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Be a Homo for Xmas). She has shared the
stage with a diverse group of artists,
including Steve Martin, Dave Bruheck,
Janis lan, Kate Clinton and Suzanne
Westenhoefer.
Koch produces, writes and performs all
over the globe and has been a featured act
at the National and Michigan Women’s
Music Festivals and the Vancouver
Comedy Festtval and is a regular on
Olivia Cmises.
“1 talk about a lot of woman things.
I cover body fluids—that’s what first-
timers should be prepared for,” said Koch.
She assures audiences that her act has
mass appeal.
“My comedy is very campy, and gay
men will love it,” said Koch, whose work
is often billed as lesbian entertainment.
“My comedy crosses the board.”
Her upcoming Portland show is a ben
efit for the Hambleton Project, a non
profit supporting lesbians with cancer and
other life-threatening conditions.
The event is 7:30 p.m. July 16 at
The all-queer trio Girlyman blends sincerity and humor on its second disc, Little Star.
Metropolitan Community Church of
Portland, 2400 N.E. Broadway. Tickets
are $25 at the dtxir and $20" in advance from In
through it. So now it’s sex and rock ’n’ roll. It
the mark of Confucian, Taoist and Buddhist
Other Words. For more information visit
has to have grit, and it has to kick some ass.”
philosophies, with dragons painted in acrylic on
www.hambletonproject.org or www.heylisa.com.
The concert starts 11 a.m. at
wtxxl, allowing the fiber of the natural surface
—JRC 63701 Columbia River Highway in St. Helens.
to show through.
Tickets are $30.25 from Tickets West.
“Perhaps the planet is undergoing a para
Candy from Strangers also is performing for
digm shift from West to East, and vice versa,”
I want Candy
free 5 p.m. July 9 at Music Millennium,
Curtis says. “China is becoming a player on the
After spending years building a loyal fan
801 N.W. 23rd Ave.
world stage. It is the oldest society.... Long
base throughout California and across the East
—JD before the West was civilized, the Chinese
Coast, San Francisco-based punk band Candy
invented language—calligraphy, herbal medi
from Strangers has earned the right to tear it
cine, tai chi, a philosophy of organic nature,
East meets West
up onstage at Columbia Meadows when the
nondeist religion, a respect for nature and gen
Warped Tour comes to Portland on July 10.
This month Mark Woolley Gallery will
erational connection.”
Influenced by heavy pop, glam and punk
exhibit new paintings from the series The Land
The gallery, located in Suite 210 at
rock, Candy from Strangers combines infec
of Ch’i by gay artist Walt Curtis, known to
120 N.W. Ninth Ave., is throwing a preview
tious, edgy tunes with intense onstage chem
many as Portland’s “Unofficial Poet Laureate.”
party July 6 and a First Thursday opening
istry to create a truly memorable live show.
His novella Mala Noche was adapted into Gus
reception July 7, both from 6 to 9 p.m. The
With a sound that can best be described as
Van Sant’s first film, and he was the subject of
exhibit runs through July 30.
Cheap Trick making out with Garbage in a
New York filmmaker Bill Plympton’s documen-
In coordination with The Land of Ch’i,
dark comer of a dive bar, the band
Curtis has written a small collection of poems
pulls no punches, kicking out old-
of the same title, from which he will read dur
fashioned, high-energy rock ’n’ roll.
ing a special event on the night of the full
Fronted by vocalist Ruby Jordan
moon at 7:30 p.m. July 21. His “little essaylike
and featuring guitarist and punk
lyrics” intrcxluce Portlanders to concepts like
r<x:k veteran Pauli Gray and dyke
chi (“When will we in the West learn a quick
drummer Gina May Montel, Candy
fix d<x;s not come in a pill, with a surgeon’s
from Strangers has self-released two
knife, or a shoddy world view?”) and feng shui
CDs, Quickie and Horizon, with its
(“A toilet misplaced in the wrong comer of the
third release, Cat Butt Tattoo, due
house could crap all the wealth and luck
out later this year. The band’s songs
away”).
are rhythmically well-composed
—JR
with energetic beats and a tremen
dous vocal presence. Its guitar sound
Going once, going twice...
is gritty and big, utilizing the classic
nx:k ’n’ roll combination of two Les
Last month gay Portland director Gus Van
Paul guitars and vintage Marshall
Sant auctioned a selection of original props,
amps. Owing to its years slogging it
wardrobe items and other memorabilia from his
out on the California punk rock cir
films on eBay.
cuit, from Los Angeles to San
The auction raised more than $14,000 for
Francisco, as well as extended East
Outside In, which has served low-income
Coast jaunts, Candy from Strangers
adults and homeless youth since 1968. In 2003
delivers a tight, raucous, seamlessly
the national premiere of Van Sant’s award
paced live show.
winning film Elephant was shown in Portland as
The band has earned accolades
a charity fund-raiser to celebrate the nonprofit
from critics all over the country,
organization’s 35th anniversary.
including Michele Rhea Caplinger,
All items were donated by the director from
executive director of the Atlanta
his personal collection and came with a certifi
chapter of the Grammy Awards,
cate of authenticity. Memorabilia included a
Candy from Strangers performs July 9 at Music
who says, “In a world of prefab,
robe ($5,101.51) and a blue work shirt
Millennium and July 10 at Columbia Meadows.
prepackaged, cookie-cutter acts, it’s
($2,605.55) worn by River Phoenix in My Own
nice to know that real music is still
Private Idaho, an original storyboard from
being written and played.”
Drugstore Cowboy ($26) and the actual note
tary Peckemeck Poet. For 34 years he has been
In an interview with Punk Globe Magazine,
that Matt Damon left for Robin Williams at
hosting rhe Talking Earth p<x*try show on
Gray sums up the band’s philosophy when he
the end of Good Will Hunting ($281).
KBOO-FM.
says, “You only get one life: sex and drugs and
A self-taught painter, Curtis says The Land
Van Sant’s next film, the Kurt Cobain trib
r<x:k ’n’ roll—only we’ve kind of been there,
of Ch’i was inspired by his interest in Asian,
ute Last Days, opens July 22 at Cinema 21.
done that with the drug thing and lived
particularly Chinese, culture. His paintings bear
—JR JD
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