Jan 2007, 123 entries

We have decided to begin choosing a "McLeod of the Week" from the McLeod Residence Photo Booth.  This week's winner is Freddy Wolf Molitch, aka Baby Corndog McLeod, the "Oofty Goofty, wild man of Borneo."  At Egger McLeod Happy Hour, Freddy opted to get the very unique "McLeod Cut" from our in-house stylist, Sean Lowry.  Freddy, way to show the love!

Members, be sure to show us your photo booth love at our weekly Egger McLeod Happy Hour: Thursday, 6-9pm.  If you are not a member, you can still show your love to the photo booth, either during our regular hours, Tues-Sat 10-6, or at this week's First Friday, 5-9pm. 

McLeod Residence member Daniel Spils (whose drink is the "Tele Savalas," by the way)  plays with a band called SynthClub. They are a really fun, live-and-improvised house band that you can't help but dance to. They'll be performing at McLeod Residence on February 15 and recording the show, which will then be available to download for free from mcleodresidence.com. Below is the press release we issued this morning, so keep on reading for more details.

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Contact:
Maggie Santolla McLeod, Press Relations
maggie.santolla@gmail.com

SEATTLE--January 25, 2007-- "Seattle's all-star, all-live house band" SynthClub, featuring Maktub's Reggie Watts and Daniel Spils, Decibel Festival organizer Sean Horton, and producer Steve Scalfati, will perform Thursday, February 15, with a 9:00 p.m. set time at McLeod Residence. McLeod Residence, Belltown’s newest art gallery, is located at 2209 2nd Avenue. Tickets are $5 at the door, payable by cash only.

SynthClub is a quartet creating sophisticated, supremely danceable house music for live audiences, a rare treat for electronic music fans who usually experience the genre in album form. The group features the vocal and synthesizer talents of Seattle notable Reggie Watts, spontaneous laptop beats from Sean Horton a.k.a.. DJ Nordic Soul, and off-the-cuff synthesizer work from Steven Scalfati and Daniel Spils. Eric Grandy of the Stranger describes the group as  “...smart, floor-filling,” and “...whose live take on vocal house is enough to win over skeptics of the genre"

In a twist that combines progressive house with a live Blue Note-style recording, SynthClub will record their performance at McLeod Residence and offer it as a free downloadable album at mcleodresidence.com.

McLeod Residence is a new concept of art and gathering space that opened January 5, 2007, in Seattle’s Belltown neighborhood. Both McLeod Residence and SynthClub embrace technology, collaboration, art and the beauty of work in progress, and this marriage of venue and performer is a perfect fit. Currently on display at McLeod Residence is a group exhibit featuring photographs and digital art mounted on lightboxes, an installation by artist and musician Paul Rucker, and an exhibit of antique paintings curated by art dealer Jay Franklin. The gallery rooms will be open during the SynthClub performance.

SynthClub features members Reggie Watts, Sean Horton, Steven Scalfati and Daniel Spils. Learn more about the group at http://www.myspace.com/synthclubmusic.

McLeod Residence, located at 2209 Second Avenue in Seattle, Washington, is a home for extraordinary living through art, technology, and collaboration. Proprietors Buster McLeod and Lele McLeod founded McLeod Residence in 2006. McLeod Residence is open Tuesday–Saturday from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. For more information, contact McLeod Residence at 206-441-3314 or visit www.mcleodresidence.com.

McLeod Residence member Daniel Spils (whose drink is the "Tele Savalas," by the way)  plays with a band called SynthClub. They are a really fun, live-and-improvised house band that you can't help but dance to. They'll be performing at McLeod Residence on February 15 and recording the show, which will then be available to download for free from mcleodresidence.com. Below is the press release we issued this morning, so keep on reading for more details.

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Contact:
Maggie Santolla McLeod, Press Relations
maggie.santolla@gmail.com

SEATTLE--January 25, 2007-- "Seattle's all-star, all-live house band" SynthClub, featuring Maktub's Reggie Watts and Daniel Spils, Decibel Festival organizer Sean Horton, and producer Steve Scalfati, will perform Thursday, February 15, with a 9:00 p.m. set time at McLeod Residence. McLeod Residence, Belltown’s newest art gallery, is located at 2209 2nd Avenue. Tickets are $5 at the door, payable by cash only.

SynthClub is a quartet creating sophisticated, supremely danceable house music for live audiences, a rare treat for electronic music fans who usually experience the genre in album form. The group features the vocal and synthesizer talents of Seattle notable Reggie Watts, spontaneous laptop beats from Sean Horton a.k.a.. DJ Nordic Soul, and off-the-cuff synthesizer work from Steven Scalfati and Daniel Spils. Eric Grandy of the Stranger describes the group as  “...smart, floor-filling,” and “...whose live take on vocal house is enough to win over skeptics of the genre"

In a twist that combines progressive house with a live Blue Note-style recording, SynthClub will record their performance at McLeod Residence and offer it as a free downloadable album at mcleodresidence.com.

