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Have You Ever Had a Beard?
Northwest Film Forum
Seattle, WA
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Have You Ever Had a Beard?
MARCH 5, MONDAY AT 7PM
Sponsored by Easy Street Records
Post-screening performance by Calvin Johnson!
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Have You Ever Had a Beard?
(Kathy Wolf and Pat Thomas, 2011, USA, DVD, 35 min) Like a title weight bout, raucous music writer Chris Estey goes "toe to toe" with cagey music maverick Calvin Johnson about important subjects such as beards and other mysteries of life. Have You Ever Had a Beard? is a study in contrasts, comparing the lyric heavy songwriting of Calvin Johnson against the the ebullient music journalism of Chris Estey.  Meeting for the first time, both men perform at the Columbia City Theatre a Seattle stage that's played host to everyone from Bessie Smith to Jimi Hendrix since it's opening in 1910.

Standing at ground zero of a series of music movements that include Rriot Grrl and Grunge, singer/songwriter Calvin Johnson and his label K Records spawned a music scene unrivalled in the indie world. Both raconteur and sensitive artist, Calvin's deep baritone booms across a generation of inspired vinyl.  However this film documents Calvin performing his new work, singing solo as he spits literary bop prosody in the form of three songs.  

In contrast, bearish Chris Estey, with his boisterous laughter and almost irrepressible need to be self-confessional, reads stories from his life, each memory spurred by a song on his favorite album, "Phil Ochs' Greatest Hits."  In parallel tangents, his life story unfurls from mobile homes to LA flops, all to the soundtrack of Ochs' seminal album. Afterwards the two men compare notes, observations and platitudes about music, personal behavior and the experience of having facial hair, in what could be characterized as less an interview than a philosophical boxing match.

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Northwest Film Forum (View)
1515 12th Avenue
Seattle, WA 98122
United States

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Owner: Ilana Holmes
On BPT Since: Jan 01, 2000
 
Ilana Holmes
www.nwfilmforum.org


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