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The last three acts of local Buffalo magician Mike Baron's performance at the 10th annual Squeaky Wheel Dysfunctional Holiday Party, which was held on December 18, 2009 in Buffalo, NY. http://www.squeaky.org/events/2009/fall/dysfunctionalholidayscreeningparty

"w ((aa)) ou w (pronounced 'wow'), also known as 'Poverty Hymns,' is a Buffalo-based electro-acoustic sound trio fronted by Jim Abramson, Tristan Trump, and Jax DeLuca, who is also Programming Director at Squeaky Wheel ( http://www.squeaky.org/ ). Their set consists of avant-noise rock at punishing volume, utilizing live drums, samples/loops and manipulated voice coupled with video projections to produce cacophonous multi-media results." Band website: http://www.myspace.com/pronouncedwow Clips from other live performances at Soundlab: May 9, 2009: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eFfZmrabheE September 30, 2009: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=POWb3t_H85Q

From the description at Soundlab's website (http://www.bigorbitgallery.org/soundlab/upcoming.html): "Ho-Ag plays a mess of sci-fi B-movie spazz-rock. Instrumentation includes guitars, bass, Moog synths, theremin, electronic noise boxes, and drums. "This is long-running, underground soul-crushing sort of work that deals in hobbled bits of haunted house themes, scraping guitars, synth bleats, upside-down bits of New Wave, wrecks of lyrics that clang on by like the homeless ghosts of never-were prophet-salesman. That muted trumpet sort of Velvet Glove Cast in Iron thing you can't figure out. The Darkness, Ortho Stice. The glory days of the Trinity Site and men that found the remnants in briefcases floating around black and white palm tree paradisos. The doctors have knives for answers. Oh no! "Ho-Ag has played with the following good people: Neptune, Melvins, Deerhoof, Melt-Banana, Dan Deacon, Dark Meat, Jello Biafra, Daughters, Dresden Dolls, Enon, The Octopus Project, Six Finger Satellite, Twig Harper, Parts and Labor, Wolf Eyes, Marnie Stern, Big Bear, Ex-Models, Sleeptyime Gorilla Museum, Skeleton Key, The Mae-Shi, The Shipping News, Icy Demons, Hallelujah the Hills, Double Dagger, Animal Hospital, Monotonix, Cinemachanica, We Versus the Shark, Neptune, Fat Day, World/Inferno Friendship Society, Professor Murder, Capillary Action, Ghengis Tron, USAISAMONTSTER, So Many Dynamos, DMBQ, Yip Yip, This Bike is a Pipe Bomb...." http://www.ho-ag.com/ http://www.myspace.com/hoagsobject http://www.myspace.com/deepearthsounds http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ho-Ag

Excerpt from the last 18 minutes of their approximately 40-minute improvisation at Soundlab in Buffalo, NY, on Wednesday, October 7, 2009... "This performance began with a formal constraint: the three performers would create a visual score to music (still or video, any length), and a means to interpret such a score (from completely off the cuff to very technically prepared, in any instrumentation or musical paradigm). At the beginning, the performers exchange the visual scores, having never seen them, and perform them simultaneously, according to the means they've prepared. Totally improvised, impossible to foresee."

Members of the previously-named Sleeping Kings Of Iona and A Hotel nourishing perform "Adventurous live music and visuals inspired by underwater space travel, Esther Williams, dub electro, and graffiti..." Facebook page: http://www.facebook.com/pages/Wooden-Waves/102924889540 Article in ArtVoice: http://artvoice.com/issues/v8n33/wooden_waves Museum Website: http://www.albrightknox.com Location: Buffalo, NY

Members of the previously-named Sleeping Kings Of Iona and A Hotel nourishing perform "Adventurous live music and visuals inspired by underwater space travel, Esther Williams, dub electro, and graffiti..." Facebook page: http://www.facebook.com/pages/Wooden-Waves/102924889540 Article in ArtVoice: http://artvoice.com/issues/v8n33/wooden_waves Museum Website: http://www.albrightknox.com Location: Buffalo, NY

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Part 1

Part Two of clips I took with a cheap SONY Digital Camera with low-res movie capacity. I apologize for the poor audio and visual quality. Still, the show was excellent. It had originally been scheduled at Soundlab for June of this year, but M-B had to cancel to play opening gigs on Tool's summer tour. It was worth the wait, and I cannot wait to see them live again (which is the best way to appreciate this band).

Part One of clips I took with a cheap SONY Digital Camera with low-res movie capacity. I apologize for ... the poor audio and visual quality. Still, the show was excellent. It had originally been scheduled at Soundlab for June of this year, but M-B had to cancel to play opening gigs on Tool's summer tour. It was worth the wait, and I cannot wait to see them live again (which is the best way to appreciate this band).

Part Two of clips that I had taken with the same cheap SONY Digital Camera that I used to film the Melt-Banana show (which, again, also means poor audio/visual quality). And like the previous show, this one at The Tralf in Buffalo, NY was SMMMMOKINNNNNNN'!!!!

Part One of clips that I had taken with the same cheap SONY Digital Camera that I used to film the Melt-Banana show (which, again, also means poor audio/visual quality). And like the previous show, this one at The Tralf in Buffalo, NY was SMMMMOKINNNNNNN'!!!!

Otto Preminger's anti-classic bizarro star-studded pro-LSD comedy-musical, a disastrous flop in its day, but has aged rather well as a wonderfully warped, ironic campfest that includes Jackie Gleason tripping out on acid, and Groucho Marx as "God" (9 years before George Burns!) toking on a joint. The entire film has been uploaded to YouTube, but this version (from a New Zealand TV broadcast) is of higher resolution and quality. If anybody managed to record and upload the widescreen broadcast on TCM in January 2008, please let me know!

Part Three of clips that I had taken with the same cheap SONY Digital Camera that I used to film the Melt-Banana show (which, again, also means poor audio/visual quality). And like the previous show, this one at The Tralf in Buffalo, NY was SMMMMOKINNNNNNN'!!!!

So Todd Haynes' "I'm Not There" is earning all those accolades and Oscar buzz. And in a whim and out of guilty pleasure, I'm downloading a series of Carpenters videos on VEOH. And I'm not in an aggro-grindcore-punk-hiphop-garage mood. So then, I give you (IF it remains undeleted for the time being) this classic student film, still technically banned, but handed down from video generation to generation (this looks like a 5th-gen copy) and an underground film fest fave. Alternately creepy, cruel, campy, and poignant. Like "Nosferatu," it was supposed to be destroyed forever many moons ago, but refuses to die.

Part Three of clips I took with a cheap SONY Digital Camera with low-res movie capacity. I apologize for the poor audio and visual quality. Still, the show was excellent. It had originally been scheduled at Soundlab for June of this year, but M-B had to cancel to play opening gigs on Tool's summer tour. It was worth the wait, and I cannot wait to see them live again (which is the best way to appreciate this band).