McLeod Residence is a new concept of art and gathering space that opened January 5, 2007, in Seattle’s Belltown neighborhood. Both McLeod Residence and SynthClub embrace technology, collaboration, art and the beauty of work in progress, and this marriage of venue and performer is a perfect fit. Currently on display at McLeod Residence is a group exhibit featuring photographs and digital art mounted on lightboxes, an installation by artist and musician Paul Rucker, and an exhibit of antique paintings curated by art dealer Jay Franklin. The gallery rooms will be open during the SynthClub performance.

SynthClub features members Reggie Watts, Sean Horton, Steven Scalfati and Daniel Spils. Learn more about the group at http://www.myspace.com/synthclubmusic.

McLeod Residence, located at 2209 Second Avenue in Seattle, Washington, is a home for extraordinary living through art, technology, and collaboration. Proprietors Buster McLeod and Lele McLeod founded McLeod Residence in 2006. McLeod Residence is open Tuesday–Saturday from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. For more information, contact McLeod Residence at 206-441-3314 or visit www.mcleodresidence.com.

Do you have a camera?  Have you seen any of the people listed below?  You're hired!  The March light box exhibition at McLeod Residence will be all about celebrating notableness in Seattle.  Send us pictures of these people by February 9th (original images need to be high resolution enough to be printed 150 dpi on a 40"x30" sheet, but you can send us smaller images for your submission).

Wanted: Tom Skerritt, Juan aka Frye Apartment Guy, Dale Chihuly, Slats aka The Original Hipster, Mayor Greg Nickels, DeeDee Rainbow, John in the Morning, Governor Christine Gregoire, Artis the Spoonman, Greg Lundgren, Buster McLeod, Sunny Kobe Cook, Ben Lashes aka Mr. Belts, Ade, The Cowboys aka The 49ers, Reggie Watts, Nancy Wilson, Tyhooke, Dan Savage, Trainwreck aka Trickiniqua aka Heyyyy, Cameron Crowe, Nancy Pearl, Stone Gossard, The Button-wearing Bus Expert, Skerik, Sean Nelson, Baby Gramps, Paul Allen, Linda Derschang, Jamaican Flag Cape Runner, John Curley, Ichiro, Dave Matthews, Guy with Two Bulldogs, Regina Hackett, Dina Martina, Real World Danny, Sherman Alexie, Congressman Jim McDermott, Link the Zelda Hunter aka Elf Boy, Mark Arm, Rob Thielke aka Honk for Fonk, Ben Gibbard, Jack Benaroya, Paul Rucker, Adam Arkin, Tom Robbins, Howard Schultz, Korby Lenker, Jackie Hell, Three Imaginary Girls, Steve Pool, James Brown Santa, Greg Kucera, DJ Riz, Dave Bazan, Jeff Bezos, Sir Mix-a-Lot, Charles Mudede, The Nordstrom Family, Anne Gould Hauberg, Chocha Fresca, Chris Cornell, Sally Brock, Lele McLeod, Ballsport players, Krist Novaselic, Chris Weber, Kenny G, Mariner Moose, Fay Jones, DJ Trent Von, The Big Kahuna, Matthew Kangas, Peter Buck, The Moneytree Caterpillar, Mimi Gates, Sonics Squatch, Ben Exworthy, Pike Market Piano Guy, SuttonBeresCuller, Bill Frisell, Bartender Murray Stenson, Geisha Starr, Bill Nye, Jen Graves, Tom Douglas, Cardboard Cutout Air Guitar Guy, John Keister, Rat City Rollergirls, Pet Squirrel Guy, Maggie McLeod, Christopher Frizzelle, Emery Carl, Gene Juarez, Giant Ave Baby, Scott Lawrimore, Seattle Center Tuba Player, Robyn Hitchcock, Michael Winters, Fankick, The Crescent's "Star", Ken Schram, Jetpack McLeod, Bill Gates, Your Favorite Notable...

Every time we mention this we remember a couple other notables... so feel free to reminisce a while and find that notable that has meaning to you.  And if you send something in, include a story or explanation of who the person is just in case we aren't immediately familiar with them.

Also, check out our ad on the back of this week's Stranger. Stay tuned for the website. 

Feel free to forward this call for art to people you think would be interested in helping.  Thanks!

Tobias Kinnebrew, local laundry detergent inspector and host of legendary events such as Ms. Russet's 17th Annual Sticky Wicket Social, is our 100th member.  We've been getting a lot of excitement about the memberships, and to this end we're going to be fleshing out in more detail exactly what memberships are.  Adding things like document notarization, and more specifics about the kinds of events we'll be hosting.  We're also working to make them economical for us (we would be doing nobody a favor if we broke the bank on cheap drinks and member parties), so will be raising prices to $75 for a year/$300 for a lifetime after our 150th member signs up.  If you're on the fence about getting one now or later, you might want to sign up before prices are raised.  Remember that memberships aren't about money or creating any kind of financial barrier for people who are excited about joining... it's purely a way to prove to us (and to yourself) that you're invested in the idea.  So if you can't afford either the current or future price we are very interested in hearing your ideas for other forms of investment (helping us set up or clean up, inventing a new game, putting up posters for our upcoming crazy Seattle Notables show, or just do something absurd or brilliant McLeod-related).  Okay?