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San Francisco:

the heart is deceitful above all things kicks off the
San Francisco IndieFest

Seventh Annual San Francisco IndieFest
February 3-15 in San Francisco
AT THE CASTRO THEATRE, ROXIE CINEMAS AND THE WOMENS BUILDING
WITH TWO MOVIES BASED ON CULT BOOKS BY BAY AREA AUTHORS, INDIEFEST OFFERS A PROVOCATIVE PILE OF INTERNATIONAL INDEPENDENT FILMS
The 7th Annual San Francisco Independent Film Festival (IndieFest), a world-spanning blend of more than 100 independent films and videos, unspools February 3-15, 2005 at three San Francisco venues: Castro Theatre, 429 Castro Street; the Roxie Cinemas, 3117 Sixteenth Street; and The Women's Building, 3543 Eighteenth Street. Tickets are $9 for each screening; $7 for matinees; and $20 for Opening Night. For tickets or more information, telephone (415) 820-3907 or go to our Web site. Tickets go on sale beginning January 31.

Kicking straight into overdrive with its opening night offering at the Castro Theatre, IndieFest proudly presents THE HEART IS DECEITFUL ABOVE ALL THINGS. Actor-turned-director Asia Argento (B. MONKEY) offers up a horrifying tale from the hairy underbelly of America with her adaptation of San Francisco bad-boy author J.T. Leroy's acclaimed novel of the same name. Argento sears the celluloid with exploding houses, skin-scrubbing preachers and medicated child molesters while offering delectable cameos from has-beens, freaks and nubiles like Peter Fonda, Winona Ryder, Jeremy Sisto and Marilyn Manson. After the movie, IndieFestgoers are invited to stumble down Market Street to the opening night after-party at the Swedish American Hall (above Cafe Du Nord), 2170 Market Street, where IndieFest once again proves firewater and flicks can mix.
Great article about the film: FilmStew.com • Straight from the Heart

San Francisco:

Come one, come all, join City Lights in celebrating the release of Harold's End, by bestselling author JT Leroy, published by Last Gasp of San Francisco.

on Tuesday, November 23rd, 2004, 7pm
in the Poetry Room

Harold's End is a biting and intense novella, beautifully illustrated by Cherry Hood, a Sydney based visual artist.

Read what people have said about JT's writing:

"JT is in the company of Denis Johnson, Raymond Carver, and Thom Jones, in having the ability to take the profane and miserable and making it exquisite."
-Dave Eggers

"For most writers development is gradual. They tune a way of perceiving the world, of ordering their words. Success can further gum the works, as they try to identify and protect what's praised. JT's advancement is braver and more dramatic, like a river jumping its banks. He pushes his writing relentlessly to be clearer and more beautiful, sentence by sentence---his ease with risk instilling each with the frisson of a potentially dangerous experiment."
-Michael Ray (Zoetrope)

Join several local authors as they read selections from JT's work. Appearing in-person will be:
Sherilyn Connelly
Tim Donnelly
Monique Everhart
Daphne Gottlieb
Horehound Stillpoint
Tara Jepsen

We will eat, drink, and be merry in celebrating this fine book. Please join us.

Harold's End Readings!

JT and friends celebrated at book readings on both coasts for the release of JT's new novella, Harold's End, live performances by his band THISTLE, LLC, and the first U.S. screening of The Heart is Deceitful... Above All Things at the AFI Festival in LA.

Harold's End is an illustrated novella with amazing watercolors by Cherry Hood, published by Last Gasp and due out at bookstores in December.

Thistle, LLC. is celebrating the release of their debut EP, "November 13th,". Most recently they were featured on a Daniel Johnston tribute album along with artists Beck, Death Cab for Cutie, Tom Waits, and others; out now on Gammon Records, about which Blender magazine said, "There are a few other approaches, too, notably Thistle's raucous, Blondie-style 'Love Not Dead'."

The film of The Heart is Deceitful...Above All Things had its debut at the Cannes Film Festival in May, then went on to Toronto in September. Directed by and starring Asia Argento, the cast also includes Winona Ryder, Peter Fonda, Mike Pitt, Jeremy Renner, Kip Pardue, Matt Schulze, Dylan and Cole Sprouse and Jimmy Bennett.

Both readings will benefit 826 Valencia Street.

Los Angeles:

Sunday, Nov 7 at 7pm
Readers: JT LeRoy, Carrie Fisher, Susan Dey, Rosario Dawson, Jerry Stahl, Joy Bryant, Heather Graham, Kelli Garner, Lukas Haas, Kip Pardue, Jeremy Renner and Matt Schulze.
Live music by Thistle LLC

Book Soup
8818 Sunset Blvd.
W. Hollywood CA 90069
Email: info@booksoup.com
telephone: 310 659-3110 or 1 800 764-BOOK
Free parking behind the store via Nellas St.

Los Angeles:

Monday, Nov 8 at 9:00pm
The film of The Heart is Deceitful Above All Things has its USA premiere at the American Film Institute Film Festival at the Arclight Theatre 10
Get tickets at www.afi.com ($11.00 each)

AFI AT ARCLIGHT
ArcLight Hollywood
6360 W. Sunset Boulevard
Los Angeles, CA 90026

NYC:

Saturday, Nov. 13
Jeffrey Deitch Gallery
Opening Reception, 6-8pm at 26 Wooster St.
Reading and Live Performance, 8pm at 18 Wooster St.
Readers include: Lou Reed, Shirley Manson, Tatum O'Neal, Asia Argento, Nancy Sinatra, Arthur Bradford, Chris of Dashboard Confessional, Pink, Mary Karr and others.
Artists: Cherry Hood (illustrator of Harold's End), Hernan Bas, Matt Greene, Jane Gilday, Danny Hobart, Violet Hopkins, JT LeRoy, Nick Lowe,Ted Mineo, Paul P. and Lou Reed.
Live Music by Thistle LLC

See the Harold's End Press Release for more details.