----/ The Squid List /-------------------------------------------------- Club Chuckles presents Bucky Sinister, Mike Spiegelman, Little Howlin' Wolf
Tuesday, 10/18 9:30pm-12:00am $5 ----/ Event Description /----------------------------------------------- This month's CLUB CHUCKLES presents standup comedy assassins MIKE SPIEGELMAN & BUCKY SINISTER with extra special musical guests, LITTLE HOWLIN' WOLF (Chicago) and THE CORNDAWG (Philadelphia). LITTLE HOWLIN WOLF Little Howlin' Wolf is James Pobiega, a 6'9" street musician from Chicago's South Side, performing an bent combination of Chess Records blues, free jazz, gypsy songs, country & western and children's songs. The influence of his namesake, Howlin' Wolf, is evident but the occasionally discordant scales of the rhythm and lead indicate something is amiss. Soon, notes are dropped, and the percussion seems to be navigating around a tool shed in the dark, with its failure sometimes crashing to the forefront. More wrenches are thrown into the standard blues fair, until the sinister undertones come to a head, the percussion is finally severed from the rest of the rhythm section, and Little Howlin' Wolf's singing turns to demented, baritone scat. http://www.heresee.com/hs54wolfvol2.htm MIKE SPIEGELMAN Comedian Mike Spiegelman is a founding member of the sketch groups The Bitter Show and Fresh Robots. He starred as the Captain in the independent film Muetes Ul Gallaxiante! and was the lead in the San Francisco cult film short 38 Geary. http://www.spiegelmania.com/ BUCKY SINISTER Bucky Sinister is an author, performer and standup comedian. He is the author of "King of the Roadkills" (Manic D Press, 1995) and "Whiskey and Robots" (Gorsky Press, 2004). Bucky is hosting the Litquake Humorists show at the Purple Onion on 10/11/05. http://buckysinister.com/ THE CORNDAWG "Before his latest release, the Corndawg (aka Johnny Fritz of Philadelphia) was known exclusively as a musical prankster crooning obscene, country-fried novelty songs like "Is It Too Late to Abort?" But Fritz's talent is no cheap joke. He's a magnetic performer and great songwriter possessing an achingly lonesome, Appalachian falsetto (he's Southern by birth), and it's these qualities that Fritz explores in greater detail on The Liberated North. Perfectly encapsulating his sudden and dramatic quantum leap from white-trash comedian to sophisticated satirist of American rural life is the record's gem, titled "Pregnant Scare." Over a bouncing progression of guitar, banjo, and accordion, the Corndawg becomes a man terrified to come home and learn if he's impregnated his girlfriend (yet again): "But darling, I can't afford another boy to feed/ I hope you ain't got no child inside of you." Then the Corndawg's pained wail adopts an added dimension of desperation and delusion: "I dreamed I saw my son and he was washed up onshore/ Baby, every lie you tell, the waves and the rocks they tear him more and more." Look, I love cheap, locker-room humor, but Fritz's new direction possesses so much more possibility that I can't wait to hear what becomes of it." - Justin Farrar, SF Weekly ----/ Venue Info /------------------------------------------------------ Hemlock Tavern 1131 Polk Street San Francisco 415-923-0923 http://www.hemlocktavern.com on Polk St., in between Post & Sutter, one block east of Van Ness Ave., about two blocks away from the Great American Music Hall. ----/ Additional Info /------------------------------------------------- [EMAIL PROTECTED] 415-923-0925 http://www.hemlocktavern.com ----/ The Squid List Admin /--------------------------------------------- The Squid List, a tentacle of Laughing Squid http://laughingsquid.org/squidlist/ subscribe, unsubscribe, change your email address or change your subscription options: http://lists.laughingsquid.org/mailman/listinfo/squidlist/ Frequently Asked Questions & Submission Guidelines Squid List FAQ: http://laughingsquid.org/squidlist/faq.html The Squid List Online Calendar: http://laughingsquid.org/squidlist/calendar/ The Squid List RSS Feed: http://feeds.feedburner.com/squidlist ----/ Laughing Squid /-------------------------------------------------- Laughing Squid http://laughingsquid.com underground art and culture from San Francisco and beyond Laughing Squid Web Hosting http://laughingsquid.net friendly, dependable and secure web hosting services for artists, individuals, bloggers, non-profits and small businesses Copyright (c) 2005 Laughing Squid. All rights reserved.
