monday agenda: justice, ferris
 photo by cesar sebastian, via justice [myspace] |
- What can this possibly mean? The Myspace Music tour brings Justice and Diplo to cavernous “Showbox” Sodo. While both acts put on fantastic dance-worthy live performances, the thing that might be most intriguing here is seeing what happens when people lured in by Myspace promotion meet the people drawn to the event by Justice’s interview last Sunday on Weekend Edition [npr] in which the French duo talk about remixes vs original productions, the reasons for making songs out of Michael Jackson song titles, and why writing in English is easier because it sounds less cheesy. $28, 8pm [showbox]
- Joshua Ferris’s debut, Then We Came To the End, is last year’s big hot “first novel”. Set in an advertising agency just as bubbles were bursting in 2001, the first-person plural narration pulls off the dazzling trick of being personal rather than royal or editorial. Like so many newly beloved first books these days and set in those times it manages to infuse a sense of lightness in the face of the mournful and mundane. And, oddly enough, its best chapter might not even really be a part of this novel at all. He reads in support of the paperback edition tonight. Having placed in the finals of the National Book Award, this one is also on track to a dramatic showdown for the “rooster” [themorningnews] (my favorite book award now that the Booker is the Man Booker.) 7:30p, free. [elliottbay]
