Bushwick Asks: What do you miss about the 1980s?

Ready Player One is filled with 1980s pop culture references. The book is almost a love letter to 1980s video game culture and it’s hard to read without hitting up YouTube to listen to the songs author Ernest Cline mentions in the text and maybe to watch clips of people playing the video games he references. All the 80s nostalgia got me thinking about what I miss the most from the decade I grew up in like New Edition and playing Below the Root on my family’s Commodore 64. Since I was reminiscing, I asked the artists performing at our Bumbershoot Ready Player One show, what do you miss most about the 1980s? What are you nostalgic for?

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This Giving Tuesday, Support Your Local Arts Programs

Giving Tuesday is here, and who better to support than your favorite musical and literature-based arts organization?

Every dollar you give today helps us further Bushwick Northwest programming through The Bushwick Book Club Seattle and STYLE: Songwriting Through Youth Literature Education.

Ticket sales and school and library programs are only a small part of our net support. Donations from people like you are what allow us to reach students and audiences with music inspired by literature, and keep the music and words flowing. You’ll be supporting projects like these:

  • STYLE grant & scholarship programs for low income schools
  • Identifying schools that are in need
  • Production of live Bushwick Book Club Seattle events
  • Commissioning new works
  • Free recording time for Bushwick Artists

Bushwick Northwest can really use your support!

Tax deductible donations can be safely accepted through our fiscal sponsor, Shunpike. Donate Here<<<<.

Or become a Bushwick Member!

If you would like to become a member of The Bushwick Book Club Seattle, where you can take advantage of benefits built specifically for our book-loving, music-loving audience, please visit our Membership Page.

Discounts to all our events will only be the start this year. We will soon be rolling out new benefits and treats for our members.

 

Thank you for supporting your local arts scene! 

 

Music Inspired by Molly Wizenberg’s A Homemade Life – Free Download

Last April at the Royal Room we performed original music inspired by Molly Wizenberg’s A Homemade Life. It was a pretty spectacular night. Not only was it our first attempt at representing a cookbook in our book club, but Molly Wizenberg herself was in attendance.

Since then, two of Molly’s favorite songs from that evening (she said so herself over on her blog) have recently been recorded in the studio.

Slow Roast My Tomatoes by Debbie Miller
Bread And Wine by Nick Foster and Jazmarae Beebe

You are going to want to spend some time with these tunes – they are pretty great. You can download them for free.

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