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January 2005

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Posted by Peter S. Scholtes at January 28, 2005 9:27 PM

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Low's 'The Great Destroyer'

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Posted by Peter S. Scholtes at January 27, 2005 12:01 AM

St. Paul treasure hunt

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...on Saturday or Sunday and file (225 words) on Sunday (1/23) night?

--R.

ST. PAUL TREASURE HUNT DOC SCREENINGS

"No Time for Cold Feet" is a documentary on the Saint Paul Pioneer Press Treasure Hunt. For four years filmmakers Jackie Garry (2001 MIFF winner) and Trent Tooley followed fanatic medallion hunters in their quest to find the "Holy Grail of Saint Paul" -- the King Boreas Treasure Medallion. For twelve grueling days, hunters, aided by a daily clue, brave the harsh winter, digging through ice and snow, skipping school or work to dig all day and foregoing sleep to dig all night in search of the elusive medallion's $10,000 reward.

The documentary will screen at the Bell Auditorium in Minneapolis at the following dates and times:

Saturday, January 22nd - 12:30pm and 3pm

Sunday, January 23rd - 12:30pm and 3pm

Saturday, January 29th - 12:30pm and 3pm

Saturday February 5th - 12:30pm and 3pm

Sunday, February 6th - 12:30pm and 3pm

Tickets are $8.00 for adults. Seniors and children under 12 - $5.50.

For more information, please see <www.nahf.com>www.nahf.com or e-mail MedallionHuntDoc@aol.com.

Peter S. Scholtes

http://complicatedfun.com

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pscholtes@citypages.com

612.372.3764

P.O. Box 300142

Minneapolis, MN 55403

(City Pages street/overnight address:)

401 N. 3rd St. Suite 550

Minneapolis, MN 55401

-- -- -Original Message-- -- -

From: Peter Scholtes

Sent: Sunday, January 23, 2005 11:14 PM

To: Rob Nelson

Subject: No Time for Cold Feet film clip

Sorry this is late Rob. Simon was working on adding memory to my computer today, and it wouldn�t start again for many hours. Hope this reaches you well.

No Time For Cold Feet

Were it not real, the bizarre subculture surrounding the annual winter treasure hunt in St. Paul, Minnesota, would seem lifted from the imagination of some Midwestern satirist--David Lynch or Garrison Keillor on a good day. As it is, the phenomenon requires only documentary directors to make compelling screen comedy, albeit ones patient enough to get to know the participants, and wry enough to keep the silliness of it all in perspective. Cutting every few seconds, and splicing seemingly endless reams of DV footage shot over a span of years, filmmakers Trent Tooley and Jackie Garry pay homage to the 54-year-old local tradition like any TV news team, but also poke serious fun--and even generate some drama. What emerges is a portrait of a community built on obsession, though the film stops just short of framing the event as crazy: Nothing here will offend the St. Paul Pioneer Press, which sponsors the massive hunt, publishes 12 daily clues, offers the $10,000 reward, and hides the medallion-prize somewhere beneath the snow, in one of St. Paul�s parks. But the sweetness of the film never quite overwhelms our impression of the characters� shared mania: We meet snow-diggers who overanalyze clues, outline elaborate conspiracy theories, and mock those more, or less, fanatical than themselves. Really, this could be any insular community, from ice fishermen to punk rockers, except that its pointlessness is far more pointed. � Peter S. Scholtes

Posted by Peter S. Scholtes at January 24, 2005 8:57 AM

Top 100 albums of the 2000s

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Top 100 Albums of the 2000s:

Madvillain, Madvillainy (Stones Throw)

The Streets, Original Pirate Material (Locked On/Vice)

Atmosphere, Lucy Ford: The Atmosphere EPs (Bird Cage/Rhymesayers)

Low, Things We Lost In The Fire (Kranky)

Fugazi, The Argument (Dischord)

Lifter Puller, Fiesta + Fiascos (French Kiss)

The Hold Steady, The Hold Steady Almost Killed Me (Frenchkiss)

Le Tigre, Le Tigre (Mr. Lady)

Basement Jaxx, Rooty (Astralwerks/XL)

