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 10.24
8pm frontroom FREE
Smut
Galapagos's series of provocative performance
presents Mike Daisey (pictured)
with Stucky and Murray, Michael Cyril Creighton, and Aaron
Lawry. It's hosted by Desiree Burch.
Mike
Daisey has been called “the master storyteller”
by The New York Times. Heworks completely
extemporaneously, always without a script, telling and
re-telling stories before live audiences night after night
so that every performance is a unique event. It is through
this provocative process that all his monologues are created,
including his international phenomenon 21 Dog Years.
That monologue, about working for the internet giant Amazon.com,
played six months Off-Broadway before touring regional
theaters across the United States and around the world.
Currently he’s a commentator for National Public
Radio’s Day To Day, a contributor to the New York
Times Magazine, Slate, and the National Lampoon Radio
Hour.
www.mikedaisey.com
 10.24
8pm backroom $6
Ocularis presents
Those Loved By God: Early Sixpack Films
For nearly fifteen
years, Sixpackfilm has worked to secure an international
audience for Austrian film and video art, both through
festival distribution and a rental catalogue that showcases
the rich avant-garde tradition within its national cinema.
Our program at Ocularis will, in turn, offer a sample
of the exciting range of media production that characterized
their work in the 1990s, featuring Johannes Holzhausen’s
Those Loved by God, an affecting documentary portrait
of a Viennese couple, Johannes Hammel’s Black Sun,
an adaptation of Samuel R. Delany’s meta-gendered
sci-fi novel, and Franziska, a flickering exercise in
voyeuristic abstraction by Thomas Draschan.
Work
to be screened:
Franziska, Thomas Draschan, 1996, 5 min, 16mm
Those
Loved by God,
Johannes Holzhausen, 1992, 35 min, 16mm
Black
Sun,
Johannes Hammel, 1992, 26 min, 16mm
More
information at www.ocularis.net
 10.24
10pm FREE
MKGroove
Orchestra presents Monday Night Burlesque
Funk music and burlesque performance. Together at last.
The MK Groove Orchestra lays down the tight instumentals
while sexy burlesque dancers strut their stuff just for
you.
"Comprised
of a rotating ensemble of approximately 13 members, they
encompass a massive entirety of sound. Possessing 8 horns,
MK Groove can become full-blown chaotic polyphony one
moment and straight funk the next. Flexibility and resourcefulness
characterize this young band with a tremendous knack for
song writing and structure and the often difficult task
of improvising in a large band setting." -The
Spectrum, University of Buffalo
http://www.mkgrooveorchestra.com
 10.25
8pm FREE frontroom
Becky
Poole Presents
The Dead Show
A night of sketch comedy. Prepare to be frightened and amused!
MEAT's
own Evil British Children host the DEAD SHOW. A night of
scary and funny comedy sketches, stories, songs, accordion
poems and videos. With performances by Elephant Larry, MEAT,
Ritch Duncan, Elizabeth Ellis & Stefan Lawrence, Adam
Lowitt (of the Daily Show), Nick Turner, and gore...
we mean more!
 10.25
8pm $5 backroom
Punch Puppetry
PUNCH is a monthly showcase for all things puppet. Here,
crazy puppet artists experiment with their latest puppet-flavored
fare. Curated by Gretchen Van Lente, of Drama of Works.
On
th bill this month are Evan Laurence and David Slone with
their wacky brand of puppet comedy/musical stylings! Nasty
Canasta performs again with a new burlesque/puppet piece!
John Payne (of the band PUPPETBOX) performs some new hand
puppetry pieces he's been working on! Kate Brehm brings
back her rod puppet piece on FREUD! Gretchen pulls out a
surprise new experimental found object show she's never
shown before... and DOW company member James Walton might
just premiere a song from his new project Die Hard: the
Puppet Musical.
 10.25
10pm FREE
Book
Release party for Lisa Carver's Drugs Are Nice: A Post-Punk
Memoir
"The
31-year-old married mother from Dover may well be the country's
supreme cultural anthropologist: part literary provocateur,
part social analyst. She's been called everything from this
decade's ultimate underground Renaissance woman to America's
horniest optimist. Hunter S. Thompson in a miniskirt."
-Boston Magazine
Lisa
Carver is one of our favorite cultural observers."
-Playboy
"With
her tart writing and unswerving devotion to lowbrow culture,
Carver sound like Camille Paglia channeling both Tonya Harding
and Liz Phair." -Dwight Garner, Details
Lisa
Crystal Carver was born in 1968 to a drug dealer father
and an English teacher mother. Instead of going to college,
she toured the U.S. and Europe six times in the performance
art troupe Suckdog. They put out three albums, including
"Drugs Are Nice," which Spin called one of the
best records of the 90s. Lisa Carver started the magazine
Rollerderby and has written for Newsday, Playboy, Nerve,
Utne Reader, Mademoiselle, Details and Glamour. She has
been featured on MTV, VH1, HBO and NPR - most recently on
This American Life. Lisa Carver is a Nerve.com sex diarist.
She lives in the small town of Dover, New Hampshire, with
nine-year-old Wolfgang, and Mercedes, who is two. Come and
help her celebrate the release of her new book, published
by Soft Skull Books.
