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The current owner of Jimi Hendrix's childhood home has the little house resting on a foundation in a Renton mobile home park across the street from the musician's grave. Next week, however, is the final deadline for the owner, Pete Sikov, to come up with money, a plan, and a convincing argument for how he can meet City of Renton requirements to renovate the house appropriately; otherwise, he'll have to tear it down.

Mike McCready's side project, Shadow '86—now officially a "Jimi Hendrix tribute band"—will headline a Treehouse for Kids benefit show at the Tractor on December 6. Former Lazy Susan singer Kim Virant, honky-tonk-y Star Anna, and singer-strummer Kristen Ward will also appear. If we didn’t have you at McCready, consider this: The Tractor will buy you a drink if you bring a new toy for Treehouse—and your toy will help make a foster child’s holiday brighter. (Sorry, alco-philanthropists, one drink voucher per person.) Get your $15 tickets now; McCready (and each of his lady friends) is kind of a big deal.

• Zombie hordes take to the street in West Seattle!
• So that's why we were woken up by a low-hovering helicopter early Sunday morning. In the CD, someone stole a limo filled with apparently unsuspecting passengers and a police helicopter was called in to pursue.
• Be on the look out for a stolen True Value truck--the Greenwood store's truck was stolen six days ago and still has not been found. That's strange, since the phone number and logo is plastered all over the truck.

You'll have to stick to Diddy or Kanye vodka for your celebrity vodka needs from here on out, because an unapproved Jimi Hendrix-branded vodka from Electric Hendrix Spirits received an official ixnay from the federal courts this week. Bottles left over? You should think about selling them for $65+ on eBay.com like this enterprising capitalist. H/t to Under The Needle via Big Blog.

Rudolph Valentino. Ray Charles. Jerry Lee Lewis dancing on pianos, for God's sake! Dance in Seattle had anything but a boring 20th century. We were prowling around the internet this morning and discovered that today is the anniversary of the date the city banned a really bizarre but popular 1920s and '30s fad called "dance marathons" within its city limits. That was enough to pique our interest, and we've spent the day researching what was happening in the world of dance during the 20th century. Here are some of the highlights, thanks in large part to our favorite local history website: HistoryLink.org.

The incredibly talented guitarist and genuinely nice guy, last seen smashing a Les Paul on VH1’s Rock Honors: The Who, will rock a couple of small Seattle clubs in August. McCready’s killer UFO tribute band, Flight to Mars—until now an exclusively annual benefit act—will turn up at an El Corazon-hosted Seattle Tattoo Expo afterparty on the 8th. (They’ll support Duff McKagen’s new band, Loaded.) On August 27, McCready’s Shadow 86 (his first band, reunited after 20 years) plays an early show—a Jimmy Jimi Hendrix Tribute, people!—at the Tractor. If you want to see one of the planet’s best axemen go to work on a tiny stage, we suggest you get your tickets right now.

Back in April, we told you about a sex tape featuring none other than Seattle favorite son Jimi Hendrix. A couple of days later, news spread that the Jimi Hendrix estate was claiming the tape was a phony. Well, it's been 60 days and they haven't been able to prove it's not Jimi, so Vivid Entertainment is going ahead with sales. You can buy the tape, wherein Hendrix is allegedly getting busy with groupies Pamela Des Barres and Cynthia Albritton, for $39.99. Portions of the proceeds go to Albritton, who you may know as the plaster cast sculptor of Jimi's nether region. The NSFW film (we're guessing, we're not going to download it) can be downloaded online.

The Boston Phoenix came up with a "Best Of" list, organized state by state, of the greatest bands ever. They chose three categories for each state of our diverse Union: Best Band of All Time, Best Solo of All Time, and Best New Band. Are you ready for Boston's take on Washington's musical legacy?

It's going down tonight. Contestants are carb-loading, judges are wrapping up their pre-competition detox diets, and the crowd--frankly, the crowd was born ready for the Seattle regionals of 2008's Cuervo Black US Air Guitar Championship tour! This is the first year that Seattle (home of Jimi, for God's sake!) gets to compete, and we have not a shadow of a doubt that local Air Guitar artists have more than enough attitude and commitment to the true patriot's pastime to stylistically slaughter the rest of America's contenders.

