Monday, October 24, 2011

Pants Abroad, Heart Still in Spokane

Posted By on Mon, Oct 24, 2011 at 2:56 PM

A familiar face for your Monday afternoon. Here's a video of long-gone Spokanite, James Pants, talking at the Red Bull Music Academy in Barcelona about lots of different things. He spends the first part of this lecture explaining where exactly Spokane is and what kind of town it is. We're always so humbled when we hear Pants talk about the 'Kan — he never shoots it down or builds it up. And he says that maybe someday he'll move back to the States, to a Spokane-like town on the East Coast:

"Someplace where records are cheap, and cars are breaking down..." 

Lecture: James Pants (Barcelona 2008) from Red Bull Music Academy on Vimeo.

Tags: , , ,

It Happened Here: Expo '74 Fifty Years Later @ Northwest Museum of Arts & Culture

Tuesdays-Sundays, 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Continues through Jan. 26
  • or

Leah Sottile

Leah Sottile is a Spokane-based freelance writer who formerly served as music editor, culture editor and a staff writer at the Inlander. She has written about everything from nuns and Elvis impersonators, to jailhouse murders and mental health...