Kidz Show: Movies * Music * Matinee Kimba'a Cave

Sunday July 25th
doors at 12:30
showtime 1:00-3:00pm                              
free parking on 9th st.
$3 kids
$5 adults

curated by James Kimba Anderson

Featuring  Music by THE MONKEYBUTTS. San Francisco's very own Monkey-faced pop stars playing their own hits and favorites from the 60's, 70's, and 80's. This
combination of catchy tunes, Monkeyfun, and Kooky Kids will spiral into
an interactive sing along dance party for all ages.

After a brief intermission, buckle up for the 24 minute wild ride called KIMBA'S CAVE The Movie, a silly-spooky-groovy-ghoulie movie in the spirit of Pee wee's playhouse and
H.R. Puffnstuff.
 
Plus cartoons, snack bar, a few surprises and added attractions.
Check details for this event at www.kimbascave.com or  www.themonkeybutts.com
and magicbusmovienight.blogspot.com/

I NEED THAT RECORD

THURSDAY APRIL 29th

Filmmaker Brendan Toller unleashes" I Need That Record! The Death (or possible survival) of the independent record store," a documentary feature examining why over 3000 independent record stores have closed across the U.S. in the past decade.

Greedy record labels, media consolidation, homogenized radio, big box stores, Ecommerce, shoddy "starts" pushed by big money, and the digital revolution all pose threats on the very well being of our favorite record stores and the music industry at large. Will these stores die? Will they survive?

Featuring- Thurston Moore of Sonic Youth, Ian Mackaye of Dischord Records Fugazi/Minor Threat, activist/author Noam Chomsky, Mike Watt of the Minutemen, Lenny Kaye guitarist of the Patti Smith Group, Chris Frantz of the Talking Heads/Tom Tom Club, guitar composer Glenn Branca, Patterson Hood of the Drive-By Truckers, Pat Carney of the Black Keys, punk author Legs McNeil, rock photographer Bob Gruen, BP Helim and many indie record stores across the US of A. Animations by Matt Newman.

Plays with rockin' shorts (stay tuned for details)

Doors 7pm Moveez at 8pm
Ninth ST. Independent Film Center
145 Ninth St.
SF CA 94103
$5 at the door.

D TOUR DVD release party/screening

Thursday February 18th Doors 7pm movie @ 8pm

A Rock and Roll film about Life, Death and Bodily functions

Pat Spurgeon is the charismatic drummer of the Oakland, California based indie rock band Rogue Wave and has only one kidney, which is failing. Pat’s search for a new organ and his inspiring ability to balance health and work form the center of D tour. As the film begins, he has a tube inserted in his stomach for twice-daily dialysis, a process that simulates kidney function. Even if dialysis should be done only in a sterile environment, Pat wants to gig and the band hits the road on what they dub their D(ialysis) Tour. Interweaving live performances from a benefit concert, Jim Granato's award-winning documentary is a unique travelogue, raising issues of friendship, self-preservation, identity, health care, indie rock and, most notably, organ donation.

Curated and attended by director Jim Granato

thurs. feb. 18th doors 7pm show 8pm $5

ninth st. independent film center
145 9th st.
san francisco 94103

Blood Orgy of the Leather Girls

Screening Thursday January 28th Doors 7pm Movies 8pm.

Michael Lucas Curates

Blood Orgy of the Leather Girls tells the story of four high school girls and the drastic changes in attitude each of them undergoes in a particularly momentous (and violent) twenty-four hours.

The four girls, led by Sarah (a Jewish girl with a Hitler fixation, played by Robin Gingold), react against the tedium of their lives with random violence. After the boy-crazy Rawhide (Melissa Lawrence) sees the religious Dorothea (Simone Margolis) pass out at the afternoon tea dance at St. Jerome's School for girls, she realizes that Dorothea has been assaulted and the level of violence perpetrated by the girls increases drastically as the boys and hunted down, captured and subjected to brutal torture at the hands of the Amazonian Fleabrain ( Jo Ann Wyman).

Assorted dissections, dismemberments, castrations, disembowelments, tortures, knife fights, cold-blooded shootings, drug hallucination "freak out" scenes and philosophical digressions mantain the film's delirious narrative.

Although this picture has never received an official release or distribution a fantastic soundtrack from Planet Pimp Records is available at your nearest Wal-Mart. Pick one up today.

Mr. Lucas will be present to discuss this picture as well as show us some of his favorite clips in pre-show.

