San Francisco, California.

anyway, next Thursday, Bottom of the Hill, we are playing yes

will try to make it Shakey!

baaaah how i miss living here. i prefer the ability to wear sweaters over raggedy t-shirts when you've got nothing else to wear, tho. you only get that kind of weather in denver.

Was in town for On Land and pretty busy so sorry I didn't get in touch with folks. Great times had, though -- anyone else at the shows?

i wish i didn't have to think of it in financial terms but - there were about 8 or 9 acts i wanted to see, and they were spread between the four shows, and half of them were folks i could see at house shows for free/a few bucks, plus there's the crappy parking situation, and the expensive alcohol situation, and the high ticket charge, so, no, i didn't go.

week from tonight in west oakland

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For those of you interested- here's a mystical evening of psychedelic-folk-drone music I've put together and am co-presenting with Aquarius Records at the Red Devil Lounge on Thursday, November 4th:

Expo 70 - exquisite psychedelic drones and space rock from AQ favorite Justin Wright
Numinous Eye - psych master Mason Jones (founder of SubArachnoid Space and the Charnel label) doing a special kosmische set
Waldteufel - Heathen folk experimentation from Crash Worship founder and magus Markus Wolff
Lux Interna - apocalyptic folk sounds from these Projekt label stalwarts

$5 advance/$8 door
21+
8:00pm door
8:30pm show

Red Devil Lounge
1695 Polk St. (corner of Clay)
San Francisco
reddevillounge.com

Looks cool, will be there.

Sorcerer playing Madrone on Saturday (not headlining). I would go but I already have tickets to Laurie Anderson. Sort of a good news bad news thing.

turns out I can see Sorcerer after all. psyched. he is headlining after all.

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recent stuff sounds fun to dance to:

http://soundcloud.com/sorcerermusic

is Madrone still a douche factory - y/n?

i remember when it was Mr. Falafel before all y'all moved here.

who you callin' "all y'all"

who you callin' "all y'all"

― the first Asian legislator in our Nevada State Assembly (Shakey Mo Collier), Thursday, October 21, 2010 11:27 AM (8 seconds ago)

seriously Shasta, for shame

yeah i-ya'll just moved here so I know nothing about Madrone

just sayin... i miss Mr. Falafel and now there's just a shell of what used to be there that's filled with douchery 94/7 (except the sorcerer nite apparently).

wasn't it supposed to be more "arty" - and then it just ended up being a douchey overpriced dance club, like so many others?

xp - i miss the Central Freeway .... just sayin ...

$5 ya'll

but yes they are an "art bar"

what is an "art bar" anyway? Is it just code for "we want to be 111 Minna"?

"we want to serve $10 cocktails"?

"art bar" = "B&T welcome"

i miss Mr. Falafel and now there's just a shell of what used to be there that's filled with douchery 94/7

this is how I feel about Crescent City being replaced by Best of Thai Noodle Bowl

i miss La Rondalla - i know it had a vermin problem, but that shit was delicious after a night of drinking.

also missed: Leather Tongue Video

lukas, sorcerer's just gonna be djing (although he has amazing records)

awwwwwwwwww

La Rondalla was an institution! mostly for the margaritas and year-round xmas lights

Leather Tongue was quickly eclipsed by Lost Weekend for me

I only went to Madrone the one time five or so years ago (with some "ilx types".) Every time I drive by it still looks like a douche factory.

What do they sell at the Leather Tongue space now? Overpriced jeans?

googley eyed walnuts

Lost Weekend does not have the voluminous collection of bootlegs that Leather Tongue had.

Every time I drive by it still looks like a douche factory.

It's young and arty and that can lead to douchitude but at the right time of day w/the right bartender, I actually like the place.

Lost Weekend does not have the voluminous collection of bootlegs that Leather Tongue had.

I remember wandering into LT one time and the TVs were showing a GG Allin doc/performance, featuring the usual shit-eating, stabbing, blood-smearing etc.

I can do without those kind of bootlegs I think... LW gets pretty much everything I could be interested in, they have plenty of out-of-print stuff, obscure music DVDs, etc.

Every time you watched a bootleg from Leather Tongue another Hollywood stuntman went hungry.

xp - Lost Weekend employs/has employed quite a few of my friends - that was not meant as a diss on that place by any means.

Jeremy at Lost Weekend = total bro

DAVID DUNN
(David Tudor Composer-in-Residence)
Saturday October 23 8pm Concert Hall

http://musicnow.mills.edu/concert4.php

Madrone alternative

^^ thinking about going to this, could you point me/us in the direction of some of the awesome things he's done, because you are knowledgeable and i am lazy?

prepared piano

http://www.davidddunn.com/~david/

http://www.davidddunn.com/~david/Index3.htm
Mimus Polyglottos - duet for square wave oscillator & city mockingbird
Entrainments 1 - recorded live in the grand canyon
Chaos and the Emergent Mind of the Pond - hydrophone swamp recordings (recommended for fans of Douglas Quin's seal recordings)

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Hemlock rawk tonight.

or you can see me open for Tunng at bottom of the hill. Either are good. but you have a better flyer than our non-existant one.

this friday, free! drinks, pizza, and tunes @ 222 hyde.

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http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=171887442845557

heading over soon.

What's going on in SF on NYE ? Everything looks mega lame so far.

anyone? anything? we suddenly have friends visiting on NYE and are feeling obliged to have some sort of 'fun'.

How about a quiet evening watching the ball drop on TV? It's a classic, timeless approach to NYE.

I'm prob partying at a friend's house, but if I were to go out, I'd go see Kim Ann foxman (of hercules &LA), Tim Sweeney and Honey soundsystem at Public Works

tonight, and next week:

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anyone going to lindstrom tonight ? kind of on the fence after watching some youtube videos of his live show.
frankly, i think i would prefer just to see him dj at a sweaty dance party than to see him play his tracks off a laptop.

thoughts ?

Fuck that guy. Come get sweaty with some trannies at deco tonight for Hacienda (Factory, acid house, early rave). I'm djing and it's free :)