Sci-Fi Thursday

Your inner 13-year-old is going to have the time of its life on Thursday. Seattlest is offering to you a nerd license for March 3, 2005. Use it wisely.

"The Persistence of Frankenstein: Art, Science and Creation" is going to take you all the way back to what most people consider the very beginnings of the science fiction genre, but will then proceed to explain why Mary Shelley's classic is more relevant today than it was when it was written. Science fiction luminary Greg Bear will be a part of the panel discussion, as will anthropology professor Janelle Taylor and Seattle artist Jennifer Zwick. The panel will be led by Public Radio International host Kurt Andersen. In a post later this week Seattlest will discuss the related "Frankenstein: Penetrating the Secrets of Nature" exhibit at the Suzzallo Library.

The panel lets out at 8pm, so be prepared to employ your jetpack, hover car, transporter or preferred method of futuristic travel to get yourself to Neumos by 8:01. Their Thursday headliner is The Helio Sequence who, despite the wholly sci-fi name, are more guitar than drum machine. They do rawk. Some say "cheesy;" Seattlest says "hooky." Either way, your inner nerd will love it. Also appearing will be FCS North.

From the Neumo's website:

Heading up Seattle’s eclectic electronic movement, FCS North is a dynamic power trio that showcases its knack for all things digital, by spinning yards of samples and synths into jazz-infused displays of electronic wizardry. Teaming up with Scientific American for the split EP, “fcssa,” the group experiments with dance music, offering up smart and sophisticated stab at the genre.

Now, this is the tricky part and you'll need to be able to fork time to pull it off, but you may also want to attend the closing of the People Doing Strange Things With Electricity show at COCA. The closing party will feature the video stylings of VJ SCOBOT and DJ's will, of course, be at hand. At 10pm a People's Choice award of one thousand dollars will be given to the evening's top vote-getter, which, if Seattlest were voting, would go to John Bain for the Cubist Mirror entry. We won't be voting, though, because we can't fork time. We'll be at Neumos.

The Persistence of Frankenstein
Free
Thursday 7pm to 8pm
Central Library/Microsoft Auditorium

Helio Sequence
$10
Thursday 8pm to midnight
Neumos

People Doing Strange Things With Electricity Closing Party
Free
Thursday 8pm to midnight
COCA