Uh-oh Vivid. Looks like it's time to fire up the old speed-dial to your lawyers...again.

Vivid Entertainment, which is promoting the new Jimi Hendrix: The Sex Tape certainly hopes so. The 45-minute DVD, which has no audio, shows Hendrix engaging in a variety of sexual acts with two women. Ever the rock star, Jimi never removes his trademark headband.

So the lovely and talented Britney Spears has reached that beautiful moment in a young celebrity's life when the media decides they need to draft your obituary. Yes, it seems the AP has concluded that Ms. Spears' mortality is sufficiently imminent they need to prepare for the story. Of course, drafting an obit in advance is an industry-wide practice, but for a 26-year-old? Of course, 27 is just that by kicking the stool out from under her sometime before Dec. 2, 2008.

It's got Pirelli tires, modified exhaust, custom paint, and the driver's side once held the actual ass of an NBA player.

Wonder why we need to spend $100 million to renovate Garfield High? Because Garfield gives the world things like this:

Trail Blazers guard Brandon Roy was chosen as the NBA's Rookie of the Year on Wednesday after leading all rookies with averages of 16.8 points, 4.0 assists and 35.4 minutes in 57 games.

Continue reading "Brandon is ROY"

Seattle's own Jimi Hendrix--an early proponent of Pac-10 pride--congratulates USC on their Rose Bowl win from beyond the grave (via AOL Sports).

-Outdoor advertising leviathan Clear Channel got a contract to wrap some Seattle community transit buses in their advertising.

They're talking; are you listening? Here's the round-up on speakers of note.

We love Husky football, even when the team is in the midst a "victory deficient stage," we still get excited for games against Top 20 teams. Which is why we are clearing our schedule to watch the purple and gold get absolutely stomped in Norman tomorrow when they face the number 10 ranked Oklahoma Sooners.

Seattlest is having fun this morning with the new Google News Archive, which finds newspaper articles back to the 1800s. Using the timeline feature on a search for "Seattle," we find these gems:

LAist is flashing a sad peace out to their editor Carolyn Kellogg with one hand and bumping knuckles with their new head typist L.A. blogger king Tony Pierce with the other.

If you went to Garfield High, wish you'd gone to Garfield High (you know you do), or just want to walk the same halls that Jimi Hendrix, Quincy Jones, and Bruce Lee did then head to 23rd and Alder on Saturday for the "Bulldog Bash Before the Smash."

Google's released Google Trends, which compares the frequency of two searches. After trying out the obvious, (black beats white, dogs beat cats, and good obliterates evil) we tried a few Seattle-centric battles.

The woman who was in charge of the Seattle Center is stepping down after 18 years on the job. Wait, someone was in charge of Seattle Center? We've always had the impression that it just kind of drifted through life going wherever the tides and winds swept it and if there was a hand on the tiller the captain had died long ago and his skeleton was roped into the cockpit. We were wrong, though. Someone was in charge.

. And this week, KUOW listeners get Guy Nelson and Marcie Sillman riffing on the phrase "call now and give us money, please."

Seattlest isn't shy about telling people that we went to the same high school (Garfield) as Jimi Hendrix. And usually they are impressed. We are certain that, if we would only conform to accepted societal standards for oral hygiene, this fact alone might get us laid.

Seattlest nearly spit up our tall decaf americano (not really, we’re just keeping it folksy today) when we learned via the Seattle Times that Garfield High is fielding a grand total of 44 valedictorians this year.

Our friend Erika, a recent transplant from New Jersey, doesn't have trouble making conversation with strangers at Seattle parties. She simply asks: "how's the band?"

There was a time when local television was interesting and original. Seattleites growing up in the 1970s, for example, spent childhood afternoons watching J.P. Patches: a clown who lived in the city dump with a drag queen.

Not content to raise money by selling candy bars, Northwest School has drafted Pearl Jam, Presidents of the United States of America, Ann & Nancy Wilson (of Heart), and Bill Frisell to play a benefit March 18th at the Paramount.