mission freak!

I think it was Edwin Way Teale who said, “The world’s favorite season is the spring. All things seem possible in May.”  Indeed, May is a month when all things, in fact, might be possible: graduations, really bad karma, inappropriate dorm touching finally being prosecuted, music, sunshine, lollipops, etc. etc.  And with just three more days of magical May remaining it is time to get out and do your thing before June, which someone once said “is a skanky-ass bitch.”  When all things are possible, however, one might succumb to paralysis and fear at the sheer scope of possibilities. (What would the world be like if anything was possible?) That’s where we step in with our weekly list of things to do, which, for this weekend only, you can imagine as merely three out of an infinite number of possibilties.

Thursday
Johanna Kunin w/ Caleb Engstrom, Skye Carrasco / Public Space ONE / 8 PM / $3
Read just below this post for the full skinny.  This will be a very nice show, and will give you plenty of time to prowl the night afterwards.

Friday
Dave Zollo and the Body Electric / The Mill / 9 PM / $6

I’ll let the Mill’s website do the talkin’ for me: “Equipped with a ‘rode hard and put away wet’ whiskey-soaked rasp and a deep bag of keyboard chops that echoes some of the greats of country, rhythm & blues and gut-bucket rock, Zollo and the boys are sure to move your feet.”

“Rode hard and put away wet”?? I’ll go to this show, but I’ll feel weird about it.  And I’ll also start trying to work that phrase into as many casual conversations as I can.

Zollospace: http://www.myspace.com/davidzollo

Saturday
Mutators w/ Modern Creatures, Wet Hair / 115 N. Dodge / 9:30 PM
Why not end the weekend with a little house party of the experimental music variety? Local impresario, artist, and kind mastermind Shawn Reed plays in Wet Hair, and the other two bands are from Vancouver, which ups the “cool factor’ by about one million per cent.  See you there, if you dare.

a one: http://www.myspace.com/mutators
and a two: http://www.myspace.com/moderncreatures
and a three: http://www.myspace.com/nightpeoplerecords