Thanks to everyone who came out to the Scoot Inn last night to support us and Food Not Bombs. We had a great turn out and a cavalcade of can donations. Based on the dancing that ensued, it seemed like everyone had a great time.

We really appreciate The Little Gentlemen, Focus Group and The Little Morts, who were all in fine form; and our friends from Bird’s Barbershop for lending their hair styling expertise to the nights fun.

Check out video of Focus Group performing their song White Folk Is Freaky and The Little Gentlemen performing their cover of Vampire Weekend’s Oxford Comma.

Scroll down for our mobile photo booth and show photos taken by Jack Lewandowski and Jeremy Van Doren.
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Our friends over at the Video Association of Dallas present the 21st annual Dallas Video Festival to be held at the Angelika Film Center, located at 5321 East Mockingbird Lane in Mockingbird Station on October 3-5, 2008. Categories include: documentary, experimental video, video art, narrative fiction, music video, other, and installation. June 6 is the early deadline, August 3 regular deadline, and August 11 late deadline. Participants may register online at www.videofest.org. 214-428-8700 for more information.

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AUSTIN UNDERGROUND presents a rock ‘n’ roll charity show benefiting Food Not Bombs and the Austin Underground Film Festival.

Saturday, August 16th @ Red’s Scoot Inn

The Little Morts
Bus Stop Stallions
The Little Gentlemen
with DJ Soundfounder

$8 cover, $5 with can donation for Food Not Bombs

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We are now taking submissions for the 2008 Austin Underground Film Festival.

We seek to provide a venue for films that might not otherwise be exhibited for the public, and virtually no genre or concept is excluded from consideration. However, films of a radical, critical, progressive, provocative, confrontational, controversial, subversive, seditious, irreverent, illicit, offensive, obscene, rebellious, profane, pornographic, conspiratorial, corruptive, psychotropic, phantasmagoric, volatile, violent, anarchic, blasphemous or otherwise irresponsible nature are especially encouraged.
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THE STRIP CULT is back by popular demand to answer all your
rock-related queries.
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9:00 pm - doors open
9:30 pm - CAVEDWELLER (Austin psychadelia)
10:00 pm - The STRIP CULT musical rock show
11:00 pm - HACIENDA (psych-pop from Boerne, TX)

“Director Mike Z aims to rock your world.”
-Austin Chronicle

“For all its flower power sentiments, the psychedelic ’60s had their dark side, just as LSD offers the 50/50 promise of oneness with the universe or a soul-shattering bad trip. Fully embracing the brown acid, rock opera The Strip Cult plants its go-go boots firmly in the era’s seedy side, telling the Manson-inspired story of a wannabe ingénue corrupted by a drug-crazed serial killer. Ablaze with fuzz-laden grooves and liquid light, The Strip Cult is like a Kenneth Anger film come to life: Lost souls shake, rattle, and roll toward a violent end, exposing the dangerous nihilism behind “free love.” An opening set from Cavedweller causes the kundalini creeps with stark psych-blues, while Hacienda’s layered pop harmonies provide a smooth comedown.”
-The Onion

Sex! Murder! Rock ‘n’ Roll!

Coming to the Hideout in Austin on May 11th, 2008

Explore the darkest corners of your soul in…

THE STRIP CULT
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(Reprinted from Short End Magazine)

In the interest of full disclosure, I have to say up front that I’m a former World of Warcraft player. Player, not addict, because other than lack of sleep and a mild case of carpal tunnel, my hobby was never too detrimental to my life. I still worked, I still socialized, and I only occasionally missed meals due to eight hour gaming marathons. My habits didn’t differ from many other WoW players throughout the world, and yet it’s still alarming to think that at times I spent a full third of my day parked in front of my computer, absorbed in a make-believe reality. To others this might seem like extreme devotion to—or perhaps even an obsession with—a single hobby, but the way I saw it, I was only a casual player.
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(Reprinted from Short End Magazine)

Wesley Willis was my introduction into the world of outsider art. I was a college freshmen living in a dorm, and my high speed internet connection was a pipeline to all manner of media I never would have otherwise been exposed to. This was the Napster era, the golden age of file sharing where it became a mission to find and consume as much music as I possibly could.
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(Reprinted from Short End Magazine)

With all the problems facing us in the 21st century, it’s easy to forget about the struggles of the past and what we can learn from them. By weaving a complicated plot of supernatural thrills, historical and personal drama and political intrigue, Older Than America touches on one such issue, that of the treatment of Native Americans–both current and historical–in the United States.
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