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- Subject: Seattle & San Fran upcoming 'events'
- From: tytlane@xxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Mon, 19 Feb 2007 16:18:25 -0500
Ellen Forney's "I Love Led Zeppelin" Multimedia Event, Wild Rose, 3/1/07
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When
Thursday, March 1, 2007
8:00 PM
Where
Wild Rose
1021 Pike (at 11th)
Seattle, Washington
47.6131, -122.329
Category
Media
Description
Ellen Forney is taking her hilarious and sexy I LOVE LED ZEPPELIN road
show on tour once again, this time in San Francisco and again in
Seattle. After four standing room only performances in Seattle thus far,
Forney takes her act to Seattle's WILD ROSE bar on Capitol Hill next
Thursday, March 1st. The following week -- Wednesday, March 7 -- Forney
will hit San Francisco for the first time, appearing at the illustrious
BOOKSMITH in Haight-Ashbury.
Forney's interdisciplinary performance must be seen to be appreciated,
mixing comics, performance art, animation and more into a riotous and
ribald evening of entertainment. According to the Los Angeles Times, "I
Love Led Zeppelin is a beautiful book, but it has a sneaky beauty. Amid
the post-punk attitudes, the hints of sadomasochism and wry looks on
characters faces, Forney offers real laughter and glimpses into the
human. Sometimes you have to trick people into happiness. Forney pulls
off this trick again and again." San Francisco audiences will have the
rare opportunity to experience Seattle resident Forney's engaging comics
during this lively multi-media presentation.
The evenings will feature Forney performing as narrator with flash
cartoon clips of her wildly amusing observations on contemporary urban
culture, including her elegy to live-fast, die-young ethos "The Final
Soundtrack," which inspired the title of her book. The programs will
also include her collaboration with comedian Margaret Cho "How to Be a
Fabulous Fag Hag," and her early brush with celebrity in "My Date with
Camille Paglia."
In his lyrical introduction to I Love Led Zeppelin, published by
Seattle-based Fantagraphics Books, acclaimed author Sherman Alexie
describes Forney's work as "eclectic, smart, sexy, funny and hotter than
five-star curry." Salon.com calls the book "bold" and "badass." Fun Home
author Alison Bechdel calls Forney, "A frickin’ force of nature."
Homepage
http://www.ellenforney.com/