A Couple Of Stand Up Guys (Houston, TX)
https://www.facebook.com/rudzopenmic
Project Grimm (Houston, TX)
https://www.facebook.com/pages/Project-Grimm/121509194528707
A decidedly less experimental group than its most direct predecessor, the Mike Gunn, Project Grimm was formed in 1995 by Gunn frontman and guitarist John Cramer to satisfy his urges to be a bit more straightforward in his approach to guitar rock. Interested in looking to build a band around this new direction, Cramer called local drummer Rick Costello (…of Houston band Bleachbath) who volunteered his services straight away. Drew Calhoun joined on bass, and former Schlong Weasel (University of Houston “branch”) member Jim Otterson rounded out the lineup as second guitarist. Their first show, on July 3, 1995 was followed by recording sessions that would result in their first album, Lying Down out on Linus Pauling Quartet’s Ramon Medina (also a former Schlong Weasel-er) Worship Guitars label in 1996. The pace of recording and releasing would slow down considerably for the band, which wouldn’t quite get around to releasing the follow-up until 2003. In the meantime, Bo Morris would take over on drums for the kicked out Rick Costello, and Cramer would work with former Mike Gunn colleague Scott Grimm on his Dunlavy project. July 2003 would see the release of Project Grimm’s second album, Huge Beings (released on Camera Obscura’s Australian sister label Camera Lucida), but it would also see the band split — on the very day of the album’s release. Leader John Cramer would later appear as a solo artist working under the name the Powers of Light & Darkness, and played sporadic shows around Houston. – Chris M. True via allmusic.com
Rainbow Dragon (Austin, TX)
https://www.facebook.com/RainbowDragonBand
Rainbow Dragon is a four-piece rock band based in Austin, TX.
“Local performance company BooTown brings back the film Last Action Hero for My Last Action Feeling, the fifth incarnation of the group’s Benshi-style performance. In Japan, Benshi performers memorize Western movies and then reinterpret the story for an Eastern audience. Burleson and company mix things up by turning the kitschy action flick into something completely different. This version has all the blood, guts and comedy of the original with a few more feelings and a pint sized therapist — and a completely different story arch.
To make things even more interesting, Burleson and video editor Austin Havican are trying something new and adding outside material from Japanese commercials Arnold Schwarzenegger did around the time the film was released.
Assisting Burleson will be a cast of voices including anime voice genius Andrew Love, Benshi second timer Matt Benton and BooTown’s co-artistic director Emily Hynds. Houston musician Joe Mathlete, who has worked with the Catastrophic Theatre, will write and perform an original score for the performance.
My Last Action Feeling will be performed at the following venues:
The performance at The Orange Show will also feature a set by Hearts of Animals and free beer from Saint Arnold Brewing Co.”
- Houston Culture Map
https://houston.culturemap.com/eventdetail/bootown-presents-my-last-action-feeling/
“Local performance company BooTown brings back the film Last Action Hero for My Last Action Feeling, the fifth incarnation of the group’s Benshi-style performance. In Japan, Benshi performers memorize Western movies and then reinterpret the story for an Eastern audience. Burleson and company mix things up by turning the kitschy action flick into something completely different. This version has all the blood, guts and comedy of the original with a few more feelings and a pint sized therapist — and a completely different story arch.
To make things even more interesting, Burleson and video editor Austin Havican are trying something new and adding outside material from Japanese commercials Arnold Schwarzenegger did around the time the film was released.
Assisting Burleson will be a cast of voices including anime voice genius Andrew Love, Benshi second timer Matt Benton and BooTown’s co-artistic director Emily Hynds. Houston musician Joe Mathlete, who has worked with the Catastrophic Theatre, will write and perform an original score for the performance.
My Last Action Feeling will be performed at the following venues:
The performance at The Orange Show will also feature a set by Hearts of Animals and free beer from Saint Arnold Brewing Co.”
- Houston Culture Map
https://houston.culturemap.com/eventdetail/bootown-presents-my-last-action-feeling/
Broken Gold (Austin, TX)
https://brokengoldatx.com
Broken Gold emerged naturally with inspiration stemming from front man, Ian MacDougall’s (guitarist for The Riverboat Gamblers) oftentimes-tragic personal experiences. Taking a negative – being stranded on the streets of New York with no shoes in the middle of winter – and turning it into a positive the likes of the energetic anthem “Locked out,” Broken Gold has provides a soundtrack to recovery from life’s catastrophes.
The band’s debut album, Recovery Journal, deals with events that span from heartbreak and addiction, to rebellion and life at home. At times, the album offers lyrics pulled directly from MacDougall’s own recovery journal that he kept following a traumatic accident in October of 2009 – hit by a car while riding home on his bike – that left him hospitalized and with major injuries that threatened to end his career as a guitarist.
Take the emotional unrest that was the result of that extremely close call and throw in the styling of long-time friends, Patrick Lillard (bassist and previous member of The Riverboat Gamblers) and Richard Cali (drums), and the result is the kind of strong yet unforced sound that only comes with shared experiences and years of jamming together.
With major support pouring out of the streets of their hometown, Austin, TX, Broken Gold is now answering the call from devoted locals for a full-length album.
Rock, pop, punk – Broken Gold pays homage to a hefty assortment of influences, which include The Clash, Big Star, The Who, The Smiths, Stone Roses and New Order. The band’s powerful vocals rip through the heavy blare to grab your shoulders and shake you into submission.