De La Soul, AOI: Bionix (Tommy Boy)

Orchestra Baobab, Specialist in All Styles (Nonesuch)

The Go-Betweens, The Friends of Rachel Worth (Jetset)

King of France, Salad Days (Egret Records)

Mary J. Blige, Love & Life (Geffen)

Radiohead, Kid A (Capitol)

Atmosphere, Seven's Travels (Rhymesayers/Epitaph)

D'Angelo, Voodoo (Virgin)

The Streets, A Grand Don't Come For Free (Vice)

Atmosphere, God Loves Ugly (Fat Beats/Rhymesayers)

Various Artists, Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai - The Album (Epic/Razor Sharp/Sony Music Soundtrax)

Radiohead, Amnesiac (Capitol)

Ol' Yeller - Sounder (SMA)

P.O.S., Ipecac Neat (Doomtree/Rhymesayers)

The Owls, Our Hopes and Dreams (Magic Marker Records)

Trouble Funk, Live/Early Singles (2 13 61/District Line)

U2, All That You Can't Leave Behind (Interscope)

Big & Rich, Horse of a Different Color (Warner Bros. Nashville)

Youssou N'Dour, Egypt (Nonesuch)

Devin the Dude, To Tha X-Treme (Rap-a-Lot)

The Clean, Anthology (Merge)

The White Stripes, White Blood Cells (Sympathy for the Record Industry)

James Carter, Chasin' the Gypsy (Atlantic)

Fela Kuti, The Best Best of Fela Kuti (MCA)

Nina Simone, Anthology (RCA)

Brother Ali, Shadows on the Sun (Rhymesayers Entertainment)

The Reverend Charlie Jackson, God's Got It (CaseQuarter)

DJ Shadow, The Private Press (MCA)

Manu Chao, Proxima Estacion: Esperanza (Virgin)

Michael Yonkers, Microminiature Love (SubPop)

The Moldy Peaches, The Moldy Peaches (Rough Trade/Sanctuary)

Bob Dylan, Love and Theft (Columbia)

OutKast, Stankonia (LaFace / Arista)

Del the Funky Homosapien, Both Sides of the Brain (Hiero Imperium)

Bubba Sparxxx, Deliverance (Beatclub/Interscope)

Mason Jennings, Birds Flying Away (Bar/None)

Rocket from the Tombs, The Day the Earth Met the... (Smog Veil)

Interpol, Turn on the Bright Lights (Matador)

Queens of the Stone Age, Songs for the Deaf (Interscope)

The Suburbs, In Combo (Beejtar/Universal)

Bob Mould, Modulate (Granary Music)

Spoon, Kill the Moonlight (Merge)

Various artists, The Best Bootlegs in the World Ever (No Label import)

Still considering:

