Alternating Current Vs. The City Of New York

Not really.
The party had nothing to do with Sound Fix having to close it's doors this weekend.
But still, last night Alternating Current (Vol. #3) was a casualty in the shadow war of Brooklyn development and creative interpretations of "quality of life".

Keep in mind that this is being written the day after my party didn't happen, and I'm a little sore about it. I'm not as informed about the issues as I should be in order to talk about it with any real authority or credibility. I will try to be more informed from now on.
I do know that the arts are a necessary part of any recipe for creating a high "quality of life".

If you showed up I love you. I love you even if you didn't or weren't planning to.
And I apologize for any inconvenience.
The show will go on.
We're just not certain when or where yet.
Nathan Lemoine
(The Unpaid Intern)

Alternating Current (Vol. #3)

The next Alternating Current is only a few days away and we have another great lineup for your viewing pleasure. This time we're shaking things up at a new venue. The good folks at SoundFix Records have opened their doors to our little band of proletarian performers and are hosting:

Alternating Current (Vol. #3)*
*Minimum Wage Builds Character
Tiny Performance/Party/Lounge

Featuring:
Micah Bucey and Nicholas Williams, Jedidiah Clarke,
Amanda Duarte, Andrew Gori, Joseph Keckler,
Ben Kerrick, and Erin Markey.
PLUS A FEW SURPRISE GUESTS!!!

It's still FREE!!!
The talent is still AMAZING!!!
There's LIQUOR!!!
(We're at a lounge type venue this time)

Saturday, Mar. 29th
Party Starts at 8pm

See You There!

A.C. Regular Andrew Gori Has a Great Idea

Let us PRETEND : The Metric System

To Clarify
NO THE METRIC SYSTEM IS NOT JUST FOR FILM
YES WE ARE WORKING ON A WEBSITE
NO WE ARE POWERFUL BEYOND MEASURE
YES YOU HAVE A SAY IN HOW IT HAPPENS
NO YOU CAN BE TAKEN OFF THE LIST IF YOU WANT TO
YES WE ARE IN ONE OF THE GREATEST CITIES IN THE WORLD
WHEREVER WE LIVE
NO WE ARE PROBABLY NOT USING IT TO ITS FULL POTENTIAL
YES WE CAN BAND TOGETHER AND START

To Classify The Metric System is a name.
The name can be put on anything you make -- if you are involved with the Metric System.
The name gives iconic status to the artist. And the artist lends iconic status to the name.
A website will help promote this exchange.
Links to your work, along with a personal profile will be placed on the website.

Work that is made with other Metric System members becomes featured material on the website. The artists who created the work become, featured artists. This builds incentive for partnerships.
Back to the name. . .

The name is a tool. Tools do things.
Some of the things it would do is ignite:


*Collaboration - utilizing a terse network of visionaries to foster artistic partnerships or satisfy creative demands for projects ranging from film to music, writing to design, photography to web creation, dance to acting to urban spelunking to party-throwing to book-binding and beyond.

Bjorn used it to roster up-coming live shows of his soon-coming album "Ears Will Talk". Nate Lemoine used it to promote his fast-growing, monthly Brooklyn variety show Alternating Current. Andrew and Adam used it to make the 30 minute film "The Escapists". These are fairly good examples.

A bulletin board on the internal part of the website would help this.


**Self-Exposure - optimizing the probability for exposure by increasing the number of people who you're website + work are shown alongside. Including the website and or name on your card, or both on your own website, means you are directing all of the people who check you out to all the others -- and that all the others are directing all the people who check them out to you. And because of the beauty of design, this happens naturally. Without any cocktail hours or smarmy dealings.

If you don't have a website -- now you would.

People who checked out Mollie's Metric System profile would see the cloudy-day New England spook of her website www.molliemckinley.com, notice the haunting ramble of the music in 'All Ye Merry Pilgrims' and check out www.tuckerdalton.com. Tucker's profile would be a stone's throw from Alex's film brotherhood www.redbucketfilms.com, kitty-corner to Jamie's world of art-science livenudemachines.com, Corey's trailer for www.theescapistsmovie.com, starring Mickey www.michaelimagirl.com, juxtaposed to www.oldeenglish.org, next door to thisisalternatingcurrent.blogspot.com, etcetera, etcetera.
When people ask, this is the big idea. Connections between artists will be clearly revealed.


***Feedback - garnering the aid of like-minded intellects willing to offer their creative support. Gleaning advice (on grants, scholarships, craft), criticism (on work, ideas, directions) and/or plain enthusiasm + slap fives.
Jesse Allen + I will be requesting some of this for our feature project MY THIRTY YEAR WAR.

A bulletin board on the internal part of the website would also help this.
Other things the tool could do:

****supply a monthly e-publication to make membership more interactive
****create shows for artwork, fundraisers or otherwise
****gain a 501 umbrella and procure $ for projects
****bolster drive
****anything else you could suggest:______________________

AT PRESENT, EVERYTHING IS FLEXIBLE. PROPOSE IDEAS. PROPOSE PROJECTS. OR JUST LET US KNOW YOU STILL WANT IN.
THE WEBSITE WILL COINCIDE WITH THE RELEASE OF BJORN QUENEMOEN'S "EARS WILL TALK", THE NYC PREMIERE OF THE ESCAPISTS AND THE DEBUT ALBUM OF THE NEIGHBORS.

LOV.
AG + AC + BQ ET AL

See Erin Markey LIVE On The Radio!

Be sure to catch Erin Markey at Dixon Place this weekend on Timothy McNerney's new guerrilla radio network, Cupcake Broadcast Studio!!!
Also Featuring:
Bay Area-based brilliant memoirist and AVN-nominated porn star, LORELEI LEE
Philadelphia's anti-folkstress, EMILY BATE
and Charm City-based jump-rope artist, KARL JONES.

THE CURSE

March 14th and 15th, 8pm

$12/$10 students/seniors (or people that say that they are students/seniors.) (Don't tell the people at Dixon Place who are on this list I said that.)

Dixon Place

258 Bowery (upstairs)

New York City, NY

JMZ, N, BDFV

NTUSA's Don Juan Extended!

Hello,
I've been working lately with the incredible National Theater of the United States of America. Their production of Moliere's Don Juan at the Chocolate Factory has been extended through March 22nd. Get your tickets fast because it WILL sell out quickly.
Below is a radio spot about the show and the company.
Hope to see you there!