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 10.26
8pm FREE
Darmstadt
Galapagos'
new music series. This week, presenting composers Paul
Greenhaw and Sean Ferguson (Los Angeles Post-Minimalists).
Greenhaw presents his piece Use the Bridge Between
the Trees to Avoid Blindness, a four-movement work
for 2 organs, drums and video. Sean Ferguson's piece is
called Tenebre and will feature soprano Abigail
Upton.
 10.26
10pm FREE
The
Hazzards Makeout Party
with Josh Abramson and Throwing Star
Galapagos'
favorite ukelele rockers (The Hazzards) host a monhtly
event filled with music and comedy. This month, they
present Josh Abramson and the poppy goodness of Throwing
Star.
www.hazzards.com
www.myspace.com/throwingstarpoprock
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 10.27
7:30pm $TBD
A
Halloween Rock Show
with
Fixer & The Pennyroyals and special guests
It's
a night of Halloween rock-and-roll with the Wicked Little
Dolls (12), ZO2 (11:15), Fixer (10:30), The Pennyroyals
(9:45, pictured), The Marianne Pillsburys (9),
The Violets (8:15), and the Republickins (7:30). Tuneful
rock and roll to celebrate this spookiest of holidays.
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 10.28
7pm $7
The Ex-Best Friends Show
from ASubtout
Asubtout is going to slow dance, and going to talk,
and
going to sing, watch videos, and draw with chalk. They'll
talk about how they feel, and then they might heal,
the hurt of the best friend's loss.
This
performance art group's salute to ex best-friends includes
artists Andrew Dinwiddie, Emily Wexler, Myles Kane,
Karinne Keithley, Jeff Larson, and more. Asubtout is
performance artists Eleanor Hullihan and Katy Pyle.
 10.28
10pm $7
Attack of the Killer Dancing Girls!
The
Love Show takes the stage at Galapagos on Halloween
weekend for a sexy night of vicious, rowdy song and
dance. Expect skin, skills and spirits. The dancing
girls shouldn’t be the only ones in costume. Prizes
given for scariest costume, cleverest costume, most
surprising take on the schoolgirl/naughty nurse, so
come dressed to thrill (or kill)! Featuring special
guests Baton Rouge, a flashy baton-twirling sister act.
Hosted by the magician Nelson Lugo.
www.theloveshownyc.com
www.batonrouge.com
10.28
Midnite FREE
 VJ/DJ
DANCE PARTY
It's a weekly
dance party event featuring multi-screen video projection
and resident DJ BOYRACER spinning the best DISCO
PUNK BRIT POP 80's 90's & 00's -- guaranteed to
make you move!
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 10.29
10pm
$8; $5 in costume
The
Fabulous Entourage
with The Lovetones and Cheese on Bread:
A
Special Halloween Show!
New
York based glam rockers The Fabulous Entourage
(top pic) have been described as a combination of
"art-house punk and sugar-coated pop" by The
New York Press. Compared to Devo by The
New York Times and The B52's by LA Splash
Magazine, this keyboard/ bass/ drum trio, joined
by two Supremes-style female vocalists, has forged a reputation
for lush arrangements, throbbing beats, and glam-rock
theatrics. www.fabulousentourage.com
Tonight
they host a blowout evening of Halloween themed music
and performance! Also featuring The Lovetones
(TeePee Records - middle pic), and Cheese
on Bread.
"If you're looking for an ultimate half-and-half
fusion of John Lennon with early-1970s David Bowie, The
Lovetones' second album is one of the closer approximations
that's apt to appear. " -All Music Guide
www.thelovetones.com
"Their songs have titles like I Like Cheese
and How Long Have You Been Haitian? Their subjects include
penguins' mating habits and the Atkins diet. The anti-folk
crowd loves them, and they've got one killer dance dis
in (You're Just a) Gucci Model On paper, it's easy for
Cheese on Bread to be mistaken for a novelty  act.
But they've got so much more heart than that." -City
Paper
www.cheeseonbread.com
PLUS:
The famous Galapagos Halloween costume contest!
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9:30pm
Der
Big Band
The
evening kicks off with a special appearance by DER
BIG BAND (bottom pic), a marching band of German
teenagers. They'll play covers of New York New York,
Wake Me Up Before you Go Go, and more!
www.bigband-bza.de
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 10.30
7pm $5
frontroom
Methinks Presents
FEATURE CREATURES
Imagine if you will: three hellraised busloads of gruesome
ghouls and ghosties from Toronto, Canada, descending upon
New York City for four days and nights of organized Hallowe'en
chaos.
Driven by a ravenous hunger for infectious social interplay,
after two days of public spectacle-making throughout New
York City, these Feature Creatures find their way to Galapagos
for a interactive, terror-filled evening of film, video,
noise and performance art.
methinkspresents.org
 10.30
10pm
FREE
SID
& BUDDY KARAOKE
Take
life a little less seriously. Sing a song. Be a rock star.
It's
ridiculous over the top sloppy rock n roll Karaoke that
nobody has any business doing late on a Sunday night.
And yet, we do it here.
http://www.sidandbuddy.com
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