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 10.10
8pm
free
SMUT
Smut
is our weekly program of provocate readings and performance,
starring some of NYC's greatest talents. The New
York Times writes about SMUT, "It's art that
should carry a Parental Advisory label, with some of New
York City's best writers and performers."
This
week, presenting comedian Michelle Maclay from The Social
Experiment - www.thesocial.tv
Comic musican Danny Katz - www.dannykatzmusic.com
(pictured)
And writer/performer Rachel Shukert
Hosted by Desiree Burch
 10.10
10pm FREE
Miss
Saturn's
Burlesque Hulapalooza!
Galapagos's
favorite hula-hoop burlesque dancer returns with her monthly
show! Hula-hoops, pasties, and a whole lot of rowdy fun.
http://www.misssaturn.com
 10.11
8pm FREE
Roshambo
comedy
From
the creators of the Spoiler Film series comes an evening
of comedy short films, sketches, and standup.
With
performances by Bobby Tisdale, Margot leitman, Tony Zaret,
Rob Lathan, Rosemary Stevens. Film by 3 good excuses. Hosted
by Aaron Wilson
 10.11
10pm free
Brooklyn
Comedy Company
BCCO
spotlights industry renowned standup comedians plus notable
up and comers every week, with no drink minimum or cover
charge. It's diverse and witty stand-up, served straight-up,
and we're proud to have it here at Galapagos!
For
more information about Brooklyn Comedy Company, please visit
their website at http://www.brooklyncomedycompany.com
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 10.12
8pm $10
The
Eternal Now + The Sunny Jain Collective + Chris Berry
and Panjea
The
Eternal Now combines
Hindustani singing and Free Jazz string bass. Talking
gave way to playing, which came as a very natural conversation.
Band members Murren and Sinha work on creating a new musical
texture using the string bass - with its range emulating
the sarangi - and the drone as well as the rooted vamps
of jazz, and the voice ranging from traditional North
Indian constructions to vocal sound painting.
The Sunny Jain Collective (top photo) offer
a sound filled with subtle energy and versatility. Recognized
internationally as a drummer with a distinct and recognizable
sound, Sunny Jain has performed with such artists as Kiran
Ahluwalia Kenny Bar ron,
Seamus Blake, Kyle Eastwood, Kermit Driscoll, Norah Jones,
Lonnie Plaxico, Jon Regen, Martha Wainwright and Kenny
Wollesen.
Chris Berry & Panjea- Chris Berry (bottom
photo) is one of the living masters of African drumming,
with roots in both hand percussion, based on studying
the ngoma drum in an isolated Congo village, and the mbira,
or thumb piano, whose honey-toned tines stir something
deep in the soul. Drawing on musicians from Africa and
the United States and the diverse influences hip hop,
indigenous music and dance hall, Panjea is a multicultural
ensemble united by Chris' commitment to heal through music.
Jainsounds.com
- chrisberry.net
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 10.13
7pm FREE
LORRAINE LECKIE + ALICE TEXAS + ALEXA GEORGEVICH
Lorraine
Leckie is a poet with a guitar and one that explores
the darker side of humanity with traces of irony and sarcastic
humour. "Likable in a Suzanne Vega way, She even
tries to rap!" -Village Voice
"Alice
Texas is Alice Schneider, a native New Yorker who
rides through the oppressively small towns and dry prairies
of her imagination searching for love and redemption."
-The New Yorker
"Alice
Schneider's music is an oddly appealing hybrid of David
Lynch-like macabre and rambling Western tumbleweed scenes.
Forboding and melancholy, her band Alice Texas plays behind
it's new album, Sad Days."
-Time Out NY
New York singer-songwriter Alexa Georgevich sets
clear, looping vocals within intricate guitar structures
to tell sea stories and urban tales. At once sparse and
complex, her songs explore themes of escape and surrender
in fantastic lands. Her work evokes the simplicity of
Vashti Bunyan or Sandy Denny, with a vocal delivery reminiscent
of Kate Bush or PJ Harvey.
www.alicetexas.org
www.lorraineleckie.com
 10.13
10pm $10
Taylor Mac CD Release Party
"Don't
miss this show. Taylor is a force, a voice, and a fabulously
political pleasure" - Next Magazine
"An
act that clearly has cult potential" - The
Village Voice
"Mac's
histrionic physical display (screaming orange hair; a
high, precise, rapid-fire vocal delivery) can only be
matched by the savage incisiveness of his texts and songs"
- Philadelphia City Paper
Come celebrate the CD release of Taylor Mac's performance
art cabaret The Face of Liberalism. With Taylor
Mac, Kulture Kamp and other surprise guests as he/they
perform selections from the show along with a few new
subversive sparks of divine madness.
In the spring of 2003, at the start of the Iraq War, in
an East Village gay sex-club (disguised as a basement
bar), Taylor Mac first performed his performance art cabaret
The Face of Liberalism. The show ran for six months
and was one of New York's only political performance pieces
happening at the time. Two years later Taylor celebrates
the CD release with selections from the show along with
a few new numbers and surprise guest performances.
www.taylormac.net
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 10.14
8pm $7
Musica
A
night of Latin music and culture.
With the band ...y Las Flores, Damian Quinones, Poet
Edwin Torres, plus musician Bobby Blue (pictured)
and El Orangina the Mexican wrestler!
www.bobbyblue.net
 10.14
11pm $10
Rock: For the City of Jazz
A
benefit for the victims of hurricane Katrina, featuring
acclaimed New Orleans hip hop artist Myself. He's
been featured in Billboard Magazine and on MTV Jams.
