Win Tickets for Rooftop Films' "Dangerous Docs & Whisker Wars" (Short Films) on August 4th

Win a Pair of Tickets to Rooftop Films' showing on August 4th - "Dangerous Docs and Whisker Wars" (Short Films). The showing is at Crown Vic, 60 South 2nd St. in Brooklyn so you obviously have to be local to win. To enter, send an email to mike.brooklynrocks at gmail.com with the subject "Rooftop Films" and I'll draw winners at random on Wednesday night (August 3rd).

THE FILMS
SASQUATCH BIRTH JOURNAL 2 (Zellner Bros. | Austin, TX | 4 min.)
An unprecedented peek at the mysteries of nature.

IRMA (Charles Fairbanks | Lexington, NE | 12 min.)
Irma is an intimate musical portrait of Irma Gonzalez, the former world champion of women’s professional wrestling. Filmed in Ciudad Nezahualcóyotl – a notorious district of Mexico City – Irma contradicts everything we have come to expect from stories reported from Mexico. Featuring original music written and performed by Ms. Gonzalez, Irma’s story surges with love and deceit, masculine strength, feminine charms, and an extraordinary sense of humor.

WHISKER WARS (Thom Beers)
"Whisker Wars" profiles a group of men as they travel the country in search of top honors in a host of competitions, from the National Beard and Mustache Championship in Bend, OR to the World Competition in Norway. With Germany the reigning champion, over 80 local U.S. chapters attempt to come together to form Beard Team USA. - IFC

NEGATIVIPEG (Matthew Rankin | Canada | 15 min.)
Rory Lepine gives a personal account of his fateful and infamous encounter with The Guess Who's legendary lead singer, Burton Cummings, in a Winnipeg 7-Eleven in 1985. [Sundance]

SATAN SINCE 2003 (Calos Puga | New York | 19 min.)
For Emmy Award-winning documentarian Carlos Puga (True Life, MTV), three months' access to The Hell's Satans (Richmond, Virginia's premier moped gang) produced enough material for not only an eye-popping peek into this otherwise reclusive society, but also a satirical jab at the process of documentary film-making. [SXSW]

DECLARATION OF IMMORTALITY (Marcin Koszalka | Poland | 29 min.)
Polish documentary veteran Marcin Koszałka returns to a forgotten genre: the mountain film. The protagonist of his story is Piotr “Mad” Korczak, a legendary mountain climber who revolutionized the art of mountain and rock climbing and figured out how to scale some of the most impossibly steep natural rock structures in the world. Featuring gorgeous and vertigo inducing cinematography and Koszalka’s magnificently stoic observations, Declaration of Immortality is a thrilling trip to the edge of the abyss and a poignant portrait of a man driven by an insatiable desire to live as large and as long as humanly possible.

The schedule for the night is:
8:00PM - Doors Open
8:30PM - Live Music
9:00PM - Films Begin
11:30PM - After Party at the Crown Vic

Links:
Rooftop Films

Cro-Mags: Buy a Ticket for John Joseph's Walking Tour, Get on the Guest List for Friday's Show at House of Vans

There is something fundamentally wrong when the two Cro-Mags websites [Paris' site is www.cro-mags.com and Harley's site is www.cromags.com] haven't been updated in years. While Paris' site was registered before the release of Revenge, I don't remember either site being active before the "final quarrel" in 2001 .

Anyway, the RSVP list for Friday's free Cro-Mags / Pissed Jeans / Fucked Up show at House of Vans in Brooklyn is full but John Joseph posted to Facebook earlier today "Do this SATURDAYS walking tour and get free VIP tix to sold out Cro-Mags show FRIDAY."

THE HISTORY OF ART, CRIME, DRUGS and PUNK ROCK ON THE LOWER EAST SIDE:

What was it about the Lower East Side that attracted so much talent and crime in the last 40 years? Since my early days of punk the summer of 1977 I’ve been exposed of the best music and the worst crime. Everything from Max’s Kansas City to the Alphabet City Butcher Daniel Rackowitz who lived right above me and killed his girlfriend, chopped her up and fed her to the homeless in Tompkins Square Park. I was also in that park when the riot of 1989 kicked off and I played one of the last shows at CBGB’s.

Most people walking around on the Lower East Side today with its trendy boutiques and coffee shops have no idea of its history, the great music and violence that has always co-existed side by side down here. I’ll take you to the punk clubs, gang hangouts and drug spots where some of the craziest things went down. It’s a first hand account from someone who was immersed in the danger having myself grown up on the streets of NYC since the age of 14. I guarantee you it will be a true punk rock & crime history lesson from someone who was there way back then and is still here.

We will drop by the famous CBGB’s location where The Ramones and so many other legendary punk bands started. We’ll walk by Great Gildersleeves where the Hells Angels regularly ran people over on their motorcycles. Stroll down memory lane at Saint Marks Place passing Trash and Vaudeville (punk store), the Electric Circus where the likes of Bad Brains, Crass, and so many others jammed. All the while telling you my anecdotes and funny stories of the crazy shit I’ve seen go down. Then Tompkins Sq Park, giving first hand knowledge of the areas events. We’ll even hit MANITOBAS for Bob Gruen's famous Punk Rock photo exhibit before we go by the Ritz (now Webster Hall) and Irving Plaza where so many great bands like Black Flag, Bad Brains, Circle Jerks, Motorhead (first US gig), The Damned, Buzzcocks and where the late punk-rocker John Belushi slam danced his nights away. Finally our last stops on the tour will be Max's Kansas City where we end in Union Sq Park discussing the area and what is what like. Drugs, hookers, violence, the Palladium where The Clash's London Calling album cover was taken and many great bands played. Ever heard of Julien's Pool Hall? The porno theaters where I’d sleep in the dead of winter for 50 cents a night and the Gramercy Park Boxing Gym (now PC Richard’s) where my old man and many world Champions boxed. The bottom line is, whether you’re a seasoned New Yorker or someone visiting the city on vacation, this tour is not to be missed. I can guarantee you it will be a memorable experience.
Hosted by John Joseph

Links:
Rocks Off Walking Tour (Tickets are $35)
John Joseph

Free Live Music This Week (August 6th)

There are a number of great live acts playing free this week...