The Avalanches: Since I Left You (Sire/Modular)
Triple R: Friends (Kompakt)
Lifter Puller: Fiestas + Fiascos (Frenchkiss)
Basement Jaxx: Rooty (Astralwerks/XL)
Luomo: Vocalcity (Forcetracks)
The Streets: Original Pirate Material (Locked On/Vice)
United State of Electronica (Mannheim)
Clinic: Internal Wrangler (Domino)
Kylie Minogue: Fever (Capitol)
Superlongevity (Perlon)
Basement Jaxx: Kish Kash (Astralwerks)
Daft Punk: Discovery (Virgin)
The New Pornographers: Electric Version (Matador)
Sleater-Kinney: One Beat (Kill Rock Stars)
Clipse: Lord Willin� (Star Trak)
Gretchen Wilson: Here for the Party (Epic)
R. Kelly: Chocolate Factory (Jive)
DJ /rupture: Gold Teeth Thief (Soot/Negrophonic)
Quasimoto: The Unseen (Stone�s Throw)
The Mountain Goats: Tallahassee (4AD)
Scarface: The Fix (Def Jam South)
Bob Dylan: �Love and Theft� (Columbia)
OutKast: Stankonia (LaFace/Arista)
Queens of the Stone Age: R (Interscope)
DFA Compilation #2 (DFA)
The Hold Steady Almost Killed Me (Frenchkiss)
Devin the Dude: To Tha X-Treme (Rap-a-Lot)
The Streets: A Grand Don�t Come for Free (Vice)
Atmosphere: Lucy Ford (Rhymesayers Entertainment)
Sonic Youth: Sonic Nurse (DGC)
Matthew Herbert: Globus Mix Vol. 5: Let's All Make Mistakes (Tresor)
Ellen Allien: Weiss.Mix (Bpitch Control)
Pantytec: Pony Slaystation (Perlon)
D�Angelo: Voodoo (Virgin)
Luna: Romantica (Jetset)
Junior Senior: D-D-Don�t Stop the Beat (Chunky Frog/Atlantic)
Rio Baile Funk: Favela Booty Beats (Essay, Germany)
Michael Mayer: Fabric 13 (Fabric)
2 Many DJ�s: As Heard on Radio Soulwax Pt. 2 (Pias, U.K.)
Big & Rich: Horse of a Different Color (Warner Bros. Nashville)
The Moldy Peaches (Rough Trade/Sanctuary)
Jonathan Richman: Her Mystery Not of High Heels and Eye Shadow (Vapor)
Jay-Z: The Blueprint (Roc-a-Fella)
The Strokes: Is This It (RCA)
Missy Elliott: Under Construction (Elektra)
The Coup: Party Music (75 Ark)
Lucy Pearl (Pookie)
Drive-By Truckers: Decoration Day (New West)
Kanye West: The College Dropout (Roc-a-Fella)
Black Box Recorder: The Facts of Life (Jetset)

Posted by Peter S. Scholtes at January 20, 2005 2:23 PM

Hip-hop book smarts

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...at a Twin Citi

Young Plukey

http://citypages.com/databank/26/1289/article13600.asp

Hello Peter -- Jane told me you wrote an authoritative hip-hop

article for the next issue. I thought these diagrams might come in

handy -- they're from a book we published called Appropriating

Technology. This is what happens when academics try to show how hip

and with-it they are -- it ain't pretty.

Posted by Peter S. Scholtes at January 19, 2005 11:53 PM

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Posted by Peter S. Scholtes at January 14, 2005 4:02 AM

Stephanie says she wants to sing

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Stephanie Winter, whom I interviewed in this week's City Pages, performs with her band Stephanie Says, with openers the Owls and the Carpetbaggers, Saturday at the Kitty Cat Klub in Minneapolis. Wish I were here this weekend...

Before you go, check out a rare screening of the beautiful Kraut-rock movie Vagabunden Karawane at the Red Eye Theater.

Happy and complicated MLK Day

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PEACE AND POWER

DO YOU REMEMBER THAT SHINING HOUR, WHEN MALCOLM AND MARTIN MET WE CALLED IT PEACE AND POWER. PEACE IN THE DICTIONARY IS DEFINED AS CALM, REPOSE, FREEDOM FROM WAR, QUIETNESS OF MIND. THAT MY FRIEND IN THE 1960S WAS SO HARD TO FIND. THE KIND OF PEACE I'M TALKING ABOUT COMES FROM KNOWING WHAT LIES AHEAD. JUST SIT BACK AND RELAX AND REMEMBER SOME OF THE THINGS MARTIN SAID. BOTH SPOKE PROPHETICALLY, AND WERE MEN OF VISION, AND THEIR SPIRITS WILL ALWAYS LIVE. HOWEVER, PEACE AND POWER WERE NOT THEIRS TO GIVE. YOU SEE, PEACE COMES TO THOSE WHO SEEK IT. POWER COMES TO THOSE WHO TAKE IT. EITHER WAY YOU JUST CAN'T FAKE IT. -- KING SAUD, 1990

Martin Luther King's "I Have Been to the Mountain Top" speech audio

King's "Why I'm against the Vietnam War" speech audio

Taylor Branch books about America in the King Years

"Something to Think About" by the Rev. Charlies Jackson

"Why (The King of Love Is Dead)" by Nina Simone

"Reverend King" by John Coltrane

From Democracy Now!: Civil rights pioneer James Forman dead at 76.

Posted by Peter S. Scholtes at January 14, 2005 3:53 AM

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