Mountain Views News          Saturday, March 8, 2014

Mountain Views News Saturday, March 8, 2014 
B3THE ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT Mountain Views News Saturday, March 8, 2014 
B3THE ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT 
SEAN’S SHAMELESS 

By Sean Kayden

REVIEWS: 

SHE SIR 


The Austin, Texas quartet While other bands seem to be heading down a 
She Sir started playing road, not sure where it is taking them, She Sir 
together nearly a decade is headed down a path. They know where they 
ago. After a series of want to go and following them may be just be the 
hiatuses and a couple of resolution after all. 

EP’s along the way, the band has lastly released 
their full-length debut record, “Go Guitars” this 
past February. I just discovered this unique and Artist: She Sir 
disparate band. She Sir’s finesse is demonstrated 

Album: 
Go Guitars

in their music style. They quoted as Fleetwood 

Label: 
Shelf Life

Mac being their biggest influence, but lesser 

Release Date: 

known bands such as My Bloody Valentine, 

February 25th, 2014 

Slowdive, and a cluster of other early 90s bands 
specializing in reverb would be better examples 
of being influential. I’ve always had a penchant 
for this dreamy sort of pop music. It’s absolutely While the genre She Sir occupies in isn’t 
calming and sometimes transcendent. While She commercially popular, it’s still a delight for those 
Sir is perhaps not breaking any new ground, their with a proclivity for 90s reverb, shoegaze and 
music is a fine example of nostalgia. I’m in love dream pop. The band has ten iridescent tracks 
with their shoegaze tendencies. Bright melodies, that could have been something you’d hear twenty 
tight arrangements, subtle rhythms make up years ago. However, She Sir allows for each track 
most of “Go Guitars.” She Sir’s debut dream pop to be amazingly up to date. After what appeared 
album hits all the right melancholic chords. to be a laborious effort to get where they are, all 

I can say that the results are incredible. Tuneful, 
“Go Guitars” is a thirty-two minute dream meditative, and graceful are just few of the things 
from beginning to end. Each track effortlessly to describe the record. If you want to get lost for 
transitions into the next. The richly textured a few hours, take “Go Guitars” for a few spins. 
melodic sound alongside Russell’s Karloff softYou never know what you’ll discover on each go 
and compelling vocals is indeed a marvelous around and that’s the true beauty of this album 
conjunction. “Bitter Bazaar” is the arguably the for each individual. 
best track on the record, but a difficult decision 
to be made given the caliber of songs. It starts Grade: 9 out of 10 
off slow and then there’s a rush of blood straight Best Tracks: “Bitter Bazzar,” “Warmwimming,” 
to the head. Vivid guitars create a reverie “He’s Not A Lawyer, It’s Not A Company,” 
soundscape that allows the listener to be taken “Condensedindents”
away to another place and time. However, this 
could also be said for “Warmwimming.” The low 
tempo “He’s Not A Lawyer, It’s Not A Company” 
is exquisitely divine. It’s a heavenly treat. Majority 
of “Go Guitars” is simply just that. The short-
lived experience is worth every bit of the journey. 

“THE PLAYER KING” AT SIERRA MADRE 
PLAYHOUSE ON MARCH 28 

WHAT: 
“The Player King.” The acclaimed show moves to Sierra Madre Playhouse for 
one performance. 

WHO: 
Written and performed by Darin Dahms. Presented by Spurred Productions in 
association with Sierra Madre Playhouse. 

WHERE: 
Sierra Madre Playhouse, 87 W. Sierra Madre Blvd., Sierra Madre, CA 91024. 
Ample free parking behind theatre. 

WHEN: Friday, March 28, 2014 at 8:00 p.m. 
ADMISSION: $25. Seniors (65+) $22. Youth (13-21) $15. Children 12 and under, $12. 


RESERVATIONS: (626) 355-4318. 
ONLINE TICKETING: www.sierramadreplayhouse.org 
* * * * * *

 Darin Dahms, in his solo performance, portrays the three famous men of 19th Century 
America’s most important acting family: patriarch Junius Brutus Booth; Edwin Booth, perhaps the 
greatest Shakespearean actor in American history; and his brother, John Wilkes Booth, best known 
as “the most handsome man in America” until one fateful evening when he pulled out a derringer 
and changed the history of the country forever.

 After John Wilkes Booth assassinates President Lincoln, Edwin is forced off the stage for 
a year. Will he ever be able to return to the stage? During this enforced hiatus, Edwin has time to 
explore the question “What does it mean to be an actor/”

“The Player King” depicts Edwin Booth not as a wax historical figure, but as a fully dimensional 
human being: Not just an actor, but an attentive son, loving husband and devoted father. He will be 
called upon to rise from the depths of tragedy to pursue a great destiny.

 Darin Dahms is highly regarded for his many stage roles in shows including “A House With 
No Walls,” “A Tale Told by an Idiot,” and “Someone Who’ll Watch Over Me.” He is also a director, 
producer and writer, winning awards for “Butterflies of Uganda,” which he co-wrote with friend 
Sonke Weiss. Dahms received an MFA from the University of South Carolina and is a lifetime 
member of the Actors Studio. 

“The Player King” will be enjoyed by anyone fascinated by the history of the theatre, the 
history of America, or the art of performance. See what the early audiences of “The Player King” 
already know: It’s an extraordinary entertainment. 

FOR TICKETS AND INFORMATION 

The Sierra Madre Playhouse, 87 West Sierra Madre Blvd., Sierra Madre, Reservations can be made 
online http://sierramadreplayhouse.org or by calling (626) 355-4318. 


Jeff’s Book Picks By Jeff Brown 


PRESENCE: THE ART OF PEACE AND HAPPINESS - VOLUME 1 BY 
RUPERT SPIRA 

Your self, aware presence, knows no resistance to any appearance and, 
as such, is happiness itself; like the empty space of a room it cannot be 
disturbed and is, therefore, peace itself; like this page, it is intimately 
one with whatever appears on it and is thus love itself; and like water 
that is not affected by the shape of a wave, it is pure freedom. Causeless 
joy, imperturbable peace, love that knows no opposite and freedom at 
the heart of all experience….this is your ever-present nature under all 
circumstances. 

PRESENCE: THE INTIMACY OF ALL EXPERIENCE - VOLUME 2 BY 
RUPERT SPIRA 

All that is known is experiencing and experiencing is not divided into one part (an inside self) that 
experiences and another part (an outside object, other or world) that is experienced. Experiencing 
is seamless and intimate, made of ‘knowing’ or Awareness alone. This intimacy, in which there is 
no room for selves, objects or others, is love itself. It lies at its heart of all experience, completely 
available under all circumstances. 

THE TRANSPARENCY OF THINGS PAPERBACK BY RUPERT SPIRA 

The purpose of Rupert's book is to look clearly and simply at the nature of experience, without any 
attempt to change it. A series of contemplations lead us gently but directly to see that our essential 
nature is neither a body nor a mind. It is the conscious Presence that is aware of this current 
experience. As such it is nothing that can be experienced as an object and yet it is undeniably 
present. As we take our stand knowingly as this conscious Presence that we always already are, 
and reconsider the objects of the body, mind and world, we find that they do not simply appear to 
this Presence, they appear within it. We are led to see that it is in fact this very Presence itself that 
takes the shape of our experience from moment to moment while always remaining only itself. We 
see that our experience is and has only ever been one seamless totality with no separate entities or 
objects anywhere to be found.Rupert also has many YouTube videos and a website. 

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