I drew portraits at the Sheldon mc Murphy house for halloweeen tea.
Isaac and the Awkward Situations
Comics, Vaudeville, Art Education, and Music
Sallie Ford
Whoops. I drew this a year ago and never posted it. Great band. Saw them in Austin, tx once, and once in Eugene playing with Tacocat. check her out here.
Betty and the Babes
What a delight to catch Bettreena Jaeger’s band: they released recordings as “Betty and the Boy” but the other night at Old Nick’s it was Betty and the Babes.
Her voice sometimes could remind someone of Joanna Newsome and Beth Gibbons. There are beautiful arrangements of the strings played by Michelle and Nanci. Wearing costumes as ghouls made it especially fun for me to draw. I was entranced by the music and delighted by the “Nightmare Before Christmas” cover, “Sally’s Song.” Cool Inks, and fun to use grey as a color.
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As a fun bonus, I was playing with an app that lets me make kaleidoscopes out of my drawings 🙂
Trek theatre Pon Farr
Local Trekkies put on an original series episode “Amok Time” with original songs by Dr. Jason Heald. These are drawings I made of the cast and crew.
They let me open the show, performing my Star Trek rap and playing the theremin for the audience. They also had local bell dancer sarina Dorie as an Orion slave girl!
And here are some photos of the production. It really was a great show!
Royal Famille duCaniveaux
This drawing has been in my notebook awhile. I found a video of their performance from 2016 in YouTube! This troupe has many more performers that I didn’t draw, and I’m not sure about their costumes and hair color, and the page has some splotches on it because my markers were water based and I had it in the rain! It was a good show, full of laughs.
Slime Girls
Slime Girls play hyper hyphy happy chiptune pop with some ska and some saccharine lullabye melodies. Pedro composes the music and says on his bandcamp, “listen while you are at a cute beach.”
Comedians at Bumbershoot
Of all the comics I saw at bumbershoot, Kate Berlant was my favorite. Her show was so utterly confusing and unique. She would threaten us that if we weren’t up for staying for the whole three hours we should just get up and leave right now! I also loved that she steals makeup as a radical feminist act.
Khadija Hassan was quite funny too! There were so many women and people of color at the shows, I really appreciated that.
Sadiqua Iman
Sadiqua is a sex therapist, bulesque dancer performance artist I saw at Bumbershoot! Her show was compelling, about arousal and gender fluidity, with the occasional audience interaction. It was amazing hearing her sing the children’s songs she learned on the playground growing up in Seattle. They were highly sexualized. At the beginning of her show she was wearing a goatee, and by the end she had shed her clothes. She is on twitter!
Era Coda, Saffron, Ghost Tour, Jor-Dan
I was invited to a private party where bands played inside a living room. These bands are so delightful. Era Coda plays accessible mathy rock. Its delightful.
Jor-Dan plays electro rock. It’s huge and loud and sounds shimmering!
Saffron plays heavy grungy rock. It’s catchy, but has a sharp edge.
Ghost Tour plays pop with keyboards and sometimes horns. some songs are sung by Olive and some are sung by Andy.
Trapper creek revival, the shoot dangs, the Avery wolves, harp daddy and the Jephries.
Every August for many years now I have trekked to trapper creek Alaska to perform for people in a muddy woods on a stage made of recycled pieces and a sound system run off a generator.
Look, it’s me! Photo by Kevin Morisky. Below is Riesa Rose.
I got to see some great acts, including… Yeehaw, the Shoot Dangs!
And the Avery wolves
The Jephries!
Harp Daddy and the Mojo
Plus lots of decoration, the natural kind and the kind arranged by humans.
Isaac and the Awkward Situations 