PRESSED FOR TIME
Its hard to believe, but September is just around the corner. Nobodys done any of the things that they said they would this summer, and everyones empty bottles are piling up like so many regrets. Or is that just us? Anyway, this week offers the chance to see great films, experience new art, support independent theater and, most likely, see a live sex show. What more could you really want to do?
Kayvon Zand Aug. 13, The Studio At Webster Hall, 125 E. 11th St. (betw. 3rd & 4th Aves.), 212-353-1600; 11, $10. This self-described lovechild of Elvis Presley and Marilyn Manson will be putting on a special performance for TRASH!s Friday the 13th party, which is pretty much guaranteed to be full of grotesque and macabre acts and stage antics that could make a porn star blush. After some impromptu pyrotechnics and live sex got him banned from the Highline Ballroom last month, Kayvon will surely have something interesting up his tight leather sleeve. Bottom Line: Someone is probably either going to get lit on fire or have sex on stage, maybe both. It could even be you!
100 Records Aug. 12, Cinders Gallery, 103 Havemeyer St. (betw. Metropolitan Ave. & Hope St.), Brooklyn, 718-388-2311; 7, Free. Singer-songwriter Sonny Smith has recently completed his prodigious 100 Records project, which is being unveiled at Cinders Gallery tonight. Smith began the project, which consists ofsurprise100 records of about two songs each by 100 fictional bands featuring cover art from 100 different artists, over a year ago. Bottom Line: Everybody in Williamsburg has made a record, but whos made 100? OK, other than the guys from They Might Be Giants?
Baristas Opens Aug. 15, The Kraine Theater, 85 E. 4th St. (betw. 2nd Ave & Bowery), 212-777-6088; 2, $15 and up. There are almost two hundred shows happening as part of the New York International Fringe Festival, a fact that either overwhelms or terrifies most people. But if youre willing to dip your toe into the warm pool of experimental theater, try Baristas, a show about a romance between two serial-killer-obsessed espresso experts. Bottom Line: Its gonna be like Natural Born Killers with an extra shot of Singles. No whip.
New York Underground Comedy Festival Begins Aug. 16, various locations, for information visit www.nyucf.com.
Theres nothing were more skeptical about than people who think theyre funny. But then the 8th annual New York Underground Comedy Festival comes to town, with a weeks worth of promising improv and stand-up as well as local comic Stacy Mayers buzzed-about show The Funeral Crasher. Bottom Line: Its a chance to get more laughs than you would out of a night watching reruns, two- Stacy Mayer. drink minimum be damned.
William Lustig Presents Begins Aug. 12, Anthology Film Archives, 32 2nd Ave. (at E. 2nd St.), 212-505-5181; $9. Head to Anthology Film Archives starting today for the second year of the William Lustig Presents series. This year, were looking forward to gritty 70s movies featuring, among others, hotties Jan-Michael Vincent and Jean-Paul Belmondo. If that doesnt sway you, the air-conditioning and cheap ticket prices will. Bottom Line: Any film series that includes European crime thrillers and films by Jack Cardiff sounds good to us.
Jan-Michael Vincent in White Line Fever.