rivulets, casiotone for the painfully alone @ Landlocked Music. 8p. $5.

Monday, April 16th @ 8pm @ Landlocked Music – $5 – All-Ages


Casiotone for the Painfully Alone (Tomlab)

Rivulets


Casiotone for the Painfully Alone is the musical alias of film school drop-out Owen Ashworth. Over his first few albums Ashworth defined a hybrid strain of raw, emotional, and very homemade synth pop that was instantly recognizable as his own – claustrophobic 2-minute character studies shuddered with reverbed beats, blown-out chords, and simple but infectous melodies, all layered beneath Ashworth’s sometimes funny but always heartbreaking lyrics. Now the sound of Casiotone for the Painfully Alone has grown to include pianos, organs, strings, flutes, drums, and pedal steel guitars in addition to Ashworth’s signature electronics and drum machines.

Nathan Amundson began Rivulets in 1999, when his debut was issued by Chair Kickers’ Union, the Duluth label run by Low. Often driven only by voice or quiet guitar, Rivulets was frighteningly gentle, yet genuinely powerful. The brooding love songs of Mark Kozelek’s Red House Painters were an apt comparison, as were the acute, windswept soundscapes of Iceland’s Sigur Ros. Most often, the music suggested the isolation and odd beauty found at the center of an iced-over lake in the middle of winter. On You Are My Home, Amundson is joined by the none too shabby musical guests Codeine’s Chris Brokaw, Jessica Bailiff, Christian Frederickson of Rachel’s, Boxhead Ensemble’s Fred Lonberg-Holm and Bob Weston of Shellac and Mission Of Burma. Their combined guitars, keyboards, strings and horns work together with Amundson’s heartbroken voice magically to create a deep dark melancholia.

MP3:
Casiotone for the Painfully Alone – Young Shields

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rivulets live on WFHB. 9:30-10p.

Live on-air special for the release of rivulets’ new album, “you are my home”
Listen in Bloomington at 91.3 FM or online at wfhb.org

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Bloomington Linux Users Group @ Monroe County Public Library Room 1B

Join BLUG once again.  Mark Krenz will give a presentation on utomating X windows.  Including controlling the window manager and mouse pointer from a script and the command line.  You can use these echniques for things like a demonstration machine that needs to run nattended or as recently done, automate the process of taking creenshots of mapquest/googlemaps and putting them together into a arge montaged image.

Mayor Daley, Brett Gand is Dead, Bitter Homes and Gardens @ The Well Well Well. 8p. $donation

Sunday. January 7, 8pm at the Well Well Well, 909 W. Ninth Street

Mayor Daley (Chicago)
for fans of Deerhoof, DNA, and dresses made out of Aldi bags

Brett Gand is Dead (Chicago)
plays are the new band

Bitter Homes and Gardens (Bloomington)
ex-Piedmonster and punkin pie
fucked up punk, circling the drain
plus more TBA

please bring donations for the touring bands

PEACE BABY

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Boxcar Books 5th Year Anniversary Benefit Dinner @ The Unitarian Church

Here’s the menu:

Hors D’oeuvres

  • Fresh baked bread by Colin
  • Olives with Fennel and Orange
  • Falafel
  • Dolmas
  • Spinach Phyllo Cups
  • Roasted Garlic Crostini with Smoked Paprika
  • Charmoula Drizzled Vegetable Kabobs

Salads

  • Greek Salad
  • Moroccan Cous Cous Salad

Entree

  • Eggplant Roulade served w/ Polenta and topped w/ Vegetable
  • Saffron Bouillabaise

Desserts

  • Baklava by Tess
  • Creamy Mediterranean Rice Pudding

Everything is vegan friendly.

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Horizons Art Opening @ Boxcar Books. 7-9p.

Boxcar Books, 310-A South Washington St. in Bloomington, is happy to announce an upcoming art exhibit at their location.  On Friday, January 5th, 2007, from 5:00-7:00 p.m., Boxcar books will host a reception to kick off a month-long exhibit of featured paintings from artists of the Horizons Art Therapy Program at Center for Behavioral Health.  Refreshments will be provided at the free event.
The exhibit originally debuted at the Buskirk Chumley Theatre on December 2nd to an appreciative crowd as part of the “Art of Mental Health,” and Boxcar Books is happy to provide space for patrons to enjoy it at length during the month of January.   Artists of these works use their art as a tool in treatment for coping, creativity, leisure, and building friendships.

For more information, contact Steven Slothard (steven [at] boxcarbooks [dot] org) or Boxcar Books at 812-339-8710.

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