By josh
- It’s the first Thursday of the month. Art walk in Pioneer Square. [seattleartblog]
- SIFF’s annual holiday fundraiser features an advance (for us) screening of The Diving Bell and the Butterfly along with an appearance and pre-show reception at Veil with director Julian Schnabel. The film, an adaptation of Jean-Dominique Bauby’s memoir—which was written through a series of blinks after a sudden stroke left him with “locked in syndrome”—claimed the AFI’s audience award [nymag], earned Schnabel a best director at Cannes, and is tied for metacritic’s high score [#] of now-playing films. I’m already excited about yelling at the television during the Oscar telecast if this doesn’t take home a statue or two on the basis of early reviews [salon] and a trailer that features Explosions in the Sky. Tickets are $25; admission to the reception is $100. [seattlefilm]
- Palmer, AK, the solo-project Eric McLeod Lashes Howk [myspace] (remember that cute dinosaur video [youtube] for “Same Rain”?), plays tonight at the Crocodile (which continues to seem like it’s teetering on the edge of terrifying jeopardy [reverb]) accompanied by artistic projections by Blush Photo. $6, 9pm; with Dolour, Ghost of Kyle Bradford, and a print show in the gallery. [crocodile]
