Dirty Opera is the production company that my pals Dimitri Coats, Eddie Gonzalez, and I run locally. Our final event at The Claremont Laemmle 5, a lovely independent theater that is shuttering this location at the end of January, is one worthy of a farewell for this institution in the community. We are screening River’s …
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Second track from L. Eugene Methe and Dennis Callaci LP
The Last Chance Lottery is an old dream of a record. L. Eugene Methe and I started working on it a year or so ago after the idea of it had been floating around us for decades. In a cottage industry whirlwind, the two of us wrote, performed, engineered, created the artwork, videos, cover artwork, and …
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Trailer for Lavina Blossom’s Bamboo Dart Press premieres
Lavina Blossom’s first book for Bamboo Dart Press is a dream. A collection of 32 poems that owes its vocabulary to a separate book of poems taken from the writer’s bookshelf–usually the first and last lines in that collection. The author set herself the challenge of creating a coherent poem from each word set without borrowing …
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Austin Town Hall premieres first track from Dennis Callaci and L. Eugene Methe LP
It has been a thrill to finally work with my dear pal L. Eugene Methe on a collaborative record as a duo. He and I have played together on songs by Refrigerator as well as a couple of solo records of mine. For our album, The Last Chance Lottery, Methe created the music and allowed …
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Dirty Opera screening of The River’s Edge w/ Director Tim Hunter, cast members & Jonathan Lethem.
Chuffed to announce that the next event that we are presenting as Dirty Opera is a screening of the 1986 film River’s Edge. Author Jonathan Lethem will be hosting a Q&A after the screening with director Tim Hunter and cast members Daniel Roebuck and Josh Richman. The screening at The Claremont Laemmle 5 is on …
Peter Wortsman “What We Leave Behind” out now on Bamboo Dart Press
In What We Leave Behind, Peter Wortsman’s fourth book of cut-ups, he lets the words run wild, in some cases, as in French poet Guillaume Apollinaire’s Calligrames (1918), letting words break ranks and dance on the page; in other cases, coupling word and image; and finally, succumbing to the lure of the visual in collages …
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Dirty Opera presents Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan with director Nicholas Meyer!
The production company that my pals Eddie Gonzalez, Dimitri Coats and I operate, Dirty Opera, are thrilled to announce our latest Event. We will be presenting Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan at The Claremont Laemmle 5 on November 11th at 7PM. There will be a Q&A with the film’s director Nicholas Meyer after …
Amps for Christ & Two Ambiguous Figures live on the Bill Chen Vs. Dennis Callaci show this Wednesday.
Listen to a rare live radio performance by Amps for Christ with Two Ambiguous Figures on the Bill Chen Vs. Dennis Callaci radio show this Wednesday on KSPC 88.7 FM from nine to noon PST or online at www.kspc.org
“The Gospel According To Bombastus” by Brutus Chieftain and Stevo Lution out now on Bamboo Dart Press
What began as countless daily texts from Brutus to make Stevo laugh at work soon evolved into their final collaborative venture. The pair’s original scheme, Stevo working at a fortune cookie factory swapping standard fortunes for Brutus’ quotes, failed when he was fired for refusing to wear a hair net. They quickly moved on to …