Here's the schedule for the Live Bands upcoming here on Life During Wartime:

June  20
PRF... Mike, Seve, Andre, Aidan, and Wolfgang are about to take their Portland Hardcoregon sound over to Europe! We get to enjoy them one more time before they're all "refined".
http://www.myspace.com/wolfgangwilliamsandthepunkrockfaggots

July 4th
The Abi Yo Yo's
According to scene point blank "The Abi Yoyos combine the punk rock sounds of Dead Kennedys with more progressive styles of King Crimson with a Phil Ochs underlying acoustic vibe with political lyrics with an acoustic guitar being played around a camp fire."
http://www.myspace.com/abiyoyos

July 18th
The Disposessed
Loud, melodic, and aggressive Portland band with Molly (4Q, The Curse) Pete (Lazyboy, St. Helens) Dyanne (Red Herring, Harum Scarum) and Mark.(Estranged, Remains of the Day). http://www.myspace.com/dispossessedpdx 

August 1st
The Bayonettes,according to Victim of Time, "kick up a brusque mixture of noxious and addictive guitar hooks over tousled and jagged female vocals. ". A catchy and tough Toronto band.

August 22
Deathcharge
Hangman says " dirty d-beat rock ..n roll done right, filthy, gritty, moving at a respectable pace, with a great guitar sound and good vocals. " Features A Void, Dusty, Frank, Forbish, and Crane.
http://www.myspace.com/deathchargepdx 

Reviewed on the Old Mole Variety Hour 6/11/07, Knocked Up was written and directed by Judd Apatow, best known for The 40 Year Old Virgin, and the director of photography was Portland native Eric Edwards. It’s a beautifully shot film, and it’s been getting enthusiastically positive reviews (especially at sites like Reviews for Guys and Movies for Guys).

The Well-Read Red on the Old Mole Variety Hour 6/4/07 Earlier this year, the mainstream press discovered that there are problems with veteran’s health care. The scandal of dilapidated buildings and untreated soldiers at Walter Reed Army Medical Center led to a series of firings and resignations. But, as even the commercial press is aware, being a veteran is still no guarantee of access to health care. Stories reflecting on this fact imply that veterans have an extra claim to medical attention. Perhaps they do, but we should be wary of suggesting that there is anyone who doesn’t have a right to health care.

This morning I was getting more and more frustrated hearing bits and pieces of the Monica Goodling "testimony" filtering thru the corporate media haze while filling up my tank with $40 worth of gas on the way to do the Dharma Wheel .  All during the 15 minute drive a nagging voice kept asking....isnt it totally frivolous to go spend an hour and a half playing music (even music that is a commentary on our times)?  Shouldnt i be working for REAL change instead?

 And then halfway thru the show the phone rings and a listener lets me know he is really in tune with what I am playing and thanks me and I smile and realize that every revolution needs its art and whats that old saying--:if i cant dance, i dont wanna be a part of your revolution?

 So thanks to the artists who keep putting out the music that I am privledged each week to share with all of you and thank all of you for contributing your energy to this community of people who are helping to make change and and a positive future  together while sharing the transformative power of music and community.

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Dive into classes on medicinal herbs and bicycle maintenance. Hear interviews with Michael Newman, who curates the "Live Journalism and Experts" series at the Waypost and Teri Thomas Peterson of SCRAP (the School and Community Reuse Action Project). Thanks to Brian Kramer for production assistance. Thanks to Levi Cecil for recording help and original music.

The May 16, 2007 show is about Iran. We interveiwed Dr. Catherine Thomasson, President of Physicians for Social Responsibility about the history of US involvement in Iran, and about her recent trip there,  sponsored by the Fellowship of Reconciliation.We also talk to Sorab, editor and founder of Tehran Avenue,  the on-line magazine focusing on issues that official or established media seldom do.

Oregon Physicians for Social Responsibility
http://oregonpsr.org

 The Campaign Against Sanctions and Military Intervention in Iran  
campaign iran.org/ casmii

The Fellowship of Reconciliation website

http://forusa.org/

American Iranian friendship council

http://www.aifcpdx.org/

Middle East Study Center of Portland state university
www.mesc.pdx.edu

Tehran Avenue
http://tehranavenue.com/

The Well-Read Red on the Old Mole Variety Hour Someone in Washington must have finally taken to heart the bumper sticker that says, “Ok, joke’s over. Bring back the constitution” because there’s now a bill in both houses called the “Restoring the Constitution Act of 2007.”

George Washington inaugurated as 1st president of US

If the freedom of speech is taken away then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter.

--George Washington

Kiss Me Deadly will be playing this coming weekend (April 28th & 29th) as part of the Northwest Film Center’s Film Noir series, “Killer Ladies.” In the 1940s and 50s, Film Noir combined the grim vision of the American hard-boiled detective novel with the dramatic camera angles and lighting of German expressionist cinema, and Kiss Me Deadly is considered a late masterpiece of the genre. Directed in 1955 by Robert Aldrich, the film draws its title, though little else, from a Mickey Spillane book. It opens with a barefoot woman in a trenchcoat stopping a car on a dark road. The hitchhiker, Christina Bailey, played by Cloris Leachman, and the driver, private detective Mike Hammer, played by Ralph Meeker, are themselves stopped by mysterious thugs who torture them and leave them for dead. Mike survives, and his subsequent interrogation by interstate police convinces him that he’s on to something big, and potentially profitable. With the help of his secretary Velda, played by Maxine Cooper, he pursues the secret that Christina was hiding, and along the way encounters her supposed former roommate, Lily Carver, played by Gaby Rogers, as well as an opera singer, an art dealer, a number of boxers, and assorted cops, thugs, and other sadists wielding knives, guns, and hypodermic needles.

Upcoming on Life During Wartime:

April 25th
The Vicious, from Sweden.

May 9th
Pisschrist, from Australia.

May 16th
Sleepwalkers, RIP, from good ol' Portland (ex-Triggers).

August 1st
The Bayonettes, from Toronto.