Yesterday, I posted about Marissa Nadler and Elk City's in-store performance at Sound Fix. Here is what else is happening this week:

Tues 8/7 -- The Dry Spells
Pete's Candy Store @ 11PM
The Dry Spells, known for intense and haunting vocal layering, draws inspiration from music ranging from Russian folk songs, rock, as well as songwriters like Linda Perhacs and Sibylle Baier.

Fri 8/10 -- Metronomy, Au Revoir Simone
South Street Seaport @ 7PM

Sat 8/11 -- Vampire Weekend, Meg Baird
East River Amphitheater @ 2:00 PM

Sat 8/11 -- Head Automatica
Highline Ballroom @ 10:00 PM

You must RSVP for this show -- click on the poster to access the RSVP link






Sat 8/11 -- Pagoda
Pete's Candy Store @ 9PM

"[He] is an artist with living expression as his goal and music is where he thrives. And Pagoda as a live band kicks much ass. " - Thurston Moore

Redemption for OzzFest Tickets Starts Tomorrow

Let the madness begin...OzzFest ticket redemption starts tomorrow.

For anyone in the tri-state area, the closest show is either Hartford, CT or PNC Arts Center in Homdel, NJ. Here are the scheduled times for redeeming your ticket vouchers for these show:

New England Dodge Music Theatre - Hartford, CT - 8/18/2007
Code Redemption Starts: 6/12/2007 at 1:00 PM

PNC Bank Arts Center - Holmdel, NJ - 8/16/2007
Code Redemption Starts: 6/12/2007 at 5:00 PM
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Here is the complete schedule for ticket redemption times:

White River Amphitheatre - Seattle, WA - 7/12/2007
Code Redemption Starts: 6/12/2007 at 10:00 AM

The Gorge - George, WA - 7/14/2007
Code Redemption Starts: 6/12/2007 at 8:00 AM

Sleep Train Amphitheatre - Marysville, CA - 7/17/2007
Code Redemption Starts: 6/12/2007 at 4:00 PM

Shoreline Amphitheatre - Mountain View, CA - 7/19/2007
Code Redemption Starts: 6/12/2007 at 8:00 AM

Hyundai Pavilion - Devore, CA - 7/21/2007
Code Redemption Starts: 6/12/2007 at 10:00 AM

Cricket Pavilion - Phoenix, AZ - 7/24/2007
Code Redemption Starts: 6/12/2007 at 6:00 PM

Journal Pavilion - Albuquerque, NM - 7/26/2007
Code Redemption Starts: 6/12/2007 at 7:00 PM

Coors Amphitheatre - Denver, CO - 7/28/2007
Code Redemption Starts: 6/12/2007 at 7:00 PM

Verizon Wireless Amphitheatre - KC - Bonner Springs, KS - 7/30/2007
Code Redemption Starts: 6/12/2007 at 10:00 AM

Smirnoff Music Centre - Dallas, TX - 8/2/2007
Code Redemption Starts: 6/12/2007 at 6:00 PM

Verizon Wireless Amphitheatre - San Antonio, TX - 8/4/2007
Code Redemption Starts: 6/12/2007 at 2:00 PM

Verizon Wireless Amphitheater - St. Louis, MO - 8/6/2007
Code Redemption Starts: 6/12/2007 at 4:00 PM

Germain Amphitheatre - Columbus, OH - 8/8/2007
Code Redemption Starts: 6/12/2007 at 11:00 AM

First Midwest Bank Amphitheatre - Chicago, IL - 8/10/2007
Code Redemption Starts: 6/12/2007 at 8:00 PM

Alpine Valley Music Theatre - East Troy, WI - Date: 8/12/2007
Code Redemption Starts: 6/12/2007 at 12:00 PM

Verizon Wireless Music Center - Indianapolis, IN - Date: 8/14/2007
Code Redemption Starts: 6/12/2007 at 3:00 PM

PNC Bank Arts Center - Holmdel, NJ - 8/16/2007
Code Redemption Starts: 6/12/2007 at 5:00 PM

New England Dodge Music Theatre - Hartford, CT - 8/18/2007
Code Redemption Starts: 6/12/2007 at 1:00 PM

Tweeter Center - Boston, MA - 8/20/2007
Code Redemption Starts: 6/12/2007 at 3:00 PM

Tweeter Center at the Waterfront - Camden, NJ - 8/22/2007
Code Redemption Starts: 6/12/2007 at 7:00 PM

Post-Gazette Pavilion - Pittsburgh, PA - 8/24/2007
Code Redemption Starts: 6/12/2007 at 3:00 PM

DTE Energy Music Theatre - Clarkston, MI - 8/26/2007
Code Redemption Starts: 6/12/2007 at 5:00 PM

Verizon Wireless Amphitheatre Charlotte - Charlotte, NC - 8/28/2007
Code Redemption Starts: 6/12/2007 at 7:00 PM

Sound Advice Amphitheatre - West Palm Beach, FL - 8/30/2007
Code Redemption Starts: 6/12/2007 at 5:00 PM