VIDEO ART
The Tollbooth Gallery
No secret that ye Tollbooth Gallery met Davy Jones’ Locker last yearrr when Artrod and Critical Line gallery made lily-livered getaways. I yearned for its return. It was far superior to me Salty Technical College video arrrt project. Yo-ho-ho th’ video kiosk is back! Tacoma Contemporarrry grabbed ye kiosk at 11th and Broadway in Tacoma’s T’eater District. Justin Colt Beckman put a video and mixed media show called Honky Tonkin’ in it. Beckman plays a hillbilly music singer juxtapo-something with TV’s Hee Haw show. Me thinks its worthy of the Humanistic Order of Oceanic Knavery award. â€" Pirate Diego the Pink
[Tollbooth Gallery, 24 hours, seven days a week, 11th and Broadway, Tacoma, www.tollboothgallery.org]
PROG ROCK
Paper Airplanes
Avast, mateys! Paper Airplanes arrrr ye prog rock up and comers. Judgin’ by t’ bands debut release, 2007’s Boyhood, Paper Airplanes have found their flight path. Complex compositions sword fight friendly melodies, forcin’ convention to walk t’ plank. Bringin’ to mind other favorite pirate bands like t’ Flaming Lips and Pink Floyd, Paper Airplanes are anything but scurvy dogs. Paper Airplanes arrrrrrrrr booty worth findin’. Lucky fer you, matey, Paper Airplanes will be in town this week. If yer more than a good fer nothing squiffy, ye’ll find a way to capture this show. â€" Smugglin' Hubert Cutler
[Le Voyeur, with Martyrs of the Apollo Guild and Girl in a Coma, 10 p.m., no cover, 404 Fourth Ave. E., Olympia, 360.943.5710]
BLUES
Teddy Lee Hooker
Teddy Lee Hooker would likely have followed a different path had it ne’er been fer t’ influence of John Lee Hooker. Teddy Lee Hooker has placed second in t’ Southern California Blues Society’s International Blues Talent Show, and he’s been crowned "Best Blues Artist of the Year†by t’ South Bay Music Awards. If things be different, those could be Bobble Blackbeard’s accomplishments.
On t’ other hook, Bobble Blackbeard’s pillaged more booty than most bobble souvenirs see in der lifetime, and swilled more grog than Kelsey Grammar. If things be different, that could be Teddy Lee Hooker’s resumé.
Luckily fer t’ both of thems, things be how de be. Bobble Blackbeard loves bein’ a gentleman o’ fortune, and something tells Bobble Blackbeard that Teddy Lee Hooker loves bein’ a blues guitarist.
Judgin’ by his tunes, anyway. See fer yerself when he joins Maia Santell and House Blend tonight. â€" Bobble Blackbeard
[Muckleshoot Casino, 8:30 p.m., no cover, 2402 Auburn Way S., Auburn, 800.804.4944]
LINK: The Wonder Years and others in the clubs tonight.
LINK: Check out when the movies start here.
LINK: Let’s eat Italian today.