Solombrino on the set of "Made Concrete." Photo courtesy Myspace.com/AliciaSolodotcom.
Multifaceted local persona Alicia Solombrino has added something else to her resume: music video directing. She's debuting her two latest projects -- narrative-style videos for the Republic Tigers song "Made Concrete" and "Strut" by her own band the Beautiful Bodies -- during a shindig at Crosstown Station tonight. The schmoozefest begins at 7 and will include free Bodies CDs while they last, photography exhibits from the video shoots and, of course, back-to-back screenings of the videos themselves, which should be streaming at AliciaSolo.com by Saturday. The event is free. "We want people to concentrate, and we didn't want to charge anyone," Solombrino says.
Best known as the vixen who fronts the Bodies, Solombrino has long dabbled in photography, Web design and video. She says she'd been chewing on the concepts for "Made Concrete" and "Strut" for about a year. She worked closely with video editor Brian Hicks on both projects. "I look at these videos," Solombrino says, "and I'm already thinking of what I want to do next." That includes getting out of Kansas City to pursue a directing career. Tonight, Solombrino will also announce her plans to move to New York in 2009.
-- Crystal K. Wiebe
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she might be a nice girl, and she's cute, yes, but she is also utterly talentless.
i tried to give her a chance, because my friends all love her music, but come on. her voice is weak (i mean feeble, not lame), her piano playing is totally mediocre, and i seriously doubt that anyone would come to her shows if she didn't prance around in weird pseudo-lingerie the whole time. she even admits that she is TRYING to rip off karen o. if anyone caught her first "short film" (just a bunch of clips of kids getting drunk) it would be obvious that the quality of her videos is PURELY the result of catu and co. not to mention that when I met her she was completely obnoxious.
the videos were good. but probably had more to do with Catu and Co. I have no doubt she's hot, but if that's all it takes...oh wait...
I agree with the guy above. The previous posts are just pathetic.
I don't know Alicia, but I saw her at the video premiers and she was totally humble and the videos were REALLY good. I was seriously impressed.
I'm not one to post on blogs, but OMFG! and Doug Flutie, you guys are pathetic. Do you really waste your time talking shit on blogs? Don't you have lives? Are you that insecure that you talk shit on someone you don't even know? At least Doug Flutie has the balls to post his name (if that is his real name). Get a life.
Whatever you think about Alicia Solombrino, at least she's doing a whole lot more than posting pathetic comments on a blog. Perhaps the saddest thing is that Doug, you came back 4 days to check on your unclever post to see if someone commented. Don't you have friends? Don't you have hobbies other than posting unfunny, unintelligent posts. clueless, suburban windbags? good burn dude.
pathetic.
OMFG she made an announcement that she's leaving!!! What are we going to do without her!!! But NYC already has its fair share of self-attention whoring windbags!!
i don't talk about "the scene"...I guess that's one thing that I do for the scene.
clueless suburban windbags.
alicia is trash? of course nothing screams "class" like anonymous, shit-talking on a blog's post. very impressive mr. flutie. my hat goes off to you distinguished sir.
...and what do you do for the scene except for post vapid, juvenile comments on blogs?
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