Articles by Kat Gardiner

Kat Gardiner

At the age of 13, Kat Gardiner decided to live her life in a way that would lead to the best possible story. She took acid too young. She lost her virginity on a motorcycle. She got married by Elvis. She still shoots film. She now writes for Vice.

Irrelevant Interviews - TacocaT

This past week, everyone in Portland, Oregon, (including myself) has been experiencing the best thing in the world: extreme global warming. True, in a few years, April and May will probably yield 100-degree weather and cancer. But it's been sunny and a day-drunk 80 degrees for the past five days straight. Good thing I was interviewing party-time, fun-loving, summer-channeling TacocaT. Full story

2013 May 6 Kat Gardiner Music

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Irrelevant Interviews: 'Adult World' Director Scott Coffey

Scott Coffey’s latest film, 'Adult World,' is opening at the TriBeCa Film Festival today. It stars Emma Roberts as a recent college graduate who wants to be a poet and John Cusack as a grouchy bard named Rat Billings who influenced a generation. She makes him her mentor then find… Full story

2013 Apr 18 Kat Gardiner Film

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Olympia’s Grand Jury Resistors Speak

In a rather harrowing act of modern civil disobedience, Matt Duran and Katherine "Kteeo" Oleknik refused to rat on their friends' political beliefs after being scooped up by the FBI after May Day protests last year in Seattle. They spent five months in prison but were released wh… Full story

2013 Apr 16 Kat Gardiner Stuff

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Irrelevant Interviews: Greer McGettrick of the Mallard

We met up at a park. The sun was out, and Greer McGettrick squinted into it as I circled her, taking photos. She lamented wearing sunglasses. “I hate pictures of musicians in sunglasses,” she said. I suggested we stand in front of a brick wall, or maybe some railroad tracks. She… Full story

2013 Mar 20 Kat Gardiner Music

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Irrelevant Interviews - James Jackson Toth of Wooden Wand

I hope Wooden Wand is remembered for a long time as being one of the best lyricists of this era of music. I hope from reading this you check out his ghostly melodies and heart-wrenching lyrical delivery. He doesn’t have a pretty voice in a traditional sense. He’s not 23 and makin… Full story

2013 Mar 11 Kat Gardiner Music

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Irrelevant Interviews - John Baccigallupi of 'Tape Op' Magazine

John Baccigallupi has been a huge influence on the side of goodness in music for nearly three decades now: as publisher and one half of 'Tape Op' magazine (the monthly bible for the home recorder and audiophile), as engineer and producer of many amazing albums, and as owner of Sa… Full story

2013 Mar 4 Kat Gardiner Music

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Irrelevant Interviews - Jeffrey Lewis

Irrelevant Interviews is a new column by Portland-based writer and director, Kat Gardiner. Kat used to do this column for the Pacific Northwest weekly, 'Willamette Week,' but now she's doing it for us because we're cooler. Her first interview is with writer, illustrator, and musi… Full story

2013 Feb 25 Kat Gardiner Stuff

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