Brew Views: Jackpot Records Film and Music Festival

Touch me I'm deaf.

CIRCLE JERKS
By MATTHEW SINGER

The ninth annual Jackpot Records Film and Music Festival kicks off with two blasts of deafening noise from opposite ends of the West Coast. In Circle Jerks: My Career as a Jerk (8 pm Monday, Sept. 24), David Markey chronicles the life and times of the titular L.A. hardcore legends (pictured)—led by raging imp Keith Morris—from its early days as a band of Black Flag castoffs to the weird stretch in the '90s when the group took a shot at radio by collaborating with Debbie Gibson on a Soft Boys cover. And in I'm Now: The Story of Mudhoney (8 pm Tuesday, Sept. 25), the band most responsible for laying the groundwork for the Seattle grunge boom without reaping the commercial benefits gets its due.

  1. Showing at: Bagdad Theater, through Sept. 28. See jackpotfilmfest.wordpress.com for a complete schedule.
  2. Best paired with: Terminator Stout.
  3. Also screening: Total Recall (Laurelhurst).

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