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Thoreau on a Bike love letter "A Simple Machine" (2025) was devastating and hopeful and funny, reminded us of "Old Joy", "American Splendor", "Ducks", "Basquiat", Willy Vlauntin stories, "Your Money or Your Life".
No idea how you can see this, #cycling / simple living fam, but do try?
https://letterboxd.com/film/a-simple-machine/
Tempting tickets, #portland :
4 pm Iranian "Crimson Gold"
https://hollywoodtheatre.org/show/crimson-gold/
"Through My Board". Arrive early for skateboarding & pizza https://www.portlandpanorama.org/festival-program-tickets
Doco on the Pickles baseball team https://tomorrowtheater.org/movies/pickles-pickles-pickles-with-dillon-t-pickle/
"Selena" https://cstpdx.com/event/selena/
"The Christophers" https://www.cinema21.com/
Builders & The Butchers $30 https://everout.com/portland/events/the-builders-and-the-butchers/e227150/
Alex Cox IN PERSON to debut new film "Dead Souls" Friday 7/3. Get $25 tx NOW https://dopdx.com/events/2026/7/3/an-evening-with-alex-cox-dead-souls-walker-tickets
#portland film n' such:
Pavement doco! https://tomorrowtheater.org/movies/pavements-2/
"Beetlejuice"! https://hollywoodtheatre.org/
Czech animation "Gardens and Goblins" https://cstpdx.com/event/gardens-goblins-czech-animation-church-of-film-2/
MGNA CRRRTA All ages!
https://www.holocene.org/event/mgna-crrrta-the-beautiful-disaster-tour-w-tommy-fleece-all-ages/holocene/portland/
Contemporary percussionist at Linfield... https://www.livemusicproject.org/events/172975/linfield-university-todd-hammes-contemporary-percussionist
Joy Cinema's Weird Wednesday will be a surprise... https://www.facebook.com/people/Joy-Cinema/100057212479699/
Drag bingo, $5 https://everout.com/portland/events/peachy-springs-bingo/e232567/
Before e-filing, Tax Day in the US meant party at the post office. https://www.history.com/articles/tax-day-parties
Move move move, #portland , Blazers watch party at Jackie's! https://cstpdx.com/event/the-tragedy-of-man/
For non-sports NERDS, there's...
"The Tragedy of Man" https://cstpdx.com/event/the-tragedy-of-man/
"Snake Deadly Act" in 35mm! https://hollywoodtheatre.org/show/snake-deadly-act-in-35mm/
"Muppet Treasure Island" https://www.kigginstheatre.com/now-playing
Subbed "Ricky Oh" https://www.thecinemagictheater.com/
Planet Money, Live! https://everout.com/portland/events/planet-money-live/e231870/
Kyle Hume ALL AGES https://polarishall.com/
Franz's Bread 120th Birthday Party! https://everout.com/portland/events/franz-120th-birthday-portland-bakery-tours-block-party/e233167/
Recommended Wiki, US pop culture heads: "Beyond Our Control" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beyond_Our_Control
Indiana Junior Achievement, looking for a way to get students work experience.. gives the kids a cable access show? With Firesign/YCDTOTV-worthy parodies, characters, songs. https://youtu.be/yx7hKOHt0hA?si=El18l9ud5gAjMJdx
A bunch of the writers/performers went pro?!?
Lovely Peeps! Your cool #history for the day! 🚀
(You might want to watch with sound off. The music has words & I found it difficult to hear the music, read the text, AND focus on the signing.)
If you want to just enjoy the signing, the full text is within this post. 😊
"Everyone’s talking about Artemis II. The first humans to travel to the moon in 50 years. Historic mission.
But nobody’s talking about the #Deaf men who made it possible.
In the late 1950s, #NASA had a problem. They needed to understand what weightlessness does to the human body. But every test subject kept getting violently motion sick.
So they came to #Gallaudet.
Eleven Deaf men. Most of them had lost their hearing to spinal meningitis as children, which also damaged their vestibular system. Their inner ears couldn’t be overwhelmed. They were immune to motion sickness.
NASA put them in centrifuges. Zero-gravity flights. A rotating room for twelve straight days. One experiment on a ferry in choppy Nova Scotia waters. The researchers got so seasick they had to cancel it. The Gallaudet Eleven? They were playing cards.
Their bodies gave NASA the data it needed to send humans into space.
No #Gallaudet_Eleven — no Mercury. No Mercury — no Apollo. No Apollo — no Artemis II.
Sixty years later, four astronauts just flew 252,000 miles from Earth & came home safely.
They stood on the shoulders of eleven Deaf men most people have never heard of.
Now you know!"
#MusicMonday recommendation: Indigenous punk band 1876. https://www.1876band.com/band
Featured recently on #Oregon Art Beat.
https://www.pbs.org/video/1876-gives-punk-rock-and-indigenous-communities-a-taste-of-something-unique-while-welcoming-everyone-to-their-mosh-pits/
And remember: Pow wow season starts SOON https://calendar.powwows.com/
FREE for members, #portland : "Catch Me if You Can" (1959) noir TONIGHT https://hollywoodtheatre.org/show/it-came-from-the-archive/
Slovakian animated horror "The Bloody Lady" https://cstpdx.com/event/the-bloody-lady/
"Psycho" (1960) https://www.academytheaterpdx.com/movies/1603-psycho-1960/
Bach Cello Suites... https://www.livemusicproject.org/events/171980/focm-inside-chamber-music-a-presentation-of-bach-cello-suites
WNBA draft party https://www.instagram.com/p/DWWoP9iFHP6/
John Waters birthday party! https://www.etix.com/ticket/p/30602448/going-to-extremesa-john-waters80th-birthday-celebration-portland-aladdin-theater
Willy Vlauntin at Powells!!! https://www.powells.com/events/willy-vlautin-9780063346635
Evening with Mary Bronstein cancelled due to illness. Get those vaccines, wash those hands.
Her Doing