Read more:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blood_Orgy_of_the_Leather_Girls

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0131978/

sountrack link:
http://www.interpunk.com/item.cfm?Item=37396


Ninth st. Independent Film Center
145 9th St.
San Francisco CA 94103

Doors @ 7pm Movie-time 8PM
$5

Tom Waits: Big Time

Thursday December 10th

To celebrate Tom Waits’ 60th birthday, David Smay and Magic Bus will be hosting a rare showing of Big Time. This legendary concert movie features material from Waits’ breakthrough Eighties albums Swordfishtrombones, Rain Dogs, and Frank’s Wild Years. Filmed at San Francisco’s Warfield Theater, and Los Angeles’ Wiltern theater Big Time is no ordinary concert film, but a dazzling, mad descent into the Waits universe. Backed by one of the greatest live bands ever assembled, including Marc Ribot and SF local legend, Ralph Carney, Big Time is a must see for any Waits fan.

Also included in the evening will be a showing of rare and fascinating Waits related clips, and the world’s most challenging Tom Waits Trivia Contest.

David Smay is the author of the Continuum Press 33 1/3 book Swordfishtrombones, as well as host of the Los Angeles Esotouric Tom Waits bus tour Crawling Down Cahuenga. He has also co-edited two books with Kim Cooper, Lost In the Grooves: Scram’s Capricious Guide to the Music You Missed and Bubblegum Music Is the Naked Truth.

Thursday December 10th
Doors 7pm showtime 8pm
$5
9th St. Independent Media Center
145 9th st. btwn mission and howard
SF CA 94103

Richie Unterberger Presents the Velvet Underground

Thursday November 19th Doors 7pm presentation 8pm

Richie Unterberger Presents:
WHITE LIGHT/ WHITE HEAT
The Velvet Underground Day by Day

An audio visual presentation.

"In conjunction with his new book White Light/White Heat: The Velvet Underground Day-By-Day, Richie Unterberger will present rare audiovisual material from throughout the Velvet Underground's career. Included will be film clips, audio tracks, and a slide show of 60 images from the book that tell the story of this groundbreaking band's life and times. Signed copies of the book will be available for purchase at the event.

San Francisco resident Richie Unterberger is author of numerous rock history books, including Unknown Legends of Rock'n'Roll; Urban Spacemen & Wayfaring Strangers: Overlooked Innovators & Eccentric Visionaries of '60s Rock; the two-part 1960s folk-rock history Turn! Turn! Turn!/Eight Miles High; and The Unreleased Beatles: Music and Film."

Thursday November 19th
Doors 7pm showtime @ 8pm
9th St. Independent Film Center
145 9th St. (between Mission and Howard)
San Francisco, CA 94103

Danny Plotnick's: I'm Not Fascinating

9th St. Media Center
145 9th St., San Francisco 94103
Thursday, September 24th
Doors 7pm. Show 8pm. $5 admission
http://magicbusmovienight.blogspot.com/

An Evening Curated by Danny Plotnick

Rockers and Rollers get ready for an evening of underground mayhem 50s, 60s, 70s, 80s and 90s style. Magic Bus Movie Night is pleased to present an evening curated by underground filmmaker, Danny Plotnick. The evening will center around Plotnick’s 1996 Frankenstein of a rock film, I’m Not Fascinating—The Movie. Fascinating chronicles the pointless shenanigans of San Francisco rock 'n' roll ne'er-do-wells The Icky Boyfriends and their futile quest for rock stardom. Undaunted by the universal hatred of both their music and their look, the band perseveres, netting themselves a hefty major label contract. But stardom proves elusive as they descend into a world of murder, intrigue, nepotism, consumer research groups, excessive use of caffeine-laden soda pop and death.

Upon its release, the SF Bay Guardian had this to say: "Move over Magical Mystery Tour, take a seat Tommy: San Francisco's Icky Boyfriends and Danny Plotnick have topped the semifictional rock-drama genre with their epic I'm Not Fascinating The Movie! A weirdly beautiful spectacle of self-defeat. An instant classic."
Fascinating, shot in glorious Kodachrome Super 8, was one of the last epic super 8 sound films to be made. Shortly after its release, Kodak discontinued sound super 8 film. Though no connection between these two events was ever established, one can’t help to wonder. Since being roundly ignored in their 90s heyday, The Ickys have posthumously gone on to be considered a seminal act in the no-fi, panic movement, and a career-spanning double cd retrospective, A Love Obscene was released earlier this decade.

Also on the docket will be:
• Plotnick’s ode to 80s counterculture, Out Of Print
• A blistering super 8 sound film of the mighty Dream Syndicate performing That’s What You Always Say
• Burl Ives taking a gospel turn
• Les Paul and Mary Ford performing several songs, as well as providing BBQ tips.
• Natlija Vekic and Christian Bruno’s music video for local darlings Ramon & Jessica
• Plus several awesome country & western and juke joint performances.