On Wednesday, July 15 at BookPeople, we’re celebrating the release of Gary Kent’s long awaited memoir, Shadows & Light / Journeys With Outlaws in Revolutionary Hollywood. This special evening will include food, drink, music, celebrity guests, followed by Gary Kent reading from his new work.
Kent’s eclectic and exciting memoir focuses on his forty years as a writer/director, actor, stuntman, and special effects guru in the creative canyons of Hollywood.
This much anticipated event will begin promptly at 7 p.m. with guitarists Pat Hammonds and Chris Kent playing a gut-bucket blues duet, followed by music from south Texas singer-songwriter Bianca DeLeon.
Special guests include entrepreneur/philanthropist/stuntman Rex Cumming (Walker Texas Ranger); actor/stuntman Bob Ivy (Bubba Ho-Tep, Phantasm); writer/director Don Jones (Lethal Pursuit, The Forest); producer/author Michael MacFarland (The Pyramid, The Ultimate Joy); and iconic director/actor/stunt legend Chuck Bail (The Stuntman, Freebie and The Bean, Beastmaster).
We got a great writeup from Katherine Tanney in Sunday’s Statesman:
When young adults grow old enough to be hip, they can head over to Five Things, a series started by Austin writer Amelia Gray and inspired by the Dollar Store Show in Chicago, which presents writers reading works sparked by an item purchased from the 99-cent store.
[Stacy] Muszynski added, “I do my best to establish relationships with local media and community members and businesses for whom lit and art is a passion.”
Check out the full article here. Also featured are the Delacorte Dames and Dude, a dream team if ever you’ve seen.
Check out pictures from Five Things June! Thanks to Camila Epstein and Romina Olson for taking pictures that night.
Find the rest, plus pictures from previous shows, on our Pictures page.
Aly Tadros is playing at Flipnotics Coffeespace on July 30, 2009 with Ben Mallolt. The show starts at 8pm. More info here.
Thanks to all the readers, photographers, bands, and audience who participated in a fantastic Five Things. Photos are coming soon!
One of Sigers Steele’s characters is tweeting. 
Your TV preachers are the devil. But I can watch with you and eat figs from the yard. Understand though, that I am mostly here for the figs.
Get ready for Five Things tomorrow by following the tweets of Elijah Wallis Sr, representing the text messages he sends to his granddaughter.
You are too beautiful for me, Lila. There is always a chance of swift, blackened heartache. I now know the passion of a snake charmer…
http://twitter.com/ElijahWallisSr
FIVE THINGS
June 5
U.S. Art Authority (by Spiderhouse)
510 W. 29th St., Austin 78705
Door 7pm Admission $1
Put your hands in the air, wave them as if you do not care:
FIVE THINGS
June 5
U.S. Art Authority (by Spiderhouse)
510 W. 29th St., Austin 78705
Door 7pm Admission $1
Things are going to change; he can feel it.
FIVE THINGS
June 5
U.S. Art Authority (by Spiderhouse)
510 W. 29th St., Austin 78705
Door 7pm Admission $1
Give her a warm Texas welcome at:
FIVE THINGS
June 5
U.S. Art Authority (by Spiderhouse)
510 W. 29th St., Austin 78705
Door 7pm Admission $1