Johnwayneisdead (Houston, TX)
https://www.facebook.com/pages/Johnwayneisdead/398255826928236
made up of jw from Letters to Voltron and Kris Jett of The Be Sharps comes an acoustic punk/garage duo that combines darkly heartfelt themes with catchy hooks, and a beat you can dance to.
“Local performance company BooTown brings back the film Last Action Hero for My Last Action Feeling, the fifth incarnation of the group’s Benshi-style performance. In Japan, Benshi performers memorize Western movies and then reinterpret the story for an Eastern audience. Burleson and company mix things up by turning the kitschy action flick into something completely different. This version has all the blood, guts and comedy of the original with a few more feelings and a pint sized therapist — and a completely different story arch.
To make things even more interesting, Burleson and video editor Austin Havican are trying something new and adding outside material from Japanese commercials Arnold Schwarzenegger did around the time the film was released.
Assisting Burleson will be a cast of voices including anime voice genius Andrew Love, Benshi second timer Matt Benton and BooTown’s co-artistic director Emily Hynds. Houston musician Joe Mathlete, who has worked with the Catastrophic Theatre, will write and perform an original score for the performance.
My Last Action Feeling will be performed at the following venues:
The performance at The Orange Show will also feature a set by Hearts of Animals and free beer from Saint Arnold Brewing Co.”
- Houston Culture Map
https://houston.culturemap.com/eventdetail/bootown-presents-my-last-action-feeling/
A Couple Of Stand Up Guys (Houston, TX)
https://www.facebook.com/rudzopenmic
Gulf Coast: A Journal of Literature and Fine Arts
https://www.gulfcoastmag.org/
Gulf Coast is proud to present its 2013-2014 Reading Series, featuring twenty-one readers from the University of Houston’s nationally-acclaimed graduate program in creative writing. All readings are free and open to the public. They begin at 7 p.m. on Fridays in the upstairs room at Rudyard’s British Pub, 2010 Waugh Dr., Houston, Texas, 77006.
Michelle Oakes is a third year MFA candidate in the Creative Writing Program at the University of Houston and a poetry editor for Gulf Coast. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in The Laurel Review, RHINO, and Owl Eye Review.
Matthew Salesses is the author of I’m Not Saying, I’m Just Saying andThe Last Repatriate, as well as two chapbooks and two ebooks recently with Thought Catalog Books. His fiction and nonfiction has appeared inThe New York Times, NPR, Glimmer Train, The Rumpus, Hyphen Magazine, American Short Fiction, and others. He is the Fiction Editor and a Contributing Writer at The Good Men Project. Follow him @salesses.
Layla Benitez-James is currently earning an MFA in poetry at the University of Houston. She is a WITS writer and non-fiction assistant editor for Gulf Coast. Her work has appeared in the San Antonio Express-News, the San Antonio Current‘s flash fiction series, Acentos Review andPlaza: Journal of Language and Literature. She is currently working to translate a collection of poetry by a modern Spanish poet.
$8.00 cover
All proceeds go to benefit the Whole Planet Foundation.
You can read more about WPF here: www.Wholeplanetfoundation.org
Vanity Crimes (Houston, TX)
https://www.facebook.com/VanityCrimes
This is a band who loves to rock, and loves obscure music from different eras. This band has potential to make a name as it stands out drastically from the sound of other local bands making Vanity Crimes a name we know you’ll remember.
Vanity Crime is a four piece that lives in an era when the music was big, loud, original, and most of was created by playing actual instruments. Vanity Crimes is trying to bring back the sleezin’ and pleasin’ of the Sunset Strip, where big hair and eyeliner ruled the world. Do not expect us to look like your average band, we are that little bit of glitter that was left over in the gutter from the days that reminds you of freedom and the love of rock n roll.
End is Now
(Sorry no verifiable info on-line)
Space Villains* (Houston, TX)
https://www.facebook.com/spacevillains
Psychedelic Electro Blues Rock.
We make elevator music… For the elevator TO HELL.
![https://houston.culturemap.com/eventdetail/bootown-presents-my-last-action-feeling/](<a href="https://www.rudyardspub.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/LastASctionBenshi.jpg"><img class="alignleft size-medium wp-image-6096" alt="" src="https://www.rudyardspub.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/LastASctionBenshi-300x194.jpg" width="300" height="194" /></a>"Local performance company BooTown brings back the film <em>Last Action Hero</em> for <em>My Last Action Feeling</em>, the fifth incarnation of the group's Benshi-style performance. In Japan, Benshi performers memorize Western movies and then reinterpret the story for an Eastern audience. Burleson and company mix things up by turning the kitschy action flick into something completely different. This version has all the blood, guts and comedy of the original with a few more feelings and a pint sized therapist — and a completely different story arch. To make things even more interesting, Burleson and video editor Austin Havican are trying something new and adding outside material from Japanese commercials Arnold Schwarzenegger did around the time the film was released. Assisting Burleson will be a cast of voices including anime voice genius Andrew Love, Benshi second timer Matt Benton and BooTown's co-artistic director Emily Hynds. Houston musician Joe Mathlete, who has worked with the Catastrophic Theatre, will write and perform an original score for the performance. <em>My Last Action Feeling</em> will be performed at the following venues: <ul> <li>The Summit (3536 Navigation) on March 14-15</li> <li>The Orange Show (2402 Munger) on March 22</li> <li>Rudyard's British Pub (2010 Waugh) on March 25, 27 and 29</li> </ul> The performance at The Orange Show will also feature a set by Hearts of Animals and free beer from Saint Arnold Brewing Co." - Houston Culture Map https://houston.culturemap.com/eventdetail/bootown-presents-my-last-action-feeling/){kind=link}