Plus Rob, Tondrae, DJ Graematter, The Audio Architects,
DJ Miko, No Surrender, and more!
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 10.15
8pm $7
TOKYO SCOPE
with Vangeline Theater Company
In
honor of the Second New York Butoh Festival. Featuring
butoh performers Nicole Legette and Rachel Finan from
Chicago, Musical guest Banaue Miclat in musical arrangement
by Ray Sweeten, Russian dancer Julia Kulakova , Katherine
Adamenko, Pak Mei Kung Fu, Butoh performance by Vangeline
and the Vangeline Theater, and Butoh Artist Julie Bectum
Gillum from North Carolina.
Music by Ray Sweeten/Mitgang Audio all thru the night.
Butoh in the pool. Plus MC Zero Boy!
Vangeline
Theater is "poetry in Motion", says Hampton
Fancher, writer of cult movie Blade Runner.
www.vangeline.com
 10.15
10pm $8
Jerseyband, Thought, and The Barbarians
Jerseyband
(pictured) plays Lungcore: a new genre that infuses
a horn-driven band with heavy metal values. Backed by
drums, electric guitar, and guitar synth, Jerseyband's
horns cut through meaty arrangements.
"...Ridiculously
tight, riveting, and hilarious all at the same time..."
-U of Michigan
"...Completely
challenges the common concept of a horn band." -SUNY
Fredonia
They'll be appearing with special guest Thought and The
Barbarians.
www.jerseyband.com
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 10.16
3pm $6
Ocularis Presents
A Children's Film Matinee!
After
the overwhelming success of their previous kids’
show, Ocularis has decided to make them a regular part
of our calendar, and this screening promises to be just
as exciting as the last. Included in the lineup are 16mm
prints of cartoon classics like Winsor McKay's groundbreaking
Gertie the Dinosaur and Felix Gets the Can, where we follow
a salmon-hungry Felix all the way to Alaska, as well as
Steamboat Willie and The Mad Dog (first appearances of
Mickey and Pluto, respectively). Also featured are John
and
Faith Hubley’s Moonbird, a magical nighttime adventure
in which two brothers hunt an imaginary bird, and Red
Grooms’ adaptation of Little Red Riding Hood. Cracker
Jacks come with the price of admission, and children of
all ages are welcome.
Work
to be screened: Gertie the Dinosaur, Winsor McKay,
9 min, 1914; Felix Gets the Can, Otto Messmer,
9 min, 1924; Steamboat Willie, Ub Iwerks, 8 min,
1928; The Mad Dog, Bert Gillett, 8 min, 1932; Moonbird,
John and Faith Hubley, 10 min, 1959; Little Red Riding
Hood, Red Grooms, 16 min, 1978
Total
Running Time: 60 min
 10.16
6:30pm $8
Billy Nayer Show
Including a screening of American Astronaut
with special guests SXIP!Matta
The
American Astronaut is a space Western written, directed,
and starring Billy Nayer Show frontman Cory McAbee. The
91-minute feature film follows the adventures of an interplanetary
trader (McAbee) on his quest to provide the all-female
population of Venus with a suitable male while evading
a cold-blooded, if slightly childish, killer named Professor
Hess (Rocco Sisto). Through gorgeous black and white photography,
rugged Lo-Fi sets, riveting musical interludes, and McAbee’s
wholly distinct artistic sensibility, The American Astronaut
conjures the dirty, isolated vastness of the final frontier
while creating a unique iconography that has spurned a
rabid cult following. Beyond the critical praise which
grows with film’s popularity, The American Astronaut
has garnered prestigious awards everywhere from Sundance
to the Moscow International Film Festival.
"Something
virtually unique in American independent film!" -Filmmaker
Magazine
"Part
western, part musical, part Kubrick, part Godard, very
strange and very free." –Newsday
"A
tale that evokes Brecht, Beckett, and Ed Wood!" –New
York Times
"Imagine
a long Laurel & Hardy skit directed by Salvador Dali."
–Entertainment
Weekly
 www.americanastronaut.com
The
Billy Nayer Show (bottom
pic) is a lyric-driven bass-drums-and-autoharp rock
trio that makes enough noise for two bands. Their sonic
yarns have been lovingly described as frightening, endearing,
psychotic, elegant, disturbing, absurd, and most frequently
“hard to describe.” For reasons only Billy Nayer
Show fans will understand, crowds have been known to hurl
stuffed rabbits at the stage. Please visit www.billynayer.com
for sound clips and more information.
"Indebted
equally to Scott Walker’s bile-drenched crooning,
Frank Zappa’s twisted surrealism, and Harry Nilsson’s
deceptively sing-song melodicism." –New
York Magazine
Sxip Shirey is a circus-music composer, performance
artist, story teller, founder of the Luminescent Orchestrii,
and a multi-instrumentalist unlike any you’ve ever
seen. Using homemade instruments and unlikely detritus,
Shirey creates aural landscapes that would make the Brothers
Grimm thrill and tremble. Adam Matta is a Human
Beat Box of exceptional talent. Their pairing is long
overdue.
“[Sxip]
conjures a world of infernal calliopes and cotton candy
machetes wielded by Gypsy crones with angel feet.”
– SF Weekly
 10.16
10pm
FREE
SID
& BUDDY KARAOKE
Take
life a little less seriously. Sing a song. Be a rock star.
It's
ridiculous over the top sloppy rock n roll Karaoke that
nobody has any business doing late on a Sunday night.
And yet, we do it here.
http://www.sidandbuddy.com
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