivia Variety Program.
Featuring the Eddie Van Halen approved finger tapping virtuosity of The Swinging OSGS Band!! And a brand new Dance Number ( of the Beast) from the Cubic Zirconia Dancers!!! ( Eat your heart out Tawny Kitaen ) Plus fabulous individual round Prizes from Great Local Sponsors and the $100 cash prize for the night’s true OSGS champion!!
OSGS is a live interactive theatre experience done with all the pageantry and analog style of a 1970’s television game show. The show combines elements of pub trivia, variety specials, and comedy sketches to produce a completely unique trivia experience that tests players pop culture acumen. With influences as vast as vaudeville, Pee Wee’s Playhouse, Andy Kaufman, and Battle of the Network Stars how could you go wrong? The entire show is backed by an amazing live band playing original OSGS music. It’s all the fun of an afternoon spent rolling around in the rumpus room without the rug burn.
When you arrive at the show the lovely usher who takes your ticket will ask you if you are interested in playing the game (you also have the option of just watching the show, you kinky bastard). If you would like to play you will receive a name tag and your name will be placed in our official OSGS fishbowl. At the beginning of the show 8 contestants will be called up to the stage (Price is Right Style) and divided into two teams to compete in the first round. The winning team of each round will win fun, fabulous prizes and the losing team will be replaced with new contestants. This continues over several rounds (each one a completely new original category) until the night’s greatest contestants square off against one another, Highlander style, until there is one final Old School Game Show Champion!
www.oldschoolgameshow.com
Sunday November 30th
Out of the Blue Fall Craft Fair
1-6pm at out of the blue
OOTBT will be host to local craft vendors on Nov. 30th and every Sunday in December!
This is a great opportunity for hand-made, unique holiday gifts! We will have jewelry, clothes, accessories, prints and postcards, hand made bath products, beautiful blown glass ornaments, and more!
Crafters will be accompanied by acoustic music and tea.
Drop in on us!
(Vendors are welcome to apply on a rolling basis. Contact the gallery ootbgallery@gmail.com for more info.)
Mon December 1st
Earth Heart at Zuzu. The collarbone is fixed! Go do it!
Friday December 5th
10pm at Johnny D’s: Walk of Shame: the Slutcracker opening night afterparty
Boston’s beloved holiday classic The Slutcracker opens on Friday December 5th at Somerville Theater, and what better way to celebrate than to stumble across Holland Street to Johnny D’s for some dancing, drinking, and schmoozing with the glorious, fabulous Sluts themselves!
Johnny Blazes and the Pretty Boys will play two sets with all your favorite Pretty originals and TONS of soul and funk covers!
This is an open event — you can come dance even if you didn’t make it to The Slutcracker for opening night (maybe you’re going xxxmas eve instead) — all are welcome to come dance with the lovely Slut-cast and start Slut Season off right!
Tickets are $10 — unless you go to opening night of The Slutcracker, in which case you get a discount!
21+
Saturday December 6th
6pm Local indie film! “Oxy-Morons”
Saturday December 6th 2014 6PM
555 Washington Street Downtown Crossing Boston
Produced by ArtsEmerson Mind Trick Moving Pictures and One Love Entertainment
Johnny Hickeypresents OXY-MORONS.Starring Johnny Hickey David Burns, Patt Ross,Christian Trotta
Thanks: Devin Hill, Keith Schaffer, David Dower, Chris Angel. Kevin Becerra, Scott Michelson and Paul Buhl
Sunday December 7th
Out of the Blue Fall Craft Fair
1-6pm at out of the blue
OOTBT will be host to local craft vendors on Nov. 30th and every Sunday in December!
This is a great opportunity for hand-made, unique holiday gifts! We will have jewelry, clothes, accessories, prints and postcards, hand made bath products, beautiful blown glass ornaments, and more!
Crafters will be accompanied by acoustic music and tea.
Drop in on us!
(Vendors are welcome to apply on a rolling basis. Contact the gallery ootbgallery@gmail.com for more info.)
Tuesday December 9th
Hope’s band! Hope & the Husbands!!! Concealed Creatures!!! Absolute Gender!!! Duck That!!!
