MARK YOUR KOLLENDER SEPTEMBER 2010

Dear Mailing List,
 
Wizard Hello!

September is a month for reflection, mostly because I just bought a sweet mirror.  But let’s set our cheeseburgers aside and look ahead together to the exciting things I am doing in the furure, the near future, the near-near future, and near-near-near future (aka the present).  Together we can forget about the past (aka the rear future), and check out these events to mark on your Kolllender for September 2010.

PS

After the last Kollender went out, longtime Alex Koll fan Bruce A. Teitell asked me in an email, “...I absolutely LOVE the concept but wouldn't it be KollendAr???”  

The answer is of course, yes it would be.  But it’s not.  I put the “Der” in “Kollender”.  And I can’t spell.


SHOW HORIZON

Here are a couple upcoming shows of note:

 

Bobby Joe Ebola CD Release Show

Longtime friends and all-time weirdos Bobby Joe Ebola and the Children MacNuggits have a brand new release and are celebrating it this Friday the 24th at The Uptown in Oakland.  I am hosting this show, and I make an appearance on their album.  Check it out:

COME CELEBRATE THE RELEASE OF OUR FIRST NEW ALBUM IN TEN YEARS! SURPRISES GALORE, YO!!

Bobby Joe Ebola and the Children MacNuggits Record Release! We will be playing full band with many musical guests including Skyler Fell and Sean Lee of Thee Hobo Gobbelins and punk rock and air guitar legend, Craigums!

SPECIAL NOTE! BJE WILL BE JOINED BY BAY AREA DERAILLEURS FOR SOME FULL ON BIKE DANCE. O-M-G.

With Fleshies!!!/MC Alex Koll/Sweet Nothing/Mystic Knights of the Cobra & Bobby Joe Ebola and the Children MacNuggits (full band!)

Friday, September 24
8:30pm - 11:30pm

The Uptown
1928 Telegraph Avenue
West Oakland, CA
$10, 21+


Emily Heller’s Birthday Show

Coming up on the 9th of October,  I once again get SUCKERED into performing for my friend Emily Heller’s birthday:
    
25 years in the making! The Emily Heller Birthday Show returns to the Dark Room. We have everything you loved from last year: Comedy! Music! Video! Surprises! People from Minneapolis! Fathers! And did I mention that I'm getting super old? Ughhhh.

This year we have:
Kevin "Kreepy Unkle Kev" Camia (Live at Gotham)
Alex "Jollybee" Koll (Live at Gotham)
...Maggie "Extreme Maggie" Faris (Rooftop Clip of the Year, extrememaggie.com)
Creepy Chris Thayer (Your basement, 24 hour fitness)
Donny "the tennis comedian" Divanian (Turlock, CA)
Chris "bring me home a new daddy" Burns (5 female filibusters)
Dr. Steven Heller, DC (Alameda Chiropractic Center)
and the musical stylings of RAINBOW CHAIR

Anyway, show at the Dark Room at 10, after party at Homestead! See you there, suckers!

OH AND DON'T FORGET: I'll be boning up on my hosting skills here, because the following weekend I will be hosting for the SKLAR BROTHERS at the San Francisco Punch Line!

Tickets on sale NOW! There will be a limited number available at the door, but it WILL sell out! http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/129283

October 9th 2010
10pm

The Dark Room
2263 Mission St.
San Francisco, CA 94115
$5.00
www.darkroomsf.com

OWL IN THE FAMILY

I wrote an article for the online periodical The Bold Italic about some of the more interesting windows in my former neighborhood here in San Francisco.  Special thanks to Jennifer Maerz and all the people who let me chat with me about their curios and creations.  Hope you like it:

http://thebolditalic.com/alexkoll/stories/416-collect-them-all
 

HELP WANTED

This Sunday the 26th is the premiere of a short film I am in called "Help Wanted".  Created by the talented and twisted Waylon Bacon, it will be shown during a showcase of his short films  as a part of the Berkeley Video and Film Festival:

Sunday 26th, 6:10 p.m. Spotlight: The Disturbing Short Films of Waylon Bacon
A selection of films from Bay Area filmmaker Waylon Bacon, including Poster Boy (11 minutes), Bob (2 minutes), My Worst Nightmare (7 minutes), and his latest, Help Wanted (20 minutes), in which Jim gets a disturbing — and graphic — tour of his prospective workplace, a warehouse of human remains where employees are required to murder homeless, hookers and minorities in order to supply inventory. A grim and graphic satire of the dehumanizing aspects of the modern job market.

http://berkeleyvideofilmfest.org/



FOR THE RECORD...

HUGE thanks to everyone who came out to the Punch Line in San Francisco last month to be part of my album recording.  It was a fantastic night and I am working on putting together the album now.  Hopefully it will be out in a month or so, with plenty of fanfare and a release party all it’s own.  Keep your eyes peeled and your ears husked.
 
OPENING MY YAP

Prior to my album recording, I sat down with Marc Hawthorne for an interview with The Bay Citizen.  The result was this great profile:

http://www.baycitizen.org/nightlife/story/air-guitar-champ-focuses-comedy/


#ONTHEBUS

If you havent already, please take a moment to analyse my ongoing survalence and data collection project, code name #onthebus.  Confedential information form the month of August can be found here:

http://alexkoll.squarespace.com/blagh/2010/9/2/collected-onthebus-reports-for-august-2010.html


ELEVATOR TO: SPACE

New Episodes of Elevator To: Space are rolling out of the hanger, with many more of this season to come shortly.  Check out Episodes 29 and 30 here:

www.elevator2space.com


GOODIE BAG


As always, you can get a helping of Alex Koll in these fine Alex Koll related ventures:

Every Wednesday at 8pm at The Dark Room in San Francisco:

http://www.thebusinesscomedy.blogspot.com

ROFL on the Revision3 Web Network:

http://www.revision3.com/ROFL


 

Thanks, and see you soon!

Sincerely,

www.alexkoll.com

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