Crib Notes

Star Bar promoter Bryan Malone is hosting a photography opening at Moog Gallery in Candler Park this weekend. The show is a Little 5 Points retrospective featuring photos of local celebrities, regulars, business owners and places that have given the neighborhood a face over the last 15 years.

Opening Reception: Saturday, May 16. 7 p.m.-11p.m.

Show will run through June 30.

Moog Gallery, 1653 McLendon Ave. Unit B 404-668-9678

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Bryan G. Malone:  Local musician, club promoter, twister of words, champion of the underdog… I book the Star Community Bar

My mixape

1. “Hold On, I’m Coming” – Sam & Dave
2. “Hey Bulldog” – the Beatles
3. “I Wanna Be Your Driver” – Chuck Berry
4. “Ninety-Nine & a Half (Won’t Do)” – Wilson Pickett
5. “Spoonful” – Howlin’ Wolf
6. “Blame It On Cain” – Elvis Costello
7. “Unsatisfied” – the Replacements
8. “Had Me a Real Good Time” – the Faces
9. “Do The Boob” – the Real Kids
10. “Feel Too Good” – the Move

This list changes every few minutes…

My Favorite Atlanta Band at the moment is Gentleman Jesse & His Men. Great melodies backed by good ole Rock & Roll riffs. What’s better really?

(Photo by Tungsten Ferberger)

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To celebrate the release of their fourth coming, Brendan O’Brien produced full-length album, Crack the Skye, Atlanta metal behemoth Mastodon has announced that the group will play a free, live in-store performance at Criminal Records on Tues., March 24 at 8:30 p.m. — the date the album is officially released in the U.S.

If you attended any of the shows at Criminal’s mini-metal fest the night before the Scion Rock Fest on Fri., Feb. 27, than you know that space will be limited and hair will be flying like helicopter blades.

Bring ear plugs and be sure to get there early or get stuck outside.

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For today’s Roll Call we call out Big Mike Geier of Kingsized.

Who are you?
Big Mike

Describe yourself in three words.
Bold, Brassy, Som’bitch

Who — dead or alive — would most you like to meet?
I’d like to meet his tailor.

Who would you most like to slap in the face?
No face slapping. Now the tusch? Different story.

What song do you wish you had written?
“Happy Birthday”

Elvis Costello or Elvis Presley?
Elvis Presley. C’mon already.

LP, CD or MP3?
They all rhyme. Are you a poet?

If you could start one trend, what would it be?
It’s OK for a man to cry.

If you could end one trend, what would it be?
We did it on November 4th. Precious, I know.

With whom would you most like to play a game of spin the bottle?
Lynne Russell & Bonnie Hunt.

“Suspicious Minds” MP3.

The Kingsized Orchestra and the Dames Aflame burlesque troop play the Elvis Birthday Bash at the Variety Playhouse on Sat., Jan. 10. $22.50 advance / $25 day of show. 8:30 p.m. Variety Playhouse, 1099 Euclid Ave. 404-524-7354.

(Photo by Dave Stuart)

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Andy

If you missed the opening reception for Thomas Dozol’s photo show, “I’ll Be Your mirror” last night at Opal Gallery in L5P, you still have plenty of time to go check it out. The show runs through Sat., Jan. 10, 2009.

It all started with the landscape of the flushed skin, the blood rushing to the surface, creating patterns both involuntary and singular. I wanted to capture people raw and unguarded: looking in the mirror at the red triangles marking my cheeks after a long shower, I knew I had found my direction. By allowing me into the intimacy of their bathroom, my subjects have already let their guard down. I then tried to disappear as much as possible, to let rituals unfold undirected and find those fleeting moments of purity when one still feels washed anew.

–Thomas Roman Dozol, October 2008

Dozol ’s portrait series “I’ll Be Your Mirror” reveals the human body right after a shower. Each portrait examines a unique moment of contemplation and self-reflection and explores boundaries between intimacy and familiarity. By disappearing as much as possible into the intimate surroundings of each subject, Dozol allows rituals to unfold undirected and captures an authentic and unguarded moment.

Caroline

Dozol was born in Martinique. His photographs have been in numerous international publications such as, Interview, Paper, Vogue Paris and LID. After a few years working as a stage actor in Paris, he moved to New York in 2002 where he participated in the formation of the cabaret act, The Citizens Band by documenting their first show at Deitch projects. His curatorial projects include the founding of the One Wall gallery, an itenerent and ephemeral gallery project that started with Paysages Intimes; a photography installation by Julien Magre. His most recent, Still/Life photos by Helena Christensen, took place at the Colette Gallery in Paris, France. He currently lives and works in New York City.

Dozol is also known to denizens of the Athens/Atlanta music scene as R.E.M. vocalist Michael Stipe’s partner. Many of the subjects of Dozol’s portraits in “I’ll Be Your Mirror” are musicians as well.

(Photos by Thomas Dozol)

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