$5.00, Doors at 9:00 PM, 21+
– Hope and the Husbands
http://hopehusbands.bandcamp.com/
– Concealed Creatures
http://concealedcreatures.bandcamp.com/
– Absolute Gender
https://soundcloud.com/absolute-gender
– Duck That
https://www.facebook.com/pages/Duck-That/56491099863
The Midway Cafe
3496 Washington Street
Jamaica Plain, MA 02130
(617) 524-9038
http://midwaycafe.com/
Wednesday December 10th
Earth Heart at Midway.
Katie has a million talent and no marketing. Go see her before she gets famous and you can be a hipster like how you knew Amanda before she was famous.
Saturday December 13th
7pm Somerville Theatre: Etheria Film Night
For the third consecutive year, All Things Horror is proud to be the North East screening partner of the Etheria Film Night. Founded by Heidi Honeycutt as an offshoot of the Viscera Film Festival, Etheria was created as a short film showcase for the talented women working in the science fiction and fantasy genres. This year the festival folds horror back into the mix as the fest embraces a multitude of subgenres while staying true to its mission of promoting women working in the film industry.
This year the festival packs a doozie of a lineup, including the New England premiere of Axelle Carolyn’s gothic, supernatural romance SOULMATE. Ms. Carolyn’s next project is the recently announced Tales Of Halloween anthology, coproduced by Darren Bousman (Saw III – V, The Devil’s Carnival”) and Neil Marshall (Dog Soldiers, The Descent) so I would expect to hear massive things from her in the comings months.
Etheria whittled down hundreds of submissions in order to present the absolute best and most entertaining lineup for the short film program. This year’s touring lineup includes the following:
JELLY WRESTLER
HIDE & SEEK
DAWN
YOU, ME & HER
SERPENT’S LULABYE
113 DEGREES
LITTLE LAMB
The Etheria Film Night runs on Saturday December 13th beginning at 7pm with a special encore presentation on Sunday the 14th at 2pm.
7pm Robby Roadsteamer at Middle East
WEMF Radio Radio Presents:
12/13/14 Middle East Downstairs Cambridge…..
The Return of Robby Roadsteamer!!! Full band!!!
Zip-Tie Handcuffs
Psychic Dog
DAve Crespo’s After Party
Froggy & The Friendship
Parachuter
Blood Knife
And featuring DJ Bianca Oblivion!!!
18+ $8 Advance / $12 Day of Show 7:00pm doors
http://www.ticketweb.com/fb/5425705/mideastnew
This will sell out so get your tickets early!!!!!
Sunday December 14th
Out of the Blue Fall Craft Fair
1-6pm at out of the blue
OOTBT will be host to local craft vendors on Nov. 30th and every Sunday in December!
This is a great opportunity for hand-made, unique holiday gifts! We will have jewelry, clothes, accessories, prints and postcards, hand made bath products, beautiful blown glass ornaments, and more!
Crafters will be accompanied by acoustic music and tea.
Drop in on us!
(Vendors are welcome to apply on a rolling basis. Contact the gallery ootbgallery@gmail.com for more info.)
Monday December 15th
7pm at the armory- Somerville Superstars
Come join the Somerville Arts Council as we celebrate the 2014 Artists of the Month:
January: Ethan Gilsdorf
February: Sophia Ainslie
March: Mary Bichner
April: Anil Natyaveda
May: Greer Muldowney
June: Peter Jehlen
July: Brendan Burns
August: Jody Weber
September: James Weinberg
October: Elio DeLuca
November: Gilmore Tamny
December: to be announced!
For more information on the Artists of the Month program, look here: http://somervilleartscouncil.org/artistmonth/2014
Organized by the Somerville Arts Council & the AOM crew (Jenn Harrington, Valeria Amato, Michael J Epstein, and Tim Devin).
Jan 8th
Earth Heart at TTs
AAAAAAAAGHHHHH ITS JANUARY go see katie
That’s it for the Scene Spy this time! If you want to help out with some of this stuff, go to my Patreon page and give me some advice, or psychically beam me a dollar! J