Yo La Tengo lend the Brattle a wee hand
The Brattle email-only newsletter notes the following:
More big thanks go out to The Volcano Suns and Yo La Tengo who are contributing portions of ticket sales from concerts held last week to the Brattle’s campaign!
Unfortunately, their email newsletter is not reproduced online, so no linkery for you. I signed up for it last week, after I learned that despite my desire to help the Brattle, I somehow missed that there was a Twin Peaks watch-a-thon in early december that I could have signed up for!
Anyway, the Yo La Tengo schedule confirms it, and apparently, another beneficiary of that Hanukkah show was the Pittsburgh Filmmakers, where I took a one-friday-a-month internship during my senior year in high school. I had no real interest in being a filmmaker, but it was free, it was fun, I got to hang out in Oakland one Friday a month instead of going to school, and I had the occasionally wacky adventure. I don’t think I even bothered to pick up my last 8mm film from the processing lab.
“How is the Brattle doing, anyway?”, you ask. There was a Globe story last week with the update. Not as bad as the worst case, not as good as the best case. Maybe I’ll try to have some birthday festivities there next month.
January 6th, 2006 at 10:25 am
Yay for Yo La Tengo… I can’t say that I’m a bit surprised, really. How did I not know about your Pittsburgh Filmmakers internship? You’re holding out on me, boy! Birthday at the Brattle? Tell me more…
January 6th, 2006 at 10:36 am
Oh, I swear I’ve told you about it. That’s how I came to love Uncle Sam’s Subs, because Pittsburgh Filmmaker’s used to be right across the street. I don’t know where it is now. Like I said, nothing came of it. But I did learn some things about the history of film, saw Un Chien Andalou, and can use a splicer.
January 6th, 2006 at 3:13 pm
Pittsburgh Filmmakers is now in what we call North Oakland, if you know where the big catholic school on Craig Street is it’s in that area. I’ve taken two of their black and white photography classes…. I never knew it used to be by Uncle Sam’s!
January 6th, 2006 at 3:54 pm
Hi Ezra!
Thank you for the update. Was hoping that since I had heard from Ivy @ the Brattle that the theater was up around $200,000 in mid-Dec, they would be further along by now, 11th-hour donor or something. But big yays to Yo La Tengo.
Trying to my part, too — though I was sad that MirrorMask, which I was planning on seeing tonight, was cancelled b/c it was held over somewhere else. Poo.
Happy New Year to you and Terri!