Last night at Mellow Mushroom, Gift of Gab didn’t do justice to his often well-deserved name or reputation. Instead of high-powered hip-hop eloquence, the emcee delivered barely intelligible blather over iPod instrumentals. His set was overshadowed by a much better performance from local opening act, Secret B-Sides.
So here we are at the halfway mark in the second month of the existence of the Asheville Film Society. So far we’ve run Blood Simple, Rushmore, The Times of Harvey Milk, Manhattan, Twentieth Century, Tetro, Blue Velvet and The City of Lost Children. This week we’ve got Tarsem Singh’s The Fall. That’s a pretty solid list and the response has been generally gratifying.
Although he’s busked on streets from Austin to New Orleans, F.J.K. has been hanging out in Asheville for the last few weeks. Here’s his tune “If You End Up Broke” recorded live in front of Malaprop’s earlier this week.
